The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-02 00:00:00

THE QUI"I.T.I: AND I OND 0:1* LINTS Lit q. fY. Her Majesty will open the new building or ca e University o= Landon, in person. The ceremony is fixed for Wednesday-. May 11th. The Queen will be accompanied by the Prince and the Princess of Wales and the Princess Louise. The Chancellor of the University, Lord Granville, the Vice- Chancellor, Mr. Grote, and the member for the University, Mr. Lowe, will receive the royal party at the entrance of the building; th e nce they will be conducted to the Senate room, from whence her Majesty will pass to the larger rooms in the building, and finally to the large theatre, where an address will be pre sented. The Queen will then declare the building opened,. and leave by the principal entrance. As many visitors as can conveniently be accommodated in different portions of the building will be invited, including the Premier, some of the Secretaries of of State, the Lord President of the Council, repre sentatives from the sister universities, the learned bodies and affiliated colleges, with the examining staff of the University. All possible accommodation will be made for the graduates, but of course there' will be no room inside the building for the general ELECTION NEWS. Mr. Kennaway is the Conservative candidate for the seat which Lord Courteney's resignation leaves vacant. He is the son of Sir John Kennaway, of Essol, Ottery St. Mary's, and late of the Western Cir cuit. No competitor has yet announced himself. At Bristol it is designed to petition against Mr. Robin son's return on the ground of bribery and treating. The Bristol voters seem to have " stood the market" as unblushingly as those of Norwich. The supply of votes, in fact, was so large that the market became quite flat, quotations fell to half-a-crown, and the petitioners affirm that scores were purchased at that figure. This business, it is said, was particularly brisk about noon on the polling day. It was at that hour that the tide turned in favour of Mr. Robinson. NEWARK ELECTION. - The contest at Newark yesterday terminated in the return o ln f the Liberal candidate by f a respectable day majority. the part o Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, the Conservative, com peted on equal terms with Mr. Bristowe, the leading Liberal, Sir George Grey being far behind. But the latter retired, and then Mr. Sleigh's hopes fell. lie lost ground every hour. The result leaves the balance of parties undisturbed, for Mr. Davidson, the late member, was a Liberal. POSTAGE ON PRINTED MATTER. Mr:Gladstone has announced in the House of Commons that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is sanguinely hopeful of being able to make provision for the issue of a halfpenny postage on printed matter. The Echo confidently expects that a bill authorising such an issue will be passed during the session. High time, too. We are the last nation in the cheap-postage race. Though there are immense quantities of printed matter waiting for a reasonable rate of distribution, yet the Post office will not take it. The number of letters despatched is in the proportion of twenty to one of printed parcels. Surely Mr. Lowe and the Marquis of Harlington ought to be glad of securing fame on such easy terms. THE DIVISIONS. The several divisions in the House of Commons on Thursday night were marked by strict party adherence. On the question of morning sittings before Easter the Opposition made a great party fight, the Govern ment winning by 260 to 172. Most of the chiefs on both sides took part in the division. The contests in committee on the Land Bill attracted fewer numbers, with the exception of the motion to report progress on Mr. Gladstone's amendment proposing to subject to the custom of Ulster any holding, not in that province, where a similar usage might be proved to exist. On this point the Government won by 271 to 186. APPOINTMENTS. Archdeacon Durnford will be succeeded in the canonry of Manchester by the Rev. N. Woodward, of St. Nicholas College, Shoreham, who is well known in connection with the foundation of Middle-class Schools. Mr. Francis W. Rowsell has succeeded Mr. Antonio Brady, as superintendent of contracts of the Admiralty. According to the Dublin Evening Mail The O'Donoghue emphatically denies that he has ob tained, or expects to obtain, any appointment from tho Government. He hopes to represent Tralee in Parliament for many years to come. The rumour of his being offered a Colonial Governorship gave rise to some excitement in the Green Island, for it was thought the promotion had been given as the reward of recent support, or in other words, that The O'Donoghue had sold Ireland. THE GAME LAWS. The constant agitation of any given subject may perhaps tend in the end to cause a more favourable feeling towards the most impossible aims. But for this belief, it would be difficult to understand what object is to be attained by a number of members affixing their names to the back of a "Bill for the Abolition of the Game Laws.' Mr. Taylor, Mr. Jacob Bright, Mr. White, Mr. M'Combie, and Mr. Dickinson are the enterprising gentlemen who have framed a simple and sweeping measure on the subject. The preamble declares that in consequence of the laws protectinr , certain wild animals, the latter have increased tot' such an extent as to be very injurious to the culti vators of the soil, and that the preservation has contributed greatly to the demoralisation of the people, by affording continual temptation to breaches of the law. It is proposed, therefore, to repeal the -whole of the thirty-two Acts which form the present Game Laws. aiscussea' - by the rrefibytery . of Stilling.Whal die unfortunate gentleman has done to be thus dragged before the world, it is difficult to understand, nut Am uampbell 6mith declares there is evidence applicable to his "manner," his " affectation," and the impossibility of his being heard by all the members of the congregation. His sermons are said by the same person to be very simple, full of "school-girlishness and utter silliness." There is, not a " touch of poetry" in them, nor one "tincture of emotion ;" no logic except as a matter of semblance, nor one consecutive or coherent thought. The substance has been taken from other writers, and the function of Mr. Gunu is to make bold abstracts of better sermons, and to turn the thought of higher and better writers into " mere ditch-water compositions." The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that sermons such as those described are common enough in our pulpits, and we are never SO severe on them as this. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. A Parliamentary return is published of the num ber and nature of accidents and injuries to life and limb which occurred on the railways - of the United Kingdom during tho year 1869. The accidents of all sorts that occurred to trains amounted to 124, and resulted in 32 persons being killed, and 1,149 injured. This number does not include very many deaths resulting from being run over, either by acci dent or for the purpose of committing suicide. It will be noticed that the number of fatal accidents is favourable when compared with that of most years. It, seems, however, to be more by good luck than good management, as 124 accidents to trains in one year is somewhat alarming. • IRISH UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. A return is published of a copy of a declaration of the Catholic laity, on the subject of University Education in Ireland, which was lately laid before the Premier. The opinions expressed by the long and influential list of persons who signed the declaration areas follows :-1. That it is the constitu tional right of all British subjects to adopt whatever sys tem of collegiate or University Education they prefer. 2. That perfect religious equality involves equality in all educational advantages afforded by the State. 3. That a large number of Irishmen are at present precluded from the enjoyment of University Educa tion, honours, and emoluments, on account of con scientious religious opinions regarding the existing systems of education. It is demanded, therefore, that such a change be made in the system of col legiate and University Education as will place those who entertain these conscientious objec tors on a footing of equality with the rest of their fellow countrymen as regards colleges, university honours and emoluments, university examinations, government, and representation." REVISION OF MB BIBLE. • The Rev. Dr. Jacob, the late head master of Christ's Hospital, London, in a letter to the Times, invites attention to a plan which, he says, seems to suggest a safe and practical solution of some of the difficulties of the important question of a revision of the authorised version of the Bible. The Religious Tract Society is publishing an edition of the Bible, the greater part of which has already ap peared, exhibiting an improved form and arrange ment of the text, and emendations of the Authorised Version. The aim has been to give to English readers the benefit of all such emendations as have the sanction of the best authorities, omitting all which are either doubtful or trivial. The "improved renderings" in this edition have been recommended by a sub-committee of the Society, consisting of Church.. men and Nonconformists. The writer asks why should not a similar committee for the revision now talked of be formed of experienced and thoughtful men, selected from our - Established Church, the Churches in Scotland, the Protestant Churches in Ireland, our principal Nonconformist bodies, and, if possible, the leading Protestant Churches kt‘ Nnerica ? "CHURCH CASES" IN SCOTLAND. In Scotland, says the Pall Mall Gazette, instead of the teacher teaching his congregation, the latter teach the former. It is almost impos3ible,to take up a Scotch paper without reading an account of som Church case." That which is at present Going on is the "Alloy parish church case." " The ministerial sifts mid a wades!' cd thy .ROY. fi.. -au= .ark.habur THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1870. EMIGRATION. Arrangements are being made for conveyin g the emigrants who are shortly to proceed to Canada in Government troopships. These emigrants will con sist of men discharged from the dockyards and War office establishments, who, with their wives and families, will be provided with passages on the pay ment of £2 for each adult. The Lords of the Admi ralty have appropriated two of her Majesty's troop ships to this service, the first of which is expected to sail from Portsmouth about the middle of next month, and to arrive in Canada shortly after the opening of the season, which is the best time for settlers to reach the Dominion. Apropos to this subject it is noticeable that the out flow of Irish is proceeding with renewed activity. Four steamers have this week taken from Cork some fifteen hundred emigrants. The Cork Exa miner says the rush westwards is likely to assume proportions as great as the old exodus ; and the change, it adds, is all owing to the Coercion Bill, or Act, as it may now be called. ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUR. The Lancet, referring to the subject of consuming the entire wheat grain in place of that which is now commonly used, says that whilst it has on more than one occasion commended the use of entire wheat flour, and condemned that of mere starchy compounds, especially in the case of the young, it has counselled the subtlest pulverisation of the branny portion of the grain, so that its irritant qualities may be destroyed. Our contemporary says that Professor Attfield has just made the careful analysis so much needed, determining the changes undergone through the agency of cerealin and. in the cerealin itself. The result is as follows. He finds that this flour au naturel contains 15.2 per cent. of moisture, 14.1 of gluten, 1 . 62 of phosphate, and P9l of cerealin. By the appli cation of heat, as in gentle roasting, a portion of the Attural moisture_ escapes, and the starch is in part changed. The amount of moisture is 10 . 8 per cent. of the gluten, 15 of phosphates, 1.65, and cerealin 1.2 in the roasted flour, which, in fact, is richer in flesh and bone form ing substance than before. Moreover—and this is a most important fact—six-tenths of the cerealin re mains in the soluble state, to act as the digestor of starchy foods taken into the stomach with it. As regards the state of the cerealin in cooked flour, the fine ground flour of the entire wheat grain is proved, therefore, to be altogether the most desirable for ganeral consumption. ➢SODRRN GEOGIIAPHY. -- The Builder says island-making is the order of tire day. Every isthmus in the civilized world seems destined to have its throat cut. Panama has long been doomed, Corinth is a mere matter of time, and before long we may have to correct our geographies by describing Spain as an island. The last project, it notices, is for a canal from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean, through 100 locks, the ships being towed by locomotives on the banks at four miles per hour. The Builder adds that Greece is all alive with the idea of cutting through the Isthmus of Corinth, and that the King of Prussia has decided, with the advice of the Council of Ministers, on carrying out the projected canal from the Baltic to the North Sea. Here our contempo rary very naturally takes breath. SMALL-PDX IN PARIS. The small-pox in Paris has lately made great ravages. It is now, however, diminishing. Eighty six deaths were recorded from the disease in the week ending March 20th, which number was less than that of the previous week by twenty-six. It is said that the scourge has loft visible traces behind it in the faces of persons you meet daily in omnibuses or the parks. A proclamation issued by the municipality, exhorting everyone to be re-vaccinated, describes the small-pox as an epidemic, but many of the faculty dispute the accuracy of this term. A well-known physician, Dr. Bonniere, writing to the Gaulois, affirms small-pox to be strictly and exclusively contagious. THE EPIDEMIC AT MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE. The Rev. G. G. Bradley, Master of Marlborough College, writes to the Times to contradict the state ment that on thirty cases of scarlatina appearing, three of which ended fatally, the authorities proceeded at once to break up the school and send the pupils to their respective homes. He says that on the occurrence of the first fatal case a letter was sent to all the parents, acquainting them with the state of things, and informing them that there was no intention of dispersing - the school, but that if there was in any case any special cause of anxiety, leave of absence would be granted if applied for. On the occurrence of the second fatal case, a printed circular, was sent' giving permission to any parent whose son was not "presumably protected by a former attack," to recal him. It was added that " all possible means would be taken to prevent any boy who was at all unwell from travelling." Of cour3e, observes the writer, a very large number of persons sent for their sons, and he suggests that the editor of the Times would scarcely have thought the authorities justified in concealing the calamity or in refusing to listen to a parent's wishes. lle adds that a large number have left their boys there, and that not a single master is off duty except those who have nobly devoted themselves to the task of nursing and watching the sick. RELATION OF THE STATE TO SCIENCE. A conference has been held at the Society of Arts in reference to the relation of the State to Science, and the necessity for official inquiry into the subject by Royal Commission. A. paper was read by Lieutenant-Colonel Strange, F.R.S. This paper stated that the movement for an inquiry into the state of science in England originated at the meeting of the British Associa tion at Norwich in 1868. Colonel Strange said that of late the tone of public feeling was in favour of extending, instead of restricting, the functions of Government respecting scientific objects. The meeting was addressed by the chairman (Lord Henry Lennox, M.P.), Professor Williams, Professor Balfour Stewart, the Astronomer Royal, Dr. Miller, Dr. Mann and Mr. G. Boiley. A resolution was adopted to the effect that the Conference of the Society of Arts desires emphatically to affirm the conclusion of the British Association, that a Royal Commission to inquire into the relations of the State to science is very desirable, and to recommend that the score of the inquiry be made as wide as possible. A SMILE PROM PRUSSIA. I!Sr.Hammond,who has been before the Select Com mittee on Diplomacy, has achieved a wonderful feat. ne has actually made Prussia smile. According to the statement o fa correspondent,the evidence o f that gentle man ab . out the necessity of maintaining a "mission" at Dantzic, as if that old P russ i a n seaport town were the capital of an independent State, was too much even for our phlegmatic and impassable neighbours, and they have condescended to be greatly amused thereat. The correspondent in question gives the following as the solution of the mystery. During tho Crimean War, he says, England feared that gunpowder and other articles contraband of war would be• Sent to Southern Russia through Prus sia, and she accordingly appointed agents to watch the harbours and the Prusso - R ussian frontier, some times not without success, for the high prices of salt -petre, lead, &0., in Russia induced many merchants to speculate in those articles. At that time the British Embassy at Berlin stationed diplomatic or . semi-diplomatic agents at Dantzic, and hired quarters there, perhaps in order the more ' semrely to carry out its surveillance in that town. All these arrangements ought naturally, says the correspondent, to have dropped when the war was over. The same authority suggests a job between the Ministry and its Berlin Embassy. But would this have raised a smile from Prussia ? EDUCATING VOTERS. President Grant has followed up his Special 'Mes sage to Congress on the decline o f American commerce via another on theincremolAmerican voters, . The 10th constitutional amendment gives the iTanchise to no fewer than four millions of coloured citizens. These do not form an enlightened part of the community,: though there is no evidence to prove that they are in any more deplorable state of darkness than many of the New York IriSh. But President Grant wishes the new acquisitions to do their duty as electors ; for the Republican form of govern ment, he says, can endure only when intelligence and education are widely diffused amongst the people. He calls on Congress to take measures to promote and encourage popular educa tion, and urges people to see that all possessing poli tical: rights shall have an opportunity to acquire knowledge, as by such means only can the benefit contemplated by . the 15th amendment be secured. It is a pity there is no one to display similar anxiety on behalf of our own electoral treasures at Bridg water and Beverley. Ours is not a Republican Government, but it is hardly likely that it will the more endure unless some enlightening - measures are taken. And appliances for the instruction of British voters would be doubly valuable, for they might be turned to the advantage of candidates as well. AUSTRIAN DIFFICULTIES. The war of races in the reformed Austrian monarchy still rages. Forty members of the Vienna Parliament have resigned their seats. They are Poles, Istrians, Slovenes, and Bukovinians. They retire, they say, because they are convinced that the Government under present conditions will never satisfy the just demands of their nationalities, which demand are that the same concessions granted to the Hungarians should be granted also to them. They remained in the Chamber so long as they imagined there was any hope of what they term justice. Now that there is none, they withdraw. This decisive step has of course created much excite ment. It is similar to the case of all the Irish members withdrawing from the English House of Commons on the ground that justice to Ireland would never be realised. THE TRAMWAYS BILL. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY. The Special Committee on the Tramways Bill met again to-day. Mr. Shaw Lefevre in the chair. Mr. BRETT, Town Clerk of Salfoid, referring to the proceedings of the previous day, wished to bring before the committee a modification in the suggestion made on behalf of the city of Manchester. He did not think it would be well that the bill should he worked on the hard and fast line prinpciple with regard to traffic. He thought that the Board of Trade should be vested with power to regulate the traffic in such a manner as circumstances may render desirable. There was at present carried through Salford an extensive coal traffic, which was a great impediment to other business, and was in some respects a great nuisance. He thought that a good deal of this nuisance might. lie remedied to some extent by a quick tramway convey ance. With this exception, Salford agreed with all that. had been said the day before on behalf of Manchester. Mr. Brett handed in an amendment to clause 24, which he thought would meet the objection. Mr. Clarke, on the part of the Corporations of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee, pointed out that some specW clauses should be provided to meet the peculiar legal phraseology in use in Scotland, and that in several other respects the bill should be very materially altered to make it suitable to Scotland. Several other witnesses were called as to the operation of the Act in Scotland, after which the court adjourned. THE PRISON AND _PRISON MINISTERS' ACT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, THUBSDAT. The Select Committee of the House of Commons sat to-day on these acts, Mr. Maguire presiding. Mr. White, formerly Roman Catholic minister attend ing the female prisoners of the Westminster House of Correction, was recalled to reply to a question omitted by the shorthand writer on the previous examination. Mr. White said it would require as much attendance for 320 Roman Catholic prisoners as for 500 Protestant prisoners, owing to the difference in the ministrations. It would require the whole time of one Roman Catholic minister to properly attend to the Roman Catholic prisoners in the Westminster House of Correction. Captain O'Brien, one of the visiting justices of West minster House of Correction, was examined by Sir John Pakington. Witness stated that the reason of the exclu sion of the Roman Catholic prisoners from the laundry (a coveted employment) was in consequence of the report of the matron that the work was interrupted by their being taken away for their religious duties. On the remonstrance of Mr. White in July last, that rule was relaxed in favour of the Roman Catholic prisoners. As to the effect of the religious instruction in prison, it was impossible for any one to say ; but his impression was that it had not a lasting efect for good. He had been chairman of the Visiting Justices since 1866, but though they met for business once a week, and his opinion was in favour of payment to Roman Catholic ministers in prisons, is reason for his not raising such a question was that it would necessarily lead to differences of opinion, some times of a disagreeable nature. The question of giving salary to Roman Cotholic priests had not come before the Court of Quarter Sersions since he became chairman of the visiting justices. Had no information as to whether there were prisoners in Westminster House of Correction other than members of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Mr. O'Reilly : You know that some of the Roman Catholic prisoners have been more than once in the pri son , and that when they knew beer was given to those in the laundry who declared themselves Protestants, was it likely to have a proselytising effect ?—Witness : I don't think proselytising enters into the question.—Mri O'Reilly ; I know that it will not affect their belief, han• it is likely to affect their declaration on entering prison? After some evidence of minor importance the committo adjourned. THE NON-UNIONISTS IN YORKSHIRE. —The four non- Unionists charged at Leeds Assizes with shooting at a Unionist collier at Manor Colliery, near Sheffield, have been acquitted. It seemed there had been a general en counter, and the defendants ma intained that they acted in self defence. FEVER D ENS. —Mr. Bates, the owner of a house in Charlotte-street, Portland-place, has been summoned at Marlborough-street for having his house in a state in jurious to health. He had been directed by the authori ties to do certain things, but he had done nothing but open the drains. There had been fever in the house, and there would in the opinion of the medical men probably be more. An order was made for the immediate completion of the work, the defendant paying costs. A CHURCHYARD SQUABBLE. —A somewhat exciting incident has occurred at the Southern Necropolis of Glas gow. A lair-holder, rendered suspic ious by recent disclosures in a case now pending in the Sheriff's Court against the proprietor of the cemetery resolved to open the grave where the b o dy 0 1 his child had been interred, in order to satisfy himself that all was right. It ended in the police being called in to prevent a breach of the peace, and ultimately a watch was set on the partially-ol)ened grave until a warrant was obtained from the sheriff to enable the father to open it. CAUTION TO STREET BLACKGUARDS. —A shoeblack named Drewry has been charged at Hull with assaulting a blind man in the street without provocation. The com plainant said that the prisoner struck him a violent blow on the lower part of the body, causing him for a time consi derable pain. He had had no altercation or quarrel with him. Lieutenant-Colonel Pease said that he witnessed the assault upon the complainant, which was entirely unpro voked, and a more disgusting attack he never saw before. He gave the prisoner into custody. The magistrate sen tenced the prisoner to two calendar months' imprisonment, saying that he would put a stop to such brutal ruffianism in the streets. SERVICES OF T UPIDIT 17.—U ur stupidity, in short, preserves a convenient twilight ; it hangs like a fog over contending armies, which enables the rival c ommand to shift their positions, and gradually to occupy importantt posts without giving the alarm. Before we are aware that any change has been made we have undergone a conf plete revolution, and wonder, when we look back, like a man who has been walking in a mist and has described a complete circle under the impression that he was follow ing a straight line. But this service, great as it is, is only only one of those which we owe to stupidity . It is gene rally said,. and with a certain degree of truth, that men are in great proportion as they are in advance of their age, and catch distinct glimpses of the goal to which things are tending. But it is also to be observed that fools are frequently in advance of their age, and that the fools often make the best reformers of the two. Great thinkers have for the most part the weakness that they can see two sides of a question ; they see that a change will lead to certain blessings ; but they cannot overlook the evils with which those blessings will be inevitably accompanied. Now a good thick-headed, one idea'd fool is on such occasions of inestimable value. We are accustomed to boast that as a nation we don't know when we are beaten ; taken literally that amounts like many other national self-glorifications to boasting of stupidity, and, if the facts be true, it is a very legitimate boast. The Duke of Wellington, who is supposed to have profited by this quality, is in some respects an ex cellent example of the principle. He was not precisely stupid, but no man, who can fairly be called great, ever had a narrower escape from stupidity. With certain great talents, he had one characteristic peculiarity of fools —that of being provided with a pair of natural blinkers, which compelled him to see only that which was straight before him. and to take the narrowest possible view of his task. The stupidest of men could hardly have been more blind to the real nature of the vast revolution in regard to which he played so conspicuous a part.—B•ont •;.• The Uses of Foals," in the Cornhill Magazine for April. STORM IN THE FAST.—The Levant Herald of March 23rd, states that the equinoctial gales have set in with a severity unequalled by any weather during the past winter. Since the evening of Monday the 21st, i hur thexoternedpeoattsfafrromantdhowßidlaeckinSteuaasthezeedetitota.t t T he h.g orm e ricaue of wind and sleet bad raged over the capital , and £ h s e a 1 3 d had been lost near the mouth of the Bosphorus, and other casualties were feared. Telegraphic coraumnicatica with _eme and Wet was lila' interrupted, --""*.' • CONGRESS. SENATE, March I.—Mr. Drake, from the Coin mietee on Education and Lebour, reported a joint resolution providing that no State shall be al lowed to have the benefit of the Agricultural Colie,. es Act unless it provides for education there under for all persons without distinction of race or colour. Mr. Wilson, from the Military Committee, reported a Lill extending the time for 'resenting additional bounty claims to the Ist of December next. Mr. Revels presented a petition from coloured Philadelphians for the passage of a bill g ving them eve' protection undi r tee laws. Mr. Howell's resolution providing for the security of the rights of settlers on lands grante 1 to railroads was a, opted. Mr. Osborn introduced a bill giving rank to. civil engineers and assistant naval con structors in the navy, which was referred. The Funding Bill was considered, and Mr. Corbett submitted amendments providing for four classes of bonds of three, nine, fifteen, and thirty-five years, bearing r,spectively interest at the rate of 6,5, 4i, and 4 per cent. ; also leaving it discretionary with the banks to extend their bonds. Feuding consi deration of the bill, the Senate went into Execu tine Session. March 2—The joint resolution au thorizing the issue of bonds to the Northern Pacific Road gas discussed, Mr. Edmunds, from the Judiciary Committee, made a report on the reor ganization of the Georgia Legislature. Mr. Trum bull, fruit' the same Committee, reported back the Census Bill and asked its reference to the Com mittee on Revision of Laws, which was agreed to: The Funding Bill was considered, and amend ments were offered by Mr. Sumner and Mr. Chandler. Pending its consideration, the Senate went into Executive Session. March 3—Bills were introduced by Mr. Chandler, to regulate trade upon our northern frontiers; and by Mr. Hamilton, to define the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The bill ar ranging the judicial circuits was considered. The Commerce Committee reported favourably the bill incorporating the National Bolivian Navigation Company, and adversely the bills incorporating the New York and Scandinavian Steamship Line, and relieving masters of coasting vessels from the ob ligation of employing licensed pilots. The Fund ing Bill was taken up, and Mr. Sumner's amend ment, offered on Wednesday, was rejected. He then offered an amendment to the first section, making the bond a Ten-Forty one, which was agreed to. He then moved to increase the New Five per Cents. $100,000,000, which was not agreed to—yeas, 15; nays, 28. Adjourned. March 4 Mr. FL rry's Bill, repealing the Test Oath Act of 1862, was reported favourably from the Commit the on Disabilities. Mr. Revels presented a memo rial of the Mississippi Legislature asking for the re moval of disabilities from the people of that State. The Judicial Circuit Bill was discussed. The Fund ing Bill was postponed until Monday. The Bill for the Settlement of Claims for Quartermaster and Commissary Stores furnished by loyal persons in the States in rebellion was considered. Without acting upon it, the Senate adjourned until Monday. March 7 —Mr. Morton introduced a bill for the admis sion of Texas, which was referred. It is simi lar to the Virginia Bill. Mr. Harlan presented a joint resolution of the lowa Legislature, favour ing the removal of the National capital. Mr. Cameron presented a petition from anthracite miners of Schuylkill County and others, asking protection, and supported their petition by a speech, showing the importance of the coal interest. Mr. Harlan, from the Indian Committee, reported a bill to carry into effect the Cherokee treaty of 1866.. It pro vides for the purchase of the Cherokee lands in Kansas and in the Indian territory west of the 96th meridian. Mr. Trumbull introduced a bill provid ing for appeals from Consular Courts in China and Japan to the United States Ministers, and from decisions of the latter to the United States Circuit Court in California. The Funding Bill was dis cussed, its consideration being continued at an evening session, but it was not finally disposed of. March 8.--Mr. Conkling presented resolutions of the New York Chamber of Commerce, in opposi tion to the Government embarking in the telegraph bu,iuess, and declared his hearty concurrence in them. Mr. Morton, from the Foreign Committee, reported his bill to prevent the furnishing of war vessels to foreign powers, to be used against Ame rican colonists claiming independence. Mr. Wil hams introduced a bill, which was referred, for the redemption of the legal tenders, by providing for their reception in part payment of import duties. Mr. Chandler, from the Commerce Committee, re ported the bill to regulate foreign and coasting trade on our northern frontiers. Mr. Kellogg in troduced a bill subdividing the public lands in the South into 40-acre homesteads, for coloured settlers. Mr. Fowler offered a resolution directing the im mediate sale of the surplus gold in the Treasury, but objection was made, and it was laid over. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to promote the civilization of the Indians, and prepare them for citizenship, which was ordered to be printed. The Funding Bill was discassed, pending which the Senate went into Executive Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, March I.—The Senate amendments to the Post-route Bill were concurred in. On the motion of Mr. Cullom, the Judiciary Committee were directed to inquire whether the Cherokee, Choctaw, and other Indians are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment, and if so, whether any treaty can be made with them as nations. Mr. Beck's resolution, extend ing the time for liquor in bond to three years, was passed with Mr. Ilooper's amendment, imposing a tax of one per cent. per gallon for each mouth after the first year. Mr. Logan, from the Military Committee, made a report of testimony, implicat ing John T. Deweese, lately Representative from the Third North Carolina District, in the sale of cadetships, concluding with a resolution of censure. The resolution was unanimously adopted. At the request of Mr. Logan, and on the motion of Mr. Garfield, the committee were discharged from investigating improper cadetship appointments made by persons not members of the present Con gress. Mr. Garfield, from the Banking and Cur rency Committee, presented the report on the Gold Panic investigation, and a minority report was pre sented by Messrs. Cox' and Jones. Adjourned. March '2—A bill was passed relieving honourably discharged soldiers and sailors from the payment of fees under the :Homestead laws. A bill was passed providing for the construction of a bridge across the Niagara river at Buffalo. The Indian Appro priations were considered. On the motion of Mr. Butler the Judiciary Committee were directed to inquire into the action necessary for protection of Congressmen from conspiracies of office brokers and others who make charges for extortion, &c. On mo tion of Mr. Maynard, the Secretary of the Navy was asked for information regarding tbelossof the Oneida. March 3.—On the motion of Mr. Griswold, of New York, the Ways and Means Committee were in structed to consider the expediency of placing the manufacture of bricks on the free list, and exempt ing from tax persons quarrying blue stone. On the motion of Mr. Heaton, the same committee were directed to consider a reduction of tax on the dis ti:lation of brandy from fruits. Mr. Wood, from the Foreign Committee, reported a bill regulating ocean telegraphic communication, which was ordered to be printed and recommitted. Mr. Inger soll, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, reported the bill for a military and postal railway from Washington' to New York. The previous question was moved upon the bill, and an amend nent by Mr. Swan, of Maryland, requiring the consent of the States through which the road should pass, was rejected by a vote of 115 to 48. The morning hour expiring cut off further action on the bill, which went over to the next morning. Mr. Davis gave notice that his Naturalisation Bill would soon be reported and its passage asked. The Indian Appropriation Bill was passed. The Tariff Bill was considered in Committee of • the Whole, Mr. Brooks, of New York, favouring large reduc tions, and additions of necessary articles to t he free list. The committee then rose, and Mr. Butler of Massachusetts, from the Reconstruction Com mittee, reported back the bill to readmit Georgia. Mr. Farnsworth, of the same committee, said that Mr. Butler had not been authorized to make the report. The yeas and nays were ordered on the reception of the:report, but the house adjourned without the vote being taken. March 4.—On the motion of Mr. IngerSoll, the Secretary of the In terior was called upon for information relative to the la'e expedition against the Piegan Indians Mr. Shanks introduced a bill to organise the militia of Wyoming. A. bill was passed, appropriating $46,910 for deficiencies in items of the House service. The Senate joint resolution prohibiting .he publication in the Globe of speeches not deli vered was referred to the Committee ou Rule s. A , bill was passed, making Jersey City a collection district and a port of entry. Mr. Haight offered a resolution looking to the removal of obstructions from the Delaware river, between Bordentown and Trenton. The Georgia Bill was discussed, and Mr. Butler said he would soon bring the condition of Tennessee also before the House. Mr. Farnsworth opposed the bill. The House adjourned, to continue discussion next day, and with the understanding that Mr. Butler would call a vote upon it on Monday. March s—The House was occupied by discussion of the Georgia Bill, which was opposed by Messrs. Farnsworth, lildiidge, Beck, Bird, and Kerr, and advocated by Mr. Lawrence. March 7—Bills w, re introduced by Mr. Wells, to reclaim swamp lands in the Mississipti Valley, and to promote tile com merce of the North-west; by Mr. M'Crary, in re ference to the Census, and to provide additional represen . a . ion in the next Congress ; by Mr. Tan ner, to punish the counterfeiting of designs and models of manufactures ; by Mr. Pierce, to re move political dis Abilities from the people' of Mis sissippi ; by Mr. Judd, to relieve shipbuilders ; and by Mr. Sheldon, to cancel and discontinue suits against Government officers whose funds were taken from them at the breaking out of the rebellion. Mr. Clarke, of Kansas, offered a resolution looking to the abrogation of the treaties with the Che rokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Indians, and establishment of a Territorial Government over them, which was referred. Mr. Washington, of Wisconsin, offered a resolution, authorizing the Select Committee on Postal Telegraphy to examine the whole subject of telegraphing, with power to send for persons and papers, and moved the pre vious question. The House refused the previous question—yeas 41, nays 75—and the resolution laid over. On the motion of Mr. Churchill, the President was asked for information as to whether steps have been taken to protect American fishing interests in Canadian waters. Mr. Butler, of Mas sachusetts, introduced a bill to remedy defects in the administration of certain customs and revenue laws. Mr. Kellogg, of Connecticut, desired to offer a resolution for repeal or reduction of the income tax, but objection was made. Mr. Stokes offered a resolution to allow Mr. Gol'aday to withdraw his resignation, but the Speaker decided that Golladay was no longer a member, and asked whether the House would entertain the question as one of pri vilege. The House refused to do so, without a division, and the resolution was not received. On the motion of Mr. Davis, of New York, the Judi ciary Committee were then instructed to report a rule to be observed, when a member present dur ing the session resigns his seat without consent of the House. The Georgia Bill was considered. Mr. Paine offered an amendment that nothing in the bill be construed to prolong or renew the terms of the Georgia Representatives. Mr. Bingham of fered another amendment providing that nothing in it shall vacate any office now held in Georgia, nor extend the terms of officers, nor prevent the people from electing members of the Legislature in 1870. March B—Mr. Julia's, from the Public Lands Committee, reported a bill to prevent the further disposal of public lands in Dakota, except under the Homestead laws and those relating to mineral lands and town sites. An amendment, ex tending the provisions of the bill to the whole country was adopted, and the bill was then rejected —the yeas being 76, and the nays 90. Mr. Rogers called the attention of the Speaker to a violation of the rules, saying that he was constantly annoyed by railroad and other lobby agents. The Speaker thereupon directed the doorkeeper to enforce the rule excluding unprivileged persons from the House. The Georgia Bill wastaken up, and Mr. Bingham's amend - ment to prevent the vacation of offices or extension of terms of office beyond the constitutional limit was adopted, and the bill passed by a party vote. One Republican member, Mr. Farnsworth, of Illinois, did not vote. Mr. Laflin, from the Printing Com mittee, reported a joint resolution for the discon tinuance of the publication of abstracts of specifica tions and engravings accompanying the Patent Report. Mr. Benjamin, from the Invalid Pension Committee, reported a bill providing that the Pen sion Acts of 1866 and 1868 shall not be construed to diminish the pensions granted by special bills. Mr. Stevenson, of (Akio, offered a resolution, which was referred, appropriating $lOO,OOO for another Arctic expedition under Capt. Hall. Adjourned. INCREASE OF MOISTURE ON THE FLATNS The Inland Empire is responsible for the follow. ing remarkable statements :—" For some time pas there has been a queseion before the people of this basin and of the plains east of the Rucky Mountains that has as yet failed to be s etisfactorily answeiel It is--Why are the streams carrying more water than in former years? The great plains are fast losing their arid nature, and through them are run ning streams in places where twenty years ago there was not a drop of water; and where at that time there were small streams they are very much en larged. In many cases this change has been of great value, as it has given to the traveller a supply of water that had previously been denied. When the first emigrants crossed the plains to California the great objection urged to the trip was the scarcity of water on the greater part of the route. Within a few years this has been all changed, and in the beds of old streams that were dry when first found there is now water for all the purposes required. The Laramie plains are not now destitute of water, whereas some years ago there was none, and tra vellers had to carry water when passing over thew. There can be no doubt that for the last ten years there has been a continual increase of water through out the whole desert country between the Missouri and the 'Sierra Nevada. The Arkansas was dry in 1862 from the Pawnee Fork to the Cimaron Crossing, and previous to that time the Pecos was dried up, so that at many places the inhabitants were obliged to dig for water, and the Moro Val ley and Plains were at that time almost destitute of vegetation. Now the vegetation is luxuriant, and it is one of the best wheat -growing sec tions. Denver was built on the banks of an extinct creek, which, it was supposed, would remain dry, but after the settlement, to the astonishment of the people, it became quite a stream, and is now crossed by bridges. Thefluerfano, the Roys Pecos, and others that were dry during the summer months ten years ago, are now constantly running in fair streams. We are satisfied t hat alon g the whole line of the Union Pacific Railroad there is much more moisture in the air now than there was only a few years since. Again, Salt Lake is seven feet higher than it was ten years ago, and is constantly rising; . and it has been urged by those who have paid at tention to the subject that the rise of water there would produce a solution of the Mormon ques tion before Congress would act upon it. W hen the Salt Lake shall rise a few feet higher, we shall look for its overflow to reach the Shell creek range, as evidently at one time water did cover what is now only an arid valley, not direct in its course, but cut up with ranges; still the continued val ley can be traced. This great increase of water will work a great revolution in the opinions of people as to the capacity of the great plains for agricultural purposes. The only reason why it has been supposed the great plains cannot be made into good farms has been the lack of water and timber, as the land in richness has no superior. The increase of water of which we have spoken will do away with one objection, and the discovery of coal over a distance east of Salt Lake for over 600 milos will obviate the other. The man who travels over the Union Pacific Roads twenty-five years • from this time will find that the sage brush has given way to crops of all kinds growing in the greatest luxu riance, and that the sturdy farmers with happy homes have taken the place of the wandering Red men. In our own State this increase of moisture has been noticed, and the old settlers do not hesi tate to say that in many places the streams have increased more than one-fourth in size during the past five years, and in some places where there was DO water then, there is now small but constantly running streams." In his eulogy at the funeral of George Peabody" Mr. Robert C. Winthrop remarked that several years ago Mr. Peabody, in reply to Mr. Winthrop's amazement at the extent of his charitable plans, said : "Why, Mr. Winthrop, this is no new idea to me. Fran► the earliest years of my manhood I have contemplated some such disposition of my property; and I have prayed my Heavenly Father, day by day, that I might be enabled, before I died, to show my gratitude for the blessings which He has bestowed upon me by doing some great good to my fellow-man." JOURNALISM.---A semimonthly German comic paper is published in Cincinnati.—T ho Bidfido Commercial Advertiser has published the Zion. D. S. Benuett's com plaint in a libel suit against that paper for $lO,OOO damages, together with its answer, which reaffirm:4 all the previous charges, and gives additional charges, with dates and particular circumstances. The defendant waived the usual legal delay for preparation, and challenged Bon i nett to a triaJ ou the orating of the Quurt. MONETARY REP ORTS.-YES TERDAY, With the exception of the railway market, Nyman nas been animated, the Stock Exchange has been quiet to-day. Consols have been firm, at 930, 931 for money and the 7th Instant, and 931, 93g for April. Reduced and New Three per Cents, 91k, 92. Exchequer Bills, par to ss. prem. India Five per Cents, 113, 1131; and India Bonds, 20s. to 253. prem. A full average business has been transacted in English railway stocks, and the movements in prices have been favourable. Great Northern A has ris li, Great Eastern 1, L%ncashire and Yorkshire 1, Midland Lon don and North-Western and Great Western Indian stocks have been quiet, and without change. Canadian shares have been steady in value, but the demand for them has not been active. Foreign shares have been firm. Lombards have risen Very few changes have taken place in the value of foreign bonds, and the market generally has been quiet. Peruvian 1865, and Spanish 1867 and 1869 have risen_ ; but Egyptian 1868 have fallen per cent. American Government securities have been steady. The Five-Twenty Bonds have risen and the Ten-Forties ; but Atlantic Bonds and Illinois Central Shares have fallen The tone of the market for British mines has been rather firmer. Assheton have recovered Tan-yr-Allt /, and Penryn /. In the value of colonial and foreign mines no movement of importance has transpired. Bank shares have been quiet, and without material change. Telegraph shares have been firmer. British India Sub marine have advanced 1-16, and French Cables I. Telegraph Construction shares have been more freely dealt in, at an advance of I. Silver's Indiarubber have risen 1, and Hooper's Telegraph Works have been rather firmer. In miscellaneous securities the transactions have been limited, but prices have been without alteration. Less firmness has been noticed in the money market. The demand for accommodation has fallen off, and three months' paper has been discounted at 2i to 3 per cent. The sum of £lB,OOO has been sent into the Bank to-day. With the exception of the rates on Italy, which have been rather lower, the exchanges chew no material altera. tion. Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. have invited applications for $4,000,000 (2800,000 sterling) 7 per cent. first mort gage bonds to bearer of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company, at the price of 90 per cent. £5 must be paid on application, and £l5 on allotment. A special meeting has been held to-day of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, and the resolution approving of the bill in Parliament for the dissolution of the company, and the conversion of the stock into that of the Anglo- American Telegraph, was passed. It was also resolved to carry out the working arrangements with the Anglo- American, French Cable, and other Companies. In reference to the state of the bullion market, Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake remark that all arrivals of gold have been sent into the Bank, there being no demand whatever for the Continent, as the ex. changes continue high. £72,000 have arrived. The directors of the Oriental Bank recommend a divi dend of six per cent. for the half year, making 12 per cent. for the year. The report of the Bank of British North America chews that the net profits for the year have been £71,617, which will allow of the payment of a bonus of 1 per cent. The usual dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annumfor the half year ending June 30 next, will be paid at the custo. mary period. At the annual meeting of the Law Union Fire and Life Insurance Company, it was shewn the fire premiums for the year had been £6,775, and that in the life department the new policies were 309, assuring £263,490, and yielding in premiums £9,902. The assets of the company now amount to £293,076. A dividend and bonus together, at the rate of 12 per cent., were an nounced. At a meeting of the Scottish Provident Institution, at Edinburgh, it was stated that the new policies . for the year were 1,190, assuring £581,036, and yielding in new premiums £21,967. At the close of the year the policies in force yielded in premiums £181,371. The realised fund was £1.636.249. MA RKETS -YESTERDAY. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.-At Mark-lens to-day less firmness was noticed in the grain trade. From Essex an Kent the receipts of wheat were only moderate. There wash fair attendance of millers, but the demand was not active ; never theless, no change took place in prices. The shew of foreign wheat was tolerably good. The trade was quiet, on former t erm s. Moderate supplies of barley were brought for ward. • The demand was not active, but prices were supported. Malt changed hands slowly, on former terms. Beans and peas were steady in value, with a moderate inquiry. Flour quiet, at late rates. Arrivals.-British-Wheat, 1,570 ; barley, 590 ; malt, 1,300 ; beans, 310 ; peas, 50 qrs. Foreign-Wheat, 2,550 ; barley, 4,680 ; oats, 23,590 ; beans, 830 qrs.; and flour, 750 sacks. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.-The tallow market has ruled very firm, and Y.C.,on the spot, has decline d to 445. 6d. Seed oils remain at 325. to 325. 3d. for linseed ; and 425. 9d. to 435. for rapeseed ; olive drooping. LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, F RID AY.-The inquiry . for sugar has ruled more active , b ut the business resulting has still been limited. Coffee has ruled quiet, but colouring kinds have maintained at late rates. Good middling to old 76s to 83s per cwt. Native sorts are very dull, Rice inactive and witnout im provement, LONDON METAL 11ARKET, FRIDAY.-Straits tin firm, at £124 105 to £125. Copper and spelter dull. Scotch pig ir02,1 540. lOid Cash and 55s month buyers. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.-The supply has been moderate. The trade has been quiet, as follows :- Beef, from 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; mutton, 3s. 6d. to 4s. 10d. ; lamb, 6s. to 7s. ; veal, 4s. 45. to '53. 4d. ; and pork, 3s. 4d. to Os. per Sibs., by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.-In the hop market there has been a continence of quietness. For all qualities the demand has been inactive, and prices have had a drooping tendency. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 12s. ; Weald of Kents, £6 to £8 : , Soussex£6 ;, £5 12s. to 16 ; Bavarians, £6 6s. to £9 ; 1,5 t Americans, £4 l2s. ss. to £6; and yearlings, £lFrench to 10s. £3 per cwt. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY. --Messrs Alex ander Collie and Co. report :-The tone of our market is strong, and an advance of lid per piece on Tuesday's rate is now de manded. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.-Sales of the week, 61,000 ; on speculation, 6,700 ; declared exports, 7,000 • actual exports, , 7,000 taken by the trade, 48,500 ; imports, 136,000 : stock, 450,000. Middling upland, 104 ; fair Egyptian, 11i ; ditto Dhollerah, 94. To-day's market steady, sales 12,000 bales. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-White wheat steady in value, and rather easier. Flour dull, at late rates. Indian corn 3d. to 6d. cheaper ; oats, beans, and peas steady. GLASGOW IRON MARKET, FRIDAY.-Market strong, and a fair business done at 555. 3d. cash, and 555. 6d. one month, closing buyers at those currencies. CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRIDAY. -Ordinary firsts, 1305.; seconds, 130 s. ; thirds and fourths, not quoted ; fifths, 555. ; and sixths, not quoted ; 250 firkins in the market. Mild cured firsts, 130 s. ; seconds, 1305.: thirds, 98s. ; 20 firkins in the market. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Henceforth no oue will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic°. Invalids' and Infants' rood, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whos position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent. especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined • himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which, he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of nitre than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58 , 216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' . complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation, all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of. Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia, No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting — Maria Jo l y . " Cure No. 46,270: Mn James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangeme nt, and partial deafness, •Im portant Caption—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's 111 .me is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; 1 lb 2 s 9d ; 2 lb 4s 6d; 5 lb lls; 12 lb 225; 24 lbs 4 s.—Also Du BARRY's REYAEENTA A RARICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at s:is —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent g land on receipt of Post Office Order. free of carriage in En BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street London; and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. --- DIGIllt —On the 31st ult., at Chalmington House, Dorset shire, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Digby, of a son. RoumrsoN—On the 31st ult., at King's Lynn, Mrs. T. C• ltobertsou, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. ASHER. - CRAWFORD —On the 31st ult., at Fdinburgh, Ale3E ander Asher, Esq., advocate, Edinburgh, to Caroline Julia (Minnie), eldest daughter of the Rev. Chas. H. Crawford , rector of Old Swinford, Worcestershire. HARVEY—WHEELER -O n the 30th ult., at Barnstaple, W. O. Harvey, of Lincoln's- inn, barrister-at-law, to Enitr,ntl, Zoller, youngest daughter of the late Gervaso Wheele Esq. DEATHS. MERRIMAN —On tho 80th ult., at Knutsford, Charles A' Merriman, Esq., aged 55. MURRAY--On the 31st ult., at Waterside, Dunifrieesh ire ! .Rear-Admiral A. Murray, aged 61. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW. -e , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tau SUN Office, No. 112, Strand' in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tho County of JiliddleseV*l Saturday, April 2, 1870,