The Sun. — London, England, 1867-02-19 00:00:00

THE FENIAN RAID IN KERRY. om the Times' Special Correspondent.) KILLARNEY, Sunday Evening. This town now shows few signs of the panic which prevailed here last week. Yesterday was market day, and the country people came in much as usual, gazing curiously at the soldiers, but sell ing their small produce, and buying such wares as the shopkeepers have to offer, pretty much as usual. I am told that some of the peasantry showed an anxiety to change bank notes, which they offered timidly, in payment for trifling purchases, as though the tradespeople might possibly think that the sta bility of the British Government, and the conse quent value of bank notes, were not quite beyond question. This mingled ignorance and credulity seem to have prevailed also among others who, from their position as small farmers or traders, ought to have known better. I have heard of more than one case in the district around here, in which persons of this class have drawn mcney from the bank, and have not hesitated to run the risk of keeping large sums in their homes, in order to avoid what ap peared to them a still greater risk—the collapse, I suppose, of most Irish institutions, financial as well as political. As something else has collapsed, and that not the Imperial Government, one would na turally expect the poor people hereabout to lose faith in the Fenian enterprise. No doubt that faith has received a shock, for there was much prelimi nary boasting among the local Fenians of what was going to be done last week under the Irish-Ame rican leaders ; but the history of human credulity forbids us to expect that even the events of the last week will crush out all faith where so much igno rance accompanies credulity. Killarney is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric, and near the demesne of Lord Castlerosse is a handsome Roman Catholic cathedral of Gothic design. The Bishop's residence and a monastery are situated close by. The cathedral seems large out of all proportion to the wants of Killarney proper, but a walk in the outskirts of the town this morn ing showed that it is attended by the country popu lation,who were hastening towards it in considerable numbers. There was another proof that the district is no longer much disturbed ; at all events that the peasantry, if they ever felt distrust, once more con fide in the powers that be. About a mile from the town I met a marriage party, who numbered at least 60, and made up a most picturesque procession. First came an Irish car, in which were the principal personages—Norah smiling a pretty smile and giv ing timid looks at the bridegroom, who seemed as bashful as she was. Then tollowed, crowded with wedding guests, three or four of the country carts, jolting, springless vehicles, which almost make your bones ache as you watch them pass. A greater no velty still were a dozen or 15 couples on horseback, riding Darby and Joan fashion, and still more coun try carts brought up the rear. The women all wore clean white caps; I don't think there was a bonnet among the whole of them. Bright coloured 'kerchiefs, or the hoods of the comfortable peasant cloaks, pro tected the head; and as one turned to see the gay procession wind along the road, and heard their merry laughter when they were hid from view, it was difficult to believe that a rebellion, which men of this class were expected to join, was imminent here only a few days back. Evidently, though Fe nians might come and Fenians might go, marrying and giving in marriage were not things to be hin dered by a rising. All my inquiries tend to the conclusion that ridi culous as the outbreak now appears, and hopeless as in any case it must have proved, the timely mea sures taken by the authorities here have really saved perhaps the whole of the south of Ireland from bloodshed and disorder. I mentioned yesterday the receipt of an anonymous letter which led to the arrest of Captain Moriarty on his way to Killarney. This was really the turning point of the whole movement, for there is no doubt that under his leadership the Fenian sympathisers in Killarney were to have been organised and made ready for the approach of the insurgents who were to come from Cahirciveen. This Moriarty is a repulsive-looking fellow, who has fought in the American war, and is there said to have lost his nose. He has lost his nose indeed, but not in the warfare of Mars. It is not true that Fenian despatches were found upon him, together with a commission signed by Stephens. The only suspicious letter in his possession was one addressed to a man named Sheehan, a clerk in a draper's shop at Killarney. It was a letter of in troduction, written on the very day of his arrest, Feb. 12, and signed by a known Fenian, "Colonel" or " General" O'Connor, another of the Irish-Ame rican soldiers alluded to yesterday. The letter, which was guardedly worded, stated that the bearer would be likely to prove of much assistance to Shee han ; and added that " private spys" were about that morning, but " unless they 'smell a rat, the thing will be done without much trouble." Upon this information Sheehan, who fought in the Papal Brigade—at least he served in it—was arrested, to gether with a tradesman named Gard, a person in a respectable position, with a good and growing busi ness. When these arrests were made there was not a soldier in Killarney, nor nearer than Cork, and if the small constabulary force of 20 or 30 men then in Killarney had been taken by surprise, they could not have held out in their barrack against the num bers that would have been opposed to them. This Killarney barrack is one which should never have been selected for occupation in such a country by a quasi-military force. It is a wretched building, at one end of the long street that makes up the greater part of Killarney " town, " is connected with the other houses in the street, and is perfectly indefensible. Again, it is commanded by the high ground in the rear, or if the assailants were too cowardly to attack it they might set fire to the ad joining houses on either side and it would soon have been in a blaze. Mr. Colomb, in charge of the constabulary here, took his measures at once, and showed at a moment of great danger a mili tary promptitude and energy which were happily rewarded with success. He ordered the evacuation of the barrack, and removed his men to the Royal I I otel, an isolated building close to the station, and from its situation and substantial construction capable of being stoutly defended. It is of great importance, as showing the feeling in the town, not only among the idle and disorderly characters—the Killarney " roughs"—but among people who should know better, that the police as they retired towards the hotel through the street were groaned at and hooted ; and I am told that seditious songs and cries were afterwards heard throughout the town. Not unnaturally, perhaps, some of the respectable in habitants and tradespeople complain of this retreat of the constabulary, who, they say, thus left the town to its fate. But, having closely examined the police barrack inside and out, I am quite sure that its abandonment was an act of the most obvious prudence, and that, even in the interests of the town, this strategic movement was the best that could have been devised. I have already told you how promptly troops arrived from Cork and afterwards from the Curragh. Before this, however, a despatch had been sent by Capt. Colomb to warn the police at Cahirciveen. They, however, had already received timely notice from another of the informers, whom the Fenian movement fortunately produces with such profusion. As you have already heard, the insurgents shot the mounted orderly, who was carrying the despatch sent from Killarney, and who behaved with a gal lantry and devotion which I hope will not go un rewarded. But nothing could have been better cal culated to discourage the insurgents than the very despatch which thus fell into their hands, which s howed that the a uthorities at Killarne y w ere fore warned, in which there was an allusion to the Fenian leader O'Connor, then in command of the party. It was this which disconcerted the advancing insurgents and induced them to take to the mountains. Instead of surprising Killarney, and, by the help of Moriarty and their friends in the town, obtaining an easy conquest there, they themselves were surprised and disheartened. So the first success which was to have roused the whole country was never achieved. Nobody here seems to think that the Government reward of £.250, which has been offered for the ap prehension of O'Connor, or that of £5OO for the discovery of the men who shot Constable Duggan, will produce any effect. The Irish peasant keeps faith in this way ; he will have nothing to do with blood-money. But to defeat the designs of rebels is a different thing from betraying them into the hands of the Government ; and it is clear that some persons well acquainted with the Fenian designs have no scruple in thwarting them by giving timely information to the authorities in the shape of anony mous letters. In the peculiar state of the country it is wise neither to disbelieve nor to disregard these too readily. As to a great deal of information which comes from the peasantry when questioned by the flying detachments, I think that not much reliance is to be placed upon it. One point con tinues clear—that the Fenian numbers never ex ceeded, if even they reached, 100. What number they might have mustered but for the causes I have described no one can tell. I fear it might have been considerable. The national impulsiveness might have induced many lukewarm supporters of the Fenian movement to join men who had gained even a small triumph and who called themselves patriots. No prisoners have been brought in by the flying detachments, though not a day passes without its expedition up the mountains. This morning a party of the 48th Regiment have been pushed for ward to Killorglin, 13 miles from this place, on the road to Cahirciveen, which is 38 miles distant. At midnight on Friday a party of the 60th Rifles and the constabulary were sent to beat up some Fenians who were said to have taken refuge in Dunlo Gap. This spot, known to tourists, is a wild ravine amid the mountain ranges of the Tomies, the Purple Mountains, and MiGillicuddy's Reeks. It is a spot so secluded and so wild that you would hardly ex pect to find there any human habitations. Yet a good many peasant cabins, with potato plots around them, are scattered in the Gap, where one would think there was not a yard of ground which would repay cultivation. The troops and constabulary, who were conveyed from Killarney in cars to the entrance of the Gap, there dismounted, and in their passage through the ravine surrounded and searched houses of the peasantry, both for arms and rebels. The search was unsuccessful, but some of the peasants owned, after considerable equivocation, that a few of the fugitives had taken refreshment in their houses. The Fenians, however, managed again to elude the search that was made for them, though the woods were scoured in every direction. According to the information obtained here the fugitives con sisted of 15 men, of whom 10 were armed with rifles and five with revolvers. Only one shot has been fired by the scattered Fenians during the pursuit, and there is good reason for supposing that that was fired not in anger, but in fright. A party of the 60th Rifles, accompanied by Mr. Herbert, M.P., were beating the woods on the Tomies mountain, and came suddenly upon a few men hidden in the thick cover. At the same moment a rifle went off in the air. The Fenians were fleet of foot and managed to get away, but in their hurry left behind them some ammunition. Monday Morning. Rumours have come in this morning of small parties of armed men at different points in the mountains, but whether these rumours can be trusted is doubtful. A strong body of troops is just setting out to beat up the fugitives. No prisoners have yet been made. Night. The troops have left to-day for Kenmare. The country is reported perfectly quiet. The rumours of a conflict between the soldiers and bodies, of insur gents are totally without foundation. The fugitive Fenians are nowhere to be met with. Miscellaneous American News. The Tenure of Office Bill gave rise to another close contest when received in the House of Repre- sentatives from the Senate. It provides that the President shall not have the power of removing public officers without the consent of the Upper House. A resolution was proposed to include the Cabinet among these officers. hitherto the Presi dent has been free to choose his own advisers, and the House held that it was necessary that he should remain free, and not be wholly subjected, as this resolution proposed, to the party which happened to beuppermost. Though the vote was 78 to 76 against the resolution, yet a motion, which would have prevented the subject from being revived, was lost, so it may again be brought up. _ . The telegraphic news of the week comprises the following items :—The Louisiana Legislature has rejected the Constitutional Amendment. The bill for the admission of Nebraska in Con gress as a State of the Union has been passed by the Senate over the President's veto. Mr. Banks and other Republicans urge the necessity of the adoption of some measure to secure the President's co-operation with Congress. The Cunard steamer Australasian arrived out Feb. 10, and the Malta Feb. 11. By the Inman steamship, City of Boston, we learn that the Louisiana Legislasure has passed a resolu tion to call a convention to revise the State Consti- tution, so as to release the State from Radical rule. Governor Wells has decided that if a new consti tution is adopted he will reassemble the Conven tion of 1864 to depose the present Legislature. The Judiciary Committee continue their delibera tions on the impeachment of President Johnson with closed doors. It is reported that General Butler and other Radicals advise the impeachment of General Grant. President Johnson has issued a proclamation ordering that the removal of the dis criminating tonnage on American vessels by the King of the Sandwich Islands shall be reciprocated by a similar Federal action towards vessels belong ing to those islands. The freedmen near Savannah have refused to work or leave the plantations. They forcibly resisted the troops sent by the Freed men's Bureau to remove them. The ringleader was arrested, and tranquillity was finally restored. The City of Boston left New York Feb. 2, and arrived at Queenstown at 10.35 a.m. Feb. 12, with 31 cabin, 118 steerage passengers, and $43,700 in specie. She landed 4 cabin, 20 steerage passengers, and 14 sacks of mails, and proceeded for Liverpool at 10.50 a.m. We anticipate much interest and excitement among savans at the discovery of a tooth of an animal which appears to belong to a species so ex tinct that it has not yet been described. Albert Koch, the naturalist, writes that, at the late agri cultural fair at St. Louis, " A relic called the jaw of a shark, found in the coal-beds of Belleville, Illinois, is not such, but that it is the larger por tion of the inferior maxillary, or lower jaw, of a huge and exclusively carnivorous reptile. He con siders it as belonging to one of the extinct San rians,' and not yet described. This fossil is in a highly remarkable state of preservation. It was taken out of the solid c 4, sixty feet beneath the surface of the ground, and the coal-bed was overlaid by twenty feet of solid limestone." The Supreme Court at Boston has returned a decision on the suit of Edmund Jackson, executor of the late Francis Jackson, against Wendell Phillips and others, who were appointed in the will trustees of a fund of $12,000 to be expended in putting an end to negro slavery in America, and for aiding the fugitive slaves. The Court decided that the abolition of slavery by the Constitutional Ainend ment did not impair the intention or provisions of the will, and directed the appointed trustees to carry them out as fully as possible. Another section of the will, however, bequeathing $5,000 to be ex pended in efforts to secure suffrage and other poli tical privileges for women, was decided to be inope rative and void, as it was not a legal charity, and in consequence the property reverts to the family heirs at law. The correspondent of the Boston .Journal at Flo rence writes :—" The American Consul at Milan, the Rev. Mr. Clark, informs me that he has been approached by some of the Milan merchants, who desire more intimate commercial relations with the United States. They wonder that the Americans, who they say are the most ingenious people on the earth, do not manufacture silk, instead of paying the Swiss for i doing it, and then paying a heavy duty upon the manufactured goods." The Republican's (St. Joseph) special correspon dence says that " advices from the plains and mountains report the great body of the Indians moving southward." Old Indian fighters say this means war, that the Indians have a knoviledge of THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEINING, FEBRUARY 19 1867. his master, who threatened to chastise him for disobedience of orders. " Massa," said Cmsar, " you told me to take care of your property"— placing his hand on his breast. "Dis is wort fifteen hundred dollars." He escaped punishment. A Washington correspondent tells this charac teristic story concerning the late Count Gurowski : "The Count was once in a heated argument with an ex-rebel, Judge L-, when he suddenly said, Judge L-, I admire you!" Why,' returned the Judge, I cannot see how you can admire me after calling me such hard names!' Indeed,' roared the Count, I admire everyting zat is per feck, and you are one perfeck scoundrel !' " There have been 1,600 divorces granted in Mas sachusetts in the last six years. COMMERCIAL. Now York, Feb. 2. We have looked for the effect of the threatened impeach ment on the European markets with some anxiety not un mixed with curiosity. The result has been gratifying, as our securities appear to be steadily if slowly rising. Yet to judge by your newspaper articles, both of the London and Paris press, you attach more importance to the move of the extreme Radicals than wo do on this side. The panic is at an end, though the market continues excited and feverish. Every rise is followed by an imme diate fall, in consequence of the anxiety evinced by holders to get out of their shares on the first opportunity. The New York Central has declared its usual dividend of 3 per cent. for the half year, payable on the 20th February. It a said that Mr. Vanderbilt and his friends are buying up Erie stock to influence this road. At any rate a laago quantity of that stock has lately changed hands, and orders have, I am informed, been sent to England with this object. Though money is abundant, it is not easy to get. Ap proved collaterals for short loans are alone readily taken. On Governments 5 and 6 per cent. is the rate, and 7 per cent. on other first-class securities. Gold has been unsteady during the week, influenced by carious sensational rumours, chief among which were the stories of serious deficits said to bo discoverd in the printing bureau at Washington. The price was in this way run up on Wednesday to 136 f, but afterwards dropped to 134 i. Thursday's closing price was 135 i. The export by the European steamers which sailed last Saturday was $467,000. No good reason exists why gold should be higher than at present, unless the financial crash, which seine are gloomily foreboding, should come. The demand for actual use and export is quite light, and the imports from California hold up remarkably well, the last steamer bringing $1,072,175. Government securities have been steadily and quietly improving, and are in excellent demand. The proposition has been before Congress for some time to give in payment to the national banks holding com pound interest notes as part of their legal reserve, 3 per sent. notes to an amount equal to one-half of their re quired reserve, which is now about 5200,000,000. These will be practically to the banks the same as legal tenders, for they can demand legal tenders for them on ten days' notice. The effects of such an issue would probably be that the treasury would be at the expense of paying the banks an annual sum to enable them to keep the reserve which is required by law; while there would be a further inflation of currency and p os tponement of the day of specie payments and low prices. The internal revenue receipts, last week were $3,400,776; and the amount since January 1 is $16,591,702. They have fallen off very materially within the past three months, and it is doubtful if Congress will venture to make much reduction in taxation, lest the Govern ment's revenue be too extensively reduced. Tho total receipts from customs in the week ending Jan uary 19 were $3,064,312. The amount of fractional currency issued to date, deducting worn-out notes returned, is $29,874,896. The disbursements for the various depart ments, last week were as follows : War $1,814,808, navy $2,943,976, interior $216,602.—The securities held by the treasurer for the circulation of national bank notes amount to $345,514,000; for depositsof public moneys, $38,761,450. The exports (exclusive of spade) from Now York for the week and year are $3,210,976 against $3,419,470, and $13,908,549 against $17,405,606. The imports cor respond as follows: $3,663,970 against $4,629,628, and $14,955,517 against $17,947,499. The commerce of New York from July 1 to January 26 was as follows : Importations of merchandise $145,888,519 against $160,031,697, exports of produce $95,514,941 against $121,283,142, exports of specie $19,276,481 against $11,623,160. Trade continues stagnant—there is no improvement, I regret to say, whatever, and s everal failures had occurred• The following are the latest quotations :—Gold, 135 k; United States five-twenties (1862) 1071, (1864) 1051 (1865) 106, (1865, new issue) 1011, United States Ten-forties 991, United States 7 3-10 loan 104 k, Missouri Sixes 921 New York Central Railroad (ex-dividend) 971 1 Erie 55t, Erie Preferred 71 to 72, Hudson River 1281, Raading 1031, Michigan Central 107 f, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 71, Illinois Central 1131, Cleve land and Pittsburg 781, Cleveland and Toledo 118 to 125, Chicago and Rock Island 941, Chicago and North- Western 351, Chicago and North-Western preferred 631, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 96 6 „ Pacific Mail Steamship Company 156 to 157, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company 98 to 99, Adams' Express Company 66, American 65, United States 65} to 66, Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s 691 to 60, National 90, Merchants' Union 131, Western Union Telegraph Company 441, Canton Company 42}, Cumber land Coal Company preferred 35 to 37, Quicksilver Mining Company 371, Mariposa Mining Company 10. (From Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.) The market has been generally well sustained during the past week, although there has been a slight tendency to lower figures during the past few days. Transactions have been quite limited, speculators hav ing awaited, with some anxiety, the effect of the speech of the Emperor, at th e opening of the Corps Legislatif. The obscure but pacific nature of t his address has had but little influence upon th e Bourse. W e will have occasion to refer to the subject more particularly in eur next circular. We quote the French Three per Cents. to-day :—Ex change on London, Stock, 25 13 to 25 16 ; 60 to 90 days, 25 16 to 25 19, less interest at 3 per cent. The attention of capitalists is particularly occupied by the New Austrian Railway Loans, placed upon the prin cipal European markets upon the 12th and 13th inst. Subscriptions are said to reach six or eight times the amount desired, which is not surprising, all Austrian securities having everywhere advanced, particularly in Germany, and the loan actually issued at 225 f. bears an annual 7 per cent. p er annum ; and the principal, g papable i n n i ne ty-five years, offers most unsuu al attra ctions. interest of l5 6 f :7 , 0 o o r f nearly bein Capitalists being mainly interested in the above American Government Bonds have been somewhat neglected. Prices, however, remain very firm, say from 821 to 821, the tendency of these securities to take a firm place upon our market becomes more and more marked. We are convinced that they will continue to be more and more sought for investment. We have given our European readers, in our last cir cular, some particulars regarding the new steam ship line between California and China, and upon the Union Pacific Railway, connecting San Francisco with tne eastern portion of the United States, a step which we are sure will tend to bind America more closely to other countries. (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, February G.) By the Asia we have our customary weekly advices from New York to the 28th ult. During the week that just elapsed the Railroad Stock Market has been in a state of panic, all descriptions currently dealt in for speculative purposes exhibiting almost daily violent fluctuations. From the entire list we select a few as indicative of the course of the market. By these it will be seen that the lowest quotations of the week were attained on the 25th ; from that point there was a reaction, but the latest prices exhibit only a partial recovery. Jan. 22. Jan. 25. Jan. 28. Chicago and North-Western 43 33 37 Do do Preferred 80 60 65 Cleveland and Pittsburg 90 78 82 Cleveland, Columbus, and Cin cinnati 115 107 107 Erie „,. 65 55} 59 Hudson Biver 130 120 123 Michigan Southern ... 79 66 66 Now York Central ~, 109 98 102 Cumberland Coal (Preferred) 84 36 39 Gold „, „, „, 1361 134 134} Stocks held for permanent investment, such as Illinois Central, Michigan Central, and Readings were but slightly affected, the depreciation amounting to only about 1 rer cent. In Miscellaneous Stocks the fall had been very heavy, as will be seen by the quotations for Cumberland coal, a favourite medium of speculation. Government Stocks were a little more offered, and at one time exhibited a de cline of 11 per cent., but close lower than on the 22 , 1. State Stocks and Railroad Bonds were comparatively steady. Money was in good demand at 7 per cent., but collaterals were more closely scrutinised. In the London market for American Securities we have to record a fair amount of business during the past week in the United States 5-20 Bonds. Up to yes terday the price remained almost the same as this day week, but on advices from New York of lower premium on gold, with a slight advance on Government Securities, the price advanced to 73 to Illinois Central Shares for the same reasons have advanced mote than one per cent., closing 811 to 82, but Eries show no improvement, the latest quotation being 391 : to f. There has been a complete panic in the various securi ties of the Atlantic and Great Western, the first and second sectional Mortgage Bonds, without any officially recorded transaction, being quoted 15 per cent. lower than this day week. The Consolidated Mortgage Bonds have also de clined 4 per cent., and the Debentures 7 per cent.; the rate of continuation for carrying over Consolidated Bonds Until mat AOGount;has boon merely nominal. the troops which are being sent out, and so they ' are moving southward to open the war in that less protected region, but that if the troops are sent, after them they will give them the slip and dash north again, and spread murder and devastation upon the region thus uncovered. A special despatch from Leavenworth, Kansas, says that accounts from the plains state there are about 10,000 well-armed warriors upon the war path, and it is feared that they will pounce upon some exposed point. A telegram from Idaho says that General Crook has returned to Fort Lyon with 100 prisoners and 36 horses that he had captured. A great many In dians were killed, though the number is not stated. A big fight is expected soon. The German citizens of Franklin county are cir culating a petition asking the Legislature to remove the restrictions upon the sale and use of lager beer and the lighter wines, declaring that the present laws tend to the subversion of their sociality. The new National Steamship Company at Boston has secured mail contracts on both sides of the Atlantic, and promise of sufficient business at the start to yield, it is expected, $25,000 clear profit for every trip, which will pay 7 per cent. interest on the bonds, dividends on the capital, and in five years the entire cost of the vessels. A Boarding-house, for working girls, is to be established in New York. It is not designed to make it a charity, but a place where women who labour may find the comforts and influences of a good home at a reasonable price. The object is one which should enlist the support of Christian philanthropists. Mr. Morrill's bill, obliging the Secretary of the Treasury to give six days' notice of his intention to sell gold, and to dispose of it to persons bidding for it in sealed proposals addressed to the Assistant- Treasurer, and to be opened by him in public, has passed the House. As the scene which occurred in the House of Representatives, on the debate on Mr. Ashley's amendment, has gone the rounds of the English papers, we here insert the immediate and dignified rebuke administered by the Speaker on behalf of the House :—" Mr. Hunter, no deliberative body can preserve its own self-respect, or command the respect of its constituents, that tolerates the use of offensive language condemned by gentlemen every where, as well as by Parliamentary law. For having transgressed the rules of the House it has re solved that you shall be censured by the Speaker. Having thus declared the censure of the House, you will resume your seat." Mr. Hunter said that in using the language in a moment of irritation he meant no disrespect to the House. Mr. Ashley said in the heat of debate men often utter words without weighing them well. I have been a mem ber of the House eight years, and never before uttered a word for which I was called to order, or which was regarded as improper. I intended to apply no unparliamentary or personally offensive language. I intended my remarks to apply to gen tlemen who here or elsewhere, during the war and since, were in secret alliance with the opposition, who had voted against supplying a man or a dollar for the war, who discouraged enlistments and encouraged desertion, and who organised conspi racies to overthrow the Government. I intended my remarks to apply to no other persons. The House then adjourned. By the Royal Mail steamship Asia we hear that the President vetoed the admission of Colorado as a State on the grounds that the territory has not the requisite population, and that the inhabitants, through their representatives, had protested against a State Government being forced upon them. The Radicals were reported to be preparing a bill to provide for the temporary installation of General Grant as President during the impeachment of Mr. Johnson. The Maryland Legislature had elected Governor Swann as Senator. Governor Parsons, of Alabama, had addressed the Legislature, strongly opposing the Constitutional Amendment. It had been reported at Ottawa that the Home Govern ment had sanctioned the Quebec scheme of confe deration, and that a bill would be introduced into Parliament making Prince Alfred the Governor when the confederation was accomplished. Head Centre Stephens was stated to have left for Havre in the Ville de Paris. On January 31 the Presi dent vetoed the Nebraska Bill on the grounds that negro suffrage was exacted as a condition of admis sion, while the regulation of the suffrage was a right fully optional with the people of Nebraska. Mr. Seward had written to Mr. Motley, the Federal Minister at Vienna, asking an explanation of the report that he had denounced President Johnson and Mr. Seward, and disparaged Democratic insti tutions. Mr. Motley, in reply, denied the truth of the report, but has resigned his post. The Missis sippi Legislature had unanimously rejected the Con stitutional Amendment. Mr. Garrett Davis, Demo crat, had been elected as Senator by the Kentucky Legislature. Ten additional death sentences had been denounced against Fenian prisoners at To ronto. The oldest book in New England is owned by the Rev. J. J. Power, of Worcester, and was printed in 1470. It is a theological work, written by Rainer, a Catholic priest of Pisa, Italy, who died in 1249. Messrs. Hurd and Houghton will soon publish Dr. Hayes' " Open Polar Sea," a narrative of the perilous expedition under Dr. Hayes' command, in 1860-61, to the polar regions, which not only reached lat. 82 deg. 45 min., the most northern point of land known, but proved the existence, then doubted, of an open Polar Sea. Mr. C. C. Haven, a venerable resident of Tren ton, New Jersey, has just published a small volume entitled " Thirty Days in New Jersey Ninety Years Ago." His object is to prove that what is known in history as the Battle of Trenton was really of minor importance to an almost unheard-of fight, termed by Mr. Haven, the Battle of Assunpink, a creek which skirts Trenton, and on one of whose bridges the conflict took place Jan. 2, 1777, the evening preceding the Battle of Princeton. Mr. Joseph Sabin, after 15 years of research and four more of verification and arrangement, has ready the first part of his " Bibliographical Dic tionary of Books relating to America, from its Discovery to the Present Time." It is stated that General Grant and his family will visit Europe during the spring, and will sail from America in time to be present at the opening of the Paris Exhibition, provided the general's official duties permit him to spare the time necessary for the journey. Mr. John Converse, of Woburn, completed his hundredth year on Sunday last, the 20th January. He was born a subject. of George 111., and was in his tenth year when the Declaration of Independ ence was issued. He has seen wonderful changes in his century of life. He is in possession of his facul ties, and recollects events that took place long before America had a national existence. Mr. Stewart's new house in New York will cost 131,800,000. it is reported that Mr. Stewart will soon retire from business. Henry M. Greene, a graduate of Amherst Col lege in 1865, died at Andover, Saturday, Jan. 20, at the residence of his father, Rev. 11. S. Greene. George R. Reed, a prominent citizen of Rutland, Vermont, died suddenly at the Fitchburg depot, recently, of disease of the heart. He had been for several years general agent of the Chicago, Burling ton, and Quincy Railroad. Dr. Sewall ch ar dson of Leominster, 82 years old, fell down stairs Sunday evening, Jan. 20, and was injured so that he died the day following, Solomon Brown, 94 years old and the oldest man in Palmer, died on New Year's day. PROPERTY SECURING ITSELF.—We have heard of the witty reply of a slave who had stolen and eaten one of his master's turkeys, when he was accused of the crime. He repelled all idea of wrong, saying that " Massa's property only changed form ; he has less turkey, but more nigger." The follow ing, told by General Rains, is equally good :—An officer, when going into battle, charged his servant to stay at his tent and take care of his property. In the fluctuations of the battle some of the enemy's shot fell in the vicinity of the tent, and the negro, with great white eyes, fled away with all his might. After the fight, and when the officer returned to his tent, he was vexed to learn that his slave had run away ; but the boy soon returned, confronting SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—Mr. Gladstone last night very felicitously summed up in a few words a feeling shared by us all. There are, he declared, many currents of opi nion on the subject of Reform, but on one view of the case all are agreed. Some desire, some dread an extension of the suffrage ; but the whole com munity is animated by one sentiment, and that sentiment is faithfully reflected by all sections iu the House of Commons,—that it is desirable Parlia ment shall within the limits of the present session arrive at a legislative settlement of the great ques tion of the day. We believe this to be a perfectly accurate exposition of current opinion. The over powering sense that prevails of the necessity of effecting a settlement, and a timely settlement, of Reform explains much that is at first sight inex plicable. It explains the resolute abstinence of the Opposition from taking advantage of the errors of the Administration. It explains the willingness of the House of Commons to depart from its ac customed forms of procedure, and to venture upon modes of action which, if not absolutely unknown, have been so little tried as to be unacceptable. Every one is willing to do what he can—to forego his personal ambition, to so-operate with his political opponents, to exchange approved precedents fur mere experiments—so long as the one object can be accomplished. Difficult crises almost demand daring expedients, and certainly nothing has yet been sug gested which would not be fully warranted were it certain that as a consequence a source of dangerous agitation would be dried up, the popular excitement would be abated, and the obstruction to needful legislation removed. The desire to effect a definitive settlement of the Reform question has been the safety of the Ministry. Every one wishes it, and every one confesses, with Mr. Gladstone, that if the question is to be settled it must be settled by those iu power. Were the present Ministers driven from the Treasury Bench, there would probably follow a postponement of legislation for at least a twelvemonth, and an aggravation of the excitement, the desire to appease which is a principal motive for striving to pass a Reform Bill. But it is plain from the simplest statement of the case that, if the Minis try be kept in office because the House of Commons desires to pass a Reform Bill, it can only be kept in office as long as the House of Commons thinks it possible that a Reform Bill can be passed through its agency. Let it once appear that the Adminis tration is incompetent or unwilling to carry a mea sure of Reform through Parliament, and its days are numbered. The inquires of Mr. Baines and of Mr. Ayrton last night, the motion of which Mr. Kinglake gave notice, are but so many attempts to discover whether the Ministry is sincerely desirous of co-operating with the House of Commons. Per haps we ought to regard them as something more th in this, though to the same purpose—as attempts, in fact, to settle the preliminary question whether the Ministry is sufficiently at unity with itself to have any settled desire on the subject. The Chan cellor of the Exchequer was able to parry the ques tions of Mr. Ayrton and of Mr. Baines, but he must be conscious that there are limits to a policy •of re serve. The day of explanation must come, and we are now in such a position that the longer it is de layed the more strong must become the suspicion that delay is used as a means to frustrate legislation. We believe the Administration are warranted in the choice they have made to proceed by Resolu tions ; but the Resolutions must be clear and speci fic ; they must, in a word, be capable of being re cognised as the possible bases of a future bill. With the precedent of 1859 before us, we do not doubt that the immediate production of a Reform Bill would have been the shipwreck of the Ministry. The amendment of 1859 must, as Mr. Gladstone said, be interrupted by the conduct of affairs in 1860, and with this gloss upon it its meaning is unmistakable. Mr. Ayrton, indeed, declared last night that no such vote could now be possible ; Mr. Gladstone, in more solemn lan guage, expressed his belief that the proceedings of 1859 could not be repeated, and there are probably not half-a-dozen members on the Opposition benches who would not echo these sentiments. We would rather not have their virtue put to the test. It is very easy to be free from factiousness and intrigue after the event, and cynical observers have re marked that members who have crept into the House since 1859 have been very emphatic in de claring that they would never have joined the con spirators of Willis's Rooms. The method of Reso lutions saves the House from the temptation to fix upon some blot in a Reform Bill as an error which cannot be amended, and which can only be wiped out of remembra n ce by a change of Government. But, the method of Resolutions having been fairly launched, the House of Commons is entitled to demand particulars which shall redeem it from the risk of becoming illusory. Mr. Sclater-Booth elicited from the Chancellor of the Exchequer last night the declaration that the passing of a Reform Bill would not at all depend upon the passing of the bid for making assessments uniform throughout the kingdom, nor on the completion of the proposed re-adjustment of boundaries by a Boundary Com mission ; but something more is wanted than this answer to a friendly questioner. Mr. Baines pointed out the character of the information which it will be the duty of the House of Commons to insist upon on Monday next, and which the Govern ment might, with advantage to the despatch of business, supply before that day. The exact amount of the Borough and County qualification, and a detailed statement of the nature of the other franchises contemplated by the Government, are of the essence of the question. These are the particulars which should have been given on Mon day last, but were withheld for some reason, into which we care not to inquire, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the simple conse quence that next Monday the House of Commons will be just where it ought to have been a fortnight before. Then, however, if not before, a full reve lation must be made. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer has taken the unusual, if it be not thesab solutely unprecedented, course of explaining the views of the Government in two instalments ; and the House of Commons, anxious not to lose another opportunity of bringing the Reform question to a successful issue, has condoned, though it has not approved, the proceeding. If Mr. Disraeli seriously believes, as he seemed to intimate last night, that the prospect of legislation has been advanced and facilitated by the line he has adopted, he is alone in his belief ; and he will do well before next Monday to inquire what others think of it, lest he should be induced to repeat an indiscretion which must be fatal to the Government as well as to Reform. We must wait till Monday next. The Administration are unable or unwilling to make a clean breast of their intentions before then, and, however unwise their reluctance may be, the House of Commons, having gone so far, must fain acquiesce in it for days longer. Between this and Monday the Ca binet will be able to determine what it is ready to concede and what it is steadily resolved to main tain. It must decide on definite measures and unambiguous proposals. On Monday the decision of the future will pass from the Cabinet to the House of Commons. It must then be apparent whether anything is to be expected from the pre sent Government, and if the verdict be unfavour able the policy of forbearance must cease. To persevere in it would be not only unnecessary, but unjustifiable ; it would be a dereliction from the duty every representative assembly owes to the nation it represents. The House of Commons must not be degraded by participation in any line of action which is manifestly a delusion and a snare. Thelimits of indulgence have been strained already; but if the reason of the indulgence ceases, the in dulgence becomes criminal. If there is to be no practical result of the licence accorded to the Ad ministration, it must be revoked. We hope for better things. We are loth to believe that the best opportunity yet presented us of solving a difficult problem is to be lost. The only means, however, of guarding against such a misadventure must be found in a clear definition now, while it is yet time, of what must be found in the statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer next Monday. THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE ON LABOURERS AS CAPITALISTS.—The Pagans of antiquity considered that nothing was more pleasing to the gods than the spectacle of a civilised society. This source of happiness to Olympus must, doubtless, have been owing to an opinion on the part of the divinities that human life was not the chapter of accidents it is sometimes reputed to be, but was the result of a system of causation, and of what Mr. J. S. Mill would term parallel forces, origin ated and laid down by themselves. Hence they had a natural love for their own offspring, and a complacency in finding it to thrive and prosper. Crude as were the conceptions of Pagan antiquity respecting the Divine Omnipotence and Wisdom, the writings of their philosophers at all events show that they allowed a very narrow scope indeed for the ameliorating powers of human government in respect. of society, and that they were thor oughly convinced of the principle implied in the couplet— "Of all the ills that mortal men endure, How small the part that kings or laws can cure." The Swedish Chancellor Oxenstiern's maxim, how ever, Quam parnti sapientid regitur mundus, is by on means correct, whether we apply it to the evidences of a supernatural wisdom controlling the course of events, or to the relations which governments either bear or ought to bear to the governed. The wisdom of that power which paints the flowers of the field is even beyond our comprehension ; and it follows, by analogy, that similar wisdom is exercised in regulating the affairs of civil society. The chief duty of a government would, therefore, appear to be to limit to a minimum its own inter ference with the contracts of its subjects. But this view of its functions implies much wisdom as well as humility on the part of government. It should, consequently, be endued not with a little sense, as Oxenstiern thought, but with a very great share of wisdom, in order to understand and appreciate its true functions and duty, and to limit its necessarily extensive powers to those affairs which urgently require its supervision. Had there never been any restraint upon international trade, how many wars would not Europe have been saved. Had our home trade been always free and joint stock contracts unfettered, our civilisation would at the present day be very different from what it is. However, it is now too late to reverse the history of past legislation ; yet it will not have been fruitless if the lessons it has inculcated be not forgotten. The present great conflict between labourers and capitalists shows that an important point in our industrial progress has been teached. The crisis, we believe, can''be not only weathered, but even turned into an occasion of great profit both to employers and employed, provided that no external compulsion is resorted to. The Legisla ture, indeed, is not likely to contemplate the regula tion of the rate of wages by law, and to pass a new statute of labourers for that purpose. Trades unions, however, exercise legislative powers which are not the less cogent on account of their occult operation. It is hard, doubtless, to prohibit combinations amongst masters or men, though every combination implies a certain degree of intimidation. It is equally hard for either pole of the industrial world to unlearn its old ways and revolve in a new cycle. Yet all principle, experience, and analogy prove that, waiving the ills incidental to mortality in general, a remedy for all the alleged social and class grievances of which we hear so much is to be bought for in the natural action of social life and contract, unfettered by any bureaucratic intervention. When the wolf shall lie down with the lamb, the former will doubtless consider that there is an identity of in terest between him and his old enemy. Idem velle (ague nolle ; ea demum firma amicitia est. If labour- ON could be induced to consider their interests identical with those of capitalists, a high rate of profit would no longer be an object of dislike to trades unions. Now, to accomplish this so desir- able a consummation it is necessary that wages should participate in every increase of profits. This is obviously only what is fair ; and trades unions allege, not without some grounds of fact, that this is their sole object. A settled proportion between an increase of profits and wages, how ever, is a matter that would meet with great oppo sition from some employers, and so in some dis tricts widen the existing gulph between employ ers and employed. Besides, any unvarying pro portion of this sort would operate unfairly in respect of labourers who were employed in trades where much manual labour was required in pro portion to machinery. Suppose, for instance, that capitalist A has £lO,OOO invested in machinery, and employs 50 labourers at a salary of £5O a year each, and that the rate of profit is 10 per cent.—the figures we here use are, of course, hypothetical—A's gross annual returns will be £13,750. Let us further suppose that all excess of profits beyond 5 per cent. are divided equally between A and his 50 employe's. A's annual net profits will then amount to £937 10s., and the 50 employes will have the balance £312 10s. Let us now extend our inquiry to capitalist B, who has no capital sunk in machinery, but pays away his whole £12,500 capital amongst not merely 50 but 300 employe's at a salary of £5O a year each. As these 300 receive, in addition to their wages, only £312 10s. profits, they- are only a third as well off in this latter respect as A's employes. As all wages tend, cceteris paribus, to the same level, wages would rise in B's trade and fall in A's. Perpetual disturbance of the rate of wages would, therefore, be the result of fixing a settled propor tion according to which profits should be divided between employers and employed. Every bureau cratic or empirical restriction upon the freedom of contract is thus sure to produce various anoma lies and inequalities that cannot be easily excogi tated h priori. A company formed on the basis we have considered would, nevertheless, be, doubtless, vastly superior, in every industrial re spect, to companies which apportioned no profits to their labourers. Yet, previously to the pass ing of the Partnership Law Amendment Act of 1865 this description of companies was virtually proscribed by law. For down to that date any employg whose remuneration rose or fell with the rate of profit realised by his employers was, in point of law, a partner, and as such liable for all the debts of the concern. Happily, the Act re ferred to has altered this, and adopted the same principles of free trade and contract in respect of dealings between private employers and employes which it had, by the Limited Liability Acts of 1855 and 1862, recognised in respect of joint stock companies. A vast number of co-operative associations, founded on the principle we have described, have already sprung up ; and, what forms a pleasing contrast to the " Limited" bubbles, they are all, we believe, without a single exception, in the most prosperous condition. The usual planlis for the masters, first of all, to Yeserve a certain per centage out of the profits as interest on capital, then a slight additional per centage to constitute a reserve fund, and, finally, to di vide all remaining profits between themselves and their operatives. These, therefore, participate in every increase of profits consequent upon a rise of prices or a reduction in the cost of manufacture. There is, perhaps, reason to contend that the labourers ought to get more than half of every increase of profits. It is consolatory, at all events, to every hater of Qurism, St. Simonism, and every other description of socialism, to perceive that industrial problems are undergoing a solution by persons who are unconscious of the import ance of their undertakings to society in general, and that these problem are being worked out not through any bureaucratic empiricism, but by the ordinary action and development of free con tract. There appears, however, to be a still more excellent way than that which we have de scribed for retaining labour in permanent harmony with capital. Everyone knows what the labouring classes can effect by combination in respect of po litical matters. Political power, in fact, always has its ultimate foundations in numbers. This will, perhaps, be readily admitted. But what is equally true, though not so obvious, is, that wealth •is essentially derived from the same source. Were all the capital of England annihilated--yet, if the population could live, suppose, by means of credit for a couple of years—the country would again present the same plethora of wealth that, it does now. Indeed, wars have often completely anni hilated an the wealth of extensive provinces. Yet, a few years restored there the status quo. Labour, in short, is the immediate and effective source of wealth, of which capital is but a condition. In the contest, then, which is at present being waged between labour and capital (and we cannot, indeed, refer to a time or place where the same industrial forces were not in some degree of antagonism), the ultimate victory will be on the side of labour ; or, rather, labour will be associated in the em pire of trade with its present opulent rival. It is only when the Partnership Law Amendment Act and the Limited Liability Acts shall have been a reasonable time in operation that the labour power shall begin to exhibit its native and indomitable strength. The income of the labouring class in England is supposed to amount to about 400 millions a year. The savings which each labourer can make, indeed, are trilling, yet if they com bined to save with as much earnestness as they do occasionally to strike or to reform the Constitu tion, they could in a few years accumulate as much capital as would accomplish their redemption from their present supposed bondage. In order to con trol the rate of wages (assuming that such an object requires any active effort beyond the or dinary play of demand and supply), it is not neces sary that labourers should monopolise all the capi tal in the kingdom. It is sufficient for this purpose that they can compete with capital and with its own arms, wealth. Having achieved this result in any one leading department of trade, they would either embarrass their rivals by the supe rior attractions they had for workmen in their line ; or else, by paying only the same rate of wages, they could, by relinquishing a portion of the existing rate of profit (which they allege to be excessive) ; undersell all competitors. The prosperity of such companies would be unparal leled, and capitalists would be compelled to follow in their wake. We are assuming that the success of these companies finds a subjective reflexin the justice of the principles on which they are con ducted. As, then, such companies would employ other persons besides shareholders as labourers, and as few of the latter would perform precisely the same amount of work in any one month, a just basis for settling the rate of wages, as dis tinguished from profit on capital, would be soon discovered. At all events, a rate long acqui esced in by shareholders who worked less than the average might be fairly considered the proper rate. Such a common measure of the rates of 'wages and profits would be sure to be evolved on the . periodical settlements of accounts. Compa nies thus conducted bona fide would act as practical arbitrators of the proper rates of wages and profits. Like the middle term in logic, they would reconcile the long antagonist elements of labour and capital, and apportion to each its due allow ance of the general produce of industry. Whether examined externally or internally, they thus appear to constitute the true remedies for low wages. To the free action, then, of contract, and not fo any bureaucratic device, should the attention of social reformers be directed. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Feb. 18. At the sitting of the Commission Court on Satur day :—" Stephen Joseph Meany was indicted under the Treason Felony Act. The principal evidence against the prisoner was that of a clerk named John Devaney, resident in New York. He deposed that he saw the prisoner at meetings of the Fenian Con vention at New York, where he was introduced as Senator Meany, and at which he made several speeches. On one occasion he saw him offer a Fenian bond for sale. Iu cross examination the witness stated that he was requested by a gentleman named Kelly to come over to Ireland and give evidence in this case, as, from the knowledge he derived from his position of secretary to a 'circle,' it was con sidered he would be the most eligible witness that could be procured. A sub-inspector of constabulary, named Doyle, also proved that he saw the prisoner attend a Fenian meeting in New York. At the close of the case for the. prosecution Baron Fitzgerald asked the Attorney-General what jurisdiction the Court had to try the case, or what overt act had been proved within their jurisdiction. The Attorney- General replied that under the 11th of Victoria, cap. 12, sec. 3, the Court had full jurisdiction to deal with every case of the kind, whether committed within or without the United Kingdom. The point was reserved for consideration. Mr. O'Loghlen then addressed the jury for the defence, contending that the evidence of Devaney was given entirely for pecuniary considerations, and therefore should not be relied upon. The Solicitor-General replied, and the jury found the prisoner guilty. The Court de ferred passing sentence until the point raised by Mr. O'Loghlen as to the legality of charging the prisoner with overt acts committed in America, in the absence of any specific overt act in Ireland, should be decided by the Court above. Yesterday morning, on the arrival of the Lord William, the Hibernia, Trafalgar, and Royal Wil liam at North Wall, the police arrested 34 passengers. Only five, however, were retained in custody, three of them having expressed their willingness to return to Liverpool, and the remainder having given satis factory accounts of themselves. The prisoners ap peared to belong to the working class, and were very poorly clad. Several arrests have taken place in Drogheda, Dundalk, and the county of Meath, and arms and ammunition were found in the latter place. _ . Yesterday morning the mail steamer Connaught was detained au hour and a half beyond her usual time by a dense fog which prevailed in the Channel. The report of the directors of the Dublin, Wick low, and Wexford Railway Company for the past half-year announces a diminution in the receipts from passenger traffic. The decrease is chiefly on second-class return tickets, a circumstance which accords with the statement which attributes the falling off, as compared with the corresponding half of the previous year, to the extra traffic created by the International Exhibition of 1865. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORTHAMPTON-FEB. 16. New white wheat, 588 to 655; new red, 46s to 64s ; old white, 62s to 68s; old red, 61s to 66s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 42s to 518 per qr. ; grinding, 29s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 33s ; new, 23s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 49s ; new, 42s to 458 per 38 stone. Peas, 38s to 42s per 36 stone. COLCHEST A very moderate supply o: sale at full prices. Barley sea buyers. Wueat, white 6'5 70s Beans, Mazagan......3is 40$ red 626 67s M►ddle and sinall..44s 486 Barley... 428 Ns Peas, white 38s 42$ Oats ..... ..• —8 —6 grey ...s6s 42$ 'ER-FEB. 16. --- f wheat, which met a ready irce, and prices rather against CIIELDISFORD-FEB. 15. The market was well supplied with wheat, and millers and merchants showing an inclination to buy, a firm busi ness was done at the rates of last week. Wheist, old white....s2s MA Peas, Partridge 4's 435 new ...5 a Gs NV h.te ..32a 368 old red. %Os 59s B iling s --"6 new. s'B Ms Dun 38s 406 Barley.... 26s 33s dit.o, new....--s ---41 chevalier --a —a Beans, Tick, 01d......406 455 Cirind ng •iSs 30a new. ...386 42d Malt 586 cOs Barrow 1 Icks.42s 160 Chevalier O•Js 62i new.... 404 44s Oats 4.1 • 2la 27s Mangan , 1;93 43d GRANTIIA3I---FEB. 16. Old white wheat, 65s to 725; old red, 60s to 68s ; new white, 68s to ils ; new red, 56s to 64s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 38s to 455 per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 345 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s per 2 1 stone. Beans, old, 42s to 52s ; new, 39s to 46s per 38 stone• Peas, 35s to 40s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—FEB. 15. At our market to-day wheat was in fair supply, but the trade was inactive, at former terms. White wheat 52s Od to 60s Odi 62lb V bushe l. Red wheat 48s Od to 55s 0d) ,- Potato oats Common oats 2 2 4 3 5 s 0 6 d d t t o o 2 2 6 5 5 s 0 0d d / 40lb V bushel. Bore 31s Od to 32s 6d to 33s 0 / ,t Odcl ; * Oatmeal 3lb V bushel. Barley 32s O 20s 6d to 21s 6d V boll of 2801 b• Flour, fine 43s Od to 50s 6d V sack of 280ib. KIRKCALDY—FEB. 16. Fair supplies of wheat, barley, and oats. Wheat and barley 6d to is and oats 6d per qr up. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First.-. 54s Od ' 3 ;s Od 2ls Od eoend 568 Od 13 s Oct 2686 d Third SJB Oct 41s Od 29s 6cl COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d• Original Hartlepool .. 19 0 Bradyell's Hetton l7 6 Lambert's W.Hartley 16 0 Walls End Haswell l9 0 Cassop l7 6 Davison's W. Hartley 16 Holywell Main l6 6 Hartlepool Ponsher Primrose ... 15 0 Tunstall East Hartlepool Kelloe Thornley l7 0 Ships at market, 61—sold, 43. By the treaty of peace, friendship, and commerce entered into between her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and her Majesty Rasoherina, Queen of Madagascar, the latter engages to do all in her power to prevent traffic in slaves ; to prohibit her subjects from taking part in such trade, and no persons from beyond sea are to be landed, Put' . chased, or sold as slaves in any part of Madagascar. Mr. Pullup, coming home late, finds the walking very slippery, and he exclaims:—" V—very sin gular; wh—whenever water freezes it allus freezes with the sl—slippery side up ! Singular !" ADVICE HOW TO KILL TlME.—Shoot eve/ day. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — IIoIIoway ' s Ointment and Pille•-;" i n tto Judicious Management.—Though it is impossib le climate of changing temperature to prevent ill-health alt7i gether, yet its form and frequency may be much mitigate by the early adoption of remedial measures. 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Webb, Esq., J.l'., a ged 70 London : Printed raid P tied by IV LI, LlAill A.N:) Oti JO, of No. 112, Strand , Pzinte r at 'rite Sox 011 0 e, 01 Strand, in the rke o in et of the Savoy, lit the Co` ktiddkoex,—Tuesday, Fehritary 19, 1567.