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

IRELAND. D üBLEN, Saturday. There is an end to the disgraceful conflicts in St. Bride's Church. The incumbent, after stating in a published letter a few days ago that he would never submit to " foreign coercion" by changing the forms of worship he had adopted, has thought better of it, and yielded every point in dispute. In a letter which appears to-day in the morning papers the churchwardens state that they have received an intimation from the medical attendant of the Rev. Mr. Carroll, informing them of his serious indispo sition (at which they say they are " not at all sur prised"), rendering him quite unable to officiate ; and, at his request, they inform the parishioners that the church will be closed to-morrow. !They add, " with extreme pleasure," that Mr. Carroll has " most cordially and affectionately acc eded to their wishes in every respect , thereby restoring perfect peace and harmony hi their ancient parish." _ The estates of The O'Donoghue in the counties of Cork and Kerry were put up for sale yesterday in the Landed Estates Court. He was himself the p e titioner, and his object was to discharge his debts, which are said to amount to about £12,000. Five lots were sold, producing £7,315. The sale of the sixth lot was postponed on the application of Mr. V. B. Dillon, in order that it might be purchased for the owner. Saunders's Newsletter, a Conserva- tive journal, makes the following remarks uponthis sale : " We regret to see the small remnant of the large posses sions once o wned by The O'Donoghues of the Glens passing out of the hands of their descendant. Whatever may be thought of the politics of the O'Donoghue, it cannot be denied that he is a gentleman and a man of a bility, and latterly he has shown a disposition to a bandon those ex treme opinions with which he entered on public life, which justifies the hope that he may have a u seful Parliamentary careerbefore him. The generous effort of The O'Donoghue's tenantry to raise a fund sufficient to purchase his estates for him appears to have proved a failure." A great novelty has just been introduced by one of our leading Dublin hospitals. The managers of St. Vincent Hospital, Stephen's-green, have pur chased the splendid residence known as Lyndon Castle, Blackrock, for the purpose of converting it into a sanatorium to which they will send the conva lescent patients to enjoy the benefit of country air, seabathing, &c., previous to returning to their homes. This is the first sanatorium ever established in Ireland. The example is well worthy of imita tion, for there are other hospitals in Dublin which, from there less favourable situation as to pure air, require such an appendage much more than St. Vincent de Paul's. An important will case was commenced in the Probate Court to-day. It is a suit to establish the will of the late Miss Margaret Ellen Murphy, daughter of the celebrated Smithfield salesmaster, Billy" Murphy, who died in 1849, and left £102,700 in legacies. The will of Miss Murphy is disputed on the alleged ground of undue influence used by the plaintiffs and the Rev. Eustace Murphy, a Domini can, who was her spiritual rector, and had been the intimate friend of her father. Mr. Brewster, Q.C., stated the case at considerable length. It will be re sumed on Monday, and will probably last all the week.. Sunday Evening, A man named Dowling and a soldier named Mar were fired at in. a publichouse in Bonham-street last night and severely wounded. Four men were arrested. It is supposed to be connected with 'Fenian ism. A disturbance tookplace in Grangegorman Church at noon service to-day. Seven persons were ar- rested. Miscellaneous American News. TEXAS.—The State of Texas is omitted from the benefits of President Johnson's proclamation, for the reason, we suppose, that its new State Govern ment is not yet organised. Its constitutional con vention has but just completed its work ; the election of State officers, the assembling of the Legislature, and the passage of the laws necessary to restore the State to harmonious relations with the Federal Government., are yet to take place. As soon as this work is completed, and the President has due official notice thereof, a separate procla mation will be issued declaring the rebellion ended in that State.—New York World. NEGRO KILLED BY GEN. FORREST IN SELF-DE FENCE.—A letter from Sunflower county, Miss., says :—A negro employed on General Forrest's plantation, while assaulting his (negro's) sick wife yesterday, was remonstrated with by Forrest, when the negro drew a knife and attempted to kill For rest, who, after receiving a wound in the hand, seized an ax and killed the negro. Forrest gave himself up to the sheriff. The negroes on the plan tation justify the killing. Imperialist accounts give highly-coloured details of the efforts making to open the roads from Mata moros into the interior of Mexico—a campaign forced on Maximilian by the clamours of the Mata- ' moras m erchants. The several columns, which moved s i m ultaneously, as previously announced, had reached their destinations. General Jeaninegros had reached Monterey, and General Donny held Saltillo, while Dupin was in possession of Victoria. Only General Jeaninegros had encountered any forces of the Liberals. These he had driven from his route, and reached Monterey without loss. But practically these marches had done no good, the Liberals returning to them in force as soon as the Imperial columns had passed, and so obstructing the roads as to render transit into the interior im possible; they had made their reappearance near Matamoras. The Matamoras merchants had given up all hope of re-opening trade with the interior. THE UNITED STATES LIPORTATIONS.—The report of the revenue commissioner on the subject of im portations is published. It gives statistics showing that five times as many packages of goods were imported into New York in the first six weeks of 1866 as in the same period of 1865. The imports of January an d F e b ruary were over thirty-two and a half millions. To prevent a panic the commis sioner recommends the passage by Congress of a resolution increasing the duties on imports fifty per cent. for ninety days, with the single exception of printing paper, unsized, used for books and news - papers exclusively. THE lARIS EXHIBITION.—The United States Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs have in structed their chairman to report the house bill providing for an appropriation of money to defray the expenses of proper representation of this Go vernment at the Paris Exposition. The committee have made several important changes in the bill. They have increased the appropriation from one hundred to one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. They have added to the ten commissioners twenty more, who are to be appointed by the President, and who are to be allowed no com pensation. MERCANTILE MOVE IN LOUISVILLE. —The mer chants of LiTIL • of thelvii• le are looking to the improve mentcotton market. They propose to sell c otton " after th e the privilege giving the seller manner of tobacco, by auction, . 0 of accepting . ing the bid at hi s or reject means, to secure a Louislarg ° They think, by this e s a h n a d r eo f the trade that fol lows cotton to SF,. Cincinnati, staple a s any by that as good a market for the other in the country. The North Carolina papers are full of statements going to show that plantations in that b e i ng rapidly bought up by Northerne rs. sectionjrseY are an recently purchased 1 , 200 acres in W ades e b wor N. C., at $ ll per acre. A Ne w York companyao:,e on the poin t of taking 10,000 acres in the same I which they will settle English State, on LATEST FEO)f COLORADO.—The Central City Register m kes the f ollowin g allusion to mining 1 rtir e second piece of bullion taken off operations : JL at the smelting works of James E. Lyon, weighs 1,860 ounces, twenty- seven per cent. gold, worth $12,000 ; and that the average production of the Mammoth Mill—per week —for the last four weeks has been 300 ounces, something over $5,000. We might add that the Ophir Company is-getting out since the Ist of January about 500 ounces a month, the Narragansett Company is averaging about 600 ounces a month ; that the Gunnell Company is averaging about 600 ounces a month; that the Black hawk Company will do as well and better than that, it now having sixty s tam p s ; that the Philadelphia and Colorado Company will floon add another to this list ; that the Boston Company's Mill is again started ; that the Smith and Parmelee Company is mining with great energy, and only stopped its mill for something mDre perfect in the way of treating ores ; that the Briggs Company is running sixty stamps, and it never did run without payinglargely, &c. Our production will average, during the season, perhaps 3,000 ounces a week — at the rate of $3,000,000 a year. Added to this will be hundreds of tons of concentrated ore from the tailing's, at every mill, which ought to be worth an average of $l5O a ton. This can be treated by the Keith process or smelted. 1866 will be the most prosperous year in the mines since 1863. That much seems now assured. General Houston's widow is to be paid the full salary of her husband's term as Governor, of which she was despoiled by his death in 1861 by the Se cession Convention. The mines on the Colorado river are reported as very rich, and the ore is accumulating faster than the trains could remove it. The rush to the Vermillion gold-fields of Min nesota is unabated. The latest news from Superior City states that by stage, sled, and dog-trains the gold-seekers arrive daily. Private trains come in by twos and threes, and a party of about a dozen a rrived by the Lake Shore route, from the copper mining district of Ontonagon, their mode of con veyance being dos-trains and snow-shoes. The New Orleans Bee says that, " as to the pre sent disposition of freedmen to live up to their con tracts by reasonable good faith and persistency, in formation from the interior of the State and from some other States is of a highly gratifying nature. Not less than one-half of the former number of agri cultural labourers in the South has been extin guished in five years or has been withdrawn from agriculture." Another destructive fire has visited the oil re gions. The Hyde and Egbert farm wells at Petro leum Centre took fire, and thirty-five wells were burned. The loss is estimated at twenty-five thou sand barrels of oil, and one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars in property of various kinds. A very stringent quarantine has been established by the Government at New Orleans as a preventive measure against the introduction of the Asiatic scourge. The New Orleans press is indignant at it, and declares this precautionary policy as alto gether un-called for, and seriously injurious to the people of that city. The numbers of gypsies arriving as steerage passengers by the European steamers at American ports has for some time past been attracting obser vation. Already they are beginning to reunite themselves in their usual nomadic organisations, under their kings and queens, and to prowl about the country. In Massachusetts, between East Cambridge and Somerville, a band of about a hundred of them have temporarily located them selves, stealing and dealing in horseflesh and telling fortunes. Their queen travels about in a handsome vehicle, which, like Napoleon the First's travelling equipage, is provided with eating and sleeping accommodations. Ex-Senator Yulee, late a prisoner at Fort Pulaski, has been parDled by order of the War Department, with instructions to report monthly to the Adju tant-General. The working men of New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City recently assembled, to the number of about 75,000, in Union-square, in mass meeting, and 'were addressed by Horace Greeley and others, on the eight-hours' labour question. The resolutions declare that the interests of labour and capital are identical; that the working men should have eight hours for sleep, eight hours for labour, and eight hours for recreation and mental culture ; that a fair trial of eight hours as a day's work has always been a triumph for the measure, and that the working men of New York hail with lively satisfaction the co-operative movement of the iron-moulders of Troy. CELEBRATION OF THE CAPTURE OF RICHMOND.— The freedmen of Richmond celebrated the first an niversary of their deliverance from bondage on April 3d. A procession embracing several thousand men marched from the western suburbs through the principal streets with banners and music to Capitol-square, where an address was delivered Good order prevailed during the day. Pierre Soule's mansion on Esplanade-street, New Orleans, for about'two years occupied as a Freedmen's Orphan Asylum, has been restored to him by order of General Howard. The receipts of the Post-office Department during the quarter ending September 30 were $3,516,551.39. The disbursements were $3,537,084.48. Loss, $20,427.59. Governor Lowe, of California, has vetoed the bill giving State aid to the Western Pacific Rail road. The Assembly sustaiiaed the veto by a vote of 60 to 6. Travel has lately increased on the Michigan Central Railroad to such an extent that four pas senger trains now daily run between Chicago and Detroit. Galverston papers say that real estate has greatly advanced in that city. Tenements and lots are selling for more than three times what they cost ten years ago. Meanwhile trade is good, and the grain market is rapidly filling up by importations of corn by thousands of bushels from New Orleans. _ _ . Seventy-five members of the Society of Friends from Randolph ccunty, North Carolina, have arrived at Washington, en route to Indiana, and assert that they were forced to leave their homes from the persecution of ex-soldiers of the Rebel army. They state that at least 150 more of their persuasion, bound for the West, will arrive in a few days. In the case of Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland, late in the rebel army, and who participated with Police Marshal Kane, at the commencement of the war, in the effort to repel the Northern troops, and who was recently held to bail in the United States District Court in this city to answer an indictment for treason, President Johnson has interposed, ordering his bail to be discharged, and the abandon ' ment of the case. Johnson (the rebel) claims ex emption under the terms of his parole. A Fort Kearney paper declares, on the highest authority, that Brigham Young proposes to pur chase two of the Sandwich Islands and emigrate thither with his flock. The Chicago Evening Journal, a Republican paper, which supported the President's first veto, condemns the second, and expresses a wish that Congress will re-enact the Civil Rights Bill. A Tennesseean, formerly a wealthy slave and landowner, now a resident of Arkansas, has noti fied General Fiske of his intention to build school houses on his large plantations for the coloured people, and requests to be supplied with teachers by the Freedmen's Bureau. A proposition has been made by agents of Maxi milian to prominent politicians to give them a con tractni thatiex Mexico for n A r y o t u h l e d to collect the r e e o v n e d n i u tt e o t p erm re_ behalf voefnfityteheyeGarso;ernment from doing anything in of Juarez or the Republic during that period. The percentage which they offer to give on th e amount coll ec ted furnishes a wide margin for a lobby fund, • to use upon Cong ress to p revent action. st o p pounding th a t mule," said General Sher man to a soldier, who was unmercifully beating the beast. The soldier, unacquainted with the General, told him to mind his own business. " I tell you again to stop. lam General Sherman." "That's played out," said the soldier. " Every man that comes along here with an old brown coat and stove pipe hat claims to be General Sherman." For once the General considered himself outflanked. INDIVIDUALITY IN' WRITING— AUTOGRAPHS. — To those who are interested in the subject of autographs a collection lying before us as we write would afford a pleasant study. At the head of the list are the signatures of Horace Greeley and t l e V r i pa i r a t m o C By f . the appeara nce pear i he former a , oee of tt its writer. perfectco Every y letter is misshapen and in defiance of every known rule of penmanship, and the general effect is that each is trying to run away from its fellows, re minding one of an army demoralised. Mr. Bryant, on. the contrary, writes a singularly neat and reom- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1866. lar hand ; every letter is made with precision and each word is neatly rounded off. For regularity it is equalled only by those of Professor James Hadley, of Yale College, and George G. Hillard, of Boston. Donald G. Mitchell writes a queer hand, quite legible and very attractive by its uniqueness. The signatures of Bayard Taylor, Parke Godwin, General John A. Dix, Dr. Henry W. Bellows, and Theodore Tilton might pass for those of business men, so clear and bold are they. Henry W. Long fellow, Richard Grant White, T. B. Aldrich, James Parton, James D. Dana, John Savage, George Ticknor, " Barry Gray," and George Ban croft, write " back-handed," each preserving a cer tain individuality of his own ; thus, Longfellow inclines his letter; on a greater angle than does White, and most all his marks are curvilinear, imparting a singular grace to his writing. A stranger looking at Professor Francis Bowen's autograph would not be surprised to learn that it was written by a student of political economy, so regular and uniform are the letters. William Roun seville Alger writes a tremulous hand, in marked contrast with the graceful yet bold chirography of John G. Whittier. Jacob Abbot's signature sug gests at once the idea that he had just " set a copy" for a pupil, while that of George William Curtis is as flowing and easy as his style of composition. Henry T. Tuckerman's chirography, too, is an apt rescript of the readiness with which he is supposed to compose. Oliver Wendell Holmes's autograph has no marked characteristic, and affords quite a contrast to that of James Russell Lowell (who writes his name J. R. Lowell, however), which would be almost illegible to a person unfamiliar with his name, if such an one can be found among his countrymen. And so we might run through the list if space would permit.—Round Table. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, Friday Evening, April 6. The price of gold during the past week has but slightly varied, fluctuating between 1274 and 128, and closing to day at 1271 to 1271. The Railway Share Market is higher under purchases, but there are no indications of increased speculations for advance. It is the general opinion that the present advance is to be attributed to the combinations of speculators, and that these shares will not be popular for investments until they have reached a much lower scale. Towards the close of the market there was an in creased demand for Eries, and 784 was freely paid. The last quotations -were—New York Central,. 921 to 92k; Erie, 774 ; Hudson River, 1091 to 1094 ; Michigan South ern, 801: to 81; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 794 to 794 ; Rock Island, 1144 to 1144. In Railway Bonds there was an increased business, at former quotations. Gold -bearing Government stocks are steady. Currency _ . . issues lower, Sales of 7-30's at 99k, and of first series at 1001. Money is active at 6 per cent. on call, which is ono per cent. higher than last werk, and a limited business has been done to-day at 7. There is increased caution 'mani fested by lenders. Prime commercial paper is more plen tiful, and saleable at 7 per cent. ; good names, 8 to 9 ; and ordinary, 10 to 15 per cent. Erie Railroad paper, 71. Yesterday considerable money loans were called in upon gold certificates, with a view to employ the money more profitably in the railway speculation now going forward on the Stock Exchange. This turn has contributed to the ease of gold certificates on the street for immediate delivery. The Exchange on London was 1061 per cent. yesterday for standard bills, and 105 to 1051 for merchant bills drawn against cotton, with the shipping documents attached. There continues to be a good selection of Southern Bank credits on the market at 106 to 1061 per cent. To-day Exchange was more active, at 1061 to 1061 for prime bills at 60 days, with sales of document bills at less than 105. Gold can at these rates be imported at a profit. The Controller of the Currency denies the allegation that he had written a letter to the Finance Committee of the Senate, proposing to add $100,000,000 to the authorised currency of the national banks. The business of the Sub-Treasury to-day was :—Be ceipts, $1,341,585 49 - for Customs, $464,000 ; payments, $568,365 51—on account of loan, $20,000 ; balance, $83,032,006 32. Gold notes, $209,820. Freights are quiet. The engagements to Liverpool are 500 bales cotton per steamer at Id. ; to London 50 tuns oil cake on private terms. The New York weekly bank statement for the week ending April 2 is as follows: Loans $237,356,099 Increase $2,855,581 Specie 11,930,392 Decrease 2,015,250 Circulation Deposits Legal Tenders.. 72,158,099 Increase 2,652,064 _ _ The firm of Beatty Brothers and Co., tea merchants, have suspended, with liabilities to the extent of $600,000. The failure is attributed to a member of the firm having issued bills to the extent of $250,000 upon forged docu ments. The suspension of James 11. Clapp and Co., bankers, in Boston, is announced. • They had clipped too deep into petroleum. The-well known banking firm of Culver, Penn, and Co., of this city have suspended payment. The movement of dry goods at this port for the past week has been as follows : ENTERED FOR CONSITIIPTION. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. 1 Wool Cotton Silk 367 360,191 Total 4112 1,673,759 IVITUDBA.WALS. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Wool Cotton Silk lOB 161,486 Total WAREHOUSED ~1 1 7 739,844 3lanuf. of Pkgs. Value. Manuf. of Pkgs. Value. Wool 1283 $579,498 Flax Cotton Silk 254 297,680 Total 4849 1,245,222 The Customs' Receipts at the following ports for the week ending March 31 were :—New York, $2,451,920 ; Boston, $354,199 ; Philadelphia, $168,301; Baltimore, $56,110. During the same month the receipts from this source from the above cities amounted to $13,428,818, of which sum nearly 90 per cent. was contributed by the port of New York. The following is a statement of the public debt on the first of April, 1866 : Debt bearing , Coin Interest. Total Debt bearing Currency Interest. Total Matured debt not presented for payment 930,679 64 Debt bearing no Interest. Total Total debt 460,419,864 02 2,827 ; 793,806 82 Amount i Treasury. Coin Currency 62,069,700 80 60,077,680 01 Total Amt. of debt, less in cash, it $122,147,380 81 L Treasury 2,705,646,515 01 1C EXCHANGE —April 6. N. Carolina 6s, 2,000 B4 American Gold. 10,000. s6O N.Y. Central. 200 SALES AT THE STOC U.S. 6s, 1861, rg.2,000 114 U.S. 6s, 1881, cp., 10,000 33,000 U.S. 6s, 5-20 c., 1862, 9,000 lO4 U.S. 6s, 5-20 c., 1864 1,000 U.S. ss, 10-40 cou , 1,500 Treasury _ 7 3-10 s, Erie. 4,200 744 1,000 741 900....510 74i 25 75 100. 2d call 741 300 100... b 10 100... b 10 Ist series. 2,500 lOOl 2d series, 50,000 3d series. Erie preferred. 2,000 99 40 BO 10,000 5,000 99} 23 251 Virginia 6s, Illinois Central. 7,000 6B * 100... b 10 GRAlN.—There has been more doing in wheat to-day, and the market is firmer ; the demand confined to millers only; the sales are 3,400 bush. Old Milwaukee Club $1 66, 24,000 bush. New Amber do. at $1 67 to $l7O, 1,200 bush. Amber State at $2 40, and 500 bush. White Canadian on private terms. Barley is firmer, but quiet; sales of 7,000 bush. Choice Canadian East, at $1 15. Barley malt is inactive but pricee are steady. Oats are in fair demand, "chiefly to the trade," and prices are better; sales of 60,000 bush. New Western at 41 to 48c. ; Old do., 55 to 58c. ; 61 :,o 62c. for State, and 53 to 55c. for Jersey and Southern. Rye is moderately active and firmer ; sales of 2,000 bush. at 82c. Corn is better but not active ; sales of 40,000 bush. at 74 to 75c. for Unsound, 76 to 78c., in state for Mixed Western, 73 to 79c. for do. delivered, Bk. for Jersey Yellow, and 82 to 85c. for Southern do. Hors aro in good demand for homy use, and prices are firm at from 20, 40, and 70c., as to growth and quality. FLOUR MEAL.—The market for Western and State Flour is fairly active but irregular; common grades are very dull and heavy ; good fresh ground State is firm and in demand ; but the Medium brands are quiet ; the sales are 7,200 bbls. at $0 75 to $7 20 for Superfine State - ; 57 20 to $7 GO for Extra State ; $7 70 to $8 15 for Fancy State ; $7 30 to $8 for the low grades of Wastern Extra ; $8 25 to 58 70 for shipping Ohio ; $8 80 to $ll 85 for Trade and Family brands, and $ll 75 to $l6 for St. Louis Extras. COTTON.—The market has been somewhat unsettled to day, but closes about steady at yesterday's figures; the demand is fair, and stil ciefly from shippers ; sales of 3,450 bales, at 38 to 390. l for Middlings. CANDLES are in moderate demand and steady at 22 to 23e. for Adamantine, 40e. for Sperm, 50c. for Patent. COPPER.—American Ingot is dull and heavy at 291 to 291 c. for Lake and Baltimore, and 47c. and 37c. for New Sheathing and Yellow Metal. COFFEE.—There has been a moderate business doing, without change to note in prices ; , the doraand fog Rios is House of Commons. It is one thing to whip all the which excited the Dublin populace to make children and send them to bed by a bold indiscri- j horses of themselves and prance through the minate act of terror ' • another to defy the whole streets with the carriage of the much - injured lad y parish. But the Cabinet is equal now to this who is now rendering " Excelsior" to admiring emergency. To be sure, they have managed to audiences. We can more easily recollect the ora combine irresolution with insolence; they have tion upon Stephens. The humour of that was ex yielded over and over again to prsssure and re- tremely titillating. Everybody enjoyed it; and monstrances ; but in the act of yielding they have there was just Mr. Whiteside's mistake. A debater contrived to be even more offensive than before. should avoid making an opponent enjoy him : one A. resolution on the part of at least some influen- J never fears a man one laughs at. Mr. Whiteside is tial Whigs was announced, to the effect that the to no small extent the victim of his own wit. He Franchise Bill ought not to be proceeded with till is possessed by it, quite as he possesses it. In the House of Commons was in possession of the every epithet there lurks a ; when you read a Government Bill for redistribution of seats. Yes ; line you notice the gap in the meaning left to be by all means, if you wish it you shall have this filled up by a shrug, a grimace, a frown, lightly Bill. You shall be in possession of it. It shall be severe or engagingly satiric; here the hand was before you ; it shall be laid upon the table ; you clenched, there the action required a stoop forward, may read it, and learn it, and inwardly digest it. at the end of a sentence you miss the real bang But you shall not have this Redistribution Bill till which fittingly closed the paragraph. We should you have swallowed the Franchise Bill ; and as to inot be understood as deprecating all this ; it is very the second bill, we cannot pledge ourselves as to the good in its way. Mr. Carlyle is far too severe about when and how of proceeding with it. This must wind and tongue ' • a little wind and tongue is an depend upon circumstances ; upon the period of the a greeable change. Orators are few, and Mr. White session, and the condition of public business, or on side is an orator if there is truth in elocution books. the Premier's digestion, or on Mr. Gladstone's tem- He never wants a word or gesture to suit it. He per, or on Mr. Bright's advice. "If am asked has a fine voice, an impassioned delivery, an at whether the Government pledges itself, immediately tractive presence, and a certain honest assurance it has passed the Franchise Bill, to go on directly which is not to be confounded with impudence. He with the otherbill, without considering the times and never forgets he is a gentleman, and there is an air opportunities, I must answer that I certainly cannot of the old school which he bears gallantly and natu pledge the Government to do so." Which answer rally about all his performances. You perceive at on Earl Russell's part amounts to this :—The once that you are listening to an accomplished House of Commons has extorted from us a speaker, who revels in his art, and sacrifices to it pledge to produce a Disfranchisement or Redis- everything but a consciousness of that thorough re tribution Bill. This promise I will keep, as far spectability which he has always maintained. Per as the letter goes; but, as far as its spirit goes, I haps there never was a man of such extreme views reserve to myself free liberty to break. Next week, less unpopular, even with those who are diametri or next month, or next Session, or next Parliament tally opposed to him, than Mr. Whiteside. From perhaps, if all things go well, and if " other mea- the outset of his career he took a marked course, sures of great importance do " not stop the way," I but he never was an unfair enemy. He manipu will go on with this second bill. Of course I shall lates facts, he disinters cock-and-bull stories, he be alive to pass it. Of course there will be no jumps to convenient conclusions, he astonishes sen- European war ; of course there will be none of the Bible people by maintaining dead notions, which he thousand and one possible contingencies, foreign or galvanises for a moment into the semblance of life ; domestic, which may interfere with my leisure, or he hits right hard, but never a foul blow. When which may put an end to me or to the present ever he is personal he is not malicious. He in- Parliament, and then I pledge myself to take it up dulges in a round of abuse to show his skill, but and go through with it. This is Earl Russell's never to hurt seriously. Though his party has been private language to his friends, as represented by so long out of office, he has kept his temper. Hence Mr. Ayrton ; Mr. Gladstone repeats it, with even the lenient style in which the Irish papers reviewed more superciliousness of manner and a more ela- his late speech. There is an amount of genuine worth borate and studied discourtesy, in his public re- in Mr. Whiteside which counterbalances the vagaries ply to Mr. Marsh, who inquires, meekly enough, of his rhetoric, and the absurdity of his politics. He whether Government had made up its mind on the is the doughtiest champion that the Establishment redistribution of seats, and when it would please the can produce, and it is more fortunate in him than Government to announce its decision. It was not so it probably would be in another. He at least will very unreasonable a thing to ask the Government believe what he ,was always taught to believe, what it meant to do under certain circumstances; but and what he will believe to the end with knowing what Mr. Gladstone has crf late become, few a chivalrous and a picturesque determination. will be surprised to hear that Mr. Marsh's question He will be found at his post as faithful was met by the civil and polite answer—Wait till as the Pompeiian sentinel. As long as he can hold you hear • first take a plunge into the grea t un-, his ground he will never surrender. He is not known, and then, but not till then, we will giv e you a' haunted with a fear of Jesuits like Mr. Whalley, solid ground for the leap you have taken upon corn- nor with any other fear but that of disendowment. pulsion. We say that Mr. Marsh's question was His brisk and amusing opposition may be as mis not an unreasonable one. For it seemed to come chievous in a combat on this point as the sudden to this. Supposing that the Government Franchise flight of a champagne cork ; but the weapons with Bill is carried, and that we have to wait till another which the battle must be fought will assuredly be Session, not for the mere production of the second of another and a heavier kind. bill, but for serious and practical legislation upon it, the country will be actually without a Constitu tion for a twelvemonth. A vast horde of new con stituents will have the franchise, but no representa tive;; and an appreciable number of representatives will sit representing constituencies which will have ceased to exist. With all respect to the students and eulogists of Lord Somers, we must pronounce this to be a political interregnum unknown to the genius of .the English Constitution, because revolt ing to common sense. Yet, just because it is im perious and tyrannical and insolent, because it treats the House of Commons as children are treated by an ignorant nursery governess, it is the policy which seems to suit the present Government. Pos sibly it may answer—that is to say, possibly the House of Commons may submit to be terrorised by a strong Government; but, if it does, the indepen dence of Parliament' is a phrase in history. • If, however, it does not answer, and if the Parliamen tary worm turns, we have seen the last of Earl Russell. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON MR. WHITESIDE'S ELOQUENCE.—There is always a certain respect attached to consistency, and even an obstinate man is often credited with force of character, when he displays a sullen immobility which nothing can shake. Mr. Whiteside is not obstinate, he can always give a sort of reason for his opinions; but he isimmobile. He has nailed his colours long since to the mast of Conservatism, and will go down with the ship rather than surrender. His essentially oratorical tempefament imparts a cert ain grace to his obsolete notions. To him they are all the better for being despised. Finding himself in a minority where there is a vast occasion for speeches, he has discovered it to be, impossible to desert his friends. In Ireland he is a pillar, a monument, and one might say an organist, of the Establishment. The erudite institutes of young men who have periodical teas and improvement, those amiable guilds who submit to be practised on by lecturers, know him well in Dublin. There it was he first introduced St. Patrick to them in the character of a Protestask missioner. In the house he is taken as the trump card of the Opposition on Irish ques tions. His part is to vex the Government by cross questions, and by humorous eloquence. The Government can do no right— that is his text: His manner is national, almost to the stage degree. Gesture is his forte, and adjectives are his delight. He hammers a subject rhetorically, beating it out of shape and recognition, and suiting each word with the action of a Demosthenic, if not a harmonious, blacksmith. But his sense of fun injures the effect. The same fault is perceptible in his bar speeches. Juries are seldom off a broad grin while Mr. White side is addressing them junior counsel, with whom a little joke goes so far, twitter at the conclusion of every period ; the judge is visibly expectant of good ones, but the attorney who engages the emi nent advocate not unfrequently looks more anxious than appreciative. Does Mr. Disraeli ever experience a sensation of this attorney kind ? Mr. Whiteside is a genuine professor of clever talk and sustained jocosity. Facts with him are to make either puns or antitheses from. He throws them up, and catches or drops them with the airy dexterity of a juggler. History serves him for points. He uses it seldom, but judiciously. The period of "No Popery, brass money, or wooden shoes " is that which he recurs to most frequently, and with most pleasure. Somewhat over clever for his latter-day admirers, with whom the Pope is Antichrist, too much of a gentleman to associate with the bigoted rowdies who call themselves Orangemen, Mr. Whiteside goes back to a time when things were as Protestant as now and far more pronounced. It never occurs to him to regard Protestantism in any other light than as an inexorable obstruction to the religious belief of his fellow-Christians. It loses weight, form, and colour in his eyes, when not aggravatingly dominant and irrationally grasping. He would sacrifice Luther to-morrow to save the Irish establishment. In that, he beholds the faith of the Reformation reduced to the perfection of practice. Numbers do not compose a Church, and if there are but few Protestants in Ireland compared to the Roman Catholics, remember what excellent Protestants they are, and worth any amount of the Papistical rubbish, who can only urge the accident of a majority in their favour. Wealth is the stan dard of ecclesiastical merit ; will you deprive the Irish Church of its endowments and its virtues at one stroke ? Again, bear in mind the Establishment is a garrison of the Government ; withdraw it, and Mr. Whiteside will not be answerable for the consequences ; that is, the Government can have loyalty as long as they pay for it, but some thing else when the supplies are stopped, per haps Fenianism, perhaps Ninety-eightism. We feel assured the co-religionists of Mr. Whiteside in Ireland must entertain sentiments of profound gra titude to the honourable gentleman for this exposi tion of their ideas. We used to think that our faith and love for the throne were not subsisting upon either grants cr taxes, and we were under the im pression that similar views were entertained at the other side of the water. Mr. Whiteside holds other wise, and he speaks with authority. He was more archaeological than logical the other night. It is a bad ',sign of a case to see a lawyer hunting for mummy precedents. As an antiquarian recreation, an essay upon the connection of the Round Towers with the institution say of grand lodges, would be more or less interesting for a gospel tea-party, but lucubrations of a similar kind are not popular at Westminster. Indeed, it is rather painful than otherwise to hear a gentleman compromising his faith by ascribing its origin to a speculative , and, to speak plainly, an absurd' source. We do not re quire a Chinese length of prescription for our belief because it suits a special pleading of Mr. White side's, nor does our Church abi de b y his fallacy ; if his argument falls, it falls alone. We strongly sus pect his position in this respect is quite untenable, and can be refuted by direct evidence. But Mr. Whiteside is essentially a barrister; he holds a brief and will state from it, leaving the other side to make their own case. This tells better at Nisi Prins than in Parliament. Mr. Whiteside is splendid at Nisi Prius. He is never absent from a heavy " breach of promise." His cajolery, shrewdness, and pathos, enlisted either for injured plaintiffs or decoyed de fendants, charm every one who listens to him, occa sionally with the exception, however, of the per sonage to whom we before alluded. Against rail way companies, going for damages, he is irresistible. We remember his brilliant exertions for Mrs. Yel verton. How the Irish papers described the tear compelling passages, the gusts, the breaks, the throes, and the flashes, an all the'rest of THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE LARGER ASPECTS OF TILE' REFORM DEBATE.—The speeches which seem to us to have gone deepest, we will not say into the minor ques tion of Earl GrosvenOr's amendment, but into the ultimate objects and grander aims of the Reform movement, are, we do not hesitate to say, Sir BulwerLytton's, Mr. J. S. Mill's, and Mr. Hughes's—the last of which did not receive in the House all the attention which it will unquestionably receive in the country, but all of which seem to us to converge in tellectually on the same point, to prove the defectiveness of the Ministerial Bill in sound principle, though not all coming from the same side of the House, and two of them taking the view opposed to our own of the practical ques tion at issue. In principle it seems to us that these three speeches are absolutely unanimous, though party exigen cies have perverted two of the votes which will follow the speeches. When Mr. Hughes, on Thursday night, in sisted so forcibly on the "totally different world" which we have been allowing to grow up beside that middle-class society whose ideas we know—a world whose ideas, and, if we may so speak, laws, are so different from our own. that Mr. Hughes could only echo Mr. Layard's confession of complete incapacity to represent it adequately in that House—he made out, as we think, A most forciblo, a most unanswerable case, for a real and substantial representa tion of that class in the House of Commons. Nothing can be more dangerous, nothing more suicidA than to recog nise the existence of such an unknown population, and yet to try to keep it, as some of our petty Conservatives and Conservative-Liberals wish, silent and dumb at our feet Those who have retorted upon Mr. Hughes that he had made the most damaging of all admissions for the cause of which he was speaking, seem to us purblind and incapable of understanding history, if they mean, as some of them do mean, that he made out a case against a generous political measure of representation for that class in the House of Commons. But we quite agree that Mr. Hughes did make out a case— a case so strong that we claim him as the most powerful of all our witnesses against the theory of unlimited down ward extension of the franchise—adverse to the theory of the present bill Why, all his argument rested on the im portance, the overwhelming importance, of bringing these different worlds of thought into mutual communication and habitual reference to each other's ideas. But there are, as everybody who thinks for a moment must see, two equally adequate modes of absolutely preventing that re ciprocal influence—the one which we now adopt, and the one to which the Government Bill tends at no very remote period; the ono of keeping the working classes out en masse, and the one of letting them in en masse. Mr. Hughes is, of course, quite right in saying that this " cataract" of labour does not threaten the constituencies now. But it does threaten the constituencies at the next era of reform, if the principles of 1832 are to be sanctioned by the prin ciples of 1866. We are the blindest of all reformers if we legislate only for a generation, seeing as we do how powerful, how omnipotent, we may say, is the prece dent adopted in the last generation on this subject, to dominate the actions of this. And therefore when Mr, Hughes tries to nullify the effect of his most able and tell ing speech, by confirming the irrelevant assertion of Mr. Forster, that the working classes also are divided amongst themselves into Conservative and Radical, we simply reply that that is nothing to the purpose. If the root-ideas which pervade the artisan world, the root-ideas of all politics, those affecting all the social and political philosophy of the day, are different from ours, then how all-important is it that we should provide, not only for the present but for the future, not only for the ne xt 10 years but for the next 100 years—that Parliament should be a real meeting ground, a field for genuine and earnest discussion, between the ideas generated in the atmosphere of labour, and the ideas gene rated amonst the far less united, the far less coherent middle class, by the influences of our perhaps somewhat too lei surely study and too " excessive solvency." And to do this it is clear that we must not only provide for admitting the excluded to the field of discussion, but for keeping the included classes permanently in that field— a notion alto gether lost sight of by the member for Lambeth, and of late months, though only of late months, also by the member for Westminster. The line taken by Sir B. Lytton in his very remarkable essay of yesterday week has the most important bearing on that of Mr. Hughes and Mr. John Stuart Mill. The most important idea by far of Sir Bulwer Lytton's speech was, that if we neglect the precau tions we have pointed out, and allow the House of Com mons to become sooner or later not a meeting ground of all the ideas fermenting in different portions of English so ciety, but the absolute estate of some one of them, then we shall have to provide other checks by which the exe cutive may be able, as in both France and America, to hold its own ground for a considerable time against the hasty and half-considered legislation which always emanates from the nominees of a single class. This is a very impor tant point ; and what is curious enough, it is fairly con ceded by some of the friends both of the French and the American form of democrocy that such supplementary guarantees are required by the theory which they advo cate. In a curiously dogmatic and supercilious letter which we publish elsewhere from Professor Beesly, that gentle man explicitly advocates the French form of republicanism —the form of proletariat government, whose executive organ is a representative emperor—and recommends that for English imitation. He says that the working men of London,with numbers of whom he is personally acquainted, are in theory republicans of the American democratic rather than of the French imperial type which he prefers, but in no degree whatever attached to our present consti tution. If so, we can only say that the sooner they are attached to it by learning to wield a large part of its political power, the better. ,It is well, however, that they still prefer the American democracy to Imperial French republicanism, which is in no sense whatever a free government. Of all forms of poli tical aspiration, Professor Beesley's seems to us the most unmanly and the least possible for Englishmen. His polemic against us rests upon the transparent fallacy that the representation of classes means balancing of hostile interests. On the contrary, we hold it to mean the only possible mode of convincing all classes of society that their interests are not hostile, but absolutely the same. It is by mutual exchange of thoughts that the commercial classes and the landed classes of this country have ;t length arrived at a tolerably cordial and complete mutual understanding, in place - of the jealous mistrust and hatred which they felt for each other before the old Reform Bill. It is by a pre cisely similar pi ocess that we look for the rise of a feeling of reciprocal respect and regard between the working class and the middle class. Therefore nothing can be more absurd than to speak of the principle of class representation as ono which proposes to balance the interests of class against class. It is, on the other hand, one which proposes to combine the special powers, experience, and insights of each class with those of all others, and Mr. Beesly, in his affected denudation of the theorists to whom he refers, only shows that he has either not read or not understood them. But he shows us also, what is more important, that those who reject the class theory do not shrink from the consequences of that rejection in the necessary- only for prime grades ; sales of 599 bags Rio ex Hayden at 15c., gold, and 250 bags St. Domingo at 121-c., gold, both in bond. At Philadelphia, 1,800 bags Rio ex Anna Wellington, at 15c., and Baltimore, 3,000 bags ex Amazon at 15 to 151 c., gold, in bond. SEEDS—The inquiry for clover seed is moderate, and the market is heavy; sales of 40 bags at 8} to 10c., and small lots choice at 11c. Timothy seed is in fair request and firm ; sales of 200 bags at $4 to $4O 50 per bush. Rough flax seed is in limited demand and heavy, at $2 50 to $2 60 per bush. Petroleum is dull, but prices are without change ; sales at 251 c. for crude, and 41c. for refined in bond. Exports in Petroleum from the United States from January 1 to March 24: 1866. 1865. From New York galls. 7,026,816 1,776,760 Boston Philadelphia 3,752,257 247,629 Baltimore 356,481 157,943 Portland New Bedford Cleveland Total Export from the 11. 5tate5...11,413,433 2,433,895 Same time 1864 5,595,311 Same time 1863 9,324,903 PHILADELPHIA, April 6—Petroleum dull and drooping; sales of crl,tde at 24 to 244 c. ; refined, in bond, 40c ; refined free, 58 to 60c. Flour steady and unchanged. Prime wheat at $2 38 to $2 40. Corn active; sales 8,000 bush. Yellow at 75c. Oats firm; sales of 6,000 bush. at 50 to 52c. ; 1,000 bush. Canada Barley at $1 32. Whisky dull. QHICAGO, April 6—Flour steady. Wheat firm at $1 27 to $1273, and 86 to 93c. for No. 2. Corn firm, at 45-i to 46c. for fresh No. 1; 41 to 42c. for No. 2. Oats quiet, at 26} to 27c. for No. 1. Provisions dull. Mess Pork, $25 25 to $25 50. Lard, 17-1 to 18c. Live hogs, $9 25 to $9 50. Receipts-5,500 bbls. Flour, 3,500 bush. Wheat 14,560 bush. Corn, 5,500 bush. Oats, Shipments-3,000 bbls. Flour, 22,000 bush. Wheat, 2,500 bush. Corn and oats, 700 bush. (From Messrs. E. F. Satterthwaite 4 Co.'s Weekly Circular.) Per the Australian we have our usual advices from New York, they are to the 3d instant, and report a good market for all Government securities, especially for the cuurency or 7.30 Bonds, which were last done at about a per cent. premium. In Railroad. Shares there had been an active business, Erie, asusual, commanding the chief attention on large sales by - a well-known operator; they were at one time forced down to 72, a fall of quite 10 per cent. since previous advices; but from this extreme quotation there was a reaction, and they closed at about 744. In other Stocks, Michigan Southern and Rock Island were most largely dealt in, the former on the week showing an ad vance of $6 ; the transactions in the latter were stimulated by a rumour of a probable extra cash dividend at an early date. Money was easy at 5 per cent., and gold steady. Vid Greencastle, we have received the following quota tions; being to the 7th inst.:—United States 5.20'5, 104; Illinois Centrals, 116 ; Erie, Common, 79 ; Gold, 1274. The Great Western of Canada traffic is, for week ending March 30, 1866, £13,176 2s. id. sterling, on 345 miles, or £3B 3s. 10d. per mile per week ; March 31, 1865, £10,738 6s. 6d. sterling, on 315 miles, or £3l 2s. 6d. per mile per week. _ The Grand Trunk of Canada traffic is, for the week end ing March 24, 1866, £25,505 sterling, on 1,377 miles, or £lB 10s. sd. per mile per week; March 25, 1865, £26,310 sterling, on 1,377 miles, or £l9 2s. ld. per mile per week ; March 31, 1866, £23,703 sterling, on 1,377 miles, or £l7 4s. 4d. per mile per week ; April 1, 1865, £28,702 sterling, on 1,335 miles, or £2O 16s. 11d. per nails per week. The Detroit and Milwaukee traffic is, for the week end ing March 30, 186, £6,617 Os. 6d. sterling, on 189 miles, or £35 Os. 2d. per mile per week ; March 31, 1865, £5,911 4s. 7d. sterling, on 189 miles, or £3l ss. 6d. per mile per week. Fdr the bonds of the Southern States there have been numerous inquiries, but the amount held here, with the exception of Virginia Sixes, is so small that few transac tions are recorded. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS o--- THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON D tYWNING-STREET DICTATORSHIP.—It has been said that one of the most remarkable social and political phenomena of the day is the concurrence of a claim for personal liberty with a superior claim for a strong govern ment. And this, it is added, is what has happened once before in the world's history, in the rise of the Imperial power in Rome. Historical events seldom, perhaps never, exactly reproduce themselves ; but there is sufficient analogy in the two cases to give them something more than a superficial resem blance. In the two leading countries of the Old Continent and the New World, in France and the United States, much the same political ten . - dencies are observable. Universal suffrage, with a strong despotism tempering it, the treading out of a real personal liberty by a general system of what amounts to Government proscription of all intellect and discouragement of all thought in politics, reigns in France. In the United States, this fearful system and its consequences are repro duced by the party monopoly of State appoint ments, and all revenues on political distinction are as completely closed to the higher American mind as on the Seine. In it's lowest form the same ten dency has taken root among ourselves, in our esti mate of our municipal government. We want to be governed, and we want to retain the form of self-government, but we decline to take the trouble which self-government involves. So the timid and idle whimper for a Haussmann, or scream for a dictator-mdile. We are all ready, though we care not to say so, or we are all thought to be ready, for a Cmsar—a Caesar Augustus or a Caesar Napoleon or a Caesar Lincoln. It is only in such a state of things that a Bismark is possible, and can be, even for a time, a success. It may be that Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone have appreciated this state of Eu ropean political morals ; but whether they have not over-estimated its force among ourselves is another matter. ' For it may be quite possible that, though we clamour for strong government in the face of Pancras Vestries and Metropolitan Boards of Works, we are not quite demoralised. It does not follow that because we cannot, or will not, manage our lighting and scavengering, we are yet disposed to abolish the House of Commons. Earl Russell seems to think that we are entirely ripe for a little high handed despotism of this sort. He and Mr. Glad stone are quite ready to do the gevernment of the country in a free, noble, and high-spirited imperial Manner. We are not fit to be trusted, and the pre sent Ministers will relieve us from all anxiety. As things are, Providence and all human things com bining to make the present Cabinet the only possi ble Cabinet, it follows that the present Cabinet must have its own way. A pure Whig Ministry, or rather a Russell Annistry,being of the nature of a political Fate, why it is folly to kick against Fate. And this because Fate has it all in its own hands ; if Fate were to be cashiered, and the Titans were to de throne Zeus, then chaos would come. This is pre cisely the Premier's argument to his followers, who, we are told, receive his oracles with tremendous enthusiasm. He did not condescend to justify his policy ; he simply announced it. The Franchise Bill might be incomplete, unintelligible, illogical without a measure of redistribution ;but it was the Premier's intention to persevere with it in practical independence of its necessary context, and .this was the oracle's voice. If the supporters of the Govern ment, if the House of Commons, if the country did not accept this decision of the Destinies, let them take the consequences. It was not a matter to be argued ; it had been decided. 'There is something in this noble insolence which is sure to tell. One cannot help having a sort of sneaking admiration of a Bismark, when he ruffles and hectors in a superb way. And one admires him the more, in the clas sical sense of admiration, so long as he succeeds. In Earl Russell's case it remains to be seen whether success will justify his swelling pretensions. He bids high for success ; but if he fails, he fails irre trievably. All that will be left for him and for Mr. Gladstone will be to take to the demagogue line in a more vulgar fashion. And we must do him the justice to say that Earl Russell will make a very poor Tribune of the people. Septuagenarian powers are not the stuff out of which an O'Connell, or a Feargus O'Connor, or even a Mirabeau are made. The present Premier will not be in his place at the head of a Birmingham Union to demand a £7 franchise from Lord Derby installed in Downing street. And 'yet this, or a little short of this, is what must have been present to his mind when, he delivered his recent address to his followers. He must either have meant this by his domineering language, or he must have talked big from very emptiness of counsel. As a matter of fact, we are convinced that the Government are only blustering because there is nothing left but to bluster. They are committed to a certain line, and they . think that their only safety lies in adopting the most haughty deportment. Being a necessity to the country, it is superfluous to consult anybody but' themselves. A Cabinet, especially a Whig Cabinet, is empowered by Providence to rule, and the act of ruling must be now and then imperious. They are forced by political exigencies to dictate, and they accept the burden of dictating. It is sometimes necessary, under the stern obligation of putting down an enemy, to snub a friend. And if your friend and constant supporter, your natural ally and client, 'your trusted and valued dependant, your consistent con fidant, has the temerity to doubt your prudence, or to question the propriety of your policy, why then, painful as it is, he must be denounced as an accomplice in' a dirty conspiracy, and set down as a traitor, a renegade, and apostate. This is Earl Russell's attitude to Lord Grosvenor. Although this is the treatment which Earl Russell thinks, as a matter of domestic discipline, necessary for his family of Whigs, we might perhaps have reckoned upon a different and more courteous bearing to the i ......maym0mm0n.gem0r...m................a.r........••••••................• 0•"'" degradation of Parliament into a body qu it e subservie n to the Executive, instead of, as nor, i ts virtue ruler. Either on the American or on the French theory of republicanism this consequence, as Sir Bulwer Ltton. and it is already perceived and accepted by well said, is nearly certain to follow democratic reform vocates. For ourselves, we believe that the ideal of true popular self-government is so much higher than that of government by a partially irresponsible executive, that W° would fight to the very last against any change which in' wolves the deterioration of Parliament. And that deterio•ci ration must take place if you either refuse on the o ne h en many of its ad to admit to a large and generous share in the deliberations of the country the greatest of all sections of then ation, or provide on the other for the gradual exc lusion from a seb y stantial share in the national deliberat ions of all those, tem porary collision with whom, we expect the working rae l to learn to adjust more accurately their social and political theories, and to find their true function in t he English 01:311- stitution. ___........ someti mes through contact, discussion, and it maybe The French Academy. -40 one The installation of M. Prevost Paradol, erter atea of the most faithful champions of reg America, as a member of the French fteadereta in the the most celebrated seat of learning World, deserves more than a passing n otice. France is ruled by mind—more, perhaPs, than any other country—and whatever may be the effect of the temporary sway of despotism, it is su re be sooner or later overthrown by the orenefVteittle influence of the noblest and greates t minds, ;di country upon the other classes of the .r r e " people. ; The French Academy, although cradled ' ll A . dark era of priestcraft and one-man power, land gravitating like other learned corporations rA t e , toward the past than the future, yet risesin tli e u P r a , sent exigencies of mankind to a full con 3 P reue ve r sion of the adverse influence of the on e-nlan P 3 „,' r . upon the progress of the race, and misses no Ol e . tunity to display its opposition to the roan' To turer of the French and Mexican coup dela /. be a member of this body is quite an hoil °ll : A in France and Europe generally, as it must the America to be a member of the Cab inet, an's the death of one of its members is the signal %es greatest commotion as to the electio n of his ell 00 ; sor. The election of M. Prevost Paradol ely only a remarkable event, considering that his 1 1 , er a i s , literary claims were inferior to some of his r ' N ' the r but also by the circumstance that he is stil l r 3,04 a young man, while those who have heretofore Poi admitted to the consecrated ground of the Aea ae a ge , have been generally men of more advnue ed 0 . 6 ig probably upon the exploded theory that mere 36 ' i J r . really, as it ought to be, a pledge of wisdom. one Prevost Paradol was admitted because he le t o f of 'the foremost minds of France, an d the fActhot his being a journalist and publicist presented fef rejuvenated academy only additional guarantees the universality of its influence. t he It is proper to mention that Mr. Bigel°" 9 o, American Minister in France (another jourli,..,iata by the way), was one of the first to congra'oe. M. Paradol on that occasion, thus offieialicer knowledging the eminent services which hisl3lloso ful pen had rendered during the w ar to theme oir of the Union. Indeed M. Parad ol, and :go others of the most enlightened men of Fralic:rioaS among the most frequent visitors of the -A -I %tios Legation. On the occasion of the inste";eost of M. Prevost Paradol, he alludes in t he i , t,lO eloquent manner to the United States, s ' A ig ais the glories of the new era in that country fi'rool a congenial echo in that illustrious body of ' e loal men, many of whose predecessors were the 1 3 ' an d and warm friends of Lafayette, Jefferoell' Franklin.—Anglo-American Mims. COUNTB,Y MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. O ct A fair supply of wheat at this corn market to--"Dat.°4 being in improved condition, it met a ready s 9 , l° ,:tirokl e „. l ,¢ is over the rates of this day week. The barleJ ti become quite a nominal one, the few sample s ; a s 13 ",1 • late terms, In oats, beans, al?cljaria being taken on late . littlo doing. The weather is now good, with ,0 genial showers, 'very favourable for vegetation. , ci cli,t', White wheat (wehing 641 b), 50s to 54s old 'ill! ° . (weighing 651 b), 48 to 50s ; new red ditto ``eisbll);4 (101 b to 631 b), 42s to 47s ; best maltino. barley 1 ii; c to " M" : , 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 5-,;,,,i 3 05 0 t 0 34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing bUlb to 5- ‘''.,"'',,164), a -32s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas ( 1 '" to 34 per qr. Flour, 31s per sack. NOT TINGIIAM—SxtrunAY . t There was a tolerable supply of wheat to-dait rti• e mand for which was steady, at no advance on 001 There was not much activity in the demand f°, l : 4 of 0 . 0 and sales were made at rather under the c urrell', - . 0 e n i week. Oats met a moderate sale, and prices /Ve.is, as high as heretofore . Beans were in shorts orl ) d' very dear. d white wheat, 56s to 59s ; old red, 49s tone ° 0 id, white, 53s to 576 ; new red, 45s to 49 s pe r 36 5,1,;051 old, 30s to 355; new, 24s to 308 per 24 stone . 50s to 535; new, 42s to per 47s 38s stone. LEIOES TER—SATURDAY . 00 0 0 At to-day's corn market there was a moderate the belie wheat, consisting of white and red, sorts. F °l c i o . 4‘ , 3 samples a rise of ls per qr. was geneially . o „,fle c ll- pg. demand for barley was quiet, and prices were in 6. ° t, pfl e. difficult to support. Oats were firm, and a t roe - Beans in fair demand. 4 0 'pc' New white wheat, 50s to 52s ; n ew red, 46s to A aO 4 white, 55s to 56s ; old red, 49s to Us per 3 6 stn% to '0 ley, for malting, 35s to 39s per qr. ; grinding , ?.43 oQ e . per 30 stone. Oats, old, 80s to 33s ; new , 27s to d o 5 t stone. Beans, old, 508 to Us ; new, 44s to 460 Pel. YORE—SATIJRDAY. s ov We had a limited supply o f wheat at our corn tl i f Vv. day. There was a tolerable -at t endan c e, with w; .O 00: 0 0 and the extreme prices of lest week were rather pr!oet There-was a short supply of barley, trade slow , 3 h i c h ,;,Do less firm. There was a small supply of oats, n e . i pa a fair demand, and late rates were easily 1115 of show of beans was short, and prices were in fav° l g 6 seller. • 4s , d io New white wheat, 46s to 52s ; new red, 4 45 t ° 0 5, 0 00 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40s. per g r ' 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 2 83 P e Beans, new, 44s to 48s per 40 stone. `ti of ,„, 0 tA Ij , Y ~[ O A , D O vEnTzsEmENT.)—That the fearful annual 6 young children and delicate persons of all ages4icul'il; arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills an d e i j av e ti which, though apparently relieving the Val°, reality no other tendency than that of increasi% r o d , and with it the dangor of life, we were simply t A ° , 3 -t re 1 100 e to increase the vital force by imparting new r h ti ole 1 upon which the harmonious development of the Vi rri „ .- ,0 d id depends, has been successfully proved by Du /3 : 164 , -. Jut 0 , lids' and Infauts' Food, the Revalenta Arab es ,1110 thousands of cures annually. It yields three 00 1 '; otopf, easily assimilated nourishment as the best In c in j il ' - 'll. 10 / children it is the best substitute for human .4,-001e11,:11' Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for he Aucutl' Children—the best authority on buchmatters— la 7: able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vege,-1900: stances, th a t which comes closest tmiik in its c () ;, c, c , -° a; is, without doubt, Da Barry's Revalenta Arabics '1;01'0 t gluing both phosphoric acid in abundance and c i . ,.1 D e rr potassium ; it also includes casein, the same Pri ac ' c iet e , ° Ot t is found in milk in its constituent parts. No v c l l , te d „i fore, that under its influence many .-children ciew - 6 1 P atrophy (wasting away of the body), and roaro;oste"-fil have adv completely recovered. I have given it with t' e trOa l eo rp own experience, in such cases ; and sa far as I may ia d „ g i t Os/ experience, practice fully carries out ir e i" from a knowledge of its composition, led us te a '2 l 2 ° S ; A - ill In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 61; 51b, lls ; 1 21b c 1, 09- 4 ° V los.—Barry to Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent.strea" " at also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-streeilal; 4 , ; 6!, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, 13 0 ,' 0 P )) o , ' street s 4 Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; '7 - ;00 4 , 1 ; , Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham -00 11 1 ; w- Upper-street , Islington, N.; Harvey, Nottillg6lo:l,l;e' Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs , Queell' l34 o 0 - John's-wood, London; and all respectable 2 1°Cer mis .—Beware of snurious imitations. 3 0.rfrrlo• London : Printed and Published byViTILL I- 00 4 ,1 , 0 0 41 of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at Try.% Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy •'' Middlesex—Monday, April 23, 1866. 1 Births. to o EMERSON—On the 19th inst., the wifo 01 .' tlll •ote son, Esq., of Willesden-lane, of a son. tto. Mrsurro—On the 20th inst., at Rio Cottag e n 'f 0 0- do o ' Bromley, Kent, the wife of J. Minuto, Esq'' %Sell' PITT—On the 20th inst., at 46, Portland-Pla,t7OV i W., the wife of Captain Thos. IL Pitt, 1 14:) •" - .fo ° 1 of a daughter. 1 the " PIIILBY—On tho 20th inst., at Chigwell, BO - ' IL A. Philby, Esq., of a daughter. 't; 13°1 Marriages. Po t` t st• oii;t, T URNER —ENGLEHEART —On the 19th in t'7,7 - Od le' V P- Tunbridge-Wells, J. F. Turner, Esq., s ° f ' e vg e Helen Dillman, daughter of the late F. C. c l i tl li q Esq., of Beech Holm, Tunbridge-Wells. 0 l'' o ,,,'' YArEs—HALs—On the 21st inst., at Sti'e l t r ov, t , ° p oc Kensington, Francis Yates, Esq ,of Stlf a v - 11.- Jane, eldest daughter of H. Haes, Esq., of oat' Clapham-road. ll' Deaths. 8 1 " ~,oti i f, FRYER -On On the 20th inst., at 14 Chester-s" I, 7 Fryer, of South Lytchett, Dorset, aged 64. 130 11 ' rk hall, iirj 'r JouxsToNt —On the 18th inst., at 8, La Jo Johnstone, M.D., late of Dmerara. dP . 0 LOFTS—On the 17th inst., at 19, Abbey-r 0 ' Ool d ° , wood, Mr. B. P. B. Lofts, aged 35. •OA C Y Do (1 3LIRKLAND —On the 18th inst., at Han d109,- , - ,0;1 01 ' Ellery, widow of Bear-Admiral J. P. '''''.- , 01 aged 83. ,--