The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. MALTA, April 25.—N0 more ships of war have been despatched to Gibraltar since the Ocean, 24, ironclad, left on the 22d. The Royal Oak, 35, and Prince Consort, 35, ironclad; whose arrival at Gib raltar has already been announced, haveorders to re main there for the present. We have here the flag ship Victoria, 102, Resistance, 16, and Enterprise, 4, the two latter ironclad; Arethusa, and a few smaller vessels. The Eudymion, 21, is at the Piraeus, the Racer,ll, at Patras. The Caradoc is at Cons t antinople and the Cockatrice at her station on the Danube. The Right Rev. Dr. Trower, Bishop of Gibraltar, accompanied by his family, and the Yen. Archdeacon Cleugh, left Malta yesterday for England, by way of Sicily, Corfu, and Venice. It is not the intention of his lordship to retain the bishopric. • Yesterday being the birthday of the Emperor of Russia, the Russian squadron now anchored at the Motherbank, under the command of Rear-Admiral Kern, her Majesty's ships lying at Spithead and in Portsmouth harbour dressed out in colours in honour of the day, her Majesty's ships hoisting at their main royal mast heads the flag of the Russian navy, a blue cross, diagonal, on a white field. At noon her Majesty's ship Victory led off with the first gun of a general salute, taken up in succession by her Ma jesty's ships Duke of Wellington and St. Vincent in the harbour, and the Bellerophon and Lord Clyde at Spithead. The Russian ships Askold and Variag, and the guns on Portsmouth town fortifications also joined in the salute. Rear-Admiral F. Warden, C. 8., at present the second in command of the Channel Fleet, but its intended chief in the trials of 1867, rehoisted his flag yesterday morning on board his flagship, the iron frigate Minotaur, Capt. James G. Goodenough, at Portsmouth. The sails of this frigate were bent some days since, but yesterday they were set for the first time, when, to the astonishment of all who wit nessed the performance, the upper topsails were found to have been made much too deep in their hoist, and the lower topsails (the ship carries double topsail yards on four of her five masts) as much too small. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steom sloop Virago, 6, Commander H. M. Bingham, from Portsmouth for Australia, which was off the Start, Plymouth, all well, at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, broke down her starboard engine subsequently, and at 5 yesterday morning was in a disabled condition outside the Breakwater. She has been brought into harbour by the tugboat Trusty. The paddlewheel steamer Adder, Master Com mander Blakey, completed her repairs yesterday, and will resume her duties as tender to the Welles• ley, 72, in Chatham harbour, this morning. The 98th Regiment, under the command of Col Peyton, who returned to England during the past week from service in India, paraded yesterday morn ing for inspection by Lieut.-General Sir George Buller, K.C.8., in the Governor's-green at Ports mouth. They look remarkably well. The 4th Rifle Brigade, at present serving in Canada, is shortly expected to leave that colony for England, and on arrival will be quartered in Ports mouth garrison. The 15th (the King's) Hussars and the 17th Lancers, at Aldershott, have commenced their troop competition for prizes and badges. The dexterity shown in the use of the cavalry weapons by both regiments has been highly praised. Prizes are awarded to three men out of every 50 who prove their superiority after repeated encounters on horse back. The best swordsman in each troop received 2d. per day extra and the badge of the cross-swords in silver. The other two prizemen receive id. per day extra, and the cross-sword badge in worsted. It is understood that in the regimental competition this year the competitors will engage with equal weapons, sword against sword, and lance against lance, and not, as on former occasions, lance against sword, and vice versa. The champion in this competition will receive 3d. per day extra, and the badge of the swords in gold. Great interest is evinced in the com petition and the results, both by participants and spectators. The troops at Aldershott have been en gaged in the ordinary spring drill during the past week. Lieut.-Gen. the lion. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., commanding the division, had ordered a field-day of the infantry on Wednesday, and of the cavalry on Thursday : but, owing 4o the unfavourable weather, a counter-order was issued. Yesterday a detachment of 150 non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the various depots, comprising the 2d battalion of infantry at Chatham, arrived at the garrison from Gravesend, after com pleting their course of ball practice at the Govern ment rifle range, previous to embarcation. In the afternoon a similar detachment of the same battalion left the garrison and marched to Gravesend to undergo the course of rifle instruc tion. A detachment, numbering 25 non-commissioned officers and men, with three officers, will leave Chat ham garrison to-morrow for Hythe, there to un dergo a course of instruction with the Snider breech loader rifle at the School of Musketry. A letter from Kingston, Jamaica, dated the 9th inst., received by a Southampton corrrespondent, gives the following information respecting military and naval movements at that place :—" The 84th Regiment arrived at this port in her Majesty's trans port steamer Tamar, Capt. Sullivan, on the 2d inst., landed at Kingston on the following day, and marched for Newcastle yesterday, passing the 6th Regt. on its way to Kingston for embarkation. A company under Captain Simpson had started for Manchester, where they had quarters prepared for their reception. The 6th Royal Regiment are in great spirits with the prospect of returning home. A pile of wood 12ft. high was built by the regiment above Newcastle and lighted when the Tamar hove in sight. During their stay in Jamaica the regiment has been deservedly popular. The Tamar spoke on the 17th March, in lat. 24 24 N., long. 32 11 W., the English bark Warrior, bound for Callao ; and on the 23d, in lat. 19 46 N., long. 39 23 W., the English bark Samuel, bound homeward. There is nothing new from Honduras. Col. Hunt, Royal Marines, proceeds to Belize, in the Ornew, in a few days to organise a militia force, and he will be ac companied by Deputy Assist. -Commissary-General Archer and two officers of the 4th West India Re giment. Her Majesty's ship Cadmus arrived on the sth from Port au Prince, where she had been sent to preserve and protect the interests of British sub jects during revolutionary proceedings. Her Ma jesty's ship Doris left this on the 27th ult. for Hali fax, with 30 cases of yellow fever on board. The in fection had been brought from Carthagena, where she had but recently come from. H.M.S. Nimble is at present on a cruise. She had arrived at St. Jago and had left there for St. Domingo and Porto Rico. tier Catholic Majesty's steamer Concepcion, 28 guns, arrived here yesterday from St. Jago de Cuba, ostensibly on a cruise, but more likely for the purpose of protecting the Spanish mail steamer Montezuma between the Havannah and Colon, via Jamaica and Santa Martha, which there is some reason to suspect is watched by the Peruvians. De Cordova's Gleaner, some few days ago announced some startling particulars relative to an attempt that had been made in Kingston to put certain Peruvian passengers' (persons in the interest of l'eru) on board the Montezuma for Santa Martha. The captain, however, suspected that all was not right, and their connection with a Peruvian priva teer, the Cuyler, that had left Carthagena, in the inter, sts of Peru and Chili, being whispered about the city, they were refused a passage. These per sons ou the other hand (on going on board the Moutezun •la to inspect her after taking their tickets), finding that the , spani aa Government having ;:ome scent of their intentions bad the ship well armed and manned for such an emergency, quickly re traced their steps, and consented to receive one half of their luggage, it is passage-money rather than go. Their alleged,contained documents that would have afforded too much information for Spain. Since then some f regarding her safety, as the ears have been expressed Cuyler is believed to be no great distance from Jamaica at present. The Montezuma being a fast s t eamer would valu able instrument against the Spaniards be a in the hand s of Peru, but the Cubans, havin g fully em for such an emergency, consider herquitecipped her equal to any hostile attack that she is likely to meet with." The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry Schomberg Kerr, to the Bellerophon ; Frederick Henderson and William N. Atkinson, midshipmen, to the Victoria ; Robert H. Archer and the Hon. Jas. B. Willoughby, midshipmen to the Galatea ; John E. Bond, George Callaghan, and Arthur Wolrige, naval cadets, to the Victoria ; and Charles Elphinstone, nominated a naval cadet. VENAL VOTING. The New York Tribune has published a series of letters which haye excited very general attention, and deserve even more—from the national impor tance, of suppressing the system exposed. These letters relate to the moral condition of the New York Legislature, and shocking as are the revela tions made by this writer of the bribery and cor ruption in vogue, those best informed are compelled to admit that the picture is rather under than over _ drawn. Venality is being developed and worked on a scale it is high time to suppress, before it takes a flight which will bring into contempt the Democratic institutions of the country, and injure in the estimation of the people the very cause of liberty itself. It is said, and well known, that votes at Albany are bought and sold as an article of marketable value. Some years ago these transac tions were on a smaller scale, and done secretly. But practice and custom have enlarged the opera tions, and they are now performed in the open light. They are entrusted to a body of lobby agents, who have sprung up to conduct this busi ness, and who announce openly that they under stand all the springs of action, and that money en trusted to them can be spent effectively in attaining the object aimed at. As the profit derived from the trade of legislating becomes better known, that trade is worked on more scientific principles. Where Acts were introduced, intended to have a beneficial result, some members could see no harm in receiving a duuceur for giving their votes, as they would havegiven them without the bribe. From accept ing the bribe for voting in the way their conscience directed, there was another step—and a very con siderable one—to voting against conscience in con sideration of a douceur. But a higher flight than this has been reached. Bills are now introduced of an outrageous character, aimed to effect the ruin of classes and trades. These bills are not intended to be passed. Their object is to create alarm ; and those they compromise speed off to Albany, to stop the passage of the measure, where they are met by the lobby agents, and, when thoroughly plucked, sent home. Humiliating as are the facts disclosed, we re gret to say that New York is not the only State in which such corruption prevails. The re-assuring part of the story is, that, however damaging to the na tional character, and Republican institutions, the Pressof New York does not hesitate to expose in the strongest terms, the iniquity of these proceedings. There can be no question of the truth of the state ment that many of the best men avoid the con tamination of politics. It is not by such means that the State Legislatures in which these practices pre vail will be reformed. It is not by mourning over such depravity that these proceedings will cease. A higher tone of public morality must be intro duced, and the member proved to be guilty of accepting bribes for his vote, must, whether he escapes legal consequences or not, be stamped and ousted from the society of honest men. If an election to a Legislature means an advancement to a post which is to be turned by every means of chicanery to the individual's private gain, the worst style of adventurers will make the most vigorous push for these seats. Those, less needy, pos sessing a character to lose, will not allow ' themselves to be nominated, and therefore, the tendency will be rapidly to deteriorate. Against this the Press must make a stand, and endeavour to the utmost to arrest the tendency by the force of public opinion. To the Tribune is due the credit of striking a heavy blow at these pernicious practices, and it well becomes the great organ of the national party to lead in the attempt to demolish so immoral a system. It is painful to reflect how great the scandal is, and how vast the injury that results, from these elpose's of universal suffrage. No doubt the States have to fight against the overwhelming difficulty of bestowing on ignorant immigrants a privilege which is, indeed, the right only, of educat men. That Universal Suffrage is the true theory of Government is, we believe, sound—where all have attained to that amount of education which enables a man to read and write, and to apply that knowledge to some degree of moral and intellectual culture. But no effort on the part of the Govern ment can secure this result for the United States, so long as the ignorance of Europe is freely poured into the country. "It is not, however," says the Nation, " the poor devils of grog-shopkeepers whom the Fenians send to the Legislature from this city who drive this trade. These are knaves, to be sure ; but if they were amongst honest men, they would have to live by sucking their own paws. The main body of the corrupt drove are lawyers, farmers, and what not from the interior of the State, Republi cans in politics, and sound enough on all the great issues of the day to please Thaddeus Stevens himself ; and there is probably not a man of them who would not write a ' noble letter' on the ' use of money at elections' that would draw tears from a gorgon. This sad and humiliating story—and, let us add, New York is not the only State of which it may be told—is related with becoming horror by men who, in the same breath, deride the notion that a candi date's private character is of any consequence as long as he has been regularly nominated." The great step to alter this state of things is to establish a higher moral tone on the subject of bribery. If the member who received a bribe was publicly branded, and universally recognised throughout the country as having been guilty of an infamous act, no more boasting would be heard from these smart people of the prices to which they had run up their venal votes. This, it is probable, is within the power of the Press to accomplish, and, if so, no duty can be more clear. Infamous, however, as is the state of things that obtains in Albany, the system in force in England approximates too closely to this venal voting to place those in this country in a position in which they can with safety throw stones. Parliament itself is elected by bribery,—with this important difference, that the members pay instead of receiving the money. This simply resolves itself into the electors, not the elected being the bribed. Too often the cotes of the mem bers are influenced by the promise of places either for themselves or their friends. The lobby-agents of the British Parliament are a set of solicitors, contractors, and hangers-on, who coach through railway and other bills. English Corporations are corrupt in every department, and no contract has a free and fair field. Bad, how ever, as is the state of things in England, the man elected to a position of trust is not to be found who openly boasts of the price he has managed to extract for his vote. The people may be sure that there is some safeguard in the knowledge, which every man so placed in this country must feel, that if he is discovered in accepting a bribe, the stigma will attach to him for life.—Anglo-American Times. AN AMERICAN GRADE DARLING.—Ida Lewis, daughter of the keeper of the Lime Rock Light-house, Rhode Lsland, rowed out to a distant island on a Sunday morning recently, and rescued a man who for four hours had been lying upon the rocks, wet from the storm, and exhausted in body, his boat having been capsized, and there being no mea sof escape possible. The brave girl took up the inanimate body, placed it in her wherry, and pulled across the harbour to Newport. This is the fifth instance in which this intrepid young woman has rendered valuable assistance to persons in peril of a watery grave. The Mobile Advertiser says :—" The letter of General Beauregard does not entitle him to add to the reputation of soldier and patriot that of statesman or political philosopher." ['ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills.—Conscientious Conviction.—No investment of money can be so profitable as that which insures good health. It has been estab lished beyond dispute that Holloway's pills, which cost but a trifle, will successfully wrestle with and overthrow dis ease. In all the many forms in which dyspepsia or in digestion presents itself it may be thoroughly removed by these purifying and gentle aperient pills, assisted by a diet which must be simple in quality and moderate in quantity. Long indisposition, resulting from defective appetite or imperfect assimilation, yields to this efficient treatment; and nausea, disagreeable tastes in the mouth, headache, and the annoying collection of phlegm which plagues the dyspeptic in the morning, will be banished by these bal samic and strengthening pills. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 30 . 1867. NEW ROUTES FROM THE ATLAN TIC TO THE PACIFIC. The steamship Colorado has departed on her second trip from San Francisco, for Yokohama and Hong Kong. Besides a full freight, she carried 20 cabin and 250 steerage passengers, with $150,000 in treasure for China. As an instance of what the trade is becoming between San Francisco and Hong Kong we may mention that the Jeannie sailed for the latter port an hour before the Colorado. with a cargo of flour, wheat, and $390,000 in treasure. in view of the magnitude of this trade, the importance of rapid communication between San Francisco and the Atlantic ports is attracting marked attention throughout the United States. The different routes are being now keenly discussed, and all the information attainable is being laid before the public. Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS has furnished a special report to the War Department of the Rio Colorado of the West. Mr. ADAMS considers that this river furnishes the best central route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is navigable for large steamers to a point 620 miles up the stream, draining the terri tories of Utah and Colorado on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains. It derives its main sup ply from the Great Valley of the Colorado lying between the Snowy Sierra and the Sierra Wasatch. It therefore penetrates into the neighbourhood of the Great Salt Lake, furnishing the population with a comparatively easy mode of transit into the Gulf of California. From Callville to the Salt Lake City the road is excellent. Mr. ADAMS is of opinion that the advantages presented by the Colorado are im• proved, and a railroad run from a:point on that river to a point on the Mississippi, an outlet would be gained both to the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans for Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. Dr. BUSHNELL has come for wara as the advocate of the purchase of Russian America, with a view to the construction of a railway to the Pacific through that territory. Preposterous as this sounds, if Dr. BUSHNELL'S statements are true, the plan is not ridiculous. We will leave him to speak for himself, with the remark that we are happy to see the attention of the country stongly directed to the important matter of securing the speediest and best communication between the Atlantic and Pacific sea-boards. Dr. BUSHNELL says, speaking of Russian-America : " What is more important than all, it is likely to be found hereafter, that the shortest and best way to China and Japan is here. The British possessions occupy a short trip of coast between us and the territory in questio n, but these will naturally fall into our hands at no distant perio d , and if they do not our friendly relations will secure us a passage, as they have already through the Canadas. Starting then front the western point of Lake Superior, in a north-westerly direc tion, we strike the Saskatchawan c ountr y , which is the richest and best country of British America — having abundance of bituminous coal, a compara tively soft climate, so little impeded by snows that a railroad can be easily kept open the whole year, a surface so nearly level that it can be graded with out difficulty, and a fertility of soil scarcely sur passed on the continent. Pressing still on towards the north-west, and finding the climate soften, as we near the coast, we strike one or two rivers, certainly one, that cuts the Rocky Mountain range down to its base, and opens a gate to let us through, and then deflecting to the south-west we strike the coast south of the great promon tory of Alaska ; or, if that is impossible, we go down the slope of the great river Kwichp ak, navigable itself for a thousand miles, and enter one of the bays south of Behriug's Straits. The advan tages of this route, whether we strike the coast north of Point Alaska or south of it, are (1) that we encounter no mountains or mountain passes ; (2) that we have midland supplies of coal and timber ; (0) that we avoid the immense mountain snows that will make the Rocky Mountain roads impass able for at least six months in the year, and (4) that having a line which is very nearly cOncident with the great circle of the globe, we get the shortest passage to China and Japan that can be found. If it should turn out, as appears to be quite probable, that we can reach the coast at the southernmo st point of the territory in question, our line of road will be a great deal shorter than any other, and will come to its terminus in about the same latitude as Glasgow, and having about the same climate."— A nylo-American Times. ted I a more horrible treatment for prisoners than that adopted by the Red Indians, and it is not likely that the retribution will be long delayed, when Uncle Sam's grasp is on the throat of the savage. The Senate of Wisconsin has concurred with the Legislative Assembly in a resolution to amend the Constitution so that women may vote. Kansas led in adopting this measure. The Springfield Repub lican, alluding to the ordeal that the men of the West will have to undergo in sharing political power with their sweethearts and wives, adds that " we of the East will anxiously wait and watch to see how they endure it before placing ourselves in so trying a position." The Washington Government is strongly urged by those in authority in the Territories of the Far West to abolish all restrictions upon mining. These inte rests are growing so powerful that what is advanced in their behalf cannot but meet with the most prompt attention. Mr. M'Culloch has lately been addressed by Mr. Garnett, formerly connected with the Branch Mint at San Francisco, who brings this subject to his attention in an able letter. It is not improbable that the action taken will lead to a change of the rules now in force regarding mines. The mining territories will be well represented at the Paris Exhibition, and a more extended know ledge of their wealth thereby diffused. Some inte resting information will be furnished to us by the leading gentlemen deputed by these Territories, who are thoroughly acquainted with the geology of the districts. No better opportunity could be afforded than that offered by the gathering at Paris of all nations with specimens illustrative of the facts they describe, to make known the wealth of these regions. It was not generally expected that the Senate would ratify the Treaty ceding Russian America to the United States ; but a discussion seems to have convinced the members of the desirability of ob taining the Territory. A strong influence was exercised on this body by the warm advocacy of Senator Sumner, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The price is $7,200,000, and this money is to be paid before the 30th of next June. We were under the impression that it would require the sanction of a vote by the House of Represen tatives, before the payment could be made. The difficulty of filling up Mr. Motley's place is so great that we see the late papers had come to the conclusion that the Minister would be left in peaceable possession. Ex-Senator Nesmith, of Oregon, and ex-Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, had each been nominated and rejected. The papers were, however, wrong, as the Senate confirmed Mr. Raymond's appointment before the adjournment. General Rousseau has been promoted to the Major-Generalship, vacant through the re ;ignation of General Roscrans, au appointment confirmed by a majority of three in the Senate. The promotion will, however, be reconsidered, on account of the unfor tunate affair, termed by many a brutal assault, in which he was the chief actor last year, and Repre sentative Grinnell the victim. The following is the list of the principal appoint ments confirmed by the Senate : —Gen. George L. Andrews to be United States' Marshal for Massa chusetts ; 'William C. West to be naval storekeeper at Kittery, Me.; ex-Governor A. W. Bradford of Maryland to be Surveyor of the port of Baltimore ; General Sol Meredith to be Surveyor-General of Montano and Idaho; Henry G. Thomas to be Ma jor-General by brevet, and Wager Swayne, T L Crittenden, Daniel E. Siekles,•Joseph J. Reynolds, Benjamin IL Grierson, and Nelson A. Miles to be brigadier-generals by,brevet ; Thomas K. King, of Rhode Island, to be Consul at Belfast, Ireland; J. A. Johnson, of Rhode Island, to be Consul-General at Beirut ; and the followiiag postmasters in New England : —John R. Burney at Dover, N. 11. Joseph F. Ilodges at Foxboro, Me., Edward J. Mrs. Caroline F. George 11. Bigelow Merrill at a a t t ß r id a d r e in fo i r n d g , to A n te ,. , ll, a l n e d . , at Burlington, Vt. HantasnunG, April 3.—The annual report of the Auditor-General of Pennsylvania on railroads has been issued by the State printers, Singerly and Myers, and sent to the Legislature. It is an ela borate volume of nearly GOO pages, and shows the statistics of the railroads of Pennsylvania as fol ,ows ... 5267,681,408 4,353 ... 17,734,216 . 490,025,998 41,032,148 70,999,759 • .• 189 i ... $5,284,899 ... 37,464,991 ... $2,418,624 ... 3,410,544 it was of no avail, as the fire was spreading under the roof where it could not be reached. The Republican says:— " The whole structure, from basement to attic, inclusive, embracing public rooms, lounging rooms, stores, wine-cel lars, offices, &c., had the enormous number of 530 rooms, Those of a public character were numerous and capacious beyond those of any other hotel edifice on the Continent. The actual cost of the building was $950,000, which, with the ground (valued at $326,400), makes the whole value $1,276,400, not to speak of furniture, $500,000 worth of which was imported and put in. So that, when the house was fully completed and furnished, the whole pro perty cost a million and three-quarters of dollars !" A new glass factory, which will employ 100 operatives, has just commenced operations at New Bed ford, and the new Tecumseh mills at Fall River, which will produce 18,000 yards of printing cloths daily, com menced weaving on Wednesday, April 3. The latter mills have been about a yaar in building, and will furnish work for 250 employes. Louis Schade has published a statement in vindi cation of Wirz, who kept the Andersonville Prison, for whom he acted us counsel on his trial. He endeavours to show that Wirz was one of the victims of Mr. Stanton's attempt to invent a conspiracy against the Union prisoners. The other conspirators were either discharged, or have never been brought to trial, from which Mr. Schade argues that the charges of conspiracy could not be sustained; The author then goes on to prove that the charge of mur der was nct brought home. The Rev. Dr. Alonzo Hill, of Worcester, lately received a present of $3,500 from his society, after forty years of a pastoral service. Deacon David Whitney died at Westminster, on the 25th nit., in the same house where he was born a hun dred years ago, and had always lived. Ile voted for Washington and for Lincoln. The Springfield Republican states that the " Rev. E. L. Clark, pastor of the Congregational Church at Dal ton, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday, March 31, in which he rebuked his people in a more telling manner than was generally relished, and with more spirit than any clergyman would be likely to exhibit in any but a farewell sermon." William Clark, of Northampton, has offered to give to each family in town, who did not possess one, a Concord grape vine, and a committee of the Horticultural Club has been appointed to ascertain the number of vines needed. Mr. Homer Foot was to sail for Hamburg on the 20th to join his daughter, who has been spending the winter at Berlin. After a glimpse at the Exposition and a flying visit through England and Scotland, both will e turn home, arriving about the let of August. Thaddeus Stevens has suffered severely from an affection of the heart. He is nearly 75 years of ago, and it is feared that he will hardly live out his term of elec tion to Congress. The President contemplates a visit to New York, which will be of a private character. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, has sailed from New York for Europe. Governor Orr, of South Carolina, will despatch an agent to Europe with the object of directing emigration to that State. Colonel Edward L. Bailey, of Manchester, U.S., formerly commander of the 2d New Hampshire Regiment, has been appointed a second lieutenant in the 4th regulars, and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Connelly, of Manchester, has received a similar appointment in the 27th regulars, stationed at Fort Phil Kearney, Colorado. Daniel Dreiv has added to his half million cen tenary contribution for a seminary and female college at Carmel, New York, the sum of $250,000 for a perpetual fund; also a farm of 100 acres, with house and lot. He intends soon to erect suitable buildings at his own expense. Brigham Young has just liquidated, with full in terest, a board bill which he contracted and forgot to pay when he left Port Byron, New York, his native place, 30 years ago. John D. Perry has been re-elected president and Adolphus Weir ♦ice-president of the Union Pacific Rail road. The Board of Directors is only slightly changed from that of last year. Thurlow Weed wants the New York Republicans to nominate Admiral Farragut, Horace Greeley, and Henry J. Raymond for delegates at large to the constitutional convention. He i s right'in advising both parties to nomi nate their ablest men. The King of Italy has knighted Mr. James G. Day of New York for service to the Italian nation and courtesies to Italian officials. Major-General Crawford, one of the Fort Sumter defenders, has received the LL.D. from the University of Virginia, his alma mater. Dr. Bushrod Rust, a physician of some note, died at Howellsville, Warren county, Virginia, a few days since. The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Savannah on Wednesday evening, April 3, gave a banquet to the officers of tho steamer Memphis, which arrived there with supplies for the suffering poor of the South. Joseph It. Hawley, who was the Republican candidate for Governor at the recent Connecticut election, is a native of Robeson county, North Carolina. Hon. George Read Riddle, senator from Dela ware, died at the corner of Fourth and D streets, Balti more, after a protracted illness, on the evening of April 5. He was born in New Castle, Delaware, in 1817, received his education in Delaware College, and was engaged some years in the profession of a surveyor, and fixed roads and canals in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. In 1848 ho was admitted to the bar, and received soon after wards the appointment of Deputy Attorney-General for his native county, which he held until 1850. From 1851 to 1852 he represented his native district in the House of Representatives, and in 1864 was elected to the United States Senate. Mr. Riddle attained considerable eminence as a lawyer, and was selected as a delegate to several Demo cratic national conventions. He was a descendant, on his mother's side, of George Read, of Delaware, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.— Washington Star. Miscellaneous American News. The Canadian mail steamer Nova Scotian arrived at Portland last Saturday, and the United States mail steamer Mississippi at New York. The North German Lloyd's steamship Bremen arrived on Mon day, the Inman steamer Edinburgh on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the steamers City of Baltimore, Borussia, Western Metropolis, Pereira, and Hecla had arrived out. The North German Lloyd's steamer Hansa, from New York on the 11th, reached Southampton on the 22d, with 118 passengers, having experienced strong westerly gales. The Inman steamer City of Antwerp from New York on the 13th instant arrived at Queenstown on the 23d. On the 24th the Hamburgh and American steamer Germania arrived at Southampton with 115 passengers, haring also left New York on the 13th inst. The National Steam Navigation Company's vessel Virginia ar rived at Queenstown on Thursday morning. On the same day the United States mail steamer Arago arrived at Falmouth. She has on freight for France $41,300, 200,000 f., 923 bales of cotton, 76 packages sewing-machines, 81 bundles whalebone, 12 tierces hams, 13 cases books, 8 casks ale, and about 50 cases miscellaneous packages, 95 passengers (12 of whom landed here), and 51 bags of mails. The only telegraph news from America beyond the fact that the Senate had adjourned on Saturday last, after postponing the adjournment from the 16th to the 18th, and from the 18th to the 20th, relates to Mexico. It is said that the Em peror Maximilian had offered to surrender on certain conditions, but that Juarez demanded an uncon ditional capitulation ; and this statement is con firmed by accounts from Mexico, dated 13th inst. A proposal was introduced into the Senate for the mediation of the United States Government, but that body adjourned, deferring it till next Session. Porfirio Diaz has taken Puebla, and executed all the officers of the garrison. He is marching on Vera Cruz. The Great Eastern has again been the " lion" of the hour at New York. The reporter of the 7r/- bane, who boarded her, gives anything but a flat tering account, and it is feared that her first voyage will not be a success. We believe that the number of passengers now on board is small, but though she was delayed by head winds on her pas sage to New York, yet on her return, as the new machinery will get into better working order, she may prove to be the swift vessel it is said she is. The Inman steamer City of Antwerp beat the Great Eastern in the passage out by 30 hours. The Clover dills Pits Colliery explosion in Vir ginia was the most serious of the kind yet known in the United States, as seventy persons lost their lives. General Schofield, commanding the district, is moving in conjunction with the people of Vir ginia, for the relief of the sufferers. The disaster arose from the negligence of the men whose duty it was to examine the mine previous to the miners commencing work. It appears that this duty was not performed on the morning of the catastrophe, and that one of the two detailed for the work had not entered the shaft till noon, when without making any examination he reported that everything was right. Events in the Far West betoken an Indian war. General Sherman has announced in very decisive terms the policy the commanders of expeditions will adopt, and the war will be one to the knife. Major- General Hancock was at Salem with a strong force on his march to the Santa Fe district. The Sioux, Crows, Bloods, Peguins, Grosventres, and all the most warlike tribes of the prairies have taken up the hatchet, and, as a confederated body, declared war against the whites. Active operations may be expected with the opening spring. Already the Indians have committed numerous outrages; the number of their victims on both sides of the Rocky Mountains having swelled up to hundreds of American citizens. The feeling among the miners, and those who hr►ve been thrown in contact with these roving tribes, amounts to such bitterr.ess of hate that the greatest cruelties will no doubt be perpetrated. It is imponsible for friends to devise EASTMAN'S STREET RAILS. The special correspondent of the Standard for the Paris Exhibition writes as follows of Mr. Z. EASTMAN'S new plan of street railways. The sub ject is one of much importance, and we believe cal culated to bestow a benefit on cities of which they have now little idea. The sooner the plan is tested by actual experience, the better it will be for city corporations, for rate-payers, for traffic, and for general ease and comfort. " Mr. EASTMAN, United States Consul at Bristol, exhibits a new plan of street railways, which really promises to obviate most of the disadvantages attending the system heretofore adopted. The two principal objections justly urged by the public against street railways are —firstly, that the wheels of conveyances, other than those specially adapted for the rails, get into the rails, and cannot be got out again without a great jerk and wrench ; and secondly, that horses are apt to slip if they tread upon the surface of the rails. Mr. EASTMAN'S plan appears to me to obviate both these difficulties. His rails are wide and fiat, and are roughed so that a horse's foot would not slip upon them. Along the centre runs a shallow concave groove, made sufficiently wide for the wheel of a carriage to have easy play in it, so that it could be got out without any jerk, and yet not of sufficient width to admit a horse's foot. Ordinary carriages could run in these grooves, and could leave the track, when desired, without difficulty, and the smoothness of the motion, and the very greatly-increased ease of traction would save horse-flesh, and, indeed, enable an animal with a heavy load to do the work of three along an ordinary road. These grooves, although depressed, could from their form be readily cleared of mud and dirt. The rail is very strong, and little liable to injury. A flange runs along the under side, which adds strength, and acts as a stiffener. In the space between the rails the in ventor proposes to use asphalte or other semi-elastic material, which would effect a further economy in horses by saving their feet from the wear and tear inflicted upon them in passing over newly-maca damised roads. Mr. EASTMAN'S plan is well worthy of a trial." If Mr. EASTMAN'S plan had only the effect of saving that noble animal the horse, this alone, would be a sufficient reason for a full and fair trial. The traffic of the principal thoroughfares in such a city as London, cuts to pieces any material save the hardest stone. These streets have, therefore, to be paved with blocks of granite at a❑ immense expense, and even when thus formed, the object is scarcely attained. The pavement, although the most lasting of any material yet tried, is destructive to the horse. It is scarcely possible to walk from one end of Oxford-street to another without seeing a block of vcl►icles, originating in the fall of a horse. Let any one observe the feet of the wretched brute as it gets into motion, and imagine himself dragging a load on ice, and he will understand the sensations of the animal. A fine horse stepping out on these blocks of granite shows a couple of fore-legs destined soon to be shivered into the object one sees at a cab stand, with knees bent and swollen, head drooping, and spirit broken. Anything more pitiable than such a wreck, could scarcely be presented to the lover of the animal, and nothing but the constant repetition of the sight could so blunt our feelings as to see it without a pang. These thoroughfares are formed to bear the wheel traffic by the sacrifice of the horse, which becomes used up before its time, and in the process, passes through intense suffering. But how does thispavement accomplish the end, for which it enacts so terrible a penalty ? Any person who is in the habit of walking through the streets of London, can tell their normal state, is one of repair. There is no period, from one end of the city to another, in which some barrier is not raised by hundreds of workmen tearing up and replacing the pavement. The labour of keeping it in repair is thus shown to be enormous. The fiiction is seen from the rattle and jolting of the vehicle, which increases as the surface becomes more-uneven, when the wear to the street, to the carriage, and to the horse, increases in proportion. Then the noise in the paved thoroughfares swells to an incessant roar, preventing conversation except in a scream, either in the cab, on the side-ways, and often even in the shops. There were many objections raised to Mr. TRAIN'S plan, but this would, even allowing many of the objections to be sound, have been a vast im provement on our present barbarous system of street paving. Mr. EASTMAN'S plan meets and removes most of the objections urged. If the use of these iron rails becomes general, the grinding of stone into powder by the friction of wheels will cease ; and the roads, therefore, will be comparatively free from dust when dry, and of mud when wet. The leading idea of the invention, as stated by Mr. EASTMAN, is to furnish au iron road or rail for the public use ; one that can be utilised by common carriages. There is no mono poly proposed in this plan, as in other schemes dis cussed. The rails are to be of a broad concave form, adapted for all kinds of vehicles which will run along, following each other, in one continuous stream. There will be no difficulty in passing out of the line—not even the check that a rut would cause. Between the rails will be an easy and sure path for the horses, of a semi-elas tic substance, which can with ease be kept in repair, for it is not the horses' feet, but the fric tion of wheels that destroys the road. The loss of life in the streets of London, arising from reckless driving and Hocked-up thoroughfares, has become too serious to admit of delay in supplying a remedy. The checks to traffic cause such serious incon venience, prevent appointments being kept, bring passengers to a platform after the train has left, and to the pier when the steamboat is off, that they have long called though in vain for reform. Underground and overground railways have been tried and failed to meet the case. Foot-bridges across, and EAST MAN'S rails along the streets, are the improvements at present most worthy of the prompt attention of city corporations.—Anglo-American l imes. STEAM RAILROADS, Cost of steam roads ... Length of main, lines, miles Length of branch lines, miles Number of through passengers, carried Number of tons carried... Cost of maintaining roads, machinery, and operating ... ••• Receipts of companies ... Passengers killed Passengers injured Employes killed... Employes injured Others killed ... Others injured ... HORSE RAILROADS. Length of roads, miles Cost of roads ••• ••• ~ Number of passengers carried Total expenses ... Total receipts ... ••• Persons killed or injured The Senate of Delaware, previous to its final adjournment, rejected the bill to incorporate the Maryland Canal and Railroad Company. In San Francisco, it is reported, there has been tried, with success, a machine intended to level rail way tracks, lay tics, deposit rails, lay them in their places, " and almost construct a railroad." The amounts which the western Vermont towns will be required to contribute in aid of the lately chartered railroad from Bennington to Chatham, New York, have been divided as follows :—Ben nington, $125,000 ; Manchester, $40,000 ; Dorset, $25,000 ; Danby , $ 40,000 ; Wallingford, $25,000 ; Tinmouth, $B,O OO ; Clar e n don, s l o,ooo.—Total, $273,600. We hear that the railroads centreing in Spring field, and nearly all the rest in Ne w E ng l an d , began on Monday, April 1, the weighing of all the mails carried by them, at every station where they are received, the mail cars were provided with scales for that purpose. This is done, and will be continued through this month, in conformity with a circular from the post-office de partment. The idea was doubtless suggested by the general demand of the railrords for more pay for mail carrying. For several years the Western Railroad has had no contract with the post-office department, but has carried the mails and received a f y or th it.e department paidr reckoning. e for the s u e n r d v c r e p , protesttrusting what to the a day The railroads say that the post- o ffi ce wan t s t w ice as much room as the expresse s , b u t i s w illi ng t o p a y only b halfl yoffer to much p as roads The according department to willthe weight of mail m a tt er carried, but the roa d s w ill probably a insist that room and bulk form the proper basis for payment. The mails are to be restored to the railroad be• tween Boston and Lowell, and the slow coach busi. ness given up. The Philadelphia Ledger, of the 29 th inst. , s tates that the P ennsy l vania Railway C om p a ny have bought and pos sess the Colum b us an d Indiana Cen tralalready bee n Railroad, g i v i ng the compan y a continuous line from Phil a d elphia to Ind i anapo li s . The bar gaining fo r th e Pacific Railroa d o f Missouri has commenced. That conclu d e d, it will remain to acqui re th e line from I n dianapolis through Terre Haut e an d Alton to St. L ou is; and then the company will control a line extending from Phila delphia t o th e western terminus o f the eastern divi sion of the Union Pacific Railroad, wherever that may be. The Union Pacific Railroad, Kansas branch, was opened to-day for the commissioner to examine the seventh section of the road, extending to Saline River, 45 miles west of Fort Riley track. They are laying rails and progressing at the rate of a mile and a half a day, and the cars will reach the town of Salina, 50 miles beyond Fort Riley, and 468 miles west of St. Lewis on Saturday. One-half of the business portion of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, has been burned. The dre began in the post-office. In all 60 buildings were consumed. The fire is believed to have been incendiary- THE BURNING OF THE LARGEST HOTEL IN AME RICA.—The St. Louis Republican gives a full account of the total destruction by fire of the Linnell Hotel in that city. The fire broke out in one of the servants' rooms on the seventh (the highest) storey, and rapidly spread down wards until the whole building was a heap of ruins. The engines were powerless to stay its progress, the great height of the building rehdering it almost impossible to throw water fairly on the roof, and when this was accomplished (SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—The public will read with much satis faction the confirmation by Lord Stanley last night of the intelligence already published, that France and Prussia have accepted a conference on the Luxemburg question, and that consequ en tl y th ere are well-grounded hopes that the recent dispute will be " speedily and amicably settled." We have had too recent an experience of a Conference for the prevention of a war in the case of the Danish quarrel to take it for granted that a peaceful arrangement must necessarily follow a meeting of diplomatists; but in the present case the interests of the two principals lie so plainly in the mainten ance of peace, and the intervening Powers are so sincere in their promotion of it, that we have every reason to hope that the Conference will not be un successful. At least, we may congratulate our selves that the Government of this country has laboured effectively in bringing the antagonists to reason. The action of England, Russia, and Austria has been such as becomes first-class States which feel themselves the guardians of European interests. They have taken the fairest and, as far as we can judge, the most prudent course with the two antagonists. They have seen that two great Powers, sundered by Jealousy on the one side and suspicion on the other, were face to face on a ques tion of no great importance in itself, but made dan g erous in the highe s t degree b y t h e temper and position of the two rivals. There can be no difficulty in apportioning the blame ; nor ought we to shrink from speaking the truth on the matter. France was the first mover in the affair, and her action was such as made it difficult for Prussia to avoid deeming it a challenge. Although Prussia had no legal right to keep a garrison in Luxembur g , her troops were, at any rate, in posses sion, as they had been for 50 years. Prussia did nothing new, she only continued to hold the fortress, as it had been held during nearly two generations. For the French Emperor to make a bargain with a minor Sovereign to whom Luxemburg has been committed in the interest of Europe—for him to stipulate for the transfer of a fortress in which there was at the very time a Prussian garrison, was as ill judged an expedient as could have been adopted. Assuming that the destruction of the old Confedera tion took away the right of Prussia to garrison what was no longer a Federal fortress, and that it was the duty of France to demand that a military change should be made consistent with the new political con dition, still the proper mode of taking action in the matter would have been by addressing Prussia her self and the great Powers with whose sanction Prus sia had originally held Luxemburg. A bargain and sale behind the back of the garrisoning Power, and when all was done,l a summons to march out since Luxemburg had become, by the complaisance of the Dutch King, a French Department, was an offhand way of doing things in which Prussia could not be expected to acquiesce. It is, indeed, wonderful that a man of the experience, the tact, and the know ledge of national feeling possessed by Napol eon should have thought that a powerful State would allow itself to be so treated. In all this, the first part of the business, we hold France to have been in the wrong. Since then, however, the position of the controversy has altered. France, therefore, now stands on different ground, and in submitting to the three Powers th e question of Prussia's right to garrison Luxemburg the French Emperor raises a discussion which he has a right to raise, and the decision on which ought to be independent of his attempt to incorporate the territory himself. We may approach the controversy as if there had been no bargaining with his Majesty of Holland, and consider it as referring merely to a recti fication of military arrangements rendered neces sary in consequence of last year's events. We must suppose that the neutral Powers have seen matters in this light, since they urge Prussia to abandon her right of garrisoning Luxemburg. This has by some been unaccountably considered as if they had taken part with France. No accusation can be more unfounded. On the proceeding with which the dispute began—the attempt of the French Emperor to obtain possession of the Duchy—the three Powers are not now called upon to pronounce an opinion, since, either spontaneously or in defer ence to their 'opinion, the Emperor has renounced such a pretension. The difficulty during the last fortnight has been to bring Prussia to agree to the conditions which the three Powers think just, and to which France was the first to assent. When of two parties to a dispute the one agrees to the proposals of the arbitrators, while the other rejects them, it must needs,happen that the arbitrators will seem to take part against the obstinate one, although it may well be that the other was originally the more to blame. In this sense only have the medi ating Powers been unfavourable to Prussia. Their demands, so far from being inspired by hostility, have been framed with a real regard to the interests of Germany. The settlement proposed by them seems the most just and feasible under the circum stances. It is proposed deliberately, and with the solemnity of a judicial award, and Prussia can ac cept it as the judgment of Europe, and without any apprehension of being thought to yield to menace. If the friends of peace have found it difficult to reason with Prussia on this matter, one ought not to be surprised. The Germans know that French statesmen of the highest rank have openly advocated a war of conquest to obtain possession of the Rhine, and that this ambition possesses in an extraordinary degree the people and the army. They remember the demands of last year, they remember the which preceded them. But i n y i e l d- Auxerre speech, ing Luxemburg under the conditions proposed Ger many does not really suffer any loss. If the terri tory be neutralised and the fortress razed, the new Confederation will be really stronger than if it held the mightiest fortifications beyond its own limits. The illegality of keeping soldiers on foreign ground would always rankle in the minds of people and avert the sympathies of the world in any future dis pute. On the other hand, a disposition to defer to the wishes of the chief States of Europe will attract to Prussia and the new Confederation an esteem which will be worth a dozen Luxemburgs. When the territory is neutralised under the sanction of all the great Powers, and when Germany finally retires within her own political limits, it will be difficult for foreign ambition to assail the Confederation without bringing on itself the censure and hostility of all Europe. To obtain such a condition of things is worth a greater sacrifice than the abandonment of almost any fortress. THE " WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON FRANCE AND FRUSSIA.—The present moment is a critical one for the French Empire. Accustomed hitherto to look upon herself as the leader in European politics, France has herself contributed to the rapid rise of a power which bids fair to displace her. Europe, dur- ing the Austro-Prussian war, accepted the noti - that the designs of Prussia were fully understood and allowed by the ruler of France. It was the belief of the world that Count Bismarck was permit ted to prosecute his plans upon condition that an issue favourable to Prussia should also result in some substantial advantage to France. The over tures made by France after the war pointed out (and so peremptorily repelled by Count Bismarck) point to the probable existence of a previous ar rangement between France and Prussia. The up shot of the transaction has been very different from what was anticipated by both France and Prussia. Successful beyond her wildest dreams, Prussia, at the close of an unprecedentedly short campaign, found herself virtual mistress of the whole of Ger many. She had in one week struck Austria to the ground, had rudely handled those of her enemy's allies who had confronted her, and was following up her successes on all sides with ruthless vigour. France then threw her sword in between the combatants, and succeeded, after much harrassing negotiation, in bringing about an arrangement. Austria seceded from Germany, and left Prussia full play. Count Bismarck appears, immediately after the war, to have persuaded most of the Ger man Governments that France was more to be feared by them than Prussia, and to have driven them into his toils much in the same way that animals in the Cape are driven into a pitfall. The result is that Prussia has either under her imme diate military command, or at her back, the whole of Germany (with the exception of Austria's Ger man provinces), and is rapidly bringing them under the organization which proved so effective against her foes. The latest question which has arisen between her and France shows her con fident both in herself and her allies, and de termined to make no concessions whatever to her quondam friend and indirect supporter. Meanwhile, France has to face the fact of a united Germany along her frontiers, and to submit to the humiliation of seeing the policy of the man whom, in her enthusiasm, she called the " Arbiter of Europe " completely and ignominiously check mated. ..This result is most galling to the French people, and any careful observer cannot have failed to mark how intense is the feeling of France upon hand of Imperial Government so to gag the press the matter, and how difficult it is even for the strong that no symptoms of her profound emo tion may reach the outer world. We cannot but think that the Emperor Napoleon has himself to thank for the cruel position in which he is placed. He was the man who inaugurated in Europe those high-sounding fallacies which were to supplant public right and international law. He can hardly have been so innocent as to imagine that the specious nonsense put forward by him for his own ends would be admitted in his case, and never urged in their own by the few un scrupulous statesmen whose successful treachery has induced befooled Europe to call them great. The whole of his dealings with Austria in 1859 ; his subsequent conduct in " defending" the tem poral power of the Pope by abandoning him ; his compact with Prussia, and the course pursued by Him in the negotiations immediately preceding the war, evince a complete disregard for all public right. The Emperor Napoleon cannot complain of 131 - marck and Italy for following his example. It Is good he should see that abandonment of principle can never generate public and international mora lity ; that when a man in the highest place in Europe sets the example of utterly disregarding treaties, and outraging public law, he is sowing the wind, and must expect to reap the whirlwind. Outraged justice is sometimes slow in its ven geance, but that vengeance is none the less terrible and inevitable. We trust that France may not be led by her indignation to throw herself into a war of which no man living could foretell the issue. One conclusion, however, results clearly from the trans actions of the last twelve years—if Europe is not to be turned into a camp—if purposeless and bloody wars are not to be enkindled—if nations are not to lye with the knife at their throat—if convul sion and chaos are not to be enthroned on the Continent, rulers will have to fall back upon the old-fashioned notions of right and wrong, for which their guilty ingenuity never can find a safe sub stitute. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER-APRIL 27. -• • Another scanty supply of wheat. Trade firm, and 2g per qr. advance on last week's prices. Beans and pea° sold readily at 2s per qr. dearer. Wheat, white Ns 74s Bean., Mazagan......33 1 3 s red' 6lll 67. Middle and small_.44s 48s Barley... l2B 43s Peas, white 381 421 Oats .... —s s grey ..3tis 420 CHELMSFORD—APRIL 26. This market was fairly supplied with wheat, the host samples of which wero disposed of at an advance of about is per qr., and inferior sorts remained unaltered—busines s being- by no moans brisk. All spring corn_ al_ ln of Avee k lS prices, but few transactions. --- Wheat, old white.... 528 66d Peas, Partridge 408 42 ., 8 new 53s 09s Wh ite ...... __Ms 30 ° old red ~ 14 60s &fling, 303 4os new .. 53s 628 Dun.... ..... ...3Es 4 " a Barley.... 26s 3.43 dit , o, new....--e 45, Chevalier 4 , s 53s Beans, Tick, old ......408 Grind.ng 26s 32s Malt 66s 748 688 76a Oats .• • 2os 26s H m a a r z r a o g w a n nne e t w w . ie . ..k . .sl 3 2 9 ol i s 4 4 4 36 3 5 ; Chevalier ABERDEEN—APRIL 26. Sellers are still holding out for high rates, and it is diffi cult to give quotations, but the tendency on the whole is upwards. White wheat 58s Od to 62s 0d) 621 b 1 1 1 bushel. Red wheat 50 s Od t o 54 s 0d ) Potato oats 27s Od to 28s Od 4011) ig bushel. Common oats 26$ 6d to 27s Od Bere 35s 6d to 36s 6d Barley bushel. Gd to 36s 6d) "3113 Oatmeal •20s 6d to 21s Gd ? boll of 2 801 b. Flour, fine 47s Od to —s Od lit sack of 28 01 h. V KIRKCALDY—APRIL 27. Fair supplies of all kinds of grain, which brought fully last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First tBs 6d ' 35s 6d 29s 6d , tiecond 603 Od I 38s Od 30s bd Third 62s 01 39s Od 32s Od Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southanipton.....May 20. Ditto, via Marseilles ...........May Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet, .........May Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena .May China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton.. May 3 Ditto, via Marseilles May 14 Faitland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India, via Southampton May 3• Ditto, via Marseil es .... May We are glad to see that Austria has decided on adhering to the Money Convention between France , Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland. This will liar' monise the coins in use, of the most important countries on the Northern shores of the Mediter ranean, and give to the convention a commanding power in Europe. A committee of Austrian bankers and employe's has been engaged for a fortnight ill discussing the currency, and has agreed to and issue its report. The Austrian florin, adopted in 185 8 is divided into a hundred neukreutzer, and is eq" to two shillings, or 21 francs. The committee pro: pose the adoption of a gold standard ; the vi a pieces to be of the of 10 and 4 florins, eq ual to 25 and 10 francs. The silver pieces in harmony with the gold pieces are to be of 2 florins, 1 florin , and 40 neukreutzer. The 40-neukreutzer piece is of the exact value of 1 franc ; the florin, therefore, is equal to 2/ francs, and the 2 florins to 5 franesi This is a great step i n th e r i g ht di r ection, an d Austria has shown her w i s d om i n so promptly, an d of her own accord, coming in to this convention. By news from Melbourne, March 27, w e loln that the Intercolonial Postal Conference has resolveo to support the Panama route, the Galle and Tort!! Straits routes being considered prejudicial w Victoria. Births. BUNBURY—On the 29th inst., the wife of Philip Bunbal' Esq., of a daughter. FREELAND—On the 28th inst., at 8, Dorset-place, the 'W ife of Anthony Wood Freeland, Esq., of a son. LACY—On the 28th inst., at 25, Finsbury-square, tho wife of Capt. De Lacy Lacy, 61st Regiment, of a daughter. Marriages. BINKS —BOWER —On the 27th inst., at St. Giles's, ambe !" well, Wm. It. Bioko, Esq., of Peckham, Surrey, to youngest daughter of the late Valentine Bower, Esq°, Peckham-rye, Surrey. GEnGE —READ—On St. Mark's Day, at the parish clair e t " Stretham, Ely, John K. Gedge, of 25, Keppel-stre,2, Russell-square, London, to Mary Denham, second s'l'a viving daughter of the late W. E. Road, Esq., of Orchat House. Deaths. - ENIMOTT —On the 27th inst., at Guernsey, C. Emmott, V 416 1" aged 72. LLANOVER —On the 27th inst., at Great Stanhope-street/ Mayfair, the Right Hon. Lord Llanover, aged 62. SCOTT—On the 26th inst., at Marseilles, John Scott, Yn" of Hyde-park-street, aged 82. WIGAN —On the 28th inst., at Lapley, Staffordshire, Edmund Wigan, Esq., aged 78. London: Printed and Published by WILLIA.M ANDUE\,i; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE STIN Office, I Strand, in the Precinct of tho Savoy, ill the County Middlosex.—Tuesclay, April SO, 1887. fit. , kkk k.. Melll, this irr rtrnF NO Acroi r I A' RI Ti l 1-41 80 m0. Sol by tl fl},. " ran Pa r motif, ~~ I'. ASV Prop} renay disco, 7v, bli;N Ati,, Fix _ e,r) 'rig, deenr lint] M. 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