The Sun. — London, England, 1870-07-16 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS,-YESTDERAY. The settlement of the account, although it has been on much less disastrous terms than was expected, has, nevertheless, witnessed the weakness of some members. Four declarations of inability to meet engagements, have again been announced, and it is also rumoured that two well-known firms have requirrd assistance. The markets to day have been in a very depressed state, owing to the rumour of a declaration of war, and badness has been almost at a standstill. Consols have fallen per cent„ being quoted at 91k, 91A for delivery, and 91k, 91 for August. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 91k, 91g. Bank stock, 230, 235. Exchequer bills par to ss. prem. Indian Five per Cents., 1101, 111, and Indian bonds 205., 255. prem. Much heaviness has been noticed in the market for foreign bonds, and at the close, onthe rumour of war gain ing strength, by the fall in the price of Rente to 64i, most stocks became uasaleable. Italians are quoted at 47 to 48 ; Spanish (1867), 24} to 25; do (1869), 24} 242 ; Turkish Five per Cents., 40 to 41 ; Egyptian (1868) 72 to 73 ex div. English railway stocks have suffered in sympathy with foreign bonds, and a general reduction has taken place in prices. There has been very little inquiry for Indian railway stocks, at about late rates. ` Canadian shares also have been flat and without change. As regards foreign shares, Lombards have been dull, and about lower. In Bank shares very few transactions have taken place. Imperial Ottoman have been A lower, at 2 and 2A prem. Business in Telegraph shares has been at a standstill, and prices have shewn no change of importance. Miscellaneous securities also have commanded but little alteration, and prices have had a drooping tendency. Telegraph Construction, 25k. The Russia, from New York, has brought £16,000. The directors of the West of England and South Wales Banking Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. The report of the Alliance Bank, to be presented on the 21st inst., shews an available total of £23,698, including o previous balance of £3,379, and recommends a dividend of 10s. per share, or at the rate of 4 percent. per annum, which will absorb £19,413, and leave, after an appropriation of £728 to building and furniture accounts, the sum of £3,557 to be carried forward. With a view to concentrat ing tho business of the bank the directors have arranged to transfer their Southwark branch on the 18th instant to the London Joint-Stock tank. The deposits held are £1,461,423, being an increase of £190,170 on the corre sponding date of last year, and the paid-up capital re mains at £970,650 and the reserve at £9,346. The discount market has been fairly supplied with capital to-day. The demand for accommodation has been rather quieter, and three months' paper has been taken at 2/. to 24 per cent. Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake thus report on the state of the bullion market : —300,000 sovereigns have been withdrawn from the Bank for Buenos Ayres, and £40,000 per Good Hope, for the Cape. £157,000 in bars have been purchased by the Bank, and there being at present no export demand for gold, it is probable that further large amounts may be sent in. The arrivals are over £600,000. There has been no demand for silver for the East, but some inquiry for Holland, all amounts on the market being taken at 608 d. per oz. standard. The market is this day firm at the above quotation. Mexican dollars have been sold during the last week at 599 d. per oz. A consi derable amount is reported to be on the way from Mexico; these, it is stated, may probably be expected towards the end of the month. Exchange on India for banks drafts at sixty days' sight is is. mid. to is. llid. per rupee. India Government Loan Notes are without alteration. We quote Four per Cents 92i to 93 ; Five per Cents, 102 to 103 ; and Five-and-a-Hall per Cents, 1091 to 110. With reference to the progress of the public sales of colonial wool, Messrs. Helmuth and Schwartze remark that up to date 165,000 bales have been catalogued, leaving about 100,000 bales still for disposal. May closing rates have ruled throughout with remarkable uniformity. The firm tone in the continental market has contributed to this steadiness, which, moreover, has un doubtedly found a strong support in the circumstance that three clear months were allowed to the trade to dis pose of the enormous quantities offering. But the ab sence of fluctuation in so long a series also argued a very healthy position of the article, the more as disturbing in flnences from without have not been wanting. Under more precariatis conditions the serious political compli cations of the last eight days could not have failed to greatly embarrass a market flooded with supplies in an exceptional degree. But the war apprehensions have hitherto produced but a slight impression upon the sales, and the prices, which hardly at any time could be called quotably lower, immediately regained their former firm ness with the return of more peaceful intelligence. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done, GCVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 911 921 Pict 5p c Jan & July 1894. 101 102 911, 1, 21, 11, 4 Brazilian, 1865, 5p c .... 90 92 Do for Account 92, 11 Egyptian, 1868, 7 p c.. .. 77 79 Three per Cent Reduced 92 924 75, 31, 52 911, 28, li Do Rail Deben 7 p • • 97 99 New 3 per Cent 921, 14, 24 Italian, 1861, 5p c ... ._ _ _ Exchequer Bills, March Is, 6spm 51, 491, 501, 48 par Peruvian, 1865, 5p 0 .... 87 89 Do, June ls, 6s pm 874, 84 Bank Stock 233, 234 233 235 Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c.. 30 32 304, 2 India 5 per Cents 11611114 Russian, 1866, 91 5p c 1101, 1114 921, 901 India Bonds 2 0 5, 25 s p m Do Nicolas 4p c 21s prem 68 1, 74 Can 6pc Jan&JulylB77-84 10311041 Spanish, 1867, 3pc 103/ . 251, 5,1, 41, 6, 51 Do March & Sept. 105 106 Do, 1869, 3p c Do 5p c Jan & July .. 951 961 25 96 Turkish, 1854, 6p c B5 87 Do Inscribed Stock .. 95 97 Do, 1815, 5p c Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 971 984 411, 3, 11, 3, 401, 1 Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1865, 6p c November 1878 lOB 109 66, 7, 21 Mauritius 6p c Jan and U.S. 5-20 Bonds, 6p c 1882 86 87 July 1873 lOl 103 86, 71, 61 New S Wal 86 es 5 p clB7l-76 100 101 Do do 1885 86 87 101 4 New Zealand 6p c 1891 lO9 111 Do 10-40 Bnds, spc 1904 84 86 Do 5p c Do 5p c Consolidated 981 991 171, I 981 x d Illinois Central Shares -126 108xd Do 6p e Mar & Sept 1891 111 113 1061, 7 Do June & Dec 1891 109 111 Atlantic and GW R Con Pict 6p c Jan & JulylB9l 112 113 Mortgage Bonds - DoApril & Oct 1833-85.. 111 112 1111 48 50 93 94 RAIL WAYS, ... 86 88 Do 2nd do Scrip 76 77i Do Ist Pref Bonda Grand Trunk of Canada 38i 38 2nd Pref Stock Do 3rd Pref Stock 120 121 Grand Trunk of Canada 4th Pref Stock 130 131 Great Indian Pen g 5 p c 10611071 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 77 Great Eastern . 38 Great Northern 12L, 20 Do A Great Western 69 70 69, 70, 69 Great Western of Canada 151 151 Lancashire & Yorkshire 133 131 Do Op c Bonds, 1873 99 101 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 391 40 Do 58 do, 1877-8 97 99 Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 141 151 Do 5p c pref, issued 80 34 pm 15 Madras guar 5 p c Lon and North-Western 12611271 N. Railway of Canada, 127, 8, 61, 71 6p c Ist Pref Bonds Lon and South-Western 891 301 Oude and Rohilkund g 90 5 p c Man, Shef, and Lincoln 50 51 Scinde, Punjaub, and 501 Delhi guar 5 p c Metropolitan 69, 1 g 7 pc Midland 127 129 Belgian E Junction .... 2 21 North British North-Eastern Consols 14211431 Dunaburg and Witepsk 18 19 1421, 31 Dutch-Rhenish 23 24 South-Eastern 74 75 Eastern of France 23 24 Atlantic and St Lawrnce 79 81 Great Luxembourg Bombay, Banda, and 131 Central India, g 5 p c.. 10511061 Lemberg Czernowitz gua Buff & Lake Huron Pref 5 6 7p c l6l 161 Do 51 p c Bonds, 1872-3-4 80 83 Northern of France Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5p c East Indian, g 5 p a .-7 llOlllll (Limited) guar 7pa .. 16 17 1101, 111 San Paulo (L) guar 7p c 201 21 Grand Trunk Canada Do Equip Mort Bnds, 1 132, 141 charge 6p c 241 251 BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 10 Agra Bank (L) A 10i 11 10Imperial Ottoman.... 21 21 pm 25 Alliance (L) 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 24 241 20 London and County 50 51 50 British N American 53 55 15 London Joint-Stock 33L 341 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 16 17 20 Lon and Westmnster 61 63 25 Char Merc of India 29 30 10 Metropolitan. 10 City . 111 121 20 Midland (L) i dis,i pm 25 Colonial 4 Consolidated (L) 20 Eng, Scot, and Anse 17/ 14 25 . Union of Australia.. 43 45 20 Imperial 04 18/ TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. 300 Anglo-American L) 80 85 .6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) 142 142 Japan Extension.. 321 dis 100 Atlantic ll 13 25 Indo-European (L).. 13 17 100 Do 8p c 3 British Australn (L).. 3231 dis and Malta (L) . . 6 7 10 British IndExten (L) 6 61 10 Mediter rn E x (L) : 52 61 10 British Indian Sub- n Pnma and S. P c f c (L) 3 2 dis marine (L) 2 China Submarine (L) 3131 dis 20 floc Trans Fra nce (L) 14; 151 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 100 Submarine 240 250 and Malta (L) .... 8; 91 1 Do Scrip 2l 23 8; • 10 Wlndia&Panama(L) 62 71 10 Great Northern .... •-.11 111 . • . MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. Pd Pd Anglo4ustrian Bnd- 30 London Fin ASSOC (L) 18 17dis holdenf Certificates 11 21 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .... 21 23 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 141 15 2 Lon & Prov Marine (L) 11 pm 30 Bolclow-Vaughan (L) 35 45pm 100 Madras Irrig & Canal, 100 Boston City (U.S.) 5 gsp c by Ind Gov. 102 103 Brit c Sterling Loan.. 88 90 2 Mauritius Land (L) 1 dis, par 4 Brit & Fgn Marine (L) 2 3 / 4 21pm 5 Natnl Diset Comp (L) 111 111 27 Canada Company.... 77 80 21 N Zealand Loan and 10 Ceylon Company (L) 41 31 (EA Mere Agency I L) ll pm 35 City Offices (L) ~ . t 241 231 dis 5 N Zealand Loan and 20 Colonial (L) - 1 dis. par Trust (L) 5 Com Union Assurnce 21 21 pm 61 N Britsh and Merc (L) 28 30 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 21 21 5 OceanMarinelnsur 131 141 21 • 50 P and 0 Steam 4O 42 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb lO9 114 50 Rhymney Iron 271 Ebbw Vale Steel (L).. 9 8 dis 15 Do New 9l 101 93, 7, 6 60 Royal Mail Steam 100 Egypp p cV'roy Loan, 20 Tel Con and Main (L) 251 - 253 guar by Egyp Gov. 95 98 251 13 Fore-StWarehouse (451 61 pm 2 Thames and Mersey 10 Fgn and Colonial Gov Marine Insur (L) . • 31 31 pm Trust 6p c Bondi.. 98 100 St Tobacco 6p c Loan, 71 Gen Credt & Disct (L) 1 Ipm guar by Italian Gov. 85 89 14 Gen Stm Navigation 29 31 5 Trust and Loan Co of 7 Hooper's Tel Works 21 11 dis Upper Canada . 20 Hudson's Bay 46 20 Union Steamship (L) 21 23 45Indrbbr, Gut Per, and 6 United Dis Corpm (L) 11 1 dis Tel Works (L) . 451 461 5 IrnivMarine lnsur IL' 551 pm 20 InterillFinan SoCtL) lf 11dis 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7P c It Irriß (Can Cavour) 38 4pm Mortgage Loan.... 77 80 100 Do 6p c Bonds, re- 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 dis deemaKe 1870 MARKETS. MARK-LANE, FRIDAY.—A rather more easy feeling nas been apparent in the grain trade to-day, in consequence of an out break of hostilities between France and Prussia being now con sidered to be almost inevitable. Prides have acquired a hardening tendency, but any important upward movement is checked by the more favourable agriculturalprospects, and by the near approach of the harvest. Very few samples of English wheat have been on sale to-day, and the arrivals from abroad have not been extensive. For all qualities the de mand was firmer, and prices were well maintained. The supply of barley was moderate. The trade was firm, and prices were well supported. Malt was dull, at late rates. Oats were in request, and the quotations had an improved tendency. Beans were firm, and peas were quite as dear. Flour was qiiiet' at late rates. Arrivals.—English and Scotch—wheat, 600 ; barley, 40 ;• malt, 400 ; beans, 60. Foreign—wheat, 17,040 ; barley, 11,980 ; oats, 63,100 ; maize, 4,830 ; peas, 1,270 ; flour, 1,130 sack 7,950 barrels. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—This market was fully attended to-day. There was a good demand for wheat, at 2cl. to 3d. per cental advance, chiefly on speculation account. Flour is generally held for ls. advance, which checks business. Beans were unaltered. Oats and oatmeal were a slow sale. Indian corn of good quality was scarce, and brought ls, 6d. per quarter more money. Round yellow, 325. 6d. per quarter. Imports—lreland, : wheat, 172 qrs. ; barley, 125 qrs. ; oats 603 qrs. ; beans, 62 qrs. ; and oatmeal, 505 qrs. Foreign : wheat, 25,325 qrs. ; oats, 2,801 brs. ; beans, 1 qr. ; peas, 1 qr. ; Indian corn, 4,290 qrs. ; flour, 1,260 sacks and 3,541 barrels. LINCOLN CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—This market was well supplied with wheat to-day. Trade was but slow, at late rates. All other grain was the same as last week. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.— The weather con tinues favourable for crops, but the effect this might have on the wheat trade is more than counterbalanced by the threatening aspect of continental affairs. The wheat at this market to-day is held for 2s. advance. Millers buy sparingly. Corn fully as dear. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY. -The supplies have been short. The trade has been as follows :-Beef, from 3s. to ss. 2d. ; mutton, 4s. to ss. 4d. ; lamb, ss. 4s. to Os. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. ; and pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. per 81bs., by the carcase. LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, FRIDAY.-The sugar market is steady, at previous quotations. Barbadoes refined, 28s. 6d. to 295. 6d. ; crystallised Mauritius, 365. 6d. ; Porto Rico, afloat, 235. 7d. and 24. Coffee continues flat at declining values. Plantation Ceylon, tirage, 465. to 495. 6d. ; peaberry, 765. 6d. to 795. : Mocha green, 975. ; Jamaica good ordinary to low middling, 495. 6d. to 60s. The rum market is dull, and prices are easier. Rice afloat has changed hands at late rates. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY. —Tallow is in steady demand, at late rates. Sellers, spot 455., and 465. 6d. to 465. 9d. for October-December. Linseed oil, 31s. 9d.; English brown rape, 425. 6d. to 425. 9d.; refined, 445. 6d. to 455.; foreign, 48s. ; Ameri can refined petroleum, ls, 7d. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY,—Our market has assumed a very gloomy aspect to-day, and buyers retain their orders wherever practicable ; the transactions are, consequently, very meagre, and quite insufficient to form a list of prices. Quotations are, however, even lower and irregular. Yesterday there were symptoms of rather more steadiness, owing to the more peaceful news from the Continent. The latest advices, however, being more warlike, as a natural result our market has relapsed into a dull state, and the cotton market in Liverpool is in sympathy with ours. In yarns there is nothing doing for shipping, and the home trade are only supplying their immediate wants, being able to buy at lower rates than hitherto. The 'cloth market is no better than the yarn market. All our large buyers keep out of the market pending the result of complication on the Continent, as prices will undoubtedly decline farther should war unhappily break out. Quotations, in the absence of busi ness, are purely nominal : and our market closes more de pressed in tone than has been the case for a considerable time past. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—The cotton market opens dull. Sales will probably foot up 7,000 bales. The cotton sales for the week are returned as follows :—Total, 58,460. Speculation and export 4,290 ; export, 6,840 ; actual export, 6,077 ; import, 72,242, of which 36,744 were American ; stock, 599,610, of which 320,280 are American. The trade took 47,330 bales. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, FRIDAY.—There is no market to-day, being fair holiday. CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 114 s; seconds, 1095.; thirds, 1035.; fourths, 995.; fifths, 835.; sixths, 60s. 2,220 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts, 1165,; seconds, 1155.; thirds, 108 s. 100 firkins in the market. TRIPLE BIRTH NEAR PONTEFRACT.—A few days ago the Rev. Joseph Mann, vicar of Kellington, near Pontefract, received her Majesty's gift of £3 for the wife of a platelayer named Joseph Drew, of Eggborough, whose wife had had three children at a birth—one boy and two girls, full grown and healthy. THE NORWICH ELECTION.—Mr. MolliSh, Q.C., has been retained on behalf of Mr. Huddlestone, the Con servative candidate for Norwich, in connection with the legal proceedings about to be commenced with a view to the unseating of Mr. Tilled, the new member for that city. THE QUEEN AND THE DRESDEN EXHIBITION.— Her Majesty the Queen of England has, as we hear, graciously promised to lend eight pictures from the galleries of Windsor and Hampton Court, as well as a number of drawings from the Windsor library, to the Holbein Exhibition at Dresden. Besides this most valu able contribution, other loans of importance have been generously promised. Thus the Berlin Museum, and the gallery of Patriotic Friends of Art at Prague, have placed their Holbeins at the service of the committee. There is, therefore, every reason to hope that the undertaking will be a great success.—North German Correspondent. • THE AIRTH PEERAGE.—The question of the Airth peerage is coming before the House of Lords, the petition having been presented of Mrs. Margaret Barclay Allardice, some time residing at G rea t Malvern, in the county of Worcester, now at Quarter House, in the county of Stirling, widow, praying their lordships to allow the petitioner to refer in her printed case to and found on the documents put in, and other evidence adduced on the petitioner's father's claim, and to found on the same before their lordships and their Committee for Privileges as evidence in support of the claim of the petitioner, in so far as their lordships may think fit to accept the same. Their lordships have decided that the petitioner may be allowed to lodge her case. Tin TELEGRAPH CABLE BETWEEN PENZANCE AND SICILY.—In order to insure the greatest possible amount of durability, the most novel and improved plan has been adopted in the manufacture of this cable. In the centre are containsd seven copper conductors, through which the electric spark is transmitted. These are secured in what is commonly known to electricians as " Hooper's core," which consists, first, of a coating of india rubber, then a layer of composition, then comes a third circle of india rubber, and round the whole of these there is encircled two layers of best Russianhemp. As an additional security, on these are entwined 10 stout iron wires. Then last comes the outer skin, which is composed of two layers of tarred hemp. The cable is about 13 inches hi diameter, and 41 inches in circumference. It is enormously strong, and capable of standing a vast amount of strain. The two shore ends are 1 miles long- each of them, and estimated to be equal to nearly seven tons to the mile. THE BABY FARMING CASE AT BRIXTON.— Society will blush, or at least ought to do so, on reading the long list of baby clothes found in various pawnshops in Brixton, the duplicates being in possession of the baby farmers now awaiting their trial. Two children's shirts, stamped with the Order of the Garter and motto, Irani soi qui mal y pense ; two other articles marked with the Order of St. Patrick, and motto, " Quis separabit, 1783," and one with a coronet in the corner, and the initials, " J. 5.," are discoveries which will suggest reflections not very far to seek, coupled as they will be with the evidence of the girl O'Conner that on the 10th of May a gentleman brought a baby, which Waters afterwards said was "a lord's child." and that she had had £2O with it. That was the child on which an inquest was held at Lambeth Workhouse, on the Ist of July. Many more very hand some and costly robes are in the list—white dresses with fine lace insertion, one petticoat marked " Maudie fi," with a cross in red silk and a circle in blue, and satins and silks in abundance. We are not careful to defend the upper and middle classes from suspicion, by casting it upon those lower down in the scale of life, seeing that humanity suffers as much from the frailty of a ser vant as from that of her mistress. But it would of courre be a very unjustifiable induction that all these fine clothes of necessity belonged to fine ladies. Clothes may be given away or stolen, and the higher we get in society the more common are both these things.— Echo. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The Illustrated London News states that the will of General Sir de Lacy Evans, G.C.8., has just been proved in her Majesty's Court in London, and the personalty in this. country was sworn under £BO,OOO. , There are two codicils, feebly written in his own handwriting, executed in 1867-68, signed "De Lacy Evans," by which he makes the following' bequests—viz., to Colonel Wilson, two legacies, being £4,000 and £2,000 ' • to General Sir R. Dacres, £l,OOO and £2,000 ,• Admiral Sir Sydney Dacres, £l,OOO ; to his nephews, John O'Leary, of Fort Shannon £2,000 ; and Mr. Henry O'Leary, of New Zealand,, £3,000; to his head servant, Samuel Smart, £1,500 and £500; and legacies to others. By this will he leaves to his stepson, Mr. Phillip Alexander Hughes (the son of his wife by a forineimarriage),besides other property, such an amount as will, with the value of other bequests, make up twenty thousand pounds, free of duty. He appoints his said two nephews, John and Henry . O'Leary, residuary legatees, which embraces a reversionary bequest of twenty thousand pounds from the Stanford Hall estate, under a codicil of the will of the Honourable Robert Otway, payable on the de cease of Bar oness B ra ye ; and also includes the follow ing presentations made to the gallant general :—A sword presented to him on his return from the Crimea ; a silver Plateau and candelabra presented to him by the officers who were under his command in Spain ; and the stars, crosses, and other decorations conferred • tipon him for disthrg-uished and meritorious services. LAW AND POLICE. ARSON BY A SERVANT. —At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, Sarah Ann Nash, a domestic servant, was tried before the Recorder on a charge of setting fire to a house of which she had been left in charge, in order to conceal a robbery of mon e y, j ewe ll ery , an d clothing to the value of £3O or £4O. She was convicted and sentenced to five years' penal servitude. CHARGE OF SHOOTING AT POLICEMEN.—At the Central Criminal Court, John Leedom, a respectably-dressed young man, 25 years of age, was indicted for feloniously shooting at three constables, John Macdonald, John Whatmore, and George Franklin, with intent to do them grievous bodily harm. On the morning of Sunday, the 6th of June, about one o'clock, the three policemen were standing together at the corner of Cable.street, St. George's-in-the-East, talking. The prisoner passed them, and shortly after wards they saw a flash and heard the report of firearms. They immediately ran after the prisoner, seized him, and took from him a five-chambered revolver, of which one chamber had been exploded, and a dagger without a sheath. On being taken to the station the prisoner said the pistol exploded accidentally, and that he did not fire at any person. The bullet was searched for but could not be found. A ticket for admission to a meeting in support of a " patriotic Irishman" was found in his possession. He gave a correct address, and the em ployer with whom he had worked gave him a good character. The jury after having retired to deliberate, returned into court with a verdict of Not Guilty. DOES FELONY BAR CREDITORSHIP ?- In the matter of George's Wilson's estate, which has become a suit in Chancery, a question came before the Chief Clerk, in Roll's Chambers, as to how far a person having been con victed of felony can establish a claim for debt. An aPPli cation was made in the case in question that the Chief clerk would allow the sum of £66 alleged to be owing by the deceased to Mr, Hermann George Myers. This appli cation was opposed on the ground that Myers had been twice convicted for felony, and subsequently had been sen tenced to 18 months' imprisonment for receiving stolen goods. Myers bad made an assignment of his debts, and under this document the claim was now sought to be established. It was further contended that the Attorney- General could be the only claimant under the circum stances of the conviction, and application was made that the names of the solicitors should appear in the sum monses, so as to be responsible for costs. The Chief Clerk said it was a matter which he could not interfere with and referred it to the judge. THE MONARCH INSURANCE COMPANY.—At Judges' Chambers yesterlay, the case of " The Queen v. Bulwer and others," came before Mr. Justice Smith. Mr. Lewis, solicitor (Lewis and Lewis), applied to his lordship in reference to the question of bail on the removal of the indictment from the Central Criminal Court against the directors of the Monarch Insurance Company, into the Court of Queen's Bench. He proposed that the bail should be in the same amount as before the Lord Mayor—two in £l,OOO each, and each defendant in his own recognisances to 2,000. He was for the prosecution On the Part of the defendants--three of whom were repre sented—it was stated that there was no difficulty as to the amount of bail. It could be given to any amonnt.— Mr. Lewis said three of the defendants had not appeared, and he supposed the indictment as to all six would be re moved by certiorari.—His Lordship presumed that it was so. The Crown Office would see to the inatter.—The bail was to be accepted at the Mansion House—the same as before—and the defendants liberated, to appear next term at the Court of Queen's Bench. ALLEGED POLICE VIOLENCE.—Thomas Sinfield, groom to Mr. Naurse, a gentleman, residing in Piccadilly, was brought before Mr. D'Eyncourt, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, charged with being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting Police-constable Elam, 76 C. From the evidence of Elam, it appeared that he was called to the White Horse public-house, Stafford-street, Piccadilly, where the prisoner, who was drunk, was making a dis turbance. After a great deal of persuasion the prisoner left the house. As soon as he did so he began shout ing, and on his taking him into custody and towards the station he threw himself on his back, and struck him on the chest. With the assistance of other constables he got the prisoner, who was very violent, to the station. Another constable' deposed to going to Elam's assistance, and finding the prisoner kneeling on Elam's stomach, Elam at the time being on his back on the ground. Seve ral witnesses were called for the defence, who stated that the constable (Elam) used great violence towards the prisoner, one of them stating that the prisoner was kicked by him. In reply to Mr. D'Eyncourt the witnesses ad mitted that the prisoner caused a disturbance in the public house, that he had been drinking, but was not drunk, but the constable came into the house to assist in ejecting the prisoner, and that the constable persuaded him to leave, but that he was rather obstinate. Inspector Hamb ling said that so far from the prisoner not being drunk, lie declined two hours afterwards to take the prisoner's master's bail, without his master would undertake to see him home, owing to the condition that he was in, but the master declined, but came a g ain later for him, when he was bailed. Mr. Naurse said he believed that bad temper had been taken for drunkenness. Mr. D'Eyncourt said some persons considered it was a pleasure to a constable to take a man into custody ; but instead of that it must be a great nuisance, causing him extra labour, and often keeping him many hours out of his bed. He generally found that constables were only too glad to get rid of a drunken, awkward customer if they could do so by persua sion, and that when in a disturbance caused by a drunken person any violence took place that the police were always blamed. The prisoner had brought all that occurred on himself through getting drunk, and his own witnesses admitted that he had been drinking, and that the constable told him to go away, and it was further shown that he was very violent, as it required four con= tables to take him. As the prisoner had received some ather rough treatment, he should only fine him 10s. or seven days. A COWARDLY •RUFFIAN.—SaIMIO Pardew, aged 21 years, a shipwright, of No. A 4, Lion-street, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Lushington at the Thames Police court, charged with violently assaulting Anna Maria Bell, barmaid at the Sussex Arms public-house in Upper North-street, East India-road, Poplar. The complainant is the daughter of the landlady of the Sussex Arms. On Saturday last there was an old man in the house taking his pint of beer, when the prisoner came in and asked him to treat him with liquor, which was refused. The pri soner then abused and struck the old man. Miss Bell interfered, and said it was cowardly for a strong young fellow to strike an old man. The prisoner on this attacked the young woman in a brutal manner, got her head in " chancery," struck her several times, tore the hair from her head, and scratched her face. In cross-examination, Miss Bell admitted she called the prisoner a coward, and he was a coward to strike an old man. Elizabeth Palmer, barmaid at the Sussex Arms, confirmed the statement of Miss Bell. She did not supply the prisoner with any drink. The magistrate said the assault was disgraceful and un warrantable, and lie sentenced the prisoner to two months imprisonment and hard labour. The Prisoner : Will you take a fine, sir ? Mr. Lushington : A fine for a brutal assault on a young woman ! Certainly not. Two months' hard labour, and nothing less. 111 :1: SUi\;, LOI\DON, SATURDAY MORM.NG, JULY 16, 1670 THE LATE LORD JUSTICE GIFFARD. Prior to the commencement of the business of the Court of Appeal yesterday, Lord Justice James paid a brief, but eloquent and graceful, tribute to the memory of the late Lord Justice Giffard. His lordship said he had known his learned brother since his early connection with the Court of Chancery as the barrister practising before Vice- Chancellor Wood, the present Lord Chancellor of Eng land ; and had entertained for him a profund admiration, an admiration which had been induced by the discre tion, zeal, and legal ability which he invariably displayed. That admiration had not been diminished, but infinitely increased, by the soundness of the deceased's de cisions both as Vice-Chancellor and Lord Justice. His naturally weak constitution had succumbed to the fatigue which his arduous duties entailed. A brilliant career had thus been prematurely cut short, and the loss which had been sustained would be seriously felt by the judicial bench, and universally regretted by the profession. Sergeant Jacob Hill, of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, has been tried by court-martial at Chatham for having, while recruiting for the Marines in the Hull district, fraudulently enlisted, at Beverley, two men, named Cowley and Flower, belonging to the East York Militia, he not having obtained the permission of the commanding officer of the Militia. The finding and sen tence (in case of conviction) will not be made public till approved by the Admiralty. THE DERBY, OAKS, AND ST. LEGER.—The entries of yearling colts and fillies to run as three-year olds in these races in 1872 has just closed with 191 nomi nations for the Derby, 175 Tor the Oaks, and 196 for the St. Leger. Labt year there was a considerable falling off in the numbers entered, and this year there is a further decrease, especially for the Derby, for which the nomina tions for the three previous years have been 275, 266, and 217 respectively. The numbers are generally diminished by nearly a dozen prior to the race, owing to• the death of nominators. A CHURCHWARDEN CITED FOR REMOVING A CROSS.— On Thursday, Mr. Edmund Mellor, church. warden of St. Clement's Church, Rochdale, was served with a citation from " Granville Harcourt Vernon, M.A., Vicar-General," " for having, on the 12th day of June, 1870, without any just necessity or lawful authority, and contrary to the expressed injunctions of the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, as vicar of the said church, forcibly removed a cross attached to the ledge, reredos,. fixed to the in the Parish Church of St. Clement's, Spotland ; the position os such cross having been approved of by the late Bishop of Manchester." "Mr. Meller is cited to appear in the Cathedral of St. leter's, of York, on the 29th.of July instant. THE Aim/ MEDICAL SERVlCES.—According to some of the Indian journals it has been decided to amal gamate the Indian and British medical services, and the Government of India is said to have been entrusted with the arrangement of details regarding pensions, funds, and subscription to be paid for those who elect for general service, &c. The deputy inspector-generals are to have an inducement offered them to retire, but those who have reached fifty years of age without having attained the inspectorial rank will have to retire compulsorily. Such is the intelligence which has reached us from India, and the Poonah Observer, in particular, states that it has obtained its information from the most reliable sources. Whatever may be the ultimate determination of the authorities in regard to the amalgamation of the medical services, we think our contemporary is, to say the least, premature in its announcement. THE TRIAL OF THE ALLEGED FENIA.NS. Yesterday, at the Central Criminal Court, before the Lord Chief Justice of England, Michael Davitt, a fine looking young man, and John Wilson, weput on their trial on several indictments, charging them with treason felony, by various overt acts. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. H. Cole, Q.C., Mr. Archibald, and Mr. Poland were counsel for the Crown; Mr. F. S. Griffiths, Mr. Collins, Mr. Baker Greene, and Mr. Moody were counsel for Davitt, and Mr. Collins and Mr. Hunt for Wilson. The Attorney-General in a speech of rather more than an hour's length, opened the case for the prosecution. He commenced by giving a short history of the Fenian con spiracy, remarking that it was composed of disaffected Irishmdn and some Americans. They had made many attempts—and in some cases succeeded—in obtaining arms and they all would be familiar with the raid on Chester.: castle, the explosion at Clerkenwell, the risings in Ireland, &c., coming to the case against the prisoners, the learned gentleman said that in the early part of the present year information was received by the police at Birmingham that it was necessary to keep a strict watch on a manu factory of arms situated in Weamond-street. This fac tory was carried on by Wilson—one of the prisoners—and by two Irishmen, named Meningham and Gill, and the object of watching was to ascertain where the arms that were manufactured went to. For a long time the efforts of the police were baffled but they at last obser% ed that frequent communications took place between the manufactory and a cottage kept by a man named Rafferty. On the 26th of February last the police saw Meningham wheeling a truck containing a large box, and he was going towards the cottage. The box then appeared to be empty, and the police waited half-au-hour, and then saw the box brought out of the cottage, apparently filled. The persons with the truck seemed to observe that they were watched, and went as fast as they could to the Midland Station. The police followed, and there saw the box, which was addressed " George Wilson, Midland Goods Station, Leeds." On being opened, it was found to contain nine teen rifles, nineteen bayonets, one breech-loader rifle, one snider rifle, and a sword bayonet. The police subsequently refastened the box, and it was sent to Leeds where it was called for by the prisoner Wilson. As Ito Davitt, it would be shewn that he was formerly a journeyman near Blackburn, and that he was a member of the Fenian Brotherhood in 1867. At the time of the attempt on Chester Castle, Davitt was' frequently at Liverpool, in company with some of the leading Fenians, solar of whom had since been convicted. He was present at many Fenian meetings, and he attended four or five meetings where the projected plan of the rising in Ireland was discussed and agreed on. Of course this would have to be proved by an informer, as none but Fenians were admitted to meetings of the brotherhood. It would also be shewn that Davitt was in the company of Menningham, Gill, and Wilson, and also, that at Leeds he took a warehouse for the apparent pur pose of storing dry goods, and the prisoner Wilson and another man, who had since gone away, carried a box of arms, to this warehouse. At that place there were several empty soda barrels, apparently empty, but in a short time they came out filled. These barrels were watched, and were seen being conveyed to the station, and when there the police opened them and found inside rifles, cartridges, &c. The name of the apparent consignor was within on a card, and the barrels purported to come from " John Henderson, Leeds ;" but there was really no such firm. One was addressed to "John Flannery, County Mayo, Ireland ; " another, " Mr. Donnel, Tuam, Galway." Two other barrels purporting to be from "N. and W Rawlinson, general dealers, Leeds," to " Mr. John White (of London), Athlone," and "Miss Margaret Delmere, Castlereagh, County Rosconnon," were opened and found to contain arms. The stocks of the rifles were moveable so as to admit of their being packed in barrels ; and it would be shewn that the cases used were never employed by regular manufacturers, and that it was unusual to have the stocks of rifles made in the way those found were made, and it will be proved that the alleged consignees were fictitious ones. Finding that somethinc , was wrong, the Fenians did not send any more boxes for some time, but subse quently barrels were sent to Glasgow, and he (the Attor ney-General) would prove that these came from Rafferty's cottage. They next resorted toNewcastle-on-Tyne, and it was discovered the boxes were sent to the Glassmaker's arms, Bailiff Gate, which was a well-kown Fenian resort. Under the address card which the police removed were found other addresses—Mr. G. H. Williams, Globe Ex press Parcels-office, Pilgrim-street. The next place tried was Manchester, and a barrel was addressed to " Mr. Benjamin, the Globe Parcels Express Office." It would be proven that Davitt, person ating Richards,applied for this parcel; but was told it had not arrived. The next day he sent another person for it, and the parcel was given to him. After detailing other matters the Attorney- General went on. to speak of the time when the prisoners were arrested. Wilson was in a third-class carriage; and Davitt was waiting to meet him at Paddington-station. Wilson had a heavy box with him, and was arrested and the box when searched was found to contain revolvers. When questioned he said he- had come to London to sell them ; but that he knew nobody in town. It would, however be proved that the address of Davitt—who was living under an assumed name—was found in his pocket. Davitt when arrested said he had only that day come from Manchester, and then he said he had only been a fortnight in London, and the fact, which would be proved, was that when a Fenian, named Forrester, was arrested in Liverpool a letter was found on him which would be proved to be in Davitt's handwriting. Forrester tore this letter up, but the police put, the fragments together. (The letter was partly written in cypher, and contained certain enigmatical expressions.) The learned counsel concluded by asking the jury to pay strict atten tion to the case, and if, the charge was proved to do their duty to their country. • After the evidence of the manager of the goods depart ment at the Midland station at Leeds and others who bore out Sir Robert Collier's opening, John Bartlett, of the Irish constabulary, was called, and spoke to being with Seale at the time the box was being -taken to Rafferty's cottage. He afterwards saw the box opened, and it contained arms. They were fit for use, but not for sale. Witness also saw the casks opened, and the stocks of the guns were cut to fit in the barrels. That was a most unusual occurrence. The cask was ad dressed to Mr. Heugh, Portland, Ireland. In the barrel there were ten rifles, four revolvers, five a word bayonets, and three bayonets. Thomas Kavanagh, a Dublin detective, on 31st March waited the arrival - of the steamer Windsor from Liver pool. He particularly looked after three barrels. They were addressed to different persons, from "J. Hender son, commission agent, Leeds." He opened one of the casks, and found it to contain nine breech-loading rifles. Michael Ronan, detective sergeant, Dublin, on the Ist April went on board the steamer Stanley, from Holyhead. He saw two barrels landed mid took possession. They contained arms. Mr. Flannery, one of the persons to whom a cask was addressed, said he never ordered any goods from Leeds, and never any arms. He knew of nobody else of his name in the same place. By Mr. Griffiths : Had a rifle in his possession. Most persons had during the present disturbed state of the country. _ _ Alfred Andell proved making three boxes on the order of the prisoner Wilson. He paid for them. They were 20 inches long, 40 inches wide, and 7 inches deep ; and some others 24 inches long, and 16 inches wide ; whilst a third lot were 30 inches long. William Sinclair, manger of the goods department, Glasgow, remembered Serle coming to Glasgow. He directed witness's attention to a cask addressed to Matthew Ward, Ruther Glen. Saw the cask after it was opened, and it contained cartridges and ammunition. John Lockhart received the cask from the last witness, and duly delivered it. He went to the address, but found that a man named Grant kept it. He asked for Mr. Ward, but found that no Mr. Ward was there. A woman received the cask from him. Aubery Thompson, a Glasgow detective, said on the 31st of March he went to a house in Gilbey-court to the house of Mr. Mc`Namara. He saw a cask there. ' The woman the witness saw did not claim the cask, And wit ness took it to the police-station. It was found to contain revolvers and ammunition. McNamara was an Irishman and dealt in old clothes. Joseph Dixon, detective superintendent of police at Newcastle-on-Tyne, said on the 16th of April he received a communication from the witness Seale. Went with him to the Central Railway Station. Thornburn was with him.. He saw three boxes taken from the train and taken to the parcel office. There were addresses on them. Two "J. M. Kershaw, Glassmakers' Arms Inn, Bailiff Gate, Newcastle on - Tyne." Over that address another card was nailed, with the name. " Hinson and Co," The ether case was ad dressed, " C. H. Williams, Globe Express Office, Pilgrim street Newcastle-on-Tyne." Witness watched the cas es the whole day, but nobody came for them. He caused the one addressed to Kershaw to be opened. It contained twenty-five revolvers. Subsequently the other was opened and found to contain the like. They were all breech loaders and six chambers. They had never been called for. On the 19th of April he was again at the station, and found a box in the goods box of the train. That was also ad dressed to " C. H. Williams," and was taken to the police-station. It contained 24 breech-loading revolvers and a needle gun. By Mr. Griffiths : Made inquiries from the 11th 'of April till the 23d for Mr. Williams, but could not find. him. Did not inquire at the Post Office. - By Mr. Cole, Q.C. : Inquired at the Globe Parcel Office, but' without success. • Mark Thornburn said he was a detective at Newcastle on-Tyne. The evidence of the previous witness was correct, Witness enquired at the Glassmakers' Arms Inn for Kershaw. Witness knew the house well. It was kept by George Mullins, an Irishman. The house was mostly frequented by Irish labourers. Nobody of the name of Kershaw was known there. By Mr. Griffiths : Mullens was not at the court. Did not know if he was subpcenaed. Jon Hodson, of Manchester, was a packer at the Globe Express parcels office. Remembered a box addressed to Mr. Benjamin Richards being sent there.' • Davitt came for the box ; but witness told him it had not come, but that they were advised of one which would be there the next morning. On that day two men came for it with a cart. The police followed the men. ' By Mr. Griffiths : Had never. seon Davitt before. Thomas Bainbridge gun-barrel rifler and sighter, Bir mingham, worked for the firm of which Wilson was a partner. Never saw Meningham since Wilson was arrested. Had be'en shewn a number.of arms, and could identify 19 rifles and 75 pistols as made by himself. The revolvers found on Wilson when arrested he could identify. Mrs. Robson proved that Davitt lodged with her in the name of Matthews in Guildford-street.. At This stage of the proceedings the Court adjourned, THE . INCOME TAX IN AMERICA. The Senate has refused to re-enact the income-tax law, and, if we are really rid of it, doubtless we are well rid of it, ,on many accounts. Those on whom it has borne hardest would have paid the same amount with compara . - tive cheerfulness if levied in another way, involving none of those odious comparisons between the employer whose wealth was great and income uncertain, and the salaried employ 6 who, besides the mis fortune of being poor, had the additional ill luck of being sure of his income. Indirectly, this state of things might be said to have encouraged men to indulge in speculation, and to have aided in unsettling business ; and the abolition of the tax, now that trade is almost recovered from its ten years of fever, seems appro priate enough. Those who, like the Philadelphia gentle- . men alluded to last week, were disposed to test the consti tutionality of the tax, are now relieved of the necessity. They will perhaps still be interested in a col lateral question decided last month in the United States Circuit Court of the Massachusetts District. In 1866 and 1867, it appears from the report just published, one of the judges of Probate in Barnstable County had his official salary taxed, against his protest, by the revenue collector ; and the suit (Day v. Buffinton) was brought to recover. The plaintiff confined himself chiefly to the point that the judge's salary, being paid out of the State treasury, was a part of the revenues of the State, and could not be touched without the exercise of a power which might be so used as to destroy the functions of the State, or even the State itself. The defendant argued for the paramount authority of the Federal Government, and, as the people of the State formed also a part Of the general governing power of the country, denied that there was any likelihood of the abuse of taxa tion as suggested. The court, however, held with the plaintiff that the judge's salary being impaired was a detriment which might either cost the State a servant or an additional outlay, and, in either case, was an inter ference of the admitted sovereignty of the United States with the admitted sovereignty of the several States. Nation LOST INVENTIONS. What becomes of all the pins is a quesoion that has long, taxed human ingenuity. At least as curious, and pro bably a much more probable, subject of speculation would be found in the inquiry, What becomes of the inventions? Every one who gives any attention to such matters can recall a number of striking inventions which have been announced within the last decade, and after making a brief stir among the savans, have sunk at once into entire oblivion. There is the type-setting- and distributing machine, for example, which seemed destined to work a complete revolution in the business of printing, and which, indeed, was a marvel of ingenuity. What has become of it? Has the opposition of the compositors knocked it into " pi," or has the one little screw never been found Which was to make it practically useful ? More wonder ful still, because of its startling oppostion to all known principles, was the invention, some years since, by two young students of the Ecole Polytechnique, at Paris, of a lamp which would burn without air or oxygen, and which was especially designed for the use of miners and divers. The two young philosophers earned a prize of twenty thousand francs by their discovery, but the fame which we may suppose was dearer to them than gold seems to have been denied them. Either their lamp has ignominiously gone out, or has proved too costly, or in some way failed to answer, expectations. At any rate, its light for some time past has been hid under a bushel. Then there was - Mr. Alexander Maxwell Bell's invention of a universal alphabet, which was certainly very ingenious, and bade fair to be propor tionately useful. By means of it, if we remember rightly, Mr. Bell professed to be able to read, write, and speak any articulate language off-hand, as it were : and not only that, but to write any given sound so as to make it intelli gible to any other person conversant with his alphabet. Language, in brief, was thus reduced to its primitive ele ments, and the necessity for handbooks of foreign conver sation done away with. It is not easy to over estimate the possible benefits of such a discovery. The European tour would have been robbed of half its terrors, and Coptic and Welsh made ordinary branches of a select boarding school educa tion. But all these pleasing anticipations are destroyed by Mr. Bell's failure to fulfil his contract. The universal language still exists for him only. Babel reigns unshaken, and Cadmus and Mezzofanti rest tranquilly in their philological graves. Another noteworthy invention was called, if we mistake not, the acoustograph. It consisted of a sensitive membrane, responding like the tympanum of the human car to every vibration of sound, which it was so constructed as to record be means of pencil ,and paper attached. Every sound made a different mark, long or short, heavy or light, straight or curved, according to its intensity or timbre. Here, it will be seen, was a discovery to make the hearts of the wretched scri veners leap for joy; to make newspaper reporting a past time, and authorship a pleasure. Poet or historian, orator or musician, had but to set his acoustograph, and then to soliloquise or compose to his heart's content, assured of finding every word and note faithfully trans cribed. The only trouble was the impossibility of deciphering the characters thus recorded. This is a difficulty which, we infer, has not yet been met, and so the acoustograph also sleeps in unmerited obscurity and silence. These are but a few of the many clever inventions that have, for one cause or apother, fallen stillborn in the world. .Yet even their seeming inutility may have its uses. Should they never come to fruit, these seeds of original thought may be the germs of great discoveries hereafter. The steam engine was a toy to Ptolemy's philosophers ; and Con fucius is said to have been familiar with the art of print ing. But it was left for other times and minds to adapt these diversions of the wise to the common benefit of all mankind. —New York Times. Constant disturbances and Indian raids are reported from the western l order, shewing that the savages, as well as the border settlers, are restless. The military authori ties have so disposed their troops, however, that there are hopes of any extended war being averted. The gold market in America has been violently disturbed and much depressed by the failure of James Boyd, one of the leading operators in New York. He had been carrying about 5,000,000 gold and large amounts of railway and other shares, chiefly for Edward B. Katcham. His liabilities are heavy, and the forced sales consequent upon his impending failure depressed the markets. • NITRO-GLYCERINE.—At Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 23d of June, there was a nitro-glycerine explosion The compound had been smuggled into the last car of a goods train, and exploded from some unknown cause, kiil ing one man, and injuring 30 others who were near. The railway, was torn up, cars shattered, and 12 houses in the neighbourhood demolished. THE ERIE RAILWAY.—The Philadelp'lia corre spondent of the London Times says :—Mr. Charles Burt, who has charge of the interests of the English share holders of Erie in their contest with Fisk and Gould, sailed for home this week. The suit against Fisk and Gould does not come up in the United States courts until autumn, and meanwhile the friends of the English share holders are very anxious to have the latter stand firm to their combination and resist all the temptations to dally with the " Erie King," or to sell their proxies, or to lend shares for election purposes. It is the intention, I under stand, to pursue this contest to the end, and the English public cannot be too strongly impressed with the necessity of supporting the suit. THE WOES OF SPOTTED TAlL.—There is so.ae thing quite touching in the death of Spotted Tail's favou rite wife, just before her liege's return from the scene of his trials and triumphs. This Indian Ulysses, escaped from the Circes of the capital—from the Scylla of Cham pagne and the Charybdis of cream, from manifold perils of rail-car and steam-boat, only to find that his dusky Penelope, to whom he would, doubtless, have rejoiced to unfold his budget of marvels over the evening camp-fire, had left his wigwam dark, and preceded him to the happy hunting grounds. We can hardly wonder that his gifts have lost their value since she can not admire them, or that he should have resolved to sacri fice them all, horses and meerschaums, rifles and blankets, to her memory. Perhaps not many of his pale-faced brethren would be willing to give so practical a proof of grief and affection. But Spotted Tail's sorrow concerns us less than his resentments. If, as is stated, he attributes his wife's death, by some occult Indian reasoning, to white machinations, that estimable lady may prove to have been in her demise a person of far greater political importance than she ever was in her lire. The accident is certainly inopportune, if it is to destroy Spotted Tail's newly fledged friendship for the whites, fostered with such in finite pains of courtesy, and such lavish outlay of straw berries, at Washington. We could probably have better spared Thunder Skin or any of the squaws who visited New York. At all events, it behooves our Indian Bureau to lose no time in disabusing the outraged chief of his error before he too digs up the hatchet. Indian wars are too costly a luxury to be indulged in frequently.—New York Times. COLOURED BOYS AT WEST POINT.—Two or three weeks ago we expressed some regret that the two most promising coloured boys that were available had not been selected by Senator Revels and the other Congress man who sent up coloured candidates to West Point. We hear from various sources, and are requested to say so, that one at least of the two boys was as promising as need be desired. James W. Smith is described to us by competent observers as being more than ordinarily intelli gent and well-educated. In eighteen months—fifteen of them in an evening school in Columbia, South Carolina, he fitted himself to pass the written examination for admission to the Hartford High School, snaking papers which were not excelled by those of any other candidate. At the end of his second year in Hartford school, he made application to finish the course in two years, and this he accomplished, and at graduation stood in the first half of a class of thirty. We understand him to have been re jected at West Point—or put on probation, if that is his present status—because of defective eyesight, and not for any deficiency in point of preparation. The other negro candidate was physically but not otherwise fitted for admission. The suspicion that with one or the other of these instruments the examiners will always be able somehow to keep the Academy free from coloured cadets, we see nothing as yet to justify. All the officers seem, so far as is known, to have been both just and courteous to these two boys, although it is as serted that some of the cadets were abusive, and that stiff politeness was the best treatment that they got from any. This, of course, will not last very long. The young fellows at Cambridge seem not to have suffered in mind by rea son of the presence of one or two coloured undergraduates nor at seeing one of them take prizes for literary and other distinction ; and a West Pointer does not, we be lieve, consider himself better than a Harvard man, and if he does, he must either at once abase his spirit,- or expect Mr. Logan after hisn. NEW YORK STATE HISTORY. The Hon. Horatio Seymour, Democratic candidate for the Presidency at the last election, has addressed the College of History at Cornell University, his topic being " The History of New York Considered in Reference to its Topography and Geography." The first settlers of our State, he said, were Hollanders. They came from the Netherlands when that land was one of the great Powers and one of the bulwarks of civil and religious liberty. It fought for that liberty during eighty long years ; fought not for itself alone, but for every people. No nation had a prouder history, or could boast of greater warriors, statesmen, and scholars. The great principle at the base of the Government was freedom, and in the spirit of free dom its sons founded their American colony. Fortunately for us, they chose for their colonial enterprise the mouth of the Hudson. Few other spots presented such a picture of religious toleration as did the bay of New York. Before the primeval forests were swept away there might be found Hugenots on the lower end of Man hattan Island, Waldenses on Staten Island, Walloons around Wallabout bay, and Swedes on the southern boun dary—men of many religions dwelling together in peace. The Dutch, unlike the English, were fortunate in their colonial agents, who were men able to exercise great control over the Indians. Perhaps .no man in our colonial period had a greater influence upon the future of the continent than Peter Schuyler, the ancestor of our great General Schuyler, and a character who was comparatively little known. It was to the Dutch that we owed the praise of Ran dolph, who said that in no other of the provinces was there the same knowledge of government. Our State did its full share in the Revolution, and after the Revolution it furnished the founder of the two conflicting schools of politics—Alexander Hamilton, who advocated a Federal policy, and George Clinton, who established the States Rights party, whose principles were, afterward adopted and advocated by Jefferson. John Adams wrote to John Jay that of all the Constitutions of the new States ours was the ablest. This was a consequence of the fact that at the outset the policy of the Hollander drew to our shores men of all nationalities. It is an almost un paralleled incident that at the close of the Revolutionary struggle the nine most prominent families of the State represented nine different nations. A portion of these might be mentioned. There were the Clintons of Irish descent, and the Livingstons of Scotch : John Jay, our great jurist, was of French Huguenot blood ; Schuyler was a Hollander Herkimer, whose influence was so great in the interior, was a low German ; Steuben, who settled among us after his battle, was a Prussian ; and Hamilton was of English lineage. They could all speak the languages of the countries with which they were connected. The diverse influence of our nation's early colonists may be traced in the West. There every teacher of a common school, every professor in a college, comes more or less directly from New England. The same is true of the men who direct the Western workshops. But in the courts and the Legislature you will find New Yorkers or the sons of New Yorkers. Our decisions are their law and our constitution has been copied by every north-western community. AGRICULTURE IN AMERICA. The Agricultural Department at Washington has just issued a report embracing a summary of intelligence in relation to the growing crops from its agents and observers in all parts of the country. The Times' Philadelphia correspondent gives .a compendium of this report. It is dated June 71, and states with reference to the wheat crop that in 1869 the increase of acreage of wheat over 1868 was estimated at more than a million acres, making the aggregate 19,098,000 acres. In 1870 the natural tendency of low prices has been apparent in a reduced acreage, though not to the extent threatened. The reduc tion of 1870, compared with 1869, is estimated at 900,000 acres, or about 5 per cent. The reduc tion is greatest in Illinois, 15 per cent. in winter wheat and 18 per cent. in spring wheat ; in Indiana, 6 per cent. in winter and 20 per cent. in spring; Ohio, 4 per cent in winter and 7 per cent. in spring ; Wisconsin and lowa, 8 per cent. reduction, chiefly in spring wheat ; and Missouri 7 per cent. In Minnesota, on the other hand, 2 per cent. increase of acreage is claimed; Kansas, 16 per cent increase, and California, 5 per cent. There is also a gain in West Virginia and Kentucky. The South generally falls off, some of the cotton States to the extent of 20 per cent, although North Carolina claims a slight increase. New England has fallen off 2 per cent, and. New York 4 per cent. The season has been mode rately propitious. There have been few showers and much sunshine, pushing the crop into early maturity, but promising a yield not equal to the 13 or 14 bushels per acre average of 1869, and scarcely equal to 1868. The average is estimated at 11 bushels per acre. In many places, however, the pro pect was never better. Some localities complain of too little rain ; others of too much. In May the rainfall was quite small in New England, New York, the West, and the cotton States ; but, on the contrary, in the Atlantic States, south of New York, the rains have been excessive. In New York much of the winter grain is not in average condition. In New Jersey the crop is fine; in Penn sylvania it is excellent ; Maryland promises well ; and Virginia and North Carolina promises a good average crop. In the South the crop is generally good, though light in some places in consequence of drought. In the Red River region of Texas the weather has been cool, so that the crop is late, but unusually fine. In Illinois a reduction is feared of about 15 per cent. in the yield. The West generally reports more discouragement from feeble growth, drought, hail, rain, and rust than for two years past, and the general result shown is that there will be a much smaller aggregate production than that of 1869, an d ver y lik e ly a smaller yield than in 1868. There has everywhere been an increase of oats acreage. The acreage of cotton is also materially increased in every cotton State, and the report says the cotton growers seem determined this year to reduce the price to 15c., with every prospect of doing so. Of Indian corn the acreage is decreased. In North Caro lina the growing cotton crop is in good condition ; in South Carolina cotton is looking well, excepting that some complaints of bad stands is made. In Georgia it is later and smaller than usual, from the effects of a five weeks' drought, which terminated on the 25th of May, but it is growing vigorously now. In Florida and Alabama the dry term was of shorter duration, and cotton is generally in good condition. Mississippi sends still more favour able reports. In Tencas parish, Louisiana, where the greatest cotton yield of 1869 was made, the condition of the crop . is 20 per cent. better than last year, and the acreage increased one-fifth. Texas reports a backward spring, with cotton late, but thrifty and promising, and no State makes more favourable returns than Arkansas. in this connection it may be mentioned that the first cotton bloom of the season opened on the 9th of June at Point Coupee, Louisiana. It is said that the crop may be dated from the bloom 40 days, and, if so, the crop may be expected in market by the Ist of August. On the 15th of June stacks of co tt on in bloom were brought from the neighbourhood of Mobile. THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT ROCHDALE.—The Rev. G. H. Wells, Mr. N. Little, Mr. John Bartram, Mr. Nathaniel Elliott, and Mr. Patchet, the gentlemen who were injured in the railway accident on Wednesday, at Rochdale, are going on favourably ; but are still con fined to their bedrooms in Rochdale. CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES.—The entries for the Wingfield Sculls closed on Thursday night at Messrs. Searle s, the following being the challengers : Mr. A. C. Yarborough, Oxford University ; Mr. W. Chil lingworth, Twickenham ; Mr. J. Ross, Greenock Boat Club. The above will row on Monday next, at six o'clock, from Putney to Mortlake, and the winner will have to contend on the following Wednesday, at seven, against the present holder of the Sculls, Mr. A. Long, of the London Rowing Club. THE FATAL MARCH.—KINGSTON MEMORIAL.— The memorial of the inhabitants of Kingston-upon- Thames to the Government, praying that a thorough and searching investigation may be instituted relative to the fatal march of the 9th Regiment through Kingston to Al dershot, has been duly prepared and duly signed by the Mayor, on behalf of the inhabitants, and the matter referred to the county members (Messrs. Brodrick and Peek) to arrange an appointment for the deputation elected at the late public meeting, to attend with the me morial. WOMAN IN VER➢SONT.-11l the Vermont Consti tutional Convention the Woman Suffrage Amendment received only one vote. The gallant champion who cast it was Mr. Harvey Howes, Delegate from West Haven. We fear that West Haven has been exposed to unmerited obloquy in consequence of the heroism of her represen tative ; for Mr. Howes, with characteristic courage, writes us that the deed was all his own, that he did it " deliberately and understandingly, although solitary and alone," and that nobody put him up to it. "If any scandal," he continues, "is likely to rest upon my constituents in consequence of my acts in the Conven tion, I freely assume the whole responsibility ; and I have strong hopes and some evidence that induces me to believe that I shall be able to meet it." This is noble on the part of Mr. Howes, but we are inexpressibly shocked to learn that the Woman Cause in Vermont is so desperately down. —Tribune. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst., at The Grove, Highgate, Mrs. E. J. Nettlefold, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at 85, Belgrave-road, the Lady Evelyn Courtenay, of a son. MARRIAGES. On the 12th inst., at St. Leonard's, Streatham, Frederick Percy, fourth son of W. A. Franks, of Clapham-com mon, to Marie, the third daughter of Leon Famin, of Streatham. On the 12th inst., at St. P au l' s, Wilton-place, Gerald On g Liddell, Capt a i n i n t h e 2 3d R oya l W e l s h Fusi liers,rio Agatha Catherine, eldest daughter of the late Admiral Walcot, M.P. DEATHS On the 13th inst., at Phillippines, Kent. Lieut.-Colonel Henry D. Faulkner, Indian Army, aged 46- On the 12th inst., at Child-Okeford, Blandford, Thomas Oliver, Esq., aged 74. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in t 4 County of Middlesex, • Saturday; July 16,1870,