The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-02 00:00:00

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All Goods aro marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Capq, and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A very large assortment of BLANKETS, from ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitter for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON, CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDCATF.. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART .STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENII AM- COURT-ROAD AND EIISTON ROAD. Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. TIIE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY of ST PATRICK. instituted in the year rB4. Under the Patronage of her MAJESTY and his Royal rtigbne — ss the Prince of %VALES. The EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY FES TIVAL of this Society will be celebrated at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, on ST. PATRICK'S DAY, the 17th March, 1870, llis Grace the Duke of ABERCORN, K.G., in the Chair VICE-PRESIDENTS. Tho Marquis of Lansdowne. The Marquis of Headfurt, K.P. The Earl of Cork and Orrery, K.P. The Earl of Egmont. The Earl of. Clonmell. The Earl Vane. ThelViscount Harberton. The Viscount Crichton, M.P. The Lord A. Edwin Hill Trevor, M.P. The Lord Dunsany. The Lord Dufferin and Claneboye, K.P.. K.C.B. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. STEWARDS. The Right lion. William Cowper-Temple, M.P. Colonel the Hon. Dudley Fitzgerald do Ros. The Hon. Robert Harris Temple. Lieut.-General Sir George St,. Patrick Lawrence, K.C.5.1., C.B. Sir George Frederick Harvey, K.C.S.I. Captain Sir F. Leopold M'Clintock, R.N. Sir Edward Coey. John F. Corscaden, Esq. James Courtenny, Esq. Alexander Findlater, Esq. Thomas Greg, Esq. lon Trent Hamilton, Esq., M.P. Robert 31.Calmont, Esc. Morgan John O'Connell, Esq. Joseph Radcliff, Esq. Captain Hugh de Grey Seymour, M.P. The Musical Arrangements will be under the direction of Mr. Land, of the London Glee and Madrigal Union. Dinner on table at Seven o'clock punctually. As this Festival affords to Irishmen in London the opportunity of uniting in the celebration of the national anniversary, the committee earnestly hope for a numerous and influential meeting. Tickets, 21s. each, to be had at Willis's Rooms, and at the Schools, in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road. The Children Dine, as uusal, on St. Patrick's Day, at the School., at One o'clock. THOMAS KIPPAX KING, Jun., Secretary. L ONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. ST. ALBANS STEEPLECHASES, March 2d, 3d, and 4th, 1870. A CHEAP TRAIN, I.t Low Fares, for ST. 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After which, at 20 minutes to 8, ('UR AMERICAN COUSIN ; Characters by Mr Sothern, Mr Buekstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Braid, Mr Hogers; Mrs Chippendale, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynne, Miss C. Hill, &c. Concluding with DE&F AS A POST: Mr Compton and Mrs E. Fitz william. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. FHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI -- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. W EBSTER _ _ T,-MORROW EVENI NG. at 7' . o'Clock. BLOW FOR BLOW : Mr Henry J. Byron ; Messrs J. D. Beveridge, Arthur Stirling. Stuart, C. H. Stephenson ; Miss Furtado, Miss Lavis, M iss Eliz I. Johnstone, and Miss M. Harris. To he followed by, at Nine, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOJKS: Mr. H. J. Byron; ➢iersrs J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, George Bchnore, Miss Lavis, Mrs Leigh Murray, and Miss M. Hatris. Box-ollce open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can bo severed a fortnight in advance. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE Leased and Manager—Mr.Benjamin Wol-ster. To- - norrour Evening, at 7, FORMOSA: Messrs. 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St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and S all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G &EDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays' 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open fromll to 4. frT toTjg), LONDON, W EDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1870. Mn. CHILDERS seems determined to emulate tly Premier in the length of his speeches. More than three hours did the First Lord of the Admiralty occupy in unfolding his budget; and when we say that the right hon. gentleman turned his back upon the Speaker and the Press Gallery, and that he could scarcely be heard by the reporters, it may be readily imagined that there were a good many headaches among the staff of our London contemporaries on the following morning. The speech necessarily bristled with figures, and as we have already dealt with these in our summary of the estimates, there is no need to revert to them. There are, however, two or three points which deserve comment. Mr. Childers claimed for his colleagues and him self that, in reducing the number of employes in the naval service, the Government had been influenced solely by a sei:se of duty, and that this alone would have induced them to undertake a task so disagreeable and painful. We fully believe this. It is much more easy and pleasant to spend money that is not your own, than to save it. This the late Government dis covered, and it acted upon that discovery. The esti mates were largely increased under the Conservative regime, and though at last when an outcry was raised on the hustings against their extravagance the late Ministers began to reduce their expenses, it was in a very half-hearted way that they did so. At the present time they are endeavouring to fill two incompatible parts, they seek to obtain credit for the reductions made by their successors at the very time that they denounce those reductions. It must be admitted, however, that the present Board of Admiralty have laid themselves open to the charge of harshness intheir dealings with the dockyardsmen, nor can we see that Mr. Childers met satisfactorily the case of the Devonport dockyardmen which had been brought under his notice prior to his making his speech. No doubt we have too many men in our employ, but the nation having employed them under certain conditions, those conditions ought to be fulfilled, and if we obtained labour at a cheaper rate on the understanding that employment would not be withdrawn, it ought not to be withdrawn without proper compensation. Mr. Childers, and still more Mr. Baxter, was far better able to justify his policy with respect to the materiel of the navy. The edifying tales told by both the First Lord and by the Secretary shew how much incom petence there was in former times among the chiefs; how much corruption among the subordinates. It is usual for Conservative critics to prophesy that the result of the present "cheeseparing " will be to reduce the navy to the same state of help lessness and chaos in time of war as prevailed when the Russian war of sixteen years ago broke out. But the truth is, that it was not the economies of twenty years ago which plunged us into the abyss; it was the frauds by which inferior goods were palmed off upon the nation by the nation's ser vants, who had been bribed. Thero is not the smallest reason why, if there be honest deal ing in all departments, we should not have efficiency as well as economy. In truth the vigilance which secures the second will secure also the first. It is the lazy careless administrator who allows the nation to be robbed, that will also allow the national defences to become impaired, that will let rascally builders make for us rotten gunboats, and rascally contractors supply us with rotten clothing. The part of Mr. Childers's speech most interesting to naval men is his scheme of retirement. Briefly described, it is as follows :—There is to be coin. pulsory retirement of Admirals of the Fleet at 70 years of age, of Admirals and Vice-Admirals at 65, of Rear-Admirals at 60, of Captains at 55, of Com manders at 50, and of Lieutenants at 45. Flag officers, too, will be compelled to retire after ten years of non-service ; Captains after seven years, and Commanders after five years. The scale of retire.. ment is based on age and service, and will range from £2OO to £BOO. Finally, the list of officers will be reduced to 2,336. It remains to be seen how naval officers will approve this scheme. But whatever may be said of details, there can be no doubt that it will have a most ! . atislactory effect in routing out the u3 , 2,less men from the service, and in delivering it from the state of stagnation which Las so long prevailed, aal which is most pre,;utlicial alike to the interests of the officers themselves and to the public service. MR. GLADsToNE Lad to answer two questions on ronclay which must have taxed his ingenuity. Mr. ,owe, who, far more than Mr. Blight, deserves the title of renfant ferrule of the Ministry, a few days ago while receiving a deputation, went out of his way to denounce commercial treaties and to declare them the source of that political heresy, reciprocity. The remark was,, to say the least, indiscreet. Mr. Loge's chief has always reckoned the commercial treaty with France in 1860 as one o f 11;a nrinpinal nelviarantarliAl. and at this Tam TIM SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1870. time the treaty has to be renewed, and the renewal is exciting no little opposition both in England and in France. At the very time that Mr. Lowe spoke, the Government had just concluded, after many years'of negotiation, a commercial treaty with Austria, and that treaty was to be laid upon the table of the House last night. It was not surprising, therefore, if Mr. Somerset Beaumont, who was a member of the commission which went to Vienna to carry on the negotiations for this treaty, should resent the Chancellor's remarks, and seek to obtain from the Premier a disavowal of them. Mr. Gladstone got out of the difficulty rather neatly. He said that Mr. Lowe's remarks referred to commercial treaties gene rally, and that in this general condemnation he agreed with his colleague. At the same time it was clear that his colleague could not have meant to include all such treaties, for Ministers would lay upon the table on the following evening a treaty of com merce with'Austria, and for that Mr. Lowe was, no less than the other members of the Government, responsible. The truth is that the commercial treaties of to-day are very different from those of the last century. The last-mentioned were essentially protective treaties. the first mentioned are essentially free-trade treaties. No doubt these do not give entire freedom. Yet the fault is not ours, but that of the other party to the contract. If France, for instance, chooses to levy duties on any English manufactures otherwise than for the purpose. of revenue, we regret the fact; but it is, at least, better that these duties should be moderate than that they should be prohibitory. We cannot expect that I all nations-will move as quickly. as ourselves in the path of commercial progress. If we have any deal ings with them, we must, therefore, condescend to their weakness, and hope to lead them on by degrees in the right road. We are ourselves still a long way off from that political and international millennium when there will be no customhouses ; but every treaty like that which we made in 1860 is an approach towards the happy time. It will be well, therefore, if Mr. Lowe will in future be more cautious in his language, and not scandalise politicians by deeming to throw doubt upon one of the articles of the Liberal faith. She other question. which Mr. Gladstonb had to answer was less satisfactorily met. Lord John Manners asked what steps the Government intended to take with respect to the security of life and the better administration of the law in cases of trial for murder in Ireland. Mr. Gladstone replied that, as to extra ordinary measures, the Government had not departed fr,nn the views contained in the Queen's Speech; but they wore considering certain possible im provements of the law within the limits of the Constitution, and he would announce their decision in a weelc or two. This would be all very well if the case were not so urgent. It is true that there is a good deal of exaggeration with respect to crime in Ireland, and that public attention is directed to outrages in that country because they are supposed to be always connected with the land. But, even making allowance for any extravagance of apprehension we do find this undeniable fact—it is impossible to obtain a conviction for murder in Ire land. For the most part, it is impossible to obtain even sufficient evidence to warrant an apprehension, and in those rare cases where the evidence is sufficiently strong to enable Government to place a man upon his trial, no jury will convict. The ques tion then arises ought the Government to dispense with trial by jury ? It would be a very serious matter no doubt, yet scarcely more serious than the suspension of that other Palladium of the Constitution, Habeas Corpus. Any way, " a week or two "is a postpone ment not at all in accordance with the vigour shewn by the Government in other matters. Nor is this delay fair to the large number of loyal Irishmen, who have a right to be protected against the violence that is now unpunished and unchecked. THE DEITII OF THE COUNTESS OF BREADALBANE. The death is announced this morning of the Countess of Breadalbane. She was the daughter of Mr. J. F. Edwards, of Dublin, and was married to the Marquis of Breadalbane in 1850. Olurt linen Messina FINE ARTS IN NEW YORK. I The Tenth-street Studio Building is always interesting to the amateur, with its thirty or forty artists ; among whom there are some of the most distinguished painters in America—Church, Page, Le Olear, Beard, Guy, Shattuck, De Haas, Bierstadt and M'Entee, as well as a number of other artists well-known to fame,who have their studios in this building. A few notes of the doings in some of these studios from time to time may not be un interesting to the reader. Mr. Frederic E. Church has no finished picture in his rooms at present. But among many interesting studies and sketches, we noticed an outline commencement of a large general view of the City of Jerusalem, which was very suggestive of novel treat ment. In the hands of such a master, who is over on the qui vice for the extraordinary phases of nature, it will be safe to look for another masterpiece, Mr. Church's picture of "Damascus," now on exhibition at Mr. Knoedler's Art Gallery, is too well known in England to need notice here. Mr. Thomas Le Clear, the eminent portrait painter, has just completed two masterly heads -- portraits of Park Godwin, the poet, and of General 11. H. Baxter. Both subjects, being elderly gentlemen, of marked character, are admirably calculated to show off this artist's peculiar power. In drawing, modelling,and in colour they are almost faultless. Mr. Wm. Page, one of our most venerated painters, who is ever ready with a kind and in structive word for his younger brethren in art, is kept fully employed on State portraits. Amongst these may be mentioned the full-lengths of Admiral Farragut (histori cally treated), and of ex-Governor. Fenton (mow aU. S. Senator). The latter is yet unfinished, but will probably be Mr. Page's masterpiece. Both show the high technical qualities, however, characteristic of this master. " Venus guiding tEneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore," and some Italian subjects, are also on view at his studio. Mr. Seymour J. Guy, is a genre painter of rare merit. He is just putting the last touches to a most charming cabinet picture, entitled "The Little Stranger." The scene is laid in the chamber of a young mother, who is lying on her bed (convalescent from her recent accouchenzent), look ing fondly on her babe, held in the arms of its delighted little sister, whilst the good stout nurse is bending over with a kindly interest, forming a striking contrast to the delicate and attenuated face of the mother. Tho artist has com posed and treated the picture with refined feeling, cleverly avoiding everything that might seem outre in this class of subject. The figures are well drawn, the draperies are beautifully cast, and the furniture and all the accessories are admirably disposed and painted. The manner of gradating the light back to the monotint of the distant part of the room is very effective; and the colouring is very chaste and harmonious. Possibly the nurse's figure and head are too large, and the little babe's face is too pinky in colour ; but, altogether, this is the best picture we have seen by Mr. Guy. Mr. Wm. H. Beard, one of our most versatile artists, is perhaps best known through his admirable animal subjects, in which ho some times displays ineffable humour. But Mr. Beard is capable of more serious things, wherein he often invests his can vas with truly refined sentiment, as well as excellent tech nical qualities of execution. This is clearly evinced in an exquisite little landscape with ducks, entitled " Away from the Haunts of Men," admirably painted and full of sentiment; as is his "Good Shepherd," and other recent works of this class. Yet, in common with others, we feel disposed to yield him the palm as a humourist. "The Bar room Politicians," is one of his latest and finest examples ; representing a lot of monkeys, dressed like farmers, in a ccnAtry bar-room, quaffing their grog, and excitedly dis cussing the politics of the day. Mr. Beard is now busily engaged on a series of cartoons for a book shortly to ap pear. The letterpress is to be furnished by some of our eminent poets. The work, when completed will bo very inte resting displaying a great variety of fancy,and grotesque hu mour. Mr. Aaron D. Shattuck, one of our leading landscape painters has on his easel a large picture of uncommon ex cellence of execution,and of fine sentiment, entitled, "A Sun day Morning in New England." On the bank of the sluggish meadow brook, beneath the shadowy foliage of a clump of foreground trees, are grouped some well-painted cattle. In the middle distance glimpses of a road, and people wending their way to the church, may be seen. The ad mirable composition, and the clean greyish tone of colour, in such perfect keeping with the spirit and entente of the subject, cannot fail to convey the impression of quietude, and show how well the artist has told his story. Mr M. F. H. De Haas, who is without a rival as a marine painter in America,bas no important work iu his atelier at this time. We may mention two remarkably clever little pictures, al most completed. One, a composition, " Coast Scene,Stormy Weather," the other a view on the"Coastof the Isleof W ight," which promises to be quite a gem when completed. Mr. E. W. Perry, a clever young artist, who is a genre and rustic figure painter, is now completing a small picture called the "Story of the Tiles," in which there is much to admire—although the figures, and more especially the draperies, do not seem quite up to this artist's standard Ono or two earlier works in Mr. Perry's atelier would be worthy of favourable mention, but we prefer waiting until the artist has some new and better work on his easel. Mr. C. C. Griswold is a young artist of some promise as a landscape painter, and has in his room some highly finished cabinet bits—views about New Port, , and on the Hudson River. We shall look into the Studio Building soon again.— Correspondent of Anglo-American Times. COURSE OF EXCHAA'GE. Amsterdam Short ... 11 17 11 18} Do Rotterdam l2 12 1 Antwerp — 20 35 .. 23 421 Brussel Hamburg n — ... 13 10 ... 13 101 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 1201 Vienna — ... 12 70 ... 12 75 Trieste — ... 12 70 ... 12 75 Petersburg Copenhagen — ..,. 9 21. ... 9 24 Berlin .. — ... 6 261 ... 6 27 Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 49 ... 491 Leghorn Milan — ... 26 40 .., 26 45 Genoa — ... 26 40 .... 26 45 Naples Palermo 26 40 ... 26 45 - • 26 46 ... 26 45 Lisbon — ••• 51} ...• Oporto 5 - ... 52i Rio Janeiro — ... ... New York .«..► ... .. JOURNALISM.—It is notified that on the Ist of March will appear the first number of a new daily finan cial paper, entitled the Financier, and conducted by the gentleman, who, after holding the City Editorship of the London Daily News for nearly 20 years, has just resigned it.—The Now York Globe asks, " What has become of the Revolution? We hope it has not gone under." It adds, " The Rochester Chronicle confounds the Globe with the World. This may be a compliment for the World, but it is rather hard on us." The Star thinks the Sunday World very stupid.--The publisher of the Brooklyn Union is not Henry C. Bowen, of the Independent, but Henry E. Bowen, a son of Henry C.—Dr. J. C. Hall has begun a suit against the Pittsburgh Gazette for libel. Ho claims $20,000 itamages.— An effort is being made at Washington to discontinue the practice of printing speeches not delivered in Congress at the Government expense in the Government " Hansard " called the Globe. Much more than half its matter consists of these speeches, and if the practice be abolished half the cost of that paper will be saved. Members get the floor and begin reading a manuscript, and the weary House readily gives permission for the speech to be printed if the member will yield to representatives who have business to transact. —Some wealthy Worcester (Massachusetts) de mocrats will start a party paper in that city in March, under the style of the Worcester Daily Times, to be edited by C. B. Thomas, formerly connected with the Gazette. RAILROADS IN KANSAS.—The Missouri River, Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad now extends south from Kansas City 110 miles; the length of the Leavenworth and Lawrence branch, 31 miles ; Central branch of Pacific, from Atchison, west, 10C miles ; Missouri River Road, 22 miles ; Leavenworth, Atchison, and North-Western, all of which has been built this year, 21 miles; Leaven worth, Lawrence, and Galveston 44 miles; Topeka and Sante Fe, 27 miles; Southern branch of Pacific from Junction City down the Neosho, 50 odd miles ; St. Joseph and Denver, 17 miles; Kansas Pacific Railroad, 45 miles. Thus it will be seen that Kansas, one of the youngest States in the Union, has 821 miles of finished railroad. Several railroads are projected in Colorado ; among them the Boulder Railroad, from a point on the Denver Pacific, 25 miles below Denver, to a mountain in Boulder County.— The Denver, South Park,and Rio Grande Railroad to follow up the valley of the Platte, through the magnificent forests of timber and excellent farming lands, to rich mineral districts in Summit County, still farther to the head of the Arkansas and thence to the valley of the Rio Grande del Norte. The Denver and Santa Fe Railroad has its route along the base of the moun tains and down the Fontaine qui Bouille to Pueblo, and the south line of the territory.—The Arkansas Valley Rail road is to be the name of the through line of the Kansas Pacific, which that company hopes to build from a point near the east line of Colorado, south-westerly to the 35th parallel, and thence west to the Pacfic. Among the rail • roads partially finished is the Denver Pacific, a line of 106 miles, connecting the Union Pacific at Cheyenne and the Kansas Pacific at Denver. Cheyenne contains 5, 00 0 in habitants and Denver 9,000, and the lino runs through a rich agricultural district, richer still in minerals, along the base of the Rocky Mountains. One of its trustees is G. E. Thompson, Esq., perhaps the chief of the railroad kin gs o f America and an authority in whom we have much confidence. Dr. W. A. Bell, author of "New Tracks iu North America," writes in high terms of the prospect of the line. The opinion of that gentleman is valuable from his abilities to observe and his opportunities for observation, and there fore the bonds of this line offered in London may be worth the attention of investors. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Slessis. DUNWILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be "The Royal Irish Distillery." PERSONALITIES IN CONGRESS. (From the Anglo- Antertcan Times) The Strangers' Galleries of the Capitol, we re gret to say of the Senate, as well as of the House, will drive all other amusements out of Washington, for nothing at present in the way of entertainment has a chance against them. Singular, too, that Massachusetts, that enlightened State, that leader of opinion, should send up the men from whom most of the amusement at the expense of dignity is ex tracted. While a jolly fine farce is progressing it is natural for the citizens to go and see the fun, and to laugh heartily when Gen. BUTLER comes out with a happy retort, or " Sun-Set" Cox makes a furious assault on the " gallant" and " learned" gentleman from the Bay State. The peals of laughter from the galleries which greet the home-thrusts may en courage the gladiators below ; but on one point the combatants may rely, that they furnish amusement to a few citizens of Washington at the expense, in the eyes of the country, of their own character and of the dignity of the great Parliamentary Assembly which Congress ought to be. On the 10th inst.a bitter war was progressing at the same moment in the Se nate Chamber and in the House of Representatives. The bull that was then baited in the former was Senator SUMNER ; in the latter, General BUTLER. Both these gentlemen are well able to take care of themselves ; indeed, as far. as BUTLER is concerned, as Mr. Cox said, he is " blessed by PROVIDENCE with a pachydermatous bide, like a rhinoceros, and therefore flies do not trouble him ; everything would glance from that gentleman's rhinoceros hide." Mr. Cox might as well shoot arrows at the setting sun as fire his darts at BUTLER ; but fire he did, and the most formidable weapons too he could lay hold of. The debate was about the Ap propriations Bill, whereon,when the pay and mileage of members was reached, Mr. BUTLER moved to re duce the sum by $500,000, with a proviso that no money at all should be paid for mileage. Mr. FITCH op posed, alluding to the large fees lawyers earned who lived near the Capitol, by attending to their private business. Mr. FARNSWORTH characterised the pro position as cheap buncombe, adding that if the mem - ber derived an ample income from outside opera tions he might come to 'Washington for nothing, though the salary of $5,000 was little enough for ordinary Representatives. A laughable incident here occurred, Mr. INGERSOLL being beautifully " caught out," as cricketers say, by Mr. LAFLIN. The former had expressed his belief that the House could not do a worthier thing in economy, than the reduction of the salary of its members to what it was a few years ago, when Mr. LAFLIN rose and said, the in crease of salary from $3,000 to $5,000 was carried by a majority of only one, and that the vote Of the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. INGERSOLL) was what made up that majority. In vain INGERSOLL tried to explain, asserting there was more currency in the country then than now ; but we must return to our main battle, the hornest's nest General BUTLER had brought on his " rhinoceros hide." Mr. Cox, of New York, looked upon the proposition as a covert attack by one who always took pay for his services in gold. It had been intimated that he ran away from Con gress to make money in his profession ; but Mr. Cox would defend the member for Massachusetts, who never ran away either as a soldier or as a statesman. He was always there when there was any trouble ; his amendment, too, was evidently made in good faith, for that gentleman loved the people, and would not take mileage from them either in currency or in gold. It was a peculiarly happy cir cumstance " that the Democratic party, repre sented in an humble way by himself, could defend its old and honoured colleague, who had even gone further than the party in standing by the Southern wing of it in those perilous days. If there was one gentleman whom he loved to defend more than another, not only in his military career, but in his economical career, commencing at the Dutch Gap Canal and running all the way down through every idea connected with his name, it was the gentleman from Massachusetts." BUTLER'S reply could only be truly appreciated by those who saw as well as heard it, for it concluded with a niece of acting which brought down uproarious laughter and ap plause. He sneeringly alluded to those who alleged that the fact of his ability to earn something for himself should be used as an argument why nothing should be paid to him, but only to those who had not the ability to earn enough to take care of them selves. As to the member from New York, Mr. Cox, he could be answered by every shoe-black in the street, and it was in giving utterance to this line-- " Shoo fly, don't bodder me," ;bat the acting took place and its telling effect was felt. We can best judge of it by the towering rage into whichit threw Mr. Cox (as well as by the delight of the galleries), who got the floor to reply, and could not beput down, though many efforts were made both on points of order and of expiry of time. He had un dertaken in a quiet way to defend the distinguished soldier from Massachusetts, and his reward was a sort of street negro minstrel remark. Everybody in the House and country knew that the gentleman was considered a " bad man." In response to every attempt to stop him, Mr. Cox replied, " Wait a moment ; I only called him a ' bad man,' which everybody knows; he makes an attack upon me, and then hides himself like a bomb-proof soldier, as he is." In the course of the discussion Mr. Cox again got the floor, following on BUTLER, and said, " It was the first time in his history he had been likened to an animal, though he had never been considered a bete noir, or alpha beta noir, nor any other sort of beast." This was evidently in answer to some dinging remarks of the gentleman from Massachu setts, who ; Mr. Cox went on to observe, " had no sen ibility as to his position before the country, and did tot know how people regarded him. His own col leagues intimated that he Ras a thief and a robber, and he did not take it up; but it had been left to him (Mr. Cox) to defend him, and because be had done so in a spirit of good nature, he (Mr. BUTLER) had made his covert negro minstrelsy attack upon him. Why did he not attack his colleagues, and make them call for a committee of investigation on his past derelictions and past alleged robbery ? Why did he stand here the condemned man of this Congress? Why did he stand here prescribed poli tically and socially? Why did he reserve all his fire for his friends, as he did in the army, and then, when attacked, retreat like a bomb-proof soldier and hide himself ?" Meanwhile warlike operations were progressing in the Senate, though on a somewhat milder scale. Senator STEWART of Nevada took an opportunity of correcting a misrepresentation of fact, made during the debate on the Virginia Bill by Senator SUMNER, who, in his controversy with Mr. TRUMBULL, assumed to himself the authorship of the provision in the Reconstruction Act of 1867, conferring suffrage upon the coloured race. This assumption was unfounded, as shown by the official records, which prove that the provision originated in the House on the 12th February, 1867, from Mr. BINGHAM of Ohio. He noticed that Mr. SUM NER was preparing to reply, and he hoped the ex planation about to be offered, of his attempt to ap propriate the credit due to another, would include some satisfactory reason for his failure or refusal to vote for the bill submitting the Fifteenth Amend ment to the States. In reply, Senator SUMNER had the portion of his speech complained of read by the Clerk. His claim was not to the mere origin, but to the maturity of the Measure conferring the suffrage, referring for proof to the whole Reconstruction legis lation introduced and advocated by him, all grounded on the principle of equal and impartial suffrage. We cannot understand wby Senator SUMNER should have taken the trenble, to read numerous letters and documents showing how well grounded was his claim, as the country fully admits this, and it is in no way affected by such bickering. A man is merely laughed at who denies that CHARLES SUMNER has not spent most of his career in achieving negro emancipation, therefore be might have saved him self the trouble of his long defence of his own con sistency ; and Senator SHERMAN was quite right in pointing out almost the folly of thus wasting the time of the Chamber. Of course Senator STEIVART renewed what he denied was an attack, observing that it was idle to talk to the Senator from Massa chusetts about occupying the time of the Senate, as he assumed to be the principal of the body, the only luau who could lecture the Senate at will. But he (STEWART) " denied the attempt of so grand, so ex pansive, and so impractical a theorist to read him out of the party. Then he proceeded to show how title a friend he had been to the Republican party, while the Senator from Massachusetts had opposed its measures, and the language altogether was such that Senator DRAKE declared the 10th Feb. to be a day of degradation of the Senate before the country. Afterwards Mr. TRUMBULL arose to correct certain " gross misstatements" by the Senator from Massa chusetts, who, under the pretext of a reply, ha d reiterated charges unwarranted by the official re cord. He, Mr. TRUMBUL L , was accuse d o f being the persistent enemy of coloured suffrage, though there was not even a single Reconstruction Act in the Statute-book fur which lie did not vote from the beginning, while to his custody, as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, had been commit ted all the Reconstruction Bills prior to the re presentation of the States. He was content to put the record of his votes against SUMNER'S ua supported deehrations. The Senator from Massa chusetts had imputed to him an intention to deceive the Senate in the matter of the agreement (some days previous) to take a vote upon the Virginia Bill at a particular time. He said that the Senator had in' tentionally sought to pervert and misconstrue the language of other Senators, while his own assertions would not bear the test of scrutiny. In conclusion , he charged Mr. SUMNER with having, on certain measures, acted in alliance with the Democrats of the Senate to defeat the legislation of the Republican majority because his own views had not been blindly accepted by his party associates. Particularly was this the case upon the Louisiana Bill, when before the Senate some years ago, on which occasion the Sena tor from Massachusetts delayed the action of the Senate by dilatory motions, such as motions to ad journ. Mr. SUMNER, in reply, observed that the Senator from Illinois reminded him of a sick man moving on an uneasy bed. lie would there let hint lie. Referring to the remark of Mr. DRAKE, relative to the discussion, he inquired whether the Senator in tended to allude to him (SumNE)t). Mr. RuAgß answered that the effect of such a personal dis cussion wasto degrade the Senate before the country, and we believe the Senator from Missouri to be about right. We cannot give a better idea of the bear garden into which the Senate was turned than by this extract from the New York Tribune :-••" This personal debate was, of course, vastly amusing to the usual visitors of the gallery, who delight in ao thing so much as when honourable Senators are gnashing their teeth, and hurling rage and defiance at each other. But the people from the country, wh° have a traditional idea of the ' dignity ' of the Senate, opened their eyes wide, and their counte nances evinced apprehension that the whole affair would end in a grand display of fisticuffs." SPIRIT or THE PRESS. STATE EMIGRATION. The Times is disposed to think that to solve the questioa it is not only necessary to have lived twenty years in se colony, but to have studied long and carefully the perell" nial springs of English pauperism. Suppose we cut off the parasitic growth that has fastened upon our strength -1e : we thereby stop its power of reproduction ? Do we 11 1 rather mak e room f or a f res h development of the mischi e the exist ence o f w hi c h we deplore? The advocates of State Emigration propose to prevent the operation of the active causes of distress by removing their consequen ce° as they arise. It is like proposing to check intoxicati oa by preventing the h ea d ac h es that punish it. Mr. Gla a ; stonce rightly declared th a t if any G overnment s hoalo have resolved to pursue such a policy it would be so ° compelled to retrace its steps. Like others whose bene volence is in excess of their foresight, the Ministri would find that their good intentions paved the 1 1 to still greater mischief. We are g l a d t o OW that the opinion of the House of Commons discourages th e proposal to persevere in this path of error . Although 3, forrens found supporters i n diff eren t quar t ers , and t , li f division was taken irrespectively o f a ll cons id era tions . ° party, his motion was defeated by a d ec i s i ve majors Whether we consider the undefined cha rac t er o f the po f posal or the e ssen ti a l d e f ec t s i n it s p r i nc i p l e, th e re f u sal ° I the House of Commons to entertain it must be welconct as the verdict of a soun d j u d gmen t i n oppos iti on to 91 scheme of delusive benevolence. Does any member of the Government himself belicv. e i l asks the Standard, th a t by a idi ng em i grat i on they wl!' produce a struggle among the British people for the pri ce. loges of pauperism? Would the population be all demoralised when the p oores t p or ti on o f th em i s sex!, away to new fields of hon es t l a b our th an when it is left to fester at home in idleness and to I) , e starved into the workho uses ? If M r . Monseli objection is worth anything at all, we can come to other conclusion than that his chief has already complete._ his scheme of colonial dismemberment, and th a t A u str3, ll : and Canada arc no longer portions aGreat Britain. rh r most singular argument of all in the mouth of a m embe a of a Liberal Administration is that the question is a "des„ question." In what other sense i s it a d ea d ques tion tlri: the abolition of the Irish Church was a d e ad q uestio , last year, or than P ar li amen t ar y R e f orm was a del question through many y e a rs o f Lib era l G overnmen t? the question of State emigration has not been raised 0 1 , twenty-two years, it is a sufficient excuse for its pres l '. appearance to say that publi c o pi n i on h as no t b e en rg7 for the discussion. That ought to content a Liberal mill like Mr. Monsell's. This question, though dead, 1 19 - 5 " ghost whi c h we ven t ure to pre di ct w i ll trou bl e the reP°'"„, of the right hon. gentlemen of the orthodox Liberal V°, vermng profession a goo d d ea l b e f ore th e i r term o f pro tion is ended. THE NON-PURCHASE CORPS. A committee is stated to have been appointed to consider the question of I romotion in the non purchase corps. The committee, which is now engaged at the War Office, consists of Captain Vivian, Mr. Milton, and Colonel Egerton. A NEW MONITOR. A new Monitor, the Magdala, intended for the defence of Rombay, was to be launched from the building slips of the Thames Iron Works to-day. The Magdala has been laid down from the designs of Mr. Reed. It is said she will go out by way of the Suez Canal. TROOPS FOR IRELAND. More troops left Portsmouth yesterday for Ire land in the Orontes. Next Friday the Ist battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards, now at Chelsea Barracks, will relieve the Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards in Dublin. THE WAR OFFICE. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says :—" All sorts of rumours are afloat as to differences of opinion in official quarters re garding the details of the new arrangements at the War Office. It is only certain that the present system is very unpopular, and very gravely con demned by men of all opinions." A FREE PARDON. 'The Home Secretary has granted a free and an eonditional pardon to Charles Spinks Shaw, for merly lace manufacturer ht Chilwell, near Not tingham, and afterwards a wine and spirit mer chant, who was convicted at the Liverpool Assizes last year for uttering forged acceptances'of Smedely and Son, Sandiacre, and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The application was supported by the prosecutors, who now believe that Shaw had no idea that the bills were forgeries. The amount of the sums advanced in 1869 from the Consolidated Fund for the purchase of bullion for )inage at the mint was 250,000. Out of this £l3o,ooo'has been paid to her Majesty's exchequer by way of repayment The cod fisheries on the CaithnesB coast continue productive. Considerable quantities of splendid fish are being daily landed at Wick and other Caithness stations. Fair catches of fine herrings are also being made. Petitions in favour of the Church Rates (Scotland) Bill are being promoted in numerous towns in Scotland. There is also a memorial against the Contagious Diseases Act. Two eminent engineers are about to virit Wick, to inspect the harbour works recently partially demolished, and to report on what plan should be adopted in the future erection of the harbour. SMALLPDX IN PARlS.—Smallpox has been raging with great violence in Paris for the last several weeks, the deaths having been sixty, seventy, and even eighty a week. The Prefect of the Seine has accordingly issued a circular to the mayors of the twenty arondissements of Paris, referring to the subject of vaccination. Public vaccination has already been organised in the hospitals, and it is is now to be extended to the various mairies, the mayors bring directed to register the number of vaccinations a , ., 1 re-vaccinations, and to classify the applicants. TILE TREATY or PRAGUE.—The North-East Correspondence states that Count Bismarck has afforded to the French and Austro-Hungarian Ambassadors at 13,1rlin some explanations with respect to the King of Prussia's speech. They have been fully satisfied with his interpretation of the passages which related to the Treaty of Prague and to the relations that existed with the S . )athern States. The same journal declares that since Cunt Daru became Foreign Minister there has been a complete understanding between France and Austria on all matters connected with European policy. THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE COUNCIL. —There seems no doubt among the French journals that tlyi French Govern:nent has made some representations to Chi Council, and that M. Darn has, in this respect, departed Nom the course pursued by his predecessors, who eajoined the most strict reserve on their ambassador, M. BAnneville. The ...I.lonee;!r affirms that another remon strance will shortly be made, for the purpose of insisting on the free expression of opinion, and deprecating any interference with the public rights of France on the par* of the Holy See and the members of the Council. President Grant has just made an important de claration in favour of economy—" Whenever and where ever the closest scrutiny shall disclose the , possibility of cutting off a single dollar it shall be done.' This state ment has caused great satisfaction in New York, and, combined with the refusal of the Senate to sanction a further issue of paper money, has had a good effect en the money market, . . _ _ _ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening WEDNESDAY 30 min past 2 50 min past 2 THURSDAY......... 5 min past 3 24 min past S FRIDAY.. ...... .......... .40 min past 3 .... 52 min past 3 SATURDAY. 10 min past 4 23 min past 4 SUNDAY 40 min past 4 55 min past 4 MONDAY 7 min past 5 20 min past 5 TUESDAY 40 min past 5 54 min iast 5 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 1. Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morn. lug, accompanied by Princess Louise. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold also went out. The Princess of ",Vales drove out yesterday. LATEST INTELL EGENCE (R EU"'E n's TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, March 2. Official advices have been received from the Senegal settlements, under date of the 16th of February last. An engagement bad taken place on the 9th between a column of 500 French troops and 2,000 native rebels, when the latter were de. feated with heavy losses. BOURSE, March I.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4} per Cent. 3 per Cent End ofmonth 73 85 Credit Mobilier 202 50 Transatlantic 215 Credit Foncier 1777 50 Paris Gag 1750 Suez Canal 342 50 RALLWA' Bank Shares 2875 Italian Fives 55 65 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 45 40 Spanish Threes Rome Debt Deferred Cash. Orleans Western 630 Northern .4. 1155 Strasburg •• 605 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 620 Sardinian Austrian 767} Lombard 49 2i North of Spain 67 Saragossa Roman 47 AMERICA. WASHINGTON, March 1. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued his usual monthly statement of the public debt of the. United States, which amounts to $2,651,500,000 showing a reduction of $6,500,000 since the Ist of February. The coin in the Treasury is $102,500,000, being an increase of $1,000,000, and the cur rency $10,250,000, being an increase of $1,500,000. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, March 1. 003111ERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1151; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 1161 ; the lowest, 115 f. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 188 9 " 1885 ll3l. " 1867 ll2l. 10-40 46 1111. Illinois 134 Erie 2si. Cotton—Mid. upland 23lc. Petroleum—Standard White ... 28c. Flour, extra state, ss.oe. to $5.60c. Corn, old mixed, sl.4c. According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co.'s report the receipts of cotton for the last four days, at all ports, have been 43,000 bales ; shipments to England, 10,000 bales; to France, 4,000 bales ; and to the Continent, 6,000 bales. Middling Upland, -141., freight and cost per steamer. PORTLAND, March 1. The Allan steamship Nova Scotian arrived out yesterday. SPAIN. MADRID, March 1. It is reported from Toledo that seven brigands, unconnected with any political party, have attacked and robbed two landowners in the neighbourhood of that city; but no intelligence has been received here yet of a band of Carlists having made its ap pearance in that part of the country. Marshal Prim is on a hunting excu rs i on i n t h e iveia. mountains of Toledo in company with Senor s BOMBAY HEAVY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 28. The Peninsular and Orintal Company's steamer Nyanza leaves at four this afternoon for South ampton. All well. She may be looked for early on Saturday morning, March 5. INDIA AND CHINA MAIL. MESSINA, March 2. The Ripon passed.M.essina at six this morning en route for Marseilles. THE INDIAN SUBMARINE TELEGICAMT. A telegram has been received by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company dated Bombay, 26th Feb., 4.50 p.m., in which Captain Halpin reports the Great Eastern, at noon, on that day, to have been 50 miles from Aden, in 600 fathoms of water. The laying of the deep sea por tion of the British Indian Cable would be com pleted the same evening, and the intermediate cable to connect it with the Aden shore end was to be spliced on about sunset. The Great Eastern was therefore at Aden on Sunday last, and, by reports from there, re c ei ve d aArY arrangements were -Bombay secti on co by m l p as le t te in d a f i o l, r a opening tehsse den for traffic immediately. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Feb. 24. The small-pox is very prevalent in Lisbon, and on this account the leave to go ashore of the seamen of the British squadron in the Tagus has been stopped for the present. Small-pox is also very bad at Coimbra. Heavy rains prevail in Portugal, and along the coasts storms have been frequent, causing many shipping disasters. The troops have been kept in their quarters for the past two nights, and detachments have been sent to Oporto and other parts of the kingdom. It is also said that a regiment will go to the Azores. There have also been several general and other officers ordered from Lisbon to the provinces. The Opposition journals wish to give to this a revolutionary colouring, but the general impression is that these affairs are merely electioneering tactics, and of no real importance. The Duke de Saldanha is said to take no active part in any of these proceedings. The King has lately given several balls at the Ajuda Palace to the High Lisbon Society. The health of the Queen is not yet re-established. Dom Fernando and the Countess d'Edla continue to reside at Cintra. The Counteis de Pavoa, of the Pamella family, is dead. ITA.LY. ROME, Feb. 28. The police have granted permission for masks to be worn in the streets to-day and to-morrow. 'This is only the second time that this bas been allowed sinso 1850. Perfect tranquillity prevails. The weather continuos very wet, and but little animation is manifested in the Clarnival festivities. THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Telegraph remarks that the first sign of parliiree n. tary opposition to the Irish Land Bill comes from a b o th of Irish members. One of their number, it i s reporteti will propose, as an amendment to the second reading, thb the Ulster tenant right should be extended to all Irelar, To move the proposed amendment on the second read le! would be to risk the loss of the bill—with all the el, fusion, the disappointment, and e x aspe ra ti on , that suc' a misfortune would cause in the sister island. El if persistence in an obstructive course should f f to set the Irish members against the House °. Commons, it would certainly provoke the HouS" by such a!total violation of Parliamentary feeling, such . sb display of utter impracticability. The truly patriotl Irish members will doubtless prefer to ga i n th e ea r seh the honest deliberations of the House—t o t a k e th e ir CO leagues with them in a m o d era t e di scuss i on o f s i ncere e r wands, proffered in practical ways, and buttressed 19 _.),' reasonable argument s . S uc h mem b ers w ill g l a dly caru the measure, witho u t p ro fitl ess or d angerous d e l a y, tot stage at which all am en d men t s no t f a t a l t o it s princifl a may be discussed on their own merits ; and will do th eir utmost to get it into committee, whe r e they can join gr : Gladstone in the grand labour of really shaping the l ea' sure that crowns our work of Justice to Ireland. THE CONTROL DEPARTMENT. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks that from the army est i ; mates for the colonies it would really seem as if the any was to be maintained for the benefit of the Control De partment, and not the Control Department f or th e benefi t of the army. In addition to the excess of cost of the CO'; trol establishment over the cost of th e es t a bli s h men ts a• the separate departments, there can be traced in the non: effective votes probably no t l ess th an £ lO , OOO f or h a lf-pay and superannuations ma d e t o c l ear t h e way f or t h e ne" ,' lepai:tipent.. These figures deserve careful attention. We by no means desire to imply that they are to by taken as hostile to the principle of united department l ! but they do shew that a thorough inquiry is needed into the manner in which the Control Department is adml tered by its pres en t h ea d s . Th ese o ffi cers h ave had f power to arrange the department as they have though; best ; they are therefore solely respon s ible, and . must judged by the results. O u r col u m ns ha v e s hewn that On department does not work satisfactorily at the stations' and these estimates shew that it is not administered NC l ' the same economy as were the separate departments. THE MURPHY CASE. The Daily News declares that the verdict in the MarP ll case at the Warwick Assizes is creditable to the discrotkl of the Midland jury. In the action he b r ou g ht again' an ex-Mayor of Birmingham and the superintendent 0 police in that town, Mr. Murphy resorted to more legitimate weapons than those which he habitually employ' He had been arrested at th e en t rance o f th e T o wnh where he was about t o a tt en d a pu bli c mee ti ng on the Irish Church question last June. The authorities Nv: perfectly aware of hi s i n t en ti on t o di s t ur b th e mee ting b 1 an attack upon the faith of the Roman Catholic citizeal and, warned by the furious riots which he had provokel on similar occasions elsewhere, they resolved to prevel l t him from car r yi ng hi s i n t en ti on i n t o e ff ec t. To arr° ,r s o a person who is only " suspected," even on his a' ts previous declarations, of an intention to prom° a riot, is, however, unquestionably an act that require s _A justification in this country, and we cannot be surpris ed at the reluctance of a jury to treat it as if such a ceeding were in the ordinary course of law. In returni°7, a verdict in favour of Mr. Murphy, the Midland obeyed, it seems to us, a sound national instinct ; and fixing the damages at forty shillings, they wisely refuse Z; declare that the vindication of personal rights might "- practically asserted by violent and disorderly action. On Thursday the 2d Infantry Brigade at Alder shott, under the command of Major-General J• Carey, C. 8., formed up in line of contiguous C": lumns on the brigade p ara d e , cen t re block, 1 1 complete marching o r d er , an d, a ft er b e i n g prow v; and equalised, proceeded to the Long Valley, wh er , they were put thro ug h a ser i es o f fi e ld 11 10, " - : ments. The regiments composing the brigade 'O r o the 2d Battalion 3d Buffs, underMajorWemyS ; Battalion GOth Rifl es , un d er C o l . H aw l ey; 2d 13at,,"; 1 , - lion Rifle Brigad e , un d er Col. Glyn, C.B. ; and thel` t Battalion Rifle Brigade. At the same hour the 1s t Infantry Brigade, under the command of Wail: General D. Lyso ns , C. 8., c on si s ti ng of the 2c11 33 . talion 7th Royal Fusiliers, under Colonel CooPe. r ; 2d Battalion 13th Light Infantry, under Mal% Montgomery ; the 2d Battalion 23d Royal We Fusiliers, under Major Prevost; 33d Regilv en d , . under Major Chadwick ; 42d Royal Highland e T under Colonel M‘Leod ; and the 67th Regime 13 ,4 under Major Jebb, was put through a series " highly-satisfactory field movements on the CO mon. Tho troops presented a clean and mar° appearance, 1( 9 61 CI 5i