The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-07 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-FRIDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Inverness County, &c., Boundary Bill passed through committee. _ . The Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Supplemental Bill, and the County Courts (Buildings) Bill were read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned at twenty minutes psi five. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FnmAy. The Speaker took the chair at five minutes before four o'clock. TRAMWAYS BILL S The second reading of the Tramways Bill was postponed until next Friday. • GREECE. Mr. OTWAY laid on the table the correspondence of the Government with the Greek Government with respect to the late murders by brigands. POLITICAL PRISONERS. The O'CoNon DON asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the Commission of Inquiry into the condition and treatment of the political prisoners will be issued ; and whether he can state what is to be the scope of that inquiry, and by whom it is to be con ducted. Mr. BBIICE said he hoped that the Commission for an inquiry into the condition of the political prisoners would open in the course of a few days. It would inquire into the complaints made by the prisoners themselves, and also those of their friends as to the treatment and the diet that was given them. It would consist of two gentlemen having the special confidence of the Irish people, and of two English gentlemen, and would be presided over by Lord Devon. THE BUDGET. Mr. G. MILLES asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in the promised permission to sprout barley, so that the operation be conducted within a quarter of a mile of a kiln, he will exclude the words " hop oast " from the definition of "kiln," without which exclusion the per mission would be practically nullified to a large number of farmers in hop-growing counties. The CnANcELLoR of the ExcnzQuE4 said he had no doubt " hop oast " was a kiln, and ha feared it would be attended with great danger to except it, as proposed by the hon. gentleman. He was sorry that farmers in hop growing counties would suffer in consequence, but he could not agree to do as the hon. gentleman desired. THE PUBLIC DEBT. Mr. Cunrrr asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the statement of the capital of the funded and unfunded debt issued on April sth, in which it was stated that the total debt of the country on March 31st was £801,406,563, includes the five millions of stock which was created for the purchase of the telegraphs. Mr. STANSFELD stated that the seven million of stock for the purchase of the telegraphs was included in the SUM. POLL CLERKS. Mr. KEKEWICH asked the Postmaster-General whether the bill which he proposed to introduce relating to the procedure at Parliamentary elections would contain any provision for regulating the fees payable to returning officers, and deputy sheriffs, and poll clerks, and whether his attention had been directed to the stibject The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he hoped the hon. gentleman did not wish him to anticipate the statement he should have to make to the House next Monday. The subject referred to had not been considered by the corn. inittee, but he was much obliged-by his calling his atten• tion to the matter. THE RED RIVER ►Sir CHARLES ADDERLEY asked the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies what information the Government had received relating to the settlement of the Red River affairs and the admission of that territory as a province of the Dominion of Canada. Mr. MONSELL said he had stated yesterday that the negotiations with the Government of Canada and the Red River delegates had closed, and he had to-day the satisfaction of stating that a bill was passing through the House for the ratification of the agreement. The expedition, therefore, would be one of peace. It was proposed to constitute a new province, to be called Monatoga, which would have all the usual privi leges, and be represented by two members in the House of Legislature. THE NATIONAL . GALLERY. Mr. BENTINCK asked the right hon. member for the University of Cambridge whether the Trustees of the British Museum were aware that an important sale of engravings by Marco AntOnio was about to take place at Frankfort on the 17th instant, and whether they have applied to the Treasury for authority to purchase at the market value such samples as were not contained in the National Collection. Mr. WALPOLE said the attention of the trustees had not been called to the matter at present, but a special meeting was convened for Tuesday next to take the matter into consideration. LICENSED HAWKERS. Mr. R. DUFF asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he would lay upon the table of the House the regulations the Government intended to enforce for the registration of hawkers when the licence on that class was abolished. Mr. BRUCE replied that if it were the pleasure of the House to accept the recommendations of the Government, he should not proceed by regulation but by a bill. HUDSON'S BAY. Viscount MILTON asked the Attorney-General whether the Act of William 11. and Mary, "for confirm ing to the Hudson's Bay Company their privileges and trades," was not limited to a period of seven years, long since expired. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that the Act of William 11. and Mary did limit the period for seven years, and the noble lord was quite right in supposing that period had long expired. (Great laughter.) DISMISSAL OF MR. E. BARRY. Mr. TEMPLE-COWPER gave notice that on Friday next he should call the attention of the Douse to the dismissal of Mr. E. Barry, and conclude with a motion. THE NATIONAL GALLERY AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Mr. ALLEN moved that in the opinion of the House it was desirable that the National Gallery and the British Museum should be opened for the inspection of'the public between the hours of seven and ten in the evening at least three evenings in the week. He spoke of the great importance of allowing the working classes to take advan tage of two such great institutions, and remarked that if the regulations had been framed to exclude the working population, they could not have accomplished that end more effectually. He quoted a paragraph from the report of a committee to enquire into the question, in support of his ♦iew of the subject. lie also quoted from the report of a royal commission to prove that pictures would not be injured by. gas. The British Museum, too, could be safely lighted with gas. Competent authorities, whose evidence he now adduced, were of opinion that if properly managed, no apprehension need be entertained by the lighting of the museum with gas. He called attention to the fact that the South Kensington Museum was lighted with gas,and he contended that that institution formed a conclusive case in his favour. MT. WALPOLE, on behalf of the Trustees of the British Museum, said nothing would give them greater gratifica tion than the opening of the institution to the working classes as far as could be done with safety. Having described the existing arrangements, he said the objec tions to the opening of the Museum, as proposed, had been fully pointed out by the hon. gentleman. The first duty of the trustees was to see that the magnificent collection should not be imperilled. The hon. gentleman read from a report made on the subject under considera tion, ten years ago by the then superintendent of the London Fire Brigade, and the architect of the museums in which they pointed out the danger of lighting the building with gas. Cap tain Shaw was of opinion that there were three sources of danger by the introduction of gas—namely, the escape of gas, the great heat, and its injurious chemical effects. They wouldhave to increase the watch men and police fourfold, and even then the danger would be much greater than it was at present. The hon. gentleman said that it was the intention of the trustees to open the museum to the artisan class as much as possible, and on Saturdays and Mo n d ays d ur i ng the summer months the building would be open from twelve until eight and half-past eight. If the proposal now made were carried into effect it would involve the altera tion of structural arrangements, and necessitate a cost of somothins like Ri0,004, mir J. TRELAWISTET said years ago he had made the mo tion for the purpose of sowing seed, and he had succeeded. He could not but confess that he wished to have these institutionsen on Sunday, and he felt that there were many that could be with advantage so opened to the public at large. It was simply a mockery to tell a large portion of the working class that these institutions were open for them, because if they did not open them at an hour at which they could go, they were practically closed against them. He knew it was hopeless in that House to ask for the opening of those institutions on Sun day, yet his own individual opinion was that there were portions of these public institutions which could not be of very great advantage to be so thrown open, and the doing so would be attended with the greatest possible good. Mr. KINNAIRD said it was a mistake to close as early as was the case at present, because experience showed that if the public institutions were kept open later the working class would only be too happy to avail them selves of the facilities of examining the matchless trea sures of art in the public institutions. He hoped that a portion of the duplicates of the British Museum might be sent to South Kensington Museum, where they could be most admirably placed, and where the working class were afforded the greatest facilities. He hoped his hon. friend would press his motion to a division, as he should give him his hearty support. Mr. THOMAS BARING said, as one of the trus tees of the British Museum, he thought that the proposal to open the National Gallery late at night could not be accomplished without continual danger arising from fire. He did not think the experiments that had been made were enough to prove that the effect of gas light did not deteriorate pictures. It was true that Mr. Cole had said that his opinion was that it im; proved them, but he could not agree with him. He hoped that everyone who was interested in the progress of art would take care of the priceless treasures they possessed, and would not run within the shadow of danger, and therefore he could not, under pre sent circumstances, consent to the motion of the hon. member for Newcastle. Mr. W. GREGORY thought that however great the desire might be to throw open the National Gallery at night, to do so under present circumstances would be to run a great risk, because the construction of the building was altogether unsuited for the introduction of gas. Then with respect to the opinion of Professor Faraday, he said it was true that the lighting-up of the South Kensington Museum was goodland efficient, but then he further stated that he was decidedly of opinion that the roof of all buildings constituted for such a purpose ought to be made of iron, and yet there was not one of our pub- lic institutions which was so constructed. He thought it very dangerous to open the National Gal lery at night, but the danger, in his opinion, did not exist in so great a degree at the British Museum. He hoped that when the Government gave them a new National Gallery they would make such arrangements as would lead them to exhibit the pictures in the most effi cient manner. As a trustee of the National Gallery, he was quite ready to do as much as the trustees of the British Museum, provided the Government gave them the means. Mr. B. Hors strongly opposed the proposition to open the museum under such circumstances, and pointed out the irreparable injury which would result from a fire at the National Gallery or the British Museum. Sir WILLIAM TITS thought the introduction of gas would be attended by injurious consequences. He could shew hundreds of books which had suffered great injury in the binding by the absorption of gas products. The Atheneum library was a singular example of the injurious effects of gas. He also spoke of the destructive influence of gas upon pictures. Mr. LowE thought it would be a most dangerous thing to introduce gas in the British Museum. They could not tell what the effect of gas products would be on the various collections. The progress of science was very great, and that which appeared insuperable to• day might be made superable to-morrow, and therefore he counselled them to wait. The buildings were not con structed with the view of introducing gas. No words could express the blow which the burning of the British Museum would inflict upon the progress of science and art, nor could any amount of money compensate the nation for the loss which it v ould sustain und, r such z. calamity. It had long been decided that the natural history collection of the British Museum should be removed and a suitable building erected, and he ap prehended that the working classes would be more in terested in the works of nature than of man. The new building Could be constructed so as to be lighted with gas. He hoped before long to lay some proposition on the su')ject before the House. After some remarks from Alderman LAURENCE the motion was withdrawn. ILLEGAL LOTTERIES. Mr. CHARLEY, in a very thin House called attention to the question of illegal lotteries. He said whilst the Government had, down to the year 1823, sanctioned lot teries, since that time it had exerted itself to put down lotteries of every description, and thus done a great good in suppressing a system that had led to such very bad results. The hon. member then entered into a resumd of the law relating to lotteries, but only twenty-eight members took sufficient interest in the matter to occupy their seats while he did so. In answer to Mr. CHARLEY, Mr. Baucu explained and defended his reasons for not having put the Lottery Acts in operation against recent Roman Catholic lotteries. The House then went into Committee on the Irish Land Bill. The numerous amendments standing on the paper to Clause 4 were rapidly disposed of, and the clause, as amended, was ordered to stand part of the bill. Clause 5 enacts that for the purposes of compensation all improvements shall be deemed to have been made by the tenant. An amendment moved by Mr. PLUNKET, to limit the presumption to tenancies created after the Act, gave rise to a long discussion, which turned to a great extent on tho principle of the clause. On a division the amendment was rejected by 191 ;co 132. At the end of the clause, at the instance of Mr. O. FOR TESCUE, a pro- iso was added excepting from the presump tion against the landlord improvements made before the acquisition of the estate by the existing landlord--im provements made under lease granted twenty years before the passing of the Act, and on holdings of an annual value of more than £lOO. The Opposition took a division on the question, that clause 5, as amended, stand part of the bill, and it was carried by 167 to 103. The further progress of the bill was then adjourned until Monday. Several other bills were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned at two o'clock. The screw steamer Siberia, one of the Cunard mail sat - 3, which left Liverpool for Boston on the 19th ult., era:, spoken on the 30th, by the steamer India, putting back to Queenstown with broken shaft. An inquiry has just been made at Trowbridge, by Mr. Coroner Sylvester, into the circumstances attending the sudden death of a tradesman named James Butler, outfitter. The deceased went to an early prayer meeting on Stine' and caught a cold. He called in ti- , id of a quack . died. The jury return :diet of died from natural causes. A quantity of rewly-made bricks of the estimated value of £3O, was destroyed on Wednesday night, or early yesterday morning, in the brickcroft of Mr. James Wyatt, situated between Ordeal Lane and Oldfield-road, Salford. The condition in which the bricks were found in the Morning leaves no doubt that the destruction wax Oita and malicious. The person who committed the act Faust have got over the palings which enclosed the brick. croft, and then deliberately Walked along on the bricks, row by row, as they lay on the ground to dry. A reward of 25 , has been offered for the discovery of tho poketraters. The Stamford Mercury reports that at Haven Bank, near Coningsby, on Sunday, four young men, while taking a walk, were stricken down by a flash of lightning. One of them, named George Aistho:pe, 15 years of age, was rifled, and the others were rendered temporarily insensible, and remained paralysed for some hours. In the case of Aisthorpe, death must have been instantaneous. The electric fluid struck and entered his head, traversed the entire length of his body, and passed out at his right foot, which was much lacerated; and almost torn away from his leg. The body was also lite , rally stripped of clothing. o Newdegate subject must surely f On the lllll. INEIVDF. be a GATE AND " ROMISH INSTITUTIONS." CatholiC m s on a o n m d anCiaacth. s olici o sm me M few r. years ago, at a country house where he was dining, he tor thisak e personhe r downn his i to dinner.hef lierbefore, had ds ineve rntrodaueceend or o a l heardel but as he took her down stairs he commenced the e e she on conver sation—apropos of nothing--by saying he hoped an enemy to Romish institutions. The lady, who happened to be a convert tp the Catholic Church, replied, " Oh, dear no, Mr. Newdegate, it is only about six months since my husband gave up his living as Vicar of ----- in order to become n Oathalic, and we have just sent our daughter to the convent at for her educa tion." Mr. Newdegate seemed perfectly aghast at thi s reply. He led the lady to her seat at table, but half turned his back up on her, and never spoke a word to her the whole of dinner time.— Weekly Register. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 7. 1870. MAZZINIAN AGENTS IN ROME. A correspondent at Rome writing on May Ist, says : "I am sorry to have to record the renewal of the at tempts of the Mazzinian agents in Rome at wholesale as sassination of the Papal troops. On Thursday night, at the Cimarra barracks, near Santa Maria Maggiore, the sentry on guard was alarmed by a slight scratching noise in one of the vaults below the building. He gave the alarm to his comrades, and a sortie was instantly made, headed by two of the officers of the Legion. On descending to the vaults they found that the mine which had been made in 1867 by Cucchi and his agents with the intention of blowing up the troops had been renewed and ex t en d e d, an d that a large barrel of gunpowder had been placed exactly under the central arch of the building ready for use. A pick, shovel lanthorns, and some engineering tools were scattered about the vault, which had been hastily abandoned by the worthy successors of Monti and Tognetti. It is supposed they were alarmed at their work just in time to escape by the subterranean passages with which this district of Rome abound. A more infernal project it would be difficult to imagine, as the Cimarra is the depot for the young recruits, and for the School of Cadets, few of whom are more than eighteen or twenty, and who are all of respectable, and many of noble French families. The gendarmerie ar rested three Milanese yesterday on suspicion of com plicity; but their examinatson has not yet taken place." TIIE RECENT EVENTS IN GREECE. The most circumstantial details which have yet ap peared of the murders in Greece, are given in a letter from the Times Athens correspondent. It appears that after the fruitless negotiations the Greek troops pressed closer to Oropos, where the brigands were entrenched, and the latter accordingly crossed the swollen stream of the ' Asopos. Why the soldiers advanced, and why the robbers were allowed to get across the stream are difficulties v. - hich remain unexplained. The troops ap pear to have thought they had orders to prevent the brigands carrying away their prisoners from Oropos, yet they did not prevent it ; while the brigands believed they had the consent of the King and Ministry that they were free to choose their quarters as long as they treated the prisoners well. Some say that before quitting Oropos the 'chiefs had consented to emigrate. There appears to have been great mismanagement on one side, and great distrust on the other. The minds both of the brigands and the troops were irritated by what they thought an infraction of the terms supposed to have been arranged, and in this state of things the engagement and the murders ensued. The letter continues :—" The brigands crossed the swollen stream of the Asopos near its mouth with their captives on horseback, and proceeded to the undulating ground, covered with high tufts of brush wood, near Delisi on their way to Sykaminos. Here they perceived that the troops, both infantry and cavalry were in considerable numbers before them. They sent Alexandros, the courier who had accompanied the travellers from the Hotel d'Angleterre, with either a written or a verbal message to demann why the troops im peded their progress to Sykaminos, and repeating their threat to murder their pri soners if they were attacked. The courier Alexandros never returned, and no message came from the troops. They then made. their arrange ments for escape, and divided the band into two parties. The one, under Chrestos Arvanitaki, was to pass through the troops before them on the road to Sykaminos, guarding Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Herbert ; the other, under the chief brigand, T a k os A rvan i ta ki , w i th Count de Boyl and Mr. Vyner, was to move round the left of the troops, seeking to evade notice, and taking the direction of Skoimatari. The soldiers opposed the passage of the party under Chrestos ; an engagement commenced, and the brigands, seeing that each m us t p rov id e f or hi m self, and that they could not carry off their p r i so n ers , mu rdered Herbert aud Lloyd. Herbert fell by the yatagan of a brigand, and Mr. Lloyd was shot. The soldiers did their duty welL The chief, Chrestos, and six of his followers were killed, and their heads were exposed at Athens on Sunday last with their names written above them, and the others were taken ; the party of Takos succeeded in getting round the troops, and carrying off Count de Boyl and Mr. Vyner for some distance. They were soon pursued, and Count de Boyl was shot ; but Mr. Vyner being of a vigorous frame, kept up with them a long way on the road to Skoimatari, where, either from fear that he might escape or in an attempt to escape, he was shot through the heart." The negotiations which preceded this catastrophe were miserably mismanaged. The Prefect of Eubata kept back a telegram intended to bring a peaceable brother of the chiefs of the brigands, who was living respectably on Mr. Noel's property in Eubmea, to serve as a means of con vincing his brothers that the English Minister would both insure them that the money would be paid and that their escape from Greece should be secured. This caused irreparable loss of time. Then orders were sent to raise the peasantry in pursuit of the brigands —a sort of general hunt which is called a pagania. This mode of " aiding j astice " often leads to deplorable results in the shape of accusing innocent persons, but on the present occasion the peasantry disobeyed the order. The writer adds :—" There was plenty of time for the Minister of War to have sur rounded them with 5,000 men of the 13,865 that compose the Greek Army, and to have them placed in a semicircle from shore to shore of the channel of Eubcea, enclosing the brigands in a triple military cordon, while Greek steamers were stationed before the port. The brigands might have been informed of the position of this blockading force, and of the precise limits between the Asopos, the mountains, and the port within which their movements were free, and that by exceeding these limits they would violate the conditions they had accepted. They would have then seen clearly that, though the lives of the captives were in their hands, their own lives were in the hands of the Greek Government. Can it be supposed that in such a state of things they would have refused t,) accept k;25,000, and a secure retreat under a foreign flag. and have murdered their prisoners ?" REVISION OF THE SCRIPTURES. Both 11 ies of Convocation met again on Thursday. In the Upis.r House a report was presented from a com mittee s pp -inted to consider the whole subject of Christian mission. The chief recommendations of this report are embodied in the following resolutions :—" That it is desirable that there should be some duly organised body, which should represent the Church of England in her mis sionary aspect. That the board should not undertake the direct management of missions, nor the collecting of funds ' • but that it should receive any moneys sent to it either for special or general missionary purposes ; and as to the latter, that it should allot such funds, when left to its discretion, to colonial or missionary dioceses, or other existing missions of the Church of England." Other resolutions dealt with the constitution of the board. The report was adopted. In the Lower House the subject of Bible revision came under notice.—Canon Selwyn moved the concurrence of the House in the resolution sent down from the Upper House, on the report of a committee respecting its being desirable to under take a revision of the authorised version. With regard to an objection made, that the revision would render the large stocks of Bibles valueless. he inclined to the opinion that those Bibles would be sought after, as a means of making comparison respecting the alterations m a d e .—Aft er th e mo ti on had been seconded, the Dean of Canterbury spoke against the prin ciple which had been suggested by some—that the revision should take the form of being made in the shape of mar ginal references, which the clergy might use or keep to the present text. The adoption of such a plan, he said, would altogether abolish cheap Bibles, as marginal references were co s tly. D r . J e bb could not agree that the revision was desirable. He said he had given up a great deal of his life to the study of the Scriptures, and it was his opinion that the few acknow ledged blots in the authorised version were not to be com pared to the dangers and the risks which any new translation would involve.—The Dean of St. Paul's remarked that a matter might be desirable under some circumstances when it would not be desirable under others, and he held that, taking into consideration the feeling among scholars that a revision should be made, and that men who were altogether opposed to the Bible were making use in a particular way of certain portions of the version, it was necessary for something to be done. —The Dean of Westminste r said he regarded this subject as of great importance, and he had pleasure in welcoming the proposal. The Bible was acknowledged to be excel lent, but its excellence could be heightened by scholars in the English-speaking race being invited to join with the English Church in this revision. It was to be remembered that the present authorised version could be corrected by individual clergymen, as it did not stand in the same position as the prayer book. He regretted that the Government had held its hand, as a Royal Commission would have been the best means of carrying out so impor tant a work, for the Crown only could convene all the elements requisite.—After a lengthy discussion the reso lutions of the Upper House were agreed to. An attempt was made by Archdeacon Denison to exclude the Jews from the revision, but it was not successful. Dean Alford and Archdeacon Allen defended the Jews. CENSUS OF 1871.—We hear it stated that the day on which it is appointed that the next census shall be taken is Good Friday of next year. If this be so, we cannot too forcibly impress up on th e Registrar-General the utter uselessness it' will be for all death-rate purposes as connected with sanitary work. It is not yet too late to rectify such a mistake, and we trust that an alteration will take place in the day on which the examination is to be taken.—British Medical Journal. THE HEALTH OF ROME.—The sanitary chronicle of Rome continues to be anything but satisfactory. The deaths at the hotels, in the English quarter especially, and in the private lodging-houses in the Piazza di Spagna Via Baberini, Sistina and adjacent streets, are very numerous, while in nearly every second house there are fever patients. Some of these cases have undoubtedly come from Naples, but most of them are of Roman growth, the climate being most unhealthy-for persons not acclimatised, and more especially to the English and American constitution. GERMAN OPINION OF THE PLEBISCITE.—The North Geiven Gazette has made some remarks on the Plebeseite hethe course of which it declares that the pre sent plebeseite is pregnant with more momentous results for the empire than the preceding one, and that it takes place under very different circumstances. In 1852 the country accepted the Empire because it had no choice between Imperialism and anarchy. To-day the Plebescite is to be regarded as a criticism on the 20 years' Government of Napoleon 111. ; or as a verdict, which, if favourable, will be equivalent to a bill of indemnity accorded by the French people for the high-landed pro ceedings necessitated by the extraordinary circumstances ha which the coup d'eta tof 1851 was acoom_plished. "This will be the most important result of the Pl6bieetta." THE CATASTROPHE AT RICHMOND. (From the Anglo-American Times,) The contest at Richmond between the Mayors for municipal control has ended in a frightful catas trophe. Our readers are aware that Governor WALKER, under the Enabling Act, appointed a new City Council, and Mr. ELLISON was elected Mayor. CAHOON, the incumbent, refused to surrender the police stations, and ELLISON, with the new police be had enrolled, took possession of the City Hall and other municipal buildings, besieging the old Mayor and his police in one of the station-houses. General CANBY interfered, and after some blood shed CAHOON was released, and the queation carried to the Courts. Mixed up in this quarrel was Governor WALKER in support of ELLISON and State Rights, backed by the Legislature of Virginia; and on the other side was General CANBY and the Federal authorities, with the sympathy of Congress and the active exertions of Judge UNDERWOOD. As neither Mayor would withdraw, Richmond continued under its two masters, but the question being one of grave State Rights' interest it was carried to Chief Justice CHASE, who heard counsel for both sides at his residence, when it was agreed that the case should be referred to the Virginia Court of Appeals, and the Mayors at a conference, concurred thus to have their case decided, Chief Justice CHASE consenting, the rights of neitherto be prejudiced pending the de cision of the Court, by which both promised to abide. Last Wednesday the judgment was to be delivred by the Court of Appeal in the State Capitol building, in a room over the hall of the Representatives. As might be expected, when the decision involved in terests so momentous to the city and the State, the floor was crowded to suffocation, and it gave way, precipitating the people upon the body of Repre sentatives below. It has been ascertained that 184 persons were killed or disabled, including at least 20 members of the Virginia Legislature, and the killed alone number 59, while to that list many desperately wounded, it is feared, will be added. Ex-Governor WISE is, we believe, among the in jured ; but Governor WALKER, though in court, escaped unhurt, as, we understand, did the Judges. The wildest excitement prevailed, and business was suspended in the city, while Shockoe Rill was crowded with those engaged in extricating the bodies. The Capitol, the scene of this dreadful tragedy, is a handsome building, standing on a square of about eight acres, adorned with a portico of lonic columns, with a marble statue of WASHINGTON mounted, taken from life by HOUDON. The square occupies the crest of Shockoe Hill, and the edifice is there fore a prominent object in the handsome City of Richmond. At an angle of the square, and not far from the Capitol, is the GWvernor's official resi dence, which all through the siege was occupied by JEFFERSON DAVIS. Between the Shockoe and Rich mond Hills flows the Shockoe Creek, and these elevations add to the beauty of Richmond. The Capitol crowning the summit of this hill, from which the city slopes to the banks of the James, escaped damage from the projectiles of the be siegers. As the Executive Mansion commanded a fine view to the North, JEFFERSON DAVIS was able from his windows to overlook' the operations of the Confederate defending army. Richmond has been the scene of many tragedies, for around it was fought a series of campaigns which in blood shed have few parallels in the annals of war, yet we doubt if the catastrophe of any one day will have carried more grief throughout the Old Do minion than that of Wednesday. It has, in truth, been the culmination of the war, and due di rectly to the questions left by the strife. From the ceiling to the floor fell the dense mass in the court on the heads of the assembled legis lators, intermingling friend and foe in a com mon catastrophe. Both Mayors were there, having recently been in arms against each other. On either side was ranged their partisans,—still the old battle of the State against the Federal authority. In the room was the Governor; on the bench in all probability was Judge UNDERWOOD, all deeply im bued with partisan feeling ; and beneath was a Legislature, which, though Conservative, contained an element of bitter opposition. The question being argued in the Court was whether the Governor was empowered to appoint city councils on the re-ad mission of the State into the Union, and the new Council to elect a Mayor in supercession of the one then in office nominated by the Federal authorities. It affected the rights of the State, which the Vir ginians contended by re-admission had been re stored as fully as were those of New York or Massa chusetts, wherein no General dared to exert the authority which General CANBY claimed to exercise in Virginia. It was at one time intended that the case should be heard by Chief Justice CHASE and Judge UNDERWOOD in the May term ; but the Mayors agreed to have it adjusted earlier, and we are in hopes that Chief Justice CHASE was not then on the Bench. The scene must have been awful, realizing the most frightful events of the war, hor rifying a nation, throwing a great State into the deepest mourning. THE RISE IN THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES. Many circumstances combine to raise the credit of the United States abroad, which will tell more hereafter as they become better known, though their effect already has been clearly marked. During the Civil War the general opinion felt in England, to which free utterance was given in the press and disseminated throughout Europe, was thatA m ericans would not bear taxation. It was all, they said,-very well to carry on an enormous expenditure in paper money, and in premises to pay which cost as little, but when the time came to redeem these promises, when the screw was put on, when the shoe began to pinch, then would come the test, and it was confi dently predicted that the American people would not endure the sort of tax collector familiar in Europe. The country spread over the best por tion of the continent, the people were scattered, and the difficulties in the way of gathering in the revenue appeared insuperable. The nation would surely be exhausted by the war,no machinery was then in existence for levying the imposts, and all former experience led to the conclusion that a people un accustomed to an inquisitorial and annoying inter ference with their affairs (which must be the case if a large revenue has to be raised), would resist, and if they had the power, throw off the unaccustomed restraints, and the citizens certainly had that power. Then, again, the credit of many individual States had been tainted by repudiation, and it was argued that the Union ,being but an aggregate of these, what each member did for itself would be done as a whole by the Federation. Again, the question arose— Sup posing that the people display the unlooked-for sagacity and honesty of fairly meeting the obliga tions contracted, will the States be able to liquidate the gigantic debt growing enormously each day in magnitude ; considering the exhaustion of the war itself ; considering all the evils resulting to busi ness from an irredeemable paper currency; and con sidering the drain of population that the war itself caused, also the check that must follow to immi gration, by the United States being turned from one of the cheapest into one of the dearest of lands ? There were thousands of business men in England who laughed derisively at the person who asserted his belief that the citizens of the Republic would redeem their obligations in full ; and the opinion so generally held in the English mercantile world received the strongest support from papers like the London Times, which never ceased to prophesy with the utmost confidence the repudiation of the entire debt, and to warn all Englishmen from in vesting a penny in such securities. The holders of this opinion watched with a grim complacency the close of the war, saying —Now comes the financial strain ; hitherto the business has been merely paper, the Repub!ic has managed to supplyits war require ments without the smallest pressure of taxation on the people ; but you will presently see the effect ! haste, and without experience, the statesmen of the Union clumsily and ineffectively adjusted the bur den, so that the mass of the inhabitants had not only to bearthe severe strain, but in a distressing way, and then came, as the English business community had asserted, the genuine test. To their unspeakable astonishment, the load was carried almost cheer fully. The effort was astounding, for not only was the revenue the largest ever levied on one people, but proposals were made by patriotic citi zens to obliterate the whole debt by one strong pull of each and all. Europe was amazed, but still the commercial community attributed it to a moment ary fit of patriotic enthusiasm which would fast cool down when the effect was felt on the trade of the country. But quarter after quarter passed away, and still the enormous revenue kept pour ing into the Treasury. All the unadjusted obliga tions of the nation were liquidated, the debt re duced to a tangible form out of the huge surplus revenue, and the amount then struck off the U. S. debt was larger than Europeans know of or would readily believe. The impression so general in England was shaken, for at least this point before in dispute was thus unmistakeably settled, that notwithstanding the drain of the war, and the an nihilation of many great industries, the country was well able to pay all its debts. Gradually, how - ever, the party of repudiation arose, and the busi ness men shook their heads and said, " I told you so." That question came up in a form so well calculated to allure and deceive the people that many politicians seized on it as a right good handle for power, and it was male one of the cries of a great party. The contract for the Five-Twenties, the larger portion of the debt, did not specify that the bonds were to be redeemed in gold, but in lawful money, and the lawful money of the United States was legal tender. The Government had the option of paying off the larger part of these bonds, and would soon have the right to redeem the rest. What was good money for the wages of a labourer, who earned it by the sweat of his brow, was good money for a bondholder ; and moreover it was the money which the Government had received from him. Such payment then was claimed not only as being legal, but equitable, and easy ; for the United States had but to print a few hundred millions more of green backs, and to call in the bonds which bad run out their five years, while this expansion of the currency, it was contended, would be beneficial to trade. On the eve of a Presidential Election this question came up, and was favoured by the mass of the Democratic leaders, and by many strong Radicals, such as the late THADDEUS STEVENS, and the Hon. B. F. BUTLER. No proposition was ever placed more fairly before the people, or argued on its merits more fully; and the result was the signal discomfiture of those who calculated that dishonesty would prevail. Although many members of the business commu nity in England had begun to doubt their know ledge and pre-conceived opinions of what the citi zens of the Republic would thereon do, the complete triumph of General GRANT, who put his foot firmly down on the most honourable interpretation of the contract with the national creditors, showed them how false had been their reasoning, how little was their real acquaintance with the Republic. Though the first effect was to damage the credit of the United States, and to check the rise of the Bonds, the ultimate effect must, in a high degree, be bene ficial to the national reputation. This was no " one man's decision ;" it was not the carefully considered opinion of a far-seeing despot, whom death might remove, and leave to his successor the reversal of his decree ; but the repudiation by a universal suffrage nation of any -taint of repudiation when brought before them in its most alluring form ; and the more widely this fact becomes known, the higher and higher will rise the credit of the United States. Still it was asserted that popular opinion is proverbially unstable, that the national feeling might change, and the vote of to-morrow unsettle the decision of to-day (though we deny this, be lieving that there is nothing so stable as popular opinion). Yet, granting it, the late ruling of the U. S. Supreme Court has put in the key-stone, and made stable the Republic's Bridge of Credit. Ame rican citizens, more than any other, appeal to law, and abide by law; and their Constitution hasplaced a legal tribunal above the Executive and the Legi slature. In a question of equity, which can be brought up on appeal, Europeans now see that the popular breath in the United States does not rule; that a party to a contract can appeal from it to a judicial tribunal, even though the action sanctioned by popular opinion be grounded on a law of Con gress. Now this is a security and a guarantee of good faith which no other nation in the world offers. From the law of Parliament there is no more appeal than from the decree of a Czar, but from the voice of the American people, from the law of Congress and the action of the Executive, there is an appeal, and one which probably, had the repudiation cry prevailed, would have stood between the bondholder and greenbacks. The rea son why the credit abroad of the United States is rapidly rising is, because the action of the nation has exploded many erroneous opinions :—First, in demonstrating the ability of the nation to pay with ease; secondly, in representing in a very striking way the determination of the people to do so in the most honourable manner; thirdly, by showing to the world that there is a tribunal above suspicion to which a creditor can appeal, even against the Government when acting on a clearly defined law of Congress. There are many minor reasons for the enhanced value of the Bonds, on which we will next week touch, having now reached our limit, while considering the injury wrought in neutraliz ing the efforts of the nation by so contemptible a clique as the Erie board of directors.— Anglo-Ameri can Times. El Universal strongly recommends the cession of Cuba to the United States as the only solution of the frightful problem prepared at Yara in October, 18058 Notwithstanding, it says, " this profound conviction, -no one was willing to come forward to place the question in a truthful light. And wberefor all this? Because of that Quixotic and sentimental system of politics to which we are accustomed, which controls all our deliberations." The Spanish paper proceeds to show that the terrible division existing in Cuba had a foundation in justice, and cannot be stifled. "Reforms will not satisfy the natives ; the distance which separates is an insuperable difficulty in the way of homogeneity." Taking into consideration the diversity of race and the complications of slavery, the editor arrives at the conclusion "that there is an urgent and peremptory necessity in thinking at once of the ces sion of the Island of Cuba to the United States." What life and treasure would have been saved had Spain but listened to this long ago. It would be a better arrange ment for the United States to guarantee to Spain $100,000,000 to retire from Cuba than to purchase such a title to San Domingo as President Baez could sell. Nor, indeed, would we be surprised to learn that the tardiness of the Senate in taking action to confirm the treaty so stre nuously urged by the President has saved the United States from some disagreeable complications, though it may not save Baez from the fate of Salnave, for it is stated that Baez has been defeated in two engagements in San Domingo by the insurgents under the command of Cabral, who is marching upon Azua. But to return to Cuba. It is admitted even by the Spaniards, that after a severe engagement the insurgents captured Capitano del Sorno, and it is now asserted that the Spanish volunteers have risen in mutiny, and that Count Valmesada refused to obey the orders of Senor Caballero de Rodas, Captain- General of the Island. Nor is the El Universal the only Spanish paper which advocates the cession of the island to the United States, for La Discussion has an article strongly favouring that policy, which, shows that the Spaniards are gradually getting over their sentiment in the matter. MARKETS-YESTERDAY. "Business in the Stock Exchange to-day has been to A very moderate extent. For railway stocks there has been but little inquiry, and foreign bonds have Pa rtici ,: pate! in the inactivity. Consols have b een quiet at previous qnotations being 93k, 94 for delivery, 94k for June. Reduced and. New Three per Cent 92k, 92a ; Exchequer Bills par to ss. prem. ; Bank S t i ° : 233, 235; Indian Five per Cents 1131, 114; and Bonds 20s. to 255. prem. English railway stocks have been purchased cautiough and, with the exception of an advance of k in G 1 . , •,, cAt Northern A, the tendency has been unfavourable. diet s°" has receded k, Caledonian a, and G reat Western I. Indian railway stocks have been flat, but witho ut change. For Canadian shares there has been only moderate demand, but Grand Trunk Ist Preference Bonds have been a better. Foreign shares have been Vi et ' Ottomans have risen k, hut• Lombards have been rather easier. The market for foreign bonds opened steadily, 31' instanced quotations, but subsequently the demand be came less active, and there was a tendency to lower reti Egyptian have maintained the late advance, a n d Brazilian (1865) and Chllian (1867) having risen i 51/ I per cent. respectively. Spanish Deferied have also be en better. On the other hand a fall of per cent. 11/ taken place in Chilian Scrip, Prussian (1865), Turf 64 ' (1865 and 1869). American securities have been quiet. The Fi ve ' Twenties and Ten-Forties Bonds have maintained la te quotations, but Erie Shares have been lower. The mining market has been quiet. East Lovell shat ee have risen 1. Bank shares have continued firm. Imperial and Otto' man have risen *. Telegraph shares have been flat. British-Austral ian ; with £3 paid, have sold as low as is. 3d. per share, but have since been dealt in at ss. per share. British 1 11 ° 4 Submarine have risen and Telegraph Construction i• As regards Miscellaneous securities, Hudson's B ay have been in request, at an improvement of /. In the rates of Exchange no change of importance hn e been noticed. Antwerp, three months, 25.40, 25.45; short Paris, 25.20, 25.25 ; three months, 21.35, 25.0; Leghorn, 26.40, 26.45; Amsterdam, short, 11.17 i, 11.1 8 ; (I° ' three months, 11.91, iidoi; Hamburg, 13.10 i, Vienna, 126 k to 7. Petersburgh 28i to /, Cadiz 49i, and Lisbon 52k. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank t " cr day. At. Mark Lane to-day wheat was quiet at the extrem e rates of Monday. The ship Hellen Nicholson, outward bound to Shang' hae, wrecked at Prince's Island, was insured O r £150,000. In the money market to-day a fair amount of anim a tion has been noticed. The supply of capital has b een moderate, and three months paper has been negotiated At 21 to 3 per cent. • In reference to the state of the bullion market, Messrs' Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake remark : Gold still continues to flow into the bank,the amount qr chased since our circular of the 28th u lt. b e i ng £36,000. t i e arrivals during the week have been comparativ e '? small, and although there is over £330,000 now „ 1 " the way to this country, we fjo not look for ari-10 portion of this sum until about the 23d inst. Silver been in good demand for. Holland, and the amounts lat ely to hand have been sold at from 60/d. to 60d. per 3 I standard. There is no likelihood of any immediate !, mand for India. The Pera has brought £5,7 60 f r f`e Alexandria. Mexican dollars : Those brought bY he West India steamer were sold at 59/d. per oz., and "- Bangalore took about £lB,OOO. to China. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. 'fe e l Heather, and Co., held at the offices of Messrs. Sale and Co., a statement of affairs was submitted by Mr. Halliday' accountant, shewing liabilities amounting.to £27,67 5 354 , and assets valued at £9,952 16s. 1 0 d. As sev eral of the creditors, however, are in a position to follow their goods, the liabilities and assets will both in this waY be reduced. The pry-)ectus has appeared of the N ew R os ario Silver Mining Company (Limited), with a capital Of £50,000, in shares of £1 each. A deposit of ss. per shar e must accompany applications, but there will b e no Pa' meat on allotment, and no subsequent call will exceed s °' per share, or be made at less intervals than four months. The large and valuable range of silver mines which this company is formed to work is situated in the same rich. district, and is in close p ro ximity to the now renow ne l and profitable mi nes o f th e celebrated Real de Monte Company, which, since its establishment i° 1849, has yielded dividends to the shareholders amounting to nearly 23,000,000 sterling. " 516 New Rosario Company's rights comprise ten Pc'' tinencias, or setts, five of which run north and south' and five east and west ; but they are all so well situated, and close together that they form a very compa ct estate. The grant contains a great number of arge° • tiferous veins. Fifteen are already known, and 11 3 s been opened on, and more or less developed, and it be seen from the numerous assays given herewith, Oa' .„ those which are being worked yield very rich silver or e 5 ; In addition to these fifteen lodes, it is well known, ° stated in the reports herewith, that the great ve in : " Agliachote," and " Carretera," run through and for lll ,. junction in this company's rights, which is a most ilaP; tant feature, as "the Carretera lode has been, and, is 0 of the most productive in the district." MONETARY REP 0 RTS -YESTERDAY'. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.-The receiltS4 English grain have been limited, of foreign moderate. 41150 wheat has sold fairly, at the full prices o f M o nd a y. Foreiga been in request, and quite as dear. For barley there has bee fo o moderate demand at full quotations. Malt has been steady to h a ys and inquiry. Oats, the sh ew o f w hi c h h as b een mo d er ate, 'd 3 r. been firm, and quite as d ear . B eans an d p eas h ave been str.,P'cg• Flour has been purchased to a f a i r ex t e nt, a t ex t re me P.„'^ IG, Arrivals-English and Scotch: wheat, 550 ; barley, 360 ; 940 ; beans, 40 ; peas, 40. Foreign : wheat, 25,460; barley, 0, y1 . 0; malt, 37,830 ; oats, 1,220; maize, 220 ; beans, 850 i Pea s ' flour, 9,350 sacks. die t ' LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.-Tallow has ruled q 45 ,, but steady in value. Y.C., 445. 3d. spot, 445. 6d. June, an ob. 6d. last three months. Metals firm. Straits tin, £134 to eif i, Scotch pig iron, 56, 41 cwt. Linseed oil dull, 30s. London , " Hull. English brown rape, 435. to 455. 6d. spot. LONDON COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAIr•:c 4 OSO sugar market has continued quiet, and brown staple 9 11 _ 11 :0 have sold on easier terms. Coffee firm The tea auction' 110 progressing steadily, and without variation in values. Rice met a limited inquiry, at late rates. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET , FRIDAY. - T lie _ 4 ply of meat has been moderate. The trade has bee n 4r11 2 260. . quotations. Beef from Be. Od. to 4s. Od. ; mutton, 3s. 801. lamb, 6s. Bd. to 7s. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. 2d. ; a n d por k, 35. Se. Bd. per 81bs. by the °excuse. Ufi BOROUGH HOP MARKET FRIDAY.-The market has he o acid n E a a s c t t i , e n b t t t p f ric o es 4 11 2 ve 11T. eben ; I l i vi ,e t a h l o d u o t f tinned very quiet. For all deicriptions the clemandhl £6 to change.Ke nts° Sussex, £5 128. to £6l3s. ; Bavarians, £6 6s. to 49 ; to £6 10s. ; Americans, £4 ss. to £8 ; and yearlings, to £3lss. per cwt. bee n MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.-There ha s „ v of very little inquiry for goods to-day, and the general tends il i;see prices has been in favour of buyers. The business done has very limited. we elC, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.-Sales of the (3 15' 60,000 bales ; export, 5,000 ; taken by the trade, 56,000 ; s.P'ft , tion, 7,000; stock, 640,000 (of which American 335,000) ; 33,000 (of Which American 8,000) ; afloat, 300,000 (of 1 0,0 0 ' American 190,000 bales). To-day's market firm. Sales bales, of which 3,000 on speculation. 67; LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, FRIDAY.-Bare, 66i t° ores, 18i. Quiet. CS* LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-Market _mot fornian wheat 9s. 7d. to 9s. 8d; red American, Bs. 3d. per Flour steady. osl6 LINCOLN CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-There was a 012„iwgt at the market to-day. Wheat made one shilling to two were higher. All feeding stuffs as before except oats, which vie shilling more money. A 11, 01 ! WAKEFIELD COKN MARKET, FRIDAY.-Wheat W - d to-day for rather higher prices, but this checks the sale, all io ue business passing is not extensive. In other articles ther e material change. gt G actiVe' LASGOW IRON MARKET, FRlDAY.—Market 58s. month ; and 575. 6d. cash. 1/ 21 „; CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Ordinary firs ts ' seconds, ills. ; thirds, 100 x.: fourths, 90s. ; fifths, 70s. s lOO. not quoted ; 870 firkins in the market. Mild cured :firsts, seconds & 1265, :_thirds, 3,065._; 50 firkins in the market. BIRTHS. SOU tli PEncEvAL—On the ;6th inst., at Petersham-terrace, - Kensington, the Hon. Mrs. Perceval, of a daughter. ~df STURT -On the sth inst., at 50, Grosvenor-street, 14' Augusta Sturt, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. „„ r eet'l A SHMOLE MORGAN— OB the sth inst ., SL garsi"„ t" Barking, Frank, the second son of Hnry J. Ashow—jato Great Ilford, to Mary Elizabeth, elder daught er of the James T. Morgan, of Barking, Essex. WEBB HERBERT On the sth inst mat Southborough,l;sl: bridge-wells, Henry Webb, Esq , of 18, Campdonlato road, Kensington, to Anne Bowen, daughter of the Rear-Admiral George F. Herbert. 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