The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-04 00:00:00

TH. ÜB. The annual dinner of this club took place yester day evening, at the Star and Garter, Richmond. Earl Russell presided, supported by the Duke of Argyll, Lord Airlie, Lord Amberley, Professor G. Smith, Mr. C. Fortescue, M.P., Lord Houghton, Ike., and among the members of the club present were—Mr. J.Barnes, Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. E. Beales, Professor Beesley, Mr. Candlish, M.P., Mr. Chect ham, M.P., Mr. Colvile, M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., Sir C. W. Dilke, M.P., Professor Fawcett, 11. P., Mr. Heyward, M.P., Mr. Il ibbert, M.P., Sir H. Iloare, M.P., Mr. llodgkinson, M.P., Mr. K. liugeasen, M.P., Mr. S. Morley, Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., Col. Sykes, M.P., Pro fessor Rogers, Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., Sir C. O'Loghlen, M.P., Mr. White, M.P. The loyal toasts were proposed with the accus tomed brevity, and received with the usual loyalty and warmth. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the toast of " The Memory of Richard Cobden." his lordship said— Upon hearing this toast some persons may be dis posed tcssay—Why should we meet here to-day to give praise to the name of Mr. Cobden ? Is there any one who doubts his great reputation, or who is disposed to dispute his eminent services, or who does not heartily respond to any praise that may be given to him ? (Hear.) To such a question Ishould answer, that it is not for the purpose of adding anything to the wreath of glory which surrounds the name of Cob den that I am here to propose that you should drink to his memory. We meet here rather for our own benefit— (hear, hear)—to strengthen our own feelings, to animate our own future endeavours. (Hear, hear.) And, gentlemen, it cannot be said that these are times in which it is unuseful to bring before the eyes of the public and of the country the career of a man who undoubtedly, if he had so chosen— with his great knowledge of the process of manufac turers and of the ways of business—might have made a large, and probably an enormous fortune, and who, instead of that, gave up all the exertions of his mind, at the sacrifice of his health, at the sacrifice of his time and of his comfort, to the welfare of his coun try. (Cheers.) I say, gentlemen, that these are not the times when such an example should be passed over in silence and neglect. (Hear, hear.) The facts of his career it is hardly necessary for me to go into. You know perfectly well that Cobden first set out on his mission in order to persuade the country to adopt a change in the corn laws, which in his opinion was likely to be attended with immense benefits to his country, with immense benefits to the district with which he was connected, and likewise with im mense benefit to the whole country, to the whole of Europe, and to the whole world. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, his exertions in this respect were not then fully appreciated. There were men, and men in the highest position as well as the lowest, who did not appreciate those efforts, and who thought that they must end in failure. (Hear.) But Mr. Cobden had that within him which is in all men who make great efforts that end in success—the persuasion, namely, that he is working for the benefit of the public, that what he proclaims is the truth, and that the truth must finally prevail. (Cheers.) Well, after the struggle of many years, Mr. Cobden suc ceeded. But it may be said, how was it that it should have been necessary to struggle for years in order to produce a result which had been shown by the philosophical writings of Adam Smith, 70 years before, to be consonant to the interests of society, and to be deducible almost by mathematical reason ing from the first principles of economical science? (Hear, hear.) It could hardly be said that so long a period was necessary to make the writings of Adam Smith fully known ; and, indeed, I must admit that so much effort on the part of Mr. Cobden in enforcing the doctrines of Adam Smith would not have been necessary if there had not been strong interests on the other side. (Hear, hear.) In deed, gentlemen, I am persuaded myself that if, when Newton's discoveries were given to the world, there had been an interest in favour of cycles and epicycles, the cause of cycles and epicycles would not have wanted defenders. (Hear, hear.) If a man could have said, " My income of £lO,OOO a year will be reduced to £2,000 if Newton's theory of attraction and system of the universe is believed," then, gentlemen, I believe that that system would not have been credited for 70 or 80 years, and that the world would have remained in blindness to it all that time. (Hear, hear, and a laugh.) But this was the difficulty with which Cobden had to deal, and he had the power—and a most remarkable power—of per suasive eloquence, which was the pledge of success to his efforts. (Hear, hear.) His eloquence was without any of the ornaments and metaphors that attract the fanciful; still less did it depend upon ma lice and invective, which often attract much more attention than any other form of speech ; but he had a gift of eloquence which made those who heard him feel that what he was the advocate of was the inte rest of England, and that if the course he recom mended were followed the interest of England would be advanced. (Hear, hear.) When the time came that these efforts were successful—and I have been told that it was not till the last years of his efforts that he found the working classes in general were persuaded by his speeches. When that time came the minister of the day, who was in a position of great power, most fairly and most freely gave Mr. Cobden the merit of that success.—(hear, hear)—and said that if those measures were likely to prosper and thrive for the future, it was to Mr. Cobden the glory was due—(hear, hear)—and that, notwithstanding the great talents and abilities of his coadjutors, and among them my friend Mr. Villiers—(cheers)—yet the movement would not have succeeded unless Mr. Cobden had been able by his efforts to make an impression on the country, and through the country, on the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) On another occasion Mr. Cobden exerted his talents before a very different audience, and with equal success. The Emperor of the French, greatly to his honour, and in spite of the prejudices of that na tion, which was strongly attached to the cause of protection, proposed to the British Government, to which I had then the honour to belong, to enter into a treaty of commerce. The Cabinet of Lord Pal merston at once agreed to that proposal, and they agreed at the same time that Mr. Cobden should be asked to undertake the mission. (Hear.) He re ceived his instructions from Mr. Gladstone. (Cheers.) I never myself presumed to interfere, but left the matter entirely to she judgment of those two eminent persons ; and in the result Mr. Cob den was as powerful in the Chamber of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for France as be ever was at any meeting of Manchester or Leeds. (Cheers.) The treaty was concluded ; and the results of those great efforts of Mr. Cobden are not to be measured by their immediate consequences. Just as the conse quences of an unnecessary war reach into wide circles, and bring an infinite train of misery and grief after them, so, on the other hand,. innumerable benefits have res u lt e d , and will continue to result, from the peac e f u l l a b ours of Mr n Cobden. If Mr. Cobden had removed the robbers and depredators between nations in some of the earliest periods of legendary narratio n h e wou ld have been treated as f a hero and worshipped as a demi-god, and temples would have been raised to hi s h onour. (Cheers.) If he had lived in the middle ages, and had taught men to address God in the language of prayer, he would then have been made a saint, and we should have had temples erected to the memory of Saint Richard. (Cheers.) In our days these forms of admiration are passed away, but we have in the public press a powerful instrum en t, w hi ch carries over .distant lands the reco r d o f everything that is thought,and hoped, and said h ere ; and b y that means the;iani e of Cobden will be known, not for a few years only, or in a restricted reg i on , b ut to all future ages, and among countless millions of men. (Cheers.) I ask of yon, therefore, to drink, in solemn silence. and with all the veneration that belongs to it, "To the memory of Richard Cobden." The toast was drunk in silence. The Duke of ARGYLL then proposed the toast of " The Fellow-workers with Cobden in the Free trade Movement," to which Mr. S. MORLEY re plied, and the toast of " The Progress of Liberal Opinion in the Universities" was proposed by Lord IioUGIITON, and responded to in an effective speech by Professor G OLDwIN SMITH. Mr. BAXTER having proposed the health of the chairman, Earl RT:c.'SELL, in reply, said--I will say a few TILE SUN. LONDON. THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1867. words in regard to the past and to the future. cause a labourer might be puzzled to calculate his respect to the past, having taken part in a Reform contract if the sovereign were reduced twopence in Bill with Lord Grey, Lord Althorp, Lord Brougham, value. Although "X" refers with some contempt and others, I will say that our vital points were to the convenience of travellers, the subject is of vital (hear, hear), our securities were really secure, much broader significance than he appears to ima and our opinions were not elastic (great laughter gine, not only affecting a large number, but affect and cheers). With regard to the future, we all ing them very materially. Like many improvements look, no doubt, to such men as Mr. Gladstone and eventually made in spite of bigoted opposition, the Mr. Bright to promote the great cause of Liberal advantages will be moreapparent if this changecomes progress, which is sure of fulfilment in the future, into operation, when the immediate inconveniencies however the working of the present Reform Bill are overcome. We must expect, at first, an outcry, may turn out. The first thing to be attended to is but we trust that the general and permanent good the great cause of education, because, however fit will not be sacrificed in the face of a few difficulties these persons may be to whom the House of Com- and the invariable obstacles which are thrown in the mons has given the suffrage, they cannot but be way even of the most beneficial measures.—Anglo made more fit if they receive such an education as American limes. the people of Scotland or the people of America re ceive. The first object of the reformed Parliament ' ought to be this, and I hope that it will throw aside the prejudices which I am sorry to say the Church still clings to, and that all persons will be educated in a sound secular education, independent of the sect or communion they may belong to (hear, hear). Another matter is that the people of Ireland should receive whatever remedy may be thought best for the grievances they complain of (cheers). The noble earl concluded by expressing his personal thanks for the toast. The company separated soon after 11 o'clock. The dinner was in every respect an admirable one, and gave the utmost satisfaction. Miscellaneous :Foreign News. The President has accepted the invitation of the city of Boston to participate in the ceremonies of dedicating a new Masonic Hall to be opened on the 24th June, and said to be the finest building of the kind in the country. The route to the capitol of Massachusetts will be through Philadelphia and New York. Mr. Johnson in these great cities, where party feeling runs so high, will be placed in more trying circumstances than in his late visit to his birthplace, Raleigh. But he has been so suc cessful in his late tour that his friends have a well founded hope that he will not be guilty of any ex travagant denunciations. The following is his letter accepting the invitation, tendered to him through the Mayor of Boston :—" Executive Mansion, Wash ington, D.C., June 11, 1867.—Sir,—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 7th, tendering to me, in accordance with the vote of the council, the hospitalities of the city of Boston daring my contemplated visit. I intend being present at the dedication of the new Masonic Temple in your city on the 24th inst., and during my short stay in Boston I will feel honoured to accept the hospitalities of your city, receiving them with a reciprocation of the friendship and courtesy which prompted the council in their offer.—With great respect, very truly yours, ANDREW JOHNSON. —To his Honour Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston, Mass." The Monetary Convention A letter appeared recently in the Times on the Monetary Conference, with which the writer has strangely coupled Australian coins. "X" considers the superiority of the monetary system of England to lie in the fact that the unit of value is not the sovereign, but the pound sterling. He defines the pound sterling as containing the invariable quantity of 113.001 grains of pure gold. As pure gold re quires alloy before it can be converted into coin for practical purposes the sovereign contains 123.274 grains of standard gold, and the sovereign so formed is legal tender as a pound sterling. When such coins are deprived of more than it of a grain of their original weight they cease to be legal tender. With the thorough narrow-mindedness of a genuine JOHN BULL, "X" maintains the superiority of this unit of value, and can see no reason why it should be altered to bring it into harmony with any other currency. He quotes M. CHEVALIER, who has signified an adverse opinion in a letter to the Economiste Francais to the proposal that foreign coins should be altered so as to harmo nise with the French gold-piece, which has no merit over others, and ought to be abandoned by France in favour of one of a different size, instead of ask ing other countries to accept it into their system. ' The writer does not give M. CHEVALIER'S reason for condemning the gold coin of France, if he has done so ; but the reasons why the monetary con vention advise its general adoption are very clear. The currency of France is decimal, and therefore more easily calculated. The French system is that of 60,000,000 of people, and therefore the most general. The gold unit of France approximates nearly in value to the pound sterling of Great Bri tain and the eagle of America, and therefore neces sitates no violent change in the units of the two lat ter countries to bring all into harmony. Against this " X" contends that it is im politic in the highest dergree to admit the French system into the English, because the latter is built not on the basis of coins, but on that of the unvarying and invariable pound sterling, to which English coins throughout play only a subordinate part. Should any countries over-coin, or like Russia, the United States, or Italy lapse into paper money, the coins thus rendered excessive would be liable to be fused into the English, and so destroy the limitation by which English coins are kept up to parity with the pound sterling. The writer acknowledges that neither the Legislature nor the people seem to understand the difference between the pound sterling and the sovereign as the measure of value. Nor do we think that either the Legislature or the people will be much enlightened by the explanation given. The pound sterling represents so many grains of pure gold, the sovereign represents the same quantity, mixed with an alloy to give it a consistency and hardness which will enable it to be used practically as a coin. To all intents and purposes, the one is the equivalent of the other. If gold falls in value, the pound sterling and the sovereign are alike affected, and if England be deluged with the precious metal we cannot see how sovereigns and half sovereigns should gain or lose except in the exact ratio of the unit by which the bullion in the Bank of England is measured. On what principle can " X" separate so broadly gold in bars and gold in coin ? The only difference we can detect is that the former is buried out of sight, and the latter in the tills of British traders or carried in the pockets of her MAJESTY'S lieges. If there be a surplus beyond the requirements of the population it quickly finds its way to the vaults; and whether it lies there in bars or stamped for currency makes no differ ence. The idea suggested by " X" of the limitation being disturbed, by which our coins are kept up to parity with our sterling, has no meaning. We be lieve that it is not the people and Legislature of this country that are blundering in this matter, but the Mentor" X" There is force in the practical objec tion urged by " X" to the proposed change in the value of the sovereign. lie asks, " Are all the rela tions between debtor and creditor, all salaries and wages to be calculated anew, the arithmetic of life-long habit—the only arithmetic of the labour ing man—is that to go for nothing? Why, the number of these labouring men are millions, while the number of travellers in whose interests ' X' supposes the change is desired are hundreds." " X" partly furnishes an answer to his own ques tion. It often happens that the sovereign loses in weight by the friction of constant use, and a trades man takes care to protect himself when such a sovereign is presented in payment. The change in the value of the sovereign, which it is supposed the Conference will ask, is twopence, and we are at a loss to see how this change is to affect these millions of labouring men. The revelations of trade unions prove that the interest of these classes are pretty well looked after, and although it is not usual for labourers to deal in sovereigns, if any change occurs it is more likely that it will be made a handle for further extortion in their behalf than a source of loss to them. The relations between debtor and creditor would in no way be affected by such a change. The lion. JOAN SHERMAN, in his letter on which we commented last week, pointedly alluded to this subject, remember ing that the American currency would be affected to a far greater degree than English currency. Although he saw a difficulty in adjusting existing contracts with the new dollar, he regarded them as by no means insurmountable. We can easily adjust, he adds, the reduction with the public creditors in the payment or conversion of their securities, while private creditors might be authorised to recover on theold standard. Salaries and wages are simple mat ters of arrangement, fluctuating in the market as the demand rises or falls. The pound sterling is the mere unit by w hi c h the individual estimates hi s services, and although some small derangement might occur on the first introduction of the change, matters would soon, in this respect, regulate them selves. This would be still easier in the contracts to which "X " alludes, when he states that all the coins of England and France put together do not English amount to 300,000,0 00 of money, y m s • t h e e r rl sterling the obligation s expressed in the pound which arc held all the world over, and would 131 deranged or i nva d e d , or subverted, by thep ro change', in ust a moun t to many thousands of inilrio s n e s ( These contracts are matters of arithmetic involving an exchange o f co i n only to a limited extent, and are by no means so formidable when the payment of differences is arranged as the magnitude of the figures would lead people to suppose. A vast por tion of the exchanges, bargains, and contracts to which " X" alludes are with the nations now con ferring on the best means of assimilating their cur rency, and one of the main benefits to be derived from the proposed change is that it will simplify these transactions. America is the country with which Great Britain will transact most business. The system of exchange is a barbarous absurdity. Yet " X" would perpetuate this state of things In. We are informed through the Cable (New York, Evening, June 27) that the President had been cordially received in Bcston, and, as en route is adied, he must have been well received both at Philadelphia and New York, the arrangements being that he passed through these cities. lie i s sail to have made a few brief conciliatory speeches. The City of New York and the Nebraska reached New York on the 21st inst., and the Canadian mail steamer Austrian was at Quebec on the 18th inst. The City of Boston and the North German Lloyd steamship New York arrived at New York on Sun day, the 23rd inst. On the 24th inst. the steamer Hanzmonia from Southampton, the Caledonia from Glasgow, and the Fulton from Falmouth, arrived at New York. By an error in our last issue the Fulton was substituted for the Arago, as having arrived at Falmouth at daylight on the 21st June. On the 25th the St. David, Nestorian, and Den mark reached New York, and the Russia and the William Penn on the 25th instant. Last Saturday the Virginia arrived at Queens town with $300,000, and the Borussia at South ampton with 91 passengers and $192,000. On Sunday the flecla reached Queenstown with 121 passengers ; on Monday the City of Paris ar rived at Queenstown with 153 passengers and $913,387 ; and on the same day the extra steamer of the same line Edinburgh. The Deutschland on the same day reached Southampton with 203 passengers and $141,285, having left New York on the 13th instant. On Tuesday, at midnight, the Allemania reached Southampton, having left New York on the 15th instant with 203 passengers and $181,500. The St. Laurent reached Brest on Wednesday, having also left New York on the 15th instant, with 240 passengers and 1,100,000 francs in specie. The Minnesota, which had also left New York 15th June, arrived at Queenstown on Wednesday morn ing, with 60 cabin and 50 steerage passengers. The Helvetia arrived at Queenstown on Thursday, and the Cuba reached the same port at 10 p.m. on that day, having left New York on the 18th instant, with 173 cabin passengers and $175,317. The Baltic passed the Needles at 4.35 a.m. yesterday. The news from Mexico is to the effect that General Santa Anna has been captured by the Liberals at Sisal. Campeche was taken on the Ist June by the Republicans. Maximilian's plea, de nying the jurisdiction of the Court to try him, appears to have stopped the proceedings, and if the despatch from Paris of last Sunday evening be true, the American Legation in Vienna had been in formed by Mr. Seward that Maximilian, having been sentenced to exile, had left for Europe, and will land in England. That he had been pardoned and banished received some confirmation from a message from New York, dated six p.m., June 26, and repeated on the 27th. General Steedman had been offered but declined a mission to Mexico. The only further intelligence by the Cuba is that the Louisiana Republican Convention had adjourned, after passing resolutions favouring political equality irrespective of colour, and the disfranchisement of rebels. Jefferson Davis took occasion, on being seren aded during his recent visit to Niagara, to make the following speech :—" Gentlemen, I thank you sin cerely for the honour you have this evening shown to me ; it shows that true British manhood to which misfortune is always attractive. May peace and prosperity be for ever the blessing of Canada, for she has been the asylum for many of my friends, as she is now an asylum to myself. I hope that Canada may for ever remain a part of the British Empire, and may God bless you all, and the British flag never cease to wave over you." The opinion of the United States Attorney- General Stanberry has at last been published, and President Johnson has ordered the enforcement of the Reconstruction Act, as interpreted by him. Mr. Stanberry states that the Southern Military District Commanders have no right, under the Re construction Act, to remove civil officers, executive or judicial, or appoint their successors. lie says— " Commanders have no right to establish military courts to try civil cases. This is contrary to the Civil Rights Bill, which is still in force. Civil officers can only be temporarily suspended iu a case of riot. The military power in the South should act as a police force to preserve order and enforce existing laws when neglected by local officials ; but commanders have no right to declare a new code of laws, as this assumption of such powers would place them on an equality with Congress." Attor ney-General Stanberry then proceeds to repeat his former opinion as to the extent of disfranchisement, declaring that substantially the Reconstruction Act only disfranchises those rebels who held national or State, or military, executive, or judicial office, having taken the oath to support the Constitution of the United States. There appears to be the greatest difficulty in empannelling a jury for the trial of Surratt. All who have expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of Mrs. Surratt, who was executed as a conspirator, are considered ineligible to sit as jurors. This plea has been allowed by the Government counsel, and all have availed themselves of it who wish to escape a disagreeable duty. Surratt was arraigned in the Washington Criminal Court on the 10th June, and though a week had passed three jurors only had been obtained. Out of the 26 talesmen summoned when the first panel of jurors was thrown out, the three who stood the final test were sworn in, William B. Todd, Robert Ball, and J. Russell Barr. Calculating on so small a per centage, Marshal Gooding was ordered to bring into Court on Saturday, the 15th, a hundred more talesmea, from whom it appears the panel was fille and the jury sworn in. One witness deposed that he saw Surratt conversing with Booth at Ford's Theatre, at Washington, previous to the assassination of President Lincoln. ,Surratt suc cb e e s i .sn attendance f z ul e l y xh a a p uo p sft e t a l wd i e . t d n e sT to s eh se the ri a l C theos u d r e t f c likelya to c e to be o ibi m ies p ai e n l leoa t n h ugs e one, and the counsel for the prisoner appear confi dent that there is no evidence on which conviction could be obtained. The Greek Minister, A. R. Raugabe, was pre sented to Secretary .`;:eward on the 13th instant. M. Rangabe will soon have an interview with the President. This is the first Minister from Greece ever received at Washington. Mr. Bancroft sailed from New York, on Wed nesday, 15th June. He proceeds direct to Berlin, to assume the porfolio of an American Minister. Colonel Briscoe G. Baldwin, of Virginia, who recently attempted suicide, Is recove r i ng . ___ _ _ The Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky, is also recovering from his late illness. R. Bishop Buckley, of Buckley's Minstrel Troupe, died in Quincy, on the 6th Juno. General Hooker left Chicago on the 7th on his way to Europe. Madame C. D. Murat, a relative of the great Murat of France, is very ill with typhus fever. She is residing in Florida. John Morrissey is the purchaser of Barnunfs place at Bridgeport. Mr. O. W. Joslyn was, on June Gth, elected a member of the New York Stock Exchange Board. --- Mr. John Raymond, an American actor of cele brity, will take the part of Asa Trenchard in the " Ame rican Cousin," and appear on the Paris stage in conjunc tion with Mr. Sothern, in his famous rendering of Lord Dundreary. In the chess contest that has been going on at Philadelphia, Captain M'Kenzie, of New York, won all the prizes, and the championship of America. Dr. Mellor, Curator of the Botanic Gardens of the Mauritius, and formerly a member of the Livingstone Expedition, has arrived at Cape Town. He considered the intelligence respecting the death of Dr. Livingstone to be authentic. Bishop Eastburn has sailed for England, and Bishops Potter, Clarke, Hopkins, and Wilmer will soon follow, their loading object being to attend the grand council of Epispocal bishops to commence its sessions in Westminster Abbey on the 24th of September. The num ber of bishops invited is 148, and although the primary object of the convention is to adjust the relations of the home establishment to its colonial branches, all the inte rests of the Episcopal Church will come under considera tion, and the great ritualistic controversy will hardly be avoided. Professor Chas. U. Shepard of Amherst College, and a party of students consisting of Henry Carmichael of Brooklyn, N. Y., Galen B. Danforth of Amherst, Fre deric Seymour of Peekskill, N. Y., and Winthrop Smith of Philadelphia, Pa., were to sail from New York in the steamer City of Paris for Liverpool. Judge King, of Missouri, has been found guilty of all the charges preferred against him excepting one, and ho has been removed from office, and disqualified from holding any position of honour, trust, or profit for two years. Senator Double Collins, the originator of the project for laying the Russo -American telegraph line, has arrived at St. Petersburgh from New York to submit fresh proposals to the Government for carrying out the project. Colonel Swan, a member of General Scott's staff, is still living at Cununington, and is 92 years old. He was postmaster of the town for twelve years, having been im ported from Northampton to fill that office during a Demo cratic administration, as there was no Democrat in the place to take it. We hear that W. Bradford, the clever American artist, is again about to visit the rugged coast of Labrador, with a view to procure materials for pictures of accidents by ice and flood. He purposes on this occasion to take a party of ladies and gentlemen with him, and has engaged a fast and seaworthy steamer, which was to leave Now York on the 12th of June. Mr. Bradford has already in his studio a vast collection of studies made by him on the lonely northern shores, many of which are curious, for the fidelity with which ho has reproduced the forms of the rocks, boulders, and shingle characteristic of the Labrador coasts. He has lately made arrangements for a chromo-lithograph, on a large scale, from his picture " Crushed by Icebergs," now exhibiting at No. 5 Haymarket, London. , Mr. Geor ge Wilkes, editor of Wilkes' Spi r it, h as taken his p assage to Europe for the first week in July, and intends to be absent from New York about three months. Colonel Geo. ii. Butler, the Panama correspon dent of that newspaper, known under the signature of ' Rifle," will supply Mr. Wilkes' place during his absence. Mr. Asa Strong of Northampton, who has kept a table of the dates of the full blossoming of apple trees for the last thirty-five years, says that only in two years dur ing that time have they blossomed so late as this year -1837 and 1850. The steamers of the Merchants' (opposition) line from Hartford to New York are now running regularly, leaving each city daily at 3 o'clock p.m. The fare is one dollar. As far as known the Legislature that has just ad journed appropriated $2,901,982 besides the $3,000,000 to the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad, and $1,000,000 to the Williamsburg and North Adams road. Among the items of appropriation are $157,180 to the department of the constables of the state ; military department, $78,790; judicial courts, $133,100 ; emergency fund, $10,000; state almshouses, $205,250; bounty loan sinking fund, $131,380; (Ante hoopital s , $90,000. Bpeculators buy hay at St. Alb ans at $l4 bale it and sen d it t o B oston at an expense per ton, of where it is so ld f or $ lO . $ l O more, The following items are from the Springfield Re publican:—Grant stock is rising fast in the presidential market, and sagacious Democrats show a disposition to invest. The Boston Post intimates that it would be glad to see him placed at the head of the nation by the spon taneous uprising of the people, without regard to party machinery, and should he be the candidate of the Re publican party we should expect to see the patrio tic Democrats, such as the Post represents, sup porting him. The truly. reconstructed Southerners are prepared to vote for him, and the Democrats have no man they could run against . him with the slightest pros pect of success. Such is the present aspect of the Presi dential question, but the events of another year may essentially change it. figures up a In contemplating the national debt we are apt to Nero wring thatfi consider the figures given us from time to time by the Secretary of the Treasury as representing the 'whole of it, whereas every State and i every town , is bearing its own obligations must be $700,000,000 or o e b b l l t about $35 for every inhabitant.. If the State and town debts are proportionally !ergo in the other States, the t h e stun of about $3,300,000,000, or more than aggregate ta burden o faddition.theseo d $B. 0 000,000, making, with the $2,515,000,000 of national $lOO for each man, woman, and child, " without distinc tion of colour," in the Union. If a national debt is a debt proper, , blessing we have got a big one, and o no t h at is likely to remain with us for some time to come. Wendell Phillips, the indefatigable, sounds an other blast for confiscation as an act of j ust i ce to the freed men and of security to the nation. The r e b e l lion he talks about as so me thing still existing, and can see no way to suppress it but by taking the land of the South from the white men and giving it to the blacks. While the war was going onhe used to say "the rebellion is slavery ;" now that slavery is dead it seems the rebellion is land . T he claim of the negroes to the land Mr. Phillips a rgues from th e f act that they have c l eare d a nd cultivated it. But this principle has wider application than to the black labourers, and if all the property of this country should revert to those whose labour created it, Mr. Phillips and a groat many other gen tlemen would find their incomes inconveni ently reduced. Is he willi ng t o applythe principle to white men as well as black ? MAXIMS BY HORACE GREELEY.—A poor boy having w r itt en t o H orace Greeley, asking what he shall do to become rich, the philosopher of the Tribune gives the boy the following excellent maxims, as rounds of the lender to wealth :-1. Firmly resolve never to owe a debt. 2. Acquire promptly and thoroughly some useful calling. 3. Resolve not to be a rover; where you have stuck your stake stand by it. 4. Comprehend that there is work almost everywhere for him who can do it. 5. Realise that he who earns sixpence a day more than he spends must got rich, while he who spends sixpence a day more than he earns must become poor. There are to be some changes in the Western Union Telegraph Company's management, likely to Im- Nprove the administ ra ti on b oth in economy and popularity. Villiana Orton will be president, Hiram Sibley vice-pre sident, and George Walker the director for New England. Professor Agassiz enlightened the Legislative Committee on the Fisheries of Connecticut on Wednesday, the 12th instant, in regard to the habits and nature of the finny tribes, and Colonel Theodore Lyman, the Massa chusetts Commissioner, was also present, and stated that his State stood ready to construct fish-ways over the Holyoke and Tu rners Falls dams when Connecticut should do her part towards protecting them from bein destroyed by wholesale a t the river's mouth and elsewhereg within her borders. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Cens iimpt i on, an d a ll nervous, bilious, stomach and liver c omp l aints in every stage are only aggra va t e d and accelerated by drugs o f every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic.% Food, hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual con stipation,*tharrhcea, all gastric derange ments, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the ch es t , pains at the pit of th e stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few.—The P o p e ' s health restore d b y D u Rarry ' s Food. Cure No. 68 , 413 . —"R0me, July 21, 186 G.-The health of the Holy Fath er is excellent, especially since, abandoning all othei lemedies, ho has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalonta Arabia' Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his h ea l t h , and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi." July 25. Cure N o. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.— Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many yea rs , d ri p o p e i a .—No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, spasms, sickness and vomit ing.—Ma ri a J oly." Impor li ta a n tu t C le tl e rio' n.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.— In tins at Is. lid.; 11b., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., ills.; 12 lbs., '225.; 24 lbs., 40 s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly; and at Cl, Griteech nrch - street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 20, 04'prd-street 330, Strand • and gmerkand cilemiAte. ENGLISH 131310RALITY. The revelations regarding the Trades' Unions at Sheffield have furnished the whole press of England with a subject for indignant comment, which all the newspapers, from the Times downwards, have seized. The power these organisations had attained loomed threateningly in the future, and the classes in whose interest the majority of newspapers are written in England have eagerly availed themselves of the opportunity afforded to crush them. If the unions of Sheffield represent in any way the prin ciples on which the others act, it is not too much to say that these combinations are mere conspiracies against property and the independence of the work ing men. The direction the inquiry is taking re veals a wide area of guilt. Other unions than the saw-grinders are proved to have adopted the same means to gain their ends as BROADHEAD. As yet the stigma is confined to Sheffield, but six secre taries are shown to have been accessories to the crimes before or after their perpetration, and all in volve their different unions more or less. The com mittees allowed the funds to be abstracted for car rying out the work, either openly permitting the appropriations, or wilfully shutting their eyes. First, we have the general complicity in these secret crimes ; next comes the hypocrisy and hateful sys tem of lying the better to avert from themselves dis covery and popular indignation. The saw-handle makers assembled in indignation meeting, when BARKER characterised the act for which he had just paid the blood-money, as " fiendish, devilish, and abominable." Mr. SKIDMORE, who, in consultation with BROAD HEAD, had asked what the expense would be, the " job" being accomplished, and at once deposited his share, presiding at a council of the sawmakers, moved " That thissociety views with feelings of indig nation and abhorrence the foul and dastardly outrage committed in New Hereford-street." Mr. SMITII was the secretary of that union, and there fore entered the foregoing resolution in the minute book, although well aware that the " dastardly outrage" had been paid for by BROADHEAD, SKID MORE (the mover of the resolution), and BARKER, and himself suggested that the money should be taken from funds owed to the sawmakers by the saw-handle makers ! We would like to know what England is coming to. We had thought that the revelations of lying and deceit of Joint-Stock Companies could not, at least in this island, have been surpassed, that the commercial immorality of the country was the great cancer that had to be cut out ere it eat from the king dom all truth and honour. But we learn with dis may that no class appears to be exempt from the contagious deceit which has leavened, and is leaven ing, the nation, and will yet make the name of England a by-word. Within the last year and a half we have seen the break-down of a system erected and maintained by cooked accounts and false statements. We have seen companies national in their importance, and conducted by men of the highest commercial position, involve hundreds of families in total ruin by deliberate acts of fraud, not only in one, but in many in stances. From the highest we can trace down to the most palty undertaking the same hideous swindling, the same cooked accounts, the same lying statements, with a monotony of uniformity till people have learned to doubt the truth of any report, and consequently the soundness of any in dustrial institution of the country. Confidence appears to be totally destroyed. Men fear to in vest in anything ; and while compelled to leave large balances idle in their bankers' hands, they rise in the morning trembling at the idea that even the trusted Banks may have vanished into the cate gory of insolvent concerns. The general belief ap pears to be that economy and laying up a provi sion is a mistake, and that those who do only sup ply the means to some bloated scoundrel to keep uP an expensive establishment, driving with pow der-headed footmen, or of yachting, with all the paraphernalia of a well-equipped craft. The law appears to be a dead letter. Directors may deceive, put forth false accounta, and lie with impunity. BROADHEADS may conspire against the lives and limbs of their fellow workmen and the property of employers, with no greater punish ment than the execration of mankind. People are told they must take care of themselves, and they endeavour to do so by withdrawing confidence from every description of undertaking, and suffering a large portion of the property of England to fall into hopeless insolvency. The smallest symptoms of revival are crushed by fresh disclosures ; and each successive struggle upwards has been stamped down by another exposure of folly, reckless mismanage- ' ment, and untruth. Profound peace—fine weather—the prospect of a splendid harvest—vast accumulation of the precious metals, and a remarkably low rate of interest—are powerless to revive enterprise and restore confi dence. People now have only one belief, and that is in the duplicity and dishonesty of their fellow men. There was a time when England proudly boasted that the word of her great merchants was as good as their bond, when contracts were entered into in good faith and carried out in their letter anti spirit—be they gain or be they loss ; but it would appear now that the bonds of their descendants are as worthless as their words, and that these con tracts are but snares for the unwary. What can be said of such a Company as the Imperial Mercan tile Association ? directed by a strong body of the magnates of the City, which, within a few months after declaring a dividend at the rate of 20 per cent., collapsed —not only with the loss of all the capital called, but necessitating the levying on the shareholders of a sum several times that amount. Let any man read the speeches delivered by Mr. JoHN HACKBLOCK, Chairman of the highly respectable direction of the London Financial Association, at their successive half -yearly meetings, and let him glance at the position of that Company now, and learn what faith is to be placed in men whom the City considers among its best representatives. We have had some shocking expose's involving all classes connected with commercial affairs, and we seem now to be descending in the scale, unearthing con spiracies of trades' unions, and bringing to light the frightful wickedness and duplicity of the organisa tions formed by the working men for the protec tion of their industry. It appears to matter little to what class the combination belongs, whether it is employed by capital to extract profit from the development of industrial resources, or by the labourers to protect their interests and regulate their work. The result seems to tend but in one direction —the power to fall into the hands of the most unscrupulous and dishonest, and the whole to be tainted with the same corruption and deceit. The country appears to be helpless under its misfortunes. The few feeble attempts of Defence Committees are met by the Times by the advocacy of a petition to her MAJESTY to liberate from gaol the only convicted felon of the dishonest gang. If this be a true reflex of the opinion of the country, then indeed morality of we may despair f or the commercial England. Nor for its commercial morality alone; for what is this commercial morality but the good faith, honesty, and truth of the whole country. A man who cheats in his weights and measures will avail himself of any safe opportunity to swindle. His religion is hypocrisy, and all his seeming respectability a delusion and a snare. They who cook accounts, and speak at meetings up to their fraudulent balance-sheets, will not hesi tate when the chance presents itself to gain at any one's expense, and when their careers are inquired into they will be found to be as untruthful in their private relations as in their public proceed ings. It may be that au epidemic has seized on the people, and that extravagant living has culminated in fixing such a stigma on the national character. But there is at least one hope of redemption. Pub licity is unsparingly given to the worst crimes, and dishonest men are learning the bitter lesson that there is no ultimate gain in this immorality, and that however numerous may be the individual ex ceptions, the truth of the old proverb has been abundantly illustrated, that " Honesty is the best policy." —Anglo-American Times. A meeting of the Schools' Inquiry Commission was held yesrerday at 2, Victoria -street. Present : Lord Taunton (the chairman), Lord Lyttelton, Rev. Dr. Temple, Mr. Acland, 31. P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. Forster, ALP., and Dr. Storrar. Mr. Roby, tho secretary, attended the meeting. MAXIMILIAN. The following brief account of Maximilian is of peculiar interest under the circumstances of that distinguished scion of the Austrian family : " Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Archduke of Austria, and sometime Emperor of Mexico, was born at Schonbrunn on the 6th of July, 1832. His father was Francis Charles Joseph, Archduke of Austria, and his mother Sophie Dorothea, daughter of Maximilian 1., King of Bavaria. Upon the ab dication of Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, the archduke renounced his claim to the succession in favour of his eldest son, the present Emperor, the brother of the subject of this sketch. The abdi cating Emperor, in giving up his throne, unequally divided his power, and gave an advantage to the Archduke Maximilian, to the detriment of his elder brother. Such was the origin of the constant and at times very warm differences which arose between the two. "Maximilian received his education at Vienna. At an early age he entered the navy of the empire, and saw considerable service at sea, sailing about the Mediterranean, and visited all the adjacent countries—Greece, Italy, Morocco, French Algeria, Spain, and Portugal. At the age of twenty-two he was placed at the head of what is termed by cour tesy the Austrian marine, and with a squadron visited the coasts of Syria and Palestine. He went also to the Red Sea and took great interest in the works of the Suez Canal, which were then just be ginning. In 1856 he paid a visit to Paris, and spent a fortnight at St. Cloud with Louis Napo leon. The year following he was appointed Vice roy of Lombardy and Venice, and in the exercise of the powers attached to the position soon made himself quite a favourite among the Italians. This popularity was, however, displeasing to Francis Joseph, and in 1859 he was removed. " Maximilian remained idle after his removal from the governorship of the Lombardo-Venetian king dom until 1863, when Napoleon decided upon mak ing a catspaw of him in Mexico. The crown of Mexico was offered to him by Napoleon in August, 1863, and the diplomats were put to work to arrange for his acceptance and occupancy of the throne. Nearly a year was occupied in this work, and it was not until the 10th of April, 1864, that he formally accepted the proffered crown. By the terms of the acceptance he made a conditional renunciation of the right of eventual succession to the throne of Austria and an unconditional renunciation of his share of the family estates, amounting to 20,000,000 of florins. The condition reserved in the renuncia tion of the right to the succession was that such renunciation might be revoked, should Maximilian, finding his foothold in Mexico insecure, choose to resign within six years from the date of his accept ance of the crown of Mexico." His first official act was to offer terms to Juarez, looking to his submission. On their rejection the past years of war and bloodshed followed, which has ended in the triumph of the Liberals and the defeat of the Imperialists. His efforts to attract emigra tion and to develope the resources of the coun try are well known, as are also his personal sacrifices for the success of his cause. That he failed was only a natural and expected result, and the impolicy is now apparent of his famous order declaring the Republican President and his supporters bandits and outlaws. In the last struggle Maximilian acted with so conspicuous a bravery and self-denial as to obtain the warm ad miration of all his companions in arms. Although hard pressed at Queretaro, Maximilian's cause was by no means desperate until his trusted officer Lopez betrayed the key of the position he held. For this Lopez received a bribe of $48,000. Juarez, it is said, was always prepared for a flight from Mexico, and he had dispatched his wife to Washington with silver plate to the value of SIOO,OOO. 'The United States Government have energetically interfered in behalf of the Austrian Prince, • and Lewis D. Campbell, U. S. Minister to Mexico, has been di rected to proceed at once from New Orleans to San Luis Potosi, the head-quarters of the Juarez Go vernment, and there present his credentials. Re has been further directed to do everything possible to prevent the murder of Maximilian. That he has a strong under current of support in Mexico may be gathered from the report that a portion of Diaz's command had mutinied and pronounced in his favour, 87 of the mutineers being captured and immediately shot. The accounts now agree in considering that Juarez will not dare to carry into execution his threatof executing the late Emperor. Natchitoches. What SHERIDAN'S action in th matter will be, remains to be seen ; but, howev( vigorously he may suppress this return to the goo old days, he cannot but be thankful to judg JONES and the other relatives of the ejectei Governor, for furnishing him with an inciden that shows the necessity of a strong and firs ruling arm to suppress the barbarism of the region he has been placed, to govern. Such cases open, audacious wickedness—such utter detianc of law on the part of a high legal functionary--s glaring an outrage on public opinion, will now c never be suppressed. The North rules ; and 0 the North will, therefore, rest the responsl bility of " stamping out" this contempt of hums life—this total disregard of the means adopted eve to attain the most paltry ends. if the thre nephews are hanged on one gallows a salutar, check will be administered to " Shooting 0 sight." Give a bully the certainty of beic; executed for the first crime of this nature of whit he is found guilty, and the soothing influence 0 his irritable nature will become apparent. Wit the prospect of the gallows in view violent me learn to control their passions. Quiet, inoffensive and industrious citizens will then enjoy the fruit of their labour freed from the weight of this inse curity—the worst style of despotism. If STAuFFE is buried out of sight, and R. B. JONES takes 111 place on the judgment-seat, then farewell to civili sation in the far South. The North will hair' fought in vain, and the last state of Louisiana yid be worse than the first.—Anglo-American Times. "SHOOTING ON SIGHT." The late American papers give accounts of two remarkable murders. The actors in each held high official posts in the United States, and the victims in both instances were gentlemen. The Albany tradegy appears to have been more an act of homi cide, perpetrated by a man labouring under the mental derangement caused by a great alleged wrong to his honour. With resiiect to this case we give in our columns an article as able as it is sensible, though premature, front the Nation. We say premature, because such an ar ti c l e appear i ng i n r perhaps ature, so influential a paper cannot but have a preju dicial effect on the prisoner. It is true that the facts are as clear as noon-day, so far as the murder is concerned. General COLE has to justify his con duct, and it is against this justification that the Nation writes. But let us turn from the Albany affair, which has excited such universal horror throughout the North, to the little occurrence at Natchitoches, and we find the difference between the civilisation of the North and the civilisation of the South made manifest. Mr. WELLS, the Go vernor of Louisiana, had three nephews named J O NES. Mr. WELLS' first care in life was to take care of himself. That object accomplished, as General SIIERIDAN declares, " by any underhand means," his next object was to take care of those allied to him. Anything in the way of a snug berth he could control he bestowed not to meet the necessity of the State, but of the individual. One of these nephews he appointed to a judgeship of the Supreme Court of the State, and the happy nature of the selection Judge R. B. JONES took the opportunity of showing, when his accommodating uncle was in the grasp of that determined soldier, SHERIDAN, by an act which will go far to justify with the nation, the high handed proceedings of the military dictator. Of the other JONESES, one was a doctor and the third a lawyer, who entered into partnership with a Mr. C. W. STAUFFER. A quarrel appears to have arisen between the partners, which was intensified by Mr. STAUFFER becoming the popular candidate for the State Convention. It is clear that Southern prin ciples ruled at Natchitoches, as was natural in Louisiana. A popular election was all very well, so long as it went the right way, but it was a thing to be resisted and suppressed by the force of arms if the people presumed to elect a candidate hostile to the ruling class. The JONESES were the ruling class at Natchitoches, and STAUFFER had the auda city to set himself in opposition to this principle of Southern action. The course to be pursued by the JONESES under such circumstances was too clear to need much reflection. Precedents in hundreds were before them, together with the great prece dent of all, the Southern Rebellion. STAUFFER was informed that he should leave the place, or be shot on sight. On the 3d of June, after receiving this intimation, Mr. STAUFFER hurried to a justice, intending to have the JONESES bound over to keep the peace. Ile was not, however, fated to elude the vigilance of the Go vernor's nephews. The highest functionary of the law in Natchitoches, with his brother, the doctor, were on the war-path, and they attacked the unfor tunate man in the terms of the notification, shoot ing at him on sight. Two to one were long odds, but even that did not satisfy the chivalry of the JONESES. While the unequal conflict was proceed ing, the partner, JOHN JONES, came up with a double-barrelled shot gun, and killed STAUFFER on the spot. Having accomplished this feat the murderer rode round to the wife of his victim, called her to the door, and coolly informed her he had killed her husband. Bat the end of the story had not yet come, for the sheriff attempted to arrest the gang, when he was resisted, and wounded in the head, his assistant receiving an injury in the arm. The murderer made good his way out of the town, and the JONESES for the time were triumphant in Births. BALI T ORD—On the 27th ult., at 27, Crosvenor-squarel tbd lion. Mrs. Halford, of a son. MANNING—Ou the 2d inst., at Campden-hill, Kensing t°P' the wife of George C. Manning, of a daughter. RussELL—Ou the 2d inst., at 28, Montague-place, Rus s ;0 , square, the wife of Mr. Charles Russell, barrister' law, of a son. Marriages. MACONCHY -MIDDLETON—On the 2d inst., at St. Church, Torquay, George Macon c hy, Esq., of Ra,thre°,,-to county Longford, to Janet Hamilt on , wiow of the Win. Middleton, Esq., Major 7th Dragoon Guards, daughter of the late Cohn Campbell, Esq of Colgi 3 Dumbartonshire. THOMAS—NUTTER—On the 31 inst. at Clapton 0 " ° o , Charles James, seco n d son of John Thomas, Esq . ' Ir Stafford lIous( ' Hackney, and Bishopwrate-street NY t ori out, to Mary Matilda, only daughter o f John \V. I s ' - ' l ` , Esq., of Amhurst-road, Ilackney. Deaths. GUNDRY —On the 2d inst., at Bridport, Dorsetsbire, Gundry, Esq., a ma g i s t ra t e f sr th e coun t y, age d 7 6 ; 0 , RANGER—On the Ist inst., at 3, Clarence-terrace , bridge-wells, Ri c h ar d C. S. Ranger, Esq., aged 5 7 . , 0 0. SAVILL —On the Ist inst., at Chigwell-row, Essex, Mary Savill, aged 90. SLATER—On the 2d inst., at th e Sp arrow ' s Nest, Wh ittel;' near Ipswich, Henry Slater, Esq. port' VADE—On the Ist inst. ? at 4, Lower Berkeley-street , - man-square, John Knox Vade, Esq., M.D. , Tt r T London Printed a n d P u bli s h e d b y WILLIAM Alsiv- - sVi of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Olflee, Strand, in the Precinct of tho Savoy, in the Count)' MiddleileX.—Thursday, July 4,1867. Fiench Invasion of Ireland. -4-- The bishop and his friends had drawn clog round the claret ; the pleasant after-glow of summer evening was gleaming on the ruby of th wine ; the Atlantic decanting into the bay Ws crimson as a bowl of Burgundy ; when sudden ] , the door flew open, and a terrified messenger in formed the bishop that the French had come, an' that 300 of them were within a mile of the tool General Humbert (Hoche's second in command a Bantry Bay in 1796) had, indeed, disembarked wit ] 1,090 men. The carbineer officers instantly leaps' on their horses and dashed off to carry the news t" Ballina. Lieutenant Sills resolved to fight, an' mustered his 50 yeomen and fencibles at the castle gate. The men then marched into the main street which stands at right angles to the castle, and pre pared to meet the French advanced guard, whici came on in a da"k mass of blue and scarlet and sou sallow faces, the drums beating sharp, fierce, as' quick. In a moment two yeomen were struck dead and the rest fled, leaving Captain Kirkwood aloe to stand 50 shots before he was taken. Lieutenas Sills, retreating into the castle, was soon aft e obliged to surrender to General Humbert, who ses him away the next day to the ships to be taken t l France, because he was an Englishman. Nineteel of the yeomen were also secured by the French, 5 01 closely imprisoned in the bishop's drawing-1) 00 One of the bishop's guests, the Rev. Dr. Thorns Ellison, of Castlebar, having formerly been 31 officer, could not resist the sound of the drum, al l ' at the approach of the French shouldered a musks and joined the yeomen. He stood fire well, siva wounded by a spent bail, and was one of the las to retreat into the castle. The worthy bishop re tired into his garden to collect his mind while th firing went on, and succeeded in the attempt by th l time the French general and staff of 70 officer arrived in the castle yard and demanded to s e Monsieur l'Eveque. The French soldiers wed. except the grenadiers, generally short men ; clothes were shabby, their faces pale and sallow wry the recent voyage and the fatigues of the campaign of Italy and the Rhine. At the siege of Alent 2 the winter before, many of them had suffered grey privations. It is only necessary to say they ive r French soldiers to be sure that they were temps rate, intelligent, self-reliant, patient, and full ° ardent courage. They bad started 18 days hag from Rochelle, and had tried unsuccessfully to 1 0( in Donegal, where a succeeding expedition afte r wards failed to get footing. —Dickens's All the Pa l Round. COUNTRY MARKETS. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. The attendance was short, but better than last wee ! The supply of wh ea t s h own was l i mited, and the lit' business done was at previous prices. Grinding harlel was also slow at late quotations. Flour as of late. OP, beans, end peas were likewise moderately dealt in, but 1 : 1° ' quotably cheaper. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised fr° 58s to 70s ; barley, 31s t o 37s ; oat s , 26 s t o 33 s ; b ean s, 46 to 565; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Tares, from 5s 61 1 7s 6d per bushel ; B es t b rea d , 16d ; household ditto, 1 ° per 81b loaf. Flour, 4Gs to 50s per sack. • HULL-T UESDAY. At our market to-d a y th ere was a moderate suppl 0 ~, English wheat, and, th ere b e i ng a goo d attendance, sr,' pies sold freely at the full prices of last week ; forog; was only bought in ret a il t o meet present requireme nt , Oats in moderate show, and very little business was de n t Grinding barley very scarce. English beans in req ob and wore disposed of at recent rates. English white wheat, 62s to 725; red, 52s to 60s; sic and Konigsberg, 61s to 72s ; Baltic red, 62s to Gu'; Danish and Hamburg, 62 s t o 64 s ; R uss i an, 57 s to ~ Barley, English, 36s to 49s ; grinding, Mediterran€' 3l 34s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 268 to 28s ; Russil 26s to 275. Beans, old Engli s h, 58 s t o 60 s; f ore ign, 4 4 ., to 445. Peas, English blue, 42 4 to 44 s Od ; f ore i gn 44s to 455; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. LYNN—TUESDAY. Our market to-day was thinly supplied with whe 6 „ l l and the attendance was limit e d. Th e d eman d wasl l ) active, but late values were fully maintained for all frlt 6 qualities. Beans and oats brought about last We e ' money tel New wheat, 68s to 72 8; new re d , 62 s t o 66 s ; old iv.ling —s to —s ; old red, — s to —s per 36 stone. Barley malting, 47s to 51s; secondary, 42s to 455. Oats, Dens' 24s to 26s per 21 s t one . B eans, 43s to 48s. re' • 37s to 41s per 28 stone. BRISTOL—TUESDAY. To-day at our market there was a very good atteli a t : ante. Wheat was firm, at about the f ormer p r i ces . 33 ley was scarce, and is per quarter dearer. Oats and otlie articles unchanged. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. tle s A moderate quantity o f h ome - grown wheat con tin to be offered for sale at th e l oca l markets, and there 0 0 animation whatev er ev i nce d i n business, buyers being S i unwilling to ente r i n t o l arge transactions. Foreign B°„d, in limited supply an d d emand, prices remaining unaltevos, Barley was scarce, but at late terms. Oats remain fir Beans unchanged. The following are the averase quotations:—Wheat, r e o 3 ; 7s 3d to 7s 6d per b ushel ; white, 7s 6d to 8s 3d ; infer 6s Nd to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 42s to 44s per qr ; grl7o ing ditto, 34s to 36 s Od; beans, 43s to 45s ; white oats, to 29s 6d ; black ditto, 20s 6d to 27s Od. 61 (ADVERTISEMENT. Holloway's Pills a r e the 0 10 te i gentle yot most effectiv e a p er i en t s, an d t h ere f ore bet a calculated for a family medi c i ne th an any other d, r ,r They always set the st omac h r i g ht , rouse th e li ver , stiff ,--„,„. late the kidney s , a n d th oroug hl y c l eanse t h e w h o l e sYs' ol Holloway's pills aro most useful in chronic we akness, o the stomach, indu ce d b y l uxur i ous living, sedentary 1,3P,1t0 or other causes. Th ey h ave restored the emaciate health after every other means have failed. While are purifying they are strengthening; while regulati they are increasing n ervous and muscular power. Oeee ee pills do not excite an y v i o l ent action of the body, L®p they are specially suited to the young and feeble, W constitutions may be irretriev a bl y i n j ured b y more pc)" ful medicines.