The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-24 00:00:00

IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 22. The public mind is quite at ease now on the sub ject of- Fenianism. There has been some noise ma de about precautions taken to strengthen the Castle gates ; but these were, I understand, taken by some officials connected with the Board of Works without the sanction of the Government, and have been suddenly stopped by its orders. Everything goes on here now in the ordinary way, just as if the Head Centre were never beard of, and we should soon forget Fenianism but for the seizures of firearms which are still made. Some of these, it ap pears, are intended for loyal subjects ; for instance, it is said by an evening paper that the 3cwt. of powder and 15 rifles, wi;11 1,100 rounds of ammu nition, seized by Inspector Skelly at the King6bridge station, were intended for Lord Fermoy. There is a general winding-up of the year's pro ceedings of our various literary, scientific, artistic, and charitable institutions at the approach of Christ mas. Yesterday there was a meeting of the Royal Dublin Society's School of Art, for the presentation of prizes to the students, the chair being occupied, in the, absence of the Lord Lieutenant, who is ex officio President, by the Hon. G. Hancock, one of the vice-presidents. The annual report, which was read by the secretary, Dr. Steele, gave a very satis factory account of the progress of the school during the past year. There was a total of 431 students, of whom 226 were ladies. There was a large in crease of the artisan classes. Among these artisan students were-24 clerks, 15 teachers, nine litho graphers, eight house painters, seven carpenters, six builders, nine salesmen, five artists, five uphol sterers, three stucco plasterers, three engine -fitters, four architects' apprentices, three draughtsmen, three engineers, two printers, two cabinetmakers, two coach painters, two leatherdressers, two ship wrights, three stone carvers, and two bricklayers. The greatest attendance was in March, and the smallest in July. The fees have amounted to £4lB ls. 4d. About th 3 same time, and within a few doors of the Royal Dublin Society's house, the Queen's In stitute for the Training and Employment of Edu cated Women held its annual meeting. This society can boast of having the Queen and the Princess of Wales as patrons, the Viceroy of Ireland as Presi dent, and Lords Brougham and Talbot de Malahide as vice-presidents. The latter nobleman presided at the meeting yesterday, and forcibly advocated the claims of the society. Eloquent addresses were de livered by Dr. Magee, Dean of Cork, and of the Chapel Royal, Mr. Samuel Ferguson, Q.C., Mr. A. Parker, J.P., Professor Houston, and the Rev. Dr. Kirkpatrick. Miss Corbett, the secretary, read the report, from nhich it appeared that 175 ladies were trained last year in telegraphy, lithography, sewing machine work, trade digning, painting photographs in oil and water-colours, book-keeping, scrirencry, and ornamental writing. This valuable society has so far conquered Irish pride and prejudice that 782 gentlewomen have learnt the industrial arts taught at the institution, and out of this number 438 have obtained remunerative employment, sufficient to enable them to maintain themselves. It is, there fore, not creditable to the wealthy among us, from whOse ranks many of the students have been reduced, that so deserving a society languishes for want of support. In the evening, at the museum of Irish Industry, Stephen's-green, the prizes and certificates won in the Government School of Science applied to In dustrial Arts were distributed by the Lord-Lieu tenant, whose presence attracted a large attendance, including the Lord Mayor, who had also been pre sent in the morning at the Royal Dublin Society's meeting, and at the Queen's Institute. The Mar quis of Abercorn having arrived about nine o'clock, Professor Jukes opened the business of the evening with an interesting account of the origin, progress, and operation of the geological survey of the United Kingdom. He dwelt upon the great importance of the survey to all who were engaged in scientific pursuits, and stated that the work would ultimately repay the nation for the outlay incurred either by actual gaia or by saving further expenditure. Sir Robert Kane, director of the Museum, made some observations on the importance of the institution, stating that there was a considerable increase in the number of the students as compared with the pre ceding session, and the proficiency as shown during the examinations was most satisfactory. The two young men, named Rich. John Stowell and John Patrick Stowell, who were recently ar rested at North George's-place for the unlawful possession of a number of rifles, &c., were yesterday brought up on remand, before Mr. O'Donnell, at the Capel-street Police -office. It appeared that when the detective officers went into the house they found no person in charge of it but the prisoners' mother and sister. In a small back room in the basement story they found two riaes,Tower marked, concealed up a chimney ; there were also bayonets attached to each rifle. They then proceeded to make further search, and on examining the coalhouse they found concealed under aquantity of turf a large deal case containing seven rifles, seven bayonets, a bullet mould, two leather pouches , a cartridge ea se , con taining some bullets and cartridges, a small ti n b ox containing caps, a small powder flask, and a b ottle containing powder, a leather case for a revolver, a small ladle, a piece of lead, and ten rifle slings. li e arms were removed into the hall of the house, an d the prisoners' mother having stated that her sons were engaged in business, the former in Lower Gardiner-street and the latter in Mr. Duffy's, Wel lington-quay, constables were sent to arrest them. On being brought into the house the latter prisoner, 'who first arrived, on being questioned about the arms, said "he kn'w nothing at all about them." When Richard J. Stowell, however, arrived, he looked at the arms in the hall and said that they were a nice lot ; that they were his property ; that his brother knew nothing at all about them, and that he was sorry they got into their bands. When being taken to the stationhouse the same prisoner said that he had got out of bed in the dead of night and hid them where they were found." The prisoner Richard was committed for trial at the commission, and John was held to bail. At the Head Police-office yesterday, before Mr. Allen, two young men, named Ignatius Cummins, a silversmith's apprentice, and John Fegan, a musi cian, were brought up in custody charged with having in their possession, without license, a quan tity of gunpowder, ammunition, percussion cups, &c. The constables who arrested them deposed that they found the prisoners in a tap room in the house No. GO, Upper Stephen-street, on the night of the 17th inst. They also found 40 percussion caps, two tin canisters, which contained 111 bullets, another =liter containing one pound of gunpow der and a green uniform cap. On the prisonerFegan being questioned, he said he knew nothing about them. Cummins stated before the magistrate that he brought the powder and ammunition into the apartment without the knowledge of Fegan. Mr. Garbois, of Baggot-street, gave Fegan an excellent character, and stated his willingness to go bail for him to any amount. The magistrate decided on allowing Fegan out on bail—himself in £4O and one surely for £2O. The prisoner Cummins was sent for trial at the Commission. BRITISH Coßp tiAx SYLU3I.—The seventh half -3 early meeting since the opening of this institution by the Prince and Prince Wales, on the 24th of June, PO, was held on Thursday of for the purpose of di.,tributing prizes to the sueveceeneshissigt.d competitors. The Eel". S. B. Catley occupied the was supported by the &v. James Hill, examiner, and Rev. J. Wallis, the institu tion. G. IZ. Norton, and Mr. Gray, directorsths awarded of the After the prizes had been tions were given by the boys, and songs by both boys and girls in a highly creditable manner. sit conclusion the iit.:V. James Wallis, the chairman o f the' the educational committee, addressed the boys and girls about to finally quit the asylum in an impressive and feeling speech and presented each of them with a bible and prayer-book, according to the usual custom.-IVind , sor and Eton News. The Quebec Chronicle states that a gentleman who has during the last seven years been exploring tho country on the north shore of the St. Lawrence has discovered a vein of coal extending over a large dis trict, as also copper, plumbago, steel and iron mines, with petroleum springs. The " Times" Sixty-Eight Years Ago. Last Monday more numerous groups than usual interrupted the stream of passers-by in the great thoroughfares of London. The news-boys were calling " startling intelligence," and their sheets, with the large " headings" were spread in more than ordinary numbers in the street to attract the eyes of the hurrying throngs. The boys were sell ing a reprint of the Times newspaper , published October 3, 1798. No wonder the people stopped to gaze—for the bill spread before them was replete with great " sensations." The first of these an nounced Admiral NELSON'S Glorious Victory of the Nile ; the second, the Defeat of the Rebels, aided by the French, in Ireland. We paid our penny, and carried away a copy, which we have read with interest. IVe notice in the heading that the Times of 1798 omits to date from London. This number is 4,29 B—the number this morning is 25,684. The price of the old Times was sixpence, when money was more valuable—to-day the price is threepence. The size of the former is not much larger than a single sheet of four pages of this paper, and con. treats strangely in this respect with the latter, its descendant of to-day. Its first page is devoted to advertisements, as well as more than half the fourth or last page. These advertisements are in still more striking contrast to those of the present Times, and there appears to be a desire of the printer to make as good a show as he can with those at his disposal. Covent Garden is the only theatre that announces its bill of performance, though there is an advertise ment referring to its great rival : " Free Admission to Drury Lane Theatre.—To " be Sold, Two or Three Tickets, which will Admit " One Person to every Play or Performance that " may be at the above Theatre for the whole dura " tion of the present Season. Price 6 guineas each. " Enquire at No. 456, Strand, nearly opposite " Villiers Street." The vendors of the tickets had a curious idea of free admissions. At the head of the fourth column is an advertisement by the Postmaster-General. He offers £2OO reward for the apprehension of a highwayman who stopped the post-boy with the mails from Bromley to Sevenoaks, and carried off the letter-bags destined for Sevenoaks, Tunbridge, Lammerhurst, Rye, and Hastings. The post-boy offered him half a guinea, which this polite robber declined to take. The turnpike-keeper described a horseman, supposed to be the same person, who passed through the gate riding a horse with a white face, and having the appearance of a London rider. Many of the advertisements are from persons styl ing themselves doctors, offering cures for every possible malady. The list of bankrupts is confined to one ; and eight dividends make up the extracts from the London Gazette. There is, however, a notice from the Gazette alluding to an order of Council for ships, persons, and merchandise from the State of Philadelphia (sic !) entering any of the ports, to perform quarantine according to the usual regulations. NELSON'S despatches announcing the great victory of the Nile, with the editor's observa tions, occupy nearly all the leading columns and the second page. There are a few items of interest at the foot of the fourth column of this page. "Mr " CURRAN, the Irish barrister, has arrived in town ; "he resides at Lord Alma's." " Mr. PITT is not " confined with the gout at Walmer ; we saw " him yesterday in the Park in perfect good " health." " The keepers of several reading "rooms in Fleet-street have been fined £5 for " lending newspapers for hire." (!) What would the present generation say to such a law as this ? At the end of the third page there are a few more items. "On Monday evening last, Mr. VERNON, " of the Treasury, and another gentleman, in a " post-chaise, were stopped by two foot-pads, who " robbed them of their money, watches, and a " trunk• containing wearing apparel, &c." " The cc same evening Lieutenant MILLER, of the Royal ' Horse Guards, was also robbed, as well as Mr. " CounvorslEß, one of his MAJESTY'S messengers." The only notice of books is one to be found among these items. " Gulliver's Travels," it says, " arc " nothing to the romantic effusions of some of the " modern French authors. A book was lately pub " lisped at Paris to prove that the creation began " with men 31 leagues in height." KOSCICSKI " has published at Paris an official letter, in which " he intimates that all Polish refugees are to have "an asylum in Italy." " Among the wonders of " the present day, Mrs. SIDDONS' late achievements " at Brighton, Bath, and London should not be " forgotten. She positively performed at each of " these places within the incredibly short space 01 4 4 ninety-six hours !! !" These notes of admiration are those of the Times. " An application is intended " to be made to the Parliament for leave to make, " and maintain by toll, a tunnel under the river " Thames, from the parish of Gravesend to the " parish of Tilbury." They had a good idea of an investment, even in those times ; but they left the performance of this scheme to be executed by an after generation. " Croydon Fair commenced on " Monday, where many things besides walnuts were " cracked, as a few months hence the churchwardens " will testify." "A meeting of a hostile character " took place on Putney-common, on Tuesday morn " ing last, between Captain H- and Colonel " A-, on account of a supposed injury in Ire- " land." This is followed by an account of the suicide of GEORGE HANNING, a seaman, who pro bably anticipated the fate reserved for Lim for killing one of the Press-gang. He hung himself and was buried in the cross-roads near St. John's Church, but without the stake commonly used on such occasions. " The three French frigates La Concorde, La Franchise, La " -I\l4 cletS, which landed th e F renc h t roo p s i n Ire land, ar e returned to the port of Blaye. " " At g Plymouth— Arri 66 taken som e time ved, an English brig from Co r k, since by a French privateer, and 44 retaken by the Kangaroo ship of war." Under the head of " Theatre" there is a short notice of Mr. KEM B LE, who acted th e part o f Z anga i n " The Revenge." After the play the news of Ad miral NELSON'S gloriousvictory produced a b urs t o f patriotic exultation. A person in the gallery of Drury Lane House called frequently for the tune of " Bri tons ! Strike Home," and was silenced by what the editor terms the appropriate observation o f another— " Why, damn it—they have, haven't they ?" O ne birth is notified, one marriage, and two deaths. Names which are now historical, and events whi c h have had an important bearing on the destiny of nations, are familiarly discussed. The landing of the French at Alexandria and their march on Cairo are announced. General B UONAPARTE was said to be on very bad terms with his officers, who were dispirited and out of humour with the expedition. " A Russian army is approaching the Austrian ter " ritories," says the editor, " to give confidence to " the, we fear, yet undecided politics of the Em " peror of GERMANY. A Russian fleet has arrived " at Constantinople on its passage to the Mediter " ranean through the Dardanelles, and the GRAND " SIGNIOR, from the decision and vigour which guide " his counsels, and hasten his preparations bysea and " land, seems anxious to emulate his ancient rival "in laudable exertions. The King of NAPLES we " have long known to be hearty in the good cause, " and waiting only for the protection of a British " fleet to declare himself. Motives of private in " terest or State necessity may have induced some Cabinets to make peace with France, and even . . "to become her allies. But though France may "-have allies, it is impossible that the French Re " public can have any who are so sincerely." With respect to the French expedition to Ireland, " the " Anson frigate is announced as having fallen in " with the Brest squadron on the 24th ult., and " was so nigh the Hoche as plainly to perceive the " troops on board her. The Hoche sailed so very " badly, and appeared to be so encumbered, that it " is thought Sir JOIIN BORTISE WARREN must " reach the coast of Ireland before the French can " have approached it. Lord BRIDPORT is stationed " off Ushant to prevent the return of the French " fleet into port." What will be the progress of •another seventy years? The Times cannot grow in bulk, or present to the reader of that day the same volume of addi tional matter that is presented by the issue of this morning, contrasted with that of Oct. 3, 1798. Perhaps the difference which would most surprise the readers of the ear sheets of the Times, if they THE SUN, LONLON, IVIONOAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1866. were here to read the present numbers, is the speed with which intelligence is now conveyed. Admiral NELSON'S despatch is dated August 3, and arrived at the Admiralty on the morning of the 2d October; that is, just two months. The messenger was de spatched overland, a circumstance to which NELSON especially refers " in the hope that their lordships " will approve the step." It is worthy of notice that a single post-boy should be sufficient to carry the letters to the chief towns of Kent, and that a single robber was sufficient to appropriate them to him self, and that the boy's estimate of their value was half a guinea.—Auglo-American limes. Action of " Bears" on the London Stock Exchange. Capel-Court is one of those curious old English institutions the like of which cannot be seen in any other laud. The English have a marvellous way of maintaining old customs by patching and adding to keep the grotesque structure up to the wants of the present time. The Army is a fine sample of this peculiarity, and the London Stock Exchange is a still better instance. A stranger, drifting into any of the lanes which lead to Capel-court, with the throng, may be under the impression that he is in a thoroughfare till he finds himself in a spacious hall with a lofty dome, crowded with people, and the object of general attention. A loud voice cries a number behind him, and instantly he is hustled in every direction till battered and breathless he stands outside the portals. When he is informed that within that hall is transacted a vast portion of the public investment business of the British nation his surprise is not lessened that he, as a citizen of that nation, with business to transact, should be thus summarily ejected. None are admitted within those walls except the two classes, who have appro priated to themselves the exclusive dealings in stocks and shares. The brokers, with their offices in all directions around, have the entrée to purchase and sell on the part of the public ; the jobbers remain in the hall to take up or dispose of these stocks and shares as the opportunity offers. No man outside the favoured clique can sell his own property, nor does the broker, who is commissioned to act for the outsider, dispose of the property to the real investor. A system such as this necessarily induces specula tion, for it resolves itself almost wholly into " time-bargains." No man can go with his shares in his pocket, and dispose of these shares to a real investor, receiving a cheque for the sum they rea lise. The main business done in the Stock Ex change is speculative—the parties to the sales and purchases being merely backers of an opinion that the property they deal in will rise, if they be pur chasers, or fall if they be sellers. It is more easy to break down the value of property than to raise that value, as it is more easy to damage a reputa tion than to make one. Experience has shown the members of the Stock Exchange that more money is to be made by selling shares they do not possess than by buying shares they have no intention of paying for. The Stock Exchange never held a very high repu tation in England, but late events have materially injured even the estimation in which it had been held. The machinations by which the Agra Bank was destroyed is a fair sample of the proceedings by which the Stock Exchange has obtained for itself so unenviable a notoriety. A case has lately oc curred which has again attracted public attention to the shameless jobbing which has influenced disas trously the property of shareholders that a few un principled speculators might obtain a profit. Last week another of those panics occurred in railway property which have marked so fatally the year 1866. Every sort of rumour was spread that the debentures of several lines about to fall due could not be renewed. These rumours were accompanied by heavy sales of the stock of the lines in question, which in the present state of the market had an immediate effect in producing a serious fall. This was followed by a telegram to Manchester to a member of the Stock Exchange of that city I " hear the B chairman has failed, please say true "or no." Immediately the rumour spread through Manchester that Mr. Wm IN, M.P., Chairman of the South-Eastern Railway, had failed. That gentleman happened to be at Manchester at the time, and was therefore able at once to contradict the report, and to take steps to discover the author. The effect intended, however, was produced ; the shares fell heavily, and the " bears," who had been operating for this result, reaped a rich harvest. Every word of the rumours proved untrue. The Bank of Eng , land had renewed the debentures falling due at a fair rate of interest, and the line instead of being in any difficulty was in a strong position. The result was an immediate rise. Though railway property may be damaged, it cannot, like a money dealing institution, be wholly destroyed by such underhand manoeuvres. The banks and the credit institutions had already, through the operations of these people, been so depreciated that little could be made by further proceedings against them ; and in default of the more easy target they presented the " bears" were compelled to turn their attention in other directions. This in a measure accounts for the violent fluctuations that have lately been wit nessed in railway property. The public are so alarmed, and have experienced such terrible losses, not only from the bad business done by many com panies, but still more from the operations of the " bears," that the Stock Exchange has been deserted, and the business there transacted has been mainly on behalf of the members. The crowd of jobbers and brokers cannot remain idle, and if the public will not employ them they purchase and sell on their own behalf. Thus property is marked in the daily price lists with scarcely any re ference to its real value, and people who own shares in companies are alarmed beyond measure to wit ness fall following on fail till the shares they hold, if reckoned by this standard, have ceased to be of value. So great is the danger of " bear" operations against credit institutions that numbers decline to hold such property, however sound intrinsically they may consider the concern in which they have an interest. Nothing but the interference of Par liament, by the enactment of laws directed against time-bargains, can save this class of property from the dangers to which it is exposed. ' Nor can any permanent improvement take place until a strong check be administered to the power of unscrupulous operators.—Anglo-American Times. tion of a canal around them, as the best means of improving the navigation of the river, the mer chants' exchange of St. Louis has adopted a series of resolutions, calling on all citizens of the States bordering on the 3,Lississippi river who are inte rested in river commerce to meet in convention at St. Louis in January, to take steps to bring the matter speedily before Congress. The Ophir Mining Company, whose stock is owned at Boston, but whose gold mines are in Nova Scotia, near Halifax, is now crushing quartz at the rate of 18 tons daily, and since the second week in September has extracted 1,546 ounces of gold, worth in coin over $45,000. The gold, which sells at the Mint for $19.80 per ounce, costs the Company $5. Cincinnati is to have a new reservoir, covering fourteen acres, holding 100,000,000 gallons of water, and costing $1,500,000. The work has been begun. One skate factory in Worcester, Massachusetts, has consumed during the present year 5,000 gross of screws, two tons of brass, 1,000 pounds of Ger man silver, nearly six tons of rosewood, and ten tons of steel, which have been worked up by thirty five men and women into 25,000 pairs of skates. It also uses annually 50,000 brass thimbles, which are inserted in the wood, and to which the runners are affixed, effectually preventing the splitting of the wood. From Canada we hear that the Provincial Go vernment has purchased in Hamilton, to be for warded to the Paris Exhibition, a collection of native stuffed birds, said to be the best on the Con tinent. The Government has also purchased a splendid set of furniture for the same destination. Extensive preparations are being made in the mili tary buildings to accommodate the new artillery equipments. In addition to guns and harness of the newest patterns, the field batteries have been supplied with the Spencer rifle. The Toronto Field Battery have been practising with their new brass guns recently received from England. They worked admirably, and add much to the efficiency of the battery. Lord Monck was on the eve of departure for England, and it was rumoured that he would not return to Canada. Immense peat bogs have been discovered three miles east of Port Colbourne, on the Welland Canal, Canada West. The bogs cover three thousand acres, lie from five to seventeen feet in depth, and will average over the whole surface eight feet of pure peat. A company is to be organised in Chicago to derelope these beds, and it is thought that the wonderful improvement in machinery for raising, pulping, and pressing the raw peat, by which one machine will prepare from 25 to 30 tons per day, at a cost of but a few dollars per ton, will enable this company to supply immense quantities to all the lake cities at a cost to the consumer of not more than five dollars per ton. There is a bill now before Congress which will, if it becomes a law, do away with the institu tion of polygamy in Utah. It purports to be a bill " to regulate the selection of grand and petit jurors in Utah," but it is really a bill for the extinction of Mormonism. The 14th and most important sec tion provides that " if any person shall presume to solemnise a marriage in said territory who is not by this Act authorised to do so, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding poo, nor less than $lOO, and be imprisoned in the Penitentiary not exceeding six mouths nor less than one month, or both." The " persons authorised by this Act" to solemnise marriages are justices of the peace and clergymen other than Mormon priests. Construction trains are moving on the Minnesota Valley Railroad within a few miles of Belle Plain, and the road is expected to be completed to that point before the ground freezes. This will be a great boon to the farmers of that rich grain-growing re gion, who have for the last few years suffered so much from low water in the Minnesota river. The fashionable audiences which attend the " Lowell Lectures" in Boston have been somewhat staggered by some of the stories that Professor Agassiz has brought back with him from Brazil, and has been laying before them in a course of lectures which he is now giving in that institution. One of these is that a sportsman on the banks of the Amazon fired at a parrot perched in a tree, and brought down, besides the bird, a fish. This eccentric fish, which the professor says he has found several miles away from its native river alive and well, has a breathing apparatus which enables it to live a long time out of water, and it has also, it is to be presumed, a scan sorial arrangement for climbing trees, though, as the lecturer remarked, it climbs only trees that have a very rough bark. The reports of Generals Sheridan and Sickles, sent in by General Grant, are extremely interesting, giving us a picture, of which we cannot doubt the accuracy, of the social condition of the South. More instructive testimony to the value of the protection which white courts extend to black men it would would be impossible to have—or testimony more corroborative of the opinion we have all along ex pressed in these columns, that the exceptional cha racter of the relations between the two races at the South rendersof little value all rules drawn from the experience of most other countries in the work of reconstruction. We find that, according to General Sheridan, the trial of whites for offences against freedmen and Union men is a mere farce. The legal form which the ferocious prejurlice of the planter class takes has sometimes a touch of glum humour about it. Two soldiers were murdered in cold blood in Texas. The grand jury ig nored the bills against the murderers, but indicted Major Smith, of the Seventeenth Infantry, for " burglary," for breaking into a house in an attempt to arrest them. In South Carolina, Gen. Sickles's report shows that the recent Legislative admission of the blacks to civil rights is merely words on paper. Magistrates will not issue war rants against persons guilty of the robbery or mur der of the coloured people and Unionists ; sheriffs will not arrest them, or, if arrested by the military, let them escape from custody ; and juries will not convict them. In fact, there is no security for life or limbs of persons obnoxious to the majority, ex cept such as the scanty garrisons can afford. We, who hold that the protection of the weak and obnoxi ous is the first duty of Government, are therefore in favour of as many, and as strong, garrisons as may be necessary to render crime and lawlessness so ter rible to the ruling class at the South that they will become only too glad to provide security for every body themselves. So far from trusting any human being to their generosity, we would keep them de pendent for everything on our generosity until they had learned the first lesson of civilised life.— The Nation. COMMERCIAL NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 1866. The President's Message had little effect on money matters, and even the report of the Secretary of the Trea sury seams to have produced no change either here or abroad. Though money continues to grow easier, stocks and shares are still unsettled and fluctuating. The best business paper is easily negociated at 6 to 7 per cent., and call loans are effected without difficulty at from 5 to 6 per cent. I take it, however, to be a sign of the times that there is more care in discounting paper and examining security. The panic of a fortnight ago has left its traces, and induced much greater caution. The supply of money is not very large, but quite sufficient for the demand, as trade is uncommonly and remarkably dull. The fact is, we are in a transition state, from an inflated and unduly expanded cur rency, tending down to specie payment. The action also of the tam laws is said to work unequally. At the West the general symptoms of the money market are unchanged, and business is very quiet. The produce and provision markets are without change ; though from the short sup ply of Into prices have slightly improved. All kinds of dry goods are drugs in the market, and many of the woollen mills are running on short time, while some have stopped altogether. Tho stock market' has continued quite ex cited, and towards the close of the week with a decided decline. The demand for investment in the eastern railroad stocks continues rather light, and is mostly of a speculative character. The shares of the western roads have quite generally fallen off 1 to 2c., with the exception of the Chicago and North- Western, which holds its own steadily amid the general subsidence. The Pacific mail steamship company's stock was sold on Wednesday, at New York, at 168, a lower figure than for some time before, under the effect of an ap plication for an injunction said to come from an owner of forty shares, to prevent the company from completing the exchange of their over-issued stock for United States sixes of 1881. The war of the express companies still continues, and the later quotations show a slight improvement for the old organisations, Adams standing for most of the week at $7B to $BO. Gold has been more than usually waver ing, and the extremes have been 141 and 138. The closing price on Thursday was 139, with an upward tendency. The amount of gold now in the hands of the Government is quite large, and the expectation is increasing at Now York that someof it will soon be put upon the market. The drain of greenbacks to the South still continues. Tho weekly report of the Boston banks presents rather an unfavourable appearance on account of the decrease in deposits and legal tenders, exceeding, during the past week, $3,000,000, and at New York the banks make a similar showing. The total amount of ex ports from New York for the first eleven months of the year was $175,383,922, an increase of over $15,000,000 from last year's transactions. The imports for the same time have increased nearly $100,000,000, and now amount to $275,965,871. This largo balance of trade is in a proportion thus far that will make the total for the official fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, much greater than that of last year, which was nominally over $8,000,000, though from smuggling and undervaluation of imports probably these figures would be too small. The customs receipts at Boston during November were $1,393,838, and thus far during the year $16,651,463, showing an increase over the corresponding months of 1865 of $1,392,938. At New York, on Thursday, the custom-house receipts were $219,000. The exports of Boston for the week ending November 30 were only about one-half as much as (luring the corresponding week last year. (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, December 19.) The Africa brought us advices from New York to the 4th instant. The week had been broken by the Thanks giving-day, and business had been dull on the Stock Market, but on the whole quotations were well sustained. Government Securities were but little altered, and the only noteworthy change in Railroad Stocks was an advance of about $5 in Chicago and North Western. Gold was steady, and money easy at former rates. AMERICAN SECURITIES. In our last we drew attention to the good return, in the shape of interest, together with ample security for capital, which investors might obtain from Government or first class railroad securities of the United States. Our remarks were then directed to the sterling bonds of the Pennsylvania Railway, but there are very many good Mortgage Bonds, having principal and interest payable in currency, which not only pay well as a present investment, but hold out prospective advantages, from the almost certain decline in the rate of exchange, as the contraction of the circulation progresses. Take, for instance, the Third Mortgage 7 per cent. Bonds of the Erie Railroad, than which nothing more certainly secure as a good mortgage on a large and valu able property can be desired ; the last quotation for these bonds at New York being 97 to 98, $l,OOO Baud would cost, at the present rate of exchange, say 151, as nearly as possible £l4B, and the interest coupons $7O por annum, yielding at 2s. 70. per dollar (about their present value) £9 3s. 9d., is equivalent to 6i per cont. ; but not the least attraction in these bonds, in our opinion, is the high pro bability of a steady decline in therate of exchange, andeon sequent enhancement of the interest receivable, for should the rate fall to 120, the annual income would be £l2 per annum, or rather moro than eight per cent., whilst should the views of the Secretary of the Treasury, and a return to specie payments bo accomplished, the income within two years would become nearly 10 per cent., with, of course, a corresponding increase iu the value of the prin cipal. There are other securities of a similar class to which we may take another opportunity of referring, but in men tioning these we would only remark, that we do so as all the mortgage bonds of the Erie Railroad are, in our opinion, as secure as the Debenture Bonds on the best of our English lines of railway ; for it is a notable fact, that while the Ist, 2d, and 3d Mortgage Debt on the Erie Rail road together amount to only $13,000,000, the annual gross revenue is about $14,000,000. The interest on $13,000,000 is $910,000, so that this $910,000 has the first claim on whatever net revenue there may be on $14,000,000. (From L. P. Morton and Co.'s Circular.) NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Financial affairs appear to be settling into the steady inactivity which usually attends the close of the year. The bowl market is quiet ; but the rate of interest, not withstanding, continues firm at 6 to 7 per cent. On demand loans, and 61 to 7 per cont. on discounts. The recent crisis in the money market is naturally suc ceeded by a dullness in speculative operations, under which the prices of stocks have still further declined. For the moment there is a comparative scarcity of legal tender notes among the banks, which partially curtails their ability to lend. A relief from this state of affairs is anti cipated from the disbursement, by the Treasury, of up wards of $10,000,000 of interest upon Seven-Thirty Notes, on the 15th inst. The favourable exhibit of the condition of the public finances, presented in the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury, has had the effect of stimulating the de mand for United States Securities. Five-Twenties of 1882;have ranged at 1011 to 1081, with no foreign move, ment of importance, and close at 1081 to 1081. Consoli dated Five Twenties of 1865 have been especially in demand, and have advanced from 10.31 to 1691, closing at 1081 to 109. In railroad shares, the course of speculation has pre dominated in favour of lower prices. Erie has fluctuated between 71 and 73}, and closes at 714 to 711. Illinois Central has ranged from 117 k to 119 k, and closes at 118 to 1181. State Stocks have been more active, but generally at a slight decline, except Missouri 6's ; which, with large transactions, have advanced 5 to 51 percent. upon our last quotations, closing at 92 to 921. Tennessee 1890, close at 91 to 931; Virginia 6's, 60 to 62 ; North Carolina 6's, 73i. Increased exports of cotton from the Southern ports, and an expectation that the Treasury will sell a moderate amount of coin, have strengthened the downward ten dency in the premium on gold. Yesterday the 'price touched 1381, and closes at 1381. Foreign exchange has ruled dull throughout the week. At the close, owing to the anticipation of liberal receipts of cotton bills from the South, the rates have declined per cent. Bankers' 60 days sterling bills close at 1091 to 1091; do. throe days, 1091 to 1101 ; bills on Paris, 60 days, 5.161 to 5.15 ; three days, 5.13 , 1 to 5.12 i. Cotton has been quiet, and without change in quota tions. Mid. uplands close at 33} cents. THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS?. No sooner did the Thirty-ninth Congress meet at Washington than it displayed the spirit with which it was animated against the Executive, or, more properly speaking, against the PRESIDENT personally. During the last session the representa tives of the people acted throughout with the wish not to widen the breach between the two branches of the Government. Congress foresaw the strong and growing hostility of Mr. JOHNSON, and feared he would use the power left in his hands during the recess to damage the ruling party by whom the vast majority of the members were returned. The Con gress was Republican. Mr. JouNsoN had become violently opposed to the measures that party had determined to carry, and his opponents feared the use he might make of his power while unchecked by the legislative body. The question was unde cided whether the nation would support the Execu tive or the Legislative branch. The principles put forth by the Philadelphia Convention were favour ably received by the nation, and tended much to strengthen Mr. JOHNSON in the course he had decided on. When the members separated they could scarcely predict under what circumstances they were likely again to meet. The interval was used by Mr. JOHNSON to damage Congress in the eyes of the nation. He entered personally into the task, and abused without measure both Houses. There was no compromise, no halting, in his course. He availed himself of every favouring circumstance, and staked all on victory or defeat. The appeal to the nation was, whether the PRESIDENT or the Con gress was to give way. The nation replied deci sively against Mr. JOHNSON. And now the PRE SIDENT reaps the fruits of his defeat. The Representatives on the first day of the session passed a bill repealing the section of the Act of July, 1862, authorising the PRESIDENT to grant pardon and amnesty, on the motion of Mr. ELIOT, of Massachu setts. The Senate, however, referred the bill to the usual committee. It is a question whether the PRE SIDENT has not authority under the Constitution to pardon offenders either before or after conviction. The Representatives have also passed a resolution insisting on the adoption of the Constitutional Amendment before the admission of Southern mem bers to Congress, and instructing the Committee on Territories to inquire into the expediency of pro viding territorial Governments for the States which took part in the rebellion. A bill has likewise been passed which provides that when a loyal citizen of the United States brings an action to re cover damages for injury to person or pro perty no such action shall be defeated, or any defence allowed, by virtue of the authority of the late so-called Confederate States, or any State declared in Rebellion. Bills have also been introduced (1) to regulate the Executive appoint ments; (2) To establish a new bureau in the Treasury Department, to be called the Internal Revenue Bureau, its head to be appointed by the Chief Justice, with a salary of $5,000, and this head to appoint hie own subordinates; (3) Directing the sale of two millions of gold every week. by the Secretary of the Treasury at New York, under due notice ; (4) To equalise the bounty of soldiers, sailors, and marines. The Bill introduced in rela tion to appointments to office is directed against the PRESIDENT. The power exercised by Presidents in reference to these appointments, and especially by Mr. JOIINSON, are inconsistent both with good government and the spirit of the Constitution. The system has resolved itself into a struggle for place and a scramble for emoluments, giving rise to wholesale bribery and corruption, and reflecting no small scandal on the Government. Any measure which tends to check a practice so pernicious, what ever may be the motives of Congress, can scarcely fail to have a beneficial influence. The PRESIDENT holds that he has the power to remove an officer confirmed by the Senate, and to appoint a successor without reference to that, House. If, as he believes, he can re-appoint that person after the Senate has rejected him, then the Senate's power is a mere farce, and a reference to the Upper House is a ridiculous form. The antagonism between Congress and the South will now assume a definite shape. The entire South either has or will reject the Con aitutioaal AmenduLult, and the PRESIDENT, hi his Message, has distinctly declared his continued ad hesion to the hostile opinions towards that amend ment he had throughout expressed ; while Congress has returned to the subject, even in a still more un compromising spirit. Congress is in the ascendant, and will lose no time in reducing the PRESIDENT'S power to a mere cipher. Morally, his influence is gone, and legally what pertains to his office will be materially reduced. During the War the power of the Executive had grown to threatening proportions —proportions that would have been dange rous to the public liberty had the PRESIDENT been a popular man. The contest between the Legislative and Executive may eventu ally be productive of good if the present Congress, aware of the great responsibility with which supreme power has invested it, uses that power for the national good, with moderation and conciliation, and not to gratify the hostility and enmity generated by hot party strife. Nor should it be forgotten that Parliaments are as capable of usurpation as individual rulers, and perhaps even more dangerous. The nation will narrowly watch the proceedings of the Legislature, and so also will all the civilised world. The late PRINCE CONSORT said of England during the Crimean war" that re presentative institutions were then on trial," but this could now be said with much more force of the Congress at present assembled at Washington.— A nglo-America 11 7 bites. New Postal Arrangements between England and America. The Report of the Hon. A. W. RANDALL, Post master-General of the United States, for the year ending June 30, 1866, is an able and interesting document. It is not our intention to follow this functionary in his elaborate account of the whole postal system of the United States, but to select from the well-arranged materials some facts of moment to those interested in the postal communi cation between England and America. On the 25th of last July the British Government gave notice of its purpose to•terminate the existing postal conven tion on the Ist January, 1868, on which day the contract would expire with the Cunard line. This notice was accompanied with an assurance of the earnest desire of her MAJESTY'S Government to conclude a new convention on a more liberal basis, reducing the present rates of international postage, and granting enlarged mail facilities. These com munications were received by the Government of the United States in the same spirit in which they were proposed. As both Governments were equally de sirous of securing for the people they represented every facility of postal intercourse they quickly con cluded a liberal convention. During the last year the number of letters exchanged between the United States and foreign countries amounted in the aggre gate to 9,430,556. Of these the United States de spatched 4,886,916, and received 4,543,630. Almost all this correspondence was exchanged with Euro pean countries, the letters being 8,564,817, and of this we may safely state that nearly the whole passed to, or came from, the United Kingdom. From these figures it will be seen that the balance of letters sent was in favour of the United States. The increase in the number of newspapers for warded from the United States contrasted with the number received is still more decisive. Out of the total of newspapers exchanged of 4,186,166, 2,804,442 were sent from the United States, while those received did not amount to one half, being 1,381,724. These figures show a large increase over previous ' years ; in newspapers alone the difference being over a quarter greater in the last than in the previous year. Under the existing arrangement, as the United States forwarded a larger correspondence, the balance on adjustment between the Post-offices was against that country, amounting, in the aggregate, to $278,714. The system now proposed, and which will come into op3ration on as early a day as pos sible, will embrace the following improvements : " 1. A reduction of the international letter postage to one-half of the existing charge. "2. The removal of all restrictions upon the exchange of printed matter in the mails at reduced postage charges. "3. The compulsory pre-payment of postage upon letters and other mail matter, avoiding entirely the keeping of complicated postage accounts upon international correspon dence. "4. A reduction of postage with all other countries to and from which correspondence is transmitted in the British mail, or in closed bags thsough the United King dom. ".5. The establishmentof uniform and reasonable charges for the sea and territorial transit of correspondence in closed mails; and granting to each post department the right to make use of all mail communications established_ under the authority of the other, for the despatch of cor respondence, either in open or closed mails, on the same terms as those applicable to the inhabitants of the country providing the means of transmission. "6. The postal of all international letters to belong wholly to the despatching country, and no charge what ever to be made by the receiving country on delivery. "7. Each post department to make its own arrangements for the despatch of mails to the other, by well-appointed ship; sailing on stated days, and to pay the owners of such ships for the conveyance of the mails which it de spatches." Though the time has not yetbeen fixed for the new regulations to come into operation, it rests with the British office, and it is confidently expected that there will be no unnecessary delay in giving the public the benefit. Indeed the arrangement has only been concluded in time to prevent an agita tion and remonstrance on the part of those inte rested. Already a movement had been inaugurated, and in our columns of to-day will be found a letter urging people to combine for this object. In this letter a curious fact is stated. The carriage of a ton of goods by the mail steamers between New York and Liverpool amounts to but £6, while the charge for the carriage of a ton of letters is £3,584. It is true that mail steamers are bound by the strictest regulations to start at certain hours, to run at a certain rate of speed, and on no account what ever to deviate frotn the destination named. Never theless, the difference is so enormous, and the car riage of the mail so profitable, that we need not despair of seeing the postage yet reduced to a penny per half-ounce letter. If the convention agreed to be delayed till the contract between the British Government and the Cunard line has expired it cannot come into operation till the Ist of January, 1868, by which a whole year will be lost. What that loss will involve will be best seen by consider ing what the prospects of 1867 are. The greatest exodus ever known in America will probably take place in the spring of next year. Europe will be in undated with American tourists, and mail bags will be pursuing the citizens of the United States from city to city over the continent. The increase in the letters and newspapers exchanged is cettain to be im mense, and the loss by this reduction, though amounting to one-half the present postage, will almost be made up by the increase in the corre spondence. If that reduction be not effected in time to give the travellers the benefit of a cheap postal communication that increase will receive a severe check; neither of the Governments will bene fit in anything like the degree that the delay will injure the interests of the inhabitants of both Con tinents. 130 more especially will the citizens of the United States feel the restrictions which the present postal arrangements will impose on a free communication between those who proceed to Europe and those who remain at home. It is above all things desirable to encourage the travellers to write their impressions at the moment those im pressions are received. Travel will thus not only tend to remove the prejudices of the writer, but in a still wider degree to influence favourably his own circle of friends. Prejudice is born of ignorance ; and the more intimately both countries know e ich other the more they will like and respect each other. The subject is of deepn- importance than can be estimated by the mere postal arrangements, and as it now remains with the British Government to fix the date when the new regulations are to come into force, we have every confidence that no paltry con siderations will be suffered to interfere with the great gain which the citizens of both nations will obtain from the immediate adoption of the reduced rate.—Anglo-Anzerican Times. Miscellaneous American News. A scientific writer is the New York Journal of Commerce states that the difference of time between London and New York is 4h. 55m. 18 and 95 hun dredths seconds. When it is 12 o'clock in New York it is 55m. and nearly 19sec. after four 4 o'clock in London. The accuracy of this rou t g im h e calculation he proposes t o t es t b y observa tion through the above statedAtlantic wacsablalertTaihneed dif ferenceby of three chrometric voyages between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the difference be tween Cambridge and New York was ascertained by telegraph. In this latitude the difference of time for longitude is one second per 1,100 feet. The Government of Roumania has commenced negotiations with some American gunmakers for providing the Rouman army with breechloaders. Governor Patton, of Alabama, bears the follow ing testimony to the character of the freedmen, in his recent Message to the Legislature of that State : —" The right to testify in courts, in certain cases, was extended to freedmen at your last session. The law authorising this testimony was necessarily ex perimental; but experience has demonstrated that it in productive of good results. Coloured persons are permitted to testify in cases where they are interested, and where there is every in ducement for false swearing which may be rea sonably supposed to influence this class of wit nesses. But even with these strong temptations to commit perjury, the testimony of freedmen has been found valuable in the ascertainment of truth. With this experience before us, I think that the public good would be promoted by removing all re straints upon the competency of freedmen to testify in our courts. Their evidence, like that of all other witnesses, would be carefully weighed by the courts and juries and estimated at its proper value." In view of the completion of the survey of the Mississippi rapids by General Wilson, and the probable recommendation by biro, of the =art* COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat at this market to-day, and the demand being fair for all good qualities, the ex treme rates of last week were fully supported, and in a few instances exceeded. A liberal supply of barley, and for malting late prices wore maintained. Little doing in other articles. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s; old red aitto, (weighing 631 b), 58s to 63s ; new red ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), —s to —s; best malting barley (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 50s to 52s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 5214 46s to 48s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 36s to 40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 37s to 39s ; peas (maple), 3bs to 38s per qr. Flour, 44s Od per sack. NO T TINGHAM—SATURDAY. The show of wheat was tolerable, but the condition of the grain was by no means first-rate. Fine qualities of barley were in steady demand, at late prices. A moderate show of oats, for which there was a healthy demand, at last week's prices. Beans a dull sale, at rather less money than heretofore. Old white wheat, 70s to 74s ; old red, 62s to 68s ; new white, 66s to 736; new red, 58s to 63s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 365; new, 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 56s to 60a ; new, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 46s to 48s per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. We had a tolerable show of wheat, there being a sprinkling of white and red descriptions. Out-door work is going on favourably in this locality. Business was healthy, and prices advanced is per qr. Except for best sorts of barley prices were a shade easier. Oats in steady demand. A fair supply of beans, the demand for which was inactive. New white wheat, 68s to 70s ; new red, GOs to 68s ; old , white, 76s to 76s ; old red, 66s to 70s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 42s to 50s per qr.; grinding, 32s to 345 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 31s to 35s ; new, 28s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 56s to 60s ; new, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 48s ; seconds, 46s to 46s per 20 stone. YORK-SATURDAY. There was a seasonable show of wheat to-day, but yell few old sorts were exhibited. Samples were taken off at rather over last week's currencies. Not much alteration in selected lots of barley. The inquiry for oats was slow, at late prices. New white wheat, 58s to 64s ; new red, 50s to 58s per 3 6 stone. Barley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grinding , 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, new, 48s to 52s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to 70s. Flour, 45s to 47s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. kustralia and New Zealand, via Sonthampton Deo. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 1 3 . Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Jan. 4 Ditto, by Frenob packet cape of Good Elope, Asoension, and St. Helena Deo. A- Uhina. Penang. and Singapore, via SouLhampton Deo 20. Ditto, via 9farseilles leaikland Islands (iibraltar, via Southampton Deo. 14 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southanipton_ Del 2J Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Dec. 20 Ditto, via .11arseilles Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 2/ Ditto, via Hanelilea Dec. 23. Waurithus, via Southampton Ditto, via Maraeiliel„. Jan. '9. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. United btates an ,1 British North America, by Bri tish packet. Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork . •• Ditto, oy Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Dec. 1 . Teat Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritfe Jan. 3 Test Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) tialiamc.J, via New York .Dce. 29 .Jan 1'• Cuba ald Mexico Bermuda, via Halifax..... ..... .... Dec. 29 . . UNITED STATES POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. Mails for the United States aro made up in London every Saturday evening, Wednesday morning, and Wednesday evening. Letters for the Saturday and Wednesday evening mails must reach the General Post-office by 6 o'clock p.m., and those of the Wednesday morning mails by 6 o'clock a.m. that day. Newspapers must always be post half an hour earlier. The Wednesday and Saturday S mails are taken up at Queenstown, on the following day,by the Liverpool steamers. Th e W e d nes d a y morning mails are taken by the Southampton steamers. Mails from the United States are due in London on Mondays and Thursdays of each week. Periodical works not of daily publication, issued in the shape of pamphlets, may be sent to the United States! California, and Oregon, by packet, at the following rtes —Not exceeding 2 oz., •Ila • above 2oz but not exceed in g 3 oz., 6d.; above 3 oz., but not exceeding 4 oz., Bd. ; with an addition of 2d. for every additional ounce up to 1 t ounces, above which the privilege does no t extend. • A „, the same rate of postage, any pa m phl e t no t we ighing rillo r ", than 8 oz (even th oug h it b e no t a per i o di ca l p u blication) *lay be sent to the United States, California, and Oregon' This postage is only the British portion, a further su ns s being charged on delivery. The periodical or pamphlets must always be sent in a cover open at the ends (not more than one being sent in a single cover), and the postage must be prepaid. Other printed papers , c) ; books (except those specified above), addressed to t"`" places above named, are liable to letter rate of postage' There must be no writing, or other marks upon such periodical works, pamphlets, &e., or upon the covers, ea cept the names and addresses of the persons to whom they are sent; nor up on th e covers mus t th ere b e any printing , except the names and addresses of the persons to 1 0 - °2 they are sent and the names a n d addresses of the send ers Any other writing, &c.,c., will render the packetsliable to letter rates of postage. INCLEDWS FAREWELL.—Mr. Donaldson, are: tired famous Southampton comedian, nearly 80 years 0 1 "/ has just published his recollections of the stage. He state s that Incledon, the celebrated singer, made his debiit on the stage at Southampton in 1784, and took leave of the stage in the same town in 1821. The following was his farev (e ' t address :—" Ladies and Gentleman,—l return my 111 , ° . 5 ; grateful thanks for this last mark of your esteem. 5 :"'", glorious assemblage will be dear to my heart as long as life remains. This is the ground from which I made din start 40 years ago, and the fostering smiles and cheeri v S plaudits of this refined and elegant town proved a passP°r t to the metropolis of my native country. In the proud ca pital I was hailed with enthusiasm, and the sovereign Pr ° : flounced me the British national singer. Every one pre so ," may not know what a national singer means. A national siuger is one that can sing in every nation. 1 retire Win public life with the consolation to my feelings that I ri e ' ver neglected my duty to my parents. During my long 0 030 r ~ I have reared and educated a large family that are a bless ing to me. In this arduous task I have been assisted by darling wives—l have had three ; the first was the sante‘. Jane; the second the angel Mary; and the third—still 1111 ing—is the divine Martha. Now, ladies and gentle:n.l the time has arrived to bid you farewell. Painful as it is, am grieved to say it ; but I pronounce the word—wis bli: l: you and yours health, prosperity, and many happy c 1315 farewell. Births. BRACE— On the 21st inst., at Down End, Fareham, th e , vilo of Francis E. Brace, Esq., of Catisfield, of a daughLec,, I.4iwuss—On the 21st inst., at Leatherhead, Mrs . fie'. sins, of a son. mirgh liEnn —On the 21st inst., at Sunlaws House shire, the wife of Wm. Scott Kerr, Esq., of ,Chatto, son. WICKS—On the 21st inst., the wife of Spencer Wicit°l Eastdown Park, Lewisham, of a son and heir. Marriages. a Nt' MORLEY—inst., WILKINS—On the 20th at All Saint s' tingham, Joseph John, eldest son of Thoms -N ° lil ' : Esq., of A, shbourne, to Emma Francis, only chi ld Wilk, Esq., Nottingham. M AClht insFapel, ACT CharlesL S- 1 0 , n . M th ar e tin 2 , 2d inst at Wres traills e te :t daughter of T. K. Fauns, Esq.o sq l •' London. loEllen, Y°11"- Deaths. rgli , ARNOTT—On the 21st inst., at 5, Wemyss-place, Etti e " :ll James Arnott, Evq., of Leithfield, Kincardineshire. Ili EAGLES—On the 20th inst.. at Walton-terrace , A Y l°sl3u Woodfield T. D. Eagles, Esq., aged 55. -ct 001 , ELMSLEY—On the 20th list., at Derby, W I)illiam ..' u f the Esq., Q.C., of Derby Hall, near Matlock, Ju d g e • Derby County Court, aged 69. • iN Htwr—On the 20th inst. sla ter Florence, Fanny, the w William 11. Hunt. c u t ter, SLATER —On • the 20th inst., at Croydon, Aliss Jr-4. aged 81. Cheshire, SUDDEN—On the 20th inst., Stapeley House, A j ds, the Hon. 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