The Sun. — London, England, 1869-10-07 00:00:00

-- FItErGN - Norrs - : . A - .'h'L'W ALtIA>.TCB. The Fren — cli papers give currency to a rumour which attaches serious importance to General Fleury's mission to St. Petersburg. The General, it is said, is to ascertain the dispositions of the Czar in case war should break out in Europe, with the object of securing an alliance between France and Russia, or at least of inducing him to be neutral. In the first place, the French fleet would combine with the Russian fleet on tho Baltic ; in the second, France and Austria would act with confidence, knowing that Russia would not interfere with them. The isolation of Prussia is the object which the Cabinet of the Tuileries has in view before exacting from King William the strict fulfilment of the fifth article of the Treaty of Prague. According to this account General Fleury's mission signifies peace should Prussia take alarm at finding herself isolated, war, if King William and his Minister refuse to satisfy the demands of France and Austria. The Siecle alludes at some length to the rumour of an alliance between Prussia Russia, and Austria which has also been afloat in Paris, and which it thinks natural and well founded, though it does not believe the efforts made to secure it will be suc cessful. In the present situation of France and the eventualities which may arise, it is natural that the Great Powers should consider the best means of meeting the crisis. According to the Siecle, the idea of this combination did not originate with Count Bismarck, who likes to act alone, but with Count Manteuffel, who, supported by Lord Clarendon, proposed as the basis of their policy the preier vation of the status quo, Prussia undertaking to do nothing in Germany, and Russia to remain inactive in the East. M. de Beust, however, refused to join this alliance. Austria having been so often deceived by her allies will stand alone, and this resolve has rendered the negotiations futile. The Slide, in alluding to the mission of General Fleury, thinks it would be a grave mistake on the part of France to ally herself with Russia ; her only real allies must be found in liberal Governments and liberal peoples. The frequent conferences which have taken place between Napoleon 111. and his Foreign Minister, M. de la Tour d'Auvergne, and their constant cemmuni. a tions with French diplomatists abroad, seem to afford some foundations for these reports. THE RISING IN SPAIN, The French papers evidently regard the state of affairs in Spain as most critical, and seem to have little faith in the - power of the Government to restore order. The measure for the suspension of individual rights which Las been presented to the Cortes is regarded as most significant, and the Constitution which was to have been the most liberal in the world is said to be a dead letter. The guarantees which it was to furnish have been suspended, and Spain is likely to fall into a state of sicgs, and to pass under the sway of a dictatorship Those who are in authority, an 3 whose mistakes have brought about these results, declare that they cannot re-establish order unless they can nce the free expression of opinion in the county. The details which have been given by the Madrid Ga:ette itself are indicative of the spread of the revolt. F, ars are site -- tained lest the strong measures adopted by the Govern ment may not increase the evil that they are intended to remedy. It is reported that Marshal Prim and the Regent Seirano have become convinced of the impossibility of seating Ihe Duke of Genoa on the threw) of SI a'n, and have confer r d with the Portuguese Minister, who has almost per.,ta , led Don Fernando to accept the crcwn he refuse d few months ago. It seems the general opinion that there is not a moment to be lost in tho matter, and that if . pain bag not a King in a very short space, Republicanism will be proclaimed in fact as well as in theory. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS, The Eastern Budget says that the Turco-Egyptian dispute is not yet settled. England, France, Austria, and Piu3sia have determined to withdraw from any further inter ference in the matter, and to leave the Sultan and the Khedive to arrange it between themselves. A telegram from Vienna, in the same paper, says that a Congrei-t, for the purpose of treating of the various political and com mercial questions which will be raised by the openir g of the Suez Canal, will meet at Cairo on the Ist of Novemh r Austria will probably be represented by Baron Gaze: a, of the Mercantile Department in the Foreign Office at Vic nna. Grcat importance is attached to the apprJaching ..cgotia- Cons for the abolition of the consular jurisdictEn .n :apt , and it is sail that Blron Veoque will Le tent by the Austrian Government as its special pleapotenti wycn this ozca,ion. CUBA AND THE UNITED STATM. The 'United States Government feel convinced that ooner or later Cuba will form a part of the American Union, and that it will not be necessary for the Federal Trea3ury to expend anything to accomplish this es•dt. The pr2s:iit policy, therefore, says the Times correspondent, is to let the war go on without interference, and to continue the mediation for Cuban independence. The 2.rnerican people sympathise with the Cuba -13, and there is litt:e n for the neutrality which is observed. It Las I eon openly rumoured that General Sickles Ivs telegraphed from Madrid the last proposition which the S 1 an'sh Government made to him and that tle3e authori ties accept virtually, if not explicitly, the offer of the United States to mediate between S p a in and the revolu tionists of Cuba. Some conditi o ns aro annexed as the bases of the arrangements among which it is sail that; the Cuban insurgents are to lay down their aim;. TELEGRAPHY IN TIIE UNITED ST ATES The annual report of the Union Telegraph Company cf the United States has just been publishel. The telegraph business has developed with surprising rapidity in that country. The first line was constructed tetween Baltimore and Washington in 1814 by the aid of a subsidy from the Government. Seven years later there were more than fifty separate telegraph companies doing business in different parts of the counti y. Steps were then taken towards the consolidation of the lines, and one company, the Western Union, now controls ten-elevenths of the whole property. There are 73,036 miles of telegraph lines in the States, of which 66,263 belong to the Western Union ; the number of sta tions is 5,029, of which it owns 4,692. Its net earnings for t ie past three years have averaged 2,720,548 dollars annu- Nlly, and during the last year its business has increased. Its lines extend from one ocean to the other, and reach from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, from Los Angelos, in California to British Columbia, eight hundred miles north of the capital. The American papers make large use of the telegraph wires, apd the report states that during the year 1868 the Western Union delivered to the press 369,503,680 words, at a charge of 883,509 dollars, or less than a shilling for a hundred words. The report claims that this is a larger amount of news than was contained in all the telegraphic correspondence of Continental Europe during the same period, though the charge for the Continent was nearly seven millions more. THE NEW YORK JUDICIARY, An extraordinary fracas between a reporter and a judge is recorded in the New York Sun. The reporters of that journal have been making sport of the eccentricities of the judge of the Court of General Sessions, a freedom which the judge resented in strong language, calling the reporter a liar, a compliment which the reporter very promptly returned. The conversation, which seems to have taken place in aroom of the court-house, proceeded as follows : "The City Judge ; You are a d—d liar. " Reporter : You are a liar. " The City Judge: Where was this conversation ? "Reporter: In your office. " The City Judge (turning about) : I never used such language in my life. The whole thing is a lie—a wilful lie. lam a gentleman by Lirth and education, and cannot stoop to bandy words with such an ignorant fellow. " Reporter : If you were not so small and diminutive, I would chastise you." The conduct of American judicial courts is likely, under Imola circumstances, to be of a somewhat peculiar order. POLITICAL ITEMS. An Edinburgh contem Dol'arY states that a commis sion, consisting of Mr. Stansteig, Mr. You , and Mr. Loch is expected in the city shortly, for the purpose of ascertaining how far it m 7 be po ss ibl e and expedient to consolidate several o the Scotch Government offices, and briny; them into one. The offices in regard to which it is said the commissioners will direct their inquiries are the Scotch Excheque r , the Board of Supervision for the Poor, the Board of Fisheries, the Prison Board, and the Lunacy Board. All that can bo safely inferred is, that the Govern ment is seriously inquiring in what manner the various Scotch boards can be be brought under one recognised head, such as a Secretary of S t ate for Scotland. The Scotsman understands that there is no truth whatever in the statements that have recently been made in several quarter;;, to the effect that a vacancy is likely to occur in the representation of the Edin burgh and St. Andrew's Universities, through the appointment of Dr. Lyon Playfair to the Mastership of the Mint. No such appointment, says our contem rorary, has been made. or offered to. Dr. Playfair. According to pr7s;ntitpiea;;;;;Klr.-"S;tiiiart Mill will not be chosen as the Liberal candidate for the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. A meeting of the Aberdeen members has been held, and a com mittee appointed to act in conjunction with the Glas goW University Liberal party in promoting the election of the candidate who might be jointly chosen as representative. Tho name and claims of Mr. Smith, of Jordanhill, tho gentleman selected by the Glasgow committee, were very favourably received by the meeting. Mr. Smith appears to have the preference with a large number of electors over 1: 1 -r• John Stuart Mill. A --NE37- Sir Tollemache Sinclair, who was recently elected for Caithness, has been making some remarks on the political questions of the day. He believed that an increasing number on both sides of politics are of opinion that voters should be protected by the Ballot, although in Scotland bribery is almost unknown, treating is rare, and intimi dation and coercion is becoming the exception and not the rule. He considers that the nomination of candidates is an unnecessary and mischievous for mality; that paid canvassers should be abolished; that the conveyance of voters to the poll should be illegal; and that the strictly necessary expenses of an election should come out of the county rates. With regard to the land question, Sir Tolle mache stated that he was in favour of a Government commission to investi g ate and adjust all the equitable rights which can be proved to exist on every estate in Ireland, and fix, without appeal, their amount, which sum should be a charge on the estate, but to be redeemable at any time by the landlord. He would relax the extreme and now needless severity of the Irish Poor Law, and assimi late it to the 'English system. THE FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. The crusade which Mr. Rylands commenced in the House of Commons against the jobbery in the Fcreign Diplomatic Service is likely to have some good results. The question has now been taken up by the Executive Committee of the National Reform Union, and on Tuesday night the member for Warrington addressed a meeting at Manchester on the subject. He stated that the amount expended last year upon the diplomatic and consular services was about 2500,000, the increase since 1850 having been £120,297 a year. Notwithstanding the great dis parity in the extent of our relations with the United States and Turkey, the total expenditure upon our Turkish Embassy was about £50,000 a year, and that upon our representation at Wash ington £22,000. He declared that the service was unnecessarily expensive, and maintained as a means of providing for younger branches of the aris tocracy. these days of newspapers, electric tele graphs, and rapid publicity, it was an anachronism on the age, and instead of promoting peace among nations, it tended rather to promote war, as in the instances of the late wars with Russia and Abyssinia. He hoped the rumoured disarmament of Europe would prove to be true. At all events, whatever other nations did, England, as professedly the most advanced Christian nation in the world, should put her Christian principles into her national policy. SIR JAMS ELPHINSTONE ON THE NAVY. Speaking at Portsmouth the other day, Sir James Elphinstone, M.P., expressed the opinion that the result of the admiralty cruise had been to reduce the navy of England to one ship—the Monarch. In the gale of wind which the fleet met with, had the Monarch put forth her powers as an enemy instead of a friend, all the other vessels would have been at her mercy. Sir James said he Iliad been an advocate of the turret system from the beginning. Its victory was now won. Henceforth he felt assured it would be the only principle on which ships of war would be armed. Sir James Elphinstone looks forward to the country spending ten millions on Portsmouth, which, in the opinion of its member, is the sole and only proper station for the British fleet. Probably the country will look at the matter in a different light. THE FENIAN PRISONERS. The agitation to obtain a release of the Fenian prisoners is far from declining. The amnesty meetings increase alike in number and liveliness. In fact, so popular has this movement become that the leaders of the tenant-right agitation have found that it "pays" to combine the two. Some of the latest demonstrations have been really imposinc , displays. At Ennis a proces sion, numbering from 15,600 to 20,000 men, was headed by 2,000 well-mounted members of trade and other societies, every man wearing a green riband. The whole is termed " a magnificent spec-s tacle." At Devil's Out, in Tipperary, the display was still more imposing. Forty thousand men were present. Multitudes of people trooped in from all parts. The procession was headed by the clergy of the town, well mounted, and wearing green favours. " Behind them trooped thousands of the flower of Tipperary's manhood, fine, broad-shouldered, bright-eyed fellows, marshalled in regular array, and bristling with all manner of national emblems. After them came a host of well-mounted farmers, forming a very credi table cavalry force. Then came immense lines of vehicles of all kinds, headed by one bearing a gor geous banner of green silk,' with the inscription, in gold letters, Our Own Again.' " The speeches made on these occasions were in some cases of a very remarkable character. One of the chief speakers at a meeting held in Belfast plaintively bewailed that the English nation had been guilty of the foulest crime in modern times in making political offences a felony, and in reducing the political culprit to the low level of the "commonest burglar." It appears, then, that if we are to imprison the Fenians at all we must refit and re furnish the Tower of London, and afford these political victims a captivity at least as honourable as that of Sir Walter Raleigh. The ordinary gaol may be good enough for a " common burglar," but it is disgraceful to so incarcerate the uncommon burglars who blew up the House of Correction, and broke open gunsmiths' shops. The three Manchester Fenians, if executed at all. omrht to have been beheaded on Tower Hill. At the Cork meeting there was a frightful uproar. VIRTUOUS INDIGNATION. Mr. G. H. Moore, M.P., has written to the Times a letter of considerable length, in answer to the attacks made upon him by the daily press in general, and by the Times in particu lar—attacks which have been pointed out to him by "a good-natured friend" in Ireland. If this amiable office was prompted by good nature of the quality indicated by Sheridan, the Irishman in question must be disappointed to find that Mr. Moore cannot discover in the attacks " a single spark of wit, a single sentence bright enough to rive plea sure to the reader, or sharp enough to inflict pain on the most sensitive moral cuticle." Having thus happily disposed of the capacities of the Fourth Estate, Mr. Moore proceeds to vindicate himself from the charges brought against him by the Times. He believes it to be the duty of Governments to punish all resistance to their authority, but denounces the theory of punishment being used as an example to non-offenders, as that on which all tyrants have justified their reigns of terror. If the English Government continues to hold his countrymen in chains he warns it that he intends to pass next winter in delivering a series of discourses on the English Government, and its mode of repressing resistance to its misrule these discourses being delivered in Paris and New York. It remains to be seen what effect this threat—possibly more alarming to Paris and New York than to London-- will produce upon the tyrannical and relentless Eng lish Government. The Times hopes that this worth member of Parliament will return from abro a d w i t h some revised views as to the exceptional illiberality of the British Administration. THE NEW BISHOPS. The Advertiser wants to know what has gainea the Bishopric of Oxford for Mr. Mackarness. This gentle man, says our contemporary, took only a second-class at Oxford, has never distinguished himself in any way, haspublished nothing, and has taken no public partin any of the controversies now goitig on in the Church. The answer is bellned to be found in "three almost insignificant circumstances." He is domestic chap lain to Lord Lyttelton; he is brother-in-law to Sir John Coleridge • and at the election of proctors to Convocation refused to declare himself on the side of the Irish Church. Although it is feared that the new Bishop of Bath and Wells has some slight tendency to Broad Church theories, no fault is found with the appointment of Lord Arthur Hervey', who is spoken of as a studious, moderate, and highly respectable divine. The Advertiser waits with the deepest interest for the selection to the bishoprics of Exeter and Carlisle. Hopes are enter tained that Dean Stanley and Canon Miller will NS left out in the cold ; the appointment of the first " would raise a storm of indignation; " whether it would not even imperil the Government is more than the Advertiser would like to assert. However, "the interests of the Church —that is, of the whole Church of Christ —are of immeasurably more importance than the interests of the Gladstone Ministry, or of all the Ministries that ever were, or that ever will be, formed." The Birmingham. Gazette understands, on good authority, that the vacant bishopric of Carlisle will be offered by the Premier to Dr. Miller. VACCINATION. Two prosecutions in London under the Compul sory Vaccination Act are worthy of note. In one case a medi ca l certificate was produced, sta . ting that the child. on whose ' behalf vacci na tion had been refused wa s notin alit s t t h at e e to undergo the operation. But it was hewn th at certificate was an opponent doctor who furnished this magistrate, therefore, treate cl c e l f l e t o i f s i-a eci testimonynat io n ; the defendant, n i ce t a , l certificatehowever,asilitedtlldo, and made an order. parry The ee penaltymmedical non-fulfilment out, and preferred to of the law. In another case a the effect that the child was coming from an unprejudiced source, was admitted. 4 fe e r ds , a man has been sent to prison for a fortnight refusing to allow his child to . andergo the operation. b . e had presented to him the alternative of a fine, but; as he said, ho preferred "to Ernest Jones it." And so, it would seem, " to Ernest Jones it" has come, amone , a certain class, to be the symbol of martyrdom when it takes the form of itnprisonment. MUSHROOM AND CO. The Horticultural Society are just now directing their attention to the utilisation of fungi. The mem herb, in common with most authorities, hold that the Mushroom class of vegetablesrniAt be made much iiiale;ttsertn,ltiat mere; Ste - various =T. Ncm.c.a.' atif good for food except mushrooms ' and that there is no difficulty in distinguishing between the nutritious and the poisonous. On Tuesday, Dr. Curtis, of America, said he had eaten freely of as many as forty different kinds of fungi, which were found in abundance on the Western continent. During the civil war the value of these edibles was frequently appreciated. The meeting then took the subject in hand practically. Various specimens of edible fungi were cooked, and freely partaken of by the large assemblage of persons who thronged the council room. There can be no doubt that much valuable food, lying free for everyone to take, is allowed to bo wasted. THE Stilly-I'M-DM, TlititSDAit EY.ENIVO, : - .0C1'04 - gTh - gr 18'0'3; THE BRITISH MUSBUM. A. correspondent of the Star refers to somo sugges tions which have been made by Mr. Marsh, American Minister to Italy, with regard to the utilising of the treasures of the museum library. Mr. Marsh has proposed that there should be attached to the Museum Library a sufficient num ber of competent persons, whose duty it should be, on the request of scholars, accompanied by a regular fee, to verify references and citations, make extracts from the books in the library, and institute special researches. Mr. Marsh was told by scholars in London that they could not make much use of the Museum Library, on account of the time re quired for obtaining any volumes that -ivere wanted. The Museum authorities, on being ap pealed to, stated that there were many habitual readers who could be applied to, but Mr. Marsh said that foreigners did not know who these habitual readers were, and suggests the advisability of trying the plan he proposed. The money would be well laid out in compensating persons for making extracts, for the shillings thus expended would save pounds -spent in buying books. AN ENGLISH PRISONER IN ITALY. The Telegraph thinks that the case of Mr. Nathan, now imprisoned in Italy ought to be investigated. This young man, who is only 19 years of age, has been in prison at Milan ever since April last, upon no charge except that he was found travelling from Lugano, where his mother resides, and where Mazzini was stayii at tho time; and also that upon the journey he was in com pany with a young man who was out with Garibaldi in the campaign of 1860. Upon these grounds, and none other, it is said, Mr. Nathan has been all the past aix months immured in an Italian gaol, without trial, or even a statement of his offence. At the close of last session a question was asked upon the subject by Mr. Taylor, the member for Leicester, and the reply was that the English Government had made apphcation to the Government of Italy to have the prisoner released on bail. Nothing, however, has come of that intervention; the young British subject remains incarcerated, and it is due to the public feel ing of this country, even more than to the distressed family of the lad, that the failure should be generally known. COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) THO3LLS OF GENOA.—The Crown of Spain has been kicked about like a football. So one is not surprised that it should be secured by a Harrow-boy. A HINT.—At the Social Congress an enormous paper, by Mr. Macfie, M.P., proved to be so irrelevant to the subject in hand, that the meeting unanimously caused it to be shut up. 'What a pity the assembly which Mr. Macfie adorns does not treat all irrelevant addresses in the above way. "Hansard" would then become portable— almost readable. MARE MAGNIIM.—The Besleyans (not Wesleyans) have triumphed, and Lord Mayor Besley will reign in 1869-70. When the victory was proclaimed, the victor said, " I do not mean to sing any song of triumph Now." Quite right. Guildhall is not a pleasant place to sing in. We may hope, later, for the pleasure of a song from his Lordship. It would be a delightful variation from the usual musical programme at the Mansion House banquets, " Gentlemen, pray silence for a song from the Lord Mayor." (From Fun.) A HINT FOR Lino INSURANCE COMPANIES.- -Honesty is the best Policy. STANDING SnoT.—A well-known Irish Q.C. has refused to stand for Tipperary. He declines to be its Butt—and we don't wonder, considering the amount of shooting that is done there. (From Judy.) A HINT FOR THE NEXT ELECTION.—Mr. H. B. Sheridan, it appears, is likely to be called to account by his consti tuents for his transactions in re the Albert Asssurance. It is quite certain that any of them who happen to be policy holders will much prefer his room to his company. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Sept. 18.) The feature of the money market, the past week, has been the New York bank statement, left over as a basis of business from the preceding week. This document is of such extraordinary character, however, that it partakes of the na' lire of a financial curiosity, or of one :of the in geniously difficult "sums" in the back part of the school bo) 's arithmetic, rather than of a monetary exhibit, on which business calculations may be based. A ccording to its terms, the loans of the banks at the close of business, September 11, amounted to $268,864,533, au increase of more th;in six millions over the previous week; the specie amounted to $14,942,066, a decrease of two and a half millions; the circulation to $40,000,000, an increase of $4,161; the deposits to $188,823,324, a decrease of $2,277,762; the legal tenders $51,487,867, a decrease of $4,341,915. Putting the loss in currency and coin toge ther, we have a not decrease in the reserves of $6,391,321, 1. e., from $17,025,224 to $10,733,303. The object of a bank statement is undoubtedly to register the amount of available funds at any given centre, to show whether money is retiring to the outer circles of circulation, or piling npin the middle. For such a purpose it is evident from the state of business that the above exhibit is worth less. New York has lost little if any of this 6,000,000, and probably most of it lies in the vaults of the banks that profess not to have it. It is " sealed," locked up, for a few days, by parties who will pay apittance for having it withdrawn from sight, in order that they may speculate ou the possibility of a stringency. One bank alone is known to have dis posed of $2,000,000 in this way. Probably the banks would not permit a legitimate loan of so much to be taken bodily from the vaults, but so long as they can have it under their own eyes they seem to entertain no scruples of Indulging in this game of give-away. Last year, with a reserve at this time of twenty millions, there was a sharp stringency before snow fell, and the prospect of entering the present fall campaign with a purse of only ten millions would certainly produce a panic, if the bank statement was received at its face value. As it is not, however, money throughout the week has been quite easy, and at no time more than steady at the usual rates of 6 to 7, with com mercial paper at 10 to 12. Some inconvenience is being felt from the scarcity of small bills. It is estimated that the effect upon the market of the withdrawal of $l,OOO in small bills from circulation is equal to that of the with drawal of $2,500 in large bills. The present contraction in the former is due to the fact that the Treasury has been in the habit of replacing the mutilated small money with bills of high denominations. Hereafter, however, like is to be replaced with like. In the aggregate, of course, no expansion of the currency of the country takes place. Gold has been obstinately heavy, and all the efforts of the " bulls" to give it buoyancy have been most labo rious, so far as they have been made at all. Every elevation in price has been procured by expensive purchases of gold, and the payment of carrying rates that must have deducted largely from the final profit of the speculation. The effect of this labour has been to raise the premium about one per cont., an advance that is en tirely temporary and may fall off at any moment. On Tuesday, private telegrams from Europe, which are be ginning to be as great a bore as the "reliable gentleman" in war times, reporting an unusual dullness in the London and Paris markets, gave gold a start from which it mostly recovered before night. The number of business men who take an interest in these moderate fluctuations is very small, as we remarked last week, the only effect of a rise being to produce a dullness in foreign exchanges. The export of gold during the thirty-sixth week of same or about per i d o n ien sliBx6t9h, of ending th be the amount a S m ep o te un m te r 11, xp 1868. Since January 1, $ 25 , 274,067 has gone out in ss6 tl; 4 e 39 exported in against $65,352,056 iu 1869. The former sum is less than we exported in 1851, and not half as much as in 1859. There have been but two of the last ten years in which we have shipped less than in 1869, and those were 1861 ($3,264,953) and 1865 ($21,081,780). Governments have been steady for the most part, though they foil off a little on Tuesday rather unaccountably, considering that it was the day before the purchases by the Secretary of the Treasury. Those purchases, however, were made at 118.20 and upward, whereas last week the whole amount was obtained for 117.50. Southern State Securities have been without interest. The stock n.arket has Lad a sensation, literally of the first u ater, in the restoration of Erie paper or pulp to the New York Stock Exchange, a kind of cnun cil of forty thieves, who endeavour to maintain the honour attributed to that class in the proverbs of tiro police. It is now seven mouths since the operations in Erio became scandalous, even in the eyes of the Board of Brokers, wherefore it was kicked out of their midst, as one may learn in tho last of Charles Francis Adams, jun.'s novel ties on railroad management. - It was excluded by the enactment of a rule that no-stock should be admitted to the call the exact amount of which is not registered with some reliable banking or broking institution. Tho time for the annual election of Erie directors draws nigh, and opreferred, t there theiis $ b promisee7soi,dibesides , Jay Go t ld h as th ere f ore written a letter to the Farmers ' Loan and T rus t C ompany, detailing the amount of stock that l i bears o$ 003f0,01,00i of common ,o r o o o a d O . f Afisrctsocteokrmd, mortgage n rut g dg as t g o B : s l b3 i s o6,n9 e d x lso - ib $4,000,000 of the second,s6,ooo,ooo of the third, $4,441,000 of the fourth, $926,500 of the fifth, $586,400 of the Buffalo • branch, and $4,844,440 of sterling; in all over $100,000,000 of liabilities afloat. AU these mortgage bonds are courser at . tible into stock, to be ad d ed to the 70,000,000; but Gifeci says that no further conversion itay he "apprehended" at present, and pro Mises t? obey the rules of the exchange.- This Trust Company, under whose apparent guardianship the stock mill is placed, is said to be ready to smile upon any new issue, after a nominal delay of 24 hours, in which to "examine it." Their approval of it is therefore about as valuable as would be the countersignature of the proof reader. Under the prestige of this return to favour, Erie has gone up several per cent, and Broad-street has become quite merry over its old stimulant, so cheap and yet so intoxicating. An exhibit of the earnings of the Erie Road has also been made, and a very flattering one it is. Daring the eleven months ending September 1, the road earned $17,348,355, a sum that will grow to over $19,000,0C0 before the end of this month. This is the largest sum ever earned by any railroad in this country during one year. The New York central reaches $15,500,000, and the Chicago and North-Western a mil lion less than this sum. Of the Erie earnings, 7 per cent. is consumed in expenses, leaving, besides the interest on its bonds, five per cent on its $78,000,000 of stock. These figures show of what immense value the road is to the country, bow it succeeds in spite of a chaotic, or worse, direction, and how pitful it is that its name should be the symbol of the lowest deep of railroad rascality. Other stocks have been almost deserted through the week for this old favourite. Lake Shore and Rock Island have looked up a little, and Vanderbilt have maintained a com mendable firmness. From the advance sheets of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, were are able to give an account of the old cotton crop, except for all practical purposes, for the harvest year ending Sep tember 1. The total crop was 12,439,939 bales, against 2,593,993 of 1867-8. This is larger than the crops of 1865 and 1866, but smaller than any previous crop back as far as 1851. The last crop, with 38,130 bales left over from the previous year, was consumed as fol lows:—Exports to foreign porta 1,448,020; sent to Canada directly by rail 18,000; now on hand at Northern ports 9,536, at Southern 2,807; total consumption in the United States 998,806, of which but 80,000 was used in the Southern States. The great body of spinners are lightly stocked, though some large corporations hold several weeks' supply. The new year begins with a de ficiency in the visible supply of cotton for this country and Europe to the extent of 330,000 bales compared with the amounten hand at the same period of last year. Hence to permit of the same consumption the coming season as during the season which has just closed, the cotton pro duction of the world must be increased to that extent. But this year the average weekly consumption of Great Britain has been about 3,000 bales less than during the same pe riod of 1867-8, while the Continent and the United States have probably together consumed about 3,000 bales less per week. If therefore the mills this season return to the consumption of 1867-8, 300,000 bales additional will be needed, or in all an increased production of 639,000 bales, without allowing any accumulation of stock. The extent of the new crop cannot be with accuracy ascer tained as yet, but is thought to exceed last year's by enough to make up this deficit. The receipts for last week were 1,350 bales in excess of those for the same week last year. During the last of August prices at New York and Liver pool were 34c. and 141 d. against 30.3 c. and 11d. of the pre vious year, and much the highest rates obtained at any time during the previous two years. Last week, however, prices began to feel the effects of the new supply and fell off considerably. The receipts of wool at Boston for the week were 5,565 against 8,848 for the same week last year. Trade is generally dull, and the failure of a wool len mill at Glendale has not helped the matter at all. Shrewd buyers, however, both at Boston and at New York, are investing, and as the receipts continue light and manufacturers are running all their machinery, a rise can not be far distant. Tobacco transactions for the week ending September 15 were light, on account of the ab sence of Western buyers. Prices are firm, but the market is quiet. The reports of the new crop are more favour able than was expected. Quotations are as follows : Connecticut wrappers, 35 to 40c; good to fine wrappers, 45 to 55 ; seconds, 20 to 28 ; fillers, 11 to 12. The dry goods trade finds a ready customer in the South, as we predicted would be the case some weeks ago. Western buyers have been behindhand, but are now beginning to appear. Prices are firm and are likely to be still more so. A few failures have occurred among the smaller houses but not to an extent to create any alarm. The trade seems to be in a healthy condition, and expects to handle a large portion of the procaeds of the abundant crops throughout the country. Shirtings and sheeting; both bleached and unbleached are firm. Cotton flannels are in less demand on account of a large auction of Laconia and Saco flannels. The demand for woollens and foreign goods is improving. The retail trade of New York, which in these days of quick transportation means the retail trade of a vast tract of country, is rather slack. Bread stuffs are unusually slow in getting to the lake ports on account of the unwillingness of the farmers to accept the low prices, which the abundant harvest induces. Enough comes forward to supply the demand, even a slight falling off in price. (From the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, September 17. Money on call continues easy at 7 per cent. in miscel laneous collaterals, and at 6 per -cent, on Governments. Discounts are also easier, and there is less difficulty in placing thirty and sixty days paper. First-class bills a e current at 10 to 12 pr cent., with some exceptions at 9 to 9, per cent. Gold is moderately strong on small transac tions, having opened at 1362- and closed at 1:361. QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 97 to 98 f Eng. sous 482 to 485 Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 1011 j2O francs 383 „ 386 Eng. silver 475 , 480 Thalers Fivo francs t, 96 i i Foreign Exchange is dull, and the market is oversup. plied with borrowed bills. Three Days, 108i-108i Sixty Days. London Bankers London Prime Commercial.. , 107-1071 Paris, Bankers 5 231 5.211 5.211-5.20 Bremen, Bankers Ilamburgh, Bankers Frankfort, O.M. 4Ol-401 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5 2 7 1-5.26 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5.271-5.461 Government Bonds are generally quiet, with small transactions. Sixes, 1861, registered l2ok to 121 Sixes, 1868, coupon ... — to Sixes, 1881, coupon l2ll to 1211 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lOBl to 109 Five-twenties, 1862, registered l2Ol to 121 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon new 119 to 1191 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 llBl to 120 Five-twenties, Fivewenties 1 18 8 6 67 5 , , c c o o u u po pon n, Ten-forties, coupon Ten-forties, registered Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to In Miscellaneous Stocks there is little doing except in Pacific Mail, which is steady at about 72. N. Y. Central ......... id 199/ Fort Wayne Erie ........................ 39 Pacific Mail 72/ Hudson .................. 179 Atlantic Mail — Reading ...... - .......... 951 Quicksilver Mich. Centra1............ 128 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central ......... 137 Mariposa Preferred Cleveland & Pittsbrg. 107 1 Ohio and Mississippi 3ll North-West ............. 77 1 Boston Water Power l6 North-West Preferred 874 Cumberl an d Canton.. .................. 55 2 Bankers and Brokers — Rock - 1 . e ... 0 - 1 111 M & St. P a ul Cleveland iM & St. P au l P re f erre d 831 °ec lslandd and n d . . .1 . ;0d Railroad Stocks have been excited all day, with wide and frequent fluctuations, closed heavily. Railroad Bonds continue to be rapidly absorbed by home and foreign in vestors. N. Y.,Central 6s, 1883 901 N. Y. Central Cs, 188' 90 N. Y. Central 6s, 11 Est 87 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub n 87 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 97 Erie Ist Mort, Ex ..' . . 9B Erie 7s, 24:1 Mort, 1879 95 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 86 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 83 i Erie 7s,sth Mort, 1888 77 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. lstM,'77 B7 Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69._ 981 Hud. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 102 f Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 — Mich. C. Ist 31, 69'72 Mich. new Ist 31 Bs, 'B2 — Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 92 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. - 111. Cen. 7p. e, '7O ... . ll9l Alton & T. H. Ist 31 92 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 80f Alton &T. H. 2d M. Inc. 751 Han.& LandWrntsloB Han. & St. J. Con- Chi. B. & Q., Ist . . lO6 Chi. .& N. West, S. F O3 Chi. &-N. W. Con Cony 931 Chi. & N. W. Int 8..,,,, 89 ('hi. & N. W. Ist M BB Quiney & Tol, Ist 31, '75 111. & So. lowa Ist M Tol. & Wab. Equip 781 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M Gal. & Chic. Eat 96 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 95 Chi. & R. I. Ist M 100 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 941 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 9B N. J. Central Ist M 99 N, 3. Central 2d M 100 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M 100 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M 95 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M 9l Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 74 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc" 99 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Ist M 991 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 9l Mil. & St. Paul 2d M B6l Marietta & Cin. Ist M Morris & Essex Ist M 99 Morris & Essex 2d M 9O Joilet Sr Chic. Ist Chi. & Gt. Essen Ist M B3 N. Y... . Dubuque & S. City,lst M 92 Peninsula Ist M 9O Ohio & Miss. Ist M 921 Ohio & Miss. Con B2l Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D — Atlantic & G. W. 2d M — Del., Lack., & W., 2d M 9O Lake Shore Div. Bonds Cleve, P. & A sh. N.B — Do. ITnion Pacific Gold B B5 Central ERR. Gold B 93 Pacific BR. guar. by Mo• 90 Gt. Wed. Ist M, 'BB .. . ... 88 Gt. Western 2d M 811 Tol. & Wab. 2d M Ex. 84 Express Stocks are quiet. Admns ----- : American Merckauts Uuic Merchants' Union, old Sto, Unifed States 63 5: 071 too } 00 0 0 63 5 1 7 6 1 1 18 to 19 Wells, Fargo, and Co: Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia banliers, report as follows on Sept. 17: Pennsylvauia Railroad shares, 563 5% 1 ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 99 ; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 98 —. I ADVERTISEMENT. 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The gentlemen who conspired to lock up greenbacks, and thus rob their neighbours, have been taken in hand by the law. They were let off easily the first time ; they will go to the penitentiary if caught again. But we reckon the first lesson will suffice them. Why should not you take it to heart? The law is plain ; the injury to the public weal unquestionable; we have known poor, ignorant work men to ba hauled up and punished for disobeying this statute ; you ought to be treated no better than they, and we shall try to see that you aro not. Your next con spiracy to lock up gold must be dealt with as the law directs." So spoke the New York Tribune on the 14th Sept. Ten days later the premium on gold was forced up from 37 to 62k. The wildest excitement prevailed, business was suspended, as in the violent fluctua tions and the uncertainty produced by the rise, values were wholly unsettled. Thus was the challenge answered, and now we await the result. If the brokers who availed themselves of locks-up in greenbacks to obtain an interest for money beyond the legal rate could be indicted by a Grand Jury, and sentenced by a Judge, surely the conspirators to lock up gold, and thus derange the whole busi ness of the country, are equally liable to punish ment. The law says : "If two or more persons shall conspire to commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or the due administration of the laws, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour." For such offence the penalty is one year's imprison ment, or a fine not exceeding $250, or both. A complaint had, at the time the Tribune wrote, been made to the Grand Jury by merchants who had suffered from a former combination to lock up gold, and the recent proceeding has brought the subject; £o prominently before the world that the complaint cannot now fail to be pressed home. One of the evils of an irredeemable paper currency is the speculation it engenders. The uncertainty always attaching to trade becomes when it is thus based its curse, being carried to an extreme ; it passes first into speculation, and after into gambling, which, in the Gold-room of New York, has reached its wildest phase. It was created to facilitate the exchange of gold and paper money, and it has been of great service to the mercantile community in providing an organization through which the home and foreign trade interests can adjust the relative values between gold and paper. Respectability in membership was supposed to be a guarantee that the sound business rules upon which the Exchange was framed would not be infringed ; but when we see corporations and great banks combining to sweep the market clear of greenbacks or to flood it, so as to favour their speculative ope rations, it would be vain to expect the Gold Room to restrict itself within its rules. In civilised coun tries conducting a large trade, gold is a barometer so sensitive as to be affected with an ease marvel lous to the looker-on. Most distinctly, is the pass ing cloud felt either in the Gold Room of New York or over the vaults of the Bank of England. The withdrawal of a few hundred thousand sovereigns from Threadneedle-street, or the export of a mil lion dollars in specie from New York, may affect the value of all property dealt in either in Capel-court or in Wall-street, though the property be counted by billions sterling, and the alteration in value to millions, while the withdrawal consists only of a few hundred thousand pounds. The pyramid is on its apex, and by a slight push it gets intu tremulous motion. More especially is the gold lever in New York powerful in hoisting or depressing values, as, though distinct from the currency of the country, yet it is kept in a large quantity only in one store, the Treasury of the Government. Being the real standard of all foreign as well as home values in the United States, if currency declines in its purchasing power, the fact is is indicated by an addition to the number of dollars in'greenbacks it takes to purchase, say, one hundred dollars in gold. It is not the gold that rises or falls, but the currency used in mak ing purchases of every kind. When the gold-gam blers then are doing what is called sending up gold, they are in reality sending down all values ; and a man who is a " bull" in gold is simply a universal " bear." But, while we say so generally, we do not mean to assert that gold in America does not vary in price, though in a degree wholly disproportioned to the apparent rise and fall in the Room. On the Tuesday of last week it was 137, on the Friday it was 162, but this is the apparent, not the real, change i;I value, that being indicated by the exchange on London and elsewhere, which, from 107-i-, fell, while this rise was in progress, to 107, and finally beeline nominal. The decline was, however, sufli • cient to turn the tide of specie transport, and half a million sterling left the Benk of England vaults for New York. Doubtless banking and mercantile houses connected with America had sharp orders to remit when the operations of the bull clique began to tell ; and bad Secretary BOUTWELL not broken the combination down by ordering the sale of $14,000,000 in gold from the Treasury, it would, in a short time, have been broken down by a large export of specie from Europe. Still the extraordi nary fact remains on record, that, for some three days, the internal business of the United States was paralysed, and its foreign trade deranged, by the open, audacious, barefaced operations of a gaming clique in the public mart. Never outside New York did bolder or more extensive gambling tran sactions occur, nor ever seen a more glaring con trast than between the proceedings in Wall-street in the broad light of day, with the police to guard, and the petty gambling with dice or cards in the dead of night, with the police to break up the hell. It may be said that the clique got their deserts—that they broke under the operations of the Treasury that heavy failures resulted, and enormous sums were lost; but this no more derogates from the crime, if the law disallows such conspiracies, than does the case of a murderer who after disposing of his victim finds that he has secured only unne gociable paper, or of a burglar who breaks into a house prepared to destroy any obstruction who discovers the plate he has stolen to be spurious. We merely write on . conjecture aided by a few tele grams, but our experience leads us to conclude that there never before occurred in any capital the " running of such a-muck" on business. The more we try to comprehend these operations the more astounded we become at their magnitude and their audacity. It was announced in our columns a fortnight ago that a ring had been formed with s2s,ooo,ooo,having connections in London,to carry out their operations, but, large as the capital men tioned is, unless available in the hands of the ope rators, it could scarcely have carried out affairs on so grand a scale. It is hard to conceive the full extent of the influence exercised indirectly by their proceedings. On the Thursday and Friday of last week business appears to have been suspended in New York. No man knew what an hour might produce; the outsider did not fully comprehend the cause, he only felt that money was unobtain able, that no bills could be paid, no commitments met, nothing bought or sold, for, no one could cor rectly appraise values. What the influence was on all the Securities of the Union, we can only tell when the mail arrives, but the buoyant rise of the Erie on this side was interrupted, and all American Securities fell heavily, even the English Funds being affected. Bullion began to flow from the vaults of the Banks of England and of France, these great indicators of European commerce, and the effect extended throughout every country. It is not, then, an exaggeration to say that all Christendom was moved ; and thus defiantly the gold-gam blers answered the challenge of the Tribune: It now remains to be seen whether or not they will assume a meek and lowly appearance before the judge, and express their sorrow for having unwit tingly infringed the law. But the community may incline to forgiveness, not less for the grand and fearless nature of their operations,which Americans i)erliaps more than any other people admire, than for the disastrous result to themselves. Ordinary trade is too humdrum for an excitable people. Such schemes may be very wicked ; but so is war; while there is nothing a nation more enjoys than a san guinary battle, unless it be a frightful murder, such as that which has lately excited Paris. People want danger, generalship, the strong excitement while oscillating between ruin and fortune, with the roar of the great contention in their ears. On the the one side are ranged the " bulls," on the other "bears only," after fonimanceuvring, negotiationB, marchings and counter-marchings, to gain the van tage ground. Then the supreme moment has come, and the contending factions hurl themselves into the conflict as reckless of results as though the strife was with bullet and with bayonet. For hours the struggle rages, with a rapid exhaustion of strength and resources. Some droop and faint, some turn to fly, the victors secure th e pr i ze, t h e excitement subsides, and none but the killed and wounded with the wrecks of the strife, remain on the field. Such was the " Bull" Battle of yesterday week. It shook the commercial world more than did Gettysburg, and the history of the operations, when we get them, will be worth reading. The telegrams of the last few days indicate the dis turbance caused in Wall -street and the Gold Room, by the extraordinary operations of last week. After seeing gold rise to 1621, and fall to 132 on the Friday, the Board continued its adjournment from that day through this week to facilitate settlements. Values could not be readjusted, the stock market re mained feverish, and several of the great brokers suspended or have failed. Among them are names which will create astonishment when made known, but, although some houses are positively announced in private telegrams, we do not consider ourselves at liberty to mention the firms. On the 15th Sept., the 'Tribune, in a double-leaded article, repeated the information we gave a fortnight ago that a ring had been formed in combination with European ca pitalists to buy and lock up $30,000,000 of gold. Se veral leading financial houses werein the conspiracy, the object being to force purchasers under engage ments to deliver gold within a short time, to buy from them at exorbitant rates. Not only has the rumour proved true, but the plan suggested by the Tribune to Mr. BOUTWELL to break dow❑ the com bination was used, and ruined the clique; " Sell gold as long as there are good buyers and you have it in the Treasury ; and to prevent a lock-up of greenbacks, purchase Bonds as fast as you sell gold." Towards the close of the week before last, railway and other stocks became unsettled. The New York Central, Michigan Southern, and St. Paul's Roads were so pressed that a sharp decline ensued. After a rally the New York Central left off on the 17th of September at 197 ; Michigan Southern, 951 ; St. Paul (common), 714, (preferred), 821. In one day, by Cable, a fall of 50 was re ported in New York Central. It is evident that a great disturbance has been caused in financial circles which we fear will not be confined to the clique, for the collapse of the great houses involves the smaller, and the consequences ramify in uulooked for direc tions. The actual condition of trade generally, is reported by most of the newspapers as healthy, but the Nation of Sept. 16, in an article on the fall prospects, takes a very gloomy view of national industry. For weeks it had been gathering facts which contradicted the opinions of the mer chants of New York, who described the present condition and the immediate prospects as favour able. The Nation has always predicted that the bubble of high prices could not outlast an abun dant:crop of grain. Such a harvest had been secured, and with it has come a general decline in values, scarcely any manufacturesyielding a profit. The men chant lowered the prices to the manufacturer, he re duced the wages, that led to strikes, and the grew' fight between capital and labour commenced. Tbt loss in coal caused the strike in Pennsylvania, which led to the Avondale disaster. Plate-printers, ship builders, miners, shoemakers, and tailors are now on ttrike. The lumber of Maine is reduced to half the production ; the cotton mills of New Eng land are closing to work off stocks ; in New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia real estate has ma terially fallen ; beggars are steadily on the increase, 85,322 persons-having received out-door relief last year in Philadelphia. This does not, however, tally with the general opinion, business being considered healthy, and trade showing good prospects for the autumn. If there be anything really unsound in New York, the trial of last week will search it out, and we look with much interest and some anxiety for full details, which we fear we may not get in time for our next issue ; but, meanwhile, it is satis factory to observe the steady decline iu the pre miums on gold. OBITUARY.—The llon. John Bell, of Tennc , see, who died at his residence at the Cumberland Iron Works, Sept. 11, retired into private life in 1860. He was born near Nashville, Feb. 18, 1797, graduated in Cumberland College, now Nashville University, in 1814, admitted to the bar in 1816, and was elected State Senator in 1817. He was elected to Congress over Felix Grundy in 1826, and continued member of the House of Representatives 14 years. When President Harrison was forming his Cabinet in 1841, Mr. Bell was placed at the head of the War De partment, but resigned in the autumn with the rest of the Cabinet, except Mr. Webster, when President Tyler left the Whig party. In 1847 he was elected to the United StateS Senate and re-elected in 1853 and 1859, when he retired from public life. In 1860 the old Whig party in the South nominated Mr. Bell for President and the Hon. Edward Everett for Vice- President, who, being sup ported by Southern Unionists, received 590,631 votes, carrying the States of Virginia, Kentucky, and Ten nessee.—Rev. Dr. Joseph B. Felt, the Massachusetts antiquary and historian, died at Salem on Wednesday, September 8, aged 80. Of his published works the principal are the " Annals of Salem," the " History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton," the "Ecclesiastical His tory of New England," with various shorter biogra phical sketches and historical essays. --Mr. S. P. Fisb, well known from his connection with the express business ; died in Boston, Sept. 11.—The Hon. Israel H. Watson died suddenly at his country seat, in the town of Westchester, on Sunday, Sept. 12, at 5 a.m., at the advanced age of nearly 80 years.—James Forneri, LL.D., late Professor of Modern Languages in University College, Toronto, died in that city on Tuesday, Sept. 7. He wasdescended from an old Italian family, and was educated for the Romish priest hood. He served fcr some time in the Spanish army, then resided in Germany, afterwards in England, where he taught and lectured. While living in Belfast, Ireland, where he married, he was invited to the chair of Modern Languages in Toronto in 1853, a position he resigned, on account of age and disease, four years ago. He bad been proscribed from Italy as a dangerous " Liberal." - Udol pho Wolfe, Esq., known as the. Schiedam Schnapps mer chant, died on the night of the 14th, leaving a handsome fortune and a family of seven daughters and one son.— Gershom B. Weston died on Tuesday, Sept. 14, at his resi donee in Duxbury, aged 70 . —Frederick A. Tallmadge, died on Friday, Sept. 17, in Lichfield, Connecticut, at the house of his daughter, the widow of William Curti Noyes. WILLS.—The late Jabez C. Howe, of Boston, made many charitable and benevolent bequests, among them $2,400, to be expended by his brothers Francis and Oliver C. Howe, and Rev. Joseph P. Ceite, for the benefit at the religious society to which they belong in Brook field, his native town, and a similar one of $3,000 to be paid within one year after the decease of his wife. The American Board of Foreign Missions receives $6,000, and other missionary societies $2,000 and $3,000 each.—The late Robert Waterson, of Boston, left bequests of $l,OOO or $2,000 each to nearly all the local benevolent societies, and a fund of $lO,OOO, the income of which is to be ex pended by his son, Rev. Robert C. Waterson, in publishing and distributing tracts and books best calculated to pro mote spiritual culture. The aggregate of the bequests is nearly $200,000. A " Wild Goose Type Setter" has been invented near Raleigh, North Carolina. —Motto for the Custom De partment : Columbia expects every man to pay his duty. —A Michigan editor wrote to Carlyle for his autograph, and got this reply: "Here is my autograph. Much good may it do you. T. Carlyle, Chelsea, 23d June, 1869. The last rising in Cuba: The price of cigars—Boston Post.—New York Express thinks " races" are "well-timed proceedings•".—Hero is a Lafayette (Indiana) marriage announcement : "Married, on Wednesday last, after a vast amount of trials and tribulations, by Squire Duffield, Colonel Robert M. Foster and Mrs. Sarah Hughes, all of this place.", Mr. Guy 11. Salisbury, whose body was found floating in tho creek at Buffalo ou Sunday morning, Sept. 5, has been identified with the press of that city since the year 1829. In that year, when ho was but 18 years old, he became editor of the neNY Buiplo Republican, the first Democratic paper of the county. In 1830 he left the city and attempted business pursuits in Illinois, but re turned to the editorship of The Buffillo Courier in 1817. The latter years of his life have been marked by many financial misfortunes. His domestic relations also became unhappy, and ho had been the victim of hypochondria for several years. His death has created a profound impres sion in Buffalo, althouzli he has led a very retired life since 1857. The Spring field Republican of Sept. 18 says— “Vico President Colfax and his party, which has been somewhat increased in number, wore to spend Sunday in Eugene City in Oregon, having made an excursion thither from Portland. The journey from San Francisco to Port land was made by steamboat, instead of by stage. When last heard from, on Friday, all were well, and preparing to start from Portland for Eugene City, which is about half the length of Oregon, southward from the mouth of the Columbia river, and near the head of the Williamette. Mr. Bowles does not now expect to reach home before the Votircf October. - . 711 E AZ7itiMAt THE CES Age st lb The Palmer ... 5 (pd) See Saw ... 4 8 13 Cecil ... 4 8 9 Rosicrucian 4 (pd) Kidderminst-T ... 5 8 9 Cock of the Walk... 4 8 8 Taraban ... 5 8 7 Paul Jones 4 (pd) Cap-a-pie 4 8 4 Goodwood... ... 5 8 4 Duke of Beaufort... 3 8 0 Fair Wind ... 5 7 11 Gondolier 4 7 11 Sycee ... 5 7- 9 Robespierre 3 7 9 Starter 3 7 8 111 ono a ... 3 (pd) Nm - xy 6 7 8 The Laird 4 7 8 S iderolite 3 (pd) Clewenco 4 7 Legislator 4 7 7 Marquis of Carabas 4 7 6 The Special ... a 7 6 Etoile Filaute ... 6 7 2 Birthday 3 7 0 Myosotis ... 3 6 12 John Davis a 6 12 Adrastia 3 6 12 Robin Rover 3 6 10 Tasman ... ... 3 610 THE CAMB: Ago st lb Knight of Garter... 5 10 7 Vespasian 6 10 6 Blue Gown ... 4 9 12 Friponnier ... 5 9 9 See Saw .. 4 9 7 The Palmer 5 9 6 Laneret 6 9 t, Rosicrucian 4 9 2 Silenus 5 9 0 King Alfred ... 4 9 0 Salalin a 8 12 Plaudit 5 8 12 Cecil 4 8 10 Xi 6 8 10 Charnwood 4 8 8 Typhoeus 4 8 8 Nelusko 4 8 6 Duke of Beaufort... 3 8 5 Goodwood... ... 4 8 4 Cornet ... 4 8 4 Osbaldeston ... 3 8 4 Van Amburgh ... 5 8 3 Morna 3 8 3 Taraban ... 5 8 3 St Ronan 4 8 0 Vagabond ... 3 8 0 Viscount ... 4 8 0 Bel Giorno ... 4 8 0 Historian a 8 0 Perry Down ... 3 7 13 Lady Zetland 4 7 12 Cardinal York ... 3 712 Starter 3 7 11 Clemence ... 4 7 11 Robespierre ... 3 7 10 Ladas ... 3 7 10 Islam 3 7 9 Dunbar 3 7 9 Epworth 4 7 9 Heather Bell 3 7 8 La Maladetta f ~. 3 7 8 John Leech ... 4 7 8 Stork 3 7 7 Fair Wind... ... 5 "7 7 Nancy 6 7 6 Benbow 3 7 6 Virgule ... 4 7 6 Border Knight 3 7 6 Brambridge ... 3 7 4 Skipjack ... 5 7 4 Etoile Filante ... 6 7 4 Michael de Bascoe 4 7 2 Dldlle. de Fligny f 3 7 1 Adrastia 3 7 0 Thic - 1 4 7 .REWITCH Age st lb Phantom 4. 6 9 Tramp 3 6 9 Conrade 3 6 9 Prouesse 4 6 8 Our Mary Ann 4 6 Vanichka 3 6 7 7 Ladas 3 6 7 Lopez 3 6..6 Stork 3 6 5 Dodona ...... 3 6 5 fled Cap a 6 Peabody 3 6 3 Provider 3 6 2 Gardener .. a 6 2 Atonement 3 6 0 Vallation g 4 5 1 3 Red Rice 3 5 12 Royal Head 3 51 2 Vladimir 3 5 1 2 Crown Princess .. 3 5 1 2 Storm King 3 5 11 Assineboine 5 1 0 Miss Peddle colt 3 5 9 Lady Evelyn filly 3 5 8 9 Vacuum 3 5 :K. Alfred's dam f... 3 5 , 7 7 Cherie 3 5 „; Lamlash 3 5 Toby 3 0 Aubado 3 5 7 :IDUESIIIRE Age at 1 5 Numa Pompilius 5 61 3 Prior ,„ „, 36 12 Phantom „ „ 4 6 12 Standard Bearer 3 61 2 Robin Rover 3 6 1 2 `Poison d'Or 3 6 1 2 Chanoinesse „, 3 610 Miss Dayrell 3 6. 1 0 Bosworth ,„3 6 9 Lopez .„ „,, 36 9 Pompeii „, 3 6 9 Macduff ... 4 6 9 Anthee „, 4 6 „ Tramp ,„ „,, 3 6 Defender 3 6 8 Curiouse 6 3 6 , 8 Cocoa Nut... 3 Far Away... 3 6 Aulace ,„ 3 6 1 „ Royal Rake .„ 3 6 Neuchatel „, 3 6 Chatelherault „.. 3 6 u g Atonement „, 3 6 Bertha „, 3 6 Peabody „, 3 6 1 Teeswater... „, 3 6 Dodona „, 3 6 J0ve......364 I Provider ... ... 3 6 Herennianus ... 46 4 Vestminster 3 Winifred ... 3 6 t 2 Royal Head ... 3 6 ; Vacuum...... 3 6 7, Red Rice ... 3 6 i ", Vladimir ... 3 6 '1 ) Wanderer ... 3 6 " A Allbrook 5 3 6 , Vallation g 4 ° The Returned 5 4 5 l Kaupai ,„ ... a d Juanita 3 5 to v Lady Evelyn f ... 3 5 5 10 Turret ; 3 , Assineboine . ... 5 0 ' 9 King Alfred's dam f. 3 5 8 Antietam ,„ ... 3 / Lamlash 3 5 1 Di Spanker „.. 3 5 Cherie ... 3 1 Toby ,„3 5 1 A übade ... 3 5 5 1 Grasshopper f. ••• 3 " LIST FOR THE USE OF VISITORS 19 THE METROPOLIS. MUSEUMS. Antiquarian—Somerset House. Admission by to the secretary nes' Botanic—Royal Botanic Society of London, Beg y I park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. . I ` ° •' '' Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free. s, British—Great Russell-street. Open free on MOO 4 O Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10 to 4; summer m ouths 'a till 7. Closed Ist till 7th January, Ist till 7th MaY ,sll Ist till 7th September; also on all thanksgiving d,,O . T h r, City—Guildhall. A collection of antiquities, &C. 10 ill 5. G eological—Jerruyn- street. Open daily (except Fridays) free. India—lndia Office, Charles-street. Asiatic natural Il l s _ tory, antiquities, &c. Open free on. Mondays, Wednes days, days, and Fridays, and ou Thursdays by orders. .„ King's College—Strand. Anatomy and curiosities. va l 10 till 4. application Patents—South Kensington. Models and in venti°lls. Open free daily. Royal Institution-21, Albemarle-street. Various obje cts. Daily, it) till 5. Royal Military Repository—W oo l w i c h. Models of fortiis" 0 cations, cannon, and warlike appliances. till 4. Royal Polytechnic Institution-309, Regent-street. Scial tific, with lectures. Open daily, till 10 m. is• Soane's-13, Lincoln's-f nn - fields. Antiquitp.ies, curiosit!r , i , and pictures. Open Wednesdays, Thursdays, an d fro m days in April, May, and Jun e; an d W e d nes d a ys " i - be February to August. Admissi on on app li ca ti o n to - Curator. Society of Arts—John street, Adelphi. tuxes,_, curiosities, &c. Daily : a d m i ss i on by mo w-- order. South Kensington—Cromwell-road. Open on go nd i"fs gi , Tuf-sdays, and Saturdays, 10 till 10, free ; on o ther O.' 10 till 4,5, or 6. 6d. daily 10 Tower cf London—Ancient armour, &c. Open , till 4. ls. Trinity House —Tri n ity-s quare , Tower-hill. Models of lighthouses,Daily, 10 till 4. daily till Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open 10 pan. is. PICTURE GALLERIES. vielf Bridgewater Gallery—Cleveland-square. Cards to may be obtained from M r . Mit c hell, Old B on d-stree t British Artists- Suffolk- s t ree t. Apr;] to July. l e 'n f itish British Institution-52, Pall- ma ll. Pi c tures by : - " c i e nt Artists, in February, March, and April ; and by 411 Masters, June, July, and August. ls. ro d et Buckingham Palace Pictures.—May be viewed by an from the Lord Chamberlain. Cartoons of Raphael— South Kensington Museum. day, Tuesday, Saturday, free ; other days, 6 d. , Q c ulr Crystal Palace—Sydenham. M o d ern Pi c t u res and ture. ls. Dutch Dulwich Gallery—D u l w i c h. Chi e fl y Fl em ish and Pictures. Open free daily, except Frida3r. street' Flagman Gallery—University of London, GoweS n dslet Foundling Hospital—Guildf or d- s t ree t. Open 12- 10 till 4. Gallery of Ancient Masters-49, Pall-mall. is. nd Fr i Greenwich Painted Hall- Greenwich. Monday s a" Guildhall C s free ; ity. other da y ys 4d. lication e he " Ma ' be seen cn app t o th keeper. 1 1,.„1ily Hampton Court Palace.—Th e galleries are o pen fr''' except on Friday. Monument—Fish -street Hill. Every day. 6d. „, Tuesdays, Wednesd a y s, an d Saturdays. „dsyS. National Gallery—T ra f a l gar - square. Open f re e, plc /- National Portrait G a ll ery -2 9, Great George _street' free, Wednesdays and Saturdays. SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT. Cremorno Gardons—Chelsea. Is. Sa llll.- Crystal Palace Park—Sydenham. Open daily, Is.; days, 2s. 6d. Greenwich Park—Greenwich. Open free. Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily. Highbury Barn and Gardens —Highbury. 6d. an d refreshment tickets. ma. Kew Gardens—Kew. Open free, daily at or-e Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily. 41. Rosherville Gardens—G ravesan d. Op en daily. Li a o 14 Royal Horticultural Gardens—K ens i ng ton. Ad lll ` members' order. vprindgo. r Windsor Great Park—Winds or . Open free. " d Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesday's: 11 , 11 . 1 .1 a i1f 0 days, by tickets obtain a bl e a t th e Lord Chani m " Office, in the Castle. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. 1-4 3: Short ... 12 2} *" 2 3 Anisterdam,, 3 ms ... 12 21 , ••• 12 4 , :j Do _ .:. 12 2 1, ". 25 47 1 Rotterdam 25 42- 1 '" 111 ~, Antwerp 25 421 ••• 13 i 2, ~, Brussels 13 114 .•• 25 - ~, 3/ Hamburgh Paris Ditto . 3 Ms. ... 23 32} •" 15 511 Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 121 ... 1 2 6"; Vi e nn a . ... 12 57i ... 1 60 Trieste - ... 12 54 " 2 ' 291, Petersburg Ccpenhagen ••• 9 22 ••• 6 28 Berlin - 6 27k ••• 481 ••• Madrid.. -- ... TO Cadiz 4Bk ." 26 0 •.• Leghorn Milan 26 60 ... 7O _— ". Genoa 26 60 ...- 2 6 ~. 7 0 -- ... " 70 Naples Palermo — ... 26 60 "' 26 i Messina - . 26 60 "' 5 1 ' Lisbon Mt . 4 ' 51 •.• Oporto — ... 514 "' --- Rio Janeiro -- •.• New York — RY —On the 2d inst Barry,— o O f n a tstoien.4th BIRTHS. mrsof il ho er: if r : B pA A oß ti fi(Cr.s 11. Parkes, E,q., of a son. C A T . E l o_ C t t:e ° n ins , t a ., t a G t o w ld ey lu b i r ll i , d ß ge u: ks, MARRIAGES. r A the Gt o zo f n o h v a L li — i eldest ~'ARkE On the Gth inst., at Standen, . I , l tr. s to - of James Carr, Waltham Abbey , l ' - 'll,,;ltee hnzal:eth I - daughterof u. late 1 , a Ilia '-' ,OD y ../.0 ..,ael 1 -s. \Veils-street, Florence Cranford, ldest sen of _, t o Grove, Esq , Q.C. to Louisa Harriet, daughter us• late Lewis Novelli, Esq., of Prestwich. D eATHS. , i ,„ Or e° B - ACh. —On the sth' tat G h t• f "'"'" l‘ ins ~ res auks tee i Back, aged 27. 8 0 11 : Cr t o li b o sth inst., atbrtr.eli Nic - . vi; . $4 ,1 , 4 LA _-On the sth inst., at Brighton Willis" Job,' Esq., aged 83. rect or 0 1 PHEAR —On the sth inst., the RSV. Jain Pllear, Earl Stonham, Suffolk, aged 76. _...,. London: Printed and Published by WILD of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIM SUN Office No.IIA-Ai, '"— in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tha Co unt y of 14i- Thursday, October 7, 1869.