The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS-THIS ➢IORNING. THE PARLIAMENTARY PUZZLE. Parliament, observes the Times, is jealous of its own proper powers, and with perfect reason. But Parliament, nevertheless, has its work to get through, and how under the present system, is the work to be accomplished ? Lord Grey described this work as " excessive," but it is nevertheless unavoidable; in fact, even the work actually taken in hand does not represent all that is required to be done. If Parliament can only i pass one or, at the ut most, two considerable measures n a session, what is to become of the rest ? Mr. Gladstone's remarks upon the University Tests Bill at the beginning of the year ex actly illustrated the state of affairs. He said it might be passed if the two contending parties would ascertain their own minds, and come to an agreement upon the subject—in other words, if it could be arranged by previous concert that there should be no opposition. Just so, Mr. Henley said the Merchant Shipping Code Act might become law if the representatives of conflicting in terests would fight their battle out beforehand, and so avert the necessity of debate. But do not all these ob servations point in the direction of Lord Grey's remarks, and shew that there should be some partition of authority as well as division of labour if the whole work of Parlia ment is to be done ? It is unreasonable to expect that a measure like this Shipping Code Act should be duly and sufficiently considered by the whole House unlessit be raised to the level of the Irish Land Bill, and made the work of a session. On the other hand, a Shipping Code Act is urgently called for, as everybody admits, and the country can ill afford to have it once more postponed. The difficulty is one which ought to be boldly confronted and practically solved. CHARLES DICKENS IN THE ABBEY. Charles Dickens (says the Telegraph) was yesterday morning buried in "Westmidster Abbey, in accordance with the feeling that so great an Englishman could not be spared from the company of worthies resting there ; but the ceremony was performed at an early hour, after the manner indfcated by his unassuming spirit, with privacy and the utmost simplicity. The place where he lies well becomes him ; H„andel, Sheridan, and the poet Gray, Cumberland, acid Garrick, sleep near at hand ; Shakespeare's monument looks down upon the spot; while the master of our present-day fiction rests not far away from " Rare Ben Johnson." These be "great company ;" and if any one regrets that the last comer was added to the goodly fellowship of intellect and art so quietly, it is, Heaven knows, a poor and vain tribute, after all, to make a pageant out of the heart's loss, and seek to express grief and love by the sombre gewgaws of the undertaker's shop. We have given Dickens a grave where the best and greatest among our dead are laid, because the best and greatest do generally receive such homage ; and it is, moreover, be coming and useful to have enriched the Santa Croce of England with " all that can die " of a writer who, with so much humour, so wide a knowledge of humanity, and so sweet an eloquence, never penned an ignoble or impure lino. This was done no less for our sake than for his, because, as he made his own greatness, so, being dead, he could have taken care of it by his own tombstone,. for— we repeat. it—the place where his body rested could want no previons history and no associations; it must have become, by reason of that single grave, such as Stratford upon-Avon is—a burial-place consecrated for ever, and to all the world, by a single presence and a singleinscrip tion. It is better, nevertheless to have him resting among his peers, the first and greatest children of Britain; and better still to have laid him there in the simplicity and modesty which he preferred and desired. The Daily News says that Charles Dickens lies in West minster Abbey, along with the great chiefs and peers of English literature. It is his proper place. His surviving relatives have known how to reconcile reverential regard to the simplicity and humility, of mind which expressed itsel in his funeral instructions, with a recognition of the nation's title to pay him the highest posthumous honour in its power. He belonged to himself and to his family, but he belonged also to the English people, of whose life in the nineteenth century he was the truest of all interpreters. It is creditable to the English people hard and materialistic as they sometimes reproach themselves with being, that their favourite should have been one whose pages are not more remarkable for their unique genius than for the humble and reverent faith, the olieerful and genial hope, and the - large and penetrating charity which they overywhere display. An age and a people which have reverenced and loved- Dickens have a right to respect themselves. But we will not be betrayed into delivering, over his scarcely closed grave, one of those funeral orations which he abhorred. His true eulogy lies in the books which have delighted all readers, and purified and softened the moral intellectual atmosphere which we breathe every day. He is really the author of far more than he wrote ; and his works at once follow him, and remain behind him to continue their beneficent influences. Vale, vale / THE LORDS AND THE LAND BILL. The Times observes that a debate which is to end in the passing of a bill without a division is necessarily pursued at a great disadvantage, and the Lords were certainly not perfectly successful last night in overcoming this initial difficulty. Lord Oranmore, dogged as he may be in resolution, can scarcely persist in forcing a division upon the Land Bill against the feeling of the House and the counsel of the leaders of the Opposition, and if he did prove himself sufficiently deter mined to divide, he would hardly find half a score to vote with him. The opposition to the bill may, therefore, be be treated as non - existent. The Duke of Richmond avowed his intention of supporting the measure, and though he found many hard things to say of it as un necessary, and even unjust in some of its main provisions, the Amendments of which he gave notice were trifling in character and touched none of its essential elements; and there can be no doubt that the Duke accurately reflects the opinions of the great party of the House of whom he is the leader. They with him do not like the bill, and they do not scruple—so little is their policy—to show their dislike of it while they , are ready to accept it. It would have been wiser to have made a generous show of Lord before swallowing the unwelcome morsel. Lord Salisbury, who was the only other speaker last night from the front Opposition bench, did, indeed, praise the principles of the bill, and con fined himself to a criticism of the details of the means proposed to make them operative. With an opposition In front of • him which was no Opposition, it is not surprising that Lord Granville should have put off all show of fighting. The fact that Lord Salisbvry confined his attack to the figures of the scale, following,. as it did,. the Duke of Richmond's practical acquiescence in the prmciple of the measure, is sufficient to show that the bill will soon be added to the Statute-book, with few alterations, and those of slight moment, in its present provisions. THE IRISH LAND BILL. The gtandard says that the Duke of Richmond ad mitted the bill had been received with very extensiv acquiescence, and had been much improved in its passage through the other house; he felt that it would be unwise and dangerous for their lordships to reject it, and he should. therefore, support the second reading. Having in these word s ! satish,ed all present as to the practical issue of the debate, the duke pro ceeded to explain the amendments he intended to propose in committee. The real value of the present discussion is in the light it throws on such amendments, and on the arguments and influence that will be brought to bear in their favour; for it has long been known that the Lords were not likrly to reject the bill. The duke promised that he would not attempt by a side wind to defeat the bill, or to get rid of any of its main provisions ; and this promise obliges him to waive several of the strongest objections he had made to its character and purport. The question of interest to the House and to the country was what the Conservative majority meant to do, and this we now know. There is nothing in the proposed amendments that is inconsistent with the strictest adherence to the principles of the bill ; nothing that Mr , Gladstone can fairly object to, nothing that he ought not re Wtly to con cede to the authority of the Peers, and in gratitude for the forbearance of the landed interest. How he may act we "cannot pretend to guess ; this we know, that no candid Liberal will hesitate to say that if the House of Lords pass the amendments of which the Duke of Richmond has given notice, they ought to be-- and, the influence of the Premier apart, would be—accepted, if not welcomed, by the House of Commons. THE SPANISH DILEMMA. The Post thinks it is strange that so proud and sensitive a people as the Spaniards should have tolerated a policy which has condemned them to rebuffs which one would have imagined to have been beyond endurance galling to the national vanity. With regard to the statement made by Marshal Prim in the Cortes, on the 11th, to the effect that the aim the Spanish Government had in view in its relations with Portugal was the establishment of a Monarchical confederation of the two nations such as would leave intact their respective autonomy, such an announcement cannot but be regarded as a return in a modified shape to the Iberian idea, which, however popular in one portion of the Peninsula, is certainly not so in the other. There is no doubt that the Iberian union would be pleasing to many in Spain, but it is most distasteful to all classes in Portugal, and, in whatever form it might be presented to the Portuguese, it would without fail be rejected by them, To suggest such a scheme at the present moment is, to say. the least of it, indo . creet. must first inaugurate new era in her own political history by establishing 6 Constitutional Monarchy based on sound lAberal prim 'Aisles before her Ministers can afford to talk of future eon. federations, more especially when the country with whont the alliance is sought is known to to AYerse from the ar rangement, The Federal Council has authorised the Swiss Minister at Berlin to sign a Convention with Count Bis marck, whereby the North German Confederation ad here to the Convention of the 15th October, 1859, relative to the St. Gothard Railway, and grants a subvention of , 10,000,000 francs. - - ARTICLE 75.—The Siecle announces that the French Ministry have at last resolved upon attacking the famous Article 75 of the Constitution of the Year VIII., which guarantees the immunity of Government agents from the consequences of any arbitrary acts which they ma y eqmmit in obedience to the orders of their s-.4.periors. Under the Article 75 they cannot be prosecuted for false imprisonment, for damages, for injuries received in business, or for any of the petty persecutio ns w hi c h the army of prefects and agents inflict upon those unlucky wights, who have fallen under the displeasure of the Imperial Government. The agents of public authoiity, so runs the new law, may be proceeded against direct, w ith ou t previous authorisation , when they have infringed individual liberty, the sanctity of the they place, or the exercise of electoral rights. The Si*le is highly jna‘rnant at the partial nature of this concession. The law wich delivers Frenchmen over, bound hand andfoot, at the pleasure of officials, should have been exterminated from the Statute Book. LAW AND POLICE. THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT.-All attempts at an ami cable settlement having long proved futile, the ap plication was renewed to Vice-Chancellor Stuart on behalf of the Lessees of the Vaudeville Theatre, Strand, to stay an action of ejectment which had been commenced against them by the Lessor, on the ground of violation of contract. The Vice-Chancellor declined to accede to the ap plication, directing it to stand over until the motion of eject ment bad been heard, ordering also that in the meantime the Lessor should not interfere with the management of the theatre, and that the defendants should adhere to the original prices of admission. CHANCERY APPEALS.—The appeal list in the Court of Chancery is in a very backward state, and this condition of things is in a great measure attributable to the delicate health of Lord Justice Giffard. During the present term his lordship has been prevented on several occasions from sitting ; and yesterday, although the appeal list had been duly arranged, he was unable to attend, the conse quence being that the whole of the appeals remained un decided. Those delays materially interfere with the appellate business of the country, and the question natu rally suggests itself whether such exigencies cannot be provided against by a judge who, uniting this with his other duties, could act as a substitute in the absence of the Lord Justice. CURIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A SHIPOWNER.-Mr. Wil liam Williams and Mr. J. Williams, a Liverpool ship owner and his son, has been charged before the stipen diary with converting to their own use money which had been entrusted to them to pay an outfitter for clothing supplied to sailors. After hearing evidence, the magis trate said the case was one which he believed should not have been brought into that cout, but he declined to give costs as applied for by the counsel for the defen dants. CHARGE OF LIBEL.—The Bradford magistrates have had before them the case in which Mr. H. W. Ripley Prosecuted Mr. C. B. Murgatroyd for publishing a libellous placard respecting him. An education meeting had been called at Bradford, and Mr. Ripley had issued a notice calling upon the friends of religious instruction to attend it. Thereupon Mr. Murgatroyd issued a placard, the effect of which was that Mr. Ripley had no right to appeal in the cause of religion, beause he had corrupted his fellow-townsmen on the occasion of his election. Mr. Ripley offered a reward for the discovery of the author of this disgraceful libel, and Mr. Murgatroyd came forward and avowed it. The defendant, though he refused at first to apologise, at last consented to do so, and the matter ended. THE BOVILL PATENT CASE.—The Court of Common Pleas delivered judgment in the great Bovine patent case, argued at length last term. The plaintiffs are the execu tors of the late Mr. Bovill, a brother of the Lord Chief Justice, who was the patentee of an improvement in the grinding of wheat and other grain ; and the defendant is a miller in Westminster, who is said to have infringed the patent. The case has been before all the superior courts in some form or other, and conflicting decisions have been given. The opinion of this court was now asked, on a demurrer, as to the construction of the specification ; and it was urged in argument that the publication of the original English patent in Scotland vitiated the Scottish patent afterwards granted; while the subsequent prolonga tion for the United Kingdom must be held to be bad, through the voiding of such Scottish patent. The court gave judgment for the plaintiff on all the points raised on the demurrer, thus sustaining the patent to that extent. BANKRUPTCY OF SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL, M.P.—Mr. Dejex, Q.C., appeared for the bankrupt on an appeal against the decision of Mr. Registrar Keen, declining to register a resolution duly passed by a statutable majority of the creditors. At the fourth meeting a proposition was made to assent to the bankrupt passing, on payment of an agreed composition, the creditors to retain the power of applying to the Court should the debtor not carry out the terms assented to. Before the resolution had been submitted to the registrar the signatures of a statutable majority of creditors —representing in the whole £84,080 is. Id.—had been affixed, but the registrar, never theless, refused to register the resolution. The judge said the Act was clear upon the point, it provided that a reso lution reduced into writing, and signed by, or on behalf of, a statutable majority of creditors, prior to the regis tration, was all that was required. The registration ought not to have been refused, and must now be directed. THE GODRICH DIVORCE CASE AGAIN.—This case, which has been rendered notorious by the prosecution of several of the witnesses for perjury, is again to occupy the attention of the Judge Ordinary. It will be remem bered that the husband petitioned for a divorce on the ground of the adultery of his wife, and the jury gave a verdict in his favour. Mrs.- Godrich seeks for a divorce on similar grounds, and Dr. Swabey, who is for the husband, now asked that the case might not be put in the list. He apprehended the matter must come before his lordship in the shape of an applica tion on the part of Mrs. Godrich for a new trial, as the verdict that she had been guilty if adultery was still standing against her, and she would have to dispose of that first.—Lord Penzance said it must come before him in the shape of a motion for a new trial, as the wife must get rid of the adultery charged against her before she could go on with her own suit. Under the circumstances he would see that the wife's suit was not put on the paper until the motion was disposed of. THE DISGRACEFUL PROCEEDINGS AT ASHTON.—The disgraceful Church disturbances at Ashton-in-Mackerfield )3till continue. On Sunday . they commenced with the throwing of an egg at the vicar of St. Thomas's. Then followed the assemblage of a disorderly mob round the house of Mr. Oldham, and a careful watch on the part of the police. Presently the mob directed their attention to Holy Trinity Church, North Ashton, and the police fol lowed them, the mob having a long start. Service was pro ceeding at Holy Trinity, and the roughs commenced their attack, the congregation barricading the door with forms. Stones were sent through the church windows, and a panic took place inside, when the rector managed to de spatch the congregation home by a side door, a few at a time. The mob having found this out, became furious, and one of the choristers had his surplice torn from his back, the pieoes being attached to sticks served as standards, and were waved aloft in triumph. Not until night was order restored. _ A VICAR FINED FOR AN ASSATILT.—At the Hyde Police-court, the Rev. W. H. Jones, M.A., vicar of Mot tram, was charged with an assault on a man named Lons dale. The defendant did not appear. Complainant and some other men were paving the highway in front of the defendant's house and schools, at Mottram, when the defendant came out of his house in an excited state and said that the work was done wrong, which the latter denied ; whereupon Mr. Jones said he would pull it to pieces, and commenced to do so. Complainant went to prevent him, and was shoved away by the rev. gentle man, who said, in a very excited manner, " You are a dirty stinking . wastril, and a dirty scoundrel for destroying my property in that manner. If you put any more work in I shall pull it to pieces after you have gone away at night." It seemed that the rev. gentleman had further " rolled " against complainant in le road, and that the pavement was during the night pulled to pieces as threatened. The defendant was fined 40s. and costs, or one month's imprisonment. THE PERILS OF GIRLS IN LONDON,—John Josiah Pye, refreshment-house keeper, No. 25, Poland-street ; Sarah Pye, his wife ; Elizabeth Wadley, same address ' • Edwin Parker, No. 21, Warwick-street, tailor; and William Henry Irvine Sheridan, surgeon, Carnaby-street, Regent. street, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at Marlborough street, with assaulting Eliza Pereh (18 years of age), and also with conspiring together to render her uncon scious and incapable of resistance, with intent to enable the prisoner Sheridan to commit a criminal assault upon her. Mr. Froggatt said he felt it right to state that the offence charged took place at 25, Poland-street, which was imme diately opposite the shop kept by a medical person named. Wells, recently co ivieted of attempting to procure abor tion ; that Elizabeth Wadley lived with Wells for some time as his wife, that she afterwards married a person named Wadley, who kept a chemist's shop in Carnaby street, to whom Sheridan was assistant. He also wished to state that the prosecution was instituted by a gentle man named Roth, residing in Great Marlborough - street, who, hearing the screams of the young woman, gave her such assiStancc as enabled her to make her escape. Eliza Pereh, a good-looking girl, said she had come from Hastings with a view to getting a situation. On arrival at Charing Cross she asked a policeman where she would be likely to get a respectable lodging, and while she was talking to the constable, a man said he would take her to a house, and he accordingly took her to 25, Poland-street, a coffee-shop. Here she was shewn into a room, and the accused brought a pillow, which appeared to be sprinkled with something, and made her fault, She was told to go to bed, but she refused while the men were in the room, and on one of the prisoners attempting to undress her she made a strong effort to get free. She succeeded, and ruFlhing down stairs gained the street. She heard Mrs. Pye, when outside her room, say to Sheridan, " When she is in hed you can go into the room." Mr. Tyrwhitt considered that the evidence justified him in granting a remand. He should" rei. j uire two bails in £5O for all the prisoners, and £lO for Parker. `(food bail being offered for the two Pyes, it was accepted. SEIZURE pY THE ADMIRALTY.—THE COTJNTESS OF DER WENTWATER.—The sale of the stock seized for rent by the Lords of the Admiralty, upon the premises of Mr. VT. Brewis, of Newlands West Farm, Newcastle, took place on Saturday, Mr. Stainthorpe officiating as auctioneer. It appears that Mr. Brewis had attended at Haydon Bridge on the rent day, and offered to pay the rent to Mr. C. G. Grey, the receiver for the Admiralty, on condition that he would protect him from an aggression the " Countess of Derwentwater " might make upon his stock. Mr. Grey would pot give Brewis a guarantee to that effect so the latter deposited the rent in a bank till the indemnity was forthcoming. On Monday week the bailiffs, acting under instructions from Mr. Grey, seized the stock inlieu of £240, a year's rent, and on Siturd,zy the animals came under the hammer of Mr, Stainthorpe. There was a great number of buyers present. Mr. Brewis and his - bind Logght all, with the exception of two lots ; and when the auctioneer asked for the money at the conclusion of the sale, Mr. Brewis said he would give him a bond till Monday, but the auctioneer refused to take anything but cash, and the animals were again disposed of to other buyers. While the sale was proceed ing the " Countess " arrived at the farm in her carriage. She entered the farniYarcl during the time the animals bought by Mr. Brewis were being resold, and informed the auctioneer's clerk that she expeCted the proceeds of the sale. The bystanders seemed to be amused at the request. Superintendent Stephenson, of Hexham, and eleven men were present, but everything passed off very orderly. Mr. Boris issued three placards, explaining the circumstances under which the seizure was made. In one of them he says "I went and offered Mr. Grey my rent, but I felt it my duty to ask him for an indemnity for my money, as the Countess of Derwentwater had sold my landlord, the Lord High Admiral, off the South New lands Farm since the bet rent day in'November, 1869." In another placard Mr. Brewis states, " That all parties on the day of sale who shall attempt to tresspass on my premises will be made accountable to law, and punished accoAingly."—Northern Express. ' ' THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EN ENING, JUNE THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. A meteorological correspondent at Chislehurst, in Kent reports a deficiency of rain-fall to the extent of nearly four inches since the beginning of the year, the wettest month being March. Both April and May had less than a third of their accustomed share. The deficiency amounts to 376 tons per acre. What would our farmers give just now for liquid sewage, or for such effluent water as the A B C people are discharging into the sea at Hastings ? " Native guano "is selling at 25 per ton ; but are we not throwing away our British rain-fall ? We drain the land for agricultural purposes, and let the water run away quickly into ditches, streams, and rivers, on its way to the sea. We collect great masses Of water into reservoirs, and having filtered it we send the precious liquid into the towns. From the towns it emerges black and stinking, and we are only too glad to get rid of it. So we fling away our treasure and presently we want it, so that we are even praying for it to come back to us. But the clouds float overheard in mocking dryness, tinged with a faint copper hue, as if to tell us that they are clouds without water. Now and then a few drops descend, in the proportion of about a dozen to the square yard, the sprinkle lasting for the space of five minutes or so, just making us wonder that there should be any rain at all, seeing that there was so little. We have heard of shipwrecked sailors in an open boat, long parched with thirst, who bowed their heads and would have wept, when they saw a cloud pass over their zenith, and afterwards pour its cooling flood into the wasteful ocean miles beyond their reach. Are we not doing this for ourselves at the present time ? We are irrigating the sea if such a thing be possible. We are casting our bread,not merely upon the waters, but into them ; and we shall have to wait until the Atlantic clouds bear back to us what we have first thrown away. When we conjure a dry manure out of town sewage we think ourselves clever. And so we are—that is to say, stupidly clever, in an agricultural sense, though we mean no reflection on those who accom plish this feat. All we want is the supplement—the water as well as the manure, for plants must drink as well as eat. Within the last fortnight the dry weather has induced a state of fever in Mark-lane. Wheat has risen rapidly in price, a result chiefly ascribed to French opera tions. Our hay prospect is about as bad as it can be. Beef and mutton will continue dear. The best news is that the heavens have begun to weep in some' parts of Europe—abundantly in Italy, hopefully in France, and partially in England. May we dare to hope for a favour able change—a speedy answer to the supplications of Sunday last !—Standard. The provincial papers almost without exception give favourable accounts of harvest prospects in Ireland. THE GREAT FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE. The late conflagration at Constantinople first broke out in the district of Pero, called Aghajanrisy, close to the Armenian Churcli. At the time nearly all the people of that district were absent at a fête, and returned en masse from their rejoicings to find their homes destroyed, and all they possessed consumed. From the Armenian quarter the flames spread with tremendous rapidity, driving out the British residents, who were obliged to fly and leave their valuables behind. Soon the fire ap proa,ched the British Embassy, until at length only half a dozen wooden houses intervened. The only chance of saving the Embassy appeared to be to pull down these wooden houses, but the Turks looked on with characteristic supineness, and so the magnificent building was lost. A correspondent of the Standard, writing on June 6th, gives some description of the scene : —" This morning at an early hour I walked round by the British Embassy, thence turned to the right through streets wholly burnt down into the Grand Rue de Pera, coming out opposite the police-barrack, contiguous to the Galata Serai' which does not appear to have suffered at all. To the right and left of the Grande Rue leading to Taxim, houses in large blocks are destroyed on both sides of the road. Here and there some wonderful instances of good fortune stand out from amidst the general destruction ; sometimes one, or at most two houses, apparently untouched, while all the houses on the opposite side of the street and on either side of the uninjured ones are burnt to the ground. The ruins were smoking and oppressively hot ; in many places the fire was still apparently not burnt out (something more than smouldering) ; and huge high walls are standing alone, unsupported, looking fearfully dangerous to the foot-passengers, who go to and fro without any restriction or apparent pre caution, to view the scene of destruction. The whole of that part of the town, from the rear of the British Embassy to the Jardin des Fleurs, in cluding both sides of the Rue de Pera, from that point to Galata Serai, has been utterly destroyed. This I have seen myself ; the other points I have not person ally visited, but I know from the extent of the flames that many districts, containing an area of some square miles of closely packed human habitations, have been ren dered'completely desolate. The Embassy has been com pletely gutted, nothing having been saved excepting the few articles of furniture carried out of the mansion. It is not quite certain whether the archives in the fire-proof room have escaped. Sir Henry and Lady Elliot andtheir young daughter took refuge on board the Antelope, and will proceed to-day to Therapia. The young lady suffered somewhat in her eyesight from the burning sparks, but not severely, and was soon relieved by the doctor of the ship. It was the roof of the Embassy which first caught fire from the houses immediately behind, and it burnt steadily from the top to the bottom. Of the four engines at the Embassy, and which are supposed to be in perfect repair and readiness for action, twq were found to be out of order, and could not it is said, be used at all ; but nothing was left unattempted by the blue jackets and marines, under Captain Buchanan and Mr. Lascelles, to extinguish the fire, the officers and men remaining on the roof until they were literally driven off by the flames. If the Antelope had not fortunately been in harbour the wreck of the noble mansion—the finest Embassy in Constantinople—would have been complete ; as it is, though the destruction has been great, it has not been utterly destroyed, like the large stone houses around it, and in the Rue de Pera, but may yet be repaired and utilised as it stands. The house occupied by the Italian Legation, opposite the Galata Serai, has shared the fate of the houses in its immediate neighbourhood ; they are now nothing but charred masses of ruins, and broken walls burnt perfectly white by the red-hot heat. Among other remarkable buildings which have been destroyed ought to be mentioned the Armenian Patriarchal Cathedral, immediately behind the Rue de Pera, which. con tained the magnificent piece of tapestry presented to the Armenian community by the Empress of the French, representing the Transfiguration, after Raphael's cele brated picture. This loss is deeply deplored amidst so much which is not only deplorable but heartrending ; for there can now be no doubt (half-past eleven a.m.) that the loss of life has been frightful. In the midst of this great calamity, when the gigantic conflagration was at its utmost height, and it seemed quite probable that the whole of Pera would be burnt to the ground, what struck one most was the utter heplessness of the authorities. No fire-engines, no water, no organisation anywhere. The miserable things carried on the backs of four men called fire engines, but which are not bigger or of more value than a good garden hand-hose, and cannot contain much more than a large-sized bucket of water at a time, were, as a matter of course, useless. The devour ing element, in vast sheets of flame, licked up all it came across, totally uncontrolled on all sides. Literally the fire burnt itself out ; when it had no more to consume, it ceased. Since 1865, when a great part of Stamboul was burnt down, and the fire con tinued for some days there has been no conflagration any thing approaching this one, which is chiefly remarkable for the vast number of stone houses and the immense amount of property which have been destroyed in the wealthiest part of the European portion of the capital._ Every housetop had its knot of eager and excited specta tors, every preparation was made, and every possible pre caution adpted, to prevent houses from catching fire, while volumes of lighted sparks •were carried high in the air like a vast fiery cloud across the Horn even to Stamboul, and from which constantly fell pieces of lighted wood, or cotton, or other stuff which the high wind caught up from the flames. The crescent moon looked blood-shot in the cloudless sky, and by the light of the burning town everything around could be seen as distinctly as at midday. At midnight, on the top of a high house, I could tell the time by a lady's watch, though it had a gold dial and very fine black hands —and I was just then at least a quarter of a mile distant from the nearest point of the conflagration—so vivid was the light of the flames. MADAME JULES FAVRE.—The sudden - death of Madame Jules Favre, wife of the celebrated French politician, is announced. Madame Favre, who was 55 years of age, flied suddenly from aneurism. It is stated that the result of the elections for the French Councils-General up to yesterday afternoon was as follows :—The number of Conservatives re-elected is 253, and of Radicals 5 ; the number of newly-elected Con servatives is 118, and of newly-elected Radicals 25. MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF DERBY.—The mar riage of the Earl of Derby with the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury will take place as soon as the settlement can be completed. The earl is to settle a jointure of £5,000 per annum on the marchioness. The marchioness (who is in her 45th year) already enjoys an income of £5,000 per annum, under the will of the late Marquis of Salis bury, by whom she has five children. The settled estates of the Cecil family have of course, gone to the present marquis with the title ;'but a sum of £300,000 was left for apportionment among the younger children. This large amount was saved by the late Lard SaliSbury, in addition to some further provision made for the younger children. The settled estates of the Earl of Derby will, in the event of there being no issue of the forthcoming marriage, devolve upon the children of his younger brother, the Hon. A. F. Stanley, M.P., who married in 1864 the Lady Constance, eldest daughter of the Earl of Clarendon, thus uniting the two great families of Stanley and Hyde.—Correspondent of the Belfast News Letter. THE POTOCKI CABINET.—The German papers give some details with respect to the situation of the Potocki Cabinet towards the various parties formed dmong the numerous nationalities. It is said that Dr. Smolka has left the Potocki Ministry on account of its refusal to dissolve the Diet of Bohemia. Besides adopting this course, Dr. Smolka convoked a conference of his party at Lemberg, in which he declared his sympathies for his brethren by the Moldau. If these words had pro duced the desired effect, a great change would have taken place in the electoral movement in Gallicia, Dr. Smolka proposint , to elect no deputies, who would not join with the Czech's.' It turned out, however, that his proposals were not received with favour. The defeat of the Polish Federalists may be regarded as a good augury for Gallicia. The Poles will still endeavour to acquire the largest share of autonomy for Gallicia, but they do not claim it on special public grounds. They wish to remain under the guidance and protection of Austria, and nothing seems likely to interfere with that • desire. CAMBRIDGE COM.MENCEMENT. The annual Cambridge commencement began yesterday by the recitation of prize poems, which took place in the Senate House in the presence of a distinguished audience, including a large number of ladies. The Vice-Chancellor presided, and the conduct of the undergraduates in the gallery was very orderly, and strongly in contrast with previous years. Mr. Page (St. John's) recited his Greek translation from. Shakspeare's " Henry the Fourth," for which he was awarded one of the Porson prizes, and . his Latin Ode, for which he received Sir William Brown's medal. Mr. liuddlestone (King's) recited Mr. . Gurney's (Trinity) translation from " Henry the Fourth," and his own Latin poem, for which he obtained the Powis medal. Mr. Dick: son (Caius) having recited his Greek Epigram, and Mr. Wood- (St. John's) his .Latin Epigram, Mr. • Beek (Trinity Hall) recited his English. poem " Runnymede." The. various prize winner having received from . the Vice-Chancellor their several prizes, the proceedings ter mninated. ANOTHER RAILROAD HORROR. TWENTY PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED. Another serious accident occurred on the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad about seven o'clock on the morning of June Ist, near Paterson, N.J. This road is just being built through that locality, and fatal accidents have occurred nearly every week for the present month or so. That of June Ist, however, was more serious than any that has yet occurred. About twenty-five car penters left Paterson early in the morning on a car heavily loaded with timber for the new bridge over the Passaic river, near Ruthurfurd Park. The track is down grade, and it is customary to send the cars down alone without any locomotive, the gravity . being suffi cient for its propulsion. The car was in charge of a brakeman, named Joseph McNeal. In attempting to apply the brake'upon approaching a sharp curve leading to the trestle work carrying the road over the Paterson and Newark railway, the chain of the brake broke, and the car dashed around the curve at full speed, and free from all restraint. The car went partially around until, when a few feet upon the trestle, it jumped from the track, and precipitated its load of human beings and heavy bridge timber in one confused wreck some twenty feet below. The first impression was that nearly all were killed, as all were more or less stunned by the shock, and for an instant no one stirred, except one or two who had foreseen the inevitable calamity and had jumped. The uninjured, however, one by one jumped up and shook themselves, and at once proceeded to extricate the wounded from the ruins, while a messenger was hastily despatched for surgical aid. Drs. Ballery, Quin, Leal, Warner, and others, from Paterson, soon arrived upon the spot. Lord Stair will succeed Lord Ailsa as Lord Lieu. tenant at Ayrshire. We are informed that there is no truth in the report that Mr. Charles Wykeham Martin, M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight, is about to apply for the Chil tern Hundreds. THE ST. GOTHARD RAILWAY.—The Swiss Minis ter at Berlin has been empowered to sign a convention with Count Bismark, by which the North German Con federation grants a subvention of ten million francs to the St. Gothard Railway. • The Norfolk Circuit (Mr. Baron Channell and Mr. Justice Keating) has been fixed as follows :—Oak ham, Monday, July 11; Leicester, Tuesday, July 12 ; Northampton, Saturday, July 16 ; Bucks, Wednesday, July 20; Bedfordshire, Monday, July 25 ; Huntingdon shire, Thursday, July 28 ; Cambridge, Saturday, July 30 ; Bury, Wednesday, August 3 ; Norwich, August 6. It is supposed that a clue has been discovered be tween the Workmen's Association in Vienna and the democratic Socialist Committees of Paris. The seizure of compromising documents by the police is said to leave no doubt of the alliance which exists. The day and hour of the late disturbances in Paris were known in Vienna be forehand. A sort of catechism has been given to the soldiers which informs them what to do in case of a rising, so that they may afford assistance to the people. The distribution of barometrical pressure has scarcely changed, but the temperature has become de cidedly warmer, especially in the east and north. Mode rate breezes from the south-west still .continue on the English coast ; while the easterly wind in France has backed to the north. The sky is clear in the south and east, but cloudy elsewhere. The temperature in London at eight o'clock yesterday morning registered five degrees more than at Valencia, in the south of Ireland. This is not generally the case. The Bishop of Exeter attended a meeting held in the Cathedral City yesterday, on the subject of education. His lordship said he was in favour of a most stringent conscience clause, believing that parents ought to feel that the ultimate responsibility of giving their children the benefit of a religious education rested upon them selves. There must be concession, but the limit was maintaining the religious character of schools. Bible instruction should be given in school hours. Dean Boyd spoke against compulsory education. The American correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, writing of the Fenian invasion of Canada, says ; " General Sherman, who has had opportunities of hear ing from the President on the subject, is said to have declared that O'Neill—and probably also the other leaders —will be made to feel the whole strength of the law. Nothing could be more desirable, for this is the only way to put an end to these childish and criminal pro ceedings, which can never produce any other result be yond costing a dozen people their lives from time to time, and robbing the Irish servant maids of their savings." A gentleman residing in Palace-road, Roupell-park expresses a hope that somebody will explain, if any one can do so, the extraordinary incident which he proceeds to relate :—" On Saturday, the 11th inst.. between 10 and 11 p.m., a formidable rifle bullet was lodged in my bedroom, passing through two sheets of plate glass, blinds, curtains, &c., life being thereby imminently en dangered, and property necessarily to some extent damaged." It is possible, the writer thinks, that some volunteer returning from drill with a loaded rifle, took advantage of the open ground in the neighbourhood, and imprudently discharged his weapon. The Court of Assizes at Aix (Bouches-du-Rhone), has just tried a man named Limperani, for the murder of a priest named Mattei, cure of Carcheta, in Corsica, who was found with his head nearly severed from his body, his house having been robbed of 5,000 francs. The accused, and a man named Cialdivini, were arrested, and tried at Bastia, when Limperam was condemned to imprisonment for life, and the other was acquitted. A new trial was ordered at Aix, but Limperani only was now indicted. The accused denied all participation in the crime, but the jury declared him to be guilty, and the former sentence was confirmed. REPRESENTATION OF THE STRAW TRADE.—A numerously attended meeting was held in Luton on Mon day evening, for the purpose of petitioning Government to include in their bill for the filling up the four vacant seats caused by the disfranchisement for corrupt practices, the towns of Luton and Dunstable, as the centres of the straw trade, now wholly unrepresented. The chair was taken by Mr. W. Bigg, of the London and County Bank, who, in opening the proceedings read letters from the county members, Colonel Gilpin and'Mr. Hastings Russell, the Marquis of Salis bury, the members for Herts, the Hon. H. Cowper, and Mr. Brand, &c., regretting their inability to be present, and generally sympathising with the object of the meeting. After considerable discussion, a resolution was passed adopting a memorial praying that the towns of Luton and Dunstable might be directly represented in Parliament. MOVING A WINDMILL SIXTEEN MILES.—A. novel experiment, not quite so sensational as the moving of an hotel at Chicago, but yet something quite out of the ordi nary way, has been the removal of a wind flour-mill, with all its fittings, from Westacre to Clenchwarton, Norfolk, a distance of about sixteen miles. The mill was a wooden structure, and, with its machinery of enor mous weight, stood upon wheels, having been pur chased by a man living at Clenchwarton. He determined to endeavour to draw it along the road by a traction engine, but all efforts to find one strong enough proved ineffectual ; the application, however, of a powerful steam cultivation engine proved more successful. In pas sing along the route various expedients had to be tried, such as in ascending a hill the engine proceeded to the summit, and then pulled the mill up with a chain, and so carefully had the task to be performed, that it occupied three days to make the journey. In crossing the Great Eastern Railway, at Walton, the telegraph wires were broken. In attempting to cross the Ouse it was feared the celebrated long bridge would not be strong enough to bear the enor mous weight, but the engine having first passed over, the mill itself was drawn over, the timbers of the bridge in the meantime creaking, and shewing that a very severe test was being put upon its powers. At first it wasfeared that the bridge had been broken, but this was found not to be so. Its arrival at Clenchwarton was received with quite a demonstration. RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY OF IRISHMEN IN NEWCASTLE. The Northern Daily Express says between nine and ten o'clock on Sunday night the inhabitants of Bill Quay were thrown into a state of alarm by the arrival of several bands of Irishmen, who came by different routes from Hebburn and Narrow, Each batch numbered from 20 to 30 men, and the greater part of them were armed with heavy bludgeons, whilst some carried revolvers and pistols, shewing clearly that some mischief was meant. They concentrated their whole strength in a certain part of Bill Quay, and it was then seen that they numbered over a hundred. They speedily commenced operations by firing off some thirteen or fourteen shots, part of them in the air and the remainder against a house end, evidently with the view of drawing out the enemy, which, it was soon observed, consisted of nearly the whole of the Irish residents in the place, and against whom the Jarrow and Hebburn party expressed strong feelings of hatred. The Irishmen of Bill Quay turned out spontaneously about two hundred strong, and matters wore a serious aspect when P.C.'s Kilgour and Nelson, of the Durham County Constabulary, stationed at the Felling Shore, arrived on the scene. At the first sight of the police the strangers beat a precipitate retreat, leaving several of their bludgeons behind, which were taken possession of by the officers. Information was despatched to Superintendent Squire, at Gateshead, at the commencement of the affair, and he at once proceeded to the spot with a party of a dozen police constables; but the rioters had fled .before they arrived at Bill-quay. The object of the row is scarcely known, but it apears it is connected with the removal of a woman from Hebburn to Bill-quay, bringing with her two young girls, whose friends and acquaintances thought she had no right to take away. The assembly of the men had been premeditated, as they arrived almost at the same moment from different points. 5, 1870. THE TROUBLES OF A DRESSMAKER. The Superior Court of Boston has recently been en gaged in the trial of a cause (Flynt against Coolidge) which has created much excitement in the dress-circles of the Tri-montane region. Mrs. Flynt, the plaintiff, is the most fashionable artistic, we may say aesthetic dress maker of all who clothe mid glorify the ladies of the Hub. Mr. Coolidge, the defendant, is au eminent merchant. Mrs. Coolidge is the spouse of Mr. Coolidge. She had manufactured to her order, by Mrs. Flynt, raiment for which that costumer charged 1,911 dols. The court, some time since, sent the whole matter to an auditor, who re ported that the gowns furnished were worth 1,263 dols. Mrs. Flynt declined to accept this report, and wo the case was given to a jury. The ingenious plaintiff testi fied that there was no workwoman in Boston who could make gowns equal in beauty and taste to her own. Then she caused all her girls to be called, from her Miss Knagg down (though we don't see any Miss Kate Nickleby mentioned), and they unanimously deponed that the prices of Mrs. Flynt were exceedingly moderate. Then she called three dry-goods dealers, but they were shy, and averred that many of the goods used in the dresses had no market value—which we think extremely probable. Then came the outraged husband, with a long lot of dress makers in his train, the said milliners not being in very good temper by reason of Mrs. Flynt's boast that she was the only person in Boston who knew how to make a gown. It was perfectly natural for them to whittle down the charges of the self-compla cent Flynt frightfully. One swore that the work for which 1,086 dols, was charged was really worth about 193 dols. ; another reckonad it at 248 dols. ; still another at 236 dols. Then came a great many witnesses from famous dry goods houses, and they, one and all, united in swearing that the great Mrs. Flint had charged from 40 to 70 per cent, too much for her brilliant and beautiful silks, and laces, and satins. Then came Mrs. Coolidge, wife of the defendant, for whose use and wear the gowns were wonderfully and fearfully made; and she testified that formerly Mrs. Flynt had been reasonable in her charges, but that now, alas ! she had become most mercilessly unreasonable. Then came the Injured Husband, who deponed that when he went to the plaintiff's house, in the desperate hope off effecting a settlement, she had turned him out of the door, exclaiming as he fled : " You miserable sinner, you !" The lawyers argued the case beautifully. The plaintiff's lawyer extolled in the finest language her genius for dress-making. He' spoke scornfully of the dress-makers called as experts by the defendant. They were of a lower order. They " bore no more comparison in point of ability - to the plaintiff than a cobbler on North-street to the most expensive and fashionable bootmaker in the city." Mrs. Flynt was "an artist." He didn't say—we wonder that he missed the point—that you might know that she was an artist by her spelling her name with a "y." The defendant's lawyer began by observing that "most of the jurors were married men "—if they were not, the dis closures in this case might prevent them from ever becoming so. He declared that from *all the dressmakers in Boston—all save the flinty Flynt—one consentaneous cry had gone up to Heaven, and that cry was "Extortion !" He reminded the jurors that if they allowed Mrs. Flynt thus to raise the general prices of dress manufacture, they would have then to pay for all the fine robes ordered by the Mrs. Jurors. Then, after being lucidly charged, the jury went to their den, and stayed their pondering and debating, and discussing and estimating, for twenty-four hours. Unfortunately nothing came of it. If Mrs. Flynt's bill had been for breeches or boots, or for waistcoats or hats, the jurors might have jumped at a verdict with the alacrity of grasshoppers : but so many mysterious vanities for ladies did dreadfully bother the poor men—an excellent argument by the way, dear Miss Anthony, for women jurors ! The more the twelve men considered this business the farther were they from agreement. Strange to say, a majority of them favoured Mrs. Flynt. But the obstinate ones took strong ground, and maintained it. If we ever hear of any settlement of this momentous dispute, we shall not fail to inform the husbands of New York of the adjustment for they too, we fancy, suffer like unto their Boston brothers in bonds, and often pay their wives' bills with the agon ising reflection (as they draw cheques which may make monstrous holes in their bank-account) that there has been a mastadonian swindle somewhere. If but a few ofthem will imitate the morally courageous example of Mr. Coolidge, and valiantly confront the Flynts, persuading the wives of their bosoms, at the same time, not to make heavy in vestments in clothes clandestinely, we are sure that domestic harmony will thereby be greatly promoted. The Bostonian husband has evidently determined to be no longer a victim. Beside the defendant in the case above referred to, Mrs. Flynt is engaged in litigation with " a leading merchant in State-street," who also declines to settle his wife's by no means little account. The moral influence of courage like this can hardly fail in elevating many lowly and down-trodden husbands to the rank of freedmen.—New York Tribune. GRAMMAR AND VIRTUE. The publication of Mr. Disraeli's " Lothair " gives a new text for those who are always lamenting about the want of eminent scholarship among our public men. Look at Lord Derby's translation of the Iliad, they say—look at Gladstone's " Juventus Mundi "—and then oblige us by looking at " Lothair !" What member of Congress has produced a work so heavy with learning or so light with fancy as these? To be sure, there was Mr. Baldwin's "Pre-historic Nations," but be left public life on its pub lication, and his Congressional career already seems a pre historic period. Senator Brownlow's work on Methodism, "The Iron Wheel Examined and its False Spokes Ex tracted," must be tolerably pungent, if its title is a speci men, but can hardly be classed as high art. But for Mr. Sumner, indeed, the total literary yield of both Houses of Congress would be unpleasantly near to what is called in cricketing " a round 0." It is not strange, therefore, if this new literary exploit of Mr. Disraeli's proves exasperating to the patriotic mind. To be sure, the comparisons commonly made do more than justice to the Parliaments of our English cousins. It was a member of Parliament who, according to Horace Walpole, be queathed an estate to Sir Matthew Decker, supposing him to be the author.of the Gospel according to the Saint of that name. And certainly the reception in Parliament of the once famous author, James Harris (father of Lord Malmesbury) was by no means encouraging to literary men. " Who is that man ?" asked Charles Townshend of his neighbour, as the new-comer took his seat. " One Hawes," said the other. "He has written a book en grammar and another on virtue." " Then what the d—l does he come here for !" said Towns hend. "He will find neither grammar nor virtue here !" It must be sadly owned that neither grammar nor virtue can be guaranteed in any legislative body; nor will even scholarship, as such, be likely to be in the majority. Perhaps it is not desirable that it should, since the prime need is always of men of affairs, whether they or are not students. As it is, many of our Represen tatives in Congress, and almost a majority of our senators have received a college diploma, such as it is, and the charitable editor of The Congressional Directory attributes to most of the remainder "an academic education," what ever that may mean. Let us hope that it grounds men in the rudiments of grammar and of virtue. But it must be owned that most of them represent the business class rather than the studious class. Most of them, in those Chinese literary examinations of which we hear so much, would probably have stopped short at the red silk scarf, which shews that a candidate for office has reached only his first degree. The special literary and scientific culture of this nation has not Merely a slight representation in Congress, but it can scarcely be said to have any. This is certainly to be regretted. Yet that this class should monopolise or even control Congress, would be almost as great an evil on the other side. The questions now pressing on the nation are mainly business questions. To settle the difficult problems of taxation and banking, a second-rate business man is ordinarily worth more than a first-rate professor of chemistry or the classics. At any rate, what we chiefly need is to have able and honest men. By what training they got their honesty or ability is of no more importance, after they have once come to trial, than is the preliminary training of an athlete. At a rowing match we look to see the stroke ; we do not care about the beeves and loaves on which the young men have fed. Strength is strength, though it may have been murtured contrary to all the rules of training. In Con gress a man is judged by his ability ; where he got it is his own affair. To have abolished slavery is more than to have written " Lothair ; " the Fifteenth Amendment is worth more to this generation than the twenty-four books of Homer ; and to weather a great civil war without national bankruptcy is to exhibit a new heroic age. No learning, no " early advantages," can guarantee wisdom or virtue ; and that they can be won without such advan tages we see every day. The nation is very imperfectly governed as it is ; but does any on e seriously suppose that a committee of college presidents would govern it better? After all, no man can know everything, and an intelligent man is never ridiculous, except when he claims to know something which he does not. Let a Congressman, like a shoemaker, stick to his last. A man may be never so " practical," but if he begins to misquote Latin and mispronounce French, it is ail over with him. Let him hold to English grammar and American virtue , and he may be safe. Unhappily, it is a malady incident all professions for men to wish to ap pear strong where they are weak. Mr. Lillyvick, in " Nicholas Nickleby," who objects to the French lan .guage as " A very melancholy dialect, sir," because he had only heard it spoken by prisoners in gaol, would have found it more melancholy still as disguised in the novels of some of our young ladies. And our worthy Consul at Bradford, England, Mr, George M. Towle, has brought all the English critics about his ears by mis quoting the very first line of Virgil's " .lEneid." The critics are right ; he need not have quoted it at all, but, if he chose to give it, he should have got the line straight. .Even in England a statesman is not now expected to know all Horace's odes by heart, as rox did; but if a man will play at that game, he must come under its laws. The safest way is for a man to keep - on ground where he is strong. Nevertheless, Ge nera l J ac k son was J ac k son , thoug his only Latin phrase, according to Jack Downing was " E pluribus unum sine qua non."—New York Tribune. EJECTION FROM CARS.—It is quite time that the brutal system adopted on many railroads, of forcibly eject ing passengers from the cars, was done away with. In more instances than one the passenger thus treated has either been maimed for life, or killed outright. In some cases the outrage is committed without any sort of pallia tion. Thus, Mr. Haskell was travelling on the Morris and Essex Railroad, and stopped at Newark. The con ductor marked his ticket good, but on resuming his journey another conductor demanded a fresh fare. Mr. Haskell declined to pay it, and he was thereupon thrust out of the car, and he had to walk several miles to his home. Are the conductors thus licensed to take the law into their own hands ? If so, there would be no possi bility of refusing any preposterous demands which the fraternity chose to make.—New York Times. THE INCOME TAX. The Income Tax has been the subject of exciting debate in the House. A motion to omit the section of the pending Tax Bill which re-enacts that odious ley/ developed a stronger opposition to its further infliction on the public than there was previously reason to believe existed, The debate is not concluded, and we have great hopes that it may yet efid in the refusal to re-enact the tax. At any rate it is evident that the exemption will be increased, and the rate may be reduced. But this is not what is wanted. The people demand that the tax shall be wholly repealed. It is a premium on fraud, and for this-reason alone it ought to be blotted from the statutes. The officials who assess and collect it are of necessity, d° what they may to relieve their duty of its offensiveness , regarded in the obnoxious light a spies and informers. For this reason alone, without considering the question of Cost, the army they form should be disbanded.—Nero York Tribune. FUNDING BILL. If any of the members of the House of Representa tives who are opposed to the leading principle of the Funding Bill which passed the Senate some time ago, will deliver a speech containing the arguments in opposition, we will give them consideration. We have not, thus far, heard anything of the nature of a decent reason against giving Secretary Boutwell permission to at tempt to fund the public debt at a lower rate or interest than we are now paying. We know that a number of members say it can't be done ; but, as the secretary anxiously desires to be permitted to try it, why should he not be granted leave to do so, under proper restrictions? It is not sensible to oppose the bill on the ground' that its passage might re duce the nominal price of bonds • for, by simultaneously reducing the price of gold and bonds, it would only equal ize values, and establish them upon a more legitimate basis than they now enjoy. But we should like to hear , the very strongest arguments against the measure, from some one of the members of Congress who have taken ground in opposition to it, - If the arguments are not strong enough to be made public, then we should like to see the Senate bill pass'ed through the house without delay and without debate.—New York Tribune. OHIO. CLEVELAND, June 1, 1870. An oil train on the Atlantic and Great Western Rail way took fire this morning while approaching the city. The flames were communicated to the railroad bridges over the Cuyahoga river and Ohio Canal, and destroyed them. A frame building occupied by the Kritch and Crane Manufacturing Company as a machine shop «'a B damaged to the extent of $20,000, probably covered by insurance. The loss by the fire, this morning, in addition to that of Kritch and Crane, is estimated at from $50,0 to $lOO,OOO. Sixteen tank cars, containing 145 barrels of oil, and six empty freight cars were destroyed. Most of the oil was owned by Messrs. Hussey, Paine, and CO. There was no insurance on the railroad property or oil. Dodge, Moriarty and Weller, dry goods dealers, to-daY made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. Their liabilities are about £45,000. A. SCENE NOT ON THE BILLS. The patrons of the Bowery theatre get the worth of their money in the length of the programme at least, and so it happened the other day that the large audience in the building was being regaled by the diversified dramatic feast provided for their entertainment. Miss Minnie Wells had possession of the stage with her two Puma lions, and she and they presently presented an exciting scene not intended by the management. For a time the beasts were docile and obedient as usual, going through their various. feats to the satisfaction of everybody', but suddenly one of them, without any warning, whatever, sprang upon his mistress, fastening his fangs in her shoulder. For the first instant the audience imagined that this was part of the performance, but the shriek of the imperilled actress quickly undeceived them, and with a cry of horror the great crowd sprang up and 9 scene of indescribable confusion and consternation ensuTdt the entire mass pressing wildly for the doors, each imagin ing the infuriated lion close upon his heels. Meantime the beast retained his hold upon Miss Wells, biting viciously at her throat and face and would soon have killed her had not the attaches rushed to her assistance and secured the beast. This fact was, however, not known in the house, and the excitement was still unabated whet' . Captain Kennedy, of the Sixth precinct, arrived with . n squad of men, and, after strenuous exertions, succeeded 1 11 dispersing the audience and restoring order. Miss WelP was afterwards taken home and a surgeon called, and it was found that her - injuries, although very severe, are not necessarily dangerous.—New York Herald, May 30. A HIGHWAY TO THE SEA. A special meeting of the members of the Produce Ex change has been held at New York. Governor Fairchild was introduced by the President, and delivered a long ad dress upon the practicability of building the Fox River and Wisconsin River Canal, which is intended to con' nett the Mississippi with Lake Michigan, and thus male a complete water way from the Mississippi to the Atlantic seaboard. The canal would be one hundred and eighteen miles long, and it is estimated would cost $5,000,0 00 . When the Governor had finished his address, the following resolutions were read by the Secretary, and adopted •. Re solved, "That the subject of cheap transportation between the grain producing and the grain consuming States be tween. the Mississippi valley and the Atlantic cities, is not only of great and increasing interest to producers and con sumers, but is of vast commercial importance, presenting the question continually to dealers whether our products can or cannot be exported to other countries without loss. Neither the agriculturist nor the buyer of his pro ducts can prosper unless cheaper facilities are offered for carrying between the West and the East than have hitherto been presented by lines of land transportation. The sub ject is one in which the whole public are interested, and is national in its character and its results." Resolveo , " That in the judgment of this association a water com munication between the Mississippi and Lake Michigan , capable of floating freighted steamboats at the lowest stage of water, is a great public necessity, which will 138 cheaply relieved by an expenditure of five or six millions of dollars." Resolved, "That this association earnestly' recommend this subject to the consideration of Congress and the national government, and that a copy of thee ° resolutions be sent to the Senators from this State an d to the Representatives from this city and Brooklyn. Join BRIGHT—The long-continued illness of this distinguished English Liberal statesman causes serious anxiety as to his restoration to health. His successor in the English Cabinet has already been indicated in the public journals, and Mr. B r i g ht i s kept i n profound seclusion. Recent reports by mail bring the intelligence that Mr. Bright has sunk into a hopeless condition from softening of the brain. The contrast between the vigorous popular orator and reformer of ten years ago, and th e helpless invalid of to-day, shews how thin are the parti tions between powerful intellect and imbecility, when th e man is overworked or the brain is overtasked.—Phgu ae phia Ledger. EcoNorams,—Secretary Boutwell's monthly stat e : ment somewhat exceeds anticipations. The reduction 0' the national debt during May amounted to $14,301,962-7 an excess of nearly three millions over the reduction effected in the previous month. The gold in the Treasnr9 has fallen off, being now, in round figures, a hundred 0 ,111 ; six millions, against one hundred and fifteen million s month ago. The•currency reserve is upward of fourteer; millions. These recurring exhibits of the working Mr. Boutwell's policy should operate as standing et dence of the enormous excess of revenue over expend" ture and the large amount which is available for the re duction of taxes. In tne fifteen months' Administratio n of President Grant, the expenditures of the Govermnel lt have been economised and the collections of the revenu e enhanced to the aggregate saving of $117,900,000, t h e best proof of which is that this sum i s n o w h e ld in tiL Sinking Fund, in United States Five-Twenty Six ;p c i: Cent Bonds, and no increase made in the unfunded de —New York Times. LAD EansEmENT.J—Avoid Medicines—they always 113 , ggr e l chronic complaints but Du Barry's delicious health-restor.,l,- Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the noutZ, o .. mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other reine''A and invariably restores perfect 'digestion, strong nerves, sr; lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, function s 0 4 % gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. W e re d tract a few oat of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health resT, 6 6. by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. 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Brooke, aged O. vV'S London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDlti,v of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TEE SuN Office , No• ANDREW Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CouatY Middlesex.—Wednesday, June 15, 1870.