The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-16 00:00:00

CAPTAIN COOTE. Me division on the vote of censure on the Govern ment respecting the dismissal of Captain Coote was strictly a party contest. The minority of 113 con tained the names of only three Liberals—Mr. Whalley ? Mr. A. 0. Ewing, representative of Dum bartonshire, and Mr. William Johnston, of Bel fast. Mr. T. W. Mellor, M.P. for Ashton under-Lyne, who generally ranks as a Liberal-Conservative, voted also with the Opposi tion. Mr. Disraeli, Sir John Pakington, Mr. Hardy, Mr. Corry, Mr. Walpole, Mr. .Newdegate, Dr. Ball, and Mr. Mowbray are in the list. The 193 who voted for the Government were all Liberals—for Mr. W. B. Hughes, who represents the Carnarvon district, can be classed only as a partial Conser vati ye. BUSINESS OF THE ARMY. Lord Northbrook's committee on the conduct of business in the army departments has issued its report, and should its recommendations be carried out, the result will be a thorough reform of the exist ing military system. The dual administration will be abolished and the offices of military secretary and quartermaster-general will be modified. General officewhaving independent military commands, will be invested with more direct power And responsibility. The entire business of the army will be thrown into fewer hands, and carried on under one roof. The committee examined the Duke of Cambridge at length, and elicited much information from ,him on various mysterious subjects connected with the working of the service. The report, however, looks with displeasure on the principle of persons of high rank being connected with the business of petty details, and says that " a system which is worked to the highest pressure in time of peace must inevitably break down in time of war." CORNET AND ENSIGN. Mr. Cardwell's plan for abolishing the offices of cornet and ensign has been abandoned as untenable. The leading supporters of the Government in the press fully endorse this retreat. The Times holds that the difficulty of the over-regulation price was not, for the present at least, to be got over. Mr. Cardwell's present proposal alarmed the officers less for itself than as indicating the character of its future suggestions; for if Parliament, on his advice, enforced a strict adherence to the regulation price in.this minor matter, would not the same principle be applied whenever the higher steps should be dealt with ? The Tall Mall Gazette equally holds that the over regulation problem proved fatal to the War Minister's scheme. The Daily News is of the same opinion. " The decision to give or not to give com pensation for extra regulation payments would inevitably have raised this question on a very unEatisfactory collateral issue, and the decision must necessarily have governed all future legislation on the subject of purchase." IRISH CRIME. Whatever the Irish people may think of the coming Peace Preservation Bill, justification for some measure of the kind was never more abundant. The .crop of outrages is as extensive as ever. One ruffian who sent a threatening letter to a lady has met with his due reward ; but against this success of justice are to be set off more despairing charges from judges, more resolutions in favour of coercion from grand juries, and more undiscovered crimes. The Queen's County grand jury are in favour both of suspending the Habeas Corpus Act and of so altering the law of trial as to give effect to the verdict of a majority. The last week or two has been especially lively in Queen's County. On March 2 there was an inflammatory tenant right meeting. Two days afterwards the offices of a Mr. M'Donagh were burned down. Immediately afterwards more offices were set on fire. A. rick of hay and some buildings belonging to Captain Brown were burned down on the 11th. A plantation be longing to Mr. Ellis was entirely destroyed. "A number of fires, supposed to be burning hay fields," were seen in different parts of the county, Tst as if a burning hay-rick were a will-o'-the-wi s p. hese are the doings in one small district, which has been hitherto free from crime. CARDINAL CTJLLEN ON FENIANISM. If the Irish retain any of the devotion for the Roman Catholic priesthood for which they have been so long celebrated, the latest pastoral of Car dinal Cullen ought to settle the question of Fenian ism. It is stronger than the Pope's fulmination. or than the letters of the Irish bishops. Cardinal Cullen declares that Fenianism is as bad as Free masonry. lie could not say more. Fenians " seek only their own interest, reckless of the misery which they entail upon their unhappy dupes, and by their evil deeds they range themselves among those who are styled by the apostle children of perdition." They are worthy disciples of Garibaldi and Mazzini. The Cardinal thinks there is plenty of hope for Ire land, without reverting to abortive attempts at revolution : Last year one of the greatest imp e diments in the way of Ireland's happiness, one of the greatest evils ever known to exist in any country—the Protestant Establishment in Ireland—was removed for ever. At present the great statesmen who conferred so signal a benefit on this king dom, and who still guide the helm of the State, have manifested their resolve to remove other grievances, and to heal other wounds of Ireland. It is only by peace able agitation, and the temperate yet earnest discussion of the measures they have introduced, that we can hope to co-operate with them; indeed, I hesitate not to say that never was there a period in the history of this kingdom when the great axiom was so unquestionable as at the present day, that whosoever commits a crim• gives strength to the enemy of his country. CAPTAIN EYRE'S PUNISHMENT. As it is not yet known by what considerations the Court of Inqui r y on th e collision between the Bombay and the Oneida was guided in determining its verdict, we cannot say but that the punishment it has awarded the Captain of the Bombay is sufficient to meet the case. Let us at any rate believe that no Englishman would be guilty of wilfully leaving men to perish when he was aware of their position. Undoubtedly the facts of this sad occurrence are most aggravating, not only to Americans, but to us as well; but still it is evident that the Court of Inquiry, could not have held Capt. Evre to have been what he would have been ? if all surmises had been correct—a murderer. If it had been considered that he was well aware that the Oneida's men were drowning when he steamed on, ho would not have got off with a suspension of his certificate for six months. Still, having run into a vessel, it was clearly his duty to remain by her long enough to ascertain the nature of the accident, and for this want of caution the captain has now to suffer a large amount of public censure, a greater punishment than that awarded him by the Court of lucluiry. THE CITY OF BOSTON. The story of Capt. Campbell, of the screw steamer Britannia, which has arrived in the Clyde, may be deserving of consideration, and so may that of CaPt. Reid, of the sailing vessel Leader, which has been al ready given. It is evident, however, that unless the weather that the City of Boston has encountered has actually driven her backwards over the A.tlantic,the two steamers seen by the two masters cannot be one and the same vessel. At daybreak of the 3rd instant, about 150 miles from Cape Clear, the Leader sighted a large three-masted steamer beating up against the wind under canvas, evidently attempting to make a westerly course. Now, the Britannia , on the 9th instant, six days afterwards, sighted a steamer steerin g west, which the captain now thinks was the City of Boston. But this vessel was in 64.18 N., 22.52 W., a considerable distance to the westward of the place where Captain Reid sighted. his imaginary City of Boston a week before. If, however, it should turn out that these two vessels were the same, and that the City of Boston was actually blown so far to leeward, then there would be no chance of her making the coast of Ireland until some time after a westerly wind has set in. . DR. LIVINGSTONE. The very serious outbreak of cholera on the East Coast of Africa seriously affects our news of Dr. Livingstone. The porters and supplies which the Earl of Clarendon directed to ho sent to the distin.. guished traveller have been impeded in their progress by this plague. Sir Roderick Murchison in a letter to the Times, says :—" While the loss of life has been fearful at Zanzibar and on the coast north and south of it, and has also extended inland to Ugogo and Uniamozi, let us cherish the hope that the epidemic has not reached Ujiji, on the Lake Tanganyika, where the great traveller has been for some time stationed. In this case, though the consummation of his labours is necessarily delayed, he may, I trust, under the protection of Providence, escape from this new and unexpected visitation, as he has from all the previous perils which he has successively; encountered." Mr. Horace Waller has received a letteT . from Dr. kirk respvtip,g . t,he ch9loolilutbr4ak. I ff (He , iitiymbtq 1.9,QM-tpersoilt at which he was stationed. Thirty thou sand perished in the whole island. Dr. Kirk adds :—" At Quiloa, by the last accounts, there were two hundred deaths a day among the slaves; when offered at one dollar a head they found no purchasers, so very worthless bad slave property become from the disease. Caravans on the route are stopped by death, ivory is left abandoned, and a party is being sent off to bring one large lot down, all the porters being dead in Ugogo. The expedition, with valuable goods and a gang of men, I sent off to assist Livingstone has been caught by it, and is at a standstill. Many of th ose I had engaged and paid considerable advances to are dead!' The communication between Lake Tanganyika and the coast is precarious at the best of times : it must now be long before it is resumed. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1870. THE NEW BISHOP OF CHICHESTER. The time of the Low Church party has come at last; in the new Bishop of Chichester they have a representative of their school; the appointment of the venerable Richard Durnford, Archdeacon of Man chester rector of Middleton, will most probably shew them that Mr. Gladstone has no intention of slighting them or their party. In giving the " Evangelicals " a bishop, however, Mr. Gladstone may be:accused of unfairness to one Universities. It was the turn of Cambridge men said ; but the Archdeacon belongs to Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1826, and his M.A. in 1829. He was ordained deacon in 1830, and priest in 1831. The living which he vacates is in the patronage of Trustees, and is worth 95(:) per annum. REVISION OF THE BIBLE. The Dean of Carlisle, in a letter to the Times, asks whether this great question might not now be brought to the following point :—Admitted on both sides that emendations in our authorised translation might be made with advantage, the point for urgent consideration is this, are the faulty passages either so numerous or important that in order to correct them we shall be justified in disturbing the confidence of the nation, in a translation of Holy Scrip ture in the "vulgar tongue " which is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as our version is admitted to be ? The Dean of Carlisle evidently thinks not. He says that some thing more than the most correct scholarship and Feneral knowledge of tongues and idioms is needed in the translation of God's Holy Word. 'Would bare scholarship, however sound, satisfy them of the suit ableness of a man to give a spirited translation of any of the Greek poets ? Must he not, the very reverend gentleman asks, at least be capable of drinking in the spirit of poetry himself? How then, he continues, can scholarship alone, irrespective of piety and spiri tual discernment, suffice for a translation of the Scriptures ? And where would they find sound scholarship and sound piety so united in any given number of men of the present day that all would trust them ? He does not know, he con ludes, who has admitted that " plain and clear errors" abound in our translation, but he for one should anticipate many " plain and clear errors" in any modern translation which could now be produced, REAL ESTATES INTESTACY. At a meeting of the Social Science Association, a liscussion has taken place with regard to a paper which was read on the Real Estates Intestacy Bill. Baron Pigott thought that the principles of the power of settlement and entail should not be inter fered with, except in the way of limiting them to two or three lives. A law would be attended with ad vantage that would provide for an equal division of the property of a person dying without a will. At present the eldest son took the estate, brothers and sisters being left to want. Eldest sons, like many of us, were fond of themselves, and consequently per sons who should not do so have to suffer by the in testacy laws, COLLEGES OF SCIENCE. Some correspondence has passed between Lord F. C. Cavendish, M.P., chairman of the committee for the establishment of the " Yorkshire College of Science," and the Endowed Schools Commissioners. A. rough outline of the scheme prepared for founding the College of Science for Yorkshire was submitted to the Commissioners, who were asked for their assistance and co-operation in regard to it, by making the scholarships which will probably be founded by the Commission tenable at the proposed college. They were also asked to devote to the endowment of pro fessorships any funds that mivht appear to them applicable for the purpose. The Commissioners, in reply, express their cordial concurrence in the object in view, and the desire to do all they can towards its attainment. This object, they observe, is ono of the few which the Commissioners consider so im portant in themselves and so likely to command extensive public support as to lead them to think that it would be quite justifiable to attempt in some cases the partial diversion to them of the funds of endowments now applied solely to the tra ditional purposes of grammar schools. The Commis sioners, however, request to be understood that they do not expect of their own authority to place the college by name in any scheme for an endowed school. No such places of higher education, they remark, can be actually specified in schemes, except those of established reputation, such as the Univer :ides of Oxford, Cambridge, or London. RENT RAISING. The charge of libel against Mr. John Ihrdy, M.P., at the Stafford Assizes, leads the Daily 'Yews to moralise on the relation between landlord and tenant. One of Mr. Hardy's tenants had given evidence against him in a county court action. The member for South Warwickshire gave the offender notice of an increase of rent, and in the letter conveying this notice were the expressions complained of. The affair has been compromised and the charge withdrawn, but the Daily .News thinks Mr. Hardy has set a dan gerous example. Few English country gentlemen would dream of raising a tenant's rent, because he had given evidence against them in a county court case. But few Irish landlords arc tyrannical, and yet the demand for security of tenure arose out of the exceptions. A few more cases of rent raising after this manner would speedily stir up a similar demand iu England. " The sole condition on which such power as that accorded to English landlords can be left in the hands of any class is the condition that it should not be used." CO-OPERATION. Mr. Briggs, of the Whitwood Works, has explained the system on which the division of profits between capital and labour is made in the firm to which he belongs. The first 10 per cent, divisible profit goes to capital, and all above that is divided between capital and labour. The first year they had lo per cent. to divide, consequently capital had 10 and 21 or altogether 121, and labour 21. THE OPERA. This is likely to be a stirring opera season. There are two rival companies this year, and each has se cured a fine array of talent. The Covent Garden house has Patti, Tietjens, Lucca, Mario, and some new celebrities; the Drury Lane company includes Nilsson, Ilma de Murska. Volpini, a new star, Sinico, Trebelli-Bettini, Santley, Gassier, Mongini, and Bet tini. Thomas's " Mignon," considered his best work, will be produced for the first time in England, and also " L'Oca del Cairo," by Mozart. OBITUARY. Mr. Edwards, who died from the effects of a fall he sustained whilst riding Chippenham at Liverpool, on Thursday last, was noted as the first amateur horseman of the day. On the flat he was well-nigh tho equal of the best jockeys, and in cross-country racing his skill was almost unrivalled. Two or three years ago ho was seriously hurt, whilst riding Endsleigh in a steeple-chase at Croydon ; but a few months afterwa r d s h e won th e G rat a National on The Lamb. This was the only time that Mr. Edwards won the chief English cross-country prize, but he gained many of tho leading Continental races. Edwards was only the turf nom de plume of this horseman. Tlis wooer name was Mr. G. M. Ede. and under this title he was well known as ono of the Ilampshire County Cricket Eleven. THE DUKE OF MONTPENSIER. The Paris correspondent of the Telegraph tells a curious story of the survivor of the late duel neat Madrid. The famous writer has heard, of course " from a man of high official position in Spain," that the Duke of Montpensier has been bidding for pop"- larity in Madrid by redeeming for their owners the articles in the Monts-de-pzete under about 103. No doubt such a candidate would be very popular in the English metropolis. The story strikingly ex hibits one of the blessings of universal suffrage, which has lately been established by the Spaniards. Voters 110)42vy. tigt4ifivit fo; MAU Mfadeg.._ _ jt woulci DO aouot oe unjust Teo say Inm-we lemons corresponaenrs devotion to Imperialism, and the hostility of Imperialism to Orleanists, of whom the Duke is one, might lead the immortal writer to rather hastily accept a story of this kind from a " high official personage." Other Imperialist devotees are equally prompt to reveal the Duke's little efforts to secure popularity in Madrid. The Constitutionnel says he affects great simplicity in his life. He goes out frequently on foot, accompanied by a single friend. He makes large distributions of food and money to necessitous families. Every operative out of work who calls at his house is relieved. His residence is besieged every day by crowds of hungry men—hungry for place as well as for food. He is thinking of building an entire suburb of the capital for the working classes. The French writers seem to think that these efirts to win popularity are discreditable. And no doubt all bribery is wrong; but it is better to buy the aid of unwilling Persons than to shoot them in the streets. THE FATAL DUEL IN SPAIN. The Gaulois has the following details of the fatal en counter between Don Henry of Bourbon and the Duke of Montpensier : Henry of Bourbon, born on April 19th, 1823, was nearly 47 years of age. No one, however, would have supposed him to be more than 36. Of short stature, but of graceful figure and easy manners, he preserved an ap pearance of youth which was not diminished by a moustache scarcely marked, and an expression full of vivacity. De prived of all his fortune he lived from day to day and found his principal resource in the generosity of his brother, Don Francis d'Assise, who always shewed on his behalf an inexhaustible liberality. Some months ago the prince occupied a small set of furnished rooms on the third story in a house in the Ruo de Riven. Since then his brother furnished for him rooms more in accordance with his rank, but Prince Henry, who was ambitious of playing a part in the Spanish Revolution, would not occupy them, and went to Spain, despite the opposition of all his family. Henry of Bourbon was married in 1847, at Rome. Like most of the Spanish Bourbons, he made what is called in court phraseology a mesa2liance. He married Donna Helena de Castelvi, daughter of the Count of that name. By this marriage he had four chil dren, one son and three daughters. No sooner had the revolution manifested itself than Henry of Bourbon hastened to recognise it, and even wrote violent brochures against the dethroned Queen. The advances he made towards the anti-dynastic party in Spain were not very well received. The prince's letters to Marshal Prim hardly received an answer. The Prince went on writing pamphlets, but now they were directed against the Duke of Montpensier. His vehe ment attacks were not noticed by the Duke while he was absent from Madrid. They did not, moreover, produce the effect which the Prince desired—his restora tion to the rank of which he was deprived by Isabella 11. Henry of Bourbon accordingly joined the Republican party unreservedly, and it was among these new- tan that he bought his seconds for the fatal en counter. The Journal de Paris states that the duel was produced not by one attack in particular, but by a series which had been directed ever since the revolution of September against the Duke and his family. Nearly a year ago, after a very violent letter had been written by Don Henry and pub lished in several journals, the Duke of Montpensier wished to send his seconds to his cousin, but was pre vented by the persuasions of the principal members of his family, more especially of the Count of Paris. Last Saturday one of the most faithful followers of the Orleans family received a despatch from the aide de camp of the Duke of Montpensier, in which he said that the duke was well, and begging him to communicate this fact to the Countess of Paris. The reason for this message was not guessed, so little was known of the real state of affairs. It was only on Sunday morning that the duel and its tragic conclusion were known. On the ith of March Don Enrique de Bourbon, after having written several pamphlets in which the Duke de Montpensier was the object of unsparing attack, published, in the Madrid journals an article in which the claims of the Duke the Throne of Spain were severely criticized. When this article appeared the Duke de Montpcnsier was in Madrid. He felt it to be impossible, notwithstanding the advice that was given to him, to allow such outrageous insults to pass unnoticed. The preliminaries were all gone through, and t nally a meeting was fixed for Saturday last. The duel was fought in the open country, in a field'about 200 metres distant from the little town of Alcorcon, which is situate about eight kilometres from Madrid. We are well ac quainted with this part of the environs of Madrid. It pre sents a most dreary aspect—a perfectly barren plain, where not a tree, not a house, not a blade of grass, especially at this season, is to be seen. The eye can perceive nothing but interminable fields sown with barley, or wheat, and to ~which the arid - nature of the soil imparts a dusty hue. The town or village of Alcorcon is like all the other aldeas of Old Castile and La Mancha—a group of some 50 houses trnilt of earth, burnt by the sun, the surface of which crumbles away at the first gust of wind or the first shower of rain. The church is the only stone edifice in the place. The inn where combatants refresh themselves when these meetings are arranged for Alcorcon (which is frequently selected as a site for duels), and whither the wounded are conveyed when their injuries sat too severe to allow of their immediate return to Madrid, is little more than a mud hovel like the others. It was there that the body of Don Enrique was taken after the duel. The news 'reached Paris on Saturday evening ; and we new proceed to describe what has occurred here. As soon as the news of the death of his brother reached Don Francisco d'Assisses, that Prince sent to his nephew, the son of Prince Enrique, who is on duty in the garrison of Madrid, the following despatch : " ' Paris, 5, Evening. " ' My dear Nephew,--You know how much I feel the misfortune with which we have been visited. If it can afford any consolation, know that from this time you will find in me the paternal affection which you have lost, and which I desire to replace. " (FRANCISCO D'ASSISSES.' " The young Duke replied : "My clear Uncle,—l am in desolation. I Vow not what to do. Advise. " ENRiQuE DE BOURBON.' " The King, Don Francisco, replied to this appeal, so touching in its simplicity : " Paris. " 'Perform your duty. Attend the funeral, and then come at once to Paris. My arms are open to you.' Don Francisco sent for the daughters of his deceased brother from the school where they were residing, and by degrees broke to them the mournful intelligence of their father's death. The funeral of Prince Enrique occurred on Sunday, and provoked no manifestation in Madrid." THE FRENCH PRESS ON COUNT MONTA- LEMBE RT. The Journal des Debats says that France and religion have sustained a cruel loss in the death of Count Monta lembert. The constant expectation of approaching death had imparted additional serenity to his great mind, and given increased elevation to his thoughts. Hi s last writings were full of solicitude for the Catholic Church, and the future of the country for while he was French and liberal, he was also passionately andprofoundly a Christian. It is not possible at present to, realise this noble life which has left so many great memories, and of which the last page was so glorious. To-day we can only realise the sense of his loss, and the blank which he has left in our midst. The Ccrnatitutionttel thinks that no one can deny that in Montelembert liberty and religion have lost one of their moat eminent and glorious defenders. The Liberti remarks that a grand existence is extin guished, and that M. de Montalembert will remain one of the great personages of all time. He was equally attached to religion and liberty. They were never separated in his heart, and their union explains the principle which guided and governed his life. He was often extreme and exaggerated in his views, but he only devoted himself to the cause of generosity. All shales of opinion are unanimous in regretting him, and frisnds and adversaries will equally mourn for him, whose lift was so worthily passed. It is stated that Rear-Admiral Sir John Dalrymple flay, Dart, M.P., has signified to the Admiralty his in tention of commuting his half-pay, and retiring from tha vervice, as he is by the new scheme of retirement prevented from serving again afloat. Monsignor Uapel, writing to the Times to contra dict a statement in the Saturday Review, to the effect that he would rather a man were an infidel than a Protestant, makes the following observations: " I hold that to believe in any portion, however fragmentary, of the Christian revelation, is far better than 'to deny Christianity altogether.' As to Papal infallibility, it has been a part of my belief from childhood. Once admit that the Church is an organic body endowed with gift of Infalibility, then it appears to me to be a necessary consequence that ex cathedra u tt erances o f t h e P ope are infallible. But this implicit belief is very diferent from the explicit act of fait required whenever the Church defines a doctrine to be of revelation." The death is announced of the Vicar of Conway, father of Mr. Clbome Morgap j M.P. 4...4..k1 THE AMERICAN PRESS. The New York Tribune says :—" The present po pulation of the United States has been variously guessed' at from 40,000,000 to 45,000,000, and more sanguine patriots talk of 50,000,000 now, and 200,000,000 within a generation or two. A care fully E.repared estimate, which we publish on the eleventh page of this issue, gives 40,800,000 as the probable population on Juce 1, 1870, when the ninth census is to be taken. 1 his is an increase of over 9,000,000 ; certainly very creditable under the cir cumstances of a decade of war and political dissen sions." The New York Citizen remarks,—" Senator Fenton is prominently spoken of in Republican circles as the probable successor of General Grant. Mr. Fenton is an able man, and has been wonder fully successful. He held the State of New York for many years for the Radicals; he was then chosen Senator, and it now looks as though he would crown his ambition by being a candidate for the Presidency. He has extraordinary political capacity ; his career has been brilliant and his rise rapid. The New York Nation observes :—" An interest ing letter from the Washington correspondent of the New York Times represents the relations of the Administration with the Republican party in Con gress as very unsatisfactory, as not only not friendly, but not far removed from hostility, and the condi tion of the party itself in both branches as one of great disorganization. That the influence of the Administration over the majority was small, and getting gradually smaller, has been easily inferred for some time from the way in which the Presiden tial recommendations have been treated in the case of Virginia and of Judge Hoar's nomination, and from the amount of approval and encouragement bestowed on Mr. Dawes for his attack on it. At the bottom of all the trouble is that cause of nearly all the troubles of the country—' offices.' There were two courses open to General Grant when he entered the White House—one was to exercise his own discretion absolutely in the distri bution of his patronage, and totally disregard party claims and interests ; the other was to follow in the beaten track, and consult nothing but party claims and interests—that is, let the managers' make all his appointments and dismissals for him. If he had followed the first, he would have had the support of the people ; if he had followed the second, he would have had the support of the politicians. He followed neither the one nor the other. The result is, that he is in danger of falling down between two stools. He had a chance to break up a bad system, which is eating what is good in the Government away like a cancer ; but, partly owing to the force of circumstances, and partly to an over-modest estimate of his own strength, he let it go by, and tried a compromise, which is having the fate com promises in the construction of Cabinets usually have. He took Mr. Boutwell in by way of throwing a tub to the party whale ; but Mr. Boutwell is no longer accepted as a financial guide. His funding system and his theories are being scornfully rejected, and each member of the party is constructing a financial policy of his own, partly by way of showing the folly of Boutwell's, and partly with a view to paying the national debt and restoring specie payments. He chose an At torney-General.for his honesty and ability; but the politicians hate him like poison, and would like no thing better than to be perpetually rejecting his nomination to high and lucrative offices. The foreign policy of the Government is apparently being taken out of the Secretary's hands altogether. Some treaties are being left unratified because Se nators don't like Seward, others because they don't like Fish; and it will be well if we do not find the belligerency of Cuba recognised by the House of Representatives before the State Department even gets sight of the belligerent." The Philadelphia Ledger thus alludes to the elec tion of three United States Senators by the Legis lature of Mississippi :—" Under the Constitution of the United States, the Senate is divided as equally as may be into three classes, so that one third may be chosen every second year. When a 'State is admitted the Senate determines the classes to which the new Senators shall belong, so that the regular change of one-third of the members shall take place every two years, and these classes so assigned to the State and thenceforth main tained. When Mississippi was admitted in 1817, her Senators were assigned to the first and second classes, so that before the recent elec lion there were vacancies in terms expiring respectively on the 4th day of March, 1875, for the first class, and on March 4, 1871, for the second class. It may here be mentioned that the terms of Senators of the third class expire on March 4, 1873. With this explanation the terms of the three Sena tors just announced to have been elected can be understood. William H. Revel, a coloured man, formerly a citizen of Ohio, but now a resident of Natchez, and a member of the Mississippi Senate from Adams County, has been elected to the U. S. Senate for the term ending March 4, 1871, and Brevet-Major-Gen. Adelbert Ames, U.S. Army, for merly of Maine, but now commanding the Fourth Military District (Department of Mississippi), has been elected for the term ending March 4, 1875. Gen. James L. Alcorn, recently chosen Governor of Mississippi by a majority of 38,010 votes, has been elected U. S. Senator for the term commencing AlniAcli 4th, 1871. The name of the coloured Se nator is given as published in the telegraphiC de spatch, but the election returns issued in general orders by General Ames give 11. R. Revels as the name of the State Senator from Adams county, Mississippi. Revels was elected to the Mississippi Senate by a majority of 2,561 in a total vote of 3,889. Mr. Revel was born in freedom, in North Carolina, in 1822, and, desiring to receive an edu cation, removed to Union county, Indiana, where he passed two years in a Friends' seminary. He then entered the Methodist ministry, pursued his studies at the Dark County Seminary, Ohio, and became a preacher, teacher and lecturer among the coloured people in the Western States. In 1861, he was preacher at Balti more, Maryland, and assisted in organising the first two coloured regiments in Maryland and Missouri. In 1863 and 1864 he taught school in St. Louis, and next proceeded to Vicksburg, Missouri, where he acted as assistant to the Provoat Marshal in con trolling the affairs of the freedmen, also organising churches and lecturing. Subsequently he spent two years in Kansas and Missouri, preaching and delivering lectures, and next proceeded to Natchez, Miss., where he took up his permanent resi dence. He is presiding elder of the Methodist Church for Sou' here Mississippi, and in July, 1869, was elected member of the City Council of Natchez. At the election on December Ist he was sent to the Mississippi Senate, from Adams county, and on January 20th was elected United States Senator." The New York Sun thus discusses Butler's mo tives : General Butler seems unable to recognize disinterested motives in any public man. Conse quently he says that Mr. Dawes has arraigned the Administration in order to curry favour with Mas sachusetts and to succeed Mr. Claflin as Governor. Gen. Butler, in hie turn, is laying pipe for Mr. Wilson's seat in the Senate. Accordingly the eyes of the Boston inquisition are upon him, and Father Bird, the hiuh priest of the Young Radical Club, stands by Wilson as he stands by Dawes, while Gen. Butler's present course is not likely to enhance his prestige in the Lowell district." Sir John Young contemplates a visit to Winne pg at the close of the Otawa parliamentary session The Insurgent Convention has drafted a new Bill of Rights as a basis of negotiation with the Canadian Government. The main points are —" That the Territory be governed by a local Legislature in conjunction with the Governor and Executive Council ; that a two-thirds vote shall override a Governor's veto ; that universal suffrage be allowed ; that there be no direct taxation except by local legislation ; that there be a homestead law ; that there bo a railroad to Fort William or Pembina in five years ; that the public buildings are to bo paid for by the Dominion Government," and a few more provisions. The latest telegraph reports show the failure of Dr. Schultz and Major Boulton's attempt to suppress Rielle, for their force was dispersed or captured, and among the prisoners was Major Boulton. It was at first rumoured that he would be shot, but later accounts state that none of the prisoners will be thus dis posed of. In Canada it is said that the Imperial Govern ment recommends that immediate payment for the terri tory bo made to the Hudso❑ Bay Company, and that it will transport via Lake Superior the Royal Canadian 1:i11:3s, and a bat: cry' of artillery, in May. The Washington Govern ment refused to allow troops to pass throu_gh the States. The Fenians, as might have been anticipated, ar•e directing their attention to Winnipeg; their Congress has been this week in Session at New York, and it is believod a raid in aid of the insurgents is contemplated. AMERICAN •AFFAI RS. (From the Anglo-American nines.) The resolution of the lowa Representative, Mr. Loughriclge, came up for action on the 21st Feb. in the following form :—" Resolved, That, in the opinion of the House, the business interests cf the country require an increase in the volume of circulating currency, and the Committee on Banking and Currency are instructed to report to the House, at as early a day as possible, a bill increasing the currency to the amount of at least 50,000,000 dollars " In reply to Mr. Garfield, who hoped the previ ous question would not be seconded, Mr. Ingersoll hoped that it would be, and that the House would vote directly on the question whether the country was to have more money or not. The previous question was seconded, and the resolution was finally passed by a vote of 108 to 73. The curious error entertained by some members from the West cropped out immediately. Tney cannot divest themselves of the idea that greenbacks are MO i ey, and if a man honestly believes that by a vote of Con gress the money of the country can be increased in a few hours by 10,000,000 sterling, it only shows an extraordinary degree of moderation in him to limit himself to so paltry a sum. When insolvent States can but get the world to consider stamped bits of paper to be money, Venezuela and Mexico, Greece and Spain, will at once be relieved from farther trouble on the score of finance. • The vote had no refer ence to party, Democrats and Republicans being tho rcughly intermixed; Messrs. Butler and Bingham vot ing with Messrs. Voorhees and Fernando Wood for the resolution, and Messrs. Banks and Dawes voting with Messrs. Cox and Brooks against it, so it was passed wholly irrespective of party. The Tribune predicted that the Democrats would be found en masse on the side of infla tion ; but, so far from this being the case, the proportion of :he Democrats favouring the resolution was, if any thing, less than the proportion of Republicans. It argued that they would talk incessantly of the injustice of paying the ploughholder in an inferior currency to the bond holder, while doing all they can to maintain this discre pancy. If the necessity of the gigantic Civil War forced the Government to the desperate extremity of issuing lying promises to pay, what does a greenback now issued promise ? The others, when issued to tide over enormous difficulties, said, we cannot pay at present, but will as soon as we can ; but now, when there is no such emer gency, an issue of unredeemable paper money is unconsti tutional, and it is very evident that the U.S. Supreme Court thinks so. BUDGET OF PEKSONAL.—Mr. B. F. Wale has ac cepted the position of Vice-President, for the State of Ohio, of the Cuban Charitable Aid Society, He was re cently Vice-President of the United States, and went within a vote of one of being President, for if the Senate had found Andrew Johnson guilty, Mr. Wade would have succeeded for the remainder of the term.—George Fox, a man stated to be possessed of considerable wealth, died a few days ago in New York, leaving property valued at about $400,000 to the Government for the Iquidation of the national debt. His relatives are con testing the will. —General Lee contemplates a visit to Europe this spring. ---Morris Cherry, the richest man in Kentucky county, Illinois, is dead, leaving a plum to a dozen relatives. General M'Clellan has been elected first director of the Hudson Highland Suspension Bridge Corn pany.—Koopmanschap is coming East next month for more contracts.—Calvin C. Clark was murdered in Clark County, Ark., on Feb. 9th, by a desperado named Sam. Halsey. The murder was committed to revenge Clark's assisting a Sheriff in Texas to arrest a gang to which Halsey belonged. Large rewards have been offered by the Governors of Missouri, Texas, and Arkansas for the cap ture of the assassin.— Gen. J. C. Kelton, U.S.A., and Mr. Charles A. Page, United States Consul, Zurich, a.irived in the llainmonia.—Col. John W. Forney has given a large party in Washington, at which President Grant, all the members of the Cabinet, and the leading Senators and Representatives, and other notable persons, were pre sent.—Greenwaldth, who was murdered recently by the Spaniards in tho streets of Havanna, left in New York a widow nod six small children in destitute circumstances. The firm by whom Mr. Greenwaldth was employed have treated his family very liberally. It appeared on inquiry that ho was not an American citizen, but a subject of Hesse-Darmstadt.—General Wool loft $25,000 by will to Williams College, not available, however, until the death of his widow.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Edgar Stantcn as Consul at Bristol for the United States of America. —An American paper says that Signor Cerruti, late Italian Minister to this country, is coming back to marry a rich Miss Niles of New York. James Fisk, jun., has withdrawn his libel suit against Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican.— Brigham Young, who recognises him as a defender, has sent a letter to George Francis Train, wishing him success in his candidature for the Presidency.— General Ames re signed his position as Lieut.-Colonel in the United States Army, previous to the President signing the Missis sippi Bill.—Moses H. Grinnell, Collector of New York, was in Washington, the guest of President Grant.— The late Anson J. Burlingame had a Lfe policy for $5,000 in the Massachusetts Life Insurance Company, which granted him permission to travel in Europe wherever his official duties carried him. It is supposed that his re mains will bo taken home and interred iu Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston. —Mrs Abbott Lawrence has given twenty-five thousand dollars toward the Art Museum in Boston.--A biography of James Fisk, jun., is in prepara tion.—At the Manchester Assizes, last Tuesday, Captain Madden was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for assaulting two American gentlemen at the Queen's Hotel, on the sth ult.—Mr. Orrin Sage, a wealthy citizen of Ware,Massachusetts, has given Williams college $30,000, payable in three equal annual instalmeuts, the first of which has already been paid to make up the $25,000 neces sary to secure the State's gift of the same amount.—H. K. Brown, the Boston sculptor, has completed a fine medal lion likeness of the late Joshua R. Giddings, which has been cast in bronze and will be placed on the dark Quincy granite monument, which Joseph Carew of Boston is now executing, and which will soon be erected to Mr. Giddings's memory at Ashtabula, Ohio. Hon. Reverdy Johnson is pre paring a book, giving the secret history of his mission to Eng t land.—J udge Strong, the new United States Supreme Cour Justice, is a native of Somers. His father was Rev. Wm. S. Streug, once pastor of the Congregational church in Somers. Rev. Dr. Edward Strong, of Pittsfield, Mas sachusetts, is his brother.—A motion was made in the Senate to reconsider the vote sanctioning his nomination, but it was not successful. —The Trareller says that the generous offer of $lOO,OOO for buildings for the Boston Theological Seminary, made by Isaac Rich, on condition that the Methodists raise $lOO,OOO more by a certain time, is likely to be accepted. One gentleman of Lynn, Massa chusetts, has put down his name for $lO,OOO of the last. named sum, and there aro numerous smaller sums. BUDGET OF MIsCELLAN EoUS.—A Washington cor respondent-has found some one who loves that city, "not as the goal of the office. seeker-not as the place for whole sale dissipation-but as a long-cherished home."-A Geor gia Judge has sent an entire Grand Jury to gaol for con tempt of court in censuring him for harbouring a murderer. - A Minnesota county is said to have a baby crop of 164 to the square mile.-Central City, Colorado, offers $2,000 per year for a minister, with a detail of two constables to pro tect him. -Buffalo brewed 153,000 barrels of beer last year.-Japan is to send an envoy to America to inquire into the condition of Japanese subjects resident there.- Sandwich Island advices to January sth report the hoist ing the Consular flag of Austria, at Honolulu. The mis sionary packet Morning Star was wrecked in the Pacific, on October 18, but her passengers were saved and taken to Honolulu. An agent had gone to China to induce Chinese immigration to the islands. The volcano of Marna Loa was again active, and severe earthquakes had occurred in Hawaii.-The New Orleans Picayune states the re markable fact that a company in that city which manu factures ice by artificial means has received an order from Philadelphia for 50 toes of ice. -The abstract of the condition of the national banks of the United States on January 22, shows resoerces and liabilities aggregating $1,544,733,748. The specie held amounted to $48,292,681 Legal tenders, $85,96;1,287; Three pe r Cents., $27,460,000. Ono bank each in Oregon, Montana Idaho, and Utah failed to report in time.-The " Home for Aged Men," just opened in Boston, covers 40,000 square feet between Wor cester and Springfield streets. The estate was purchased of the city for $50,000, and paid for by private subscrip tion. The carpet and furniture dealers of the city fur nished the building with all necessary to make a comfort able home for aged men. Th 3 present number of old gen tlemen is 20, and there is accommodation for 30 more.- - The sell- of trustees of the Seventh Ward of New York have just asked the Board of Education to provide for teaching the Irish language in the common schools.- " Gibraltar" is once more becoming a cry in Spain. A newspaper has been started for the special purpose of agi tating the question of the restoration of the famous rock, and it is reported that the Minister of State has intimated that the Spanish Government intends shortly to open ne gotiations with the Governuent of England on the subject. Fifty-three members of Parliament have consented to add their names to the parliamentary committee of the Society of Arts for promoting the reduction of the rate of post age to one halfpenny for four ounces of printed paper.- The failure of the ice crop to the South and West gives a great impetus to the business in Maine; ice houses are springing up as if by magic, all along the Kennebec, not less than fifteen having begun within the last two weeks. Along the river is a vast succession of busy men and moving teams for miles ; if the season continues favourable, a crop never before equalled will be gathered. Philadelphia has ordered ita supply from New Orleans.- This pun is clipped from a religious Massachusetts news paper: -" Maiden Mars' was the appellation given to Miss Anthony by an admirer at her rcoeut semi-centen nial.' If maiden mas are the result 9f the woman',s rights tuoirenlOnt, let's be done with it." • • MONETARY REPORTS -YESTERDAY. The progress of the fortnightly settlements hag chickea business. The scarcity of stock in the Railway Market has promoted a further advancement, 'and foreign bond generally have been firm. Telegraph shares, however, have been depressed. Consols have been steady, at and 921 for money, and 924 to 93 for April. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 911 to 94 Exchequer Bills par to 4s. prem. Bank Stock, 20 to 242. India Five per Cents. have been done at mi to 1121, and India Bonds at 20s. to 255. prem. The market for English railway stocks has been steady, and the " bears " having in some instances oversold, a further improvement has taken place. Caledonian has been firm, and better, and Great Western shews an en hancement of London and Brighton has participated in the improvement, being higher. London and North- Western and Midland have risen North-Eastern Ber wick has advanced 1. There has been very little inquiry for Indian Railway Stocks, at about previous quotations. Canadian Shares have been unaltered in value, with a moderate business doing. Foreign shares have maintained late prices, but the demand for them has not been active. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank to- ' day. In the market for foreign bonds not much animation has been noticed. The tone, however, has been good, and the movements, though not important, have been favour able. Egyptian (1868) have risen 4 i Spanish I, Russian (1822) ditto Nocolas Railway I, New Granada t and Venezuela 1. For American securities there has been a healthy inquiry. The Five-Twenty (1882 and 1885) Bonds have risen g, and the 1887 and Ten-Forty per cent. Erie and Illinois Central shares shew an advance of 1 and respectively. British Mines have been flat, and foreign have been dealt in quietly. For Bank Shares there has been only a moderate de mand, at about yesterday's closing quotations. As regards Telegraph Shares, Anglo-American have been steady, and better, but Anglo-Mediterranean have receded British Indian Submarine g, Falmouth. Gilbraltar, and Malta, g ; and French Cables, Hooper's Telegraph Works have been flat at dis. to par. Silver's Indiarubber shares have fallen li, and Telegraph Construction, g. Miscellaneous securities have been quiet, and prices have been without important movement. Stimulated by the settlement the money market has been firmer to-day. The demand for accommodation, both at the Bank and in other quarters, has been more extensive. Nevertheless, three months' paper has been negotiated at 3 per cent. The Douro has arrived at Lisbo from the West Indies with £22,793. Bills on Italy have been in request, and the rates have been lower, otherwise no material alteration has been noticed. A vessel has arrived at Liverpool from New Orleans with £16,000. The dividend on the Caledonian Railway will be at th• rate of 32 per cent. per annum. The report of the Merchant Banking Company (Limited), to be presented on the 17th instant, recommends a divi dend at the rate of s_per cent. per aanum, the payment of which will absorb £9,319. The sum of £20,000 has been written off the " amalgamation account," and £2,049 remains to be carried forward. At a meeting of the Credit Foncier of England the fol lowing resolution, proposed by Mr. Mowatt, and seconded by General Balfour, was adopted :—" That the present capital of the company, consisting of two million pounds, divided into two hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each, be reduced to one million pounds divided into two hundred thousand shares of five pounds each, and that the conditions contained in the company's memorandum of association be modified accordingly. At a meeting of the Land, Credit, and Agency Com pany it was shewn that there was an available balance of £4,010. An interim dividend of ls. 6d. per share, equal to 3 per cent. for the half-year was declared, which will absorb £1,875, and leave, after setting aside £soo'for re serve, £1,635 to be carried forward. The traffic returns of the South-Eastern Railway for the week ending March 14 present a total of £21,707, being a decrease of £435, when compared with the cor responding week of 1869. The traffic receipts of the Smyrna and Cassaba Railway Company, for the week ending February 27th., have amounted to £1,279, against_22,lol for the corresponding period of last year. MARKETS-YESTERDAY. LONDON WOOL MARKET, TllESDAY.—Business in colonlit wool has been only to a moderate extent. Nevertheless the ini- / provement realised last sales has been established. English wool has been quiet, but firm. „1 BOROUGH AND SPITALALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, TUESDAY.-The supplies of potatoes have been moderate. The trade has been quiet, at our quotations. English straws, 1205. to 130 s. ; regents, 755. to 110 s. ; Scotch regents, 755. to 110 s. ; rocks, 70s. to 755. ; and French, 60s. to 70s. per ton. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUES DAY.-The supply was moderate, and the trade was dull, at the following quotations :-Prime meadow hay, 755. to 82s. 6d.; inferior ditto, 60s. to 70s. ; Rowen, 50s. to 85s. ; prime clover, 110 s. to 120 s. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 055.: prime second-cut clover, 100 s. to 1103. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 903. ; and straw, 265. to 30s. per load. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, TUESDAY.-The sugar mar ket continues quiet, but prices are firm, owing to the decrease in the stocks on hand as compared with last year. Arrivals limited. Brown to middling yellow Natal,"3ls. to 86s. ; new Porto Rico, 325. 6d. to 355. Tea hasremained depressed, and the auctions have gone flatly. Coffee has been steady in value, though the inquiry has been limited for both native and planta tion. Rice without change. LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.-The tallow market is firmer, at 465. 6d. buyers, for Y.C. spot and month. For future delivery, however, the market is quiet, April to June being 455. 6d. ; and 465. 6d. for last three months. Linseed oil firm, at 325. 3d. London ; 325. Hull, spot ; 325. 3d. month. English brown rape, 425., buyers, spot, and month. The auctions of Spanish indigo are progressing with increased spirit. LONDON METAL MARKET, TUESDAY.—The market hat ruled inactive. Tin spelter and lead are unchanged in value, but Chili copper is firmer at £6O ss. to £66 10s. for bars. LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, TUESDAY.—Market steady and unchanged. Bars, 661 to 66} ; ores, 13 to 13i. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—Market steady. Sales, 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 on speculation. Import of the day, 10,000 bales. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET TnEsDAY.—.Floin' quiet and unchanged. Wheat flat and declining. Corn and French flour steady. CORK BUTTER MARKET, TUESDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1355. seconds, 130 s. ; thirds, 105 s. ; fourths, 82s. • fifths and sixths not quoted. One hundred and twenty firkins in the market. Mild cured—firsts, M.; seconds, 139; thirds, 1225. Four firkins in the market. PARIS FLOUR, TIIRSDAY.—FIour, current month, 57; April, 57 ; May, 57'50. Rape oil, current month, 115 ; September. December, 105. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 14.—Banca tin, 71/. Rape oil, Mardi, 41; May, 44-i ; October, 42k. Linseed oil, spot, 331 ; spring, 331; Autumn, 35. BERLIN, MARCH 14.--Rye, ]larch, 441 • April-May, 441. Espe on, May, 13/, August, 13 5-16. Spirits, April-May, 14'22 ; June, 14'22 ; Autumn, 15. HAVRE, MARCH 14.—N0. 12 Sugar, Si. Muscorado, 7i. EVIL SPIRITS IN IRELAND.—At the Cork Assizes ib woman named Elizabeth Higgins, has been indicted for having falsely pretended that she had the, power of exorcising evil spirits ; that the house of Thomas Coleman, Ballycrana, near Midleton, was " airy," by which she means that it was haunted, and alleged that she had the power of driving spirits away and that, by those fraudulent pretences, she unlawfullY obtained from Ellen Coleman sixpence, some potatoes, and several articles of clothing. The prisoner went to Coleman's house while her father and mother were away and persuaded the girl to give her the articles mentioned in the indictment. She took from her pocket a bottle in which there was a green branch, which appeared to be the charm. The judge held that no false pretence wag made out, and the prisoner was acquitted on that charge. She was, however, convicted on another charge. In the course of the case the judge said that if the witness Ellen Coleman was taken as a specimen of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Midleton, the only conclusion that he could come to was that there was such Arcadian simplicity there as would render it a most enticing and enviable district to live in. BIRTHS. TALBOT—Cn the 14th inst., at 10, Great George-street , Westminster, the Hon. Mrs. John G. Talbot, of a son. WHITCOMBE— On the 14th inst., the wife of Fred. S. Whit combs, Esq., Haverstock-hill, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. HOWE—WARD - On the 10th inst., at Carlisle, Charles John Howe, MA., son of the late John Howe, Esq., of Stan wit, to Bessie, second daughter of Samuel Ward, Esq., Eglin ton-terrace, Dublin. SEYMOUR- HALL—On the 15th inst., at Hillingdon, Captain. John Ifobart Culme Seymour, 82d itegt., to Mary Eliza, the only daughter of Richard Hall, Esq., of linfjpgdos Furze. DEATHS. CLARK - On the 13th inst , at Killorby Hall, Darlington , Bentley Clark, E-q., aged 54. GOODE On the 14th inst., Emily Augusta Goode, of No. 9 8 ; Bishops, a e-street, aged 49. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , O No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SuN Office, NO. 112, Etraud, i n the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex.'' Woita.oclay, Mira 16, 1870 _.l . r= - ; 1 P. A J 3 res trif. Dor, 11t, I O _! -