The Sun. — London, England, 1867-06-08 00:00:00

IIUERIAL PARLIAMENT MOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. THE DUNDEE GAS BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this bill, an amend ment was proposed that the discussion should be post poned until after Whitsuntide. The bill, with a few tech nical amendments, was read a third time and passed. PUBLIC LIBRARIES (SCOTLAND) ACTS AMEND MENT BILL. The report of the amendments in this bill was received. METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL. This bill was read a second time. BREECH-LOADING GUNS. Earl SPENCER, in asking the intention of the Government to amend the proof bills this ses sion, so as to make them more applicable to breech-loading arms, said that in every part of the con tinent the attention of the most scientific men had been milled to the question of breech-loading guns, and that ininiensi impr)versents had taken place, and that, as far as this country was concerned, it was of the most vital importance that all our energy should be de voted to the question. Therefore he trusted that his noble friend would turn his attention to the subject in the bill he was proposing this year. Lord LONGFORD said that there were two companies who had the power of proving these guns, and they had .received notice that in consequence of the change in fire arms they would be required to exercise greater vigilance. These bye-laws, which they could put in operation, would be equal to law. There was great difficulty in avoiding accidents from cartridges. The subject then dropped. DISTRICT PROT HONOTARIES, &c. BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CONSOLIDATED FUND. This bill was read a third time and passed. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. • The house then adjourned till Monday, the 17th inst. HOUSE OF COMMONS. —LAST EVENING. Tjio SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed: —Newry and Armagh Railway, Waterford and Passage Railway and Ferry, and Wolverhampton and Walsall Rail way. • NORTH WESTERN AND CHABING-CROSS RAIL WAY BILL. Mr. C. FORSTER moved that the order (6th May) that the North Western and Charing-cross Railway Bill be read the third time, and discharged. The motion was agreed to, and the bill was accordingly withdrawn. STORM SIGNALS. Col. SYKES asked the Vice-President of the Board of Teade whether any and what action had been taken to re store " Storm Warnings," consequent upon the deputation of members of Parliameut to the President of the Board of Trade. Mr. CAVE said Colonel Sabine, the President of the Meteorological Society, has undertaken to do so as far as possible, and a committee was now considering the best means of doing so. DISASTERS AT SEA. Mr. J. A. SMITH asked the Vice President of the Board of Trade whether, in reference to the copies of memorials "on the subject of disasters at sea and their prevention," presented to the house this session by the Board of Trade, it was intended to take any steps to carry out the recommendations or suggestions contained in such memorials, particularly in reference to the urgent want which is represented to exist of inspectors of mercantile shipping ? Mr. CAVE said the subject was then under the con sideration of the Board of Trade with a view to future legislation. The inspection of ships previous to their putting to sea was a matter of great difficulty. SALE OF LIQUORS ON SUNDAYS BILL. Mr. J. A. SIIIr a said he intended to move the second reading of this bill that evening if possible, but he should bring the matter forward after half-plst 10 o'clock. Mr. ROEBUCK said, a number of members had left town under the impression that the bill would not be taken previous to the Whitsuntide holidays, and, therefore, he should :wail himself of every form of the house to oppose the progress of the bill. WHITS UN HOLIDAYS. Oa the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, it was t,rced that the hoase at its rising adjourn until Thur/lay next. THE GREENWICH SIXPENCE. Oa the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Mr. TREVELYAN called the attention of the House to the case of the old seamen who paid the Greenwich sixpence before the year 183 L He said he had presented a petition from the old sailors of the merchant service who had for a length of time had sixpence a month deducted from their wages towards the support of Greenwich Hospital. The old men had never reciivid any benefit from such contribution, and they prayed that the case might be taken into favourable consi deration by the house. The Government had stated they had proposed that a portion of Greenwich Hoipital should be appropriated as an infir.nary for the mercantile mariner, but the old men would rather have the money they had paid returned to them, as it was now very unlikely that seamen of the merchant service would ever receive any benefit from Greenwich Hospital, which was now wholly appropriated to aged seamen of the Royal Navy. He would not conclude by making a motion or moving for papers, but he would resume his seat after asking the Go vernment to take the claims of the old seamen into their favourable consideration. Mr. LIDDELL said if doubta existed as to the rights of these aid men, he hoped the Government would give the benefit of the doubt to the petitioners. After a few obseryations from Mr. 'NomAm in favour of the appeal, Mr. CHILDERS said as ho had the honour two years ago to introduce the bill under which the Greenwich Fund was administered, he would like to make ono or two observations. At the time that bill was under discussion this matter was touched upon, and it was thought then that those persons had no ground for their appeal. If the house elected to give those men any thing, it must be done by direct vote of the house, as there was no part of the Greenwich Fund available for such purpose. In 1711. it was enacted that no person but those s'n-ving in the Royal Navy should be entitled to the ad vantages of the hospital ; but some time after it was enacted that merchant seamen maimed or disabled in the defence of the country should be ad mitted to the hospital provided they produced cortidcates of good character, therefore the hospital was not altogether appropriate to the men of the royal navy. Mr. CORRY thought the merchant service had received more advantages from Greenwich Hospital than was equi valent to their contributions. He did not think that the claims of the petitioners rested on any valid ground. Mr. CANDLISH said it was evident these men had no legal claim, or they would have a legal remedy without applying to Parliament. He thought it was a great hard ship that men for thirty years should have the sixpence taken from them by law, and then when they stood in need of assistance that they should be refused the slightest help. _ _ _ The subject then dropped. THE SALE OF LIQUOR ON SUNDAYS BILL. In reply to Col. EDWARDS, Mr. J. ABEL SMITH postponed the motion for the second reading of the bill until the 26th of June. Mr. TREVELYAN, on the usual motion for supply, called attention to the case of the old seamen in the mercantile marine, who, having paid 6d. a month out of their wages to the support of Greenwich Hospital prior to the year 1834, when the payment ceased, complained that they had derived no advantage from that institution. The hon. member argued that, if this payment had been made solely for. the benefit of the seamen of the royal navy, with out. the merchant service participating in it, the proceed ing was one totally opposed to the commercial policy of the country; whilst if it were intended that both classes should share in its advantages, the seamen of the mercantile ma rine had been treated with injustice. Aftea few observations from Mr. Liddell, Mr. Ingham, , and Mr. Candlish, all of whom supported the claim set up by the hon. member for Tynemouth, Mr. CIIIDLERS, who opposed it, stated that a commit tee of the house had reported that no case whatever existed for this appeal, and that the revenues of Greenwich Hos pital were appropriated to what was considered their proper destination, namely, the maintenance of sailors of theroyal navy, and in aid of officers' pensions. If the hon. gentle man were to succeed in proving that the claim was a charge upon the country it would become the duty of the House of Commons to make provision for it; but the act of 1865 set the question completely at rest. Moreover, going back to a remoter date, the act of 1711, describing the purpose to which Greenwich Hospital was to be ap plied, directed that no seaman should be admitted besides sailors of the Royal navy, whilst the act of 1721 extended the institution to others who had been wounded in action or in resisting pirates at sea. Mr. CORItY supplorsented this explanation by saying that the sixpowt.) a month was not paid with arty- benevo lent intention, but as a c..msid.tratioa for the protection which the navy gave. to the comuit3rce of the country. The subject here dropped. Sir J. G 1 AY put some questions to the Chief Secretary for Ireland relative to the distress prevailing in the west of Ireland, and Lord NAAS stated the measures which had been taken with a view to its alleviation. These were the commence ment of three or four public works connected with fishery Piers and the supply of considerable quantities of In dian meal to the district, whilst the poor-law authorities and the Law Life Assurance Society were doing all in their power to find employment for the people. The house then wont into committee of supply, and re sumed the consideration of army estimates. -Ou the vote for barrack establishments, services and supplies,4,l.. • Ald e rman LLTSK took an o bj ec ti on to the item of £2,000 for the furniture of billiard rooms, which he muved should be-struck out, The item was defend° by Sir J. Pakington, Col. North, and other members, and opposed by Mr. Otway and Mr. Monk. On a division the motion was rejected by 72 to 12. A conversation of some interest to the members of vo lunteer corps also took place on the vote in aid of this force, in the course of which Sir J. Pakington, alluding to the delay which had taken place in the payment of the capitation grant, said that it was caused by the obvious necessity for a careful investigation by the military autho rities of the state of the regimental accounts. With the view of avoiding such delays hereafter there was at this moment a proposal under consideration at the War-office for putting the capitation money in the hands of the com manding officers, to be disposed of at their discretion ; and if that step were adopted he had no doubt that all ground for future complaint would be removed. On the House resuming, after agreeing to numerous votes for the military service, the order was moved to con tinue the adjourned debate on going into committee on the Bankruptcy Bill, and Mr. Ayrton proposed the amendment of which he had given notice, to the effect that it was un just to pass a measure by which an insolvent person who had contracted a debt amounting to £3O, or several amount ing to £lOO, should be discharged from liability for all his debts, except as regarded his future acquired property or earnings, to the extent of half the amount of his debts, while insolvents who had contracted debts to a less amount would be liable to repeated imprisonment to compel them to pay their debts in full. Mr. HENLEY did not regard the bill as affording a pro per opportunity for raising a debate on this important question. As an expression of opinion, however, he quite concurred with the amendment, though he hoped it would not be pressed to a division. He was well aware that there were many thousands of persons annually imprisoned for very small debts under the county courts system, and that they were treated not merely as debtors but.subjected to t he same gaol regulations as fraudulent debtors. He looked upon it as a crying injustice, that whilst the House was endeavour ing to abolish the practice of imprisonment for debt it should be continued for small people, and that under a false pretence. He hoped, therefore, the Attorney-General would give the matter consideration, and see whether it was fit and proper that these people should be kept in gaol in this manner. For his part he did not understand why a man who owed a hundred thousand pounds and did not t pay it should be allowed to go scot-free, while the wretched I man who owed a five-pound note was locked up. It was wrong to sontinue such a state of things. Mr. Norwood, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Alderman Lusk, and the Solicitor-General also took part in the debate ; and even tually Mr. Ayrtin allowed his amendment to be negatived without a division. The house then went into committee, but immediately resumed. _ _ . . Tho Judgment Debtors Bill and the Bankruptcy Acts Repeal Bill were also committed pro forma. The Railway Companies Bill was read a third time and passed. The amendments to the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill were considered; and after the remaining orders bad been gone through, the house, at eight minutes to one o'clock, adjourned over the Whitsuntide holidays until Thursday next. Miscellaneous Foleign News. (From Correspondents of the An;/10-American Times.) PARIS, June 4 to 6. For several days all Paris has been astir, celebrat ing the visit of Alexander 11., the third of Russia's Czars who, at different periods, have made the jour ney from St. Petersburg to the capital of the French empire. About a century and a half ago, Peter the Great, the true founder of the Russian empire, prompted by that spirit of investigation which was one of the distinguishing traits of his character, de- sired to see and study everything of importance in a great city, then at the head of European civilisa tion, and passed several months in enjoying the hos pitalities extended him by the Regency. During the reign of Louis XVIII. in 1815, 'Alexander I. passed a short time in Paris, more for political pur poses, if I am not mistaken, than for recreation or amusement. Alexander If., accompanied by two of his sons, the Czarewitch and the Grand Duke Vladimir, and a numerous suite, arrived last Satur day, and received an enthusiastic ovation, su - .:h as perhaps was never before extended to a foreign monarch in Paris. Without attempting a detailed account of the official ceremonies observed, I will state that an imperial deputation had been sent for ward by special train to meet his Majesty on the frontier of France, and escort Lim to the railway station in this city, where he was received by the Emperor Napoleon, surrounded by his brillant staff. The station was richly and beautifully decorated, and filled to overflowing with ladies in elegant toilettes, and notabilities in uniform from all parts of Christendom. On alighting from the railway car, the Czar extended both hands to the Emperor, and then presented his sons. Na poleon cordially welcomed his Royal guests, and after the customary salutations had been exchanged and the presentations over, the party drove off in the Imperial carriages amid the shouts and cheers of the spectators. All along the Boulevards and route, followed by the cortege, on the streets, in the windows, on the roofs of the houses, and every where as far as could be seen, an immense crowd had collected full of eager curiosity to see the Czar of all the Russias. Myriads of Russian and French flags decorated the windows ; bands of music played the Russian national air. The glittering uniforms of the lancers, with banners flying, and the gardes forming the escort, gave additional animation to the imposing spectacle, and altogether presented an ensemble which, for a magnificent gala demonstra tion, beggars description. Since the funeral cere monies of the lamented Duke de Morny no such mass of human beings has been seen in the streets of Paris, and I doubt whether any other of the Sovereigns coming to the Exhibition this year will meet with such a reception as welcomed the Czar on his triumphal transit through the Boulevards on last Saturday. On arriving at the palace of the Tuileries their Majesties alighted, and were received by the Empress, accompanied by the grand officers of the Crown and dignitaries of the Imperial house hold, at the foot of the grand staircase, and then escorted to the saloon of the First Consul, where presentations and compliments were exchanged a la mode royale. The Empress Eugenie, dressed in a handsome light blue silk robe and a magnificent lace cloak,, welcomed the Royal party with that charming grace and fascinating smile for which she is celebrated in the world polite. A half hour or more was passed at the Tuileries, and the Czar and Grand Dukes were conducted to the Palace of the Elysee by the Emperor, followed by the cor tege which had brought them through the city. An incident occurred near me on the Boulevards, which caused considerable merriment in the crowd. After the circulation of all vehicles had been sup pressed along the route destined for the Imperial cortge, and soon after the Emperor Napoleon had passed on his way to the station, a funeral carriage driven by a drunken coachman, got through the masses by some means into the street, and being unable to get off the forbidden ground on account of the jam, the driver, with hat off, saluting right and left, put whip to his horses and went at full speed down the Boulevard, received with yells and hisses by the multitude as he passed. The fellow seemed to relish the fun, until the police interfered and took him and the funeral equipage into custody. Another incident, occurring later in the day, is thus described by the Figaro :—" A funeral procession was passing the corner of the Boulevard and Rue St. Denis, just at the moment when the Imperial carriages arrived at full trot. Prompted by a sen timent of respect for the dead, which every one w ill appreciate, the cortege of the two Emperors was stopped, and the modest hearse permitted to con tinue its route. Two Sovereigns, who, in the twink ling of an eye could upset the world, ren d ere d homage to that mighty Potentate more powerful than Emperors—Death." The Czar and his suite have been installedintlie Palace of the Elys6e, which had been previously prepared, regardless of expense. Ills Mili ty w ill occupy the apartments formerly used by the Em peror Napoleon. The Czarewitch is assigned to those belonging to the Empress, and the Grand Duke Vladimir those of the Prince Imperial. This palace is well constructed and elegantly arranged. It is the favourite property of Napoleon 111., and it is said that he intends living there soon, in pre ference to the Tuileries, and making use of the latter for all State ceremonies or official receptions. Fetes, grand dinners, brilliant receptions, &c., have been succeeding each other rapidly since the arrival of the Czar. Thus far he has made good use of his time, scarcely allowing himself an hour for repose. On Saturday night he went incognito to the " Theatre des Varieties" to see the celebrated piece "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein ; on Sunday morning he attended high service at the Greek church ; in the afternoon was present at the THE SUN, LOADO.N, SAFITRDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1867. races in the Bois de Boulogne, and in the evening at a grand dinner given him at the Tuileries. On Monday he visited (officially) the Exhibition, and in the evening attended a dinner at the Russian Ambassador's. To-day he gives a grand dinner at the palace of the Elysee to the diplomatic corps, and will be present to-night at the gala representa tion in the French Opera. Seventeen sovereigns or princes will attend this extraordinary represen tion. The pieces offered will be the 4th act of the " Africaine," and the 2d act of " Giselle." On the entrance of the sovereigns in the hall the orchestra will execute a march from the Russian national hymn. _ Five hundred thousand spectators are estimated to have witnessed the races in the Bois de Boulogne last Sunday. Never before has the hippodrome of Longchamps contained such an agglomeration of different nations, and never before has the tribune of the Chief of State been burdened with such a weight of crowned heads as had then assembled to see the sports of the turf. The tribune contained the Emperor and Empressof France, Emperor of Russia, the two Grand Dukes, the King and Queen of the Belgians, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, Duke of Leutchenburg, Prince of Saxe-Weimar, the Japanese Prince, and the dignitaries and officers of service of their majesties and highnesses. The race for the Grand Prize of Paris (100,000 f.) resulted in a dead-heat between the horses Patricien and Fervacques. The former is the winner of the Jockey Club prize, and belongs to Mons. Della marre ; the latter is the property of Count Mont gomery. The two gentlemen determined upon another and decisive race, which was run, and terminated i❑ the defeat of Patricien by a " nose's length." This success of Fervacques was almost as unlooked for as that of Hermit in the English Derby. Prayers had been offered for the blessing of God upon the visit of the King of Prussia to Paris, and for the establishment of peace generally, by means of the personal understanding of the sovereigns at Paris. The United States Commissioners to the Paris Exhibition now hold their regular meetings in the elegant and commodious rooms allotted to their use by Messrs. Jas. W. Tucker and Co., American bankers, 3 and 5, Rue Scribe. I am frequently questioned as to the names and residences of the different commissioners, and it may not be out of place to give them below. General Beckwith is president of the committee, Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles vice-president, and L. F. Mellen, Esq., secretary. Below is a list of the Commissioners and their Committees, which, as a matter of reference, will be valuable : A. M. Beckwith, Esq., New York, 184, Rue de Rivoli. Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles, New York, Grand Hotel. Professor J. P. Lesley, Pennsylvania, 17, Av de la Piquet. President F. A. Barnard, New York, 95, Rue de Chaliot. Col. Chas. B. Norton, Paris, 91, Champ Elysees. Frank Leslie, Esq., New York, same address. Paran Stevens, Esq., New York, 15, Rue de Ma rigunan. Chas. B. Seymour, Esq., New York, 63, Cham- Elysces. Thos. W. Evans, M.D., Paris, 15, Rue de la Paix. IV. J. Valentine, Esq., Mass., 14, Rue Auber. Chas. R. Goodwin, Esq., Paris, 6,lFaubourg Mon martre. E. R. Mudge, Esq., Mass., Grand Hotel. James 11. Bowen, Esq., 111., 6, Rue Keppler. Professor 11. F. d'Allegney, Mass., 1, Place Severn° •Balleynalles. Hon. Wm. Slade, Ohio, Hotel d' Esprees, Cler mont, Oise. Hon. John P. Kennedy, Massachusetts, Hotel Westminster. Professor J. Lawrence Smith, Kentucky, Hotel Mirabeau. Robert Berney, Esq., Paris, 104, Boulevard Hauss man. lion. Alexander Thompson, New York, hotel de la Paix. - Wm. S. Anchincloss, Esq., New York, Hotel des Index. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Massachusetts, 4, Boule vard Haus.stnann, Abram S. Hewitt, Esq., New York, Hotel de Louvre. L. F. Mellen, Esq., Alabama, 178, Faubourg St. Honore. Hon. W. J. Flagg, Ohio, 27, Faubourg St. Honord. Professor Samuel F. Morse, New York, 10, Av du Roi de Rome. J. I'. Reynolds, Illinois, 6, Rue Keppler. Elliot C. Cowdin, New York, 6, Rue Keppler. Professor Wm. B. Rogers, Massachusetts, 6, Rue Keppler. Professor John F. Frazer, Pennsylvania. The following are the committees and their sub- jects :- 1. " On New Inventions in the Useful Arts."— Messrs. Barnard, Valentine, Norton, Morse, and FrazCr. 2. " On the Most Valuable Products, or Results Derived from New and Advanced Processes, in Science, Art, and the General Field of industry, including a practical description of the methods and processes employed."—Messrs. Smith, Slade, and Seymour. 3. "On Mineral and Agricultural Products of Importance, in connection with Ocean and Inland Transportation."—Messrs. Ruggles, Kennedy, and Hazard. 4. " On Raw Materials, and Manufactures of Great General Use, or displaying remarkable Skill or Merit."—Messrs. Mudge, Cowdin, Bowen, Rey nolds, Mellen, and Chadwick. 5. "On Implements, Machines, and Tools."— Messrs. Auchincloss, Goodwin, and Frazer. 6. "On Metallurgy, and the Extractive Arts in General."—Messrs. Hewitt, Lesley, and d'Alligney. 7. "On the Products of Chemistry and the prepa ration of Food and Clothing."—Messrs. Rogers, Stevens, and Berney. 8. "On New or Improved Instruments, or Methods of Scientific Investigation or Illustra 0. " On Horticulture, Pomology, and the Culture and the Products of the Vine."—Messrs. Wilder, Thompson, and Flagg. 10. " On the application of th e Fi ne A r t s t o prac tical purposes."—Messrs. Evans, Morse, and Mellen. The manufactory for American biscuit has been opened in the Exhibition grounds—the Avenue Etats Unis—and it is really a most interesting place to visit. In another letter I will endeavour to give a description of it, the process of working &c., &c. General Dodge, the U.S. consul at Bremen, is now spending some time in Paris, Colonel M'Clure, U.S. consul at Napoleon Vendee, has also come to ci it the Expo.ion. A new sign, with " Restaurant Americain" on it, has appeared in the Avenue Rapp, near the Exhibi tion, informing persons generally that American drinks and American meals can be had there. In fact, you need not go far now in Paris to discover signs of Americans. Mr. E. 0. Haile, formerly of the Mobile Times, and. now of the New Orleans Tribune, arrived in the city a few days since. His stay is to be of short dura tion, as I believe he goes soon to London to raise funds to erect a monument to the late lamented Charles Browne, better known to the world as " Artemis Ward." This is a praiseworthy action on the part of Mr. Haile, and it is to be hoped that success will crown his efforts. " Artemus Ward " is a name well known in every city and village of America—nor unknown in Europe—and his countrymen should rally at once to the call to perpetuate his memory in marble. lie was deserving of their rfspect and esteem while living, he is deserving of remembrance now he is dead. I learn that the debt of $1,200, which has been -so long resting upon the American Chapel, has been at last liquidated by subscriptions and collections taken up in Paris. This information will be a source of gratification to the American friends of this church. Rev. Dr. Eldridge, the pastor, de serves much credit for his efforts in making collec tions to release the mortgage on this church. Colonel G. H. Alexander, of Indiana, and a dis tinguished officer of the United States Army is now in Paris. Ile has been travelling in Europe for some time for the recovery of his health, which has been very much broken by severe wounds received during the late war. On Sunday afternoon next there will be a gather ing of the children of the Sunday schools of the American churches in Paris. It will be held at half-past three o'clock, at the American chapel, No. 21, Rue de Berri, There will be addresses de- livered by some clergymen from the United States, I and will no doubt be a very interesting meeting. I learn that Professor Charles W. Joy has been o,`sliged to decline the appointment as secretary to tike a scientific report on the Exposition, and the jj/ cited States Commissioners will have to elect au Aber person. Mr. Brock L. M'Vicar who arrived in., Paris who has been before mentioned in the columns of the Anglo and Franco-American, is not generally known to be the lecturer and poet, who has won re no•wn in America under the nom de plume of " Wild :.'Edgerton." He has come to France to collect materials for a discourse on the politics and society of the Empire, to* be delivered upon his return to America. The Emperor has complimented him, through the Chief of Cabinet and Private Secretary, and this will, no doubt, encourage him in his duties. Mothers and daughters of England and America, this is our grgat fete, not because we are all holiday taking at the Exposition of 1867, not because we are in an age when the beauty of our womanhood is most courted, and our natural gifts heightened by all the modern seductions of dress, expenditure, and lavish idolatry ; we are to rejoice because the privileges of our free nations have been proclaimed by a foreigner, and held upby him as a banner under which the Fenians have found protection and mercy. I say mercy, not countenance. Ah ! if men do possess the rights we are told they have—liberty of conscience, liberty of the press, liberty of meeting, freedom of speech—let women never tire of praying, craving for all criminals, whether sentenced for political or private offences. Let our rights be those of suing for mercy, as Portia did, and called it " dew from heaven." Let all we know of free exchange be to save wives from widow hood in return for our entreaties, children from orphan asylums in return for fervent solicitation that their guilty parents be pardoned. When some dreadful deed has stigmatised humanity and our cheeks burn with shame at the recital of a dread crime, while our bosoms beat with indignation, let us give our lips no utterance. When these things happen the hand of God is already weighing on the guilty one ; and if, on facing His glorious sun, we wonder how it can shine on such infamy, let us remember that could it darken it would do so, and recede when mothers crowd to the scaffold and look on while man's justice is taking revenge on an almost sense less criminal. Well may we shudder when the so-called girls of joy, with fixed gaze and painted faces, flit by us in gilded state, but we may not be thus timorous when we see the innocent babe held suckling on the mother's bosom while she watches every agony of the victim cast high on air by the city hangman. This woman, is tcrime.hey should Tiie s s p e c a ak re o s f. cenes which, if there must be women s p ea k ers to up h o ld th e r i g ht s o f Well may we sigh when we hear of battle fields, of youthful warr i ors w h o h ave s hed their blood while defending their country's cause, but energy, not sighs, do we owe to those of our own ' sex who nightly, daily, hourly, wend their steps towards brilliant drinking palaces, -whence they return hideous spectacles of degradation, and deface the sweet image of our mothers. And other sins there are which we do not cry to Heaven because they are committed under the veil of ignorance, or are unknown. There are parents who torture chil dren secretly, while ladies pity lap dogs, glut them with delicate food, and hire footmen to carry their treasures round the square. There are needle women who faint for want of bread over tinselled satin, which their emaciated fingers embroider for the great. So let us ask for mercy, firstly, like Victor Hugo, by appealing to mans better feelings, and then wherever a woman's gentle voice can send a thrill of compassion through the hearts of rulers, whether they be Sovereigns, or exercise power by right of possession, influence, or birth. And now I, too, in the name of the wives and daughters of America and England, rejoice that the lives of Cullinane, Burke, APClure, Al'Afferty, Kelly, and Joice. I rejoice not becluse they are rebels, but because they have rebelled, and sedition feeds on penal executions, hut— "S %reel hymns of joy proclaim through Heaven, The triumph of a soul forgiven !" These sweet lines should be my last this week, if many of my readers had not particularly requested I should have given some account of all that is going on in Paris. They demand an unlimited account of all, but as many will have heard of the Emperor of Russia's triumphal entry in Paris ere this reaches London, I will try to give a sequel to what abler writers have described, and pro ceed to say that the grandest eoup d'ceil was certainly the Rue de la Paix. This street was literally hung with pennons, flags, and armorial bearings, while l adies in f ull dress, and holding fl ow ers, stood on balco nie s or at open windows, and all the house -tops were covered with moving spec tators. Nearly all the aristocracy of England and France, not in attendance at the Tuileries, were on the balcony of the Hotel de Canterbury. Among the ladies there I recognised the Duchess de Mouchy in a mauve robe, maize tulle bonnet, and a coronet made of one mauve feather in front. Princess Alexandrine Gluka, a lovely blonde, with dark hazel Oriental eyes, was in light grey Princess Murat, in violet and black lace. Some of the dresses were costumes of which the most strik ing features were broad sashes behind and apron tunics in front. Bonne!s were clouds of tulle en twined round the front with leaves and berries. The most fashionable bonnet shade is brown, with a gold ornament on the left side among tinted leaves and wild fruit. Veils are unceremoniously tied over the face and on the chignon behind hanging in long ends. They are made of tulle of the same shade as the bonnet. The Empress welcomed Alexander 11. in the large hall which precedes the Salon des Marechaux at the Tuileries. She was attired in light blue, covered with a white lace manteau de cour. The richest of her Majesty's toilets this season was the one she wore at the Austrian Embassy last week. It was straw-colour, and covered with flowers under dew-drops, each of which was a diamond. On this occasion the Princess of Prussia wore white and lilac ; the Queen of the Belgians grey, black lace, and feathers. The waltz which followed the official quad rille was one whirl of glittering precious stones, the gardens were illuminated with electric lights, and a rock over which a cascade fell all the evening was bathed in ever-changing hue, first presenting the appearance of a volcano, from which rolled burning lava ; then again of a sea green grotto under the silvery ocean. At half-past five, after the cotillon, sun-rise was initiated by means of some pyrotechnic mystery, the very perfection of art. At the Lonchamps races, on Sunday, the greatest display of dress ever seen kept crowds of curious spectators for miles and miles in mute bewilder ment and motionless. Madtnc. Rimsky Karsakoff passed in grey and cerise, the Duchess de Mouchy in blue and Alegon. White was the predominant feature, but over blue and pink, with coloured taffeta jerkins and slashed bodices. Some of the prettiest were flounced, and plisee underskirts, with over tunics drawn tightly back, and tied in two ends behind. White Alpaca, trimmed with any light taffeta, is as much worn as light silk. Jet is still the favourite ornament. Ilooth's charges, we are considering that: has been given to t he world ; and i s t u;l ll ,r o is ll e y d retifluattesthGisenherLdn loitutbleere'ns done sooner. It throws very little additional light on the horrible. crime of its author, and is only of interest in so far as it shows the working of his mind after the perpetration of the deed. The en tries begin on the day of the murder, and close on the 21st April, the only dates given. It furnishes a striking instance of the state of mind into which a man may work himself. At times he appears to be overwhelmed with the horrors of his crime, when he writes naturally and in a truthful and touching tone. Then he appears to argue on the necessity of freeing his country from the bonds of a tyrant, whose advent to power was the signal for a fearful war, and who if left undisturbed would fetter it with a despotism. lie speaks of his own bodily sufferings, the broken splinters of his leg chafing through his skin at every bound of his horse, on the fatal night when be rode thus maimed through the darkness full, sixty miles from the theatre of his guilt. But his bodily sufferings were nothing to the mental anguish he underwent, which seems to have condensed into a few days an age of misery. Colonel Conger states that the first leaves were torn from the book when it was taken from Booth's body, and there is no reason for doubting the truth of this statement, or for sup posing that any one had tampered with it when it passed from the author's possession. The annual spring races of the Yale navy took place on Wednesday afternoon, May 22. There were two races, the gig and shell race, distance three miles. Three crews entered for each, from the the Varuna, Glyuna, and Undine Clubs. In the gig race the Glyuna fouled the Varuna, and was ruled out. The Varuna then beat the Undine, and won the race in 20 minutes and 17 seconds. The Vanilla also won the shell race in 18 minutes and 7 seconds, the Glyuna being second, and the Undine third. News has reached the Vienna Gazette, we pre sume, from the Austrian Minister to the United States, dated IVashington, 21st May :—" Quere taro had been carried by surprise early in the morn ing of the 15th. The Emperor, who had withdrawn to the upper part of the town, was forced, after a fresh and very sharp attack, to surrender at discre tion with Mejia and Castillo y Cos. The despatch by which Escobedo announced this event was dated the 16th, at which time no act of violence had been committed on the person of the captive Emperor, and the Government of the United States was taking active steps in his favour." Another journal of Vienna, the New Free Press, gives other news which has been transmitted by its New York correspondent. He writes on the 18th of May that the envoy sent to San Luis de Potosi by Mr. Campbell, the representative of the United States in Mexico, to demand in the name of the Government of Washington that the life of Maxi milian should be spared, had been well received by Juarez, but that he had been unable to obtain any formal engagement which permitted him to reckon with any certainty on a happy result to his journey. Juarez is even said to have raised some objections against the intervention of the United States. — The large American gun purchased to solve practically the gunnery question, has just arrived from America. It is a 15-inch monitor, cast-iron, smooth bore, intended to throw a spherical cast iron shot of about 4501b5. weight with a powder charge of 501bs. It weighs 19 tons. It is made on Rodman's system, the interior being chilled or hardened by the cold core on which it is cast, and by which a new character is imparted to the metal. The object of importing the gun is to bring fairly into trial the American versus the English system of ordnance. It is manufactured on a principle the opposite of that adopted in England. Thus, it is smooth-bore instead of rifled ; it is of cast instead of wrought iron ; it throws a spherical cast-iron shot instead of an elongated Palliser or steel pro jectile ; and, finally, the charge is excessively small I in relation to the weight of shot. We have no more than the usual meagre tele graph intelligence by the Cable from America. The Committee on the Impeachment of President Johnson has resolved to report in favour of his being censured only, and not impeached. The President is now making his contemplated tour through the South. A telegram, dated Shanghae, May 7, informs us that advices received there from Japan announce that four ports will be open to foreign commerce in January next. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, May 25. The news of the failure of Fraser, Trenholm, and Co., has had an injurious influence on the chief markets here, and has even acted adversely upon the price of gold which sold on Wednesday at 1381. The bills of the firm were largely held here, as well as in the South, and there is great uncertainty and anxiety as to what return the assets will realise. Our exports of specie continue very largo, the steamers last Saturday taking out 82,473,932. The Cuba took from Boston on Wednesday $185,000, and the Pabityra from New York 8110,000. This heavy drain shows a balance of trade against 11,', which is not surprising, in view of the fact that we have been importers instead of exporters of grain. The Cable informs us of an easier cotton market in Liver pool, which tends to raise the price of gold. Tho upward movement is grounded on commercial facts, and not on mere speculation ; and we cannot, therefore, look for any speedy fall in the price. The rates for money are becom ing firmer, although the supply is abundant. Loans are effected on good security at from 6 to 7 per cent., and no thing but sound paper is readily negotiable. There is scarcely as much business doing in United States securities, though prices are well sustained. It is thought that the next monthly statement will show an increase in the public debt. The dulness of business leads to a falling off in the revenue. The compound interest notes are being funded as fast as possible. Much disappointment is ex pressed at the depression experienced in all the markets. Hopes have been so constantly disappointed that dealers are beginning to lose confidence in the future. There is less prospect now than ever-of a favourable change. As the spring advances the Western railroad business will con tinue to improve, and when harvest fairly commences we may look, at least in this direction, for better times. The harvest prospects are good, which, after the experience of high prices and short supply of breadstuffs, will bo a boon the Eastern States will appreciate. Tho Pacific and Atlantic Mail Steamship Companies have advanced in consequence of the recent dividends. New York Central is without change. Indeed, there is very little to record, and little of interest doing. A company has been started named the New York Trust— president, J. W. Orvis with $1,000,000 capital. Gold, 1381, United States Five-twenties (1862) 1091, (1864) 106, . „ (1865) 1061, (1835, new issue) 1081, United States Ton-forties 99}, Uuited States 7-30 Loan 1061, Missouri Sixios 971, Tennessee Sixes 63, New York Cenral Railroad 971, Erie 60, Erie pre ferred 72, Hudson River 101, Reading 1031, Michi gan Central 110, Michigan Southern and Northen Indiana., 674, Illinois Central 1151, Cleveland and Pittsburg 73f, Cleveland and. Toledo 1171, Chicago and North-western 331, Chicago and North-western Preferred 581 ; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 951; Chicago and Rock Island 884, Ohio and Mis sissippi Certificates 254, Adams Express Company 641, American 69, United States 691, Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s 65, Merchants Union 18, Western Union Telegraph Co. 421, Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (ex-dividend) 130, Atlantic Mail Steamship Co. 1021, Cumberland Coal Co. Preferred 31, Canton Co. 421, Quicksilver Mining Co. 25, Mariposa Mining Co. 7 to 8, Mariposa Mining Co. Preferred 181, Boston Water Power Co. 271. (From E. F. Sattertlzwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, June 5.) Our letters from New York by the China reach to the 21st ult. They report inactivity in the railroad market, although prices were on the whole well sustained, on tho idea that the anticipation of a full harvest would be realised, and thus add to the earnings, especially of the road running east and west. For public securities there was a good enquiry, and higher rates were paid, the advance being 1 per cent. on most descriptions. Money was easier, and gold, notwithstanding the large exporta tion, remained with but a trifling advance, closing 137 i. ERIE RAILWAY. The Erie Railway Company have accepted all bids made under the Circular of April 1, for the extension of the First Mortgage Bonds, at the office of the company in New York, at a premium of one per cent., and all bids above that premium are also accepted, and the bonds will be extended at the rate of one per cont. premium. The company are now ready to attach coupon sheets to, and extend the bonds of, those holders whose bids are ac cepted as above specified, on their presentation at the office of the company, in the City of New York, and payment of the premium of $lO on each bond. The same terms are accorded to other holders who have bid a leas premium than one per cent., or have failed to make proposals, on notice to the company, to be given. in writing on or be fore the 15th of June next. All other holders will-be paid the principal of their bonds at maturity, after which interest will cease. We must confess that a careful study of the report of this company, which we gave in our last, has occasioned us anything but satisfaction at the result arrived at by the working of the line for the year.lB66. On a comparison of the statement just put forth with that issued a year ago, we can come to uo other conclusion than that the condition of the undertaking is far more unfavourable than at that p-riod. Referring to the Directors' Report for the year 1865, we find them stating that they " anticipated most satisfactory results for the coming and future years;" and further, that " the expenses must hereafter be greatly lessened, as the cost of nearly every article used in operating the road is already materially reduced, and this reduction may be reasonably expected to continue." Instead, however, of these predictions being realized, we find that year by year the cost of operating the road is steadily on the increase, until for 1866, out of between fourteen and fifteen millicns of dollars gross traffic, only the paltry sum of about $40,000 is left available for the ordinary stockholders ! How shareholders can quietly submit to such a state of matters does greatly astonish us. The Directors again assure us that the road was never in a better condition to transact with economy and despatch the business that may be offered to it," and that "the reduction in the prices of many articles of supplies which enter largely into use in the " operations of the road, particularly fuel, will tend ma terially in the future to lessen expenses." This is simply a reiteration of the assurance of the previous year, and the credulous amongst the stockholders may possibly at tach some weight to it, though for ourselves, with the experience of the past, we have little faith in such a result being arrived at under the present system of management. A comparison of the working for the past three year will, we think, show how idle it would be to attach importance to such predictions which are gravely given each year in the reports, but aro not realised by the result. The fol lowing tablo will, we think, justify the above remarks:- 1864. 1865. 1866. Gross earnings $13,429,643 $16,462,227 $14,596,413 Working expenses 8,834,918 11,754,395 10,853,140 $4,594,725 $4,707,832 $3,743,273 65.7 per cent. 714 per cent. 74.8 per cent. On looking into the accounts furnished wo are struck with ono or two items which are passed over without comment; for instance, this year the receipts and expenes of the Buffalo branch aro incorporated with those of the main line, and comparing the two statements, wo can only arrive at the conclusion that this branch is worked at a dead loss to the undertaking of about 8360,000 per annum. Last year the entire earnings for 18G5 were stated at $15,434,774, while in this report they are given as $16,462,227, the working cost for corresponding period being given respectively as $10,368,264 and $11,751,395, thus while claiming a decrease for 1866, of $901,255, really showing the loss on Buffalo branch above stated. Another feature worthy of notice is that, the falling off in earnings is mainly in passengers, the per centage of re duction in that of tratii3 being twenty-eight as against five on freight. It is quite fair, therefore, to attribute the great increased cost of operation to the mode of working the freight. On this subject wo have more than once ex pressed our views freely and strongly, and fear that the unfavourable working of this road can only he attributed to the damaging effect of express companies, coupled with the large proportion of monies received for through freight via steamers on Lake Erie, going intoother channels. We fear the evils arising from these two causes are increasing, as on a comparison of the statements issued for the year 1864 with those of 1866, we find the following results:— FREIGHT EARNINGS. 1864 TOSS. Through East... $4,748,533 on 410,758=310,77 per ton. Through West.. 2,031,181 on 161,118= 12.37 „ Way Freight .... 3,463;179 on 1,609,419= 2.15 ;; Total 510,212,876 on 2,214,295= $4.62 per ton. 1866 TONS. Through East... $4,176,428 on 513,921= $8.12 per ton. Through West.. 2,462,299 on 260,270= 9.46 „ Way Freight .... 4,622,913 on 2,097,314.---- 2.20 „ Total 511,2G1,640 on '2,171,505= $3.92 per ton. Thus showing that though working expenses havo been increased nine per cent., the charge for carrying through freight has been simultaneously reduced nearly twenty five per cent. In our remarks last year, we took occasion to draw attention to the item of "accounts payable," which we re garded as very unfavourable, we regret now to note that this is increased from $3,551,980 to $4,894,452, being nearly as has been expended on the construction account, so that the simple result is that, for all or nearly all the boasted improvements on the road, the directors have gone into debt ; for, reckoning the decrease in the "materials on hand," and the increase above alluded to, the whole amount is accounted for. To sum up, we sincerely re gret to arrive at the conclusion that, there is scarcely one point in the report which we can regard with unqualified satisfaction, and fear that, unless some radical change is effected in the mode of managing the company's affairs, we shall again see it drift into the disastrous state which existed some seven years ago. There has been since our last of this day week a consi derable amount of business transacted in American Secu rities on the London Market, and up to Monday last prices of United States 5-20's showed an advancing tendency. From the highest point reached, however, there has been a slight reaction, and they close 721 to 721 for the earlier issue, and 70t to 71+ for the 1865 bonds. Illinois Shares on higher quotations from New York, and in prospect of approaching dividend, have advanced $2 ; viz., to 781 to t, at which they are firm. Eries, which have not been well sustained, leave off 39} to 40. On a renewed inquiry for Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds they have advanced to 241 to 251, after having touched 261. Certificates of Debenture at 31 to 32, are one per cent. higher. Illinois Seven per Cents., and Erie Third Mortgage have both advanced $2, and Pennsylvania Sterling Bonds also show a rise of one per cent. (From L. P. Morton and Co.'s Circular.) The subsidence of the excitement connected with the Luxemburg negotiations has been succeeded by a general stagnancy in financial affairs. With a brief exception money has been abundant at 4 to 5 per cent., on demand loans, and present indications appear to point to a pro longed ease. United States securities, however, have shown considerable activity, partly the result of the fund ing of the short obligations of the Government, and partly from speculation. Five-Twenties of 1862 have ad vanced 11 since the date of our last, and, owing to their growing scarcity, are held with much firmness. The foreign demand for bonds has been partly supplied by shipments of Sixes of 1881, and Five-Twenties of 1865, of the first issue ; and it would seem that, in the event of any further material demand for bonds, some other security than the Five-Twenties of 1862 will have to be made available. The exclusive preference for Sixty-Two's by foreign investors, has caused them to range about 3 per cent. above other issues of Five-Twenties; whereas, in trinsically, they are no more valuable, and differ from others only in respect to the date of maturity. The speculation for higher prices in Erie shares has drawn a considerable amount of stock from London, which, in connection with the dullness of the stock market, has caused a decline of 3 to 4 per cent. from our last quotations. It is estimated that about 10,060 shares of the stock have been received from abroad during the present month. The current earnings of the roads show, on the average, a slight advance upon those of the same period of last year, as will be seen from a statement of the traffic of leading roads given below, but, notwithstanding, stocks are ne glected by public, aEd speculations for higher prices are weakly responded to. Prices now generally rule below those of the same date in le6G, as will appear from the following comparison : May 24, 1867. MaylB, 18 G. Erie, common 6O ••• 741 Michigan Southern Rock Island Fort Wayne 9s' Illinois Central Reading As showing how far this depreciation of prices is due to the decided pieforence given to Government securities, we present the following comparison of the prices of bonds at the respective dates, from which it appears that Govern ments leave advanced as much as Railroad shares have declined. _ _ May 24, May 18, 1867. 1E166. United States 6s, 1881 coupon ... 112 ... 109 do. 6s, 5-20's, 1862 do. ... 1091 ... 1011 • do. 6s, 5-20 s, 1864 do. ... 1051 ... 102 do. 6s, 5-'2os, 1865 do. 1061 1021 do. 6s, 10-40 s do. 7-30's, Trea sury Notes lst series 1061 ... 102/ The heavy decrease in the shipments of cotton, concur rently with the maturing of the coupons of Five-Twenties, has induced a free exportation of specie. The shipments of specie and bullion at this port, from May 4th to May 22d, aggregate $7,144,598. This movement has caused gold to range at rather higher figures. There is a steady accumulation of gold inthe country, so that its exportation has less effect upon the premium than formerly. On the I s t May, 1866, there was in the United States Treasury, which is now virtually almost the exclusive deposit of our specie, $76,676,407 of coin, and on May 1, 1867, 114,250,444, showing an increase during the year of $36,574,037. As tending to throw light upon the balance of our foreign trade, we compile from official sources the following statistics, giving the imports and exports of the United States for the first three months of the current year. Imports (entered in gold value) .., 594,754,462 Exports (entered in gold values) $14,525,590 Do. (entered in currency values), $125,342,638, equivalent in gold, at 136, to Total exports 106,689,291 Excess of exports 511,934,832 These figures take no account of the movement of securities, which, during the quarter, was largely in our favour, and would warrant the addition of a few millions to the above balance. Owing to the failures in connection with the cotton trade in this city, at New Orleans and at Liverpool, the cotton market has been depressed, and the price of the staple has not responded to the comparative exhaustion of the crop as might otherwise have been expected, and quotations range at the same figures as at our last dates, middling uplands being at the close 27 cents. The receipts at all ports for the past week amount to 14,800 bales, against 18,600 bales last week, and the shipments to 38,800 bales; the present total stock at all the ports is estimated at 355,000 bales. Exchange closes at 1091 for 60 days' bankers' sterling ; 1104 for 3 days' sight; bills on Paris, 5.121 to 511} for 60 days' ; 510 to 5.08.1 for sight. THE RICHES OF "RUSSIAN AMERICA." —The same animals are probably to be met with—with the addi tion of Polar bears, walruses, and reindeer—in Russian America as in British Columbia, only to a lesser extent, and many only a certain distance to the north. Such aro the great deer—the wapiti, the elk, and the caribou ; also the black-tailed deer—the fallow deer of the Pacific. There are also Arctic hares and rabbits. The beaver is to be met with in some rivers. Black bears and grizzly bears are also met with, as well as Polar bears; the skins are of little marketable value, although making good rugs. Racoons are numerous in some parts of the coast. Thereare two species of marten, the yellow-breasted or pine marten, and one of a whole colour, the skins of which are in great request, and are collected in large numbere by the fur traders. A good one is worth from 6s. to Bs. There are also common minks and skunks. The skins of seals and otters are, however, the most sought after,. There are two kinds of otters—the land otter and the sea otter. The land otter is frequently shot by the Indians, but the skin is of little value ; whereas the skin of a full sized sea otter, undressed, and measuring six feet commands the price of 30 blankets, £l2 to £l4. There are also red and black wolves,land red and silver foxes, squir rels (which are shot in great numbers for the table), and marmots. Birds, including swans, geese, ducks, plover, snipe, and some land game birds aro mot with ; and the seas and large inlets, as also the bays and rivers south of the Arctic circle, are literally alive with fish. The shores also contribute large edible crabs, shrimps, mussels, cockles, limpets, clans, and other shell fish. Salmon are so nume rous that some of the rivers have actually been known to become offensive from the putrid bodies of such as have failed to make their way up the various falls.—Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. I ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Diseases are common to the palace and the cottage, and the best remedies are available alike to tenants of each. Holloway's well esteemed ointment and pills can be ob tained everywhere, at a moderate cost, and prove them selves the poor man's friend when he is simply ailing, or worse still, when the severity of his sufferings forbids the pursuance of his usual employment. Gout, rheumatic gout, rheumatism, lumbago, nervous affections, neuralgia,sciatica, stitches in the side, and pains in the joinls yield to Hollo way's treatment. In these two medicaments are combined all that science and invention can supply for the relief of suffering humanity, and the restoration of the afflicted to I ease, strength, and activity. FRENCH THEATRICALS. VAUDEVILLE.—Cicero was much diverted when the Gracchi accused their fellow-citizens of being seditious. He would then have burst his sides with laughter at hearing the French critic com plaining of the immoral tendency of Aleic" andre Dumas's plays. It is in truth a sore tax upon our patience to listen to these scrib blers setting up as public moralists. The Pal e wan form of the " Dame aux Cam6lias" has flitt ed once more across the French stage, and the critics affect to be shocked at the reappearance. S he had gone down to the tomb and had been forgot' ten ;—of what avail this resurrection of an proper character ? Marie Daplessis, or let her retain her stage name, of Marguerite Gauthier, was one of the least objectionable represen tations of an objectionable class, which has ob truded itself into the social system of Paris the morality of those who have allowed the se ea " riously caparisoned carnivorous creatures, t o ecla. housser us quiet-going good people as they 10 1 l list lessly on their 7wil ressorts, this is assuredly open to . criticism—but for Parisian journalism to wax .13: dignant on the subject is un peu fort. In ancient days Cato's affectation in attending the floral games, well knowing what he would see ther e, and then ostentatiously stalking out again was deserv edly held up to ridicule— Cur in theatrum Cato severe venisti An ideo tantum veneras ut mares ? What claim have MM. les feuilletonistes to set uP as imitators of the rigid old censor, and above all why imitate his affection ? No doubt it would be better that such subjects should be excluded from the stag e ' But when a manager finds a long queue outside hi 3 theatre after 400 representations, and that every We and stall are let for weeks in advance, he may assuredly say to Mme. Doche,“ Bien joue, Marguerite." DEJAZET.—Those famous carp to whom we have s° of ten cast our bread upon the waters at Fon tainebleatt they have been floundering about in those pou t ': like mudlarks, since Frangois Premier fought a' Pavia, and flirted in the grounds at Chenonces A 0 ' or sported with Amaryllis in the shade at ny boise. There are swans which are said to he , 200 years old ; the silver swan at the Exhibition la known to be more than a century old. Alexander the Great had an elephant in his camp whe n went forth to fight Darius which was 340 yea old. Buffon says that a whale will live a thousand years, and one of St. Everemond's letters to l‘ti rion Delorme is dated 1642, and his last b" doux to her is dated 1698, a constancy whie,s. must have been the result of long resistanet; But Mlle. Dejazet—smooth as Heber was ° , O unrazored lip when we first saw her from a stall a's the French plays in London, and time whie h un ., dealt so harshly with us and others has spared ":" t h She is now playing the Vicomte de Letorieres wit h is all the entrain and vivacity of byegone years. Sheet, the most perfect gentleman that ever trod the Freaesr stage. With what graceful abandon does she an, about in the drunken scene, but still the gen tleol like the Baron of Bradwardine where nictr ial c u r i e and even our Regent George in his best days' b e ; e a d Brummel asked Lord Alvanley who his fat f f ie bo t was—even if he could never have chiff o ned his J a with such wondrous nonchalance. Her Per f°l i ie f ance is marvellous, and the marvel is beyond be.na when we know that Mdlle. Dejazet lurk s behl the Vicomte de Letoriere's jabot. COUNTRY MARKETS• D. e trac iael There was a fair show of whoat ERBY—FRIDAY on offer to-day; thGr was quiet, last week's prices being barely realised. od st ing barley in middling supply, and in steady de rn ,., a t iooS• full rates. Oats wen, scarce, at last week's quot a Beans were at full prices, with a fair demand. 36 New white wheat, 72s to 76s ; old red, 68 s to 7 18 . rdia, stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 47s per q r. ; grin als to 30s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 325; old, uto 435 36s per 21 stone. Beans, old, 58s to 60s; new, 460 per 38 stone. LIVERPOOL.- -FRIDAY. ,d 0 1 , We had a moderate attendance at to-day's nifir"Vd there was a limited demand for wheat at a decline 0 1 j ot. 3d cental on white descriptions since T per Flour slow, and Gd per sack lower in value. Ina.. corn was in limited request, and is per qr che3Pvioug mixed American 37s lo 378 Gil. Beans' un der Pr e : e sSi vainest. In oats and oatmoal there was a fair bus° and quite as dear. ue sdaY do LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. and tle A tolerable supply of wheat. Trade inactive 'qr. farmers reluctantly submitted to a reduction of 16 per Other articles were a moderate show. , n per 36 , New white wheat, 60s to 68s ; new red, 583 to u.'" stone. Barley for malting, 49s to 5 48 pe r qr; grit, to 32s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, 25s to 30s. Beas' 50s per 38 stone. S te —FRIDAY. % With a modera s how TAMFOR of D wheat the demand W3B ll slow, at is decline on recent currencies. A verYwsgain and show of barley, at unaltered rates. Oats in swan ' were at top prices. A g g per 86 New white wheat, 65s to 71s •, red do., 57s to 35 3 stone. Barley, malting, 40s to 50s ; grinding , 2s t tone' per qr. Oats, new, 24s to 29s ; old, 30s to 32s per Beans, 43s to 48s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. Rea .1n At our market to-day English wheat Was bout 0, demand again, and the business done wa s at n 3 ea r l s nu rates of last week. In barley very little doing. •L'e" oats steady. Weather fine. • -- BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY . i n the There has been a very considerable improve v: 10 % bee.° demand for sugar this week, and large sales 1 331 _ a re ll3 effected at fully 6d per cwt. advance. Refined sorto more request, and prices rather dearer. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closed the m arket- - , (1 6 s. d. 18 Bradyell's Hetton Holywell Main Tunstall Eden Main 17 0 North Felton Gas Cassop ►Ships at market, 53—sold, 46. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Jal le it. &ustralia and New Zealand, via Southamptolk•••• •• Ja ae Ditto, via Marseilles . . .•••••••• Ditto, via Panama ....... ........ • • * j Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Vidzo ......... e . jou Ditto, by French packet ••••••• .......oao. Cape Verde, by Brazil packet . .................. . J .."00 e Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. H e lens.• • J oe China, Penang, and Sing - ips)re, via Soui.hanlY"'" . pole Ditto, via Marseilles .......................... Falkland Islands ................................... J oe Gibraltar, via Southampton ........... Jul ie 13., India, via Southampton ............... • ...... ,s. Ditto, via Marseil es ...................... •• • . Ju de !. Malta, Egypt, lea ......... ................. J oe / Ditto, Mareeilles.. . pia 19. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Nata l, •Jane .3. Southampton. ........................... J oe t Ditto, via M arcel les ............................. 14. Newfoundland .................. . ..... • .......... Pa/ Portugal ......................................... Ditto, by private ship to Oporto . ............ Ditto ditto to Lisbon .... ................... United States , Canada, California, lae.. -13 1.1 by . JO ° packet Ditto, by United States packet ................. Ditto ditto (New York) ................... Ditto ditto (New York) ................... Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ....... .• • ........ ••• • . , .so oe A. Ditto, by Canadian packet .................. joy West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffa• • • • B 6 ue 13 ah ' West Indies and Pacific ,except Mex ico and .. _ „8, mas) .................................... • Joe Cub► and Mexico ........... . .................. ". .Jane 3 . Bahamas, via New York .................... • •••:... OIY Bermuda, via Halifax ............. . ........ C oocu—On the 6th insßt Births. wife of Lieut.-Col. Col.C mß o . o a ' . CLwEiyeEf or ti l° _ ,_iellies. 7 711;Ortla Of II daughter —On the .- Gth inst., at Acacia House, Ite, the John J. Cleave, Esq., barrister -at-I°lr' . HOOD—On the 6th inst., at 40, Southstreet, Gvuoveiter or r j a i t ,r ß nosof e g v lade e ,d r s l E sa.euyqs-.hr, square, Viscountess Hood, of a son. A E S Winchester, O L D —ROD ER GeorgeTS— On the 6th inst tSt Sslitbrritil° Beverley-road, .7..? ef 0 Doc. , r o f 01 Close, Winchester, to Mary Luev eldest daughte late DA Thomas Robeits, of Arrow,-IVarwickshire• CO; DANDY—OARTER—On the 6th inst„ at Melboureekci, oi• Dalston-lane, Hackney, to Mary Aune bridgeshire, Charles, son of the late C. Dit.' f•lt.. dsoo.ter .obire. L an Dridr Carter, Esq., of The Lawn, Melbourno, Deaths. ALLEN—On the sth inst., at Clifton Vill. C3332de11-scl oars, Mr. Richard Allen, aged 81. Ho a r L e Joseph R o n a l l a tetil Do j s o a s BULL—On the sth inst., at Shirley, Soothe Bull, Esq. inst., at 2, Tu f n 11011 0 1 tnell-place, glao ' William J J. Donald, Esq., late of the Bank o aged 57. g R 0659411 KNArP—On the 7th inst., at Kingston-on-TWO" CO-' SurreY G. A. 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