The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-16 00:00:00

TIM FERNDALE 'COLLIERY EXPLOSIOY: The following strange account from the Western Mail may be regarded as the latest information from the Fern dale Colliery:—" A motley multitude," it says, "gathered together at Ferndale on Sunday—from sympathy some, but more from idle curiosity, and many from the morbid taste that yearns after the marvellous and the sensational. On the authority of the police-officers stationed at the place, never was known more drunkenness, more fighting, and more debauchery than disgraced Ferndale on Satur day. There had been thirteen of the dead buried en that day, and so incapable were fellow-workmen of rendering assistance that the coffins were borne to the graves by strangers ! A collier named Thomas Jones (who escaped with his life from the pit on Thursday) manifested his gratitude to Providence for his deliverance by drinking himself into a state of madness and engaging in a fight on Satur day. Ire bad been brought to the surface just after the eNplosion in a state of insensibility by two comrades, and was thought to be dead. IMPERIAL PABLIA AENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the woolFack at five o'clock. The attendance in the house this evening was quite as numerous as that of last evening. The galleries on either bide were fully occupied by ladies, and the space before tho throne and the bar was taken up mostly by members of the House of Commons. THE IRISH CaI:MOIL The Bishop of OXFORD presented a number of peti tions against the bill. MR. BRIGIIT'S LETTER. Lord CAIRNS presented 100 petitions against the bill, and then the noble lord gave notice that on Thursday next, before the time of public business, he should ask whether the letter which bad appeared in the newspapers of that day, bearing the signature of the President of the Board of Trade, was a genuine letter, and whether her Majesty's Government was prepared to endorse the statements contained in the said letter. (Loud cries of "Hear, hear," frcin the Opposition side of the house.) THE IIISII CHURCH BILL. On the resumrtioia of the adjourned del ate, Earl GREY t aid he could t.ot say he was enlightened on the im; ortaut subjt ct they were invited t• - ) discuss by the speech of the noble earl who introduced the bill, and although he said a greet deal about the Coronation Oath he said little about the bill before them. He thought he would have stated clearly the action the Government intended to take in the event of the house rejecting the bill, and not content himself with a few observations upon the pro visions of themeasure. He felt the house was quite justified in rejecting the suspension bill last year, and if the present ' measure pass its second reading, he felt it would require a great deal of amendment in committee before it ought to pass its other stages and become the law of the land. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl then proceeded to state the condition of Ireland up to March, 1868, which he said was one of comparative peace, but since that time a spirit of antagonism had prevailed, and he could only attribute this state of things to party interests and party politics. The mischief had now been done, they were called upon to say whether they would accept I or reject this bill, which it was said would restore in a great measure the peaceful state of things which was so much required. (Hear.) He hoped and trusted that the house would pass the second reading of the bill, but after that had been done he hoped their lordships would make great and material alterations in the bill in committee, and thus make the bill more likely to effect the object for which it was framed. (Hear, hear.) If the result of the general election with respect to this bill was the deliberate conviction of the country, he asked them whether it would be prudent for the House of Lords to set itself in deliberate opposition to that determination, and reject the bilj. If they took that course what would be the result ? Why, in a short time, he would say in a very short time, they would have the bill again presented to them, and th e y would have to laccept perhaps a more objectionable measure. He hoped, therefore, as there was nothing but delay for a few months to be obtained by the rejection of the bill, their lordships would not incur the inevitable consequences of rejecting the bill and expose themselves to the disadvantages that I would result therefrom. The Archbishop of DUBLIN denounced the provision of the bill as excessively and unnecessarily harsh ; espe cially urging that if it were necessary to destroy the Irish Church, which he could not believe, it might have been done in a less severe manner, and that the period of transition might have been made more easy. The Bishop of St. DA.VID'S had long contemplated the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and did not con sider it required the whole of its revenues, but admitting the difficulties attending any method of dealing with the question, he agreed with the Archbishop of Canterbury that their proper course was to accept and to amend the bill, which, although in many respects objectionable, was capable of material amendment. Lorn CHELMSFORD admitted the power of Pailia ment to repeal the Magna Charta or the Bill of Rights, but denied its moral competence to do either, or to abolish the Irish Church, unless prepared to violate every pledge ever given by it. The measure was unconstitutional and a gross invasion of the rights of property. Lord PENZANCE urged their lordships to pause before they resorted to the extreme step, with all its consequences, of rejecting the bill ; pointing out that it was their duty, if they desired to discharge their constitutional functions in governing a great nation, to defer to the will of the people as expressed by its representatives. The Duke of RICH AOND confessed that he was about to adopt a course for him most unusual and painful, for he found himself unable to set with those with whom he had hitherto agreed most cordially. He felt most strongly the objectionable character of the bill as a measure of vio -1 lence, injustice, and spoliation. Ho p6inted out the harsh and oppressive character of its provisions, which were the very reverse of the liberal and generous treat ment which the Prime Minister had promised. It was therefore with great hesitation that he had resolved not to support the amendment ; but he could not conceal from himself that the country had decided upon disestablishiug the Irish Church, acd that by reject ing the bill they would not get lid of it, but when it came back they might be less capable to deal wish it in a satis factory manner. On the whole, ho felt it was better to try and amend it. If (hey you'd not, they could reject it at another stage. Ile would leave the responsibility of the measure to the Government acd the House of Com mons. He was sensible of the inexpediency of a popular agitation, especially on a religious question ; and he felt that he was taking a constitutional course in urging theta to try and amend the objectionable features of the mea sure, leaving to the Government the responsibility of re fusing to accept them or of withdt awing the bill. The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH denied that the ver dict of the nation Lai ratified the bill ; that verdict was given for disestahlishmeut, for religious equality, and a liberal acd generous treatment, Lut it had been obtained by most unworthy arts, and the most unfair and malignant misrepresentation of the Irish Church. I The bill was supi•oirted by Earl De Grey and Ripon, and after that the debate was adjourned until-to-morrow (Thursday). Their lordships then adjourned. 11t was fully expected that Lord Lytton would have resumed the adjourn, d delete, but Earl Grey said ho had intended to move the adjournment of the debate last night, and it was only that ho thought Lord Lytton was going to speak whin he rose that he gave way. As the noble lord merely moved the adjournment of the debate, he had exercised his right of resuming the discussion.] HOUSE OF COMMONS.-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock. ITHE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY STATION. After a discussion on the subject of the architectural elevation of the station of tho Metropolitan Railway, during which Mr. Layard said the Government claimed, and would exercise the right of selection. _ _ BANKRUPTCY BILL. The house then went into committee on the Bank ruptcy Bill, taking up the consideration of the measure at clause 19. The amendment proposed by Mr. Rathbone to protect settlements on or for a wife or children of the settler of pro perty, within a given term previous to bankruptcy, pro vided the person making it was in a position to meet all his liabilities, and was in a solvent state when the ar rangement of the property was made, was agreed to. A long discussion then followed, the object of the various amendments moved being to prevent false and fraudulent arrangements being made to the prejudice of bona fide creditors, and to abolish, as far as was possible the system of making private arrangements, which it was stated was a mode which enabled fraudulent persons to re-enter trade and carry on business to a greater extent than before, and in the event of their speculations failing involving a num ber of honest and honourable men. It was suggested that some provision might be made that all persons interested in the affairs of any person engaged in trade might know on proper inquiry the exact position the trader occupied with respect to any former bankruptcy. The discussion was carried on up to seven o'clock, at which hour the sitting of the house was suspended. The Rouse resumed at nine o'clock. Mr. PEASE called attention to the necessity of an early report from the Royal Commission appointed in 1867 to inquire into the duration of the coal fields, and moved a resolution for an address to her Majesty, praying that the same might be laid before the house as early as possible. Mr. HUSSEY VIVIAN seconded the motion.. The discussion was continued by Mr. LIDDELL and Mr. ELLIOTT, and ultimately dropped, the motion being with- drawn. Sir W. GALLWEY was procoeding to move a resolu tion relative to the Folkestone and Boulogne packet ser- vice, when An HON. MEMBER moved that tho house be " counted," and only 29 Senators being present out of the 40 requisite to constitute a quorum, an immediate adjournment was the result. Minister Webb sends tidings of the lost General 111'llahon, who appears not to be lost at all, but safe and in good health at Ascuncion. His Government know nothing of what he has been doing, for no despatches have retched them, for v Lich they cannot account, and some have been charitable enough to insinuate that his papers have been intercept, dby the Allies. Ex-. Minister Wash bt.rue thought then! was (!ang,T tl at General 14-Mahon might have been lint risoned or put to death by Lopez. IADVERTISEMENT.I -I Tolloway's Ointment and I'll's.— Biliousness. —Dyspepsia.—There is no organ in the human body so liable to derangement as the liver. Food, fatigue, climate, and anxiety all disorder the action, and render its secretion the bile--more or less depraved, superabundant, or scanty. The first symptoms should receive attention. A pain in the side or top of the shoulder, a harsh cough or difficulty in breathing, are signs of liver disease, which are removed without delay by fric tion with Holloway's inestimable ointment. The-pills-should also bo tale= eaf.:-. For all diseases of this vital orgizt.the action Of the4z ranoclies is a srzeif.c. by cteeltiaoto over "rE I Y cf - cae , reSulatiniti reer9tien, alcl SODS I*SPW:2 LAW AND POLICE. 07.INILUS NUI:SING. — In the Court of Quc, n's Bench, on 'Monday, a case was heard in which the plaintiff sought to recover damages for pecuniary losses occasioned by a system of "omnibus nursing" pursiied by the defendants. Mr. Gill, the plaintiff, started an omnibus to run from Brixton Church to Charing Cross and Oxford Circus. The defendants, who were omnibus proprietors on the same route, began " nursing" the plaintiff's oncnibus, one of their vehicles constantly following or preceding it, so as to interfere seriously with his business. Subsequently the plaintiff ran another omnibus from Brixton to the Bank, which was subjected to similar treatment. In the end he was compelled to give up running his omnibuses, after heavy pecuniary loss, in consequence, he alleged, of the defendants' conduct. The case was not concluded. A POINT OF Liw.—lu the Exchequer Chamber an action was tried a day or two since for breach .4 contract. The defendant, being mortgagee with a power of sale, agreed to sell a certain property to the plaintiff, and the plaintiff resold it at a profit of £lO5. He could not, however, get the mortgagor to join in the conveyance nor to give up possession, and there was a breach of the contract. The question was whether the plaintiff was entitled to recover his loss upon the resale. The court thought the plaintiff was entitled to the difference in the marketable value of the. property in addition.to the sum he had agreed to give. The judgment of the court below was therefore affirmed. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA. The Melbourne correspondent of the Times sends to the leading journal some account of emigrants' prospects in Australia. First of all, he puts the questions which be supposes require answers. What are people to expect who emigrate from this country to Australia? What kiud of place is it? Is it very different from England? Are there any roads, railways, shops, churches, or schools? Is it really easy to get a living there, and can a living be found at once? Suppose an emigrant and family put on shore at Melbourne without friends or acquaintances, and with no great supply of money, what is to become of them for the first night or two or the first week? These inquiries, it is said, are constantly addressed to returned colonists by people half willing yet half afraid to try their fortunes in a strange land. And the Times correspondent endeavours to answer them. To begin with, Australia is, in all the chief centres of settlement, as civilised a country in all essentials as England itself. At Melbourne, for instance, the streets are as well paved, pitched, and lighted as at Liverpool or Bristol, the only difference being that they are about three times as broad. The shops are genuine English shops all over. The roadway is full of drays, waggons, carriages, and hansoms, just as in London, though there is less danger of your being knocked down. The rarest pineapples are ticketed at four a shilling, and an excellent hot meat dinner is offered for sixpence. If any London emigrant should have a fancy for a brass band in front of his window, that feature also of his home life is reproduced faithfully at the antipodes. But what is to be done for the first few days of suspense before employ ment comes in and a chance of settling is offered? The reply is that he is taken under the care of the State, which provides for him until he can provide for himself. In a cheerful and healthy suburb of the town stands the Emigrants' Home, and in that establish ment any emigrant destitute of means is entertained until the option of work is found for him. To this place the employers of labour constantly resort, apd bargains are struck without delay or difficulty. The Times cor respondent has known " several hundreds " of new comers engaged and disposed of in a few hours. Generally, however, the chief town is not the place for an emigrant to stay in. His aim should be the country, and from Mel bourne the country can be reached in all directions with the greatest case. The centres of mining and agricultural indus try are connected with the capital by railu ays ; beyond the railways are good macadamized roads, with good coaches running on them. These roads lead towards the interior of a continent almost as large as Europe, with every variety of soil and climate. In some parts there are enor mous tracts of rich land with hardly a tree upon it, sc. that no clearing is required to fit it for the plough. The interior communications are remarkably good, insomuch that, in case of an overstocked labour-market at one point, the emigrant can remove himself with perfect facility and little cost to another ; while in no place does he appear to leave civilisation behind him. The smallest towns and most remote villages are English towns and villages still, fairly supplied with all the necessaries, and not a few of the luxuries, of existence. No country in the world, adds the correspondent, could offer better prospects to the capitalist or greater advantages to the working man than the British colony of Victoria. But how to reach this paradise? It can be reached for £lO. That sum will take a mechanic from an East London workhouse and place him in the Emigrants' Home at Melbourne, with a new world before him. It will be said, however, that he must carry something to the common stock of the settlement—either a modicum of capital or some available skill or labour. The Tim es correspon dent assumes the very case of an emigrant with nothing but labour, more or less skilled, to contribute to the public wealth in return for a maintenance. A man who can do nothing whatever would find even Australia a bad place to live in, but there is employment, and something better than employment, ready for all who can work and save. Just now wages are " main• tamed"—that is, are not falling, and the rates of payment are certainly pleasant to look at. Masons and bricklayers get 10s. a day ; carpenters, Os. ; builders' labourers, is. ; blacksmiths, 30s. a week ; wheelwrights, 355. to -Ps. On the farm a shepherd may get his £4O a year ; a hut-keeper, £22 ; a lad who can milk, 12s. a week; and a general farm labourer, 15s. " Common labour,' it i s added by way of summary, " may be quoted at 6s. to Ts. a d a y," Nor are these wages reduced in actual valise by high charges of living. - Perhaps lodgings are rather dear, hut where a dinner of the best meat, bread, and vegetables without stint can be had for sixpence, living must needs he cheap. ,The Postmaster-General has been before tne Lord Mayor, summoned for the poor rate on tho Lombard street Post-office. The matter was turned into a case for the Court of Queen's Bench, the Postmaster arguing he was not liable. A shopkeeper on a boulevard was prevented by the police from banging out the following notice the other day:—" Windows to let, at two francs the hour, to see the riots this evening." Which is the true nation of shopkeepers? CLIFTON ESTATES, Norrs.— We understanc these vast estates, of upwards of £16,000 per annum, descend by entail to Mr. Henry • Markham, of Skelton Lodge; near York, who married the only surviving sister of Mr. Frederick Bell, of The Hall, Tlsirsk. Some of the accounts given of the morganatic I , marriage of the ex-King, Dom Fernando of Portugal, with Fanny Elesler, the dancer, are Incorrect. The name of the lady is flacuzler. She .came out some years back in the United States as a singer,. and had a fair share of suc cess. In the course of her career as an artiste ebe visited Lisbon, and there_attractcd the attention of her present husband. Her age is about 39. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. J. P. KNIGHT, LATE OF THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. --The officials and heads of clepaa talents of the South-Eastern Railway have pre sented to Mr. Knight, the late traffic superintendent of that line, a very handsome candelabrum, on the occasion cf his retirement from the company and acceptance of the office of manager of the Brighton line. GKIMSHAw, THE JOCKEY, "GOING THROUGH THE —The ease of James Crimshaw, the well-known .ehey, was Lefore the -Ba,nkrnpte3 - Cana on Tuesday: T; he d;:btA r.-cr.?. state] to he £:,7)1, t.O l it was added that been in r:Teipt of - :i.11)0 ye,. agreement with the late of 11 . .;p3ting. The (sari, was adjourned, in.order that Grimshaw might file a east account. (tor IT.' 'ar under au Great expectations are entertained at Barron - - in-Furness, the centre of the haematite iron district, that coal will also be found there. Attention has lately been called to two old pits at Stank, near Barrow, as old, some say, as the clays of the Furness monks, and in any case of considerable antiquity. They have been reopened and exa.mined, a•ud; as the water is pumped out of them, Bic e good inflica . tiptcs - of carboniferotta deposits. A eeam. of coal half in itich thick his :alreaAY &elk penetrated, and the nature of the stone which is raised from a 4epth PP= Ifie f tsi4rine the 11,0114LottheilPlorere.- TIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1869. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The hope that a collision will be avoided grows from hour to hour. It is true that most of the Bishops have at the last moment yielded to pressure, and will, to the number of fourteen or sixteen, support Lord Har rowby's amendment, if it is carried to a division. It is true that the Bishop of Chester, for instance, yielding to the strong representations of the Orange party, who are so numerous in his diocese, will not vote for the bill, as he had intended. But it is now admitted that Lord Derby does not wish to throw out the bill by only a small majority, inasmuch as that would expose the weakness of his party in their own House, while it would not suffice to de feat the bill eventually. It is also well known that the representations of many conspicuous members of his own party have not been without weight, and that he is beginning to doubt the wisdom of pushing matters to extremities. Last night he had a two hours' conference with the Marquis of Bath and other peers. It is now generally thought that Lord Harrowby will with draw his amendment, or, in case he should not be pre vailed upon to do so, that the Conservatives will, as a body, abstain from voting. It is ex pected that important amendments will he made if the bill gets into committee, and Lord Granville's promise that these should receive the most careful attention of the Government leads to the hope that no serious collision will take place between the two Houses.' TI; E Cit ISIS. The Daily Telegraph believes that Lord Derby will speak on Thursday, and since the State ball at Buckingham Palace takes place on the evening of that day, the division will probably not be taken until between twelve and one on Saturday morning. Our contemporary adds :—" The general impression now is that the bill will go into committee ; and since in the present clay every such assertion is ordinarily submitted to the test of figures, it may be worthy of record that bets of 50 to 40 have been laid on a result favourable to the Government." On the same subject the Morning Advertiser says:—" We have received intelligence from a well-informed quarter, just as we are going to press, to-the effect that there is no longer a doubt that the bill will be thrown out by the Lords." Tho - Morning Post will not venture to prophecy, but remarks that the hearty reception which Lord Carnarvon's speech had from the Con servative benches may well make the leaders of the Opposition feel doubtful as to the result. The Morning Star lays great stress upon the speech of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and thinks that the look of things was, at all events for the first night, unmistakably favourable to the bill. The 7inzes does not repeat or revoke its prophecy of Monday ; the twin Conservative journals, Standard and Herald, are so little confident of the result that they refrain from anticipating it. Though what the Lords will do is very uncertain as yet; what the Government will do in case the bill is rejected, becomes clay by day more plain. There can be little doubt but that an autumnal session will be held. The Daily News declares that this is what will be done, and justifies that course as being accord ing to precedent. Earl Grey did the same thing in 1831. Then, as now, the Government had a majority of more than 100 in the House of Commons, fresh from a general election. On July oin that year the Reform Bill was read a second time by a majority of 116, and on September 21 it was read a third time by a majority of 113. On October 8 the Lords rejected it by 109 to 158, whereupon the Commons carried a vote of confidence in Ministers by a majority of 131.. On the 20th Parliament was prorogued, and on the 12th December the Reform Bill was once more intro duced. On the 22nd of March following it was again read a second time in the Commons, by a majority of 116 ; and on April 14 the Lords read it a second time by 184 to 175. On May 7, in committee, the Government was defeated on a motion of Lord Lyndhurst by a majority of 35. Earl Grey re signed, but within ten days was again in office, armed with the King's authority to create a suffi cient number of peers to ensure the passage of the bill. A correspondent of the Daily News finds prece dents later back for the proposed course. On the accession of William and Mary, the Bill of Rights, which fixed the succession, passed the Commons and was rejected by the Lords,because no successor to the Crown was provided in case Mary, Anne, and William should all die childless, which they actually did. Amendments were proposed, but the Houses could not agree upon them, and finally in 1689 the King prorogued Parliament from the 21st to the 23rd of October, when the bill was passed through both Houses. The next precedent of the kind is in 1707, when Queen Anne prorogued Parliamentfrom Friday, April 8 till the following Monday, on account of a bill relating to frauds on the Customs. Another pre cedent is furnished by the prorogation of Parliament from October 20th to November 22nd at the time of the great Reform struggle of 1831-32. It is there fore evident that this means of surmounting a poli tical deadlock has been previously resorted to when the us:ial interregnum between two sessions threatens to be embarrassing. Mr. Gladstone, like Mr. Bright, has been writing about the Irish Church Bill, and, like Mr. Bright's, his epistle has been called forth by a public meeting. A meeting at Bradford passed resolutions of confi dence in the Premier, which resolutions were for warded to him. In reply he writes : "So far as that resolution refers to myself personally, I accept the communication with respectful gratitude. So far as it expresses the sense of the great community of Bradford with reference to the Irish Church Bill, I regard it as giving utterance in words to that deep and intelligent conviction to which the nation gave by its acts, at the time of the general election, the most authoritative con stitutional expression, and which, I believe, it still cherishes with unabated confidence and resolution.` ae uenieu 111 RD ne Was enner a iory or a I..ni servative, or (pointing to a petticoat, which was held up before him on a pole) that he was brought forward under Lady Clifton's influence. He concluded by demanding " the good old cry of ' Seymour, Clifton, and the indeneulextle of Nottingham !' " violent assault. He appears to have shot with a double-barrelled pistol his wife and little girl when asleep. This awoke the boys, who fled for their lives; but Kobel must have again loaded the weapon and shot himself in the breast, when he left his room in his shirt, and was arrested, dangerously wounded, inNorfolk-street, bleeding profusely from two gunshots. The man was evidently insane, and there is reason to hope that although desperately wounded his wife and child may recover. A feud has existed between some youngsters in Sheriff street and Pitt-street—the former led by John and William Purcell, the latter under Peter Delany. On Saturday they had an altercation, and on Mon day they again met and vowed vengeance when they next came in contact. John Purcell borrowed a single-barrelled pistol from the bar-tender of a saloon to defend himself against Delany's threats, and meeting on Tuesday night William Kiernan be had an opportunity of using his weaaon, for he was assaulted by that roan, when he pulled it from his pocket and shot his assailant through the head, then ran, but was captured. The prisoners are of a low grade, two indictments for burglary being pending against Tracy, who was one of the body. guard of a city official, once an alderman. and a useful man in primary elections. Early on Tuesday morning a party of Spanish sailors were jeered at while mov ing along Oak-street singing national songs. They retorted, and a fight ensued, in which the Spaniards freely used their sheathed knives, when Wm. Bradley and Peter Brynes were dangerously wounded. The steamer Norwalk, off Pierrepont's Stores, Brooklyn, was run into by a stone-laden scow when on her way to Prospect Park Races ; down she went, flop ! but fortunately there were no passengers on board, and the crew could swim. Messrs. Smith, Lewis, and Wilson lose $40,000, unless they can recover from the owners of the scow, as the steamer was not insured. The Cunarder Russia, in charge of a pilot, sank the Austrian ship Figlia Maggiore; the one was just from Liverpool, the other from Marseilles, when they collided off Bedloe's Island, and down went the Austrian vessel, submerged to her lower yards, whereby somebody loses $lBO,OOO. The Russia, in avoiding a small boat containing a man and woman, was caught by the ebb, and sank the ship. The steam-tug William Parkes was getting up steam at Pier No. 15, foot of Wall-street, when the boiler burst, and Captain Ramsay found him self flying through the air, under an undue pres sure of steam, in a wrong direction. I fear he is seriously hurt, as are Charles Powell and the steward, and the vessel, which belonged to Philadelphia, has bad all her upper works blown to pieces. I regret to record several suicides, which are becoming an ugly feature in our society. They say that a dull November in London is so depress ing that people drown themselves like kittens in the Thames ; but I incline, after some travel, to the opinion that a bright, dry, exhilarating climate leads to more suicides than your dull weather. It is not the down-hearted manthatlays violent hands on himself but the excited man, whose fit borders on insanity while it lasts. We have an exhilarating climate, combined with all manner of artificial excitement, and if our gambling mode of. business leads to fraud it leads also too often to suicide. But these remarks are general, and in ne degree have reference to re cent cases. Mr. B. H. Van Auken was found in the office of the Durango Silver Mining Company, of which he was President, lying on the floor in a pool of blood, with his throat cut, but not deal. The razor had slipped from his hand and it lay by his side. He is believed to be wealthy, and no motive can be assigned for the act which has caused so profound a sensation in financial circles and among his friends. It is feared that the wound will prove fatal. Charles Starr, 27 years of age, superintendent of the Tarry town Gasworks, committed suicide the same day. Last Saturday, at Brooklyn, Thomas Leonard, a lad but 17 years old, hanged himself. The accidents from explosions reported from all parts of the country show that we as recklessly blow each other up. The bursting of a locomotive on the New York Central at Rochester wrecked several cars, of course making a wreck of the engineer and his assistants. A number of men at Cincinnati were wounded, one mortally, by the bursting of the Cincinnati gaso meter. At Mount Holly, New Jersey, a locomo tive exploded, killing Platt and Gaskell, and wound ing two other men. It is satisfactory to record the iarie Railroad had to pay Mrs. Carhart $3,250 for killing her husband, besides establishing this right of a woman, if the railway companies are thus fined for the damage resulting from their carelessness, parsi mony will be found expensive,and we will bave fewer accidents. Gen. Robt. knderson, known in connection with Fort Sumter, sailed in the Ilanzmouia on Tues day for Plymouth, as did our Consul for Ham burgh, E. Robin and Dr. Scbuetz, Consul at Antwerp. The number leaving daily increases, all the steamers being full. Senator Chandler has sailed with his wife and daughter, in the hope that a European tour will benefit his health. Senator Oshorn, of Florida, has left, but so nu.nerous are the departures of well known persons that I cannot attempt to particularize. Same West Point gra duates met last Saturday in the College, with Pro fessor Webster in the chair, and General Webb, as Secretary, to organize for social purposes, and a committee was elected to frame a Constitution. The Prospect Park races came off this week. This is the Brooklyn meeting, and it was well attended. Red Rover was the favourite in the trotting sweep stakes, mile heats, in harness. His time was 2.40 k. Jeremiah Dacey shot John Mullady during a quarrel in a Brooklyn cigar store in Hicks-street ou Wednesday, and his victim died oa Thursday. James S. Clarke, an actor of Tammany 'Theatre, has been charged with and arrested fcr stealing a Chickering piano. On Fifth-avenue a kerosene lamp exploded, with it is feared fatal injury to Mrs. Franica Blauw, and burnt her two children. Last Wednesday a tornado occurred between 5 and G p.m., enveloping the city iu dust, but this was laid by the rain immediately following. It had been hot and sultry, but it immediately became cool. The Comptroller of New York accepted on Wed nesday proposals for $1,000,000 street opening and improvement bonds. The New York Life Insur ance Company takes $568,500 at 101.16. Henry Clews and Co., $200,000, at 101.50 ; the New York Savings Bank $75,000, and the remainder by vari ous individualS, at rates ranging from 103.25 to 105. A ridiculous story was in circulation that Mr. A. 'l'. Stewart wanted to avail himself of his place as Commissioner on the site of the new Post-office, to do a good stroke of business by selling his store for the purpose, as if the most, profitable business in the world was thus to be disposed of advanta geously. Mons. Chevalier makes to-day his first ascent in his balloon from Landmann's Park Messrs. Peter B. Sweeney, Hutchings, and Douglas Taylor have gone, and Judge Michael Connolly is going, to Europe. Harry Genet has retired from political life, as Tammany Hall does not approve of his way of making money. Mr. J. Townsend Con nolly, the son of the Comptroller, was married on Thursday to Miss Adrienne N. Oxnard, of Pitts burg. At Trinity Chapel, on Wednesday, Miss Clara Jaffray, the daughter of the millionaire, was married to an Englishman named Ruse ; a grand reception was afterwards given at the home of the bride, on Second Avenue. Small pox is on the increase, I feir, and it is attributed to the emigrant vessels. During the voyage of the Leo erulia, from Bremen, eight deaths are said to have occurred, and one in a vessel from tlambargh. Some steamers have been detained in the lower bay in quarantine on account of small-pox, chiefly among Swedes. The Herald is angry with the health officers, and desires to have the head of the depart ment removed. The Charles 11. Marshall was launched on Wednesday from Webb's yard, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. Mrs. Tenney, widow of Professor Tenney, has succeeded to the post held by her late husband as librarian of this State. Captain W. Taylor, with the ship Zetua, as well as the ship Margaret, both of Aberdeen, with all hands, were lust at Caribou Island, off Anticosti, with the exception of the mate, who has just arrived at New York. WASHINGTON, May 28, Perry Fuller arrived last Saturday to answer the charges of fraud brought against him by a sFo dal Treasury agent. He has warned the papers in New Orleans which attacked his administration of the Custom kleuee that on his return he will re- quire them to substantiate their assertions or re tract them. General Dyer has by order returned to his duty as Chief of Ordnance ; but though the Court of Inquiry has acquitted him of the charges, considering that there wa., no evidence to go before a court-martial, yet his opponents, headed by Nor man Wiard, one of the chief witnesses against him, intend to bring the matter before Congress when it meets. The Judge-Advocate-General received a letter from Mr. Wiard commenting in no measured terms on the proceedings, asserting a bias on the part of the officers against him and in favour of General Dyer. Cornell Jewett hail an interview with the President on Monday touching the rela tions between England and the Republic. During he war he was in England, and had many inter- views with leading statesmen there on the subject, more especially with Mr. LayarJ, then Under Sec. Teary for Foreign Affairs. Ile desired that jiis rice might be done to England, as he cold; positively assert that the wish of the Govern ment was to maintain neutrality, and avoid parti- cipation in the strife. While discussing the subject Mr. Jewett remarked on the popular belief that Mr. Motley had proceeded to London without iustruc- lions, whereon the President said that instructions had been given of which the public knew nothing. Mr. Thornton had au interview with Secretary Fish regarding the Quaker City, which he represented to be of English ownership, and unjustly and oppres- sively detained in New York on the plea that she was chartered by the Cubans. After some inves- tigation action was stopped by learning that the New Yo - rk Courts had issued a libel on the vessel. Colonel Selleck, on behalf of the Executive Com mittee of the Gettysburgh Monument Association, has secured from the Secretary of War tent accom modation for 4,000 persons, to be erected at Gettys burg on the 4th of July, so as to help in housing the visitors on that anniversary. Thirty supernu merary officers of the 17th and 44th Regiments have been sent to Virginia as officers of registra tion, whereby the Treasury saves the salaries which would be paid otherwise to civilians. General and Mrs. Grant, accompanied by a large party, will leave next Thursday in the Tallapoosa, to reach Annapolis in time for the Grand Ball which will take place next Friday evening. Baron Watterstedt, Minister from Sweden and Nor way, is to go home for the benefit of his health ; he is now at Annapolis. The ball to come off there on Friday is to be given by the officers and midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Admiral Porter gave up the superintendency of that institution on accept ing his present position, and this is a farewell enter tainment to Mrs. Porter. Generals Grant and Sherman, Secretary Borie, and other distinguished persons will attend. Mr. S. B. ,Ruggles has been nominated by the President as delegate to the In ternational Statistical Congress at the Hague. The Hon. B. F. Wade has not yet replied to the offer of director of the Pacific Railroad. A Northern route is to be explored, and the party is now being orga nized to pass from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound. Mr. Canfield, as agent of the Northern Pacific Rail road Company, asked General Sherman for a mili tary escort to protect the party while mapping out the course. The Indian Commission met on Wed nesday to consider how best to dispose of the $2,000,000 allowed by Congress to forward the in terests of the Indians. Colonel Parker was present yesterday, but not at the first meeting. Mr. A rney, formerly Governor and Indian Agent in New Mexico, thinks all Indian children, from 10 to 16, should be placed in the industrial schools or the reservations. The legal status of the Indians, the advisability of making treaties with them, the ctange in the laws relating to the purchase of provisions, and the pay ment of annuities are being discussed ; ,25,000 are to he set aside for the expenses of the Commission. There has been a great dinner over Mr. Corcoran's gift, and 1 say over, for it was given at Georgetown Heights, in the house of Henry D. Cooke, one of the trustees. With the exception of General Raw lins, who is, I fear, really ill, so much so indeed that he may have to retire, all the Secretaries were present at the banquet ; as were also the President, General Sherman, the Hon. Charles Stunner, Pro fessor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, Quar termaster-General Meigs, and Mr. J. W. Forney. Colonel T. P. Ochiltree, once editor of the Houston Telegraph, and afterwards a gallant though a rebel officer, and lastly a repentant, reconstructed, and loyal Southerner, is to get the Ttxas supervisorsbip of Internal Revenue. Mr. Reverdy Johnson's household was sold yesterday in his house on Ver mont-avenue, without reserve, and the house, as I before informed you, has been bought by Mr. Corcoran. SIR,—If an American were to look through the address books at the various Continental banking houses, he might be led to think that the greater part of the military forces of his country were engaged in travelling over Europe. He might also imagine that the New York SESOSTRIS had commenced already the reformation of America, by sending a large delegation of females in the service of Mars. At least, he would find the initials U.S.A. after the name, and upon the baggage, of nearly all his country people ; and he might not be aware of the ridiculous mistake that is so frequently made with regard to their meaning. U.S.A. means nothing else than United States Army, and is generally used throughout the military branch of our Government as the abbreviation for the same. One finds it stamped upon army goods and equipments; it is also printed in official documents. Those who are members of the army usually place it after their names ; and they only can lawfully use these letters.. When, therefore, Americans go trailing over Europe with the army mark upon their baggage, they both show their ignorance regarding a subject on which they ought to be informed, and also make themselves invariably an object of ridi cule to those who have the right to use U.S. A. If the New Yorker or South Carolinian imagines that the stranger will be at a loss in what country to locate his little city or State, he might enlighten him by writing U.S. of A., but not U.S.A. It is he little word " of "which distinguishes between the country and the army. But even this would be laughed at by foreigners as a provincialism. A Parisian would think the idea of writing the name of France after that of his city ridiculous. An Englishman never writes London, England; a Ger man, Heidelberg, Baden; an Italian, Naples, Italy; or an Egyptian, Cairo, Egypt. Surely our large cities and States are well enough known to render the addition of United States of America unneces sary. It is purely an Americanism, and the sooner we are rid of it the sooner will there be one subject less regarding which foreigners can smile. For my own part, I have always found that giving the name of my State was sufficient to mark me as an American, and I have no desire to become ac quainted with an IGNORA3ILTS who locates Miune suta in any country but the right one. A correspondent raises Mr. Forster's query, " Why did not the English Government at the outset of the whole affair issue a proclamation denouncing all who should engage in fitting out vessels, man ning and sailing them on the high seas, who if detected or caught should be tried and punished as pirates ?" He adds that Lord Palmerston had established such a precedent in 1846 or 1847 when the boundary question ran high:between England and America, and George Bancroft was United States Minister. A foolish gunmaker on Tower-hill then stuck a notice in his window, something to this effect—" Antici pated war with America ; a vessel sailing under Mexican colours will ship effective seamen ; good pay and chances." An American happening to see it, brought the circumstance to the notice of his Minister ; and our correspondent believes that about the month of July or August of that year a proclama tion appeared in the Times and other papers warn ing all taking an interest in such matters to beware, for if caught they would be punished as pirates. There would be little difficulty, he believes, in look ing up this proclamation, and in verifying the facts. Our correspondent does not perceive that the Ala hanza and other cruisers were commissioned ships as alleged, the property of a belligerent Govern ment. The Richmond Government, being recog nized as belligerent, once their vessels fully com missioned got fairly to sea, they could not be treated as pirates like his instance wherein the vessel would begin to capture and destroy on her own THE BIRMINGHAM MEETING. The town meeting at Birmingham on Monday night reminds one of Virgil's description of the letting loose of tho four winds from the cave of YE°lus. The Liberal speakers could with difficulty obtain a hearing, but when tho time came for the Conservatives to speak the tumult was something frightful. The friends of this party began to peal forth Kentish fire, and this so irritated the other side that they would not allow the Conservative speakers to say a word. In vain did the Mayor appeal to the love of fair play ; in vain did he warn the Liberals that they were the worst enemies to their own cause: Not a word could Mr. Sampson Ll o yd u tt er . Aft er a ttempting in vain for nearly two h ours t o s p ea k, th e M a y or lost all patience, and bade him d es i s t, i n or d er th a t the motion in favour of the Irish Church Bill might be put to the meeting. The confusion then became wholly indescribable. Dr. Evans, editor of the Birmingham Gazette, whereof Mr. Lloyd is the proprietor, and who, with Mr. Lloyd, contested the representation of the borough in the Conserva tive interest last November, protested in behalf of his chief, and Mr. Lloyd himself, urged by his friends, refused to give way. The paper containing the resolution was torn up, and the Mayor thereupon ordered Dr. Evans into custody, and he was led away by the police. About the same time it became known that Mr. Murphy had been arrested on enter ing. the hail. The Mayor then put the resolution before the amendment had been put and seconded, and indignant remonstrances. the former carried, amid loud and remonstrances. LORD ELCIIO'S CHURCH PATENT. Lord Elcho has discovered a means for getting over the Irish Church difficulty, and has, no doubt, taken out a patent for it. He sets out with the assumption that the Presbyterians of Northern Ireland have changed their opinions with regard to the Irish Church Bill, and are now opposed to die establishment. His lordship, whn was always of a" ingenious turn of mind, and fond of devising impos sible schemes, proposes that the Government shall acknowledge that Ulster is differently situated from the rest of Ireland, and shall be exempted from the operations of the bill. Lord Elcho does not say what the Dublin Protestants would think of the united Churches of England and Ulster. NOTTINGUANI ELECTION. It is needless to say that the nomination at Not tingham was a lively affair. It was very lively. Neither of the two candidates could make himself heard beyond the reporters' desk, and the affair was as great a farce as any nomination that has ever taken place, which is saying a good deal. Mr. Seely showed plenty of good humour, and made a point by directing attention to the ruined Castle of Nottingham, burnt during the Reform riots of thirty seven years ago,and asked if the Lords meant to renew the scenes of that time by throwing out the Irish Church Bill. This measure, however, was not much discussed. Mr. Seymour had the misfortune to begin his speech in a tone of great irritation. First of all he was very angry because Sir Robert Clifton's old agent, " Jemmy ' Acland, had gone over to " No. 30," the regular Liberals. Then he was very indig nant because someone held up a bill with the words " ls. Od. in the pound," which, he said, was a false accusation, because ho had promised that if he were given time he would pay 20s. in the pound. lle then had to explain away his former speeches made when he was an advanced Liberal candidate at Southampton and which one of the Nottingham journals had unkindly republished that morning. Exhausted by the effort, he drank some brandy, and this reminded him of the Permis sive Bill, and of the remarkable statement which he had made as Recorder when addressing the grand jury of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a speech in which he had denounced the liquor traffic as the great source of all the misery, crime, and poverty of the land, a speech so emphatic that the United Kingdom Alliance have constantly quoted it in their publications. Claiming to be the successor of Sir Robert Clifton, the idol of the publicans, he had to explain away this speech also, an d in doin g so denounced. the Maine. Law, of which he had 1 alffan)een cousidered a simportet.jn-conchision. MR. ROMAINE. It is rumoured that Mr. Romaine to 110 4 M. to resign the important post which he has so lor.g held at the Admiralty, and that this step has been decided upon for him because he is not sufficient of an economist. Mr. Lushington is spoken of as his successor. COLLIE= EXPLOSIONS. Mr. George Fowler, writing from Malian Col liery, Nottingham, points out that we are altogether on the wrong track with regard to colliery explo sions. We recognise the existence of inflammable gas in collieries, and we then take every precaution against explosions. This is just as if the police were to know that a London street was full of gunpowder, and were to compel persons to wear list shoes and prohibit them from smo!iing instead of removing the powder. Our colliery inspectors ought to see that the gas is removed. This is Eerfectly feasible by means of proper tv entilation. THE PURCHASE OF TELEGRAPHS. The Daily Telegraph points out what admirable bargains the Government is making with regard to the telegraphs. It is arranging the terms of pur eh ;se upon the basis of the profits of the half-year ending June 1868. But since then the profits have increr-,ed very considerably. In the case of the British and Irish Magnetic this increase is £lO,OOO, which at - twenty years' purchase would be £200,000. This sum, however, the Government has not to pay, in consequence of the arrangement which was made last year. But the agreement falls through if it is not carried out this year, and so the Govern ment has every inducement to complete its arrange ments within the present twelve months. The companies will be vtorse than the Roman Sybil, for they will ask more after each postponement. TIIE OVEREND AND GURNEY TRIAL. The directors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. are, with one exception, very backward in c omin g forward to prove their innocence. That exception is Mr. Gordon, who has done all that he can to accelerate the trial, but finds no such readiness on the part of his colleagues. OBITUARY. The death of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Garrett is announced. This distinguished officer served in the Peninsular War, and was present at all the great battles. He received two wounds at the attacks on the forts at Salamanca, on which occasion the command of the Light Com pany of the Queen's and some Artillery devolved upon him. On that occasion he was the only sur viving officer of his column. He was wounded again severely in the Pyrenees. For his services in that campaign he received the war medal with four clasps. He commanded a brigade in the Fourth Division before Sebastopol, from November 1854 to October 1855, when he succeeded to the command of that division, and held it until the final evacuation of the Crimea. For his services in this war he received the medal and clasp, was made a K.C.8., officer of the Legion of Honour, and received the Sardinian and Turkish medals, and third-class of the Medjidie. He entered the army in 1811, obtained his company in 1814, was promoted to a lieutenant colonelcy in 1845, to a colonelcy in 1854 , became major-general in 1858, lieutenant -general in 1800, and was appointed to the colonelcy of the 43rd Regi ment of Light Infantry in the last-mentioned year. His death took place at Pall Mall on Sunday He was about 75 years old. (From the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, May 29. There has been another grain robbery of that character becoming so common, but which will as suredly act most detrimentally to trade. Messrs. Scott and Munsen, of 91, Wall-street, have been established over a year in storing grain on the North Pier of the Atlantic Docks, Brooklyn. Last week they sold and delivered a large quantity, and that grain had been already sold by its owners, the purchasers who came to inspect it being shown other or the same grain, and thus the firm were enabled to abscond with $20,000, which, however, was not one-third the loss entailed on the community. The well-known confectioner, Mr. Van Nostrand, ad- vaned 530,000, believing in the honesty of Scott and Munsen. They occupied six stores, and for the rent of these he had made himself responsible. Both Scott and Munsen were young men, hitherto of good reputation ; the former is amarried man, and was once a clerk with Messrs. Laimbeer, Pinto, and Co. ; the other, an unmarried man, for years a clerk with Mr. Greenleaf. As usual, unfortunate speculations have converted these men into rascals, and thrown upon society as a nuisance and a pest two persons who, but for the gambling habit now so prevalent in this city, might have been useful members of the community'; indeed could not have failed to be so ftom the for unate start they had obtained. 'The stockholders of the Atlantic Bank of Brooklyn have been equally surprised and dismayed by finding a large deficit in the accounts on the investigation of its affairs which followed the death of Mr. W.Rushmore. It may be recollected that this gentleman was among those killed by the acci dent on the Long Island Railroad. After this most respectable individual had been mourned over and buried, Mr. George S. Puffer thought it about time to look into the accounts, and the further he looked the more open became his eyes. The idea of the proprietors was that next July they were to divide 535,000 of this prosperous bank's earnings, its capital of poomo being of course secure, and a considerable sum earned. First it was discovered that half the capital was gone, and the news spread ing abroad a run followed, which was met by the prompt action of the directors—Mr. Puffer, Judge John A. Lott, the Hon. Henry C. Murphy, Peter G. Connell, Henry K. Sheldon, B. Valentine, John French, and William Hunter, jun.—who agreed in dividually and collectively to sustain the shock, and carry the bank through. This quieted the threat ening storm, and on investigation it was found that Mr. Rushmore had been investing largely in real estate, and speculating in railway stocks and bonds. The title deeds were deposited with the bank, labelled to secure the bank ; but as it now stands they belong to Mr. Rushmore's estate. Mr. Catherwood, contractor of the Newark and Patter son Railroad, has largely overdrawn, his account, but he maintains that the security is sufficient, al though the directors do not think so. In the pre sent stage of the proceedings, it would be unjust unreservedly to condemn the late Mr. Rushmore, who mayonlyhave been guilty of very great impru dence and mismanagement. On Tuesday the hun dredth anniversary of the old Dutch Church, the Collegiate North Reformed, was celebrated in Ful ton-street. 'The Rev. Thomas de Witt presided, The church maintains its old Dutch character, the services being conducted according to the Dutch Reformed. lts burial yard was once surrounded by fields, and when it was dedicated it was in the Dutch lmaguag4_,, It is one of the few old buildings we have in America, and has a history of its own, for George was our King when first its doors were opened, and it has seen the royal ,troops within its walls when ased as an hospital. This was the day chosen for la/lug the corner-stone of the new Dutch church now being erected at the comer of Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth-street. It will cover 12,000 supericial feet ; there will be three spacious doors on the Yifth-avenue and one on Forty-eighth street, and the tower will be at the corner, 225 feet high. A aid spire, 85 feet high, will be at the Forty-eigh tl- street extremity; the style is the En glish Gothic of tht 13th century, the cost over pOOOO, to be compbted in two years. Last Saturday night Wallate M'Daniels murdered Thomas Corwin with an oal stick at the Rosendale House, the stopping plate of the fast travellers on the Central Avenue, Moirisania. Corwin's wife was living with M'Daniels, :n whose name the Roseadale House was kept, ard she being well off supplied the funds for carrying on the business. She and M'Daniels were returning from the city,and Corwin was at the house. An altercation occurred, when Corwin, ac cording to A,Daniels, raised a chair to strike, and he picked ui the stick, striking Corwin four blows, the fist of vhich fractured his skull. After the act the victim was dragged through the bar-room into the hall, am Sergeant John Savor proceeded on in formation o' a fight to the house, where he found M'Daniels sanding by the murdered man, when he was arrestet, as was also the woman. It appears that a long 'end had existed between him and Cor win about he latter's reputed wife. A German cooper, nand Philip Kobel, murdered his wife and little daugher, but his two sons, seven and eleven years old, ;soaped, and gave information to the police. Koel and his wife lived on bad terms, as he believedaer to be unfaithful ; and it was but a short time no that the wife caused his meet for )clamation denounced account. The Queen's pr.. all interference, warning her subjects to abstain from all hostile acts against either belligerent ; every act infringed that Proclamation, which enabled the Confederates to make a naval base of England. Whether England ought, at every hazard, to have declared the Alabama a ship outside all law, we do not pretend to say but it may be doubted whether, if she had been captured by a Union vessel instead of sunk, her crew could have been treated as pirates. This was certainly not the case with any vessel armed and commissioned in a Confederate port. The peculiar character of the Alabama and one or two others was, that they had never entered the harbour of a country whose flag they flew, and this is the dan gerous point, and the ruinous precedent established if it stands against England. But, although a most tit ions one ;or England, it would be a very bad oue fur the United States, and the sooner it can be oblite rated the betccr,and the international law established I that no ship of war can be recognized as b e longing . to a Power which is not commissioned. in a port O f that Power. It is a laity that the United States did not join in the Declaration of Paris, fur then the illegal character of such vessels would have bee° placed beyond all doubt. " A Regular Subscriber " asks, " Is there all treaty between England and America by which the English Government can legally claim in America a British subject guilty of fraud commi tted in this country ?" [Certainly; the Extradition Treaty provides for the surrender of criminals. A curious point vos raised during the Canadian rebellion, as narrated in the letters of Sir Francis Head. D' 'Kenzie, a Bri tish subject, committed robbery, arson, and, w e be lieve, murder, and fled to th 3 United States. Under this Treaty, then just brought into force, Sir Fran cis I demanded his person, but Mr. Marcey, the Govern or of New York, acting under the advice of the At torney-General of that State, declined to coraP l h on the plea that, although guilty of these clip)°, his acts were those of rebellion, and therefore he wa s a political offender. Sir Francis argues that anY thief might rob a bank with a green banner or something in his hand, and calling this rebellion on f reaching foreign territory escape the consequences °,,_ his crime. Orsini, for instance, in the atrocious at, tempt to murder Napoleon, could he have crossed the frontier of France, might have got off on se7 o a plea ; and even John Wilkes Booth might h t in raised it on escaping into Canada when his persi er was demanded. British subjects accused of gill. r . ca t and felony, who are not able to raise the plea, will be arrested in America, as was I‘l,°l I and handed over to English officers of just ice ' Ed. A.A.T.] BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—OOI. Freyre, the n th e n wPeruvian Minister to the United States, arrived by Arizona, May 25, at New York, and weEonnt7toAopsteh:esyt;il; n re i n t don Hotel. Senor Garcia y Garcia, late Peruvian gi lttbsaerrg,swreas also at the Clarendon. —T he Hon. Samu el S I I ; Australasian.—The/iliister t H o o P n o . r . :, v u ra g a . l ,A. Richardson, arrived ieha r in d s Secretary of the Treasury, arrived at New York, 3.1 " . -d, from Washington, and left for Boston the same evelliug.--- Lieut.-Gen. Phil. Sheridan and John C. Brackenridge vier? in Cincinnati, May 25.—Ex-Secretary Seward arrived at New York from Philadelphia, May 25, and heft in the Jr. et ternoon by the Hudson River Railroad to visit his son, Be Frederick W. Seward.—Professor Blase r of rl in bi n completed the model for a colossal bust of lexander v°° -- Humboldt for a committee in New Yor k. It Absa he sent to Hanover to be cast in bronze under the tendence of Howaldt.—The naturalist James flePb„°r3 died at Victoria, British Columbia, -n the 15th of AP" Winc heste r ' Mr. James M. Mason returned tc on 's home, Virginia, on the 15th of May, after many years' absene and was met at the railway station by numerous citizen: —Major-General George H. Thomas arrived in New Y .°. ' ht . ! , May 22, from West Point, and went to Washington ill evening, whence he goes to California, by the Pacific 11."11 road, to assume command of th Department of the PSCISde. and late Assistant Secretary of State, —The Hon. F. W. Seward, son of ex -Secretary c h a sed wer ' place at Irvington, and proposes to reside in it permato ill; superin -The Hon. John Worth, United States Consul at t b Sandwich islands, arrived at New York, May 23, Fran ' te first train that came home direct through from Sall cisco.—GeneralM'Clellan contemplated purchasing •ti the neighbourhood of Morristown.—M r • 31 alto.ten, ttric i ! Doet° l ' May 25, accomplished the feat of walking in the Skating Rink one hundred miles within twenty-four VI g d died z , o 3r U s s ' 23 winning ho a 4. purse of $330. His time, including r ests, W 3 oMf2atyhme2i minutes, u at Free e t s \, v.l, and ersa td er.4osins League,et c . seconds.—Alfred nd s . —Alfred Pen , r ill : the head of the London and I ' Tra de At v c r Re p a o nw o d l afhso l ar n os s un u ' Pear ex-Secretary n Yf c Y e t be G : rusl:3ll-t pany. The Executive Committee of the Free ,i to League held a meeting on the afternoon of the fus er '' - '3 pay a tribute of respect to his memory.—General Gr a° c i. house, in Quincy, Illinois, was lately entered a nd th at The General is credited with the epigrammatic remarEt' rf "office-seeking was fast becoming one of the inclustrietsi; America." Ex-President Johnson meditates gvc, speech at Clarksville, Tenn , Saturday, May 29 " Aid• te Senator Morrill is named . as the probable 0 1 '7" 3 ., for Governor of the " Temperance party '' ill 31' 1 of Capt.iin General Dulce, of Cuba, is so davgerously' 1 of cancer, that be is hourly expected to die.— Joe. 31 ‘ Le' i p r) o ' is, the firm of Grant and M'Lean, loather dealers, 111, • _... has been appointed collector of Customs in whichCoe Secretary Seward owns the horses and carriage ~ Ws Ad illi were the property of President Lincoln during - 1 1. gs of nistration. They occasionally appear in the 5,,, e- ,, Ole Auburn, and Mr. Lincoln's coachman stiller'll°.'l3l pas reins.—Stedman, the poet, is now a brok and iao a ker -.' ror , an office at 48, Broad-street, New York.—Spe . s way' f passed through New York, May 28, on 111 p at 0 Maine to Washington.—S. S. Lewis, forraerlY 3g th a J. t die ~o /iiie s, the Cunard Steamship Company, at Boston , city on Thursday night, May 27.—Alexander. P . , i „a at formerly President of the Old Colony his residence in Kingston, Mass , May 27.—gaj or -s , ~ , o f otr , t Thomas L. Crittenden, Colonel of the 17th u 1 1 , . fre e Railroad, „70neral arrived, May 28, at Richmond, Virginia, eig ht 3' r 3 1i561 California.—Young Talbot, who attempted to ma_ ew'.i! at Scribner, was buried at Fore st Hill Russell Boston, his native town, May 15.—gr• 3",°h,rnribane, fs, Young, late managing editor of the New rot'," io , tt oa it is said, coming to Europe as Messrs. JAY C: ° e d tb° Co.'s financial agent.—Charles W. Eliot bas c. p ° ' to Presidency of Harvard College, and resigned hi : 110 01Y to ol the Board of Overseors.—Miss Kellogg is sic' in I'l°4 take a farewell benefit at the Academy theßoston 11- York.—A. A. Folsom, superintendent of Tptoe' Providence Railroad, has boon tendered the eeP ti s je frie, dency of the Atlantic and Great Western ~,, 11 00, s°V it j which has leased it.—Hon. Ebenezer Dionvass,... 'for.' States Minister at Hayti, has had a recept at 7 of lite -Mr. Motley paid a visit to Chatham with a pe r 31 1 -, o pesa e rary friends, and was entertained by Ge ne3l d y lie on Wed i ' es tab; 27th Murray, the commanding officer, witnessed the trooping of tho colours 11 rrig°/1.-' Regiment, and the gymnastic exercises of the gt. . €4, wife The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says that Dirs. teasds' l3 lll „ ei , sr' de; of h er of the State Senator recently as'oassinated, rested on the charge of being concerned in the murilege, ba s husband.—Prdessor Young, of Dartmouth C° A ost 111 been engaged by the Nautical Almanac Office tn_ d wig bun taking observations of the coming sun eclipse, ads eu toot Ile t stationed at Des Moines, Inwa.—Speculation rotainena results than ruin, fraud, and suicide ; for tw e ! the re, a r) operators in the New York Gold Room hada figh b v ~. ip ter" might have damaged each other had not frie ?r illet ea fered.—The General Assembly of Rhode 15 13 . 1 , 3 ..,,e ' 4°s , Tuesday, May 25. Berry T. Eames of Providtlert:3o ave elected Speaker of the House, and J. M. A d c oo 1 1 Charles P. Robinson, clerks. Sumner V. Sh, er , do per , ' elected clerk of the Senate. The votes :o°c'i:toti.ort officers were counted, and the usual P • s v .esi rt " . made. Governor Padleford took his seat snside re' officer of the Senate, Ex-Governor 1 3 . " _Gess' visitors. for tiring. Newport is getting thronged with ndi d i ae a ral Joseph E. Johnston is named as a e e „,., f lai c Mayor of Savannah. —Mr. Booth, the trage":: i ', 003 Or lago at the Matinee on May 29, and then retir e ll . " Tor tbe stage, at least for a time.—The sailors illdiet.a„lo be° murder of J. W. Jones, mate of the Tava, 11., e e discharged. At Ad Ts iu T sh r t: i f;u o oa n frae t , h so o efil l. a. 4th inst.,at B' kle ICent , "'"-. A (~ -g V. "' HOPE—On the 15th inst., the Lady Ida 11 0 P et o ' .' daughter. IC Y' r 7 aNIII - MARRIAGES. Tileb" rsti the 12th In at Apiegi J. 11. - :B l e . l E r a t „c- s i . - T ave Esq. of Calcot Park, Berk's , t 3 l''''de lr. 1101INTON—On widow of the late George Smith Thornton, of . ' ll. jo esl' MST . OUL —GARBANATI —On the 12th inst., at St• ro toll ' Piccadilly, P. Adrian, youngest son of Als- Ni ' 4 00 6 Esq•, of 24, Great Percy-street, to Frances 7,,,,31i0r eldest daughter of Paul C. Garbauati, Esq, of 'r'' house-street. BIRTHS. DEATHS. C R O S STEE —On the 13 th inst., a t Broad Carr House , 1131'3' near Halifax, Wilkins on Crossley, Esq., aged 42. ta , K ING —On the 14th inst., Ms. Geo. si n g , of 50, GresWa street, city, aged 36. 06 6 LAFONE —0 n the 14th inst., at Hastings, Alexandieli Lafone, Esq., of Thingwall Hall, Cheshire, age" w " . Lo.:citc::PPrercui' Precinct ecdt of v -sc'. , of No. 112, trAntl, Priuter, at THE Sus Office, No. 12, St ° ...., Wednesday, June lc, 180, utd:usbalvi: by WILLIAII ASD— oi in to county of -311,1,11005..