The Sun. — London, England, 1866-05-07 00:00:00

bow* A IA 1; I C A. (REUTEI:-% ' TELEGP.AMS.) The Royal Mail stc znlship Asia, from Halifax and Boston, arrived r tit Queenstown yesterday at 8 . 45 p.m., with 137 pa Sgengers and 22,702 doll. in specie. She landed all her inaiN, consisting of 123 sacks and 13 passenger. 11, and proceeded for Liver pool at 9 p.m. All wel L (Per e Asia.) NEW I P o RE, April 24, Evening. The President has set it to the House of Repre sentatives important dipEci antic correspondence re lating to Mexico. On the 12th Feb. last . Mr. Seward addressed a communication to M. Me( ltholon, citing and an swering in detail the aro tments advanced by M. Drouyn de Lhuys in th Lx uary in defence of the course pursued by France ixi Mexico. M. Drouyn de Lhuys had declared that I 13e objects of the French Mexican expedition were not hostile to the insti tutions of the New World, nor was it desired to realise ambitious schemes c r to impose monarchical g o v ernment upon Mexico A gainst the will of the people, but only to obtain Just reparation for the wrongs of French residents, a sid to secure guarantees for their future rights. A nu tither of influential men in Mexico, including one of the late Presidents, de spaired of obtaining order under Republican Go vernment, and favoured t' re-establishment of royalty. France sustained a a Imperial Government in Mexico, founded on the consent of the people, because that government Pt, rnished the requisite reparation and guarantees. AL Drouyn de Lhuys further alluded to the aid fit mished to the United States by France during the _revolutionary war, to the proposal that the United States should join the Mexican expedition, and to th-e neutrality observed by France during the late re hellion. Mr. Seward replied, acl mowledging the tradi tional friendship between t lie two countries, and the respect and consideratio a due to the representa tions of France, but the Ft fleral Government had seen no satisfactory evide ace that the people of Mexico originally acc epted t he so-called e m pi re, nor could any such acceptance Tx lawfully procured in presence of the French army of invasion. On March 19 Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Motley, the American Minister at Vienna, acknowledging the receipt of his communication wherein the latter announced the probability flat Austria would con sent to and permit the levy of 4,000 volunteers for Mexico. Mr. Motley was instructed emphatically to protest against such a proceeding, and to state that in the event of hotilities being prosecuted in Mexico by Austrian su'ujects in the manner de scribed, the United States will regard it as war be tween the republic of 7alexico and Austria, and can not engage to remain neutral spectators. On April 16 Mr. Seward again wrote to Mr. Motley acknowledging the receipt of a despatch from him informing Mr. Seward that 1,000 Aus trians were about to embark for Mexico at Trieste. Mr. Motley was instructed to inform the Austrian Government that the United States regarded the despatch of Austrian troops to Mexico while nego tiations were pending with serious concern. It is reported that the British and American admirals in Chili= waters have protested against the bombardment of Valparaiso, and insisted that permission should be given to remove the women and children, otherwise they would resist the bom bardment by force. The City of Manchester and America have arrived out. Dr. Slayter, the Halifax physician who attended the passengers on board the England, has died of cholera at Halifax, where three other cases are re ported. The Fenian excitement is rapidly abating. Fe deral troops guard the bridge between Calais and and St. Stephens. General Doyle has established his headquatters at the latter place. The reason assigned for the release of the Fenian schooner seized by the Federal authorities is that the vessel had a regular customs clearance from Portland, and was properly consigned 'to Doran Killian, at East port. Killian's movements are not stated. It is reported that he is endeavouring to orga nise a fishing company for the purpose of bringing about, without a breach of the neu trality laws, a collision between the English and Americans on the fishing grounds, in hopes of thereby causing a rupture between the two Govern ments. Three cases of muskets consigned to pro minent Fenians have been seized at Oswego by the Federal authorities ; also, on Tuesday, the cus toms authorities at Eastport seized 100 cases of arms consigned to Fenian leaders. The Fenians are, all leaving Eastport for Portland, and but one British war vessel remains off Campo Bello. Two companies of Federal artillery arrived at Eastport on Wednesday. Two Fenians, arrested for firing at the guard on the bridge of St. Stephen's, were fined 50 cents. for drunkenness by the Calais authorities. They were subsequently arrested by order of the Governor of Maine, at the request of. General Doyle, and were kept to await the instruc tions of Mr. Seward. A proposal of O'Mahony that the Fenian faction should unite in harmonious action, and leave all pending disputes to await the arbitration of Stephens, has been rejected by the Roberts faction. The New York press generally pronounce the Fenian movement on the Brunswick frontier to be a collapsed bubble. The City of Boston has arrived out. The Nova Scotia, Portland, and the Africa have arrived at Halifax. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, April 26. Money abundant. Gold, 1274. Exchange - on London, 138 ; on Paris, 4.11. Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 93 ; Illinois, 119 ; Erie, 73 ; 5.20 United States Bonds, 106. Cotton depressed: Middling Upland, 34. Flour and wheat firm and active. Corn dull. Provisions slightly firmer. Coffee quiet. Sugar steady. Molasses dull. Pe troleum depressed : crude, 25 ; refined, 40k. Re ceipts of cotton at New York the last three days, 8,000 bales; three days' sales, 3,500 bales. No exports. Stock, 185,000 bales. NEw ORLEANS, April 25. Cotton depressed : Low middling, 34 to 35. Re ceipts during four days, 7,000. Exports three days, 12,000 bales. MEXICO. NEW YORK, April 26, Evening. It is reported that Romero has received official information that the republicans had captured the city of Chihuahua on the 25th March. It is ex pected that Juarez will soon establiih his Govern ment there. Advices from Vera Cruz to at Chihuahua. the 6th April stat e is that the imperial cause prosperous They admit that fighting had occurred near :Mazat lan, but claim the result to have been unimportant and indecisive. The American steamer John St e phens, seized off Cape St. L ucas, on the voyage from San Francisco to Mazatlan, by orders of the republican General Crono, Was searched for contraband goods, but re leased under bonds. The United States Attorney-General has decided that the exportation of arms to Mexico over the frontier is legal, and that the recent order of Gen. M‘Dowell was directed against arms for organised expeditions, and not legitimate traffic. THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. CROOK HAVEN, May 6. The City of Washington, in tow of the City of Cork, passed here at 9 p.m. to-day : she is without a rudder, but otherwise all well. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. IMPORTANT DISCOVE RT.—PAPER MANITFACTURED FROM WOOD. --A company-of two hundred gentle men, representing the newspaper and book pub lishers of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, recently paid a visit to the Manayunk Wood Paper Pulp Works, and witnessed the entire process of converting cord wood into paper pulp and its manu facture into paper. The works Ware very extensive, the building and machinery having cost $500,000. The great feature in the works is the economy in the use of chemicals which disintegrate the wood and bleach the pulp, the refuse being carried to an evaporating house where the chemicals are rendered Ifit for use again, only 20 per cent. of fresh stock being added to make it equal to former strength. I At the adjoining Fl a t Ro c k Paper Mills excellent printing paper is made with 80 per cent. of wood 1 pulp and 20 per cent. of straw pulp. From twelve to fifteen tons of wood pulp are turned out daily. The works have but recently gone into operation, and already prices of paper have been reduced three cents per pound. SILVER LODE DISCOVERED IN WEST VIRGINIA— THE VEIN EIGHTEEN INCHES THICK. —A company boring for oil on the farm of William Cunningham, situated in Jackson county, Weat Virginia, in going down went through a vein of metal about eighteen inches thick. The company took no particular notice of the borings, but continued drilling until they became satisfied their efforts in search for oil were fruitless, when they abandoned the well. In recurring to the strata through which the drill had passed the owners thought of the metal vein, and immediately concluded to have it analysed. A quantity of the metal borings was sent to New York, where it has been assayed and pronounced to yield 98 per cent. of pure silver. Underneath this vein, which is 340 feet from the surface, is a vein of silver quartz four feet thick. The gentleman from whom we learn the foregoing facts, following account of the s t rata in thewellgi:Les hFitrset 40 feet, hard flint rock; next 200 feet, soft soap stone ; then a layer of blue rock ; next soap stone ; then the silver vein 18 inches thick ' • next four feet of quartz, and th en a b ed of black sand, similar to the sand found i n th e gold mines ofCalifornia. This valuable discovery has been made on a small farm, located above Letart Falls, six miles above Ripley's Landi ng, from Pittsb urg 240 miles. West The o Virginia, wn e r s and have distantb been en loffered, since the discovery, 200,000 dollars for the farm, but they have refused to sell at any price, as they design developing it themselves. They are already at work reaming out the well preparatory to sinking a shaft, the machinery for which was brought up from Cincinnati on the steamer Leonidas on her last trip. One of the Paris papers states that among the passengers for America, who left Havre a day or two ago by the Transatlantic packet boat Napoleon Trois, was Stephens, the Head Centre of the Fenians. __ The Cleveland Herald of the 14th April says Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her party arrived there on the previous evening, by the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad, from the South, and immediately passed on to New York by the Atlantic and Great Western Road. Mr. Thurlow Weed, of New York, received a letter by the last steamer from the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., enclosing £5O for himself, and a like amount from Sir Morton Peto, for the Freedmen's Bureau. At a reception given in Washington by Lieut.- General Grant, on the evening of the 13th April, President Johnson, Hon. Thad. Stevens, ex-rebel Vice-President Alexander H. Stevens, &c., were present. Mrs. Jeff Davis is atpresent in Washington, and, with the aid of the late rebel Vice-President, is endeavour ing to get permission to visit her husband at Fortress Monroe. The snit of Charles Burrill against the City of Boston, involving $BOO,OOO, which the plaintiff claims for procuring recruits for the quota of Boston during the war, has been withdrawn from a jury trial by consent of the counsel, and will be argued and decided on legal points before the Supreme Court. General Scott has left New Orleans for New York, with his health somewhat impro ve d. ._. The Petersburg Express contains the following :-- " We have intelligence direct from Toronto, Canada, where General Breckinridge is now residing. He says that his health is good, but that care is making its mark upon the handsome and intellectual lace with which nature blessed him. Four years ago his hair was black as jet ; now it is hoary. He is weary of exile, and anxious to return to his home and friends. . In tho hope of accomplish ing this end, Ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey, a warm personal friend and colleague of the General in the Congress of the United States previous to the late war, has proceeded, or will shortly do so, to Washington, and have an interview with the President. We trust that the Pre sident will accede to the request. His relations with Mr. Breckinridge, prior to the late political estrangement, were quite friendly, if not positively cordial. Besides, there is no charge against General Breckinridge that we are aware of. All the political prisoners, save two, have been released from confinement. Mallory, Stephens, Seddon, Hunter, Judge Campbell, all except the President and Judge Clay. Why keep General Breckinridge in exile? We can see no reason for so doing, and doubtless the President will con sent that he may return to his home, his family, and his friends. General Grierson, the great cavalry raider, has been nominated by the Secretary of War for colonel of cavalry in the regular army. This was done on recom mendation of Gen. Grant. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The Loan Bill, which has passed both houses, and will doubtless receive the signature of the President, gives power to the Secretary of the Treasury to retire all 7-308, compounds, one-year certificates, and the Treasury loan certificates, with gold interest bonds or with the proceeds of the sale of such bonds. The bonds to bear gold interest at a rate not more than six per cent., and they can run any time, not more than forty nor less than five years. 5-20 s, 10-40 s, in fact almost any kind of bond, can be issued under this latitude. The Secretary of the Treasury can press towards specie payment, with a heavy hand, but there is no danger that he will accomplish this object so quickly as to . create a panic. The panic in Western New York and Western Pennsyl vania, caused by the failure of a few local and compara tively small banks, has entirely subsided, and there have been no further suspensions. The First National Bank of Nashville, Tenn., have offered to convert all Tennessee State Coupons past due into the new Six per Cent. State Bonds, according to the Act of last Legislature, at a commission of 1-10th, or one dollar per thousand. The new bonds are in denominations of $l,OOO each, coupons attached, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent., from Ist January, 1866. Yesterday's gold market opened at 1261 and closed at 1261. The Panama steamer brought $809,498 in treasure, of which 8500,000 was for the Government. All descriptions of Government stocks are firmer, with an upward tendency. The purchases are principally for permanent investment. The confidence in Federal securities will continue to increase among this class, notwithstanding the political agitation at Washington, and whether President or Con gress proves triumphant. Erie shares continue to advance and fall spasmodically, according to the most powerful or latest speculative interest brought to act upon them. After the second board yesterday the market was very strong and 73f and Biwere paid. Other railroad stocks were with out important change. Money continues abundant at 4 to 5 - per cent. on call. There is an extra business in commercial circles in work ing off heavy stocks at low profits. This disposition to "take in sail" is with a view to a secure position during the expected depression in business in the summer months. Exchange is lower and quoted at 1071 to 1071- for 60- day bills on London, and 106 k to 107 for commercial. Francs, 5.25 to 5.234 for long, and 5.221 to 5.211 for short. The business of the New York Sub-Treasury yesterday was: Receipts, $12,715,036 69—for Customs, $330,000; Payments, $8,693,936 71—on account of Loan, $615,000; Balance, $96,436,388 39. Gold Notes, $896,000. Tho Bank of California has bought up the entire stock of quicksilver of the Quicksilver Mining Company, viz., 50,000 flasks at $3O per flask. The bank will thus have the control of the market. The receipts from Internal Revenue at Washington, yesterday, were $417,621. The receipts from Customs for the week ending on the 14th inst., at the ports of Baltimore and Boston, were as follows--Baltimore, $69,222 ; Boston, $447,881. A company has been organised under the general laws of New York, with a capital of $2,500,000 in shares of $25 each, with a view to lending money for the working of cotton plantations, secured by first mortgages, and by pledges of one-half of the crop in addition. A correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune makes the following observations with regard to cotton prospects in the Carolinas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama : -- -- - sto la s bo ell ur a i t s phtitgtthingraitnesa;ll thatici Every,planter that .n b ca ep n e get corn, preferring to d e p en d The freedmen cotton the North - west • old masters, as a gener a l upon many ofptozniblea, Ire neglecting . have contracted s in Alabama and for their supplies. T some of them to discard their Mississippi are inducing thing. Tha higherfreely rates with th e eir fwage contracts in Georgia and m i,rato westward. I find m to atte an r t s icip lo a o te kin w g disappointed in finding and I have been most agreeably he m n ore l cheerful than thNaonrthl in n ad r January, cltn Charleston is the only city that appears done there. such good order prevailing in all secn to s boef slowthe iSouth.nre pairing damages ; yet considerable is bein g Several planters I have met have put in as much cotton as fo rmerly, but th ere will be land idle. lam sanguinein expressing the opinion that the entire cotton crop of the South can be worked without the hand hoe by introduc ing improved implements. year THE end R E I TExrE.—Th e T reasury receipts for the fiscal ing June 18, 186 5, were : From customs, $84,928 000, : internal revenue, $209,464,000 ; miscella neous, $35,175,126 ; tot a l receipts, exclusive of 10an5329,567,126. As contrasted with the above, the follow ing is a statement of the actual receipts of the Government from all sources, for the first three-quarters of the present THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1866. fiscal year, which will end with the 30th of June next, as prepared by the Revenue Commission for the use of the Committee of Ways and Means. Customs receipts to April 1, 1866, in coin, $128,967,375; internal re venue to April 1, 1866, $243,890,548, miscellaneous, premium on gold, &c.; $37,183,009, actual aggregate re ceipts to April 1, $410,041,232. From the above, it will be be seen, the monthly average Custom receipts for nine months were $14,000,000; and the monthly average in ternal revenue receipts for the same period, $27,000,000. The receipts of the Treasury for the past three-quarters of the present year were nearly $80,500,000 more than those for the entire previous year. The estimated receipts for the remaining quarter will, it is believed, be sufficient to bring up the revenue for the year ending June 30 next to $ 5 01,000,000, or nearly $171,500,000 more than these of the year previous. The following table shows the exports of specie from the port of New York to foreign ports for fifteen years, from January 1 to April 7, 1866, and for the correspond ing period in the other years : 1866 $5,754,795 1858 $9,790,148 1865 5,009,710 1857 6,735,996 1864 10,420,231 1856 5,058,343 1863 16,195,788 1855 6,182,159 1862 11,065,050 1854 5,414,646 1861 2,333,136 1853 3,432,025 , . 1860 5,208,400 11852 7;177;121 1859 11,088,381 QUOTATIONS OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Aritu. 20. U.S. 6s, 'Bl coup, 1051 1051; U.S. 6s, 5-20 rg. '62, 101; U.S. Cs, 5-20 c., '62, 1041 1041 ; U.S. 6s, 5-20 c. '65, 1041 ; U.S. ss, 74 c., indorsed, 93 ; U.S. ss, 10-40 cou., 931 931; Treasury 7 3-10 s, Ist series, 1011 ; 2d series, 1011; 3d series, 1011 1011; Missouri 6s, 741 ; N.Y. 7s, B'y. L'n., 1011 ; Louisiana Cs, 97 ; N. Carolina 6s, 831 ; N.Y. Central 6, 'B3, 91 ; N.Y. Central 7s, '76, 101; Hud son Ist mtge., 102 ; Mich. So. 2d mtge., 88 ; Mil. and St. P. 1 in., 821 ; Pacific 7s Guart'd, 74 ; Pacific Mail, 226 ; N.Y. Central, 921 ; Illinois Central, 1141. (From. E. F.. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, May 2nd.) The " Cuba" brought us advices from New York to the 17th ult. During the week that had elapsed since our previous report, there had been a steady demand for GoVernment securities, especially for the Seven and Three tenths per cent. Currency Bonds, which had adVanced to about 100} per cent. ; other descriptions exhibited a frac tional improvement. Railroad Stocks were generally firm, and the list showed but little alteration, with the excep tion of Rock Island, Hudson River, and Readings, which exhibit an improvement of from 2 to 4 per cent. ; the latter stock was, perhaps, more in demand than any other on the list, and closed with an apparently upward tendency. Eries had been largely dealt in at fluctuating prices, the result on the week being a decline of $1 ; the delay in the publication of the report being regarded as unfavourable. Railroad Bonds and State Stocks were steady, with but little alteration in prices. Money was cheap and abundant, borrowers on Government Bonds being readily supplied at 5 per cent. ; and on good Railroad securities at 6 per cent. At these rates considerable amounts had been taken, but still large sums remained unemployed, as shown by the Banks' returns, which exhibit an increase in.the de posits of four millions. The Secretary of the Treasury had given notice that after the Ist of May, the interest on all money lodged with the Treasury would be reduced from sto 4 per cent. The deposits held by them on the Ist April amounted to about one hundred and twenty mil lion dollars. Gold remained steady at former quotations, but there was rather more inquiry for exchange on London. The following is the return of the New York Banks : Discounts. Specie. Circulation Deposits. April 7, 242,643,753 11,436,295.24,1227,061 189,0 8 94,961 April 14, 244,099,849 11,035,129 24,533,981 193,153,469 A Transatlantic Ferry. Under the title of this article the Anglo- American Times in a former number stated that there would be 1,074 passages made between Europe and the United States by the various lines of steamers dur ing the present year. It now goes on to remark that small steamships run at so great a cost in propor tion to their carrying capacity, if satisfactory speed is attained, that in the early days of Transatlantic steaming it was doubtful whether a vessel of the di mensions then constructed would be profitable with out a Government subsidy. The want also of the modern improvements in the means of generating steam and mechanical appliances added greatly to the risk of the adventure. In fact, so great have been the improvements within ten years that ships requiring more than a hundred tons of coal per day are now substituted by those of similar capacity that consume but little more than one-half the quantity; for example, the old steamer Atlantic, the first of the Collins line, now runs with improved boilers on a consumption of fifty tons of coals per day instead of more than one hundred as formerly ; and the new Pacific mail steamers, of 1,000 tons still greater capacity, make an equal speed with thirty to forty tons per day. This increased eco nomy is attained by the light draft of the latter steamers. A ratio of economy will still continue with increased magnitude of vessels ; thus, as a properly modelled steamer, of 10,000 tons measure ment, will present but about fifty per cent. more sectional area of resistance to her movements through the water than one of 2,000 tons, it follows that it will cost but fifty per cent. more to run her at a given speed, though five times the measurement. Twenty years ago, however, small steamers were supposed to supply the wants of the age. But time has rolled on, and a wonderful change has taken place in transatlantic commerce. The in crease of traffic,is multiplied by thousands, and a much larger class of steamers are crowded to an extent that never favoured the primitive ships. In fact, it is the large steamer, with its greater comfort and , speed, that commands the business. But improvements are still required. Steam has already unrhymed the poetry that once attached itself to spread canvas and stately masts, and invites Jack to become an engineer, that the faithful machine shall be the great motor over the wily deep. The thousand annual Transatlantic passages, already inducing the adoption of a class of steamers that shall stimulate travel by reducing the cost and greatly promoting comfort and speed at sea—in short, the establishment on a grand scale of a FERRY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC, that shall prove as perma nent an institution and as reliable in its returns to shareholders as the penny boats between Westmin ster mid London-bridge, or those great ferries over the rivers at New York. The project of the Transatlantic Passenger and Express Steamship Company, formed in New York, with probably a joint management in England, which we are about to describe, so far as we are in possession of details, has for its object the con struction of a sufficient number of iron vessels to form a weekly and direct line between New York and London, by making their port of arrival and departure the Bristol Channel, which centres in the most po pulous and wealthy portion of England. Here coals can be obtained at one-half the Liverpool price, and ample harbour improvements are being made for transatlantic shipping, within three hours of the metropolis, by the finest railway facilities in the kingdom. The scheme combines many elements of suc cess ; and as there is already a large amount of money subscribed, it will no doubt be consummated at an early date, to the delight of the many thousands who desire to visit the opposite shores of the Atlantic. The ships are to be not less than 8,000 tons measurement, 590 feet in length, 75 feet beam, and 30 feet perpendicular, and will draw about 16 feet of water, varying in draft from consumption of fuel on a passage but little more than one foot, or about one-fifth the variation of the largest existing paddle steamers from the same cause. Their length will prevent the pitching usual to other ships, and their breadth, with low vertical measurement, will reduce their rolling tendency to a minimum. It is ex pected, therefore, that the horrors of sea sickness will be almost wholly avoided. An important fea ture in the ships will be the strength that will be afforded by what may be termed their " spinal frame," which will consist of two diagonally braced supports, 40 feet apart, and rising from sister kelsons to 40 feet high, extending longi tudinally about 350 feet over the central portion of the vessel, then resolving themselves into one to the extremities. The strength of this framework, though it will occupy but little of the available space of the ship, will be great enough, were each end supported upon a bearing to support upon its middle the weight of all the material required to build the vessel. Below the lower deck this spinal framework will be lined with plate iron, transversely to which there will be a sufficient number of bulk ' heads to form more than 20 water-tight compart ments, rendering the ships nominally unsinkable. The outer framework and skin will be of usual con struction, though modelled to admit of the greatest speed. The double portion of the spinal framework, rising 40ft., or 10ft. above the main decks, will form the side walls of a grand saloon the whole of their length, with state cabins and private drawing-rocms on each side, and support a promenade deck extend ing flush to the extremities of the ship. As is com mon in many steamers, there will be two stories or decks below the main one, also furnished with state rooms opening from different spacious corri dors or passage ways, and calculated to lodge over two thousand persons. 'There will be an ample supply of bath rooms, hair dressing saloons, smoking rooms, and such resorts of comfort as are usually connected with a first-class hotel. Under the ordinary system of steam-ship management, although passengers may pay a high price for crossing the Atlantic, it is to the in terest of the ships that they are supplied with as few comforts as possible, save what competition exacts. For example, it becomes decidedly unpro fitable to have a bell-pull in the statelrooms, as un comfortable individuals could call too readily for supplies ; hence a poor sea-sick passenger cries aloud from" his motionless berth—" Steward ! steward!" until exhausted, or probably arrives at the determination never to cross the Atlantic again, and particularly in that ship. In the contemplated steamers all interests will favour both ship's company and passengers. It is proposed to charge a moderate price for passage, say £5, £lO, or £l5, according to different localities of the ships, subject to a reduction for excursion tickets, and supply the food, &c., a la carte, at prices common at respectable restaurants in London or New York—though two or three classes may be established in different parts of the ship. In this way voyagers may live in any style they like ; and those who wish to economise need not pay for the extravagance of others. If an unfortunate is housed in his state-room, a bell-pull will be at his service, as it will be to the interest of all concerned that his wants are promptly supplied. It is supposed that such an hotel, isolated from all competition, with a large patronage of guests, the most of whom will be disposed to live merrily, will produce a large revenue. Another source of income to the ships will be rather novel in its place. Throughout the corridors, passage ways, and saloons, the partitions, doors, &c., will contain some thousands of panels. These are to be of plate glass; and will be rented to hotel-keepers, warehousemen, manufacturers, &c., for a given price per a nn um, for the purpose of having frescoed, g ild e d , or pa i n ted on the inner surface, in some ac cepta bl e d e corative style, the cards_or advertisem en t s o f t h e i r v arious kinds of business ; and, as passengers will find more or less interest as well as p ast i me i n rea ding them, it is probable that th e benefit to the shi p ' s company, p asseng e r s, an d advertisers. system may prove a mutual Though the machinery of the vessel will possess extraordinary appliances for safety, and somewhat of novelty in plan, there will he nO new principles involved, but very plain and simple in their general details. T h ere will be a pair of paddle-wheels as in other steamers, and two screw propellers, one under each counter of the ship's stern. The paddle-wheels are to be driven by two cylinders or engines, as is usual,.with the exception that the centre shaft may be unclutched and the wheels worked separately if required, as in shifting the position of the ship in the harbour, orshould the rudder fail at sea, by run ning them separately and temporarily at different speed, they will steer the vessel. The two screw propellers will also be driven by two cylinders or engines, which, by a novel arrange ment, will work in connection, turning each screw in an opposite direction, or either cylinder alone will work either or both screws in either direction, and will perform the same service in manoeuvreing or steering the ship as the paddles. Though there will be the usual fixtures at the stern for steering, the helm will commonly be controlled by hydraulic power from the pilot-house on the forward part of the vessel. The cylinders of the engines will all be of great diameter in order to work steam at a high degree of expansion, and calculated to produce 2,500 no minal horse power, which it is supposed, according to common practice, will drive the ships, with their sectional area of resistance of 930 square feet, and length enough to avoid pitching, so that the wave will not materiallyretard their speed, across the At lantic very easily within eight days; and with the advantage of the most approved boilers, on a con sumption of fuel not exceeding one thousand tons. Steamships are supposed to make a direct course, and not beat about to get an advantagefrom any un favourable wind. It is admitted by experienced mas ters of steamers which make no more than nine knots an hour, that sails are of no commercial benefit on the average, and are only valuable as a means of safety in case of the failure of the single propelling power with which ships are usually supplied. But in the new line, four distinct propelling powers are supplied, either one of which will alone bring the ship to port with greater speed and certainty than Che sails attached to any steamer, and the lapse of weeks of painful suspense of friends on shore and the still greater discomfort of those on board an in jured vessel, depending upon sails, would be re duced to two or three days. Our readers will re member that a few days ago the steamer City of Washington was given up for lost by many in this country, and yet she was perfectly safe on the Atlantic, having simply broken her machinery. These new ships, having four perfect sets of ma chinery, could sustain three times the amount of damage which happened to the City of Wash ington, and yet steam safely, and with but a few hours' loss of time, into port. It then fol lows that where a steamer is to be so well sup plied with mechanical appliances, and intended to make high speed, that, dispensing with spars and sails, and a horde of seamen whose chief em ployment is to keep them in order, is significant of a great reduction in running cost, and a good rid dance to what most passengers will agree upon not being applicable to a passenger ship. Our own experience around the world, by both steam and sail, and many times across the Atlantic, convinces us of the great want of the improvements here proposed ; and we hope to be able to congra tulate the travelling public, which in such case we predict will be largely increased, on the early con summation of the project. The scheme was ori ginated and the ships designed throughout by THOMAS SILVER, Esq., of the United States, the successful inventor of the Marine Governor, which bears his name. DIVIDENDS. Cleveland and T01ed0...8 per cent. ... ... less tax ... payable 25 April. New Jersey Central...2l do. ...quarterly...free of tax... do. 19 do. Leigh Valley...2i do. ... do. ... do. do. 16. do. THE UNITED STATES LOAN BILL. The following is a copy of the "Loan Bill," as finally passed by both Houses of Congress. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide ways and means to support the Government," approved March 3, 1865. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa . . . tives of the United States of America, in Congress assem bled, That the act entitled " An Act to provide ways and means to support the Government," approved March 3, 1865, should be extended and construed to authorise the Secretary of the Treasury, at his discretion, to receive any Treasury notes, or other obligations issued under any act of Congress, whether bearing interest or not, in exchange for any description of bonds authorised by the act to which this is an amendment, and also to dispose of any descrip tion of Bonds authorised by said act, either in the United States or elsewhere to such an amount, in such manner and at such rates as he may think advisable, for lawful money of the United States, or for any Treasury notes, certified of indebtedness, or certificates of deposits, or other re presentatives of value, which have been, or which may be, issued under any act of Congress ; the proceeds thereof to be used only for retiring Treasury notes or other obliga tions issued under any act of Congress; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorise any in crease of the public debt ; provided that of United States notes not more than ten million of dollars may be retired and cancelled within six months from the passage of this act, and thereafter not more than four millions of dollars in any one month ; and provided further, that the act to which this is an amendment shall continue in force, in all its provisions, except as modified by this act. Section 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress, at the commence ment of the next session, the amount of exchange made or money borrowed under this act, and of whom and on what terms, also the amount and character of indebtedness retired under this act and the act to which this is an amendment, with a detailed statement of the expenses of making such loans and exchanges. The Great Western of Canada traffic is, for week ending April 13, 1866, £16,423 Gs. 9d. sterling, on 345 miles, or £l7 12s. Id. per mile per week. April 14, 1865, £14,065 2s. 7d. sterling, on 315 miles, or £4O 15s. 4d. per mile per week. The Grand Trunk of Canada traffic is, for week ending April 7, 1866, £27,888 Os. Od. sterling, on 1,377 miles, or £2O ss. 6d. per mild per week. April 8, 1865, £27,248 Os. Od. sterling, on 1,335 miles, or £l9 15s. 9d. per mile per week. The Detroit and Milwaukee traffic is, for week ending April 12, 1866, £6,772 ls. Od. sterling, on 189 miles, or .£35 16s. Bd. per mile per week. April 13, 1865, £6,513 13s. 4d. sterling, on 189 miles, or £3l 12s. 6d. per m le per week. We have to report a weak and declining market in London for American securities since our last ; there has been but little demand for home account, and quotations have been almost entirely governed by continental opera tions, which, during the past week, have been principally large sales. United States 5-20 close 681 to I, nearly 2 per cent. lower, while Illinois and Eries are relatively more depressed, the former being last quoted 77i to 78i, and the latter 49k to 50k; Illinois thus showing a decline of 3i dollars, and Eries rather more than two dollars. Atlantic and Great Western securities have participated in the general depression ; the Debentures close 75 to 76, and the Consolidated Bonds 60 to 62. ' OFFICIAL TRANSACTIONS FOR THE WEEK. — . United States 6 per Cent. 5.20 Bonds, 1882: Thursday, 701 f 1 ; Friday, 74 70 1; Saturday, 70 1; Monday, 691 I 9 ; Tuesday, —; Wednesday, 6814 9} 81. Atlan. and Gt. Westn. (Penns. Sect.) Ist Mrt. Bds. 1877: Thursday, 731. Atlan. and Gt. Westn. Consolidated Bonds, 1895: Thursday, GO 1 1; Friday, 5213 ; Monday, 60 ; Tuesday, —; Wednesday, GO 3 2 - 59 604. Erie Shares, $lOO, all paid : Thursday, 524 1 s ; Friday, ; Saturday, 52 1k ; Monday, 511 a 4 ; Tuesday, —; Wednesday, 54 14 9} ; Erie Shares, 6 per Cent. Convertible Bonds : Thurs day, 73 ; Monday, 74; Wednesday, 731. Illinois Central Shares, all paid : Thursday, 801 k ; Friday, 801 1; Saturday, 79k ; Monday, 791 89 ; Tuesday, ; Wednes day, 781 k 8. Senator Doolittle is preparing a Freedmen's Bureau Bill which will be in accordance with the Pre sident's views. It will be introduced at an early day. 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The financial statement showed a cash balance in the hands of the treasurer of £358,167 4s. THE LOSS OF LIFE IN EISHOPSGATE-STREET.-THE NEW FIRE BRIGADE. The CHAIRMAN said the members of the Board had no doubt become acquainted through the public press with the fire in Bfshopsgate-street, whieh had unhappily been attended with the loss of life. Now, he thought, although the fire escapes were not under the control of the Board, that Captain Shaw, under the circumstances, would be justified in reporting whether the persons having charge of the fire-escapes had a perfect knowledge of the working of them. Mr. WESTERTON, in seconding the motion for Captain Shaw to report, said that a fire broke out a few nights ago in King-street,Kensington, the premises being immediately contiguous to a police-station, a fire-engine station, and a fire-escape-station ; and yet with all these appliances'close at band for the purpose of saving life a child was burnt to death, an aged man in endeavouring to escape had his arm broken, and other persons very narrowly got out with their lives. To ascertain some information upon the facts he hoped that this fire would be also reported upon by Captain Shaw, as well as the event to which the chairman had re ferred. The CHAIRMAN concurred, and thought that in all cases of loss of life by fire Captain Shaw should report, and he might take that opportunity of stating that since the Board had taken charge of the Fire Brigade he had taken steps for the purpose of developing the resources of the brigade, so as to increase the protection of the metropolis. One part of the arrangements consisted of the purchase of a large number of steam-engines for the purpose of more effectually suppressing fire, and he had asked Captain Shaw, after the great fire at the docks, to furnish him with a statement as to the comparative power of steam and manual engines. He had accordingly furnished him with a very carefully-drawn table, showing the quantity of water delivered, and the expense of coals and oil, of steam engines, and the number of manual engines, the number of men, and the cost to produce the same results. At the fire which took place at the East India Docks on April 27 the quantity of water delivered was 3,134,799 gallons, or 13,995 tons, and the cost of coals and oil was £l2 7s. 6d., whereas to produce the same results by manual engines would require 204 engines, with 5,712 men, and the cost of labour would be £1,428. Each manual engine worked at the ordinary speedy of 20 strokes per minute by 28 men for.six hours would deliver 15,840 gallons of water at a cost of £7. The proportion of the expense of working the steamers as compared with that of working manual engines had been on this occasion as 1 to 115.- In other words, for each £1 expended the steamers had accomplished as much work as the manual engines would have done for £ll5, and the total saving in working expenses had been £1,415 12s. 6d. at this one fire alone. In answer to a remark by Mr. CommtsoN, The CHAIRMAN said the power the Board had of suppress ing fires was now more than double what it was when the brigade was in the hands of the fire companies. The motion was then put and unanimously agreed to. On a recommendation from the Main Drainage Commit tee, "That, in consideration of the good character and length of service of late Sub-Engineer -George Legg, the Board do grant to his widow, in addition to the sum of £22 9s. 6d. paid in by him to the Superannuation Fund, a further sum of like amount, being a total sum of £44 195.," a discussion ensued as to the objections which were felt to a public procession on the occasion of the funeral of the deceased fireman Legg, but eventually the motion was agreed to. On a proposition that 15 new men be appointed as third class firemen, Mr. Rocuz objected to the piecemeal additions to the staff of the brigade, and took occasion to remark on the efficient services rendered by volunteer fire brigades in the suburbs of the metropolis, and it was his opinion that the board ought to encourage such voluntary exertions, and it would be well for them to consider whether these bodies ought not to be amalgamated with their own fire brigade. The motion was then agreed to. PROPOSED ESTABLISRMENT OF GASWORKS NEAR VICTORIA ' SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW " ON MR. DISRAELI. —lt seems doubtful how the Conservative party, as at present organised, can ever be able to do either with Mr. Disraeli or without him. Nec possunt tecunz vivere, nec sine te. With the exception of Lord Stanley, Lord Cranborne, and Sir Hugh Cairns, he is the sole Conservative debater who has delivered an intellectual speech upon Reform ; and the sight of a Conservative Ministry under the honest auspices of General Peel, and to the sound of Sir Bulwer Lytton's /Eolian lyre, grappling heavily with the creation of a Reform Bill of their own, would avenge .Mr. Disraeli for his own exclusion from a select Tory Cabinet. If he were wanted for no other object, he would still be wanted to orga nise and chaperone his party. It is the ordinary lot of chaperones to be disliked by the impetuous and madcap bevy whose proceedings they are set to moderate; and Mr. Disraeli is chiefly tolerated upon the ground that the Conservatives cannot go into public except under his eye. A Liberal-Conserva tive coalition might govern the nation without his help for the brief period that coalitions usually last, but if the country gentlemen are to occupy the Treasury benches in force, Mr. Disraeli will be wanted to sit by them. The difficulty is a place suited at once to his capacities and to their fasti dious sense of his shortcomings. There is the House of Peers. But Mr. Disraeli is possibly more ambitious of being a country gentleman in a coun try where so many acres have never been violated by the plough than of being an Earl, and following Lord Russell to the natural cemetery of departed leaders of the Commons. There is the Paris Em bassy, the hospitalities of which Lord Cowley must be tired of dispensing. A younger man might not dislike to be banished into such splendid exile ; but Mr. Disraeli in Paris, like M. Guizot in London, would be a restless and home-sick Ambassador. He would be sufficiently near Downing-street to em barrass his friends, without being near enough to help them, and before the year was out he would perhaps return, and return on his own terms. A few weeks would probably con vince the Conservative ex-Chancellor that the excitement of transmitting Lord Malmesbury's de spatches, and of taking Lord Malmesbury's orders, upon the state of the Continent was designed by Providence for meaner mortals. That he may have allowed his ambition to rest upon the Foreign Office is not unlikely. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer will leave few financial laurels behind him to pluck ; nor is it agreeable to feel oneself eternally confronted with the monuments of a rival's genius. Mr. Disraeli's vindication of the peaceable propensities of his party was meant, not so much perhaps to prove that Conservatives have a horror of war, as that they might be safely trusted by the nation while the member for Buckinghamshire was Foreign Secretary. It is difficult to argue about the diplomatic prudence of a Cabinet like Lord Derby's, which distinguishes itself chiefly by seldom being in office ; but the shadow of the great Euro pean war of the beginning of the century still rests upon the popular fame of the party which Lord Derby leads. It would be invidious, as well as idle, to discuss the question whether the great towns or the great rural districts of England are most likely to be affected by the consideration of the commer cial blessings of peace. What the English public fears about a Derby Government is not so much that it would plunge us into war, as that it might wish to plunge us into war upon the wrong side. If Mr. Disraeli insists upon challenging criticism on the epistolary feats of Lord Malmesbury, it may, however, be observed that on the eve of the Italian campaign Lord Malmesbury's despatches were models of the true Foreign Office pedagogic style ; and unkind critics pretend to be aware, in spite of the secrecy in which the event was shrouded, how within twenty-four hours of their advent to power after the Conspiracy Bill debate, the Derby Government managed to indite a de spatch to Paris which was subsequently suppressed under threat of an instantaneous rupture. The credit which Mr. Disraeli some what openly arrogates to himself, for having been through the Danish and American conflicts less war like than his friends, is doubtless deserved. He has been praised for it by Mr. Bright once, and his speech of last week showed that he was quite ready to be praised for it again. To the conduct of Eng lish foreign affairs he would bring both capacity and coolness ; and he has this advantage over Lord Russell, that he is capable of comprehending that Lord Russell does occasionally go wrong. Yet at moments like the present, when the Continent is shaken by the rumours of European war, no Tory Foreign Minister, whatever his deserts, could long preserve the complete confidence of the public. Even Mr. Disraeli would not escape suspicion. Nobody would feel sure what he was driving at. Before six weeks were over he would be understood to have a future map of Europe in his pocket, and to have arranged, in ,concert with Napoleon 111., some splendid scheme for settling the Pope at Rome and Sir Moses Montefiore at Jerusalem. The one thing against his chance of success is that a clumsy British public is hardly fitted to admire or tolerate great strokes of genius at the Foreign office. Vivian Grey intriguing with Emperors, and manipulating frontiers, and putting loose na tionalities into their places, would be scarcely appreciated by an English ouse of Commons ; though it is the sort of splendid business to which Vivian Grey might look in his maturer years to retire. He would at least have the proud oppor tunity of pitting himself against an Imperial states man whose talents are not altogether dissimilar to his own. The boom of their rival despatches could not fail to be the most interesting. For the first time for some years the Foreign-office would be able to thunder at the Tuileries and at Europe in tones as majestic and mysterious as those of Napo leon 111. It would be Deep answering to Deep— the Caucasian mystery pitted against the Corsican ; and the only prayer that the the English public can offer up is that the eventful affair may take place in a time of profound peace. THE COSMOPOLITAN ON MR. DISRAELI.—No English Statesman in modern times has occupied a more trying position than Mr. Disfaeli, He has been called upon to lead, in the House of Commons, that party which is pre-eminently jealous of heredi tary rights, and yet he has no hereditary claims whatever to the post. He does not owe his position in any degree to birth, but entirely to his command ing genius. Mr. Disraeli is, indeed, the most extra ordinary success of the age. It is quite on the cards that a man born in the upper-middle class shall, by fortune and Providence, become the Premier of England, but it is vastly more surprising, that such a man should become the chief of the Conservative party. When Mr. Disraeli succeeded to office--for the leader of her Majesty's Opposition has an oner ous and laborious office—he found the Conservative party completely disorganised. By skill, by patience, by self-abnegation, Mr, Disraeli has done more than any other man to reconstruct and consolidate that party. And his splendid services will be thoroughly appreciated. Vulgar and venal scribes, who can see no merit in any patriotism that does not yield the patriot an immediate return in hard cash, abuse Mr. Disraeli with all the venom and nastiness of their petty and venial minds. They charge him with being inconsistent, but if we compare his career with that of Sir R. Peel or of Mr. Gladstone, we shall be struck with the comparative fewness of the changes that his political views have under gone. " Coningsby" was published many years ago, but we know not of a passage in it that is in antagonism to Mr. Disraeli's present course. These press free lances also charge him with being an enemy to the rights of thapeople, yet in 1859 he introduced a liberal measure of reform, and it is not likely that the Russell-Gladstone measure will be more liberal. Then, we are told that he is self-seeking. What proof have we of that ? When has he manifested an undue eagerness to snatch at office ? How often have some of his most impetuous followers grumbled because he would not lead them to the attack ? If Mr. Disraeli bad not loved his principles better than office he might year after year have been basking in the sunshine of Downing-street. He might, like his illustrious rival, Mr. Gladstone, have been converted at the right moment, and taken his seat on the first bench on the right of the Speaker. It is almost absurd to refer to these things. Mr. Disraeli cannot be injured by the virulence of a faction. We sup pose that, sooner or later, the Conservatives will have their innings, and we doubt not that Mr. Disraeli, who has been so statesmanlike in Opposi tion, will crown his political fame by the wisdom of his policy in office. We owe no allegiance to Mr. Disraeli, or to any other party leader. We differ from him on many important questions, but we are utterly disgusted at the way so eminent a politician and statesman is treated by Bohemians and Billings gates of the English Fourth Estate. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES ON THE COPPER HEADS. —lt is strange to find that with all the wonderful variety of nature, it seldom or never changes in any of its intrinsic attributes. This is true of the nature of man—it is equally true of the beasts and reptiles of the earth. The changes in the outward appearance may be start ling indeed. Yet, if we search into the hidden motives which actuate the soul we ultimately discover them to be almost unalterably the same. These, or similar ideas, will often occur to any thoughtful man. Just now they are suggested to us by the wonderful changes, and the still evident living identity, in body and soul, of the Copper heads of the Northern States. There is still the same devious, crawling, and venomous nature, but the circumstances are changed, and the perverted talents of the creatures have invented marvellous transformations in their outward appearance, to suit the modified conditions of the day. They were *:. most vigorous in their denunciations of the "high handed " mea sures o f Ab ra ham Lincoln. They are now most earnest in urging Andrew John; son to over-ride Congress, the Constitution , and the laws. This i s but a seeming, and not a real, inconsistency. Strong measures in times of war aro likely to have a very bad effect—on the enemy : the present case they would have an excellent effect —on the Copperheads. Li n coln scourged the rebels with whips---what more natural than that the Copper: heads should wish Johnson to scourge the Radicals with with scorpions ? But though the Copperhead is thus so evident, we are not utterly paralysed with fear—we even think we can afford to be a mused at the wonderful vagaries of venomous genius. r iLb e Y v . have given Johnson the benefit of several " methods with Congress." Their latest invention is. " An improvement on Cromwell's method o.t treating Parliamentary Ores." The process is adicais very simple. The first is, for Johnson to decline to recognise the Radical majority of the present Con gress. Or, better still, he s h ou ld arrest and irn : prison them, as usurpers and illegal conspiraWrids against the constit u ti on an d l aws of the land 31 the liberties of the people. He should then con stitute a new and really serviceable Legislature, chue of his supporters in the p resen t Congress, an d t o . members elect from the eleven States lately in r bellion. The new patent Legislature, thus c0,,n . : strutted in the best possible manner out of tu' choicest material, would be warranted in e ve t r b l e particular to be equal if not indeed superior to French patent assembly of Mexican notables, wh v ic e . in a few days, raised the distracted Mexican d public to the dignity and importance of a glorious Empire. It would be slightly unconstituce tional, but that is a matter of no great consequen 77 in view of the fact that the " Radical Cong.re,ssto will ruin the country if they are allowed to iegisi.a as a few months longer, while the new patent an d would be certain to work harmoniously, rery might possibly inaugurate the millennium in 3 ; its short time. With all of these considerations il l an favour, President JOHNSON has not yet g ive/1 1,ot order for the article. Can it be that he fears t ,l t great t some of the people in the Northern States Ini=?,,! . . object? If so, ought he not to overrule theirroo"r jections for the good of the whole country. ? line that purpose a little wholesome -military dis a ll in the North would be most efficacious. - 13 ,Y„di. means, then, let him deal with the d o '"° " ' cal" Congress , at once. Let him cast 1 the mighty from their seats, and exalt the hu m and meek. Then will the hearts of craw"lnc. Copperheads rejoice and be glad. Then shall Co of servative Israel despoil the Radical Egyptia ns theiralleir and their earrings and their nose jewels, ti the ornaments of silver and gold. Then shall all iiey treasures of the land be gathered together, a nd t shall divide the spoil. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. n Jai We had a fair supply of wheat at our corn market There was a fair attendance, with a rather better tr b ` er e and the prices of last week' were not exceeded. , Lde. was a very short supply of barley, and a nomina l ,;,- is In oats, beans, and peas but little doing. The weav" exceedingly cold. A ditto White wheat (weighing 641 b), 50s to 54s ; re' g (weighing 651 b), 48s to 50s ; new red ditto (ve ; t h - i i ng 601 b to 631 b), 42s to 47s ; bast malting barley (sv e 'b% - 1b), 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 388 ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to - to 34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 36s 328 ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, b7s to 39s ; peas ( 1113 P leli to 38s per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. the 'lc- There was a tolerable supply of wheat to-daY, et ion• mand for which was healthy, at is to 2s per qr r edu ro d e There was not much barley shown, and sales wer e sa le, at the currencies of last week. Oats met a moderate. „ict and prices were steady. Beans were in fair request, 't prices rather higher. n ,neR Old white wheat, 53s to 56s ; old r e d, 46s to 4 il e white, 53s to 57s ; new red, 45s to 49s per 36 stone. 0 0, old, 303 to 35s ; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. 33 ° 11° ' 50s to 53s ; new, 42s to per 47s 38s stone. LE ICES TER—SATURDAY. At to-day's corn market there was a moderate shll°„,3°Sf wheat, consisting of white and red sorts, wh ich waS disposed of at former rates. The business in ba r ' e ' e ' r e is languid, the supply being about exhausted. Oats Iv 9Tions fair demand, and recent prices were well supporte d. scar ce, and the best sorts brought is more moneY: ‘ , . o ld, New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; new red, 46s to a° white, 55s to 56s ; old red, 49s to 52s p 270 er 36 ston e. „ 30s ley, for malting, 35s to 39s per qr.; grinding, per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 33g; new, 27s to 32s,Psione• stone. Beans, old, 50s to 52s ; new, 44s to 46s per 30 Fine flour, 40s to 42s ; seconds, 32s to 35s per 20 Btoti YORK—SATURDAY. „. e t to: A somewhat limited supply of wheat at this hla o rei day, and in improved condition. The trade Was n0t ,.00 15 brisk, at the rates of this day week. The barley O aver i t ig become quite a nominal one, the few samples °P being taken on late terms. There was a fair suPP c ieS• oats, which met a fair demand at fully recent curr y ..„, The show of beans was short, and prices we re still 1' your of the seller. per 36 New white wheat, 48s to 52s ; new red, 46s to 49. d iog, stone. Barley, for malting, 37s to 40s per qr. ; gr,;' ) , t ooe• 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 28s per " 665. Beans, new, 42s to 44s per 38 cne. Malt, 64s to Flour, 35s to 37s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS DUE. d a y 21 ttustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton•—.° it Ditto, via Marseilles piny 4. Brazil and Cape Vert's. by British packet 3 ., 3,y ,, Ditto. by French packet ' ....... Pl a p v 25. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.• • • ~1 114; ',. 20 , China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton... Ai-a ' li Ditto, via Marseilles .... . . Dial Fmkland Islands .................................. ga9 14, Gibraltar, via soutliampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.-- ", ' 4 1 Ditto, via Marseilles .. India (Bombay), via South am pt on . MaY 109 °A Ditto, via Marseilles Malta, Egypt, and Ad en, v i a S ou th amp t on Mal g 4 s. al Ditto, via Marseilles gal , ' ; Mauritius, via Southampt on Ditto, via Marseil' e 3. N ewfoundland •• • .. . Jo e Portugal . ..... • •• • Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ............. United States and British North America, by • .„ 3, Usti packet ....... • Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork IMO' 4. Ditto. by Canadian packet, via Londonderry • • 13 West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Toneriffe .. • • 111 ' 9 West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and 14 Honduras) 3lsl °. Cuba and Mocioo ga9 3l' Bahamas, via New York. 319 S Bermuda, via Halifax ............ A.O FREE TRADE. IN THE 'UNITED STATES.--",---,,np dress from the Free-Trade Association of J,S DP' to the American Free-Trade League, signal,. 'hie, the Richard Moore, the chairman, and Kr. Jno. - o , ° :"citY, e 4 secretary, has been forwarded to New York, by Paris, which 'sails this day (May 3d). The f ore'. consists mainly of a resume of the financial p01ic 9° ,00 311 ,; Britain since 1842, especially as to its effects upon and trade, forming a short and com prehensive , t i o n of the fiscal history of the period. In special reA; - e ctiV; the United States it urges theinconsistency of Pr°,-essi,l4 duties with the Declaration of Independence, the l' l M 3 cl 3 ' of Free Trade, if a large revenu e i s to be required, gAtistri importance as a means of reorganising trade and inn the in the Southern and extendi ng man ufactures Northern States. 'IIS [AnvERTisEmENT.]-11olloway's Pills.—These tbto! better for strengthenin g a d e bilit a t e d constitutienervon' any other medicine in the wor ld. P e rsons of a , 11 dige2; habit of body, and all who are suffering from w ea- d Live organs, or whose health has becnme deralciott bilious affections, disordered stomach, or liver eorre s , fP O should lose no time in giVing these admirable Pi l l s a th a r trial. Coughs, colds, asthma, or shortness of bAbis t e ° also within the range of the sanative powers "' (7` markable medicine. The cures effected by these 13oiete' not superficial nor temporary, but permanent and er.'livell They are as mild as they are efficacious, and maY with confidence to delicate femal es an d young Births. n the BELL—On the 4th inst., at F a i r fi e ld, Durdhani D °W i a 'ter' wife of J. D. Bell, Esq., b arr i s t er - a t-l a w, of a d ' ulg r - sli c ' tt HODGE—On the 4th inst., at A ng l e sey House, A ide the wife of Major-General Hodge, C. 8., of a o ° l '' LAWFORD—On the 3d inst., at Hampstead, 3 1113. R AI ford, of a daughter. PRATT—On the 4th inst., at Newark-on-Tren t, tbeNc Becher Pratt, Esq., of a son. Marriages. tio; Geor' AYLES—TURNER—On the 3d inst., at St. Dg s over-square, Charles C. Ayles, Esq., of Ila sl3 l l - cY Ali o( son of Charles Ayles, Esq., of London, to vstk, Turner, youngest daughter of C. T. Turner, '- Bradford, Yorkshire. 7 LAMBERT—MILLER—On the 3d inst at St. Go r g e treet , dif over-square, H. T. Lambert, of if, Grosvenorsitep. Georgina Emily, youngest daughter of the la te T. C. Miller, Bart., of Froyle, Hants. aged 54. g A• ll' ERDMANN- o On the 4th iin D stt e .7 a a t t h c s h . elsea, Profeisusgottri-ton. , . I N E P- A r L d T I n o a N n ' — ll ' lst o ins t., at Bath, Thos. of Eaton, aged 57. : ,,, It °b e' , JOHN—On the 30th ult , at, Cheltenham, giss g• ' . -r,. uds e ' LANG—On the 4th inst . , at his residence, Mel eel Berks, Henry Lang, Esq., J.P. , 9ge Els e I .. NE_W a COMBE—On the 3d inst., at White Crofts, Orseb, 0 Samuel Newcombe, Esq., aged 80. io r eertt 'P GILBY—On the let at 6, Cornwall-terrace, -,',.,,evrnios', park, Wm. L. Ogilby, Es q.,of Ll sh Castle, s''' Ireland, aged 81. q" ee a' re gi ° STORKS—On the 2Gth ult ,at 47, Torrington-squ'L '-' Storks, aged 83. ' Qi.l, 0' SIGNORIS-0a the 29th ult , at Turin, Count ir• --a ~ 29. v iler, tip . late of 20, Chepstow Villas West Ba ~..., ys‘ . -____-- e ._ ------ 13 op , London : Printed and Published by WIL L. 1.6% I I:14 .:1 • I i !i nof No. i, Strand, Pt inter, at Trig SuN 0 01(1 e °' 1•1 0 ° fi Strand, in the Precinct of thn Sc.lroY -in th C° Middlesex.7-Monday, May 7, 1866. PARK. Mr. Trn, M.P., drew the attention of the board to a bill which had passed the House of Lords for the establishment of gasworks near Victoria-park, and which had been the subject of discussimi last, night in the House of Commons. In answer to Mr. Berosfordlope, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works had said he had no locus stanch to oppose the bill, but he (Mr. Tite) thought it was hd.rd after the board had spent so much money in improving the approaches to this park that such a nuisance should be brought to it as the establishment of gasworks. The CHAIRMAN said the board had opposed the bill in the house of Lords, where they required powers to take 100 acres of land, and it was therefore clear they intended the erection of a nuisance on a gigantic scale, and it could not fail being a great injury to those who were in the habit of frequenting the park. Tho House of Lords had limited the powers to the taking 37 acres, but still its existence at all would be exceedingly objectionable, and would destroy the public utility of the park. " " • After some further discussion it was ordered that a peti tion should be presented against the bill in the House of Commons, and that the solicitor should take all steps in his power to oppose the bill in committee. • PROGRESS OF THE 11IAMES EMBANKMENT. The Chief Engineer presented a report on the progress of the Thames Embankment, which stated generally that the works were going on satisfactorily. The rest of the business was disposed of, and the Board adjourned, The hotel proprietors of New York have met to consider the expediency o reducing the price of board.