The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-10 00:00:00

SERIOUS RIOTING NEAR SHEFFIELD. Things have been very threatening for some time in several colliery districts around Sheffield. A number of strikes have occurred, and the feeling of the men towards the masters, and between the unionists and non-unionists has intensified. The non-unionists have in some cases been living in fear of attack. The Thornacliff Colliery disputes have bred more bad feeling than nny other. On Friday 'Meat it was clear that the unionists on strike were about to attack the workers. The police were called upon, and for that evening prevented a disturbance. On Saturdoy morning however (as a telegram informs us) five hundred unionists with bludgeons, knives, and other weapons, endeavoured to attack the houses of the non-unionists. Non unionists, armed with revolvers, were prepared for a desperate re sistance, but a large police force, under Captain Niell, prevented a serious collision. On Friday night several constables were maltreated. The utmost excitement and alarm prevail in the district. LAW ANp POLICE. DEFAULTING RATEPAYERS.-7.110r0 than 500 persons hav„ been summoned at a petty sessions at Camberwell for neglecting to pay their rates. The defaulters, who were many of them shopkeepers, complained of the state of trade. The summonses only included three wards of the parish The arrears of the last poor rate amount to .£12,000, of which only half is believed to be recoverable. The rate for the last six months was ls. 4d. in the pound, the new one 18.7 d. A LADY'S DEBTS.—An action has been brought at Kingston by a bookseller and stationer in that town to recover £2O for goods supplied to a lady in the neighbour hood. Among the items were a real sealskin cigar -case and tobacco pouch, and the debtor in proving these were necessaries, said the doctor had ordered the lady to smoke cigarettes. The husband, r•ho was the defendant, said his wife had contracted the bill without his knowledge, as well as two others of £99 and £l3O at drapers' establish ments. The verdict was for the plaintiff, but notice of appeal was given. A SLNGULAR LAW-SUIT.—A curious law case is now under investigation in the Rolls Court. The West New Jersey Society was established in 1692 for acquiring lands in North America and for stocking the same. Tracts of land in what are now called the New England States were purchased for the benefit of the society. One of the members was a Mr. Love who executed a transfer to a Mr. Ffowks. This transfer is the origin of the present inquiry, as there are £7,000 or £3,000 in the possession of the Society, which still exists, and the difficulty is to discover Mr. Ffowks's next of kin. TUE MERDER OF A GAMEKEEPER IN SUFFOLK.-At the Mildenhall Police-court, on Saturday, David Hoffer and James Rutterford were charged with the murder of John Hight, gamekeeper to the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh. The prisoners were arrested on Friday night. Ruttcrford had a gun with him at the time. Mr. Harris, a surgecn, said that Hight's death might have been caused by his having been struck on the head with the gun. The skull wa.scor: pletely smashed in. Some further evidence having been given, both prisoners were remanded. COLLIERY PROSECUTION.-Mr. Bally, one of the proprie tors of Nantyglo Works, has teen summoned at the Trede gar Petty Sessions by the Government Inspector of Mines for not providing an adequate amount of ventilation to dilute the noxious gases in the mine. An explosion had oc curred from the accumulation of gas. Defendant admitted the offence, and was fined £2 10s. and costs. The manager of the mine was also charged with not sending notice of the accident within twenty-four hours to the Government Inspector and to the Home office, and was fined 20s. and costs in each case. PROSECUTING A GAS Comreisrr.—The secretary and the superintendent of the Chartered Gas Company have at tended at the Mansion House to give notice of their inten• tion to appeal against the decision fining the company over a hundred pounds for supplying gas of an inferior quality. The case will be heard at the quarter sessions. EXCLUDING A PROFESSOR FROM A FELLOWSHIP.—A case of considerable importance to the medical profession has been tried in Dublin, before the Irish Lord Chancellor and the Chief Justices. Dr. M'Swiney, Professor of Medical jurispru dence in the Catholic university, brought an action against the College of Physicians for excluding him from the fellow ship of the college. The question was as to the validity of the bye law which regulatedithe election of fellows. By this law one dissentient vote in five excludes a candidate, the president having a casting vote. Dr. M'Swiney had eighteen votes for him and nine against him. There was a great deal of discussion on the point, Dr. Ball, Q.C.. appearing for the college, and the Solicitor General and Mr. Butt, Q.C., for Dr. M'Swiney. The judges required further evidence, and said they must have the books and dccuments cf the college examined before they conclude' the case. The Home Secretary has awarded a gratuity of £5O to the widow of the policeman Teehan, who having been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police on grounds which proved to be wrong, fell into a state of great desti tution, and shortly afterwards died. MEDICAL VISITOR OF LtiNATICS.-By the death of Sir Charles Hood, M.D., at the early age of 45, the office of Medical Victor of Lunatics is at the disposal of the Lord Chancellor. Tho salary is £1,500a year. There arc. one legal and two medical visitors. THE NATIONAL EDUCATION LEAGUE.-A meeting, to form a branch of the National Education League, was held on Friday night at Oldbury. Mr. Dixon, 31. P,, was present. The chairman read the following letter from the Hon. Charles G. Lyttelton, M.P. for East Worcestershire :—" As I am not a member of the Education League I think it better not to attend your meeting on Friday. As I plainly expressed during my election canvass, I am heartily in favour of the leading principles advocated by Mr. Dixon and his friends. but differing as I do from some of the details of their pro gramme, I have hesitated to join the League. I should readily do so, and sink minor differences where there any danger of a scheme being carried which did not recognise the main principle of undenominational education without a complete sacrifice of religious teaching." ADMIRALTY ORDERS.—The Civilian says that an Admiralty order has been lately promulgated, forbidding the clerks of the department to receive remuneration for work done on account of any other Government depart ment, without the concurrence of the Lords of the Trea sury. The same journal states that the Lords of the Admiralty have informed the department that it is not their intention to offer any more advantageous terms of retirement than those at present in force, viz., ten years' additional service for men who have served over twenty years and five years for those with less service ; and their lordships remind their officers that these terms will be withdrawn on the 31st of March next. FIRST CASE ricDER THE NEW DEBTORS' ACT.— On Saturday the first commitment under the new Debtors Act was made to Whitecross-street Pilsen, on an order of Mr. Justice Montague Smith, made at chambers. An ap plication was made that a debtor was about to leave the country, and an order was made that unless he paid the amount or found security he should be imprisoned for one month. There were only thirty inmates on Saturday at W hitecross-street Prison, and of that number twenty-one were commitments by county courts. As many as 400 have been confined, and when the new Act took effect the number was 134. The old man Barnacles, who had been a prisoner twenty-seven years, paid a visit to his old quar ters on Saturday. The Rev. Mr. Pugh, the chaplain of the prison, and Mr. Constable, the governor, are trying to obtain some employment for him. -- - FATAL FOOLITARDINESS.-1-1 frightful accident arising out of a foolish wager occurred a few days ago on the Vincennes railway. Two young soldiers attached t , the Gymnastic School at the Fort de la Fasanderie, bad made a bet that they would repeat a feat performed re cently by one of their comrades, and which consisted in jumping from the top of one of the carriages on a bridge as the train passed beneath, and then descending on another carriage on the other side. They were returning from Paris to their quarters by rail, when, rendered more venturesome by drink, they endeavoured to put this insane projeot into execution near the Fontenay station. They, however, either did not make the spring in time, or else missed their aim and fell back ; in any case th ey were caught between the top of the carriage and the crown of the arch, and one of the young men was crushed to death instantaneously, while the other received such injuries that his life is despaired of. INCE.—An incident is BABY FATIMIN(• IN re corded in the French papers which seems to have escaped the attention of English . jurnaliitA, and which is (tip. Pally ~Vews thinks) too suggcst Ivo to be suffered to pass into obrvion. The widow Lafosse, it appears, has been rzettie2- her living as a nurse, at Eanccurt, in the cemmunu of cramlcharep, in the canton of Houdan ; but in the. space of four years sixteen of the eighteen children en trusted to her care have pc , risl , ed. This excessive mor tality drew the attention of the authorities, who ordered an inquiry; but the doctors consulted were unable to establish in a legal manner either the guilt or even the negligence of wblow Lefosso. The only wrong they could bring home to her wat that of neglecting to pay to the vicar of the place the funeral dues which had been trans mitted to her by the families of the decea.::ed children ; and on this score she was condemned to three months' imprisonment for breach of tn. - Lt. These facts are suffi suggestive, and we suppose that they have not much notice, simply because it could not be widow Lafosse was to blame for the death of FOREIGN IVOIES. .o AESTIGA AND ENGLAND. The new treaty of commerce between England and Austria applies, it is well to note, to Hungary as well as to Austria. It was signed at the end of the year by Lord Bloomfield on behalf of England, and Baron Beust on behalf of Austria; but the Hungarian Government equally e ulorse its stipulations. VIE TREATY OF PRAGUE. The New Free Press states that the Governments of- Denmark and Sweden are preparing a memorandum re specting the non-execution of the Treaty of Prague, which they intend to forward to Vienna and to Paris. AUSTRIAN VIEWS OF FRENCH POLITICS. The .Arorth-Ease Correspondence has heard from Vienna that the formation of the new French Ministry is there inked upon as a most important event, and one likely to i ifluence the policy of other States. The appointment of Count Darn seems to have given special satisfaction, f .ho is regarded as the r , art iL• an of an Aust: o-Franca alliance and the friend of Count Beust. It is said that tho Archduke Charles Louis will go to B flin, and the Archduke Louis Victor to Florence, so as to return at those Courts visits of courtesy in the name of tie Emperor. Nothing has been said to confirm the re p )rt that Victor Emmanuel will shortly arrive in Vienna. Archduke Albert will spend some months in France. Po litical reasons are assigned for his journey. THE DIET OF CROATIA. The Diet of Croatia adopted a compromise last autumn respecting the internal relations of the triple kingdom. The Diet of Hungary accepted the compromise, but adopted a different proposal with regard to the town of Fiume and its territory. A committee was therefore appointed by Fiume, Croatia, and Hungary jointly to lay the matter before Count Andrassy. The following resolution has been adopted at his suggestion :—" The town of Fiume is to be administered by a Governor having a seat and a deliberate voice in the Hungarian Diet, and it is to enjoy a complete autonomy in the settlement of the affairs that immediately concern it. STATE OF GEORGIA. A curious incident occurred inconnection with the Georgia pipers which were placedlefore the Senate. An anonymous letter had been sent to the President containing an attack on Governor Bullock and the Republican State Committee. The President left it out with the waste paper, but the c)pying clerks took it as one of their documents, and it apppeared in official form before the Senate of the United States. The Senate has passed a bill which enacts that the old Legislature is to be assembled in Georgia. Everyone is to take an oath which will exclude the obnoxious elements, and the members for Georgia can be re-admitted to Congress after the fifteenth amendment has been ratified. The effect of t')is act will be to cancel all the laws which have been p tssed since the first organisation of the Georgian Govern mint subsequent to the war. During the reorganisation of the State Legislature General Terry will act as military commander. TILE WAR IN PARAGUAY. The French Agence Haves has refused to publish the despatches received from Paraguay through a Paraguayan source. Don Gregorio Benites, the Charge d'Affaires for the Republic at Paris, has sent his intelligence direct to the Paris journals. He says that Prince Gaston d'Orleans, commander-in-chief of the Brazilian armies in Paraguay, has become convinced of the extreme difficulty of reducing Lopez, who still has sufficient resources to defend himself. The Prince has been recalled by the Brazilian Em peror with his force of fourteen thousand black soldiers. This determination was expedited by the foreign Ministers of Buenos Ayres and of Montevideo who met at Assumption to deliberate with Councillor Paraulios, Foreign Minister of Brazil, who has been in that town for nearly a year directing the Provisionary Govern me-i of Paraguay. The Argentine and Eastern Republics ara growing weary and apprehensive of the Brazilian I.lliance, as they perceive that Power no longer dissimu lates its projects of absorbing the States of La Plata. Imi new tneones or constitutional government, put forward by the "'veldt Fra;ze i vis, have attracted coin ider able attention. You will remember that this journal admits that the Emperor must henceforth govern by the majoriV. but- considers that in case of any difference between the Ministers and the majority, the Ministry must be changed—the Chamber need not be dissolved. The Debats, which is not an advocate of an immediate dissolution, cannot allow this to pass without protest, and points out that with all constitutional government.; there is always the alternative of a dissolution of Parlia mmt in order to test the real feeling of the country. In a State like France, where a considerable portion of Um Chamber consists of official candidates, the doctrine that the Ministers must be chosen from the majority as it now stands brings us back in reality to something like persohal govenunent. The Senate held to-day a public sitting. All eyes were turtle,' towards the Government benches, where sat M. 011ivier, Count Darn, and, a little further on, M. Parieu, the new President of the Council of State. A shell and friendly conversation between M. 011ivier and his predecessor, M. Duvergier, was much noticed. In the course of the sitting M. Daru ascended the tribune, and declared that the Cabinet was desirous of explaining'. as soon as possible, to the Senate and the Corps I.6gislatif the programme which they intended to follow. The opinions of the Ministers were well known, and it is expected that next week the Cabinet will be in a post tion to announce a definite programme. A circular has been issued to the prefects by the new Minister of the Interior, and one to the Procureurs- Generaux by the Minister of Justice, that is to say, by M. 011ivier himself. These documents are intended to mark the line between the old and new regimes. Yesterday morning, at the official reception of the Minister of the Interior, M. Haussmann, whose successor in office is not yet installed, presented the personnel Of the Seine Administration. He presented them with a few complimentary phrases declaring that the staff had displayed in their arduous task a profound devotion to the Emperor, respect for the laws, and devotion to duty. As their chief who had for seventeen years endeavoured to set them an example, he felt bound in honour to do so to the end. The Minister, in reply, said that politics had their cruel necessities, and that he never more strongly recognised the fact than when he renounced the assist ance of a distinguished official for whom he had the highest respect, whose works he admired, and whose friendship he prized. After saying this he advanced to Baron Haussmann, extending both hands. The baron, after thanking him warmly for his words, reminded him that in entering the Administration in 1831, under an ordinance signed by M. Casimir Fierier, he had as one of his guarantors M. Chevandier de Valdrome, and he was thankful after thirty-eight years to find his son acknowledging that the recommendation had not been compromised. The Independence Beige thinks that the dismissal of M. Haussmann is quite an event for Paris. The cause of his unpopularity was not so much on account of his work as for the manner in which he performed it. In the sphere of his duties he was as much a dictator as the Emperor himself could be. It was this system of dic tatorship which the new Cabinet wished to destroy, and they were the more determined to do this because to have left him undisturbed until his works were finished would have been sanctioning his past acts. The affair was looked upon in this light more than as an affront to the Emperor, who certainly wished M. Hauss mann to be retained. On the whole, the dismissal of the Prefect of the Seine must be regarded as a triumph of parliamentary power, represented by the Cabinet, over personal power, represented by M. Haussmann. Among the various changes that are talked of Is tie retirement of General Le Bceuf. He is blamed for want of judgment in issuing the orders of his department. General Trochu is mentioned as his probable successor, but the change is not yet certain to take place. Troppmann's protest has been sent to the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation. It was at once transferred to the president. The case will pro bably be heard on the 13th of January. The letter which Troppmann sent to the Procureur-Gen6- ra.l contained nothing but some references to the missing portfolio. It is not thought likely that the autho rities will institute any more searches at the instigation of the condemned criminal, who is believed to have no motive in asking for them but to prolong his existence, and see what chances may turn up in his favour. IRISH rIL OSPEUITY. Statistics furnished from different sources still chew that though Ireland is in general prosperous, the progress i s most apparent i n the North, and the decline, when there is any, is in the South. At Belfast, for example, the valuation of the borough has increased from ;,C414,055 in 1860 to 1:430,559 on the Ist of the present month. Th ere h ave b een 1 ,800 new Louses built during the year. The population of Tipperary, on the other hand, has declined 2,045 in ten years. In Cork, within the limits of the Poor-law Union, there are 0,050 holdings, of which 2,065 are at These are all in the class of small holdings. Mr. Cardwell's proposals for the alteration of the regu Wiens for the volunteer force have, says the Standard, Peet with the unanimous disapproval of the commanding officers in regard to their most important features. Lord Ranelagh's resolution at the meeting of Friday was carried without a dissentient voice, though it went so far as to express the belief that the adoption of some of these alterations would produce the immediate decline of the whole force, and would be the certain annihilation of many battalions in the metropolitan district. It is therefore sincerely to be hoped that changes. considered by those most immediately concerned to be so objectionable as to warrant this sweeping stricture may not be carried out, or even embodied in tho estimates now being framed, until ample opportunity has been given t) the volunteers of the whole country to express their o2inion and suggest alternative proposals. Although we u)held Sir John Pakington in his resistance to what we considered the rather exorbitant demands mule on the late Government by Lord Echo, on behalf of the force, yet we have no wish t 3 see the struggle for life made harder for them than it already is, or to see them handicapped so heavily in the race for efficiency, as to make success almost impos sible, and to render it not worth their while to enter for the contest. If all these suggestions were as sensible as that which proposes to bring the volunteers into more perfect union with the regular forces Mr. Cardwell would have done well. As it is, the bulk of them cannot possibly be accepted. The general wish is to make the volunteers m )re thoroughly efficient ; not, as Mr. CardwelPs proposals would do, to crush them off the face of the earth. The Daily .2rezes thinks it is perhaps in some measure owing to the constant acquaintance with danger, and the recklessness of life, which is at once the cause and conse quence of peril, that we find miners so much more ready than other labourers to resort to extreme violence in the settlement of their trade disputes. A conference of dele gates of the Association of Miners has just been sitting in the centre of the Lancashire mining district at Wigan, to consider the means of ameliorating the condition and raising the status of its members. It has discussed the pre sent system of inspecting coal mines, and expressed its great wish to have the children of miners educated, so that the old reproach of ignorance should be removed from the mining population. These things are excellent in their way. But peace and progress go together; and those aneals to physical force, of which we are beginning to hear a great deal too often, are more worthy of the middle ages than of the nineteenth century. In time past society has not done justice to the industrious men who brave so many dangers to supply our domestic wants, and provide the material necessary for our great manufactures. The omission must be repaired and the defect supplied, and whatever steps may be found necessary must be taken to place the mining community, to whose labours thepresent advanced state of civilisation and of science is so much indebted, in something like a fair position among the rest of the working masses. But there are some reforms for which the miners need not await the action of the Legislature, and among these is the suppression of their tendency to resort to violence for the redress of grievances for which if they are real, other and milder remedies exist. It seems, observes the Post, that the present Liberal Administration will meet Parliament with a programme of good measures, a pocketful of money, end an over whelming majority. Against this what can the Conserva tives achieve ? They had last year a sort of Church cry. This year they had none at all. They are reduced to a condition of impotence in the Commons. In the Lords t'rey have yet to elect, or to pretend to elect, a leader; for we can hardly bring ourselves to doubt but that Lord Darby is the natural leader of the Conservative Lords. The party is really too advanced to permit of the choice of a reactionary chief, and the liberality of Lord Derby cal hardly stand in his way when put in juxtaposition with the sincere Radicalism of the Commons' leader. The road of the Opposition to office lies in outbidding the Liberal A. lministration, and in adopting its clothes while exceed ing its measures. Mr. Disraeli is always ready to educate his party and discipline them to these tactics. He requires, therefore, a truly liberal leader for the lords, and none can serve his purpose so well as Lord Derby, who, from his hereditary claims, may well take the position, while it is difficult to see how he can occupy any other, for it is seldom permitted to public men to desert the friends they have long worked with and to go over to another party; nor does it consist with self-respect to quit old colleagues and accept an infe rior position in opposite ranks. However the Tory party may constitute itself, it must be admitted that its pros pects are at present vague and intangible, whilst those of the Administration are solid and full of hope. Mr. Glad stone occupies at thie. inoment a position of immense power, and has in his hand the means of effecting great improvements which may hand down the memory of his Ministry to a grateful posterity if only he proves his capacity for making the best of his unquestioned oppor tunity. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks that everybody must re joice that a baker at Nottingham has been fined for selling flour adulterated with alum. It was, we believe, stated that he did not know that the flour which he bought was adulterated; but with this we have nothing to do. Who ever offers for sale adulterated food ought to be punished, and the following method of discovering the presence of alum in bread, which was published in 1762, may be useful as a means of detecting offenders : —" Mix chalk with aquafortis, pour them upon water in which the suspected bread has been infused and well soaked; if there be any aluminous acid, it will ap pear evidently soon after the mixture by a gypseous or chalky concretion forming a hard mass at the bottom of the vessel." In 1764 John Fetch, a baker in Whitecross street, was convicted before Sir John Fielding for having in his bakehouse a quantity of alum, which was adjudged by the magistrate to have been lodged there with an intent to adulterate the purity of meal, flour and bread, contrary to the statute; upon which he paid the penalty of £4 for that offence, being a mitigation of the penalty of £lO forfeited by tho Act. In 1775 another baker charged before the Lord Mayor with a similar offence did not got off so cheaply, and was fined the full penalty of £lO. It appears, there fore, that our ancestors suffered as we do from the effects of "competition ;" and it should be our duty, by putting the law into operation, and rigidly enforcing its pro visions, to promote the honesty of the retailer anti the health of the consumer before the advent of our grand children The Bishop of Exeter, "feeling much sympathy with working men," has become a patron of the Working Men's Institute, Catherine-street, Plymouth, of which the Rev. T. Erskine Risk is president. The Observer says a feeling of anxiety is at pre sent pervading many of the Government offices in view of Mr. Lowe's next Budget, and the proposed reduction in the various departments. In Somerset House and the Custom House the feeling is generated by the belief that Mr. Lowe contemplates extreme reduction in the Inland Revenue and Customs duties. It is believed, also, that changes arc contemplated in the Pa) vaster-General's Office—changes the carrying out of which will involve the destruction of the office. Major-General Sir Alfred Horsford, K.C.8., has resigned command of the 3d Infantry Brigade, at Aldershott, his period of duty having expired ; and the command of the brigade has been temporarily assumed by Colonel Martin Dillon, C.lll. (2 1 Bat talion Rifle Brigade), Aide-de-Camr, to the Queen. General Horsford is acknowledge,-1 -to be one of the most able officers in the army, ant. in any future campaign in which his services may be required he will doubtless occupy a prominent. -_position. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS . , AT, PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.— Portrait albums, dispatA boxes, writing case 4, dressing cases, dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, bookslides, work boxes, :tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent hot ',les, cigar eases, card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles i 1 china, bronze gilt, and elegantly mounted for mantel shelf, draw ing and library tables; bagatelleboards, indoor croquet and - games of all kinds ; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services iL ' every type. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new- and fresh. Small artic:es carefully selected and sent post paid ,upon pre payment. Catalogues free. (From the Anglo-American Times.) In the "silly season," which for newspapers reaches its silliest about Christmas, journals find ing nothing else to discuss, in a dog-eat-dog style sometimes turn upon each other. Even the Times condescends, with a touch of the Gaily Bellowgraph, to discuss its contemporaries ; " the Star fell with autumn's falling leaf, and on Friday the Herald died with the dying year. Dissimilar enough in life, they strikingly resembled each other in the eminently peaceful and decorous character of their death." It goes on to show how they died, like patriarchs, prophesying to the last, not leaving the world because they want support, but because their work is done. They have fought the good fight, and have won it so completely that there is no thing left to fight for. The principles they started to establish, everywhere triumphant no longer need their support ; their end is less a death than a translation. This is what both say, yet, strange to state, each advocated the principles opposed to the other. Then the Times points out how harmo niously this end of journalistic life accords with its beginning, no journal being ever started with a view to pecuniary profits. Though a private en terprise, its aims are always public ; perceiving more clearly than its contemporaries the importance of certain principles, it comes forward to support them, but, when triumphant, no reason rem tins for prolonging its career, be it ever so profitable. The undisguised sneer at these " dead ducks" was, in the highest degree, distasteful to the Standard, a sort of Siamese twin to the Herald. The extinct Star had no Siamese twin, being absorbed by a wholly different paper, though advocating, in a modified way, the same principles. Nor was it made more agreeable by what followed. These two papers, the 7 imes remarked, represented the extreme sides of " party, journalism," which it calls the most eccentric and unaccountable of civilized institutions. A journal may give a general and cor dial support to a party without waiving its right to op , pose what it consider to be wrong ; but a " party journal," as a matter of course, approves whatever emanates from one set of politicians, and disap proves of whatever emanates from another. The articles on any subject might be written before hand, for they have no reference either to the merit or the fact, and the reader can confidently count nn what the tone will be, as the writer supplies the matter to order. How such articles can interest any one surprises the Times, this mental condition being incomprehensible to it, while compelled by the logic of facts to believe in its existence. That the class which supplies the readers is declining is shown, according to the Times, by the death of the two journals most conspicuous in pandering to it. Naturally this raised the Standard's wrath up to boiling point, and it overflowed, in many words, in the next day's issue. In reply to the charge " of a bigoted adherence to party," and the cause of is death " as sticking too long and too narrowly to the same old work," all can guess what the Stan dard's answer would be. Naturally for conduct so ab surd alio Times has no patience, whose principle it is to move with the greatest number, to mark events as they pass, and look at questions on the side they momentarily present; but is it, asks the .standard, a sign of improvement in public morality that journals like the _Herald should be done to death for a faithful adherence to its party, " while the markers of events as they pass,' the watchers of time, and the waiters upon change, are upon the increase.and flourishing? . . . Itself the most remarkable instance in the history of journalism, in proof of the fact, that freedom from principle does not mean superiority to party, the Times, in its present phase of its existence, is notoriously dis qualified to act either as arbiter of the living or as judge of the dead. In pursuit of its humble but profitable ambition to mark events as they pass,' it has marked Mr. GLADSTONE as he has passed into power—it has marked Mr. LOWE, with a still ten derer and nearer concern, as he has passed into finance. . . . Without any bigoted adherence to the spirit of party, without any sense, as we can readily believe, of any spirit of party at all, and quite prepared to abandon the combination to-mor row, if it should fail, the Tims has displayed for the last twelve months a zealous attachment to the persons of the Ministry which pass s all our experience of party newspapers, and which remains inexplicable on any theory of journalistic morais." Indeed, the Standard lashes itself into such a fury as very plainly to insinuate that Mr. LOWE knows exactly the price at which the Times values its sup port to the Government, as well as the cost to the pub lic Treasury. It proceeds to remark that he on whom the melancholy duty devolves of writing the limes' epitaph will not be able to say it died, " because it stuck too long or narrowly to the same old work, for it will not die of an over-scrupulous or rigid adherence to the spirit of any one party." But may it not die, we ask, if there is a particle of truth in the insinuation of the Standard, of a too rigid and unscrupulous adherence to its own pecuniary inte rest. It is the fashion to account in this way for changes in the 1 imes, but nobody attaches the slightest value to such assertions, for the excel lent reason that no person or association has the wealth to bribe the proprietors of the Times for the loss they might sustain in such a course would be so enormous that, putting honesty aside, their demand must be so heavy that it could not be met except out of the Treasury of a first-class power. Now and then the Pall Mall Gazette turns from its habitual abuse of the Telegraph to come down upon the Times, in such articles as Vicious Journalisnt ; but when any writer is really hard up for a subject, he searches the columns of the Telegraph, clutching an extract from the " Literary 3ody-snatcher." The last decidedly good thing, perhaps the best the Telegraph ever produced, and the most ridiculed, was on Mr. GLADSTONE'S sixtieth birthday ; but our contemporaryin Fleet-street pursues the even tenour of his way, still being able to announce the largest circulation in the world.. Indeed there is truth in the remark of the Times, that an old journal has an immeasurable advantage over a new one, the up hill battle to the fresh comer being in making itself known, and it may suit the views of the Plegraph to have its great posters and advertisements aided by articles about itself going the rounds of the press. That the Herald died for want of change we deny, and its respectable sister of Shoe-lane could with truth have contradicted the assertion, for no one knows better that in rigidly adhering to its party it was swinging gracefully as well as continually round the circle. The Herald held on to its party, but what did its party hang on to ? Why to the most violent, erratic, and unexpected changes, and it is a study to observe how both the Herald and its sister fitted into their pigeon -holes designs they had openly proclaimed to be an abomination, docketed " party measures" and labelled, " to be supported." . Among the extraordinary journalistic changes it is perhaps true that the 2 imes has been the most immoveable on what in America is called "the main question," while presenting, like the chameleon, many passing hues. The reason why such journals as the Star and Herald have died ap pears to U 3 to be obvious. The reduction of many of the Metropolitan daily papers to a penny, instead of cheapening the cost of establishing and main taining a morning paper, has enormously in creased it. Without a large measure of public support no such journal can exist, and the support while sectional must be little less than national in its magnitude if the journal is to become a re munerative property. People talk wildly of a daily circulation of 100,000 copies without a conception entering their minds Of what the handlir.g of 100,000 Telegraphs or Standards means. It requires even in the mechanical business a very strong force to get through such work in the early hours (f tl.e morning, and without a still stronger editorial and reporting staff, as well as. the ability to collect and give the news, the 100,000 copies would not be re /faired by the public. Therefore the two must be conjoined, first in giving satisfaction to the enor mous number of readers required to create the de mand, then in having the means for supplying that demand. Hence the necessity for the amalgama tion of the same party morning journals ;benc.,, too, the almost impossibility for fresh competitors to enter this field ; and it is all the more deceptive that it looks so easy, the penny journals being bought to wrap up buns, or picked up by the dozen Mr. - Bout%Vell's Monthly Statement gives the total debt of the United States on the Ist inst., less money and bonds in the Treasury, as $2,448,746,953, being a decrease during December of $4,812,781. The total decrease since March 1 is $76,716,306, the Bonds purchased amount to $87,454,277. The coin in the Treasury is $109,159,475; the currency $12,773,91;3; showing au increase of three millions in gold, and half a million in paper. The sales during January of gold are to be reduced to $4,000,000, and the purchase of 5-20's is limited to $6,000,000. Admiral Porter's evidence to the Spechil Com mittee on the causes of the decay in American shipping is of much interest, and more especially so to the shipbuilders on the Tyne and the Clyde, for he advises the purchase of some 25 steamers for registration on the American list to be at once used in establishing ocean lines. With such a nucleus and the proteeLion accorded by subsidies and drawbacks, the Admiral thinks that in two or three years the American carrying trade would revive. With this exception he opposes the free regi-eration of foreign-built ships as destructive of the mechanical and building interests of America, granting it only,as a n imtne , Jiate requisition for a number of vessels could not be met iu the U. S. Hence the necessity for buying some 25 foreign steamers, while he would so aid the establishment of the lines that they could be kept up from American yards. The value to Goverument, on the outbreak of a war, of having at command 40 such vessels as are now plying between America and Europe cannot be over-estimated. The Admiral said that the Union would have saved at least $40,000,000 could such a fleet have been turned into a blockading force, indeed 30 suchvessels would be of more service in case of war than the combined navy as at present constituted. Though this arty appear exaggerated, we doubt if it be an exaggeration. No storm appears to check au Atlantic mail steamer, no sea to injure her. When chimneys are tumbling down and roofs flying about on shore them magnificent vessels continue on their course, the wind howling, the sea raging, it is true, but harmlessly to them. Take !L ma n- of-war 01 the contrary, and we find the Monarch lying at Spithead awaiting fine weather precisely the period it took a Cenarder to go from Liverpool to New York. By the time the powerful war ship reaches her destination that Cunarder will have got back to Liverpool, and returned again from Liverpool to New York. The fact is that the proprietors of such vessels know exactly what they require, and insist on the steamers built for them being Li every way up to that mark, while the Navy authorities scarcely know whether they want an iron or a wooden vessel, screw or paddle, broadside or turret, and cud perhaps in having one side plated, the other not, and a ram at the stern. Admiral Porter's high ap preciation of these wail steamers is no more than just. It is with no small measure of regret we learn that the Cunard and Inman Companies will no longer Lrh,g the American malls to England, as they have declined the re duced terms offered by the U. S. Government. Hitherto, as their representatives state, they have carries the home ward mails for 20 cents per ounce—a rate the Washington Government proposes to lower to one-fourth ; a remune ration insufficient to induce these companies to sail from America upon fixed days, and to incur the port and other charges on entering the harbour at Queenstown to dsliver the mails. The following telegram was received in London last Saturday : —" The Cunard and Inman steamers having refused to carry the mails at the reduced rates, the Pest office authorities have contracted with the Oelrich's steamers for one year to carry the Saturday mails. They will commence on the Ist of January, 1870. It is reported that the Wednesday mails will be carried by the Williams and Guion steamers." The Wednesday mails from Ame rica have hitherto been carried by the Cunarders, and the Saturday mails by the. Inman fleet, the reverse of this being the case from Liverpool. As far as we can recol lect, with one exception at least for three years, the mail news of this paper has been for the Saturday week preceding its issue, with occasional news up to the Tuesday, and even Wednesday, of the week previous to its issue ; and we hope that this regularity may not be interrupted. In the House of Representatives Mr. Jones, of Kontueky, elicited an opinion unfavourable to the late Mr. Peabody, held by a section of the members. While pro nouncing a eulogy on the character of the philanthropist he moved a resolution, which was eventually adopted, in the following form :—Resolved, " That the President of the United States be authorized to make such preparations for the reception of the body of our distinguished philan thropist, George Peabody, as is merited by his glorious deeds, and in a manner commensurate with the justice, magnanimity, and dignity of a groat people." Mr. Schenck observed that Congress bad already done enough. Un gracious as it might be, be would say that he would r a th er divide a little of that respect and attention by sending ships to meet the body of some humble individual, poor it might be, who, in proportion to his means abroad, while the struggle was going on for the life of this nation, gave his time, his energy, his hopes, and endeavours, along with his sympathies, to the Union. Many members clapped their hands on this. The fact is that Mr. Peabody's phi lanthropy was too broad, as philanthropy is apt to be, for violent partisanship. There was a time when the honours paid to him in America would not have been accorded, for he could scarcely be said to be sound on the main question, and would very strenuously have opposed General Butler's proposition that at least six of the rebel chiefs ought to have been hung, which Horace Greeley calls the "policy of vengeance," in his reply acknowledging it to be still the more popular, though tepidly losing its adherents. In the Executive Session of the Senate, on the 21st Dec., a leading member said it was humiliating to the dignity of the Chamber, as well as detrimental to its business and its secrecy, that all which transpired in Executive session should be paraded to the world by a set of newspaper scril - blers. He thought a speedy stop ought to be put to the publication of secret sessions. Of course not one of that dignified body would disclose the proceedings, and a severe, unrelenting investigation should be instituted till the guilty party was detected and punished. This brought the solemn conclave to the consideration of the means through which the guilty party had hitherto worked. One sugg.sted that he was concealed beneath the large register in front of the clerk's desk whore the grating enabled him to hear what was going on. Another, however, held the op posite opinion, believing the reporter to be on the sky light looking down upon the Senators, many of whom felt sure that the leak was from that source. It was suggested that a committee should watch those points during secret sessions, and the proposal even went so far as to require the Vice-President to mount to the skylight there to keep guard during these periods. No conclusion was reached except the determination to do something, but what, has not yet been decided. The most amusing pat tof the story is that no sooner bad their secret session closed than its proceedings were being telegraphed to New York for publication in the morning paprf.i. It is ridiculous fur Senators to suppose there is any escape. for the first who left the Chamber woul.l be collared, "interviewed," and effectually pumped by the nearest reporter. One of the reports circulating in Washington about the secret executive sessions had reference to a difference bAtvecn the President and the Chamber regarding the appointment of the new District Judges. The Judiciary Committee asked the President to furnish copies of the recommendations whereon be had made the appointments, which he declined to do. The Committee brought the matter before the Senate asking it to call for these papers. A hot discussion arose, which ended in the President being asked to furnish these letters if it did not interfere with public business. The President only sent two, but before the evening closed the proceedings of the secret session were flashed to all parts of the Union. In truth, it is a farce for the Senate to close its doors and discuss matters TILE ERECT OP TRADES' UNIONS. Mr. Edmund Ashworth contin ues hi s l e tt ers i n t h e Tinzeg on the injurious results of workmen's combina tions. Ile instances the case of certain branches of th e building trade which employ inspectors to visit the workshops, in order to see that the men do not work too fast, and to report and have fined any who dis obey by getting through work more rapidly than the Union permits. The bricklayers carry out aimilar rerrulationstiielice. says Mr. Ashworth, build- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEMNG, JANUARY 10, 1870. ings cost from 60 to 80 per cent. more than formerly.. The engineers of England have thought themselves so secure during the last twenty years that their Union has continued to exact high wages and insisted upon their trade regulations, until now they dictate who shall be foremen of the shop, and rule that the inferior shall be paid the same rate o wages as the best workmen. The effect of their doings is that they keep wages from ls. to ls. 6d. a day higher than at the great works of Creusot, so that an establishment in this country employing 1,000 men must pay £15,000 a year more in wages than a similar firm in France. ME METROPOLITAN .31ORNI1VG PAPERS. on the floor of a railway train just vacated. The cost of producing an article held in such light esteem seldom crosses the purchaser's mind, yet its cheapness is one of the marvels tf modern civiliza tion, for the article he buys can only be produced ,it an expenditure which in a few mouths would wreck a magnificent fortune if its production were unsupported. What we assert is that the profits of a penny paper are so small,' unless the circulation be enormous and the command of advertisements in proportion, and the expense of providing for such a demand is so vast, that but few penny journals can exist. The Star very wisely stepped out of the way of the Daily News, and the Herald, which was merely a threepenny edition of the Standard, was thrown aside notwithstanding the prestige of its old traditions to leave the younger champion of the cause untrammelled. What the fate will be of the Pall_ Mall Gazette as a morning journal it is impossible to predict, but it is in a vortex which will whirl it round, and either rapidly jerk it into the middle of the stream, to sail smoothly and pro. sperously along, or down to the bottom among the Stars and the Heralds, not leaving it even the satis faction of being able to say that it was established to advocate a principle, and having accomplished its work it descended to the depths of its own free will, there to secure the peace and repose it sought. The certainly gets good paper and type, which the Spectator asserts cannot be given for a penny ; in deed are not always given for 3d., while well worth the difference to the public. The long and interesting Report of Commissioner D. A. Wells could not be given in this issue without an_ other Supplement, and we are compelled therefore to re terve it for next week. when its contents will be detailed, though not quite in full. Indeed nothing less than a large volume could hold all the Reports sent to Congress iu its December Session, and we have done our best to furnish our readers with the most important. The subjects dis cussed by the Special Commissioner are the cost of the war—our national wealth—hindrances to national develop ment the poor growing poorer—tariff and currency—our currency excessive—specie payments—the surplus revenue sound doctrine on the tariff—the copper monopoly— pig•-iron plunder —specific reductions recommended—plan of a tariff for revenue and protection—and general sum mary of the Repert. The Nos. 218, 219, 220, and 221 of this newspaper contain these Reports, and a few copies remain, which can ba furnished on application to 15, Catherine-street, Strand, London. MR. lIIINZINGER. Mr. Jesse, zoologist to the late Abyssinian Expedi tion, joins in the appeal to the Government on behalf of Mr. Munzinger, formerly British Con sul at Massowah. Mr. Munzinger rendered the most valuable assistance during the ex pedition against Theodore, and yet he is now in want. Mr. Jesse has travelled with the unfortunate consul, has partaken of his hospitality, and can testify to his services. He hopes that the Government will respond to the appeal on his behalf; and if help from this quarter be denied, promises to head a subscription for his use. THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. as if it was the Council of Ten in Venice, while reporters, visible or invisible, Senators or newspaper men, are mak ing notes of what everybody says, for the morning news papers throughout the United States. It is not improbable that the Executive and the Senate may come into collision. Andrew Johnson so un settled the balance of power that the State machine is apt to grate and jerk. The norninat:on of Attorney-General Hoar to the vacancy of Justice Wayne on the. Supreme Bench has been strongly opposed in the Senate, chiefly on the ground that ho is from New England. Justice Grier also comes from Pennsylvania, which State urg©s that the post of right should be given to one of her citizens, the late Justice Wayne having been a Pennsylvanian, and further urges the loss of her Cabinet Minister in the resig nation of Borie. The South asserts that the post should be given to a Southerner, and other Senators have taken umbrage at J udge Hotel 's action in his distribution of patro nage when first appointed. The President has already an nounced that he will not be influenced in these important appointments by politicians, or by other considerations than qualification. So unsatisfactory was the debate lu the Senate to Judge Hoar that he sent in his resignation as Attorney-General, because the Senate did not extend to him its confidence. But the President does not feel either inclined to accept his resignation as Attorney-General, or to withdraw his nomination to the Supreme Bench. This s one story, but another is that Mr. Hoar said on learn ng the slashing attacks made on him in the Senate, and the action of that body in laying the nomination without a vote on the table, tantamount to its rejection— that if they preferred that ho should be Attorney-Ge net eel for three and a half-years instead of Justice of the Supreme Court, he was willing. On this subject the Nation says :—" The causes of this unpopularity are his want of familiarity with, and what is of more importance, patience with; the ways of politicians; his undisguised contempt for " claims," and his tendency to stick pins into wind bags. Consider_ ing his reputation as a judge and his high character, the hesitation of the Senate over his nomination is a curious piece of childishness. The country would, however, gain for the present by his total rejection, as he makes a rare Attorney-General, and helps to supply the Cabinet with that foundation of all statesmanship —good sense." The death of Mr. Stanton will leave another vacancy, for which the President may azain nominate Mr. Hoar. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Rev. Dr. Sears, general agent of the Peabody education fund, is visiting the chief cities of Texas, to ascertain the needs of that State.— Alabama Semmes has failed as au editor, and he revenges himself by talking of "the present demoralized condition of the Southern press."—The eulogies in Congress on the late Senator Fessenden were pronounced by Messrs. Lynch, Peters, Hale, Brooks of New York, and Dawes. - General Sherman has been in New York at the Astor House, where he remained some time—but has returned to Washington.—Mrs. O'Donovan Bosse is at the Ebbit House, in Washington. If Woman had her Rights, Tippe rary m' ) r eebt have elected her its M.P. instead of her hus band.—A. D. Richardson left an estate of s7s,ooo.—The Hon. J. Morrissey says lie intends to have the finest private residence in Saratoga.—The Hon. G. H. Pe' dleton has been appointed President of the Kentucky Central Railroad.-- George Wm. Curtis thinks the public service in America is more wretchedly performed and at a higher price than any private work.—Pero Hyacinthe was " interviewed " by a New York phrenologist, who found "self-esteem " large.—The Now York reporters have now got to inter viewing Mrs. James Fisk, jun.- Mr. Wm. Beals, senior proprietor of the Boston Post, entered upon his 65th year on the 16th Dec.- The Cleveland Herald nominates Judge Chase as Democratic candidate for President in 1872.—The French Embassy at Washington, it is said, is about to be vacated, M. Berthemy being transferred from Washington to Pekin. Iu the Society of the Army of the Cumberland at Indianapolis on Dec. 16 General Thomas was elected President, and Generals Rosecrans, Sheridan, Schofield, Negley, and twelve others, were elected Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year; General Sheridan on the pre ceding day was elected President to the Convention. Commander GeOrge W. Morris has been ordered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard.—The Tribune says: "Miss Allio H. Jameson has been appointed a notary yublic at Mae shalltown, lows. When she administers oaths and holds out the book to be kissed, we hope uo mistake will be made."—General W. J. Hardee has been elected president of the Historical Association of Alabama. -The illinanach De Gotha for 1870 contains a portrait of President Grant. Governor Hoffman has issued a proclamation offering a reward of SSOU for the arrest of the murderer or murderers of Dr. Andrew Meade of Alleghauy.— John Brougham i iu Buffalo. Mrs. D. P. Bowers is in New Orleans, and John E. Owens is in Vicksburg.—Major Rhea, formerly of the Memphis Avalanche left San Francisco, Dec. 21, with three hundred Chinese labourers fur the Southern States. The Chinamen are under a three years' contract. The President has pardoned Colonel Richard Enright, sen tenced to the penitentiary in Ne:v York for whisky frauds. —Wm. IL Seward will visit Central America before re turning to the Uttited States.—Colonel M. Richards Muckle of the Ledge) , has returned from Europe to Philadelphia. —Jeff. Davis has been left $lO,OOO by an English woman. —President Grant has been sent a turkey weighing forty pounds, from Poughkeepsie, New York.—The latest about Anna E. Dickinson is that she is to edit the New York Re volution.—On the 19th Dec. George Francis Train found the doors of Cooper Institute closed by order of the Board of Trustees, and his expected lecture therefore did not come off. He demands 82,:.00 damages. - Hiram Powers' statue of " Eve," now nearly finished, is said to excel his "Greek Stave," and indeed to surpass anything he has previously produced.—The newly appointed Consul fo Jamaica, Mr. J. W. Wheeler, sailed December 23 from New York with his family in the bark Pongar for King ston. Mr. Wheeler goes out to succeed Mr. Aaron Gregg.— Rev. D. C. Greene, the first missionary of the Atne, icon board to Japan, sailed from San Francisco, November 4 He was accompanied by his wife, and expects to pro ceed at once to Yeddo.—Eev. Dr. Foley, vicar general of the diocese of Baltimore, has been appointed to succeed Rev. Dr. Duggan as Catholic Bishop, of Illinois. - Presi dent Grant has assigned Col. Henry B. Carrington of Wallingford to the professorship of military science in Wabash College, Indiana.—The Monarch, with the re mains of Mr. Peabody, arrived at Madeira on the 30th of December. Both branches of the Baltimore City Council have appointed a committee of five members to attend the obsequies , f Mr. Peabody. The Board of Trade and Corn Exchange of Baltimore and the Trustees of the Peabody Institute will also be represented. On the arrival of the Monarch at Portland the obsequies are to be celebrated and delegates from numerous other cities will be present. —The Martinsville Gazette, Indiana, appears to have been the only paper in which the notice to M•Farland, of his Rite's divorce proceeding, was published; and a journal supposes this was done in a way sometimes adopted of publishing with the notice an extra of three or four copies only. The case has called forth a discussion on the divorce laws of Indiana and on the marriage relations throughout the Union.—Justice Grier forwarded with his resignation a letter from a Mr. Hardy, a lawyer, recommending Mr. Bradley, a New Jersey lawyer, to be appointed to the vacancy—(cheek !) The Hon. S. Edward Lyulph Stanley, brother of Lord Stanley of Alderley, is, it is understood, about to revisit the United States. Before returning to England he will make a journey to the East, and will include China, Japan, and Siam in his tour.—We hear that Miss Nellie, the beautif al daughter of Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of Ceylon, and the lion. Lady Robinson, is engaged to be married to Captain Edward Beauchamp St. John, of her Majesty's 73d Regiment, now stationed at Ceylon. MONEY AAD BUSINESS. (From the Spring&2d Republican, Dec. 23.) Lenders have almost forgotten the frauds that made them so cautious in New York last week, and the money market has quite regained its December dullness. At Bos ton those in favour with the banks obtain discounts at 7 to 71-, while outside parties are paying from 8 to 15, in order to bridge over the perilous gap between now and the New year's business. The Western cities complain of snug times, as they have a chronic habit of doing, even when bills on the East are below par. Much of the mobile capital of the West, however, h as b een converted into fixed capital within a few years, and the loss of it is now felt in the loan market. Manufacturing enterprises and real estate, in which when money was cheap Western capital largely ventured, are not so convenient and available for col lateral, as the railroad stocks and Government bonds so largely held at the East. Hence, while in this section the millions recently invested still preserve a certain circulatory character and assist in a considerable degree to facilitate credit, as well as to render it secure, the West finds its funds locked up in enterprises whose sol vency cannot be quoted iu the market reports and borrowed and loaned upon. Tho Chicago bankers complain that their deposits are very low and have to go to New Y ork for the wherewithal to relieve their customers, while in the open market the rates are 11 to 2 per cent. a month. At New York, though the banks hold only about $45,000,000 legal tenders, some $9,000,000 less than the reserves last year at this time, the outlet for the winter is regarded as very hopeful. Henry Clews and Co. remark that the moneyed community of New York has become accustomed to working on a much smaller basis of legal tenders than formerly and anticipate no stringency, even if there should be another loud call for currency to go West, as there was about this tint,', last year. Golf has eg.in been surrendered to its own gravitation by Secre tary Boutwell. On Friday ho o fh red for sale a tnill:ou in coin, and was met by bids for only $482,000, ranging from 121 to 121 52, none of them coming up to the stan dard of 122, which he had fixed during Lite previous week. Wall-street was in a f, rment to know whether the Secre tary would stick to his previous figure or sell out for what he could get. Telegrams from WaNhing:on directed the sub-treasurer to pursue the latter course; great was the rage of the bulls thereat. The premium dropped to 1201 and lets since been down tunong the 'teens. There are several reasens why gold will go down in spite of Mr. Boutweli's efforts, and that cfficial may as well leave it to the mercies of its own law first as last. The premium till within a few weeks of the September panic remained nearly sta tionary for 'some time, while causes were at work In trade and in public opinion that would have lowered it if it had Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers Lmdon, Prime Commercial lOB —lOBl Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Ffamburgh, Bankers 351-3“ Frankfort, O.M. 4og-40i Berlin and Colo gne Antwerp 5.211-5.171 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5.211-5.171 Government Bonds aro generally strong and active. Large orders continue to be received from Europa for United States 5-20 Coupon Bonds, the major part of which are already owned in Europe, whither the balance will no doubt ultimately find their way. Sixes, 1861, registered ll5 to 1151 Sixes, 1881, coupon Sixes, 1868, coupon - 1 " ) .rifi c Rail, and _ _ U.S. 63. Po'citie Railroad Five-twenties, 1862, registered ll4 to 111 4 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon : lll4 to 112 Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon .... 1144 t,, 1141 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 ll5 to 1151 Ton-forties, coupon .. lOB4 to 104 Ten-forties, registered Oregon War Loan, Sixes. 1881 Railroad Stocks are far from active, the principal busi ness being in the Chicago stocks: Miscellaneous Stocks do not show much activity, the principal transactions continue to be in Pacific Mail, which closed 481. N. Y. Cent. & Hud. Re: 861 Fort Wayne Erie Hudson Reading Mich. Central ll7 W. U. Telegraph llinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B2 Ohio and Mississippi... 25 North-West North-West Preferred 82f, Cumberland Canton... 49 N Y and N Haven l3ll Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo M & St. Paul Preferred 851 Railroad Gold Bonds aro active, and large investments are making by trustees, executors of estates, capitalists, and others seeking first-class investments. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 85 N. Y. Central Gs, 1887 84 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Con. 7s, con. 76 98 Erie Ist Mort, Ex Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 BB Erie 7s, 3,1 Mort, 1883 B3 Eri, 7s, 4th Mort, 1880._ 74i Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 6B Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 — Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, Hod. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 99 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 97 Mich. C. Ist M. 69'72 ll6 Mich. new Ist M 85,'82 — Mich. So., d. p. c 231 9O N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 97 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 116 Alton & T. H. let M 92 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd Alton & T. H. 2d M.luc 7l Han.& St.J.LandWrnts Han. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 111 Chi. t N. West, S. 96 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony. 88 Chi. & N. W. Int B B4 Chi. & N. W. Ist M 9ll Quincy & Tol, Ist M, '75 70 & So. lowa Ist M 7O GLWest. Ist M, 'BB — Gt. Western 2d M '93 B2 Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex B7i Express Stocks are dull. Adams. American Merchants' Unim Merchants' Union, old Sto United States Wells, Fargo, and Co • & Wab. Equip 74 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — Gal. & Chic. Ext 101 • & Chic. 2d M 9O Chi. & R. I. Ist 31 101 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 971 Clevo. & Tol. S. Fund 96 N. J. Central Ist M 99 N J. Central 2d 31 Pitts. F t.W., & Cb . Ist M 100/ Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch.2d M — Pitts. Ft. W., & Oh.3d M — Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 73 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc — Chic. &Alton, S. F. lstM 102 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M 92 Mil. & St. Paul 2d EL Marietta & t in. let M — ' Morris & Essex let M — Morris & Essex 2d M 921 Joilet & Chic. let R — Chi. & Gt. East'n Ist 31 75 N. Y. & N. H. 6s 95 Dubuque &S.City,lst M 93 Peninsula Ist M B5 Ohio & Miss. Ist M 93 Ohio & Miss. Con Bl Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D 7B Atlantic & G. W. 2d M — Del., Lack., & W., 2tl M 92 Lake Shore Div. Bonds Cleve, P. & 9 sh. N.B — Do. 0.8... Union Pacific Gold 8... 831: Central P.RR. Gold 8... 92 Pacific ItR. guar. by Mo. 93} 61 to 62 )n 3B to 39 9i to 10 ” 201 to 21 Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, report as follows on Dec. 24 : — Pennsylvania Railroad Shares, 53i 54; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 99i 100 ; Sixes, 2d Mort gage, 95 95 i. W. Jersey Railroad, 6s, 90f 91. LADVERTIFMENT. I—Holloway's Pills have been for years, and still are, renowned as a safe and salutary remedy for indigesti n, liver complaints, and all manner of erup ashlioduiladaeprpe, wareaukandeass; erup tions skin diseases. Paine in the stomach after ea ti n g, eructations of wind, p a i n i n the back, aching o f th e r i g ht th la a n p g a u r oirf,ythis powers of these and tawny hue o f th e s ki n , admir able Pills. They contain no ingredient which by possi bility could hurt the most feeble frame. They effect a salubrious though momentous change throughout the sys tem by thoroughly expelling all impurities, and imposing on every organ its natural functions. Many testimonials of their efficacy can be produced, received from all parts of the world. not been sustained by speculation. The September panto came, did away with speculation and left no support for gold above a certain low figure. Meantime the same causes which should have operated during that interval have been in efficient operation ever since. The improved national credit has not only appreciated the greenbacke, but, by stimulating the foreign bond market, has removed all temptation to buy gold for export. Within the last two months it is estimated that $15,000,000 of bonds have gone abroad, paying a debt on the other side of $13,500,000.. Again, the excess of exports for the last five mouths, has been larger than the excess of imports, over the same time last year, operating to reduce not only the foreign demand for bullion, bat the demand of the importers here who have to pay their duties in coin. The shipments of gold have therefore been less than half what they were last year ($30,00,000 against $69,000,000), the New York banks hold $29,716,000 against $19,100,000 at this time in 1868, and the United States Treasury for private de positors $36,000,000 against 917,100,000, and $..12,000,000 will directly be thrown upon the market as January inte rest. Powerful as is this coil of interlinked causes to depress the premium on gold, it is augmented by the in stinctive sentiment of the people, who have a faith or perhaps a dread that specie payment is at heed, and, on the whole, will submit to it with the grace of the ailing IriShman who protested his anxiety to have tho medicinal gin-sling forced down him, "whether he would or no." The causes above enumerated are moreover not merely permanent, but they are also cumulative. The Loudon papers attribute the rise in American -beads to pur chases of them by permanent investors and not for speculation, a fact that indicates a steady de mand for them through the winter. The immense export for breadstuffs has as yet received no check, but seems to have become steady. The demand for cotton also is such that the prices at our ports have not receded with the premium in gold, notwith standing heavy receipts from inland and heavy ship ments. The Liverpool market is bare, and it is thought that prices will average from lid to 12d for the cotton year, which, supposing that we can spare only 1,500,04.0 bales, would bring us $170,000,000 iu gold, about what we got for the last two years in currency. The indications are that we will not have to compete with cotton via Suez immediately. Considering all these data, the specie pay ment question may provide its own solution, the discern ' fort of which will be somewhat mitigated by its thorough anticipation. Government bonds in the Lome market have set led slightly with the gold premium, on which their quotations rest. State Bonds are without important change, Leuisiauas being in good demand and scarce, and new South Carolinas appreciating on assurances of the payment of the January interest. The stock marker suffered a decline of about 1 per cent., when Mr. Boutwell kicked the legs from under goad on Friday. Erie had a panic on its own hook, occa sioned by the large sales of its stock by a German banker, who was unloading it for foreign holders. It fell from 25 to 214, and has not recovered. The failure of the dry goods commission house of Schepeler and Co., Boston and New York, is attributed to speculation in Boston, Hart ford, and Erie, which is down again, selling for 91 in Bos ton on Saturday. The consolidation of the Lake Shore and the Toledo and Wabash roads is "off," on account of the unwillingness of the Lake Shore stockholders to put in their stock at less than the htbest market quotations, in which unwillingness they are protected by the laws of Ohio. Their stock rose and the other fell off when the result was known. (from the Wall-street Journal.) NEW YORK, THURSDAY EVENING, Dec. 23. Heavy failures continue in all parts of the country-- collections are difficult and business is generally slow. Money on call is offered at 6 to 7 per cent., and borrowers aro readily supplied. Discounts are difficult at Bto 12 per cent. for prime double signatures and at 12 to 20 per gent. for first-class single names. QUOTATIONS FOR SPECIE. Amer. silver... 971 to 98 I Eng-. sous 4BB to 490 Mex. d011ar5...104 „ 104 20 francs 386 „ 888 Eng. silver 470 , 480 I Tinders Five francs .... 96 „ 97 Foreign Exchange is rather firmer but the variations in price are slight. BIRTHS. - - the 6th Jan., at F ul b eck, the wife of Colonel Fane of a son. S t soL AUL On the•6th J an., at Morton, Eroding, Isle of Wi g ht, Theodosia, wif e o f W. Sinclair, of a daughter. F A F ic r z a —On c O l. s n MARRIAGES. • ELLrOTT —LINDER— On the 6th Jan., at St. Mary's, Not tingham, Charles Janie; third son of Thornas Elliott, Pay brook Vale, Nottingham, to Mary Sophia, youngest daughter of J osep h Linde-, Esq., of Brooklyn House, Ma pperly, Notts. GOULD-JOHNSON- On the 7th Jan., at Chislehurst, Edward Gardiner, eldest s on o f Ed war d G ou ld , o f Ilromley, Kent., to Rose Emmeline, eldest daughter of William Johnson, of Woodburn, St, Saviour's, Jersey. D EA THS. WATTS -- On the Ist Jan., at 83, Oakfield-road, Penge, Surrey, Alfred Eugene Watts, solicitor, late of Park - House, Sydenhatn. WINTHROP—On the 2d Jan., at Bromley, Edward a. Winthrop, aged 60. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , • of No. 12, Strand, Printer, at TIER SUN Office, 0. 112, Strand. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex - ' Monday, January 10, 1870. 1~ I At , * fem. wei bin est nis am La Ca. Fil Tt Bo val