The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-18 00:00:00

A ZOLLVEREIN FOR CANADA It has recently been suggested that a Zollverein, or Customs Union; should be established between the United States and Canada. Mr. Huntingdon, an advocate of independence, made a motion to that effect in the Attania Parliament, and Sir Alexan der Gott moved an amendment to the effect that Cadada should have powe r to negotiate commercial treaties subject to the approval of the Crown. The motion and amendment were rejected by a large majority, but many persons in the States favour the idea of a Zollverein, and the New York T i mes strongly supports the scheme. In an article on this subject the Times acknowledges that during the last ten years there has been a marked change in the feeling of the Canadians towards the mother country. The " British sentiment" prevails more strongly lnowthan it ever did before. The circumstances of the civil war alienated the Canadians from the States, while, on the other hand, the Atlantic Cable has strengthened the tie with England. The different cities of Canada are now as well suppli e d with London news every morning as Edinburgh and Glasgow used to be ten or twelve years ago. This is through New York, no doubt ; but here it findsinterested readers whose attachment to their native home is thereby strengthened. Politicians and newspapers, in Ontario more especially,. that a dozen years ago were very con siderably Americanised, are now much more - British in their manners, as well as their sentiments. The New York Times thinks the proposed Zollverein would be especially important, as it would involve the assertion of commercial independence by Canada. It points out the inconveniences to which Canada is subject by its relation to England. So long as the Canadians remain purely colonial they cannot expect to be recognised as American. All diffi culty, however, would be removed if the Dominion became a " nationality ; " and the Canadians are assured that the Americans have no irresistible desire to annex the territory, whatever may be their opinions as to manifest destiny. The influence of the Home Government has certainly not proved beneficial in some instances, the trade with Brazil and Cuba, whose chief imports are the great staples of Canada—timber, flour, and fish— having been suffered to pass into the hands of the Americans, owing to the discouragement of discrimi nating duties by the British Government. THE STATE OF SICILY. Professor Carrado Tommasi-Crudeli has addressed a letter to the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from Palermo, in which he enters very fully into the condition of Sicily at the present time. He complains that the occasional correspondent of the Times, who has lately written a long and somewhat unfavourable account of affairs in Palermo, has been hasty and inaccurate in his judgments. Mat ters, according to the Professor, are steadily improving, and • new life is sheaving itself in commercial circles. "We all remember well," he says, " the state of commerce in Palermo before 1860. The goods that issued from her port in one year amounted to hardly 8,000,000 f. ; in 1868 they already amounted to 27,000,000 f. Hardly 100 national and foreign steam boats at the former period entered and quitted this port in the course of a year ; in 1868 they amounted to 1,332. During the last two months of 1869 the port of Palermo was second in the movement of its ships only to Genoa in all the Kingdom of Italy. Neither the port nor the Custom house depositories are any longer adequate to the needs of tho existing state of commerce." Postal communications with the Continent are carried on five times a week, and it is no longer possible, as in 1856, to wait thirty-six days for letters from the Continent. 0 tiler improvements of great importance have been effected. Palermohasbeenlightedwith gas, drained and paved, while education has made striking progress. There are in Palermo 171 primary schools (day and night), 116 being male, and 55 female ; 12,000 children attend these schools. This is a change for the better, seeing that in 1860 800 only received primary instruction. Coming to more general principles, there is still the Professor admits that among the lower classes the trace of the old antagonism to superior power is still extant, and the denunciation of a crime to authority is looked upon as the greatest dishonour a man can incur. To the lower orders, the King, the Ministers, Parliament, the magistracy, local governors, and municipal authorities are all one ; they confound all in the idea of a mysterious malevolent power called the police, in memory of the cruel and arbitrary p)lice known by them in past times. There is hardly ever an example among thenumerous assaults that occur in the midst of this easily-excited and revengeful people of a wounded person denouncing his assaulter. This can only be hoped to pass away with social and mental progress; and schools and roads are the greatest wants of Sicily. The Government, though not having done all it might, has within the last ten years completed and endowed the univer sity of Palermo, and founded several educational institutions throughout the kingdom. The work of regeneration will no doubt be long, wearisome, and difficult ; but it will be lasting, and the writer, who is evidently well acquainted with his subject, is not only hopeful, but confident of the result, provided the new policy is persevered in. DEATH OF PREBENDARY BLACKBURN.—The death is announced of the Rev. John Blackburn, M.A., one of the prebendaries of York Cathedral. In 1817 he was presented by Canon Sutton to the vicarage of Atter cliffe, near Sheffield, and this benefice he held until 1853, when he was nominat e d by L or d C ranwort h , t h en L or d Chancellor, to the rectory of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, which now falls to the gift of Lord Hatherley. The pre bendal stall of Reccall, in York Cathedral, to which he was nominated by Archbish o p M usgrave in 1851, is in the gift of the Archbishop of York. Prebendary Black burn was the inventor of the parabolic sounding.board, and the author of several papers in the " Transactions of the Royal Society." EARTHQUAKE AT SAN FRANCISCO.—The San Francisco people were greatly frightened on the 2nd of April by a sharp shock of earthquake. There was no damage to life, but intense excitement prevailed for a short time. The animals were terribly . frightened, and several run aways resulted from the fright. The greatest confusion occurred, the large buildings, such as the City Hall and Custom House being vacated, and the people crowding into the streets. Prior to the shock the barometer was observed to fall very rapidly. CIIBA.—A general movement of the Spanish troops against the rebels in the Central Department has begun in Habana. General Goyemeche is in the mountains behind Sibanica. He reports that 300 rebels have sur rendered there, and he discovered and captured a depot of artillery, which is supposed to be the only one the insur gents possessed, and a number of small arms. His prisoners report that the insurgent forces are in a state of dissolution. Two powerful torpedoes have been taken from under the rails of the Unevitas and Puerto Principe Railroad, where they had been placed for the purpose of blowing up passing trains. MURDERS BY INDIANS.—Six murders by Indians have been reported from Atlantic City, Wyoming terri tory. A. resident of the place was killed in the outskirts, and a party who went in pursuit of the savages brought back the bodies of five whites, which had been found near the Indian trail shockingly mutilated. Four other per sons are missing, and are believed to have been butchered by the savages. Fears are entertained for the safety of a stage coach, which is overdue at South Pass City, and it is believed that the Indians have captured it. A. party of mounted horsemen have set out to inquire into the fate of the passengers. Some of the people of the city are calling out for General Sheridan or Colonel Baker. THE STUART SUCCESSION.—A correspondent says: " Whether or no the Duke of Alba can prove his legiti mate descent from James 11., there can be little doubt but that there are living descendants of the Stuart family in a direct line from Charles I. Henrietta Maria, the younger daughter of that king, married Philip 1., Duke of Orleans, in 1661. Their younger daughter, Anna Maria, married Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia. Their great-grandson was a Victor Emmanuel ; and his eldest daughter, Maria Beatrice, married Francis, Duke of Modena, and bore him two sons; and the elder, born June 14, 1819, is now ex-Duke of Modena. He married, I believe, the sister of Henri, Count de Cham bord, who is the legitimate heir in the male line of the French Bourbons." BRITISH CoLumnia.—The Legislative Council of British Columbia was opened on February 16, by com mission, the Governor being confined to his bed. The confederation with Canada is especially referred to in the address, and the advantages of the arrangement very plainly stated. Canada is to assume the colonial debt, on favourable terms. The surveys for a line of railroad are to be commenced at once, and the line is to be begun within three years. A waggon road is to be completed in that time, and the Canadian Government is to guarantee 5 per cent. interest on a loan of 2100,000 for the con struction of a dock at Esquimault ; to provide fortnightly steam communication with San Francisco, regular steam communication with Nanaimo and the interior ; to build and maintain a marine hospital and lunatic asylum at Victoria, and a prison in any part of the colony that may be advisable ; to pay the Lieutenant Governor, and Civil List, and defray the expenses of the judicial, postal, and Custom House departments ; to use all its influence to retain and equip as a station for her Ma jesty's ships, and to the establishment of a volunteer force i n th e co l ony. Th e same protect i on and immu nities enjoyed by the provinces are to extend to British Columbia. M. IYANDELAIIRE AND THE EMPEROR. —M. D'Andelarre has sent a letter to the Francais which contains some particulars of the conversation which he had with the Emperor. He says that if he did not succeed in persuading the Emperor to give up his proposi tion he quitted his presence impressed with the conviction that he was fully determined to carry out Parliamentary Government. He placed the first stone of this in No vember 1860, looking forward in the meantime to the establishment of the regime of last January, which has gained the confidence and excited the hopes of the country, notwithstanding the complications of the present period. The marquis believes it is hopeless to seek to persuade the journals to rectify the mistakes they have made in criticising his visits, but in considera tion of the requests which have been made to him, he contradicts certain statements which have been put forth. It was not true that Count Daru proposed to the Emperor to remain in office if the plebiscitary vote was not resort e d to by the Crown without the consent of the Chambers, except in a ca...,e that concerned tho Crown or the organi sation of power of the Assemblies. Those .journals have been badly i n f orme d w h o assert that the Marquis said anything of the sort with respect to the Left Centre or with respect to M. Daru. The Marquis con cludes by declaring that if any confusion has arisen in the affair, it must have proceeded from the circumstance th a t in dealing with the question he declared to his friends that though ho did not admit that the principle of the Phibiscite should be acknowledged in the rules of the constitution, because it was opposed to the parliamentary regime, he had no objection to an appeal being made to the people that they should disallow in 1870 the arbitrary rule to which they acceded in 1851. It was a salutary crisis which must be passed through to avoid still greater dangers and which he was convinced Ow would get through with success. REMARKABLE RITUALIST SERVICES. Good Friday in the East End of London, was marked by a somewhat novel experiment. An ecclesiastical care mony of a very unusual character in the Church of England took plaee in the district of Christ Church—a portion of the parish of St. George's-in-the-East which some years ago was notorious on account of the riots which took place there, arising out of what were consi dered ritualist development in 's' the parish church. While the ordinary congregation were attend ing the usual morning service in church, the vicar, the Rev. J. Maconechy, and the Rev. J. F. N. Eyre, senior curate, conducted a series of seven services in various streets of the parish. Accompanied by the choir boys and several lay helpers, they started from a small . . . _ mission room in Devonshire-street, one of the worst streets in the metropolis, inhabited principally by fallen women of the lowest class, by some of the criminal class, and a sprinkling of the honest poor sunk in the depths of destitution and misery. The clergy wore the! cassocks, and were preceded by the choir singing the hymn " Come, Holy Ghost, Creator, come" to invoke the Divine blessing. They took up their position at the foot of the street, where, after prayer, the first short sermon or address was given. It was thought desirable not to take the stations of the Cross, but to confine the addresses to the facts eonnected with the Crucifixion recorded in the Gospels, and more especially to our Lord's words from the Cross, one of which formed the subject of address in each of the seven streets to which the preachers moved in suc cession. Mr. Maconechy spoke on the first and fourth utterances,—" Father, forgive them," and "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani." Mr. Eyre on the third and set enth, " Woman, behold thy son," and " Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit ;" while the remain ing addresses were given by two laymen, Captain Dawson, R.N., and Mr. R. Thomas, of the, East London Collegiate School. Each address was preceded by a suitable hymn, and followed by an extempore prayer, offered up by one of the clergy or by a Scriptufe reader or city missionary. In moving from street to street, the well-known hymn, "When I survey the woundrths Cross" was sung on every occasion, and as its constant repetition rendered it familiar, it was heartily joined in by the people, among whom copies of the Christian Knowledge Society's Hymnal were distributed. The other hymn sung were such well-known ones as "Rock of Ages" and "There is a fountain filled with blood." The parish of 02nist Church is perhaps the poorest and most crowded in the East of London, and the circuit made was through its poorest streets,—Devonshire, Star, Hungerford, Lower Chap man, and Charles Streets (where a very busy market is held every Sunday morning, despite all the laws against Sunday trading), ending with Dean-street and Watney-street where the last address was delivered opposite the church. Those present were then invited into church, where the service was ended with the Litany. Nothing could exceed the quietness and deco rum with which the services were received in the vari ous streets. Everywhere the addresses were listened to with marked attention, not only by the bystanders, but by many at the windows of the houses, and al though few, if any, joined in all the seven services, yet many followed from their own street to the next, or the next two streets, and probably not less than three hundred adults, besides children, listened to the various addresses. The John Bull gives accounts of the Three Hours' meditation at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. St. Barnabas, Pimlico, churches where the services used to be considered the ne plus ultra, of ritualisism, but which have been long left far behind by other more " advanced " churches. At St. Paul's the service commenced immediately after the ante-Communion, a sufficient interval being left for worshippers at the first service to leave before the second, if they were so minded. The great majority did leave, and their places were only in part taken by fresh worshippers. The galleries with which the church is disfigured were almost empty, and the body of the building was about half-full. The Holy Table had been stripped bare of everything save the cross which was in vestedcrape. The few c h or i s t ers who were present were vested in black cassocks, but not in surplices. The organ was silent, and it would have been better if the by no means harmonious harmonium had also been unheard. In front of the altar rail a chair was placed, and there sat " Father" Grafton during his addresses, except occasionally when he stood up at some passage intended to be peculiarly impressive. The " Father " has by no means an [esthetic or ascetic appearance, and unfortunately it was almost impossible to make out anything that he said. Trying various seats both downstairs and in the gallery led to no better result. It soon became evident to you that you were not the only one suffering from the same misfortune. At the end of the first address a large number of the congregation left the church, more left at the end of the second address, and it seemed likely that in the course of the suc ceeding hour Father Grafton would be left to preach only to the choir. It required a preacher of more than usual eloquence to render the meditation impressive in such a church as St. Paul's. It is not an ecclesiastical structure, according , to modern ideas, and that the con gregation was a fashionable one might be inferred from the costume. Far otherwise was it at St. Barnabas. That beautiful church was almost entirsly filled, three-fourths being women, and both men and women being dressed in mourning. The east end of the church was hung with black cloth ; and the altar being vested in black, was wholly indistinguishable, and might have been absent for aught that the worshippers could see. The choir were in their cassocks ; the pulpit also was hung in black, and the preacher, who delivered his addresses from thence, and not, as is done in most churches, at this service, from the chancel steps, wore a plain surplice without hood or stole. There was no instrumental music, nevertheless the hymns were sung in good tune and time. At three o'clock, the hour at which our Lord yielded up His spirit into His Father's hand, the great bell tolled forth sonorously and solemnly. At that time the people were all kneeling during one of the intervals between the addresses. The sun was shining very faintly through the richly-coloured glass, and the chancel forming a dark background, the scene was very impressive, and not the less so because through the open door in the south porch could be seen glimpses of trees bursting forth into brilliant green beneath the bright sunshine. At St. Mars Magdalene's, Paddington, there was, in ad dition to the Three Hours' Meditation (at which, by the way, the " Seven Words " were chanted), the Re proaches," and these were chanted also at the Evening Service, as well as the Litany of Penance, from the " People's Hymnal." There were immense congregations througout the day, and some of the worshippers remained in the church throughout a large portion of the day. Two great fires occurred in London on Good Friday morning. One was at Doctors' Commons ; the other broke out in the premises of a paper colouring and fancy box firm. The latter spread to an adjoining build ing,, and then to three houses. A threatening letter having been served on a landed proprietor living near Causeway, county Kerry the magistrates of that district have availed themselves of the powers given them by the Peace Preservation Act to examine witnesses without anyone being i n cus t o dy. Th e investigation in this instance has been entirely fruitless. — Cork Herald. A CLERICAL QUARTETT.---It is but seldom that a quartett of clerical vocalists takes part in a public con- Bert ; but such was the case a few week back at the vil lage of Northfleet, when four clergymen, including the vicar of the parish, sang right well in aid of the schoel building fund. Such an example cannot be too highly commended, or too extensively followed, within proper bounds.— The Choir. MINERS IN DIFFICULTIES.—A large meeting or miners was held at Hunslet Moor, Leeds, on'Good Friday, to consider the question of the strike at present existing at the Allerton Collieries. Thirty collieries were repre sented by delegates. The chairman complained of the apathy of the large body of miners in West Yorkshire, and asserted that the masters h a d t a k en a d van t age o f their weakness. Alluding to a current report that the strike would soon be at an end, the speaker said he hoped the report might prove to be correct, but expressed his conviction that no satisfactory settlement was possible, unless the demands of the men were acceded to. During the meeting several of the speakers charged the non unionists with intimidation. THE PRIORITY OF RELATIONSHIP.—A singular case came under the notice of the Greenwich Board of Guardians at their meeting on Thursday night. The aunt of two orphan children chargeable to the union had applied that they might be removed from the district school at Sutton to a Roman Catholic institute ; but Mr. Patte, the relieving officer for Deptford, reported that ho had seen the grandmother of the children, who is a Protestant, and who had expressed her wish that the children should not be removed, as they had been baptized at the parish church of St. Paul, Deptford. Mr. Saw, the clerk and solicitor to the board, said there could be no doubt that the law recognized the grandparents as more nearly related to the child than uncle or aunt, the former being com pelled, if of sufficient ability, to contribute to the support of grandchildren if they become chargeable to the poor rate, whereas no such compulsion rested upon the uncle or aunt. The board decided to accede to the request of the grandmother, and the children will consequently be kept at the Sutton district schools. A. PRIVILEGED MURDERER.--." Where you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead." " Pray don't say so, my lord," exclaimed the prisoner, " I'm so ticklish about the neck that it would drive me mad." But in those days Mr. Bruce was not Home Secretary, and the pathetic appeal of the murderer was unheeded. Rut terford is lucky. He has been convicted of murder, and it is not alleged that there are any extenuating circumstances. He happens, however, to have a cicatiice in his neck, and a medical beard reports that "it will be necessary to use a very considerable and unusual - amount of con stricting force before the rope can be adjusted in such a manner as to sustain the weight of the prisoner's body." Thereupon the convict is reprieved. Had we not better do away with the punishment of death? How can Mr. Bruce sign the death-warrant of any other murderer after the reprieve of Rutterford? The next convict may suffer from a highly sensitive nervous organisation, and the thought of hanginc , may be terrible torture. If Rutterford has been spared from extra•mus cular suffering, must not the peculiarly sensitive convict be, red from extra mental and nevous suffering? Per haps 51r. Bruce's indisposition to allow the extreme penalty of the law to be inflicted is in accord with the views of the public. Then do away with the death punish ment ; anything is better than the present uncertainty.— Law Journal. The Queen of the Belgians is about to pay a visit-to her brother the Archduke Joseph, at her native city of Pesth. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1870. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The serenade to which our Washington corre spondent alludes took place on the night of the Ist April, when the President responded to the address of Colonel Forney on behalf of the Republican citizens as follows :- -" I can assure those present that no consummation since the close of the war affords me so much pleasure as the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitu tion by throe-fourths of the States of the Union. I have felt the greatest anxiety ever since I was called to this House to know that this was to be secured. It looked Bk.) the realization of the Declaration of Independence. cannot say as much on this subject as I would like to, rot being accustomed to speaking, but I thank you for your presence this evening." Senator Sumner, to whose house they afterwards adjourned, did "a deal more talk," although it might have been supposed he had lately been pumped dry in the Senate. He said for years his hope and object had been to see the great promise of the De claration of Independence changed into performance, to see that Declaration become a reality. Gen. Fremont was next visited, but he did not make a speech, and Secretaries Fish and Boutwell were caught together and loudly called for, when Secretary Fish skilfully and diplomatically introduced his colleague, on whom ho managed to throw the burden of the speaking. General Butler was not at home, and afterwards all night the tour of Washington was kept up to the lesser magnates. General Logan is about to introduce a bill in Congress to incorporate the Irish. National Colonization Association. Its managers comprise leading wealthy and influential Irishmen in every city in the Union. The principal object of the bill is to remove the surplus Irish from the over-crowded cities of the East, and place them on farms, as well as provide means of transportation for the poorer classes who are daily arriving from Europe. It also provides for the establishment of loan offices and emigration agents in the different cities of the seaboard." It ought to be extended, and made more general. It is more important to encourage English than Irish immi gration, as facts are now forcibly demonstrating in the United States. We hope this truth will be recognized and t cted on in America in time; otherwise grave evils may result. The split in the Democratic ranks of New York culminated in open war, in the occupation of Tammany Ball by the police, and in the rout of the Young Demo cracy. The struggle was over what is known as the new Tweed Charter, which has passed the House, and the rebels were at first so successful that the belief was gene ral that they would carry everything before them ; but they had to do with experienced politicians, who under stood how to act and where to strike when the decisive moment arrived, and the Young Democracy was scattered to the winds at the very moment when they were cheer ing for success. The new Charter names December for the city election ; the Mayor, to have two years of office, confiding to him the appointment of all heads of depart- ments except finance and law. The Finance Department is to be under an elected Comptroller, removable only by impeachment, and holding office for four years. The LtW Department is to remain as it is. A Board of Alderman is to be elected by general ticket, and Councilmen limited to one for each Assembly District. The Police is to be confided to a board of four or five members, so is the Fire Department also the Public Parks as well as Docks, Health, and Charities. The new City Charter was passed after some amendments on the 30th March, and the Young Democracy was therein defeated, as well as in the at tempt to hold a meeting of the Democratic General Com mittee on the 28th ult., in Tammany Hall, thedoors having been closed, and the building occupied by police. The practical leader of the sec._ *.a. Sheriff O'Brien, whose early antecedents cast a shaae over his later successes. He is a man of great ability; has secured the most lucrative of all offices, in comparison with which General Sher man's paltry $lB,OOO, and the Chief Justice's still more paltry $6,500, are mere pittances; for his salary is no less than $250,000 per annum ! He was backed by Messrs. Creamer, Genet, and Morrissey. What the proposed Char ter is going to do for the city remains to be seen ; but few New Yorkers have any faith in it, and most of them re garded the fight as the contest of opposing gangs of plun derers; nor would they have been averse to see them enact the part of the Kilkenny cats. Among the interesting occurrences reported from America is the dissolution of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Their Work is accomplished, and they have re solved to turn their last meeting into a Commemorative Jubilee to have been held in Apollo Hall, Now York, last Saturday. The society was to be diss lved that even ing, in the presence of Representative abolitionists frcdn all pars of the country. In reviewing the career of this society, extending over 37 years, we find the work of the greatest magnitude achieved in the shortest titne over recorded. Indeed it would appear almost incredible, like a dream, to some of the gentlemen assembled last Satur day in Apollo Hall. The only American club ever established in Europe has just celebrated its first anniversary. The an nual meeting of the Washington Club of Paris look place on Saturday, April 9. The various reports presented indicated the prosperous condition of the Club, which in its success has more than realized the expectations of the gentlemen who founded it. The following officers were elected for the new year :—Board of Direction : President, Lorillard Spencer ; vice-presidents, W. H. Paine, Sheldon Leavitt ; treasurer, Armand Voisin; secretary, Nathan Apkleton ; directors, Alfred Lockwood, E. M. Warden, Dr. T. T. Pratt, John Garcia, W. H. Riggs, W. Pem broke Fetridge, H. W. Brevoort, Leonard W. Jerome, S. A. Samanos, Dr. J. B. Rottenstein, Lloyd Phoenix, J. F. Loubat, Dr. Thomas W. Evans, E. Riggs. In the evening the annual dinner came off at the Cafe Vefour, where over fifty of the members were present, among the guests being General Read, Consul-general, and Colonel Hoffman, Secretary of Legation. The decorations:of the room were thoroughly national, and the whole affair was a great success. The rooms of the Washington Club are most pleasantly located, directly opposite the Grand Opera House, and in the immediate vicinity of the Grand Hotel and the American bankers. These rooms are very tastefully lit.ed up and supplied with every comfort, a fine reading-room furnished with all the prominent journals, not being the least attraction. We desire to impress on intending emigrants a fact they ought to know which is often misrepresented so as to lead to a false inference. They are told that there is a surfeit of labour in such a city as New York, and that many are on the verge of starvation, and that the masses do not secure reinuerative employment. We grant this, sorrowfully acknowledging its truth. We are now in formed that in San Francisco the Mayor was empowered to employ the labourers of the city on the public works to keep them from want; and as he had not immediately carried this into effect demonstrations, which have as sumed the proportion of riots, have been the result. The explanation is simple. The most idle and worthless are the most likely'to crowd into the large towns and re main there whether there be employment or not, doing enough work if it offers to gain a scanty livelihood, and, if it does not, becoming a burden on the com munity ; but it does not follow that there is a scarcity of work throughout the country, though thousands should be unemployed in New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Along the Pacific coast strikes were general because the labourer could not command from fourteen to twenty shil lings a day; and a gentleman in from a town reports that he offered ten shillings a day to mon, scores of whom were standing idle and nearly destitute, yet all refused his terms, a nd he was compelled to abandon the enterprise he had proposed , Indeed, so complete has been the com mand of the labour market in California by the working men, and so exorbitant have been their demands that they have materially injured the State; and now that the rail road has cheapened the cost and facilitated the transport to Jalifornia, a slight change has occurred in favour of the capitalist, whereupon strikes become general, and the idlers in San Francisco insist on the city employing them on the public works. In the sitting of the Commons of the Dominion on the Bth inst., the Finance Minister introduced his budget. The ordinary expenditure is shown to be in excess of the revenue. It is proposed to increase the latter by imposing light duties on flour and grain, 50 cents per ton on coal, five cents per pound on hops, and five coats per bushel on salt ; but the latter shall remain free of duty if imported from England and other British possessions. This pro posed salt duty is merely a protective measure against the United States. A charge of 5 per cont. is to be added to all present ad valorem duties—that is to say, on the duty not on the value of the goods. It is further propoied to in crease the wine duties by 20 to 25 per cent. ad valorem per gallon. Duties are to be calculated on the invoiced value. The foregoing and other tariff changes are ex pected to add two millions of dollars to the revenue. The Minister of Finance also stated that the Government in tended to disregard the opinion of the law offims of Eng land as to the appropriation of the International Railway Loan of last year. The Fenian raid, according to telegrams sent from Toronto and Ottawa on Wednesiay, appears to be as suming a more definite shape, for the 16th Regiment had been pushed that afternoon to the Eastern frontier, an.l the London Qntario field battery to the St. Clair River. It is , also stated that a mea sure suspen di ng the H a b eas C orpus Act was to be passed 1)3 the Dominion House of Commons that day, atti will receive the Governor-General's imme diate assent. Even the mail news reports a movement THE MODEL SHIP. Under this heading the United Service Gazette has an interesting leader. It refers to the number of experimental ships that have been made during the past ten years, each representing in its main features the special idea of its designer, and we have not as yet one man of war possessing the most approved speciality of each design. Vet it stands to reason that a combination of all these different excellencies would approach nearer to perfection than would the model of any individual artist. "Our fleets, the ships of which are designed by different individuals, or by one individual possessing no permanent funda mental idea, must necessarily be of a heterogeneous character, ill calculated to work together with the best results, and although each ship may be the representative of a highly talented' designer, yet from that very indivi duality results this unfitness for combined action in a fleet." It seems to our contemporary that it would not be so difficult to so modify our constructorial and architectural department that its productions should not be that of one individual mind ; but should be combinations of the best fruits of many minds which are continually being produced before the public eye. " A model thus designed and perfected at any cost would immeasurably increase the efficiency of our fleets, while it would, at the same time and in an equal degree, diminish the cost of creating them. The ex isting model or standard ship, elaborated from the designs of all the best designers, would for the time being form the model on which all our ships would be constructed, thus securing the homogeneity of our fleets, facility, rapidity, and. cheapness of construction and repair, as they might be constructed on the system which is found so efficient in the manufacture of revolvers or Enfield rifles, in parts, manufactured by the hundred or less, as might be thought necessary." PROGRESSIVE PRISONS. Many prison governors are earnestly endeavouring to struggle against the obstacles of the present system, and to employ their inmates at really useful labour. For ex ample, Wakefield prison (the only one in England with steam-power) is a perfect hive of industry (but, as in many other gaols, too much confined to mat-making). Leeds Gaol exemplifies a great variety of occupation. So do Hol loway prison, Coldbath Fields prison, and some others. At Coldbath Fields, printing and bookbinding, carpentry and blacksmithwork are included amongst the employments. At Swansea Gaol the prisoners weave their own blanketing cloth and Welsh flannel. At Pentonville (convict prison) about 10,000 pairs of boots and shoes were made last year. `•The manufacture of dowlais for exportation has recently been introduced with satisfactory results." In the prisons of Salford, Bedford, Taunton, Durham, Devonport, New castle, York, Stafford, Bristol, Cardiff, &c., the expenses are kept low by employing prisoners at the masonry, car pentry, and other useful work required within the walls. Thus at Devonport the expenses per head are £l7 per annum as compared with £26 at Exeter. At Salford the cost is even less. Several hundred separate ledger accounts with private purchasers of prison goods (mats, &c.) indi cate the great attention devoted. at Salford to efforts to turn the prisoners' occupation to some ad vantage for the ratepayers and for themselves. The official report of Sussex county gaol at Petworth, states that " the factory profits (hand-loom weaving and making ship's fenders), after deducting instructors' wages are £lOO ;" (with about 100 prisoners). Shrewsbury prison report says :—" The classification of prisoners, and substi tuting remuerative for penal labour, according to their conduct after three months, has been attended with excel lent results." (At this prison out 1,600 committals, the average of sentences is one month. The average cost per prisoner (of all English gaols) is £37, the wiii,rage earnings £2 10s. (less than 2d. per day). In many prisons the cost is £4O, £)0, £6O, or upwards, rising to 2104 at Dover GaoL—Howard Association Paper. CRICKET PROSPECTS. The programmes of the great clubs, and the promise of healing the feud which has injured cricket so long, seem to denote the prospect of a most brilliant season. The Marylebone Cricket Club have annexed Guy's nursery to their grounds, and a new carriage entrance has been made. The programme contains nearly fifty matches. Of these that between the Right and Left-handed players (formerly an "annual," but not played since 1828, when the former won by 226 runs)may be regarded as a gratifying revival, as is also that between the North and South for the benefit of the " Cricketers' Fund," on Whit Monday, when the full strength of the North will be concentrated, and the reappearance of George Par, Carpenter, Hayward, &c., will afford the highest satisfaction to the London public. The United North and South elevens also play at Lord's for the benefit of the M.C.C. "Professional Fund." The great "annual" contests between the Gentlemen and Players, Oxford and Cambridge, Harrow and Eton, Woolwich and Sandhurst, &c., will doubt less prove as attractive as ever. The " Old Club " plays three first-class counties, viz., Surrey (out and home) Notts, and Yorkshire. They also con tend against Hertfordshire (out and home) Hunting denshire, Gloucestershire and Derbyshire. There are the usual military matches. The club will also play against the two Universities (out and home) before they meet finally at Lord's, and the undermentioned schools, viz., Winchester, Rugby, Eton, Cheltedham, Marlborough, and Westminster will have their usual matches on the ground. There are also the three matches— North v. South (return), M. C. C. v. County of Kent, and the I. Z) v. Gentlemen of Kent, to be played during the most enjoyable period of the whole cricket season—the " Canterbury week." The Surrey Club bill of fare is also extensive. It includes out and home contests with Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Middlesex, Kent, and Sussex. In addition to the county matches, Surrey plays M.C.C. (out and home) and the Universities. The Oval will also be the scene of the annual matches between the Gentlemen and Players of England and of the South, and a grand contest between the Northern and Southern professional players for the benefit of W. Mortlock. The Lancashire return match is to come off during the "Canterbury week." The balance of Surrey's list of thirty-three is made up of club matches. Why does not Surrey strive to get together a better eleven ? Some time ago—say from '6O to '65, or there abouts—the Surrey County Eleven was the most formid able in the country, and frequently contended against All England with success. But the old players are vanishing and there are none to fill the vacant places. Caffin, Cwsar Mortlock, Miller, Lane, Lockyer, and several others have retired, and but few have come to thefront in their stead, and there are no present expectations. The County of Kent Club play out and home matches with Surrey, Sussex, Nottinghamshire, and Yorkshire. The former, which is for a benefit, will come off at Mote Park, Maidstone ; the Sussex and Notts (home) matches take place at the Crystal Palace, and that against the " Tykes " at Gravesend. Nottinghamshire begins on Easter Monday with the model colts match. The county matches to be played by Notts are (out and home) against Kent, Surrey, and Yorkshire, and their eleven will also contend at Lord's against M.C.C. and Ground. Yorkshire plays three out and home matches, viz., with Kent; Notts, and Surrey, also one with M.C.C. and Ground. Sussex plays only two out and home county matches, viz., with Surrey and Kent. The Sussex Club, now incorporated with the County, has numerous engagements. The half-yearly balance sheet of the Civil Service Supply Association may shortly be expected to make its appearance. It will, if we are not misinformed (says the Civilian), disclose a very satisfactory state of affairs. The trading during the past six months shews a profit of up wards of £3,000. AN XXPENSIVE PAUPER.—There has just died at the Hull borough asylum, of dropsy in the head, a person named Christopher Hardy, who has been there for upwards of forty years. He was an inmate of the Old Charity Hall, and during hislifetime has cost the borough upwards of £l,OOO. Various reports which have been published lately on the Continent give the number of poor as amounting in France to two and three-quarter millions, in Germany to two millions, in Austria to one and three-quarter millions, in Italy, Belgium, and Holland to three-quarters of a million in each country, in Spain to half a million, while in Sweden, Switzerland, Portugal, and Denmark, the number does not exceed 150,000. Taking the whole of the continental population as approaching 150,000,000, it would appear that the proportion of poor people amounts to so me thi ng like one-fifteenth of the whole. MUSICAL NOTES.—The present opera season will (it is well understood) witness the " last appearances" of Signor Mario.—Liszt is just now in the ascendant at New York, where there has been a " celebration" in his honour. His " Dante " symphony has been brought forward with success, and all the available talent of the city has been brought into requisition.—The harmonium is making rapid strides in France as a domestic musical companion. M. Edmond Savery has undertaken an artistic tour, having for its chief objeet the spread of a knowledge of the be witching instrument, and of the kind of music proper to it.--Musical Standard. A HEN AND HER Pups !—A correspondent of the Surrey Standard writes :—" An extraordinary freak of nature can be seen at the keeper's kennels at Stanmer Park, the seat of the Earl of Chichester. A common domestic hen . , two years old, has been in the habit of lay ing her eggs in a dog kennel in which a beagle bitch has a litter of six puppies now six weeks old. She wanted to sit ; she was shut up for ten days. Now let - loose, she has gone to the kennels again, and taken charge of the pups as a mother would do with her chickens. She covers them with her wings ! she scratches about as to learn them to feed ; she calls them, the puppies follow her, and she shews fight to any one that touches them. But the poor thing cannot nourish them." LARGE BEQUESTS BY AN ECCENTRIC TESTATOR. —A man named Peter Greenwell, of Bolton, who by in dustry and the most rigid economy rose from very humble circumstances to a position of affluence, has died this week, and left some large bequests to local institutions and personal friends. In early life he was employed as an operative spinner, but soon acquired a large sum of money by his frugality, and many people remember the pride with which he used to boast of having a stocking full of penny pieces. In later years he engaged in some successful building speculations, and these, together with his practice of limiting his expendi ture to, it is said, between 4s. and ss. a week, speedily enabled him to a 'quire great wealth. He was a man of most eccentric habits, and his long lank figure caused him to be nicknamed " Long P," an epithet by which he was invariably known. He was never married, and having but few relatives he has left his money chiefly to personal friends. He has bequeathed a sum of £2,000 to the Bolton Infirmary ; £5,000 to Mr. A. L. Briggs, a young cotton spinner, no relative whatever, but whom he has appointed his executor ; £l,OOO to the Rev. Thomas Loxham, oxhain, r a ec b to r r ot o h f er Gr t e o at t L h e e ve l r as ; t 2Zo m o t e o d th; en te e v m . an ßic ; h a a n r ci d =am* singlaTly lArge bequests to other friends, towards the Canadian frontier. Fairfield, which is close to St. Albans, and a Fenian stronghold, has become quite lively with passing teams, supposed to contain arms and ammunition. From Washington one of the few telegrams of the week is, " The Special Joint Congressional Committee have agreed to report favourably on Wash burne's Postal Tele graph Bill, placing the telegraph lines under the control of the Poet Office Department. The passage of this bill is, however, considered doubtful." Our article of last week discussed this subject, and those best informed of the advantages seem to consider the transfer certain, although our own opinion is that. the measure will not pass, the mass of the people being persuaded that through their own system they have managed in telegraphy to surpass the world. Some curious statistics on this subject have lately been published, showing the enormous number of mes sages delivered by one company in New York, and con trasting the work with what is done in Lcndon and other cities. It appears, however, certain that the transfer in England of the lines to the Government has been at tended with benefit to the community, and will be pi ofit able to the public, as well as vastly extending telegraphic facilities. The Postmaster-General has just announced the opening of seventeen additional postal telegraph offices, twelve in the provinces and five in London. Major W. C. Barney had returned to New York from Havre in the steamer Dammonia, where he has re ported his success in concluding a contract with the cable manufacturers in England to construct and lay the pro jected submarine cable between the United States and Belgium under the concession already obtained from the Belgian Government. Whether there is work as yet for another Atlantic cable remains to be proved, but another appears likely, whether profitable or ruinous to the share holdeas, to be carried through. Major-General George H. Thomas was seized with apoplexy, and died very shortly afterwards, on Mon day, the 28th March, at 7.30, in San Francisco. The funeral took place in the presence of his family and a few friends, on the Beth, his widow being opposed to a public display. Immediately on his death becoming known the officers of the army of the Cumberland in Chicago, ap pointed a committee, including General Sheridan, to meet the remains at Omaha, which left San Francisco on the 81st March. Minute guns were fired at the time appointed for the departure, and at all military stations the flags were placed at half-mast, and fifteen guns were fired on the day after the receipt of Gen. Sherman's order, the usual badges of mourning being directed to be worn for 30 days. Gene ral Thomas was born in Southampton county near Nor folk, Virginia, in 1816, and was a law student before graduating, in 1840, at West Point. He served in the Mexican War in 1816-7 ; then held a post as instructor at West Point, proceeded on frontier duty to California and Texas, where he was wounded in 1860. He leaves no child, but as General Sherman says in his Order, " the old army of the Cumberland— numbered by tens of thou sands—called him father, and will weep for him in tears of manly grief. His wife, who cheered him with messages of love in the darkest hours of war, will mourn him now in sadness, chastened by the sympathy of a whole country." On the'2sth of March the President nominated Allen Rutherford to be Third Auditor of the Treasury William J. Purman to be Assessor for Florida : and the following Consuls: Michael Vidal, of Louisiana, at Tripoli ; L. M. Burger, of South Carolina, at Algiers; William B. Jones, of Alabama, at Brindisi ; H. S. Pike, of North Carolina, at Tampico ; and John Harris, of Pennsylvania, at Venice ; and on the same day, in Executive Session, the U. S. Senate confirmed George 11. Sharp as U. S. Marshal for Southern New York ; Joseph Pinkham, U. S. Marshal for Idaho; Charles 11. liernstead, U. S. Attorney for Utah; John L. Stevens, Minister to Uruguay; F. P. Meigs, Consul at Montevideo; and Thomas D. Hamilton, Consul at Rio Grande, Brazil ; James W. Mason, of Arkansas, to be Minister Resident and Consul -General to Liberia; John Hay, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Lega tion at Madrid. The mail brought to New York, by the steamship Alaska ; which left Aspinwall on &larch 17, contains the latest intelligence from Central and South America. The rebellion in Guatemala is ended, its chiefs being all cap tured or shot. There was a slight earthquake at Salvador on the 9th inst. The gunboat Nyack, having been making topographical surveys and maps of the Guilipagos Islands, it was announced that Ecuador would demand satisfaction of the United States ±or a violation of international law. The yellow fever had appeared at Rio Janeiro. Foreign vessels will hereafter be permitted to engage in the Bra zilian coasting trade. A Frenchman, named Antonio, had sot up as 'Mpg of Araucania and Patagonia, defying the Chilian Government, which was about to send troops against him. A Valparaiso letter represents the cause of Lopez, the Paraguayan dictator, as hopeless, and that hs remaining adherents were deserting him. President O'Neill, of the Fenian Brotherhood in New York, has deposed Richard M'Cloud, Secretary and Treasurer of the organisation, and expelled him from the Order. 2,l‘oloud, who is also a Senator, will attempt to impeach O'Neill. But not withstanding the domestic quarrels the Brotherhood have managed to get up a "scare" again in Canada, though this time it is only a little one, for the Dominion is becoming accustomed to Fenian in vasions. Some regiments of militia have, however, been ordered out, and are held in readiness. ELECTION NEWS.—New York is to elect a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals, and New Yolk. City three additional Judges of the Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday, May 17. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Senator Revels says he was once excluded from the Senate gallery on account of colour.—The Washington Star describes General - Ames, Senator elect from Mississippi, as "a boyish, handsome looking chap, with a nice black moustache."—Governor Claflin, Massachusetts, has issued a proclamation appoint ing the 7th of April as a day of fasting and prayer.-- , Go vernor Warmouth Las appointed Henry C. Dibble Judge of the Eighth District Court at New Orleans, created by act of the last Louisiana Legislature. Dibble was a private soldier in the Fourteenth New York Cavalry, and lost a leg at Port Hudson.—The funeral of Count Francis Lousada (Marquis de San Miniatol) late British Consul at Boston, took place on the 24th March in Trinity Church. Bishop Eastburn and the Rev. Henry Burroughs officiated. The several foreign Consuls at Boston and the British Consul at Portland were among the pall bearers. There was a large attendance. He was the second scn of the late Duke de Losada. y Losada.—The Right Rev. Thomas Foley, recently of Baltimore, lately elected Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago, has arrived at Chicago, and will enter upon his pastoral duties at once. -Dr. Don Antonio Flores, Minister from Ecuador, presented his credentials to the President March 25. The usual complimentary speeches were exchanged.-- The Jeff. Davis capture reward of $lOO,OOO is to be paid to 237 persons.—Horatio Seymour is going to deliver lectures in Oneida County, New York, for charitable purposes. Blicque Bey, the Turkish Minister, returns to Turkey, on a six months' leave of absence, in May.—Miss L. Barkalow, of Brooklyn, N. Y., student at the St. Louis Law School, passed a very severe examination on Saturday, March 26, before Judge Knight, of the Circuit Court, and was admitted to practice.—President Grant pays taxes on $lOO,OOO, and Gen. Sherman on $235,000 worth of pro perty in St. Louis.—General Joseph E. Johnson has gone into the real estate business with two other ex-Confede rates.—lt is reported in Montreal that Mr. Deboucher ville, President of the Quebec Executive Council, will be appointed Governor of the North-west Territory.—Col. Millie, the rifle inventor, has been looking through the Springfield Armoury.—John O'Neill, the president of the Fenian Brotherhood, has deposed Richard M'Cloud from the office of secretary of the treasury, removed him from the position of sanator, and he then expelled him from the order. Mr M'Cloud denies the assumption of the pre sident, and regards himself to be still enough of a Fenian, a senator, and a secretary of the treasury to demand the impeachment, removal, and expulsion of President O'Neill. —Mr. J. S. Clarke will commence his engagement• at Booth's Theatre on the 18th of April;---Captain Williams, the heroic commander of the Oneida, was engaged to be married to a young lady in Maine, on arriving from the Japan cruise. Since the Ist of January Isis two children and his intended wife have died, but the news of their death had not reached him at the time of the disaster.— Charles Clark, formerly United State marshal, has been appointed city marshal of Portlaud.—Genßutler's coloured West Point cadet is thrown out, being eight months less than 17 years old, the required age. Senator Morton, in speaking on the San Domingo treaty in the Senate,March 25, said that island was worth ten Alaskas, to which another Senator added, " Yes, a hundred."—Mr. Horace Greeley was recently knocked down by a waggon in New York and severely injured his ankle.—Fechter gets $3,000 a week as his pay for acting in American theatres.—The se cond son of the Hon. A. B. Cornell, surveyor of the Port of New York, was killed by a fall front the fourth to the first floor of the Fifth-avenue Hotel on the 31st March, and the remains were taken to Ithaca for interment.—Colonel Whitley has arrived in New York with R. B. Caldwell, the drawback conspirator, who had fled to Canada from justice, and was delivered up under the extradition treaty. He denounced Mr Barney Delavan, a Montreal lawyer, for an attempt to extract from him $2,000, under a threat of informing the police of his whereabouts.—Mr. Ford, First Secretary, and Mr. Freeman, Second Secretary of the British Legation, return to England in June. It is probable that Mr. Ford will be transferred to one of the European Legations. Mr. Freeman returns to America in October. IVPONETARY REPORTS-SATURDAY• Owing to the holdiays, the attendance of m embers in' till Stock Exchange to-day has been limited. The business doing in all classes of securities has been very moderate:°' and the fluctuations have been neither numerous 11., important. Consols opened h e avily, but event ua ll y returned to their former quotation, of al, 94 , for delivery, and 94k, 94j for the May account. duced and New Three per Cents, 92g, 92k. Bills par to ss. prem. India Five per:Cents, 113, 11°) and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem. m ark e t Considerable firmness has been the feature of the M ar ' for English railway stocks, and, without exception, t : alterations have been satisfactory. Great Northern ,: : ditto B, Great-Western, Lancashire and Yoric s i Z London and Brighton, and Midland have risen 1. chester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, North-Eastern , 80 0 wick, ditto ; York, and South-Eastern, ; and g ett i: politan, London and North-Western, and Grey Eastern, f. Indian railway stocks have been steady in v alue ! _ 4 1)111 the demand has been far from active. Canadian all 9 ' l , have been quiet, and foreign shares have been neglectec. I Very few changes have taken place in the vni u : foreign bonds, and the movements have been far i r° , e important. Peruvian 1865 have risen*, and an advanci, of and *has Olen place in the value of New Gr en3 e deferred, and Russian scrip respectively. Port"g ue : t (1853) have receded and Turkish Five per Cents. 1 I)" cent. American Government securities have been dull. 513 3 Five-Twenty (1882 and 1885) Bonds have receded 1, , a3 ' the 1887 * per cent. ; but Virginia Bonds have r isen , Mining shares have changed hands quietly, and 06: has not been much demand for Bank shares. The nl ll° tions have been without alteration. ,„. In telegraph shares the transactions have been enu a moderate extent, but prices have been mainta ine , 4 Telegraph Construction shares have been* better. SW er st Incliarubber have been firm at 50, 51, and HooPer 'fr3. ato*dis. In miscellaneous securities next to nothing has beell doing, and the fluctuations in prices have been trilling . ' In the money market to-day, the inquiries for ac c modation have been very moderate, in fact the Win e , doing has not been sufficient to stamp quotations. '' be et has been a fair supply of capital, and three months' P 313 has been negotiable at 2* to 3 per cent. No bullion transactions have taken place at the 33 to-day. Washington advices state that a memorial has beet s before Congress asking for aid to lay a cable bet Wee California, China, and Japan. The share list of the Des Moines Valley Railroad ' be closed on Tuesday next. According to custom, the Stock Exchange will be nififi ed on Monday next, being Easter Monday. '~ MARKETS-SATURDAY. -4 0 METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, SATV „ o at, -The supply of feed on sale to-day was short, and th,,,," 5. 6,1. ruled steady, at the annexed ratei:-Prime meadow hay, , "„ r iine to 84s. ; inferior ditto, 60s. to 70s. ;•rowen, 50s. to 655. • n r ct oi' clover, 110 s. to 1265. ; inferior ditto, 80s: to 955. ; prime ss t o cut clover, 100 s. to 110 s. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 90s. ; and 2Gs. to 30s. per load, be ell LONDON WOOL MARKET, SATURDAY.-There has ~ter' scarcely anything doing in th e woo l mar k e t ow i ng to the 1119 1 ruption to business caused by th e h o lid a y s. P r i ces are non , Aeo unaltered in the absence of sales. Th ere was no public b ' colonial wool to-day. O d i BOROUGH AND SPITALF rA R lELDS POTATOE d, D SATtiIiDAY.-The supplies on s a l e h ave b een ver y hinge .i c c9 ln quite equal to the demand, w hi c h h as ru l e d very inactive. are without change. oilf HAMBURG, APRIL 14.-Wheat, June-July, 111. Rap e , spot, 32 ; May, 30 ; autum n , 27k. 60°' HAVRE COTTON MARKET, APRIL 14.-Market firm dentancl from trade. Orleans, 136. 56°; HAVRE COPPER MARKET, APRIL 14.-Chili bars, 17 buyers. 0 g ot AMSTERDAM, APRIL 16.-Banca, 79, buyers, Rape o 33 ; spring, 341 ; auttunn, 36. Linseed oil, autumn, 75 1 }. so r PARIS, APRIL 15. - Flour, current month, 57 ;.,-,eoo June, 57.50. Rape oil, current month, 123.50 ; September -v her, 108. " BERLIN, APRIL 14.-Spirits, April-May, 15.05 ; Sept 01 hecember, 16.05. Rape oil, April-May, 141 ; SeP te October, 13. C ll4. ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 15.-Wheat, May 11, adV 3ll Clean hemp, June, 38/. Mr. Childers has resolved that in n o cas e wi h° give active employment to any officer whose age nr i enable him to take advant age o f th e n e w scheme o f ret went.— Army and Navy Gazette. SO MR. LowEILLUMINATED.-11Ir.Lowe "" near-sighted that unless he has a strong light thrownlo his papers, he finds it diffi cu lt, even w i t h t h e a id of a g of strong magnifyin g p ower , t o rea d th e fi gures u pon % Ile On Monday, in his Budget speech, there was at no fte,t sufficient light for hi m exce pt f or h a lf an h our or so 3 ,,,pd he rose ; then the e ven i ng s h a d es b egan t o draw it 0 4 evidently troubl e d hi m muc h, an d b y some neglect the was not turned on so soon as it was needed, and the ilons e „Ve so dark that som e o f us th oug ht th at t h e right honou,7lo gentleman would have to s t o p. " Wh y d on 't the) boai on the gas ?" was murmured through the house. could tell, the neglect was unaccountable. At last, t he moment—in the twinkling of an eye—the light flood' ~eri house. This sudnen lighting up o f th e house i 5 5,09 beautiful sight, and it was specially beautif u l on A- 1 -'O 4 night because it had been delayed so long. The Hous e so dim that you could scarcely discern the features of 111e ll eci bers at a distance. Indeed, nothing could be (He e * be clearly, when, as if at the old command, " Let thl ell light, all the members' countenances and forms, an ate the architecture of the chamber, flashed out of darknes s radiant light.—lllustrated Times. s iog EDUCATION IN FRANKFORT.— Some inuere tat. facts have been published as to education in Fran k .' In that city there are fourteen public and fortY Pr l 0 8 schools. Of the fourteen public schools only t bit is a communal establishment, the remaining , if e" teen being parochial institutions, in the nn'' the ment of which, however, laymen have 1 , 0 00 preponderance. Out of the forty private scverior one is a commercial school, and one a OP School of Industry, both having been founded by 00 13 Polytechnic Society ; of the remainder, only seven s o t fell give purely elementary instruction. "Until Frankfq ic irell under the Crown of Prussia the instruction of chi.eiir, was not obligatory, but the communal treasuries, as s% verf various benevolent associations, paid eight florins for e 0 11 poor child attending the prim ar y sc h oo l, and more tl i v per cent. of the whole numb er o f children brought "TV these schools enjoyed the benefit of their assistance 0 5e , municipality spends about 130,000 florins for this _, the but no free school has been created as yet; and Ivia' it 0 payment in the primar'y school is eight florins a Yeario in sixteen florins in the secondary, and thirty-two fif tn tor s the superior schools. The number of teachers and ,„11 of the private schools is not given, but their I , i „ in public schools is given as amounting to 176 inr a eighty-four female teachers, of the latter thirty hel l ; gaged in teaching needlework to young girls. — o te superior schools every branch of knowledge is ens a ri l! .to special masters, but in the primary schools there 15. n .01 one teacher for all subjects, with the exception of ra PP and drawing. LADvEhrissiaßNT. J—Avoid Medicines—they always e'g g r; °'; chronic complaints; but Du Barry's delicious health-r 0 arloll, Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times tho 11 _, ° 0 ° ,3 mentor the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other re'" s 0 0 and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerve - ' lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, fun ctior, e 3 gularity, and energy to the most disord ere d or en f ee bled. : 0 01 6 , tract a few out of the 68,000 cures: —" The Pope's health ry iSug by Du Barry's Food. Cure N o . 68,413. "Rome, July 11 ' P l y A. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially os ife d abandoning all other remedi es , h e h as confined himself e t ,Bo o e. to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food of which he „ 1 0- 1' a plateful at every meal. It h as produced a surprising. "s: i .', ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise We n : . e f lent food too highly.—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 11',0 No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Ye% o ri'fi complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with 8 ' , etl palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplese„,n', 1. 19 0 the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. I, l ' Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many' / 0 d dyspepsia. No 49;832 : " Fifty years' indescribable ag;,;10 0 ,,, f0 . dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, 0 spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria yeJ 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Fernley, Surrey, of .. 44 P 4 . ,;1 diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangel e : 110;$ partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of !r. 0 .10 ,1 " unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, 0, 0,(1 5 ; authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously e lt vili / ,TO In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb Is 6d; 51b lls.; 011 2} 24 lbs 4 s.— Also Du BARRY's REVALENTA A RABIC& 0 ' 24 c 'ls o POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 14 cups at 20, f or at .01 at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 238 cups at 30s, for 576 eeP 9 r o —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins &Ord free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office a; BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lonow all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. h ire' FAIRFAX—On the 13th inst., at Nun-Appleton, V r of ° the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Fairfax, Grenadier Guar son. e r r DO 0 5.4 HALE -On the 11th inst., at Surbiton, the wife of - Hale, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. goo „se, APDOUGALL— GREET --On the 13th inst., a t Oakley yo l f Hamilton, James T. M'Dougall, Esq., West 0 6 . n d 'Ore ° don, to Margaret Cree, the only daughter of Dtor l Esq. Iti ct Of PULFORD —MicnAn —On the 15th inst., at Bright° l3 ; fo rcl , Creswick, youngest son of the late Wm. H. Pu o l J. Hampstead, to Mary Valentine, e ld es t daughter d'Egville Mi-_thalt, of Brighton. DEATHS.' Ito' FRENCH —0 a the 14th inst., n t 10 . Gloucester_strA gent's-park, Mr. Friend F renc h, aked 59. of Se' ~e' HORNE —On the 14th inst., B an j am i n W. 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