The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-21 00:00:00

THE PREMIER AND THE DUBLIN COUNCIL. At a special meeting of the Municipal Council of the City- of Dublin, held in the City Hall, on the 14th instant, the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor in the chair ' resolutions regarding the Irish Land Bill were drawn up, And directed to be forwarded to the Prime Minister. The resolutionists expressed the desire on the part of the Council to declare that it viewed with disappointment and appre hension the complicated and inadequate, though well intentioned, propositions of the Government. The Govern ment Bill, if passed in its present state, would only embitter the relations between landlord and tenant with out touching the giant evils of insecurity of tenure and liability to capricious evictions. Further, it is urged on the premier that considering the results of inadequate legis lation on this all-impertant subject, it would have been better for the peace and happiness of Ireland that no such attempt had been undertaken, if the subject be not effectually dealt with. ' The following is the reply of Mr. Gladstone :—" 10, Downing-street, Whitehall, March 17, 1870. My Lord Mayor, I have received with sincere regret your Lordship's letter of the 14th, and the in closed resolutions of the Municipal Council of Dublin, which declare that the provisions of the Land Bill now before Parliament will additionally embitter the relations between landlord and tenant, and will practically leave as they are the evils of insecure tenure and liability to eviction. I own myself unable to comprehend how, eviction being now attended with no charge to the landlord, the induce ments to it can remain practically untouched when it comes to be burdened with a charge which may amount to several and in a large class of cases, to seven years' rent of the farm. The resolutions of the Municipal Council do not specify the provisions which they desire to see introduced into tllp bill. I can therefore only say that the Government All be most ready to propose or adopt any amendment which may be shown to conduce to the completeness and efficiency of the measure, but that they do not see in what manner the plans described as perpetuity of tenure, or as valuation of rents by public authority, could be rendered consistent either with any fair interpre tation of the rights of property, or with the general wel fare of the people of Ireland, and the most effective development of her agricultural industry.—l have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor, your most faithful and obliged servant, "W. E. GLADSTONE." LITERATURE, ART, AND SCIENCE. The Atheneum says amid much literay stagnation there is something cheering in the fact that the Earl of Malmesbury is arranging for publication his grandfather's correspondence with his family and friends. This extends to exactly three quarters of a century, 1745-1820, in cluding details from the last field of the Pretender to the last of the Duke of Wellington. Contemporary fashions, follies, 'virtues, and gossip, relating both to France and England, are said to be the subjects of the Malmesbury Papers.— We hear that a quarto volume, called "London," tne joint work of M. Gustave ore and a well-known English writer, is in prgoaration. It will be issued in parts, and the first l part will appear in May... as The Hungarian papers abound in complimentary remarks upon the Duke of Argyll, who has directed Dr. Forbes Watson to present the library of the Pesth University with a copy of the first four volumes of the splendid and valuable work, " The People of India." The volumes have arrived at Pesth, and have been exhibited for a few days in the reading room of the library. All classes of society have thronged to see them.—The tar get for the experiments with 35-ton guns, to be instituted at the instance of the Admiralty , is estimated to cost about £7,ooo.—Mr. Billings, of the Canadian Geolo gical Survey, is endeavouring to prove that a convoluted plate found in fossil Crinoideaor Stone Lilies, is part of the respiratory . apparatus. He remarks, incidentally, that in no division of the animal kingdom does. the the respiratory system occupy a larger proportion of the whole bulk of the animal than in Echinodermata.— An example of the utilisation of waste has lately been afforded by a firm of photographers at Wakefied. During the last three years they have carefully collected their de• fective pictures, clippings, sweepings, washings, &c., burning the former from time to time to ashes, and pre cipitating the latter by common salt. To every pound of residue thus obtained, half a pound each of carbonate of pcobash and soda crystal in powder was added and the whole fluxed. Two bars of pure silver alloy with a little gold were thus obtained, weighing together 170 punces troy, which have realised £44 ls. ld. The Graphic says that Mr. Poole, R.A., will exhibit at the Royal Academy this year a picture which has for its subject Dryden's versified adaptation of Boccaccio's "Theodore and Honoria."—The same journal says that Mr. Orchardson will have a sea-piece ; that Mr. Edgar Barclay is engaged on a pastoral subject ; that Miss Louisa Starr will send a picture of " Undine," and Mr. Donald. son one of " Sintram." Mr. Halsewell will send a pic ture of Modern Roman Life, Mr. F. Goodall (son of the R.A.) a Scene from "Tom Jones," Mr. Hodgson an Al erine Scene, and Mr. George Hering a picture of a Sto r m fp the Highlands. The Choir has the following :—At the Theatre Lyrique two novelties will shortly be placed on the boards, Halevy's f` Charles VI." and Flotow's "L'Ombre."—The practice of offering prizes for musical compositions seems to be at• tended with much success at Paris, where, owing to the existence of the numerous bodies of Orpheonists, there is also every facility for obtaining an early performance .ot the successful works. One of the latest of these prize Masses, by M. Juvin, was sung by a choir of 300 voices at the church of St. Ambrose on Sunday last. A new play by Mr. T. W. Albertson, author of "Caste," " School,' , &c., is about to be produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre. Mr. Trubner will publish in a few days the " History of the British Museum," by Mr. Edward Edwards.—Mr. Bentley is about to publish a translation of %the Talc d'Attumale's " History of the House of Coneld," and "Travels in the Air," by Mr. Glaisher.—Temple Bar for Aprill will have the beginning of a new tale by Mr. :William Gilbert, entitled" The Landlord of the Sun." PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE GOLD RING. The American Congress appointed a committee to inves tigate the causes of the gold pamc last September. This committee has just presented two reports, one from the Republican, and one from the Democratic section of the committee. Their views on most aspects of the question were agreed, but on the radical point of the complicity of the. President they are altogether at variance. dWe may reasonably suppose that party feeling has something to do with the matter,, as the Republicans who, of course, form the majority, declare that the wicked endeavour to compromise the President and his family utterly failed, while the Democrats com plain loudly that the President, Mrs. Grant, and Miss Corbin have not been examined. They do not, however, venture to assert that President Grant is directly in volved in the affair, but content themselves with inuendos in the form of a demand for an inquiry. The much-talked of letter to Mr. Boutwell from the President has been published L in the New York journals, and is merely cautionary, the President declaring that personally he has never fully considered the gold question, but warning Mr. Boutwell that some action on his part might very likely be called for. The New York press generally writes strongly on the matter, and rejoices in what considers to be the complete exculpation of the President. Thi offertories at All Saint's, Margaret-street, London, amounted last year to £4,035. Twenty workmen, says the Globe, are now being discharged weekly at Sheerness Dockyard. The railway trains over Mont Cenis have ceased running for the time owing to the heavy drifts of snow. The Memorial Diplomatique says that the reply to Count Daru's request to have a French Ambassador at the Council will be in the affirmative. The University of Vienna has decided to open its medical lectures and confer medical diplomas on women. Pere Hyacinthe, wearing the dress of a private citizen, was present on Wednesday at the funeral oCount lklontalembert. The Church Times says the Bishop of London is preparing in his registry a number of monitions which are to be launched against " some of the leading Catholic clergy in his diocese." Mr. Justice Fitzgerald has fixed the 28th iustant for the trial of the Longford election petition. The National party are making great preparations for the trial, and are procuring witnesses. It is stated that General Lindsay is to be placed upon the regular staff of the army for. six months, and sent out to Canada as a sort of Commissioner from the War Office, to complete the evacuation of the Dominion by its former Imperial garrison. The ceremony of opening the New Hall of the Inner Temple will be performed on Saturday, May by her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Christian. A court-martial of considerable interest, involving peculiarly an officer of high standing in the Royal Navy, and high up in the rank to which he belongs, will be opened on board the Duke of Wellington about the latter end of next month.—Hampshire Telegraph. A return furnished to the House of Lords shows that during the year from April, 1868, to March, 1869, the Mint coined gold to the value of £4,948,09319s 7d. During the same period £164,310 worth of silver was coined. The return contains similar and other particulars for a number of years past. Dr. Theodore Bunsen, youngest son of the late Prussian Ambassador in London, has been appointed Chard d'Affaires and Consul-General of the North Germon Confederation in Peru. This gentleman is well acquainted with South America, having been five years secretary to the Prussian Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. A tea, festival, and public meeting closed the series of Lambeth Bath meetings for 1869-70. The chair man (Mr. S. Morley, M.P.) well expressed the objects of the movement in his statement that the great difficulty was to find out the mode without dogmatism, without dissension, of reaching themasses in a spirit of loving sympathy. - - - While a number of men were engaged in the east in; at the London and North-Western Railway Company's Steel Works, Crewe, yesterday, manufacturing steel by the Bessemer process, a quantity of liquid steel was ejected from one of th e i n g o t mou ld s into which the steel was being poured, and fell upon the workmen. These were severely burned. The cause of the occurence is un known. A sad accident has occurrel on the River Coins. A man named Welham, and two boys, in the employ of Mr. Heath, oyster merchant, Wyvenhoe, went out in a ooat to fish the vessel became overladen and, beinprr unable to withstand the forc e o f w i n d an d tide, capsized. All,,three were drowned. Well2am leaves a' wife and ohig THE • SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1870. THE WARWICK MEETING. Last week, albeit the racing was of a diversified charac ter, and abundant in quality, was signalised by no event of importance, except the defeat of The Doctor by Primrose. This week seven fixtures are arranged of which two will prove of general interest— those of Warwick and St. Albans. The first-named meeting will extend over Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs day, and will furnish some excellent sport. The great race of the programme is the Grand Annual Steeplechase (about four miles) which is run on Thursday. The weights f 1r this important steeplechase have already been compared. The most notable point of difference is the improvement in the position of Pearl Diver, who meets The Colonel, the winner of the Liverpool Grand National, on 151 b beau terms. This leads the Field to anticipate The Colonel's overthrow and Pearl Diver's victory, his most formidable opponent being The Nun, who is a first-class steeplechaser and weighted at list. 31b. Bell's Life thinks that Pearl Diver and The Colonel will make a great race should they come together, the only one of their probable rivals at all likely to upset the pair being the Rugby winner Knockany, who is a finished jumper. The Sporting Life goes in favour of Pearl Diver, on account of his favourable " let-in." The Sportman's prophet remarks : " The Grand Annual Steeple-chase, which will not be run until Thursday, does not, lam sorry to notice, promise to be so successful as it has been of late years, twenty-nine of the forty-eight horses originally entered having been struck out. Most of those left in will, however, in all probability come to the post, and though The Colonel is handicapped at the top weight, he appears to have such a good chance that he will very likely be sent to the post. Pearl Diver also appears to be fairly treated with 12st 21b, while, among the light-weights, Surney should have a good chance. I believe, however, that the winner will be found in The Colonel or Mr. Brayley's best." The following forecast of the first day's (Tuesday's) racing is from the Field :—" In the Trial Stakes (one mile) Sunlight, Seesaw, Vagabond, and the Recorder have been named, and if Sunlight is brought out, the race will be particularly interesting. Doubting the appearance of Mr. Merry's colt at Warwick, however, we shall vote for Vagabond on this occasion. Only six horses remain in - the Wil loughby Cup (one mile) from the original twenty nomina tions, and the best of these at the weights is Champagne Charlie. In the Handicap Plate (six furlongs), to which there are twenty-three entries, Belphegor and the Grass hopper filly have notbeen overweighted, though if Honesty, Bst. 121 b., were in his best form he would win. The acceptances for the Free Handicap Nursery—rather a strange name to give a race in which only three-year-olds have been weighted—will not be declared till Monday evening. As the handicap, however, now stands, those horses possessing the primary winning chances are Mag dala, 7st 51b ; the filly by Lacydes out of Ca,stanette, 7st 41b ; Sunflower, 7st 31b ; and Romance, 7st. And if the Castanette filly and Romance are found amongst the acceptances and run, the better of the pair may win. The Coventry Steeplechase (three miles) would give rise to an exciting contest, if The Colonel, the Doctor, the Nun, Q.C., Skirmish, Surney, and Whitehall were to meet. Cal culating on the absence of the first three, however, we ap prehend the winner will turn up in Q. C. or Skirmish. There are thirty-two nominations to the Handicap Hurdle Race (two miles), and the weights range from King's Cross, 12st. 71b., to Maersderwen, lOst. ; Brick, list. 61b. ; New Zealander, list. ; Xi, 10st. 121 b. ; Vulcan, 10st. 101 b. ; Ampleforth, 10st. 71b. ; and Silvermere, 10st. 41b., appear to have been favourably handicapped. The Cheltenham stable is particularly strong, and if Brick or Xi puts in an appearance, we do not perceive how the selected one can be defeated." Bell's Life discusses the same day's events in this manner :—" The time-honoured Trial Stakes which, para doxical as it may now appear to some, was won by Coro nation, then a two-year old, in the same year in which he carried off the Derby, might have all the interest of its best days were the whole four engaged to go to the post. It will be a fine public trial as to whether Sunlight has reformed his ways should Mr. Merry send him to the post, and with a run we shall not look further for the winner, On paper the Willoughby Cup looks like good thing for Champagne Charlie, and in the Free Handicap Nursery—an odd title for a three year old race nothing reads better than the Castanete filly and Sunflower. It is hard to. say as yet what will go to the post for the Coventry Steeple Chase, but anything that faces the starter will probably have to succumb to Q.C. and Moose. David Copperfield has not for a long time had such a chance allowed him as he posSesses for the Handicap Hurdle Race, and he will probably win unless the stable pin their faith on New Zealander. The three-quarters of a mile Handicap Plate will probably fall to Belphegor." The Sport ing Life does not think that Sunlight will be brought out for the Trial Stakes, and therefore awards the prize to See-Saw. Of the Coventry Steeplechase this paper's contributor says :—" The Doctor has had so much of it that he will probably be in reserve, and The Colonel, with all the weight could beat the remainder, and only in the absence of the dual hero of Liverpool shall I look for the success of Q.C. or The Nun. The Willoughby Cup (one mile), Adelaide or Brambridge will win, and one of 31r. Brayley's (Soucar or Recorder) the Free Handicap Nur sery (three-quarters of a mile). The Handicap Hurdle Race, Vulcan er Goodfellow looks like, and Veda or Cheddington the Handicap Plate (three-quarters of a mile)." The Sportsman awards the Coventry Steepleehase to Q.C. or the Nun ; the Willoughby Cup to Brambridge ; the Free Handicap Nursery to Sunflower or Geoffrey ; the trial stakes to Sunlight or Vagaband. EMIGRATION CENTRES. WISCONSIN (CONTINUED). The route to Wisconsin is through Upper Canada, crossing from the States at Niagara, and again into the States at Detroit, in Michigan, whence that State is crossed to Grand Haven, by the Milwaukee and Detroit Road, and Lake Michigan by a regular line of steamers to Milwaukee; or the water journey may be avoided by passing via Chicago. 'Milwaukee is one of those growing, ambitious western cities which, with unbounded resources, have unbounded ambi tion. The agricultural value of the country around it, is shown by the fact that it has made that city the largest primary wheat depot in the world, and although Chicago, seated as it is at the head of the lake, is more central, commanding a wider sweep of territory, more perfect communication, and a far larger trade, yet it has not the wealth of grain grown around. The citizens of Milwaukee are at this moment making a bold push for the seat of State Government. They are constructing a Court house at a cost of nearly $1,000,000, which the Common Council have offered to the Legislature as a free gift, if they will make Milwaukee the State capital. On this subject an influential paper of New York justly observes, " Milwaukee may be a better town than Madison for the Legislature of Wisconsin to meet in ; but we submit that this is not demonstrated by the fact that Milwaukee has a Court-house to give away—to say nothing of the legal right of the Common Council to offer the ex tensive donation." A State so prosperous could not fail to show considerable railway development. In 1866 (we regret that we have no complete returns to a later date) one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one miles were completed and in full opera tion, representing a subscribed capital of more than $14,000,000. The number of through passengers car ried that year was 260,523, and of way passengers, 1,897,053. The tonnage transported was 104,203. Among the most important roads are the Milwaukee and La Crosse, Portage, and Superior, with an extent sion to Fond.du-lac, Green Bay to the Mississippi, and others projected and since completed. Madison, the capital, has lines branching in every direction, and all traverse rich portions of the State throwing open all the good land, however remote. In that year there were 17 academies in Wiscons:n, having 90 teachers and 2,200 students ; nine colleges, having 55 professors and 1,439 students ; also 228 private schools, having 8,000 pupils. In normal schools to train teachers Wisconsin has taken the lead in the States, one having been founded in each Congressional district. The persons between the ages of 4 and 20 were 352,005, and of these 234,265 were attending schools, 7,879 teachers being em ployed, the whole supported at a cost of $1,190,289. The fund owns 463,463 acres of land; all the moneys are given in its aid accruing from forfeiture or escheat, all fines collected for breach of the penal laws, and all moneys paid as exemption from mili tary duty. Wisconsin has provided liberally for the destitute and unfortunate ; awe are asylums for the insane, the deaf and dumb, for the blind ; and besides the State prison there is a reformatory for juvenile offenders. On October 1, 1866, there were 177 insane patients ; during the year 95 had been admitted and 92 discharged, and the cost was $4;,205. The patients worked a farm, which, for the last two years, had returned $6,000. The trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum had received from the State and other sources 420,678, and expended $24,070, the attendance being 104 persons. There is also a home for soldiers' orphans, which after being founded by private gifts was pur chased by the State. The Treasury receipts for 1866 were $2,086,458, and the disbursements $1,874,993. The debt then was $2,282,191, which has since, we believe, been considerably reduced. Even during that year the reduction was $410,000. The real estate aggregated $126,059,296, and the real and personal property $162,302,153. The State banks then doing business numbered 19, with an aggregate capital of $611,000, and an outstand ing circulation of $142,557. There were 26 Na tional banks, with a capital of $2,780,000. The eight chief productions were estimated as follows : —11,629,183 bushels of wheat, valued on the Lake shore at $23,509,705 ; Indian corn, 13,410,836 bushels, valued at $8,851,143 ; oats, 14,789,660, valued at $5,180,428 ; pigs, 216,392 head, valued at $4,868,754 ; butter, 9,999,892 lbs, valued at $2,280,469 ; eheese, 1,215,801, valued at $215,970 ; wool, 2,696,354 lbs., valued at $1,176,216 ; lum ber, 928,908,651 feet, valued at $3,349,421. Hay and all kinds of grasses ; _ hops, Bax, and potatoes, are largely cultivated ; also tobacco, maple-sugar, molass:s, sorghum, honey, and wax. Orchard and market-garden produce, and every description of agricultural industry have been rapidly advancing. The last census in 1860 showed an enormous in crease over previous decennial returns : the aggre gate value going over thirty-six and a third mil lions of dollars. There are valuable lead mines in the State of the same beds underlying parts of Ill nois and lowa, which extend 0ver2,140 square miles of Wisconsin. What the product now is we do not know, but before the Southern Wisconsin R.R. was completed in 1863, 848,6251b5.0f lead were received at Milwaukee. Bordering on Lake Superior are very abundant iron mines, and copper, magnetic iron, plumbago, while generally the non-metallic earths abound. There are quarries from which marble of great beauty is extracted. Manufactur ing establishments in 1860 numbered 3,064, the capital invested being $15,831,581. The raw ma terial and cost of production for the year was $21,406,042, the sale amounting to $27,849,467, whence a profit was derived of $6,403,425, or up wards of 40 per cent. The establishments con sisted of boots and shoes, furniture, soap, and candles, woollen goods, and illuminating gas. Leather, agricultural implements, iron castings, iron ore, steam engines, anal malt liquor were also pro duced. Even in those days, ten years ago, the im provements on the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, in cluding the Portage Canal, were considerable, ex tending more than 300 miles, from Green Bay to the Mississippi. The work had not at that time been completed, but it had 165 locks, and admitted vessels greater in size than those which passed the old Erie Canal, while the work since then has been greatly improved. Although, as a rule, the Irish do not readily proceed to the Far West, numbers have accumulated in the great towns. Milwaukee is about to publish a daily and weekly Irish paper, but as there is a good sprinkling of many nationalities, the mass being Teutonic and Scandinavian, such States get a broad cosmopolitan feeling, all even tually assuming the American type. This tends con siderably to give a breadth of humanity and liberality to the citizens, which is everywhere noticeable, but more especially in legislation. Indeed what we say is applicable to all these rising western States, which, although crude and wanting to an English eye in the finish and refinement of old countries, have a warm and pleasant tone of their own, which, with the energy and progress, atone for all that may be considered deficiencies. There is a health fulness, too, in the atmosphere which imparts a buoyancy of spirits to which denizens of large European cities are strangers. The weather in winter is cold, though the Wisconsin river is not frozen over four months in the year ; but though the cold is sharp, just as in Minnesota,it is dry, and generally still, not felt like that of a raw winter's day in England. Wisconsin, lying between the large lakes of Superior and Michigan, much as Mich igan does between the lake of that name and Huron, is less exposed than most of the States to extremes of temperature. Those who know the position of Upper Canada, which penetrates into the lakes, are aware how much milder it is than other parts ; so it is with Michigan, and so with Wisconsin. The ave rage temperature on the shore of Lake Michigan is 6i deg. Fahrenheit higher than on the Mississippi. Like Minnesota, it is one of the most salubrious of the States; and it was remarkable during its early settlement, when many districts are apt to be un healthy, for its freedom from disease. This is due principally to the dryness of the climate ; next, to the open, well-drained character of the country ; but even where marshes and forests abound, the State is not unhealthy, for the swamps are supplied from springs, and, as they are not exposed during summer to a burning heat, they do not send forth noxious and deleterious exhalations. Emigrants ought to know that some jealousy exists between the States seeking an increase of population, but in a far greater degree between the large cities. This is often shown in an amusing way. For instance, while Milwaukee is trying to get the State capital removed to that city, Chicago takes the opportunity to say that " capital" is what Milwaukee most needs, with the exception of " business." This c , mpletes our present ser:es of noticcs emigration, but we will again have to return to this subject on receiving the statistics now bein g pub lished by the U. S. Land Commissioner, and, what is still more wanted, the census returns which will be furnished during the ensuing summer. We would have even delayed our remarks until we had received these papers bad we not strongly felt the necessity of at once giving the information at hand, for this broad fact is true, that these State furnish the finest fields for emigration open, pecu- liarly suited for the settlement - of surplus British population, and we know that there are few dis interested persons in England, that is those not connected with emigration schemes, ready to tell the English people the plain truth ; while, on the contrary, there are thousands whose hatred to the Union makes them at all tmes ready to pervert it ; a fact, which considering the folly of America's attitude towards England, is by no means sur prising. —Anglo- American 7 irnes. was asked for information as to the legislation ne cessary to protect American interests in China and Japan. Mr. Howell offered a resolution which waslnid over, looking to the insertion in all bills hereafter reported granting lands in aid of railroads, of a pro vision securing the right of settlers on such grants, &c. The Funding Bill coming up in order, Mr. Sherman spoke in explanation and advocacy of it. Mr. Davis gave notice that he would move to re commit the bill, with instructions. After an Exe cutive Session the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Feb. 25—Bills were introduced by Mr. Stark weather to encourage the construction of first-class iron steamships, and pro vide for carrying the mails, and by Mr. Hoar for a system of national education. Mr. Jenckes, from the Retrenchment Committee, reported a bill establishing a Department of Justice, which was recommitted. On the motion of Mr. Sargent, the Ways and Means Committee were directed to inquire into the expediency of separate legis lation for taxing fruit distillations. On the motion of Mr. Cessna, the Election Committee were dis charged from consideration of the charges against the loyalty of Representative Hamill, of Maryland, they not being sustained. Mr. Kelley presented a petition in reference to the centennial anniversary of Independence, similar to that presented in the Senate. Mr. Butler reported a bill for the admis sion of Georgia, which was recommittedand printed, he giving notice that he would report it back on Tuesday. On the motion of Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, the cadetship of iuvestigation;was .directed to be ex tended so as to include inquiry into the conduct of army and navy officers in connection with appoint ments. The Indian Appropriation Bill was considered giving rise to a discussion on the Baker massacre and policy of Government towards Indians. Adjourned. Feb. 28.—A number of bills were introduced and referred, among them the following :—By Mr. Morrill, of Maine, to prevent undervaluation of imported merchandise ; Mr. Jenckes, to regulate admiralty jurisdiction and the civil service ; Mr. Reeves, to exempt farmers from special tax as brokers ; and by Mr. Starkweather to revive the shipbuilding interest. Mr. M'Cruyr's resolution for the exemption of pork packers and others from manufacturers' tax, came up in order, and was referred to the Ways and Means Committee, a clause directing the refunding of taxes already collected having been struck out. Mr. Palmer offered a resolution instructing the Banking Com mittee to report a law authorizing free banking on such an issue of 'United States notes as shall induce the lowest possible reduction of the rate of interest. The House refusing to second the pre vious question, the resolution laid over until next Monday. Mr. Spink, of Dakota, offered a resolu tion declaring for " such a tariff for revenue as will afford incidental protection for domestic manu factures," which was adopted by a vote of 103 yeas to 51 nays. The resolution is copied from the National Democratic Platform of 1868, and much amusement was created among the Republican members by the fact that the Democratic members generally voted against it. The resignations of Re presentatives Golladay of Kentucky, and Dewees of North Carolina, understood to be implicated in the sales of cadetships, were presented. The Indian Appropriation Bill was considered. Mr. Beck offered a joint resolution.. extending the time for withdrawal of the distilled spirits from bond to three years from the date of the entry ; and Mr. Hooper offered a substitute imposing an a lditional tax of one per cent. per gallon for each month following on the first year. Without disposing of the matter, the House adjourned, after making Mr. Cullom's Anti-Polygamy Bill the special order for March 22d. The details of the loss of the Golden City, Feb. 22, on the coast cf Lower California, have arrived. It appears she loft San Francisco, Feb. 18, with 400 passen gers, and a valuable cargo, including teas just arrived by the steamer from China. She struck on Point Lazaro, 15 miles from Santa Maria, the country being a barren waste. The passengers and crew were safely landed, but they suf fered the greatest distress, being 22 hours crossing the desert to Santa Maria Bay, some of them being lost on the road. The steamer Colorado, from Panama to San Fran cisco. then due, was intercepted, but she could not receive the passengers, except at Santa Maria. Scarcely anything was saved, and much indignation has been expressed, though many think unjustly, against Captain Comstock. Among other casualties reported are there : —On the 28th ult. a boiler exploded in the rolling mill of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, in Scranton, Pennsylvanie,which shattered a building and buried 20 or 30 men in the ruins. Six women were burnt to death on the 2d instant in the drying Ncorks at Nepouset, Massachusetts. The building was an old wooden structure, which appears to have been set on fire by the furnace, and, as there was no escape, the women fell victims. A railroad accident occurred in New Hampshire, March 4, injuring several persons seriously. The steamer Smidt arrived at New York on the 11th insi., passengers and crew all well, about whom much anxiety had been felt, as the vessel was forty-nine days out from Bremen. She reports that her engine was dis. abled, obliging the captain to make the passage south of Bermuda. Twelve days were required for repair, and afterwards he could only run the enginesat half speed. The Cunard steamer Samaria has caused apprehension for her safety.as she left Liverpool on the 26th ult. A report was spread, which reached New York by cable, that the City of Boston had arrived on Wednesday at Queenstown, and the news was hailed with rejoicing on both sides the Atlan tic. A. private telegram had been received to the same effect by a leading member of the Stock Exchange later in the day, which also proved untrue. The greatest indig nation was expressed in New York under the impression that the report was a cruel hoax, and the Associated Press offered a reward of $5OO for the detection of the perpe trator; but we are inclined to bolieve that it was dictated by a too hasty good nature. Questions have been asked in the House of Commons about the overloading of the City of Boston, which proves to be a malicious untruth. The City of Brooklyn passed the Samaria, although she was making signals, the captain influenced, we supposed, by the two eager desire of making quick passages, no consideration can excuse thus passing a vessel so cir cumstanced. thoub roes to Tennessee has sent a delegation of Washington to urge Congress to take measurneesg protection from the alleged oppression of the Two great and from outrages by the Ku-Klux bands. meetingseider the were bsst held mes nest of securing Nashville on protectionth e l t e h against the Statefor laws,the their Legislature and Ku-Klux, the oppressive action of the Feb. to These are are the words used at the meetings Convention, and the abolition of the free 7,-om,g,mvvoonssrcehools.d Rebel violence. We com pletely at the mercy of Rebel hate or mere wantonness drunken scoundrel that malicefromTen nessee does not present have absolutely no way to defend an our lives from any icture of the effects of its : it is the theatre, Congress with an encouragin may see fit to waylay us." . oslate a State into shows the difficulty of attempting legislation. The lawlessnernespsg,ti.poofg whichto l e o acquiescence with doctrines thethe majority of its inhabitants detest, however righteous principles upheld. Th a t St a t e , however, supplies an answer to much of what is written in English pa pers on the subject o f Northern op • pression of the South. No peop le could b e placed in a ea t er difficulty than the North after the suc cessr position nthoef greater a rms. To rule by mi l i tary force was not only an infringement of the constitution, but against the s • piri 't of the people ; to withdraw the troo ps and allow the majority to govern, was to hand over the newly-en franchised race, bound hand and foot, to the tender mercies of the very element which had maintained the desperate t ag a i n st the Union. To abus e th e N orth for the on ly means at its comm an d t o secure the ob jasedcroltipsgtgicnli ntended . for during the War is to ignore the diffi cultiesposition ; and the pres en t s t a t e o f Tennessee is an n to those who ascribe ma li ce an d tyranny even totheaoavie f extreme htre wing of the Republican party. General Butler, its leader, always asserts that the Reconstruction Acts stringently enforced are a necessity of the situation ; declaring that whenever the pressure is removed the result is the condition of things prevailing in Tennessee, or in Georgia; where loyalty to the Union is an offence, which may, at any moment, be punished with assassina tion. Even in North Carolina it was reported last Sun day that Governor Holden had telegraphed to Washing ton for aid to suppress a revolt in Allamance County. HUMOUR.—A trial in an English Court is thus described by a Chinaman :-" One man is quite silent, another talks all the time, and twelve wise men condemn the man who has not said a word. -Speaking of a mecent gale in the vicinity of White Pine, Nevada, one miner re marked-" Why, it's a reg'lar typhoid ;" whereupon a comrade patronizing ly remarked to the bystanders, "He's an ignorant cuss ; he means tycoon !"- In Chicago, the Rev. Dr. flatfivld,arguing, in his pulpit against the woman reform, declares "that as many inon suffer from the effects of a woman's tongue as women suffer from drunken bus bands."-A little four year old in Richmond, very fond of a certain dish, when asked by his mother if he would'nt like to see an angel with wings, and fly about like his little dead brother, replied, after a pause, " No ma ; I'd a heap rather be a hawk, and live on chicken."-A corre spondent believes that many of the girls remain single only because they cannot find money and a brown-stone house, with a man attached as a coupon. THE RussLEy HORSES. So much discussion has lately taken place with respect to Mr. Merry's horses, that the following remarks, fur nished by a correspondent of the Sporting Life, will be found interesting. The editor regards the writer as trustworthy :—" It has been reported that Sun shine, the heroine of last session, has gone amiss, fallen lame, turned roarer, and, in fact, done everything but break down altogether. These state ments, however, I can positively contradict, as in the course of the present week the mare has been doing steady canters of over a mile and a half, the first portion of which is all against the collar. After being pulled up, she is walked about for some little time, and both in her slow and fast paces appears to go perfectly sound. Her legs seem clean and. free from blemish, and after her exercise no symptoms of the Belladrum infirmity are apparent. She has evidently been in physic, and eased in her work, as she is ' jolly' in condition and above herself, but she goes well and freely, and discoveis neither distress nor leg-weariness at the conclusion of her work. No horse in England could have made greater progress than Sunlight, and when he strips on the Two Thousand day he will make his detractors tremble in their shoes in the same way as his predecessor Belladrum did last year, but, in all proba bility, with a different result, as, fit and well on the day, I confidently expect he will carry the popular yellow and black into the first place. He and Macgregor had a good gallop on Wednesday morning, following Idstone, and he bounded along in grand style. Macgregor reminds me very much of St. Mungo, being a short, compact colt, and a good mover, and though he does not strike one as being of the same quality as Sunshine and Sunlight, yet I have little doubt he will prove a useful horse to his owner, and in the event of any accident happening to his stable companions, a trustworthy second string to fall back upon even for an important race like the Derby. St. Mungo takes his exer cise regularly, and appears completely recovered froyo bta Ascot misfortune." ABANDONMENT OF LEWES SPRING RACES.—in consequence of the extravagant demands made by one of the tenants of the Lewes Racecourse for his portion of the ground, Mr. Verrall has reluctantly abandoned holding the ensuing meeting, and unless a satisfactory arrangement be shortly made, it is possible that the August meeting may also fall through. Mr. Verrall has, however secured the Croydon Course for the April Meeting, which will follow the regular Croydon fixture, instead of preceding it. A letter from Habana by Ex-Minister James Watson Webb, has been published in the New York Tri bune detailing outrages alleged to have been committed by tie Spanish officials in Cuba. The letter has created considerable excitement, and is being used saysf a corros pondent of the Pall Mall Gazette) to bring about a presstiu upon Congress on behalf of the Cubans. With respect to the Government prosecution or Sir Henry Edwards, Bart., the jurors are summoned to appear at York, on Monday morning next. The York shire Post has been informed that Mr. Baron Bramwell has been applied to by the Government to preside at the trial, but has pointedly expressed his reluctance to do so. The case, therefore, will most probably be heard before Mr. Baron Cleasby. The Edinburgh Courant announces that the jour ney from Edinburgh to London will soon be performed in six hours. When the Learn Valley Extension is finished " the east coast route will run in an almost straight direc tion from north to south, and a ' fiction,' until the present generation as wonderful as a story from the ' Arabian. Nights,' will become a ' fact,' as we shall be able to break fast here, and after having visited London, be back again before nightfall." The drying works at Nenouset, Massachusetts, were destroyed by fire on the ind of March, and eight women were burned to death. They were employed in the attic, assorting cotton and wool, which was kept at about 125 deg. Fahrenheit, for the purpose of drying the material, and their only mode of access or egress was by a ladder and trap door, and the fire having originated from the furnace on the first floor, their escape was rendered impossible. peculation is rife with regard to the screw steamer, Samaria, of the Cunard line, overdue from Liverpool to New York. It is suggested that she may have fallen in with the City of Roston, and is attempting to tow her eastward. A vessel, however, reports having exchanged signals with a Cunard steamer on the 4th instant, which was steering east, and it is found that the only Cunard steamer that could have been in that spot at the time was the Samaria ; so it is not improbable that, having received damage, she may soon turn up on this side of the Atlantic instead of the other. An odd strike has taken place at the Metropolitan Carriage Works. At a meeting of the directors at Bir mingham it was announced that a requisition ; signed by the whole body of workmen who were not strikers or smiths, had been presented to Mr. King, the foreman objected to by the latter class of workmen, asking him to resign his' appointment, in the interests of both em ployers and employed. The directors abstained from any interference in the matter, but Mr. King gave in his resignation, which was accepted. With a few ex ceptions, all the smiths and strikers resumed work yes terday. Mr. Charles Burt, the agent of the . English Erie shareholders, has made a long speech before the Albany Legislative Committee. The speech is published in the New York papers, which commend Mr. Burt's object, but say he cannot pucceeclF#ll2ll..t. a venr hPNYY tainAclitl2lll. THE AMERICAN PRESS. The New York Tribune says •—" Whenever a New Yorker begins to succumb to the ravages of age, he maunders about the palmy days of the old Park Theatre.' Whenever the poor old Herald feels particularly stiff iu the joints and weak in its faculties it reverts in a similar regretful manner to the early days of steam navigation and those fine times when there were no telegraphs and Tribunes to beat it in the collection of news. Last Saturday it congratulated its readers upon the arrival of two steamships, so that we may say with great truth that the commercial steam marine of Europe is rapidly spanning the Atlantic ;' and to this acute remark it adds that the Herald is still indebted for news to the same grand motive agency which sent the Sirius thundering to the Bat tery in former days,' while those journals which prefer to use 'the telegraph cable' are only slightly ahead.' This in a certain sense is very true. The Herald does trust to the same agencies which it found sufficient twenty years ago ; and in the life of such a very old, not to say decrepit, concern, a little matter of ten days' difference between elec tricity and steam is certainly slight; but the 7 ribune is still young and hearty enough to remember that people like their news fresh. If the Herald, how ever, is slightly behind' in point of time it makes up for tho delay by the quality of the article. Our special writer in Rome,' it assured us on Saturday, reverberates the thunder of the Vatican.' What awful being the Herald has secured for this most responsible duty the world will naturally be anxi ous to know. It is not one of the Cardinals, for in the same paragraph we are told that a vast difference is to be found between 'the Herald and the scarlet hat;' and the statement is certainly undeniable. Can it be the Pope himself ? It is not impossible. The Pope is poor; and though the Herald does not pay more than $5 a column, even $5 is a good deal of money to an Italian. Besides, who but the Pope can wield the thunder bolts of the Vatican ? Is it not evidently the He rald's intention to say that our special writer in Rome is ho who reverberates the thunder of the Vatican ? ' If put in this way, the phrase is still ungrammatical, to be sure, but it is more intelligible than it is the other way. On the other hand, a Gifted Being who writes editorials for the Herald made a statement yesterday, on authority of this Roman writer, which shakes our confidence in the otherwise plausible hypothesis. Ile tells us that the Papal anathema or anathema: of the Syl labus is reported.' Now, we don't believe the Pope would have s ►id that. He knows too much to make anathema' a Latin noun of the first declen sion ; and though he has undoubtedly read the Herald's editorials on progress, we can hardly be lieve that he is yet prepared to anathematize his own Syllabus. Upon the whole, we must leave the problem unsolved. It is the question of the day henceforth. Does the Pope write for the Herald ?" INTEMPERATE INTERVI ENVISG. (From the Citizen and Round Table.) That the intemperate practice of the best of yin tues turn them into particularly unpleasant vices, is universally conceded. The excessive zal of the opponents of drunkenness frequently renders them the advocates of tyrannical sThemes to force the public into an intemperate use of water. An undue admiration of the advantages of matrimony leads the citizens of Chicago into a lamentable intempe rance in the variety and number of their weddings. To speak of the the intemperate voting of our pro fessional repeai,ers, or the intemperance in every thing which characterises our Radical politicic.ns, would be to dwell upon themes of which we are already heartily tired. But the zeal of the " inter viewing " reporter daily furnishes us with fresh instances of the evils of intemperance in well-doing, an I perpetually provokes us to admiration of his hardihood and amazement at his infinite impudence. One of the finest instances of " interviewing " im pertinence which we have yet noticed was furnished by the reporter of a morning paper who visited the victim of a recent argument with pistols, while he was lying, as was supposed, at the point of death. To this unhappy man with the bullet in his head appeared the reporter armed with note-book and pencil. lie asked him the usual questions as to the shooting affray—who was his assassin, and what was the motive of the attack. He inquired as to his condition and the amount of pain caused by his wound ; and that, after demand ing to know the size of his family, he wound up his inquisition by asking him if he had made a will. The miserable man, unable to defend himself, was forced to answer the flood of questions thus poured upon him and would doubtless have given to the rapacious reporter an abstract of the provisions of his will, had not the interview suddenly terminated. What was the cause of the sudden check received by the reporter while in the full tide of success, we are not informed ; but we strongly suspect that when he touched upon the subject of the will some humane policeman kindly interfered and relieved the wounded sufferer from further trouble. From the bedside of the victim the reporter hastened to the cell of the supposed assassin, and plied him innumerable questions with the view of entrap ping him into some unintentional admission of his guilt. Here, however, he failed, for the prisoner wisely took refuge in a general denial of all know ledge of the affair, and the reporter retired without having succeeded in his purpose. Now, here was a case in which a man, presumed to be dying, and certainly suffering from acute physi cal pain, was tormented by the puerile and imper tinent questions of an eager reporter, who cared for nothing but to furnish a longer report than any of his rivals. Here was also a man under arrest, and charged with one of the gravest crimes, who was subjected to a cross-examination designed to draw from him admissions which would have been used against him at his trial. In the former ease the reporter was merely impertinent and unfeeling; in the latter he was interfering with the course of justice in a way that reflects great discredit upon the police captain who permitted his prisoner to be subjected to such an outrage. In both cases the zeal of the reporter, though a quality to be com mended in the abstract, was carried to a vicious excess. Delicacy is not to be looked for in a re porter, and persistent inquisitiveness is a part of his duty. There must, however, be a limit some where to the lawfulness of reportorial questions, and we submit that to ask dying men about their wills, and to entrap prisoners into self-implicating admis sions, are not among the proper duties of even the most zealous and enterprising of "interviewing" reporters. CONGRESS. SENATE, Feb. 25.—Mr. Howard from the Com mittee on the Pacific Railroads, reported a bill legalizing the arrangements of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads in regard to their junc tion. Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to punish prize fighting, the U. S. Courts to take cognizance of the offence. Mr. Howard introduced a bill to divide the State of Texas into three parts ; the portion east of San Antonio and Trinity Rivers to consti tute the Territory . of Jefferson, and that west of the Colorado to be the Territory of Matagorda ; the central division being the State of Texas. He said the assent of Texas to this partition would be required before her admission. The bill was referred to the Committee on Territories. The credentials of General Ames as Senator-elect from Mississippi were presented, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. The resolution referring the credentals of Senator-elect Revels was considered and defeated, o n ly th e D emocra ti c S en ators voting for it. Mr. Revels was then sworn in as Senator, a motion to that effect having been carried by a party vote of 48 t o 8 Th e S ena te adjourned u:iiil Fib. 28—The Vice-President presented resolutions of the Rhode Island Legis'ature ratifying the Fourteenth, and of the Virginia Legis'ature ratify ing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth, Amendments. Mr. Johnson presented resolutions of the Virginia Legislature, asking a reduction of the tax on to bacco. Bills were introduced by Mr. Edmunds amendatory of the Census Act, and Mr. Sumner to enforce the provisions of the Fifteenth Amendment. On the motion of Mr. Stewart, the Secretary of State, MONETARY REPORTS.-SATURDAY. Very little business has been transacted in the Stock :Exchange to-day, and the movements in prices have been unimportant. Consols have been firm, but quiet, at 923, 93 for money, and 93, 93 for the April account. Reduced a•nd New Three per Cents:, on, 911 ex div. Exchequer Bills, March, par, 55. prem. ; India Five per Cents., 1121, 1131 ; and Indian Bonds, 20s. 255. prem. There has been only a moderate demand for foreign bonds, and very few changes have taken place in prices. Brazilian (1868) have risen 1; Egytian (1864) and Swedish (186 S) 1 1 1 ; whilst Chili= scrip has been 1 per cent. better. On the other hand Peruvian (1865) have fallen 1, Spanish 2 1 , and Venezuela 1. For American securities the market has ruled heal' , and the quotations have given way. The Five-Twenties (1882) bonds have receded *, Atlantic and Consolidated Mortgage borids 1, and Erie shares English Railway Stocks have been very quiet, and Prices have been without change of. irz,ortance. Most stocks have maintained previous quotations, but Mancheste r, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire have fallen 1, and MetroPoli° tan, India Railway Stocks have been quiet, and Great Indian Peninsular have receded 1. For Canadian shares the market hai been quiet, and Great Western have risen k• In foreign shares very few transactions have been recorded; and Great Luxembourg, and South Austrian, and Lora bardo-Venetian, have receded Mining shares have been quiet, and for bank shares there has been but little inquiry. More firmness has been noticed in the market for tele' graph shares. British-Australian have risen' I, "' a British-Indian Submarine and French Cables *. Telegraph Construction shares have been steady, and better. Silver's Indiarubber, and Hooper's TelegraPh Works have been unaltered. The Tavarone Mining Company is quoted at n prem. There has been a continuance of ease in the money mar:cet. The supply of capital has been rather large, an d the demand for accommodation has been limited. Three months' paper has been taken at 24 to 3 per cent. In addition to the £352,000 in Australian gold due per the Massitia about the 26th instant, the Cambodia is bringing £ll,OOO ; Alexander Duthie, £30,500 ; City of Vienna, £18,500; Essex, £10,000; and the Janet Courts £B,OOO. The Delta has taken out £117,505 in specie for the east. The report of the directors of the Home and Colonial Marine Insurance Company (limited), to be presented on the 30th inst., shews that the nett amount of premium for 1869, after. deducting returns and re-insurances is £115,756, and the total paid for losses and claims on this account is £33,880. The amount standing at the credit of 1868 account, after deducting expenses, is £34,68 3 . Al l claims on account of the fire and life departments of the company have been extingui shed. The directors recommend the declaration of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum for the six months ending December 31st. The question of remuneration will b..) submitted to the meet" krig. A prospectus has appeared of the Colorado Terrible Lode Mining Company wits a capital of £125,000 in a" shares to purchase a mining l roperty in Colorado. The prospectus has appeared of the Montreal Fir e Insurance Corporation Guaranteed, with a capital of £lOO,OOO. The company's registered office being in' Manchester. A prospectus has appeared of the London and Midland Fire Office, with a capital of £500,000, in £lO shares. The following is from the Levant Herald of the 9th instant : ---------- - The heaviness of last week in general debt has been f° l ; lowed by a strong reaction u p war d s a nd afte r some inconsiderable fluctuations, this AA which closed on Tuesday last at 490, closed this afternoon at , 51-32)40, after having for a while touched 52. The telegraph reports a correspondi n g' improvement in the Western markets. important rise is however, i aid to be pined bY an arrangement which deprives t of all value ex as la an inde:c either of the Government's credit or of the local monetary situation. The rumour—which we have been able at leas' to trace to a good source—is, that in view of the forth coming issue of the Roumelian railway loan, the Minister of Finance has arranged with a syndicate of Galata final'," ciers to locally sustain the Five per Cents, while Mr. Hir s c h and his co-interesses operate with a similar view in London and Paris, and the sum is even definitely mentioned which is to be paid to the Treasury for this factitious inflation of the market. Of course we do not positively endorse the report, but without risk of contradiction we may. at least affirm that it offers the only explanation winch meets the case, since money is neither more abundant, nor is the credit of Malieh at all better, than it has been at any time within the past three months, during which General Debt has more than ones touched 471. At the same time, it is stated that the unissued half of the £12,000,000 loan has been privately sold " firm " to Mr. Pinard, the director of the Comptoir d'Escompte—not to the Comptoir i tself —and some Galata bankers at 52. Mr. G. Zarifi is mentioned as having taken one sixth of the remaining whole thus disposed of. There will be no formal issue Will to the public of the amount now taken, but it gradually leave the portfolios of its buyers a s the market suits. The rise which has taken place in the bonds already out is, perhaps, thus also explained, and heaviness at par last week having now improved t? 2 a p even m payment. cent. Treasury preen., bo n a d e s c , o rtdoeion,g are t oTThis o the r getnheera conditions b mu eo ny o t f easily . discountable at 8 m re ,p a a ct n e i d es, fa t v h o o ur se ab o l f y t o h n: t a h n e cy sh m ar G es ov o e f m th m e e l n o t ca s l ec fi ur n iße r c s ia c il na c st o . S o o t c to id ma td na G6 a n t er i a p le re b m ei . ng in demand at 3.,f, prem., and Credit MARKETS - SATURDAY. fi nd LONDON TRADE at 465. 0. ; 465. 6d. month ; 455. 6d. June ; REPORT, SATURDAY.—Y C tallow on the spot, is quoted months. Oils dull. Saltpetre firm. MARKET, SATURDAY. A f air 495. 6d. last three or been transacted in colonial produce f ~ has business Strong refinery sugars have been in request, a,„,Tiu a Saturday. again tended upwards. Pieces rather dearer,. Tel prices hayed hands to a moderate extent at unaltered prices l'" has change ou. Rice dull and depressed. Coffee has been dull, common cong native and plantation sorts.are unaltered in value. but METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SATII: LONDON , y . —The supplies of both hay and clover on sale to-dM were 'COLONIAL moderate, but the trade ruled dull, 811 "' the quotations had a downward tendency. Prime me adow hay, 755. to 82s. 6d . ; inferior ditto, 60s. to 70s ' Bowen, 50s. to 655. ; pri me clover, 110 s. to 120 s. ; .---- 4„fprior • ditto, 80s. to 055.. prime second-cut clover, 100 s. to 1100., inferior ditto, 80s. to 00s. ; and straw, 265. to 30s. per load. LONDON WOOL MARKET, SATURDAY.—There is no feature _ to notice in the Engli s h W ool Market. Trade has continued v 0.7 dull, and only choi ce l ustres have maintained late rates. C 0 10., nial wool has chan ge d h ands to a fair extent on former terms . POTATO MARKET, S ATURDAY.—There have modera t e sup: plies on sale in th e metropolitan markets, which have bee n lU steady request at l a t e rates. 'et. LIV ERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—Market clul be Sales, 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 on speculation. Import of I, day, 14,000 bal es * HAYRE COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—Market quiet. Nei? Orleatts,l37.so ; Oonarawuttee, 117.50. AMSTERDAM • SATURDAY —Banca tin, 71k, firm. . a 4. TIER WEATITEU IX tins ATLANTIC:Ie—A 'emelt called the lota, 551 tons, Captain lireachen, with a 001 V (2.f nitrate of soda, from Iquiqu® has arrived in Cor Harbour, after a protracted voyageof 178 days, or near six months. The vessel experienced exceptionally b weather, was knocked about considerably, and her crew sustained many hardships through the inevitable coin ' Quences of a long passage—shortness of provisions. 1 21 _,e. captain states that he passed several veesehs recently th", had rim short of provisions, owing to the length Qa tune they were overdue. A few days ago he !peke a French barque 75 days out from New Orleans. This veg eel was completely run out of stores, and require 4 ante from the lota. The latter could not respond to t o call, being much in the same condition, but an Engu"'" aauctue, which soon after hove in sight, supplied the Star r ing trey, with food. An idea may be gleaned from the?! Acta of the fearful weather that mnat have prevailed 1 * tie Atlantic during the past few monAs.—Cork liras The Spitalfields murderer, or the person who i° supposed to be the Spitalfields murderer, is still at large.. 'OUBA.—The court-martial for the trial of Zanlar a t the-murderer of Greenwaldth, has commenced in Hann a ' Further news from the insurrectionary districts confisil the report of General Jordan's resignation of thchief command of the rebel forces. From Habana, Marcu r r' it is said that more than 200 insurgents have volunta ril y surrendered to the Government authorities. The ofEesra of the Volunteer Legion have offered their services on behalf of the Spanish cause. BIRTHS. EDGELL —On the 15th i n st., . the wife of Colonel Edge'', of 3 son. PENDELL —On the 1811 inst., at the Old Palace, Croydon, Mrs. James MIMI, of a son. MARRIAGES. HoLLici—TitoxGEli —On the 17th hist , at the Catholic Apostolic Church, Plymouth, Ebenezer flo llick, of 64, Oakley-square, London, N.W., to Jane, only daughter of Thos. Thonger, South Villas, Green Bank, Plymouth. ROADS - LINTON On the 17th inst., at Orcheston St. George, in Wiltshire, Charles loads, Esq., of The Marvels, Mel dreth, Cambe., to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Linton, Esq., of Orcheston. DEATHS'. CMITIIEW —On tho 18th inst., at 15a, Keasington Palace gardens, Peter Oarthew, 11-1. ROGERS —On the 18th inst., at 16, Hanover-square, Arnold Rogers, Esq., aged 72. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUB Sim Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Presto* of the Sayoy, is the °owner of Middlesex. Monday, Macola 21, 1670. J . 1 1 =~' ...._......... ..- -••••••••.. K' n anOD el This rrize Eve ry Sold he A 2 All OV A h d 0 able w P a me 1~~ Th e , Th e A 3^ th I \ll. I , no origin s•ecap 22 ,0(c exitet , oonl C chiti dze., calle Cher CheT thi s the , Eta I ;dal