The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-23 00:00:00

IRELAND. DUBLIN, Saturday. There is an end to the disgraceful conflicts in St. Bride's Church. The incumbent, after stating in a published letter a few days ago that he would never submit to " foreign coercion" by changing the forms of worship he had adopted, has thought better of it, and yielded every point in dispute. In a letter which appears to-day in the morning papers the churchwardens state that they have received an intimation from the medical attendant of the Rev. Mr. Carroll, informing them of his serious indispo sition (at which they say they are " not at all sur prised"), rendering him quite unable to officiate ; and, at his request, they inform the parishioners that the church will be closed to-morrow. They add, " with extreme pleasure," that Mr. Carroll has " most cordially and affectionately acceded to their wishes in every respect, thereby restoring perfect peace and harmony in their ancient parish." The estates of The O'Donoglme in the counties of Cork and Kerry were put up for sale yesterday in the Landed Estates Court. He was himself the Petitioner, and his object was to discharge his debts, which are said to amount to about £12,000. Five lots were sold, producing £7,315. The sale of the sixth lot was postponed on the application of Mr. y. B. Dillon, in order that it might be purchased for the owner. Saunders's Newsletter, a Conserva tive journal, makes the following remarks uponthis sale : "We regret to see the small remnant of the large posses sions once ownedby The O'Donoghnes of the Glens passing out of the hands of their descendant. Whatever may be thought of the politics of the O'Donoghue, it cannot be denied that he is a gentleman and a man of ability, and latterly ho has shown a disposition to abandon those ex treme opinions with which he entered on public life, which justifies the hope that he may have a useful Parliamentary career before him. The generous effort of The O'Donoghne's tenantry to raise a fund sufficient to purchase his estatesfor Lim appears to have proved a f a ilure." A great novelty has just been introduced by one of our leading Dublin hospitals. The managers of St. Vincent Hospital, Stephen's-green, have pur chased the splendid residence known as Lyndon Castle, Blackrock, for the purpose of converting it into a sanatorium to which they will send the conva lescent patients to enjoy the benefit of country air, seabathing, &c., previous to returning to their homes. This is the first sanatorium ever established in Ireland. The example is well worthy of imita tion, for there are other hospitals in Dublin which, from there less favourable situation as to pure air, require such an appendage much more than St. Vincent de Paul's. An important will case was commenced in the Probate Court to-day. It is a suit to establish the will of the late Miss Margaret Ellen Murphy, daughter of the celebrated Smithfield salesmaster, " Billy" Murphy, who died in 1849, and left £102,700 in legacies. The will of Miss Murphy is disputed on the alleged ground of undue influence used by the plaintiffs and the Rev. Eustace Murphy, a Domini can, who was her spiritual rector, and had been the intimate friend of her father. Mr. Brewster, Q.ij., stated the case at considerable length. It will be re sumed on Monday, and will probably last all the week. Sunday Evening. A man named Dowling and a soldier named Mar were fired at in a publichouse in Bonham-street last night and severely wounded. Four men were arrested. It is supposed to be connected with Fenianism. A disturbance took place in Grangegorman Church at noon service to-day. Seven persons were ar rested. Miscellaneous American News. TEXAS.—The State of Texas is omitted from the benefits of President Johnson's proclamation, for the rea§on, we suppose, that its new State Govern ment is not yet organised. Its constitutional con vention hai but just completed its work ; the election of State officers, the assembling of the Legislature, and the passage of the laws necessary to restore the State to harmonious relations with the Federal Government, are yet to take place. As soon as this work is completed, and the President has due official notice thereof, a separate procla mation will be issued declaring the rebellion ended in that State.—New York World. NEGRO KILLED BY GEN. FORREST IN SELF-DE FENCE.—A letter from Sunflower county, Miss., says :—A negro employed on General Forrest's plantation, while assaulting his (negro's) sick wife yesterday, was remonstrated with by Forrest, when the negro drew a knife and attempted to kill For rest, who, after receiving a wound in the hand, seized an ax and killed the negro. Forrest gave himself up to the sheriff. The negroes on the plan tation justify the killing. Imperialist accounts give highly-coloured details of the efforts making to open the roads from Mata moros into the interior of Mexico—a campaign forced on Maximilian by the clamours of the Mata moras merchants. The several columns, which moved simultaneously, as previously announced; had reached their destinations. General Jeaninegros had reached Monterey, and General Douay held Saltillo, while Dupin was in possession of Victoria. Only General Jeaninegras had encountered any forces of the Liberals. These he had driven from his route, and reached Monterey without loss. 13ut practically these marches had done no good, the Liberals returning to them in force as soon as the Imperial columns had passed, and so obstructing the roads as to render transit into the interior im possible; they had made their reappearance near Matamoras. The Matamoras merchants had given up all hope of re-opening trade with the interior. THE UNITED STATES IMPORTATIONS.—The report of the revenue commissioner on the subject of im portations is published. It gives statistics showing that five times as many packages of goods were imported into New York in the first six weeks of 1866 as in the same period of 1865. The imports of January and February were over thirty-two and a half minions. To prevent a panic the commis sioner r ecommends the passage by Congress of a resolution increasing the duties on imports fifty per cent. for ninety days, with the single exception of printing paper, unsized, used for books and news papers exclusively. - THE PARIS EXIIIBITION.—The Senate Committee on Foreign United St a t es Affairs nave Aff in structed their chairman to report the house bill providing for an appropriation of money to defray the expenses of proper re p resentation of this Go vernment at the Paris Exposition. The committee have made several important changes in the bill. They have increased the appropriation from one hundred to one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. They have added to the ten commissioners twenty more, who are to be a pp ointed by the President and be allowed no wh are t o com pensation, M ""NTLE MOVE N LOUISVILLE.—The mer chants of Lcuistville are looking to the improve ment of their cotton market. They propose to se ll giving the seller manner of tobacco, by auction, t heP;i t v io ile t ,ce of accepting or reject ing the bid at his o means, to secure a largen" They think, by this d an share of the trade that fol lows cotton to St. Louis Cincinnati, by making that the co u nty. good a market f or the staple as any other in papers are f The North Carolina of statements going to show that plantations inutlhi section are being rapidly bought up by Northernearst man recently purchased 1,200 acres in c l'V onl A d e j B e b rs or e o y- , N. C., at $ll per acre. A New York emigrants. on the point of taking 10,000 acres in tPhaen same Y are State, on which they will settle English allusion to mininc, LATEST FROA COLORADO.—The Central City Register makes the following operations : —The second piece of bullion taken off at the smelting works of James E. Lyon, weighs 1,860 ounces, twenty seven per cent. gold, worth $12,000 ; and that the average production of the Mammoth Mill—per week—for the last four weeks has been 300 ounces, something over $5,000. We might add that the Ophir Company is getting out since the Ist of January about. 500 ounces a month, the Narragansett Company is averaging about 600 ounces a month ; that the Gunnell Company is averaging about 600 ounces a month; that the Black Hawk Company will do as well and better than that, it now having sixty stamps ; that the Philadelphia and Colorado Company will soon add another to this list ; that the Boston ompany's Mill is again started ; that the Smith and Parmelee Company is mining with great energy, and auly stopped its mill for something mare perfect in the way of treating ores ; that the Briggs Company i s running sixty stamps, and it never did run without paying largely, &c. Our production will. average, during the season, perhaps 3,000 ounces a week— at the rate of $3,000,000 a year. Added to this will be hundreds of tons of concentrated ore from the tailings, at every mill, which ought to be worth an average of 4050 a ton. This can be treated by the Keith process or smelted. 1866 will be the most prosperous year in the mines since 1863. That much seems now assured. General Houston's widow is to be paid the full salary of her husband's term as Governor, of which she was despoiled by his death in 1861 by the Se cession Convention. The mines on the Colorado river are reported as very rich, and the ore is accumulating faster than the trains could remove it. The rush to the Vermillion gold-fields of Min nesota is unabated. The latest news from Superior City states that by stage, sled, and dog-trains the gold-seekers arrive daily. Private trains come in by twos and threes, and a party of about a dozen arrived by the Lake Shore route, from the copper mining district of Ontonagon, their mode of con dog-trains a n d snow - s h oes . ve yance being The New Orleans Bee says that, " as to the pre sent disposition of freedmen to live up to their con tracts by reasonable good faith and persistency, in formation from the interior of the State and from some other States is of a highly gratifying nature. Not less than one-half of the former number of agri cultural labourers in the South has been extin guished in five years or has been withdrawn from agriculture." Another destructive fire has visited the oil re gions. The Hyde and Egbert farm wells at Petro leum Centre took fire, and thirty-five wells were burned. The loss is estimated at twenty-five thou sand barrels of oil, and one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in property of various kinds. A very stringent quarantine has been established by the Government at New Orleans as a preventive measure against the introduction of the Asiatic scourge. The New Orleans press is indignant at it, and declares this precautionary policy as alto gether un-called for, and seriously injurious to the people of that city. - The numbers of gypsies arriving as steerage passengers by the European steamers at American ports has for some time past been attracting obser vation. Already they are beginning to reunite themselves in their usual nomadic organisations, under their kings and queens, and to prowl about the country. In Massachusetts, between East Cambridge and Somerville, a band of about a hundred of them have temporarily located them selves, stealing and dealing in horseflesh and telling fortunes. Their queen travels about in a handsome vehicle, which, like Napoleon the First's travelling equipage, is provided with eating and sleeping accommodations. Ex-Senator Yulee, late a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, has been par3led by order of the War Department, with instructions to report monthly to the Adju tant-General. The working men of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City recently assembled, to the number of about 75,000, in Union-square, in mass meeting, and were addressed by Horace Greeley and others, on the eight-hours' labour question. The resolutions declare that the interests of labour and capital are identical; that the working men should have eight hours for sleep,. eight hours for labour, and eight hours for recreation and mental culture ; that a fair trial of eight hours as a day's work has always been a triumph for the measure, and that the working men of New York hail with lively satisfaction the co-operative movement of the iron-moulders of Troy. CELEBRATION OF THE CAPTURE OF RICHMOND.— The freedmen of Richmond celebrated the first an niversary of their deliverance from bondage on April 9 d. A procession embracing several thousand men marched froth the western suburbs through the principal streets with banners and music to Capitol-square, where an address was delivered Good order prevailed during the day. Pierre Soule's mansion on Esplanade-street, New Orleans, for about two years occupied as a Freedmen's Orphan Asylum, has been restored to him by order of General Howard. The receipts of the Post-office Department during the guar ter ending September 30 were $3,516,551.39. The disbursements were $3,537,084.48. Loss, $20,427.59. Governor Lowe, of California, has vetoed the bill giving State aid to the Western Pacific Rail road. The Assembly sustained the veto by a vote of 60 to 6. Travel has lately increased on the Michigan Central Railroad to such an extent that four pas senger trains now daily run between Chicago and Detroit. Galverston papers say that real estate has greatly advanced in that city. Tenements and lots are selling for more than three times what they cost ten years ago. Meanwhile trade is good, and the grain market is rapidly filling up by importations of corn by thousands of bushels from New Orleans. Seventy-five members of the Society of Friends from Randolph ccunty, North Carolina, have arrived at Washington, en route to Indiana, and assert that they were forced to leave their homes from the persecution of ex-soldiers of the Rebel army. They state that at least 150 more of their persuasion, bound for the West, will arrive in a few days. In the case of Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland, late in the rebel army, and who participated with Police Marshal Kane, at the commencement of the war, in the effort to repel the Northern troops, and who was recently held to bail in the United States District Court in this city to answer an indictment for treason, President Johnson has interposed, ordering his bail to be discharged, and the abandon ment of the case. Johnson (the rebel) claims ex emption under the terms of his parole. A Fort Kearney paper declares, on the highest authority, that Brigham Young proposes to pur chase two of the Sandwich Islands and emigrate thither with his flock. The Chicago Evening Journal, a Republican paper, -which supported the President's first veto, condemns the second, and expresses a wish that Congress will re-enact the Civil Rights Bill. A Tennesseean, formerly a wealthy slave and landowner, now a resident of Arkansas, has noti fied General Fiske of his intention to build school houses on his large plantations for the coloured people, and requests to be supplied with teachers by the Freedmen's Bureau. A proposition hairbeen made by agents of M milian to prominent politicians to g i ve th m ae a e x n i : tract to collect the revenue in Mexico for the term of five years, upon condition that they would pre ventanything in the Government from doingbehalf of Juarez or the Republic during that period. The percentage which they offer to give on the amount collected furnishes a wide margin for a lobby fund, to nse upon Congress to prevent action. " Stop pounding that mule," said General Sher man to a soldier, who was unmercifully beating the beast. The soldier, unacquainted with the General, told him to mind his own business. " I tell you again to stop. I am General Sherman." "That's played out," said the soldier. " Every man that comes along here with an old brown coat and stove pipe bat claims to be General Sherman." For once the General considered himself outflanked. INDIVIDUALITY IN WRITING— AUTOGRAPHS. — To those who are interested in the subjeCt of autographs a collection lying before us as we write would afford a pleasant study. At the head of the list are the ig a na t tures of Horace Greeley and William C. B e n appearance former is a perfect coun terpart of the of its writer. E ver y and . letter is misshapen in defiance of every known h rule of penman s hi p, and general effect is that each is trying to run awa e y ts fellows, re minding one of an army demoralised, Mr. Bryant, on the contrary, writes a singul ar l y neat and regu lar hand ; every letter is made with precision and each word is neatly rounded off. For regularity it is equalled only by those of Professor James Hadley, of Yale College, and George G. Hillard, of Boston. Donald G. Mitchell writes a queer hand, quite legible and very attractive by its uniqueness. The signatures of Bayard Taylor, Parke Godwin, General John A. Dix, Dr. Henry W. Bellows, and Theodore Tilton might pass for those of business men, so clear and bold are they. Henry W. Long fellow, Richard Grant White, T. B. Aldrich, James Parton, James D. Dana, John Savage, George Ticknor, " Barry Gray," and George Ban croft, write " back-handed," each preserving a cer tain individuality of his own ; thus, Longfellow inclines his letters on a greater angle than does White, and most all his marks are curvilinear, imparting a singular grace to his writing. A stranger looking at Professor Francis Bowen's autograph would not be surprised to learn that it was written by a student of political economy, so regular and uniform are the letters. William Roun seville Alger writes a tremulous hand, in marked contrast with the graceful yet bold chirography of John G. Whittier. Jacob Abbot's signature sug gests at once the idea that he had just " set a copy" for a pupil, while that of George William Curtis is as flowing and easy as his style of composition. Henry T. Tuckerman's chirography, too, is an apt rescript of the readiness with which he is supposed to compose. Oliver Wendell Holmes's autograph has no marked characteristic, and affords quite a contrast to that of James Russell Lowell (who writes his name J. R. Lowell, however), which would be almost illegible to a person unfamiliar with his name, if such an one can be found among his countrymen. And so we might run through the list if space would permit.—Round Table. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, Friday Evening, April 6. . . The price of gold during the past week has but slightly varied, fluctuating between 1271 and 128, and closing to day at 1271 to 1271. The Railway Share Market is higher under purchases, but there are no indications of increased speculations for advance. It is the general opinion that the present advance is to be attributed to the combinations of speculators, and that these shares will not be popular for investments until they have reached a much lower scale. Towards the close of the market there was an in creased demand for Eries, and 784. was freely paid. The last quotations were —New York Central, 921. to 92i ; Erie, 771; Hudson River, 1094 to 1091- ; Michigan South ern, 801.: to 81; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 79_} to 791 ; Rock Island, 1141 to 1144. . In Railway Bonds there was an increased business, at former quotations. Gold-bearing Government stocks are steady. Currency issues lower, Sales of 7-30's at 991 and of first series at 1001. Money is active at 6 per cent. on call, which is one per cent. higher than last werk, and a limited business has been done to-day at 7. There is increased caution mani fested by lenders. Prime commercial paper is more plen tiful, and saleable at 7 per cent. ; good names, 8 to 9 ; and ordinary, 10 to 15 per cent. Erie Railroad paper, 71. Yesterday considerable money loans were called in upon gold certificates, with a view to employ the money more profitably in the railway speculation now going forward on the Stock Exchange. This turn has contributed to the ease of gold certificates on the street for immediate delivery. The Exchange on London was 1061 per cent. yesterday for standard bills, and 105 to 1051 for merchant bills drawn against cotton, with the shipping documents attached. There continues to be a good selection of Southern Bank credits on the market at 106 to 1064 per cent. To-day Exchange was more active, at 106} to 1061 for prime bills at 60 days, with sales of document bills at less than 105. Gold can at these rates be imported at a profit. The Controller of the Currency denies the allegation that ho had written a letter to the Finance Committee of the Senate, proposing to add $100,000,000 to the authorised currency of the national banks. The business of the Sab-Treasury to-day was:—Re ceipts, $1,341,585 49- for Customs, $464,000; payments, $568,365 51—on account of loan, $20,000 ; balance, $83,032,006 32. Gold notes, $209,820. Freights are quiet. The engagements to Liverpool are 500 bales cotton per steamer at sd. ; to London 50 tuns oil cake on private terms. The New York weekly bank statement for -the week ending April 2 is as follows: Loans $237,356,099 Increase $2,855,581 Specie 11,930,392 Decrease 2,015,250 Circulation Deposits Legal Tenders.. 72,158,099 Increase 2,652,064 The firm of Beatty Brothers and Co., tea merchants, have suspended, with liabilities to the extent of $600,000. The failure is attributed to a member of the firm having issued bills to the extent of $250,000 upon forged docu ments. The suspension of James 11. Clapp and Co., bankers, in Boston, is announced. They had dipped too deep into petroleum. The-well known banking firm of Culver, Penn, and Co., of this city have suspended payment. The movement of dry goods at this port for the past week has been as follows : ENTERED FOR CONSUMPTION. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Wool Cotton Silk _ 367 369,491 Total., -4112 1,673,759 WITHDRAWALS , Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Wool Cotton Silk lOB 161,486 • - Total 1817 739,844 WAREHOUSED. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Manuf. of 2kgs. Value. Wool. 1283 $579,498 Flax Cotton Silk 254 297,680 Total 4849 1,245,222 The Customs' Receipts at the following ports for the week ending March 31 were :—New York, $2,451,920 ; Boston, $354,199; Philadelphia, $168,301; Baltimore, $56,110. During the same month the receipts from this source from the above cities amounted to $13,428,818, of which sum nearly 90 per cent. was contributed by the port of New York. The following is a statement of the public debt on the first of April, 1866 : Debt bearing Coin Interest. $1,180,236,341 80 Total .... Debt bearing Currency Interest. Total 1,186,207,011 36 Matured debt not presented for payment 930,679 64 Debt bearing no Interest. Total Total debt_ _ 460,419,864 02 2,827.793,896 82 Amount in Treasury. __ _ Coin , Currency 62,069,700 80 60,077,680 01 Total Amt. of debt, less in cash, in Treasury 2,705,646,515 01 SALES AT THE STOC U.S. 6s, 1861, rg.2,000 114 U.S. 6s, 1881, cp., 10,000 . 33,000 U.S. 6s, 5-20 c., 1862, 9,000 lO4 U.S. 6s, 5-20 c., 1864 1,000 U.S. ss, 10-40 cou , 1,500 Treasury 7 3-10 s, X EXCHANGE—ApriI 6. IN. Carolina 6s, 2,000 B4i American Gold. 10,000. s6O N.Y. Central. 200 Erie. 4,200 741 1,000 741 900....510 74f 25 75 100. 2d call 741 300 100... b 10 100... b 10 Erie preferred. _ 40 ' BO Panama. 23 251 Illinois Central. 100... b 10 Ist series: 2,500 lOO/ 2d series, 50,000 3d series. 2,000 998 10,000 5,000 998 Virginia Gs, 7,000 6B GRAlN.—There has been more doing in wheat to-day, and the market is firmer ; the demand confined to millers only ; the sales are 3,400 bush. Old Milwaukee Club $1 66, 24,000 bush. Now Amber do. at $1 67 to $l7O, 1,200 bush. Amber State at $2 40, and 500 bush. White Canadian on private terms. Barley is firmer, but quiet; sales of 7,000 bush. Choice Canadian East, at $1 15. Barley malt is inactive but pricee are steady. Oats are in fair demand, " chiefly to the trade," and prices are better; sales of 60,000 bush. New Western at 41 to 48c. ; Old do., 55 to 58c. ; 61 to 62c. for State, and 53 to 55c. for Jersey and Southern. Rye is moderately active and firmer ; sales of 2,000 bush. at 82c. Corn is better but not active ; sales of 40,000 bush. at 74 to 75c. for Unsound, 76 to 78c., in state for Mixed Western, 73 to 79c. for do. delivered, 81c. for Jersey Yellow, and 82 to 85c. for Southern do. Hors are in good demand for home use, and prices are firm at from 20, 40, and 70c., as to growth and quality. FLoun AND MEAL.—The market for Western and State Flour is fairly active but irregular ; common grades are very dull and heavy ; good fresh ground State is firm and in demand ; but the Medium brands are quiet ; the sales aro 7,200 bbls. at $6 75 to $7 20 for Superfine State ; $7 20 to $7 60 for Extra State ; 57 TO to $8 15 for Fancy gtate ; 57 30 to $8 for the low g ra d es o f W as t ern E xtra ; 8 25 to $8 70 for shipping Ohio ; $8 80 to $ll 85 for Trade and Family brands, and 511 75 to $l6 for St. Louis Extras. COTTON.—The market has been somewhat unsettled to day, but closes about steady at yesterday's figures ; the demand is fair, and still chiefly from shippers; sales of 3,450 bales, at 38 to 390. for Middlings. CANDLES are in moderate demand and steady at 22 to 23c. for Adamantine, 40c. for Sperm, 50c. for Patent. COPPER.—American Ingot is dull and heavy at 294 to 291 c. for Lake and Baltimore, and 47c. and 37c. for Now Sheathing awl Yalow Metul. COFFEE.—There has been a moderate business doing, without change to note in prices; the demand for Rios is only for prime grades ; sales of 599 bags Rio ex Hayden at 15c., gold, and 250 bags St. Domingo at 121 c., gold, both in bond. At Philadelphia, 1,800 bags Rio ex Anna Wellington, at 15c., and Baltiniore, 3,000 bags ex Amazon at 15 to 15}c., gold, in bond. SEEDS—The inquiry for clover seed is moderate, and the market is heavy; sales of 40 bags at 8} to 10c., and small lots choice at 11c. Timothy seed is in fair request and firm ; sales of 200 bags at $4 to $4O 50 per bush. Rough flax seed is In limited demand and heavy, at $2 50 to $2 60 per bush. Petroleum is dull, but prices are without change ; sales at 25/c. for crude, and 41c. for refined in bond. Exports in Petroleum from the United States from January 1 to March 24: 1866. 1865. From New York galls. 7,026,816 1,776,760 Boston Philadelphia 3,752,257 247,629 Baltimore 356,481 157,943 Portland New Bedford Cleveland Total Export from the 11. 5tate5...11,413,433 2,433,895 Same time 1864 5,595,311 Same time 1863 9,324,903 PHILADELPHIA, April 6—Petroleum dull and drooping ; sales of crude at 24 to 241 c. ; refined, in bond, 40c ; refined free, 58 to 60c. Flour steady and unchanged. Prime wheat at $2 38 to $2 40. Corn active; sales 8,000 bush: Yellow at 75c. Oats firm; sales of 6,000 bush. at 50 to 52c. ; 1,000 bush. Canada Barley at $1 32. Whisky dull. CHICAGO, April 6—Flour steady. Wheat firm at $1 27 to sl27k, and 86 to 93c. for No. 2. Corn firm, at 45i to 46c. for fresh No. 1; 41 to 42c. for No. 2. Oats quiet, at 26-} to 27c. for No. 1. Provisions dull. Mess Pork, $25 25 to $25 50. Lard, 171- to 18c. Live hogs, $9 25 to $9 50. Receipts-5,500 bbls. Flour, 3,500 bush. Wheat 14,560 bush. Corn, 5,500 bush. Oats, Shipments-8,000 bbls. Flour, 22,000 bush. Wheat, 2,500 bush. Corn and oats, 700, bush. (From Messrs. E. F. Salterthwaite 4' Co.'s Weekly Circular.) Per the Australian we have our usual advices from New York, they are to the 3d instant," and report a good market for all Government securities, especially for the cuureney or 7.30 Bonds, which wore last done at about 1 per cent. premium. In Railroad Shares there had been an active business, Erie, as usual, commanding the chief attention on large sales by a well-known operator; they were at one time forced down to 72, a fall of quite 10 per cent. since previous advices ; but from this extreme quotation there was a reaction, and they closed at about 741. In other Stocks, Michigan Southern and Rock Island were most largely dealt in, the former on the weak showing an ad vance of $6 ; the transaction 3 in the latter were stimulated by a rumour of a probable extra cash dividend at an early date. Money was easy at 5 per cent., and gold steady. Vid Greencastle, we have received the following quota tions, being to the 7th inst. :—United States 5.20'5, 104 ; Illinois Centrals, 116 ; Erie, Common, 79 ; Gold, 1271. The Great Western of Canada traffic is, for week ending March 30, 1866, £13,176 2s. ld. sterling, on 345 miles, or £3B 3s. 10d. per mile per week ; March 31, 1865, £10,738 6s. 6d. sterling, on 345 miles, or £3l 2s. 6d. per mile per week. The Grand Trunk of Canada traffic is, for the week end ing March 24, 1866, £25,505 sterling, on 1,377 miles, or £lB 10s. sd. per mile per week; March 25, 1865, £26,310 sterling, on 1,377 miles, or £l9 2s. ld. per mile per week ; March 31, 1866, £23,703 sterling, on 1,377 mile; or £l7 4s. 4d. per mile per week ; April 1, 1865, £28,702 sterling, on 1,335 miles, or £2O 16s. 11d. per mile per week. The Detroit and Milwaukee traffic is, for the week end ing March 30, 1866, £6,617 Os. 6d. sterling, on 189 miles, or £35 Os. 2d. per mile per week ; March 31, 1865, £5,911 4s. 7d. sterling, on 189 miles, or £3l ss. 6d. ppr mile per week. For the bonds of the Southern States there have been numerous inquiries, but the amount held here, with the exception of Virginia Sixes, is so small that few transac tions are recorded. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON DOWNING -STREET DICTATORSHIP.—It has been said that one of the most remarkable social and political phenomena of the day is the concurrence of a claim for personal liberty with a superior claim for a strong govern ment. And this, it is added, is what has happened once before in the world's history, in the rise of the Imperial power in Rome. Historical events seldom, perhaps never, exactly reproduce themselves ; but there is sufficient analogy in the two cases to give them something more than a superficial resem blance. In the two leading countries of the Old Continent and the New World, in France and the United States, much the same political ten dencies are observable. Universal suffrage, with a strong despotism tempering it, the treading out of a real personal liberty by a general system of what amounts to Government proscription of all intellect and discouragement of all thought in politics, reigns in France. In the United States, this fearful system and its consequences are repro duced by the party monopoly of State appoint. , ments, and all revenues oft political distinction are as completely closed to the higher American mind as on the Seine. In its lowest form the same ten dency has taken root among ourselves, in our esti mate of our municipal government. We want to be governed, and we want to retain the form of self-government, but we decline to take the trouble which self-government involves. So the timid and idle whimper for a Haussmann, or scream for a • dictator-dile. We are all ready, though we care not to say so, or we are all thought to be ready, for a Cmsar—a Caesar Augustus or a Caesar Napoleon or a Caesar Lincoln. It is only in such a state of things that a Bismark is possible, and can be, even for a time, a success. It may be that Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone have appreciated this state of Eu ropean political morals; but whether they have not over-estimated its force among ourselves is another matter. For it may be quite possible that, though we clamour for strong government in the face of Pancras Vestries and Metropolitan Boards of Works, we are not quite demoralised. It does not follow that because we cannot, or will not, manage our lighting and scavengering, we are yet disposed to abolish the House of Commons. Earl Russell seems to think that we are entirely ripe for a little high handed despotism of this sort. He and Mr. Glad stone are quite ready to do the gevernment of the country in a free, noble, and high-spirited imperial manner. We are not fit to be trusted, and the pre sent Ministers will relieve us from all anxiety. As things are, Providence and all human things com bining to make the present Cabinet the only possi ble Cabinet, it follows that the present Cabinet must have its own way. A pure Whig Ministry, or rather a Russell Ministry,being of the nature of a political Fate, why it is folly to kick against Fate. And this because Fate has it all in its own hands ; if Fate were to be cashiered, and the Titans were to de throne Zeus, then chaos would come. This is pre cisely the Premier's argument to his followers, who, we are told, receive his oracles with tremendous enthusiasm. He did not condescend to justify his policy ; he simply announced it. The Franchise Bill might be incomplete, unintelligible, illogical without a measure of redistribution ; but it was the Premier's intention to persevere with it in practical independence of its necessary context, and this was the oracle's voice. If the supporters of the Govern ment, if the House of Commons, if the country did not accept this decision of the Destinies, let them take the consequences. It was not a matter to be argued ; it had been decided. There is something in this noble insolence which is sure to tell. One cannot help having a sort of sneaking admiration of a Bismark, when he ruffles and hectors in a superb way. And one admires him the more, in the clas sical sense of admiration, so long as he succeeds. In Earl Russell's case it remains to be seen whether success will justify his swelling pretensions. He bids high for success ; but if he fails, he fails irre trievably. All that will be left for him and for Mr. Gladstone will be to take to the demagogue line in a more vulgar fashion. And we must do him the justice to say that Earl Russell will make a very poor Tribune of the people. Septuagenarian powers are not the stuff out of which an O'Connell, or a Feargus O'Connor, or even a Mirabeau are made. The present Premier will not be in his place at the head of a Birmingham Union to demand a £7 franchise from Lord De r by installed in Downing street. And yet this, or a little short of this, is what must have been present to his mind when he delivered his recent address to his followers. He must either have meant this by his domineering language, or he must have talked big from very emptiness of counsel. As a matter of fact, we are convinced that the Government arO only blitstering because there is nothing left but to bluster. They are committed to a certain line, and they think that their only safety lies in adopting the most haughty . deportment. Being a necessity to the country, it is superfluous to consult anybody but themselves. A Cabinet, especially a Whig Cabinet, is empowered by Providence to rule, and the act of ruling must be now and then imperious. They are forced by political exigencies to dictate, and they accept the burden of dictating. It is sometimes necessary, under the stern obligation of puttingdown an enemy, to snub a friend. And if your friend and constant supporter, your natural ally and client, your trusted and valued dependant, your consistent con fidant, has the temerity to doubt your prudence, or to question the propriety of your policy, why then, painful as it is, he must be denounced as an accomplice in a dirty conspiracy, and set down as a traitor, a renegade, a n d a postate. Thisis Earl Russell's attitude to Lord Grozxcuor. Although this is the treatment wliich Earl Russell thinks, as a matter of domestic discipline, necessary for his family of Whigs, we might perhaps have reckoned upon a different and more courteous bearing to the House of Commons. It is one thing to whip all the children and send them to bed by a bold indiscri minate act of terror another to defy the whole parish. But the Cabinet is equal now to this emergency. To be sure, they have managed to combine irresolution with insolence; they have yielded over and over again to pressure and re monstrances ; but in the act of yielding they have contrived to be even more offensive than before. A resolution on the part of at least some influen tial Whigs was announced, to the effect that the Franchise Bill ought not to be proceeded with till the House of Commons was in possession of the Government Bill for redistribution of seats. Yes ; by all means, if you wish it you shall have this Bill. You shall be in possession of it. It shall be before you ; it shall be laid upon the table ; you may read it, and learn it, and inwardly digest it. But you shall not ,have this Redistribution Bill till you have swallowed the Franchise Bill ; and as to the second bill, we cannot pledge ourselves as to the when and how of proceeding with it. This must depend upon circumstances ; upon the period of the session, and the condition of public business, or on the Premier's digestion, or on Mr. Gladstone's tem per, or on Mr. Bright's advice. " If am asked whether the Government pledges itself, immediately it has passed the Franchise Bill, to go on directly with the other bill, without considering the times and opportunities, I must answer that I certainly cannot pledge the Government to do so." Which answer on Earl Russell's part amounts to this :—The House of Commons has extorted from us a pledge to produce a Disfranchisement or Redisz tribution Bill. This promise I will keep, as far as the letter goes ; but, as far as its spirit goes, I reserve to myself free liberty to break. Next week, or next month, or next Session, or next Parliament perhaps, if all things go well, and if " other mea sures of great importance do "not stop the way," I will go on with this second bill. Of course I shall be alive to pass it. Of course there will be no European war ; of course there will be none of the thousand and one possible contingencies, foreign or domestic, which may interfere with my leisure, or which may put an end to me or to the present Parliament, and then I pledge myself to take it up and go through with it. This is Earl Russell's private language to his friends, as represented by Mr. Ayrton ; Mr. Gladstone repeats it, with even more superciliousness of manner and a more ela borate and studied discourtesy, in his public re ply to Mr. Marsh, who inquires, meekly enough, whether Government had made up its mind on the redistribution of seats, and when it would please the Government to announce its decision. It was not so very unreasonable a thing to ask the Government what it meant to do under certain circumstances; but knowing what Mr. Gladstone has of late become, few will be surprised to hear that Mr. Marsh's ongstion was met by the civil and polite answer— Wait till you hear • first take a plunge into the great un known, and then, but not till then, we will give you a solid ground for the leap you have taken upon com pulsion. We say that Mr. Marsh's question was not an unreasonable one. For it seemed to come to this. Supposing that the Government Franchise Bill is carried, and that we have to wait till another Session, not for the mere production of the second bill, but for serious and practical legislation upon it, the country will be actually without a Constitu tion for a twelvemonth. A vast horde of new con stituents will have the franchise, but no representa tive.; and an appreciable number of representatives will sit representing constituencies which will have ceased to exist. With all respect to the students and eulogists of Lord Somers, we must pronounce this to be a political interregnum unknown to the genius of the English Constitution, because revolt ing to common sense. Yet, just because it is im perious and tyrannical and insolent, because it treats the House of Commons as children are treated by an ignorant nursery governess, it is the policy which seems to suit the present Government. Pos sibly it may answer—that is to say, possibly the House of Commons may submit to be terrorised by a strong Government; but, if it does, the indepen dence of Parliament is a phrase in history. If, however, it does not answer, and if the Parliamen tary worm turns, we have seen the last of Earl Russell. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON MR. WHITESIDE'S ELOQUENCE.—There is always a certain respect attached to consistency, and even an obstinate man is often credited with force of character, when he displays a sullen immobility which nothing can shake. Mr. Whiteside is not obstinate, he can always give a sort of reason for his opinions; but he isimmobile. He has nailed his eolours long since to the mast of Conservatism, and will go down with the ship rather than surrender. His essentially oratorical temperament imparts a certain grace to his obsolete notions. To him they are all the better for being despised. Finding himself in a minority where there is a vast occasion for speeches, he has discovered it to be impossible to desert his friends. In Ireland he is a pillar, a monument, and one might say an organist, of the Establishment. The erudite institutes of young men who have periodical teas and improvement, those amiable guilds who submit to be practised on by lecturers, know him well in Dublin. There it was he first introduced St. Patrick to them in the character of a Protestant missioner. In the house he is taken as the trump card of the Opposition on Irish ques tions. His part is to vex the Government by cross questions, and by humorous eloquence. The Government can do no right— that is his text. His manner is national, almost to the stage degree. Gesture is his forte, and adjectives are his delight. He hammers a subject rhetorically, beating it out of shape and recognition, and suiting each word with the action of a Demosthenic, if not a harmonious, blacksmith. But his sense of fun injures the effect. The same fault is perceptible in his bar speeches. Juries are seldom off a broad grin while Mr. White side is addressing them ; junior counsel, with whom a little joke goes so far, twitter at the conclusion of every period; the judge is visibly expectant of good ones, but the attorney who engages the emi nent advocate not unfrequently looks more anxious than appreciative. Does Mr. Disraeli ever experience a sensation of this attorney kind ? Mr. Whiteside is a genuine professor of clever talk and sustained jocosity. Facts with him are to make either puns or antitheses from. He throws them up, and catches or drops them with the airy dexterity of a juggler. History serves him for points. He uses it seldom, but judiciously. The period of " No Popery, brass money, or wooden shoes " is that which he recurs to most frequently, and with most pleasure. Somewhat over clever for his latter-day admirers, with whom the Pope is Antichrist, too much of a gentleman to associate with the bigoted rowdies who call themselves Orangemen, Mr. Whiteside goes back to a time when things were as Protestant as now and far more pronounced. It never occurs to him to regard Protestantism in any other light than as an inexorable obstruction to the religious belief of his fellow-Christians. It loses vfeight, form, and colour in his eyes, when not aggravatingly dominant and irrationally grasping. He would sacrifice Luther to-morrow to save the Irish establishment. In that, he beholds the faith of the Reformation reduced to the perfection of practice. Numbers do not compose a Church, and if there are but few Protestants in Ireland compared to the Roman Catholics, remember what excellent Protestants they are, and worth any amount of the Papistical rubbish, who can only urge the accident of a majority in their favour. Wealth is the stan dard of ecclesiastical merit ; will you deprive the Irish Church of its endowments and its virtues at one stroke ? Again, bear in mind the Establishment is a garrison of the Government ; withdraw it, and Mr. Whiteside will not be answerable for the consequences ; that is, the Government can have loyalty as long as they pay for it, but some thing else when the supplies are stopped, per haps Fenianism, perhaps Ninety-eightism. We feel assured the co-religionists of Mr. Whiteside in Ireland must entertain sentiments of profound gra titude to the honourable gentleman for this exposi tion of their ideas. We used to think that our faith and love for the throne were not subsisting upon either grants cr taxes, and we were under the im pression that similar views were entertained at the other side of the water. Mr. Whiteside holds other wise, and he speaks with authority. He was more archaeological than logical the other night. It is a bad sign of a case to see a lawyer hunting for mummy precedents. As an antiquarian recreation, an essay upon the connection of the Round Towers with the institution say of grand lodges, would be more or less interesting for a gospel tea-party, but lucubrations of a similar kind are not popular at Westminster. Indeed, it is rather painful than otherwise to hear a gentleman compromising his faith by ascribing its origin to a speculative, and, to speak plainly, an absurd source. We do not re quire a Chinese length of prescription for our belief because it suits a special pleading of Mr. White side's, nor does our Church abide by his fallacy ; if his argument falls, it falls alone. We strongly sus pect his position in this respect is quite untenable, and can be refuted by direct evidence. B ut Mr. Whiteside is essentially a barrister; he holds a brief and will state from it, leaving the other side to make their own case. This tells btter at Nisi Prius than in Parliament. Mr. Whiteside is splendid at Nisi Prim. He is never absent from a heavy " breach of promise." His cajolery, shrewdness, and pathos, enlisted either for injured plaintiffs or decoyed de fendants, charm every one who listens to him, occa sionally with the exception, however, of the per sona,ge to whom we before alluded. Against rail way companies, going for damages, he is irresistible. We remember his brilliant exertions for Mrs. Yel verton. How the Irish papers described the tear compelling passages, the gusts, the breaks, the throes, and the flashes, and all the rest of it, which excited the Dublin populace to make horses of themselves and prance through the streets with the carriage of the much-injured lady who is now rendering " Excelsior" to admiring audiences. We can more easily recollect the ora tion upon Stephens. The humour of that was ex tremely titillating. Everybody enjoyed it; and there was just Mr. Whiteside's mistake. A debater should avoid making an opponent enjoy him : one never fears a man one laughs at. Mr. Whiteside is to no small extent the victim of his own wit. He is possessed by it, quite as he possesses it. In every epithet there lurks a smile ; when you read a line you notice the gap in the meaning left to be filled up by a shrug, a grimace, a frown, lightly severe of engagingly satiric ; here the hand was clenched, there the action required a stoop forward, at the end of a sentence you miss the real bang which fittingly closed the paragraph. We should not be understood as deprecating all this ; it is very good in its way. Mr. Carlyle is far too severe about wind and tongue ; a little wind and tongue is an agreeable change. Orators are few, and Mr. White side is an orator if there is truth in elocution books. He never wants a word or gesture to suit it. He has a fine voice, an impassioned delivery, an at tractive presence, and a certain honest assurance which is not to be confounded with impudence. He never forgets he is a gentleman, and there is an air of the old school which he bears gallantly and natu rally about all his performances. You perceive at once that you are listening to an accomplished speaker, who revels in his art, and sacrifices to it everything but a consciousness of that thorough re spectability which he has always maintained. Per haps there never was a man of such extreme views less unpopular, even with those who are diametri cally opposed to him, than Mr. Whiteside. From the outset of his career he took a marked course, but he never was an unfair enemy. He manipu lates facts, he disinters cock-and-bull stories, he jumps to convenient conclusions, he astonisheA sen sible people by maintaining dead notions, which he galvanises for a moment into the semblance of life ; he hits right hard, but never a foul blow. When ever he is personal he is not malicious. He in dulges in a round of abuse to show his skill, but never to hurt seriously. Though his party has been so long out of office, he has kept his temper. Hence the lenient style in which the Irish papers reviewed his late speech. There is an amount of genuine worth in Mr. Whiteside which counterbalances the vagaries of his rhetoric, and the absurdity of his politics. He is the doughtiest champion that the Establishment can produce, and it is more fortunate in him than it probably would be in another. He at least will believe what he was always taught to believe, and what he will believe to the end with a chivalrous and a picturesque determination. He will be found at his post as faithful as the Pompeiian sentinel. As long as he can hold his ground he will never surrender. He is not haunted with a fear of Jesuits like Mr. Whalley, nor with any other fear but that of disendowment. His brisk and amusing opposition may be as mis chievous in a combat on this point as the sudden flight of a champagne cork ; but the weapons with which the battle - must be fought will assuredly be of another and a heavier kind. THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE LARGER ASPECTS OF THE REFORM DEBATE.—The speeches which seem to us to have gone deepest, we will not say into the minor ques tion of Earl Grosvenor's amendment, but into the ultimate objects and grander aims of the Reform movement, are, we do not hesitate to say, Sir BulwerLytton's, Mr. J. S. Mill's, and Mr. Hughes's—the last of which did not receive in the House all the attention which it will unquestionably receive in the country, but all of which seem to us to converge in tellectually on the same point, to prove the defectiveness of the Ministerial Bill in sound principle, though not all coming from the same side of the House, and two of them taking the view opposed to our own of the practical ques tion at issue. In principle it seems to us that these three speeches are absolutely unanimous, though party exigen cies have perverted two of the votes which will follow the speeches. When Mr. Hughes, on Thursday night, in sisted so forcibly on the "totally different world" which we have been allowing to grow up beside that middle-class society whose ideas we know—a world whose ideas, and, if we may so speak, laws, are so different from our own that Mr. Hughes could only echo Mr. Layard's confession of complete incapacity to represent it adequately in that House—he made out, as we think, a most forcible, a most unanswerable case, for a real and substantial representa tion of that class in the House of Commons. Nothing can be more dangerous, nothing more suicidal, than to recog nise the existence of such an unknown population, and yet to try to keep it, as some of our petty Conservatives and Conservative-Liberals wish, silent and dumb at our feet. Those who have retorted upon Mr. Hughes that he had made the most damaging of all admissions for the cause of which he was speaking, seem to us purblind and incapable of understanding history, if they mean, as some of them do mean, that he made out a case against a generous political measure of representation for that class in the House of Commons. But we quite agree that Mr. Hughes did make out a case— a case so strong that we claim him as the most powerful of all our witnesses against the theory of unlimited down ward extension of the franchise—adverse to the theory of the present bill Why, all his argument rested on the im portance, the overwhelming importance, of bringing these different worlds of thought into mutual communication and habitual reference to each other's ideas. But there are, as everybody who thinks for a moment must see, two equally adequate modes of absolutely preventing that re ciprocal influence—the one which we now adopt, and the one to which the Government Bill tends at no very remote period; the one of keeping the working classes out en masse and the one of lettin g th em i n en masse. Mr. Hughes is , of course, quite right in saying that this "cataract" of labour does not threaten the constituencies now. But it does threaten the constituencias at the next era of reform, if the principles of 1832 are to be sanctioned by the prin ciples of 1866. We are the blindest of all reformers if we legislate only for a generation, seeing as wo do how powerful, how omnipotent, we may say, is the prece dent adopted in the last generation on this subject, to dominate the actions of this. And therefore when Mr. Hughes tries to nullify the effect of his most able and tell ing speech, by confirming the irrelevant assertion of Mr. Forster, that the working classes also are divided amongst themselves into Conservative and Radical, we simply reply that that is nothing to the purpose. If the root-ideas which pervade the artisan world, the root-ideas of all politics, those affecting all the social and political philosophy of the day, are different from ours, then how all-important is it that we should provide, not only for the present but for the future, not only for the next 10 years but for the next 100 years—that Parliament should be a real meeting ground, field for genuine and earnest discussion, between the ideas generated in the atmosphere of labour, and the ideas gene rated amonst the far less united, the far less coherent middle class, by the influences of our perhaps somewhat too lei surely study and too "excessive solvency." And to do this it is clear that we must not only provide for admitting the excluded to the field of discussion, but for keeping the include d c l asses , permanently in that field— a notion alto gether lost sight of by the member for Lambeth, and of late months, though only of late months, also by the member for Westminster. The line taken by Sir B. Lytton in his very remarkable essay of yesterday week has the most important bearing on that of Mr. Hughes and Mr. John Stuart Mill. The most important idea by far of Sir Bulwer Lytton's speech was, that if we neglect the precau tions we have pointed out, and allow the House of Com mons to become sooner or later not a meeting ground of all the ideas fermenting in different portions of English so ciety, but the absolute estate of some one of them, then we shall have to provide other checks by which the exe cutive may be able, as in both France and America, to hold its own ground for a considerable time against the hasty and half-considered legislation which always emanates from the nominees of a single class. This is a very impor tant point ; and what is curious enough, it is fairly con ceded by some of the friends both of the French and the American form of democrocy that such supplementary guarantees are required by the theory which they advo cate. In a curiously dogmatic and superci lious leiter which we publish elsewhere from Professor Beesly, that gentle man explicitly advocates the French form of republicanism —the form of proletariat government, whose executive organ is a representative emperor—and recommends that for English imitation. lie says that the working men of London,with numbers of whom he is personally acquainted, are in theory republicans of the American democratic rather than of the French imperial type which he prefers, but in no degree whatever attached to our present consti tution. If so, we can only say that the sooner they are attached ,tie it by learning to wield a large part of its political power, the better. It is well, however, that they still prefer the American democracy to Imperial French republicanism, which is in no sense whatever a free government. Of all forms of poli tical aspiration, Professor Beesley's seems to us the most unmanly and the least possible for Englishmen. His polemic against us rests upon the transparent fallacy that the representation of classes Means balancing of hostile interests. On the contrary, we hold it to mean the only possible mode of convincing all classes of society that their interests are not hostile, but absolutely the same. It is by mutual exchange of thoughts that the commercial classes and the landed classes of this country have at length arrived at a tolerably cordial and complete mutual understanding, is place of the jealous mistrust and hatred which they felt for each other before the old Reform Bill. It is by a pre cisely similar process that wo look for the rise of a feeling of reciprocal respect and regard between the working class and the middle class. Therefore nothing can be more absurd than to speak of the principle of class representation as one which proposes to balance the interests of class against class. It is, on the other hand, one which proposes to combine the special powers, experience, and insights of each class with those of all others, and Mr. Beesly, in his affected denuciation of the theorists to whom he refers, only shows that he has either not read or not understood them. But he shows us also, what is more important, that those who reject the class theory do not shrink from the consequences of that rejection in the necessary .M 1•• degradation of Parliament into a body qu it e subservie nt to the Executive, instead of, as now, its virtu i ' ruler. Either on the American or on the French thee'"? of republicanism this consequence, u Sir Bulwer Lytton well said, is nearly certain to follow democratic reform ; and it is already perceived and accepted by many of its ad vocates. For ourselves, we believe that the ideal of true popular self-government is so much higher than that of government by a partially irresponsible executive, that W° would fight to the very last against any change which volves the deterioration of Parliament. And that deterio: ration must take place if you either refuse on the one ban d to admit a large and generous share in the deliberations of the country the greatest of all sections of the nation, provide on the other for the gradual exclusion from a 5 " stantial share in the national deliberations of all those, through contact, discussion, and it may be sometimes tem; porary collision with whom, we expect the working We to learn to adjust more accurately th e i r social and politica theories, and to find their true function in the English Con stitution. The French Academy. The installation of M. Prevost Paradol, eue . of the most faithful champions of reg enerated America, as a member of the French Aeadeteli the most celebrated seat of learning is the u i World, deserves more than a passing notice; France is ruled by mind —more, perhaps, tlla ct any other country—and whatever may be the ol e o of the temporary sway of despotism, it is sur e nt be sooner or later overthrown by the onluiV s te the influence of the noblest and greatest roinds . 2, c h country upon the other classes of the r e m people. The French Academy, although cradled i.JI dark era of priestcraft and one-man power, !l i e ; encrated gravitating like other learned corporations rat, toward the past than the future, yet risesin the P n . sent exigencies of mankind to a full coroPrehe sion of the adverse influence of the one-man P ° _„ vi r , upon the progresS of the race, and misses no °mac, tunity to display its opposition to the ma nuf v, turerof the French and Mexican coup (Petals• in be a member of this body is quite an honou r , a France and Europe generally, as it mus t r t he America to be a member of the C a binet, au' the death of one of its members is the signal a es, greatest commotion as to the election of his sli ce o f sur. The election of M. Prevost Paradol Was n ev , only a remarkable event, considering that his r ir y, literary claims were inferior to some of his TlT,i,er but also by the circumstance that he is still raL,l" a young man, while those who have heretofore bO7l admitted to the consecrated ground of the A eade have been generally men of more advanced ag;:4 probably upon the exploded theory that mere sg iaf e really, as it ought to be, a pledge of wisdom. on e Prevost Paradol was admitted because b e le o f of the foremost minds of France, and the W" his being a journalist and publicist presented te pt rejuvenated academy only additional guarantees the universality of its influence. the It is proper to mention that Mr. Bigelow/ American Minister in France (another journalist; by the way), was one of the first to congra t t e , M. Paradol on that occasion, thus offieial l Y et .. knowledging the eminent services which his Per o ful pen had rendered during the war to the e a ' a of the Union. Indeed M. Paradol, and ° aro others of the most enlightened men of Frone e . can among the most frequent visitors of the Ame ri tion Legation. On the occasion of the inate llil o et of M. Prevost Paradol, he alludes in the 112 01 0 eloquent manner to the United States, se 0 the glories of the new era in that country fin d weed a congenial echo in that illustrious body of leoi men, many of whose predecessors were the pa rs ,d and warm friends of Lafayette, Jefferooo, Franklin.—Anglo-American Times. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. 03 3 A fair supply of wheat at this corn market to-dg:o to being in improved condition, it met a ready sale 5 ,..%,1 6 i 5 is over the rates of this day week. The barley Paertos become quite a nominal one, the few samples 0 1 7 0 Dot r being taken on late terms. In oats, beans, and Pc'o, little doing. The weather is now good, with 'O genial showers, very favourable for vegetation. ditto White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to Ms ; old re c . o .Diag (weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; new red ditto r e !,%tog 601 b to 631 b), 42s to 47s ; bast malting barley W e % , 211)) , 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 305 10 34s to 36s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 5210 , ,,, 1 50 32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, Ks to 398 ; peas (ulaP -1. to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. NOT T IN GHAM—SATunDAV. de'he There was a tolerable supply of wheat to - dan ra te , ' mend for which was steady, at no advance on late t .lo', There was not much activity in the demand for b6fll:,;:t and sales were made at rather under the currencies °„aito week. Oats met a moderate sale, and prices were, cud as high as heietofore. Beans were in short 00 1)1 very dear. ves4 Old white wheat, 56s to 59s ; old red, 49s to 5 2 s ;00 white, 53s to 57s ; now red, 45s to 49s per 36 stone . g. old, 30s to 355; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. 13°411 " 50s to 53s ; new, 42s to per 47s 38s stone. LEIOESTER—SATURDAY. silo v i Of At to-day's corn market there was a moderate i,„ The best wheat, consisting of white and red sorts. For the a rise of is per qr. was generally ?lade. ° oa ses demand for barley was quiet, a n d p r i c es were in seln„ r iceS• difficult to support. Oats were firm, and at rece nt r Beans in fair demand. oidf New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red, 46s to 495 ;pa' white, 55s to 56s ; old red, 49 s to 52s per 36 stone. , 0 30 ley, for malting, 35 s t o 39 s per qr.; grinding, 270 ' r 0 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 33s ; new, 278 to 32 5 P e to o.. stone. Beans, old, 50s to 526 ; new, 44s to 46s per 385 YORK—SxrxrP.DIY. get icr We had a limited supply of wheat at our corn mar de, and the extreme prices of las t week wer e - rather ex day. day. There was a tolerable att endance, with a &el wa e d , There was a short supply of barley , trade slow, and ,P o ot less firm. There was a small supply of oats, NV hi C ' ,l'l.l o a fair demand, and late rates were easily h fo e r at ;3l 4 a 6 lt s in t g o , s2 3 B Bs ; m ade. ,00 show of beans was short, and prices were in favour 0' seller. 1 46 t n o ev7 4os r . ed pe 7 stone.lew white wheat, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 268 to 28s per 24 0 Beans, new, 44s to 48s per 40 7 ston. 4r4qsr.to; 4gBrsiallronse: of [ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual Mors.— he 6:x,0.0 young children and delicate persons of all ages n Zeth arrested, if; instead o f flying blindly to pills and Ine dw o in which, though apparently relieving the patient, " b oa , reality no other t en d enc y th an th a t o f increasing d , e , h oA and with it the dangor of life, we were simply to etiluroal, to increase the vital force by imparting new and Put ors ° upon which the harmonious development of the who': 10y$' depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barrf.„' d lls lids' and Infants' Food, the Revalenta Arabic". ''' o o3l l thousands of cures annually. It yields three times ag n d for easily assimilated nourishment as the best Inea . „ t ;: - children it is the best substitute for human IBIA";0 and Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for, liW a ;dosit . Children—the best authority on Much matters —metal OP able publication on Food, says—A mongs t the vegesioa stances, that which comes closest to milk in its esr li O d cOS:, is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revale n ta Arabic& F °° lde taming both phosphoric acid in a b un d a nce and chlor pig potassium ; it also includes casein, th e same princip le 11. 4 ,ers' is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, 'O9 fore, that under its influence many c hild ren affecte d atrophy (wasting away of the body), and markei l debitcfes have completely recovered. I have given it with the g r in 031 advantage in such cases ; and ss far as I may judge if teorl' own experience, practice fully carries out what t ta i from a knowledge of its composition, led us to antic i P 6 24l l /' In tins, 11b, 2s. 9d; 21b, 4s 63; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 22 j 3; „dO Ol 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, jj,,,v-•400 also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, Ki ng William-street ; 1 "; - at Of, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Chea side • 49, Bis 1101 ;ad street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street 33 0 ' Str.-96 54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court - r ol o o6 Upper-street s Islington, N. ; Harvey, Notting - bn i L n e, St' Brothers, 65, High-street ; an d St u bbs, Q u een ' s-tetr a d o he' John's-wood. London ; an d all respect a ble grocers °lid rsis .—Beware of spurious imitations. Births. Pi er EMERSON—On the 19th inst., the wife of Ambr os e son, Esq., of Willesden-lane, of a son. MINUTo—On the 20th inst., at Rio Cottage, - 0 0. Bromley, Kent, the wife of J. Minute, Esq., Of 3 6 do Pt PITT—On the 20th inst., at 46, Portland-place , 1 1100 W., the wife of Captain Thos. H. Pitt, Royal Ar of a daughter. PHILBY—On the 20th inst., at Chigwell, Essex, the - H. A. Philby, Esq., of -a daughter. Marriages. e TURNER—ENGLEHEART—On the 19th inst., at St• 1 Tunbridge-Wells, J. F. Turner, Esq., of Kell,si n baear" ng Esq., of B ill e m ec a h n, H d o ar ra gh T te u r n o b f r t i h dg e o l , a w te e LC . . D. YATES-lIAEs--On the ' 21st inst., St. Marks °Z e d Kensington, Francis Yates, Esq:otfurbiton, to ' l ,ce, Jane, eldesdaughter of H. Haes, Esq., of Montagul' Clapham-road. Deaths. ' FRYER —On the 20th inst., at 14, Chester-street, -1/ Fryer, of South Lytchett, Dorset, aged 64. , j. Jou:imp/it—On the 18th inst., at 8, Larkhan, 13&W ' Johnstone, M.D., late of Demerara. LorTs—On the 17th inst., at 19, Abbey-road, --• wood, Mr. R. P. B. Lofts, aged 35. f MARRLAND —On the 18th inst., at Handley, Dors e t] Ellern widow of Rear-Admiral J. D. .ILirldail" aged 83. •••••• - London: Printed and Purriebed by WILLIAIif r fo, 1-4 of No. 112, Strand, Ptinter, at Tin SUN °Mo e ' ott ia Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy ill the n Aliddieem—Monday, April_23, 1866. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1866. Epp,,,T.,, _____. T L i Dab' kbr a , 13 ( by 1 li.ho Dan, 4 46 13a4 Vt, 218, g t 1441 a