The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-14 00:00:00

THE DIVISION ON THE IRISH LAND BILL Four hundred and fifty-three members of the House o. Commons voted on the second reading of the Irish Lan( Bill : the majority numbered 442 ; the minority 11 Besides these there were two tellers on ea& side ; raising the total number taking part in the division to 457, the majority to 444, and the minority to 13. The said minority is com posed of ten Irish and three English members—of ter Liberals and three Conservatives. The English members and the Conservatives voting against the bill are .tht same. The Right Hon. J. W. Henley, member for Oxfordshire, is the most prominent of the non-contents ; his brethren in opposition are Sir William Bagge, the representative of Norfolk, and Mr. James Lowther, the Conservative member for the city of York. The tellers for the " Noes " were the mover and tic scconderof the rejection—Mr. George Leopold Bryan, the member for the county of Kilkenny, and Captain White, who sits for the county of Tipperary. The " sovereign counties," King's County and Queen's County throw their total weight against the measure. Sir Patrick O'Brien and Mr. David Sherlock, the representatives for the former, and Messrs. Edmund Dease and K. T. Digby, who sit forthe latter, appear with the minority. Sir John Gray, the member for the city of Kilkenny, voted with tie county member for the rejection. Mr. Philip Conan, of Dundalk, Mr. M. P. D'Arcy, of Wexford ; and Mr. Heron, of Tipperary, complete the list. In the majority Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Lowe and Mr. Hardy, Mr. Bruce and Sir Stafford North cute appear together. The number of Conservatives voting for the measure was about 147, and comprised nearly all the leading men. Mr. Ward Hunt was, however, an exception. The tellers for the , ayes were Mr. Adam and Captain Greville. Sixty-nine Irish members voted for the second reading ; twenty-three were absent from the division. The absentees were :—Captain Archdall, Sir R. I3lannerha.sset, Sir R. Gore Booth, H. Bruen, Hon. H. A. Cole, R. Peel Dawson, W. W. F. Dick, M. C. Dow. ning, Hon. Color el F. Fre-e), I. T. Hamilton, Sir F. W. Heygate, W. Keown, Colonel C. P. Leslie, E. Mac- E voy, P. MacMahon, H. Matthews, Hon. E. O'Neill W. &raw, Colonel Sir J. M, Stronge, Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Taylor, Lord Arthur E. H. Trevor, Colonel D. M. Van dileur, and E. W. Verner. THE HALFPENNY POSTAGE. DEPUTATION TO THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. On Saturday, at noon, a largely attended deputation waited upon the Marquis of Hartington, with reference to the half-penny postage movement. The deputation con sisted of Liberal members of Parliament, the Postal Com mittee of the Society of Arts, and several representatives of the newspaper press. Amongst .those present were, Mr. Mundella, M.P., Sir C. Dilke, Bart., M.P., Mr. J. A. Macfie, M.P. Mr. T. 0. Wetherhed, M.P.,_ Mr. J. Helms, M.P., Mr. D. Chadwick, Mr. P. Rylands, M.P., Mr. R. Shaw, M.P., Mr. M. O'Reilly Dease, M.P., D. M`Laren, M.P. Sir D. Wedderburn M.P., Mr. - Joseph Dodds M.P., Mr. Hyde Clark, Mr. Francis, Mr. Naylor, Mr. Jeffery, Mr. Saunders, Mr. J. Latimer, Mr. Arnold &c. Mr. AIUNDELLA, M.P., introduced the deputation. Last year (he said) notice of a resolution was given in the House by Mr. Graves that the postage should be reduced on all parcels of less than two ounces Many gentlemen at that time supported the proposition, but they did not vote upon it, in order that the Govern ment might have time to give their consideration to the question. They were much obliged to his lordship for the many postal changes he had introduced. They were, however, greatly disappointed that there had been no alteration in the rates for printed matter, this was a great mistake. If there were a halfpenny postage, in the en I it would add considerably to the revenue of the Post OJice. The present rate acted as a deterrent against the Lilerpool merchants sending away their cotton cheulars. A penny was too much for them, aid instead of sending daily circulars they were obliged to be content with transmitting them weekly. It was the same with the stockbrokers' lists, and it acted in a similar manner generally throughout the country. In an educational point of view it had an injurious eflect. Taere was no better education than a cheap paper; bat under the present arrangement the cost of doing this acted against it. In France in Belgium, and in other countries they had the cheap p')stage. The hon. member read a letter which had been written by one of the officials of the Crystal Palace Com pany, in which it was stated that as the matter now stood letters posted in Belgium, where there was a halfpenny postage, woul d be delivered in England for that sum, and • it was a question where large numbers of letters were con cerned whether or not'they should send them abroad to be peJted in order to effect the saving of the heavier postage in this country. Under the present arrangement they sent a newspaper weighing four ounces to the Antipodes for a penie. - , and they couldnot send ono - frem one side of the town to the other for a less sum. They could send printed matter from Frankfott Id Dresden to every part of this country fjr a stamp representing three shillings, and he thought the facts were so palpable that it was hardly necessary for him to make any extended observations. Mr. MeLanEN, M.P., also addressed the Marquis, and • complained that the postal authorities would neither deliver newsapers at the reduced price themselves, nor allow anyone else to do so. Mr. ARNOLD spoke on behalf of the press. and addressed the Marquis Mr. NAYLOR, president of the Provincial Newspaper Society, said a great injustice would be done unless the weight was so fixed as to allow all newspapers to be trans mitted through the post for a halfpenny. Mr. CHADWICK, of the Society of Arts, said the altera tion would be a boon to all scientific societies. FB.A.Ncis added a few words on the part of the Irish press. Mr. McFie, M.P., said, looking at it as a political question he knew of nothing which would be more bene ficial to Ireland than that the English newspapers should be freely distributed, and that the Irish newspapers should find their way into England without difficulty. He believed the postage would eventually come down to a farthing. The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he had listened with great interest to the gentlemen who were so well qualified as they were to give their opinions upon the subject. He had taken the best measures in his power to fulfiFthe promise he gave to the House of Commons last session, that he would cause careful inquiry to he made, both into the financial effects and into the possibility on the part of the Post Office of coping with the heavier labour which would be involved by such a re duction as they now proposed. He need make no mystery about this. He had come to the conclusion it would be perfectly possible for the Post Office to undertake the increase of work which would probably be thrown upon it. As to the financial result, he had not been able to form quite so positive an opinion, and it had been a subject of much interest to him to hear their opinions upon it. Mr. M`Laren said the revenue would only be compensated in the event of the circulation of newspapers and small book packets through the post being at least doubled. A double circulation, however, would not compensateathem, because heavier labour would have to be paid for. Mr. M`Laren had, however, given his opinion that it might be trebled, but he could not say that any information he had yet received had led him to anticipate postively that such would in reality be the result and he could not place before his colleagues, especially the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ' estimates which ho could not be perfectly certain would be realised. He thought it would be necessary to calculate that there would be some loss—not to say what that loss would be, but some loss would result in the first year. Whether the conveni ences and advantages of it would warrant the Government in making the alteration was not for him, but the Govern ment to decide. He should have great pleasure in laying before his colleagues the statements which had been made by so important and numerous a deputation, and he hoped that on Tuesday either himself or the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be in a position to state what was their intention. It would not be right on his part to anticipate what that would be, or to make to the deputation a statement which ought to be reserved for the House of Commons. He had not before him Mr. Greaves's resolution, but he gathered that he proposed the stamp to have reference to 2oz. There could be no doubt but that the views taken by the deputation were correct, and if there should be a change it should be one which would extend to all ordinary newspapers. (Hear.) There was another point to which his attention had been called to in the inquiry, and though he did not promise them to make a positive statement then, he should like to ascertain their opinion on that point. Of course the effect of a great reduction in price would be to greatly increase the mass and bulk of business they would have to deal with. He had stated he thought the Post-office capable of dealing with such an increase ; but there was under the 1 , .sent system one great difficulty which they had to contend with, namely, that I„ie size and weight of the big packets were unlimited, and parcels, which were very inconvenient and difficult to deal with, were constantly transmitted through the post. It appeared to them that it was not intended they should be agents for the transmission of large parcels, and it was wrong that in the delivery of small packets this diffi culty should be encountered. It was a branch which was very unremunerative, and a great disadvantage to the public. The proposition he intended to put was whether in view of the great convienience and advantage which the country would obtain in such a reduction of the postage as was proposed they would submit to some limit in the size and weight of parcels. Such limitation would , fnaterially assist them to. deal with the increased bulk they would have to deal with, though there was no desire on the part of thl Post Office to place any undue restric tion upon the public. A more rapid and certain delivery would be the result if they were not encumbered with heavy parcels. It was a subject upon which he should not expect the deputation to express an opinion, but they might think it over, and when the question came before the House, he should 100 glad to hear the result of such consideration. Mr. McFIE urged an alteration in the despatch of tho mails which would enable letters to be posted later in the evening. - - The deputation then thanked hi§ lordship, and with dreY4 INTERNATIONAL COINAGE. The French Ambassador at the British Court recently asked the British Government what it thought of the reports of the French commission on Monetary Questions— the establishment of a gold standard, and of an interna tional coinage. The Lords of the Treasury, in reply, ex pressed their gratification at the decision of the French Commission in favour of a simple gold standard. The British Government appreciated the importance of the International coinage movement, but could not entertain it, unless France and other countries re nounced their system of a double standard. It is added —" A consideration of the report of the French Com mission, supported as it is by the authority of a majority of the Chambers of Commerce and of the Receivers General throughout France, and, my Lords may add by the general opinion and the experience of this country, will, it may be hoped, influence the Government of the Emperor to prepare, at an early date, a measure for placing the French coinage upon a basis which will afford to her Majesty's Government the opportunity of considering the question of a common coinage, with fair expectation of a successful result. My lords are hardly in a position at present to pronounce an opinion to what extent the coinage of a gold piece of 25 francs might facilitate an arrangement for securing a coin common to both cqan tries ; but they think it desirable to mention that they wauld consider it essential that in any system of inter national coinage between Great Britain and France, the gold coins of the two countries should be identical in weight and fineness, and that the amount of " brassage " charged, and all the conditions of mintage, should be the same." This correspondence is published in a Parliamen tary paper just issued. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1870. MONTPENSIER IN M &DRID. The presence of the Duke of Montpensier in Madrid, notwithstanding his disclaimer of any intention of com peting for the vacant throne, appears to occasion consi derable uneasiness in the city. The Minister of War has been interrogated on the subject, by Senor Ochoa, who asked whether Don Antonio d'Orleans captain-general of the army, travelled with the necessary authorisation, and whether he was aware of the singular rumours to which his abrupt return to the capital had given rise. General Prim replied that the duke was quite in order, so far as the military law was concerned, but that he did not understand how men who called themselves liberal could wish to keep the exercise of liberty exclu sively to themselves, and to deprive a citizen whose rights to come to Madrid no one could dispute, from taking baths at Alhama and returning to Madrid. General Prim added that he could not understand how the presence of the Duke of Montpensier could occasion any alarm, as on the one hand, the Cortes were supreme, and on the other the whole Cabinet with the exception of Admiral Topete per sisted in its opposition to Don Antonio de Bourbon as candidate for the throne. The epithet " Bourbon," on which the Minister laid some emphasis, called forth loud cheers. THE CULTIVATION OF THE CAMPAGNA. A correspondent in Rome says that the experiment tried by the present Pope of bringing into cultivation the unhealthy lands of the Roman Campagna through the Trappist monks have already cost eight lives. " I visited the in farm on Friday, and although the agriculture leaves nothing to desire, it is clear that the experiment must be tried on - a far larger scale to ensure success. The monks in vain cultivated the small area given them, while the neighbouring proprietors refuse to allow them to meddle with the adjacent lands. Miasma is thus maintained up to the very doors of La Fontaine, and the fever has decimated the community. Cnivict labour might easily be had, but the consent of the proprietors is a sine qud non, and the majority of them find the growing of cattle and sheep more profitable, (in a short-sighted p3int of view) than corn or vine growing. The land brought into cultivation by the Trappi s t s bears ample witness to what might be done could a law be passed obliging each proprietor to cultivate a certain portion of the Campagna. Such a measure alone can eradicate fever, and the present Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, Cardinal Berardi, himself a practical farmer, on his family property at Ceccano, is fully alive to its necessity, and but for the stupid opposi tion of the Roman proprietors themselves, it would long ago have been brought into execution." COUNT VON BRAY.—It is curious to notice that b)th the Prussian and anti-Prussian press claim the new Bavarian Minister for Foreign Affairs as favourable to their views. The official organ of Count Bismarck, the Provincial Correspondence, says that the past career and the well-tried sentiments of the new Bavarian Minister may be looked upon as a new and sure guarantee of the resolution of tilt Government of Munich to persevere in the national policy which it has hitherto followed with re sp3ct to the Northern Confederation. The Bavarian Fatherland, on the other hand, together with some patriotic journals, declares that the Count is determined to follow a course in conformity with the addresses of the two Chambers. THE AuTEurr. AFFAIR.—M. Glauday, the presi dent of the Haute Cour. has paid another vst to Prince Pierre Bonaparte's room at Auteuil, where the tragedy of January took place. The president, in order to judge fairly the conflicting statements made by the Prince and M. Ulric de Fouvielle, would not restrict his observations to the plans prepared for him, but preferred to make per sonal observations before communicating his impressions to the jury. It is said that Louis Noir, notwithstanding the active exertions of his counsel, cannot obtain a solicitor t) notify to the High Court that he intends commencing a civil process. The resistance of the solicitors is based on the fast that Louis Noir being the brother of the victim, can not claim damages, the father from whom the death of his son has removed a possible means of support, being the person legally entitled to prosecute the suit. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS IN PARIS.—It was believed that General le Boeuf would resign in conse quence of the changes that had been brought about in the -administrative system of Algiers. The Minister of War was indeed annoyed to find that Algiers was to be re leased from military control, and thought at one time that the motion on the fusliject was a vote of censure on him self. The Left having, in conjunction' with the other signatories, modified the terms of the motion, the General c)nsented to remain in office, and accepted this proof of their confidence. He even went so far, it is reported, as to telegraph to Marshal McMahon, the result of the vote and his acceptance of its principle. It is doubtful, however, if the latter will regard with the same equanimity the prospect of a transformation, and if he will take a provisional share of a power which must necessarily pass from him before long. It is said that the Ministry will take advantage of the.approaching anni versary of the Prince Imperial to declare an amnesty for the conspiracy of February in the same way, that M. de Forcade availed himself of the 15th of August to get rid of the June conspiracy. The situation in which M. 011ivier finds himself, is so similar to that in which his predecessor was placed, that the report may rest on good foundation. The Left are urged in certain quarters to hasten the course of events by inter pellating on the subject. The general feeling of the public is against these accusations of conspiracy which are made to serve as pretexts for the imprisonment of a number of citizens. It is looked upon as intolerable that a so-called Liberal Cabinet should follow the course of the advocates of personal power, and forget the responsibility which belongs to it. LYDIA THOMPSON AND THE EDITOR.—Great excitement has been caused in Chicago by the rencontre between Misses Lydia Thompson and Pauline Markham and Mr. Storey, the Editor of the Chicago Times. On the day following the attack the Times published the following ac count thereof—" My wife called at the Times office about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and we started for myresidence at Wabash Avenue. When near Teck-court I saw a man and woman go around the corner and approach a carriage which was standing in front of a house two or three doors from mine. When opposite the carriage, a man whom I suppose is Mr. Henderson, stepped up in front of me, and said, Is this Mr. Store ?' I replied, ` Yes, sir.' He then stepped back, and a woman approached with a small whip in her hand ; she struck me, I think, on the shoulders. I did not feel the blow, as I had my overcoat on. I concluded that it was the intention to have me whipped by a woman, and to avoid it I caught the woman by the throat and took the whip from her. Hen derson then came and up and struck me on the forehead with the butt-end of a large cow-hide. I took it away from him when he drew his revolver. He retreated some dis tance, when two other men grabbed me from behind and pulled my hair. Quite a crowd collected by this time, and Mr. Alexander and several other gentlemen put Hender son and two of the women, Lydia Thompson and Pauline Markham, I believe, into a hack and they were taken to the Armoury by a policeman. The last two men who as saulted me got into another carriage and drove off." Mr. Storey caused k a charge of assault with deadly weapons to be preferree against the women, and, if sustained, the re sult will be serious. AN AGGRIEVED PARSON.—An aggrieved parson writes to the Daily Weirs, complaining of the rubric which forbids him to bury any but baptised persons. "I have had to grieve a family in my parish by refusing to inter a young man in the burial-ground attached to my church because he died unbaptised, and this has ,deeply grieved me. I was obliged to obey the law, especially as I knew that my dioc es an had lat e ly l a id it down that the rubric was not obsolete. There are certain rubrics that he has set me the example of breaking, as that at the beginning of the Communion Service :--` So many as intend to be partakers of the Holy Communion shall signify their names to the curate, at least some time the day before.' But this rubric to the Burial Service I seem bound to obey. It has pained me to grieve a most respectable family in the time of sorrow. It has also pained me to be obliged to put a stumbling-block in the way of the Nonconformists of my neighbourhood. I vote for a Nonconformist member of Parliament. In my late and present parish I count the Nonconformist minister among my best friends. With out being legally b oun d t o it, in my school I have always acted on the Conscience Clause. I am now in favour of the League's amendments to the Elemen tary Education Bill. In my visits and in my charities I make no distinction between Church people and Dissenters. And as a consequence of fair and kindly dealings with those whom too many Churchmen look upon as the Jews looked upon the Samaritans, I find that one-third of my communicants, and one-half of my confir mation candidates, are either the children of Dissenters, or have themselves been Dissenters. And now, in obedience to this harsh rubric, I am obliged to offend a body of people who were being attracted to our communion, The interests of the Church, as well as the rights of Die 'muter!, call for the opening of our churchyards to 411 parishioners." THE SECOND READING OF THE IRISH LAND BILL. The Times, in discussing the second reading . of the Irish. Land Bill, says that Mr. Gladstone is the Minister respon sible for the bill. Upon him rests the burden of raising Ireland out of the slough. He has begun well, and we have gladly and heartily supported him in so doing. He re moved last year a scandal of inveterate injustice. His bill this year is an admirable attempt to protect the farmers of Ireland from the weakness of their own position. This, however, does not exhaust the diffi culty. The tenants across the Channel are borne down by their own numbers. The competitors for a farm are so numerous that they overbid one another and offer impossible rentals. There is such a supply of them in reserve that it is said the object of the bill will be defeated because landlords will be indemnified against the operation of the scale of penalties on eviction by men eager to take up the lands occupied by their neighbours. No word in escaped Mr. Gladstone,introducing the bill, to prove that he had co ns id ere d th ese f a ct s . And yet, unless this be recognised and understood, and enforced on the minds of the people, what affect will legislation have ? He has been silent, not through any policy of reticence,—rather, perhaps, because he has been content to dwell in the region of half-beliefs • but if we are com pelled to judge this a ttit u de with ' some severity, if we have weighed the " left wine and found them wanting, what is to be said of an Opposition which made a mere feint of discussion from day to day, and systematically declined to probe in any way the causes of Ireland's misery or the ultimate eonsequenoes of the legislation they were bound to study and scrutinize? The Standard declares that the real importance, the true significance of the decision in favour of the second reading of the Irish Land Bill to which the House of Commons came at an early hour yesterday morning, are well shewn in the two speeches with which the discussion of the evening commenced. Mr. Gregory and Lord Elcho spoke, not only from different sides of the House, but from totally different standpoints. The difference be tween Sir John Gray and the Irish members who were opposed to the bill, and Mr. Gregory and the Irish mem bers who support it—we should say of Irish members pledged to extreme tenant-right principles—is that the one set do not think the bill can be altered so as to give effect to their views, and the other set entertain a hope that it may be. The bill was, of course, read a second time, although the usual signs of enthusiasm at a party triumph were sadly wanting. Mr. Disraeli, and his party, with Sir Roundell Palmer and hosts of Ministerialists, accept the bill as a necessity—of the present emergency. But nobody affects to believe it a prudent or a statesman like measure, or as in the least degree likely to satisfy the demands of the classes in whose favour it is framed. The Daily News points out that the Land Bill was read a second time, with practical unanimity on the part of the House of Commons. There was but a show of oppo sition. The absence of any earnestness of opposition, and, by consequence, of any vigour or warmth of defence, told unfavourably on the four days' discussion which have now happily terminated. The second reading of the bill has been little more than the shaking hands of antago nists before they come to blows. The real struggle, if struggle there is, which will determine its character and fate will take place in committee. The Telegraph remarks that though the" discussion flagged on Monday, and dragged its slow length through Tuesday, the desire to speak increased with its progress ; and the debate has only died a hard death after living with some difficulty through the week which time honoured custom has accorded to the second reading of all great measures. The House of Commons has most emphatically recorded its approval of the grand measure for the redress of existing ano malies in the land system of the sister country. With even more than his usual -vigour, force, and point, Mr. Disraeli entered into a criticism on the details of the measure—frankly accepting its principle • and he dealt facetiously and tellingly with the speeches Of Mr. Horsman and Sir Colman O'Loghlen in its favour. Mr. Gladstone's reply, marked by all the Premier's wonderful mastery of fact, principle, and language, brought the debate wor thily to its close. The concessions which he indicated, while involving no sacrifice of principle or spirit, removed even the shadow of pretext for demur ; the issue could be open to no doubt ; and from the first, indeed, the House has known that it had to register only a foregone con clusion. • The Pall Mall Gazette observes that the Irish Landfill has come out uninjured from the crucible of a four day's debate, and it is not probable that it will undergo any material change either iii principle or in important details. Assertions, indeed, have not been wanting that it must become a very different measure from what it is before it can be allowed to pass into law ' • but they are assertions of a kind which may be safely left to neutralise one another. We have better hopes of the ulti mate effect of this bill on the Irish people than can be drawn from the words or acts of the minority of Irish members who claim exclusive to be their representatives. The tenantry may for a time avow their determination not to be content with anything less than fixity of tenure : but when they find that under the operation of the Land Bill they get all the security they really need, the sense of substantial benefit will gradually displace the recollection of evils which have practically ceased to exist. On the whole, says the Post, Mr. Gladstone has had just cause for thanking the Opposition and its Chief for the treatment which his measure had met with at their hands ; and even stronger reason for thanking those who declared their intention of opposing it. - The Bill has, as he justly observed, passed through the ordeal to which it was submitted in such a manner as to remove any doubts which its framers might possibly have entertained respecting the general soundness of its provisions. The willingness manifested by the Premier to make the Land Bill the work, not of an Administration, but of a Parlia ment, gave even greater weight to the appeal which he addressed to the opponents of the bill to,desist from an un availing, an unreasoning, and an unpatriotic opposition. The appeal , however, was made in vain, and thirteen gentlemen insisted on their privilege of solemnly recording their votes against a measure sanctioned by the voice of public opinion and the otherwise unanimous verdict of the House of Commons. The John Bull says that the second reading of Mr. Gladstone's second great Irish Bill passed by a very large majority. Any interest that may att ac h to the division lists will o nly • arise from the n a t ura l cur i os it y t o see w hi c h of our politicians conquered the repugnance which every statesman feels against meddling with the laws of 7TECUITh and tuum, and which of them preferred to wait far a bet ter opportunity and a better measure. If the measure will but bring about a renewal of mutual ccnfidenco be tween the owner and cultivator of the soil, we are quite justified in working for that end, even if no better instru ment is ready to our hand than a cumbrous, inarti fi cial, and even dangerous Bill. We are so strongly convinc e of this that we must confess we do not sympathise with Mr. Hardy's hesitating support. Unless there is a reason able probability that the measure will really work out the social advantages contemplated, it ought to be opposed tooth and nail. If such a reasonable probability exists, we hold with Colonel Wilson Patten that oar legislators are bound to do all in their power to aid its progress through Parliament, trusting to the opportunities that will be afforded in Committee of making it as perfect a measure as the circumstances will admit. THE LEFT AND THE " MARSEILLAISE." M. Guyot Montpayroux, a prominent member of the Left has addressed a letter to the editor of the Marseillaise (Eochefort's paper). That journal had announced that Guoyot Montpayroux and M. Bellemont had been excluded from the special meetings of the Left. M. Guyot denies this statement in positive terms, and remarks that it is not a little strange the editor of the Marseillaise should be so well acquainted with the movements of the Left. "You may continue," adds the writer, "to attack daily Jules Favre, Ernest Picard, Jules Simon, and others, who for many years have sought to establish liberty in France. That is your Your calumnies and you fulfil it conscientiously. our calumnies will not prevent us from defending one of your associates, when we think that we are defending the cause of justice in his person. But you must go no further than this. Between you and the Left there is no soul of connection. This must be well understood. It is necessary that no one should be ignorant that between the Democratic party and the insulters of the Marseillaise there is absolutely nothing in common. I rejoice, sir, that, by your impru dence, you have enabled me to state this publicly."—li IUTOT MONTPAYROUX. In the event of a vacancy at Shrewsbury, Colonel Freme intends to offer himself as a candidate in the Liberal interest. A. report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the operation of the Land Transfer Act has been published. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Comman ding-in-Chief will hold a levde at one o'clock on Satur day, the 19th inst. It is stated that Le Gaulois is to be prosecuted for the premature publication of the acte d'accusation of Prince. Pierre Bonaparte, Le Gaulois having quoted it horn the Standard. The horning Advertiser professes to be enabled to state, on the authority of Mr. Bruce, that it is impos sible to fix any day before Easter for bringing in the licensing measure. The Bishop of Winchester (according to John Bull) has summoned the Committee of the Convocation of Canterbury on the revision -of the authorised version of the Holy Scriptures for an early day. Nineteen assistant masters of Rugby School have petitioned the House of Commons that the Queen may withhold her assent from that portion of the scheme for the government of Rugby School which assigns the rela tive numbers of old and new trustees. Archdeacon Detiiion writes against an education rate. Ho says ho now rytys £t2 16s. a year towards the schools in his parish. "If (he says) I was rated at ad. in the pound, I should pay about £lO a year, and should subscribe nothing." The petition to the House of Lords by Earl Cowper, to be alllowed to lodge his case on his claim to the dignity. of Lord Din- , wall, in the peerage of Scotland, also upon his claim to the dignity of Lord Butler, of Moore Park, was acceded to last night by their lordship 3. The Liverpool Mercury understands that the project is about to be revived fur making Liverpool the man) of a new diocese, and converting it, as a nial ter of course, into a e.:thedrul town. The freq :ency N 1 itk which this proposi has been mooted may be taken as an indication of the pre valence of a 4-Imgirdl. In consequence of delicate I , ealth, it is reported that Mr. Clement, the Liberal m 3mber for Slmewsbury, will shortly retire. Mr. Commissioner Kerr and Mr. C. C. Cotes, a county gentlemati, are spoken of as Liberal candidates, and Mr. Douglas Straight is men tioned as a possible ConeyyAtive A - WORD TO INVESTORS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Strangers in Bengal arc surprised to see in a dry, hard, cracked, mud basin, big fish swimming about an hour after water has there collected from a shower —the question is, Where could the fish have come from ? Just so is it when a mania arias in London with promoters of bubble schemes. The moment sufficient water has fallen to enable them to swim, out they come from their cracks, and up float the bubbles to the surface in all their pretty rainbow hues; and quite alluring, indeed enchanting becomes the prospect. Those who bad never seen the bak ed, cracked, mud bottom cannot imagine that the sparkling pond, with its green border, is liable to such an unpleasant change, bat they who there pitch their tents may make the discovery to their cost. The latest mania is the telegraph ; and it is almost amusing to see the avidity with which the public rise at the stupid, old, ill-made artificial fly by which they are periodically hooked. The recent sharp fall in some of these- concerns, whether due to the operation of " bears" or not, comes as a timely warning; but once the mania arises, scheme after scheme is floated, as if nothing but absolute failure can administer the necessary check. If cable on cable be laid between the samepoints, not to meet a demand, but to compete with existing lines which now barely pay, and only find half the employ ment up to which they could work, the public may be sure that schern'ers are operating to secure profits comparatively small when compared with the vast injury likely to result to the shareholders in the new concerns as well as to those of the old. The construc tion companies, the promoters, the directors, the elec tricians to be employed, are all working for the one end of their own individual gain, and they would be happy if that end comported with the public g lin, but. they are in no degree stopped, though they feel confident their work will result in ruin. The ex perience of 1866 ought to have impressed this truth, on investors, that no voracity exceeds that of pro moters of public companies, that no class are more unacruplous or more cruel. if we could estimate the ruin wrought by the working of such compa nies as the Credit Foncier and the London Finan cial Association, we would have an appalling pic ture of misery—all according to law ; indeed pro ducing a handsome reward to the perpetrators. The directors of both received enormous sums for services which we do not suppose either pretends to be other than disastrous. They call them the mistakes of inexperience, but whatever they may be, it is no light thing to contemplate the misfor tunes attending their operations, to the people with whose money they were dealing. However delu sive the prospectus, however untruthful the chair man's stat.?meats at the general meetings, how ever quick the collapse of a concern floated, on this the investor may rely, that, when the time of trou ble comes, on him will fall the burden, and that he will then be dealt with mercilessly by those very persons who had drawn up or delivered the state ments by which so smiling a picture of the position had been filled in. This fact he should never forget, that the law is on the side of the schemers, and when feeling the full force of the swindle of which he has been the victim, he accuses the men of fraud 'who have thus lied; after abusing him for insol ence, they will then refer him tq, their solicitor. He is then let into a few secrets, which did not tran spire in the preliminary talks, and when he begins to comprehend the meaning of the Articles of Asso ciation, he gets a glimmering of the sort of tool he has been made. The grand smash of 1866 sup pressed the bubble-floating companies and left the work to individual promoters ; but it only requires the atmosphere to grow genial for such fungi to agaiu spring up in luxuriant proportions. If ever we come out in the character of ROEBUCK and leave a legacy, it will be—Beware of promoters, beware of guinea pigs, beware of liability. It is the last to which we would more particularly direct attention, for it is the most insidious and the most dangerous. When a man invests the savings Le has at his dis posal, the loss, if he loses all, may be felt disagree ably ; but when a liability is attached to the invest ment, the loss may be four or .eight times the origi nal sum, and may sink him in ruin. Now it is this that an investor should always remember—that whatever may be the liability incurred, he ought to be prepared to meet all; and a man who cared one farthing for the word of the directors, the promo ters, the 'prospectus, that nothing beyond a cer tain figure will be iequired or ever called, must be "very green" indeed, a delightfully verdant landscape in the eyes of a " Guinea pig." If the investor rigidly adheres to the rule to buy nothing except what he can pay for over the counter to the utmost penny of liability, he will be comparatively saf e. Nor should he ever forget that prima facie a business is worthless when it is turned into a Joint-Stock con cern ; that the railroads, docks, telegraphs, &c., of contractors, are intended to be, and will be (if floated), very profitable to the contractors, the pro moters, and the others directly concerned, but for the shareholders that iesult is by no means so cer tain as it may appear on paper ; indeed the reverse may be assumed, as not one in five of such compa nies does succeed. One more piece of advice and we have done with what some may term platitudes, though we know their value from a sad experience. Never attach force to anything written in a news paper in praise of a company. Facts and figures are very well, so long as they are truthfully put and the reader can comprehend their meaning ; but the little puffs of the City Editor, or the bigger puffs in the editorial columns, ought to be re garded with the gravest suspicion, and every state ment very closely scrutinised. It is impossible for a newspaper which carries weight to escape the snares spread around it, however honestly it may be conducted ; and of this the Times furnishes a notable instance. A paragraph appearing in its City Article may make or mar a company, and therefore it ought not to be difficult to form a con ception of the pressure brought to bear on the writer, and the attempts made on all sides to cir cumvent him. We are not surprised, under such circumstances, that he has proved so fallible—our surprise, on the whole, being, that, thus tried and tempted, he should have done so well. An officer of the British army, who had just re turned from the frontier, says that the Indians were dying of starvation, that game was never so scarce, and no fish were procurable in the shallow waters. A letter from Fort Sully reports a desperate fight between 300 Sioux and Crow Indians, early last month, on the Upper Missouri river. All the Crows and 17 of the Sioux wore killed. Great indignation had been expressed on the details of the Piegan affair in Montana becoming known. The tribe had committed depredations, when Gent ral Sheridan, de termining to stop them by striking a hard blow, ordered a party on the 15th Jan. to inflict severe punishrnent,wl:en the intense cold and heavy snowfall had placed the Indians at his mercy. Colonel Baker was despatched to execute the order, and he killed, as we last Week stated, 173 Piegans. It Low transpires that 140 of them were women and children, 18 wore old men, and that the balance only were war riors. Iu Arizona, on January 28th, a series of fights oc curred between detachments of United States Cavalry, under Colonel Barnard, and the Indians. Thirteen of the latter were killed and two captured. A citizen of Omaha with a party was killed on the 25th of February s' hen pursuing ten Indian:4, Nvli, were driving off a herd of cattle. The Special Coma tissiou on Indian Affairs has published its report. It ad- - ocates the collection of tribes upon contiguous reservatic as eventually to hecome a State ; treaty-system to be Abandoned ; existing treaties abrogated ; log,l status of the; Indian to be that of a Go vernmont ward until he can. elevated and educated to support himself ; money an: to cease ; schools to established ; and existing o )ligations to be rigidly ob servt (1. • iticli gold diggings lia,ve , been discovered near Place liver. Thu news horn Vaicouver's Island is that the miners find nuggets of gold .and lumps of silver in about equal proportions in their elu ices. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo- Amertcan Times.) A letter has been addressed to the Wall-street Journal from London, by "A largo Holder of U.S. Secu rities," to which the editor calls attention as from a pro minent Am , rioan stock-house, and showing the feeling created in financial circles in Europe by the Eiie pro ceedings. The writer points to the fact that every op portunity is seized by influential journals in London to make the English believe there is no safety in investments in America, on account of the recklessness of directors and the corruption of judges; even the Governor of New York being accused of using his position to protect dis honest persons in their operations. While acknowledging the immense injury suffered by the proceedings of the Erie clique, he alludes to the pain as well as the indignation that he, as an American citizen, feels on hearing such charges. The writer then argues that, as 500,000 of the 750,000 shares are held in Europe, it was the fault of the Euro pean holders, whose inaction permitted the' clique to carry out their schemes. The American shareholders, being so greatly in the minority, were powerless, and Judge Baleen was justified in this statement, that if these shareholders neglected their interests out of court, they need not come into his court for protection. The same argument holds for the Legislature; nor would Governor Hoffman have been justified in vetoing a Bill which was unopposed by the majority of the shareholders. The writer calls upon the American press to explain these matters, and to prevent the circulation of misrepresentations relative to the credit of the Republic. Meanwhile the Times last Monday had an other rap atAmerican Securities ; indeed that journal is earn ing a very unenviable notoriety ion this subject, for it has caused a heavy loss to many of the persons who believe in it. Those, for instance, whom it a year ago frightened out of U. S. Bonds, as well as the thousands who but for it would have invested long since in securities which have turned out to be among the most profitable ever put on the market. The last assault of the City Editor arose from the statement of a New York paper, which said that the Edo management declare the proceedings of th so-called Erie Protective Committe to be illegal ; that the shares it stamps shall not be transferred; and that it will assess the expense of litigation on the stock of the parties who have started it. This io used as au intimation that American directors can and will confiscate the pro perty of shareholders so far as it may be desirable ; and what is legal in the State of New - York there is no reason to doubt can be d me in less i..ll.tenti.d States. The Monarch left Annapolis on the sth instant for England, after a gay time, succeeding the solemn service, to which she had been commissioned. Indeed the crew may well doubt whether they had been despatched on a funereal errand or to receive the festivities of a nation. There was a great gathering on board on the 25th February ; numbers of distinguished men as well as ladies were then Captain Commerell's guests. They were received with the yards manned, and the Land playing 't Hail to the Chief." The vessel got up steam and proceeded about 12 miles down the bay, when she fired four shells of 600:b. each from the turret guns of 25 tons, said to be the heaviest in the world ever shipped. Commodore Worden received the party on their return, and at his house the amusements for that day ended. Last Tuesday resolutions were introduced in the Senate, and referred to the Finance Committee, providing that half the amount of the import duties should hence forth be receivable in currency, and instructing the Secre tary of the Treasury to sell all surplus gold. Congreds cannot refrain from mAdliug, even when the course of affairs is progressing favourably ; indeed, tie fall in gold incites interference, instead of deterring. There never was a more extraordinary financial revolu tion than that now taking place in America. It is generally ascribed to the half-yearly statement of exports and im ports, which shows a vastly reduced balance against Ame rica in the foreign trade, the amount being under $3,000,000. The decision of the United States Supreme Court on the Legal-tender Act must have greatly helped to send gold down. Attempts have been made in Congress to evade the consequences; shielding, by enactment, those whom it affects, but all stichUttempts will prove futile. At Albany the Legislature has adopted a resolution to pay the debt of New York in specie, and has authorized coin to be procured for the purpose ; but in 'Pennsylvania. it is rumoured that a loan, which will mature by next July will be paid in greenbacks iu spite of the decision, Pennsylvania thtlrefore throws her interest with those who support tha,bill brought into the Senate to stay exe cntion on all judgments given in accordance with the late ruling of the Supremo Court, from one to four years, the time varying with the amount of the debt, unless green backs will be received by the plaintiff or unless specie pay tnent be resumed. Senator Wilson was preparing a Fund ing Bill as a substitute fur that of Senator Sherman, pro posing to save the expenses of azency, etg., pt ovided for in that bill, employing Treasury officials instead of banks, and agents. Senator Fenton delivered a long speech on the 24th Feb. on the Funding Bill. He favoured thus dealing with some $1,200,000,000 of the debt inßonds running from 40 to 50 years bearing a uuifurm rate of 4i per cent. exempt from taxation. Next week we will discuss this able speech of the ex-Governor of New York. lie was followed by Senator Patterson, whose views were somewhat similar. The bill was reported by telegraph on the 4th inst. as then being framed and debated in the Senate, aed Mr. Sumner had carried an amendment authorising the issue of Five per Cent. Ten-Forties to the amount of $400,000,000. Final action is to be taken on the bill next week, and we will soon learn the result. The account furnished, in response to the inquiry by telegraph of the Bombay agent to the Peninsula and oriental Company in London, with reference to the sink ing of the U. S. corvette Oneida by the steamer Bombay does not explain the mystery. it is almost incredible that Captain Eyre, in command of the Bombay, after the colli sion continued his voyage without stopping to inquire whether the corvette was injured. The accident occurred in the dark at 7 p.m., on the 24th January, about twenty miles from Yokohama, "the Oneida being under all sail, and going thirteen knots ; the Bombay steaming head to wind, going eight knots. The Bombay ported her helm, shutting in the Oneida's green lights. The Oneida star boarded her helm, crossing the Bombay's bows, rendering a collision unavoidable. The Bombay felt the shock so little that Captain Byte did not think the Oneida could have been much damaged, and continued his voyage on to Yokohama. The Oneida was cut down on the quarter, and soon sank with 115 men. Twoof her boats with 61 men escaped. Do not know the names of officers drowned. Saved, Yates, master; Suddard, surgeon, Coningfield, cal tain's clerk ; and 57 sailors and Marines. The Bombay is not much damaged." The Standard talks of a touch from such a monster as the Bombay sinking he Oneida ; but as it happens the Oneida was fully a third larger than the Bombay, the latter being one of the smaller of the Penin sular and Oriental Company's iron steamers, built many years ago. Had the Oneida struck the Bombay amidships, the mail steamer would have been torn up like a piece of brown paper but the stem of the Bombay caught the quarter of the Oneida and crushed it in, as it could scarcely fail to do. The marvel is how Captain Eyre could have continued his voyage without stopping even to inquire as to the injury done—an astounding act, which will be narrowly investigated. We will not, ignorant of the facts as we are, comment on what appears to us such a fatal neglect, but all England and America have been filled with amazement on learning the story, and it wil' require very satisfactory reasons to exonerate the com mander. Mr. James Fisk adopted a method new to New York, but old in London, advertising his play of "The Twelve Temptations," by seudiug• a dozen men fantasti cally dressed into the streets, each with a banner making the announcement. But the police arrested the entire squad as an impediment in the highways, and Judge Hogan held them for violating a city ordinance. If the Bench would deal in the same way with Mr. Fisk in his capacity of Erie Director, New York might be saved a scandal. The New York Times says the directors have hit upon the device "of putting a bill through the Legislature autho rizing the bondholders of any railroad, on foreclosing the bonds, to become the owners of the road, and to issue new stock, to the utter exclusion and obliteration of the old. Here was a means of ridding themselves of the nightmare of foreign stockholders, whose overshadowing power threatened to drive the 'ring' out of existence." In proof the rise in bonds awl the fall in stock is quoted; and it is inferred that the clique had been exchanging the shares fot bonds ; that they can pi event payment of the next interest duo on those bonds, when they can foreclose and extinguish the stock. The plan is ingenious, but the swindle is too palpable for success. Ur,ITUAItI —Mr. Henry E. Sweetser, of the World, and formerly of the Round Table, died suddenly in New York on the 17th Feb.—A. Dombronski, the oldest Polish exile in Calif rub,, died the other day.— Commiodore Stephen Champlin, last surviving officer commending in the tattle of Lake Erie, died at Buffalo on the 20th Feb.— Chief Justice Joel HiLman. who died ou Monday, Feb. 21, was a lineal descendant of Sergeant Edward Monter, oce of the body guard of Charles I. of England, tt ho fled to Ant. rice on that monereh'e defeat in 1630, et d setts. d in Ftratferd. The grame ifather of the chief justice wan a coloeel during the revolution, Lod in 171.) eetenteur!ed at iconderoga. Joel Hinman was admitted to the tar in 1828, when '26 veers oil, eppointed to the Supreme Court Bench in 1842, and became Chii.f Justice in 1861. The Supreme Court met at Hartford Feb 22, and adjourned to Feb. 28. The Hartford County Bar met and late uo-t to eulogies, and Governor Jewell publicly recognised the event, ordered flags at half-mast, and recommended the closing of public offices on the day of the funeral. MONETARY REPORTS-SATURDAY. In the Stock Exchange markets to-day there has been An absence of any prominent feature. The tendency has been mostly favourable, although, with the exception of a fair amount of activity in Railway Stocks and Telegraph Shares, the business doing has bee n by no means extensive. Consols, owing to the probability of cheaper money, have been firm, at yester day's improved quotations, viz., 92a to 921 for money, and 92 to 92i for April. Reduced and New Three per Cents. 91a to 913 xd. Bank stock has marked 210 to 242. India Five per Cents. have been done 1111 to 112, and Ind l3 ' Bonds at 20s. to 255. prem. Exchequer Bills, 2s. die. to 38. prem. ConSiderable firmness has been- noticed in the market for English railway stocks to-day, and prices have advanced in most instances. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire has risen 1, and Great Northern A, Whiliit Great Western, Metropolitan District, Midland, North Eastern, Berwick and York, have advanced 1, and London and Brighton, London and North-Western and Metropolitan' I. The only adverse movement has been in Sou th Eastern Preferred, which has fallen Indian Railway Stocks have been steady and unaltered.. Canadian shares have been flat, and realisations bac: weakened prices, causing a fall of tin Grand Trunk, ' 1 of in Great Western. Foreign shares have been fro' The only movement has been an advance of t in Bai lin and San Francisco. There has been very little animation in the market for foreign bonds, and thuquotations have been without bp' portant movement. Danubian (1867) have risen 1, but Chilian (1867) have fallen whilst New Grenada shew a decline of American securities have been quieter, and som e adverse movements have been noticed. The Fiv e ' Twenties, 1882 and 1885 Bonds have fallen I Virginia ; Erie / ; and Pennsylvania On the other hand Atlantic and Great Western Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds have advanced and Illinois Central and Marietta, and Cincinnati Bonds 1. Miscellaneous securities have been in limited request, but the quotations have.ruled firm. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Canada Company have risen 1. British mining shares have been in request, an d an ad' ranee of has been established in Assheton and Fan - Y r " Alt, and of lin West Chiverton. In colonial and foreign shares very few transactions have taken place. Paci ° have marked 100, 10i. Bank shares have been quiet, but firm. London and River Plate have improved 1, ditto New /, and Londo n Chartered of-Australia I. Business in te:egraph shares has not been extensive, but the tone of the market has been more active. Anglo - and Weat Indian and Panama have in" proved I. Hoopei's Telegraph Works shares have been in inn" proved request, and have risen to dis. to i f p r em. Tele• graph Construction shares have been firm, and better' but Silver's Indiarubber have been unaltered. The supply of capital in the discount market has bee n more extensive. Both at the bank and in other quartet the demand for accommodation has fallen off, b u t th e rate for negotiating three months' paper has been-unaltered a t 23, 3 per cent. The Nyanza has taken out £4,250 in specie for the Ems' The prospectus has appeared of the Metropolitan Ca b Company, with a capital of £lOO,OOO. At a meeting of the Lancashire Insurance Company' Wa3 shown that the fire i ncome f or 1569 , h a d b een 2113, 1114 the life income £49,310, and the interest on investmen t had amounted to £16,075. The claims under fire pelic ie l were £53,416, ,and under life, £19,569. Th e income the proprietors' fund was reported at £28,126, out of whic h a dividend of 10 per cent. had been paid. The 1" Reserve funds were increased to £68,469, and the Lif e Reserve to £181,382. Theßailwag News computes that the traffic receipts of the railways in the United Kingdom for the week ending th e 11th of March, 1870, upon a mileage of 12,544, amount tn £130,933, being equal to £5B ss. per mile. For the zerr f r spending week of last year the receipts were £699,89 9 , t he number of miles ()lien 12,335, or £56 15s. per mile. it cony parison of the two weeks shews an increase in the sal t " gate receipts of £31,034, and in the number of W ile° open of 209. MARKETS - SATURDAY. LONDON TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY.—TaIIow is unchang e4 at 465. for Y C on the spot, and 465. Gd. for last three menthe' Hemp and flax quiet. I:',.NDON PRODUCE MARKEIV, SATllRDAY.—Privately the re has been very little doing in colonial produce, to-day, and priced are almost nominal. Sugars Iwo beer easily obtainable nn former terms, and both raw and rtdned goods have sold Flow ;7; Coffee has ruled quiet, but Man in value. Cocoa steady. 11 2, depressed. Tea has maintained yesterday's currencies. Sa3pev -1 " firm at the late advance. • LONDON WOOL MARKETS, SATURDAY.--The market 1 1: remained very dull, with considerable anxiety to force salts.% the part of holders. Really choice samples, however, a 4" maintained late rates. BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS POTATO MARKET, SAA R " DAT.—Thero have been fair avera ge supp li es o f pota t oes o n 0 316 for which the demand has ruled steady, particulary for Ree l ' Rocks have been neglected. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SA DAL—Although the supply of hay was short, it was quite ect!,i to the demand, and prices were u n ch a n ge d. Prlna menu',. hay, 755. to 80s. ; inferior ditto, 60 3 . to 7. 15 . ; RofT. 50s. to 0.3. prime clover, 110 s. to 120 s. ; inferior ditto M k .... 051. ; prime second cut clover, 100 s. to 1103. ; inferior dittOr to EPA ; and straw, 265. to 303. per load. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—Market cl.tl iet* Sales, 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 on speculation. LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, SATURDAY.—Market stet* Ears, 601 to 00 ; ores, 13i to 131. CORK BUTTER MARKET, SATURDAY.—Firsts, 1355. : sec- - d, 130 s. ; thirds, 106$. ; fourths, 825.; fifths and sixths not quote Two hundred firkins in the market. Mild-cured no chang e ' six firkins. ' 2 ' 4 BELFAST LINEN TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY. — Lin- - brown powerloom stocks continue to increase, and the iippr , ', l , eon prevails that all powcrloom linens will s till b e l owe r. 11 ,a n o s looms—no change to note in prices, producti on s h ews s ymPO d of decline ; demand not active. Linens blea c hed an d finislic A few orders have come to hAnd. Houses are pretty fairly engag e e: in getting o ff old orders. Home trade demand is tolerably stesu c ; whilst other markets are not active. Yarns—there has been change to note in the state of the trade si nce our l as t rePor . Demand still continues quiet, orders being only for Pr es ` : is wants. Prices remain unchanged. F or fl ax i n th e Ir i sh marice this week there is no change of moment. The quality is general" ) ; rather poor, and we hear of some l o t s c h ang i ng hands at ver y 1 0 prices. Coarse tax was reported by Collings and MaingaY , • per ton cheaper last Monday i n R o tt er d am. Flax is Le tt' rather dearer at almost all the Baltic ports, but no buyers , these countries are following the a d vance a t a ll . —" Norther ° HAVRE COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—Market dull .. t1 drooping. Ocunrawuttee, 133. AMSTERDAM, SATURDAY.—Banca tin, 721. PARIS, SATURDAY.—FIou.r, current month, 56--- 9 5 ; Di s t August, 57.25 , Rape oil, spot, 155. THE ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE COSIPA/VT. —An apP" cation has been made at the Vice-Chancellor's Chamber * on behalf of Mr. Partridge, a solicitor, in the count r f l who asked leave to proceed with a su it against tof Albert Insurance Company, as the only means J D , obtaining redress, in respect of 400 shares, wh l l i s he alleged he had been induced to take up the said company by misrepresentation on the jl e of the directo rs . It was contended on the part 0 1 t lt solicitors to the liquidators of the Albert Company that now had no c or p ora t e ex i stence, an d no comet seal. Ther e was no suc h company as the Albche at all—it had ano th er name . 'rile attention of t „p chief clerk was d rawn t o p rev i ous cases th a t h a ve be' dealt with, one of which was that of Overend and Co. The impression of Mr. Bloka,m, the chief de r rs : was that the desired relief could be obtained in chazabe it , and more cheaply than by proceeding with a s u Eventually the summons was adjourned to another cic&l. # e AN UNSATISFACTORY JU RY . —At th e . ..AL L, Assizes, an action to recover damages from the l‘let t°- politan Board of Works was heard before the Lord Ch sef Justice and a special jury. The plaintiff was a Wi d°l o residing at Deptford, a n d was i n j ure d b y a n oP° O sewer in the street. Th e d e f ence wa s t b i l- the district board was a nswera bl e f or th e 'leggence in question. The jury very soon became patient, and announced that they had made up th e 0 minds. The Lord Chief Justice begged them to take 011 for consideration, as the case could not be decided hastily' However they held to their opinion, and returned a s re u ; diet for the plaintiff for £350, b e i ng £5O i n exce ss of damages claimed. The Chief Justice said he sh°"' t certainly report his entire dissatisfaction with the verdic and he ordered a fresh jury into the box. BIRTHS. COMM —On the 12th inst., the wife of Charle3 Comb°, 8 34 t Cobham Park, Surrey, of a daughter. WALTER —On the 12th inst., at 40, Upper Grosvenor-stree t the wife of John Waiter, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. T .O . 0 HEWITT —STANLEY—On the 1 0 th inst., at Torquay, Janet Francis Hewitt, Bengal C.S. to C )nstaue., daughter cf the late Edward gtanley, r.q, of Ponsoe" Hall, Cumberland. —WAnn—On the 12th inqt., at Saint Aloi s ' of Church. Chit , ndon-square, Loudon, D. O'Brien, late Luton, Beds, to E. Ward, Twowaters, DEATHS. n el Routs:o - z —Oa the 10th inst., at Sp een , Li eu t en ant-t-° lO 4l l John Cworgo Robinson, late Scots Fusilier Gaarls, of M o ntagu-sluare. SHOPPEE —On lho 1011 i ivst ,at nigh-street, Uxbridge, 31r ‘ Joseph Shoppeo, aged 7S. 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