The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-31 00:00:00

The extraordinary, •yet very natural, excitement under which Cowes has laboured during the past week, and in which, indeed, every town and ham let in the kingdom have in a certain lesser degree participatA, reached its culminating point on Satur day, in the banquet given by the inhabitants of Cowes to the officers and gentlemen amateurs of the New York Club squadron now anchored in Cowes roadstead,' and comprising the three beau tiful schooners Henrietta, Fleetwing, and Vesta— names that are " household words" in every city of the great republic by reason of their yachting triumphs, and for the same reason equally familiar to every English yachtsman. The banquet was given in the dining hall of the Gloster Hotel, the old quarters of the Royal Yacht squadron, which was tastefully decorated for the occasion, floral wreaths and festoons running round the cornice over trophies of flags and emblematic devices, the panels of the walls of the apartment being filled with paintings and illuminated photographs on glass illustrating episodes in the careers of the most cele brated of our English yachts. Among the most noticeable of the mottoes on the walls were—" God bless the Queen and President ;" " Separated, not divided " N.Y.Y•C• and R.Y.S." In the imme diate vicinity of the chair was placed a large en graving representing the delivery of the Arctic ship Resolute by the officers of the United States' Navy to the British naval officers at Chatham, after the arrival of that ship in England on her recovery from the Arctic Seas by our American brethren. Sir John Simeon, M.P., was in the chair, having on his right Commodore Vickar, of the New York Yacht Club, and on his left Major-General Sey mour, Equerry to the Queen ; the other guests in the immediate vicinity of the chair comprising, Mr. James G. Bennett, jun., of the New York Herald, and owner of the Henrietta ; Colonel Taylor, United States' Army ; Mr. L. Lorillard, of the Vesta ; the United States' Consul at Southampton ; the Mayor of Newport; Capt. Luard, her Majesty's ship Hector; Capt. Brown, R.N., secretary, Royal Yacht Squadron. The vice-chair was filled by Mr. J. Binfield Bird, the chairman of the Banquet Com mittee, having on his right and left Capt. S. Samuels, of the Henrietta ; Capt. Thomas, of the Fleetwing ; Capt. Johnson, of the Vesta ; Capt. Kitt ; Mr. W. Fiske, and other American gentlemen. Covers were laid for 110. The cards of invitation issued were beautifully got up in colours by Smith, of Cowes, and each was headed with the flags of America and England, held with clasped hands. The dinner and the wines were most creditable to the Messrs. Jones, of the Gloster and Fountain Hotels, the purveyors. Grace was said by the Rev. Mr. Atkinson, the vicar of Cowes. The CILIIIIMAN, in rising to propose the first toast, said, although the party assembled was a numerous one, it would have been much more so had not many gentlemen who were anxious to be present been prevented from attending ; and his first duty was to read the letters of apology which he had received. He then read letters explaining their cause of absence from the Prince Leiningen, Sir John Cowell, Major-General Biddulph, Rear- Admiral Sir J. Hammond, Rear-Admiral Ratsey,. Mr. Tennyson, Poet Laureate ; Mr. J. Stephenson, C.E. ; Commodore Balliston, Admirals Love, Cro zier, &c. He then said that the first toast always drunk in every assembly of Englishmen was the health of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. (Cheers.) They were at all times ready to drink that toast with expressions of loyal attachment to their constitutional Sovereign, who so admirably discharged her high and responsible duties ; but sitting, as they now did, almost under the shadow of the towers of Osborne, they might be excused if a sentiment rather more personal and tender ani mated them on the present occasion. (Cheers.) He begged to give " The Health of her M ,jesty the Queen," with all respect, loyalty, and affection which could be thrown into the toast. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours. The CHAIRMAN said he had now to c ill on them to fill their glasses to " The Health of the President of the United States." (Cheers.) On an occasion like the present they were delighted to pay a public compliment to one filling that important position— a man who had been selected by his fellow -country men—by that mighty nation across the Atlantic— to be their leader and representative. (Cheers.) They were quite aware that at this moment there might be reasons why the policy pursued by the President might not be considered satisfactory to all parties in the United States. That was not the time or place to discuss that question. (Cheers.) Everybody, however, must admit, whatever their prepossessions might be, that no one could have more earnestly pursued or more decidedly carried out the course of policy which, rightly or wrongly, the President believed to be essential to theinterests of the country. (Cheers.) All they had to do, and he was sure the sentiment would be unanimously responded to around that table, was to express an earnes t wish that the policy of the President might be so guided and controlled as to be conducive to the peace, prosperity, and best interests of that great country, with which we were so nearly con nected by every tie of blood and interest. (Cheers.) He pr)posed, with all the honours, " the Health of the President of the United States." (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours. The CHAIRMAN, in giving " the Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family," said there never was a Royal Family so carefully trained and anxiously educated to fulfil the duties expected of them as the Royal Family of this country. (Cheers.) In their do mcaic, social, and public relations the members of the Royal Family had from first to last been all that the English community could wish or desire, and on such occasions as the present they were, there fore, always sure of having their names received with the utmost cordiality. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in giving the next toast, said it would be found slightly varied from the form in which it was usually given at public dinners. They had long been accustomed to toast the army and navy of England ; but, in the presence of their distinguished guests from over the water, he proposed to alter the , toast, and he was quite sure they would be delighted to adopt the alteration, and drink to the united armies and navies of the United States and Great Britain. (Cheers.) They knew and their fathers had known what their own army and navy were ; that army and navy had been supplanted by their great corps de reserve, and he had no doubt they would be found able to do all their predecessors had done before them. They now also knew what the army and navy of the United States were. 'They had long known what the navy of the United States was, but it had been reserved for this gene ration to arrive at a true appreciation of the United States' army. During the last few years they seemed to have the facility not only of creating armies, but of improvising generals for them. (Cheers.) He looked upon it that the United States and Great Britain united were the greatest security for the peace and liberty of the world. (Cheers.) We in England relied on the prestige of a glorious past ; our brethren on the other side of the Attantic seemed to hint to possess all the vigour, the strength, and the indomitable energy of youth. (Cheers.) Long may the Union to which they now drank continue. (Cheers.) He had great pleasure in giving " The Armies and Navies of the United States and of Great Britain," coupling with the toast Colonel Taylor, of the United States Army ; General Seymour, of the British Army ; and Captain Luard, of the British ary. rho toast was drunk with all the honours. Colonel TAYLort, who was loudly cheered, said would that some gentleman more capable than myself were present from America to respond t o the toast ivhich you have just been pleased t o o f fer. friends who h ave But I am very pure that my crossed with rat) in the three yachts the December Atlantic will join with me in expressing our most heartfelt thanks for the very great courtesy you have extended towards us in remembering on this occasion the army and navy of the United States. I need not say how great is the pleasure I ex perience in replying to a toast which in its senti ment blends together the names of Great Britain J inner at Cowes to the New York Yacht and America. (Cheers.) I am no speechmaker, Club. yet the veriest tyro could not hesitate to respond when such common interests are noupled together (cheers) ; and I must confess the higher and wilder beat the pulsations of my heart when I think of the cordial sincere friendship and love cementing the ties which should be our natural bond. (Cheers.) England and America! Both nations have been rivals for years. England is the mother; we are the child. (Cheers.) Both have set the most brilliant examples of everythi ag right, proper, noble, good, and virtuous. (Cheerrf.) We have tried to follow in your wake. If our steps have been onward, yours have been upward ; we have tried to emulate them. What we have draw you have taught us to do. (Cheers.) If in years past our flags have been joined together and. our hands clasped, let us hope and wish that in years to come England and America may be still more closely united. (Loud cheers.) Looking down the long vista of years to come, through the long corridors of time, no dearer dream can we realise than that iof Great Britain and America joined hand in hand, marching onward and upward together—(cheers)-- the stars round which our thoughts revolve like satellites. (Cheers.) For, gentlemen, whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder. (Loud cheers.) Major-General SEYMOUR, in replying for the British Army, said,—l thank you sincerely for the hearty way in which you have received the toast proposed. The English army is, as you know, cer tainly not overpaid—(a laugh)—and in this respect at least probably unlike the American army—(a laugh)—so.our guests whom we are assembled here to honour will understand and believe me when I say that it does not look to personal advantages or pecuniary rewards as an incentive to do its duty half as much as to the hope of being able to attain the respect and approbation of its countrymen. (Cheers.) These public occasions are, therefore, always hailed by both services as affording a test and gauge of the degree to which they are valued at particular moments, and I am not afraid of being contradicted when I say that, although our army is too small, it never was more efficient. (Cheers.) Soldiers, equally with sailors, are never backward in appreciating enterprise and skill, qualities which both have been shown in no ordinary degree on the present occa sion, as proved by the almost unprecedentedly short time in which those American yachts have made their voyage at this inclement season of the year. (Cheers.) I say almost, because her Ma jesty's ship Newcastle at the same season came in 11 days to Falmouth ; but then there was the differ ence of tonnage, which makes all the difference in the risk and danger. (Cheers.) It is with much pleasure, then, that as a soldier I am allowed to take my humble share in doing honour to these gal lant gentlemen who have made Cowes the goal of their interesting race--(cheers)—and it is the more pleasing that I have had many opportkinities of hearing my brother officers speak with gratitude of the facilities which were given them by American officers of seeing the movements of the armies under their guidance during the late war. (Cheers.) I have often heard my father—whose name is, I be lieve, well known in America as almost the oldest Admiral in the Fleet, and who was known probably to several Cowes men now present as a near neigh bour in old days at Norris Castle—(cheers)—I have heard him say that, in the different positions in which he has found himself in various parts of the world, he had continual intercourse with commanders of American squadrons, and that he looked back to that intercourse with much satisfaction. (Cheers.) I repeat, therefore, that it is personally grateful to my feelings to be present, but I have still a more pleasing duty to perform. I happened to be at Os borne in attendance on the Queen when the yachts arrived, and .1 can speak, therefore, to the lively interest which her Majesty evinced in all the parti culars of the voyage—(cheers)—and I am com manded by her Majesty to express her thanks for the readiness which was shown to-day in bringing the three yachts off Osborne. (Cheers.) The Queen and the Royal Family derived much gratification in seeing them under way. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I again beg leave to thank you, and to drink all your 1 good healths. (Cheers.) Captain LUAIW, in speaking to the toast for the navy, said,—Although I cannot but feel that I rise at very great disadvantage after the extremely in teresting speeches of General Taylor and General Seymour, it is yet with no ordinary emotion that I rise to return thanks in behalf of the English navy on the present most auspicious occa sion. It is always a very great pleasure to us to welcome the American flag into our waters ; but on this occasion, when so remarkable an event as the termination of the great ocean race is signalised by the appearance of that flag here it is more than usually so. lam sure that no Englishman—certainly no English naval officer—can forget the memorable words spoken by an American Commodore at the taking of the forts at Peiho, that blood was thicker than water—(cheers)—and we all believe that the spirit which prompted these words, and not only the words, but the very efficient assistance then ren dered, will never be wanting on the part of the great republic-of the West. (Cheers.) lam sure, speaking for the mother country— far away down east, as they would say on the other side of the Atlantic—the impression made by the words uttered and the assistance so generously given will never be obliterated. (Cheers.) Through all the storms of political controversy, through all the necessities of national statecraft, through all our most distant anti cipations of the future, we may confidently hope and trust that the two nations may press forward hand in hand t ogether—(cheers)—and that the future anticipat e d by Colonel Taylor may be realised. (Cheers.) The numbers assembled to do honour to this occasion must be a gratifying as well as con vincing pro o f o f the interest taken by England in all that concerns our Transatlantic neighbours. In the name of all ranks and grades of the British navy I thank you for the honour you have done them by coupling them with the army and navy of the United States. (Cheers.) The CHAIR3IAN, in givin g the next toast, " Peace and Prosperity to the United St ates and to Great Britain," said be proposed it with a firm conviction that these would be best secured to both countries by their permanent and indissoluble alliance. (Cheers.) Nay, more, in that alliance would be found the best security for the peace, the intellec tual progress, and the liberties of the world. (Cheers.) In this toast every true lover of his country itieither hemisphere would, he was con vinced, heartily join. All would feel with him, that two great nations so closely united by every tie of blood and of interest should never be severed even in thought. (Cheers.) The union be tween England and . America appeared to him hardly to belong to the mere category of political arrangement, but to have in it something of a closer and more domestic character. He thought that in this was to be found the secret of those transient clouds which occasionally darkened the serenity of our horizon. It had often been said by social phi losophers that husband and wife should not be exactly similar in temper and disposition. The self knowledge of each of the parties to the contract made them see each other's little defects and failings with an eye sharpened by their consciousness of their own misdoings and defiCiencies. (Cheers.) Ile believed that. this might be the case as between ourselves and our great relative across the Atlantic. IVe were too much alike always to be perfectly agreed. (Cheers.) Be that, however, as it might, supposing any such clouds to exist or to have arisen he feld sure that by a frank and cordial explanation they might be blown to the winds, and that the words of the old poet, " the falling out of faithful friends renewing is of love" might be completely realized. He was certain that the more the two nations saw of each other the more would their mutual regard and respect be deepened, and hence he augured well for the resalts of this auspicious evening, (Cheers.) Bound together as the two n ations were by every ti e o f a common origin, a com mon language, an d a common l i terature, they ought to go hand in hand upoi! the . great mission of pthaetiAonngolfo-tShaexon race —the civilisation and einanci- Nverld(Loud cheers.) He begged to couple the toast with the name of Mr. L. R. Jerome. The toast was drunk with great cordiality. Mr. JEROME said—Mr. Chairmanaudgentlelneu, • , L' I rise with what I may call extraordinary and un usual embarrassment, and under a great disadvan tage. I am, perhaps, the only person in our party who has not his speech carefully written out ready for delivery. (Laughter.) I did expect to be able upon this occasion to make our apology for coming - to Cowes in December, instead of waiting for the regular yachting season ; but even that subject has been taken from me. (Laughter.) There is no necessity for any apology. (Cheers.) I find that December is just the time to come to Cowes. (Cheers.) Here after I shall advise all my American friends who want to go to Europe to go in a yacht in the month of December, and arrive at Cowes. (Cheers.) They will be perfectly content to stop here. (Cheers.) This little but most hospitable town is all that I have seen of Marie England ; but I would be satis fied to go home without seeing any more. (Cries of "Stay with us.") Already I Legin to feel like a naturalised citizen, so great has been your kindness, so overwhelming your generosity. (Cheers.) I am, indeed, at home here. (Hear, hear.) Let me join you, Mr. Chairman, in welcoming my young Ame rican friends to this yachting centre. (Laughter and cheers.) Ido not refer particularly to the other yachting centre—Mr. Centre, of New York, the in ventor of wire rigging —although I might be under stood to do so. (A laugh.) I tell you seriously, my friends, that we did not, we could not, antici pate such a reception as this. (Hear, hear.) Our yacht race was made up at dinner. Two gentlemen arranged it, and one of them, as if to outdo the other, said, "Let us make it fram Sandyhook to Cowes." "That suits me" was the reply. (Cheers.) " Let us make the stakes thirty thousand dollars aside." " That suits me." (Cheers.) " Let us sail in the stormy month of December." " That suits me." (Applause.) Then another gentleman —a young gentleman, a modest gentleman--Cap tain Bennett., now present—(loud cheers)—asked if they would let his yacht into the match. They were very willing to do so, as she was considered decidedly the slowest boat. (Laughter.) This slowest boat has won the race, gentlemen. (Cheers.) I then proposed to make the match "play or pay," and that decided the affair. You know the rest. Here we are, and very glad to be here. (Cheers.) In conclusion, let me say, let us bring our yachts and racehorses into friendly competition, meet together in this social way, and keep aloof from all the politicians, and there can never be any difficulty between England and America. (Loud cheers.) With our flags hanging together, as we see them to night, our national mottoes side by side, and our hands united in the cordial grasp of a sincere friend ship, the two countries will go on together in their career of glory, the envy, the admiration, and the rulers of the world. (Loud and continued cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in giving the next toast, said it was perfectly natural that on such an occasion they should dilate on the great national advantages of union between the two great countries respectively represented ; it was most satisfactory to find the manner in which that sentiment was echoed on both sides of the Atlantic, especially by their honoured guests. They must all feel that this was a very peculiar occasion. It was not a political oc casion—not a meeting of statesmen, not a conven tion of States which might be friendly or hostile— it was simply a meeting of friends from both sides of the Atlantic, all animated by their attachment to a common pursuit, that great sympathy which united the Anglo-Saxon race in attachment to any thing having a semblance of sport about it. In the Isle of Wight they well knew what sport upon water meant. They knew something of yachting —(cheers)—and they were justly proud of their Royal Yacht Squadron. New York also boasted of its yacht squadron, so admirable and valuable in many points by which a yacht squadron should be distinguished. We had learnt a lesson from them, and a great lesson. He believed that to the yacht squadron of New York must be attributed all ad miralle qualities of vessels they had lately seen. (Cheers.) They had been most successful, and ac complished everything they had attempted. He had much pride and satisfaction in seeing present so many of the m:nubers of that club, and that they had brought with them three such beautiful speci mens of yacht architecture to excite their admira tion. Ile was glad to see Commodore Vickar present—(cheers)—an excellent representative from another hemisphere of the social and manly quali ties on which they prided themselves on this side of the water. (Cheers.) He was glad to see at this board a gentleman who merited the suffrages of his fellow citizens, who had placed him in the important and responsible position of com modore of their yacht squadron. lie had no doubt they would give the toast he now proposed a most cordial welcome, " The health of the New York Yacht Club, coupled with the name of th e i r hen- oured guest, Commodore Vicar." (Cheers.) The toast was drank with loud cheers. Commodore VICKAR said—l confess I felt for some time that the task I had undertaken was a difficult one, but now we arc here, and after all the kindness we have received, 1 must say I feel very proud of the result. There are a few incidents con- netted with the formation of this match which, per haps, may be of interest as indicative of the feelings with which it was begun. Mr. Jerome has men tioned some of the circumstances, but he has omit ted to state that when the terms of the match were adjusted, a destination was not named, but silently and unanimously it was felt it should be Cowes. (Cheers.) Your kindness since our arrival bas ----- made us feel that you have established as a fact what must be felt at home, that in coming here we did not come as strangers to a strange land. (Cheers.) And were there any lingering doubt in our mind we have only to look at the mottoes which grace this room to feel there can be no mistake. (Cheers.) One I see runs thus—" God save the Queen," to which I am happy to think every Ame rican heart will respond. (Loud cheers.) Again, I see, " Separated, not divided." I have no ques tion of the fact ; and if there were I would point to the other side and say, " Evil be to him that evil thinks." (Cheers.) Remembering where we came from, and what we came from, the " Welcome to Old England" is indeed a welcome home. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said he had now arrived at what might be called the toast of the evening. They were met to celebrate one of the most dashing and daring exploits on record. (Cheers.) They had met to cele- brate the triumph of the winner of the great yacht race between New York and Cowes. As he for merly stated, they had long been accustomed to yachting, but in number of yachts and yachtsmen there had never been a match carried out so spi ritedly. Never had yachts so braved the billows of of the broad and stormy Atlantic. (Cheers.) They had long been accustomed to yachting, but it had been reserved for those who were called the children of the mother country to teach Old England to know what yachting could be made, and what America had made of it. He hoped they would take a lesson from what they saw before them. He did not know that they had anything to learn in the way of yacht-building, but they had to learn the patriotism which converted even the yacht into an instrument for the good of the country. This was not the first time that Mr. Bennett, jun.—(pro tracted cheering)— had signalised himself and his yacht. (Cheers.) The Henrietta had not borne her maiden colours to Cowes. She was long before devoted to the service of her country, and did good and gallant service in the great American :war. (Cheers.) They were proud to welcome Mr. Ben nett as the winner of the race. (Cheers.) To be second or third in such a match was only a degree less gallant and glorious than to be first. (Cheers.) Mr. Bennett had come over in his own yacht, and his position as winner was therefore all the more gratifying. He hoped they would often seem him, and that he would be accompanied by many of the members of the New York Yacht Club. (Cheers.) He had great pleasure in proposing "The Health of Mr. Thomas Gordon hennett, winner of the Ocean Race, and their American Cousin." The toast was drunk with loud and continued cheers. Mr. THOMAS GORDON BENNETT, who was received with repeated acclamations, expressed his thanks for the great and generous kindness he had received since his arrival in a very few brief sentences. He regretted that his time had been so entirely occupied that he bad not been able to prepare a speech more befitting the-occasion. They certainly never anti cipated so grand a welcome. They did not know whether there would be any yachts or yachtsmen at Cowes. The reception they had met with was un speakably gratifying, and such as none of the Ame rican gentlemen who accompanied him ever dreamt of. (Loud cheers.) He should always cherish a grateful recollection of their kindness. (Cheers.) The VICE-CnAirt3sAN (i\l. J. B. Bird) proposed " The health of the Chairman, their much esteemed Representative." Sir John, they all knew, was noble, generous, and good ; ever ready to come forward and assist in anything calculated to benefit his fellow-men. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours. The CHAIRMAN said he had been alluded to as oc cupying the honourable position of their represen tative. He was the last man to import politics into a social meeting, but this much he must be allowed to say—the vessel of the State had not now per fectly clear weather or smooth water before her. Before many weeks were gone he would be called upon to take his humble place among the crew which manned her, and he should endeavour to do his duty by those who sent him there. He only trusted they might take a leaf out of the log of the Henrietta, and copy the example of her gallant captain— (cheers)—that they might know when to crack on and when to lie too, and that they would be able alike to avoid the pitiable timidity which always hugs the shore, and the reckless foolhardiness which, without chart or soundings, would enter upon un known and stormy waters. (Loud cheers.) " The Press" was next given, and replied to by Mr. Fiske, of the New York Herald. " The Health of the Mayor of Newport," and several other toasts followed, after which the com pany separated. On Saturday morning the Henrietta, Fleetwing, and Vesta weighed in company, from Cowes Roads, and setting all canvas, made sail to the eastward for the inspection of the Queen and the Royal Family from the grounds of her Majesty's Marine Palace at Osborne. Abreast of Osborne the yachts ma nceuvred and fired a Royal salute, the Queen at the time being observed on the beach at Osborne with several of the Royal Family, evidently looking with great interest at the three noble vessels as they sailed gracefully past in review order, and fired the salute from their miniature ordnance. On Friday night Lord Lennox invited Mr. Bennett and the Commodore of the New York Yacht Club to meet the Duke of Edinburgh at dinner. Mr. Bennett having an nounced that he held himself in readiness to accept any challenge from English yachtsmen, the Duke of Edinburgh agreed to sail him round the Isle of Wight in August next for £lOO, the Duke to sail in his own yacht. The Henrietta will sail for Havre early this week. Miscellaneous American News. In the annual report of the Director of the Mint a complimentary reference is made to certain im portant improvements in the mode of parting gold and silver, made and introduced by Andrew Mason, Esq., Melter and Refiner in the New York Assay Office. The improvements are to be introduced into all the Branch Mints. These are of general interest to refining establishments, and consist, first, in so adjusting the melts for granulating that the pure gold, instead of gold bullion, shall consti tute one-third of the mixed metal ; and, secondly, in burning the gold in strong sulphuric acid after one treatment in nitric acid. The first charge of nitric acid is to be made larger than the first in the old process, but twenty per cent. less than the amount in both, while the consumption of fuel is greatly reduced and much disagreeable labour re moved. It is estimated that the saving in one year's business would amount to $lO,OOO, rating the cost of refining, at fiity per cent. greater than in New York. ', MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1866. ton.. It would have been placed in the western part of Pennsylvania had any inducements been held out to the managers to do so. The profits of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, for the month of October were $60,000. The average number of guests daily were six hundred, and the estimated profit on each was $3 per day. Mr. S. R. FisK, who is one of the guests on the racing yachts, intends to remain for some months in Europe, where he will collect matter for publica tion on his return. The returns received at the Land Office from the local office at lonia, Michigan, show that 12,855 acres of the public lands were disposed of during October, 6,453 acres of which were taken for actual settlement under the Homestead law. The sales amounted to $13,195. Under date of Nov. 19th, 1865, the Governor of Wisconsin certified to the Secretary of the Interior that 2;) miles of tho, tary waggon road from Fort Wilkins, Copper Har bour, Michigan, to Fort Howard, Green Bay, Wis consin, for which a grant of lands was made to these States by the Act of March 3, 1863, to aid in its construction, has been completed, as required by law. Two Spanish frigates have left Cuba to compel Honduras to observe neutrality in the Chilian question, and also for the purpose of protecting Spanish commerce in the Central American waters. Secretary M'Culloch has prepared a new Tariff Bill, which will soon be presented to Congress. It is anti-protective in character. The Secretary pro poses a reciprocity scheme for the government of our trade with Canada, in some particulars re sembling that repealed at the last session of Con gress. The following tests of the strength of differen kinds of rail to resist the blow of a hammer have been made. The rails were placed under the steam hammer separately, resting on blocks of iron placed 14 inches apart. Each piece of rail was about three feet long, and each received the same drop of ham mer weighing 700 lb. : No. blows lbs. to yd. rec'd from steam hammer. Cast-steel rail 6O 83 3.4 in. Steel-headed rail 6B 42 3.4 in. Eng. rail, 2 samples 56 ea. 21 ea. 3.4 in. English rail 56 13 broke Our Common rail 56 13 3.4 in. 3.16 in There was no fraeture in any of the above rails ex• cept the English rail marked " broke." Mr. Bessemer recently stated, at a meeting a.. the British Association, that American iron—so far as be had seen it—was peculiarly adapted to the manufacture of steel by his process. The presence of sulphur and phosphorus in Staffordshire and other prominent English irons has been thought to limit the value of the process to but few kinds of irons ; but by a recent invention of Mr. George Parry, of Ebbw Vale, which has been purchased and improved by Mr. Bessemer, this difficulty has in a great measure been done away. The new im provement is simply a preliminary puddling process by which impurities are removed. The iron, after being thus treated, is to be remelted and partially recarburised, and then acted upon in the converters n the regular way. Engineering illustrates the mechanical puddling furnace invented by Mr. Bes semer to enable the process to be carried out on a large scale. By these improvements an immense field will be open to the Bessemer process, by enabling it to be applied to irons not previously available, and will no doubt tend to reduce the cost of Bessemer steel throughout the world. The gross earnings of sixteen of the principal railways, whose stocks are dealt in on the New York Stock Exchange, were $53,177,425 during the first nine months of this year, against $54,338,917 in the same time last year ; a decrease of little more than 2 per cent. ; while the nett earnings of all the roads, owing to the reduction in the cost of material, and to some extent of labour, were larger than 1865. Bent. Dented. 1.16 in, 1.8 in, 1.8 in. Arrangements have been made by United States Marshal Gooding, for the reception of John H. Sur ratt, who will be brought direct to Washington, and not landed at Fortress Monroe. The time of his trial will depend upon the arrival of witnesses to whom he has confessed his guilt. The United States District Court, before which he will be tried, consists of Chief Justice Carter, of Ohio ; Judge Olin, of New York ; Judge Fisher, of Delaware ; Judge Wiley, of the District of Columbia ; Hon. E. C. Carrington, United States District Attorney; and Hon. Nathaniel Wilson, Assistant District At torney—all thoroughly loyal and able men. The jury will be impannelled from the residents of the District of Columbia and its vicinity, who may perhaps also supply him with counsel. It is not probable that he will make any confession unless convicted and sentenced to be hung. No hostility has yet been manifested in the Senate, against the bill which passed the house by a party vote, providing for the assembling of Congress on March 4th. A Chicago journal says that the total amount ex pended on buildings during the past year, as near as can be ascertained, is $6,750,000, which has been distributed as follows : Leading architects ... ••• 53,000,000 Other carpenters, &c. ... 1,900,000 Without architects ... 1,850,000 Total ... ... ••• ... .... $6,750,000 The following figures will show the approximate values of the structures : Building worth $200,000 ••• ... ... $ 1 Worth $lOO,OOO and upwards ... ... 5 Worth $30,000, and loss than $lOO,OOO ... 30 Worth $lO,OOO, and less than $30,000 ... 60 Worth from $5,000 to $lO,OOO ... ... 300 Worth $l,OOO to $5,000 ••• ... ... 900 Small cottages, &c. ... ••• •.. ... 6,500 Total ... $7,856 Twenty-two large sea-going steamers enter and sail from the ports of Aspinwall and Panama monthly. 'When the line to China is opened the Isthmus will be in direct communication with almost every por tion of the globe. No decision has yet been rendered by the Supreme Court upon the question of the legality of the law prescribing the test oath for attorneys. The Inland Revenue receipts are now about one million a day. Captain John Britton, the United States Consul at Southampton, received a letter from the Lords of the Admiralty, before the arrival of the yachts, of which the following is a copy, to gether with the captain's reply " Admiralty, Dec. 20. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that they have directed Admiral Sir T. Pasley, on the arrival of the three American yachts, which left New York on the 11th inst., to race to Cowes, Isle of Wight, that he is to communicate with their cap tains or owners, and, in case of need, offer them the assistance of the dockyard.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, HENRY G. LENNOX.—John Britton, Esq., American Consulate, Southampton." " United States Consulate, Southampton, Dec. 24.—Sir,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., and in reply I beg to state that I shall have great pleasure to inform the cap tains and owners of the American yachts now on their way to Cowes of the offer of assistance ex tended to them by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. I have the honour to be, &c., JOHN Bnirrox, United States Consul. To the Hon. Secre tary of the Admiralty." Preparations were made at Cowes to give the yachts and the gentlemen on board a suitable reception on their arrival, and it has been decided to invite the American visitors to a grand banquet, to which the authorities of neigh bouring towns are also to be invited. It is reported that the Americans resident in Paris, anticipating a great influx of their country men, have just made an application to the police authorities for permission to set up an American club. The President has directed the various Cabinet officers t o prepare answers to the Hon. Leonard Myers' resolution calling for a list of all removals and appointments, &c., made during the recess. These lists were to be sent in in a few days, and will be much larger than is generally supposed. The House Committee on the Judiciary have as yet taken no action on Judge Kelley's bill for the reorganisation of the Internal Revenue Depart ment. The Managers of the Soldiers' National Asylum have agreed to establish three homes, one in Maine, at Augusta, which is now open ; one in Wisconsin, for which ground has been bought near Milwaukee, and one in Ohio, which will probably be near Day. The copper districts of the United States, east of the Rocky Mountains, to which attention has been attracted, other than those of Lake Superior, are as follows : —Virginia, upon the Blue Ridge range, in Carroll, Floyd, and Grayson counties ; North Carolina, Guilford county, &c. ; Tennessee, Polk county ; Georgia, along the line of Gilmer county; New Jersisy, Schuyler mine of Belleville; Connecticut, Bristol mine. Most of these mines have been abandoned ; those of Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, and Connecticut were at one time vigorously worked ; the Eureka and other com panies, of Georgia and Tennessee, have at times yielded a profit to their owners. In the United States Senate, on the 12th instant Mr. Morgan introduced the following joint resolu tion of thanks to Mr. Cyrus W. Field, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations : " Resolved,—That the thanks of Congress be, and hereby are, presented to Cyrus W. Field, of New York, for his foresight, courage, and determination in establishing telegraphic communication by means of the Atlantic cable, traversing through mid-ocean, between the Old World and the New, and that the President of the United States be requested to cause a gold medal to be struck, with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions, to be presented to Mr. Field. Resolved,—That when the medal shall have been struck, the President shall cause a copy of this joint resolution to be engrossed on parchment, and shall transmit the same, together with the medal, to Mr. Field, to be presented to him in the name of the people of the United States of America. Resolved, —That a sufficient sum of money to carry this re solution into effect is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro priated." Cyrus W. Field was at Washington, ar ranging with the Government about matters con nected with the Atlantic cable. It has been definitely settled that a large delega tion from the North-west tribes of Indians are to be sent as a.contribution from the United States to the Exposition. The Indian Bureau, and Colonel-Row land, the Commissioner of the North-western States and Territories, have given every facility in their collection. Mr. Henry C. Jarrett will take the management of the party. They will catty with them their various costumes, wigwams, war and agricultural implements, and will form the only con tribution from the United States to the tenth group within the limits of the Exposition: They will leave New York about the 10th of March. The Imperial Commission has made the most urgent re quests, through Commissioner General Beckwith, to the United States Government, that there should be such a representation of our aborigines. The cereal and mineral representation, of the States and Territories lying between the lakes and the Pacific, for the Paris Exposition, will be very complete. Wisconsin and Minnesota will furnish wheat :which will fully equal the grains of Odessa. Idaho and Montana will supply full specimens of their precious metals. This representation has been raised through the efforts of Colonel Rowland, the Commissioner to Paris of all the North-western States and Territories, who has reached Washington from an extended trip through the country he is to represent. IVe learn that Mr. Jennings, the New York cor respondent of the London Times, is shortly to lead to the altar Miss Madeline Henriques.— New York Leader. Mrs. Ellen Key Blunt is giving Shaksperiau readings at Berlin. Mrs. Blunt is quite Southern in her feelings, and cannot reconcile herself to the Union. At Frankfort at present we notice the names of Professor F. C. N ilsch, Ifoppin and lady, C. G. \Viedman, and Herman Marcuse, all of New York ; Colonel W. B. Faswell, San Francisco ; bliss Mason, New York ; Consul E. D. Webster, Buffalo, New York ; James Eldredge, San Fran cisco ; Gerald Stanton, Chicago. In Wiesbaden are now W. 11. Danidge, New York ; Philip Schieffelin and wife ; A. H. Hamil ton, New Orleans; Henry Schmidt, Boston. Mrs. Randall, wife of the Postmaster-General, is spending the winter at Rome. We perceive by the Vienna papers that the Breach-loading Arms Commission, presided over by the Archduke William, have unanimously recom mended the Remington rifle for adoption as the Austrian arm. Mr. Charles Temple Dix, the son of our Ambas sador to the Tuileries, is now in London. With that delicacy so ever characteristic of the family be COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, Saturday, Dec. 13. One of the most important events in the Stock Market has been the election of the directors of the New York Central Railroad held at Albany on Wednesday last, when Mr. lltinr,y Keep, of New York, was elected President, and Mr. W. C. Fargo, of Buffalo, Vice-President. Mr. Van derbilt and his clique were thoroughly defeated, and an entirely new board elected, with two exceptions. This occurred at a meeting representing eighteen and a half mil lions of the stock, and the feeling of the meeting may be sew, front the fact ti.t seventeen. millions of this voted for he successful ticket. The fact is, that the holders were disgusted with their property being turned to political purposes, and their interests sacrificed to this end, and they are bent upon making the most of a splendid line, and really governing the railroad for the benefit of the inves tors. Money is active at six to seven per cent. on good collaterals, with rare exceptions of five. Call loans are made at frornsixpercent. down to five. The banks are very cautious. Both at Boston and at Chicago the demand is considerable, but it is thought that the stringency will be lessened by the disbursement of 10i millions of currency, being the interest on the 7-30 loan, which the Treasury will pay immediately. About half this sum will be paid in New York. The stock markets continue dull, with now and then a little flickering of excitement, which only serve to show the want of strength. Some of the leading rail ways have rallied a trifle, but there is not activity enough to make the rise general. The position of affairs in Con gress tends to make speculators wary, and all seem dis posed to wait till political events are more plainly indi cated. It is very difficult to predict what may be the course of events, and all seem to concur that they are more precarious than usual. The bill introduced into Congress by Mr. Boutwell, compelling the Secretary of the Treasury to sell two millions of gold every Monday morning so long as he.has fifty millions, has caused much discussion. Both Mr. M'Culloch himself and some of our best financiers aro strongly opposed to the plan. They hold that a discretion should be left to the Secretary if the Treasury gold must be sold, to sell when he can do so to the best advantage, and not at stated times and in stated " I amounts. - The last statement of the public debt shows that - $37,705,300 in the new 5.20's of 1865 were issued during November, and that twenty-four millions of Seven- Thirties, $1,125,000 of compound interest notes, and nearly five millions in plain legal tenders were taken up by them. Though twenty millions of coin was disbursed to cash five-twenty coupons, the increase of the coin re serve had nearly balanced that amount, and the reserve has since swelled to $ 9 0,716,000, of which $21,441,000 is in gold certificates. The total reduction of the debt was less than two millions, owing to the large disbursements, but the aggregate reduction in the last fifteen months has amounted to $208,050,233. Gold is weak, at 1371, for the reason that there is a very light demand for it. The Satur day's steamers took out $574,000 and $272,000 more left for Europe on Wednesday. These are a little in excess of the gold exports in previous weeks, but not enough to make any stiffening in the price. Besides, the demand for customs is very light, having fallen below $200,000 dollars I, day at New York, when a short time ago it was $lOO,OOO. Besides, again, the secretary has been quietly selling four or five millions of gold —a fact well substan tiated, though stoutly denied at first. The decline in the produce markets still goes on; though it is thought that the lowest prices have been reached, and a revival in trade will spring up. Several city houses have succumbed under their losses. The disastrous dul ness in woollens has been severely felt, and there is a difficulty in making sales at any price. The entire earnings of the New York Central for the year ending September 30 were $14,596,784, an increase of $621,261 over the previous year. Of this amount $4,360y248 came from passengers, a decrease of $161,201 ; and $9,671,919 from freights, an, increase of $895,892. The operating expenses were $11,013,441 against $10,882,358. This showing would have justified a division of 8 per cent., instead of 6, as was declared ; but the surplus fund was increased $486,631, making it $4,407,928, and $431,991 was applied to the structure and equipment of the road. The present debt and capital amounted ti $38,896,804. — The Reading Railroad has declared a dividend of 5 per cent. in cash or stock, at the option of the stockholders. The fellowiug are about the latest prices : —American gold, 1371; United States coupon sixes, 1881, 112; United States five-twenties (1862), 1071; X 1864), 1051; (1865), 1051; (1865, new issue), 1081; United States ten-forties, 901; United States 7 3-10 loan (first series), 1051; (second and third series), 105 ; Tennessee sixes, 91; Missouri, 901; New York Central Railroad, 1111; Erie, 721; Hud son River, 122; Reading, 1091; Michigan Central, 118 ; Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 821; Illinois Central, 1181; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 91; Chicago and Northwestern, 551; Chicago and Northwestern preferred, 751 ; Cleveland Toledo, 1131; Chicago and Rock Island, • , 1011; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago, 1051; Ohio and Mississippi Certificates, 291; Canton Company, 46 ; Cumberland Coal Company, 661; Quicksilver Mining Corn parry, 464. 1 , From E. F. Batterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, December 26.) Our advices from New York per the Sptia to the 11th instant report slightly increased stringency in the money market, and a decline of about one per cent. in Govern.. ment securities. Railroad stocks were slightly depreciated, but not in proportion to the fall in gold. In State stocks and' railroad mortgages the changes were unimportant. Notwithstanding a broken week on the London Stock Exchange, and consequent inactivity in markets generally, there bas been a geed hpsiness transacted in Am erica se . has dropped his military rank, to which he is by every right entitled. We may, perhaps, be not considered as trespassing on private matters when we take occasion authoritatively to deny a matri monial alliance between a gentleman who neces sarily has at present a world-wide fame as a yacht man, and the family of a gentleman whose past record is sufficient evidence that his connection with the French Court will alike redound to his personal credit, as well as the nation at large. THE SEVENTH REGIMENT OF NEW YORIC—It is a source of extreme sorrow to ua that we are com pelled to announce to our Anglo-American readers that the Seventh Regiment will nit visit Europe during the Paris Exhibition. A vote was taken among the officers in New York, and it was decided that it would be impassible to congregate or gather the Regiment in such force as would make it pre sentable in Europe. It can easily be imagine 1 how difficult it must necessarily be to collect 1,000 men, take them from their various occupatLms, in which the city of New York is interested. Yet still a vote was passed of regret that the hospitalities which had been so generously and cordially extended could not be accepted. Governor Wright, our worthy ambassador at Berlin, is seriously ill. His many friends will re gret to hear this. On Thanksgiving Day about 100 Americans sat down to dinner at Berlin. Among the distinguished guests mere consul Kittell, of Baden ; General Dodge, Consul at Bremen ; Con - sul Kriesman, Berlin ; and Consul Dickenson, of Leipsic. Many speeches were made and several toasts drank, and all enjoyed a pleasant evening. We hear that the new American chapel at Ber lin is to be opened for service during the month of December. Much credit is due to the popular lady, Mrs. Wright, wife of the minister there, for her efforts in building this chapel. A fair is soon to be held in aid of funds for completing the interior and to purchase fittings. It will be for the use of all Christian denominations, though nominally known as the Methodist Chapel, that body having contributed largely towards its erection. Mr. Robinson, U. S. Consul at Strasburg, is spending the holidays at Berlin, Mr. Robinson is the son of the noted American Hebrew scholar, the late Rev. Dr. Robinson, of New York. OPENING OF THE NEW BRIDGE AT PHILADELPHIA. —The bridge which was opened for travel on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Rail road, on Nov. 26, is one of the largest in the world, being about 3,500 feet long. It is exceeded in length by the Victoria Bridge at Montreal, which is two miles long, by the great bridge across the Potomac, at Washington, and by the bridge across the Delaware, at Trenton, New Jersey, and per haps by a few others ; but there are scarcely any bridges which have been more difficult to build, and which have required so much science, patience, and perseverance in the construction. The com pany has met with many discouragements while engaged in the work, and, in consequence of the failures and disasters which have occurred during the time, the structure has cost very largely in excess of the original estimates. But it is at length finished, and it seems to be solid and durable, and will be made, before it is relinquished by the workmen, thoroughly fire-proof. It now gives a clear road to Baltimore, allows a consider able saving of time in travel, and does away with all pretence of the necessity of an Air Line betwc;en New York and Washington, which has been urged by speculators. By means of the Connecting Rail road in the outskirts of this city, and by the accom modation afforded by this bridge, the time between Washington and New York will be shortened at least one hour, and there cannot be laid out any road which would secure a greater gain of time to the travelling community between the points indi cated.—Philadelphia Inquirer. curities, United States 5-20's of both issues have been in good demand, and close with an apparently improving tendency, closing 721 to I. Illinois Central Shares have been in good demand at en hanced quotations, and exhibit a rise of $1 on the week, being last quoted 788 to 79, but Eries, on lower prices in New York, have declined to 4Q- to 4, after having been taken as high as 481. First-class American Bonds ;seat: , rally have been in request, and auy offering are freely taken at advanced rates. CO LIST Y ?flii aliE T z:. NORWICH SATURDAY. There eras a fair I-aipply of wheat at this market to-day, which lact a fair sale, at the full prices of last week. A limited supply of malting b,rley, and for such the extreme prices of this day so'nuight were maititahe-d ; for secondary and distilling qualities the trade was slow. Little doing in other articles. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 63s to 70:t ; old red cotto, (weighing 631 b), 58s to 63s ; new red ditto (weighing 601 b to 631 b), —s to —s ; best malting barley (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 50s to 52s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 52Vu). 43s to 48s; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 36s co 40s ; oats, 2-Is to 265; beans, his to 39s ; peas (maple), 36.3 t 9 388 per qr. Flour, 44s Oil per sack. NOT TING HAM-SATURDAY. The show of wheat was fair, but the (panty and con dition of the grain was varied. The demand was mode rate, at last week's prices. The supply of barley was pretty tolerable, but there was not much demand ; for the best qualities late rates were supported. A moderate show of oats, for which there was a steady dem:ind, at previous rates. Beans a dull sale, at a slight concession in prices.. _ Old white wheat, 70s to 73s ; old red, 62s to 68s ; new white, 62s to 72s ; new red, Ms to. 63s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 365; new, 25s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 56s to 60s ; new, 44s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 47s to 49s per sack. LEICES TER SATURDAY. We had a tolerable supply of wheat, the show con sisting of white and red descriptions. A moderate busi ness was done at fully late rates. The inquiry for barley was moderate, and sales were slow, at last week's prices.. Oats were in seasonable supply, and mot a tolerable de mand. There was a slow demand for beans, at rather less money. NeW white wheat, 68s to 70s ; new red, 60s to 68s ; white, 70s to 765; old red, 66s to 70s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 40s to 50s per qr.; grinding, 32s to 343 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 31s to 35s ; new, 28s to 33s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 55s to 58s ; new, 45s to 52s per 38 stone. Pine flour, 433 ; seconds, 45s to 47s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. There was a limited show of wheat to-day, and sales were made quietly, at full prices. A better feeling in the demand for barley, and all good qualities maintained late prices. The inquiry for oats was steady, the currencies of last week being realised. The demand for beans proved dull, at rather lower rates. ... New white wheat, 56s to 62s ; new red, 50s to 58s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, new, 48s to 52s p er 38 cme. Malt, 68s to 703. Flour, 45s to 47s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List. - MAILS DUE. Anstralla and New Zealand, via Southampton.. „ Jan. 19. Ditto, v!a Marseilles J.in. 43. Brazil and Cap, , Verde. by British packet Jan. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Asseneinn, and St. lielena..... 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou t hampton jan 3. Ditto, via Ha rseilles ... . Dec 2S Fatkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 29. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton_ Jan 3 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via ..3outtia.tripton. Ditto, via :ttarseiiies Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 29. Ditto, via Marseilles Dee. 28. Ilauritiuc, via Southampton . Ditto, via Slarseil.es... .. ... Newfoundland ... ~:...Jan. 2. L'ortuga) . .... . Jan, 4 Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. . .... ~7 n ited Mates and British North Atuerie,t, by Br, • risti packet.. .. ---Jim. 2. ditto. by United states paok‘t, VI& Soutbsuip Lyn Ditto, via Gork. JIM), Dy Canadian packet, via Loadunderr Deo S ebt Coast oi Africa, Sladeira, and Teneriire Jan. 3 i'Vest Indies and l'acido (except Balsa nag and floadurai) Bahain',..i, via New 1 ork Luba aid 31.-xleo Bermuda, via Halifax— •• Dec 29 Jan 1 . Dec. .! 9 . . Jan. 16. There are sixteen papers now published in the Dutch East Indian colonies in the Dutch language --three in Malay, and one Javanese, besides six journals, organs of learned societies. Most of these papers are published in Java ; the Jarasche Courant, of Batavia, is the Government Gazette, and was first started in 1810, the earliest attempt of the kind in the island. It is merely official. These papers are nearly all weeklies or semi-weeklies ; none are 117 have no political articles, but consist chiefly of advertisements, with local and home news, and an occasional leader on local, agri cultural, or commercial matters. The editor of the iVieuwsbode, of Sourabaya, was banished last year for an infringement of the press regulations, in not supplying the name of the writer of an article called " A Dream," pretending to give a representation of the position of Java in 1965, which was offensive to the Government; and a subsequent editor was banished for a similar reason. The papers are all sub ject to a stamp tax, and no numbers are allowed to be distributed until a copy has been delivered to the head of the local government and approved by him. The three principal papers of Batavia do not average above„,l,ooo to 1,200 subscribers in Java and the neighbouring island, and publish a mail edition for Holland. Their advertisements bring in their largest revenue ; and though the subscription price is not more than $l2 per annum, they manage to pay their editors (generally lawyers) $5,000 and upwards a year. Like the papers of most small countries, they are continually attacking and abusing one another; and all of them pasist in placing domestic occur rences in the order that propriety suggests—mar riages, births, and deaths—rather than iu the Eng lish way.—The Nation. The great financial authority, the Seniaiite Financiere, thus appreciates the Budget of 1 1 . could :—" The impression arising from reading this important document is two-fold ;it excites admira tion at the fecundity of the resources of France, and a sentiment of painful surprise at the laborious efforts which it is necessary to make to keep our ex penses upon a level with those splendid and inde fatigable resources. With such elastic resources ag ours, with resources increasing to the extent of 45 millions from year to another, and which, according to the views of the Minister of Finance, will exceed by 40 millions the expectations of the Budget of 1867, which could not be done by Governments like those of England and the United States, accus tomed to assist by skilful and comprehensive mea sures, to advance the progress of the riches of their country." rAnvEnalsEmrsr.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- Experience before Authority.— For nearly the third of 3 century have these remedies stood in the foremost rank for overcoming ulcers, sores, swellings, rashes, and all descriptions of skin diseases. At first the faculty de nounced these medicaments, but the experience of sufferers soon overthrew all interested opposition. Those whom Holloway's medicines bad cured told other invalids the benefit they had derived from their use ; these in their tura tried them, found equally satisfactory results, and thus are these admirable curatives used and r rized throughout the habitable globe. The ointment has always been applied with the most marked success in erysipelas, varicose veins, swelled ankles, and numberless other in firmities by which thousands around us are sorely op pressed. Births. FOULERTON—On the 22d inst., at Richmond-hill, the wife of Capt. Alex. Foulerton, of a son. LENNOX—On the 28th inst., at 12, Charles-street, Berko ley-square, the Lady Alex. G. Lennox, of a daughter , stillborn. STEWART—At 42, Upper Grosvenor-street, the Lady Isa bella Stewart, of a daughter. WALDECX—On the 17th inst., at Cleve, Prussia, the Coun tess of Waldeck, of a sou. Marriages. BARMAY—BENNETT—On the 22d inst., at St. rancras, David Barclay, Esq., of South-square Gray's-inn, t° Mary, second daughter of W. Bennett, Esq., of Euston' square. BATLEY—CHILD — . On the 26th inst., at Totteridge Chapel, George F. Bayley, of Witham House, New Barnet, IlertS, to Eliza, only child of the l a t e G eorge Child, * o f Chipping Barnet, liens, Deaths. Cooxsox—On the 28th inst., Sarah, wife of V.B. Cookson, Esq., of The Pryors, Hampstead, aged 70. Cons —On the2Bth inst., the Rev. Charles G. Cotes, rector Of Stanton St. Quintin, Wilts, aged 66. DRAKE -On the 25th inst., at East Dereham, Win. Dral , :ei Esq., aged Go. Lorrirs—On the 25th inst., at Ardess, Kesh, Ireland, the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Adam Loftus, aged 50: LONGLANDS —On the 27th inst., at Winchester, the Rev. 117. • • D. Longlands, formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Os" ford, late rector of St. Gerrans,. Cornwall, aged 75. MoLrsEux—Oß the 28th inst., at Lower Tooting, Surrey Mr. Henry Molyneux, aged 58. London: Printed r.ad Pubiigted by WEL L lA3/ A of No. 112. • d trand, Pt' itter at Tiu. 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