The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

THE WIFE'S SISTER. "A Peer" addresses the following odd letter to the Pall Mall Gazette :—Among the many forcible objections urged the other night against the legalizing of marriages with 'a deceased wife's sister, it struck me as curious that the following one was never men tioned, for it is a social one ; and in an assembly composed chiefly of married men, who were probably when bachelors subjected to unrelenting matrimonial pur suit, one would have thought that it would have appealed with great force to many minds and memories. It is this : " Place a man in the position of a widower with a spinster sister-in-law ; he will be under the absolute necessity of marrying her if he does not wish to subject himself to the withering contempt and hatred of all his family in-law. Use then, Sir, I beseech you, your powerful influence to preserve a prsecuted class from an impending bondage, which will render their present captivity even more hopeless and desperato than it is at present." PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The second reading of the University Tests Bill is fixed for to-day. The rejection of the measure will be moved by Mr. Spencer Walpole. Mr. Monk also intends to ask the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the courier, Alexandros Anemoyanni, who accompanied Lord Muncaster's party to Marathon on April 11th, is the same individual whose name appears in the Foreign Office List for 1870 as 'a courier of her Majesty's Minister at Athens, and if so, whether he had been dismissed before the late massacre. The Solicitor-General for Ireland will move for a bill to disfranchise the boroughs of Sligo and Cashel; and the House will again go into committee on the Land Bill.—On Tuesday a resolution, praying for the disestablishment of the Church in Wales will be moved by Mr. Watkin Williams. On the same evening Mr. William Fowler will bring forward his motion for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act, and Mr. Somerset Beaumont will move for a bill to relieve Lords Spiritual (hereafter consecrated) from attendance in Parliament. The necessity for a bill to amend the laws relating to Horse-racing will also be raised by Mr. Hughes. On Wednesday the Clerical Disability Bill, and the Game Laws Abolition Bill, are among the orders of the day for second reading and upon the introduction of the latter Mr. Hardcastle intends to move the previous question. On Thursday Mr. Stackpoole intends to ask what action the Government proposes to take with reference to the report of the commissioners who recently held an inquiry into the alleged corrupt practices of the freemen in Dublin. Mr. M`Laren will also move a resolution declaring the expediency of providing at an early period for the discon tinuance of certain annual grants now chargeable on the Consolidated Fund for the benefit of the Church of Scot land. The resolution will not attempt to interfere with any existing life interests. Mr. W. H. Smith will move that an address be presented to her Majesty, praying that no buildings may be erected on the reclaimed land near the Thames Embank ment at Westminster. On Friday the Burials Bill will be taken in Committee, and the adjourned debate on the Public Schools, will be resumed. Lord Eustace Cecil will move a resolution expressing the necessity for some attention being paid by Government, to the defects in the laws regarding the use of false weights, and the punishment for adulterating articles of food. Finally, Mr. Fawcett intends moving a resolution with reference to the ill effects from an educational point of view, which follow from children being employed in agricultural pursuits. The third reading of the Irish Land Bill be moved in the House of Commons on Monday week, the 30th inst. LAW AND POLICE. A BEGGING PETITION,—Two Nestorian priests—Andrea i and Elias, have been charged at Marlborough-street with begging. An officer of the Mendicity Society had seen one of them go into several houses and shew a petition holding , out his hands for money. Professor Amenney, of King's College, was sent for, and requested to interpret. He said the defendants admitted the statement was true. They asked for money, hut they did not know it was 1 against the law to do so. They had been sent to this country , by their Patriarch, their villages , having been destroyed, their cattle carried off, and their people massacred by the Kurds. They had come to Eng land to ask for assistance. The Patriarch had complained 1 to the authorities at Constantinople, and Colonel Taylor recommended that some persons should be sent , to England to collect money. Some gentlemen had applied to the Archbishop of Canterbury on their behalf, and a meeting had been held at Willis's Rooms, at which it was resolved to send out money through English clergy men. The Turkish Consul allowed them £2 a week, but they would rather starve than return with their object uu accomplished. Mr. Knox said he would discharge them if the defendants had a reasonable hope of returning to their country, and asked the Professor to make them understand that begging was prohibited. They were then discharged. CHARGE AGAINST A YOUNG WOMAN.—Selina Skelsey, young woman of respectable appearance, has been charged at Leamington with stealing a cashbox containing money and securities to the amount of 1,400, the property of her uncle, Mr. Holmes, • with whom she lived. The prosecutor is an independent gentleman and the prisoner, who is his wife's niece, left his house during the night in consequence of alleged ill treatment. She was arrested by Mr. Holmes's direction on a charge of stealing the cash box. A detective wno hd.d been employed in searching the house gave somewhat startling evidence. When first he searched Mr. Holmes's house, after Miss Skelsey was taken into custody , he could find no trace of the missing box, but on a second inspection of the coal cellar he noticed that some coal had been disturbed since his visit and under that coal he found the box. On hearing this evidence, the counsel for the prosecution threw u p the case, and Mrs. Holmes loudly declared the detective had perjured himself. The magistrate severely reproved her, and it was said on behalf of the accused that proceedings would be taken for false imprisonment, FALSE IMPRISONMENT BY A FARMER.—At the Hasling. den County Court, a man named John Butterworth, lately a farmer, was sued by Catherine Fletcher, the wife of a labourer, for damages for false imprisonment. The damages were laid at £lOO, and the facts were briefly these : On the 4th January defen dant was at the Black Pog public-honse, Craw shawbooth, drunk. Mrs. Fletcher went in and called for a glass of beer, and the prisoner sat opposite to her, but she never went near him. He, however, charged her with having robbed him of a £5 note, a sovereign, 15s. or 165., and a purse. She protested her innocen ce, but she was detained, and stripped in the presence of defendant, an other man, and the landlady, but nothing w as found upon her. When the policeman arrived he insisted on her being taken into custody, and the officer, after cau tioning the defendant, did so. She was locked up for three days, and the note was afterwards found by the pro secutor.—Damages £5O. MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT ROCHDALE.—Mr. Stevens, the chief constable of Rochdale, received information of a dar ing robbery in the town. A servant girl in the employ of Mr. Wrigley, builder, stated that after Mrs. Wrigley had gone out to take her usual walk , while she was stoop ingin the kitchen to pick up the brush, two men came behind her and threw over her head a handkerchief, and threatened to murder her with an axe if she gave an alarm. They took her down into the cellar and tied her hands to an iron bar, and cautioned her that if she made a noise they would bury her in the coal: For upwards of an hour she remained in this position. The young woman was found tied up in the cellar, and the cash-box had been taken out of the drawers upstairs, and broken open with an axe, but strange to say the £BO in gold and notes which had been placed in it had not been removed, and nothing has yet been missed from the house. It is stated that Mr. Gordon Whitbread, of the Chancery Bar, who is at present the principal secretary of the Lord Chancellor, will succeed the late Mr. H. R. Bagshawe, Q.C. as Judge of the Clerkenwell County Court. Mr. Whitbread was called to the Bar in 1840. A gentleman named Greg, an exhibitioner of Balliol College, Oxford, attempted suicide by cutting his throat on Port Meadow on Friday. lie was taken to the infirmary and lies in , a dangerous state. Over study and disappointment are said to be the causes of the act. The Solicitors' Journal states that a peculiar feature in the entertainment at the Inner Temple, was that the whole company after dinner smoked with great solemnity in the withdrawing room, in compliment probably, to the Prince of Wales, as inheriting the harmless penchant of his relative, the late Duke of Sussex. Intelligence has reached New York from Cuba that General Rodas has issued a proclamation declaring free enslaves of insurgents, as well as slaves who have served the Spanish troops as guides or voluntarily aided the Government in repressing the rebellion. It is reported that there are only a few scattered bands of insurgents still in arms. The North British Daily Mail states that the man Chalmers has been fully identified by several witnesses as the person who is believed to have murdered the Braco toll/Ilan. Two youthful witnesses from Glasgow were also confronted with the prisoner, and acknowledged that they had seen no one who was " liker" the man wanted for the Stockwell -street outrage on a little girl. A painful sensation has been caused in Bombay by an accident that occurred to a picnic party at Bandora Hill, two or three miles distant, An omnibus carrying a number of the-party came against the parapet of a deep well and upset, and two ladies (Madame Vinay and her niece, Miss Phillips) were thrown from the top, sheer i n t o the well, and drowned. A number of others were bruised, none seriously. Major-General Galway Byng Payne, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines, died at Torquay on Thursday. He entered the army in 1831, and served in Spain during the Carlist war of 1838-39. During the Russian campaign he commanded a battalion of Marines at the defence of Eupatoria, and the 2nd Ba ttalion of Sir Colin Campbell's (Lord Clyde) Brigade, Baidor. in camp near The Chair of Medicine and Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh, vacant by the death of Sir J. Y. Simpson, Bart., is already solicited by numerous ca ndidates. The most favourably spoken of are Dr. James Matthews Duncan, Dr. Alexander Keiller, Pr. Alexander Simpson (a nephew of Sir James), now professor of midwifery in Glasgow; and Dr. J. G. S. late of Shanghai, and formerly assistant to the 'deceased professor. THE LOST BOOKS OF LIVY. From time to time a rumour goes through the press of certain lost portions of Livy having been discovered some where or other. If we remember rightly a recent novel of Gustav Freytag turns upon this incident. Now, however, it seems that a reel M.S., containing not a lost portion, but nearly the whole of the Fourth decade, was discovered a few days ago in the Petro-Pauline Library at Liegnitz, in Silesia, by the Librarian and a Professor of the Gymna sium. It may well be that this is one of the many MSS. of Livy which were still extant in the fifteenth century, and which were unaccountably lost after the publication of the Editio Princeps," in Rome, in 1469. We may remind our readers, to save them the trouble of looking up their "Smith," that out of the 142 books (divided into decades), only thirty, with the largest portions of five more, now survive, em bracing the period from 201 to 167, and that among the fragments embedded in other works, Livy's " Character of Cicero" is conspicuous. There is no reason to doubt the genuineness of this discovery.—Pall Mall Gazette. COMPLAINTS FROM EMIGRANTS. On taking his seat in the Justice-room on Saturday, the Lord Mayor, addressing the reporters, said they would recollect that a few days ago he noticed a complaint he had received from emigrants who had been sent out to Omaha through an agency in London, and who stated that they earned barely sufficient to pay for their board and lodging. That complaint he handed to the Superintendent of Emigration for the Port of Lon don, and Captain Forster had made a very search ing investigation into all the allegations that had been made. The allegations were somewhat exaggerated, and the principal one the parties in London, did not and never had assented to, with regard to a charge of two dollars made on arrival in America. That had been abolished. The Lord Mayor added that a few minutes ago, he had received a telegram from Omaha, in Nebraska, stating that the complaints of insufficient employment in that colony, were in a great measure unfounded, and that the emigrants were now doing fairly. FLAW IN THE MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY BILL. If the Married Women's Property Bill should, in its present shape, become an Act of Parliament, it will have the immediate effect of destroying one, at all events, of the proprietary securities now enjoyed by wives of the wealthier classes. It is notorious that marriage settle ments are, in the existing order of things, as frequently made for the purpose of protecting the wife's property against herself as against her husband. A woman may now by marriage settlement bind herself not to alienate her property, or anticipate the income accruing from it, and like conditions may be attached to a gift or brquest to her during coverture. When an estate is thus modified it cannot be parted with or charged. But if a married woman were capable of contracting like a feme sole as the Recorder's bill proposes that she shall be, she would be able to execute bonds and covenants. These would not at once affect the settled capital. But they would fall on the rent or interest as fast as it came in, and the restraints upon alienation and anticipation, ceasing on the death of the husband—for they are valid only pending the state of matrimony—the capital would become subject to the debts created by them. This at any rate is a defect in the Married Women's Property Bill which should not pass unremedied, as it seems hitherto to have passed unnoticed.—Pall Mall Gazette. EPISCOPAL OPINION ON SPIRITUAL " IRREGULARS." • The Manchester Guardian, says the Bishop of Man chester presided on Friday at the annual meeting of the Asylum for Penitent Females, and delivered an interest ing address, which, however, brought him for the first time since his consecration into gentle collision with a por tion of his audience. His lordship's remarks on the depravity of human nature passed unchallenged, but towards the close of his address he ventured to criticise the quality of the religious training, of the institution. The arrangements for the Sunday services are not satisfac tory to the right rev. prelate, because they are conducted by lay preachers in the morning and city missionaries in the evening. He admits that these preachers are actuated by the best motives, but he is of opinion that the work can be done better by "professionals" than by "experimenters" in religious matters. His lordship seems to think the regular clergy . are of a higher spiritual type, and have more experience in dealing with cases in which " Satan has gained such a subtle mastery over the human soul" than common lay preachers and city missionaries. A lay preacher happened to be present at the meeting on Friday. He presented himself before the Bishop as a specimen of those by whom the services at the institution are conducted, and contended that the present arrange ment was a very wise one. He suggested that if his lordship would go down to the asylum some morning and quietly take the service, he would leave the institution a better man than when he entered it. THE ARMY AND NAVY. The United Service Gazette says :—A Greenwich Hospital pension of £l5O a year has been awarded to Admiral Sir James Scott, K.C.B. We understand that her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and her Royal High ness the Princess Mary have signified their intention of honouring with their presence the annual general meeting of the Royal Cambridge Asylum at the Royal Asylum at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Saturday next. The correspondence relative to the reduction of the field officers in the Brigade of Guards, has been printed and laid before Parliament. Mr. Childers is certainly doing his best to render the Navy contented. Last year, seven naval sub-lieutenants, three engineers, and nine assistant paymasters were promoted. This year gives indications of a good time coming, for already twelve navigating sub lieutenants, fourteen assistant paymasters, one chief engineer, and ten engineers have been promoted. The Army and Navy Gazette says there is no truth in the report that Lieutenant - Colonel E. Gordon, . Town Major, Dublin, _ is about to be appointed to the command at Netley Hospital.— A captain's commission has been Placed at the disposal of Mr. Childers by the unexpected death of Captain Dacres Bevan. Brigadier-General Donald Stewart is likely to have an Indian command. It is not improbable that the Indian brigade vacant by the death of Colonel W. Fenwick, C. 8., 10th Regiment, will be offered to Colonel H. C. Brewster, 76th Regiment. A vacancy has occurred amongst the aides-de-camp to the Queen by the death of Colonel E. Tomkinson. The final decision as to whether it is desirable to retain the Ist battalion 60th Rifles in Canada, rests with Major, General Lindsay and the Canadian Government. Up to the present time nothing has been heard from that officer upon the subject. It is understood that the court-martial held in Jamaica on Purveyor Pooley, cashiering that officer has been confirmed. A telegram from Corunna says that the British squadron has left in a northerly direction, but it is believed that it will proceed to Lisbon. An ingenious American has discovered a new use to which old paper may be applied—namely, to the con struction of coffins. The paper is reduced to a pulp, rolled out to the requisite thickness, saturated with oil, baked, japanned, and polished. It thus becomes hard , and capable of resisting all ordinary destructive agencies, and is thought to be imperishable. Another American has made a dis covery which promises to be of more importanc—namely, that pulp for paper may be prepared from wood. Trees, after being denuded of their bark, are cut up into blocks an inch long and broad, and half an inch thick. They are then steamed and crushed into pulp, care being taken that they shall be so arranged that the fibre may be pre served.—Once a Week. - - - A. VALUABLE DISCOVERY.—A remarkable manu script has been found in the Imperial Library of Paris, bearing date May 13, 1665, the authenticity of which is vouched for, and Which seems to establish a bitter repug nance on the part of Louii XIV. to the dogma of Papal Infallibility. The document describes an interview between the grand Monarch and the Pope's Nuncio, in the course of which his Majesty raised his arm, clenched his fist, and threatened still more cogent arguments • the p rov ocation having been an explicit claim put forth by the Nuncio to infallibility, and superiority over temporal Sovereigns in behalf of his master. The pride and per sonal desires of Kings, from Henry down, did more than the enlightenment of their people, to sap those lofty pretensions, which even now shew such wonderful signs of vitality.--New York Times. DISAPPOINTED PHILOSOPHERS. Mr. Carlyle, like Joreph Mazzini, has resolved in the end of his days that it is a hard thing to make the world any better than it was when he knew it first, 4 . ,4c1 that it is likely to go on in something of the old style for some come to come. His grand scheme of colonisation is only a - theory as yet, the British Government preferring to go on w i th its C'parlia mentary palaver to the Day of Judgment." But Carlyle differs from Mazzini in one respect—he gives up any further speculation, and will worryhimself no more about such a crazy world ; while Mazzim, though with dimin ished hopes, works on as before over his weary correspon dence, and refuees to give up the ship. He will die, like Macbeth, " with barneis hie"back." Both know, what all old men must, that the world' can gel forward some how without them or their ideas . ; though, no denbt, each in his manner has done or said some notahle things in the way of helping it along.—Hera York Times. AN AMERICAN JOKE.—The New York papers publish the following despatches :—" Indianopolis, May 4.—Yesterday evening the, following note was dropped from a balloon, 'high in the air, moving in a south - east direction near Montpelier, Blackford. County,in this State. It was fastened to a piece of VOW and iron weighing about one and a-half pound :—Sailed floin Toronto, April 28, for New York ' • met with adverse winds, and by a sudden movem en t o f the balloon Mr, Lafarge was thrown out. I suppose, as near as I could determine, in the southern part of Michigan. Not knowing how to manage the ship, it has been tossed to and fro in all direc tions since he fell out. I am alone, and earthly power cann ot save me. I drop these li nes , hoping some human will find them and communicate to my family tidings of my f a t e . To Heaven I commit my soul. Please send this n ote to /tall)h Lawrence, Uppe r C ana d a . Si gne d, BERTHA LAWRENCE. Toronto, Ontario, May s.—No balloon started from here on the 28th of April for New York or anywhere else." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1670. THE SUCCESS OF THE SUEZ CANAL Notwithstanding the ersistent opposition of English in terests, the ,misrepresentations of jealous foes and the scarcel less embarrassing hints of d.iubting friends, the great canal which unites the commerce of the Mediter. ranean and of the waters of the East is a corn' ete success. For a time rumour after rumour came to us of this, that, and the other difficulty in the way of a noble enterprise which had been inaugurated amid the a plause of Christendom, and in the presence of some of its, most distinguished repre sentatives. All this cavilling ha , been practically set at rest by a statement which has recently been issued by the directors of the Suez Company. It yields striking evidence of rapid progress. The report extends from the 20th of November, 1869, the opening day, until the Ist of March, 1870. -In that time fifty-five large vessels had passed through the canal, their trips being subdivided as fol lows :—k.ne in November, nine in December, six teen in January and. twenty-nine in February.' The tolls taken increased from about seventy-five thousand francs in the first to nearly three hundred and forty-one thousand in the last named month. The number of larger vessels is, exclusive of five hundred and seventy-five trading boats or barks, paying a smaller percentage of toll. Thus it will be seen that traffic on the new channel has grown nearly fivefold i the first quarter of its first year of exist ence, in spite of all drawbacks. March opened full of pro mise, and would at least double the work of Februry. In the meantime the French steamship companies at Marseilles, the Italians at Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples, and the Aus trian Lloyds at Trieste, are establishing lines of service direct for the Red Sea and the further East via Suez, with every prospect of accumulating trade. French Oriental com merce amounts already to nearly 800,000,000 dollars to and fro per annum. 0 this a very large pro ortion, if not all, must be attracted to the canal, with what results for that work we leave our readers to conclude. One thing . is quite evi dent—viz., that the Suez Canal, spacious as it is, will soon be crowded and another outlet will be needed from the At lantic to the Eastern marts. Visible testimony points with unerring directness to the proposed canal through the Isth mus of Darien. To restore equilibrium, adjust the differences of trade and open the natural chann Is which commerce is seeking on all sides to accele ate her onward march ; that crowning work has become a no essity for the present gene ration. Ten years hence our Southern inlets and the Gulf of Mexico will be teeming with trade, and our Pacific coast, encrusted with maritime cities, be flashing their steam and electricity, in continuous currents, to the marts at the mouth of the Amoor river and along the eager shores of ( hina and Japan. With both Suez and Darien open the great republic would sit enthroned upon the central seat among the nations, dispensing, on the right hand and the left, the ma chless in fluenc which, beginning in riendly and lucrative trade, becomes at last a fraternal bond between all tongues and peoples. • New York Herald. POSTAGE TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. A postal convention, establishing and regulating the exchange of correspondence between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands, has been concluded and will be carried into operation on the Ist of July, 1870. It pro vides for a regular exchange of correspondence between the two countries by means of the United States steamers plying between San Francisco and Honolulu, as well as by occasional steamers and sailing vessels plying between Honolulu and San Franciso, Portland, Oregon, or the ports on Puget's Sound, comprising letters, newspapers and printed matter of every kind originating in either country and addressed to and deliverable in the other country. San Franciso, New York, Boston, Portland,' Oregan, Teekalet, Olympia, and Port Townshend, Wash ington Territory, are the offices of exchange on the side of the United State, and Honolulu and Hilo the Hawaiian offices of exchange. The rates of postage to be levied and collected in the United States, on and after July 1, 1870, on correspondence addressed to or received from the Hawaiian Kingdom will be as follows, viz. :—On letters, six cents per each single rate of half an ounce or under, to be fully prepaid at the mailing-office in all cases' by means of United States postage stamps. If not fully prepaid they cannot be forwarded. Letters received in either country from the other are to be delivered free of all charges whatsover. Second—On newspapers sent or received the regular rates of United States domestic postage are to be levied and collected ; if transient papers two cents. per each four ounces or fraction thereof ; and if sent to regular subscribers .the prepaid quarterly rates. Third—On other printed matter, four cents. per each weight of four ounces or fraction thereof, whether sent or received. Postmasters will levy and collect postage accordingly on and after July 1, 1870. THE NEW TERRITORY. Manitobah, which in the Indian tongue signifies the " Speaking God," is the name decided upon by the Cana dian Ministry as the official title for the territory just acquired from the Hudson's Bay Company, and popularly known as Winnepeg or the Red River Country. In intro ducing the bill for the government of that region, Sir John A. Macdonald remarked that the appellation terri tory was unknown in the British Colonial system, and that the Cabinet had resolved to adopt the usual term " province," had availing themselves of the euphonious Indian dialect, and called the'new acquisition the province of Manitobah, or " Speaking God." The boundary line of the province runs along the U.S. frontier, between 96 degrees west, and 98 degrees west from 'Greenwich, and along the 49th parallel on the south, and the parallel at a distance of 50i degrees north of the equator. The pro vince contains an area of 11,000 square miles, and includes all the settlements on the Assinboin and Red Rivers, and between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitobah. The local Legislature of the Province is to consist of two Chambers, a Council of seven members, ultimately to be increased to twelve, and an assembly of twenty-four members, to be elected by as many districts, and their qualifications are the possession of a house and residence for one year. The executive department is to be compOsed of a Lieutenant- Governor, with an executive council of seven persons. The Province will be represented in the Dominion Parliament —in the Senate by two members, and in the House of Commons by four members, one to be chosen in each of four separate electoral districts. When the population amounts to 50,000, the Senators will be three in number, and when 75,000, be four. The same qualifications are required for electors as at the Provincial and Dominion elections. The Province has the power of amending its own constitution. The public lands not specially allotted belong to the Dominion, and for the purpose of extin guishing the Indian title, 120000 acres tare reserved for occupancy by the Indians. The Dominion Parliament is to grant a subsidy of eighty cents a head, and also $390,000 for other pm-poses. In the public proceedings' either the English or French language may be used, and the public records are kept in both.—Philadelphia Ledger. SAD SEQUENCE OF THE LOUISIANA VENDETTA. The concluding chapter in the recent Catahoula ven detta, wherein General Liddell, Colonel Jones and son were killed, has yet to be related. A few days ago Mrs. Charles Jones, with her two daughters and a young son, reached the mouth of the river in the German steamer. She had hurried from Heidelberg, Germany, where she had been residing for some time superintending the education of her children, expecting to meet her husband and two sons in the city, entirely unconscious of their sad fate. When the steamer crossed the bar, the pilot who came aboard was asked by Mrs. Jones if he knew Colonel Charles Jones, of Catahoula. The reply was that he had heard of him, but declining or evading any further conversation, the lady's curiosity was excited, and she was filled with gloomy apprehensions of impending calamity. These ap prehensions were very natural to a lady, who had been for so many years cognizant of the bitter feud which had so long existed between her husband and General Liddell, and who more than twenty years ago had witnessed the cruel and nearly mortal wounding of her husband in the incident which gave rise to this feud. The kindly pilot, who could not bear to communicate to Mrs. Jones directly the sad intelligence of her husband's fate, whispered it to some of the passengers, wno informed Mrs. Jones that she must pre pare herself for some sorrowful news on ' reach ing the city. She retired to her state-room, and there remained in a state of distressing grief and anxiety ' until the steamer reached the city. On the arrival at the wharf, almost the first person who boarded the steamer was young Jones, the survivor of the awful tragedy at Harrisonburgh. He rushed into his mother's room, and Was the first to communicate the terrible truth to his mother. We shall not attempt to describe the scene followed. Kind friends took charge of the afflicted lady. After remaining here but a few days, she left to return to Germany with her family, and devote the remainder of her life to the education of her children. May time aSsuage the great sorrows of this afflicted lady, and may her remaining days, though ever so sorrowful,• be undis turbed by further griefs and afflictions.—New Orleans Times, April 29. MODEL GOVERNMENT. News is constantly arriving of the appearance of miser able little revolutionary bands in different parts of Italy. These insurrectionary movements are very numerous, and though they make no progress they succeed very well in setting the authorities at defiance for a time. And they may well do so. The Government seems utterly incapable of dealing with the widespread disaffection prevailing in the Italian dominions. Here is a specimen of its policy. A few days ago a revolutionary band attempted to do a little insurrection in the Tuscan Maremma. This band, headed by a person called Galliani, made its appearance in the neighbourhood of Volterra, and at tempted to gain over a number of miners employed in the mines of Signor Mayer, the late Mayor of Leghorn. By some extraordinary jumble of ideas the President of the Council, Lanza, was led to suppose that Mayer himself was the instigator of the movement, and announced this fact to the Chamber of Deputies, which of course felt a good deal of alarm at the idea of such a rising having receivel the support of one lately holding the office of chief magistrate in a great commercial and maritime city. Well, the mistake was found out, and the President of the Council made his apology to the Chamber. The speech in which he did so is so singular a specimen of eloquence that it may be worth reading in full :—" I ought to correct a mistake into which I fell yesterday, when giving to the Chamber the notice it asked of me, respecting the appearance of a band in the neighbourhood of Volterra. Speaking of c document which I said was signed by one of the chiefs of the band, I happened—l do not know I think that I pronounced a name names seen the report of the sitting, so that I am speaking from my impressions. Well —as I was saying I don't know how I don't recollect in short, I think that I pronounced the name of Signor Mayer, or of Galliani.—(Cries—" Both the names. ) Both the names ? —well, I may have done so I think —if I am not mistaken that I also said that the document of which I spoke bore the signature of Signor Mayer. - it was a mistake not to have said so but I have no recol lection of that. The fact is that if I pronounced first the name of Galliani and then that of Mayer, I ought on the contrary first to have said Galliani. If I first said Mayer, when I afterwards said Galliani, I ought instead to have said Mayer. The long and short of the business is, that the document bears only the signature of Galliani, and I cannot tell how, but a combination of indications of circumstances led me by mistake to say that it was signed Mayer." Nor is even this exemplary muddling the worst of its kind. It seems that the Minister of the Interior, on hearing of the troubles hi the neighbourhood of Massa, at once assumed that the Massa in question was the Massa in the Modenese Pro vince of Lunigiana. Troops were put in motion, and sent to this place, whereas the right locality was Massa Maritima, in the Tuscan Maremma. Suoh is the style of conducting government in Italy. The Presse of Vienna publishes the following in telligence from Constantinople on the 17th. According to orders received from Paris, the French squadron of the Levant, under the command of Rear-Admiral Chevalier, will not leave the Piraeus at present. The death is announced of Sir Norman Macdonald Lockhart, at the age of 25. He was educated at Eton, was a Deputy-Lieutenant and Magistrate for Lanarkshire, and Lord of the Baronies of Lee and Carnwath. He is succeeded by his brother, now Sir Simon Lockhart, who was born in 1849. As Mr. George Tomlinson's assistant, at Kirkham, was about to kill a cow, a man named Thomas Dowling went up to him and said, " Before tha kills that cow will to cut my throat ?" at the same time stretching it out and offering it to him. The assistant took his knife, and thinking that he was using the back of the knife, drew it smartly across his throat • the back proved to be the, edge, and a considerable gash was the consequence. With care there is not likely to be much danger of a fatal result. Examination by torture is not yet extinct. For in the late Shoay Dah case no less than six innocent men were so examined, and will bear the marks thereof for life. One common mode is to twist fine cord round the wrists and then to work the bawls over each other, dropping sand on the cord while doing so. This cuts through the skin, causing exquisite pain, and the sand prevents the wounds from closing for many months. The most ordinary mode, however, is as clumsy as it is effectual, beating the witness with a thick stick.—Pioneer, April 22. AN ASSISTANT TO A Fox.—One morning last week, a shepherd in the employment of Mr. Mitchell, Arnisdale, was shocked when on his rounds to find seven lambs worried, all within a few paces of each other. He at once set down the fox as the depredator, and despatched Neil Campbell on the track, having full confidence in his long experience and great success as a fox-hunter. But what was Neil's surprise at the end of his search to find, not a fox, but a wild cat just after drinking the blood of other three lambs. She bolted immediately to gain her stronghold in the rock, but Neil, who was never known to lose the first opportuitY, raised the gun to his ghoulder, and the next moment the cat raceived the due reward of her deeds. She measured from nose to tail no less than 3 feet ai inches.—lnverness Courier. ... AN INDIAN RAID.—The Delhi Gazette has an account of another raid by a Black Mountain tribe into the Agra valley. On the 9th of. April it is stated a strong party of Akazyes came over the crest, surprised the village of Burcha, slew its head man, burnt some of the houses, and made off with all the cattle they could collect. This village, and several others, dot the face of the slope here and there, and cannot be protected by the pro in Agra, as there can be no reliable inforthation as to which is to be the point of attack. Almost every night troops were posted in the villages at the base of the hill, but the enemy did not dare to molest them. On the 16th they aain came over and plundered and burnt the village of 'imbleboote.S The villagers gave up their arms and goods unconditionally, and, therefore, no lives were lost ; one woman was wounded. Next day they plundered another village, and the rest were deserted by the inhabitants. They have actually driven off every • inhabitant on the slope of the mountain. THE ORDER OF THE BATH.—It is customary upon ' her Majesty's birthday to publish in the Gazette a long list of officers elevated to companionships of the Bath in honour of the occasion ; and in recognition of their services to the Sovereign. As the day for the celebration of the anniversary draws nigh speculation "is rife as to the officers who are most likely to - receive Bath honours, and the Army awl Ncwy Gazette publishes the following list as the result of many conjectures on that subject :—For G-.C.B's : General Sir George Bowles, Ist West India Regiment, and General • Sir H. J. W. Bentinck, 28th Foot and General Lord Rokeby, 77th Foot. For IC.C.B's : Major-General E. C. Hodge, General C. M. Carmichael, 20th Hussars , Major-General Collingwood Dickson, V.C., Royal Ar tillery; Major-General 11. D. White,Major- General R. T. I'arren; Inspector-General of. Hospitals, J. Mouat, V.C.; Lieutenant-General J. Alexander, Royal Artil lery ; Major-General H. D. Griffith, Major-General A. Borton, Major-General J. S. Brownrigg. For Companionships : Colonel E. H. Maxwell, 88th Foot ; Major and Brevet-Colonel W. Sankey, 9th Foot; Colonel G. H. L. Milman, Royal Artillery ; Colonel W. C, Hodgson, 79th Foot; Colonel T. H. Pakenhani3oth Foot Foot ; Colonel H. M. Hamilton , 12th ; Captaan and Brevet-Colonel Mark Walker, V.C., 3rd Foot ; - Lieutenant-Colonel A. bunny, Royal (late Bengal) Artillery ';" Lieutenant-Colonel J. Stokes, Royal Engineers; Colonel W. Boyle, 89th Foot ; Colonel C. Adams, 49th Foot ; Colonel V, Biker, 10th Hussars ; Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel G. Davis, V.C., Royal Artillery ; Colonel E. T. Gloster, 97th Foot ; Major and Brevet-Colonel A. Bassano, 32nd Foot; Major and Brevet-Colonel J. C. Gawler, 73rd Fo,;:, ; Colonel R. J. Eager, 31st Foot ; and Captain and Brevec Lieutenant-Colonel 'G-. A. Benny, V.C., Royal "(late Bengal) Artillery. NEW IDEAS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The monthly meeting of the New York County Woman Suffrage Association was held, ou the 7th May, in the read ing room of the St. Denis Hotel. The usual number of ladies, elderly gentlemen, and reporters was present. Mrs. Blake opened the meeting, and introduced Miss Anthony as having just returned from her Western trip. In reference to the resolution of sympathy with the non-tax paying lady doctor of Philadelphia passed at the last meeting, Miss Anthony observed that she hadn't rendered her tax-account, and didn't propose to do so, "If they want to put me in jail, I'll go. I haven't any property to attach except the dress Anna Dickinson gave me on my birthday." She desired the women to protest against this t axa ti on . Th e question of woman's right to vote, she th. ught, was to be settled through the Courts ; proceedings to that effect had been begun in St. Louis. She bad been convinced by her Western travels that women did desire suffrage. She furthermore remarked 'that the franters of the Constitution had " no right " to ordain in that, document that only men should vote. Mrs. Blake said that she wished women could be em ployed as census-takers. A strong argument, she thought, lay in the fact that women might more readily confess thei real ages to a woman tha to a man. She introduced the following resolution, which was passed:— " Whereas, by the recent action of the Superintendent of the Census, it becomes evident that according to the Act of May 23, 1850, women are not eligible to offices of takers of the Oensus ;" therefore, R solved—" That the Association protest against this enactment as unjust and oppressive, aad earnestly calls for its repeal." Miss Antho y observed that women are going to play the Ego now. She regretted that the whole twenty millions have got to prove, oue by one, by success :n some special work, that they are competent to vote. She meant to have that vote by 1872 ; and more than that, an equal share of the offices, with easy work and good pay. She felt quite certain that the Democrats of Illinois will put the Women 'Suffrage plank in their platform at their next Convention. IWhile the Republicans don't dare to do it, they are trembling in their shoes for fear the Democrats will. Prominent ;members of the Illinois Democracy had invited her to their homes, and she had told them how to get ahead of the Republicans! Mrs. Sutnmerby (gracefully brandishing her umbrella) You show your colours too much for a politician, Miss Anthony ! Miss Leggett spoke of the three casses of women lately mentioned by the Tribune—the women who want to vote, the women who don't want to vote, and the woman who don't care a pin whether they vote or pot, She thought that the woma of brains and intellect wants to vete, and as all women have common sense— fM iss Anthony -«' That's awful !" '— those who don't want to vote must stifle that useful quality. Some of these undesirous women were intellectual, but they had all the luxuries they wanted, and were, in short, of "no account." She didn't believe there were any women who "don't care a pin whether they vote or not," because she never knew a woman without a mind of her own. ". Some don't care to vote, because ,hey think it ispretty not to know any thing about politics, and because men make fun of strong minded women. She thought that the woman who stands up to assert herself has more strength of mind than man ever had or ever will have. She wished men . to understand that one great cause Qf wotnants not wanting to vote is that she has an innate desire to study the likings of others. She was glad that men had tyrants of wives, glad that they had to pay milliners' bills, and she hoped that they might not have any beefstakes fit to eat for the space of three years. She thought that suffering women, working women, &c., would especially likeito vote. Mrs Blake said that it was'nt unhap y women who most wished to vote. The members of the association were a happy band of women. Mr Beecher didn't desire that the slave should be freed because he had never been a slave himself. Miss Anthony though there was "philosophy in all these things." She didn't absolutely wish that the women who werekepi like canary birds in gilt-wire cages should have a taste of the world's hardships, but she kew if they should they would speedily demand to vote. The only child of Baron Alguier, a member. of the Corps Ldgislatif, was, by a mistake of an apothecary, poisoned on Thursday evening at Paris. The poor victim was a girl only twelve years old. NEW AMERICAN WORDS.—Not co n tent with a .Id ing to the dictionary the word " Interviewed,': the Americans now speak of those who have received a testimonial as having been " Testimonitilised." LIFE IN TROPICAL AFRICA —The daily life of a " black fellow " has been very graphically described in a few words. He gets a large melon, cuts it in two, and scoops out the inside ; one half he ptits on his head, he sits on the other half, and eats the middle. , AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. (From the Anglo-American Times,) • NEW YORK, May 7. The President with his family passed through this city last week on his way to NN est oint, run after by a crowd, mostly composed of reporters. Before returningto Washington he paid his brother in-law, Mr. Corbin, a visit; and last Sunday he attended the Methodist Episcopalian Church at .with Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Corbin, and his daughters. Next day he was visited by the pro minent citizens of Elizabeth, aid drove round the town with Dr. Carlton, his departure for Washing ton being witnessed by quite a number of persons. . _ Our wharves are grovimi more busy each day with our own citizens leaving, either on business or plea- . sure for Europe, and immigrants, who now literally arrive by the thousand. Mr. Ruggles left for Havre in the St. Laurent with many men of mark, among whom was Augustus Maverick of the Even ing Post. Mr. Otis, of Messrs. Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s Express, took his passage in the City of Brook lyn, as did T. P. Grinnell and family., The New York Standard made its appearance according to notice last Saturday, and immediately dropped into a row with the Sun, which set to work to abuse Mr. Russell Young, who retorted on the personal character of ttie editor of the Sun. As the sheets resemble each other closely, and 'the abuse is very much the same, unless you look at the heading you are unconscious whether it is the editor of the Standard or the editor of the Sun who is being complimented. As was expected, General Butler is the Standard's model. Philip Cooney, who killed David O'Day, has , been liberated, as it appears he not only acted'in self defence, but wrought a good work, for w hich tltis city ought to be grateful, but the Eighth Ward roughs are not, an they threaten to blow Cooney up. Jim Kerrigan gave bail $l,OOO to keep the peace, Jim being a pugilist under engagements to fight. The moving was commenced last Saturday, and was continued on * Monday ; but on the whole there have been fewer changes this year than formerly, many landlords having reduced the rent, few or none being able to increaseit,while a great number of houses remain uulet. Efforts are being made by the property holders, especially along Broadway, to defeat the Arcade Railroad Bill, and a meeting was held in the lower store of Mr. Stewart for this object.. Although it was private it is known to be the impression that the Governor will veto the bill, but no one can tell what the Governor will do, considering what he has done. The way in which the Stock Exchange was treated shows what can be accomplished at Albany. A billwas introduced in the interest of the brokers, passed, but the names all changed during theprocess which conferred the char terrequired on men who only wanted itas a means of extorting money from those in whose name it was originally asked. There was a sensation in n all street,onlearning that the Treasury hadsecretly sold $1,090,000, the interest due on the Sinking Fund Bonds, and turned the proceeds into Five-Twenties, the bonds being purchased in small lots throughout the day to the great disgust of the speculators. But many doubt the propriety of the course, as it opens the door wider for jobbery. The frightful accident at Richmond has been discussed in many pulpits, debated in many meetings, and has called forth general sympathy. The Chain ber of Commerce assembled in the underwriters' building on Monday, and it was resolved that a committee he appointed to receive subscriptions for the widows and children, and that resolutions of condolence be sent to the Mayor of Richmond. The caisson for the East River bridge has been sunk on the Brooklyn side. It was towed from Green Point by the Titan and five other steamers. An English burglar, named John Willams, was arrested by a Custom-house officer for having in his possessi , in $1.5,000 worth of diamonds, and the property was confiscated, but Williams was re-arrested by the police and searched, when Russian and French Bonds, amounting to 60,000 francs, stolen in Paris, were found on - his person, and in default of bail he was sent to gaol. On the 19th day of M'Farland's tiresome affair Mrs. Calhoun Runkle was examined, and this imparted to it an interest which crowded the court. " Brick " Pomeroy was also examined, and afforded no little amusement. He said that M'Far- land called at the office of the Daily Democrat in 1868, and offered to sell certain letters containing full particulars of the debauchery of his wife by Richardson, who was connected with the Tribune, where Greeley and others were running a free love establishment. They would create a sensaiion, and place Pomeroy even with Greeley, who bad abused hitn politically, and he offered the letters for $lOO. Mr. Pomeroy did not care to publish such letters, and remarked that his qiiqrrel with Mr. Greeley did not extend to reporters, for whose acts neither were responsible, nor did he care to pur chase letters from a man who, they said, re flected on his wife's character; M'Farland veturued the letters to his pocket, while Mr. Pomeroy told him that it was the most singular offer he had ever had in his newspaper experience. When cross examined the witness said that he had, with his usual modesty, omitted to make a sensation in the newspapers, and he had mentioned this about five weeks before to Mr. Whittaker. On being asked if such communications were not shielded, as in con fidence, he answered they were, when concealment was requested. The witness observed that there was not more ill feeling between Mr. Greeley and him self in 1868 than usually exists between Democrats ar.dßepub,icans,for which he was censured for levity by the prisoner's counsel. " I don't call that wit," said Mr. Pomeroy. "Nor I either," retorted the counsel. Mr. Greeley had during the war called for his incarceration, and had published a bitter article against him in the Tribune. Mrs. Calhoun Runkle was examined at very great length, more espe cially as to her letters, and the Recorder ruled that she should state what certain words were. Mr. Graham had objected, saying they were there to explain themselves, and it was not what the lady said she meant, but what the prisoner thought they meant, and the effect on his mind ; that were the poiets in question. The Recorder considered that no person was so well able to say what the words wereas the writer. The defence contended thatthree letters gave the initials of agentleman inNew York ; while the prosecution maintained that they sig nified " you," which Mrs. Calhoun confirmed when questioned. When asked for the particulars of any instance wherein she had seen the prisoner behave rudely to his wife, she stated on one occa sion in January, 1867, she took an article she had written hastily to read to Mrs. M'Farland, and finding her with her children in a small close room had got through fifty pages, when Mr., M'Farland came in unexpectedly, and she stopped. He spoke harshly, rudely, and thickly, being the worse for liquor, and made the already stifling room still more disagreeable, so she gathered up her MSS. and left, but she heard him turn -vio lently on his wife, accusing her of having received a letter from her lover through that woman. Judge Davis desired to tender as evidence a letter from Mrs. M'Farland, to which the - celebrated one from Mrs. Calhoun was a reply ; but the original had been lost, and the Recorder wouldnotpermit the contents, according to the memory of the lady, to he re ceived as evidence. The counsel said the letter had stated that Mrs. M'Farland had been living in a state of torture with her husband, who had been intoxicated for several days. She maintains that Mr. M'Farland approved of his wife going on the stage. In reply to a rigid cross-questioning she asserted that her motives for interference simply were to enable Mrs. M.Tarlaud to earn a liv ing for herself and her children. Mr. Graham rests portions of the intercepted letter, on which Mae Runkle observed that "it sounds so unlike Mr. Richardson that, except on your authority, I would not believe that he had written it." Mrs. Sage, ex amined next day, called herself the mother of Mrs. Richardson, late Mrs. M'Farland, to which the pri soner's counsel objected. She testified to the quar rels, and the prisoner's neglect of his wife. She believed her daughter's conduct to ,be perfectly good up to this hour, and saw nothing wrong in her going 43 Indiana for a divorce, that she might marry Mr. Richardson. Miss Lizzie Sage had fre quently seen the prisoner intoxicated. On Wednes day the prosecution closed, and some rebutting evidence was offered by the defence on that and the following day, while yesterday Mr. Graham summed up in a long and able speech, after which the Court adjourned till Monday. We are arriv ing at a fine state of reporting. Report. 17, now go to church in l a ches. and on :Jonday the meet sa nsat* olial of the Sunday si!rataus appear in the c„litnins of the dailies. Ihe Sun brought the Rev. C. B. Smyth to grief, by an article which appeared Apr.lll, wherein that pastor of the Eleventh-street United Presbyterian Church was alleged to hays taken his six reporters after the sermon to a well known refreshment saloon, where they had beef steak and oysters, which he washed down with five fingers of gin and as much milk, with evident re lish, recommending the reporters to take some I ale,o, and having disposed_ of the viands, the Rev , Mc; Smyth turned to the bar-keeper and careleeslY requested him to " hang that up." 'Mr. Smyth a d ; miss that he went to a respectable hotel, had bee ` steak, some gin and milk and black tea for hutch+ with two gentlemen of the press, bath of whom ea',, oysters, and had also gin and milk, and as it was the Sabbath 'he requested the cashier to Make 3 note of the amount, which he paid the next flaY that he lives four miles from the church, and tha t he felt in need of lunch after a busy week. T he , reporter of the Herald corroborated Mr. Sinr: ll ; statetnent. The reporter of the Sun hadaccompan iel , Mr. Smyth to take notes of the hiscoric:d parts °I. the sermon, and he was courteously and liospitahlT invited to partake of the refreshments. Mr. SmYtb son was 4 s sent to assist him in copying the notes, and in the evening Mr. Stephens, of the Herald, came to the Sun office and got the MSS.. wh el l both talked of the hospitality they had receive before the City Editor, and ilex-, morning, te the re porter's astonishment, instead of kis report, the Su g contained the article upon which the charge Was grounded. The reporter repudiated the article/ which, he s tid, would have been 'in him a breile s of hospitality and a viol ttion of courtesy, and t b ". case was referred to two, who gave their deci'le3 On Wednesday. The "milk and gin" parson was censured mildly, but firmly, Mr. Smyth receivinki his rebuke and solemn warning with meekness, an u , washing it down, 1 make bold to say, when he gn i " gat home with some more gin and milk. Gin an' milk has become quite fashionable, and where ver the clergy go they are asked to partake of til l ': new American drink. The sensation of the w ee ' has been the cable passage from Germany atitioun e hig that American Railroad securities bad 13 6 :` 3 stricken from the list of the Berlin hours a as ti market had been flooded with Ametican bonds 14, doubtful value. The details are not known, but is said an agent from Berlin and Frank for had bee n sent here to investigate the solidity of the American loans put on those markets, and his report led t 0 the action taken by the " Elders," a body, I elan' fornied, corresponding to our Chamber of Cully coerce. The 'impression among the German house, in this city is that only those of doubtfUl value wi ll suffer, and that the market will soon recover it i tone. The case of James Fisk, jun., a,:ainst th ° Union Pacific Railroad came up on 'lliorsd t.Y b e ' fore Judges Nelson aiid Blatchforil, the point whether the issue should be tried by a U.S. Vie: trict Court or a State Court where the action wal originally commenced. A train has just arrive' from San Francisco in six days 23 hours, bringing many through passengers. *Digtrict-Attor neY Pierrepont has re-igne 1, but his reasons are un known ; hi predecessor and Mr. Barlow, the W e U.S. Marshal, are otndidates for the post. Ju d g j Pierrepont can make more by private practice t hatL he receives from his place.. Mr. Grinnell will als ° ' it is thought, resign, and Mr. Orton, of the West ern Union Telegraph Company, has a good chance ° t becoming the collector, if his own company will It him go, against which it may struggle hard. WASHINGTON, INlay 6 0 Congress continues its inquiries, into the imP r° ; per influences brought to bear on the votes of it members. The Senate Judiciary Committee is ju vestigating the means used to defeat what is kno wn i i as the Bingham amendment to the Georgia ~ and the proprietor of the Washington Ch r onicle I ° l been examined, as it is said that $l,BOO were pa l ' . to him nominally for priuting and advertise r i g e Governor Bullock has to be examined before tu f Committee can report, but there are whispers great scandals connected with the affair. The pa r `- . ; guay investigation is closed, and the resolution have been reported. Rear-Admiral Gordon 1 censured for neglecting to aid Mr. Washbur n ' The arrest and detention of Bliss and Master mal violated the law of nations, and was an insult .t 0 1 the United States; and the President's actio n withdrawing General Miatfahon, and declioi ~ l further diplomatic intercourse, is approved. 1 - 1 ,„ 1 refusal or neglect of naval officers at the station s :: render al reasonable assistance to diplomatic ow cers in the discharge of their duties, or discourteaYi should be inquired into, and punished by . theN -o ,'`, Department. Mr. Swann further held that t'i forcible arrest of Bliss and Masterman demand ° reparation • that Minister Washburn ought not t 0 have left diem in detention, but should have - re fused his passport ; that the Minister was impru dent in associating Bliss and Masterman with 11 ' legation ; and in error in his hostile a nd un friendly attitude towards the Paraguayan Gover l , l o - matt. That Admirals Gordon and Davis acte d 1 ,, the best of their judgment, and also in accord ' n `` with the instructions of the Navy Department, reee. is :, ing its approval. We are in the midst of an excitl, u ' election. Two sets of, delegates attended the he publican publican Convention to nominate the Mayor ; tf. one candidate being the present incumbent, S . Kowen, the other Major Richards, Chief of. I°.:. lice ; se there is a split in the party, though It rumoured that Richards will withdraw its favour the M. G. Emery, the nominee the Reform RepP u lie licans ; and this, if true, will insure to him t.O election, which will take place the first MondaY, l lo June Emery is supported by the Democrats, wile cannot hope to elect a candidate of their own- 1 0 0 voters are calculcated at 22,000, of whom B, ' „ are coloured, and the Republican majority ism, least 1,000. Captain Commerell, of Her 13- steamship Monarch, has written to Secretary R e ll s son of the Navy, forwarding an official from t " he Lords of the Admiralty, who, in the name of Queen and the British Navy, acknowledge the n i v, a form kindness and attention the crew of the icon `,-; received in this country. 'I he construction of anotliej PaCific Railroad along the 32d parallel is a dvonfi t , K by the sub-committee on railroads.and will pro l ' au be adopted by the House. The Northern Paei ° o 3 advertising contracts for grading, bridging, " a a constructing the Minnesota sections of the rvae about 230 miles. Strenuous efforts are being ' ll5 Ol O to push the El Paso line. The Representatives ( r ar e Texas, Louisiana, and other States interested moving in its favour. Mr. Wheeler, the Chair b " to of the Committee on Pacific Railroads, tried us e get land grants for the Northern Pacific of O de . 47,000,000 acres through the House without los bate; but he was stopped by bitter opponents , though in a minority, secured delay by filibuste rn o Mr. Wheeler's object was to prevent atnendineecl( under the impression that if the bill was sent b l o t to the Senate where it had passed, it woul d . c° again get through, as the Opposition has s l i d greatly strengthened. In the Senate on Thao.o Mr Morrill, of Maine, struck a hard blow agtoil these grants when the Osage Indian Reserv al : ei e Bill came up. Twelve million acres of lands w to be allotted to a few- railroad speculators at 11 e nil ts an acre, although worth nearly 435, and th is termed a robbery of the Indians by white freeboote Robert Bell, last Tuesday, helped himself t . t o French clock, worth $l5O, by simply walking i t to Mr. Sumner's house, and sending awaythe servnuivo the Senator with his card, when, of course , he il ex arrested, and the clock recovered. Cousrais sl 4 Delano is away in Ohio for ten days, repurt oo o with an eye to the Senatorship. General Sh"laslo talks of retiring to St. Louis, as he will be Is ° , be to live in Washington with his family if his IV' ii ios reduced, as threatened, to $12,000. The aga Pacific Railroad is menaced with a Receiver , l) (4' Howe proposing to hand it over to the tender 100 cies of such an official, 'unless the compatiY 10 0 half a million dollars in court as a security ties any jadgment it may award to S. W. Davis Oi or i) he fUrnished. The Senate amended the te rrl 4 ve laws of Wyoming, so as to rule the CheYa-ip' Court out —a most objectionable process of leestion, sure to foster abuses. Orders were gis cried the company to stop running if the Judge ° r oe out his threat and put in a receiver. The 5t0„1.1,3g0 Court adjourned last Saturday, and the J" ars now on their respective circuits. aete- BIRTHS. On the 18th inst at Buscot Park. Berke, the wif e -f Campbell, Es of a daughtr. IP tog,.o On the 19th ins q t.,. , the wife of J. R. Valsey, Esq., of Halstead, Essex, of a sou. MA RRI AGES. - P . " „,. to Ott the oth ult., at Sacramento, Andrew R. V e ''' Rebecca Watt, late of Engiand. Si / ,-, T. o c, On the 18th 'lust , . t Salem Chapel, Hitchin, 31--,oo' Franklin, of Stevenage, Harts, to Martha, second cl• of Mr James Ellard, 13 itohin. • DEATHS. 13' 311i ' l On the 18th inst., aged 70, William Robinson, son., Mill, Rochdale. No cards. . 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