The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-05 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE QUEEN ONCE MORE IN PUBLIC. We are promised shortly another public cere monial, over which her Majesty will preside. The Lancet mentions a rumour, and believes it to be a correct one, " that her Majesty has been pleased to signify her wish to open the new building of the University of London in person." The time when this event takes place is May. London is then full, not only of " society," but of provincial visitors, espe cially of clergymen, who go up to attend the benevo lent meetings of the month. TIIE LAND BILL. The meeting of Irish members touching the Land fill was influential, fifty-two representatives—n ear ly half the entire number—being present. But the de3ision entirely belied the various reports as to what the Hibernian legislators would do. In one quarter it was said that an attempt would be made to apply th , :; Ulster tenant-right to the whole island. Another runnuir affirmed that a motion of this kind would h 3 ma d e "on the second reading." The a ual result is that. the Irish members will ollbr no opposition at the next stage of the measure; and at present there aro no signs of "this day th ree months" in any quarter. IRISH OPINION'. • Irish dissatisfaction with. the Government tenure measure has found vont at meeti ngs o f t h e Ir i sh Tenant League and of tile National Association. At the League gathering Mr. Butt affirmed that the bill still left landlords tne power o f ev i ct i on, albeit that power was limited . and controlled by the stipulation for compensation. Though tha measure might work - very well under other conditions of things, it would not answer in Ireland. It was most unfortunate that the claims for compensation for improvements and for disturb ance of occupation were mixed up together. If the Legislature intended to put a high price upon the mere right of occupation, they ought to do so dis tinctly, and in plain words. At the National Asso ciation a resolution was passed condemning the bill for not providing sufficient security against rack-rent and arbitrary eviction. A REMEDY FOR AcntAitrArr OUTRAGES: " The Relative of a Murdered Gentleman," writing to the Times, proposes a remedy for agrarian outrages. He says that at the meeting of magi strates at Mullingar, it was stated that they could get no informations laid. The writer observes that in Italy, under the French, and Apulia, under the Bourbons of Naples, the domiciles had to pay a tax to supp3rt the .troops. If a new Act were passed to enable the Lord-Lieutenant to do this, every cabin would pay till discovery was made and the troops were withdrawn. It is the in habitants of these cabins, he adds, who do the wrong by protecting the local or district assassin in his in cAning and outgoing from the district. SLIGO. - - - When Sligo is again allowed the privilege of a parliamentary election, it is likely that Mr. Thomas O'Dowd will offer himself as a candidate. He is brother-in-law to the Right Hon. Judge Keogh, and. will contest th e borough on " ultra-National" princi ples. As National principles are commonly supposed to differ from F en i an i sm on l y b y a sl i ght shade, it Is not easy to see what ultra-nationalist principles mean, unless it be Fenianism itself. EMIGRATION. The National Emigration League is undaunted by the decision of parliament not to counte nance the principle of State-supported emigration. It has resolved to ask for such support, nevertheless. The general and executive committee, at a special meeting held after the division in the House of Commons, passed this resolution :—"That this Council is of opinion that it is the imper ttive duty of the League to carry on the agitation fo: its pro gramme, believing that both this country and the colonies would be alike benefited by the aid sought for from the Government." It has been decided to hold a great demonstration in the metropolis. Public inoetings are to come off in the large towns. TTIE GAME LAWS. A large meeting of farmers and others interested in agricultural matters has been held at Birmingham to discuss the repeal of the game laws. All half measures, ground game distinctions, and the like, were contemptuously repudiated. The total aboli tion, and nothing else, will these men of the Birmingham district accept; and they have formed a local committee to promote the move ment. One speaker expressed the opinion that very little opposition would be offered in Parliament. This g,entleinan probably enjoys a special insight into the wishes and intentions of the Legislature. It is pos sisle that Parliament may ofl'er little opposition to so:no change; but there are not the smallest indica tions that it is prepared to accept total abolition of the laws. STREET TRAMWAYS. Mr. Shaw Lefevre's Tramway Bill seems to cs-m -tain every necessary provision for the institution of a systc ,;; that will be the means of quicker locomotioa in our streets, The Act applies to England and Wales, and authorises the construction of tramway=s by any local authorities, or by persons or companies acting with per mission of the local authorities. 'Certificates to enable such works to proceed will be obtainable from the Board of Trade. The undertaking may be leased or sold by its promoters, and a toll may be levied on its use. Due protection is afforded to all works which might otherwise suffer by the tearing up of streets for the purpose of making tram ways. Thus, no interference will be allowed with sewers, or with gas or water works; and any differences arising, as they inevitably will arise, between tramway promoters and local boards will be settled by an engineer or other fit person appointed by the - Board of Trade. OTJIL MERCHANT SEAMEN. The Liverpool committee appointed to inquire into the present condition of our merchant seamen have taken a simple course to obtain correct information, by applying to the owners and captaiusof vessels. A cir cular was issued to these authorities on the subject, . and replies have been received from owners and masters of every class of vessel sailing from our ports. An analysis of their answers shows that merchant sea men in England have deteriorated as seamen, have deteriorated in physical condition, and also in suUrcli , nation. The causes of this general deterioration are said to be—in seamanship the abolition of the com pulsory apprentice system, and the obtaining the rating of A.B. too easily ; in physical condition the crimping and boarding houses, advance notes, intem perance, and disease; in insubordination, the intro duction of foreign seamen, and the want of powers on the part of the master of a ship to punish miscon duct. Fortunately these serious experiences are accompanied by suggestions for improving the condition into which the men have fallen. Better provisions, clean and comfortable berths, the licensing of boarding houses, and training ships for the merchant service may, if introduced, do much towards the abolition of what is becoming a great evil. TILE CITY OF BOSTON. The gloomy forebodings that hang over the non , arrival at Liverpool of the Inman steamship City of Boston become more and more verified as day after • day passes, and the vessel fails to make her appear ance. Offers of sixty guineas premium of illsur i.ance on the ship and cargo can with difficulty find a response on the part of the underwriters. The City of Boston sailed from Mali ' fax on the 28th of January, and has, consequently, been thirty-five days out. She is an Al ship, built of iron, with a draught of twenty-two feet of water. Amongst numerous passengers, it is said that she is bringing over the staff officers A nd their families of the Royal Artillery, ordered home from Canada on . account of the army reductions. her cargo was varied, and of great value. There is yet a hope which is clung to. by the underwriters and the friends of those on board, that the vessel, having her steam power disabled by the fearful weather reported lately in the Atlantic, been driven southward, and is attempt make her way slowly to some port under sail. iorchant captains at Liverpool are sanguine of peing the case, and believe that the noble vmel 'et return in safety. A NEW LIFE BELT. y improvement on our present appliances for -?; life from drowning must be welcomed in the ;e of a method in all respects satisfactory. Cork Iry and inconvenient; bladders of all sorts are to collapse, or to cause dangerous accidents by lg. A new form of lifebelt has been invented ant do G. Liancourt, a French gentleman who ag been engaged in various exertions for some method of preserving life from shipwroclz 'owning. The beltcontainsquuditienwhich bulfair der it superior to any of the old patterns. J t uovant that when one is floating by it in fret!' it is not practicable to force the body under oy any ettort. its buoyancy would, of course :eh greater in the sea, and one of its greatest tages is that it cannot be otherwise than close 'to the body. When punctured by munerow. les there in not the slightest facility for the of air, the tissue closing up as fast as the ures are made. TUE DISSENTING DEPUTIES. Charles Reed, M.P., was president of the ig on Thursday of the dissenting deputies. tie Iced the half-yearly business, and remarking signs of the times, said that the present was a I comparative peace in the House of Commons, would be a source of_satisfaction, since the parry government, ma . bitterness of party spirit might for a time be quenched in view of the great public questions that demanded the unbiassed consideration of both parties in the State. Mr. Reed eulogised the spirit in which the Government education measure had been framed. Amongst other points, Nonconformists were agreed upon this—that while no denominational teaching should be allowed in any aided school, no regulation should be permitted to exclude the Bible from the school-room, or the appeal to it in the process of moral culture or daily discipline. He saw no reason for undue haste in the passage of the bill, for the whole demand for speedy legislation was based upon a most exaggerated view of the utter ignorance of the people. 1 SELF-ACCUSATION. Though most people must have had, or ought to have had, quite enough of the Mordaunt divorce case, a story which a clergyman tells in the Thrace is worth reproduction. The event, which oc curred twenty-five years ago, is given as evidence that such a delusion ter that under which Lady Mordaunt has been represented to labour is not impossible. A lady, who had recently given birth to a child, confessed that her, medical attendant, and not her husband, was the father. The husband's affec tion was strong, and he therefore made her a suitable provision, leaving her to reside alone, but en tertaining no thought of legal proceedings. The clergyman promised to watch over the forlorn condition of the wife. He called upon her, accompanied by his own wife, and with the following result:—" The unhappy lady alluded with many tears to her infatuated guilt, adding, as an aggravation to her shame, that she had exposed herself to the ob servation of her faithful servants, and even of her elder children. I left her with deep commise ration, but was somewhat surprised, in talking over the case with my wife, to find that she entertained a suspicion of the genuineness of the tale of misery. The cause of suspicion was this, that in the midst of floods of tears my wife had observed that the lady, after some moving sentence, took the handkerchief from her streaming eyes to watch the effect upon me, and detected the lurking smile which so often accom panies the weeping simulation of hysteria or insanity." And so it turned out. The lady's health returned ; the strictest inquiry spewed that the story of guilt was the creation of a distempered brain; and the wife was restored to her husband. ink to Old in his be ill yc ••• Any aving absence . 3 bulb . iablo t hiftinr Cou .as len utter rid dra o rend so bi water i • watei be lulu adrant fitting • Inn-ho] escape punctu 211 r. cetin] rodu the of .it THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT. One drawback to the successful application of the Contagious Diseases Act at the military stations is the existence of divers small towns in the immediate neighbourhood, which are free from the influence of the measure. The authorities aro about to make an attempt to remedy this evil in the vicinity of Plymouth. The provisions of the Act will be carried out at Dartmouth, Ivybridge, and Plynipton, and three constables are to be added to the Devonport force for this purpose. " COMPETITION." The Pall Kali Gazette renders good service by its persistent attacks upon traders who adulterate food. In one article it quotes some remarkable facts to shew that the Adulteration Act of • 1860 is almost a dead letter. In a report presented a few years ago to the Home Secretary, it was stated that when the Adulteration Act was passed ; " those bakers who adulterated the bread became apprehensive, but when it was found that no sufficient means were provided by the Act to meet the expenses of active and constant supervision, they became confident again, and resumed their practice of adulterati on with out any fear of detectio n ." According to Dr. Letheby the adultration of tea is carried on to an alarming extent. In City bonded warehouses he found thousands of pounds of "fine Moning Congou," which proved to consist of the re-dried leaves of exhausted tea, "for the most part quite rotten from putrefactive decom position." Of course this sta is designed for the special benefit of the poor. In a tea report by a commercial firm, it is stated that the deficiency in the market was made up by seven mil lion pounds of "spurious stinking matter." In a fortnight 3,772 lbs. of meat have been seized as unfit for human food. At the Indian meat market there have for some time past been actual sales of Hunga rian pigs, afflicted with a parasitic disease. But all this is "only another form of competition," accord ing to Mr. Bright. SENSATION AFTEIL DECAPITATION. The recent discussions on the question whether sensation remains in the head of the victims of the guillotine, have induced certain continental physicians to make several curious experiments the head of the parricide BeMere. They took possession of the head five minutes after execution, when no trace of life remained. They shouted the dead man's name up the auricular passages, they placed pads of lint soaked in the strongest ammonia in the nostrils, and touched the lips with them, without pr o ducing the smallest trace of sensation. Neither did the placing of lights close to the pupils of the eyes, nor the cauterising of the eyes with nitrate of silver pro duce any effect. Electricity was then tried, and the galvalic battery of Legendre, having a current of mediocre strength, produeel rapid contractions in the muscles of the film. Did this prove that the brain retained sensation ? The physicians are positive that it did not, for two reasons. First, while the side of the face played upon by the electric current, moved in an expressive manner, the other side remained as immovable as ever; and, secondly, because the parts galvanisedc resumed their deathlike stillness directly the current ceased. The result of the experiments is, therefore, to prove that decapitation is instantly fatal. THE STATE OF ITALY. There is reason to apprehend that the new Italian Ministry, which will shortly meet the Parliament and submit its pro,gramme, will not have much of value to offer. The signs are not promising. Italy is at present burdened with an army far in excess of its requirements or means of support. The one great necessity is an extensive reduction of this force, which causes a deficit of several millions a year during a period of peace. But the new Government promises no great reduction. Worse still, there is not the slightest prospect of any diminution in the inordinate expenditure of the Court, or any clearing away of the parasites who eat up the revenue. A few clerks have been dismissed, and the cards have been shuffled in other ways so as to save a few thousands. The frightful deficit, however, remains substantially intact. All that the Ministry can suggest is another loan and fresh taxes. Great retrenchment or in creased revenue is undoubtedly a necessity ; but as the taxes imposed a few mouths ago led to very serious rioting, the result of further imposts may be very awkward. The disorders consequent upon the levying of the grist tax last year amounted almost to an insurrection. The peasantry maltreated the collectors; in one case they nailed two to a barn door like bats, and another they put into a mill and fairly ground him. THE GREAT NORTHERN EAU, wAy.--Au action has been brought at the Hertford Assizes against the Great Northern Railway by a farmer named Bowman, who had received injuries in the accident at Welwyn Junc tion. He founded his claim on a charge of negligence and laid the damages at 22,000. Lieutenant-Colonel Rich, the Government Inspector, gave evidence, as well as Mr. Johnson, the chief engineer of the line. Colonel Rich said that in railway accidents the car riages frequently had " f reaks" which it was impossible to explain by scientific reasons. The company resisted the claim on the ground that there had been no negligence. However, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £5OO. Many other actions arising from the same accident, which was a very serious one, will be tried. A curious fact was stated in the course of the evidence. After the accident, several carriages were found to have completely altered their position, one of those behind at first being in front afterwards, and no explana tion could be given of the change. NEW CAB LAW.—The cabdrivers who were semmoned at Hammersmith Police-court for disregarding certain regulations have been informed that the fares not being fixed by the Secretary of State, they could not be con victed. A summons against another cabman was ad journed, to give the Commissioner of Police an opportunity of stating a case for the opinion of a superior court. At the Southwark Police-court a cabman from the stand at Waterloo Station was fined 40s. for having refused to take a fare. ROBBERY BY A BANK CLERK.—Joseph Nelson Warner. aged 22, a clerk in the service of Messrs. Robarts, Lub bock, 'and Co., bankers, of Lombard-street, has been charged, before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, with embezzling the sum of 2124. The prisoner was a collecting clerk, and on the 18th of January last he was sent out to collect cheques, bills, &c. to the amount of 218,641 He had not since returned. On the afternoon of that day he gave his bill-case to a fellow clerk in the vicinity of the Bank, and went away under the pretence that he wanted to get some lunch. As he did not return, his bill ease was examined, and found to contain bank-notes and securities, but no money, and there was a deficit of £124. The prisoner had absconded to Exeter, where, being in great distress, he gave himself into custody, and was brought to London. He was committed for tr;aL THE COCNTESS D'ALTETRAC AND HER JEWELER - IL —A dividend meeting has been held under the bankruptcy of Gunia Maria d'Alteyrac, alias the Countess Willoughby d'Ereeby, of Grosvenor-square. Monsieur Hubic, a jeweller, of Paris, claimed a sum of /1500, which the Countess disputed. However, as the dividend, which was 3i. 10d. in the pound, could not be allowed to remain open, tin COMIS A for the claimant W thd rc. - v- Lis proof for the present. A resolution to take the proceedings out of bankruptcy was presented. THE CitANCZItY SCAN; )AL CASI7.-71s hearing of the suit of Mrs. Weston to enforce the payment of £I,O I JO annuity by her hu.-.band, has been concluded before th; Ma - ,ter of the Ti.c parties resided in Dorset:shire, and on account of certain Chi:lieu:ties Mrs. Weston had fax annuity of J-21,000 granted her by her husband under a deed of separation in It,oo, on condition that it should be re voked if she c:,mmitted cr sought a restitution of conjugal rights. One quarterly instalment was paid, but further payment was refused on the ground that Mrs. Weston has since committed adultery. _Mrs. Weston denies the charges, attributing them to a desire to get rid of the payment of the annuity. Mr. Weston cros-examined his wife and her alleged paramour at great length. It was submitted on the part of the lady that it was for the husband to satisfy the Court of the, truth of his charges, and he would do it better by instituting a suit in the Divorce Court. The Master of the Eons, at the close of tho case, said he should read over all the affida,vite before n4vinr , tictrrnaent. fHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1870. WASIIINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. DIPLOMATIC DINNER AT VIENNA. VIENNA, Feb. 24. The 22d of February was celebrated by a dinner at the American Legation. Among the guests were the Chan cellor of the Empire, Count de Beust, and his Excellency Count Festetics, of the Hungarian Ministry ; the Duke de Gramont, Ambassador of France, and the Duchess de Gratnont ; Mr. and Mrs. Lytton, of the British 1 - Embassy; Baron Schweinitz, the successor of Baron Werther, as the nvoy from the North German Confederation ; his Excel ency Cipriano del Mazo, Minister from Spain; Mr. Vas siltchikoff, of the Russian Embassy ; the Marquise de Pe poli, wife of the Italian Minister; Count Wydenbruch, the late Austrian Minister at Washington ; Baron Orczy, Mr. von Hoffmann, General Post, Mr. Delaplaine, and Mr. Tiffany. After the dessert, the American Minister, Mr. JO/IN JAY, said—ln rising to offer the first toast of the evening I beg leave, on my own behalf and on that of my countrymen, to return my thanks to our distinguished guests who have come to assist us in celebrating the birth day of Washington. That the Chancellor of this ancient empire and the ambassadors and envoys of tLo great Powers of Europe accredited to this Imperial and Royal Court should thus cordially assemble in honour of the founder of the American Republic, may seem to the stu dent of history to be adding at least a spice cf variety to the diplomatic memories of Vienna. But there was than in the character .and career of Washington which has long commanded the admiration of Europe. A doubt yet lingered, and perhaps with reason, of the thoroughness, permanency, and solidity of the work performed by that group of American statesmen of whom WaShington was the central figure. The last decade has solved that doubt, and to-day, whatever names, illustrious in the past, may pale in the sunlight of the nineteenth century, that of Washington stands with undimmed brightness, rever enced alike by sovereigns, diplomats, and people. It is the hope of my countrymen that, however extended may be the boundaries of the Republic which he founded, and which has been recently puritied and reconstructed, it will still be in every part imbued with his spirit. That uni versal freedom will bo ennobled by universal education, that local corruption where it exists will disappear before the higher morality of the nation, and that his farewell counsel of good faith and justice to all nations will never be forgotten. You all know how far the traits of Wash ington were reproduced in Lincoln, whose death for the moment made the whole world kin by a comrion sorrow. Of his successor, who, by the choice of the American people, now sits in the seat of Washington it is not for me to speak. His work as a soldier the world beholds in the Republic one and indivisible. His work as President each day is unfolding. But 1 may say with propriety ou this occasion, and in this distinguished presence, that the in ternational policy of General Grant and Mr. Fish will be based upon that inaugurated and maintained by Washing ton, and which has been approved by the most enlightened publicists of Europe as illustrating the highest principles of the law of nations. I have the honour to give you "The Presid 2nt of the United States." The toast having been received with all honour, The AMERICAN MINISTER said, in proposing the toast, I cannot but allude to the interest with which the American people, while free from all entanglement with European politics, are watching from afar the solution of the pro blems that are presenting themselves in this, which some regard as a transition period in European history. That interest, as I observe from the American 'nese, is fixed especially on this empire, where, as it seemed to them, the Government itself has wisely assumed the initiative in in augurating the constitutional changes demanded by the spirit of the age and the condition of the empire, with the pat•iotic intent so carefully to protect the rights and inte rests of the people that the people should feel that loyalty to the constitution was loyalty to themselves. My coun trymen looe upon this widely extended and polyglot Empire, so rich in national resources, connecting Europe with Asia, and the Cross with the Crescent, and constitut ing, as has been said, "a Europe in miniature,' as de stined to extend in all directions the influence of civilisa tion, Christianity, and culture. In their efforts to accom plish this grand work the Sovereign and his Chancellor,. the Parliament and the people, will have the warmest wishes of the American Republic. I have the honour to give you "His I.R. Majesty the Emperor of Austria, Apos tolic Kin,g of Hungary." The health of his Majesty having been cordially drunk, His Excellency the Count de BECTST responded and eaid:—A very loyal and cordial toast to the health of my Imperial Master having been, drunk, allow me, in my capacity as his Prime Minister, to tender you my warmest thanks. It is a very difficult task to address you after the brilliant speech we have just heard, but I hope that, con sidering this embarrassing position, you will excuse mine being a very short one. When a Minister of Foreign Af fairs speaks of good relations with other countries - and what else can ho say ? it is generally considered as a for mality—some people are even of the opinion that it is humbug. Well, lam perfectly aware that a great diplo matist has said-that language is given to man to conceal his ideas; but, ladies and gentlemen, you will kindly re member that this evening I venture to address you in English. I shall be exceedingly happy, if 1 come to the cud of my speech without sticking in the mud ; the utmost that I can dare to aspire to is to express my feelings. I should never succeed in concealing them; cousequent!y all that I say in English is undoubtedly true. Lot me then express the gratification I feel iu being able to record that friendly relations between Austria and the United States have never been disturbsd. I have sometimes been reproached with being too prone to introduce innovations in this country. With respect to our cordial relatiouc wit liAme rical. shall never be ;pithy of any a licit change. We highly esteem them, though they are less political than moral and social. I trust that the motto of the great Republic across the ocean, "Uuity and Freedom," will always be and re main ours—Unity and freedom ! The first as the only element of strength, the last as the great principle of pro grees. Our political horizon, I am sorry to say, is not illuminated with the many bright stars which twinkle on the American banner ; but if what people here assert be 1 correct—a point on which I must refrain from expressing an opinion, that we have just emerged from a sort of poli tical night, we cannot be astonished to find ourselves in twilight. We must rather then congratulate ourselves, for we are enabled to think that a happy day is soon coming, radiant with the sunshine of political, national, and econo mical prosperity. I feel quite confident that this wish will be re-echoed in the brt Lists of our liberal American friends. Thus thanking you again for the honour you have douo me, I may ask you to join me in drinking to the memory of the great champion of liberty—the first President of the United States—the immortal Washington—to the health of the present gallant President of the great transatlantic Republic, and to the health of our worthy host, his repre sentative at this Court. The company having responded to the sentiments of Count de Beust, Mr. JAY said—The eloquent and kind remarks of the Chaucel:or, which have been listened to with such atten tion, will be read with equal interest throughout the United States. In introducing the third toast, I may ob serve that, in the American Chamber of Representatives, the only portraits that adorn the walls hang on either side of the Speaker's chair. They aro full-length companion portraits of Washington and Lafayette, and they recall to all who look upon them, the friendship, early formed and never broken, between America and France. When the news of Washington's death reached Paris, France, under the first Napoleon, paid national homage to his memory. Our celebration to-nig'et would have been most incomplete had wo not been favoured by the presence of his Excel lency, the accomplished Ambassador of France, and I have the honour to ask you to drink the health of " His Impe rial Majesty the Emperor of the French." The company having honoured the toast to the Emperor, His Excellency the Duko DE GRAMONT said—Ladies and gentlemen,—After the speech I have just heard, I feel it a duty, not only as a Frenchman, but as Ambassador, to return thanks to my most honourable colleague, and to the distinguished company which has associated itself to its friendly propositions. As representative of a Sovereign whose sympathies for the people of the United States of America are known to every ono, I feel happy to avail myself of such an opportunity, and to express in the name of the Emperor and in the name of France the reciprocal friendship which unites both countries. lam aware that the word "friendship" appears to be better qualified for private life than for international relations ; however, I prefer it to any other, and if I have made use of it, it is net from inadvertence. Friendship between nations is more and better than alliance. An alliance between two great peoples has always a determined purpose, and is generally intended for aggression towards a third one. In the first case it shows that the poace is troubled, and in the second that one means to trouble it; both cases ate equally to be regretted. it is also a transitory state of things, and its consequences aie,most uncertain. Friendship, on the con trary, is the normal and durable state of international relations, and let us hope, ladies and genlemen, that ours will last for ever. It is, lam happy to say, an old tradi- Lion in the annals of your Republic, as well as in those of my own country, and the name of the illustrious hero, whose anniversary we celebrate to-day, belongs to our national remembrances as it belongs to yours. I could easily, among a . ° friends of Washington, quote many of my distinguished countrymen, who,e names are certainly not unknown to you. But why shuuld I look behind in the past, when here amongst us I can give a friendly and cur- dial salute to the worthy descendant of ono of the most I,riliiant and honour:ale companions of the great man—of Johu Joy, of whom Daniel ‘Vobster said with unanimous applause of his co-citizens that " When the Fpot less ermine of the judicial rube fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than its. lf." With such representation, ladies and gentlemen, the tradition will not perish. It will last for ever, and so will last for ever our mutual friendship, for which I lift my glass and propose a toast. The company rose in honour of the Duke's toast, and The American Minister, after acknowledging his grace ful courtesy, said:—The next toast draws us Americans still nearer home. Among the finest passages in modern eloquence is oue, where an eminent member of the present Cabinet of Great Britain, after alluding to Rome as the "lone mother of dead Empires," bailed England as "the living mother of great nations." Tho orator recognized with British pride the fact, that the American Republic, in contending for its national life, was battling for freedom and humanity throughout the world. While our illustri ous English guests are uniting with us to honour th 3 me mory of the father of his country, Prince Arthur has been welcomed by the President to the capital, that bears the name of Washington, and the Monarch is returning from carrying to his native shores the remains of Peabody. An English friend cf mine, by way of apology for his warm admiration of the good which he found in the Ame rican character, explained to me with the frankness com mon to both nations a theory which, ho said, was rather popular in England, that our faults were our own, while our virtues were inherited. Be this as it may, I can say for my countrymen that no theory is necessary to account for the admiration felt in America from ocean to ocean, and from Canada to Mexico, for the virtues of the Sove reign of Great Britein, and I have the honour to propose to you the health of 16 Tier Majesty the Queen of England." The toast having been drunk with the utmost cordiality, Mr. JAY remarked that it was to have been responded to by that eminent and experienced diplomati,t the Bri tish Ambassador, bat that a note from Lord Bloomfiel 1 expressed the sincere regret of Lady Bloomfield and him self that the loss of a near relative preverited their Coll ing. lie would therefore call upon his friend the Secre tary of the British Embassy, who, during a diplomatic career on both sides of the Atlantic, had achieved a lite rary renown which added lustre even to the name of Lytton. . _ Mr. LYTTON responded as follows—Ladies and Gentle men,—The Chancellor of the Empire has just been com plaining, not of the difficulty of expressing ideas, for that, Indeed, is a difficulty with which we can hardly expect his Excellency to sympathize, but of the difficulty of conceal ing them. Well, I have an idea, which I shall not attempt to conceal, that my position at this moment is a rather diffi cult one. I have been told that there are three great les sons, which it is the duty of every young diplomatist to learn betimes. The first is to talk French ; the second is not to talk at all ; and the third is to talk without saying anything. lam afraid, however, that I must now utterly disregard all these excellent rules, because the unavoid able (and, as I can assure you, most unwilling) absence of her Majesty's Ambassador, as well as the unmerited cour tesy of the far too flattering mention with which my own name has just been h._ noured by our distinguished host, have, in fact,. unexpectedly, and very undeservedly, placed me in the position, nut of a young diplomatist, but of an eminent and highly experienced diplomatist. I assure you, ladies and gentlemen, .that this is a position which I now find to be much less enviable than young diplomatists generally suppose it to be. Assuredly, however, I should be a most ungrateful and unworthy guest if, after listen ing to the eloquent and kindly language iu which the health of my most gracious Sovereign has just been proposed to us, I did not, at least, attempt to express, not merely my own individual feelings, but also what I know to ba the feelings of hundreds of thousa ds of my countrymen else where, towards that great, that noble nation, which is here to night so worthily and so hospitably represented. Sir, I am persuaded that the tribute which your Excellency has so gracefully offered to the virtues of a sovereign whose throne is in the hearts of all her subjects, will be all the more appre ciated by her Majesty,because of that sensitive susceptibility which certainly does exist—which, I think, ought to exist, and which, I trust, always will exist,betwoon two great na tions of kindred race and charact who must necessarily desire not only to deserve, but also to receive and retain, the good opinion of each other. Ladies and Gentlemen— Our distinguished host has toad us of a certain plain spoken friend of his, who (with a frankness which his Excellency is so good as to consider common to the two nations) expressed to him the opinion that all the virtues of the American nation are inherited, whereas all their faults are their own. But he has concealed from us the name of that plain-spoken gentleman with a generosity which, I hope, is also common to both nations. Well, in my own short experience of the world, 1 think, I Lave observed that virtues are a kind of property which is always subject to disputed claims, whereas faults are a monopoly rarely claimed even by the rightful owners. Be that as it may, however, surely both Americans and Englishmen may be well satisfied, if at least they have not lost any of those virtues which they inherit from a common ancestry, and which it is, I trust, their destiny (as it is, lam sure, their duty) to bequeath to a frater nally united posterity. And, whilst, on the one band, I certainly am proud to remember that it was from Old England that New England received those virtues, which first planted on the black shores of Massachusetts the immortal memory of the little Mayflower, and the free faith of the Pilgrim Fathers—on the other hand lam, believe me, quite as proud to remember that it is from New Eng land that Old England has in turn received the latest, the largest, and the loftiest example of what such vir tues can achieve for a nation, when in the hour of her sore trial they animate the hearts of all her children. Ladies and Gentlemen—That was, I think, a very great example to all the world. And, when we recall to Mind merely the magnitude of those colossal armies, all com posed of men who, but a few mouths before, had been unarmed, peace-loving citizens ; and who, the mo ment after they bad rescued from the sudden eclipse of a most unprovoked calamity those thirty-four bright stars of the great Atlantic constellation—(those stars whose combined beams have this evening been so gracefully reflected in the transparent humour of Count Beust) again became, as they had Leen before, unarmed, peace- loving citizens, yet wheao victorious operations had in the meanwhile covered a lino of territory acti.ally vaster in extent than the whole distance• from ➢Moscow to Ma drid. I say, when we remember how those armies were created, what those armies achieved (not for America only but for the cause of tudversal hunlauty), and then, again, how those armies were dissolved, we must surely aelcaow ledge that in the history of all the world there is no such other example of how much may be effected, even mate rially, by sheer force of conscience when indeed the con science of a great nation is fairly concentrated upon the duties of a great cause. Therefore I think that without any uncommon frankness upon his part our host was fairly entitled to remind his plainspoken friend that what im partial history will undoubtedly record as the sole deter mining cause of that great struggle was a defect—a sore and grievous defect indeed—which the American people inherited from the past, by no exceptional fault of their own, but from which they have now emancipated the future by an effort of heroic virtue which was indeed wholly their own. I dare say, ladies and gentlemen, that many of you, like myself, have lately noticed with interest a very curious pieco of intelligence which has reached us with the recent news from America. We all know that it is the tendency- and indeed the boast—of the age we live in to enable every individual member of society (if he be industrious as well as ambitious) to change his situa- tion in life for a better ono, and to transfer himself from a lowly to a loftier station. Well, but we see it stated in the newspapers—and, of course, what is stated in the news papers must be true--- that in the Transatlantic cities of Boston and New York this privilege is now extended from beings to the very houses which human beings inhabit; and at this moment, I believe, huge and crowded hotels— immense buildings of deep foundations and of solid struc ture—are actually Leing transported from ono situation to another, from situations which are low or inconvenient to situations which are elevated and commodious—from prospects which are dark and narrow to those which aro bright and broad. And lam told that all this is done so delicately that the movement is not even perceptible to the inmates of those mansions, and so securely that not a crevice has been sprung in the massive masonry of their walls. Well, and 1 dare say you may remember also an- other fact which renders this interesting announcomen even still more interesting. I dare say you may remem ber that the greatest mechanical genius of that fifteenth century—a man, indeed, whose genius was so great that many of its single achievements have not yet been equalled by the collective intelligence and industry of mo- darn times—onco audaciously proposed to move, in a simi lar manner, the great cathedral church of Florence—of course, for the sake of placingit altogether on higherground. But the guardians of the Church seem to have been in those days exceedingly averse to movement of every kind. And in any case the proposal of Leonardo da Vinci was scouted by his contemporaries as the proposal of a dangerous dreamer. Now, undoubtedly, this, if it be true, is a very extraordinary achievement on the part of modern mechanicians. But, sir, I venture to think that a still greater and a far more beneficent achievement is now open to the skill of that modern diplomacy which your Excellency so well understands and so worthily adorns, For modern diplomatists have not now to deal merely with houses, if though they be Royal houses, but with those vast and complicated social structures which we call nations, and which, however deeply and firmly founded they may be in the past, yet require, by such delicate ma- nipulation as shall neither loosen their solidity, nor dis- turb their equilibrium, to be constantly, even if impercep tibly, moved forwards and upwards towards the future. Sir, I devoutly trust that American diplomatists, now cordially co-operating with English diplomatists, will henceforth help each other to beat this achievement of your mechanicians by successfully applying a similar process of perpetual improvement and increasing change for the better to whatever may be the situation of the r, , la`ions between those two great Empires which they respectively represent. Sir, I do, indeed, devoutly trust that the combined diplomacy of these two groit and kindred nations may at all times be equally willing—for then I am sun: it will at all times bo (Tinnily able —to elevate whatever may Lo low, and eularge whatever may be narrow, iu the relations between them; to replace ob- grin:five and gloomy prospects 1•y bright and ope❑ ones, each situation of momentary unctxtainty by one of satis fied security ; aml, thus, to establish the ever rising and griaten!ug edifice of international sympathy ui on the high and broad foundation of mutual confidence, sustained by mutual respect. A pause succeeded Mr. Lytton's speech when The American Mini tor, in proposiug the nuxt toast, said—Among the varied na:ionalities to which now, as iu the past, the Republic is indebted, standi:the great German people, who are represented hero to-night by his Excel lency the Envoy from Berlin. Of all who come to us, there aro none who arrive in larger numbers, none who bring with them a larger share of thrift and common sense, of useful education and sound principle than his German countrymen. There arc Lone who receive a more cordial welcome, none who, while affectionately remembering their Fatherland, exhibit a warmer attachment or a more enlightened loyalty to the land of their adoption. I beg to give...you the health of " His Majesty, the King of Prussia, President of the North German Confederation." Ilis Excellency the Baron SCIIWEINITZ responded as follows beg to thank you for the kind and eloquent words with which you have introduced the health of my most gracious Scvcreign, the founder and ruler of the Noah German Confederation, which from the beginning has enjoyed the sympathy Of the United States. I thank you also for the good testimony you have borne to my countrymen living amongst you. I need not speak of the feelings of the North Germans concerning America. They are known to her through the medium of the distinguished learned men whom sho sends to us as her rei resentatives over the sea; still I must say that these men, however Influential by their merits, aro few in number, and we send year after year thousands and thousands of strong arms, intelligent, enterprising heads over the ocean, and our best wishes accompany them. Without envy we boast in their success, we aro well aware of our loss, but wo re joice in their welfare. Only one condition we ask, that they keep us in their affections, and that they win us yours, ,vliich we value highly, far more highly than I am able to tell you. The American Minister thanked Baron Schweiuitz, and said : Thu American Republic rejoices to-day that her civil war resu3ted in the emancipation of four millions of slaves. But before Lincoln signed his immortal Procla mation, on the ground of military necessity, the autocrat of the youngest nation of Europe had inaugurated in time of peacs a policy of wisdom and right which emancipated more than twenty millions of serfs. That great act of justice, elevating, as in America, not simply the low or but the higher class, was a grand step in the path of progress, and conferred upon Russia and her Sovereign a moral dignity which has won for them the admiration of Chris tendom. 1 give you the health of " His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Alexander." Mr. VASILTSCIIIKOFF, of the Russian Embassy, responded as follows--Upon this day, memorable in your history, you have been pleased, Mr. Minister, to call up the recol lection of the noble act of generosity conferred upon my own country by her sovereign. I consider myself fortunate in being enabled to express my thanks, and I cannot do so more satisfactorily than when assuring you of the existence of those sentiments of sympathetic feeling reciprocally entertained, which wero interchanged at the time of the visit of your countrymen in Russia, and also when the Imperial flag was floating in the American waters. The American Minister, after acknowledging the assur ance of Russian cordiality, said—Americans are not for getful of the golden threads that interweave their early history with the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. They recognize the fact, that to Spain belongs the glory in the famous words of Canning of " Having called a now world into existence to redress the balance cf the old." We are honoured to-night by the presence of his Excellency the Minister of Spain, and I give you "Prosperity and happi ness to the Spanish nation." His Excellency CIPRIANO DEL MAZO, the Envoy from Spain, responded in French to this effect :—I thank you infinitely, Mr. Minister, for the kind words which you have spoken, and permit tne, in the name of the Spanish Government, which I have the honour to represent, tc propose a toast " to the g!orious memory of George Wash ington, one of the ino6t illustrious founders of the great Republic °t i the United States of America, which we com- menunate to-day. To the great genius who, after having given independence to his country, had the virtue toretire to private life as a simple citizen. To the model people of free countries, who have known how to harmonize the most extended liberty with the profoundest regard for law. To their wog thy President, the brave warrior and loyal magis trate, General Grant, who knows how to maintain so well the treaties of reciprocal friendship, which aro based upon right and justic:). To his honourable representative, our worthy colleague, Mr. Jay, and to his amiable family." The American Minister, recognising the frank tribute and friendly courtesy of his Spanish colleague, rem' ked that they werer honoured by the presence of ono - who had lately represented the Imperial Royal Court near the Go vernment at Washington, and he begged to call upon his Excellency the Count Wydenbruck. Count WYDENBRUCK said—The festival, in commemo ration of the illustrious founder of the American Republic, which unites us to-day, is essentially a family festival of the American nation. In kindly inviting me to join in its celebration, his Excellency the American Minister has done justice to the feelings of sympathy which I entertain to wards Lis country. These ,feelings are the fruits of seve ral years res:dence in America. In fact during the time I had the honour to represent Austria as Minister in the United States, I learned in daily intercourse to ap preciate the many sterling qualities which distinguish the American citizen, and which have raised the na tion, in comparatively so few years, to the high posi tion it now holds in the world. Moreover, it has been my lot to live among the Americans in times of [Adversity and in times of prosperity. In the bad days of their civil war I have admired the immense resources, the constancy, and the energy displayed to maintain the integrity of Washington's creation. On the return of peace I have admired the alacrity with which the vast armies were disbanded and the burdens of war lightened for the benefit of the people ; and last, but not least, the generous forbearance shown by the victors to the van quished. The only thing I should be tenipted to reproach to AinerTca, should I not fear that the reproach could le t urued against ourselves, is the strong attraction it exercises upon so vast numbers of my countrymen, whose energies are thus lost for their native country; nevertheless, be it as it may, this very circumstance gives us a stronger and nearer interest in the prosperity of America. On the conclusion of Count Wydenbruck's generous re marks the company rose and the festival ended. The speeches were in English, excepting those of the repre sentatives of Russia and Spain, and the report of each has been approved by the Speaker. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.--(THIS DAV) Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 bales. The market dull. The latest telegram came from Washington on Thursday, and is as follows :—The majority of the Con gressioaal Investigating Committee have issued a report exonerating President Grant from all charges of compli city in the gold speculation of last September. Alaska looks very pretty on paper, but Uncle Sam finds that purchase from the Muscovite rather an in cumbrance. His trouble is to know what to do with it, as he never had such a piece of land before. Away from his own soil he can reach it only by sea. It is not a co lony, for no one will settle there ; and because there are no inhabitants, it cannot except at great expense be ele vated to the digcity of a Territory. The number of votes, exclusive of military, is about 125, of which Sitka would furnish 50 ; and to get up a Territorial Government for so few, with the prospect of decreasing instead of increasing, will make Uncle Sam's fist experiment in governing de- Cached bits of soil the most extraordinarily expensive ever known. Major George P. Ihrie has travelled to Wash ington, claiming to be the delegate elect from the Terri tory of Alaska, and his mileage will amount to more than all the revenue of the Territory put together. The Pre sident has issued an order prohibiting the importation of ardent spirits, guns, and ammunition into Uncle Sam's " bear-garden" (in sober earnest, we propose this name for the Territory), but if the order is strictly enforced, it will deprive soldiers of their grog as well as of their powder. Mr. Seward's imagination has always been far in advance of facts; but he never made this more apparent than in the glowing pictures of Alaska, by which he charmed and beguiled poor Uncle Sam. The Hon. D. S. Bennett, the member of Con gress from Buffalo, has written to the papers to ask the public to await his reply to the recent malignant attack of the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. Ho asserts that the paper was sent from the office with the libellous passages marked, to the ['resident, the members of the Cabinet, and prominent Congressmen that ho has instituted pro ceedings against the proprietors of the journal, and that Messrs. Noah Davis and B. F. Butler have volunteered their services. There never was a jolly row" wherein the latter had any chance even of inserting his finger of which opportunity he did not eagerly avail himself. Mr Bennett goes on to remark that the last is the crowning outrage of a long series from the Commercial Advertiser to which he has been subjected. He denies every charge, declares his intention of bringing the case to trial as quickly as the law will admit, and lays the damages at $lOO,OOO. From his place in Congress Mr. Bennett has also made an explanation to the same effect as given above. The Commercial Advertiser, however, appears to be nothing daunted, the publishers asserting that they aro prepared to prove all the charges they have advanced; indeed, if they are not, it will be difficult to decide whe ther their folly exceeds their malignity, for they must in that case be mulcted in heavy damages, destroy the cha racter of the newspaper, and cast a stigma on journalism. The case will be watched with interest, as on the one side involving the charactor of a member of Congress, and on the other cf a journal of standing. Io opening the Legislative Council of British Columbia, on the 16th February, the Governor by com mission, for he was too ill to attend in person, stated the terms a! p:oved by th Imperial Government for the Con- nation of tho Province with Canada. Canada assumes the ommercial dobt of British Columbia. T I,e population is rated at 120,000. The debt is less than that of any other Province. The Dominion grants yearly $33,000 and GOc. for each inhabitant over the rated population, the same to be continued until the population reaches 400,000, at which rate the subsidy remains. I ADVERTISEMENT. I—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Disorders—Will prevail more or less at the change of seasons. All aches and pains in the nerves, muscles, and bones, which often compel the man of business to neglect his usual avo=tions, may be speedily subdued by this powerful ointment. It should he well rubbed into the parts affected. The action of the oint ment is expedited by previous fomentation with warm water. rue ointment is then as easily, made to pass into the human frame, as salt is made to pass into moat. And none need appre hend any injurious after effects from it, for its cures are worked withlat the aid of a particle of mercury, or any other noxious substance. NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION. The usual winter meeting of the National Rifle Asso ciation was held yesterday afternoon at Willis's Rooms, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge presiding. His Royal Highness, in opening the proceedings con gratulated the association on • a surplus of capi tal, which was mainly produced by the success of last year's meeting and by encouragement in va r i ous ways. At the same time he expressed his regret that the subscriptions to the association had not increased. • He ppinted out that several of the vice-chairmen had never subscribed at aIL (Laughter.) A large subscriber existed in Mr. William Martin who had subscribed £938 to the Association. The meeting for the ensuing summer would be at Wimbledon, and the 11th of July had been selected as the inost convenient day. He hoped that the long notice would allow of pro per arrangements being made. As in 1869, the rifles for the first rang e of the Queen's Pri ze wou ld b e th e or di nary Eefield, and for the second stage the Whitworth. Though th - 3 Government had determined to sell the Whitworth rides, they would keep back enough to supply the Associa ti(m. He hoped that this year the extra prize list would considerally augmented. Three oth er r ifl e assoc i a ti ons had joined them during the year, one in Canada, one in New Zealand, and the other in Durham. The National Rifle Association was therefore progressing favourably and satisfactorily. Caytain doonLiFrE moved the adoption of the report. Captain Templar seconded it, and the motion was car ried. The retiring 'Vice-Presidents were reappoint eel, with a ,o..?ntle reminder from Captain Field about their subscrip tions. Lord ELclto, M.P. then requested the Duke of Cam bidge, in the name Of the association, to. accept the pre sidency for the ensuing year. His ROYAL HIGIINL6S having intimated his acceptance of the offer, Lord RANELAOH drew attention to a letter written by L )rd Elcho, which he feared meant that money was intended to be spent in other ways than shooting. He objected to this course. Lord ELcno explained that no misappropriation of funds had taken place. - The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the Duke of Cambridge. TILE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. FRIDAY. The evidence of Lord Napier was proceeded with to , day, at the meeting of the committee appointed to inquire into the cause of the excess of expenditure over the esti , mates of this expedition. Lord Napier entered in various explanations : general . terms, he said, the supplies were on my requisition. There • was, in the first place, a requisition for a six months' csntinuous supply, and then for supplies from three months to three months. The object I had in view in my re pisition was always to have six months supplies in hand. I pointed out to the Commissariat at Bombay, what I considered necessary, and the Commissariat com municated it to the Government. I simply indicatedwhat I required and left the Commissariat to deal with it. Of caurse if I said I wanted 100 tons of forage at once it would be sent. Other officer in whom I had confidence made requisitions when I was in Abyssinia,, and I accept all the responsibility of their requisitions. A memorandum was issued by the G overnorG eneral throwing upon me the respon sibility of taking a larger force than the Government consi dered necessa•ry, and they mentioned the contingency that if I did take a larger force it might not be possible to obtain sufficient carriages, but the result of my shrinking from that responsibility would have been that the expedition could not have gone that year. In the firat period of soy being at Zoola, so difficult was it to feed the baggage-horses, that they were reported to be without food. Officers were appointed to investigate the matter, and through the means of a person of great religious eminence, the Mohammedan population of the passes were induced to sell forage, but that was not until an advance was made. I did not consider it safe to trust to anything except what I took with me. Whatever forage was ordered by the Conaniissaria.t was ordered after full consideration. Mr. Candlish pointed out that of 13,102 tons of forage ordered at Bombay, only 4,00 tons was landed at Zoola, and out of 6,307 tons of compressed hay that was ordered at Suez, only 300 tons were landed at Zoola. Lord Napier : I have no doubt that the Commissariat officers and these of the transport service could 4explain that ; but it is wholly a mistake to suppose that two years' ! stores for the whole army were shipped. There were many circumstances which required that we should have a good supply, because it might have happened that if we had advanced without them, and were met by hostile tribes, we should have been hunted out of the country. His lordship was pressed by the chairman to express his opinion with reference to this fact of only 4,000 bales of forage being landed out of 13,000 ; but he declined to do so, observing that he had not the slightest doubt the matter could be explained by the Commissariat officer. No doubt (he said) the whole of the means of landing were occupied. I was not at the port after I left it on the 23rd of January. It Was quite as likely as not that the transport of the forage might be delayed by the rains setting in, but the rains would naturally increase the product of the country. Wherever we could, we cut all the grass and stacked it, but when that was exhausted we were supplied from the ' port, and at times there was great scarcity. As the presence of a large force gave weight to our demands, they were met, but where the posts were not strong, the sup plies fell off. There was a natural apprehension in the country that we shonld consume so much of their sup plies that there would be distress, and, as a matter of fact, I believe there was distress in the country. These instructions from the first to the commissariat were to provide for the expedition quite irrcpective of the re sources of the country. By Mr. Denison : The postal communication between Zoola and Bombay was irregular ; but on the whole, I was surprised, after we were established on the high land, to find how regular the postal service was. The famous maxim of the Duke of Berwick applied exactly in such a cluntry as this, that small armies were beaten and large oaci starved. It would have been the height of folly to have gone to Abyssinian without abundant supplies, especially after the dear bought experience of the Crimean war. It would have been most unsafe to trust to supplies from Bombay, waen they could be obtained so much more abundantly from Easypt. I believe the Commissariat officers acted under the greatest responsibility, and would not have sanctioned the slightest waste that could have been avoided. The first reports of the country between Zoola and the highlands was very favourable, being re presented to be a plain of grass and flowers, with wild cattle feeding on them. In point of fact, we found it to be a plain of barren sand, and the only places where there was a rare supply of verdure were inha bited by men who were literally half wild, and who had to be treated most liberally. and he well paid. When we did obtain their confidence, the assistance we derived from them was very valuable. It was, above all, necessary to accomplish the expedition, and get hold of the person of Theodore, and the way I proceeded was to put a very large price on his head, which would have induced any hostile chief in whose territories he might have taken refuge to have given him up. The reward was so large that he would never have been suf fered to escape ; but if he had, we must have followed him, because it would never have done to have come away from the country without him. I was of opinion that a railway was very desirable ; and I should like to place on record a minute of mine, in which I approve the construction of a tramway to the first post. There came an offer from Mr. Brassey to lay a 3ft. 6in.- line at £3,000 a mile. I was inclined at first to run the risk of ordering the railway from the coast to the high lands ; but on consideration, I did not think it was right to snake a requisition on the subject. There was an in ferior railway laid down, the materials being second hand, and the engine and carriages inferior, at the same cost as that proposed by Mr. Brassey ; but that was done on the motion of the Indian Government. It would be a great advantage if we had in this country an improved pattern of a military railway, which could be supplied at any time in this country. Had a Nl:position been made to me to lay down a telegraph from Suez to Zoola within a month, and I had power, I should have accepted it at once. In point of fact, it would only have been necessary to have laid it to a point opposite Zoola, because Zoola is half way between Bombay and Suez. By the Chairman—Some of the transport ships were sent hack to Bombay, but I would never allow the troops to be left without ships at Zoola. By Captain Beaum - ont—Whether it would have been advisable to interfere with the ordinary transport service of India by a delay of that service for six weeks, so as to put them all on the Abyssinian transport is a question on which I can give no opinion, being one of policy to be determined by superior authority. The distribution of the surplus stores to various markets to avoid a glut was deter mined by a committee. The committee room was cleared for a short time, in order to enable the committee to deliberate on whether it was advisable to detain his lordship in England, in order to prolong the examination, and on the re-admission of the public, Captain Beaumont proceeded with the examination of Lord Napier in respect to the manner in which the purchases of mules and the hiring of drivers was effected. Everything, said Lord Napier, was not exactly as I wished, but on the whole I had no reason to object. I should not call the equipment of the army munificent. It was sufficient and proper. It was essential to our success to have been on friendly terms with the natives. Other wise I could not have advanced to Magdala, and if in consequence there had b een a pro l ongat i on o f the cam paign the actual cost of nine millions might have been greatly exceeded. There is one remark I think it useful to make, which has a direct bearing upon the expenditure, and that is that it would be very desirable to have a dis tinct department for embarkation and disembarkation. The general superintendence was admirably managed by Captain Tryon, but his authority was only partial and did not extend to the shore. There should have been one receiving and one transmitting department at Bonals'ay and another at Zoola. The Com missariat was not engaged in the duty of em barking or transmitting the stores, and the re sult was that the Government found it necessary to supplement their action by employing a separate depart ment in the public works. If there had been an officer with sufficient assistance to receive, embark, and transmit the stores, and a similar officer at Zoola, matters would have been greatly facilitated. The Chairinan and other members of the committee having intimated that they still h a d some p o i n t s on which to examine his lordship, Lord Napier said lie was quite ready to place himself at their disposal next week, and the co:nottee adjourned until next Tuesday. The depot of the 59th Regiment will leave Chat ham Garr;son to-day for Dublin, and the depot of the 108th Regiment for the Curragh, to be attached to regiments at those stations. Major Frederick Mould, R.E., and a number of non-commisioned officers and sappers of the Corps of Royal Engineers, are to receive war melali services Ferro:rued by them in New Zealand. The steam troopship Simoom will leave Wool wich on Wednesday next for Portsmouth with an immense quantity of stores embarked from Dept ford, and 300 tons of iron from Woolwich. She will be put out of commission and her crew paid off on the 31st instant. MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday. id of i mar P k e N e -o t e, a ' n y e I, l :e r r o t m h l n e e s n s ,t feature um e th S steadiness, and the quotations, generally, have been main tained. Consols, however, have been flat and ea sier at . assda e f a t i o i c . k ali=uatng totf 92 9-16th, 92 11-16ths for money and the 9th instant • Reduced and New Three per Cents 91 5 ,. 911 ex. ; Bank Stock 240, 242 ; India Five per Cents have been clone 1 " 11.11, 112, and India Bonds at 20s. 255. prem ; Exchelu e r Bill 3 (March) 2s. dis., 3s. prem., and (June) 2s. dis-, prem. The feature in the market for English Railway stocl.- . has been the firmness in the demand for Metropolitan stock, engendered by the refusal of Mr. Salisbury's al' . plication for an injunction to restrain the payment of th e dividend, and resulting in an advance of The tenclencY thyoughout has been favourale, and the movements hav e been in an upward direction. London and Brighton has risen 2, Midland q, Lond on an d N or th-W es t e rn i 3 -; fo ld Great Western • Indian railway stocks have been quiet, and without movement of importance. Canadian shares have been steady, and Great Western have fully maintained the late advance, having been dealt in at 17. As regard-4 foreign shares, Buenos Ayres Great Southern at 2n; 25 '1' and South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian at 19g; 19 .;' have been dull and -, 1 ; lower. Both at the Bank of England and in other quarters there has been a fair demand for money to-day, and three months' paper has not been taken under 3 per cent. No bullion operations have been reported at the Bank to-day. As regards the exchanges, there has been a fair deman d for Paris bills, and the rates have been rather lower; otherwise the rates are unaltered. In reference to the state of the bullion market, Mes 3ll : Pixley, Abell, a n d L ang l ey remar k : —Th e arr i va l s o f go' , since our circular of the 24th ult. have been considerab le, and comprise-2343,000, per Delhi, from Australis; £21,000, Excelsior,Auckland ; £48,000, Neva, West Indies; £3,000, Buenos Ayres, Brazils ; total, £420,00' About £300,000 of this sum has been sent away ; t he balance now remains to be disposed of, and as there is but little demand for the Continent at present, it is probable that the Bank will receive all amounts now awaiting sal e ; about £7,000 has already been sent in. The price of fin e bar silver keeps firm in consequence of the Continental demand ; for the East there are but few orders. Mex.-l c° , dollars are less in demand, and th e recen t arr i va ls are not yet disposed of. In the market for foreign bonds a full average busines4 has been transacted, and, although no movement of im portance has taken place, the tendency has been toward higher rates. Egyptian have b een f ree l y d ea lt in, an Turkish (1869) have risen 1 1 1 per cent. The Eus.:dan Loan has been firm, at 32 to 4 per cent. American Government securities have been firm, at Oa late advance. Virginia Bonds have rised Bank shares have been quiet, but prices have been maintained. In the market for telegraph shares a rather better feel ing has been noticed, and a recovery has in some instauee4 ensued. Anglo-Ainerican have risen 0, Anglo-Mediter ranean I, British Indian Extension and Falmouth) Gibraltar, and Malta /. Indiarubber shares have been without change of imPe rt. ance, but Telegraph Construction have improved s' Hooper's Telegraph Works, pending an application for °1 settlement, have been neglected, and the quotation 1 0 been nominal at dis. • In miscellaneous securities only a moderate busi oss , has been d o i ng . C ana d a C ompany shares have been deao' ,, in at 69i. At a meeting of the . Great Luxembourg Railway C 0 pany a dividend-of 7s. 6d. per share was announced. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Goodbeheref Game and Co., wholesale hardwaremen, it was shown 015° the liabilities amounted to £23.339, and the assets £10,469. A composition of Gs. in the pound, in O s :: equal instalments in six, twelve, and eighteen months 1 " - offered, and the meeting adjourned for a fortnight. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Robert Mi t l inson and Co., corn mercha n t s , o f Kirkcaldy, an offer ° 13s. in the pound was accepted. The failure is announced of Mr. John Cooper, CO merchant, of Dundee, with li a bilities estimated at ab ciu £20,000, and limited assets. MARKETS—Yesterday. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.—There was no fe al la rg t to notice in the wh ea t t ra d e, to-day. The samples of English why on sale were in in f er i or conditions, and the trade ruled is at about statio nar y quotations. Foreign wheat sold , n ds retail parcels on f ormer t erms. Spring corn of all was Inactive, but not cheap w er. Malt tended down iiie d, in value, but i n th e f ew sa l es of flour made mices were maintos. Arrivals —British : wh ea t, 1 , 810 ; b arley, 920 ; malt, 1,210 ; 37J; and peas 29J qrs. Foreign: wheat, 1,910: .barley, ti®. oa 1,430; maize, 2,10) . re. ; and flour, 390 sacks and 29,60 barrels. ii LONDON TRADE REPORT, F RIDAY . T a ll ow has obtainable on previous te:ms. hpot, 4.5 s ; 465. buyers Match 041. last three mo n th s , Li nsee d o l i, L on d on, 3 1 s. 9d . - „ u s& Its. ::!d. English brown rap e , 4 i s. 60 . C a tt le in moderate ie at; steady prices. Jute quiet. Hemp dull. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS, FRIDAY.—There have begi',a cases of sugar to-doy, and private;y the d eman d has steat7y former tetins. Tea has ruled quiet, but tinchau.: v ot value. Coffee has continued firm. The first consignment of Ceylon is now in dock. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.—The s l :!a or t of meat have been mod era t e. Th e trade hasbeen qu' e oar quotatb atm. Beef from 3s. to 4 s . 40 . ; mut t on, I s. 40. to 4 lam is. Cd. to 8.3. ; veal, 55. to ss. 6d. ; an d pork, Is. Bd. to ss. Su' i 81 , .,5 by he carcase. et L' It.OUCIII HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.-- In the hop ? 0 -10 the, has been a continuance of quietness. Thu business dma,l o o been very moderate, and although no actual reduction bas.„'" o ts, place, prices have ruled in favour of buyers. Mid and East -`,,,es, 47 to £l3 Wealds, £6 to £8 ss, ; Sussex, £slss. to £7 • 14"1',;o: £3los. to £lO 10s. ; French, £5 Is. to £7 ; Americans, £4: 10s. and yearlings, £1 15s. to £3 10s. per cwt. Stra i° ' LONDON METAL MARKET, FRIDAY.—Tin from ~1 50^ £ll9los, to £l2O ; Maria, £123. Silesian spelter, £l9los. to xi . ' Scotch pig iron, 545, cash, hag MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, F RIDAY. —Th e naarkeV ruled quet, but a t a s h a d e b elow the rates quoted by produce Several large offers have been made. LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Market dish " na unchanged, Ears, 66 to 66t; ores, 13, 13}, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.-3.t dull; ar-e th y Sales, 8,000 bales: of which, 1.000 on speculation. sales °,, o rti week, 43,125 ; on speculation. 4,73); for export, 5,125 ; actual ex day, 3,250; taken by the trade, 33,250, Import, '24500. Stock this 23,220 bales. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. FRlDAY.—Supplies i g rate. Fine dry wheat, Is. dearer, b u t b us i ness limited. Barle y, and beans luny as dear. st , PARIS, FitlDAY.—Rape oil, current month, 107'30; 1:1 Alto. 15. Flour, curre n t mon th , 55 ' 75: April, 55'75. May-A-°' 5;.5). ANTWERP, MARCII 4 . —Petroleum. spot, 59 ; March, 55; A ul 55i : September, 66. lidar eb* AMSTLRDAM, 141Ancil 4.—Banca tin, 71, buyers. Re , 34. 173; October, 181. Linseed oil, spot, 321 ; string, 321; Augur. HAVRE COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—Cotton uncliargoo A regular demand f or th e trade. Stock, 65.300 bales, of whicil 4170) American, and. 10,5JU Indian. Afloat, 41,600 American. and A number of officers of various corps and 1:3 non-commissioned officers, who have been ge ia through a course of instruction in army signalling and telegraphy at the School of Military Engineer ing at Chatham, having now 'completed the cours e ' have left Brompton Barracks to rejoin their respe e. tive corps. The officers are—Captains HeasleP,' d 21 th (v va ß rn o nde y nbL a i a it r t i gsh n )a e ni Artillery ;f ;tLhCei eßoya lu apts. t. l s t h t o li a m n rf a ion s ret a sh n : Regiment ; and Lieuts. Dale an d Begbie, of the Indian Army. A telegram has been received reporting the arri val of her Majesty's Indian troopship Jamul' at Suez on the morning of the 2d instant. All wel l ' [ ADVERTISEMENT. t —Consumption, and all ner voll9, bilious, stomach, ani live: complaints in every stage are 1 30 t aggravated and a.cc3l3rated by drugs of every description , perfe,tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Rovale,: eo Arabiea Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had b`,A, considered hopeless ; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), e el to asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea , all ga s derangements, haemorrhoids , liver complaints, flatuleneY , ,:bo, vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, cate'„ i t, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, Inso - eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeP ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, crarPr i , spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, 't i e ing fits, bronchitis. scrofula, ti, htness of the chest, pains at to 0 pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We qu o °. - few: -The Pope's health rest ore d b y D u Barry ' s Food. Cure r is 68,413 —" Rome, July 21, 1866 . Th e h ealth of the Holy Fatlac o excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, b,e confined himself entirely to D u B arry ' s R eva l enta Arabica °;,(1, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pree.%oo a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his 801 l g a etto cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the ure - per du Midi, July 21. Cure No. 46,170. Mr. James Roberts, time., merchant, of Frimley, ;Surrey, of thirty years' diseased luo spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafer ". N 0.1,77 . Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Nv .ter fC itr of many yt •s' dyspepsia.—No. 49,83'. "Fifty years' indese,, _ able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, a s th m a, c ough, r ig, stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. - 3 L'" r y Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of th e man y unsave „ and more than sloppy imitations to which, without author ir; Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached In tins, at s 10:1; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb is 6,1; slb 115; l 2 lb 24 lbs 4 s.— Viso I'U BAasy's RDNALENT.A. 4 RABICA CHOOOLA Lip ' s POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1! cups at 2s, for 24 e at 3s 6d, for ;8 cups at Gs, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups tit —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are s't, fres of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. .. a AIWA' Du BAnny and Co., No. 77 , Regent-street, London; all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. BVROE— On the 3d inst., at Stamford-hill, tho wife of ✓. Berge, Esq., of a son. MuNTz —On the 2d inst., at Keresley, the wife of A. Mentz, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. BULL - MEYNELL —On tho 3d inst., at Christ Church, La;;; caster gate, Charles Bull, Esq., of 21, Bedford-row , ~„ Octavia Ann M eynell, of 39, Queen's-gardens, daug" ter of the late Godfrey M. Meynei, Esq. Enw,tuns-- CLOW-At Trinity Church, MarylehonP,. 3 l , o ,- L. Edward s, E sq., of 83, Great Tower-street, to is tharine M a ry, second daughter of Leonard of 9, Fitzroy-street, W. • DEATHS. ausoN —On the 3d inst., Lambert Ellison, Esll•' Knaresborough, aged 83. MARSH—On the 3d inst., at Bedford Park, Croyden7" - " Marsh, a: r ;ed 80. • London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDR I ' W 6 a , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TEE SuN Office, IN o. 112, Sr ° in the Precinct of the Savoy, iu the County of Middles° -- Saturday, March 5, 1870.