The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-06 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA. MANSION HOUSE BELIEF Yesterday the working committee held a meeting at the Mansion-house. Sir M. Wells reported that the sum of £5OO recently set apart from the fund, on the motion of the . Lord Mayor, to enable poor widows whose husbands had died of cholera, leaving children dependent upon them, to redeem little articles they had been compelled to pledge in their affliction and distress, 2-11 widows had been assisted with £2 each, and he believed, in every case, that sum would be found sufficient for the purpose. With respect to the orphans, the result of a meeting he had on Thursday with 11r. Tilson, representing the Bishop of London's ,committee, went to show that the two committees would have to assist in provid ing for 1,230 orphans in all, or 615 each, out of the £lO,OOO they had set apart for that purpose. In all cases these were children of parents who had never received parochial relief except in occasional in stances where the mother had been compelled to re sort to the parish in the dire distress brought upon the family by the visitation of cholera. He had been in frequent communication with the local commit ' tees on the subject, and had thus ascertained the exact number of children made orphans by the epi dernic in each district, and the circumstances of each family. That morning he had had an interview with Mr. Wigram and Mr. Currie, representing the local relief committee in the Poplar district, and from them he understood that a most satisfactory arrange ment was being made. There 153 children reduced to orphanage by cholera, exclusive altogether of the pauper class, had to be provided for, and in some cases where the Mansion-house committee were pre pared to spend £4O in respect of these orphans, the local committee would supplement that by £4O. (Hear, hear.) Altogether the local committee would supplement the Mansion-house grant for the sup port of these 153 orphans by £6OO out of their own pockets. (Hear.) Some of the children were going into the country, others were to be parcelled out among relatives, with an allowance to be spread over a given number of years, and dispensed by trustees. The scheme contained a little history of every family and child, and was admirable in every way. On Monday he should ask the committee to vote the money at once with respect to Poplar, and he hoped before another week elapsed they would have dis posed of the whole orphan question in respect to all the rest of the districts. The Lord Mayor said that question disposed of, they would then wind up their affairs. He added, amid expressions of approbation from the whole committee, that Sir Mordaunt Wells, in the labour and attention he had bestowed on the subject, had laid the committee, and especially the poor orphans, under perpetual obligations to him. The following is the official return of deaths in London from cholera and diarrhoea registered on Thursday, Oct. 4:— Cholera. Diarrhoea. 0 ... 2 3 ... 1 3 ... 4 9 ... 1 7 3 West districts ... North districts ... Central districts ... East districts ... South districts „. Total Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's screw frigate Leander, 39, 400 horse power, Capt. W. M. Dowell, C. 8., arrived at the Nore, from the Pacific, on Wednesday evening, and saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir B. W. Walker, K. C. 8., Commander-in-Chief. After transferring her powder and shells to the War De partment transports, she was yesterday ordered into the steam basin, where the work of stripping her and removing her stores into the dockyard will be carried on, and it is expected that the crew will be paid off on the 15th inst. The Leander has been in commission about three years and a half, having left England for the Pacific in the summer of 1863. A very successful trial was made yesterday on board the Mersey steam frigate, at Portsmouth, of Brank'g patent capstan pumps. The pumps are worked on the upper deck of the ship by a messenger chain from the capstan, running over the pitchwheel of the pump. The advantage of this arrangement over the old plan is that it enables the crew, in event of the ship being on fire below, to continue working the pumps without being driven away by the smoke when working them below and between decks, as was the case with the crew of her Majesty's late ship Bombay, on the loss of that vessel by fire off Buenos Ayres. The Dee steam transport, Staff-Commander Ray mond, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, from Wool wich, with machinery and stores. The Medea paddle-steamer, 835 tons, 350 horse power, has been taken in hand at Portsmouth for repairs and outfit as a steam transport for service between the home ports of a similar character to that now carried out by the Dee. The screw sloop Rosario, 11, 150 horse power, Commander L. H. Versturme, from theWestlndies, having been inspected by Vice-Admiral Sir B. W. Walker, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, has been placed in the steam basin, where she is being dis mantled preparatory to being put out of commis sion. She has returned her powder and ammunition into the Government stores at Chatham. The wooden screw corvette Orestes, 1,715 tons, which has been lying in dock at Portsmouth now for some months under survey, has at length had a number of hands placed upon her to break her up where she lies. A similar course will be followed with the corvette Harrier, 748 tons, lying in the adjoining dock. The Imperial Russian screw corvette Griden, Capt. Karnazewski, was taken into the Corporation dock at Portsmouth yesterday for repairs. The Griden is from Cronstadt, bound for the Pacific and the Amoor River, and sprung a leak since leaving the Baltic ; hence the necessity for docking her pre vious to quitting the Channel on so long a voyage. The Imperial Russian screw despatch vessel Gar naslay, Capt. Lutke, aide-de-camp to his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, which ar rived at the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, on Wednesday, is filling up with fuel and water preparatory to continuing her voyage. The UnitedStates'paddle steamer Frolic, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral L. M. Goldsborough, has returned to Cherbourg on the conclusion of the gal lant admiral's flying visit to Southampton and Portsmouth. The screw frigate Endymion, 21, 500 horsepower, Capt. C. Wake, was yesterday ordered to be placed in the steam basin at Sheerness dockyard, whereshe will complete fitting for sea. She is rapidly filling up her sea stores, and most of the officers appointed to her have alaeady joined and taken up their commis sions. A portion of her crew have been sent on board front the receiving ships at the ports, and her Royal Marines and Marine Artillery have joined from the Chatham and P or t smout h di v i s i ons. I consequence of the activity just now prevail ing at the Sheerness dockyard a number of tho sawyers from Chatham dockyard • are to be lent to that establishment. The Reindeer, 7,200 horse power, Mr. C. Wotton master in charge, has a number of shipwrights and other workmen employed on board, in dock at Chatham, effecting the necessary alterations to her decks and hatchways, to enable her to mount the heavy ordnance she is to carry on her spar deck, amidships, and in making good the injuries to her false keel sustained on the recent occasion of her getting aground. The Swallow, 9, 60 horse-power, screw sloop, lately employed on the surveying ser v i ce in China, was yesterday removed from the st eam basin , and placed in the third division of the steam reserve, in the Medway. Since put of commission she has been surveyed at the hands of the master shipwright's staff, to ascertain the nature of the repairs requir ing to be effected in her. The War Department steam store vessel Earl de Grey and Ripon, T. H. Moore master in command, laden with iron gun carriages, slides, &c., and shells, shot, and general war stores, hauled off yesterday from Woolwich Pier, in readiness to take her de parture this morning for Portsmouth. Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., proceeded to Puriteet in her Majesty's yacht Vivid, Commander Sullivan, on Wednesday morning, and inspected the Coast Brigade, Royal Artillery, stationed there, together with the barracks, stores, &c., after which he went to Walley, in Essex, where he was received by Col. Hay, Commandant, and Col. Radcliffe, commanding the Royal Artillery, and inspected the barracks and hospital. The garrison consists of about 700 men of the Royal Artillery, and a detachment of the Coldstream Guards. In the evening a ball was given by the officers of the Royal Artillery. The General completed his inspection of the garrison at Warley by seeing the troops at parade on Thursday morning, and returned the same day to head quarters, Woolwich. Yesterday morning the sth brigade, commanded by Col. Gardner, and the 17th Brigade, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Gosling, were inspected by the General on the barrack parade ground. General Peel, the Secretary for War, arrived at Woolwich, where he was received by General Warde and Staff, and spent upwards of three hours in visiting different branches of the garrison. One of the 23 ton:guns Imade at the Royal gun factories at Woolwich was yesterday despatched in the contract lighter Scales, for Shoeburyness, to un dergo an experimental test of endurance and capa city. In proof of the satisfactory result of the Admi rality inspection of Woolwich dockyard their lord ships have granted a complete holiday. The dock yard will in consequence be closed to-day. A garrison order has been issued, stating that the General Commanding had much pleasure in notify ing to the troops at Woolwich that he bad received the commands of the Duke of Cambridge to convey to them his royal highness's approval of all he had seen of them on Saturday. A large plot of ground adjoining the Townshend redoubt, and close to the inner line of fortifications at Chatham, has been surveyed by the officials con nected with the Royal Engineer department, on which is intended to be erected a block of buildings to be as quarters for the married non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the corps attached to the 3d Depot Battalion, at Chatham garrison. The site of the intended buildings lies near St. Mary's casemated barracks, occupied by the 3d Battalion, the entire extent of land taken in being rather more than two acres. Yesterday the workmen employed by Mr. Stump, of Brompton, who has been engaged by the Government to erect the buildings, com menced the formation of the roads leading to them, and making the necessary excavations for the foun dations. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Sub-Lieut. Alfred E. Denny, to the Eudymion ; William L. Bennett, second master, to the Achilles ; Selby Lilburan, se cond master, to the Hector ; R. W. E. Middleton, second master, to the Ocean ; W. E. Striven, se cond master, to the Bellerophon ; Wm. Maunsell and Alfred F. H. Dragson, master's assistants, to the Endymion ; and Wm. Webber, engineer, to the Asia, for service in the Trinculo. MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS. General Grant and Admiral Farragut were both wearied beyond endurance while accompanying the President. Mr. Seward was seized with cholera and returned seriously ill. The last reception re sulted in a disastrous accident, and Mr. Johnson reached Washington a sadder if a wiser man. He commenced the round full of hope, he ended it full of disappointment. The Southern Loyalists attract little public attention, as the people are weary of these rounds, and the excitement to which they gave rise has died away. The following official notice from the U. S. Secre tary of the Treasury has just been made public:— "Treasury Department, Sept. 14, 1866.--Notice is hereby given, that the Treasury Department is prepared to redeem Certificates of Temporary Loan, known as Clearing-house Certificates,' at the offices from which they were respectively issued ; and that on and after the 25th of September, 1866, interest will cease upon fifty per cent. of each certificate ; and on and after the 25th of October next interest will cease on the remainder.—H. M'CuLLocn, Se cretary of the Treasury. Mr. Davis, it is reported, will be released next month, by order of the President. The President throws the responsibility of the failure to try Mr. Davis on Chief Justice Chase. Mrs. Davis has left Canada to return to her husband. The Southern Loyalists met with an enthusiastic reception at Utica, New York, on Wednesday, September 19. The welcoming speech was made by the Hon. Boscoe Conkling, after which addresses were delivered by Colonel Pope, of Missouri, Go vernor Hamilton, of Texas, and others. The report of the Board of Equalisation of assessments of the State of New York fixes the real property at $334,826,220. The poorest county in the State is Hamilton, $483,976. Twenty thousand ounces of gold, valued at $400,000, were deposited in the branch mint at San Francisco on the 10th August, the largest amount ever received in a single day. insurrection. His in writi ng a hi story o f t h e J ama i ca It is announced that ex-Governor Eyre is engaged testimonial Committee have received in cash and promises n ear l y £1 2,000, and they have already had under serious consideration the course to be adopted, and the counsel to be retained in the event of the threatened criminal prosecution being carried out. The special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune states that he sought an interview with General Grant, to ascertain whether the speech made by him in Wood's Theatre was, or was not, true. The General explained it away ; declaring that, although he had a private conversation with Mr. Baker, he had not used the words reported. He added, that he had accompanied the Presidential party at the President's request, that he had abstained from declaring his own political sentiments, or authoris ing anybody else to do so —that he was annoyed by the successive attempts made by Mr. Seward and others to announce to the people along the road that his political views were in harmony with those of Mr. Johnson. On being asked if he had attended the interview between the Philadelphia Convention Committee a n d th e President upon his own motion he replied—" Of c ourse not ; that being purely political gath er i ng i t was none of my a business. I was th ere at the request of the President, and all attempts to attach political signi ficance to my presence are unwarranted and impertinent." There is great activity am ong th e F enians in New Orleans, and several companies are being equipped for some service, probably with the intention of again invading Canada. There is the highest autho rity for stating that Sheridan has no idea of taking command of the Fenian army, neither has there been authority for the use of his name in that or any other connection. Head Centre Stephens had called a meeting of the Fenian Brotherhood at Man hattan and Long Island for 23d September, Sun day. Important movements, it is said, may be expected soon from the headquarters of the Stephens faction. ------ and his brother prominentlybn We are glad to see thenames m o n f n C ti y o ru ned s W b . y Fi t e h ld e Cable. ir layers of the At lantic Field received no such mark Chairman at the late a que s t . a s t t L aff iv n e r r d poll rt to hc t o h te e stated that if Mr. Cyrus of royal favour as a net her Majesty did not wish naturalth e her i c n y ter i f t ere wa w s it b h ec w a h u a se t belonged. W e regre t th is , an Government of the country tdo whichcon sider aFideeld. the best judge reign 3. C y s ru W. Field is himself parture from the usual course pursued by sove whether such an honour would be ag reeable or not to hi mself as an American. If he thoug h t not, he would have the satisfaction of knowing how highly her Majesty appreciated the work he had performed, and the offer could not but be con sidered a compliment both to himself and to the nation he so prominently represented in this great undertaking. We trust that the opportunity will not be lost, and that Cyrus W. Field may be informed of the honour which her Majesty is desirous of con ferring upon him, if he thinks it consistent with his American citizenship to accept it. Two Freedmen were lately sold by auction, in Clark county, Alabama, for debt. They owed $l3, and they " brought" $1,350, which ought to pay a g ood dividend to their credito rs ; b ut i t does not appear that they were released, and General lian. IHE SUN, LONI ON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1866. cock, who commands in that department, has ordered an inquiry into the business, and the resto ration of the slaves to their freedom. Were there to be no protection afforded to the freedmen from Washington the whole of their number could soon be " reconstructed" into slaves ; and that is the sort of reconstruction which the ex-slaveholders long for, and for keeping off which they charge the North with tyranny. The weather in the Western States has been cloudy and cold; the grain crops are late, not having ripened during the month of September. Much apprehension was entertained as the weather threat ened rain. Two or three weeks of bright warm sunshine free from frost will be required to ripen the crops. There are reports from many parts that the wheat is growing in the ear. Present prospects are decidedly gloomy, but hopes were entertained that the weather would improve, and the anticipa tions hitherto indulged in be realised. Both flour and wheat have advanced in price. inquiries, especially with reference to the Atlantic and Great Western, why the receipts are not more than last year. To this we simply answer that, taking the first eight months of 1866, and comparing them with a similar period in 1865, the earnings of this road do exhibit an ex cess of $325,000, and that considering the abundance of the cereal crops, and the deficiency of our home products, we look for an autumn and winter traffic surpassing that of last year. It is a fact surprising that a railway at such an early period of its existence should prove to be in receipt of so consiierable an income. We have frequently called atten tion to the fact of the large earnings on American rail roads in proportion to their cost, enabling most of the pro minent lines to pay either largo dividends, or to add very materially out of revenue to the value of the concern, by substantial additions to plant, track, and stations, and also in many of the older established lines to the reduction of the debt, in some cases even to total extinction. During the latter part of last week the London Market for American Securities was very inactive, owing to the break in telegraphic communication with America. For the last three days, however, there has been a very large business transacted, United States 5-20 Bonds, on higher exchange, have declined during the week nearly $2, but even at present quotations, 691 to 70, the price hero is about 1 per cent. above New York. Illinois Shares have been neglected, but show no al teration in price. in Eries the transactions have been very numerous; the rapid rise reported by telegraph from New York, owing to the desire to get possession of tho stock to secure votes at the forthcoming election for Di rectors having led to considerable buying on this side for shipment. The latest quotation is 51 to 4, about four per cent, higher than this day week. The business in At lantic and Great Western Securities has been on a more limited scale, and the recent rise having brought in sellers to realise profits, we have to note a decline in Deben tures to 65 to 66, and in Consolidated Bonds to 46 to 47. The demand for permanent investment, however, is steady at these quotations. • OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS FOR THE WEEK.—United States 6 per Cent. 5.20 Bonds, 1882: Thursday, 711 4 1 ; Friday, 7141; Saturday, 7114; Monday, 701 1 1 701 4; Tuesday, 694 70 691 701 ; Wednesday, 70 1. Virginia 5. per Cent. Sterling Bonds-: Thursday, —. Virginia 6 per Cent. Dollar Bonds: Thursday, ; Friday, ; Tuesday, —; Wednesday, —. Atlan. and Gt. Westn. (N. Y. Sect.) Ist Mrt. Bonds, 188( Friday, —; Tuesday, —; Wednesday, —. Atlan. and Gt. Westu. 2nd Mrt. Bonds, 1881: Friday, —; Monday, —. Atlan. and Gt. Westn. (Penns. Sect.) 2nd Mrt. Bonds, 1882: Thursday, ; Tuesday, 6617. Atlan. and Great Western Consolidated Bonds, 1895: Thursday, 464 6 8 ; Friday, ; Saturday, 464 4; Monday, ; Tuesday, 461 6 1 4 7 ; Wednesday, 461. Erie Shares, $lOO, all paid : Thursday, 474; Friday, 471; Saturday, 471 ; Monday, 49 81 94 ; Tuesday, 494 511 1 ; Wednesday,. 511 1s 4. Erie Shares, 6 per cent. Convertible Bonds : Friday, x.c. ; Tuesday, ; Wednesday, 69. Illinois Central 6 per Cent. Bonds of 1875: Thursday, —; Monday, —. Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Bonds of 1875: Monday, Illinois Central Shares, all paid : Thursday, 771 41 4 ; Friday, 774 ; Saturday, 774 ; Monday, 771 ; Tues day, ; Wednesday, 784 8. Philadelphia and Erie First Mortgage, 1881: Thursday, —; Saturday, —; Tuesday, 75 x.d. Philadelphia and Erie First Mortgage, 1881, with option to be paid in Philadelphia : Saturday, —. Pennsylvania Second Mort. Sterling Bonds, 1875: Tuesday, the statements thus put before them. While the whole efforts of the Tory party were directed to this end, the Liberals, who did not see so clearly that their greatest stronghold was in danger, looked placidly on, not moving, as they ought to have done, in support of their own cause then being fought out by the North. They applied no antidote to the poison disseminated among the people, and coldly regarded the terrible struggle which threatened the very existence of Liberal institutions throughout the world. There were men in England who saw far beyond the range of the dull and indifferent herd. Such men as Mr. Bright and Mr. Cossham appre ciated more clearly the true nature of the crisis, but they were powerless to move an apathetic na tion. The Tories succeeded in blinding England to the real merits of the war, and this nation owes to them a series of the most disastrous blunders it has ever made. From the fiery trial the Liberal insti tutions of the North emerged brighter and stronger than ever. If a proof were wanting of the energy With which a Government resting solely on the shoulders of the people can act, it was furnished by this gigantic conflict. The world was startled at the amazing strength and vigour shown by the young Republic, and the deep sincerity of the be lief which the people felt in themselves and in their institutions. Mr. Cossham proceeds to remark, " That some of our public men, and many of our " public writers, are again blundering about Ame " can affairs. Because the chance President of " that country has so far forgotten himself as to try " to bully the representatives of his country into the "re-admission of the slave power without guarantees " as to the future, and because he has been unwise "enough to make a few intemperate speeches and to do " a great many foolish things, they fancy that " America is again going to pieces." This is the old story repeating itself, but not with the confident assertion that marked the former prophecies. They only require, however, to talk and write themselves into a stronger belief, to come out as rampant as ever. They who calculate most securely on the blunders of mankind are generally most correct. But the Liberal party are now more awake to the occasion, and are not likely to be again hoodwinked as to the real nature of the struggle. The Liberal party in America are thoroughly alive to the questions in dispute, and more clearly than ever perceive the objects aimed at by their opponents, and their own power of guiding the ship of State as they will that it should steer. There can be little doubt what the result will be, and we hold, with Mr. Cossham, " that " the President, if he has the will, has not the " power to give life to a dead system, and that the " Republican, or really Liberal party in America " will be triumphant there—and we, the Liberal party, will certainly be so here." We rejoice to hear such statements made. The Liberals on both sides of the Atlantic have the same objects in com mon, and should countenance and support each other, as is done most effectually by their oppo nents. It is generally believed in America that the Rebellion in the South was strengthened and pro longed by the aid and encouragement extended to it from England. Had the Liberal party chosen they could have counteracted the efforts of the enemies of their cause ; but, by their ill-judged silence, they gave deep offence to their kindred over the water, and left the Republican party in the belief that there was no support to be obtained from England in their glorious struggle. Mr. Cossham is consistent in his Liberalism. He keenly appre ciates and warmly recognises the friends of the cause to which he is pledged, wherever they are to be found. No prejudices of caste or country blinds his judgment. We most sincerely hope, with the Liberal electors of Nottingham, when the oppor tunity next offers, they will succeed in placing their generous and able champion in the arena he is so well qualified to adorn, and where he can best pro mote the great , cause of human progress.—Anglo- American Times. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Sept; 22. Gold close's at 1431, having fallen under the receipt from Europe. The ring are, however, are too strong to let the drop be sudden or heavy. Indeed they may succeed in again, for a time, forcing up the price, the more so as ship ments from Europe appear to be falling off. The receipts are large and increasing, and the shipments at San Fran cisco heavy. It is calculated that a big sum will before long be accumulated, and at the disposal of the Treasury. Many advocate the return to specie payments, the. paper currency being gradually extinguished. A pressure is, however, brought to bear on the Secretary to sell gold so as to neutralise the proceedings of the ring. The extinc tion of the national debt proceeds very rapidly. The autumn receipts at the Custom-house, it is believed, will be large beyond all precedent. if so, Secretary M'Culloch's position will be much strengthened. Government stocks are more active at full prices. The 7.30's are in demand at 106 to 1061, and 5-20's at 1081 to 1111 for new and old issues. State bonds are firm, and North Carolina 6's 1 higher. New Tennessee aro firm at 721. Railway Mortgages steady; the miscellaneous list was not so firm ; Canton and Ashburton Coal were lower ; Rutland Marble sold at 301, and Mariposa Preferred at 33+ ; Spruce Hill 41. The Railway Share Market was lower under a fall of 21 per cent. in Erie from the ex treme quotation of 771 ; New York Central fell 1; Hud son River, 1 ; Reading, 1 ; Michigan Southern, 1 ; Illinois Central, 4 ; Cleveland and Pittsburgh, / ; North-Western, 1, and Fort Warne, 1. After the call the market was steady, with large sales of Erie, which was readily placed 751 to 74. The speculation has lost none of its interest, and its buyers talk of 85 with confidence. At the Second Board Erie sold at 751, but broke to 751. Again after the call, at which price it remained until the close of business. Mariposa Preferred was strong at 331, and Boston Water Power sold at 331 ; the balance of the Market closed steady at quotations :—Now-York Central, 1061 to 106 1 ; Erie, 751 751; Hudson River, 1201 to 1211; Reading, 115 to 115+; Michigan Central, 1121 to 113 ; Michigan southern, 85+ to 851 ; Illinois Central, 1211 ; Cleveland and Pitts burgh, 86+ to 87 ; Rock Island, 111 to 111+ ; North- Western, 351 to 34; North-Western Preferred 671 to 67+ ; Fort Wayne, 106 to 106+; Canton, 54 to 54+ ; Cum berland Coal, 48 to 48+; Quicksilver, 521 to 52+ ; Mari posa Mining Company, 15 ; do. Preferred, 331 to 331. In money no change. Call loans are abundant at 5 per cent., and a good deal is at 3to 6 per cent. Commercial paper sells at 5 for best, and 51 to 6 per cent. for good. Exchange is quoted as follows : —London, prime bankers', 60 days, 107+ to 1(71 ; London, prime bankers', sight, 108+ to 1081 ; London, prime commercial, 106+ to 1061 ; Paris, bankers', long, 5.25 to 5.231; Paris, bankers', short, 5.214; Antwerp, 5.281 to 5.261 ; Swiss, 5.281 to 5.24 ; Hamburg, bankers', 34 ; Amsterdam, bankers', 41; Frankfort, bankers', 41; Bremen, bankers', 771 to 78 ; Berlin, bankers', 71. Freights are decidedly lower. The engagements to Liverpool are 50,000 bushels corn, part by steamer, at 3d. to 4d. ; 2,000 boxes cheese per steamer at 2s. ; a bark was chartered to a direct port in England at ss. (From L. P. Morton and Co's. Circular.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. Financial affairs have varied but little since our last advices. The money market continues to exhibit ex treme ease, the prevailing rate on demand loans being 4 per cont., and for discounts sto 6 per cent. The anti cipation of the redemption of $45,000,000 of the Tempo rary Loan, in equal instalments on the 25th September and the 25th October, had increased the ease of the mar ket, and encouraged speculative operations in securities. United States Bonds have ruled steady during the week, the transactions being limited. Within the last few days there has been a decline in the flow of securities from the interior, induced by tho recent advance of price, and the market has assumed a somewhat firmer tone. Five- Twenties of 1882 have ranged at 111; to 1111, and close at 111 g. The course of !lain* stocks has been steadily upward under the operations of active combinations for an ad vance. Erie Shares have been in large demand, for pur poses connected with the election of directors, and the price has advanced from ni to 771. Yesterday, the price was weaker, and fell off to 74k, closing at 751. The specu lative movement in Illinois Central has subsided, and transactions are lighter, but without any change in quo tations, the price having ranged at 1211 to 1221; the closing quotation is 124. State Stocks have been quiet but steady, the chief feature having been the continued firmness of Tennessee 6s of 1890. The following are the closing quotations— Tennessee 6s, 1890, 95 to 96; North Carolina 6s, 83 to 84; Virginia 6s, 70; Missouri 6s, 78i. Gold showed a steady downward tendency, apparently the result of the influx of specie from Europe and California. The highest point touched since our last has been 1451 and the lowest 1431 ; the closing quotations being 1431. The chief support of the market is in its being constantly largely oversold. FOreign exchange has been firmer during the week, but the advance in quotations has checked transactions. Bankers' 60 days' Sterling closes at 1074 to 1701; 3 days Sterling 108 to 108-} ; Francs, long date, 5.26; to 5.231; Francs, short sight, 5.224 to 5.24. FOREIGN QUOTATIONS. _ Sept. 21. Sept. 14. London commercial lO6 106/ 105} 106 Do. bankers' long lO7 107 106} 107 Do. bankers' short sight lOB 108 107} 108 Paris sixty days 5261 5231 528 k 5261 Do. short sight 5221 5211 525 522} Antwerp 5281 5261 531 1 528; Hamburg Amsterdam Frankfort Bremen Berlin 7l 70} 71 MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE AT NEW YORK. IMPORTS.—From California, Sept. 19, $1,215,082 • re ceived previously, $29,540,843. Since January 1, 1866, $30,755,425. EXPORTS.—For week ending Sept. 15, $197,336 ; pre viously, $53,552,062. Since Jauuary 1, $53 , 719 ,39 8; same time 1865, $21,119,463. (From E. F. Salterthwaile and _ Co.'s Weekly Circular, October 3.) From New York our latest advices by the " Scotia" are to the 19th ult. The favourable nature of the receipts at the Government Treasury continued; for the week the payments into the Treasury were, for excise, over ten millions of dollars, and for customs nearly four and a half million dollars in gold ; this brings the balance in coin up to eighty-five millions, and the same rate of interest would run it up quite one hundred millions before the let November, when about twenty-three millions will be re quired for payment of interest on the 5-20 Bonds. • -Government securities remained steady at former quo tations, with a steady demand. In the Railroad Stock market the chief interest centred in Erie, which was bought largely to control proxies at the annual election for Directors, which is to take place on the 9th inst. It was anticipated there would be severe opposition to the re-election of some members of the present board. The price of the Shares on the large demand had improved quite $3, and had a strong upward tendency, as will be seen by the advance in the quotation by telegraph as given below. For other descriptions, the market was firm at a slight rise. State Stocks especially Tennessee and North Carolina, were in more demand for investment, but Railroad Mort gages were not much inquired for. Money, notwithstanding the demand for harvest pur poses, continued very abundant. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. For some time past our attention has been frequently drawn to the decrease in the earnings of many of the Rail roads in the United States, as compared with last year, but more particularly to the receipts the last few months of the Atlantic and Great Western. In reply to these numerous inquiries, we would say that the decresse is solely owing to the falling off of passenger (not freight) traffic, and this can be traced to separate causes. In the first place, the weather has been so unusually sultry, even for America, that it has almost put a stop to travelling, excepting iu cases of urgency. Secondly, the cholera has, unhappily, visited the western cities with great severity, while at the same time the people there have received most exaggerated reports of the ravages of this fearful disease in New York and Philadelphia, so that the usual amount of communication between the far West and the East has been seriously interrupted. The late ness of the harvest (although it has been more than usually abundant) has also had a depressing effect on railway earnings; and besides these influences, it should be re membered that, at even this period of last year, there was a large amount of traffic due to the lamentable war ; viz., the return of soldi e rs to their homes, the transportation of stores, &c. That all these causes should have had no effect on the receipts of railroads generally would have bee n unromionable to expect ; but still we Niastmatly hive ARRIVAL OF PASSENGERS. BY THE PERUVIAN, AT LIVERPOOL, OCT. I.—Lady Alexander Russell, maid, and man servant ; Master Leonard Russell, Master Gordon Russell, Mr. Samuel Doran, Mr. Leykhaff, Miss Leykhaff, Misses Stephen, Mr. G. B. Spriggs, Mr. Harper, Mr. W. L. Fraser, Miss Rowand, Miss Kate Rowand, Miss Gardiner, Dr. M‘Gee, Mr. Dudley De Chair, Mr. Thompson, Miss Thompson, Mr. Maitland, Mr. Ogilvey, Mrs. Cassias and child, Mr. Gordon Brown, Mrs. Brown and two children, Mr. Morris, Mrs. Armstrong, Mr. Filiter, Mrs. Filiter, Miss Filiter, Mr. John Filter, Mr. James Filiter, Mr. Valentine, and Mr. Davis. By the s.s. ATALANTA, W. g . PENIKHAIt, commander (London, Havre, and New York Steamship Line), from New York to London, Oct. I.—Cabin—Rev. Horatio Stour, Mrs. Maria White, Mr. John Salmon, Mr. A. T. Anderson, Mr. F. Bulwey, Mr. J. H. Menieyer, Mr. Charles Seymour. DEPARTURE OF PASSENGERS. By the s.s. Wrixxxx PAM, E. BILLINGS, commander (London, Havre, and Now York Steamship Line), for New York, Sept. 29.—Cabin —Mrs. 3. M'Connell, Mrs. Whitt lesey, Mr. C. Corpancho, Mrs. Needham, Mr. G. W. Hos mer, Agnes Homer, Eliza Monarque, Mr. S. Verbecke, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. M'Carty, Mr. W. S. B. Vanordeu, Mrs. Farr, Misses Ada and Bertha Farr, Mr. F. Becker, Mrs and Master Resse, Mr. IL A. Abraham, Mr. Win. Billing, Rev. D. C. Armsby, Mr. R. F. Derry, Mr. Wm. Curson, Mr. J. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Sullard, Emily Sul lard, Mr. John Sullard, Johanna Sapper, Ellen Green, Lottie Vivian, Mary A. Cutler, Mr. Frank Cutler, Sarah and Eliza Walker, Mary A. Johison, Mr. Eli Mooring, Mr. John Southcott, Eliza J. Fellows, Mt. John Hill, Mr. M. P. Kennedy, Augusta Nordblom, Mr. John Chapman, Mr. James Hearne, Mr. M. Stinsen, Mr. H. P. Hunsun, Mr. W. W. Anstey, Mr. D. R. Jones, Maria Purcell, Ann Jones. By the Hamburg and United States steamship BAVARIA, Captain TAUBE, commander., Sept. 29.—First Cabin Upper Saloon —lsaak Kohn, mit frau und 3 kindern, Bertha Kohn, Pittsburg; Marie Doenck, mit 2 kindern, St Louis ; L. Ehrhardt, Allabama ; L. Strauss, St. Louis; Mary Nagle, F. G. and Frau Heinrich, F. Lindemann, mit Frau und 4 kindern, Otto Erk, and A. Kastor, mit Frau und 2 kin darn, New York; J. S. Kohler, St. Louis; Agnes Priehn, Hamburg ; J. W. Haas, Maarbach ; S. Marx, Frankfurt a M. ; Sophie Steinberg mit kind, Coln; W. H. Bittler mit frau, New York; Thoobald Wurrub, St. Loui s; J o h ann Th. Amtmann, Bordeaux ; F. J. Bothof, Aschaffenburg ; Dr. Marie Greiner, New York ; Jos. Hoff man , Schmie helm. First Cabin Lower Saloon.—Canstanze Campo, Schleiz ; Therese Snacksted t, Leipzig; Ulrich Plagemann, Krackow ; J. Ehlers, Hildesheim ; Carl - Tilfs, Erfurt; Rike Ehrenfried, Krotschin ; Jacob Kuhl, Rendsburgh ; Kupfer,Th. M Leyeanubdeirtgz ;M. Eau , Ludwigsburg ; Auguste Brock,, Einabeck Fritz Gerbi g , Elb er f e ld ;J . Krotoschin ; T. Gieschen, Hamburg ; Alphons Jaskewitz, Carl Abler, Wiesbaden ; A. Ba chert, Heidelberg ; Carl Hinsch, Hamdorf; Rosal i e Pra g er, Neumarkt ; Ph. Neu mark mit kind, K r otosclun ; Elise Mohr, Halittzheim ; Isaac Meier, B e ssingen ; Rosalie Tuteur, Winn we il er ; Victor, Joh., Alzey ; Babette and H enr i e tt a St rauss, Bodenheim ; Josephine Tansky mit 6 kindern, Wien ; Jsaac Remhold, Bonded ; Marie Hauer, Ziegenhein; Sternheim, mit tochter, Wien ; Ernst Blomeyer, M.einin gen ; J. T. Moller, mit frau und 4 kindern, New York ; Joh. Kirchner Indiana ; Ludw. Gardels, Texas ; Johanna SchWeizer, tow York ; Carl Hamdorf, Altona ; W. J. Hanson, ; J. Anderson, Californian ; E. Steinhagen mit kind, Charles Moll m it kin d , New York ; R. Jansen, San Francisco; Emilie Je ns en mit tochter, G. Dant mit frau, New York ; Jos. Breek, Chicago ; M a thild e Goiter mann, Nakskov ; Ferd. Suter, Petersburg ; Elise Muller, Hattenheim ; Franz Rossee, Kaiserslautern ; Mathilde Kayser, mit 3 kindern, Eisenach ; Anna Lemien, Bergen ; J. Korckmann, Zurich ; C as p er Gruber, Lexington ; Michael Hcrdt, Mainz ; Hugo Nehls, Berlin ; Max P reus s, Dirs chau ; Jacob Burkhardt,America ; Louis Caroline, Rudolph, Carl, und Fanny Meath, Rudolph Fischer, Marianne Uehlinger, America. Sym;athy of Liberalism in England and America. Mr. Handel Cosshain) in his reply to an address from the Liberal electors of Nottingham, on pre senting him with a substantial token of their high esteem, made some striking remarks on America. " The Liberal cause," said this gentleman—its able and devoted fiend-.j has been...greatly- helped by "the entire downfsll of the slaveholders' rebellion "in America. The Tory and anti-Liberal party in " this country alm ost ' l os t their heads with delight " when they saw, as t h ey thought, the American " Republic breakin g .up, as though it would be a " gain to the Old Woild to have their mistakes a nd " calamities reprod uced an d i n tensified in the New.'. The support given in 'this country to the Southern Rebellion undoubt e dl y had its origin in the sympa thy of the English T ory party. The Tories felt instinctively that thtilbattle of Liberal institutions was being fought by the Northern arm s. For man y years this great p arty had to con tend against a flood of Liberal opini on poure d f ro m America on our shores. One by One the barriers erected had given way—only to increase the general spread of the inundation. At the same time that American opinions came with such force on the minds of the English people, th e Great Repu bli c furnished a living illustration of th e i r beneficence and truth. The ar guments used r equ i red d ou bl e strength (1), as appealing to th e i nnate sense implanted in the human race of th e Ri ghts o f M an ; (2), as furnish ing in the great material and social prosperity of the Republic the mo s t conv i nc i ng p roo f of the t ru th o f the principles enunciated. Intuitively the Tory party knew that their great danger lay in the Libe ralism of America, and that a vast portion of the strength of their opponents was derived from that source. It is not, then, surprising that they hailed with joy the disruption of the States. " Behold the " end," they exclaimed, "of Universal Suffrage ! " This is the result to which mob law ever tends." They grasped eagerly the arguments furnished, and turned on their enemies the very battery which had hitherto been their opponents' strongest weapons of attack and defence. The objects and intentions of the Northern people were distorted and falsified, and this nation, ill their ignorance, accepted as facts Metropolitan Water Supply. On Thursday a very important meeting of representa tives of the various metropolitan parishes was held in the new Vestry-hall of Islington, for the purpose of considering the present unsatisfactory state of the water supply of the metropolis, and taking such steps as they might deem necessary for demanding, either of the Government or the Legislature, some speedy remedy for existing evils. Dr. Harvey, of Islington, presided, and there was a nume rous attendance of representatives of various metropolitan vestries and district boards. The whole of the water com panies had also been invited to send representatives, in order that they might bear the grievances which it was felt the metropolis suffered under ; but letters were read from nearly every one of them declining to do so. A letter was also read from Mr. Thompson Hankey, M.P., expressing his deep sympathy in the objects of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN remarked that this was an adjourned meeting, but before they entered into any discussion he thought they had better hear a Parliamentary paper read, which represented in what position the companies were in May last, when they were called upon, in obedience to a Parliamentary order, to answer certain questions put to them through the Local Government Act Office. Mr. BERRY, assistant vestry clerk of Islington, who acted as secretary to the meeting, read this document, showing the present source of supply, number of reservoirs, filters, pumping arrangement, number of tenements supplied, rates of charges, modes of supply, whether constant or inter mittent, &c. ; how far the 15th sec. of the Metropolitan Water Act, 15th and 16th Vic., cap. 84, had been complied with ; what regulations had been made by the church wardens, under the 27th sec. ; what complaints had been made as to quantity and quality of water supplied under the 9th sec., &c. The answers to those questions were gene rally unsatisfactory ; but with the exception of the East London, they all declared that no complaints or requisitions had been formally made as to the quantity and quality of the water supplied. They most of them declared that they gave supplies on Sunday morning where required in poor districts, and were prepared to give constant instead of in termittent supplies if guaranteed against waste. Mr. SUFFIELD, of Bermondsey, said on the memorial of the vestry of that parish Capt. Tyler was sent by the Board of Trade to inspect the works of the East London Water Company, and new filter beds were ordered, but there was not much improvement. The fact was, it was no use deal ing with those water companies ; but they should either appeal to the Secretary of State or some other department of the Government to secure a constant and pure supply. The public health demanded it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ARMSTRONG, of Chelsea, said the fact was, their de mands might be summed up in a sentence. A constant sup ply of pure water at a reasonable rate. No doubt the East London Company gave the worst and most impure supply, and they ought to be rigidly watched. Mr. Hankey, had taken much interest in this matter, but he had been told in Parliament there was no real complaint. The failu'Ve was in the act which entrusted these complaints to church wardens. The vestries and district boards ought to go for powers to compel the companies to give a pure and constant supply, as it was admitted on all hands it was impossible to carry out any sanatory arrangements efficiently without. (Hear.) He begged, in the first instance, to move, " That MrTHenley be informed of the resolutions passed at the previous and at the present delegate meeting." Mr. GRAMMANT, of Camberwell, seconded the motion, and contended that, by the present mode of distributing water, it was always stagnant and impure,whilst a constant supply would entirely remedy those evils. The motion was carried. Mr. LLOYD, of Plumstead, considered that nothing would enable the people of the metropolis to bring these water com panies to their senses b - ut the interference of Parliament ; and he moved a resolution to the effect that it be recom mended to the various vestries and district boards to em power that meeting of delegates to prepare a bill and give the necessary legal notices, with the view of obtaining an act of Parliament requiring a constant supply of water in the metropolis and its environs. The motion having been seconded, Sir E. PERROTT and several other gentlemen remarked upon the fact that the doctors were crying out in, every direction that it was mainly impure water that was the cause of cholera, and that the want of proper sanatory regulations was another evil. Pure water and a plentiful supply was the remedy in both cases, and it was the duty of the Government to compel what was required to be done. Mr. DENNY, of Camberwell, Mr. SUFFIELD, and others arguel that it would be useless to go to Parliament with a bill for doing what was stated without they were prepared to prove that all the powers to compel the water com panies to do their duty wider the existing acts of Parlia ment had been exhausted. They contended that this had not been done, if the returns wade by the companies to the order of Parliament referred to were truthful. Let the complaints of the want of a constant and purer supply be made in an unmistakeable manner, and then, if the com panies refused to comply, their ground of no complaint would be cut from under them. The CHAIRMAN observed that ho was bound in justice to say that whenever the New River Company were applied to for an extra or Sunday supply in poor districts, they had cheerfully complied. Other delegates said the same re marks would apply to ti.;s3 West Middlesex and Chelsea Companies. _ After a very long discussion t:2e motion was carried. Mr. HERBERT, St. Geo rge ' s -i n -the-- East, moved the third resolution--." That a. morhorial t 9 the 06th,",etarY State be prepared and signed by the chairman, urging upon him the necessity of removing the difficulty at present existing owing to provisions of the Water Companies Acts in com pelling a constant supply of water, and that a deputation be appointed to present the same, and support the views of the meeting." He represented a district which suffered, possibly, more severely than any other from the want of a pure and efficient water supply, and unless something was done they could never hope for health. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Box, Camberwell, seconded, and the resolution was ultimately carried. Dr. Harvey, Dr. Randall, and Mr. Coffin were appointed to draw up the memorial, and submit the same to a further adjourned meeting. Thanks to the chairman then closed the proceedings. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The story of the Mhow Court-Martial, and the subsequent proceedings in this country, so familiar to every one during the winter of 1863-4, is perhaps but faintly remembered, except by the few who were personally concerned in it. Memories are short in these busy days, and the rapid succession of demands on our interests and sympathies makes three years a long time to look back. It would be well if impressions, and especially injurious impres sions, did not often survive the recollection of their causes. The consequences of having been connected -with some.painful affair may remain long after all its circumstances have passed into oblivion, and an unfounded accusation, though refuted as soon as preferred, may affect a man's reputation and happi ness for life. It is to be feared that Col. Crawley, though fully acquitted of the serious charges brought against him, has suffered grievously under the opera tion of this one-sided law of amnesty. The particular facts alleged by the prosecution, as well as, the crushing evidence adduced in his defence, are mostly forgotten, but his name is associated in the public mind with cruelty and oppression, and nine out of tenpeople who think of him at all probably think of him as a tyrannical and justly unpopular officer,who, though probably innocent of Sergeant-Major Lilley's death, should never have been allowed to resume command of the Inniskilling Dragoons. It is seldom that an opportunity occurs of redressing a wrong of this kind, for no man has a legal right to the good opinion of his countrymen, nor will the most con spicuous public services always suffice to retrieve it. In this case, however, such an opportunity is pre sented by an incident which no one could have fore seen. On August 14th last Col. Crawley, who is still with his regiment stationed at Mhow, had the misfortune to lose his ffife. This lady appears to have been greatly respected and beloved by men as well as officers, all of whom attended her funeral, and joined in subscribing for a monument to be erected to her memory. The addresses in which this desire was communicated to Colonel Crawley, through the Sergeant-Major on behalf of the whole body of non-comissioned officers and soldiers, and through Major Thesiger on behalf of the wholebody of com missioned officers, now lie before us, and indicate so clear the feeling of the regiment towards their colo nel that we think it but au act of justice, under the circumstances, to quote a part of them. After ex pressing their admiration and esteem for the de.- ceased lady, the men_comrades, be it remembered, of Lilley—proceed to speak of her as one who had "shown herself worthy of being the helpmate, through all his trials, of one of the noblest com manding officers in the British service, and expressly allude to her devoted support of him during his pro secution. The officers' letter is in a like spirit, nega tiving, as far as words can, the continuance of that ill-feeling which existed before the inquiry, and which it was thought would be aggravated after Colonel Crawley's return. His reply, after making every allowance f)r the language of strong emotion, tells the same story. He speaks without reserve of what he owed to his wife while the court-martial was pending, laments her loss " at the very moment when these troubles appeared to have ceased, and the promise of a brighter future seemed _opened out before us," and acknowledges with heartfelt grati tude the unbounded kindness shown him " by every individual in the regiment." We have no wish to exaggerate the importance of a correspondence of this nature, but it certainly implies the most friendly relations and mutual confidence between Colonel Crawley and all ranks under his command. It leads almost irresistibly to the inference that he was not chiefly responsible for the scandals disclosed by the investigation, but that, on the removal of certain disturbing elements, the harmony of the regiment was easily restored. Had we not good reason to believe that such has been the fact, we might have scrupled to call attention to documents expressive of personal condolence, but which tend, at least, to justify rttrospectively the verdict of the court martial. ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES. - The Times avails itself of Lord Stanley's speech at the Liverpool banquet to revert •to the subject of the United States claims against England for the depre dations of the Alabama. The proposition of the leading journal is, perhaps, the best solution of the difficulty. It amounts to this—that a joint com mittee be appointed to deliberate on the rights and duties of neutrals in time of war, and to devise rules which all maritime nations should be invited to adopt and carry out by legislative measures. The commission should include eminent continental jurists, and be invested with the amplest liberty of recommendation. So far for the future. But the Tinges proposes to utilise the recommendations of this commission with reference to the Alabama claims, by bringing the depredations of that cruiser to the verdict of the new laws contemplated. If, says that journal, upon the perusal of their report, her Majesty's Government should be of opinion that, under the circumstances, some reparation is due either in international law or in international equity to the United States in respect to the Alabama, it will not be too late to make it, and no false pride should prevent our doing so with good grace. Two great objects would be secured if both nations loyally carried out this proposal. In the first place, the future would be secured, as far as human action can secure it against such shameful acts of piracy. A nation, when bound alike by interna tional law and honour to make good the damage perpetrated on the commerce of another nation by a cruiser illegally leaving its ports, would take care that no such vessels should be fitted out within its jurisdiction. The effect would practically give to all countries the strongest possible guarantee against so wanton and shameful a destruction of its commerce. In the second place, a very bitter cause of feud between the two leading maritime nations would be removed. No step could more tend to conciliate the United States than a frank acknowledgment of error by the Government of Great Britain, and recompense to the sufferers injured by the alleged neglect. As the Times says, Mr. Adams's representation to Lord Russell was in the nature of a legal demand, and it was properly met by a legal demurrer. It was practically granted that our law had been violated in the equipment of the Alabama, and the commercial marine of the United States had suffered grievous injury thereby. The Alabama would never have got to sea but for the inopportune illness of the Queen's Advocate. That she did get to sea, if not the fault, is at any rate the misfortune, of the Queen's G o vernment. As the case, now stands the misfortune fell on the people and commerce of the United States, who are thus made to bear the penalty of the shortcomings of her Majesty's advisers. It is the business of the British people to see that their law cannot be vio lated because au officer of their Government is ill, and if it be violated it is they who should bear the burden, and not another people with whom we are supposed to be on the most friendly terms. It is the latter consideration that has so keenly touched the sensitive nature of the American people. They allege that the British people were not actuated by friendly feelings. They state that not only was the Alabama illegally fitted out and permitted to go to sea from one of our ports, but that she received countenance and support in her disas trous career throughout the British Empire. It cannot be denied that the public statements, at least of the sentiments of the British people, as a whole were against the Government of the United States, and favourable to the Rebellion. And, as we have shown elsewhere, this was due to the ma chinations of the Tory party. Lord Stanley, in his late speech at Liverpool, almost acknowledged this, when he deprecated the hasty, partial, and passionate criticism of their institutions, which Americans attribute to English Conservatives. As the real originators of the dilemma, the amends would tome better from a Tory Government than from a Liberal one, although the actual catastrophe occurred while the Liberals were in power. No better opportunity could be afforded than the pre sent of settling for ever the Alabama claims. Lord Stanley can do it with honour, and without dero gating from the dignity of the nation, and the Con servatives, who were the authors of the terrible blunders, can without com promising their party acknowledge their error, and tender with a free and open hand restitution for the consequences which their own fatal mistakes entailed on the coun try. The case is one which does not admit of delay. Although just now out of sight, the grievance, though unseen, is growing vigorously. Every day its roots are strikingdeeper, andevery day brings the baneful weed nearer to the season when it will bear most noxious fruit. A farmer knows that thistles should be uprooted and destroyed before they have time to spread to the grievous injury of his crop. If he be wise he does not haggle over the terms requ;red to eradicate the evil, know ing that hereafter the injury and expense will be multiplied indefinitely. We hope that the question will not be burked. It will lie over during the period of trial, while the United States are reconstructing their Unions When that is ic y complished, if England does not move, the United States will bring forward these claims with renewed determination. Against a demand made with a menace England must in honour resist, and the question will at once be removed beyond the bounds of graceful concession. The dilemma will then be not only painful, but dangerous. England will be covering an acknowledged wrong by a declaration that she is bound in honour to uphold her legal rights ; and America, when the demand is again made, can scarcely recede from th e p os i t i on s h e takes up. The question will be further complicated by the fact that it has already been argued out. Even the last resource before an appeal to arms will be barred, because England has refused to submit the matter to arbitration. We view the position with real alarm, and would most earnestly urge on her Majesty's Government the propriety of grasping the opportunity now presented to settle for ever this miserable affair. The Mysterious Case of P, isoning a Barmaid in Sin opshire• OAKENGATES, NEAR WELLINGTON, Friday Night. This morning the inquest on the body of Harriet Tim breli, aged 33, who was up to the time of her death on Monday, the 13th of August last, barmaid and housekeeper at the Hand and Hammer Inn, was resumed by Mr. R. D. Newill, the coroner for the county. Frances Brown, a nurse at Oakengates, said she had known the deceased for the past nine months, and soon after six on Monday morning the 13th Aug., was called to see her. She was in bed, and said, " Oh, what is the matter ? I am very ill. Give me something to drink, and hold me tight." She suffered from twitching of the body, which was worse in the afternoon, witness and the servant in the house remain ing with her till she died. She had no pain but suffered from excessive thirst. She died about three o'clock. She said very little on the day of her death, only, "Oh, my mother. What will my dear mother say ?" and this she repeated very often. Medicine was given to her from Mr. Harley's, the druggist. She vomited after that. Lucy Garbett, wife of the proprietor of the Hand and Hammer, deposed that deceased said on the Saturday that she was going to Liverpool to see her brother off to Ame rica, and that she should afterwards go to Tewkesbury to see her friends. She was then in good health, and witness heard of her illness on Monday and went to her. Observing the twitching she (witness) asked deceased if she ever suf fered in that way before, and she said no, but had heart dis ease. She told witness, in reply to a question, that she was not in any trouble. Witness was not aware she was in the family way. No papers or letters were found in her boxes, . nor had she, as far as witness knew, any acquaintances. Sampson Pitchford stated—l slept in the house. I saw deceased many times on Saturday; she was just as usual. In the afternoon of that day 1 went to Wellington, and re turned about 9 o'clock, The deceased had bread and cheese, with porter, for supper, and went to bed at half-past 10, in apparently her usual health. She bad asked to be called early on the Monday morning, and on my going to her bed room to call her at 6 o'clock I heard a moaning. 1 knocked and afterwards partly opened the door. She said, "Is that yob, Sampson? lam very unwell." I asked her what I could get for her, and she said some water. I called the ser vant, Jane Jones, and she went into the room. I took some water into her room, and gave her a little. I then fetched Mrs. Brown. On the Tuesday week she went to Shiffnal, and told me she wanted something there she could not get at Oakengates. I asked her why she had been, as it was so wet. I was at Wellington the day before she died. I slept at home in Oakengates on the Sunday night. My bed room was next to hers. I was not in the habit of calling her in the morning. I never tried her door, nor do I know whether she kept it locked or not. I'do'not know that she had any near acquaintance besides myself. I served my time with Mr. Harley, the druggist, and know the use of drugs. I was with him four years. I did not know she was in the family way till I was told now. I did not sleep with her on the, night of her return from Shiffnal. Wm. larrion, assistant to Mr. Harley, chemist at Oaken gates, proved that the servant at the Hand and Hammer applied for some poison about two months prior to the 14th of August to kill vermin, and on his refusing Harriet Tim brel herself asked for arsenic or strychnine, which he (wit ness) declined to supply, and told Mr. Harley of her request. Mr. E. L. Jones and Mr. Greene, the doctors who were called in, gave evidence of the fact of her illness, and the last-named gentleman, who made the post mortem exami nation, proved that death had not resulted from natural causes, but the symptoms were such as were caused by strychnine. Henry Enfield Roscoe deposed that he was Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Collage, Manchester, and Fellow of the Royal Society. Re had examined the contents of a stomach, where he found strychnine in more than sufficient quantity to destroy life. By Mr. Cooke—lf repeated doses had been given, the symptoms of totanic convulsions would have been observed. The dose was a small one, from her living Janie hours. It was difficult to tell how much was in the system, but be should think, from what had heed found, that the strych nine had been taken half an hour before she was found. After some further evidence, The Coroner summed up. He said the case was most mysterious and important. The adjournments for further inquiry had only resulted in attempts at concealment on the part of some of the witnesses that shrouded the case still further than ever in doubt, and were fully calculated to increase instead of allay the observations and discussions that had arisen. The learned gentleman then wont through the whole of the evidence at great length, and ultimately the jury found the, following verdict i-That the deceased, Harriet.Timbre], was found dying and did die from the mortal effects of poisoning by the administration of strych nine, but how, by whom, or under what circumstances it WAS administered there was no sufficient evidence before the jury to show; and the jury further say that they 'much regret that many of the witnesses have given their evidence most reluctantly and contradictorily. The inquiry then closed. COUNTRY MARKETS. --.11- WA N EFIELD.-FILIDAY. The wheat trade is quiet to-day owing to the high rates asked. A few parcels of very fine new fetch the rates of Friday last, and other sorts are rather lower. .Fine bar ley fully maintainslate rates, but damp parcels sold slowly. Beans and oats firm. LINCOLN.-FRIDAY. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with wheat, and best samples brought late currencies. Fine barley was in fair demand at extreme rates. Oats steady. Beans were scarce, and made rather more money. New white wheat, 55s to 60s ; new red, 48s to 55s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 38s to 44s per qr ; grinding/ 32s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, 25e to 335. Beans, 47s to ols per 38 stone. LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY. We bad a good attendance at our market to-day, and wheat met an indifferent demand, at barely former prices. Flour was in dull demand, and brought the rates of last Tuesday. Oats and oatmeal inactive, and the latter must be quoted at Gd to is per load cheaper. Barley scarce. Beans and peas steady at extreme prices. Malt unaltered. Indian corn was dull at is 3d decline on the week. DERBY-FRIDAY. New white wheat, 55s to 60s ; old red, 56s to 59s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 37s to 45s per qr. ; grinding, 37s to 38S per 30 stone. Oats, new, 27s to 295; old, 29s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 525; new, 46s to 50d per a stone. STAMFORD-FRIDAY. - New white wheat, 528 to 55s ; red do., 48s to 52s per 8 6 stone. Barley, malting, 38s to 465; grinding, 21s to 303 per qr. Oats, new, 22s to 265; old, 28s to 32s per 21 stone Beans, 52s to 54s per.3B stone. Peas as of late. RIPON-FRIDAY. White wheat, 7s 9d to 8s Od per bushel ; red, Gs 6d to 7s; beans, 6s 6d to 78 ; oats, 27s to 348 per qr ; barley, 36s to 4 , 18 Od. BRISTOL SUGAR-FRIDAY. -- - - The demand for sugar this week has been quiet, and very little business has been done at previous currencie o . Rum steady. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. a s. ‘: Walls End Hetton ... 21 0 East Hartlepool Hetton Lyons ........1 9 0 Hartlepool South Hetton Bmddyell'slletton.... 20 0 Tees Pitti ng t o u lB 0 Wallsend Haswell..... 21 „I South Durham 2O 0 Holywell Main l9 u Wylam l9 6 Riddell Ships at market, 43—sold, 39. Births. CIIICHESTER—On the 4th inst., at Guyers, Corsham, Wilt s, the wife of Nugent Chichester, Esq., of a son. DomisoN—On the 2d inst., at Harrow-on-the-Hill, the wiN of Col. Dodgson, H.M. Bengal Army, of a daughter. Marriages. MAN-TROLLOPS—On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's, Wimble don, Frederick Man, Esq., of Clapham, to Emma Harriet/ youngest daughter of George Trollop°, Esq., of Wimble don, and of Westminster. STEBBING—RonissoN—On the 4th inst., at St. John'6 Hamnstead, Edward Charles, youngest son of the Rel . ; H. Siebbing, D.D., F.R.S., to Frances Maria, young" daughter of the late Vincent Robinson, Esq., of' del" beck-street. Deaths. GREGORY—On the 24th ult., John F. Gregory, Esq., 150 of Doric House, Bath, aged 37. HUGHES—On the 2d inst., at the Vicarage, Corwe Merionethshire, the Rev. Morgan Hughes, formerly Chaplain of St. George's Hospital, London, aged 88. HUNNARD—On the 4th inst., at Brompton, John Hunnard, of the Middle Temple, aged 68. HARVEY—On the 4th inst., at Langley Park, Diana Janet wife of R. B. _Harvey, Esq., M.P., aged 40. 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