The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-31 00:00:00

THE EVIGRATION MOVEMENT. !WEDNESDAY. A meeting of the British and Colonial Emigration Cora xcdtitee was held at the Mansion House to-day, Alderman Sir, J. C. Lawrence presiding. There were present— Lord Alfred Churchill, Alderman Sir D. SalCmons, Mr. Dixon, the Corporation agent for Canada, and others. The committee have made arrangements for assisting the emigration of a large number of deserving unemployed workmen and . their families to other fields of industry during the approaching season. The first steam. 'Nip, the Medway, will leave London for Quebec on the 14th of April Ivit!l 300 adults, and she will be fob lowed at fortnightly intervals by other steamers, each carrying about the same num b er. • The Ganges. screw steamship, has also been engaged to take 400 or 500 adults to Canada, and will leave on the 28th April. By these means, it is h o p e d, t h at at least 4,000 persons will be aided in their desire to emigrate during the mouths of April and May • A letter was read from Mr. Pease, M. P. for South Durham, stating that •he was willing to engage 100 men in connection, with his ironstone mines in the North, and pay their expenses from London.—Canon Brown said he could find him 100 men in Woolwich.— Mr. Douglas Pox said he was acquainted with the locality, and he knew that men were wanted for other mines as well.—A letter was read from the Secretary of the Ontario Government, from which it appeared that the buildin g trade Was very brisk in Toro n t o . Th ere was not a street in which bricks had not been laid down for the - erection of houses in the spring. The proceedings shortly afterwards terminated. THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF MENDICITY. WEDNESDAY. The first annual meeting of tn.° society formed in London for organising charitable relief and suppressing mendicity, was held to-day, at Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby. There was a large and fashionable attendance, amongst the noblemen and gentlemen present being the Earl of Lichfield, the Bishop of Winchester, Lord George Hamilton, Sir 0. E. Trevelyan, K.C.8., and many others. The report of the Council referred to the necessity which had long existed of establishing- some organi sation of voluntary charity side by side with the organisation of the Poor Law. With such variations as local circumstances and opinion might suggest, the fol lowing principles had beeen maintained in their integrity —That there should be in each Poor Law district a recognised centre of charitable operations, to which all persons deserving of assistance by private benevolence might be referred, independently of all denominational or other differences. That charitable agencies should exist in each district, not to work independently of each other, but with a due recognition of the province of each, That all cases which belong properly to the Poor Law should be handed over to the guardians, and the only cases in which temporary aid is likely to prove of permanent benefit, are to be left to the operation of private charity. The EARL of DERBY, in opening the proceedings said, after some preparatory observations : Now, I suppose we shall all be agreed as to the permanence, and increase of pauperism in this country, and especially in London, it is a subject which calls for the serious attention of every one who cares either for the welfare of our population or for the honour of our country. The facts which we have to deal with are simple, although the inferences which may be drawn from them vary almost indefinitely. There is certainly no want of wealth in London ; that is a proposition which does not require proof. The mere land on which this metropolis stands, taking a square of ten miles, north and south, east and west, each way from St. Paul's, has been estimated to represent a capital equal to the whole amount of the National Debt. There is no want of libe rality; in point of fact, it has been told over and over again that the amount of money given away in London is enough to feed and clothe comfortably every person in it who can by any stretch of the meaning of words be considered either a pauper or to he in a state of destitution. (Hear, hear.) It has been shewn upon evi dence, which, so far as I know, has never been disputed, that, excluding relief derived from rates, something like five millions yearly is given away in London for charitable purposes of one kind or another, and including rates the amount would bo between seven and eight millions. (Hear.) Now, at that rate we ought to be able to feed and clothe, well and comfortably, at least four hundred thousand persons, for the national income calculated at between six and seven hundred mil lions, does not give as average of much more than £2O per head, and of course if they are treated simply as paupers the cost of feeding and clothing is considerably less. Yet what is the state of the case ? Pauperism is increasing more than either charity or wealth. (Hear.) In 1858 it included three per cent, of the populace of London, and in 1868 it included five per cent., and we all know that not a week passes, and hardly a day, without our seeing in the newspapers some case recorded of death from star vation. Yet the revenue has not fallen off ; the depression of trade, which, no doubt, has been severe in some employments, and in some localities, has not caused any large decrease—indeed, I do not think it has cansed any decrease at all—in our exports and imports ; and our consumption of articles of popular luxury, which is the surest measure of the degree of comfort enjoyed at any given time by the working classes, has considerably increased. Now, that is briefly the state of things we have to deal with, and it admits to my mind of only one explanation. By want of organisation, by want of proper supervision and control, by excessive laxity and absence of discrimination between the deserving and undeserving, we are pauperising year by year, an increasing riumLer of our people. (Hear.) I do not now speak of the operations of the Poor Law, as it is rather beyond the scope of the present meeting. I speak of private charity, and especially of the charity which is not given through the medium of an organised society ; and the first thing I wish to point out is this; the excessive laxity in this direction produces precisely the same effect as excessive severity in depriving those who really deserve assistance, because wherever money is given • away lavishly and loosely, there will be a scramble for it. (Hear.) The most clamorous, the most importu nate, the most hardened, those who have most completely thrown off all remains of modesty, will get all, and those who maintain their self-respect will be left to starve. (Applause.) But more than this, I firmly believe that by our lax and careless way of dealing with these matters we are putting into the heads of a large number of the working classes the notion that it is all nonsense attempting, however high their wages may be, to lay by for the future. (Hear.) If work is plenty they say they will live well, and if work fails, it is the business of society generally to keep them. I believe truly that the reasonable expectation of charitable relief which exists in the East-end of London has been the means of bringing in vagrants from all around, and has actually raised the rent of lodgings within the area in which the relief was distributed. (Hear, hear.) Now, we cannot afford to go on in this way for ever--(hear, hear) — and to set the whole thing right it is not necessary to use the pockets so much as the brains. (Hear, hear.) The object is simple : we want to sift the grain from the chaff, to leave the vagrant, the tramp, the professional beggar, and the utterly and hopelessly shameless person to the stringent rules and strict discipline of the Union, and to such persons the dis cipline ought to be stringently enforced; while to those who suffer by no fault of their own, we desire that a large and generous indulgence should be shewn. (Applause.) Now it is not enough f or that p ur p ose mere ly t o t eac h people that benevolence is one thing and 'beneficence another, or merely to declaim in a vague manner against indiscriminat e giving. (Applause.) Until people feel sure that the deserving poor will and can obtain relief, it is no us e t a lki ng t o th em ; they will give indiscriminately ; that is to say, they will . give, although they know the chances are ten to one that those they help are imposters, because they do not like to suppose that the person to wh om t h ey re f use h e l p may starve and die. (Hear.) It is in vain to argue against a feeling like this ; it exists, and always will exist. (Hear.) If you wish men and women to do what they ought, and not allow themselves to be preyed upon by rogues, you must, therefore, supply them with an easy test by which they can distinguish between rogues and honest men. It is hard to argue that everyone, whatever his station, should give a personal attention to those matters. Each must devote himself to his particular sphere ; the division of labour is the very characteristic of modern society, and it applies to charity as to everything else-- (hear). The duty, therefore, which confessedly requires to be performed, and which, as it seems to me, individuals cannot perform, is one which naturally devolves upon .organisations formed for the purpose. (Hear.) Now, what is that the organisation which we are met to support to-day is intended to do? In the first place, if properly established, it ought to put an end to that growing nuisance, street begging. (Applause.) Only lay it down as a rule never to give to a beggar in the streets, and that nuisance would, I think, speedily disappear. (Hear.) • Having alluded to the way in which it was proposed to carry out the objects of the society, the noble lord concluded by saying that the principle of action was an experiment, but a hopeful experiment and in his judgment it deserved at least to be fairly tested. What the result would be must, of course, be left to the experience of the future. (Cheers). On the motion of Mr. A. MILLS, the report of the Council was unanimously adopted. Sir C. TREVELYAN then proposed " That this m ee ti ng , approving of the plan for organising charitable relief now submitted, pledges itself to Maintain and extend the p machinery required in all parts of th e me t ropolis. " The Bishop of WINCHESTER seconded the rosolution, which on being submitted to the meeting was c arr i e d nc)a Coll --- The Rev. Dr. BARRY next proposed :—" That the co operation of the several charitable agencies now at work in the metropolis for promoting the true welfare of the poor is of 'the most essential importance, and that no satisfactory remedies for the evils of an in creasing pauperism can be devised till such co-operation Las been attained." Lord Mahon seconded, and the Hon. and Rev. G. Talbot, and Mr. G. Howell supported the reolution, which was carried. A vote of thanks to the chairhaox terrahulted the pro , Gooding% THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1870 S Clem High school, to the Military Academy at West Point. Poor Wilson will have the enviable distinction of being the first coloured martyr of West Point, for the prejudices of boys are more ; unreasonable, are more loudly.and insolently ex pressed, and more cruelly than those of their fathers. General Butler has "the hide of a rhinoceros," as " Sunset'.' Cox said, and cannot appreciate the suffering to which a sensitive lad thus placed may b.: exposed, but the act appears to have been dic tated by good motives, for the boy was the first of his class, and his father was killed while fighting fot the Union. The young ladies employed in the Tie isury Department have presented Repre sentatives Roger.;, of Arkan as, with leather me,da!s, the work of their fair fingers, in honour of the 18th day of February. Mr. Rogers knows what happene I on that day, and perhaps by turn ing beck a tile of your papers, any person Who is curious on the subject may learn it too. As far as memory seeves • (for there is nothing I hate more than wading through papers), Mr. Rogersthen made a ferocious onslaught on the characters of the " unprotected females," winding up with the declaration that he would i n t ro d uce a bill prohibit ing the Government from employing them as clerks. General Schofield has arrived from St. Louis, and he was examined by the House Military Committee on Monday, but Mr. Butler of Tennessee does not appear to have gdned anything by bringing the General this long way from his district. He denied niost positivc;y that he had ever requested Butler to make any appointment. Mr. Anderson was examined on Tuesday in the case of Mr. Mungen, to whom he asserted he had been introduced by Judge Overmeyer of Ohio, as a Democrat, though he is a Republican, and he made no offer of money whatever to Mr. Mungen, but he did pay $3OO to a Mr. Wilson. A delegation from the National Banks, headed by Mr. Freeman Clarke, had waited -on Secret try Boutwell to protest against the clause affecting -them in the Funding Bill, which they de clare, if enforced, will break up the National Bank ing system. The delegation cannot see, nor could the Secretary satisfy them of, the justice of dealing with their bonds in a differe .t way from these of others. 'There is a bill introduced into Congress abolishing the offices of General and Lieut.-General, now herd by Sherman and Sheridan, with tEe present incumbents; re luciug the five Majore-General to three ; the eight Brigadiers-General to six ; and ap pointing Colonels in lieu of Brigadiers-General for all bureau offices. Under it over 500 officers will be mustered out with the gratuity of one year's pay ; it abolishes brevet rank •, the holding of civil offices by military officers ; and rations, commuta tions and allowances, of every kind. This hits harder than you may suppose, for according to Mr. Logan, General Sherman's pay is $19,500 a year, including allowances; and General Sheri dan's but little lie's, while the bill brings the former down to $12,000 and the other to $lO,OOO. Brigadiers-General in the bureaux receive $9,000 yearly, and they take rank before the civil cffieers of the Government, except the President or of course Foreign Ministers. Their pay is nearly double that of the Commissioners, and it is esti mated that. by this wholesale reduction the country will save $3,000,000 a year. Mr. Logan delivered a grand speech in support of his bill. He asserted that the Staff of the American army was as large as that of the French Army or of the Russian army, though the first consisted of but 37,000 men, the second of 500,000, and the third of 800,000 men. There was a commission offic:T to every ten men, and a non-commissioned cffics-r to every six men, wh -yeas in all European at mies the lowest rate was twenty men to each commissioned officer. Ile was very severe on the folly of making generals inspectors of boots and shoes, and hats and bean soup. He came down sarcastically on the working of the system which left a plain captain in command of a company, in the rear ranks of which was a su baltern officer, whose brevet rank was major -gene ral, the captain addressing his subordinate as gene ral, while the general received orders from the captain. He referred to the case of General But terfield, who was dismissed from a civil appoint ment, though he retained the rank of colonel in the army, and could not be tried by court-martial. The Act of the 30th Jun , , 1863, makes a general of the army superior to the President; so that if General Sherman was to perpetrate the highest crime, he could not be arre-ted, relieved, or court martialed by the President; and this he would re peal. For two hours Mr. Logan spoke, while General Sherman sat in the House and listened, and the Representative certainly carried the House with him, if not Sherman. Secretary Boutwell maintains his opinions, both with regard to the Funding Bill arid the aboltioa of the Income Tex; but whatever may be the fate of the fo:mer, the later is likely to be reduced to 3 per cent., and all incomes tinier $2,000 exempted. In di-continu ing the printing of_the Patent Office books, on the ol i scale, $174,000 will be saved. Laet year 16,550 copies were issued at a cost of $212,010, while henceforth bet 100 copies will be printed, and a few only reserved for sale if anybody wants them. Festivities have ceased with the arrival of Lent, though the literary reunions by Mr. King are kept up. BERLIN, March 21, 1870. SlR,—Having been several years in the Con- Eular service of the United States, I was greatly in terested in your article in .the last Anglo-American Times re!a ive to Consular lawyers. I have never availed myself of the permission of the Govern ment to engage in pursuits foreign to the purpose for which Consulates were established, as I should decline to receive fees for my own use without feeling that the money was rather due to my em ployer than t 3 myself. Nevertheless, I might h we had always the ready reply that my employer paid me poorly, as indeed he d ,es all his Consuls, and as you remark it may be but just that a poorly paid Con , ul should seek outside emp l oyment. But every thinking man will say with you, why 'not pay Consuls ad.‘quate salaries, ani secure their entire attention to the public business? I have paid a great many visits to my brother Consuls in all parts of Europe—they have all now retired to private life, and I h we begin invariably impressed with the fact that, except in a few unimportant places, all the Consul's time, talents, and energies were needed to protect the commercial interests of the country. rl'o Consuls, moreover, is confided the important duty of protecting the revenue from false valuations. This duty devolves espe cially on inland Consuls. I have often been asked to sympathize with Consuls, because Government refuses to allow a sufficient number of clerks to attend to the business of the public, but at the same time it struck nie that the execution of law papers received always prompt and Careful atten tion. At some places this mingling of the two characters of Consuls has given rise to much scan dal. An illustrious personage, who was charged two hundred dollars by a former Consul for law papers, designated the charge as an extortion, and made it the subject of bitter complaint. In fact, these matters have become sources of annoyance and scandal. Whether the charges are right or wrong I- have no means of deciding, but I agree with you that the permission should be withdrawn, and that Consuls should be paid adequately for de voting all their time and attention to their duties. sincerely hope that your excellent article will prove the means of calling the attention of Con gress to the matter, and of inaugurating legislation for the benefit alike of Consuls and the service.— ' am, Ex-CONSUL. The Archdeaconry of Huntingdon, vacant by the resignation of the Hon. and Rev. R. Yorke, has been a.-xepted by the Right Rev. F. T. INlTougall, late Bishop of Labuan. LAD v EILTISSIIENT.J—Avoid Medicines—they always aggravate chronic complaints; but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Regale/Aft Ambles, Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other - remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, ease energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex tract a few oat of the 68,000 cures:—"The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entlre4 to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica, Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly. -.From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' lives complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over. bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Deeiee, Lord-Lietitenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No 49,839 ; " Fifty years' indescribable agoey from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased longs, spitting of blood. liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—,Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. in tins', at Is lid; 1 lb 2s 9d; 2. lb 4e Cd; 5 lb ils; 12 lb 225; 24 lbs 4. 14. %ISO D U BARRY'S REVALtNTA. RABICA CIinCOLATE PoWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1: cups at 2s, for 24 caps at is 65, for 4S cups at Gs, for 2,•8 cups at 30s, for f. 76 cups at 55s —boing abort one penny per cup. The 30s and 65s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. BARRY Do BARRY and - Co., No. 77, Regent-street London; and all Grocers and Chemists. THE EVILS OF INTEMPERANCE. TUESDAY. This morning a confekence Was held at the City Ter minus Hotel, Cannon-street, to consider what steps could be taken for mote effectually checking the evils of intern.. perance in this country. The Rev. William Pennefather M.A., presided, and there was a large attendance. The CHAIRMAN said they must try and obtain sorw scheme by which they could reduce the awful evils of in temperance. Some might think one :theme the best, and some another ; but all must agree that something ought to be done to reduce the evil. Mr. T. B. SMITHIES read a letter from Mr. Gladstone, son of the Premier, which expressed his regret that pres sure of business prevented him from being present. He felt as much as anyone the great havoc which intempe rance was making in this country, and earnestly sympa thised with anyone who tried to lessen the evil. The speaker, in referring to the great extent to which the drinking custom prevailed, quoted some statistics which had been prepared by Mr. Samuel Smiles, and which were supported by Parliamentary returns, Mr. Samuel Smiles stated that the total amount stood thus :—" Home and foreign spirits 29,418,535 gallons, £30,568,232; beer of average strength, 749,983,824 gallons, £43,749,456; foreign and colonial wines 15,151,741 gallons, £12,987,927 ; cider, perry, home-made wines, &c., say, £1,5000,000; tobacco, 54,663,8291b5., £11,438,299 ; total, £100,243,514. We have here an expenditure of more than £3 6s. per head of the entire population—men, women, and children ; or of more than £l3 for every adult male in the United Kingdom. The gross amount seems perfectly fabulous, but it is competent for any one to test it by the Government returns, which are indisputable. A hundred millions sterling a year on drink and tobacco ! Yet we profess to be an economical and reforming people, ca,nva§sing every item of national expenditure, down even to the pen-nibs in the public offices, and the wages of the dock yard labo urers . Th e w h o l e expense o f governing the - United Kingdom for the year ending the 30th of June 1868, excludi ng th e i nterest o f the national 1 dt— amounted to only £47,196,626 • yet nearly double this amount was volunt ar il y expended by the people governed upon drink. Surely, all the Government extravagances that can be conjured up sink into insignificance beside this. What we spend on ardent spirits and beer alone exceeds the entire national expenditure, including' the interest on the National Debt. Our army, which does duty in all parts of the world, costs fourteen and a h a lf m illi ons sterl i ng yearly ; while we spend' over thirty millions upon gin, whisky, and brandy. Our navy costs nearly nine millions ; and our beer nearly forty-four millions. The whole expense of managing the postal service costs only one-fourth of what we spend on tobacco. Some three millions a year are devoted by the middle and working classes to life and health assurance, and thirty times the amount to the indulgence of their sensual appetites ! Such facts as these are surely little creditable to us as a people. They skew us to be amongst the most thought less, thriftless, and bibulous of nations—very rich, but very wasteful, tell-indulgent, and improvident. All classes seem to be alike in fault • but the penalties of the self-indulgence unquestionably fall the heaviest upon those who, for the most part, have had no share in incurring them, and are the least able to bear them—the wives and families of the labouring classes. It is not known how much of the £330,000,000 supposed to be annually earned by these classes is spent in drink, but it is undoubtedly very large. The whole life of a working man it rounded by drink—drink at " footings," drink at sick-clubs, di-ink, at morning, noon, and night. Many drink one-third of their earnings; some as much as one-half and even more. It has been estimated that two thirds of the home-made spirits and beer are consumed by the working clssses of the United Kingdom. If this be so, it would give a total expenditure of about forty-eight millions sterling a year ! What a splendid fund for co-operative industry, for social improvement, for education, for independence in old age !" There is, on an average, a public-house license and beer license to every forty-five males in the United Kingdom. 29,418,535 gallons of proof-spirits were consumed in March, 1868, or equal to an average consumption of about four gallons for every male adult in the United Kingdom. One of the greatest inducements they could offer to the working men of this country was some day to possess a home of their own. In the provinces they could hope to do this, but in London there was hardly any such hope, and any legislator who could bring about such a change, that the working man could have the chance of buying a piece of land or a cottage, would be one of the greatest benefactors of his country. Mr. BARBER, of the firm of Rose, Barber, and Norton solicitors, felt it was a great national disgrace that on the Continent and other parts of the world we were looked upon as a nation of drunkards.. When he was in Massa chusetts, America, he was told that public opinion was so strong against drink, that if a clergyman w as k nown to be in the habit of putting it on his table, it was a stigma on his character, and was a prevention to his promotion. (Hear, hear,) As to smoking, was it necessary? (Hear.) He never heard any other defence for it than "it did no harm." It did not feed the body. It was only a luxury and a vexatious one. For forty-five years he was in the habit of drinking three, four, or five glasses of wine a day, but twenty-three years ago he bad a week's illness, when the doctor advised him not to take wine for a week, and since that time he had not drunk anything. ,He belonged to a hard-working profession, and he could say that he worked hard all day in his secular duties, and was happy to be able to engage in spiritual duties at night, but he found lie was actually better than when he was in the habit of drinking. He did not say that everybody should abstain entirely. It rested on medical testimony that stimulants were not nourishment. He who took stimulants regularly took them wrongly. If they were necessary at all, they were only necessary to re pair the system, and when the system was repaired,. let them leave it off till the system again wanted repairing. What they had to do was to set an example. He was sorry to say that his own experience was that the evil of which they complained was a growing one. As he came up by train of a morning he noticed that there was a habit of drinking spirits at the railway refreshment bars. A large number of men asked for brandy and soda, or some stimulants. What they had to do was to set an example. Let them repress the evil by example and by precept. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SAMUEL BOWLY was exceedingly anxious that they should have the clergy with them. He admitted there had had been too much dogmatism amongst the teeto tallers, and too much a desire to denounce those who did not come up to their standard. He did not believe teetotalism was to do everything for them, and he deeply sympathised with those who were trying to improve the condition of the people. He was very anxious to get as many as possible to set an example. He never asked his servants to put beer out of the kitchen till he had pu wine off the table. The CHArnmAN asked the company to join in silent prayer for the blessing of God in their work. This having been done,•the meeting was addressed by the Revs. S. Hansard (Bethnal Green), Dawson, Green, Taylor (Independent), M`Gee, Thomas (Sion Chapel), White, Ellison (Vicar of Windsor), Matthews, Wood (America), Dr. Spencer, and others. The conference was brought to a conclusion by the passing of the following resolution :—" That a meeting of clergymen, ministers, and laymen, held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, in anticipation of the proposed Licensing Bill, hereby respectfully urges upon the Home Secretary the desirability of, his including in his measure the prohibition of the sale of in. toxicatilik drinks durinc , the whole of the Lord's Day, together with increased' restrictions on the Liquor Traffic." The Chairman was requested to sign the resolution and orward it to the Home Secretary. The Denzocratic Union, a journal of Ravenna, publishes a letter from Mazzini, addressed to his " Bro thers," charging them whenever a bold initiatory move ment is taken by any town or district, to follow that movement unhesitatingly without waiting for elaborate calculations, which are useful fcr wars, but ill-adapted for revolutions. Action should create action, and oppor tunies should be turned to account. This letter throws some light on the origin of the recent agitation. A conflict is at present being waged in Dunoon between the Highlanders and Lowlanders belonging to the Free Church, which appears likely to lead to a very vexatious spiritual feud. The Rev. Robert M`Morran, who was ordained on the 17th instant, cannot preach in the Gaelic tongue, consequently the Highlanders feel aggrieved that their spiritual interests are ignored, and that their constitutional, 'legal, and Christian rights are wrested from them. They have therefore appealed to the com mittee appointed by the Assembly. Canon Liddon writes to the Guardian, quoting lines from Keble's "Christian Year," to shew that he ap proved of the damnatory clauses of the Athanasian Creed. Canon Liddon adds, with regard to himself, that if those clauses were removed he should have to reconsider his position as a clergyman of the Church of England, and should say " this is not the Church in which I was or dained." The Hon. and Rev. W. H. Lyttelton strongly condemns these clauses, and the Guardian publish es more than three columns of letters on the subject. The Guardian thinlis that the Education League is losing ground. " Every one of its meetings, but most of all the last, shews that, though its numerical strength is derived from the infatuated support of the Noncon formists, it is really fighting the battle of secularism. In the speeches of its main champions this fact has always been thinly disguised, but the disguise is growing thinner every day. If the last meeting and the cheers which greeted Pll secularist utterances do not open the eyes of the advocates of unsectarian religious education,' nothing will." A large meetinr , was held at Plymbuth last even ing, under the presidency of the ex-mayor, in favour of extending the franchise to women. A petition was adopted, only a few hands being held up against it, praying for the passing of Mr. Jacob Bright's bill on the subject. A fire broke out in the vaults of the Custom-house, Boulogne, at noon, on Tuesday, and still continues, A portion of the cargo o f th e Indiaman Allahabad, which was stranded on the 17th at Andre seller, and other goods, have been consumed. A valuable portion, however, has been saved. The City of Dublin was placarded with bills "yesterday, announcing a public meeting to protest a ,- rainst the Peace P reserva t ion Bill. M r . G. jr. Moore, 1.P., and Mr. Butt, Q.C., are to be among tne speakers. The placards were headed, " Ireland's Answer—protest agailat deo.votivn."._ - - - - - INVESTMENTS IN AMERICA. (From the Anglo-American Times.) • If Mr. BOUTWELL had any chance of here being L able to float the new U. S. Loan for the redemption of the Five-Twenty Bonds as proposed in the Senate's Bill, one circumstance now in opera Lion would materially lessen that chance. Among the eager borrowers in the European marts are the agents of some good American ralways, who offer bonds bearing far higher interest, and possessing, if Effi ciently and honestly managed, as good security as any offered. It is said that people are flocking from New York to Frankfort as to a gold fie!d, and capitalis's are largely selling U. S. Securities to make the transfer. These German moneyed men have been wise in their generation, and their example might profitably be followed in England. Theyalone in Europe earlyappreciatedthe value of the securities offered by the Federal Government during the war, and the reward of their knowledge and con fidence has been an enormous harvest. Having got all they can out of the war, they are now going in for all they can get out of the peace. First, they hold that Five-Twenties cannotrise much higher, for they are now close on par,though in this calculation it should not be overlooked that the Bonds at present bear nearly 3 per cent. interest. But the Washing ton Government will surely meet a rise above par by funding the Debt at a lower interest; therefore any strong upward movement must be checked. Next, they see that the United States is on the eve of resuming specie payments, and that if they cut in early,theywill get the benefit of the discredit attach ing to a country which, from any cause, has had a currency depreciated below the standard of the world. That discredit forces Americans to pay a higher rate for money than they would otherwise have to do ; and if it is on the eve of being removed, with the isestige, too, of passing through the most extraordi nary financial revolution ever recorded without con vulsion, American credit will rapidly rise. The third reason is the prosperity of the couutry, for, notwithstanding the depression caused by the shrinkage of values, arising from the approximation towards equality of coin and greenbacks, trade in America is sound ; and the great productive power of the South is being developed as of old, while there is an unprecedented settlement of population going on in the Western States. What is the conclusion? Why, of course, that there is a great deal of money to be made by taking part in the industrial en terprises now waking into life and viuour all over the Union ; and the man of enterprise, who un derstands what he is about, can there secure for his capital a far better return than from the national securities. It is not in the hands of such persons that the Republic should desire to see its Bonds. No Government Securities can be firm so long as they are main lydealt in by such operators ; because, they are quick to buy and quick to sell, and what gives the impulse to one, gives the impulse to many. Those who ought to buy and hold U.S Securities are the trustees for institutions, for widows and chil- dren ; men who have laid by a provision for retire ment, and people generally whose Bonds are in the depth of a strong box, where they lie undisturbed till the coupon is wanted. A few years more, and there will be as small a portion of U.S.Bonds floating about on the markets as of British Consols, for they will then have been absorbed in the same way, and the sooner such trustees take them from the hands of the operators, releasing the capital of the latter for more profitable purposes, the better for both, for although an enormous sum has_been made by Europeans out of the United States, a vast deal more remains to make. The first effect of the action indicated has been to make U.S. Securities flat, but the changewill steadily progress as he circle widens of those who comprehend the subject. There is one danger, which it is the interest both of Eu rope and America to lessen to the smallest possible dimensions, and that is the negotiation of bogus bouds,of" wild-cat mines," and other swindles, which have already so materially retarded European in vestment in A iwri,•an undertak'ngs. A tra,twor.hy ag ency for bringing forward the mining enterprises of the Pacific Slope ought to be es' ablished ;n London, for it is painful to see the things unblushingly adver tised, while a valuable property like the Eureka faits to secure a market. What we recommend for the Pacific Slope is the establishment of a Trust and Loan Company, borrowing money in London and lending it in San Francisco, and the establish ment of a Mining Agency, the respectability of which will be a guarantee that none but genuine properties are offered to the British investor. There are a few Americans now in London from Cali fornia and Nevada who would command the con- fidence of their own States, and if they could form an association of men in whom the lloglish would put faith, something might be achieved, in the face of which a " wild-cat" dare not be announced, while bona fide paying mines could, with a chance of success, be offered to the public. We hope that some action may follow this suggestion, or Cali fornia and Nevada may oon have reason to regret their neglect of interests as material to them as to English investors. AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. (From the Anglc-American Times.) NEW YORK, March 12. Governor Hoffman has pardoned a Russian named Alexander Reno, though guilty of an unpardonable offence, on c•mdition that he would leave the coun try within ten days ; that is, we make him a pre sent to you, as he will probably not have a fancy for Russia, al hough the Russian Minister is be ;levy(' to have interested himself in his behalf. To ,iir philanthropists the bare idea of punishment is obnoxious. To punish that lordly creature, man, is an invasion of his dignity and rights, even in the person of a Jack Reynolds, about whom, by the way, an earnest movement has taken place to get the sentence of death commuted to imprisonment for life. A petition is in circulation to press the Governor into granting this; and, after being signed by many influential names, the committee has left for Albany personally to press the matter. A story is related in one of our newspapers of some . gentlemen who, in tke Astor House, were discus sing the increase of crime, and one bet another that if he shammed intoxication, even in the slightest degree, that he could not walk to Union-square ' without being followed by thieves, or the touters of the gaming houses. The gentlemanwho was to try the experiment got all right as far as Grand-street, where a swell-mobsman met him, and, pretending also to be in his cups, invited his brother in liquor to a club. No sooner had he got rid of this gambling-den touter and reached Hudson-street, than he was beset by thieves, who hustled him, and would have robbed him had he not woke up to th e necess it y o f b e i ng so b er. An Eng lishman, who had o n ly recen tl y arr i ve d, and is said to b, a man of means, named J. G. Har dinge, was found dead at No. 122, West Twenty- Seventh street. The c i rcums t ances are susp i c i ous, the . house being one o f ill repute; b ut l i ttle is known about the deceased gentleman except that he had apartments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The bar of this city has organized itself into an association which may do same thing in checking crime ; for it is impunity, and impunity only, which is p rocur i ng fo,- New York so unenviable a reputation. If we had judges more under the influence of the profes sion, and less tinder that of the criminal population, a more rigid jubtie would be meted out, and the police 111 held in an honest and zealous performance of their duty. There was an important meeting on Tu s lay evening of the Bar Association to e'ect members ; the Hon W. M. Evarts presiding. .the Committee on Admissions presented then Ines of 200 lawyers, which were read twice, and after a billot all were elected, though other names have to stand over for future consideration. Seven thou sand dollats have been subscribed, and temporary rooms taken. Gan. M‘Mahon presided at a meeting of the Cuban leagu e l ast S aturday, and many dis tinguished generals were preser.t. Among the gen tlemen on the platform was - Cassius M. Clay, tur late Minister at St. Petersburg, who takes a warm interest in the Cuban cause. Frank Leslie has a cut at Jonathan in the illustration on the outside sheet,where he is represented as gropingabout with his eyes bandaged with a napkin, on which is written " T he Alabama Claims." Columbia in great distress tries to arouse him to:the battle going on, in which the Cubans are depicted as having the worst of the fray. The police have been informed tbat Florence Scannell is not expected to live, and they have been ordered to re-arrest those concerned in the disreputable fight in which the alderman re ceived. his wound. An Englishman from Barba does, named John A. Phillips, has retired to Europ.• in the Mahe with a considerable sum, cleverly ex trac' ed from the Treasury. He was considered a trustworthy and valuable officer in the Internal Revenue Office of the Fifth District, near the Bowery. Mr. hl'Harg wa3 promoted last April to collector in the district, whereupon Phillips was re tained as First Deputy. The Monthly Report. No. 76, failed to reach Washington from the Fifth District, and on investigation Collector M'Harg's stamp account being found to be wrong, Supervisor Butcher was quietly told to examine and report upon it. Then Commissioner Delano summoned the Collector to Washington, whence he returned in an unpleasant frame of mind, while Phillips walked about this city calculating what the business was, and predicting that there was some thing wrong with the stamp account. When he heard that M'Harg ha returned, he went home and gave his wife $5O, saying that he would be absent for a few days at Washington. Then he got into a carriage with his trunks, and, in an hour, ;nag steaming out of the harbour in the Idaho, while Supervisor Butcher and his chief clerk were puzzl ing therns Ayes all the night over the accounts. Enough was made out to show that Phillips had at least embezzled $30,000, altering or suppressing reports to conceal his crime. It is believed that he pocketed the cheques given by the manufacturers for the tin foil tobacco-wrappers. Wm. Chambers was arraigned in theKi n g's County Oyer an dTerminer on Thursday for the murder of D. S. Voorhees, awl, the trial has been fixed for the third Wednesd a y of April. The defence will, as usual, be insanity, but .the man, from whatever cause, really must have been insane at the time he discharged his pistol so fatally into the group. M'Farlaud's trial is post poned to procure important evidence from Ireland. The counsel, in moving for delay, adroitly used the opportunity to influeoce public opinion, and, as if to show that his case was not particularly strong, heartily abused the opposing attorney. Recorder Hackett is known to be favourable to the prisoner, and there ii scarcely a chance cf his being convicted, for public opinion favours him, and no jury could be got to agree. Mesdame s Woodhull and Claflin lave added a "he" to the firm, in a Colonel 81001, who now figures as " Co." They have agreed to pay $4,000 annually for their office, and I hope the proprietor may get it; for, uow that curiosity has abated, little business appears to be doing, and the credit of the sisters does not stand high. Another c rcutnstance against the proprietor is that a pre vious little bill for house-rent has remained unpaid for years. Apropos of rent, the general impression is that ,the terms must be lowered from last year's figures. Real estate is certainly falling, as might be expected, with the rise in the value of our cur rency. The Northern Hotel, for instance, was sold a month ago at auction for $75,000, and last Tuesday it was again knocked down for $58,250, and the Jersey Hotel, close by,for $lB,OOO. Notwithstanding the efforts of Messrs. Stewart and Astor lower rents must be accepted this year, ex cept for very choice sites. A charge of libel has been preferred against the editors of the Sunday Mercury by Dr. Sherman. The case is grounded on a letter published in that paper from the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who wrote disparagingly of the defendant. The premature publication by the New York Times of the gold panic testimony has excited interest ; the Tribune says it received the report in time for publication the day before, in confidence, and therefore would not publish it as a " second rate" journal did. It appears that two copies of the testimony only were written—the one for the Committee, the other for the Presi dent ; and the latter gave it to the correspondent of the Times, who, as a matter of course, despatched it with all speed to his newspaper, which it reached several days before the period for publication, with explicit restrictions to delay it till the publkation was nut'lorised. Later, the other newsy apers got wind of the circumstance, and procured copies of he testimony ; but the . 'limes, feiring t) lose i priority in the race, published the rei ort before i was officially submitted. Messrs. Butler and Gar, field threaten all sorts of penalties, and talk of at official inquiry into the facfs of the case. Mr. Jones is the business manager of the Times, and MeBsrs,Shep pard and Bacon, to whom has late) , been a hied Mr. Chamberlain of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, mainly conduct the editorial department. A. so ciety has been formed to prosecute captains and other ship officers who cruelly ill-treat their crews,. and Joseph Clyne, mate of the Glad 'I idings, has had.to answer a charge made by the seaman John Linguist, during the passage from Liverpool. Dur ing the week the feature has been an extraordi n *ry excitement in the Gold Roam. Honest trade is growing very weary of the constant fluctuations and of the uncertainties kept up by these specula- tors. These gold brokers are coming to be re garJed as maniacs. On Tuesday the old indicator outside the room marked 111., whereon the opera tors in the " Street" broke into terrific yells. For a time the business almost reached the excitement of the well-known Friday, the room being crowded and the side walks lined as far as the indicator could be seen. The " bears" were conquerors in the fight till a Washington telegram arrived of the probability that $50,000,000 would be added to the currency, when the premium instAntly rose one. Next day, however, it was forced down to 1101 ; but on Thursday the struggle ended in exhaustion, and the premium then ranged between 11 and 12. A email bank, the Mechanics of St. Louis, has re- sumed specie paymeLts; and Portland is paying its municipal coupons in gold. A few of our restau rants tried the experiment of paying out silver, more as an advertisement, but soon grew weary In Canada the Government is about to issue greenbacks, and the silver is at a greater dis count than our paper, which must end by bring ing it all into the United States. The change resulting from the fall in gold perplexes and paralyses every branch of trade. Freights have advanced, and the export of breadstuffs have been brought to a stand. Dry goods are lower, and weak houses are failing, and more are likely to go. Wages, too, are difficult to adjust ; and strikes are pi obable from the attempted redaction. The sea men have already struck of some of the steam lines o New Orleans, Panama, and Havannah, to the inconvenience of the community. Mr. Seward, in his reply to the President of the Chamber of Com merce, who waited on him last Tuesday, alluded to the present depression,but made light of it in the face of the vast internal improvements. Our Mayor is to figure at the head of the St. Patrick's Day Pro cession in an open barouche with several of the city judges. It is expected that the procession will be the greatest yet marshalled. WASHINGTON, March 4. Last Saturday, on the invitation of Mr. Clapp, the President went over the Government Printing Office. He was welcomed . with a band of music in an office decorated with banners, festoons, and mottoes, and the women employees presented him with a bouquet ; but the work was continued all the time. The sudden death of Mr. J. J. Paul, last Monday, who had but just arrived at Washington as. Minister from Venezuela to the United States, was caused by apoplexy. He bad left his wire and a large family in Venezuela, where he was well known as a skilful lawyer ; but he bad not time even to present his credentials. lle was about forty-fiveyears old. A meeting had been held to make arrangements -for the funeral, which took place at the Church of St. Francis Xavier, the remains being iutrred in Calvaty Cemetery. His father was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vene zuela, and the deceased Minister was a Judge, then Secretary of the House of Representatives, then Minister of the Interior, leadint , an active, and, on tie whole, useful life. A case of assault. and battery is told in the memorial of Colonel John Hildreth . of Brooklyn, which was pres.mted to the House by General Butler. It appears that Signor Louis de Polestad, First S:-.eri.tary of the Spanish Legation, assau'te l Ilddrith when la , :t week hecalled on as at the Llgn tion , knocking him down on the stone ste, s without provccation, and SD sevtrely inju ittg him that his head is a mass of bruises, and his b xly is much cut. Added to Ill's ill-treatment the Spania• due lUm most insulting language. Colonel Ilddieth his applied to Secretary Fish, who is moving in the matter. General Butler has appointed Charles Sumner Wilson, of Salem, Massachusetts, a coloared lad, 17 years old,' and a graduate of MONETARY REPORTS.-YESTERDAY. In the Mock Exchange to-day the business doing has been only moderate, and realisations have weakened prices to some extent. Consols have been fiat, and fractionally easier, at 9n, 931 for money and the account ; Reduced and New Three per Cents, 91, 92 ; Exchequer Bills, par to 4s. prem. India Five per Cents. have been done at 113, 1131; and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem. Business in the market for English railway stocks has been only moderate, but prices have ruled firm. Tho principal transactions have been in Metropolitan, which has been dealt in as high as 782., but a decline to 771 sub sequently took place. Metropolitan District after touching 40,1-, have since receded to 391,.391. Caledonian has been firm. Lancashire and Yorkshire has risen and North- Eastern 1. Indian railway stocks have been quiet. For Canadian shares the demand has been inactive, at about previous quotations. Foreign shares have been dull, and without change. American securities have been firm. The Five-Twenty Bonds have risen but Illinois Central shares have fallen 1. Mining shares have been quiet, and without important . - change. For Bank shares the demand has been inactive, at the • rates previously current. Telegraph shares have been dull and easier. Anglo- Alediterranean have fallen British Indian Extension and Reuter's Construction and India-rubber shares have been firm: value, with a moderate demand. Owing to the close of the quarter there has been a con tinuance of activity in the demand for money. So soon, however, as the engagements in connection with the 4th have been met, a return of ease may be expected, espe- cially as the payment of the dividend on the 6th will con siderably increase 'the supply of capital. To-day three months' paper has been charged 3 per cent. The sum of £46,000 has been sent into the Bank to-day. At Mark-lane to-day wheat has been quiet, but firm. The rumour that the Franco-Egyptian Telegraph Com pany is about to be withdrawn is utterly without founda tion. The directors of the Great Northern Railway Company invite tenders for £92,055 new ordinary stock, being the balance of the total created by the resolutions of the meeting on February 20, 1869. ' The Board of Trade tables for the month of February are decidedly. favourable. Compared with the previous month, the exports of British and Irish products and manufactures shew an increase of upwards of £970,000; whilst the total shipments in the two months exceed those of the corresponding period last year by about £1,200,000. During the month of February they amounted to £14,455,379, against £13,485,026 in 1869, and £14,340,979 in 1868. In the two months they reached a total of £28,378,564, against £27,106,140 in 1869, and £26,593,667 in the previous year. The imports during the month of January amounted to £14,254,764, against £11,493,405 in 1869, and 29,489,492 in the previous year. A prospectus has appeared of the Netherlands Steamship Company, with a capital of 6,000,000f1., of which 3,500,000f1. will be first issued in shares of 1,0001 each, for performing the steam service between the Netherlands and their East Indian Colonies, through the Suez Canal, under contract with the Dutch Government. At a meeting of the Home and Colonial Marine In surance Company, a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was declared. A meeting has been held of the Rio de Janeiro City Improvements Company, and 'a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum has been declared. A telegram received from San Francisco states that the Eclipse Gold Mining Company has been transferred. The traffic returns of the North-Eastern Railway for the week ending March 26 are £82,666, being an in crease of £4,545 over last year. Those of the Midland are £68,912, being an increase of £2,023. At a meeting of the British Gas Light Company, a divi dend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared. Another small failure has been announeed in the Stock Exchange to-day. At the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held to-day, at Glasgow, the report was adopted. The Chairman threw the blame of the dissolu tion of the joint-purse agreement on the North British Railway Company. He attempted to shew that had that agreement been carried out, it would have been mutually beneficial. The present competition for the northern traffic would have been prevented. He held that the Caledonian Company, owning the greatest por tion of the line, were justified in. the present procedure. A resolution proposed by Mr. 'William Robertson, limiting the voting of guaranteed and preference share holders to such bills as affect their interests, was lost, a s was also the proposition that ordinary shareholders alone have_pow,er to create new stock. MARKETS-YESTERDAY. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, WEDNESDAY.—Tharecelvt3 of wheat from Essex and Kent have been limited to-day. TUll trade has been quiet for all qualities, but prices have been maintained. The show of foreign wheat has been good. Bales • have progressed slowly ; nevertheless the quotations have ruled firm. The supply of barley has been moderate. The trade has been steady, at full prices. Malt has been quiet, on former terms. Oats, the supply of which has been good, have been in healthy request, at full quotations. Beans and peas have been firm, and quite as dear. Flour has sold slowly. Arrivals—British : wheat, 400 ; malt, 300 ; beans, 200 ; peas, 20 quarters. Foreign : barley, 4,680; oats, 21,240; beans, 830 quarters, and flour 730 sacks. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, WEDNESDAY. —The supplies of meat have been moderate. The trade has been quiet, at about late rates. Beef from 6s. to 4s. Gd. ; mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. ; lamb, 6s. Bd. to 7s. 4d. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. ; and pork, Is. Gd. to ss. Gd. per 81bs. by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. WEDNESDAY.—In the general post. tion of the hop market no material alteration has been noticed. For all descriptions the demand has been heavy, and prices, though not actually lower, have ruled in favour of buyers. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 125.: Weald of Kents, £6 to £8 Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 12s. ; Bavarians, £6 to £9 ; French, £5 to £6 •, Americans, £4 ss. to £6 ; and yearlings, £1 10s. to £3 per cwt. LONDON TRADE REPORT, WEDNESDAY.—The tallow market has continued dull at 455. for Y.C. on the spot ; 445. 3d. to 445. 6d. April to June ; and 455. 6d. last three months. American turpentine, 30s. 3d. Linseed oil firm, at 325., London and Hull ; English brown rape, 435. COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS, WEDNESDAY.—The sugar market has ruled on, but holders have continued firm for all descriptions. The tea auctions have been badly attended, and sales have progressed without spirit, at prices in favour of buyers. Common Congou, is. to is. Old. Coffee has shewn little activity, and a few sales have taken place on rather easier terms. Low middling to middling dull. Colony, Planta tion Ceylon, sold at 655. to 71s. per cwt. Spices quiet, and rather easier. LONDON METAL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Straits tin firm, at £l2O cash ; Spelter dull, at £1910.5. Chili copper bars, £66155. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Market quiet. Sales 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 on speculation. Import of the day, 15,000 bales. LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Market quiet. Bars, 651 to 66 ; ores, 13. GLASGOW IRON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Market firm. Business done at 555. one month, at which point sellers remain. Buyers now offer less. CORK BUTTER MARKET,WEDNESDAY. —Ordinary firsts, 1355. ; seconds, 130 s. ; thirds, 98s. ; fourths, 765. ; fifths, 565. : and sixths, not quoted ; 300 firkins in the market. Mild cured— firsts, 1395. ; seconds, 1395. ; thirds, 101 s. ; 30 firkins in the market. AMSTERDAM, WEDNESDAY.—Banta tin, 71i. Rye, March 184: May, 184 ; July, 183 ; October, 187. HAMBURG, MAncn 29.—Wheat, March, 107 i • April-May, 108 ; May-June, 106. Rye, March, 77i ; April, 77 ; May-June, 78. Rape oil, spot, 29i ; May, 29i. PARIS, WEDNESDAY.—EIour, current month, 56 . 25 ; April, 65'25 ; May-August, 57 - 50. Rape oil, current month, 121 ; Sep- , tember-December, 108'2.5. ST. PETERSBURG, MARCH 29.—Tallow, spot, 56, duller; 3 roubles 56g. Wheat, May, 11. Rye, spot, 7, declining. The Hungarian, Gustavo Frigyesi, who for a long time served in Garibaldi's volunteers, has, besides writing a political and military history of Italy in 1867, found lei sure to translate the book of Jules Barni, of Geneva into Italian, under the title " I M ar tini del Libero Pensiero." There is a great demand for this kind of literature just now in Italy, while the clergy of Rome are taking such decisive steps in the opposite direction. Barni has chosen his heroes from all times, beginning with Grecian idolatry and ending with contemporary Cmsarism. BIRTHS. Ross—On the 22d inst., at Balnagown Castle, Ross-shire, the wife of Sir Charles Ross, Bart., of a daughter, still born. WAKE —On the 28th inst., at Sumner-place, Onslow-square, the wife of Captain Charles Wake, It N., of a son. MARRIAGES. BARKER Ross —On the 29th inst., at St. George's, Hanover square, the Rev. Wm. Barker, M.A., of 63, Harcourt-ter race, South Kensington, to Annie, only daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir James C. Ross, F.R.S. HOLLAND—Butmx--On the 24th inst., at Croydon, Arthur henry Holland, of Idol-lane, Great Tower-street, and Selhurst Villas, Selliurst -road, to Harriet Jane, daughter of the late Thomas A. Bulgin, of Camden-town. DEA7'IIS. PARDOE— On the 29th inst., at The Manor House, Leyton, Essex, John Pardon, Esq., aged 83. VERRALL -On the 29th inst., at Brighton, William Verrall Esq.. aged 57. , ondon: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Suli•Offlee, No. 112, r•trand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, fn the County of MiddleEez.—• Thtusday, Mardh 31, 1870.