The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-20 00:00:00

MURDER , IN NORFOLK. On Friday morning last a deliberate murder was committed on the estate of Sir Hansom Berneys, in a small village called Barton Bendish, about eight miles eastward of Downham Market. The deceased, Beujamin Black, was about o 5 or 56 years of age, and had been on the estate all his life, and his father before him. Ile had lately acted in the capacity of woodman, and was remarkable for his quiet and unobtrusive habits. On Friday morning last, about 4 o'clock, when is bed„he heard the report of a gun, and got up and went to a planta tion called " Barton Lays," from which direction the report was heard. The unfortunate man was never afterwards seen alive. The body was dis covered by five labourers going to their work in hoeing -wheat near the wood in question. No tune was lost in giving information to the authorities, and Superintendent Watson, of Dowuham Market, was put in possession of the facts so far a 3 they are known. The inquest was held on Saturday before Mr. T. L. Reed, deputy coroner for the. Hundred of Clackclose, and a respectable jury, of which the Rev. S. G. Read was foreman. After viewing the body the following witnesses were examined : Anna Black, sworn, said—l am the widow of Benjamin Black, the deceased. Yesterday morning at I o'clock we were in bed. The deceased asked me if I had heard a gun, which I had not done. He then dressed himself and left the house. I did not see which way he went, but some time after I heard the report of a gun. It was a loud report, and ap peared to me to be outside the wood. The report did not appear to echo. It might take 20 minutes to walk to the w ood. The report took place in as short time as he could get to the wood, but I did not take particular notice. I did not see him again alive. The deceased was brought to my house in the course of the morning. I never heard him say he was at variance with any one. Ile had money in his pockets. He took his purse out the night before. He had two half-crowns, a shilling, and a sixpence, which he said he would send the child to Fincham with to pay the poor rates, and said he had money enough in his pocket to pay the men, meaning the men working in the wood. I took half-a-crown out of my pocket to make up Bs. 6d. lie handed me back 6d. lle had a bag purse made of " cartoon." He put the purse in his pocket before he went to bed. I have not seen the purse since. He was always in the habit of going to a wood called " the Lays" the first thing in the morn ing. lie was a woodman, and had the care of that wood. Charles Kidd, of Barton Bendish, saw deceased on Friday morning at a quarter past four. About half an hour after he saw him he heard the report of a gun while he was in his master's stable. Robert Wing, of the same place—l work for Mr. George Read. I was employed hoeing wheat near the Lays. Yesterday morning I was going to my work about a quarter or 20 minutes past six. I had to go through the wood. As soon as I got through the gate of the first field, into which thalrood gate opens, I saw something lying, and when within 100 yards I saw it was a man. I had four other men with me, who also worked for Mr. Read. We saw at once that he was dead. I thought his nose was bleeding until we moved him, when I saw he was shot. Ilis fingers were cold, but his wrist was warm. He was bleeding. I saw blood drop from his face ; I saw it running from his eye to his whisker, and thence dropping on the ground. We found a pool of blood under the head as large as my hat, some fluid and some clotted. He was lying on his left side, with his knees drawn up, his hat on, his head upon the ground, and his face rather turned back and upwards, his arms lying limp and useless. We sent for Robert Clarke, Mr. Read's shepherd, who brought a cart. I went into to the wood to search for footmarks, and found in a gladeway a broken bottle, having some hop leaves inside, also a piece of paper like what is used to wrap sug.tr in, contain ing about two common charges, some of which was spilt. I gave it to the police-officer Balls, who came up to nie afterwards. Near to the place where I picked up the paper I found a fresh footmark ; it might be five or six yards from it. It was the foot mark of a man, the impression not perfect, but the heel and ball of the boot and shoe seemed to be left. The impression of square-headed nails was visible in the mark left by the ball ; they were middle-sized and square. We afterwards found several trac!s of footmarks, but none plain till we got on the top of the hill in the wood, possibly a furlong from where we found the paper and first footmark. This footmark showed the heel, the balls, and the toe, and resembled the footmark near where the paper was found. Both were made by a person going in a contrary direction from the body. We saw no more footmarks in the wood, but we saw a trail, as if some person in walking had brushed off the dew from the grass. We followed the trail to the opposite side of the wood, and thence by the side of the edge bounding the wood. At the corner of the field there is a gap over which he appeared to have passed, and through a piece of vetches cornerwise to a stile. This trail was con tinued by turning down under the fence, to the end of which we went, and left it on that side of the wood in the direction for Fincham. Clarke and I then went back to the body the nearest way we could. During my search I found some small pieces of shattered paper by the of the clap-post of the gate and a ditch. I examined the paper, which seemed like the paper containing the gunpowder. The gate where the deceased was shot was off the hinges, upon the spur of the gatepost, and not fastened. When we first found the deceased his watch appeared to have been half drawn out of his pocket, which was drawn up with it, and the ring by which the chain was attached was broken off, and the chain laid loose on the waistcoat. When we first found the deceased one of my companions went into the wood to call Hubbard Lingley, who is a nephew of the deceased, who was working in the wood. My companion said, " Hub bard, come here." I saw him join my companion in the wood, and after talking a minute they came to the body. I think Hubbard Lingley said, " Oh, my uncle ! my uncle !" I saw the tears run down his face, and he wrang his hands. I heard him mention the deceased's watch, but I cannot say what he said about it. Ile also said something about deceased's purse, but I cannot say what. He put his hand into deceased's pocket, but did not take anything out. He afterwards said, " There is nothing ther. ; but my uncle always carried his money with him." Robert Clarke, of Barton Benilish, shepherd to Mr. George Read, gave evidence corroborating that of Robert Wing in every particular, he being his c)mpanion in the researches through the wood. William Cater, of Fincham, surgeon, was called, and said—from information received I went yester day morning, the 17th, to view the body of Benja min Black. I found him lying upon a sofa in his cottage, about 11 a.m. He was dead, and death had resulted from a gun-shot wound in the left eve, and from several shot wounds in the upper part of the left chest. I cannot say for certain what vital organ was injured, but deceased evidently died from gun-shot wounds. Those wounds could not possibly have been inflicted by himself. He appeared to have died the instant he was wounded, without even a stru'gle. lam of opinion that the gun must have been held 12 or 14 yards from his head ; if it had been htld from a short distance the shot woull have '' balled " and would have entered the head in a lump, instead of dropping the shot, which caused the wouvis in the left breast. I can not say, without making a post-mortem examina tion, wh , _!ther the shot entered the body in an oblique, direction, as if fired from the ground, or whether theot struck the body point blank, as they woald do, if fired front the shoulder. The inquest was then adjourned. I AtircnnammENT. I— Holloway's Pills.—Counsel and Comfort. - A disordered stomach throws the whole system out of gear, and renders us unfitted both for work and amusement. A f ew d oses of these strengthening and puri - tying pills, taken according to their accompanying direc tions, will, however, speedily restore order, and re-enable tlm stomach to digest its food without dif&ulty. These ,x,ellent pills are suitable alike for the !peer and the pea sun', the soldier and the sailor, and particularly for home and foreign colonists. Holloway's pill s are very useful i n checking feverish attacks, bilious complaints and inflam „,,,tiowl. They have also made the most signal cures in cases of dropsy and diseases of the kidneys, heart, and lungs, when the sufferer seemed past the reach of medi cine, Miscellaneous American News. It was rumoured in America that the war-ship Dnnderburg bad been purchased by Prussia, but it turns out that France has become the owner. She is said to be a very powerful ironclad, but the fa.te of the Re Italia, by the same builder, is not encou raging. She appears to have hung heavily on her owner's hands till the Luxembourg crisis arose. It is an ill wind that blows no one good, as, we doubt not, the New York builder will acknowledge. The people of the Red River country in British North America, about 10,000 in number, are agita ting for annexation to the United States. Mr. Davis has at last been released from prison by the Court of Richmond, the Government having ordered the writ of Habeas Corpus to be obeyed. Ile is, however, under bail to appear next Novem ber. Ile left Richmond for New York, where he arrived on Thursday, on his way to Canada. The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeals of Georgia and Mississippi on the ground of want of jurisdiction. A riot has taken place at Mobile, and Mr. Kelly, a member of Congress, was . mobbed. Several persons were killed, and order was restored by the military. The cable also informs us that the negroes at Richmond and New Orleans are mani festing a disorderly spirit. It does not tell us the provocation, for which we must wait till the arrival of a mail. Gold is again flowing from New York to Europe. In addition to the £300,000 at sea, the Persia, which left New York on Wednesday, carries £400,000. These large remittances of specie are imparting strength to the English Stock and Share Markets. The reason of the influx is simply the May payment of the 5-20 dividends, two-thirds of which are held iu Europe. The coupons are presented for payment at the Treasury, and the gold, when received, is remitted in exchange. We are only be ginning to feel the effects of these half-yearly pay ments, which will periodically send to Europe a vast amount of American gold, unless the balance of trade turns heavily against England. There is no change in the price of gold by the telegram re ceived last night, the quotation being 137. Official letters received at the Indian Office de scribe Hancock's interview with the Cheyennes as unsatisfactory. The letters express apprehension of a general Indian war. WASHINGTON, April 24.—The Southern Famine Relief Commission has received $lO,OOO dollars in gold, additional, from California. General Sher man has been authorised to draw for five thousand dollars to relieve distress from the overflow of the Mississippi, in Louisiana. The bankrupt law, lately passed by Congress, stringently guards against all fraudulent assign ments and conveyances by which a preference is given to one or more creditors over others. The act comes into practical operation on the 11th of June next, but for four months previous to that date the operation of the law above referred to holds good. We notice in the Boston Advertiser an announce ment that the Universities of Harvard and Yale will not enter the lists in competition at the Paris Regatta. Our views on the subject have been already expressed, so that we need not here repeat our regret if such should prove the final decision. Several reasons are advanced by the Boston Adver tiser. First, that by the rules, each boat must carry a coxswain, and that the course would be only miles, instead of 4 miles, as at Putney. Yale ob jected to the length of the course, and also feared that some of their contestants would be out of con dition. Harvard considered that difficulty would exist in securing their complement of eight, and another difficulty arose in obtaining the necessary leave for the undergraduates. This it was thought could be easily arranged, but at a faculty meeting it was declared inexpedient to grant the prayer of the peti tioners. Enough money had been promised to meet the expenses, so that no financial reason stood in the way of the American boat taking a fair and honourable place in the race. The earnest protest of the Union League Club to the New York State senate against the extrava gance and corruption prevailing at Albany had been ordered to be returned whence it came by a majo rity of 27 to 3. The debate on the resolution was in character. There were loud protests against the truth of the accusations, and the usual amount of virtuous indignation. " Mr. Sessions," says Frank Leslie," resorted to the to quoque dodge, and accused members of the club of having been active members of the lobby during the winter, which, even if true, would not have disproved the truth of the charges, the chief matter to be attended to. Low and Folger were deeply impressed with the fact of there being no signatures to the resolutions, and although it was shown to be authenticated by the signature of the Secretary of the Club, and therefore the act of the body in its corporate capa city, these wise men shook their heads gravely at an omission making a dangerous precedent. Mr. O'Donnell drew a very fine line in regarding the resolutions in the light of a petition, and there fore voting for their reception ; but as if to atone for such an indiscretion, he praised the Senate, of which he is a member, as being superior to any that preceded it for many years, in ability, integrity, and economy—which is, perhaps, not saying much for it—and in face of the notorious fact that the taxes levied this year are over ten mills to the dollar, more than double any preceding year, strikes us as being a very cool and itnpudent assertion. There is, in fact, but one course for the members of the Legislature to pursue, if they would purify them selves from the foul stain their character has sus tained. Let them order an investigation, summon their accusers—they arc well known—before them, and take such evidence as may be offered in support of the charges. If these are found frivolous and false, let us know the fact by some authoritative decision. Even if true, their force may be broken by some well-contrived plausibilities of language ; but to disperse without any attempt to meet charges of corruption so specific and direct as these have been will cover every suspected member with lasting disgrace." Messrs. Rutty, Wightman, and Co. have just chartered the screw steamer Narva, to lay a tele graph cable between Florida and Cuba. The com pletion of this line will open direct telegraphic com munication between London and Havaunah. The Neu , York limes, in announcing that Charles Dickens had accepted an engagement in America, writes of the great author in a tone that will be read with pleasure by the general public of England : " It is now positively stated that Charles Dickens has accepted an engagement to give a course of his celebrated readings in this country. If this pro mise be realised, we believe that Mr. Dickens will find himself mistaken in the view which he holds of the temper of the American people towards him. He has been deterred from coming here because he imagines that he has provoked our bitter resent ment by his free handling of certain strongly marked features which he supposes to be peculiar to the Americans, in Martin Chuzzlewit' and The American Notes.' He is under the impression that he would be very unfavourably received, and find none welcome him. litre can assure him by anticipation that he is mistaken. His caricatures in Chuzzle wit' have been laughed at as cordially and good humouredly here, ason the other side of the Atlantic, and the world of readers is under too many obliga tions to him to remember to his disadvantage any injustice we may conceive him to have committed." Wilkes' Spirit makes the following observation, which should be brought to the notice of the Com mittee of the Paris Regatta :—" If not too late, we should be glad to see American yachtsmen join in a memorial to the French Regatta Committee for a modification of their rules, such as will allow the • entry of centre-board yachts." We believe that it is in consequence of the exclusion of centre-board yachts that the Vesta is now returning to America. The relative merits of a keel or a centre-board boat are much disputed. Admittance to a fair trial, not exclusion from it, would do most to settle the question. On the Ist May Governor English's inaugural message was submitted to the Connecticut Legisla ture. The document is written with decision and ability, and though its principles are largely dis sented from, its literary merits are fully acknow ledged. The Governor suppox is the policy of the President, and denounces the actione of the XXXIX. Congress, opposed by Mr. Johnson, as unsound and unconstitutional. The authority of Congress to pass and to bring into operation the Military Reconstruction Bill is denied in this mes sage. State Rights are supported, which, ac cording to Mr. English, were neither annulled nor abrogated by the rebellion. Passing from the Supreme Government to State affairs, favourable reports from the various departments are pre sented, and the progress made spoken of encourag ingly. The Governor recommends legislation to limit the work of children in factories, and he ad vises the passage of a law to stop employers in in fluencing the- votes of the employed. He recommends the abolition of the Poll Tax, approves the conduct of the State educational and charitable institutions during last year, including the reform school at Meriden, and the new insane asylum at Middletown. The funded debt of the State is now $9,828,400, having been reduced $571,600 during the year, and the sinking fund having been in creased $74,000, is now $1,284,307. After deduct ing all the assets, the total present liabilities of the State are $7,661,477. The taxable property has largely increased during the year, the grand list of 1866 exceeding that of the previous year by $13,926,664. The capital of the State school fund in September, 1866, was $2,043,835, and during the last year $124,021 was called in and reloaned in the State. The number of children entitled to the benefits of the fund was 120,824, to each of whom a dividend of $l.lO was declared. The war claims of the State a year since were $75,805, of which $6,750 have been paid, and $20,000 more have been allowed, and are ready for payment. There are 82 national banks in the State, with a capital of $24,496,600, and eight banks still operating under the State law, with $1,970,500 in capital, and $111,747 in circulation. The deposits in the 52 savings banks during the year were $3,861,376. We believe that Mr. Seward is in the unpleasant predicament of being called on to pay a bill which appears to us outrageously large, and for which no money has been appropriated by Congress. By his orders counsel was retained to defend the Fenian prisoners taken in the raids on Canada. These gen tlemen demand in payment $50,000 I If Uncle Sam pays at that rate he must be a mine of wealth to the legal profession. The Springfield Republican, in its items from Washington, which are both interesting and reli-' able, states that Secretary M'Culloch gives notice that the Government cannot protect those who have lost coupon bonds payable to bearer and Treasury notes in blank. All such notes and cou pons will hereafter be paid to parties presenting them, and no attention will be paid to caveats filed to prevent such payments. TRADE WITH JAPAN.—The trade of Yokohama, Japan, last year, was $26,778,451, the exports $16,186,110, and the imports $10,592,341. The exports consisted principally of silks, cotton and teas, and the imports of woollen and cotton, goods, velvets, iron, arms, ammunition, ship stores, and liquors. The English monopolised about two-thirds of the commerce of the port, while the United States got only one-ninth. But this condition of things is likely to be reversed now. By means of the new line of steamers, California and Oregon can supply the staple imports to better advantage than any other country, and the exports and imports will soon assume a much wider range. Already orders have been received in San Francisco for many ar ticles never before sent to Japan, and the steamer Colorado on her last trip could not grant all the applications for freight. The United States will probably control the trade of Japan and China in a few years. If other nations continue to trade there they must do their business through the United States. A late number of the Japan Times, published at Yokohama, says the new port of Osaka will cer tainly be opened at the time appointed, January 1, 1868, but warns American merchants not to makr any rash ventures into trade there till a business has grown up. The same paper gives the following interesting account of the courtesies ex tended to a British admiral, who penetrated to the inland sea called Funeka, in the territory of Prince Chikusen. As a specimen of Japanese hospitality it is not bad, and it adds a new proof that the bar riers that have so long separated Japan from the rest of the world are fast breaking down :—Thirty officers of the fleet were invited to a banquet on shore, where all " squatted down" on strips of scarlet cloth, and each guest had as many as 50 dishes placed before him in turn. Then followed an exhibition of singers and actors, and another feast, if possible, more sumptuous than the first. Extreme neatness and patient politeness were the most no ticeable features. Having left the palace finally to return on shipboard, the wholecompany was escorted en route to a brilliantly lighted house, where an other elegant dinner was waiting, this time in the European style. Next day an invitation was ac cepted to join in the pursuit of 50 deer and two wild boars, the park being of " enormous extent and full of game." A bountiful supply of fowl and handsome presents for all the officers were sent to the ships before their departure. Judge Comstock, of New York State, has called forth the following remarks from the Nation, in reply to a letter to the World. We agree with the Nation that society must be cont ro ll e d an d h e ld together by force, though the force be subordinate to and regulated by opinion. "Judge Comstock, of this State, has written a very melancholy letter to the World about the approaching end of the American Union. lie says that if Georgia and Mississippi have no remedy against the Recon struction Bill in an appeal to the Supreme Court, " the law of force must hereafter govern the rela tions y n e l y, but " governs SL o f c . n e T n thehe to o f r a e c tl t ah e i s sil t st h a a o t t f e ` to n of o ft 1 .01 : r rec o ei, Union,en t o i c t of the U n i on t o th e S tates, " and " it requires the a t n li S d e t law t m es s always governed them. There is a pleasant legal fiction that all these things are regulated by " com pact," but it is only a fiction. Every time a police wan takes a man to gaol, he offers evidence that society does rest on " the law of force," and the day on which the Union armies first marched to put down the rebellion the fact that the Union rests on the law of force was as completely recognised as it would be by the refusal of the Supreme Court to interfere for the protection of Georgia and Missis sippi from military government. If I stay in a house quietly because I know I shall not be allowed to leave it, I am as much detained by force as if I were all the time making frantic efforts to break the door open. The attempts of Democratic lawyers to make " horrible revelations" about the consequences of the Congressional measures of reconstruction are almost painful specimens of perverted ingenuity, and generally end in the discovery of mares' nests. The whole war was in fact waged to settle theques tion whether there was or could be such a thing as a Union of mere inclination. At the annual fire parade at Charleston, on Saturday, April 27, the procession did not propose to carry the American flag, but was compelled to do so by General Sickles. It pp ears that the procession was about to start flaunting all sorts of banners, but not a flutter of the stars and stripes. The General at once interfered, ordering the column not to move until the national flag was procured. He wrote to Brigadier General 11. B. Clitz, commanding at Charleston, recalling last year's fireineli's parade, which was remarkable for a similar omission then said to have been inadvertent. lie then proceeds as follows :--" I desire that you will at once send for the Chief of the Fire Department, and inform him that the national standard must be borne in front of the column ; that an escort of honour, to consist of two members of each ooinptny pr?..sent, will be de tailed by himself to march with the colours ; that the colours be placed opposite the reviewing per sonages on the ground designated for the review, and that every person in the column shall salute the colours by lifting his hat or c tp on arriving at a point three paces distant from the colours, and, carrying the cap uplifted, march past the colours to a point three paces distant from the same. The Mayor of the City, the Chief of the Fire De partment, and the foremen of the companies, will be held responsible for the observance of this order, and they are hereby authorised and required to ar rest any person who disobeys it. You will take such measures as you may find to be necessary to inure the execution of this order." The Chief of the Fire Department when thus pulled up expressed cheerful obedience, but the procession was delayed for some time as the flag was not at handP. It is a lucky thing for the Eastern States that the yield of wheat in California was last year so large. San Francisco is reaping a golden harvest from her exports. The Governor of . Minnesota advises the people to retain all the wheat they have. Milwaukie, Oswego, Toledo, and the Lake ports, instead of exporting wheat as they used to do in large quantities, are actually drawing supplies from New York. An American paper observes that a barrel of flour can be purchased in Paris, forwarded by the usual rail and sea transport to Liverpool and on to Boston, and yet be sold there so as to leave a profit. The New York correspondent of the Standard adheres tenaciously to the declaration that there is not one word of truth in the telegrams through New Orleans, from Mexico, reporting Miramou dead, Imperial forces disbanded, Queretaro taken, Maxi milian hidden. According to this writer, " the New York Herald (never behindhand in spreading a lie) eked out this despatch with a special telegram more comprehensive, though not more excellent, than the other. The principal objection is, that it was writ ten in the office of the Herald. And now, where did Ramon S. Diaz get his intelligence? From 'the deputed agent of the Juarez Government.' fhat person exists only in the columns of the New York Herald. From any other agent? No ; but from the columns of the New Orleans Times, which on Wednesday afternoon printed the following re port received from a private source Another battle has been fought at Queretaro, resulting in the defeat of the demoralised Imperialists and the death of Miramon. After the fight Queretaro was occupied by the Liberals. Maximilian cannot be found anywhere. It is suspected that he has secretly fled.' And 'private source'— manifestly thisi fest y ' untrustworthy report:frora as it a is—is the foundation for the absurd official statement above copied, which has doubtless been sent across the cable to alarm the friends of Maximilian, already sufficiently agitated by the sensational stories that have been manufactured in this couurry. 1 have no hesita tion in pronouncing utterly untrustworthy the re port of the Imperialist defeat at Queretaro and of Maximilian's flight from that city. If true, it would have reached us from Vera Cruz, or direct from Matamoras, where the New York and Western journals have correspondents. It appears in a sen sational New Orleans journal, is put forth ' offi cially' by Juarist agents here, and that is all." That the American papers put faith in the intelligence is clear from the tone of all. If the correspondent of the Standard be correct, and everybody else wrong, it will be a triumph for him, and he will be entitled hereafter' to speak with weight. If, however, in spite of his furious writing, he should prove to be wrong, and everybody else right, we will watch with curiosity to see how be will drop out of the position. It is said that the Empress Charlotte looks incessantly from the rock where the writer of " Echoes from the Continent " says she will pro bably breath her last for the sail that brings back 1 her husband. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, May 4. Capital continues to increase, and the Money Market shows symptoms of a positive superfluity. Call loans are readily effected on good security, at from 4 to 6 per cent., and business paper is as readily done at from 6to 7. The bankers have mor e i n t ill t h an th e y can employ. There is little prospect of a c h ange, and it will give the Govern ment an opportunity o f re d uc i n g a large volume of currency, and funding a ll their debts. While the rumours came strong an d fast through the cable of a European war there were symptoms of a panic, but the peace news has dispelled these symptoms, and things have settled down into a steady condition. The foreign demand for 5-20's, and the amount of these bonds absorbed in Europe, is shown by the fact that nearly interest on this security, is payable in Euro p e . The two-thirds of the $25,000,000 now due, as g old bearin g Treasury commenced these payments last Wednes day, and on the following day $1,000,000 Were paid at the New York Sub-Treasury. This helps the downward course of gold, which has steadily fallen, closing on Thursday at 1351. Still the amount is too little to have other than the most trifling effect. Last Saturday's steamers took out $627,000, and on Wednes day the Scotia carried off $lOO,OOO, making a total for the year of 68,770,513. The May. statement of the public debt has not yet been published, but it will show a favourable progress in reduction, which was - said to be about $6,000,000, with gold in the Treasury of $113,000,000. During the last month the Secretary has not exerted his power of retiring the $1,000,000 in legal tenders. The total circulation of the State Na tional Banks of the country was reported last Saturday at $297,835,2 19 . The 7-30's continue largely to be exchanged for 5-20's, amounting, in April, to about $37,000,0000. Secretary M`Culloch will, it is believed, reduce the debt during this month to $2,500,000,000, at which figure it will be allowed to stand so long as the present scale of Government expenditure lasts. That it will last, even if it does not increase, is fully anticipated in view of the Indian war, which, conducted in the prairies of the Far West, will: prove, I fear, a most expensive business. Government Securities have participated in the general improvement. Many of the National Banks are purchasing 5-20's with the proceeds of their interest now being paid. These securities were not inju riously affected by the heavy fall in Europe, and this is a satisfactory proof of their inhere nt strength. It shows that we are willing to take them b ack when the necessities of a rk European s. rl'h capitalistse force them at a d eprec i ation on the demand horn is steady and growing for permanent investme nt, and it is n ot improbable that as the surplus capital of t he countr y increases that American et m purchasers will compete for the securities of their coun try in your markets. The demand for all well established stocks and securities has been strong and has led to a general advance. As yet this has been con fined to substantial concerns, and has not embraced specu lative and fancy matters. The rise in Pacific Mail-ship stock is steady if slow. Business, though checked by the war news from Europe , is bec oming active. Cotton has recovered, though man ufactured cottons of all descriptions have a downward ten denc y , the market not being strong. u foreign at exchange 9 t o influence l h O T a . s de c h ol e followingif declined, e lpeaceful n ews. I t i s now q ldeas might h ave b een ex pected is a list of l a t es t prices • - American gold 135 1, United Stat es Fi ve - under lo the Five twenties (1862) 1071, (1860 1051-, (1865) 1051, (1865 now issue) 107: 0 United States Ten-f ort i es 99, United States 7 3- 10 loan 1061. Missouri sixes 951, Tennessee Sixes 621, Virginia sixes 67, New York Central Railroad 981, Erie 631, Erie Preferred 73, Hudson Rver 96, R•eiding 1031, Michigan Central 109, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 681, Illinois Central 113'1,-, Cleveland and Pittsburg 72, Cleveland and Toledo 113„ Chicago and N'ifth-Western 35, Chigago and North- Western Preferred 614, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chi cago 961, Chicago and Rock Island 88i, Ohio and Missis sippi Certificates 231, Adams Express Company 63, Ame rican 631, United States 66, Wells, Fargo, and Company's 67, Western Union Telegraph Company 411 Pacific Mail Steamship Company 1284, Atlentic Mail Steamship Com pany 911, Cumberland Coal Company Preferred 31, Can ton Company 44, Quicksilver Mining Company 291, Mari posa Mining Company 8.1. , th Mariposa Mining Company Pre ferred 201, Boston Water Power Company 31 to 32. (From Messrs. Bowles and Dreret's Circular.) The doubts still existing in the minds of many date of writing ou r l ast circular as to the peace f u l so l u t io n of the Luxembou rg question, have been fully dissi p ated ffi by the official announcem en t in the Moniteur of Sunday last, I:2th inst. at the The reaction in values has naturally been most marked, the German markets leading in the advance as previously in the decline. On Friday, MaY 10 , t h e day prev i ous to the signing of the Treaty of L oudon, Americans have a dvanced on large orders from Germany to 811 i, and the m arket has since ruled very firm. We quo te: May 13 ....... 821 l' 14 " 15 - 4 8 " 16 .......... quotations in New York seem 82 i The variations i n gold to exercise no influence. The Rente c lo ses at 69.30 ; the Ital i an a t 51.65. Exchan ge on L oudon, 25.161. (P - - 1. " 1 E. F. Sattertlacaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular.) The Scotia brought us New York advices to the 30th ultimo. The more pacific aspect of European politics, re ported by Atlantic Telegraph, had operated favourably on the public funds, and they were last quoted at an advance of about ono pet cent. In the Railroad Share Market there had been more activity than for some time past, and after daily fluctuations the Stocks of nearly all the Western roads were largely taken at improved quotations, of from $3 to $5. Erie Stock was again the medium for some large speculations, and exhibited a rise on the week of V. Iu State Stocks we note an improvement of three per cent. in Virginia and Missouri, but in Tennessee there was a decline of that amount. The Banks' return again show a very large addition to the deposits, amounting to over three million dollars. Gold had fallen three per cent., the last quotation being 1351. It is now nearly three years since, in a number of our circular, wu warned our friends of the probable near ap proach of a financial crisis, and the inevitable collapse of many of the newly-formed companies, the shares of which were then eagerly bought by investors at what we con sidered "almost fabulous premiums," and suggested that several American securities, both railroad shares and Go vernment bonds, offered a far preferable, because safer and more profitable, investment. Those of our friends who, at that time took United States 5-20 Bonds (at or under 40 per cent.), which we strongly advocated their doing, have certainly reason to congratulate themselVes on the confi dence they displayed in the fixed determination, as well as the ability of the American people to meet all their liabilities, although they were still rapidly increasing, and had already piled up the National Debt to an amount which might almost seem alarming; but with the knowledge of the vast resources of the country, and the energy and per severance, coupled with the fertility cf invention of the population, we did not share in the fears entertained by many. Looking at the then quotations for shares of some of our newly-formed companies, it really seems, now that we can look calmly and dispassionately on the matter, as if the public generally were willing to take anything which offered, and at almost any price. For instance, we find at that time the following official quotations:— Credit Mobilier £s paid G premium Discount Curporation l2l do. Egyptian Trading - do. General Credit 4 do. Imperial Mercantile Credit 5 do. Imperial Finance 5 do. 5 do. Joilit Stock Discount 5 do. 5 do. London Financial 15 do. lO do. With but one or two exceptions these undertakings have proved utter failures, and not only the whole of the money invested has been lost, but further large liabilities are hanging over the heads of the unfortunate shareholders. On the other hand, United States Bonds have gradually grown in favour, both hero and on the Continent, owing to which, and the decline i❑ the premium on gold, conse quent on the conclusion of the war, they are now nearly double the value which they were at that time, while even at this advanced price we think there are few securities on the market, which, with equal safety, will yield as good a per centage on the money invested. With regard to American Railroads, we freely confess that there is, in too many instances, great mismanagement, and we fear not a little jobbery, especially in the arrange ments with some of the "Express Companies," as exposed during the recent examination into the matter by the Ohio State Commission; still, notwithstanding this, many of the leading lines will compare most favourably with our own railways. The Commercial and Financial chronicle of Now York, in a recent article on American Railroads, says, " Out of the list of thirty-eight roads, with $350,000,000 capital stock on the call of the New York Stock Ex change, thirty-one have paid dividends, ranging from seven to twelve per cent. per annum within the last six months ; whereas,; five years ago, not one in four of the roads was making any division of profits among the stockholders," and our own firm conviction is that, with able, honest, and economical management, much larger dividends might be earned. In the still further growth of prosperity of American Railroads we have strong faith, and if the proprietors of stock would but combine to sup press the baneful system of Express Companies, we believe that in very many instances dividends might in the course of two or three years be doubled. To illustrate the rapid and continued increase of traffic we give below the gross annual receipts of ten of the leading roads for the years 1863 and 1866. 1863. 1866. Chicago and Alton Chicago and Rock Island. 1,952,269 Erie Illinois Central Michigan Central New York Central Philadelphia and Reading 4,08 , E 4 ,837 Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago St. Louis, Alton, and Terre Haute Toledo and Wabash 1,439,798 Total of ten roads ... $45,120,88.1 $72,329,950 And these results it must be borne in mind have been achieved, in most cases, with but little addition to capital account, and scarcely any additional mileage. In many cases where the annual report shows an augmentation of capital, the increased amount has boon provided gradually out of earnings, and at the end of two or three years a stock bonus has been presented to shareholders, to repre sent the outlay on permanent way or rolling stock. With these facts before us, we think we are justified in arriving at the conclusion that, almost any of the lines named, offer a medium for investment which cannot but prove satis factory. Wo are quite alive to the fact that several of these roads have pass e d through crisis of severe depression and pecu niary embarrassments, and at least in one instance a re ceiver has had to bo appointed; but they have all emerged from their difficulties, and most of them are now paying respectable dividends. Spirit of the American Press. WAR IN EUROPE AND OURSELVES. When it became apparent, a week or two age, that there was a chance of war in Europe the premium on gold rose. Now the chance of war has grown into strong probability, and again gold flut ters upward. A rise in gold is simply a fall in the current value of our Treasury's promises to pay. It is hard to see why these should be worth any less because of war on the other side of the Atlantic. We do not expect to take part in the fight. The war there will entail no loss nor expense upon our Treasury. We have a thousand times more to fear from our own Congress than from all the armed hosts of the Eastern world. Thirty years ago the governor of the Bask of England could not look grave without putting all Wall-street into a temper of gloom. If the Bank of England put up the rate of interest, money-lenders here buttoned up their pockets in affright. We have grown very rapidly since then, but we have not yet grown out of the boyish notion that Europe holds our purse-strings. In the first year of our civil war we quietly made up our minds that we could not afford to buy much from abroad, and at once a stream of thirty or forty millions of coin flowed in upon us. This should have satisfied us that the old days, when we were always at the mercy of foreign countries because always heavily indebted to them, were past. • Such of our securities as capitalists abroad hold have been bought by them because they are better investments than they can find at home ; these never constitute a cash claim of any amount against us. if ever there was a period when men in Europe would have been likely to hurry American securities back into our own markets for conversion into money, it was at the first alarm from the Southern rebellion; our Government Stocks were sent back at that time very freely, and so were many other securities ; but with all that were sent the cash balance remained strongly on our side, as was proved by the gold flowing this way. And this, notwithstanding that we were at that time com pelled to resort to Europe for blankets and muskets, and many other things which our own factories were not ready to supply for the army. But for our un fortunate resort to paper-money we should probably have held Europe in this same financial relation to us during the whole war. Last year there was a great panic in London, and the English papers foolishly ascribed it to the heavy unpaid in debtedness of American merchants to their English c orrespondents ; a statement of our relations which WaS true thirty years ago, to wit, in 1837 ; but it has hardly been true at any time since. The official returns of the British Government of the trade be tween England and this country for several recent years show, if such figures show anything, that the boot is on the other leg. Excited by the London panic, our Secretary of the Treasury foolishly sold nearly all the gold in his coffers at 130 when it was worth 150, and thirty millions of coin, thus thrown at a low price upon our market, when there was no use for it, found its way rapidly to London and quieted the panic. So far was this thirty millions beyond what was needed to cancel all possible cash claims upon this country, that before all of it had arrived in England some of it was on its way back again. Yet the English papers hail insisted, and some of our people had believed, that we owed England four or five times as much. The English men welcomed the gold to help them out of their scrape, but some among them laughed in their sleeves at the alacrity of our Treasury to help their finances at the expense of our own. Many believe that if there is war in Europe gold will be wanted there, and, therefore, will be carried thither in large quantities ; that Louis Napoleon, who knows the value of a solid basis to his finances, will con trive to carry off most of our coin. Of course any one can buy coin in our market who has where withal to pay for it. But French kickshaws are not of very abundant sale in this country just now, if the gloomy accounts we hear from importers he correct. On the other hand, so far as can be seen at this time of year, the prospects of the grain crops both in France and England are not promising, so that if Napoleon turns out a large number of his workmen into the unproductive fields of war, he may be glad to convert any balance he can com mand in this country into corn instead of coin. One thing is certain, that the gold which is in our Treasury and which is the basis of our financial system neither Louis Napoleon nor any one else can get hold of except by the free consent of the Secretary of the Treasury. The hundred millions • or so of coin now in the Treasury can be kept there, happen what may, unless the Secretary should again be so softened as to regard the distresses of European finance more than the needs of his own. ' No one has a rightful claim upon this fund except the public creditors to whom gold interest is due, and for their claims the current revenue will suffice. As to coin which may be in the hands of the people, if the secretary wishes to keep that from going abroad he must stop making gold artificially abundant and cheap through sales from his stocks. The more abundant he makes gold in the open market the cheaper it will be relatively to other goods, and the cheaper it is relatively to other goods the surer is it to be exported instead of other goods ; the cheaper it is relatively to other goods the more likely, too, are foreign goods to be sent hither to be exchanged for it. When this war panic first occurre , l in Europe, our G overn went bonds fell heavily in Frankfort; the mar kets of Paris and London, in some degree, responded to the fall ; our own market showed no more signs of yielding to the decline in prices than if there had been ❑o such place as Europe in existence. Our market, and not the European market, regulates the price of our Government bonds ; they will buy them, of course, in Europe as cheap as we are willing to sell them, but if we could manage to put up their price here ten or twenty per cent., the Europeans would continue to buy them, and all the more eagerly that we mani fested strong confidence in them ourselves. Herein, too, is proof of the folly of our going to Europe to negotiate a special loan on terms intended to coax people there into buying ; here at home is the place to inspire confidence, here where the people can watch every step made towards putting the Treasury into a sounder condition. When our own moneye d men have confidence enough to buy our six per cent. bonds at par, the people of Europe will take them more eagerly at par than they now do at eighty. We have much more coin in our Treasury to-day than the Bank of England is in the habit - of holding ; and of this much gold we cannot lose pos session except by the Secretary voluntarily scatter ing it abroad. Unfortunately our Treasury owes more in demand claims against it than the Bank of England does, and, therefore, has need of a still fur ther sum in coin to make it as strong as the Bank. In a few months our Treasury could lay by gold enough out of its revenue to put all its promises in high credit. We regret that it is not likely to pursue this straightforward course. But the country, i❑ spite of all its losses of capital by the war, and all its embarrass ments from a fluctuating currency, is strong and growing. If troubles come to us, they will come from our own want of wisdom in managing our home finances, not by reflection from troubles in Europe. Troubles in Europe must have the natural effect of making our securities preferred by the timid and the prudent there. It was observed that little effect of the kind was perceptible as a consequence of the last Franco-Austrian war; but the duration of that war was too brief to furnish any conclusive test, and a war between France and Prussia to-day will be very different from a war between France and Austria ten years ago. Such a conflict will tend to draw our bonds rather than our gold abroad, especially if we set to work ear nestly to make our bonds as good as gold. But were France and Prussia both wiped out of exis tence, this country would not feel it to its disad vantage as much as it would three months' dry weather in the state of New York when the hay crop is growing.-7he Round Table. The New York Times shows in the following ex tract the present feeling generally entertained in the United States on the Confederation of Canada. It is manifestly absurd to imagine that any Confedera tion of the British provinces could be dangerous to the United States. Most Americans hold to the idea that these provinces will drift eventually into States of the Union. They have only to be left alone, and the attractive power of the larger body will work out the desired end. Before Canada, however, becomes a part of the United States the National Debt must be materially decreased. " There is no special jealousy of the projected Confederation on our northern border. So far as it may strengthen the power of the British provinces for purposes of aggression, it becomes a proper subject for the watchful consideration of our own Government. To say the least, we think it quite as legitimate a subject of apprehension, in itself considered, as the projected Franco-Austrian monarchy in Mexico ever was. Ten or twelve years ago Mr. Seward, in a series of letters from Canada, predicted pre cisely what is now occurring in the British posses sions on our northern border. In direct opposition to what was then the current of opinion, he said that the Canadas would not be annexed to the United States, but would eventually bring about a confederation of all the British provinces, which would grow into g populous, rich, and powerful inde pendent nation ; and that it would have no motive of hostility to the United States, but would become one of their most reliable and useful allies. We think that current events tend to confirm this pre diction. There is no doubt that this new confede ration will become independ en t o f G reat Br i ta i n w henever it chooses to do so ; and so long as we continue to bear the burden of our national debt, we cannot foresee the time when annexation to the United States will be more desirable for the new power thus created than independence." TIIE DEFEAT OF MAXIMILIAN. .... Misfortune and disaster to the Imperial cause in Mexico are following each other in rapid succession, and the overthrow of the empire and the speedy capture and possible death o f M ax i m ilian seem a lmost certain. Queretaro, his stronghold, has fallen into the hands of its liberal besiegers. Mira mon, the ablest of th e I mper i al genera l s, i s d ea d , and Maximilian is already a fugitive, seeking if he may find any available escape from the country. Secretary Seward's special messenger to intercede for the life of the Emperor has not yet found President Juarez, and it is said that his mission would be of no avail, as Minister Campbell, through whom the note was sent, as Mexi can Minister, has never occupied and does not now occupy that position. Juarez has ordered his generals to capture Maximilian alive, and they will doubtless be content if they secure possession of his Majesty. Miguel Miramon, whose death, ac companied by the fall of Queretaro, was the most damaging blo Iv the empire has yet received, was about thirty-six years old, and for the last ten years has played a prominent part in the Mexican drama. lie was commander of the army during Zuloaga's presidency, and succeeded him in that position. The claims of England, France, and Spain against Mexico which finally resulted in the French expedition thither, and the establishment of Maximilian's empire were all based on treaties effected by Miramon.—Springfield Republican. The Great Eastern certainly moves in a sea of troubles, and her career of misfortune seems to have been brightened only, by one grandact. On Friday evening last week Mr. J. W. Carr, of Liverpool, solicitor, acting on behalf of 300 of the late crew, forwarded affidavits to the Court of Admiralty in support of their claims for wages for three months, amounting to £4,500. On Saturday morning citation was issued, and the Receiver of Wrecks at Liverpool, acting on behalf of the Marshal of the Court of Admiralty, seized the great ship, and is now in possession. Instructions were sent to institute another suite on behalf of 30 more seamen. .Another suit has been insti tuted against her for towage services, and yet an other for necessaries ~to the amount of £BOO. A meeting of the seal - mut has been held. It is under stood that the owners decline to pay until it is de cided I,v some compot,mt court what is the amount really due to the men., so that they may be in a position to institute a. ;suit against the French com pany. At the Liverpt +ol Police-court Captain Sir James Anderson appeared in answer to two sum monses by the purser and a seaman for the reco very of wages due to tl.em for the voyage last made from and to Liverpool and New York, via Brest. The company did not dispute the liability for the voyage, and judgment lor the amounts claimed in each case was given, . _ The FrencliGovernmen t is said to have issued orders for the cessation of the armaments which have recently been carried . YACHTING IN AMERICA. Already preparations are being made for the coming season, and in a few weeks the results will appear of the present activity. The eclat attending Mr. Bennett's performance last year has stimulated the ambition of builders and owners, and a greater dis play than ever is anticipated. Among the boats most prominent in former seasons, we notice the schooners Magic, Ex-Commodore M'Vickar, owner, and .L' Hirondelle, belonging to Mr. Bennett, at Newport ; the Foam, the property of Mr. Maitland, at Stonington ; Mr. Laper's Palmer and the schooner Josephine, belonging to the late Daniel Devlin, and now offered for sale by his executors ; also Captain Palmer's sloop Sallie B. Day. At New London are the schooners Widgeon, one of George. Steer's last models, and a very favourite boat, Mr. Frank Os good owner; Haze, an old favourite, at present the property of Messrs..,Van Schaick and Devlin the Ca/ypso, built for and owned by Mr. Bache; Phantom, Commodore Stebbins ; bier, Messrs. Fearing, Skiddy, and Gandy; and Sylvie, also one of George Steer's boats, now owned by Mr. Dodge. The latter has been entirely refitted and supplied with new mas ts, sails, and rigging. The well-known schooner Maria is laid up at Hoboken, and will not be used this summer, as her owner, Mr. E. A. Stevens, is pre paring to visit Europe. Among the new yachts building or built, Mr. P. Lorillard's new schooner, nearly ready at Westervelt's yard, is one of the largest ever built in America. Her length over all is 142 feet; breadth of beam, 28 feet ; hold, 10 feet. She has very hollow floor and ends, is a keel boat, but so framed that, if desirable, the keel may here after be removed, and a centre board substituted• She will have a heavy iron shoe attached under her keel to serve as ballast, and as a protection should she at any time take the ground. She is intended to take part in the regatta at Paris. . Mr. Fish has modelled a small yacht (36 feet on deck) for Mr. Livingston, formerly owner of the sloop Annie, which is now building at the establish ment of Albertson Brothers, Philadelphia. Also a yacht of about the same size, intended to enter i n the French regatta for smaller boats, to be built in England. Messrs. C. and H. Poillon have a first-class yacht on the stocks in their yard in Brooklyn. Her keel, 113 ; deck, 125 feet ; beam, 26 feet 8 inches ; hold, 11 feet; mainmast, 90 feet; foremast, 89 feet; about 310 tons. She will have all the latest improve ments, and her rigging is being made in England, she is constructed with a view to great speed, and is 3 keel boat. Lennox of Gowanus Bay is building 3 sloop yacht, 43 feet on deck, for Mr. Edward liar" vey, of the Atlantic Club. A. M. Whitman, builder of the sloops Nautilus, Jennie Cable, and Glance wil l shortly launch a schooner yacht, the Alice, built for Mr. G. W. Kidd, and intended to cross the Atlantic this summer. She is a keel boat of about 100 tons; keel, 65 feet; deck, 75 feet ; beam, 20 feet ; hold, 7 feet, and will draw about 5 feet of water without her board. Messrs. Pine and Davis have ready 3 schooner for Mr. Stevens of the Hoboken Club, called the Lucille ; length, 51 feet ; breadth, 17 feet; and 5i feet deep ; built for comfort and a cconnne; dation more th an f or s p ee d. Al so a sloop, .70 feet on deck, very sharp, an d ex p ec t e d t o be very fast. Messrs. Herreshoff and Stone, whose boats ha ve attracted much attention, have recently launched 3 schooner yacht, called the S a di e , f o r Mr. Bates , ( , f ,) Boston, of the following proportions :—On deck , vt feet; beam, 16 feet; depth, 51 feet. Her centre board extends unusually far aft, and is straddled by he r mainmast—a decided novelty in yacht building' They have also a sloop for sale, 36 feet on deck/ which is pronounced to be a marvel of accom modation and elaborate finish for so small a boat. At South Boston Captain Bearse ha s launched a schooner, intended for the Paris Regatta. Length of keel, 80 feet ; deck, 105 feet ; beam, 26 feet 6 inches ; depth, 10 feet. She is finished with the view of carrying 50 passengers, and will b° rigged as a topsail and top-gallant-sail schooner . Ihe following are the dimensions of her principal spars :—Mainmast, 82 feet ; foremast, 70 feet ; main -boom, 56 feet; fore-boom, 26 feet; bowsprit (out-board), 20 feet ; main-gaff, 27 feet ; fore-gaff , 26 feet ; a squaresail-yard, 55 feet; topsail - Ya rd ' 27 feet; and topgallant-sail yard, 16 feet. Canva s, about 1,600 yards. Mr. Townsend, of Portsmouth (New Hampshire), builder of the sloop Alice, is commencing the schooner Storm King for Messrs. Gibson, Engl and ' Mr. Fish is modelling a schooner of 170 tons for Mr. George Lorrilard, formerly owner of the sloop Eva. Many of our English readers may be surprised at the above list, learning perhaps for the first dime the encouragement given in America, t o the de signers and builders of the best yacht models.-- Anglo-American Times. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. vet There was a tolerably good supply of wheat at mar to-day, but, the farmers being reluctant sellers a t any re; duction, trade was firm at last week's rates. 111 °t ile articles little passing. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 70s to 74s ; red aittoci ° (weighing 631 b), 62s to 68s per qr. Flour, 4 5s Od to 46$ per sack. NOT T INGHAM—SATURDAY. At our market to-day there was a limited demand, ono prices were is per qr. easier. Barley a small supply °a t in limited supply, and made higher rates. Beans soli at - a slight advance on previous rates. Peas quite as dear last week. Old white wheat, 70s to 75s ; old red, 64s to 70s ; n e t , l 4 white, 68s to 74s ; new red, 58s to 67s per 36 stone. I d, old, 34s to 37s ; new, 28s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans , ° go Ms to 58s ; new, 55s to 58s per 38 stone. Fine flour, to 50s per sack. EICETER SURDAY. iv of At this day's L market S there wa s a seasonable suPP . d a r, wheat, and a dull trade at a reduction of 6d to 15 1 ,51 .. Barley sold at late rates. Oats and beans sold at a advance. old , New white wheat, 68s to 74s ; new red, —s to --s; par , white, —sto s ; old red, 60s to 69s per 36 stone . — 94 S ley, for malting, 42s to 48s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 24 per 30 stone.. Oats, old, 34s to 38s ; new, 28s to 34 a P e „ r o o. atone. Beans, old, 42s to 49s ; new, 45s to 48s per 38 bw Fine flour, 51s ; seconds, 45s to 47s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. t There was a limited quantity Of wheat at our F r ia to-day, with a slow inquiry, at about previous prices. a barley little doing. Oats at .full prices. There steady demand for beans, and prices were a little higlit96 New white wheat, 60s to 688 ; new red, 56s to 65sPceliog, stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40s per qr. ; grin on 34s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 30s per 24 stc,..oa ' Beans, new, 46s to 48s per 38 stone. Malt, 68s to Flour 47s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. Mrs. Green, the last revolutionary pensioner 1 : the United States, has just died at the age of 100 Ye In She was the widow of a soldier of the War of Americo, "--; dependence. Six children, 46 grandchildren, 1. 41 - g r h e :t grandchildren, and 13 great-great-granchildron su rvive Francisco Javier Sola, from Manzanillo, Cu l t o now in New York on his way to Germany. ir e mi st mathematical prodigy, being able to perform the• difficult and complicated calculation of problems m olt : h .- o r His parents, however, desire that his education in c r o ff respects should receive his attention until he shall ."40- matured his physicial developments, and for this tea'. have sent him to Germany. Births. 3 , 0 wilt ) LANGTON—On the 17th inst., at South Norwood, 6-- of Riveis Langton, Esq., of a daughter. . , ti blill , LAKE—On the 17th inst., at 49, Pembroke-road, ' the wife of Colonel Atwell Lake, C. 8., of a son• i ,olit SAvILL—On the 17th inst., at Valley Lodge, Snarosbr' the wife of Martin Savill, Esq., of a son. Marriages. „,, LEVIEN—HENDRIES—On the 18th insi, at St. 113-`.',. D d bott, Kensington, Francis Levien, Esq, Futinfileb' of the Stock Exchange, to Bertha Elizabeth, V.,'" daughter of the late H. llendries, Esq., of Glaphicb, RAINY—Bum—On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's „, (313 ,„," - v le• • Twickenham, William Rainy, Esq., of the Inner j-„e'c'lla• barrister-at-law, to Elise Marie, only •l daughter of P i s Ellis, Esq., Cerne Lodge, Twickenham. Deths. ,„ a ebt G. BREACH— On the 15th inst a at Steyning,G• T. Esq., aged 67. "fe l ' CAMPERDOWN—On the 17th inst. at Wilton-terrace,o 0 , rd grave-square, Janet, Dowager d oun t e ss of Can i P e aged 85. ;„ JO lO STEPHEN—At Dovercourt, near Harwich , Carba"" Stephen, RN., aged . TAYLOR—On . the 17th in 81 st., at 10, Laurestou-place, -"'n°•ter' Captain Robert Taylor, R.N., aged 74. / r a ver ° WHITESTONE —On the 17th inst., at Eaton Lodge, stock-hill, Robert Whitestone, Esq., aged 6 9 . A ir if• WRIGHT—On the 10th inst. Lympstone, Devon,' 84 : Wright, Esq., of Longton'llall, Derbyshire, age'. **no o, London: Printed and Published b y WILLIAM is- ,4 _.„ 02, of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at THE SUN Mae" I ' o ,, Of Strand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the OetliW MiddleseL—Monday, May 20,1867. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1867.