The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. PARTY INNOVATION. The process of choosing a leader for the Conserva tive peers by election is in some sort to beregarded as proof of the disorganisation into which the party has fallen. As the Saturday Review points out, according to the ancient rule of discipline, the nomination of a chief rested with Mr. Disraeli. Lord Cairns was chosen by the principal members of the late Cabinet, or rather by the late Prime Minister; and ho justified this confidence by effecting the celebrated Irish Church compromise. Mr. Disraeli did not even consult Lord Derby on the expediency of allowing the bill to pass. The late Earl of Derby was himself the head of the entire party, and it was by his approval, and not by a vote of independent members, that Lord G. Ben tinck and Mr. Disraeli successively led the House of Commons. Lord Granville was appointed by Lord Palmerston to succeed Lord Lans downe as leader of the Liberal peers, and be now retains that post by favour of Mr. Gladstone. The Conservative Lords are at present violating the old rule, but they must remember that without an understanding between the leaders in both houses, the party would become absolutely powerless. 1 MR. BRIGHT. The Time 3 has' authority for stating that Mr. Bright is progressing favourably, and th a t h e i s b y detrrees regaining his health . The unfav oura bl e re ports which have been in circulation during the last few days are without foundation. TRADE AND NAVIGATION. Accounts have been published relating to the trade and navigation of the United Kingdom during the last year. The computed real value of the principal articles of foreign and colonial merchandise imported in the eleven months ending the 30th of November amounts to £217,070,924 sterling. An abstract of the value of imports in each month shews that a far larger quantity of merchandise arrives in some months than in others. Thus, last May the imports amounted to over twenty millions, while in January they were only ten millions. These figures show a slight decrease, when compared with those of 1868, but a considerable increase upon those of 1867. The total declared value of British and Irish produce exported amounts to £190,04230, being an increase of nine millions over that of 1867 and 1868 respec tively. The monthly abstract here shows that a much more even rate is observed throughout the year in the export than in the import trade. In estimating the dimensions of our export trade it should be remembered that the amount quoted has reference only to articles produced in our own land, and does not include the large quantity Jf foreign and colonial goods we send away annually. Ita ppears that the Customs have pocketed £22,224,203 as duty on the imported goods of the year. One more fact Mr. Fonblanque favours us with is of interest at the present time ; the home-made spirits consumed in 1869 in England, Ireland, and Scotland amount to over eleven, five, and four million gallons respectively in each case, showing, an increase when compared with 1867 and 1868. TJ3Zg LAND BILL. Now that the proposals of the Government are known, the land question excites remarkably little attention. In England the Land Bill has been received with simple approval. In Ireland the furious agitation of the last few months has entirely disappeared, and the Hibernian fervour is at present expressing itself in a singularly fine series of election rows. The Standard presages very trifling opposition. It understands that a section of the Irish Liberal members propose to hold a meeting early in March, with a view to counteract the agitation against the Land Bill promoted by Sir John Gray and his friends. But the latter muster only eleven in the House of Commons, so that nothing very serious need be appre hended from that quarter. THE EDUCATION BILL• • The Bishop of Ripon probably represents the feel ing of most Churchmen in expressing his satisfaction with the Education Bill. At luncheon, after a conse cration ceremony, he said the country had reason to be thankful for the introduction of that national measure, which was conceived in a generous and liberal spirit, though some clauses would require most careful watching. It was infinitely superior to any expected from the Government. Churchmen had had every reason to be thankful that the existing system of education would be _preserved, and the religious principle maintained. There will be a meet ing of Nonconformist ministers at Birmingham on Wednesday ne x t t o c ons id er th e i r position with respect to the bill. CABDWELL'S POLICY. The Army and Navy Gazette reviews the policy of the Secretary of State for War with regard to the army reductions, as far as it is at present able to do so, Mr. Cardwell not having yet put forward his own exposition. The question whether this measure of economy is to be effected without detriment to the efficiency of the army, viewed as a great military ma chine, is one that affords matter for much discussion and various opinions. The British army, like everything else British, is an accidental and perhaps ill-propor tioned growth of time. In this respect it is like the British Constitution itself—the British railway system —the British colonial system—the Indian Empire— the poor laws—the charities of all kinds which abound in the land, and our whole fabric of law and social order. Any institution so developed seems liable to all manner of disadvantages. In fact, howev er , th ere is a process of adaptation going on in our national institutions which seldom fails to bring us right in the end. This will doubtless be the case with the present economical changes in the a rm y, an d if t h ere is any thing detrimental to efficiency in th e t ra diti ons i t has inherited, in the interests that have grow n u p aroun d it, i n the policy it represents, or in Mr. Card well's present reforms, there is enough o f B r i t i s h blood and brains in the institution to work itself clear of all that hinders its perfect action. HEALTH OF THE NAVY. The sanitary condition of the naval service during the year ending June 30, 1869, is reported to be in the highest degree satisfactory. There was an out break of measles at Portsmouth, a sharp epidemic of intermittent fever on board the Phoebe, while stationed in the Gulf of Honduras, and a few more of the kind in different parts of the world. These exceptions were, how ever, none of them serious. Compared with the preceding twelve months, there was in the total !orce a decrease in the ratio of cases entered on the lick list to the extent of 99.4; of invaliding, of 31; y and of mortality, of 2/ per 1,000. The death-rate was the lowest that has occurred for many years. MAIDSTONE ELECTION. model contest at - Maidstone may claim to rank a s a model specimen of a well-conducted election. Nothing in the shape of corruption has been heard of. The crowd behaved well throughout, their den onstrations never going beyond the exhibition of an effigy or two. The demeanour of the candidates to each other was as courteous as the conduct of the Waterford candidates was low, and more than this it is impossible to say. The contest, too, seems to be noteable as an instance of party fidelity. In November, 1868, the leading Liberal had 1,560 votes, and the leading Conserva tive (Mr. Foster White) 1,412. On Friday Sir John Lubbock gained 1,511 votes, and Mr. Foster White,l,4o4. EDUCATION FOR THE BLIND, DEAF, AND DUMB. The representations made on behalf of the thou sands of afflicted persons in this country devoid of the peculiar educational appliances suited to their wants have been followed by a bill introduced to Parlia ment by Mr. Wheelhouse. It provides for the elementary education of blind, deaf, and dumb children, and for a Government inspection of such schools as may be set up for that purpose. Any application on behalf of these poor children shall be met by the parish or union guardians, whose duty it will be to send them to a school fitted for their reception. All expenses thus entailed, up to £24, must be defrayed by the funds of the local board of guardians. Under these circumstances, it is scarcely to bo expected that parish authorities will avail themselves of a clause which renders it allowable to them to send any such child off to school, at this expense, in the case of no application being made to them by the parents or others to do so. It is provided that any person so disposed n- v make an agreement in writing—for the due rtormance of which he will be held responsible by :aw—that he will contribute something as part pay ment of the expense of maintaining any deaf, dumb, or blind child in a school. For the sake of the rate payers it is to be hoped that such unusual generosity will often he found to exist. TILE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. --- The paper real by Sir J. D. Coleridge at Sion Collo2-e, on the freedom of opinion necessary for an Established Church in a free country, is published in the now numbn. of Alamillan. The Solicitor- General nr , ,mcs in favour of a great simplification of ol;r roli;jou3 tests, and the adoption in their place (7,f' ( - .:rtri:n broil! common pr:uciple3 of belief, nei! , . refined nor technical. Sir 3. D. Coleridge cons'(:;2r:s such a reform as a sine qua non of the continuance of the Eitabl:shment. t =,k, _.: 7 , lf i -... , ARCHDEACON DI NI,ON AND DR. TEMPLE. f , ' , The end of the agitation against the Bishop of ? The has, it is to be hoped, been at last arrived at. , . t ychticaeon Denison, who generally claims the last F , ;)rd, published hi s final letter in th e J o h n Bull of Fr . r turday. What he says is this :—The opposi in ".... . ) to the Bishop was o n account o f hi s b.„ .. 7 ,„,ltinued publication • of his - Essay in a synodi 7 11 0teilly condemned book. The book being with -4 tlwn from cirettlntion. the ennosition has no longer THE, SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1870. a raison d'être. Wheref ore the Archdeacon gives the matter up. But he is still sorry for the Bishop him self ; for while his speech in Convocation left the IRISH ELECTIONS. matter of " non-republication " where it was, it has The Times asks how would the adoption of the Ballo\ have modified the disturbances at the Irish electionsLft taken away the " moral value and grace " of the would have protected the timid, and would h withdrawal. The speech, however, it may be pre- increased Mr. Osborne 's majority. It would C 3 er r° taiiil; sumed, is not sufficient to prevent a man remaining a have exaspe ra t e d th e passion of the mob, and have bishop. added to it flat disbelief in the honesty of the return. The characteristic to which we have called attention would have been at once manifested Rage at the result we have already, A conviction that it was obtained by the treachery of the poll-agents is the element now wanting that would be then supplied. What Irishman is ever persuaded that he is fairly beaten ? When does he acknowledge that an agent of the Government can be honest, or an officer of the law truthful ? The Horne Secretary and all the gaolers in Chat ham and Portland may join in affidavits that O'Donovan Rossa has not received corporal punish ment, but they will never convince Fenian Nationalists. The extraordinary letter of Mr. Kickham, and the still more extraordinary address of the Itickham committee to the electors of Tipperary, in our Irish correspondence seem to shew an absolute inability on the part of the writers to understand that others may honestly look at the same objects. as themselves from different points of view. If we had the Ballot in Ireland, we should see pro found and obstinate incredulity breaking into passionate rag‘• every time the popular favourite was unsuccessful. The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that the Waterford con - test from first to last, was a bludgeon fight, not a trial of voting strength. The police stoned and forced to retire, cavalry called out, constables stabbed and trampled upon, voters' heads broken in the act of polling, houses wrecked, omnibuses burned in the streets, one man at least shot dead and several others seriously injured—and Mr. Bernal Osborne sent up to Parliament as the net result of all this brutality. Similar but still more sanguinary scenes are looked for at Clonmel. Tipperary scorns a mere " Nationalist " like Heron. Nothing short of a rebel and a convict will suit its needs, or express the ferocity of its hatred to the English connection. Being unable to get O'Donovan Rossa, it insists on having Kickham. Now, who is Kickham ? He was arrested, along with Stephens, in November, 1865 ; was supposed to be the third member of the "Irish F en i an Executive ; " was tried and convicted of treason-felony in January, 1866, and sen tenced to fourteen years' penal servitude • but was libe rated by the mist a k en c l emency o f our Government: early in 1869, and immediately resumed his treasonable opera tions, having become one of the most truculent writers in the Fenian press—in one of his papers exhorting Ireland "to leap to her feet, and with one sweep of her unfettered arm hurl the invader into the sea." THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AS CONSERVATIVE LEADER. The Duke of Richmond as leader of the Conservative peers, with Lord Derby sitting coldly and Lord Salisbury half estranged, would, says the Standard, indeed have had an uphill work to perform. But proposed by the Marquis of Salisbury, and seconded by the Earl of Derby, as their leader, assured of the earnest co-operation of those two statesmen, and with of their immediate friends and fol lowers' he comes forward with a ll th e pres ti ge t h at should naturally attach to the leadership of a strong majority in the House of Lords, and with all the confidence that cannot fail to be inspired by the consciousness that right and left of him are sitting the representative men of his party, heartily united with him in the asser tion of their common principles. We should have pre ferred, as the Duke of Richmond himself would have preferred, the Earl of Derby or the Marquis of Salisbury. But it is no slight tribute to the Duke that two such men should volunteer their aid and promise their support to him, and that with his leadership the last semblance of estrangeinent in the ranks of the Conservative peers should have passed away. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, THE IRISH CHURCH CONVENTION. The question of the Episcopal veto h as r i sen aga i n at the sittings of the Irish Church Convention. An amendment was proposed by Mr. Bloomfield, to the effect that any measure passed by a majority of b o th clerical and lay or d ers, and rejected by the ord er o f bishops, might aga i n b e brought forward at the next session of the General Synod, and if then passed by a majority of two-thirds of both clerical and lay orders voting separately, to become law. The amendment was lost by a majority of 86, and thus all proposed restrictions on the absolute power of the bishops seem tq meet with disfavour. The Duke of Abercorn ~ai a Judge Warren spoke against the amendment, and Dr. llorroney hoped that their childron would be able to say, " Thank God we have a house of bishops." ID ISLE FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. The Registrar of Friendly Societies in Ireland tells the same dismal tale that the late Mr. Tidd Pratt so often told of similar bodies in England. There has been a considerable falling off in the number of new societies established in the Green Island. " The Registrar is of opinion that this is partly caused by the increasing stability of the existing societies ; but there is no doubt that the decrease is also to be attributed to the present state of the law relating to friendly societies, and the want of any effectual check upon the officers or upon the members themselves in the expenditure of the funds. It is very difficult to detect, and still more so to get legal proof of breaches of the law and misappropriation of funds, and the Regis trar is of opinion that until some effective supervision of the funds and audit of the accounts of friendly societies have been established by law, that there will not be any great increase in the number of societies formed in Ireland." We have all heard this statement in similar words many times before ; and, unless the office be abolished, we shall hear it again. And if the office be abolished, the same system of swindling will go on, only the public will not be troubled with any information about it. The Registrar has no substantial power even to obtain intelligence. He sent out 424 forms, and has re ceived 326 returns, but very few are of the slightest value. It is extremely difficult, says the Registrar, to get any useful or trustworthy information. TIIE MORDAUNT CASE. The cause celebre of the week in the Divorce Court has proceeded on the assumption that the insanity of the respondent is a bar to a suit for a dissolution of marriage. There are very few cases bearing on this question. In "Bawden v. Bawden," it was held that a suit for divorce cannot be maintained against a lunatic, but a lunatic can prosecute a suit for nullity of marriage, or for divorce. The Solicitor? Journal points out that in civil proceedings the insanity o f a ntai n tiff or defendant is no bar to an action for a wrong committed before lunacy, because the object of such an action is the benefit of the complaivantt and not the punishment of the offender. In criminal, cases, on the other hand, the lunacy of the accused is an absolute bar to his trial, partly because he cannot defend himself, and partly because the object of criminal proceedings is the punishment of the offender, and it is absurd to punish a lunatic. In "Bawden v. Bawden" the court followed the analogy of criminal rather than of civil proceedings, and allowed the lunacy of the respondent to be a bar to the petition. But was this the correct course ? Are not the proceedings most directly for the benefit of the petitioner, and not for the punishment of the respondent? Will it not be hard to deprive the former of relief under any circumstances? The Solicitors' Journal thinks the point ought to receive more attention than was given to it in "Bawden T. Bawden." THE EDUCATION BILL. The Daily News observes that it must be already evident to the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education that the religious difficulty in national educa tion is a steeper hill than it appeared to be as he looked at it from a distance. The fact is that religious education, as those who are most interested in it witness, will never be so well looked after as when it is left to voluntary zeal. Let the State teach all it can, and make an instructed nation, and then the Church will take up the children where the state leaves them, and make of an intelligent and instructed people a religious people. Our only regret is that Mr. Forster did not see his way to make the new schools national in this wide sense. There is a growing conviction that, admirable as the measure is, and earnestly as Mr. Forster has endeavoured to obviate the evil of denominationalism, the bill will not do all the good it is meant to do, and is capable of doing, till it has been amended in this sense. The national schools must be schools to which all the nation can go without any one being put in an exceptional list, towards which all the nation can contribute without any sense of injury or wrong, and about which theological and ecclesiastical discussions can no more be raised than they can about national telegraphs, the national Post Office, or the national debt. THE POPE AND THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. The Post declares it can hardly fail to come about that strong steps must be taken by the Cabinet of the Tuileries to bring the Pope to a sense of his real position, and we shall be surprised if many days elapse before we learn that remonstrances of a most vigorous nature have been addressed to the Vatican. The first care of the French Government will probably be directed to obtaining for the very Council itself some powers for that free expression of opinion which has hitherto been systematically refused to it by the Vatican. The French Government have no choice ; they are neces sarily placed in the dilemma of either protecting by physical force the promulgation of dogmas which are the ruin of every idea dear to Frenchmen, or of abandoning to the currents of revolution institutions which they still desire to hold sacred. If the Pope should force upon them this alternative, the evacuation of Rome by the Imperial troops would at once close the session of the (Ecumenical Council, and leave the Holy Father to con sider which flight might best suit his safety. EIGRICULTUR-41, LABOURERS' EARNINGS, An official return of the average rate of weekly earning's of agricultural labo urers i n E ng l an d and Wales in respect of the Michaelmas and Christmas quarters, 1869, and the Ladyday and Midsummer quarters, 1870, has been published. The chief points to which the return is con lined arc the weekly wages, the weekly earnings by t a sk work, the allowa nce o f food or drink, in what quality and quantity, and what emoluments besides wages. These points seem to involve the vital questions affecting the moral and social condition of the English labourer. By these returns the minimum of wages with the maximum of drink are clearly shewn to belong to the Western counties. The following details are therefore selected :- In Wiltshire two districts are instanced-Devizes and Alderbury. In the former,the weekly wages of the men are Ils. 6d. task work, 16; women, 4s. and 10s. ; children, under 16, ss. In the latter, men, 10 s . t o 12 s . an d 1 6s. to 18s. (weekly and task) ; women, ss. to 6s. and Bs. to 9s. ; children under 16, 2s. to 2s. 6d. The allowance for drink in these places is beer or cider of the value of 2s. for men, ditto of 6d. for the women, and 6d. for each child under 16. In Alderney three or four quarts of beer are allowed daily when at work at harvesting, &c., to the men ; two quarts to the women under similar circumstances, and two quarts to the children. In Dorset three districts are instanced-Wimbourne and Cranbomme, Wareham and Purbeck, and Cerne. In the first the weekly wages are-for men, 9s ,6d; task work, 15s to 18s ; the average earnings being 13s ; women, 4s for all classes of work ; children under 16, 2s and 5s ; average, 3s 6d. In the mu:mid-men, 105 and 15s ; women, 4s ; children under los, 4s 6d. In Cerne-men, Os to 16s ; women ? 4s to 6s ; boys under 16, 4s 6d ; girls, 3s 6d. The drink is stated to be for the districts of Wareham and Purbeck equivalent to about £1 for the harvest. In Cerne the allowance for drink is is. per day with three pints of ale. Shepherds in the latter district earn 10s. to 12s. per week, and extra pay in the lambing season according to the number of lambs reared. In dairy farms butter and cheese are purchased at a low price, in lieu of wheat. In mowing season meP earn from 14s. to 16s. weekly, and ale or cider allowed. In Devonshire Axminster, Okehampton, Tiverton ? and Barnstaple are instanced. I n A xm i ns t er men are relieved at Bs. to N. weekly, and 9s. to 12s. task work ; women, 45.: children under 16, ls. 6d. to 3s. Okehampton : men, to 125., and 12s. to 15s. ; women , 4 s . ; c hild ren un d er 16, from 6. to Is., with board and lodging in the house. Tiverton : men, 95., and 4 s . ; women , 4 5. 64 . ; childrenunder 16 living indoors, ls. to 2s. 6d. perweek ; out doors, 3s. to ss. per week. Barnstaple--men, Ils. (no task work) ; women and children nil, except a few days at harvest time when they ea rn 10d. a d ay and the i r meat and drink. The drink allowed in Axminster is three pints a day for men. At Okehampton constant labourers two or three pints per day. At Tiverton two quarts per day, and during h a y ma ki ng an d harvest an increased quantity of food and liquor. Women are allowed a quart of cider daily and portions of their food in hay making and harvest time. Children mostly live indoors, and are found drink and lodging, &c. ; children out of doors are allowed about a quart of cider a day. In Barn staple, if a quart of cider is allowedper day, Is. is deducted from the wages of the week. In Cornwall, Camelford only is instanced. In this dis trict men earn lls. weekly, and 15s. task work ; women and children under 16, 4s. 6d. No drink allowed. One month's food allowed during harvest. In Somerset, Shepton Mallet shews the average wages of men to be 10s. to 12s. and 14s. to 15s. ; women, 4s. ; and children under 16, 4s. to 55., with one and a-half gallon of cider weekly. At Axbridge the men average 11s. weekly, women Os., and children under 16, 6s. to Bs. With this goes bread, meat, cheese, and potatoes (five meals a day), and one gallon of cider per man, and bread, meat, cheese, and potatoes, with tea, for women and children. A few instances of the average weekly wages in other counties, as shewn by the return, are interesting, as shew ing the differences between the maximum and minimum : -Gloucester, 12s. and 13s. • Worcestershire, 13s. ; War wickshire, 12s. ; Leicestershire, 13s. • Derbyshire, 12s. ; Cheshire and Lancashire, 15s. ; Yorkshire, 15s. to 18s, Northumberland, ditto ; Cumberland, 155.; Westmore land, 14s. to 185. • Wales , 9s. to 15s. THE MORFA COLLIERY ON FIRE.—A third dis aster has occurred at the Morfa Collieries. The exploring party have discovered the main workings to be on fire. The greatest efforts are being made to drown the ignited portion of the pit, and the air supply has also been stopped. No person has been injured by the unfortunate outbreak. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. At the Durham assizes, on Friday, the Muntz Metal Company, Birmingham, presented a bill before the grand jury against John and Alfred Clay, of Sunderland, merchants, for misappropriating moneys intrusted to them. Th e case was b e f ore t h e Sunderland magistrates last week, and dismissed after two days' investigation, when the magistrates held that the law did not apply. The company then determined to indict at the assizes. In charging the grand jury, the Judge referred to the case, and said in finding such a bill they would be considering the magistrates wrong, and that the case ought to have been tried at the assizes. The jury during the day threw out the bill. PROGRESS OF TILE HARVARD COLLEGE REVOLU- Trox. Processor E. W. Gurney, one of the editors of the North American, and last year a much urged candidate for the presidency of the College, has been appointed to the new office of " dean of the faculty," a sort of vice- presidency ; R. W. Emerson as university lecturer for 1870- 71, on his this year's topic, " The Natural History of the Intellect ;" Samuel Eliot as university lecturer on the " History of the Nineteenth Century ;" Judge E. IL Bennett of Taunton, lecturer in the law school ; 0. W. Holmes, jun., instructor in constitutional law ; John Fiske, instructor in history ; and N. St. John Green, instructor in philosophy—the last three for the next term only. Candidates for admission to the college are required to know more of mathematics and modern languages hereafter, and mathematics are to be an elective study throughout the college course. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. On Saturday afternoon three plate layers in the service of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company were killed near the Elephant and Castle station of the Metropolitan Extension. To get out of the way of an up passenger train they stepped on to the down line, not observing a coal train which was coming towards them at the rate of about twenty miles an hour. It is supposed from the manner in which the bodies were found that the poor fel lows could not have seen the coal train till it was upon them, and the noise made by its approach would be deadened by the other passing tram. They were all knocked down by the engine, which cut off the head of one man, and mutilated the bodies of the others. The deceased were all married and sober men, and as it is only a few months since five platelayers were killed in a similar manne r on the South-Eastern Railway, and several others on the Brighton line, it is urged by railway servants generally that on all lines where traffic is great some measures ought to be adopted to lessen the risk to which their employment renders them liable. (From the Anglo- American Times.) Mr. James M' Henry, President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, has addressed a circular con taining matter of deep interest to the Bond and Debenture holders as well as to all connected with the line. His first proposition is that the earnings of the road are equal to its engagements; that those earnings can be doubled by good management; therefore instead of occupying the painful and discreditable position in which the enterprise is now placed, it ought to be amongst the most prosperous rail toads in the United States. To secure in the future the results of which Mr. M‘Henry is so confident, it is pro posed to foreclose and sell the road to General G. B. M•Clel lan and S. L. M. Barlow, as trustees, who will then form a new company under a similar title, m 'sing a new issue of securities. 1— A general mortgage overall, sufficient to ex change the new Bonds for the first divisional Bonds and overdue coupons, adding 25 per cent. of the certificates of Debenture of 18'.'4. 2.—Over the whole line sufficient to exchange for the second divisional Bonds and overdue coupons, and for 25 per cent. of the certificates of Deben ture of 1861, redeeming also the Coupons duo prior to cus pnosion. 3.—Over the whole line in exchange for the con solidated Bonds, and 25 per cent. of the unsecured certifi cates of Debentures of 1868 held by general creditors. These are restricted to 7 per cent. interest, but they are to receive whatever is earned within that limit, a precau tionary measure to prevent further disputes arising. Shares will be issued for overdue coupons of the Consolidated Bond.. Thus one-fourth of the Certificates of Debenture of 1864 will be exchanged for First General Mortgage Bonds ; one-fourth for Second ; one-fourth for 5 per cent. Preference Shares, to follow after holders of the Third Mortgage have received their 7 per cent., and one fourth for common shares, thus exchanging all for the New Securities at par, after which a further payment of 3f per cent, will be made in addition to the 1i already dividad. The recapitulation is as follows: PRESENP CAPITAL. Mortgage Bonds. First Divisional Second Divisional Bonds held in trust for Certificate of Debenture. 1861 Consolidated Bonds Total $30,000,000 Shares Total capital $60,000,000 PROPOSED CAPITAL. First General Mortgage 510,500,000 Second General Mortgage .. 7,000,000 Third General Mortgage Preference Shares b per cent Common Shares -L.-a . -- 26,750,000 Total $65,760,000 Mr. M'Henry's scheme differs from that of Mr. Chadwick, which he regrets, as that gentleman gave so much of his time to the affairs of the railway, an aid he recognises as important at a crisis when its early friends abandoned it. Mr. Colorado Jewett has arrived from America to look after his new Atlantic Cable. At Washington he has been doing a considerable stroke of business. Indeed he very nearly got Congress to guarantee 6 per cent. per annum on his Bonds. Judging from the following extract from the North German Correspondent of last Wednesday his cable is likely to be successful, independent of Congres sional aid. "We learn from Rotterdam that the new American Cable Company, which proposes to lay a sub marine cable betweea America and the coast of Holland, was officially sanctioned on the Bth inst. The cable is to pass the Azores, and if the French Government make no objections it will also touch the French coast. The cost of telegraphing between America and Holland must not be higher than by any other line. The undertaking must be co npleted within three years." An opposition was rising to the admission of Mr. Revels, the coloured Senator from Mississippi, and fr(111 the "carpet-baggers," too, who have discovered that he had difficulties with the churches of which be had charge; indeed, that he had embezzled the church funds at Leaven worth, Kansas. The Democratic Senators, it was thought, would object, on the ground that he is not constitutionally eligible. General Grant made a sharp remark to Senator Spencer, of Alabama, who called to get an appointment for a constituent, when he was reported to have said, in reference to the rejection of Attoney-General Hoar, "You little men in the Senate don't seem to like my nomina tions." Touching the rejection, the New York Evenin§ Post remarked, "The public have reason to be dissatisfied with such an exhibition of petty spits on the part of the Senate ; but with the result, which keeps Mr. Hoar in the Cabinet of Gen. Grant, they have every reason to be fully , satisfied." The Senate is growing weary of dealing individu ally with those disqualified by rebellion, throe thousand being reported in a bill on the same day. A general Amnesty Bill is th 3 true remedy, and, as Senator Stewart suggested, it ought to be proclaimed with the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. The Southern Senators dislike the proprsi tion, and plainly show it, but these are not the men to be permitted to stand in the way of a beneficial measure. The telegrams from America inform us of the admission of Mississippi to representation in Congress under the same conditions as with Virginia. Four members took their seats on Thursday, the t'resident having on Wednesday signed the bill adntittieg the State. Tho De mocratic Senators opposed the admission of Mr. Revels, the coloured Senator from Mississippi, but ineffectually. The House of Representatives has expelled Mr. Whitti more, Republican member from South Carolina, for cor ruption, iu selling an appointment to a cadetship in the West Point Academy. This "carpet-bagger" brings home the benefits of reconstruction to its source, doubtless to the intense delight of Southern gentlemen. The South is revenged in Mr. Whittimore, and a steel point given by him to the lance the Southerners have so energetically though so unavailinglyused against "carpet-baggers." The Monarch arrived at Annapolis on the 18th instant, and the officers immediately received cordial invitations from the municipalities of Baltimore and Washington. At An napolis the Naval Academy gave a ball in honour of the officers ou the 21st instant, and they proceeded next day on a visit to Washington. From Pembina, on the frontier of the Red River Settlement, there is news to the 10th in stant. The officials of the Hudson Bay Company, both the governor, M•Tavish, and the medical officer had been arrested by Riel, on a charge of tampering with the officers of the provisional Government ; so it turns out that Mas ter Riel commands the situation after all. At Ottawa the Government policy in relation to these troubles had been criticized in Parliament. EMIGRATION NEWS.—One hundred and seventy five Germans, the first of a colony about to be established in Colorado, arrived at St. Louis, Feb. 9. Over 250 men, women, and children, all citizens of Chicago, though Ger mans, some having resided in that city more than ten years, left on the 9th inst. for Colfax, West Mountain Park, Fremont county, near the head waters of the Arkansas River, in south-western Colorado. Colfax is 250- miles from Fort Wallace, on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, 70 from Puebla, and 30 from Canon City. Each emigrant sub scribed $250 as a common fund for the colony, and all the branches of industry and enterprise will be worked on the co-operation plan for five years, when an equal distribu • tion of the assets will be made. These hints should not be lost on British emigrants. Here we have the citizens of the most prosperous town of the most prosperous State banding together to form a settlement in the mountains of Colorado, one of the finest, if not the finest, Alpine range in the world. Beneath it spreads a prairie, extending for 1,000 miles to the east, and the choice can be mad of the grandest and most fertile hill region, with a great mineral wealth, or the open plain, without any impediment in the way of the plough. Among the arrangements in London for the de spatch of emigrants is the opening of an office at 34, Moor gate-street, for the land grant railways of the West, in connection with the Pensylvanuia Central, who hope to receive the moral support of the influential classes, as the work, if calculated to benefit the railways and the Western States, is no less calculated to benefit English society. The railway companies desire to furnish eheap and com fortable ocean transport and railway carriage from the port of debarkation in America to:the place of location, aided throughout the journey. Also to disseminate valuable and reliable information, and to extend the agencies in England and Europe. They propose to sell their lands direct to the settler at a low rate, with easy payment, un restricted as to selection, and as far as they can so to guide him that he may become as soon as possible a productive farmer. The philanthropic companies may rely on this fact, and we would desire to impress it on them that they cannot do better than work through these rail road companies ; and the reason is so simple and so unanswerable that if they understood the position al doubt and hesitation would disappear. It is the direc and paramount interest of these railroad companies to settle a large and prosperous population on their vast estates along these lines. The quicker they can do this the quicker will be the rise in the value of their property, and the higher the dividends distributed. Here is the whole case in a nutshell; for it must be remembered that it is not their land which is valuable to them, but the traffic on the rods which depends entirely upon the population. Hence the necessity for running through a fertile, healthy coun try; hence the desire to obtain the freehold from the Government for distribution to families at the cheap- est possible rate, for the directors know that the settlers' success is their success, and the failure of the settler is the failure of their enterprise. Thus, the interest of both is identical, and these companies are not only the most powerful corporations in tbo States, but they bold the land on which emigrants must settle, whether the philanthropists like it or not. They may despatch the emigrant by a roundabout way so that 1;0 will pay the most and get the least for these very acres, hut two out of every three men who receive assisted passages to America will inevitably settle down ou the lands of one of Close Western Railroad Companies. We would, thetefore, recommend Emigration Societies to deal dirPct with any agency repre senting these great Railroad Corporations. Mr. Woodward, of Pennsylvania, in debating the House resolution to inquire into the alleged sale of cadet- LAN CA SHIRE DISTRESS. The belief that things in Lancashire are rapidly improving is confirmed by a report from the Poor-law inspector. There is, indeed, an increase in the number of persons who received in-door and out-door relief during the quarter ending Christmas last. But the unfavourable diffirence between the first and the last week of the quarter is to be fairly attributed to the season, which always swells the ranks of pauperism. It is noticeable that at all the unions which have suffered most from the depressed state of manufactures there is a positive improvement. At Blackburn the relief steadily diminished from the middle ofNovember to Christmas. In Preston, Winan, and Glossop a similar result is observable, On the whole, the inspector holds that the figures are decidedly reas suring, proving that the most depressed condition of trade is past, and that a gradual though slow revival has clearly set in. A SHIP CANAL IN ENGLAND. The success of the Suez Canal is directing atten tion to what ought to be a far more easy enterprise— the construction of a ship canal to Manchester. It is thought to be practicable to bring large ships up to the centre of the cotton manufacture, and if it be practicable, it would certainly effect a vast saving in time and money. A survey is now proceeding under the direction of Mr. Fulton, the engineer. It is said that various capitalists are ready to contribute funds to advance the undertaking, if the Mersey and Irwell navigation proprietors are willing to co-operate. THE GAME LAWS. The revision of the laws relating to game occupy much of the attention of such journals as Land an d Water and the Fi e ld. Th oug h these authorities would probably prefer things as they are, they admit that some change is imminent. The Field would support any measure for treat ing rabbits as vermin; but it resolutely objects to provisions which vest property in those animals exclusively in the tenant, no matter if the landlord may desire to buy the right at ten-fold its value. At the same time considerable difficulty is said to be experienced in the killing of rabbits. One correspon dent, who represents many others, says that two years ago he determined to allow his tenants to destroy rabbits by every means in their power. They took to shooting and though they promised to kill nothing but rabbits, the pheasants and partridges dis appeared in the most marvellous manner. "I soon found this plan to be a failure, and I therefore forbade shooting, but continued to give permission to the tenants to destroy rabbits by any other mode. Still I was beaten; for ono man, who occupied land near a principal covert, at once employed two notorious poachers to catch his rabbits,' awl r .s easy to imagine the result." A TALE OF IRISH SIMPLICITY. At a meeting of the Marylebone Guardians, Mr. Galsworthy, a guardian, related the following touching incident. Through misfortune, a poor Irishman, who rent d a small farm, fell into two years' arrears of rout. Fearing a distraint, his wife determined to seek oat her landlord, although the only address she knew was 31r. F-, London. She started on this apparently . hopeless mission, but a good fairy in this instance seemed to have waited on the steps of honest poverty and led them through apparently inextricable difficulties to the hoped-for success. Arriving safely in England, the poor woman took train to London, carrying with her a small bundle, containing n chess, to make herself " tlac Alt" before her landlord, and a little money. This bundle, while she had gone out at a station to get a cup-of tea, was stolen, and on the arrival of the train in London the poor woman was found by the railway officials bemoaning her fate. She was eventually taken to Mr. Tubbs, the relieving officer, who took her to the workhouse, and obtained an order for her conveyance to her native place, but this could not be acted on at once as she was near her confinement. A fortnight after her arrival she was delivered of a child. In the meantime, Mr. Douglas, the master of the workhouse, discovered Mr. F-, the landlord, who immediately called at the workhouse, and made the poor woman happy by forgiving her the two years' rent, and promising to do anything else he could for her. To prevent her being sent according to the Workhouse Code to " 0 uld Ireland," she was con- , veyed in a " dacent " way, through the kind subscrip tions of the Guardians, ROWING. It is thought that something may come of the projected match between the Tyne champion crew and the St. John's New Brunswickers. The Nova Scotians want to row a throe miles out and in race, turning round a stake boat; but to this the Tyne men object, because they are unable to see how they can be protected from steamers and the like. They suggest a six mile straight race, on conditions that the contest be deferred in case of rough weather, and that if any accident hapen to man or boat o n the journey the match should not be forfeited. The New Brunswick - en are masters of America, and they now desire to try their strength with Old World chaiuoions in American waters. LEGALITY OF 11 , ACLNO BoNns.—A summons b bees heard in the Rolts Court in the suit of v. Yelvor ton," with regard to the legality of a bond given for facing debts on the part of the into Marquis of Hastings and Lord Weitmorlanct Sir R. Palmer said this Was a proceeding to enforce the legality of a bond for £lO,OOO, held by Mr. Stevensand Mr. Nicholls. When the two noblemen mentioned became involved in racing losses, it was determined, if the debts wer e no t p a id , th e ru l e o f the Jockey Club should be enforced against them. To avoid this the present bond was given. It was contended, on behalf of the Marquis's executors, that various Acts P; Parliament tended to shew that all considerations of this kind were illegal The Mader of the Rolls decided that under the circumstances the bond should be found against the estate. with costa MURDER IN LONDON. On Saturday evening, a horrible murder was committed near the " retort room," on the premises of the Western Gaslight Company, at Kensal New Town, London. The victim is Phillip Rolph, aged 40 years, who was in the gas company's service, and he resided at the Bloomfield laundry, Upper WestbourncPark. About twelve months ago Rolph married a widow named Camken, who has a grown up son by a former husband. On Saturday morning Rolph, W:10 had been drinking freely while on night duty at till gas works, quarrelled with his wife, and struck her a heavy blow, and he then left the house. Exasperated by the maltreatment, the woman sought for and complained to her son, whose name is James Camken. After the man had heard her story he went to the Great Western Arms beershop, where he remained for several hours drinking, and where he was frequently heard to exclaim, "My father-in-law shall never see the light of another morning." At six o'clock he took off his jacket in the beershop and rushed out of the house. He two minutes afterwards presented himself at the wicket-gate of the gas-works, and the gatekeeper, know ing that the young man was occasionally employed by the company, admitted luta into the premises. Camken then went in search of his father-in-law, whom he found in the " retort-room," and he rushed upon Rolph and struck him with a terrific blow to the ground. He finally beat him in a savage manner till the man was dead. Cam ken, who was seen perpetrating the murder, has escaped, but the police are said to have a clue to his whereabouts. LAW AND POLICE. FOREIGN COMPANIES.—An appeal has been made is Lord Justice Giffard, from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Malin, whereby he refused to grant an order for the winding up of the General Credit Company, for the promotion of Land Credit. The ground for the Vice-Chancellor's decision was that although the company had a registered office in London ; all its business was carried on in Belgium, and the Winding-up A:t did not apply to foreign countries. The Lord Justice discharged the order of the Vice-Chancellor, and directed that the company should be wound up. He could not see why foreigners who signed the memorandum of associa tion of a company registered in this country should not he held to have contemplated the liability of their company being wound up under the Act. The company in question had creditors for £1,000,000 in this country, and it was but right that, as it was insolvent, it should be wound up. SINGULAR CHARGE.—Zid Bey, proprietor of the Hurri yette, a Turkish newspaper, has been charged at Bow street Police-court, with publishing a libel on the Turkish Prime Minister, and inciting to his assassination. A translation of the libel was read in court, setting forth that the Minister was an oppressor, and should be slaughtered by the laws of Islam. The prisoner was remanded. SELLING BEER AND SPIRITS IN THE PARK.—TWO men named Carter and Grimwood, have been fined respec ti 'rely £5O and £25, for selling beer and spirits in St. James's Park, without a license. They were sold to the drivers and footmen of the carriages waiting there. RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASES.—A clothier in Glas gow, named Wingate, has sued the Glasgow and South- Western Railway Company for damages for injuries received in a collision with the Ayrshire express. He laid the damages at £2,000, but the jury awarded him £250. Before the trial he was offered £4OO by the railway com pany, and refused it. FALSE WEIGHTS.—A man at Newington has been fined 23 for using unjust weights and scales, by which he defrauded the lads in his employ, who were paid by weight for the night light floats they made. TWELVE YEARS.—Newnham, who was convicted of burglary at Rochester in company with a man who fell dead in the house, has been sentenced to twelve years' penal servitude. CHARGE AGAINST A LADY.—Mrs. Northcote, a middle aged lady of respectable position, has been committed for trial by the Exeter magistrates on a charge of stealing a coal scuttle and some meat. THE ROBBERY AT PRESTON.—The two persons charged with stealing a£loo note in Preston have been sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The Rev. M. J o h ns t one aga i n declined to tell from whom he got the note. The chair min said that if his evidence were necessary to the prosecution the Bench would endeavour to enforce it, but the case was proved without him. • AN ATTORNEY'S CLERK.—An attorney's clerk, named Adams, has been committed for trial on a charge of forg ing three letters in the name of the Rev. G. Herbert, of 8.-dford, with the object of obtaining three dozen bottles of wine. WHOLESALE SACRILEGE.—Two men, named Webster and Robinson ' having each anal/as, were charged before the mtgistrates, at Keswick, Cumberland, with breaking into several churches and schools in the Lake district. Oa the night of the 17th the parish church of Ceosthwaite was broken into and several articles stolen. grammar school was also entered. Statements made by the prisoners after their ..i;;;iienai;;"Vei;to — il; effect that they had broken into all the churches and sc:iools in Cumberland and Westmoreland charged against them, viz. :—Crosthwaite, Newlands, Windermere, Helsington, Watermillock, Buttermere, and Long m Irton. They stated that their object in com mitting the robberies was to raise money wherewith to go to Australia, and that in cases where they found no money they committed wanton mischief—for example, at Long marton they broke the harmonium in pieces with a pick axe, and burnt a number of Bibles and surplices. Tin prisoners were committed for trial. BURGLARY BY A SON.—Robert Ward Smith, aged 18, was charged at the St. Neot's sessions with burglariously breaking into his father's house at Eynesbury, and steal ing 35. in money, a quantity of provisions, a coa t, a pa i r of waterproof boots, three sacks, two feath er b e d s, &c., the property of his father. The evidence shewed that the prisoner, instead of attending to the business of his father, who had educated him, would absent himself for days and nights in order to amuse himself, and even when at home would not work. The father was at length obliged to turn him out of hi s h ouse i n consequence of his bad conduct. The fath er comp l a i ne d bitterly of his son, s aying that he had d one a ll h e could to reform him, and worked hard to make him comfortable, but without avail. Prisoner made no defence, and wag committed for triaL NEEDLESSLY STOPPING A TRAIN. —John Usher, an auctioneer at Canterbury, was prose cu t e d b y t h e L ondon, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company for unnecessarily stopping a train by means of the new apparatus for communicating with the guard. The accused was a few days before a passenger between Cailterburyand Rochester, and having missed the latter station, he communicated with the guard when near Farningham-road station, and the train was instantly stopped. Fined 40s. and costs. This is the first action that has been brought in connectiOD with this apparatus. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A S TATION- MASTER.—AIfred Barker, 29, late station-master and goods ag en t a t t h e Mil vertoa station, was indicted at the Norwich assizes for embezzling £33ls. Bd. and 17s. 5d., the moneys of the London and North-Western Railway Company. The prisoner received the larger sum from Lord Willoughby de Broke's agent, but never accounted for it, and for some months repre sented that the account was still unpaid. He received the 17s. sd. from a Mr. Bromwich, who saw him sign the receipt for the money. Prisoner had married two women, whom he kept within a mile of each other, and for more than half a year managed to live with each of them. , and sentenced to twelv e m Fo o u n n tha d of onin both charges ARREST OF A JURY3IAN.--SOlllO little time since the judge of the Norfolk County Court (Mr. W. H. C oo k e ) ordered' the foreman of a jury in his court to be tempo rarily arrested. The Norwich town council has been dis cussing the case, and has pronounced the act of the judge an unwarrantable one, and an " unconstitutional excess of authority which ought to be reported to the Lord Chan cellor." - Mr. CARLYLE COnnECTING HIMSELF.—A gentle man, says the Edinburgh Daily Review, once stumbled on a-book entitled " The Prophet Politician, or a Full View of the Life and actions _Military and Civil) of 0. Crom well. With a portr a it. London. 1660." Perceiving it to be a work of merit, the gentlemaajcommunicated his'discovery to Mr. Carlyle, who asked to see the book, a request which was readily granted. Mr. Carlyle returned it with the following remarks written upon the title page : " No guess by whom this book was written ; nor of the date when, except that it was before May 1660 and after 3d September 1658. Author not without talent, fair ness ; worth attending to on one or two points which are peculiar to him, so far as I have noticed--e.g. (p. 2), Oliver in Lincon's Inn ! (but his name is not in any Inn), item on " Campaign in I re l a nd "—some glimmerings of new light afforded, &c., &. Were the little book very skilfully annnotated here and there, dates, supplied &0., by some thoroughly instructed person and do. compe t en t person (of which there is mighty little chance !) it might be worth reprinting some time or other. Lent me from Aberdeen by Mr. John Morgan there and now returned with thanks.—T. CARLYLE. Chelsea, 3 Feb., 1870," The following letter from Thaddeus Stevens is published by the Harrisburg correspondent of the Phila delphia Press: —"January `23,1867. Dear Sir, —I received your letter. lam not surprised nor much moved at any scandal which may be publicly or privately uttered about myself. Ido not usually contradict them. To your per sonal suggestion, however, I willingly reply. All the statements which you said were made are false, as the author well knew, if he had any knowledge on the sub ject. I have always been a firm believer in the Bible. He is a fool who disbelieves the existence of a God, as you say is charged on me, I also believe in the existence of a Hell for the special benefit of this slanderer. I have said that I never deny any charges, however gross. I make an ex eeption when my religious belief is brought in question. I make no pretension to piety (the more pity), but I would not be thought an infidel. I was raised a Baptist, and adhere to their beIief.—THADDEUS STEVENS. J. T. Keagy, Eq." (ADVERTISEMENT. (—Holloway's Pills—Health's Foun tain.—lt canno surely be necessary to remind any intelligen t reader that purity of the blood determines every invalid's health and vigour. Holloway's medicine searches out the slightes taint in the vital fluid, and neutralizes or expels it, so-that the circulation supports the system in place of sowing the seeds of decay. When epidemics are a ivancing, and disease is steadily on the increase, it behoves every one to have a restorative like these pills ready to set right any irregularity in stomach, liver, bowels, or kidneys. Holloway's treatment is especiallysultable for the young, delicate, and nervous, who are most susceptible of any prevailing sickness, and whom violent measures would endanger little lets than the epidemic. ships, said a woman in his district had an offer to get her son into West Point for $2,500, Mr. Scofield adding that two papers in Pennsylvania have lately published a story that a West Point appointment had been sold by a Penn sylvania Congressman for $5OO. Most of these transac tions could be traced, it was alleged, to poor Southern Congressmen, and impunity has given such boldness to tho business that cadetships have been advertised f, r sale in the Now York papers, while it was known that cadets had been appointed from Districts and States where they did not reside. The President has nominated Judge Wm. Strong of Pennsylvania, and Joseph P. Bradley of New Jersey, to the vacant seats on the Supreme Bench. Judge Strong's appointment was confirmed last Saturday, and it is be lieved that Mr. Bradley's will not be rejected. He was born in Albany, New York, 50 years ago, graduated at Rutger's College, settled at Newark, New Jersey, as a lawyer, where he attained a high distinction in his pro fession, more as desk man than as a speaker. His opi nion carries immense weight, as he is profoundly versed in law, and a fine scholar. Politics he has rather ignored, though he never flinched from the strong expression of any op'nion deeply held as an advanced Republican. Ge nerally be is unknown, but enough has transpired to lead the nation into the belief that the selection is a good one. Fernando Wood had a fine opportunity for a little buncombe, indeed one impossible to resist, when the resolution came up for discussion, reported some time since from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, calling on the President for information concerning the imprisonment of American citizens in England for political offences. He as sumed strong groun dagainst the British Government, blam ing the President for not having taken measures for effect ing the release of the prisoners. While he is about it the President may as well go in for a general gaol delivery in Great Britain ; a course likely to be extremely popular with a section of Democrats in New York who appear to have rather a fancy for criminals. But Mr. Wood was so mode rate as to restrict himself to the Fenians captured in the attempt to raise an insurrection in Ireland, and sentenced to imprisonment by the ordinary process of law. The Re presentative from New York "thought the House of Re presentatives should do its duty. Official intelligence on the subject should be asked from the State Department, and then it might be that Congress, and if not Congress, the American people, would demand the - release of their countrymen from the British people. If negotiation failed, then they should appeal to the God of Battles—that high Umpire, which was sometimes the most economical, most wise, and most judicious." Professor Maury gave a lecture at the Cooper Institute on Thursday evening, Feb. 10. He traced on large charts the course of the Gulf Stream, which he con siders 1,000 times greater than the Mississippi river, moving across the Atlantic on the track of a wide circle of the earth. Contrary to the idea that Newfoundland deflects the current from its course, Professor Maury considers that it moves in obedience to the diurnal rotation of the globe on the one hand, and, being of a different specific gravity from the waters of the Polar Sea, it seeks to find an equili brium by changing places with them. He denied that the stream turned easterly to the Azores, although an offshoot —a drift—existed, caused by the south-west winds,. which are everywhere the same, north of the Tropic of Cancer. The true Gulf Stream flows in a mighty and resistless course, and even at Hammerfest, the most northern town in the world, its presence prevents frost at a time when St. John's, Newfoundland, 1,800 miles to the south, is frozen up as late as the month of June. The lecturer said that though the stream, as it comes through the narrows of Florida, was 1,000 times larger than the Mississippi, it is afterwards joined by a body of water known as the North-west branch, which, being of the same temperature and specific gravity as the Gulf Stream proper, readily unites with it after it has passed the Baha mas. If this be true, the Gulf Stream would be consi dered fully equal to the powers claimed fur it, of breaking through the ice-walls which surround and guard the Pole. Professor Maury compared it to the Milky Way, because its warm water at night was made, by myriads of insects, to glow and sparkle like a sea of fire. BUDGET OF PERSONAL—Jay Gould has given a $lO,OOO donation to Princeton Cillege.—Admiral Frank lin Buchanan is the latest Confederate recruit in the life insurance business.—Washington correspondents, we are told, say that the new Senator, Revels, has picked out his seat in the Senate Chamber next to that of Senator Sumner. —lt is said that on his return from Italy John P. Hale, ex-Minister to Madrid, is to have a public reception at Dover, New Hampshire, and is to begin public life over again by running for the State Legislature.— A_ Frenchman was lately found to be in a paroxysm of tears over the supposed tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, but it turned out to be only the ice house.— At Denver they have teen voting for a cane for "the most popular man in town," and by a strange fatality it fell to 0. J. Geldrick, of the Denver Herald, whereupon he re marks, " Verily, journalism and civilization are flapping their luminous wings over the queen city of the plains " Ignatius Donnelly is to stump Minnesota for free trade.— Mrs S towe's"Vindication"is said to have but a limited sale.— Senator Revels, the coloured Senator from Mississippi, was entertained at dinner in Washington on Tuesday evening by George T. Downing, the coloured restaurateur, at which forty persons sat down at the table, among them Senator Wilson, William D. Kelley, Mayor Bowen, and the most prominent coloured politicians of Washington. On Wednesday Mrs. Revels was in the Senate gallery whilst her husband sat on a sofa upon the floor. Upon hearing of the lady's presence in the gallery Senators Sumner and Tipton at once proceeded thither and were presented to her by Mr. Downing. A serenade is in pre paration for the coloured Senator.— Among the pas -enget s by the Cimbria last Saturday at Plymouth were the lion. Thomas Findley and Mr. Colorado Jewett.—J. Donald Cameron has inherited $1,100,000 from his lately deceased father-in-law, Mr. M'Cortnick of Harris burg.—General Francis Fessenden, son of the late Se nator, is a candidate for Mayor of Portland, Maine.—Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull and Mrs T. C. C. Ciaffin have opened an office in Wall-street, NOW York, and 'purpose doing business. as stockbrokers.—lt is understood that Hugh Ewing will be recalled from the Hague.—The President, Feb. 4, nominated A. B. Underwood, Surveyor of Customs at Boston ; Samuel Bard, of Georgia, Governor of Idaho ; IL 11. Heath, Marshal for New Mexico ; and John P. S. Gobin, U. S. District Judge for Southern Florida.—ln Washington, when Prince Arthur was there, the English butlers and coachmen resident. in the city gave a supper to the Prince's servants. One of the speeches was made by his favourite valet, who was enthusiastic in his praise of the United States as compared to Caned'. "'Ow his it," ho asked, " that Henglishmen want to 'av hanything to do with such a blausted cold place as that, where the people are French, hand the beer's as weak as water ?" President Grant receives $25,000 a year; General Sher man, $18,780 ; Lieutenant General Sheridan, $14,803 ; General Halleck, $9,862 ; Secretary Fish, $B,OOO ; Chief Justice Chase, $6,500; Vice President Colfax, $B,OOO, and Speaker Blaine, $10,000. Professor John Bascom and his wife are to spend the summer in Europe. —A man name Smith in Chicago has brought a breach of promise suit against a young woman.—A fund is being raised in New Orleans by the admirers of General Lee to present him with his portrait. Beauregard hohls the funds.--Among the recent arrivals at Havre from New York are Constant Mayer and Leonard Jerome, the New York banker.—The reassignment of the principal U. S. engineer officers is as follows : - General H. W. Ben Lam, from Boston to Wash ington, vice Bache, retired ; Colonel Casey, General Parker and General Poe are retained hero ; Colonel J. M'Comb, from Cincinnati to St. Paul; General Reynolds, from De troit to St. Louis ; General Warren, from St. Paul to De troit ; Colonel Craighill, from Washington to Fort Monroe General Woodruff, from Washington to Philadelphia; Colonel Stewart, from Philadelphia to SanFrancieco; Col. Hourton, from Newport, R. 1., to Milwaukee; Colonel Wheeler, from Milwaukee to Washington, Of the assist ants, Adjutant-General Vincent remains at Washington, and Generals Ruggles and Whipple and Colonel Max tin aro ordered there. General Robert Williams goes to Rich mond, Beck to St. Louis, and Kelton to San Francisco.— The cotton pickeries of Kehliuger and Cullins, at New Orleans, were burned on the 10th Feb, causing a loss of $100,600. Charles Merrifield perished in the flames.— Congressman Dawes's house in Massachusetts has been robbed.. General Terry's house at Atlanta has also been robbed. When caught the burglars are to be sentenced by a military court to take the test oath. —General Sir C. A. Windham, K.C.8., who died at Jacksonville, has been buried in Florida. This British officer had been so struck with the prospects of Kansas when on a hunting expedi tion that, he invested in land, which he returned to see, when seized with an affection of the heart that necessitated I a move to the mild climate of Florida, where he might have recovered, but for the exposure following en the house he was in being burnt.- James Fisk, jun., is called by the Louisville Courier Journal the "Financial Falstaff." —Senator Sprague has been in his seat in the Senate but once during the Fresent session. —General Lee's health is not good, and his Virginia friends urge him to make a trip to Europe in the apring.•_Council Bluffs, lowa, has impeached its Mayor.—Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren beads au anti• woman's suffrage society at Washington.— Captain Commerell, of H.B.M. ship Monarch, gave a fare well party on board his ship, Feb. 11, at Portland, in ac knowledgment of many acts of courtesy and kindness which have been extended to him and his officers since their arrival there. About 509 ladies and gentlemen were entertained. The affair ended with a dance. - Lieutenant-Cloverner Hendee has been inaugurated Go vernor of Vermont, in consequence of toe death of Gover nor Washburne.—Barnum has reached Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, on his return from Cuba, and it is related of him that, while examining the Cave, ho went to sleep for the first time in the presence of a great natural curiosity.-- While the Legislature of Maine was vacillating over the question of attending the Peabody funeral, a respectable member from the back country said :—" Mr. Speaker, 1 am disgusted with the conduct of this House. This funeral at Portland is agoing to bo a great affair; but when 1 see this House a-tettering and see-sawing, as if it didn't know its'own mind, I declare I wish Mr. Peabody hadn't died !" —George Francis Train paid gio for a telegram to the Queen, addressed "Victoria, give me back my tramways, or down goes your monarchy." a reducing Anglophobia to a farce, verily, George is not without his use. MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday. tienerally speaking the Stock Exchange markets have been steady to-day, although apart from the transaction necessary for an adjustment of the fortnightly account, the business doing has not been extensive. Both foreign bonds and railway stocks have participated in the pre vailing steadiness, and with but few exceptions, the rov e ments in prices have been favourable. Consols, howeve r ' have been flat at 92 to 92 for money and the gare h account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 92k, 93. Exchequer Bills, 2s. dis. to 3s. prem. ; India Five per Cents. have been done at 1111, 112 ; an d I n dia Bonds, 31 20s. to 255. prem. For English railway stocks th ere h as b een a healthy inquiry, and an almost general advance has taken Pig e in prices. The principal movement has been in Great Northern A, which has risen 1. The other alterations have comprised an improvement of in Great Northern' Great Western, Lancashire a n d Y or k s hi re , London a n ' , North-Western, Midland, and North-Eastern (Berwi ck and Leeds), and of in Caledonian. Indian stocks have been dealt in more freely, at s tead,' currencies. Canadian shares have been firm, and Gr e3t. Western have risen *. Foreign shares have been fin' in value and inquiry. There has been a fair amount of animation in the rig; kit for fo re i gn b on d s. M ex i can have b een stea d y , 3 3CI per cent. better. Russia Nicolas Railway Bonds, ap well t as Spanish 1867 a n d 1869, I.. vve comman d e d a f a i r ;On° of attention, and have risen per cent. Turkish 6 P er Cents, on the other hand have relapsed per cent. The Russian loan is quoted at 3 to 31 prem. American securities have been rather quieter to -ay` and the Five-Twenties Bonds have fallen per cent. Joint Stock Bank shares have been dealt in to a extent, and prices have been without any material chang e " As regards T e l egra ph s h ares, B r i t i s h I n di an. Subruarinda and Falmouth, Gibraltar and Malta have been flat, D'e have fallen and respectively, but Frencl-Cable 00141 have risen *, and West India and Panama Telegraph Construction and India Rubher shares h a" been quiet, and without movement of impo l 'ta nc6 Hooper's Telegraph Works have been flat at prat, There has been a fair, but not t o sa y active, demand' - money to-day, both at the Bank of England, and in L eliv bard-street. The supply of capital has been limited's and the rate fer three month's p a p er hawsbeen firm *i, per cent. No bullion operations have b een row s litsd at the J 3 2 .11 to-day. The City of Buenos Ayres, from South America llsg brought £3,000. the The Martinique has arrived at St. N aza i re from West Indies, with £22,400 on English account. s The Poonah, from the West Indi es , h as talon °ll £10,500 in specie for Bombay. It has been announced that the interest on the Ma rc) Exchequer Bills will be at the rate of 2 per cent. , At The proceeds of the p ro p ose d new P ar i s loan £10,000,000, to which we have already alluded, will , understand, be employed in the winding up the affair e .„ ‘ the Caisse des Travaux (a sort of bank established by Haussmann for raising money), in paying deficits, sad: finishing certain new streets, boul e v ar d s , an d o th e r w°P .-- Vienna advices state that the early issue of a garian lottery loan of thirty million florins, in tickets of 100 florins each, is reported.. A prospectus has appeared of the C e f n C on sols Le ad Mining Company (Li m it e d), w ith a ca pit a l o f £3O,O O ° P. shares of £5, to work a lead mine in the county of D ezv high, three miles from St. Asaph. At a meeting of the Equity and Law Life AssurO e d e Society, th e new premiums for the past year were sta te at £13,926, and the total assets at £736,615. AA At the me e ti ng o f t h e N at i onal Life Assuranc e, 'P t ; premiums on new policies issued in 1869 were stat ed amount to £6.491. MARKETS—Yesterday. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS, SATURDAY.-There in bee° 16 very little inquiry for tea, amd the tendency has been unfaVonra,..o, Coffee is firm in value, but the demand is not active: The tran,7o, tlons in both raw and refined sugar have been limited; neverthe' prices have ruled firm. 0 LONDON METAL MARKET, SATURDAY . -Ir on h as been 0 and unaltered. Tin has maintained the late advance. Other Nett' have so:d slowly, bei, LONDON WOOL MARKET, SATURD.A.Y.-English wool ot been firm in value, w ith a moderate inquiry. At the public sa,., • colonial wool there has been a good attendance o f buyers, su' A pit dings have been firm f or a ll d escr i pt i ons, at full quotations. ,t,6os quantity has been taken for export. Up to the present inc.' about 40,000 bales have been disposed of. LONDON TRADE REPORT, SATURDAY. - Tallow has If: dull. Spot and March, 46 5 ., an d J une, 455. 9d. ; last three mon k 465. 9d. LONDON OIL MARKET, SATURDAY. -Linseed oil hits b rifs dull, 31s. 9d., spot. R a p e has been flat at 41s. 9d. s p o t. Other have been neglected. • ICO BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MAlt For S.iTuumAy.-Increased supplies of potatoes have been on sale , zi ts, all qualities the dem an d h as b een qu i et, as follows :-English regeco, 80s. to 110 s. ; rocks, 755. to 85s. ; Scotch regents, 80s. to 955.; r ° 6.35. to 755. ; and French, 50s. to 70s. per ton. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, SATURDAY.-The suPPlie% of meat have been moderate. The trade has been dull, as f o lloW! ' t o Peef from 2s. sd. to 4s. 6,1.: mutton 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; lamb, stye Bs. ; veal, ss. to ss. 61. ; and pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. Bd. per Sibs. 10 carcase. • METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SATIVE nAfI / 4 ,. so —The supplies hav e b een l arge, an d t h e tra d e has b een d t o follows :—Prime meadow hay, 755. to 82s Gd. ; inferior ditto, f '" d ' i ttor 70s. ; Rowen, 60s. t o 63s ; prime clover, 115 s. to 1:3 s . ; inferior 10Cs. to Des. ; prime se con d- cu t c l over. 10 0 s. to In s. ; inferior o .`" ais. to 90s. ; and straw, 265. to 3(s. per load LIVERMOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The marked has been quiet, Sales, 10,000 bales. L 167 FOR THE USE OF VISITORS TO TIIE 2IfETROPOLIS. MUSEUMS. Antiquarian—Somerset House. Admission by application to the secretary. Botanic— Royal Botanic Society of London. RegAntli park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. JOY Gardens, Kew. Open - daily, 1 till 6, free. British—Great Russell-street. Open free on Moncton. Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10 to 4 ; summer months 'd till 7. 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