The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-05 00:00:00

MADAME RACHEL AGALY. Another remarkable illustration of the Rachel frauds will shortly be made public. In the present instance the dupe is a lady of good family and position in the North of Ireland. She claims the sum of £2,000 lent to Madame Rachel. This amount is but small in proportion to other moneys, about £6,000, paid, but not recoverable. Application was made on Friday to the Governor of Millbank Prison, where Madame Rachel is at present undergoing her sentence, to serve her with a writ. The Governor refused, and an application will be made to a judge in Chambers to substitute service, and to proceed with the action. The transactions in ques tion disclose rare credulity seldom met with amongst canny northerners. The lady is connected by marriage with one of the most distinguished members of the House of Peers. —lrish Tines. DESECRATING A CEMETERY. The Belfast papers contain accounts of an extraordinary scene which has been enacted in the Shankhill Graveyard. The Privy Council have prohibited interments to be made in one portion of the cemetery, and only allowed them in other portions where the graves can be opened to a depth of seven feet without disturbing any human remains. The population conceived the notion, and an official shared it, that they could avoid the prohibition by inteiring the remains of their friends at the specified depth. With that object they assembled in crowds, to the number of 300 persons, with barrows, pickaxes, and shovels, and began on Saturday and following evenings to open the graves and remove their contents in order to make a deeper excavation of the ground. The graveyard soon presented a hideous spectacle, being strewed over with skulls, bones, and broken coffins, in some of which were shrouds quite fresh, and in others the relics of humanity in the last stage of decay. The Northern Whig gi its the following description of the scene on Sunday evening : "We counted upwards of 100 coffins thus rudely raised from the graves, and human bones were scattered about in heaps everywhere. The smell was so sicken ing that persons could hardly approach the grounds. It was enough to raise a plague. Several gentlemen expostulated with the gravediggers, but no advice was taken. On Sunday night a great number of the coffins and bodies which had been raised were re-interred, but many of them lay on the ground until Monday morning, when fresh batches of men arrived to raise more bodies and continue the ghastly sickening work. On Monday morning 79 coffins of all sizes and in all stages of decay, from a week to several years, were tossed about on the top of the ground, and heaps of skulls and bones were pitched about promiscuously in every corner of the yard. The rumour having spread through the town that the graves were being interfered with, those who were averse to the pro- ceedings flocked in an excited state to the ground, and an indescribable scene was presented. Men and women burst into tears on seeing the graves of their friends opened to the public view by the parties who were digging up the adjacent earth. People lay down weeping on the graves of their relatives in order to prevent the diggers touching them with their spades. Others ran off for their friends and acquaintances, who came up and ' stood guard' in different parts of the yard to prevent intrusion on the last resting-places of their relatives." The police looked on, not having received instructions to interfere, until on Monday afternoon intimation of what was going on was conveyed to the Mayor, who went to the spot along with other authorities, and, after some difficulty, induced the people to desist. LAW AND POLICE. THE WICKLOW PEEEAGE.—The arguments and evidence in the case of the two claimants to the Wicklow peerage, which has been so long before the House of Lords' Com mittee of Privileges, have closed. The committee has adjourned sine die to prepare a judgment. INSANITY.—The plea of insanity is now becoming a very common one indeed. One in which it was used was heard on Wednesday at the Middlesex Sessions. A pauper was charged with having stolen two rugs from the lunatic ward of the Hackney Union. One doctor was called who had certified to the prisoner's lunacy, a second did not consider him responsible for his actions, a third thought him a, man of weak intellect, but not a lunatic, while the father of the accused testified that he had suffered from delusions. He was ordered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. VIOLENT CRIMES.—On the same day, a woman was charged at the Southwark Pulice-court with having murdered a man with whom she quarrelled, on the 9th of August last year. The police had held a warrant for her ►pprehension for nearly twelve months, but she had eluded their vigilance until a few days ago. She was remanded.—At Woolwich there was a preliminary investigation into a serious charge of shooting against a lad of 14. He had been engaged by a farmer to protect his wheat fields from the visits of birds, and for this purpose was armed with a gun and supplied with some powder. By surreptitious means he obtained a quantity of shot, and on quarrelling with another boy fired at him, and wounded him severely in the face. In this case also the prisoner was remanded. CHARGE or EMBEZZLEMENT.—At the Manchester City Polic;e-court, on Wednesday, William George Redford was brought up on remand, charged with having embezzled nearly £14,000, the property of the South Lancashire Benefit Building Societies. The priscner had been secre tary to a number of these societies. His defalcations were discovered in January last, and when taxed with having misapplied a large sum of money be admitted that it was true, and wrote down various sums he had taken, amount. ing to £11,769. Since then a further loss of upwards of £2,000 had also been discovered. After some evidence had been adduced with regard to one of the numerous cases against the prisoner, he was again remanded. ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.-At the Assizes at Manchester, on Wednesday, before M. Justice Hannen, the case of Chatwood against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company was tried. The plaintiff was the well-known sate manufacturer at Bolton. On the 31st of October he was returning home from Man chester, when, at Windsor Bridge, Pendleton, the de fendants' train met with a collision. The plaintiff's fore head was cut by the rim of the opposite traveller's hat. The wound healed, and no bad effects immediately supervened. But subsequently the effects developed themselves, and it became evident that the brain had been injured, and partial paralysis also set in. His average income which he had lost was £420 per annum. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages £2,000. ILLEGAL DETENTION OF A LUNATIC.—The Bradford magistrates have had before them a case of illegal deten tion of a lunatic. A builder and quarry owner, named Smith, had taken away Miss Wood, a lunatic, from the custody of her brother, and had detained her for four years. He had also used her money, for on the 2nd of March, 1866, the prisoner received at the Bradford Banking Company's bank cash for a cheque for £454 2s. 6d. payable to Miss Wood, and endorsed first by the prisoner and next by Miss Wood, and a tenant of Miss Wood had also paid her rent to the prisoner fur the house which he let to her. On the 7th of July Superintendent Shuttleworth, of the Bradford police, entered the prisoner's house with a warrant and found Miss Wood in bed in the garret —a room said to measure two yards by four and a half yards—crowded with furniture. She seemed much reduced and emaciated, and was removed to the union workhouse, and was afterwards sent as a lunatic to an asylum. The prisoner was com mitted for trial at the Leeds assizes. Bail was accepted— himself in £2OO and two sureties in £lOO each. A Cabinet Council will be held to-morrow at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street THE USE OF ALASKA.—It used to be the boast of England that on its Empire the sun never sets. Well, we have an empire on which the sun only sets occasionally. The sun does not set at all in summer. It remains about 25 deg. above the horizon at the hour we call midnight. The only mode of knowing there that it is midnight is to watch the sun when it begins to ascend. Fowls go to roost at 7 p.m. and repose until the sun is well up. In winter it is, of course, the reverse, as in the higher latitudes the sun is not seen for six weeks.—New York Times. INTIMIDATION AND ASSAULT BY TRADES UNION ISTS.--At Manchester, John Elliott has been charged with having intimidated, by means of an assault, one William Freeman. The complainant is a stonemason, employed at the new Town Hall, and whilst in company with another workman, named Melia, in London-road, thy were attacked by the defendant and a man named OsLorne, who were " turn-outs," and beaten. Osborne had recently left the country. The bench committed the defendant to prison for two months, with hard labour. A 1 - IM - ;E STEAM HAMMER.—One of the largest, if not the largest steam hammer, ever made, is now being constructed by. Messrs. Thwaites and Garbutt, of Brad ford, for the - Russian Government, and is intended to be used in the forging of steel guns. The total weight of the ponderous machine when erected will be close upon 1,000 tons, the anvil block will weigh 530 tons, the other cast ings belonging to the hammer about :300 tons, and the " tup" or hammer head 42 tons. The latter mass of metal, which has been cast by Messrs. J. Oldie and Sons, Union Foundry, Bradford, is 10 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4 feet deep, and is pronounced to be a fine piece of work manship. The metal was melted in five hours, and the operation was perfectly successful. In the same yard the ponderous iron beams for the new bridge at Halifax are fast progressing ; the total weight of iron in Messrs. Male's contract for the bridge, which is being erected byikEri igailLof Bradfordja.2o6ons.j J.II6(..,'ELL.I.‘EHUS NEWS. THE NEW IRISH CHURCH BODY. The Protestant Bishops of Ireland have been holding a conference at Dublin. The deliberations were commenced on Tuesday and continued yes terday. The proceedings were strictly private ; bub we learn that all the prelates of Ireland attended except the Bishop of Cashel. The correspondent of the Telegraph says it is understood that the bishops propose to revive Convocation, but are in some measure embarrassed by the absence of any decisive expression of opinion by the laity. In some quarters it is held that whilst the Church is doing the work of reformation, it might as well do it thoroughly. Hence one party urges that the present is a grand opportunity for the reforma tion of the Church and the revision of the Prayer Book in a thoroughly Protestant sense. "It is not unlikely that these will make their voices heard in the coming conferences and discussions." The Bishop of Down and Connor has intimated his intention to call a meeting of the clergy and laity for Friday, the 20th of August, to consider their position, and the necessity of organising a lay and clerical diocesan synod. Meanwhile, the clergy and laity seem to have agreed upon a truce to controversy pending the action of the bishops; but some isolated voices cannot restrain themselves from utterance. The Rev. 11. M. Archdall expresses the opinion that the necessity for reassembling the National Conference of last April is unquestionable. The Conference cannot be a representative body or a governing body. "But elected and national and characterised as it was by moderation and unanimity, and representing all shades of opinion in the Church, its deliberations could not fail to assist in arriving at a sound con clusion as to the proper steps to be taken, and the best course to pursue. And it has this special re commendation, that it affords the only means of taking counsel together without delay." It is to be regretted that this sensible talk is but as a voice calling in a wilderness of bigotry, bad logic, anal worse sense. One gentleman urges that the prayer for the High Court of Parliament be at once discontinued. How can treacherous, traitorous, and godless M.P.'s expect to be prayed for ? A " Vir Obscurus"—what a pity that he ever emerged from his obscurity—pours forth a cataract of absurdity about the hypocrisy of Scotch mem bers, the falsehood of Roman Catholics, and the Queen's misinterpretation of the Coronation Oath. "A Northern Dignitary "—a dignitary without dig nity seemingly—entreats his brethren "to cut all connection with the Church of England, steeped as it is in semi-Popery, Ritualism, and Rationalism. Let us join ourselves to the American Episcopal Church, which is not ashamed to adopt the name of Protes tant, which has never been assumed by that degraded Church of England." Finally, another correspondent deems it needful to express his belief that the Lords have committed suicide, and that the Hereditary Chamber is tottering to its fall. But some signs of peace and goodwill make themselves manifest. The Orange Lublin Mail admits that " our Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen have shewn no unkindly disposition towards their Protestant neighbours in their season of humiliation," and even that lion, ex-mayor O'Sullivan, expresses a desire to lie down with the lamb. He has just proposed and carried in the Cork Corporation a resolution to petition Parliament against the celebrations in the North so offensive to Catholics. TIIE COMMISSIONERS. The Church Commissioners are getting ready to commence their operations under the Irish Church Act. Mr. Hamilton is now in Dublin, and the first meeting of the Commissioners may be expected forthwith. The correspondent of the ilerdd pays these gentlemen a high tribute in saying that general confidence is placed in them, and that their impar tiality and rightmindcdness are not for a moment doubted. The Queen has been pleased to direct that the three Commissioners shall be sworn of her Majesty's Privy Council in England. MR. HARNEY LEWIS, M.P. Mr. Harvey Lewis has written another apologia to his constituents. The substance of his defence is that he derived no personal advantage what ever from the commercial transactions forming the subject of the lawsuit in which he so equivocally figured: that he appealed against the decision of the Vice-Chancellor, but that his appeal has not yet been heard ; and, finally, that a com promise of the matters in dispute has been effected, meaning, it is to be presumed, that the litigation is at an end. The electors of Marylebone seem to think, however, that this defence does not touch the main question. Mr. Harvey Lewis, as director of a com pany, was involved in certain transactions which were kept from the knowledge of the share holders, and which Vice-Chancellor Malins pronounced " false, fictitious, and fraudulent." The gravity of an offence which is thus stigmatised is surely not to be measured by the amount of profit to be derived from it. The electors of Marylebone are not satisfied with such a representative, and the more so as, owing to these commercial affairs, Mr. Harvey Lewis has not been able to take any part in the important business of this session. THE LODGER. The lodger who desires the franchise is informed that his hour is come. Every lodger who would be a voter for the ensuing year must, on or before the 27,th instant, send a claim, according to schedule G of the Reform Act, to the overseers of his parish. The qualification is residence as sole tenant for the twelvemonths preceding the last clay of July, in the same lodgings, of the clear yearly value, if lot un furnished, of £lO or upwards. TITE FUNDS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has, it is said favourably received a proposition to consolidate thd existing funded debt of the United Kingdom under one denomination. As the Telegraph observes, any aLrangtnient t,i facnii,,..s 'LA payment of the Government dividends will naturally be promoted by a change which would simplify, and therefore popularise, the security from which the dividends are lerived. NEPOTISM. The Star tells an extraordinary tale. It says that the Lord Chief Baron recently called a meeting of the revising barristers for the Home Circuit at Lewes, and informed them that the judges had agreed among themselves that the appointments of last year should, contrary to the usual custom, he considered temporary, and that a preference should always be shewn, in making fresh appointments, to the sons and relatives of judges ! This amazingly candid confession has been fol lowed up in a highly practical manner. One prominent barrister of the Home Circuit has been " disestablished " to make way for a junior who enjoys the blessing of being related to Lord St. Leonardo. If this sort of thing is clone in the case of revising barristers, where may we expect it to end ? TIIE NEW LAW COURTS. The report of the select committee appointed to consider the best site for the Law Courts was issued yesterday morning. As our readers are already aware, the committee have decided to recommend the Carey-street site, on the ground that it affords, upon the whole, the best opportunity of concentrating the courts and offices in the centre of the great legal district lying between and equi-distant from Lincoln's Inn and the Temple. If at any future period addi tional accommodation should be required, the com mittee believe that the ground in the neighbourhood of the Carey-street site would be obtained at a pro bably lower price than that in the neighbourhood of Howard-street ; the latter site being bounded by King's College on the one side and the Temple on the other, any extension would have to take the direction of the very expensive block of build ings on the south side of the Strand. There was much difference of opinion among the committee as to the comparative advantages of the two sites in point of architectural effect ; they, therefore, are unable to report upon that point. In conclusion, they state that looking at the delay which has already occurred, and considering that no paramount reasons have been submitted for a change in the original design, they recommend that the Carey-street site be retained, and that the :New Law Courts and offices be erected thereon. THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES. It is gratifying to learn from Wildbad that elabo rate arrangements have been made for enabling the Prince and the Princess of Wales to spend their visit to the high and wild valley in the strictest privacy. The gardens of the hotel where they are to be located arc so extensive that they can walk and tak e exerc i se or amusement without being mobbed by ininisitive " town folks." But it is not the folks of Wildbad that are to be dreaded. A great exodus is preparing in England. " Everybody " who meditates going abroad is projecting a pilgrimage to Wildbad. One gentleman writes to the Times to complain that out of his limited circle of acquain tance three families contemplate going off to mob the royal party. The Ti mes despairingly appeals to the British public to show f a i r play to the unhappy leadcrs of society ; but evciy b ody knows that the British public will not listen. The hotel and all its appurtenance: - +, be th e y never so private, will be stormed and taken possesiion of. considering that so large and disti ngu i s h ed a com pany of royalty hunters will bo gathered togeth er , the, time seems propitious for getti ng upa f ow ' forty-shilling stares cr five pound touches of the hand. SIXPENNY TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES. The Sheffield Chamber of Commerce has impor tuned the Past Office for a sixpenny rate for short telegrams. In reply Mr. Scudamore says that a reduction of rate is not thought advisable until the department gets into working order. After that the question will be considered. From the promises made in Parliament we may hope that, the sixpenny dtw thug . , -.""' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, Auousr 5, 1869. ortourse profuse in its protestations tnat _baron neusi is altogether mistaken. It is stated in some German jour nals that Baron Beust has addressed a circular to the Austrian diplomatic representatives relative to the reported negotiations between Austria and France and France and Prussia prior to the war of 1866, totally denying that such communications took place. OLTTI3REAR OF CATTLE DISEAn. Much apprehension has been caused by the appear ance of a contagious disease amongst the much cows owned by the dairymen in the South London suburbs. This epidemic, deplorable to say, closely resembles that which preceded the outbreak of tinder pest. The tongues and feet of the beasts become sore. After a fortnight, the skin of the tongue peels off, the animal cannot take food, and wastes in flesh. With care, this malady does not often prove fatal, but the animals suffer for months and the loss during that period is very considerable. It is thought that foreign cattle have introduced the disease. THE CHANNEL PASSAGE. Mr. Grantham, C.E., discusses the question of the passage between England and France from a fresh point of view. It is all very well, he says, to project tunnels, or even improved harbours, but something of immediate and simple application is needed. A tunnel would take several years to construct, and even the improvement in the harbours on each side, sug gested by Captain Tyler, would be lengthy and costly operations. Mr. Grantham holds that the discom fort of this short but dismal voyage might be greatly mitigated by employing vessels drawing only sft. Gin. of water, 400 feet long by 45 feet of beam at each end. He would fit up such vessels with grand saloons and good refreshment departments, and insure safety by a system of cellular construction. Ile proposes to attain a speed of twenty-two miles an hour on trial, or eighteen as a working average, with engines of 600 (nominal) horse power. That such vessels would be more comfortable than those now employed Mr. Grantham thinks indis putable. That the entry of the narrow harbours by these very long ships would not be attended with any danger he endeavours to prove by instancing Kingstown Harbour, where steamers 350 feet long, go and come every day, the difficulties to the entrance being at least as great as at Calais. He quotes other examples to shew that long vessels take narrow harbours much more readily and safely than short ones. A tunnel, or improved harbours, might still be undertaken, but, meanwhile, Mr. Grantham thinks passengers need not linger shivering on the brink as they do now. LEGAL INCONSISTENCY. That old-standing grievance, the inconsistency of sentences passed upon prisoners, is taken up by one who ought to speak with authority—a gaol chaplain. A week ago an old man, 71 years of age, was committed to prison for a month for " neglect of family." He was in a state of starvation when he reached gaol, and the other day he was found hang ing by the neck, dead, in his cell. Another prisoner woman—bas just been released after undergoing a sentence of 21 days for riotous and indecent behaviour. This character has been in prison since 1840 fifty times, for almost every conceivable offence, and for periods varying from a few days to ten years. If it be right to sentence an old man of 71 to a month's imprisonment for " neglect of family," what punish ment does this woman deserve ? " A Gaol Chaplain" thinks these cases prove not only the inconsistency of the law, but likewise the absurdity of short sentences. It may be worth while to inquire what our heroine of fifty condemnations has cost the country. THE. WELSH ABDUCTION CASE. It is right to state that the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews has had nothing to do with the Cardiff abduction case. The defendants, who were mulcted in damages for en ticing Esther Lyons from her parents, have not been indemnified by the society, which disclaims prosely tism by means of concealing children from their parents. It is to be regretted that the numerous ladies and gentlemen who aided in spiriting this girl from place to place do not see the matter in the same light. AN ATTACK UPON A CEMETERY. The Irish are said to be a superstitious people, but their superstition does not lead them to respect the dead very highly. We yesterday recorded that some Irishmen of London had stolen the body of a friend from a London hospital, that they m i g ht ic wa k e it. In the same paper there were given details of measures taken by the authorities to prevent an attack on Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. To-day we have to describe a still more shocking scene. Shankhill graveyard, Belfast, has been ordered to be closed by the Privy Council, because the bodies are too near the surface. This order has given great dissatisfaction. Thinking to avoid it, a crowd of persons assembled, and com menced opening the graves and reinterring the bodies at the required depth. Upw.:rds of 200 graves were desecrated, and the bones were strewed over the ground. This was done before the authorities could be communicated with. The Mayor, as soon as be heard of the outrage, got a body of police together, and stopped the modern resurrectionists in their proceedings. INTOLF.II ANC P. Even those who condemn the Conscience Clause will hardly approve of the latest claim of national schools. The clergymen and schoolmast-rs of some districts are making it a rule that a child who does not attend the church Sunday-school shall be excluded from the day-schools. That a schoolmaster should refuse to abstain from teaching religion in his ordinary lessons is intelligible, though questionable; that he should deny to the parents the time of their children, in which they would be getting such religious instruction as the parents wish, is to be tyrannous in the extreme, is to usurp most unjustifiably parental responsibility. INTEMPERATE LANGUAGE. The Wesleyan Conference, unlike most of our religious bodies, is determined that its ministers shall be moderate in all respects, in language as in other things. It has reproved, for instance, a minister who used intemperate and unbecoming lan guage at a meeting recently held in St. George's Ball, Bradford, to protest against the Irish Church Bill. The minister in question acknowledged his error, and expresed regret that in a moment of excitement he should have been betrayed into expres sions he ought never to have used. A GREAT DISCOVERY. Professor Laycock, of Edinburgh, is to be accredited with a great discovery. 'What his reli gious opinions may be we do not know ; but it scorns that his scientific researches have convinced him of the errors of Ritualism. He told the Medico- Physiological Society, which has been holding its annual meeting at York this week, that one of tho most prominent causes of insanity in the middle ranks of life was Ritualism. The public will want more definite information on this subject. Perhaps Professor Laycock will pro vide us with statistics sheaving which of the Ritualist practices produces the largest number of patients; how many heads, for instance, have been turned by incense, how many by genuflections. Would he also inform us whether any rearrangement of vestments, the sebstitution of one colour for another, would stay the plague ? Or does all religious ceremony come under his ban ? FOREIGN NOTES. THE CARLISTS. The accounts received of the Carlist movement are still conflicting, but the Government appears to be displaying great energy, and wherever the Carlists appear they are immediately pursued. Official intelligence contradicts the report that a Carlist rising had taken place at Tortosa► and Teruel. In Madrid all seems in a state of uncer- tainty. Some of the journals declare that the people need not trouble themselves about the insurrec tion, for it is over, while reports are circu lated which are a complete contradiction to these statements. The brigadier, Sabariegos, displays conside rable ingenuity in evading a regular encounter with the Gov ernment troops, while he harasses them at every opportunity. Many of the clergy in Murcia, who were mixed up in the conspiracy, have taken flight. It is said that the state of Grenada is not reassuring, and that the Government expect some demonstrations to take place there. The dispersion of the rebels in La Mancha is owing to the great zeal and energy displayed by the troops sent in pursuit of them. Colonel Amo has followed closely on the party of the rebel chief Rappa, and it is now ♦irtually disabled. The appearance of new Carlist parties in pro- vinces where they have not been seen before has naturally given rise to some anxiety on the part of the Government, and the greatest exertions are everywhere being made by the authorities to crush all such attempts at the outset. The Governor of Leon has communicated the intelligence that a party of armed men have taken the direction of the mountains of Asturias, and some agents of Don Carlos have been arrested in the province carrying suspicious documents. The Govern- ment is constantly receiving offers of assistance from all parts of the country, and many of the battalions are anxious to be employed against the Carlists. A Spanish journal says that Don Carlos has given up his design, and advises his followers to retire, because the countryhas not svmpathised with his movement. ISMAIL rAsmt AND THE CRETANS. The Khedive of Egypt has, it is said, just sent a large sum to the Cretans through the Queen of Greece—a Lc) that has excited no little comment at Paris and Florence. It is rumoured that an attempt against the Sultan is being concocted in Egypt. AUSTRIA AID FRUSSIA. The relations between Austria and Prussia are still very far from being cordial. A day or two since Baron Beuat, in addressing the Hungarian Committee on Foreign Affairs, gave a general exposition of his foreign policy, as he had previously done to the Austrian com mittee. He assured the delegates that Austria bad missed no opportunity of manifesting her desire to re establish friendly relations with Prussia, but that Prussia THE SALE OF CUBA. Very contradictory reports are afloat respecting the annexation of Cuba by the United States. On the one hand, it is confidently stated that Mr. Forbes, an eminent Boston merchant, who is now at Madrid, is em powered to make direct overtures for the purchase. The amount offered ($100,000,000) is by some consi dered insufficient, as it amounts to only ten years' pur chase, the island yielding annually two millions sterling, and on this ground it is thought doubtful whether the Spaniards will entertain the proposal. At Madrid ,accordin g to the latest intelligence, the whole story of the negotiations for recog nising the independence of Cuba is categorically denied. Spain, however, is hardly in a position to refuse a good offer, and the Americans are always anxious for an increase of power and influence. THE FENIANS IN NEW YORK. The patriotism of the Fenian Brotherhood, it is well known, is by no means so elevated as to despise material considerations. A suit is now going on in New York, in which the notorious Head-Centre O'Alabony is concerned. In 1865, when Fenianism was in the ascendant, a sum of $20,000 was deposited with a New York bank " in trust for the brotherhood." The Fenians want to get possession of this, but the bankers refuse to give it up. O'Mahony is his own counsel, but his eloquence has as yet failed to convince the receiver that the deposed head-centre is the proper repre.sentative of the brotherhood. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW Yortic, July 'l7. Our hero of the week is James Gordon Bennett (junior), and the occasion, the rapid run of the Dauntless to Queenstown. We were all as surprised as pleased on hearing of this exploit, and Oakey Hall, our Mayor, in a fit of enthusiasm, telegraphed from his residence, Milburn, New Jersey, to fire 100 guns in front of the City Hall in honour of the event, au order promptly obeyed. We hope to have more guns fired soon to celebrate the triumph of our Harvard boys who started for England in the City of Paris, leaving a very favourable impression in New York, as being fitted physically for the work they have to do and their ability to do it, as well as for their gentlemanly bearing. In the same steamer were Colonel Hay, Secretary of the Spanish Legation, and General M‘Millan. Mr. Farnie, the English actor, and Madame Testa have left in the French steamer for Brest. By the way, Mr. Dominic Murray has given his account of the fracas between him and Mr. Tayleure, Fisk's manager (I only wish Fisk had a keeper). According to Mr. Mur ray, be foolishly went into a corner at the request of Mr. Tayleure, and there and then he was affec tionately taken round the neck by that gentleman as a preparatory measure to being gouged. Mr. Murray's eye was slightly bruised, but he escaped, and then began to roar outside for his antagonist to " come on," who, instead, proceeded to Jefferson Market police-court to take out a summons against Mr. Murray for having assaulted him. It is evident that Mr. Murray did write an impertinent letter toMr. Tayleure from London, but he alleges provocation, and denies most emphatically ever having sought, threatened, or menaced Mr. Tayleure. The affair has received quite as much attention as it deserves, for these rencontres are discreditable both to the stage and to our city,• and the more so, that they have occurred to foreigners. Some cases alleging fraud against men in good positions have attracted attention ; one was examined last Saturday for de frauding the Government as weigh-master in the Custom-house, but he was discharged, as sufficient evidence was not forthcoming to convict legally, though the case looked bad. The accused is a son of ex-Senator Doolittle. Another charge of the same sort has been brought against the son of Sena tor Van Winkle, of West Virginia, and others have been summoned to explain similar transactions. In the course of time Congressman Jenckes will be able to accumulate quite a heavy weight of testimony, if not in favour of his own scheme to reform the Civil Service, at least to show the rottenness of our pre sent system. Your English readers must fancy such charges levied against the sons of Peers, for al though our Senatorial swells have not reached to the permanent dignity of the hereditary legislators, nor are we quite such flunkeys as the worshippers of a lord, yet a United States Senator occupies the most dignified position in the country, and, politi cally speaking, has far greater power than a British peer. Sanford, the cashier of the Central Na tional Bank, is said to have committed suicide, but the police do not believe it, nor do they think that he has left New York, though it is asserted that he has sailed for Europe. The bank appears to be all right, business progressing there as usual. A drunken Irishman, named Roche, long a resident in this state, committed a horrible crime on Tuesday at Towkinsville, Staten Island. He was employed as a shoemaker by Mr. Harrington, with whom he boarded. Maddened with liquor the wretch entered the adjoining room, whefe the two daughters of his employer slept, and cut the throat of the eldest, a beautiful girl of thirteen years, who was as good as she was pretty. He endeavoured then to get hold of the other, who fle I down stairs so rapidly that she fell. Her father rushing up entered the room, and seiz ing the body of his dead child hurried to a doctor. Meeting a friend, as the disturbance had created an alarm, he told him the deed had been done by a man up stairs, when he ascended with a stick to capture the murderer, whom he found lying on his face, with his throat cut, in the shop whither he had hurried screaming, and flourishing his bloody knife in his fit of delirium tremens. The Cubans, over whom an extinguisher has been placed by the proceedings of the President, have had to witness gunboat after gunboat launched from the shipyard of the Messrs. Poillon for the Spanish Government. They are greatly annoyed with things in general, and U. S. Marshal Barlow in particular. They have been stirred up to action against him on learning that the President was expected at Long Branch, and flank attacks are being arranged by which they hope to teach the Marshal what New York officials are to expect when they do their duty. Our President is not easily influenced, how ever, and I do not suppose Mr. Barlow is in much danger. The one hundred and twenty fillibusters who got away June 23 came back in a brig named the A. Eldred, having bad enough of Cuba in a short time, indeed I may say, a very short time, for they only landed, had a brush with the Spa niards, and hearing that cholera and yellow fcvcr were raging in the insurgent camp decided it was better to return. The best thing the friends of liberty could do would be to give these patriots an ovation, for they have shown the better part of valour, and instead of wasting themselves m a conten tion with plague, the heroes have preserved themselves to fight again ; I only hope that they have not brought cholera back with them. Three cases have been admitted, and there is a suspicious increase in the death rate which has given--a hundred more than that of last week. I fear that the next return will show no diminution, and prove that cholera really has some hold on the city. The filthy state in which the streets are kept, the unhealthy way in which people are huddled together in the lower parts of the town, and the failure of the city officials efficiently to do their work, may lead to a serious outbreak ; but it is cholera, not yellow fever that threatens. Many cases of cholera morbus have ended fatally during the week, and in Staten Island there is great alarm. The rush is to Long Branch in pursuit of our President, who will have quite a nice time, more especially to a modest, unassuming, smoking person like him. Ile ought to send out young Fred to draw off 'attention, a 3 that young gentlenv.' has lately distinguished himself by rescu ing horn "aning his little cousin Sharpe. The sporting event: of the wed: has be , n the trotting match between the American Girl and Lady Thorn, who take rank after Dexter, now withdrawn from the turf. These horses contended for a purse of $2,500; mile heats ; the best three in five in har ness, over the Fashion Course, Long Island. The American Girl won the first two, lost the third, and won the fourth heat ; the second being very close. The American Girl, however, proved decidedly faster, and justified the opinion of the public, the betting being 2 to 1 on her before the first heat ) the odds advancing as the race progressed. Newport is not such a favourite resort this year as formerly, at least to .New Yorkers, Long Branch being the more fashic•nable, and Rockaway, Coney Island, and West Point drawing large numbers ; even Saratoga :has fewer New York visitors this year. The commercial event this week has been the proceedings against the Wall-street brokers for the infringemel it of the usury laws. Reports have been flying about the whole week, but it is cer tain that action is progressing against many pro minent brokers in Wall-street, and true bills have been found against ten men of mark. The fact is, that trade has suffered by the conspi rac i es t o lock up green'aack currency, and rur up rates to a point of usury ruinous to those who, being caught . unprovided, are compelled to pay any price to escape bankruptcy. Traders fearing the action of these conspirators are moving vigorously, and the Judges are caling the attention of grand juries to , the offence. Bad or good, it is the law of this land that 7 per cent. per annum is the limit for interest on money loaned or debts incurred; yet it is noto rious that those caught "short" have been com pelled to pay rates ranging over 150 per cent. The World condemns the law, asserting it to be wrong that those who have violated it should be subr. oenaed to answer charges. I imagine that the World takes but a contracted view of this matter, or it would not pronounce it to be wrong in Judges to enforce the law, more especially in such case the accused being among our wealthy and iefluential citizens. Where the World errs is in mixing up the law and its enforcement. Those clothed with power to carry into effect a law cannot be wrong in doing so, though the law may be wrong, which is a matter for the consideration of the Legislature, not for the consideration of the officer whose business it is to enforce it. Judges M'Cunn and Sutherland have come to loggerheads ; the one committing a defen dant for contempt and again remanding him after be bad been released on ,a writ of Habeas Corpus by the other. Justice Dowling, too, has come down like a hawk on an attorney practising in his court ; the attorney is said to be!ong to the class known as " Tombs' Sharks," insatiable monsters, which swim about in shallow but troubled waters, gobbling up green-horns from the country, newly-arrived im migrants, and unwary New Yorkers. The attorney replied with a to quoque to the Judge's accusation, telling him he was a defamer and a conspirator. An orange procession marched to the Courtland street Ferry, to the music of " Croppies lie down," the " Boyne Water," the " Protestant Boys," to the intense delight and satisfaction of our Irish Celtic immigrants. They must have imagined them- Iselves again in the north of their native isle, and pro ceeded to act as is there customary. The Orangemen ' got over to New Jersey, where their train left undera shower of stones, to which little attention was paid, but on their return, while marching down the Bowery, a more serious attack was made, and one man was very severely injured, and many slightly. Gen. Sheridan left for Washington last Monday. The Governor elect of Virginia, Mr. Walker, has just left the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Longstreet passed through on his way to Saratoga, and on Wednesday was at the Astor House. On Tuesday the Hon. John Rose left for Canada. Both Secretary Fish and Mr. Thornton gave dinners to the Canadian Minister, inviting the chief officials in Washington to meet him. The Toronto Globe remarks :—" If the cause of his retirement is correctly reported, the relinquishment of his seat in the House of Com mons will speedily follow. It is said that he will leave Canada to take a position as partner in a great London banking-house." The Seventh Regiment left on Wednesday evening with some guests in the City of Hartford, on an excursion ; they go to Troy, whence they will proceed by special train to Saratoga, where their quarters will be the Union Hotel. Aftera big ball and grand review, by Gover nor Hoffman and Staff, they go to Albany, and finally are to return to this city to-day. At Saratoga, by the way, while the brave are parading, the fair are mounted on platforms, screaming for their rights. There is there at present a great Woman Suffrage Convention; Mrs. Page was elected president ; Miss Anthony was, of course, present, as she intends to die a spinster on a platform, fighting for her rights. The president said that, as long as there were men like Fred Douglass, Langston, and others left out, the women had some decent companionship ; but the coloured company having been taken in, they felt all the more inclined to resent being barred out. Miss Anthony objected to being treated like a doll, 1 but she did not name the base man who had attempted to subject her to this indignity. Had she done so he would have been reckoned a curiosity, and a considerable amount of travel undertaken to see him. She had maintained her position in the move ment, she said, for 20 years, and it may be that it was this attempt to make a doll of her which drove her into it. Here is a sample of the sort of accidents constantly occurring in our harbour. Mrs. Russell, married daughter, baby, and boy, were paddling home in a boat on Wed nesday, when the baby fell overboard. The mother instantly precipitated herself into the water, and when both were drowning Mrs. Russell added her self to the group, none remaining but the little boy, six years of age, who sensibly stuck to the boat, and worked with an oar till he got hold of his grandmother and kept her head above water till some fishermen arrived ; but the married daughter and infant were drowned, and it is doubtful whether M's. Russell will recover. Burglary with us is approaching a science ; the way in which banks are broken into and funds stolen is only equalled by the way in which robbers return documents they find of no use to themselves. Of the bonds stolen from the Seamen's Savings' Bank '20,000 dollars were returned as not negociable, the Bank be ing informed by a note that they would be found in a box at 15, Howard-street, which proved to be the case, though the owner of the premises did not know how they came there. The Masonic Lodges have been the latest sufferers, several hav ing been robbed on Thursday of $2,000 worth of jewels and ornaments. The weather has been the warmest known for some time, and the heat is gene ral over the country. Sunstrokes are numerous, both here and in Washington ; the thermometer in the latter city actually rose to 101 deg. yesterday, and several sunstrokes are reported. It seems to have frightened our board of health, for after a special meeting yesterday some gangs of labourers were set to work to sweep the streets. The vessel has been raised which was sunk by the ilussia in May last; the passengers of that ship have tele graphed that they have arrived safely in Queens town after making the fastest passage on record, and it appears but yesterday that I saw the Cu narder depart. WASHINGTON, July 16. Mr. Walker, the newly-elected Governor of Vir ginia, has been here, and has left us to visit New York. Great satisfaction is felt generally at the result of the election both in Virginia itself and outside that State, although the extreme Radicals regard it with fear, and are working hard to have it neutralized in Ccngress. Mr. Walker is thought highly of ; he is a young man for the position he has attained, being under 40, a lawyer, a Douglas Democrat before the war, and a Republican since. He calls himself a Conservative-Republican, favour ing the XVth Amendment, and he was elected as such. The Virginia press hails with satisfaction the result ; the Richmond Despatch taking a very sensible view, regarding it as the alliance of good men sinking various shades of opinion to rescue the State, on Grant's platform, from ignorance and dishonesty. It denies that this is a Democratic triumph, as the peop'e were engaged in far higher work than struggling in a party contest. Walker has had , several interviews with the President, with Secre taries Fish, Boutwell, and Rawlins, and he emphati cally announced his intention heartily to supportthe Administration in his government of Virginia, and it is clear he has the sympathy of the President, though not so certain]'- that of the Cabinet. I may go so far as to say that some of the Secretaries are hostile to the movement in Virginia, fearing its influence on Mississippi, Texas, as well as on Ten nessee and other States. Several consultations have been held among the most prominent Republicans at present in Washington, and they do not much like this Republican-Conservative triumph, which they seem to consider has far too much of the Conservative, and far too little of the Republi can element in it. This position has been decidedly taken by Secretary Boutwell, who is reported to have made a speech on the subject at the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. He opposed any counte nance or aid being rendered by the Administra tion to this Republican-Conservative or National Republican party ; he saw danger ahead, his party was known simply as Republican, and the Con servative he knew only as its enemy, against whom he raised a warning voice ; it was their business to protect the party which had placed them in power against deceptions, and already many pro minent Republicans had become alarmed at the re ports now circulating as to the course the Admi nistration had adopted. Mr. Boutwell, whose in fluence is very great, did not mince matters either when Judge Dent called on him to secure the assis tance of the Treasury for the Republican-Conserva tive party in Mississippi by whom he had been nominated for Governor. The dispute waxed hot and strong, and the Judge left the Secretary under no misapprehension, as to the assistance he would get from the Treasury. During the interview Mr. Boutwell advised the Judge to mind his own busi ness, but at all events he could control the affairs of the Treasury without any assistance from out siders, and he assured him that he would aid none who had not supported the Chicago platform, who were not willing to assist the XVth Amendment, and who had not helped President Grant's election. This is probably a newsmonger's manufacture, and has been denied ; but it shows the drift of opinion. Gen. Whittlesey, the candidate for Congress in the Alexandria District down the river, has brought up several specimens of counterfeit tickets used by Walker's party to deceive the negroes having Radical Republican vignettes as the heading aboVe the name of the Conservative candidates. On Wednesday the President issued a proclamation on the Missis sippi election, naming Tuesday, the 30th Novem ber, as the day, and embodying the objectionable clauses to be voted on separately, as in Virginia. This late date was purposely named in deference to the opinions held by Secretary Boutwell, who was desirous that the settlement of this question might be delayed till just before Congress met. One of the subjects exciting most attention in Washington is that relating to the frauds in New Orleans. Auguste Couterie and Co. sent an agent here from that city to obtain a release of the sugar seiz3d by Collector Casey, who alleges several enormous frauds against that house aided by Perry Fuller. Be sides the sugar and the whisky frauds, it will now be necessary to wake out a new assessment of the income return, as it is evident that the list is almost wholly false, and a re-assessment has been ordered by Supervisor Conkling. No return i 3 re liable from New Orleans, the Crescent City being a nest of fraud ; and it is reasonable to expect this, as the people regard their city as conquered, and their taxes the levies of a hostile Congress. This feeling is aided by their distance from Washington, which the better enables them to " do" the Radicals, and it was much helped by the late President's appoint ments, so that now things have got into so bad a way that it will not be easy to get them again on the square. Secretary Rawlins left on Wednesday for Connecticut. Gen. Sherman starts for New Hamp shire to-morrow. The President will arrive at Stetson House with his Staff at Long Branch to-morrow morning. He sent a telegraph message to Mr. Bogie, asking him to accompany the party which left in the steamer Tallapoosa last night. By the way the President is erecting all sorts of barriers against office-seekers and intruders generally. Trespassers are now warned off the Executive Mansion grounds which used to be open to the public, and the Mall has been turned into a paddock for the President's horses. The late President and some of our editors may perhaps consider these acts to be foreshado wings of the purple. The Fenian Gen. O'Neill has just re turned from a tour in the South, where he pro nounces the feeling to be good, but the organization bad ; by a little care the smouldering fire could be blown up, and when the Irish pockets fill with re turning prosperity in the South, the blowing will be applied fast enough, for I have never known a Fenian to fail at least in wind. Colonel Thomas Moore, a distinguished officer of General Sheri dan's staff, has been appointed Bank Examiner, and he is about to resign his commission in the army. Governor Pease and Colonel John P. Ochiltree, of Texas, have been urging i❑ vain on the President an early day for the election in the Lone Star State. They represent Texas as becoming peaceful ; they think they will secure Hamilton's election as Governor, whose party they represent carrying the Legislature and the majority of Congressmen. There are some politicians also who are here on behalf of Mr.Davis,the regular Republican nominee. Chief Justice Chase and his daughter are in Washington, where the Chief Justice has heard the constitutional question argued whether he should comply with the demand of James M. Carlisle and Philip Phillips for a writ of habeas corpus to take Colonel E. M. Yerger from the custody of the mili tary commission who are now trying him for the murder of Col. Crane in Mississippi. The point is whether the Reconstruction Acts in permitting mili tary commissions to try persons accused of crime in time of peace, is constitutional. The Attor ney-General, being served with a notice, was pre sent to watch the case on behalf of the Government, which was heard on Wednesday in the Supreme Court room of the Capitol, decision being reserved. Senator Conkling, who lately returned from his trip from San Francisco, over the Pacific Railroad, joins in reporting most favourably of the line, and has drawn on his head the indignation of Mr. Isaac N. Morris, late Government director, whose un favourable reports caused so much comment. He reiterates all he said, and takes the opportunity of censuring the reports of both Mr. Wade and Senator Conkling. A circular was issued last Monday an nouncing a Convention concluded with Mexico to settle the claims of our citizens against that Republic. The cases are to be heard by a mixed commission to meet here, and Government have appointedJ. Hubley Ashton agent and counsel to conduct proceedings, and prosecute claims on behalf of the United States ; he will be paid by Government, and his services are at the disposal of all claimants, who are directed to apply to the department for circulars of the general roles, and forms of proof ; one is, that they must show that they are citizens of the United States. Proceedings have been taken against the Wall street brokers for usury, but we have as good a set of " shent per shents" in our city of Washington as you would find even in London beneath the three balls a pawnbroker hangs out. The Government clerks are the victims, and the lenders are ten per cent. per month men, dangerous people to have a hand on a Treasury clerk, and against them the police are about to make a vigorous raid, as they are quite as worthy of attention as the brokers of Wall -street. The Decatur cotton case has been decided against the Government, but Secretary Boutwell, dissatisfied with the Memphis decision, telegraphed to the United States Counsel in that city to carry the case up either to the United States Supreme or United States Circuit Court on an appeal or writ of error. It involves in the gross 1,500 bales. Some of our Congress men have been delivering sensational opinions. Judge Trumbull gives an interview with Brigham Young, wherein the prophet spoke very plainly that Congress should not interfere with polygamy, adding that obnoxious Federal officers would be expelled from Utah if they gave expression to ob jectionable opinions. Senator Cole, who is now in New York, desires to swamp the Mexicans with the Chinese; the latter possessing just the virtues the former lack, the one hating work the other rather enjo3ing it. They might proceed south and occupy Central America, so that they were shunted off from interfering with labour in the United States. From Homburg-es-Monts, 23d July, 1869, our correspondent writes : Messrs. Seligman and Settheimer, American bankers at Frankfort-on the-Maine, gave an official dinner ye3terday at one of the private soloons of our celebrated " Kursaal " to a number of the most distinguished Americans residing here at present. Amongst the invitA guests we noticed the Hon. Elihu 13. Washburne, our Ambassador at Paris ; ex-Governor Curtin, our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, accompanied by his Secretaries of Legation, Dr, Coffee, late Assistant Attorney-General, and Colonel Gratz ; Senato r Zacharias Chandler, Admiral Porter, Professor Dr. Henry Tappan, the retiring and the nov i r appointed Consul-General at Frankfort-on - t he ' Maine, the Honourable William Walton MurP l l l' and the Honourable Willi am P. W e b s t e r ; Genera l Dodge, Ex-Consul at Bremen ; Isaac Seligman' Esq., of San Francisco ; the Honourable Wo nt ' gomery Gibbs, Agent of the United States 'Pe a ; sury Department at Paris ; Secr e t ar y Augus te Glaeser ; Dr. Leopold Sonnemann a nd Dr. Be rli. hard Doctor, editors of the Frankfort Gazette, an d , others. Many of the gentlemen w ere accon4 3 nied by their wives, amongst whom were Mrs. Co ll sul-General Murphy, Mrs. Consul-General IVebster' Mrs. Colonel Gratz, Mrs General Dodge, Mrs. Gri bb° ; Mrs. Seligman, besides o th er l a di es . A num ber of to:tsts were propose I and responded to in a v c , r/ appropriate an d i n t eres ti ng manner b y M r . Nyasa burne, Governor Curtin, Senator Chandler, neil n Seligman, Profees lr T a pp an , G en. D o d ge , and v.; Coffee. Much attention was attracted by a sl3lc ;a speech of Senator Ch an dl er , i n w hi c h h e allu u, . eb ' to the Alabama question and Cana la, and , elicited a rather punge n t re ply i n f avou r of 1 1, land on the part o f D r . B ern h ar d D octor , the Fra in fort correspondent of the Londo n Times, D a ' e News, New York Herald, &c. All th e toasts lv er j characterised with humour and wit, and reco v b e e with enthusiastic applau s e. Th e pl ea sure of bill evening was greatly enhanced by the excellent u of fare and the delicious flavoured w ines of Mons le b tir e Chevet, of the celebrated Paris Restaurant , t tasteful arrangements of the liberal hosts, and 111°o than all by the charming presence of ladies bloom ing in beauty and in costly toilettes. THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF PENNSYLVANIA. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention i nominated, on the second ballot, Asa Packer f° Governor, at Harrisburgh, July 14, running ' l b , against General John William Geary, the Rees lican candidate. He was elected over Gel ier ‘ - u . Hancock, M'Candless, and G. W. Cass, the ° bers being—M'Candless, withdrawn ; Hancock? o f Cass, 47 ; and Packer, 68. C. L. Pershie' o o Cambria County, was nominated for Judge ° f ba Supreme Court. The first resolution, asserting 're; danger of exercising unconstitutional powers, deel3,ght that Pennsylvania shall never surrender her /j i be to local self-government; the second °pros es ba ll Fifteenth Amendment, and demands that it ° li i r i be submitted to a direct vote of the people; th e t did emphatically denies suffrage to negroes, e r , f o t right of Congress to grant it ; the fourth eah s financial reform ; the fifth offers cordial co-Or tion with the movements to benefit the lab oo o , men ; the sixth condemns the Reconstruction Poe licy of Congress; the seventh and eighth Ar s oo l , customary resolutions in favour of the Union ro diers and naturalized citizens; and the ten t" .00 quires a modification of the unjust internal re doing and taxing system. The Democratic party 00 1 its best to uphold State Rights, for it has of added to these the right of the Democrats, l a e lm State, to have a separate platform. The Dent those of Ohio can have little or no connection W 19 301 of Pennsylvania, or Pennsylvania with Vi r g a rtfl and the same may be said of the Republican P o ll' with reference to the platform it has erected In to r fornia and other States. The Philadelphia ° AO pondent of the 7 imes reiterates what we ha ve , i t er s f said, and has harped on it i n bi s l a st two le that these differences arise from the man ifest 3 o f fusion now prevailing in parties. On ques t ro tec overwhelming national importance, such as tion v. Free Trade, there is no distinct se.l 33r i3 i o but where the Democrats are at loggerhea ds ' te s of the rejection or retention in the diff er ent s° l " dead issues. Pennsylvania discarded gree n ; 00If redemption of the National Bonds ; Ohio n ° t he declared for it, but for taxing the interest 00%'x' Conservatives of Virginia accepted Negro B u y s and the XVth Amendment ; those of Pee° Bl o ,oo emphatically rejected both. The Times say s is becoming the fashion "To separate the President's Adtninistratiottrebd the doings of the Republican party, and t° ,,, neither as responsible, in the old ti me sens e, for th e 's Grant's is ceasing to boa p ar t y Ad m i n i s t ra tion, 81- , l le o coming a personal ono, and his effort seems to bc t ° ' o rti' the people without reference to the wishes of ait ber or t i ; Hence ho adheres t o th e mo d era t e R e publicans in the atcol P and to the Conservatives i n th e S ou th, causing 0 0 -' 3 1,1 both sections to fall off from hi m . I n the South ,arou crat , now regard him as their best friend. The fa ct tP sittoo tries to do what is right as nearas he can disarms °P ) :f P 3r , everywhere, and is gathering to his support a O rt ., o co l/ b sonal party, drawn from both tho old ones, wh ic , l3 , o l" l:o t h l a ing very strong. This personal following to now adheres to the Republicans and in the Sou t- iit to s Conservatives, and although the dullness apo v oi present prevents party lines being very distinc ti w ill when the next session of Congress gets at w ca.l e ? necessary for public men mere distinctly to L'IT" preferences." Orfi l It will not answer for parties to become '" °this to nixed bands seeking office. More or Inus less t l , be oil what party is ; but the contention h o a re principles which those who enunciate t' er , pledged to carry into practice when in Pcssf COURSE OF EXCHANGE' Amsterdam - Short ... 11 19k ." 12 ii Do Rotterdam ... 12 1i ••• 25 4 5 Antwer p — ••• 25 40 ..• 05 Brussels - 13 lil Hamburgh — ... 13 1 1 1 •" 25 40 Paris Ditto ••• Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main, ... 121 ''. 1 2 lif Vienna — ... 12 70 ..• 1 Trieste l2 72i ..• o • t _ •• '/ 6 Petersburg ~291 '" 9 2 g Copenhagen — ~ 9 25 ••• 6 2 / --- ••• Berlin Madrid.. 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