The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-30 00:00:00

THE COST OF THE COLONIES. A comparative return of the sums paid out of the British Exchequer for the maintenance and Govern ment of the various colonies . is not encouraging to the taxpayer. There is an almost uniform increase. Canada, for instance, required a charge of £937,905 in 1867-8, whereas in 1858-9 the sum paid on behalf of this possession was only £203,649. The cost of Gibraltar has advanced during the same period from £286,402 to £420,405; :Ya lta from £280,705 to £414,704; Hong Kong from £184,202 to £216,896 ; Nova Scotia. front £127,643 to £303,421. The Cape of Good Hope has decreased in burden from £527,750 to £377,324 ; and the W€ st Indies have declined from £214,928 to £155,930. The expense of New Zealand fluctuates remarliab.y. In 1859-00 it was as low as £88,173 ; but in the three years when the war against the Maories was most severe the totals rose to £935,246, £1,216,347 and £1,031,068 respectively. In 1867-8 the cost had diminished to £173,255. Altogether the net expense upon the colonies has progressed from £2,921,751 in 1858-9, to £3,969,426 in 1867-8. In some of the intermediate years, how ever, it was higher : and further returns may be ex pected to mark a decline of outlay in this direction. THE COST OF POLITICAL FRIENDSHIP• Anglo-Colonus writes to the Pall Mall Gazette on this increase of colonial expenditure. He observes that why our • great dominion in South Africa Is termed a " military or maritime station " only, he cannot tell. However, taking the catalogue as officially published, he says the figures shew that this class of possessions cost us—in 1867-68, £1,778,302,' in 1859-60, £1,655,199, making a slight increase due chiefly to Malta, Gibraltar, and Bermuda, which are garrisons and not colonies. The writer, by a process of classification of "self-governed North America, self-governed Australia, New Zealand, and miscellaneous," shews that, the total increasa of cost being one million,the extra surnof29oo,ooo is expended on our North American possessions. In other words : he says, almost the whole of the increase in what is called our colonial expenditure is simply at tributable to our politi ca l relations with the United States. LOPD GRANVILLE S NEW ZEALAND POLICY. The Hon. Grantley Berkeley writes to the Standard in reference to Lord Granville's despatch as to New Zealand. In the first place he expresses an opinion that under the Gladstone Government no lover of his country ought to remain silent when the dan gerous schemes that are invented to keep the present Ministry in power, are undermining the stability Of the kingdom. He contends that if his lordship's advice that large concessions are unavoidable to appease a prevailing discontent with which the colony is otherwise unable to cope, is pur sued, the savages will receive them not in a spirit o thankful amity, but as the coward admissions of a beaten adversary. If, he says, the spirit, or rather the no spirit, of Lord Granville's despatch is carried out, then let the deserted colonists in New Zealand, if they must stay there, entrench themselves to defend the lives of their wives and children, and give up all further hope of gain through cultivation. THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY. . The Dean of Durham, in a letter to the Times, demurs to the suggestion contained in Lord Russell's letter on the religious difficulty in the Educa tion Bill, that there shall be no religious teaching whatever in any rate-paid schools. To alow that there shall be no teaching whatever of the Bible in the day school, the Dean says, is to concede the very point for which all the advocates of religious education, both in and out of Parliament, have always contended. Mr. Gladstone, he observes, will, there is little doubt, adhere to his suggestion of a " conscience time table " at the beginning of the day. Let half an hour, therefore, be devoted to this purpose, at which the children of Dissenters will, he is convinced, attend almost as much as others, and let formularies be relegated to the Sunday school. We shall then have an education of which no reasonable person can ckmplain, and shall be saved from the national danger and the bitter contests which would be the result of an attempt to force a secular system, whether in name or reality, upon the country.. THE BANKRUPTCY LAW. • Mr. Justice Willes approves of the stringent punishment • provided in the New Bankruptcy Act for cases of • fraudulent bankruptcy. At the Liver pool Assizes two prisoners were indicted under the Bmkruptcy Act, 1861, for concealment of several hundreds of pounds' worth of property at the time of their bankruptcy; arid a third pri soner was indicted under the Bth sec. 24, 25 Vic., for aiding and abetting. They were all found guilty, and • Mr; Justice Willes, in passing sentence, ex pressed a regret that the offences had been com mitted while the Bankruptcy Act of 1861 was in force, as it limited his power of sentencing the pri soners to a punishment adequate to their guilt. As it was, he could award them "only " twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. ; but had the new law reached their case, the infliction would have been much more severe: If twelve months' hard labour be a small matter for fraud in bankruptcy, future insolvents may well act :on the principle of honesty being the best policy. TIIF TICE:IEOIINR CASE' The West Surrey Times promises us that the Tich borne case will open in ,:good romantic style in the ensuing Easter 'term. • The commission sent to Australia and Chili to collect evidence has completed its labours and returned. The claimant to the baronetcy, Sir Roger Doughty Tichborne, as he is usually called, now awaits only the pleasure of the Courtof Probate, in order to commence operations, It will be a long case in all probability. IS I7SSANITY SICKNESS ? An important case to Friendly Societies has been before the Newport mag:strates, involving the ques tion, Is insanity sickness ? A. summons for £2, sick pay, due to Mary Ann Pit►nan, on account of her husband being insane in a lunatic asylum, had been taken out against the Great Western Sick and Funeral Society. It was proved that Pitman had been in the society ten years. The wife had received sick pay to the amount of £3O, until about eight weeks ago it was suspended on the ground that insanity was not sickness. Her husband had been in the asylum two years. The bench decided against the society and made an order for payment of the amount. A case of the same kind was similarly decided a short time since. A LATE LIBEL CASE. -In the late libel case of " Williams v. the Duke and Duchess of Somerset," it will be remembered that the defendants apologised and retracted all im imitations upon the plaintiff. But the matter seems to have by no means dropped, Dr. Williams afterwards published an " Authentic Narra tive," the truthfulness of which the solicitors of the Duke of Somerset, Messrs. Beachcroft and Thompson, have denied, in the columns of the Times. The solicitors particularly refer to a note received by Dr. Williams, which the Duchess declares she never wrote and which would seem therefore to be a forgery. This state of things does not look like a settlement of the question. Dr. Williams may consider himself re-libelled ; and the parties may possibly again figure before, the public. LORD cguitcaiLL AND THE OXFORD POLICE. It will be remembered that the charge of perjury brought against the Oxford police byLord Randolph Churchill arose out of an uproarious hotel festivity, held by his lordship and his friends. A waiter at the hotel was subpcenaed and gave evidence which mate rially damaged Lord Churchill's case. For this he has received notice to quit his situation. As the facts stand this looks very like au un warrantable act of flunkeyism. The waiter gave his testimony - very unwillingly, and said as little as possible. He could not have said less without suppressing or perverting the truth. The only inference, therefore, is that Oxford waiters are not equal to their business, unless they are prepared to • commit perjury for the benefit of noble lords engaged in discreditable freaks. " THE " PARISH. The St. Pancras Guardians have distinguished themselves in another branch of workhouse art. Two of the sons of guardians have been appointed. to the posts of master's clerk and assistant re lieVing officer. These are not very dignified appointments, nor does the letter of the law prohibit such; but the Poor-law Board are of opinion that the - guardians have been guilty of an indiscretion. .Such proceedi ngs , th e y s ay, are calculated, and justly so, to lessen the confidence of the ratepayers in the impartiality and disin terestedness of those to whom they have entrusted the expenditure of the parochial funds. The fact seems to be that the guardians' year of office is expiring, and they are striving to disappear in a blaze of glory. The two doctors who were charged with cosPuhig teinther to Produce 44 dennc in the workhouse have brought actions for libel against Dr. Edmunds. At the last meeting of the board another row took place. Dr. Ellis was giving some bvidence, during which one of the guar dians—the famous Mr. Watkins—interrupted with a request that a certain nurse might be removed, as the " would follow in Dr. Ellis's footsteps, as she had done before "—a delicate remark which called forth a storm of groans and hisses. Finally, the guardians are threatened with a judgment summons, for re fusing to pay a bill of costs. TILE REPRESSION OF 3IENDICITY. Sir C. Trevelyan has made some suzgeStioni as to the cause of distress and iliremedies, to the Society for Organising Charitable Relief and Suppressing Mendicity. The distress we have to deal with, he says, is not general throughout England, but local to Louden. Its real cause is what has been significantly called "the enormous facts of London charity." The vast system of London charity is .out of proportion even with its wealth. Lazy mendi cants ilDck to London, where they know that " relief is going." Here they are fed, clothed, and lodged, and if sick, provided with a hospital. It is this state of things that makes our great metropolitan criminal class rpssible. It acts as an insurance upon crime. All tLe relief of destitution, says Sir Charles, ought to be done by the regulated action of the Poor law, and not by the infinitely varied and uncertain intervention of private societies. The money almost wasted by these socie ties might with greater advantage be employed upon emigration, education, and other means of im proving the intellectual and moral state of the Lon don population, and of raising them, to the utmost possible extent, above the necessity of depending upon charitable relief of any kind: THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1870. THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL. MESSAGE. (From the Anglo- American Times.) One of the accusations brought by Free Trade against Protection is that it has been mainly instru mental in destroying the American shipbuilding and ocean-carrying trade. Whatever may be the cause the decay is undeniable, and to renovate this industry has become a national policy. So long as Protection lasts, the only way to revive languish ing industries is to protect and subsidise them, and the Message sent by the PRESIDENT recommends the only course now open to achieve the object he has in view. A nation with the great resources of the United States " must one clay l ossess a full share of the ocean commerce, no matter what its cost. Delay will only increase the cost and en hance the difficulty of attaining the result. I there fore make an earnest plea for early action in a way to secure increased American commerce. The advanced period of the year, and the fact that no contract for shipbuilding will be entered into until Congress acts, and the further fact that if Con gress delays all large vessels contracted for thisyear will fail of completion before winter, being there fore carried over for another year, induces me to request an early consideration of the subject." The PRESIDE= considers the proposals of the House Committee should be adopted, but he believes a di rect money subsidy to be less liable to abuse than an indirect one ; but though subsidies might be given to specified lines of steamers or other ves sels, general assistance should also be extended in an effective way. The PRESIDENT'S notions on political affairs, though laughed at in England, are widely held in America. "It is a national humi liation that we are now compelled to pay 20 to 30 millions dollars annually, exclusive of passage money, which we should share with vessels of other nations, to foreigners for doing work which should be dune by American-owned and American-manned vessels. This is a drain upon the revenues of the country equal to casting money into the sea, so far as America is concerned." The error lies in over looking the fact that ordinary contracts between men involve the exchange of considerations bene ficial to both ; that if a thousand persons could more profitably be employed by machinery set in motion by a million of capital, to produce anything in the United States, then they could be employed in the ocean-carrying trade at a like expenditure, political economy dictates that they should pur sue the more profitable course, and leave, though it may be to foreigners, the other. That a British ship, on carrying a cargo, say of iron rails, to America to be exchanged for a cargo of grain, has performed a work valueless to America, because the ship was not American, is a curious doctrine for the PRESIDENT to hold. It might be advisable to build up the mercantile marine at any cost to the nation, but this ought to be openly avowed, and not supported by such palpably erroneous arguments. For instance, the PRESIDENT in the following gives a strong reason :—" At the beginning of the late war the American Navy was less than 100 vesseli of 150,000 tons, with 8,000 men. We drew from the merchant marine, which cost the Government nothing, but had been a great source of wealth, 600 vessels, exceeding 1,000,000 tons, and 70,000 men to aid in suppressing the rebellion." General GRANT reproduces the ideas to which the Secretary of the Treasury gave utterance in his last report : ".The bu lding of slips and navigating them utilizes a vast capital at home, employs thousands of. people, creates a home market for the produc tions of the farm and the shop, and diminishes the balance of trade against U 3 precisely by the amount of freight and passage money paid to American vessels. It gives us a supremacy on the seas of inestimable value in the case of foreign war." If we do not mistake, Mr. BOUTWELL then used that very word "supremacy." Its dictionary meaning is " state of being supreme, highest in authority or power." It does not follow that the buiding of ships and navigating them is to give the United States supremacy on the seas, though it may revive the mercantile marine. Nor can we understand how this building and navigating creates a home market for the productions of the farm and the shop. The truth is, that the United States, which ought to be the most cosmopolitan of all nations is, at least in many expressions of its states men—narrow and exclusive. But this the PRESI DENT may rely on, that all artificial aids will but end in creating an ephemeral industry, the exist ence of which it will, in the course of creating, endanger by directing against it the hostility of those portions of the country which will have to pay, but do not directly benefit. SCARLATINA AT MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE. An unusually severe outbreak of scarlatina has occurred at Marlborough College, Wilts, and three of the pupils have died of the disease. The Pall Mall Gazette comments on the conduct of the authorities, who, apparently coming to the conclusion that they would at any rate have no more deaths there, proceeded to break up the school and send the boys to their respective homes. Probably a con siderable per-centage of these boys carried infection about them in their clothes, and possibly a small per-tentage had the germs of diseas9 in them. They are put into railway car riages to travel many miles to their own homes. Will it be surprising if this dispersing of the scholars should carry a malady peculiarly infectious to a good many places as yet free from it ? If such is the case, it is to be hoped that the friends and relatives of any boy who has been made the innocent medium of such a misfortune will make the case public as soon as possible. CHINAMEN IN AMERICA. The immigration of Chinamen into the United States of America is not unnaturally looked upon with disfavour by the white labourers; and the question of protecting the latter from such immigration is much discussed. Senator Lawrence, speaking in the Californian Senate, remarked that the use of steam had now brought America very close to the Chinese empire, and it was a fact that China was so densely populated that one hundred millions of its inhabi tants could well be spared. The consequence was that as long as Americans insisted on demanding "cheap .labour" the Chinamen would swarm in upon them in countless numbers. The white labourer were now obliged to come down to the Chinese scale of prices, or starve, beg, or steal. The total number of Chinese on the western coasts of America was 89,500, though the speaker said this estimate was much too small. In San Francisco alone they amounted to 18,500, of whom 4,500 were females. The senator thought the time was come for united action in this matter. "Better, by far," said ho, " that a wall of fire, high as heaven, and broad as the Pacific, should separate us from this loathsome race than that they should obtain a foothold on this coast—better even in a pecuniary point_of view." GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA. Sir Charles Nicholson discoursed at the meeting. of the Royal Geographical Society on the progress of geographical discovery in Australia and New Guinea. The speaker first dealt with the searches for the long missing explorer, Dr. Leichardt. Various expedi tions, he said, bad been fitted out as rumours arose, without any definite result beyond tracing the footsteps of his party to a point some where to the south-west of the head of the Gulf of Carpentaria. There were those, however, he ob served, who ye:. believed in the pcss:bility of some of Leichardfs party still surviving, and amongst the most generous and enthusiastic supporters of this theory was Dr. Musller, who for years bad never desisted from his efforts in the search for his illustrious country man. After dealing in detail with Eastern and Northern Australia, Sir Charles gave a general sketch of the main geographical explorations which bad been made, and concluded with an urgent appeal for explorations in the fertile and beautiful islands of New Guinea. PUBLIC B USINES3. The much-looked-for Budget is fixed for Monday, April 11, and the Easter vacation will commence after the next clay. Mr. Gladstone had hoped to get his Land Bill through committee before Easter; but this is obviously out of the question now. It is doubtful if even the compensation clauses can be cleared off before that time. The Peace Preservation Bill will, it is expected, be finally disposed of, and receive the Royal assent by tlib end of this week. ADMINISTRATION OF SCOTCH AFFAIRS. A report on the administration of Scotch business is now in course of being published, and the corres pondent of the Scotsman believes that it will recommend most clearly the appoint ment of a Parliamentary Secretary for Scotland. The report will be found to be complimentary. to the officers of the Scotch bar for the manner in which they have transacted the public business in Scotland. At the same time it will skew that the business might be conducted much more economically and with greater public advantage. RELIGIOUS DISABILITIES. The Queen's Speech at the opening of the present session of Parliament contained a paragraph promising a measure for the settlement of the vexed question of the religious tests of the Universities. The abolition of these tests has long been agitated within and without university walls, and the ultimate attainment of the desired object has been rendered certais, by the ex pression of feeling manifested. No bill having been yet introduced, a society has been formed at Cambridge calling itself the Cambridge Religious Disabilities Removal Association. Its managing committee has issued an appeal on the subject of the Govern ment's delay. It describes the effects of the opera tion of the present law, and urges the necessity of its repeal, complaining that as yet no day has been fixed for the introduction of the bill. On thispoint, how ever, we find that the private correspondent of the Scotsman believes that the bill is to be introduced at once. It has been drafted, and is now in Sir J. Coleridge's hands. Its leading provisions are said to be those with the principles of which the public is familiar; but it is understood to be probable that a clause will be inserted enabling Nonconformists to be eeeted members of the governing bodies of the Universities. The case of Mrs. Gordon, widow of Mr. Corson, who was hanged during the Jamaica riots, will be raised on Thursday by a question which Sir Charles Dilke will put to the Premier. Mr. Bowring, M.P., has presented to the Home Secretary a memorial from the Corporation of Exeter against the - removal of the assize courts from that city. It is said that the reorganisation of the English Church will be advocated by Dean Stanley, as the repre sentative of all the Broad Church party, in the April number of Macmillan's Magazine. At the forthcoming election for the fellowship of the Royal Society there will be fifty-three candidates for the fifteen, vacancies and no. less than twenty-one are members of the medical profession. THE MURDER OF Miss TINNE IN AFRICA.—The African traveller, Dr. Nachtigal, writing from Mursuk to the Cologne Gazette, on the 29th January last, gives some further particulars relative to the murder of Misr Tinn6. He says that Sultan Omur, of Bornu, has sent a intheri (courier) to Mursuk, in order to make inquiries re specting the murder. The deceased lady's effects and servants have at length been despatched to Tripoli, though the former have not yet arrived. Yehenouchen, the Tuareg; chief, has written to Europe, disclaiming all re sponsibility for the murder, as he had not promised his protection to Miss Tinnd, or urged her to undertake the Journey to Rhat. He is 90 years old, says Dr. Nachti gal, and has a great reputation for uprightness in his own country, but, on the other hand, it is a fact that his own nephew, Hadji el Schich, who attacked the unfortunate lady and her caravan, and murdered her after re,eleivrng her presents and other marks of friendship, is still living with Yehenouchen,. and that the latter had directed the Marabout Hadji Ahmed Bu-Slalv, who witnessed the murder without attemptinpi to prevent it, either by word o deed, to prcoyide Miss Tula with an escort to übm,-- aocurc, BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS CANADA. It is not among legislators that a movement making a fundamental change in the status of a country is likely to originate ; on the contrary, it is in a Legislative Assembly such a change is certain to experience the most Arenuous opposition. It is not then with surprise we read the following tele gram, dated Toronto, March 22 :—" A resolution in favour of an independent action of the Dominion, subject to the assent of the Crown relative to com mercial treaties with foreign countries, bas been defeated in the House of Commons. The Govern ment amendment in favour of concurrent action by England and the Dominion, and the condemnation of the Customs Union with the United States, was carried by 100 votes against 58." Mr. WHALLEY, from his place iu the House of Commons, made in quiries from the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies about a w idely-published letter of Sir A. T. GALT, and a speech he delivered in the Canadian Parliament, showing that the policy of Dominion Independence was the policy of the Imperial Govern ment. If men are to be judged by their acts, the policy of independence is that of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, and there was no denial of this implied in the answer of Mr. MONSELL. Supposing that the policy of independence was not that of her MA JESTY'S pre ent Government, the course it is pur suing is that of a man playing blind-folded on the edge of a precipice, his steps being towards the brink, though he may not know it. If Great Britain desired to preserve the connection as it stood, she would not take the most effectual steps to change that connection ; and, judging from the course of those she has placed in power, rational persons can only conclude that Canadian Independence is in tended. Who ever heard of two nations, widely separate, maintaining the sort of connection now existing between the Dominion and the mother country ? and the very resolution proposed in the Canadian Parliament indicates the fact that such a connection cannot be maintained. At present the most influential Canadians find it best comports with their inclinations to uphold lii itish supremacy and to give the 'United States the cold shoulder. Many of them are decorated, and enjoy the handle to their names none the less for being in the neigh bourhood of a populous Republic. A noble with an historic name is not the stickler for etiquette and privilege that is the newly-made knight of Canada ; just as there was no such upholder of the Domestic Institution of the Southern States as the poor white who might have had a share in a slave, and there is no such a maintainer of the full rights of pro perty as the man who has just acquired a little for the first time in his life. These individuals feel the change and exaggerate its importance ; but the new knight or taronet of Canada, or the person who hopes soon to have a title, is not a faithful exponent of the s ate of feeling in the Colony. Nor can any guarantee that a change will not be wrought in their own opinions within a short period, when the same resolution may again be brought forward with a different result. We main taro that there is no permanency in such relations ; that their existence direct public attention towards them ; that the public discuss them, and having the power to alter, are likely to exert it at any time they change their opinion. But if the Imperial Govern ment intended that the Dominion was to be held permanently as a Province, it would have sup pressed, not fostered, the discussion of such n so• lutions. It is not by withdrawing all troops from Canada, by leaving fortresses empty, and by urg ing the establishment of a Dominion militia and Volunteer force, that her MAJESTY'S Ministers would have proceeded to hold the country. The policy of Gnat Britain is clearly to federate into an independent nation all the British Possessions of North America, thus establishing as far as it can a balance of power on the Continent. But, unfortunately for this policy, the British Posses sions are the wintry, ice-bound North, while the more genial portions of the Continent are embraced within the States ; indeed all, but Upper Canada. We do not for a moment say that the Dominion will not be a grand field for emigration, but here after; for the finer portions of the Continent must first be filled up. And, it is by overlooking so simple a fact, that many Englishmen blunder along in their emigration schemes. There are thousands of her MAJESTY'S subjects who would prefer a terri tory over which the British flag flew rather than the Stars and Stripes ; but if they have to emigrate,their main consideration must be the country which offers them the greatest material advantages. Of course, the richer and more genial territory does, therefore they go there ; and it is amazing that this natural cause should be overlooked, and the good people who are doing the best they can for themselves under the circumstances should be called names, though they are no.more to blame than were the American ship owners who, during the war, transferred their ton nage to foreign hands to escape Confederate cruisers. Nature's arrangement, and the treaties through which the Union has secured the beat of of the Continent, have left the Dominion nut in the cold, and. no legislation can alter the position. We do not assert that the policy of founding the Dominion must of necessity fail ; but Nye do assert that it cannot for generations, if ever, be esta blished as a counterpoise to the United States, or so as in any degree to create a balance of power on the continent of America. It will not be the fault of Greatßritain or of Canada,but of the territory itself; and it ought not to astonish any if the design should fail, but, that it should ever have been attempted. The best course would be, as we before stated, if the North American Continent is to be split up into separate nations, that the whole should first be placed under one Governinent,and then subdivided in accordance with the physical features of the coun try. The Customs' Union with the United States was probably the proposal for Canada, alluded to by Sir FRANCIS ,HINCKS, to enter into a sort of com mercial protection convention, which would have benefited the manufacturers of the Union at the ex pense of England as well as of the people of Canada; but we are not aware that the nature of the proposal is known on this side.—Angle- Americana imes. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The debate in the House on the admission of Georgia was long and earnest, the bill being finally passed for the admission of that State on the same condi tions as Virginia and Mississippi. It was hurried along by the fact that the Fifteenth Amendment will not be proclaimed till all the States are readmitted. Meanwhile, however, General Butler is preparing another bill to turn out Tennessee, and has set to work to reconstruct that State. The President and the Secretary of War have directed a regiment to be sent at once to Tennessee, and more will be added, if necessary, to suppress the disturb ances of which it is the theatre. Representative Prosser has announced to his Nashville constituents that he will give his nomination to Most Point Academy to the best coloured scholar in the schools of his district, and thus the fight between the races is maintained. Recent telegrams, however, show that some of the States are no sooner re constructed than they lapse into the old quagmire, out of which Congress has again to drag them. Resolutions ap pear to hare been offered in the Senate for the re-estab lishment of military rule, and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Georgia. Carl Schurz declared that this proposition etubodied a wanton and flagrant usurpation. The opinion of so liberal and enlightened a Senator, one distinguished for a life-long contest against coercion and military rule, will carry weight. The following items have during the week been brought by cable :—A resolution has been introduced in the Senate to provide for a Government survey of the proposed Tehuantepec ship canal, and for the encourage ment of the project. The House of Representatives passed a resolution last Monday, declaring , that securities not bearing interest should not be converted by funding into interest bearing securities. A resolution proposing tc authorise the national banks to increase their currenc3 was ordered to be laid on the table. The Senate's Finance Committee have agreed to report adversely on Mr. Sum ner's bill for the resumptirn of specie payments in Janu ary, 1871. Tho Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations recommend the rejection of the treaty for the purchase of the island of St. Thomas. The debate on the new Tariff Bill progresses slowly in the House. Long speeches are now being made on the principles of the bill. It will probably not be considered in detail till next week. Tho Yoreign Affairs Committee of the House have agreed to report favourably on General Banks' resolution instructing the President to maintain an impartial neutrality in the contest between Cuba and Spain. _ . The Pall Mall Gazette has received the following telegram :—" The Senate sat in secret session for several hours on Thursday, to consider the ratification of the San Domingo Treaty. Mr. Sumner spoke in opposition to the Treaty. He was in possession of the flour for nearly three hours. The President has made every effort in his power to secure the ratification of the treaty; but ap pearances indicate that the Government will be defeated. The opposition to the Funding Bill in the House increases, and the leading Republicans now predict that the bill will either be defeated or modified in essential particulars. Be fore the State Committee of the Legislature at Albany Mr. Jay Gould has made a speech controverting Mr. Burt's most material assertion concerning the Erie Railway. Mr. Burt's chance of success is considered to be complicated by the serious split which culminated yesterday between the city and the country Democrats on account of the notorious corruption connected with the Tammany rule in New York. Contrary to expectation the House has passed a bill enforcing laws against the Mormons in Utah, depriving polygamists of the rights of citizenship,and punishing them by line and imprisonment, by a vote of 94 to 32. It was amended by, striking out provisions authorizing the Pre sident to send military into Utab, and select 40,000 volun teers to enforce it, The bill goes to the Senate. As the clause giving the President the power of coercion hasbeen struck out., even if the Senate does adopt and the President signs the House Bill, it will remain, at least for a time, a dead letter, unless indeed the Mormons themselves take action. Brigham and several of the leading " saints" have started in search of a new Jerusalem in Arizona, and there may be another Mormon exodus. The Piegan massacre and the sinking of the Oneida by the Bombay are very generally discussed by the American press. General Sheridan and Colonel Baker have been much censured, but have also found hearty defenders. Col. Baker's report has been published. It appears that the troops managed to approach to within a few miles of the Indians, when they galloped to Big Ben, 16 miles, and then burst like a hurricane on the camp of 32 lodges. The Piegans attempted resistance and shot a soldier dead, which so infuriated his comrades that they killed all they saw except a hundred women and children. Several notorious chiefs were killed, though Black Eagle escaped, but wounded. Forty-four lodges were destroyed, and three hundred horses captured. Gen. Sheridan notices The injustice done to Colonel Baker by the omission in Mr. Vincent Colyer's letter that he had captured 100 women and children, and he asks who shall be killed, the whites or the Indians ? adding, since 1862 over 800 white men, women; and children had been murdered within the limits of his present command, in a manner too fiendish to describe. A letter is published from Sherman to Sheri ean.in which the Commander-in-Chief asserts that the Pie guns were attacked by desire of Geu. Sully and others, who are now shocked at tho result, and endeavour to cast the blame on General Sheridan and Colonel Baker, which General Sherman pronounces to be unfair, censuring Sully severely for communicating as he did with Mr Colyer. General do Trobiand speaks in the highest terms of Colonel Baher while forwarding hie despatch, and the people of Montana have held meetings in every town to endorse and applaud the action of that officer. As regards the loss of the Gneida both the British and American reports are given in full, and the impression in America is strongly condemnatory of Capt. Eyre. It is asserted in the American account, that, on a cross-examination of the Bcntbay crew, their evidence was found "to be incoherent and inconsistent, a wilful and deli berate issue of fabrications;'' and it is added that "either cowardice or the most horrible inhumanity dictated Capt. Eyre's conduct." The Bombay was old, had been injured by the shock, and was making water, and it is possible Capt. Eyre feared to delay; but it is strenuously main tained that he knew the position in which he left the Oneida. The American press looks for a full irLvestiga- Con of the case—a trial at law, in which Capt. Eyre will stand arraigned in the dock, if not for murder, at any rate for manslaughter; and the sooner that gentleman is tried and justice done in this matter the better. The effects of the terrible gales, in which, we fear, the City of Boston has perished, aro daily seen in the reports of abandoned ships at sea, and the rescue of crews on the Atlantic. On Thursday the Cunarder China brought into Liverpool the crew of the ship C. C. Houghton, bound from Loudon to Boston, which was abandoned on March 12 in a sinking condition. The passengers on board the Samaria published a very strong letter of censure against Captain Forsythe, of the Guion U. S. mail steamer Manhat tan, who, as they allege, passed them at sea, in spite of their signals of distress, without even stopping to inquire what was the matter. In reply, the owners asserted that the charge bore improbability on its face; for Capt. Forsythe might be benefited by rendering assistance, while he could not have injured himself, but he could not benefit,though he might be injured by passing unheedingly a vessel in distress They added that the Manhat tan had sailed for New York, and that therefore Captain Fo rsythe had now no oppor tunity of stating the circumst antes. A telegram has, however, reached London, from New York, announcing the arrival of the Manhattan and Captain Forsythe re ports that on the 12th of March he passed a brig-rigged steamer hound east, under full sail. There was nothing in the appearance of the steamer to indicate distress. It was too far off to make out any signals. He did not know it was the Samaria or that she was still out and overdue. He says the report that he refused assistance is untrue. The steamer could easily have attracted special notice by changing her course, taking in sail, or firing a gun, not one of which things she did. The letter of accusation, however, asserts that the Samaria would not obey her helm, and could not therefore change her course,that guns were fired and sail lowered. We learn by Cable that Mr. Bradley has been confirmed by the Senate as Associate Justice of the Su preme Court. The President paid a visit to the Capitol on the 9th inst., and assembling the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary in the President's room had a long conference with them about the nomination. He plainly stated his willingness to withdraw the nomination if the committee deemed it expedient, even asserting that he had arrived at the opinion that the nominee should bo a Southern man and a resident of the district, wherein be would be required to preside. At the conclusion of this interview the President sent for the Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to confer on the San Domingo Treaty. He informed the members of the vote of the people of San Domingo on the subject of annexation to the United States, and he desired immediate That e best acquainted with the matter who have discussed it with the President, are surprised at the breadth of his information. In a general way he concurs with the report of the Special Committee, which he has carefully read, and he is prepared to back any sensible legislation on the subject. We hope he does not overlook the remarks of this journal, for ho may depend upon the fact that the best way to ventilate a difficult matter is to gather opi pions from diverre sources, always providing that they come from persons who understand the position, and honestly discuss it according to their light. To say the least it is amusing to see telegrams figuring in the London morning papers of Wednesday last, from Australia, with the news that the new line of steamers between Sydney and England via Honolulu and San Francisco will commence running (this day) 26th March. The matter of that telegram was the subject of a leading article in this paper last week. 'We frequently gather news via San Francisco and ca,ried by the mail to England, which appears a week after we have published it, in the shape of telegrams, in the London daily papers. How TO SETTLE A QUARREL.—At St. Louis, on Wednesday night, March 9, A. J. Spaker and Caleb W. Baldwin quarelled, and fired at each other. Baldwin was shut in the heart, and fell dead ; Spaker was shot in the head, and is not expected to live. It must be highly satis factory to the friends of both that the gentlemen showed such spirit, and so effectually squared matters that they left nothing for future arbitration. We cannot tell whether he who got the bullet in his heart or he who got it in his head went out of the world with a grievance; whether the quick or the slow was the prefet able, but it must be most encouraging to the youths of St. Louis to have this Kilkenny-eat system FO sti ikingly exemplified. That city is certainly acquiring an unenviable notoriety for the ready resort to the pistol by its citizens ; and it could scarcely fail to check such a tendency to manslaughter, if the party who escaped was lynched, so that a resort to that fatal weapon became more certain to end in the death of the man who used it than of the man against whom it was used. An American traveller in the East accounts, in a way little to the credit of our boasted civilization, for the inexplicable conduct of the officers of the mail steamer Bombay in leaving the crew of the Oneida to perish. He says that great recklessness is shown in the navigation by European vessels in those seas, where they sometimes come in collision with weak native craft, and pursue their voyage without making any inquiry as to the da mage, or any effort whatever to rese.ue a drowning crew. The night was pitchy dark, and nothing could be seen except the light of the vessels when the steamers collided, but so slight appears to have been the shock to the Pomba! that she might have pursued her voyage, imagin ing that she had only run down a jinak. I Later accounts accounts, however, show that this was not the cased The American papers hope that this disaster will lead to thn pas sage of laws by the principal maritime nations, inflicting the severest puniaiment on the masters of vessels who abandon to their fate a drowning crew whom they could have aided. The Government at Washington will demand an investigation, but it is highly improbable that the E ng lish will await the demand, but order a rigid inquiry into the subject immediately on the arrival of Captain Eyre. POLITICAL NEWS.—It is announced, on reliable information, that President Grant has decided not to issue the prcclamation declaring the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment as part of the Constitution, until Georgia is admitted to representation in Congress, and official notice has been received of the ratification by the Legisla ture of Texas. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Dr. Mary Walker has been arrested for wearing male clothing, and discharged with the warning that every time she appeared in the street in that costume she would be locked up.—ln San Francisco, W.A.ltobinson, a public school teacher,has been sentenced to 6 months' imprisonment, for cruelly punishing a pupil.—Secretary Robeson is to deliver the address before the Literary Society at Princeton College at the next Com tnencement.—T he health of A.H. Stephens is improving.— In America the papers says that Sir Charles Mordaunt will leave England at an early day to spend some time in the enjoyment of the sports of the Western prairies. If he can enjoy anything at present he must possess a very "enjoyable" disposition.—President Smith, of Dartmouth College, writes from Jamaica that he has rented a cottage in the mountain region, 1,450 feet above the sea, and that his health is already much improved.—Montgomery Blair is said to be an aspirant to Congress from Maryland, but has doubts as to which nominating convention to apply to.— Ex-Auditor Wickliffe, of Louisiana, has delivered up the coupons he was charged with embezzling, and been re leased on bail.—Captain Hall, the Arctic explorer, lectured in Washington, on the night of March 5, to an audience including the President, Vice-President, Chief Justice, and several Congressmen. He said he intended to ask an appropriation of 100,000 dollars for an expedition to the North Pole in the interest of science and commerce. He had no doubt, so far as th , latter was concerned, of the discovery of extensive whaling grounds. -C. S. Hobbs, the late paymaster of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, shot himself at Cleveland, March sth. —General Horace Porter, private Secretary to President Grant, has been spending a few days in Philadelphia.— Sumner is preparing a sixteen-column speech on one cent postage.—Lydia Thompson now proposes to horse-whip Olive Logan.—A daughter of Chief Justice Chase has nearly ready for publication a collection of nursery rhymes in several languages, illustrated by herself.— lilt Burns, the present famous.man of Water-street, New York, is said to have a voice "like the filing of a saw, and when he laughs it resembles the agony of a door-hinge in want of oil."—Miss Emma Jones has been elected a pro fessor in the new University of the Pacific, at San Fran cisco.- On the Ist of March, at the Church of St. Agatha, Rome, was married, by his Eminence Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop, attended by the Very Rev. Monsignor Moran, D.D., and the Rev. Dr. O'Connor, James Kieran Hyland, Esq., 13, Rutland-square E., Dublin, and Newtown H yland, County Dublin, to Josephine, daughter of the late J. Cun ningham, Esq., Chicago.—Tom Allen, the prizefighter, has arrived in Cincinnati, from the South, with forty pounds of MONETARY •RE P RTS.-YES TERDAY. The attention of members has been principally directed to the fortnightly settlement. Otherwise the business doing has been only moderate, all LI ;he movements in prices have been unimportant Consols, although not active, have been firm, at yesten day's quotations, viz., 93R, 931 for money, and 931, 93g for the April account. Reduced and New Three per Cents, 914, 92 ; Exchequer Bills, par to 4s. prem. India Five per Cents have been done at 113, 113 and India Bonds at 20s. to 255. prem. Although the demand for English railway stocks has not been active, the market generally has been firm. North-Eastern (Berwick) has risen and a similar provement has taken place in Midland. Caledonian, Great Northern A, and London and North-Western have advanced I, whilst London and Brighton has been i t better. Indian railway stocks have been dealt in quietly, at about previous quotations. Canadian shares have been dull, and business in foreign shares has been limited. Business in foreign bonds has been only to a moderate extent. Spanish (1869) and Turkish Five per Cents. have been in request, at an advance of / per cent. ; and Danu bian (1864) have revived, but Egyptian (1868) and Peru vian (1865) have fallen /, and New Grenada Deferred 1. American securities generally have been firm. The Five- Twenty (1885) Bonds have risen ; Ten-Forty, / ; Virginia Bonds, 2 / 1 ; and Erie shares, 1/. But Atlantic Bonds and Illinois Central shares have receded J. There has been very little inquiry for mining shares, and prices have been without quotable alteration. Bank shares have been quiet. Alliance have fallen otherwise prices have been without change. Telegraph Shares have been slightly better. British Indian Submarine have risen f, and China Submarine For Telegraph Construction shares there has been a good demand, and the quotation has improved 1. Silver's India Rubber have been i better. In the market for miscellaneous securities very little business has been doing, at about previous quotations. In connection with the settlement there has been a good demand for money. But at the Bank and in other quarters the inquiry has been active, and the rates have ruled firm. Three months' paper has been charged 3 per cent. The sum of £177,000 has been sent into the Bank to-day. As regards the exchanges, bills generally have been scarce, and the rates have been firm. It is stated that Messrs. John Bowden and Co., corn merchants, of Plymouth, Cardiff, and Liverpool, are about to make an offer of Bs. in the pound, which the creditors will probably accept. The liabilities of Messrs. Vogan Brothers, corn mer chants, Dockhead, are about 230,000, and the assets very considerable. Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son have invited appli cations for $3,900,000 Six per Cent. Bonds of the East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railroad Company, at 82b with interest from the Ist of January, and redeem able at par in 30 years. The Cape Copper Mining Company have declared a second interim dividend of 15s. per share, on account of profits of 1868 realised to this date. The directors have also resolved to recommend an issue of 5,000 new shares, with £7 paid, at a premium of £7. The official liquidators of the Royal Bank of Liverpool have notified that they are prepared to make a return of £1 per share on the ordinary shares, and £lO per share on the preference shares. The following has been - received from the Don Pedro North del Rey Gold Mining Company (Limited) :—Gold weighed to Ist of March, 7,231 oitavas ; estimate for February 9,000 oitavas. No. 6 disordered, and very poor. The traffic receipts of the Smyrna and Cassaba Railway for the week ending March 13th, amounted to £1,356, against £1;506 for the corresponding period last year. The traffic returns of the South Eastern-Railway for the week ending March 26th present a total of £22,063, being a decrease of £4,534 when compared with the corresponding week of 1869. At the half-yearly meeting of the Forth and _Clyde Junction Railway held to-day, Mr. James Morrison, of Levilands, presiding, in the absence, through indisposi tion, of the Duke of Montrose, the directors' report was adopted, and a dividend of 4 per cent. declared on first preference stock, carrying £2O to add to the next account. The affairs of the company were declared now to be in a hopeful condition. MARKETS -YESTERDAY. LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—TaIIow has ruled eat, at 455. spot, 445. 3d. to 445. 6d. April to June, 455. 6d. last three months. Turpentine dull, at 30s. 3d. Hemp has changed hands slowly, at late rates, from Manilla. Linseed oil steady, 325. London and Hull. Rape oil firm, at 425. lid. to 435. for English brown. LONDON COLONIAL REPORT, TUESDAY.—Sugar has ruled quiet, but prices generally have continued firm, owing to the shortness of supplies offering. At public sales a limited quantity of low brown Penang was bought in. The tea auctions have commenced with moderate spirit, but common congous, at Is. to is. Oid. per lb., shew a slight reduction. Other teas have ruled steady. Good and fine coffees have commanded late rates, but inferior samples have ruled the time cheaper. Cocoa hasbeen less active. Trinidad has sold on former terms, but Gronadi Rs lower. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, MILS DAY.—These markets have been moderately supplied with potatoes. The trade has 120 s. to 130 s. ; regents, 100 s. to 120 s. ; Scotch regents, 80s. •to 100 s. ; rocks, 70s. to 80s. ; and French, COs. to 755. per ton. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—To-day we have had a quiet but very steady market. The better makes of shirt ings, suitable for India and China, being chiefly in request, Makers of 71b. and 811 b. shirtings are well engaged. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—Market quiet. Sales, 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 were on speculation. Import of the day, 42,000 bales. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—FIour steady. Wheat quiet and unchanged. Corn 13d. dearer. French flour firm. ....... GLASGOW IRON MARKET, TrESDAY.—Market steady, Buyers at Ms. 6d. cash, and Us. 9d. one month, and advancing. HAVRE, TuEsruv.—Cotton, regular demand. Orleans, 136 ; other sorts easier. Copper quiet ; Chili bars, 169'50 to Th-9. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 28.—Wheat unchanged. Rye un changed ; March, 188 ; May, 1851 ; October, 188 f. Rapeseed oil, (mot, 45 ; March, 44i ; August, 431. Petroleum, 271. Bence. tin, PARIS, TUESDAY.—Rape oil, current month, 121 ; September- December, 108.50. Flour. current mouth, 56.50; April, 56.50 , Lily, 57.50. The Right Rev. T. G. Hatchard, D.D., Bishop of Mauritius, died in the colony on February 28. He was ennsecrzted on February 240869, and had personally presided over his see only eight months. He leayes widow and six children. 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BARNETT - JANVRIN—On the 28th inst., at Tettenhall, Rear- Admiral Barnett to Amelia, daughter of the late John Janvrin, Esq., of St. Aubin's, Jersey. GINDER —HARVEY— On the 24th inst., at Lewisham, Mr. J. 11. Cinder, of Islington, to Matilda, only daughter of Mr. F. Harvey, of Lewisham. DEATHS. BROWN - On the 26th inst., at the Parade, Epsom,W. Brown, Esq., agel 66. RAE -On the 27th inst., at Leghorn, Italy, Samuel Rae, Esq., aged 74. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesez.—. Wednesday, Mar* 30, 1870,