The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA. The board of this company have decided on re commending a dividend at thcrate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, for the half-year ending 31st Jan. last, leaving a balance of £ll,OOO to be carried over, which, however, includes the surplus of the preceding half year. TENDRING HUNDRED. The report of the directors states that the traffic was progressively improving. The receipts would also be augmented by the traffic brought from the extension line between Wivenhoe and Weeley, which was opened early in January, and from the Wiven- I hoe and Brightlingsea line, which would shortl y be opened. The works had been delayed by the failure of contractors, but were completed on the original line this month. The capital expended on the line from the Hythe, Colchester, to Wivenhoe, and the extension to St. Botolph's, Colcheste r, was £49,076, leaving a balance of £174. The first section of the extension from Wivenhoe to Weeley, seven miles in length, was opened on Bth Jan. last, and the traffic was satisfactory. It was expected that the extension would be completed to Kirby Cross in May and to Walton in the summer. The capital expended on the line to Weeley and Walton-on-the-Naze was £86,482, leaving a balance of £2,361. TENBURY. The re port of the directors states thatthe line had been worked with regularity and without accident during the half-year. A bill had been brought before Parliament under which the Great Western and North-Western Companies sought for power to take the Tenbury line on a joint lease. The direc tors did not think it good policy to declare a divi dend out of the small balances of revenue. The total payments on capital account were £38,993, leaving a balance due to bankers of £382. TENBURY AND BEWDLEY. The directors state in their report that a dividend for the past half-year, at the rate of £3 per cent. per annum, was now due from the Great Western Company. A bill has been brought before Parlia ment to make a railway from Worcester to Ten bury, which projected line, for a distance of three miles—viz., between Newnham and Tenbury, runs parallel with the Tenbury and Bewdley line between those points. The capital account showed that £156,301 had been expended, leaving a balance due to bankers of £1,960. ROYAL SARDINIAN. A general meeting t f this company was held on Saturday at the London Tavern—Mr. Grenfell, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN stated that steps had been taken to obtain an amendment of the original concession from the Italian Government. On application to the Finance Minister, a commission was issued to see how the concession could be amended. The issue of that inquiry was that the company got rid of making the difficult line until the land paid them a large sum. In proportion as the work was done they would receive the caution money deposited with the Government, amounting to £70,000. They were authorised to issue 50,000 preference bonds of £lO each, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent. The committee of the Italian Parliament was favourable to the scheme, and he hoped in a short time to hear that Parliament had sanctioned the measure. He concluded by moving resolutions approving the modification of the convention, and authorising the directors to make arrangements to raise the capital. Mr. BELL, in seconding the motion, said the com pany, instead of having to complete 124 miles of line, would only have to make 90 miles, while they had the land for 124 miles. The Italian Govern ment had acted very liberally in the matter. _ _ In answer to questions, the CHAIRMAN said the cost of the line would be £6,600 per mile. For the sum of £126,000, to be paid to Smith, Knight, and Co., the former contractors for the line, the com pany would receive all the plant now in the island, consisting of engines, stock, and some extensive earthwork. The interest on the bonds would be paid out of sums to be received from the Govern ment. The resolutions approving the modified con vention were agreed to, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. GREAT LUXEMBOURG. The report of the directors states that the gross receipts for the half-year ending the 31st of Decem ber last amounted to £155,282, and the net earn ings to £80,202 ; for the corresponding half of 1864 the gross receipts amounted to £125,991, and the net earnings to £69,060 ; and for the corresponding half of 1863 the gross receipts amounted to £116,564, and the net earnings to £63,341. The net earnings for the present half-year amounted to £80,202, exceeding those of the corresponding half of 1864 by £11,142, and of 1863 by £16,860. The gross receipts for the first 11 weeks of the current half-year amounted to £58,570, and for the cor responding period of 1865 to £45,947, showing an increase of 12,623. From the circumstances con nected with the commerce and industry of Belgium and the neighbouring countries, the directors were quite assured that the traffic would continue to make extensive progress. During the last few years the industry, especially that connected with the iron manufactory of Belgium and the countries adjoining, had shown a much greater development than formerly. In the Grand Duchy of Luxem bourg, and in France, in the department of the Moselle, new manufacturing establishments were being constantly created. Those in course of erection last year were scarcely finished when various new ones were projected. All these esta blishments would be supplied with coke and other objects of consumption from Charleroi, Liege, &c., and would thus, contribute materially to the pros perity of the Great Luxembourg Railway. On the other hand, the iron ore of the Grand Duchy and of the province of Luxembourg and the neigh bourhood of Longwy entered more largely every year into the consumption of the Belgian iron fur naces. The quantity of iron ore conveyed in 1865 was 359,483 tons, being 80,614 tons in excess of the quantity transported in 1864. Besides the increase in these great elements of traffic there had been an addition to the transit trade. The proportion of the working expenses to the gross receipts of the past half-year was 483 per cent. The train mileage had exceeded that of the corresponding h a lf o f 1864 b y 153,905 miles. The average cost per mil e per train has been llid. The permanent way and rolling stock had been maintained in good working order. Several of the stations, especially those of Arlon and Jemelle, were in course of being enlarged. Between the former of those stations and thepoint of junction with the Longwy branch (three miles) and between aatnelle and the point of junction of the Ourthe Rail- NiVay (four miles), the second line of railway was being d own rapidly The works on the Ourthe line were now approaching completion, and in a few weeks the entir e tir line would be ready for opening. Every thing tended t , confi rm the views formerly expressed by the director, "" to the value of this line. By the or i g i n al Act of Conc ession of the Great Luxembourg . R a ilway, bearing date vebvlittr branches,lB46, the company was bound to co nstru ct two one to the r iver Ourthe , the other to of Bastogne. w By means of this construction of the Railway , the former of those branches had been executed . The other must b e p roceeded With and completed within one year fro m the present time. Tt, of it was 17 miles, and the estimated cost £120,073'0". It would contribute traffic to the main line, and the Belgian Government accorded to it a guarantee of interest amounting to £2,800 per annum. T he time had arrived for laying dow n on certain parts of the railway the second line of rails. The traffic was already so large that it was scarcely possible to add to the number of trains, and yet it was certain that within a very brief period there must be a very con siderable addition to that number. The opening of the Ourthe line would render essential an immediate increase of trains between Marloie and the frontier of the Grand Duchy. It would be necessary to order 11 more engines and 1,200 waggons. The com pany would then possess in all 90 engines, 153 car riages, and 3,440 waggons. In order to provide for all those requirements the directors propose to raise £750,000. The net earnings of the canal amounted to £323. After payment of £35,608 for interest and reimbursement of obligations there remained a balance of £44,749, out of which the directors pro posed a dividend of Bs. 6d. per share, to repay £1,049 to the Government, to place £BOO to the reserve fund, and to carry forward £4OO. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending the 3d inst. amounted for local passengers to £5,123 ; for foreign passengers to £1,762 ; for mails, &c., to £976 ; for local freight and live stock, to £15,143 ; for foreign freight and live stock to £2,B92—total, £25,896, against £25,107 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £789. The total receipts from the Ist of January to the above date amounted to £205,173, and for the same period last year to £193,480, showing an increase of £11,693. ILLINOIS CENTRAL The financial statement of this company for the month of February stated that 9,820 acres of land had been sold for $102,704. The cash collected in February amounted to $115,550. In the traffic department the receipts on the railway for the month of February amounted to $512,028, and for the same month in 1864 to $528,972, showing a decrease of $16,944. ATLANTIC GREAT WESTERN. The traffic receipts on this company's linei for the month of Feb. amounted, on 507 miles open, for passengers and mails, to P 5,859, and for goods to $313,005—t0ta1,5408,864, againsts327,269 inFeb., 1865, and $179,041 in Feb., .1864, showing an in crease of :.:1,595 over the same month in 1865. The Gale. . On Friday, the 23d inst., during a heavy gale from the south-west, a barque was observed close in shore endeavouring to weather the Start Point ; failing to do this she came ashore on the Prawle rocks half a mile to the west of the Start Light house. Mr. Popplestone, the occupier of the Start estate, who had been anxiously watching this ill fated ship, and who was the only witness of the disaster in this lonely spot, proceeded at once over the precipitous cliffs, and with a rope succeeded in saving three of the crew at the imminent risk of his own life—one sea having washed him of the rock, but in the returning wave he regained his footing. The vessel proved to be the Spirit of the Ocean, R. Cary master, registered 550 tons, bound for Halifax. She struck on the rocks at half-past 6 p.m., and parted immediately amidships on striking, the fore part, in which were the crew, turning over keel up permost the passengers being in the stern of the vessel, were all drowned in the poop cabin. The sole survivor from that part of the ship was the mate, who was rescued from his perilous position at 10 p.m. by Mr. Popplestone, with the assistance of the coastguard, who arrived at 8 from the Tor-cross station with their rocket apparatus. Of the crew only Creighton Jenkins (mate), William Impett (boatswain), and Muller and another German (sea men) are saved. The passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Cooke and four children, Mr. Cooke (nephew) ; Messrs. S. Brown, J. Bailey, J. Stewart, R. Jones, and C. Lunn, besides a crew of 17 men, consisting of Roulle Cary, master, who leaves a wife and four children ; Creighton Jenkins, chief mate ; J. W. Wood, second mate ; J. Hill, carpenter; P.Wyness, steward ; D. Cook, cook ; J. Gamer, W. Impett, G. Wilmut, J. Muller, 0. Torngren, J. Palmer, G. Ahern, G. Lee, C.Wood, C. Brown, and J.M‘Guyra. The Spirit of the Ocean was two years old, 1,100 tons burdens, classed A 1 at Lloyds', and was owned by George Crashaw and Co., of London. The ship and cargo were valued at about £65,000, the loss of which will fall principally upon the London insur ance offices and underwriters. PORTSMOUTH, March 10. The English bark Queen of the Ocean, the Italian brig Leopold, and the Swedish schooner Christina Wabbagena, have all been taken into Portsmouth, with severe damage from the gale of Friday in the immediate vicinity of the Isle of Wight. The Queen of the Ocean was in ballast, from London to Cardiff, and was making her way down Channel, when, at 2 p.m. on Friday, she was struck by a heavy sea which threw her on her beamends, shifting the ballast and conpelling the captain of the vessel to cut away the masts to - enable the vessel to right herself. The Leopold lost her maintopmast and topgallant masts, with all gear attached, in the same squall, the sea sweeping her decks and carrying overboard the boat, spare spars, sails, chain, and other fixtures on the deck. The Christina Wabbagena drove ashore off Bembridge, and lost two anchors and cable, rudder, and sails. She was afterwards assistedoff, and taken into Portsmouth harbour for survey and repairs. PLYMOUTH, Monday. The schooner John Munroe, which was driven ashore on the rocks near Plymouth Hoe on Friday, will probably become a total wreck. The Prussian brigantine Esther Dorn, Capt. Redepenning, went on the rocks in St. Austell Bay on Friday. A vessel which arrived in Mount's Bay the same clay ob served 15 miles S. of Lizard Point a large steamer rolling about in the trough of the sea, apparently unmanageable. The bark Young Dixon, 328 tons, from Newcastle for Alexandria, was to tally destroyed by fire on Friday off the Land's End, through the spontaneous combustion of her cargo of coal. DEAL, March 24. Captain Betts reports that the North Deal life boat of the National Institution had been off to a schooner wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, and had providentially been the means of rescuing five of the crew. The crew were all lashed to the rigging when discovered at daybreak this morning. They were much exhausted, having been there all night, and the boy was dead. The schooner was the Peerless, of Aberystwith, iron-laden. The Ramsgate lifeboat went out in tow of the steamtug Aid to the same wreck, but on arriving she found the North Deal boat alongside. The tug then towed the latter life boat abreast of Deal, and returned with the other lifeboat to Ramsgate harbour. GREAT YARMOUTH, March 24. During a gale of wind and heavy sea last evening the schooner Ann, of Torquay, which was at anchor in the roads, drifted close to the breakers near the south side of the north pier, and the crew signalled for assistance. The small surf lifeboat of the Na tional Lifeboat Institution was thereupon at once launched, and brought ashore the crew of three men. The vessel was again boarded this morning by the beachmen, who got her clear of the shore and took her to the middle of the Roads. REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, March 24. This morning the billiboy Gipsy, of Wisbeach, went on the Redcar rocks during a heavy gale and cross sea, and became a total wreck. Fortunately the Crossley lifeboat of the National Lifeboat In stitution was the means of saving those on board the vessel—three men and a woman. CARDIGAN, March 24. It has been blowing a gale from the south (states Mr. E. L. Tenfold). At daylight the Elizabeth, of Cardigan, attempted to cross the bar, but in doing so her jib sheet was blown away, and she struck on the bar, the sea making a clean breach over her. Seeing the signal of distress flying, the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution went out through a heavy surf and rescued all the men on board, six in number, who were clinging to the rigging. The men had previously attempted to launch their own boat, but she was immediately swamped, and they had given themselves up for lost before they saw the lifeboat nearing them. PENArtm, March 23. At 10 o'clock this even i ng s i gna l s o f di s t ress were exhibit e d near the Cardiff Sands (says the Rev. C. Parson s )_ It was The blowing a strong gale from S.W. National proceeded at the ti me. Lifebo a t was immediately istitution Penarth lifeboat belonging to the Lif launched and inh had dfrom the brig Claudi a ,. o the direction o f th e li g ht s, which were found t o b e B f. of water in the of Belfast, which ve sse l w the a le a k. g in - o This gained so much that there was r.it hold. By great exertions the pumps ing, the anchors were raised, and at ten o'clock ept k th e morning the vessel was placed in safety on the Cardiff East Mud, near the Bute Docks. SWANSEA, March 24. It has been blowing here very hard (reports Mr. A. Sterry). During a heavy gale the brig Vesty, of Whitby was observed to be very deep in the water amd in a sinking state. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was promptly launched, and in ha7if an hour succeeded in reaching the wreck, which had sunk; and was fortunately instrumental in res cuin g the crew of 11 men from the rigging of the brig . PETERHEAD, N. 8., March 24. It has been blowing a gale from the south-east since last night, with a heavy sea (says Mr. William Boyd). About 11 45 a.m. the brig Providence, of Drammen, struck on the rocks near the entrance of - the South harbour. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was at once launched when the perilous position of the vessel was seen, and suc ceeded in saving the lives of the crew of eight men of the brig, which has since become a total wreck. DUNDALK, IRELAND, March 24. We have bad a fearful storm here since 12 o'clock yesterday (says Mr. T. J. Pooler). The bark Julia, of Liverpool, bound from that place to Port-au- Prince, with a general cargo, struck on the Brig-hill Bank, Dundalk Bay, at 10 o'clock last night during the heavy gales. The Dundalk lifeboat of the Na tional Lifeboat Institution put off at daylight, and after great exertions succeeded in saving 9 out of 10 of the shipwrecked crew, who were in so helpless a condition that they had to be dragged one by one into the lifeboat. One of the men was drowned before the arrival of the boat. The bark showed no signals during the night on account of everything being under water. BALLYCOTTON, CORK, March 24. During a heavy gale and high sea this morning the ship Alarm, of Belfast, was forced from her anchorage and driven on to a very dangerous part of Ballycotton Bay, where the sea made a com plete breach over her, and her masts soon went overboard. She was leaky, and her pumps were useless. The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution '.went off, and eleven of the vessel's crew were dragged through the water by a line from the ship into the boat, and brought to land. When they came ashore the gale mode rated, and the dismantled hull, with the remainder of the crew on board, held by the anchors. WEXFORD, March 24. At 3 p.m. on Friday the schooner Tigris, of Fal mouth, bound to Liverpool, came ashore on Black water Head, and soon became a wreck. The crew took to the fore rigging, where they remained until the mast fell at midnight, when they took refuge on the deck. At daybreak they attempted to land by means of the rocket line which had been thrown across the vessel the previous evening, but failed, with the exception of one man, who tied the rope around his body and was hauled to land by the people on shore. Although there is a Coastguard station within a few yards of this wreck, there was no rocket apparatus nearer than Curracloe, and by the time that it was brought to the spot it was too dark to be of any use, although they succeeded in throwing a line to the vessel. The nearest lifeboat station is at Caborg, 12 miles distant, the lifeboat from which arrived too late to be of any use. There is not the smallest doubt that the whole of the crew of this vessel would have been saved had there been a rocket apparatus at Blackwater Station; or even had a good boat been kept there, a crew could have been got to risk their lives, but no boat of any description was available. It is now intended to abolish this station altogether, 'which will leave an extent of coast of 12 miles, just inside the dangerous Blackwatcr Bank, without a Coastguard station. The lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution stationed at Hastings, Rye, Camber, Worthing, and Drogheda also put off during the recent gale with the view of rendering assistance to the crews of various vessels in distress, but their services were not ultimately required. Naval and Military Intelligence. Our Malta correspondent, under date of the 22d of March, announces the departure of H.M.S. Sur prise, 4, Commander G. Tryon, on the 20th inst., for England, to be paid off. The Simoom, with the 22d Regiment, for St. John's, New Brunswick, and, the Tamar, with the 4th (King's Own) Regiment for Halifax, were to leave Malta, the former on the 24th and the latter on the 26th inst. The 17th Lancers, under the command of Lieut.- Col. R. White, have arrived at Aldershot. The re giment is quartered in the west cavalry barracks, recently vacated by the 14th Hussars. The 81st Re giment, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Gildea, has also arrived at Aldershot. The marching-in strength was 37 officers, 55 sergeants, 25 drummers, 676 rank and file, 52 women, and 82 children. The regiment is quartered in G, H, and M lines, South Camp. The 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, under the command of Col. Macbean, now stationed at Aldershot, is under orders to proceed to Devon port early in April, and will be replaced at the camp by the 66th Regiment, from the latter station. An order has been received at Chatham directing two officers and 37 non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d battalion of the 9th Regiment to be held in readiness to embark at Gravesend, to join the service companies of their regiment in China. In consequence of the Ist battalion of the 2d (Queen's Royals) Regiment being considerably be low its proper strength, an order has been received at Chatham directing 80 men belonging to the depot of the 2d battalion of that regiment to be transferred to the Ist battalion. The men selected for transfer will leave Chatham garrison on Thurs day morning, and embark at Gravesend for Cork, where the Ist battalion of the 2d Regiment is now stationed. Capt. R. M. Parsons, attached to the staff at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, has been ordered to proceed to South ampton, to be attached to the department of the Royal Engineers employed on the Ordnance survey. The sailing ship Agamemnon, Capt. Marder, with the headquarters of the 56th Regiment on board, and a number of invalided and time-expired men, from Bombay, arrived at Spithead yesterday after noon. The Agamemnon will go into Portsmouth harbour this morning to land her troops, and will sail immediately afterwards for London. The 56th Regiment will be quartered in the new barracks at Gosport. . The sailing ship Ida Zeigler, Capt. A. Reynolds, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon, with the headquarters of the 70th Regiment on board, and a number of military invalids from New Zealand. The invalids will disembark at Spithead, and the ship is ordered to proceed immediately- to Dover, where the 70th will disembark and march into quarters in that garrison. , A telegraphic message was received yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard from the Admiralty, directing the new ironclad frigate Bellerophon, Captain E. Tatham, to be held in readiness for a second trial of her speed at light draught over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, with the length of her funnels reduced. The Dilawar, from Vingoria Bay, which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday evening, with the headquarters of the 44th Regiment, left yesterday for Portsmouth. Her troops consist of 339 rank and file, with 29 women and 48 children. The officers are Col. M‘Mahon, C.B. ; Capts. Walter, Raymond Bower, Wood, and Smith ; Lieuts. Maguire, Browne, Bain, H. Gordon, Wood, and H. S. Gor don ; Lieut. and Acting-Adjt. Overton; and Surg. Macqueen. There was one death during the voyage, and four births. The requirements of Chatham Dockyard having necessitated the erection of a large surgery to meet the cases of accidents which almost daily octur a commodious building, intended to take the place of the old surgery, has just been erected in the dock yard on the vacant piece of ground between the dockyard offices and the main storehouse buildings. The new buildings include separate establishments for men and women, a number of the latter being now employed in the dockyard in superintending the rope-spinning machinery. The reception-room is a commodious building, 25ft. in length by 20ft. in width, and is lighted from the roof. Commu nicating with this room are the private rooms for the surgeons, an examination room for women, with separate entrance, an accident ward, a bath room, ambulance-room, dispensary, and medicine stores. Each room in the building is supplied with hot and cold water, the floor of the bath-room being laid with Minton tiles, and that of the reception room with ornamental stone. The building, in the erection and fitting of which no expense appears to havebeen spared bythe Admiralty, has been erected from the designs of Major A. Clarke, Director of Admiralty Works, by Messrs. Foord and Sons, Rochester. PEDESTRIANISM. HACKNEY-WICK. The unfavourable state of the weather on Saturday afternoon last, at Mr. Baum's, as well as the other metro politan grounds, caused but a limited attendance, but the sports were excellent in character, the principal event at the " Wick" being the race between W. BAILEY, OF DEPTFORD, AND ALEC AUSTIN, OF WooLwlcli.—The conditions were for Austin, who is the much lesser man (about sft. 3in.) to receive 30 yards start in half a mile, the stake being for £25 a-side. There was much time lost in measuring and re-measuring the ground, when at last Mr. W. Price settled the knotty question, and the men appeared at their marks, Huxtablo attending upon Bailey (who is nearly sft. Bin.), Stiles of Chatham on Aus tin, while Mr. H. Woodstock performed the duties of both starter and referee. As they started just at the bend for the straight run for home, they had to pass the latter functionary four times, the winner having to run three laps and just 180 yards to complete the distance. There was no betting, for it was very manifest that Austin was suf fering, and in fact - only just recovering from a severe at tack of quinsey. He, however, ran most gamely, if any thing, in the first lap, increased his lead a trifle, when the long stride and superior condition of Bailey began to tell, for he was seen gradually to creep in, and caught Austin at the pagoda at the last round; Austin made a game struggle, but of no avail, and was compelled to stop '2O yards from home. It would have been a good race, if the latter had been well. Bailey accomplished the distance in 2 min. 11 sec. (upon whom 4 to 1 had been offered) over heavy ground. BOW. There were about 300 visitors to the Prince of Wales Ground on Saturday last, to witness the sport s the match of most importance being the ono between J. OWERS, OF BRADFOBD, AND J. HUXTABLE, OF DEFT FORD.—These men had to run 130 yards for £lO, Owers receiving a start of three yards. The start took place as early as 4 o'clock, to enable all parties to be in time at the " Wisk" to witness the race between Bailey and Austin, and punctually to time they toed their respective marks ; Mr. H. A. Reed acted as referee, and the betting was 5 to 4on Huxtable, which odds in the end were upset. Owers gained a trifle further advantage in getting off, after a dozen false starts, and at half the distancelluxtable seemed to be gaining slightly upon his man, but Owers kept the lead to the finish, and won by nearly the three yards given. WALKING MATCH AGAINST TlME.—Previous to the above Joe Stockwell walked an off-hand match ; he undertook, although out of condition, to walk seven miles in the hour, for £lO. Mr. H. Woodstock was timekeeper and referee. Stockwell went off in his well-known and excellent style, and up to five miles it appeared that his task would prove a very easy one ; for at that distance he wes well ahead of the scythebearer. Here his want of good fettle began to tell, and the betting, which had been any odds in his fa vour, changed. He struggled on most gamely, however, under difficulties, and was loudly cheered as he passed the goal in front of time by 48 seconds. Ho walked most un deniably fair throughout. BROMPTON. "'Several minor contests were decided at theWestLondon Cricket Ground on Saturday last, in the presence of about 200 spectators. Only two events; however, call for men tion, namely : W. ELKINS AND R. ROBB=S.—They had a run a quarter of a mile for £lO. F. Rogers, the well-known handicapper, started them, and was also referee, the course being just the distance, 440 yards round. Elkins, upon whom the betting was 5 and 6 to 4, justified the odds by jumping off with the lead, was never caught, and won easily by eight yards. Both are Lambeth boys. E. TORE AND W. CRAVEN.—This was also a quarter of a mile race for £lO, and proved a most exciting struggle, fo Torr, upon whom the betting left of at 6 to 4, dashed off with the lead, which he held up to 150 yards of home. Here a fine struggle took place, when Craven collared his man. It was a splendid contest, nearly shoulder to shoulder, when Craven got in front, and eventually won a good rdee by nearly five yards. Mr. E. Jones, the proprie tor, was referee. There was a good deal of Saturday afternoon practice by the different athletic clubs. MANCHESTER. On Saturday, at the Royal Oak Grpunds, R. Crudging ton, of Manchester (formerly of London), and J. Heywood, of Rochdale, ran their 150 yards match for £lOO. Crud gington got the best of the start, but after an exciting race for the greater part of the distance, Heywood passed him in the last few strides, and won by half a yard. The bet ting was 3 to 1 on Crudgington. NEWCASTLE. At the Fenham Grounds, on Saturday last, Bates, of North Shields, and Dixon, of Percy Main, ran 120 yards for £2O. Dixon had two yards' start, but, in spite of this advantage, Bates passod him, and won by three yards. The betting was 6 and 7to 4 on Dixon. The weather was very bad, and consequently there was only a limited atten dance. HARROW SCHOOL. These sports took place with great success, and, although athletics have been rife for years, the present is the first year that official cards of the events to be decided have been issued. The committee was an efficient one, and every thing went off—secundum artem—as follows : 100 Yards Race.—Sir W. Folkes 1, Latham, sen., 2. Won easily. Throwing the Cricket Ball.—Hadow (97 yds. 2 ft. 4 in.) 1. 120 Yards Hurdle Race.—Sir W. Folkes 1, Ainslie 2. Putting the Stone.—R. Cookson (29 ft.6in.)l Graham, 2, Broad Jump.—Cumberlege won at 18 ft. 6 in. High Jump.—Martin won at 5 ft. 2 in. Champion Hurdle Race. Sir W. Folkes 1, Ainslie, 2. Small Champion Hurdle Race.—Peel 1, Graham 2. Throwing the Hammer.—R. Cookson won at 85 ft. Strangers' Handicap Race, 220 Yards.—Viscount Mel gund, 30 yards start; 1, Pricket 28, 2, beating six others. RING'S LYNN ROYAL REGATTA.—This now popular re gatta will probably be held about May 24 or 25, and will include the challenge eight, an amateur four, a pair, the scullers' race for the championship of the Ouso by professionals, and possibly a challenge cup for amateur scullers. BOAT RACE ON THE TYNE.—On Monday afternoon two youthful amateurs named Thomas Oliver and P. Edwards rowed a match in Clasper's open boats on the Tyne for lOs a side, the course being from the High Level Bridge to Waterson's Gates. Oliver got the best of the start, and increasing his advantage, ultimately won by about 50 yards. The victor is a young and promising oarsman. Mr. J. Turner has sold King Alfred to Mr. Reginald Herbert, and he has gone into Mr. Rowland's stable at Cheltenham. THE BETTING MANIA IN FRANCE.—It seems that acing has produced inFrance the effect it has long ago produced in England. The mania for betting is no longer confined to the owners of horses, their friends, and the sperting world, where it does small harm, but it has now spread to all classes. Lotteries have sprung up in Paris, and every race-course is now haunted by great omnibuses, drags, cabs, and by one vast machine instar montis, and like a third-class carriage on wheels, where the public—the unwashed public—chiefly lose their francs, and even Napoleon, in "sweeps," with a preference worthy of a more remunerative cause. The noise the proprietors of these speculative " ambulances" make on the course is bad enough, but that is their least evil. It is just this class of gambling which causes the robbery of tills and brings discredit on tho turf, which is still' considered by many elderly women of both sexes to be frequented only by "horse jockeys" and "blacklegs." I hope the system will not long obtain, at least at the " Bois " and "Chan tilly ;" it is utterly injurious and illegitimate. —Paris Cor respondent. 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In tins, fib, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6d; 51b, lls ; 121 b, 225; 241 b, 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 293, Oxfdrd-street ; 330, Strand ; 54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting•-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and she mists.—Beware of opuroue imitations. American Iron and Steel Manufactures, At the recent meeting of the iron and steel manufactu rers of America, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the following statistics were submitted of tho production of charcoal pig iron in the country in 1865, and a comparison with that of 1864, by which it will be seen there has been a slight in crease during the past year : States in which produced. Now England New York... New Jersey ... Eastern Pennsylvania ... Western Pennsylvania Maryland... ... Ohio Kentucky Michigan ... Missouri ... Wisconsin .. Production. Production. in 1864. in 1865. ... ... 23,750 27,590 ... ... ... 25,111 24,435 ... ... 2,131 2,686 ...43,806 50,746 ... 2,862 7,222 ... 19,604 19,447 ... 70,080 71,490 ...11,942 9,297 ... 19,405 22,224 ... 16,544 14.511 ... 1,927 2,262 Total ... ...244,091 252,390 Increase in 1865 8,299 The total production of pig iron in the United States, as shown in the foregoing statements, is as follows : Anthracite 479,558 tons. Raw bituminous coal and coke ... 178,607 „ Charcoal ... ... 252,390 „ Total ... ... ... ... 910,555 „ The products of the rolling mills of the country in 1865, are as follows: Tons. Missouri Michigan Illinois 82,120 Indiana 18,748 Tons- New England 102,802 New York ..102,177 New Jersey .. 41,014 Pennsylvania 388,436 Delaware 4,334 Maryland 21,835 West Virginia 19,721 Ohio 61,819 Kentucky 14,551 Tennessee Of the total production in 1865, 353,017 tons sue rails, as follows : Total in 1865 833,079 Total in 1864 852,388 Decrease in 1865... 19,320 Tons. Massachusetts, two mills .• 30,442 New York, five mills New Jersey, one mill Pennsylvania, 14 mills 163,891 Maryland, two mills .. 5500 West Virginia, two mills .. Ohio, three mills . 22,042 Kentucky, two miles Indiana, one mill Illinois, three mills Michigan, one mile 0 8,784 Tennessee, one mill 6,522 Total of rails, new and re-rolled 353,017 MINING INTELLIGENCE. PETROLEUM —ITS PURCHASING POWER IN EUROPEAN MARRETs.--The wholo export for the last three years from the U.S. was 10,887,601 gallons in 1862; 28,252,721 gallons in 1863 ; and 31,745,687 in 1864. Of the exports for 1864, 24,000,000 gallons were refined, and 8,000,000 crude, representing a money value abroad, at the price of two shillings a gallon for refined oil, of about £3,250,000 in gold, giving the United States, at the current rate of exchange during the past year, a purchasing power in European markets amounting to $45,000,000 in U.S. cur rency. IRON IN DIFFERENT Courrruns.—lron county, Missouri, is tempting to capitalists. It contains more iron than any other equal area in the country, and also abounds in copper and lead ores, accessible by rail from all points north and east via St. Louis. The annual make of iron in Spain is estimated at 8,000 tons, a contemptible quantity for a country rich in minerals, and having a population of some 1 5,000,000. Sweden and Norway have long been cele brated for their iron mines. France produces a most inconsiderable quantity of iron in proportion to her population. It is not equal to the pro duce of South Staffordshire, England, being only about 800,000 tons. Scotland produced 850,000 tons of manufactured iron last year. The total production of the blast furnaces in Great Britain and Wales was 5,600,000 tons. The shipments of copper ore from San Francisco to Bos ton during 1865 wore 10,644 tons ; to New York, 7,528 tons ; to Groat Britain, 10,762 tons. Total shipments, 28,934 tons. The production of coal in Pennsylvania, in the last six months of 1865, is estimated to have been worth $98,019,161, and the production of pig-iron for the same time $27,893,500. The amount of oil transported over the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad in 1865 was 382,022 barrels, of which the largest portion was taken from Corry to Erie. Pittsburg petroleum refining amounts to 57,000,000 per year. The total amount of gold and silver ore extracted from the earth up to the present time, as far as can be ascer tained, amounts to about $22,000,000,000, of which only about one-half at present remains in existence. NEVADA. A correspondent of the Missouri Democrat gives the fol lowing account of the history of the Reese River mines : Tn the latter part of the year 1862 the silver mines at Reese River were discovered, and the Reese river mining district, in which the town of Austin is located, was formed. This district, the mining belt of which is about six miles long by three wide, contains at least 3,000 claims. The veins are small in comparison to the Comstock at Virginia, but what they lack in size is more than made up in richness. According to the returns of the assessor for the year 1864, the average yield of all the ores worked in the dis- Wet was two hundred and four dollars per ton, a yield which has no precedent in the mining history of the world. All we lack now for the purpose of taking out a hundred millions yearly is the Pacific Railroad. Let that be com pleted, and we can with ease increase the productions of silver at least ten-fold. Austin is on the overland mail route and telegraph line, 180 miles east from Virginia City, and 420 miles west from the Salt Lake. Besides the Reese River district, there are a number of mining districts extend ing 70 miles north and 130 miles south from Austin, all of which contain valuable quartz veins of gold, silver, and copper, and, in fact, nearly all of the different kinds of minerals known. To persons wishing to invest capital I know of no better inducements than are offered at Austin. Claims which can now be bought for a small price will in three or four years be worth fortunes. The cost of work ing the ores at present, owing to the great distance ma chinery has to be hauled, and the high price of labour, is about forty dollars per ton. Add to this the cost of mining the ore from the veins, and it will be seen that it has to be rich to pay for working. There are thousands of tons of ore in the Reese River district, which will yield from $5O to $6O a ton ; but which, until the railroad is completed, enabling us to reduce them for a reasonable sum, will have to lie perfectly worthless. COLORADO. The News of Feb. 14 says:—A little fact as to the value of Colorado mines is to-day on exhibition at the National Bank in this city. This fact is a piece of bullion weighing gold, one third ; of silver, t wo thi rds ; 1571 b., consisting of and is worth, in currency, about $16,000. Thi s b u lli on goes east to-morrow, and is the first shipped from Lyon's works, which are now in successful operation, and have demonstrated the truth that that operation of separating the precious metals from their ores is best which is founded upon time and experience. Many people have an idea that this smelting of pyrites is something new, whereas it has been the German method of treating pyritous ores ever since the ninth century. Mr. Johnson, foreman, of Lyon's works, states that this class of ores in this country are much easier smelted than anticipated. The American Mining Index says :—The friends of Colo rado must bo abundantly gratified with the turn things have taken within the past few months. Everything con spires to a satisfactory solution of all questions respecting both the richness of Colorado oressand the success of the processes now in operation for their reduction. The effect upon the stock market, growing out of the success of the Kieth process, is very satisfactory. The World quotes the stock of the Mammoth Company at $1,500, which is 50 per cent. above par. This company was the first to adopt the Kieth Desulphtuizer. MONTANA. The Galena Gazette, of the 19th Dec., has the following in relation to the Uncle Sam lode :—lt will be remembered that we recently published a statement from the Montana Post relative to a great gold discovery lately made near Helena, Montana Territory. The account says the new dis covery is an immense ledge of almost solid gold, which glitters before the bewildered vision of the beholder. Mr. C. E. Duer, formerly of this city, writes to his friends here that the story of this great discovery is no humbug. He has seen some of the gold from this lode, and says it is remark ably pure. It is certainly the greatest discovery of gold ever yet made. A Colorado paper says that in the banking house of Warren Hussey, a lot of specimens from Last Chance, Montana, are on exhibition. They are the richest speci mens ever produced from the mineral kingdom. Lumps o f quartz, over one-half of whose weight was made up of pure gold, which stuck outin great spurs all over the sur face, many of these spurs being as large as a man's finger. The lode from which the quartz came is opened only to a depth of 16 feet, and these rich specimens exist in pockets in the crevices, which average six feet in width. The poorest ores of tho lode yield $5OO per ton in gold, treated with the arastra. Much of the ore yields largely in silver. MINERAL WEALTII ON OUR WESTERN BORDER. —Few have yet begun to realise the extent of the 12 States and territories on our Western Borders, whose vast store of mineral wealth are yet to attract teeming multitudes to them. California has 158,685 square miles, containing 101,659,680 acres; Dacotah, 148,832 square miles -95,316,480 acres; Nevada, 81,539 square miles-52,184,960 acres; Colorado, 104,500 square miles-66,880,000 acres; New Mexico, 121,201 square miles —78,568,640 acres ; Ari zona, 126,141 square miles-80,730,140 acres; Utah,106,382 square miles-68,074,480 acres ; Oregon, 84,248 square miles-60,958,720 acres ; Idaho, 326,375 square miles -208,878,726 acres ; Nebraska, 75,955 square miles -44,796,160 acres; Washington, 69,994 square miles 48,636,800 acres; Kansas, 81,318 square miles-53,043,550 acres; making a total of 1,495,310 square miles 957,720,400 acres, of which only 61,738,546 acres have been disposed of. Idaho alone will make five States as large as Pennsylvannia or New York. Works are erecting at Golden City, Colorado, for the manufacture of railroad bars. Extensive mines-of iron ore have been discovered there, which will be worked by eastern capitalists, and promise to yield great wealth to the new State. Tennessee is showing up great mineral wealth. Near Cleveland is the largest copper mine in the world. Iron ore, tin, coal, marble, rock crystal, gypsum, paints, salts, and nitrous earths, abound in the eastern section of the State. Gold has been found near the Georgia line. The whole section of country along the Nashville and Chatta nooga Railroad exhibits unmistakable evidences of petro leum. A flowing well has been struck near Tullahoma. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON OUR LAUREATES. —ln looking doVin the list of Poets Laureate, from Chaucer to Tennyson, one is at a loss to conceive on what principle of selection they were raised to their office. It is true that some of the earlier amongst them were not known by that precise epi thet, but they all held a post as king's versifiers, and received marks of the royal favour. One, like Chaucer at Woodstock, was lodged in a goodly mansion assigned him by the Court, with a com fortable little pension of 20 marks, equalling £240 a year of our money. Another received, with his salary, an annual of ruby wine fresh from the royal cellars; and a third, though he never wore a crown of bay leaves, was chosen, like Skelton, from among the poeti laur'atti of the " Unyversite of Oxenforde, ' and call e d in plain English " laureat poete." Such was the phrase applied by Edward IV- to Jrjnn Kaye, and by Chaucer to his great contr:mporary Petrarch, whose crowning in the Capitol at Rome was the talk of all Europe. Princes, nobles, and senators, in the pomp and splendour of mediaaval costume, had marched before him ; patrician youths arrayed in green and scarlet flung garlands of fragrant flowers on his path ; the chief magistrate, one of the Colonna family, seated on a throne with the laurel crown in his hand, listened to the poet's discourse on Virgil, and then placed on his brows the unfading diadem, of which the name reminded the wearer of that Laura who had been his inspiration and his theme. To-present to the senator a sonnet in praise of Rome, to move in gor geous procession to the Vatican, and pay homage to its august occupant, and to suspend the laurel wreath before the shrine of St. Peter, wasthe natural conclusion of this novel and striking pageant. Two hundred and fifty years later, it would have been repeated in honour of Tasso ; but just as he had learned from Clement VIII. that this high distinction was in store for him, he departed hence to receive at other hands a better and brighter crown. Rome, in those ages, knew which of her sons was worthy of the laurel ; and this is precisely what England does not seem to have known till of late. During four centuries it appears to have been purely accidental whether the nation's poet should be a bright genius or a venal scribbler. Chaucer, the soldier, the ambassador, the romancer, the father of English poetry, was succeeded by Scogan, Kaye, and Barnard, whose names are now almost forgotten. John Skelton, the " royal orator," was better known for his learn ing than his fancy, and, though a priest, he satirized Wolsey and other over-fed churchmen of his time. Edmund Spenser (informally indeed, but in a way that seems to have been recognised) took his place, richer with his " verses dipped in dew of Castalie" —his " Shepherd's Calendar" and " Faery Queene" —than with his 3,000 acres out of the forfeited estate of the Earl of Desmond. Lord Chatham's sister used often to say of " Faery Queene" that it was the only thing her illustrious brother knew accurately. If the lofty and cultivated Daniel had not been made Laureate when Shakespeare was in the zenith of his fame, he would have have formed no unworthy link between Spenser and " rare Ben Jonson." Jonson's career as Laureate began in the year Shakespeare died ; and it must be granted that " Catiline's Conspiracy" mid " Drink to me only with thine Eyes" would alone suffice to vindicate their author's claim to the post he held. But what shall we say of his successor ? Did not Sir William Davenant write tragedies that make one laugh and make one cry ? Did he not pen his frivolous masks while Milton composed " Comus" or dictated that immortal epic which, with much difficulty, as Elijah Fenton says, he succeeded in having licensed for the press, and could sell the copy for no more than £l5? Sir William Davenant fought bravely in the royal cause, and returned from exile at the Restoration to reap his reward, while Milton died before he had received the whole of the paltry price stipulated for " Paradise Lost." " Glorious John" came next. But Dryden is not such a favo rite with us as with Haler° in the " Pirate." We have no sympathy with one who celebrated the praises of Cromwell, Charles 11., and James 11., by turns, with equal fervour. Of his genius there can be no doubt, and of his obscenity none either. It was far less disgraceful to him to be beaten by the hired ruffians of Lord Rochester, when returning from his coffee-house in Covent-garden, than to be dismissed from his office of Poet Laureate by William of Orange. He would, no doubt, have written birthday odes in his honour as readily as for either of his predecessors, and would certainly have produced much better ones than any Laureate who succeeded him during a hundred and twenty years. But his venality deserved retribution, and found it. His £3OO a year took wings and fled, and Shadwell, the butt of his satire, the hero of " Mac Flecknoe," and the Og of " Absalom and Achito phel," wore the wreath of laurel that had been torn from his brows. Shadwell, Dryden's enemy, was soon succeeded by Nahum Tate, Dryden's friend. But friend and foe were alike unworthy to stand in his place. Tate had written parts of " Absalom and Achitophel," which were evidently inferior to the rest, though revised by the master-hand ; and he has been well called one of those jackals that hunt with the lions of literature. The poet's crown next fell to Nicholas .Rowe. His tragedies are tolerable, if any can b e ca ll ed so which' are mere imitations of a classic and unnatural style. As to Eusden, another Laureate in the time of George 1., and in the time, be it remarked, of Alexander Pope, his name is now scarcely known. He bequeathed his laurels to Colly Cibber, whose chief qualifications for the task of poet consisted in his writing prose comedies, managing a theatre well, and publishing an amusing account of his own life, with all its bustle and frivolity, stage anecdotes, and graphic sketches of actors and actresses. "Know, Eusden thirsts no more for sack or praise; Ho sleeps among the dull of ancient days. Thou, Gibber! thou his laurel shall support ; Folly, my son, has still a friend at Court." Kings, it was said, used to have both a fool and a poet, but Cibber conveniently united the two offices in one. The honour of the laureatship was fast declining, and William Whitehead was not likely to retrieve it. Pity that he had not a place in the " Dunciad," where, by the side of Shadwell, he might have " nodded the poppy on his brows !" Thomas Warton just broke the fall of the laureates, and enriched our literature with a valuable " His tory of English Poetry ;" but the line reached its lowest degradation in Henry J. Pye. He was laureate while, in the language of Byron, the last hopes of deserted poetry slept with pious Cowper, and not then only, but during the last ten years of Cowper's sad but poetic life at Olney. Till 1813, he disgraced our century ; and the meanest rhymer in a poet's corner could ask with justice— " Why should /faint when all with patience hear, And Laureate Pye sings more than twice a year ?" Sometimes he was called " Spartan Pye," on ac count of his translation of the Odes of the Spartan Tyrtteus. They were intended principally to inspire the militia with valour in the event of an invasion, but ,had no more effect on military minds than the sermon which a clergyman translated from St. Chrysostom, and was surprised to find that the congregation were not struck by its eloquence. The experiment, however, was fairly tried. A board of general officers agreed that the Odes should be read aloud at Watley Common and at Barham Downs by the adjutants at the head of five diffe rent regiments, each in its camp. Great results were expected, but, before the reading was half over, the front ranks and all the men within verse-shot dropped their arms, and were found fast asleep. Thus Spartan Pye lulled England to repose, and, not content with translating Tyrtus, he also rendered into his mother tongue a German tale, which was a sort of " Bluebeard," full of diablerie Tudesque, and induced Lady Diana Beauclerc to illustrate the silly words of a silly subject with her elegant pencil. " The pie began to open ; the birds begen to sing," has been reversed in the case of this maudlin minstrel. When Henry J. Pye had closed his lips for ever, a better race of Laureates suc ceeded. Southey sang well, Wordsworth better, Tennyson best of all. They have disdained to offer to royalty periodical and fulsome birthday odds. They have addressed the reigning prince when and how they pleased, and not the Sovereign only, but any member of the royal family who seemed to call for a welcome, an epithalamium, or an epitaph. One imperishable " book of song" was dedicated in the sweetest verse to Victoria—the revered, the be loved—sixteen years ago, when the throstle called wild March, and " the sunlit almond blossom" was shaking all about her palace walls at Osborne. The " idylls of the King" (in a subsequent edition to the first) were inscribed to " the silent father of our kings to be," and the " Welcome to Alexandra" met the daughter of a long line of Danish princes ere she touched our shores. England has now but two great poets, and the Laureate is one of them. His fame is ever increasing, for he combines the precision of the correct school of Queen Anne with • the fire and freedom of the Elizabethan poets. We shall have no more Eusdens and Cibbers • the Laureates henceforth will be chosen because nature'si own hand has moulded them for the office ; and when Tennyson shall resign his green and stainless wreath, it will, we may be pretty sure, be worn by one more resembling Chaucer and Spenser than either Whitehead or Pye. THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES."—The Ameri can papers bring us full reports of a speech lately delivered before the Legislature of the State of Georgia, by the late Viee-President of the "Southern Confederacy." Although Mr. Stephens was a leader in the Rebellion, there is little in his speech which can be objectionable to Union men, and very much that is admirable. If we should criticise it, our chief objection would be rather on account of what it omits than of what it contains ; but we propose to refer now only to what it presents. In surveying the field now, as the war ha.s left it, there are two things in the way of a full restoration of the Union in theory and in spirit ; and if these two obstacles shall be removed, minor difficulties will disappear. The first is the acceptance of the Southern people of the result of the war, as finally and for ever deciding the doctrine of State rights against the theory that led to secession and rebel lion. The States are united, not during the plea sure of each, but for all time. This the war has settled. Let the Southern people so consider it, act upon this decision ; teach the principle to their children, and thus learn the late secessionists to regard the Union as the Northern people re gard it—permanent in its character and bene ficial in its relation to the several States and all the people thereof. Thus the restoration of the Union may be secured in fact, yielding as the immediate result the establishment of harmonious relations, which are essential as the safeguard of liberty and to the material progress of the country. This we understand to be the view taken of the situation by Mr. Stephens, and his advice to the Southern people is in accordance therewith. The Southern people, since the close of the war, have not shown a disposition to act in the spirit ad vised by the late Vice-President of the so-called Southern Confederacy. They yielded to the war power, it is true, so far as regards armed rebellion, but they do not deny that this was a necessity which they do not cease to regret ; and raw of their leaders at the South, with the organs of their sympathisers at the North, argue that the principle of secession has not been settled, and that they will seek to accomplish by legislation what they tried but failed to gain by the bayonet and bullet. It is perfectly natural that the loyal people of the North who sacrificed so much in putting down the rebel lion against the Government, should now hesitate to restore to civil power men who were leaders in or supporters of the rebellion, while they ask for a restoration of their rights with a threat in their mouth, and a bullying swagger in their gait. Let the Southern people adopt Mr. Stephens' policy in good faith, and show their good intentions by their works, and they will find the Northern peo ple more than ready to meet them. We do not speak at random when we say that there has been no time since the war closed that the people of the North have not been more charitably disposed toward the Southern people than the latter have been toward the former ; nor has there been any time that the North has not been anxious to have the Union restored upon a basis that would give to the South all the rights that are sought or desired at the North, only asking that the Southern people shall guaran tee the same obedience to the National Government that is required of those who fought to sustain it. In the second place, the disposition of the Southern people toward the freedmen is a formid able obstacle in the way of a full restoration of the Union. Slavery, as Mr. Stephens says, is abolished. This act is irrevocable. Thus four millions of people, held duribg all their lives in slavery, com pelled to grow up in ignorance, protected and sus tained by their owners as chattel property is pre tected and sustained, are thrown upon the country a numerous but weak class, a idlble to be persecuted and destroyed if left to fall prey to the fury and passion of those who hate them, because being once slaves they are now free. This cannot be permitted. The Government of the United States stands pledged to protect the freedmen. If it should vio late this pledge it would deserve to die. It would, certainly forfeit the confidence and respect 01 all humane people at home and abroad. It is essential that the South conform to the require ments of the Government in regard to the freed men. How this may be done we cannot better indicate than by quotingthe advice of Mr. STEPHENS. He says : " This duty of giving the new system a fair and just trial will require of you, as legislators of the land, great chang es in our former laws in regard to this class of population: Wise and humane provisions should be made for them. It is not for me to go into detail. 'Suffice to say, on this 0 0- erasion, that ample and full protection should be secured t ° them, so that they may stand equal before the law, i n the possession and enjoyment of all rights of p ersons , liberty , and property. Many considerations claim this at you; hands. Among these may be stated their fidelity in times past. They cultivated your fields, ministered to your per" sonal wants and comforts, nursed and reared your children- and even in the hours of danger and peril they were, in t he f main, true to you and yours. To th e m we owe a debt o gratitude, as well as acts of kindness. This should also be done because they are poor, untutored, uninforme d j many of them helpless, liable to be imposed upon, and hee it. Legislation s h ou ld ever l oo k t o th e protection o f the weak against the strong. "But, above all, this protection should be secured , b e a i cause it is right and just that it should be, upon ge ol. principles. All governments, in their organic structiF e ± as well as in their administration, should have this lea cbe object in view ' • the good of the governed. Prote ction and security to all, under its jurisdiction, should be chief end of every government. It is a melancholy tru,,..-; that while this should be the chief end of all governre en c i o most of them are used only as instruments of power, the agrandisement of the few at the expense of, and by t.„,": oppression, of the many. Such are not our ideas of goo' ment, never have been, and never should be. ci, "All obstacles, if there be any, should be rem °ye n f which can possibly hinder or retard the improvements..ja the blacks to the extent of their capacity. All proper . : s , should be given to their own efforts. Channels of eau t ' it a tion should be opened up to them. Schools and the ° en . means of moral and intellectual training should bt , 3 , o f couraged among them. This is the dictate, not oi?9_,, what is right and proper, and just in itself, but it le _"'is the promptings of the highest considerations of inte" u o, It.is difficult to conceive a greater evil or curse than co befall our country, stricken and distressed as it new g s than for so large a portion of its populatio.il this class will quite probably constitute amongus,,,° ° after to be reared in ignorance, depravity, and vice. as We have grouped the above extracts here, containing the essence of the advice of the s p eak in regard to the treatment of freedmen. r r her n a in this a combination of statesmanship, human it y , Christianity, supported by self-interest; and if Southern people will adopt this advice, coining ", : r c , to the standard laid down, it will result the mutual advantage of whites and blacks, a c _it: other rights, which may now be denied to the ' att, w ill follow, as surely as success crowns the la bour of intelligent, faithful, and industrious people ever):: c i where. Beyond any question, the adoption am,s.. faithful execution of Mr. Stephens' policy would re move the second main obstacle in the way o f restor e " tion, to which we refer, but until such a policL i '; adopted the way will not be clear. If, therefore, t„7,1 is delay in the work of reconstruction, or in the D a _ d winding up of the consequences of the rebellion, fot the Southern people suffer thereby, let thel3l4o complain of the Northern people. Mr. Stlhas i has spoken from a Southern stand-point. ri„.eorth pointed out as proper and just what the TregheuilroeysalaspeoesspleenotifatlhienNtohrethwworilik notof direfiste.orr;tltoti; rially with Mr. STEPHENS. Will the people o' South accept his policy ? Nine months ago Pithole City, Pennsylvania, consisted of two houses. Now it supports a newspaper having a circulation of 3,000 copies, receives 50,000 lettero monthly, and sustains 12 Births. ATHOLE On the 25th inst., the Duchess of Athole, of fl daughter. EDEN—On the 24th inst., at Colgrave-place , Hon. Mrs. Henley Eden, of a daughter. rir s le - HOLMES—On the 26th inst„ at 15, Norfolk - t errace? park, the wife of H. W. Holmes, Esq., of a son. ~/L WILLIAMSON—On the 25th inst., at the Law Sociey's -1 a London, the wife of Edward W. Williamson, Esq" daughter. Notts, the Marriages. , De n, CALDECOTT—WATSON-011 the 22d inst., at SO Da nger Perth Frank Caldecott, Esq., Royal ArtillerY , Y°Wir son of C. M. CaldeceLt, E of Holbrook Grange; 4 ., 0. wickshire, to Georgina youngest daughter of the 13 ' Watson, Esq ., of K ill ' ~ e or. rot° SALT—CnossLEY—On the 15th last ,at the Sciu 3re ,„ - of Congregational Church, Halifax, • Titus Salt , P - "" li- Baildon Lodge, near Leeds, to Catherine, eldest daug ter of J. Crossley, Esq., of Broomfield. Deaths. DIXON—On the 23d inst., Mr. G. W. D ixon, of 46A, ge°l'. gate-street, and 20, Ely-place, Holborn, aged 46. gov . EDWARDES—On the 23d inst. at at 22, Dover-street, th e to R. Edwarcles, H.B.M. Minister an d Plenipote ntiali be the Argentine Republic. MADGE—On the 23d inst., at Norwi ch, Traverse SOU Of Rev. T. Madge, of 20, Ili g hb u ry-terrace, aged 42. op RIPLEY—On the 24th inst., at Heathbank, WallaseY, Ripley, Esq., aged 74. stOtle' STONE—On the 23d inst., a t Fa y ersham, Richd. G. Esq., aged 67. TOWNSUEND—On the 21st inst., at 105, Marina, Leonard's-on-Sea, the Lady Charles Townshend. 0 WELDER—On the 24 th inst ., at Lewisham, Capt. Cll3rie Weller, late of th e Trinit y House, London, aged , London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A.N 010 of No. 11 2 , Strand, Painter, at TO2. Sus 0 1 -lic,. Strand, in the Preeinet of the SavoY . 111 th e ` l°--- ues day, March 27, 1868. TEE SON, LONDON, TUESDAY EVFAING, MARCH 27, 1866.