The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-20 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. PROGRAMME OF NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. MONDAY, April 22. A Plate of 100 sovs ; three year olds ist 51b, four Bst 121 b, five, six, and aged 9st 21b ; mares and geldings allowed 31h; the winner of the Derby or St. Leger 141 b, of the Oaks, Two thousand Guineas, or a Sweepstakes value 1,000 soya 51b extra ; maiden three year olds allowed 51b, four and upwards 121 b; ELM. A Maiden Plate of 50 sovs, for two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; the last half of R.M. A Plate of 50 sovs ; three year olds 7st 71b, four Bst 121 b, five and upwards 9st 31b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 200 SOYA if demanded, &c. ; if entered for 150 sous allowed 71h, 100 121 b ; D.M. A Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h ft ; last half mile of 8.C.; 3 subs. Age st lb Age st lb Problem ... ... 3 811 F by Parmesan— Delium 37 10 Archeress ... 37 1 The Spring Stakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft; two year olds Est 101 b, three Bst 12Ib ; fillies allowed 31b; a winner of 200 sovs 71b, of 500 121 b extra; maiden three year olds at the time of naming which have run in public al lowed 71b; T.Y.C. ; 9 subs. Beauclerk 3 yrs (71b), Viridis 3 yrs, Red Itiband 3 yrs, Bismarck 3 yrs (71b), The Parson 2 yrs, Black Diamond 2 yss, False Alarm 2 yrs, Chignon 3 yrs, Bounceaway 3 yrs.' The Princess of Wales's Stakes of 100 sovs each, h ft, for four year old fillies, Bst 101 b each ; winners of a 1,000 soya sweepstakes 71b extra ; maidens allowed 71b ; the second to save her stake ; A.E.C.; 9 subs. Ischia, Potomac, Proserpine, Flora, Mrs. Day, Mineral, Fleurette, Miss Ilarriette, Acta 3. A S weepstakes of 500 sovs each, h ft, for two year olds; colts Bst 91b, fillies Bst 61b ; last half mile of B.C. ; 4 subs. Sister to Ascham, Angus, Athena, Grimston, brother to Verulam. A Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, for two years; colts Bst 71b, fillies and g,,ldings Bst 41b; winners 51b extra. First half of Ab. M. 9 subs. C by Birdhill out of Doglia, f by Knowsley out of Miss Whip, Equerry, Lady Barbara (51b extra), Belphegor, Eau de Vie (51b extra), The Sphynx, Sister to Lincoln Green, Pyrenees (slb extra). A Sweepstakes of 25 sous each, h ft ; three year olds 7st 121 b. four 9st 51b, five and upwards 9st 101 b; mares and gelding allowed 31b, and maidens at starting 71b; the winner to be sold for 500 sous ; if entered for 200 soya allowed 71b. RM. 4 subs. Sweet Aune, 4 yrs (200 sovs), Bretoline, 3 yrs (•00), c by Koh-i-noor out of Topsail, 3 yrs (200), and Lady Bugle Eye, 3 yrs (200). -'.l7be Prince of \Vales Stakes (a free handicap) of 25 sous each, 10 ft, with 300 added, for three year olds and up wards; winners after April 13, at 10 a.m., 31b, of a han dicap 71b extra. JIM. Age st lb ... 4 9 10 •5 9 5 •5 9 4 ▪4 9 3 Cecrops Ostreger Wild Agnes Strathconam Age st lb Centaur 4 6 13 Chepstow ... ... 4 6 12 Avron 3 6 12 Gipsy King 3 6 12 Dulcimer ... 5 6 11 Drum ... 4 6 11 King Victor ... 3 6 10 Montagnard ... 3 6 10 Renfrew ... ... 5 6 10 Python ... 3 6 9 Goojerat ... 4 6 8 The Celt ... 4 6 8 Land Tax 3 6 7 Little Rover ... 3 6 7 Arundel 3 6 7 Seringapatain ... 3 6 6 Pirate Chief ... 3 6 4 Blinkhoolio ... 3 6 4 Earl of Derby ... 4 6 4 Diadem 4 6 4 Jasper ... 3 6 3 John Halifax 4 6 2 Mt.gpio 3 6 2 Cheltenham 3 6 0 Marmite ... 3 6 0 Gretna ... 4 6 0 Honeymoon ... 4 6 0 Romping Girl ... 3 6 0 Ailesbury 3 6 0 Pyrrhic 3 5 12 Numa Pompilius ... 3 5 12 Maid Marian ... 3 5 10 ,Lady Eaton 3 5 10 Diamond ... ... 3 5 10 F by King Tom— Mayonaise ... 4 5 9 Airel ... 3 5 8 Tumbler ... ... 3 5 7 Adam Bede ... 3 5 7 Distaff ... ... 3 5 7 Man of Ross ... 3 5 7 B f by Dundee— Blanche of Mid- Dalby 6 9 1 Broomielaw ... 5 9 0 Breadalbane ... 5 8 13 Beadle ... ... 6 8 12 Out and Outer ... 5 812 Sultan ... 5 8 8 Archimedes 5 8 8 Tormentor 4 8 7 Kangaroo ... ... 5 8 7 Auguste ... ... 48 6 Duke of York ... 4 8 6 Redan ... 4 8 4 Vespasian 4 8 1 xi ... 4 8 1 Gardevisure ... 5 8 0 Cranmore ... 4 8 0 Plutus 4 8 0 Knight of Garter... 3 8 0 Wroughton ... 3 8 0 Primate ... 4 713 Redmire 5 7 13 Westwick ... 4 7 12 Acta 4 7 12 Monarchof tho Glen 4 r 12 Christmas Carol ... 5 7 10 Endaleigh ... 5 7 10 War ... 4 7 10 Puebla ... ... 4 7 10 Longdown... 7 7 Batthyany... ... 5 I _ 6 La Dauphine ... 4 7 6 Chapel Royal ... 4 7 6 Czar, by West Aus tralian ... ... 4 7 5 Bradamanto ... 6 7 5 Mr. Palatine ... 4 7 4 Leybourno 4 7 4 ilippia 3 7 4 Sweet Anne ... 4 7 2 Huntsman... 3 7 2 Jollity ... 4 7 2 Trocadero 3 7 0 Oracle ... 4 7 0 Conundrum ... 4 7 0 Knight Errant 3 6 13 Hawthorn_ ... 4 6 13 Match, 100, h ft; T.Y.C.—Marquis of Hastings's Panta loon, 5 yrs, Sst 101 b, agst Duke of Newcastle's Pericles, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b. Match, 50. 20 ft; Ilst 101 b each; owners to ride (with permission of the stewards); D.M.— Marquis of Hastings's Fern agst Lord Grey do Wilton's Landlord. dlebio ... 3 5 7 13 f by Lord of the hies—Miss Ann 3 5 7 Stephen Langton 3 5 7 Ploughboy ... 3 5 7 Corsair ... ... 4 paid T UESDAY. IL Plate of 100 sovs (handicap), for three year olds and upwards. Criterion Stakes. A Plate of 100 sovs ; three year olds 7st 21b, four Bst 10Ib, five 9st llb ; six and aged 9st 21b; the winner to be sold for 300 sovs; if entered for 100 sovs allowed 71b; if not for sale 71b extra. 11.31. A Handicap of 20 sove each, 5 ft, if declared by 10 o'clock on Monday night.. T.Y.C. The Coffee Room Stakes of 50 sovs each, for three yr olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst ilb. A.F. 4 subs. F by Dundee out of Sunbeam, Coldstream, Friponnier, f by Wild Dayrell out of Rupee. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two year olis; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies Bst 7lb ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs ; if entered for 50 sovs allowed 51b. Last half of Ab. M. The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, a subscription of 100 sovs each, 1 i ft, for three year obis; colts, Bst 101 b. fillies Bst slb ; the second to save his stake. R.M. 93 subs. Flambant, Beanelerk, Vauban, Caucasus, The Wild Wind, Fitzroy (dead), Owain Glyndwr, Lochaber, Thor napple, Pedagogue, Blinkhoolie, Hermit, Ruthven, Milan, The Rescue, Alexander, The Leading Suit, Scavenger, Ettrick, Honolulu, Defiance, Lord Hastings, Master But terfly, Barrington, Chatsworth, Plaudit, Star of India,Argeitel, Van Amburgh, Ferragus, Br c by Toxophilite out of Miss Sarah, br c by Young Melbourne, dam by Teddington, Diademe (paid), br c by Toxophilite The Drake's dam, b c by '_Foxophilite out of Flutter, b c by Barbatus, dam by West Australian, Master Willie, Lord Brownlow, Uncas, King Charles, Prodigal, Master of Arts, The Padishah, The Palmer, Huntsman, Freemason, Charles IL, Rouge Sanglier, Imperator, Longchamps, Cerf Volant, Enchanteur, Trocadero, Charlemagne, Geant dos Battailles, Tempest, Knight of the Garter, The Priest, The Dean, Weatherguide, Mandrake, Summertime, Birdforth, c by Thormanby out of C or d e li a, Marksman, La Puce, Julius, Pericles, Londesborough, Cyclone,Beanstalk, Stockmar, , Wild Moor, Archi mage, Ailesbury,Jasper, Janus, Cannon Ball, Ravioli, Fairfield, Sir Oliver, Arundel Kidderminster, Feodor, Stradbrok e , Th e G eneral, Distin,'Foresight c by Vedette out of Basqui ne , c b y Promised Land 'out of Breastgirth, Assineboine, Golden Bloom, Monolith. A Sweepstakes of 200 sous each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds, colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 61b; winners 51b extra. Last half of R.M. 6 subs. Young Melbourne c, The Morning Star, Arran, Little. Frince, Gritnston (slb ex), Queen of Beauty. A Sweepstak3B of 300 sous each, 100 ft, for 4-yr-olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 51b. B.C. The Rescued c, Westwick, Tho Carthusian, The Assas sin. WEDNESDAY. A Plato of 100 soya, for 3-yr-olds ; colts Bst 10Ib, fillies Bs, ilb; winners ilb extra. R.M. A Plate of 50 sous (Handicap), for 3-yr-olds and upwards Bretby Stakes Course. A Sweepstakes of 10 sous each ; two-yr-olds ist, three 9st; fillies allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 300 sot's if demanded, &e.; if entered for 200 Bova allowed Mb. T.Y.C. The Newmarket Two-yr-old Plato of 200 sovs ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 81b; winners of a plate or sweepstakes 51b extra. The last five furlongs of R.M. Lady Seaham, Caterer, Nutpecker, Noyean, Khadidjah e, Deglia c, Europa, Humdrum, The Mariner. Hush, Piquante, Schnapps, Inspiration, Cape Clear, Grandee, Schiedam, St. Ronan, Moll, Carlowrie, Lady Glencora, Albion. Mel bourne, Queen of the West, Bagpipe, Savoir Vivre,'Bianca c, Marquise c, Acorn, Creato r , S pruce, Agnes de Mansfeldt, Songeur, Anthee, Di Vernon, Red Comyn, Rosedew, Donato, The Drake's dam c, dam by Voltigeur f, Cuckoo, Lady Barbara (51b ex), Traviata, Lady Elizabeth (Sib ex), Little Prince, Equerry, The Piper, Pompier, Le Sapenr, Jenny, L'Epte, La Belle Jeanne, Bassoo n , F a il ure, R am ' part Cawdor, Prince Regent, Tom Vernon, Witchcraft, Wild Blood, Citron, Dulcet, The Sphynx, False Alarm, King Alfred, North Marston, Suffolk (51b ex), Princess c, Sister to Maid Marion , Brother to Claverhouse, Bucken hon's darn f, Lady Blanche f, Jim Crow, Gabion, Pyrenees (Sib ex), Eros, War Queen, Helvellyn, Privilege, Harebell, Choral, Lictor (51b ex) , Limner, Forecastle, Haze, Si gne l c, Madrid, Earnley, Iferennianus, Blanche of Lancaster f. A Sweepstakes of 50 sous each, h ft, for three year olds; colts Sat 101 b, fillies Bst 61b; 31b allowed; P.M. 3 subs. Princess Thyra (31b) pad), Treacle (dead), Ardbeg (311,) A S weep6takes of 50 sows each, h ft, for three year olds colts Bst lthb, fillies Bst Gib ; those got by stallions or out of mare,' that never bred a winner allowed 31b, only one allowance ; D.M. 5 subs. C. , l.lstrean t (31b), Photographe (31b), F by Wild Payroll oat of Rup ee (31b) , M iss Elizabeth (31b), Rose (31b). The Prince of Wales Stakes of 150 sovs each ; b ft, and 25 if declared (to go to the second), for four year olds ; colts Bst 91b, fillies Bst 41b ; the winner of the Derby or St. Leger 71b, of the Oaks, Two Thousand Guineas, Port, or Claret Stakes 31b, of any two of the above sfakes 91b extra ; maidens which have never received 100 sous for running second allowed ;1b; Cesarewitch Course. 1 tuba. Contain - , Musketeer, Beaconsfield, Lady Violet, Student, St ag hounit. - Montrose, Rustic, Freedom, The Peer, Prince of Wales, Black Prince. A Sweepstakes of 50 sovs each, h ft; three year olds, ist 91b, four Bst 111 b, five and upwards 9st llb ; T.Y.O 7 subs. B f by Tozophilite out of Maid of Masham, 3 yrs, Yirdis, 3 yrs, The Duke, 5 yrs, Volunteer, aged, Pericles, 3 yrs, Friponnier, 3 yrs, Pirate Chief, 3 yrs. A Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h ft ; two year olds 6st 71b, three Bst 101 b, four 9st 101 b, five, six, and aged 9st 121 b; mares and geldings allowed 31b, maiden four year olds and upwards 141 b ; winners of 500 sovs 1866 or 1867 71b extra ; T.Y.C. 4 subs. Moulsey, 6 yrs, Mrs. Stratton, 4 yrs, rotor, Z 'yrs, Ostreger, 5 yrs. Match 200, h ft; both two year olds; T.Y.C.--17:Tince D. Soltykoff's Demonstration, Bst 121 b, agst Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Chantilly, Bst 51b. THURSDAY. A Maiden Plato of 50 sovs, for two gear olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; the winner to bo sold for 300 sovs if demanded; if entered for 100 soya allowed 5113; last half of R.M. A Plate of 100 sous; three year olds ist, four Bst 101 b, five six, and aged 9st ; maiden four year olds allowed 71b, five and upwards 141 b; A Plate of 50 sous (Handicap), for three year olds and up- wards ; A Handicap of 10 sous each, for three year olds and up- wards; T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each; three year obis 7st 121 b, four Bst 10Ib, five and upwards Bst 131 b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs if demanded, &c. ; T.Y.C. The One Thousand Guineas Stakes, a subscription of 100 sovs each, h ft, for three year old fillies ; Bst 10:13 each ; the second to.save stake ; D.M.; 80 subs. Lady Fyfleld, Midwife, Henrietta Temple, Ch f by New minster out of Irish Queen, New Star, Delilah, Visionary, Charming May, Lady Hester, Rinderpest, Gardenia (dead), Ringtail Screamer, Stolen Kisses, Boadicea, Problem, F by Horror out of Butterfly, La Mandite, Lady Lambton, Pre face, Hawthorn Bloom, Sunnylocks, Dovetail, Nancy, Skysail, Sister to First Flight, B f by Tom Bowline, dam by Melbourne, Ch f by Tom Bowline out of Coalition, Sister to Strafford, the Duchess, The Empress, Red Riband, Ines, Sister to Merry Wife, Narino, Cauthleen, Sweet Home, Faux Pas, Si s t er t o V e d e tt e , Plantago Mdlle de Charolais, La Fregate, La Marechale, La Dauphine, Etoile Polaire, Floranthe, Catherine, Lina, lona, Second Hand, Monmouthshire Lass, F by Thormanby out of Sunflower, F by Thormanby out of Mcestissima, F by Dundee out of Blanch of Middlebie, Lexovienne, Miss Bateman, La Puce, Perdition, Fair Weather (dead), Sceur de Charite, Orna ment, Manuella, Victress, Lady Rose, Achievement, Janua, Camilla, B f by North Lincoln out of Lady Lotty, Moleskin, Nell Gwynne, Seville, Princess Mary, Collins, F by Wild Dayrell out of Rupee, Rust, Laverna, Rose, Miss Partridge, F by Promised Land out of Tribute f F by Promised Land Queen of the May. A Free Handicap of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, with 300 sovs added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards; winners after April 13, at 10 a.m., 31b, of a handicap 71b extra (penalties accumulative). Last two miles of the Cesarewitch Course. 65 entries. Age st lb Renfrew ... 5 6 9 Centaur ... ... 4 6 8 Fan... ... 5 6 8 Claverhouse ... 4 6 7 The Celt ... 4 6 7 Augusta c ... 4 6 7 Chignon ... 3 6 7 Tacitus 4 6 7 Orne 3 6 7 Whirligig „~ ... 3 6 5 Barege c ... 4 6 5 Pirate Chief ... 3 6 5 Montagnard ... 3 6 2 Ailesbury ... 3 6 1 Stokeley ... 3 518 Primrose ... ... 3 5 12 Seringapatam ... 3 512 Marmite ... ... 3 5 12 New Guinea ... 3 5 10 Killaloe ... 3 5 9 Stephen Langton... 3 5 9 Assineboine 3 5 7 Beauclerk ... 3 5 7 Priority ... ... 3 5 7 Ploughboy ... 3 5 7 The Usurper ... 3 5 7 Tightfit c 3 5 7 Airel ... 3 5 7 Busy 80dy... ... 3 5 7 Numa Pompilius ... 3 5 7 Sydmonton 5 paid Corsair ... ... 4 paid Age st lb Dalby ... 6 9 0 Ackworth ... 6 8 10 Archimedes ... 5 8 8 Klarinska, 5 8 7 Ostreger ... 5 8 7 Auguste ...4 8 7 Brown Bread ... 5 8 4 Tormenter 4 8 4 Dunsany 5 8 3 Tourmalin... ... 4 8 2 Buckfoot 6 8 1 Duke of York ... 4 8 0 Sealskin ... 4 8 0 Miss llarriette ... 4 712 Actrea ... 4 712 Selim 4 7 12 Westwick ... 4 7 11 Endsleigh 5 7 10 Dr. Syntax a 7 10 Podargus 4 7 9 Gomera ... 5 7 8 War ... ... 4 7 8 Ischia ... 4 7 5 The Lizard ... 5 7 4 Pintail ... 6 7 2 I'roserpine ... 4 7 0 Musketeer ... ... 5 6 12 Whalebone 4 6 11 Flatcatcher ... 4 6 11 Monitress ... 4 6 10 Rose Cheri... ... 4 6 10 Fal-lal ... 3 6 9 Othello ... ... 4 6 9 A Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, 10 ft, for three year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b ; maidens at starting allowed 71b ; the winner to be sold for 150 sous ; D.M. 3 subs. The Rhymer Rabelais Lady Bugle Eye FRIDAY. A Plat• of 100 sons (Handicap), for three year olds and upwards ; Ancaster ➢i. A Plate of 100 sous (Handicap), for threo year olds and upwards ; T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 soya each ; two year olds 6st 101 b, three Bst 131 b; fillies and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs if demanded, &e.; T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each ; three year olds Bst 811) four 9st 41b, firo and upwards 9st 71b; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs if demanded, &e.; if entered for 50 SOS's allowed 71b ; T.Y.C. The Newmarket Stakes, a subscription of 50 sovs each, h ft, for three year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 51b; the second to save his stake ; the winner of the Two Thousand Guineas 71b extra; D.M.; 19 subs. Vauban, Caucasus, The Wild Wind, (twain Glyndwr, The Hermit, Coldstream, King Charles, The Empress, Red Shoes, 13ornbastes, Rabelais, Marksman, Wild Moor, Ailes bury, Magpie, Finnan, Ravioli, Siiankos, and f by Wild Dayrell out of Itur.e. A Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, h ft ; four year olds Bst 41b, five Bst 111 b, six and aged 9st; mares and geldings allowed 41b; the winner to be sold for 2,000 sovs, or carry 71b extra ; D.I. ; 4 subs. Lecturer 4 yrs (not to be sold); The Duko 5 yrs (not to be sold), John Davis 6 yrs, Corsair 4 yrs. Match 200, h ft ; R.M.---Mr. S. Thellusson's Ostreger, 5 yrs, 9st, agst Capt. Machell's Knight of the Garter, 3 yrs, 9st. Match 100, h ft ; Bst 101 b each ; both three year olds ; R.M.—Lord Bateman's Delilah receives 25 sovs ft from Capt. Alexander's Patron. (No day mentioned.) DONCASTER SPRING MEETING. MAY 9. Acceptances for the Doncaster Spring Handicap of 15 soya each, 10 ft, and only 5 if declared, with 100 added ; winners of any handicap of the value of 50 sovs after April 10 (at nine a.m.) till), of two or one of 200 101 b ex tra; the second to save his stake. St. Leger Course. 31 subs, 18 of whom pay 5 sovs each. The highest weight accepting being 7st 101 b, it has been raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion. Age st lb Archimedes ... 5 8 12 Buckfoot ....6 8 11 Lion ... ... 5 8 9 Retrousse 4 8 9 Belmont ... ... 4 8 8 Selim ... 4 8 6 Dulcimer ... 5 8 1 Age st lb Forester ... 5 7 12 Black Prince (paid) 4 '7 12 llawkswell ... 4 7 10 The Rock ... 3 7 1 Leap Year 3 G 13 Rap 3 6 9 he following remarks in the Round Table on the importance of choosing a good and comfortable vessel :—" Great numbers of our country men, although perhaps not in such numbers as have been anticipated, will for some months to come be crossing the sea, and many will now cross it for the first time. It be comes a matter of great importance, both as respects pure comfort and as bearing upon first impressions, to select desirable means of transit. Many of the Atlantic steamships are old, dirty, and by no means quite safe. The desire to make hay while the sun shines will induce some of the companies to overcrowd their vessels and to take the risk of future unpopularity for the sake of present gain. Some which have established reputations will be, as they have been, indifferent to the comfort of their passengers, who, they think, should be satisfied with any and everything for the eclat of travelling by their famous lines. Sensible people should, however, remember that it is not always the company which is oldest or most celebrated which will take most pains to please. On the contrary, those which have reputations to make, will generally in this respect bo most depended on. Tho now French line is highly spoken of by those who have travelled in its vessels, and the Cunarders are losing, of late, a groat deal of the prestige which long years of safety and swiftness so worthily gained. The National Company is a rising one and has some very fine ships. The only American line is, we be lieve, that which has been established by the combination of the New York Mail Steamship Company with that known as the New York and Havre. Their fleet includes some noble vessels, and the high reputation of Mr. C. K. Garrison as a shipowner and capitalist is a guarantee of efficient management and faithful per formance of whatever sails under his auspices. The two German lines, the New York and Bremen and the North German Lloyds, stand well in public esteem and will be largely patronised by special classes. For good ships, good faro, cleanly service, and punctuality we can con scientiously recommend the Inman line, having made most comfortable and satisfactory passages by their steamships. These enumerated lines constitute the best and safest ones for selection, since the scratch ships put up for the occa sion will be, as a rule, wisely avoided. Passengers should remember that an ocean steamer is not a hotel, and cannot conveniently be changed on being found slow, dirty, or otherwise uncomfortable. Once at sea they are fixed and without remedy for the whole width of the Atlantic ; and it is, therefore, judicious to make a cautious selection, and, if possible, personally to examine proposed accommoda- Lions, before committing health, life, and property to their keeping. Old travellers do not require such advice, but to the thousands of young ones who go abroad for the first time it will not be found superfluous or untimely. For the interest of such we shall recur to the subject again." GOVERNMENT INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. The Postmaster has issued an account which shows that from the commencement of business on the 17th April, 1865, to the 31st December, 1866, the sums received on ac count of Government annuity and insurance contracts amounted to £83,938 13s. Ild. Of this, £74,963 15s. was paid to the National Debt Commissioners for investment, £3,607 2s. 3d. in respect of 312 annuities, and £3,813 1 ts. Bd. to the Commissioners on account of preniiunis received on contracts for sums payable at death. The amount paid for charges of management was £2,477 14s. 6d We draw attention to THE LAW OFFICES.—On the closing of the law offices yesterday business was suspended till Wednesday morning. The Chancery offices will be opened on Satur day, and will then be closed till Wednesday. 9 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1867. Naval and Military Intelligence. The preliminary operations connected with the contract works for the enlargement and extension of Chatham dockyard have been completed by Mr. Gabrielli, who has undertaken the first portion of the contract—that for the construction of the re pairing basin and two docks. Several hundred hands have been taken on during the past fortnight, and in a short time as many as 2,000 workmen, exclu sive of about 1,000 convicts, will be employed on the works. The recent visit of Mr. Corry, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and his colleagues in Chat ham has given an impetus to the prosecution of that portion of the undertaking which the previous Board of Admiralty decided should be proceeded with in the first instance, and the inspection of the works, so far as they have been carried out, has convinced their lordships of the advantage of constructing the first of the three basins, together with two of the docks, within the earliest possible period. The origi nal designs for the enlargement of Chatham dock yard, as prepared from the reports and recommen dations of Major Andrew Clark, Royal Engineers, the Director of Admiralty Works, contemplated the taking in of the whole - of the swamp at the eastern extremity of the existing naval establishments at Chatham, known as St. Mary's Island, covering an area of little less than 400 acres, and it is on them that the present undertaking proceeds. The dock yard at Chatham, with its docks, building slips, factories, and other buildings covers at present an area of barely 100 acres, but the addition decided on will increase it to nearly. five times its present extent, or, in other words, will enlarge its size to about two-thirds of the area of the city of London. Up to the present time work connected with the ex tension of the dockyard has been performed almost en tirely by convicts, some thousands of whom have been daily employed on the island for the past three years, during which an embankment along the har bour has been made for a distance of about two miles. A solid breakwater and wall have been formed, the dock and basin entrances have been completed, and a solid brick wall, carried some dis tance below the river, has been constructed for about 1,500 yards. In addition to this several mil lions of bricks have been manufactured and stacked by the convicts, the whole of which have been used in the work already completed. The slow pro gress of the works, however, which, in the opi nion of Major Clark, appears to be inseparable from their execution by convi:t labour, and the necessity for early providing an establish ment secure from hostile attacks, where our ironclad ships can be built and repaired with the greatest expedition, have led the Govern ment to decide on supplementing the convict work by skilled labour to a larger extent than has hitherto been the case, and hence the determination to have the remaining portion of the undertaking carried out by contract. The three large basins, forming the principal feature in the extension works, will occupy the site of St. Mary's Creek, formerly in tersecting the island, the creek being to this extent utilized, and a considerable amount of excavation thereby avoided. The largest of the three basins, the site of which is already marked out, is placed at the extreme east of the island, communicating with the Medway by means of locks at Gillingham Reach. This basin, which is intended to be used as a basin, in which the largest vessels of war may be fitted, equipped, provided with the whole of their guns and stores, and despatched direct to their destination, will cover an area of 33 acres, with a depth of water of 30ft. at neap tides. The width will be 800 ft., and it will contain a wharf age frontage of 5,800 f. Communicating with the fitting-out basin by means of a caisson will be the second, or factory, basin, with an area of 20 acres, a depth of water of 30ft., and a wharfage space of 3,750 ft. /Von a ; the northern site of this basin, forming a special feature: in the original project, it is intended to construct a camber, with berths in connexion, on which iron vessels of between 3,000 and 4,000 tons can Le placed, out of the water, for examination and repairs, to avoid the delay and in convenience of docking. On the southern side of the factory basin a large factory is now in course of erection, covering an area of about 14 acres. Up to the present time the building of the factory has been performed solely by convicts, who have completed the foundations and raised the walls of the structure to a certain height. As, however, the further pro gress of this particular work has been suspended, it is probable that its completion will form a portion of the contract for the construction of the factory basin and slips. The last of the three basins, the contract for the execution of which, together with the adja cent docks, has just been taken by Mr. Gabrielli for the sum of £750,000, will cover an area of 21 acres, with 3,500 ft. of wharfage, and a depth of water of 30ft. Along the southern side of this basin, which communicates direct with Chatham harbour, nearly opposite Upnor Castle, the site has been marked out for four large graving docks, each 420 ft. in length, and 130 ft. in breadth, with a depth of water of 28ft. Gin. over the dock sill at high-water neaps. Between the docks will be erected three workshops or factories for the workmen employed on the ves sels under repair or fitting. Only two of the, four docks are to be completed in the first instance, the contract for the execution of the works connected with which is included in that for the formation of the repairing basin. With about 2,000 excavators and other workmen employed on the works, in conjunction with a numerous body of convicts, t t w h e o d fi o r o s k t s w of ill, t i h n e all th p r probability, a b b i a l i s t i y n , b o the year 1869, the contract stipulating that three years shall be the utmost time the works connected with that portion of the undertaking shall be in hand. A number of the convicts will in the mean time be employed in the further embankment of the island, and the completion of the sea wall, the construction of the lock entrance and dam, the preliminary exca vations for the factory and fitting -out basins, and in the manufacture of bricks used on the works. The formation of the two remaining basins, as well as the intended deepening of the channel in the Medway from Folly Point through Gillingham Reach to the entrance of the fitting -out basin, to a mean depth of water of s7ft. at half-tides, will be included in separate contracts. The original estimate for the works connected with the enlargement of Chatham dockyard was a million and a quarter sterling, but the additional buildings and other undertakings de cided upon, as well as those in contemplation, will increase that estimate by about another quarter of a million. At the present rate of progress, however, at least ten years must elapse before they are com pleted. A separate contract has been taken by an other firm for the construction, on the part of the Admiralty, at an outlay of £40,000, of a public wharf at Gillingham, adjoining the dockyard, in lieu of the wharf to be removed to make way for the en largement of Chatham dockyard. The works con nected with the formation of the new work have been commenced, and will be completed in about two years. The unannoured screw corvette Blanche, 6, 2,268 tons, 350-horse power, preparing for launching at Chatham dockyard, is ordered to have additional ports constructed for the increase of her armament by two 64-pounder muzzle-loading guns. This al teration in her artwttnent will also necessitate an increase in the size of her magazine for receiving her additional shot, shell, and cases of powder. The ship Norwood, chartered by the Government to convey convicts from Chatham, Portsmouth, and Portland, sailed from the latter port on Thursday last, at 6 p.m. She had put back a week pre viously, after sailing from Portland on account of a case of measles having broken out on board. When the Norwood put back she was anchored at the eastward end of the Breakwater in quarantine, and when all danger frOm the epidemic spreading throughout the vessel had subsided she was allowed to proceed on her voyage to Western Australia. A light south-east wind blew with fine weather, as the Norwood left her anchorage. The urgent demand fora supply of the new Palliser shot to furnish the home and foreign stations has necessitated the working of the shell foundry at Woolwich night and day for some time past, and a weekly supply of about 4,500 has been successively , kept up. The manufacture is now somewhat re duced in order to admit of the chills and other por tions of the plant being put under a course of new steel lining adapted to the lubrication of the moulds, and to undergo some other repairs. The manufac ture, as before, is expected to recommence on the opening of the establishment after Easter. A large number are required for early despatch to serve the heavy guns sent out last year for the defence of Canada. A notification was yesterday received at Chatham, from the Horse Guards, that the 70th Regiment will proceed from Dover to Aldershott, on Thurs day next, the 25th inst. Major Wirztuan is to be transferred from the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons to the 4th Hussars, on their going to India in September. GLORGE FRANCIS IRAIN IN THE GOLD ROOM, NEW YORK. The Gold Room, with its active five hundred members, is still the feature of New York monied men. Sales amounting from twenty-five millions to a hundred and twenty-five millions every day show the magnitude of the operations there. A stranger in the city may well look on mid wonder to see all nations represented around that railing. Horace White's description in the Chicago Tribune was racy in the extreme, but the Gold Room has seldom had more of a sensation among its members than Wed nesday afternoon. It seems that Mr. Train went into the new Board Room with Mr. Mellis of the World, to see the Room and ascertain if his old membership of two years ago held good. Mr. Train, who seems to be always a hail fellow and very popular with the brokers, found himself suddenly hemmed in by a crowd, while the whole room joined in the cry of speech—speech —Train--Train. He tried to get out in vain. There was no retreat. He pushed for the door, when some dozen of the brokers, now thoroughly demoralised, lifted him up bodily to the President's platform, while the board, packed fuller than usual, demanded a speech. The President hammered away with his gavel, but could not restore order. " Decorum, gentlemen, we must have decorum; surely you have no right to force Mr. Train to speak against his wishes." "I will protect you," said the President to Mr. Train. But it was of no use. It was beyond his power. The gold brokers had got Mr. Train fast, and suspended all opera tions, and insisted upon a speech. Mr. Train, seeing that he was in for it, arose, when the cries of " Hats off" were renewed and silence was restored. We can only give a sketch of Mr. Train's remarks bearing on the financial question. The above extract from the Evening Express is followed by Mr. Train's speech, which is rightly described as an odd speech in an odl place by an odd fellow. Mr. Train hit right and left, but although his hearers must have felt the full force of many of his blows, they were taken with the utmost good humour. When the old Banking Companies of England, organised under the Limited Liability Act, they were all or most of them insolvent—as instanced by Overend, Gurney, and Co. Our old banks were in the same position when Mr. Chase, the largest head, the longest head, of his party created the national banking system, to make himself President. (Ap plause.) You remember he put his handsome photo graph on the $1 notes to circulate among the people. (Laughter.) Our National Banks, like the English Limited Liability Act, were the salvation of most of the rotten banks of the country. (Sensation.) Take their loans this time last year, 1866--Five Hundred Millions. Take them now, 1867—Six Hundred and Twenty Millions. Of course I said as they have in creased their Inns they have added to their capital, l i only Twenty-Five Millions I found, leaving One Hundred Millions more now than when expanded last year. What is this loaned on ? On Erie at 90, North-Western at 80, Cumberland Canal at 70, Pacific Mail at 180—and Pork at 36. (Laughter.) The last panic was peculiar—usually we outsiders caught it. This time you insi lers got cleaned out. (Applause and "That's so.") Men who had accumu lated their $200,000 to pooxo in small sums these last few years, buried it all in the Greenwood Cemetery of the Stock Exchange. (Mr. O'Brien — or in E Pluribus Unum.) Mr. Train—Yes, you are one of the ma.ny whose epitaph is among the tomb stones. (Loud laughter and applause, continuing for , several minutes at the repartee.) th only Wells, tells thel l s The Comptroller is abroad—he is after the &lin quents-1,700 of these institutions are in a flurry— already the big loans a r e called in, and the street N ew t on , Hudson, Boston, and N as h v ill e are o will feel the shock within a week. The recent Na tional Bank failures in Wash ington, Baltimore, Oil nal p t irn h e Pl e es ;perienced eye the p a i n f u l di sease the slight erupti on on t h e s ki n, that is struggling within. (Applause.) These banks were established on a 10 per cent, margin, $lOO,OOO bonds gave smooo notes. This margin is lost, and 23 per cent. more, as shown by the loan account One Hundred Million more than last year. (Sensation.) When the country understands this, they will sell Governments. Then look abroad. Five hundred m illions of our secur ities in Europe on call —nomi nally held at 7 4— or 9 p er cent. i n gold, while the rot tenestat , 1 theold .t shows h ow littl e world,per cent. British Consols, they think of our Bo nds. The y are simply deposited security are selling in there and drawn aga inst —a sim p l e kytering opera tion, which you und erstand. ( L aughter.) When you want to see wha t is g oin g t o happen abroad look at the never - f ailin g baromet er down there in the south-eastern part of Europe, the Eastern ques tion. All say peace , yet five millions of breech-loaders —of needle guns are being made. When war breaks out, as likely in London or Paris as in Greece or Tur key, back come the bonds. Send home not $500,000,000, but $20,000,000, and the dozen inter national bankers will rush to the Government slaughter-house to sell, and the amount will soon be exaggerated to $200,000,000. Suppose they meet there some of the liquidating National Bank Bonds, and other frightened holders of the Bonds, all rush ing to sell, who is going to buy ? Shall Igoon ?" (Cries of " Yes.") Remember that the loan was taken up on margins. We subscribed $lO,OOO and borrowed $9,500, and kept the mill going all day, making the min with $lO,OOO capital talk and act like the millionaire. The public is a bull on govern ments only when above par—when below par they are bears. Let governments drop to par, and down they go to 89. Then national bank notes are 1 per cent. dis. Then comes the rush on national banks for greenbacks, and the greenbacks are not there. (Sen sation.) What is the result? Does Congress help us? No, the lawyers are in power; what do they care? They add $100,000,000 bounty to the debt, and ad vance their own salaries to $5,000. Is the South to be admitted under the Military Bill ? No ; Stevens holds the reins; confiscation is the order. The estates are to be cut up among the Germans, and the negroes wiped out. Where, then, are we floating? Congress sees MiCulloch has made a mistake ; and as it is an Administration blunder, the Radicals intend to pass no bill of relief. They will pinch the country this year— and bring on a financial crash in the fall—(remem ber this is the panic year of the never -failing screws) —lay it on the Administration policy, and when everybody is broken, Congress will meet in the winter and pass Randall's bill, putting greenbacks in the place of the $340,000,000 National Bank Bonds. Pass another bill paying duties on imports in greenbacks—and then another bill paying inte rest on the $1,400,000,000 5-20's in legal tenders. In other words, give the country one currency. That is twenty- five hundred millions of legal tenders, in stead of 16 currencies as at present. This makes all happy for the Presidential election of 1868. Delirium tremens requires national whisky to recuperate the system. The whisky will make all votefor Radicalism. They elect the President, and after that the deluge. (Laughter.) Johnson in his talk with Halpine—the Democratic party and the South thinks that a crash will burst the Radicals. By no means. They will turn it to their advantage. Th e next war is to be financial —land and labour against banks and bond holders—and the former own the notes. The South had no debt. The West little. The greenback age wiped off their mortgages, and placed the lead on the back of the bondholders. The debt rests uneasily on the seashore and iu Europe, and the shadow is on the wall. Paying gold interest in greenbacks is repudiation, y9 1 : 1 Say---why so ? Nearly all the States have done it, New York taking the lead. The finality of all the recent Congressional legislation may be stated in two words, confiscation in the South and repudia tion in the North. (Sensation.) The Chicago papers have already sounded the tocsin ; we are growing poorer every day. The $2,500,000,000 debt only cost $1,250,000,000. Hence bondholders ask specie payments. .The people who did the fighting hold no bonds, and ask for legal tenders. The rich ar ranged to have their bonds free from taxation. Hence the rich man, with his millions of untaxed governments, sends his children to the same school where the poor man, with no bonds, sends his. Bence the poor man is obliged to pay for the edu cation of the rich man's children as well as for his own. (Sensation.) But enough of this. You asked me.for a speech, and you have got it. You ask the remedy. Retrench. You have been dancing five years and the fiddler demands his pay. (Laugh ter.) When the candle is lighted at both ends you had better sell it short. (Laughter.) You must stop your imports—develope your mineral resources —finish the Pacific Railroad—cut down your ex penses—smoke one cigar less—drink one glass of whisky less every hour in the day, and keep all your pockets as full as you can of legal tenders, as they will be the handiest thing you can have about the house. (Loud applause and great congratula tions from the brokers.) Sl-IRIT OF THE AMERICAN PRESS. THE POLITICAL FUTURE. The nature of the arrangement which Congress has made as to its adjournment renders it certain that, barring some gross act of folly on the part of Mr. Johnson or of the Southern leaders, there will be no session until December. As well as anybody can judge from his present attitude and language he is not likely to do anything to impede the free working of the Reconstruction Bill. The Generals in command of the military districts are men in whom the country has every confidence, and what they have done so far, warrants the conclusion that they will do hereafter all that the occasion calls for or the people expect, without either let or hindrance from the White House. There could, in fact, hardly bo , a better augury as to the future, than the steps General Sheridan has just taken at New Orleans. We may therefore fairly anticipate that the con stitutional conventions •in the various States will be duly held, and that not only the Unionists, pro perly so called, but everybody not formally disfran chised by the act, will take part in the election of the delegates. It is impossible to read the speeches of the leading Southern men and the articles in the recent Southern papers without feeling satisfied that active submission has at last been determined on, that the South is going to reorganise under the act, and that the plan of flattering and managing the negroes has been fixed on as the best and only mode of taking out of the new law whatever sting or danger there may be in it. We shall probably see during the coming summer most of the leading Southern politicians, and a large number also of in fluential men who have never taken much part in politics, carrying on a brisk canvass amongst the freedmen, and competing, and we believe not unsuc cessfully, with the Southern Radicals, properly so called, for the negro vote. That the conventions will comply with the requisitions of Congress we have no sort of doubt. It would, of course, be a great mockery, as everybody at the South now knows, to hold them for any other purpose than compliance. That the establishment of free schools is not amongst those requisitions, as proposed the other day by Mr. Sumner, we consider a great misfortune ; and we cannot help thinking that the whole North will see it in the same light before many years. Of what the Southern planters can do in the political ma nagement of ignorant voters we know something already, but we greatly fear we have something still to learn. If, therefore, Mr. Johnson confines himself durinffthe summer to the routine duties of his office, and indulges in no worse outbursts of feeling than " conversations," there will be nothing for Con. gross to do until the regular time of meet ing. The game of removals from office which the President played last summer, is, of course, barred by the Tenure of Office Bill, and our Foreign Ministers may hereafter meet the gaze of the McCrackens without wincing. Thus Mr. Johnson is really exposed to hardly any temp tation. What, under these circumstances, is likely to become of the impeachment ? In the first place, it is quite evident that its great advocates have now very little influence in the House. General Butler went to Congress charged with the special duty of carrying it through, and may be said to have mad! absolutely no impression on anybody, ar.d has been condemned to the some what inglorious role of sticking pins into his personal enemies for the amusement of his fellow members. Mr. Stevens, too, has evidently lost his power, or else the House has grown thieked skinned for his lash, though ever so mercilessly applied, does not produce the slightest movement. What is more significant than all, is, that the Judiciary Committee make no secret of the fact that it is proceeding in strict accordance with legal forms, taking evidence only under legal rules, and is admitting rebutting testimony at every step. We have all along main tained that if this were done the impeachment had little chance. The only mode of impeachment which promised success was something in the nature of a bill of pains and penalties, or what might be called " impeachment by acclamation." We are still of opinion that no evidence has been brought before the committee which would bear examination in a court of law, because it could only reach the com mittee through the promoters of the movement, and thus far these gentlemen have not tantalized the public by their secrecy. They have been, of course, very anxious to secure support from the people, and consequently are not likely to have kept back anything of importance which came to their knowledge, and yet they have told us absolutely nothing that we have not all known for the last year, unless it be Mr. Boutwell's charge about the pardon of the West Virginia deserters. We have at the same time the assurance of the committee that they will prosecute their inquiry diligently during the summer, and if they find any high crime or misdemeanour will do their duty about it fearlessly. In any case, however, the probability is that we shall not get their report till December. In calculating the effect of it, even if unfavourable to the President, it is desirable to remember that the convention for the nomination of the next President will be held in the summer of 1868, and that during the previous half-year the attention of the political world will be entirely absorbed in the manufacture of candidates, possible and impossible, likely and unlikely, and will continue to be so till the nomination is 'Lade. After the nomination of course comes the compaign, and we doubt if a more exciting one has ever occurred. It is safe, there fore, to predict, that Mr. Johnson, insignificant already, will, after the Ist of January next, becomes more and more so, and will cease to be spoken of at a ll al the winter wears on, and that some of those who are now most eager to try him will then be least disposed to trouble themselves about him. Moreover, suppose an impeachment process were commenced iu December, if conducted with legal form, as it ought t o be and certainly would be, it would last till the following summer at least, and . conviction might possibly be secured about the time of the . next election ; but we doubt if either the cause of the country or the interests of virtue would be served by ft.-7 he Nation. REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES.—HARE'S SYSTEM. A majority may be too strong for its own (rood and that of th e s t ate. I t wou ld b e eas y to 'find illustrations of this in recent legislation. Some inea snrw of the late Congress would have been much more carefully and justly constructed if the domi nant party had not felt its power to pasi them over Presidential vetoes and to silence opposition by sheer force. In this consciousness of irresistible power, the majority too often attempted to rob the minority of the poor privilege of discussion and re monstrance, or when they permitted it, it was granted as a favour, not allowed as a right, and the most frequent reply to an argument in opposi tion to any measure was in substance :—" kN'ho cares ? We can vote you down." Indeed it seems to be one of the natural tendencies of representa tive government to cultivate a contempt for mino rities and their rights. And this is all the more provoking and dangerous when the aggregate majority of the party in power is but a small frac tion of the whole vote, and liable to be trans ferred at any election to the other side by some revulsion of popular feeling, or an extraordinary expenditure of money in the purchase of votes. Aside from party considerations altogether, and on Public and general grounds, the rights of minorities are entitled to respi.ct in a free government. How to secure to minorities a share of representation and power is one of the problems over which the thinkers in politics are now much exercised. The plan of Mr. Hare, endorsed by John Stuart Mill, is the most practical and direct yet suggested. It is called the cumulative vote. Mr. Hare would make the representative districts larger, and then divide the representatives in each between the different parties as nearly iu proportion to numbers as possible. For instance, Massachusetts would elect her ten representatives to Congress on a general ticket, and the Democrats would be entitled to two or three of them, according to their proportion of the whole vote. This would be secured by a law that no voter should vote for more than seven or eigkt representa tives, as the case might be, so that all the names ou the Republican ticket would be elected and the two or three on the Democratic ticket receiving the largest number of votes. The plan would have the further advantage of allowing the selection of candidates from the whole State, and so increasing the chances that the best men would be sent to Congress. The same system might be applied to elections for the State Legislature, by increasing the size of the re presentative and senatorial districts. It would be easy to find objections to Mr. Hare's plan, and it is not likely to be favoured by any party that is strongly in the majority, and yet the idea that minorities have rights, and should be heard and represented in the Government, is one that will force itself more and more upon attention as a desir able check to the despotism of the num , Tical ma jority, which may sometimes become as intolerable as that of the mailed hand of a single tryant. While all afloat as to first principles on many great political questions, and seeking for solid footing somewhere, the suggestions of these great English thinkqs in politics deserve at least respectful atten tion. They may give us essential help.--Spring field Weekly Republican. STRIKES IN AMERICA. Public attention is again called to movements of combined associations of working men, and once more we are apprised that there are tobe combination strikes, and the demand of increased wages at the peril of the suspension and possible destruction of many branches of business, with the inevitable recoil of the movement upon those who can least afford to bear the evils that must of necessity follow. Firmly believing that labour and capital, employer and employes, are and ever should be friends and allies, we deprecate any movement that tends to disturb that unity of in terest, and most especially the sheer madness of strikes. If any individual is underpaid let him go di rectly to his employer and see what can be done by a fair and temperate discussion. We are sure that in most cases he would either gain his point or be con vinced that the employer really could not afford an advance. But to shrink away from capitalists, as if ashamed or afraid to discuss anything, to meet in trade societies and send forth a peremptory demand for increased pay under the threat of ruining an entire business if employers hesitate to yield, is an outrage of the most aggravating kind, and capital ists must be more than human if they do not resent it. What was the result of the ship carpenters' strike ? The suspension of work in many places, and the turning of all repairing of ves se l s over t o Boston and othr eastern ports. The working men lost more by this one folly than ever was gained by all the strikes on record. How did the car-drivers fare in their attempt at coercion ? They failed, and hundreds of them were compelled to seek work in other places and other business. They did all they could to injure the capital that had fed them, until capital turned in self-defence, and shook them off. Not one of the leading strikers can ever again get employment from a city railroad company. . . All these combinations to force prices injure the working classes ; they degrade themselves thereby, holding out the idea that they have no moral or legal rights ; and, therefore, turn footpads and take by violence what by that very act they acknowledge they cannot rightfully claim. The rates of compen sation for labour are already very high ; daily and weekly wages are quite as high as when gold was 250, and any attempt to force a rise will most cer tainly produce the opposite result. The high rate of pay for carpenters, masons, and bricklayers has kept back the business of house-building, and in fact quite suspended it. There might have been thou sands of additional small and large tenements within ten miles of the City-hall if labour had been even 20 per cent. lower for the past five years. The vacant ground is there, and capital stands ready and anxious to build the moment it can see a fair probability of ordinary returns. How much do the carpenters expect to increase the amount of housebuilding by adding 15 per cent. to the cost thereof ? We hope all trades will carefully consider these matters, and that they will, for the sake of the working men, avoid the ruinous folly of coer cion and strikes.—New York Times. CANADIAN VIEWS OF THE CESSION OF RUSSIAN AMERICA. The Toronto Globe writes :—" The sole object of the United States's Government in this matter is the miserable advantage of shutting off the northern portion of British Columbia from direct access to the Pacific Ocean, a mere strip of Russian ter ritory, running down some 400 miles along the coast from Mount St. Elias to opposite Queen Char lotte's Island. It is along this strip alone that the Russians have any settlements—and these are not on the mainland, but on the islands which stud the coast, and afford facilities for hunting the sea-otter. The only settlement among them of any importance is that of Sitka Island, on which is the town of New Archangel, a little place of 800 to 1,000 inhabi tants. All the rest of Russian America is an un penetrated and impenetrable wild, iu which the Indian roams in all his primitive independence. The entire population of this new acquisition of Brother Jonathan is some 60,000 souls, of whom all but 3,000 or 4,000 are aboriginal Indians. The idea of anybody getting excited about this affair is simply ridiculous. It may afford our Republican neigh bours an opportunity of extending their Japanese system, and making themselves as unpleasant as possible to the bold pioneers who penetrate the northern regions of British Columbia ; but the acquisition of 481,276 square miles of ice, with a population, all told, of 3,000 Cossacks and 50,000 savages, is hardly an investment to be coveted by anybody not afflicted with an insatiable cravinr , for useless territory. The blowing of our neighbours over so sterile an acquisition enables one to form some estimate of the cruel longing that afflicts them for the possession of British America." The Montreal Transcript says :—"ln a political point of view the possession of this inhospitable region can give no extension of influence to our Republican neighbours. It may be gratifying to the national amour propre to know that they possess a coast line which, in a measure, hems in the British territory, but the gains are practically nil. It matters little to us that a territory so worthless passes into Ameri can hands. If our neighbours can succeed in uti lising its barren resources, and bestowing upon its sparse and semi-barbarous population those• bless ings of civilisation and religion which, under Rus sian rule, have been practically denied, we shall have reason to rejoice rather than to he dismayed at a consummation to which the American people may be pardoned for attaching an undue import ance. Encounter between au Eagle and Fox. A correspondent in Strathmore gives us the following very singular details :—Last week as I was perambulating the moors of Upper Strathmore, I came to the foot of a hill called Benalskie. Upon looking up to the summit I observed a largo bird perched on a cairn of stones which is situated on the summit of the hill. By the help of my telescope I was enabled to discover it was an eagle of consi derable size. When I had approached halfway up the hill it observed me, and immedi a t e l y moun t e d i n to the air. Being familiar with these birds from boyhood, I under stood it was one of the golden species. Upon reaching the summit I sat down, in order to watch this noble bird. At first it rose to a considerable height in the air, then it approached much nearer to the earth, and I knew from its manner of flying it was in search of prey. After flying about for some time, it suddenly alighted about 400 yards from the spot where I lay. I knew I.y its quick descent that its sharp eye bad discovered something, and I soon found my ideas were well founded, fcr upon looking again I saw it was devouring the carcase of a mountain hare In a few minutes I looked again through my telescope, but judge of my groat astonishment when I observed a fox spring from a bush of heather and seize the intruder (which had come to rob him of his prey) by the wing. A well-contested struggle ensued, in which the bird made a desperate attempt to defend itself with its claws, and succeeded in extricating itself from its enemy's grasp; but before it had time to escape reynard seized it again by the breast, and seemed more determined than over. The eagle made another attempt to overpower its antago nist by striking him with its wings, but that would not compel him to quit his hold. At length the eagle attempted to take wing, but reynard was not to be cheated in this manner. At last the eagle succeeded in raising the fox from terra firma, and in a few minutes he was suspended by his own jaws between heaven and earth. He was now placed in an unfavourable position for fighting ; but his courage did not seem to forsake him, as he firmly kept his hold, and seemed to make several attempts to bring the eagle down, but, alas! he soon found the strong wings of the eagle were capable of raising him above the clouds. There was now no way of escape unless the bird would alight somewhere. The eagle made a straight ascent, and succeeded in rising to a considerable height in the air. The two combatants were still struggling, and in a few minutes a disengagement appeared to have taken place. lleynard, from some cause or other, was obliged to quit his grasp, and he was now descending much quicker than he had gone up. His fate was now visible, for in a few seconds ho was dashed to the earth, where ho lay strug gling in the agonies of cleat b. I lost no time in proceed ing to the spot where the dead animal lay. Upon examin ing the body it appeared considerably bruised by the fall, and there were several deep wounds inflicted on its side. Life was quite extinct before I reached it. The eagle made its escape in a southern direction. It appeared weak from exhaustion and the loss of blood, but notwithstanding managed to fly until at last it was obscured iu the dis tance.—Northern Ensign. The corner-stone of the new St. James's Hotel at Boston has been laid, and work is soon to be commenced on the new Grand Hotel, with 62,000,000 capital, at 1 . ) or cheaer. A branch lino of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad, half a mile long, is to be built for the special ac counnoaation of the latter institution. TROMAS SILVER'S MODEL STEAMIER• We see by the American Artisan that Mr. Tho mas Silver, who lately proceeded from London to New York, is directing the attention of his countryaleei; to his model of a n i m p rove d steamer. Mr. soy contends that the present system of s hips constrc tu steamers makes rolling an d uncomfortable n He holds that the buoyancy of vessels incr eases la greater ratio than length, which prevents pite, lljl3 , g z + while width confines the rolling to a min inuli t i e ,' and both give facilities for high speed with btu, diminution, as a vessel combining great l en gth a htt breadth is not considerably affected by the we'4 re carried. The present syst em is to build po the and deep steamers to obtain deep screw, with Europeans the favourite method of l u rv id This construction Mr. Silver's Pia w° 75 wholly change, building vessels 590 feet long, wide, and 30 deep, of 7,168 tons gross C ust° ln to house measurement. These vessels he proP° scs ow o propel by two paddle-wheels, and twin sef for sea resistance to, driven by engines with centre shafts arrangeti disconnection. One of the engines, Mr. Silver .chi culates, can drive one of these vessels six or elc' no n miles an hour, while th e w h o l e power in ino ti v will give 20 knots, which kept up for sev t ic. days will carry the st e amer a cross the O ar ' t s . The new steamer will be unencumbered with wa s If one means of propulsi o n b r e a ks down, the other remains ; if one engine becomes damaged the Pali sage of the vessel will be but slightly retarded ; the the rudder is injured, she can be steered bY t , of screws. The difficulty of m anoeuvring Yess e `" e r such immense length will be obviated by the Pl es thus given. The carrying capacity will be bes l fuel3,ooo tons cargo and 2,500 passengers. Th e i lli Z i ; nitude of the vessel will afford the accomulou 3 ,,./‘ which will enable the owners to supply food a la c : bo as in hotels and restaurants ; thus passengers ''ce wish to economise need not pay for the e xtravag sll . s , of others, while the number of passengers such Itte. sels can carry will lead to a reduction of the ra . „ The Transatlantic Express and Passenger cvewri pany was formed about two years ago in Noir to construct a line of such steamers, b u t the eo c ' e , mous cost of shipbuilding in the United States k i r nt vented the consummation of the enterprise. on long since Mr. Silver urged, through our columns' the attention of the United States Go vern' , htent, the advisability of permitting A me the can citizens to register and run under e, United States flag such vessels without, . og ferenee to where they were built, prohi b l e . them only from engaging in coastwise " a t he What he, as an American citizen, asked to power of embodying his own ideas by permisst ° ,`" to purchase in the cheapest market when oblig gu ith compete in the employment of the vessels ri , foreigners who possess this privilege. The Am e can can flag must be at a disadvantage so long as it , be only cover American bottoms, which calao?vi is built at the present rate of wages an d ma terla the America, except at a cost preventing citizens of . 4 Republic from entering the field against W ei ' traders. Railway Traffic Returns for the Wee k ' ,rte. iteoe- , .-- . ---06 1866. 18 67 ' A ___.. £ 1 64 Belfast and N, Counties gn got 2, 218 5t Belfast and County Down 441 lit 657 2. 54/ Blyth and Tyne . 38 28 2,24 4 i 'gli Brecon and Merthyr Bristol and Exeter l3ll 1215 6. 90 ; 3 .7 . Caledonian, Scottish Central 57 35 5621 31,47 0 2 ,e5 4 Cambrian Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 314 311 3t5 5,) Cork and Bandon 2O 20 43 1 16 5 Cork, Black - rock, & Passage 65 65 160 0 Cork and Limerick DireLt 1 3 0 1 Cornwall 655 651 1 , 761 17 17 151 i 54 Milos Opened. Iways. 1867. Ceeside 17 , iti3 7,0 110 Extension 115 1.357 Dublin & Dynast J unction 63 63 - 1,353 1 663 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,6' 9 . 26 3 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrtk.,&E.Union Great Northern 422 422 30, 1,5 " 1 ,77 2 Great North of Scotland 242 241 3,041 750 tit. Northn. & Westn.(lrel.) B4l 711 $ 32 63 5 qt. Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 4191 4 1 92 9,%41 ,3.101 Great Wvitern 13112 1280 i 71,310 1 ,0/ Highland ... 246 246 3,32/ '''' --, Hoy lake - 0. 00 l 145 145 ~ 051 ' i 0 Irish North- Western 2,- Isle of Wight l2 8 239 43, 70 Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 403 43.99 2 - ', 2 09 Limerick and Ennis... 24! 24i 211 1 29 Limerick and Foynes . 26} 261 139 •63 Llanelly 461 461 852 6 6 Llynvi Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 315 2931 1 9 , 866 '9.0 21 London, Chatham, dt Dover; i 135} IS4 9 ,23 2, 2 .6 5 all Metropolitan Extension t 13i 12 ) 2, 84 . - Do. Kent toast - , 511 Lon., Tilbury, & Southend 42} 421 1,2'0 l, 3' '', Londonderry and Coleraine 36} 3.i} 3,0 , a 3% nan.,Slietheid, & L incolns II 216 2 1 6 19.5 99 , ",' 4 lt Manch. S.J un.& Al trincham V} 9i 1,301 ;: ! ,99 Ilaryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.- Western) 657 6/7} 5'', 2 6 ''V . 6 . Uhl la ad Gt. Wes tn. of Irlnd 2Ol 260} 5, 6 1 1 ' , llonmoutlish. Rail. & Canal l4 ii 3.091 2. `' and h and Dundee' Edin., Penn 24 61 ' 7321 7171 . ' 15 95 1 25 - AB.- N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 12201 12j7 Mau "0 1 North London ll 11 4.595 :02 North Staffordshire 268 267 8 . 27 1 1 03 Pembroke and Tenby Rhymney Scottish North-Eastern — 1, 16 Somerset and Dorset 21 6 216 3} 2 1 2 6386 1 1 1 . 0 , 2 3 8 4 1 / 4 ', " 5 - 00 South Devon ...... 1101 98 4. 2 °., ,3.i 6, 6 South-Eastern 330 319 23 03 ° - 4" u , A . , raft* Vale 63 63 5,827 ,' .9 ,55 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 491 (89 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1.6 16 1, ... West Cork 11 rexham Mold, &c ll 14 971 W'haven,Cleator&Egrmnt.. 10 10 866 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. o d 115 Austrian B2B 828 35.6 , : 3 "'"8: 5 Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern J unction Bombay, Baroda, & Len. I n di a 306 306 7,366 • '•l7 ," Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 180 6,?, . 7 4. 481 Dutch Rhenish Eastern 01 France Eastern Bengal .. ... East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 25,852 23 ' Great Central, of Belgium 25 Great Indian Peninsula Bl5l 6951 40,245 315. 14 Great Luxembourg 172 142 4,77.. , 6 '761 Great Southetn of India i v. Great. Western of Canada 34,i 3i 5 14,207 , 271 Madras ... Madrid, Sarag - osaa &Alicant B6B 778 16,76 , i„ 241 Northern of Canada Northern of France 7BB 764 67,244 ""g55 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman 43, 7" ['aria, Lyons, & Mediter Ronan 2170 20e6 144,6 01 D. 03 Paris and Orleans. Recife and Sau Fiaciseo.&e 774 771 -- 2, 19( Sc.nde bit 1( 1 9 4,452 „„ l it Southern of France lOll 898 30 , 1(18 '',Zs23 Victoria Welland ~,, T O West .k N-Wn. of France VISIT OF BELGIAN RIFLEMEN TO WIMBLEDOS•";, At the last sitting of the Commerci a l C ounc il o f 13055, to the president announced that, t a ki ng i n t o cons id era tioo desire expressed by a largo numb er o f th e c i v i c gua ra 1 : $ go to the rifle shooting at Wimbl e d on, th e Mi n i s ter of t'i Interior had named a c o mm i ss i on t o arrange th e details7 :B which the Count de Fl an d re h a d ki n dl y consen ted to honorary president, and the burgomaster of Brussels P r sident. A contractor, with a large force of divers and mechanics, is engaged in removing the obstructions f r°°l the Savannah River, below the city of that name. The bridge over the Kennebec, at Augusta, toll bridge no longer. l ECCENTRIC DIVINE.—The Rev. Zeb. rr ithe „ r was the most noted Methodist preacher in Vermon t ' a shrewd and laughable sayings. In the pulpit he tnaint 3in f e a suitable gravity of manner and expression, but out of t' i f pulpit ho overflowed with fun. 'Occasionally ho svoul c, o emergency seemed to require, introd uce some thing (V eer ,d, a sermon for the sake of arous i ng th e fl agg i ng a tt e ntion - his hearers. Seeing that his audience were getting 51 ° 61' ho paused in his discourse and discussed as follows : :; "Brethren, you hav'nt any idea of the sufferings of ° h ; missionaries in the now settlements, on account of mosquitoes in some of these regions being enormous- 0 1 great many of them would weigh a pound, and they Wi l i g h is on logs and bark when the missionaries are going." 13 Y %II time all ears and eyes were open, and he proceeded to ti°l:-10 his discourse. The next day ono of his hearers called ly e to account for telling lies in the pulpit. "There 13° '; j was a mosquito that weighed a pound," he said. '` °" l . c i $ didn't say one of them would weigh a pound ; 1 pet great many, and I think a million of them would. no you say they barked at the missionaries." I C ° ' brother, I said they would get on logs and bark." Births. lo° Pitimm , s—On the 16th inst., at Culham House, Oxon, wife of John Shawo Phillips, Esq., of a son. 3,00. HULLAR—On the 18th inst., at 11, Devonshire-place , John Hullah, of a daughter. st op BURD—On the 17th inst., at The Cottage, Worthen, the wife of the Bev. Charles Burd, of a son. Marriages. FETTES MORRISON -On the 19th inst., at Church, Mr. John Fetter, late of Montrose, to Ohre' youngest daughter of Mr. Robert Morrison, eng ia " ° Lambeth. St. HODORINSON —WILLIAMSON—Ou the 17th inst., 't" Mark's, Kennington, Edward Hicks, eldest sou 0f.,,i0 Samuel llodgkinsou, of Threadueedle-street, to Marian Williamson, of Westminster-road. Deaths. de M'NEILL - On the 13th inst., at Bournemouth, A.1. 0 ` 3 o _ M'Neill, Esq., of Bordland's, late of Jaya. 0 9 RADCLIFFE—On the 16th inst., at Warlegh, Devil, Rev. Walter Radcliffe, aged 88. sl l ' - r? LEVY—On the 18th inst., at 69, Guildford-street, - , -- 11 ; 30 , square, John Lewis Levy, second surviving son o Alorrice Levy, aged 23. _.........e.--• - kkndon: Printed and Published by" 'WILLIAM AN 11Z 4.' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TLIE Surf Office, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Co iliddlesex.--Saturclay, April 20, 1867. A.FTE SUI After After After After Al ter After Al ter After ondon sl I ( IN T c Dui 4in P It i s I Somo. Sol,l iu by tho w l-AAR.AIe • R. GRI Obsory " C" 1 -1 PITItN, Par tica Month at 5 , Afla: NEM RUS! Abv P reehold IP,DaYabl .isaounti NPNv"-Ftjer -( ij ENNI itUryJ~ng, rr „ - - ,oml and h e ; ties anvil NOT__ . I Acrobat nI" NFAv Q. UMW ' to QUI 01 Adrni t°Orns, A ll Thee deeorat I nd D 41 . 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