The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-02 00:00:00

iiiii iii.i;, ~. , IIIEI T HOUSE OF LORDS_LAST EVENING. The LORD CRANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE FORTHCOMING REVIEW. A NOBLE LORD suggested that as it was most probable that at the for thcoming review there would be a great number of persons present, be would suggest to the noble lord the President of the Woods and Forests that the tickets issued to peers should be made non-transferable , inasmuch as he had invariably found that the space allotted to peers was filled by strangers. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that souse of the tickets had already been distributed, and he did not see how the noe-transfer could be effected. After a few other remarks the subject dropped. RATING OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. In answer to a question, The Earl of MALMESBURY said that the business of the session was too heavy to admit the iutcoduction of a bill respecting this question during the present session. THE JEWS IN MOLDAVIA. Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE moved, according to notice, that copies of the correspondence should bo supplied relative to the measures adopted by the Government of the Danubian Principalities for depriving the Jewish residents in Moldavia of their landed property. He stated that it appeared that an edict had been issued by Gratiano, the minister of the Moldavian States, that all the Jews should be expelled from their farms, and that the police should rush in upon the Jews and drive them o ut like vagabonds. This state of things had increased in intensity, and the greatest distress prevailed amongst those people. • All he (the noble lord) could hope was the decree had not en persevered All in, but there was an evident persecution going be forward. he could say was that if the people and rulers of Mol davia, who had been pro tected by the whole of Europe, could act in this tyrannical manner against another class of religionists, must arouse the strongest indignation. He believed that M. Gratiamo was a man 'of the greatest liberality, and almost a pp roached to democracy, there fore it seemed extraordinary that under his au spices such a decree should be issued. The noble lord then read extracts from the decree which ho had translated, showing the bad feeling that existed towards the Jews, and this feeling he could only account for by supposing that the Moldaviaus were actuated by jealousy on account of the competition which Judaism presented to their own religion. He therefore moved for the humble address to her Majesty above mentioned. The Earl of DENBIGH could not help expressing his profound disgust at the treatment which these Jews had received in Moldavia. He thought that this country ought to bring all the pressure that could be brought to bear upon the Government of that country to see that this evil was remedied. The Earl of MALMESBURY said that there was no occasion to discuss the question to-night, because before he entered the house, he had received her Majesty's permission to lay those papers upon the table of the house, and their lordships would ha rdl y discuss the question until they had read the papers. The motion was then withdrawn. RECOVERY OF CERTAIN DEBTS (SCOTLAND) BLL. This bill was read a third time and passed. COUN TY TREASURERS' (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was committed and passed. THE EMPLOYMENT OF VOLUNTEERS. The Earl DE GREY called the attention of the house to a recent m emorandum in regard to the employment of volunteers in aid of the civil power. He said he consi dared that great inconvenience would be experienced in employing volunteers as auxiliaries in any popular dis turbance. It was necessary that some more definite regu lations regarding the functions of volunteers should be laid down than those in the memorandum. It was not safe that they should allow volunteers armed like soldiers to go forth to assist the civil power in quelling a tumult. He could see nothing that was more likely to bring dis credit upon the volunteer force. Lord LONGFORD said that the memorandum stated that in case of riot, or tumult, the volunteers might be ca lled upon as special constables, and in cases of tebellion, or revolution that they might act vi et armis like every other subject without the presence of the civil power. The memorandum was merely to explain to the Volunteers their duty, and the Government had no intention whatever of calling out the Volunteers without authority. The memorandum was open to revision, and perhaps that might be satisfactory. After some further conversation, in which the Earls Russell, Cowper, Cardigan, and Ellenborough took part, the matter dropped. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE having inquired whe ther her Majesty's Government had received a decided answer as to the course which the Spanish Government intended to pursue with respect to the Tornado, and whe ther a tribunal had been specially constituted for the trial of that ship, The Earl or MILUESBURY said there was great diffi culty in overcoming that description of passive resistance the Sp: Wish Government was so clever in practising. The last despatch received from them had already been pub lished, and in the meantime there was no alternative but to accept their assurances that the case should be tried. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. GAME LAWS (IRELAND). The O'DONOGHUE gave notice that to-morrow he should ask leave to introduce a bill to amend the Game Laws in Ireland. THE ALXBAMA CLAIMS. Mr. BAXTER asked the Secretary for Foreign Affairs it any further progress had been made in the negotiations with the Government of the United States of America re garding the Alabama claims, and if the claims made •by British subjects arising out of the late war exceeded in amount those on the other side. Lord STANLEY said he could not say that they were making rapid progress in the Alabama claims, but nothing had occurred to lead him to despair of a satisfactory settle ment of the matter. But whether the matter was settled or not, he intended to lay the whole of the papers con nected with the matter on the table, as he felt the house and the country had a right to know what had been done. With respect to the claims of British subjects arising out of the late war he could not even give an approximation of their amount. A certain number of claims had been sent, but the American Government declined to go into the matter until the other matter was disposed of ; and that fact, doubtless, had led many who had similar claims to keep them back, so that nothing definite could be ascer tained in the matter. CASE OF CAPT. JERVIS. In reply to Mr. °TWAY, Sir S. NORTHCOTE said the exact amount given to Capt. Jervis was £l,BOO, but he could not say it was in onsequence of the decision of the Simla court martial. It was paid as a commutation of the subsistence allowance. The amount was to be paid out of the general revenues of India, and it was made in accordance with the usual rule adopted in all cases of officers removed from the army. THE HYDE PARK REVIEW. Captain VIVIAN asked the President of the Board of Works what arrangements had been made for the accom modation of the members of both Houses of Parliament and of the public to see the review in Hyde Park on the sth of July. Lard J. MANNERS said each peer would receive two tickets, and each memb3r of that house would receive a similar number. Members of the House of Peers would receive their tickets through the Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, and members of the House of Commons through the Sergeant-at-Arms. With respect to the arrangements, space had been allotted to the Diplomatic Body, and other distinguished persons ; also for members of both Houses of Parliament, igibielk it was . hoped would be ample, as care would be taken to nrov..t the recurrence of the inconveni ence which arose on the last occasion, which was pro duced by the circulation of unauthorised tickets, by which means persons having no right obtained admission to the space, and thus brought about all the inconvenience that led to so much complaint. With respect to the seats and standing places not allotted they would be placed at the service of the public, but for these the applications were t already very great, and if, as he feared, som e mus t with disappointment it would be attributed solely to the limit of the accommodation. Lord ELCHO said he observed that it was laid down in the regulations that officers in uniform were to be admitted within the enclosure, and what he wished . to know was whether that would apply to the militia, volunteers, and yeomanry. Sir J. PAKINGTON said hie privilege would apply to those officers. (Hoar, hear.) THE SATURDAY HALF-HOLIDAY. In reply to Mr. O'REILLY, Mr. HUNT said it was left to the superior officers of dep•trtments to arrange for the greatest number of persons to enjoy tha Saturday half-holiday; but there was no general order issued on the subject. MORNING SITTING. The motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER that tho morning sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays at two o'clock be continued during the present month was agreed to, after au amendment had been moved by Mr. Crawford that on the Speaker resuming the chair it should bot "count" the house until 10 minutes after nine. The amend ment was negatived without a division. REPRESENTATION OF TOE PEOPLE BILL. The1;;;;;;;;into committee. The discussion was resumed on the question that the following clause moved by Colonel Dyott be added to the bill :—" That any person possessing a freehold, copyhold, or leasehold prorerty within the Parliamentary boundary of any borough, and residing within seven miles thereof, shall be entitled to be registered as a voter for such borough, and to Note at the election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for such borough, in respect of such qualification, and not for the county in which such borough is situated." Mr. BAXTER appealed to the hon. and g allant member year. Mr. NEWDEGATE said Mr. Howard strongly opposed the amendment, and Mr. Scourfield was favourable to it, and remarked that it was not because a similar proposal had been already fatal to one Reform Bill in the year 1859 that therefore it was to be withdrawn. Mr. GILPIN said, as the proposal would result in a wholesale disfranchisement of county voters, he hoped the house would reject it. Mr. BRIGHT strongly objected to the proposed clause. After some discussion, the clause wes negatived. A clause to check the practice of creating rent-charges for the purpose of conferring the franchise was proposed by Mr. Neate and supported by Mr. Gladstone ; but, being opposed by Mr. Disraeli, it was withdrawn, Mr. Neate pro mising to bring it forward again if he received any en couragement The new clause was moved by Mr. CA.NDLISU, to de prive all electors of their votes who are employed for rore ward at an election as agents, canvassers, messengers, in similar capacities, and to make it a misdemeanour in the elector so employed to vote, and in the candidate or agent who employed him. It was discussed at great length, and in a more than usually discursive manner. Objection was taken at the commencement by Mr. Crawford and Mr. Powell to the inclusion of agents, whose value to a candi date did not consist in the single vote they possessed, and Mr. Gladstone took the same view. Mr. Powell suggested that the point should be referred to the Select Committee on the Bribery Bill ; but Sir R. Collier and others replied that it was out of the scope of that committee, and ulti mately the clause was passed with an amendment inserted by Mr. Neate extending the disqualifying period of em ployment to six months before the election, and with the exclusion of the latter part of the clause, which subjects the employer to the penalties of a misdemeanour. Mr. HORSFALL then brought up his clause conferring a third member on Liverpool, Manchester, and Birming ham. In support of it he showed, referring in detail to the statistics, that in point of population and property these towns were on a par with, and Liverpool, with whiel, he was best acquainted, was superior to, the city of Lon don, and in intelligence also, ho contended, they had an equal claim to a larger representation. Mr. ADDERLEY opposed the clause, arguing that the principle of representation by numbers on which it was based was new, and utterly opposed to the old principle of local representation—that each place should send the number of members, and insisted that the innovation would degrade the representation, by making members mere counters instead of delegates to consult the public good. The clause, he objected, was proposed with an ultimate view to the representation of minorities by the multiplica tion of unicorn con stituencies; and he urged that no town would be better represented either in its local or general interests by an increase In the number of its representa tives, and that if the amendment were accepted these great towns ought to.be subdivided, as was proposed in the case of Glasgow. Mr. H. LEWIS advocated the claims of Marylebone, on the ground of population and property, to at least two ad ditional members. Mr. SMOLLETT complained of the resuscitation of a question already disposed of, and urged the committee not to convict itself of vacillation by accepting an amendment which was inconsistent with one of the main principles of the redistribution scheme—that there should be no uni corn constituencies, agreeing with Mr. Adderley, that if additional members were given to these towns they ought to be divided. His main objection to the bill was that he distributed the "mob" constituencies which were about to be created, and ho apprehended that to increase their mem bers would be to make the house more unmanageable. Mr. GOSCHEN, iu support of the clause, combated the objection that the members for large towns were over whelmed with private business, and argued as they had more varied Imperial interests to represent than the mem bers for small towns, their numbers ought to be increased. On many subjects, too, the large towns had a separate in terest from the small towns ; and as an additional argu ment he pointed out that half the borough population was contained in the large towns of over 150,000 population, which returned only 31 members. Mr. SANDFORD replied to Mr. Goschen that he him self was a signal proof that it did not require a multiplica tion of members to secure the representation of the most varied interests. Mr. T. CHAMBERS, taking all the arguments urged in favour of the clause, showed that they applied with greater force to the case of the metropolitan boroughs, and insisted that the acceptance of this amendment by itself would but increase the anomalies of the present system. Mr. BRIGHT argued that it was not mere representa tion by debating power that the great towns required, but in lucre:Led v,,thig poorer 111.00 COMILII,II , Urta. with their wealth, population, and the greatness of their interests, and reminding the committee that as it was from these large towns had come the movement which had brought Reform to its present position, ho predicted that when they began to turn their minds to this question of redis tribution, the new electors in these great centres, if this demand were refused, would see that the house had not dealt justly by them, and would, in the very next Par liament, demand that some of the smallest boroughs should be extinguished and their members added to the great towns. For the sake of three members he urged it was unwise to miss a satisfactory settlement. Mr. BLECROFT explained that he had voted against I Mr. Laing's amendment, not because he was opposed to giving a third member to Leeds, but because it was a cri tical division, and he did not wish to endanger the passing of the bill ; and after some observations front the other member for Leeds, Mr. BAINES, in support of the clause and its extension to the claim of Leeds, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, replying to Mr. Bright's argument that the great towns required in creased voting power, urged that their interests were not represented merely by the two members they sent to Par liament, but by all the members representing similar inte rests—the metropolis, for instance, could command at least 80 members. After touching on the mode in which our present legislative machinery had adapted itself gradually to the representation of the varied interests of an empires and explaining once more the spirit in which the Govern ment had drawn up their redistribution scheme, both in relation to the counties and towns, he repeated his objec tions to the accumulation of members, and finally an nounced, as a compromise, that Government would accede to the claim of a third member not only for Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, but for Leeds, feeling sure that this waiving of their principle would not be pushed to an inconvenient extent, but that their scheme for the ade quate representation of counties should not be interfered with —these four seats must be got exclusively from a re modelling of the borough schedules of the bill. Salford, for instance, must yield to Manchester the additional seat he had proposed to give it (here there wore decided ex pressions of disapprobation from the Opposition), and other boroughs in the schedules would have to submit to a simi lar sacrifice. This concession on the part of the Government called up General PEEL, who, avowing that if ho could accept the franchise in the bill, he should be ready to go to equal electoral districts, predicted that the whole redistribution scheme would be swept away by the next Parliament, and energetically repudiated all responsibility for the measure. Amid loud cheers from the Opposition, and even from some of his own party, he declared that three points stood out conspicuously in these debates—that nothing had less vita lity than a " vital point," that nothing was less secure than a "security," and that nothing was more elastic than the conscience of a Cabinet Minister. Mr. GLADSTONE admitted that this was not a ques tion between town and county, but between different classes, and while accepting the concession as a great boon he warned the Government that the proposal to get these four seats at the expense of largo towns would not be satis- factory. Mr. Neville-Grenville and Mr. H. Berkeley urged the claim of Bristol to a third member. to Mr d . ep ß r a iv z e ley sa a i n fo d rd M o r f . Cheetbam deprecated the proposal its expected member, and Mr. Serge.aonthGoahsealdeemuardge some dthe Government to revert to the s u gg estion t i im ai e ng ag as o ke t d ) disfranchisew s s t , a o t o o o. t 0 - Irl da r y . the boroughs which were to be eliminated, on which Mr. hetherte palol boroughs w u o n u d l e d r Disraeli declined to pledge himself. After some conversa tion as to the best mode of procedure, Mr. Sandford post poned his amendment that two of the members be taken from the city, and the Chairman put the question that the clause be read a second time. There were loud cries of "Agreed," but several inemb,:rs on the Ministerial benches persisted in pressing a division, when the clause was car riedtheTuheadtjhoiuriamerdeaudnintigl to o - f dz t t h y e at it 2 a o n ' w el a o by a majority of 231-297 t o 63 , and t h e com mittee Railway (Guards and Pas sengers' Communication) Bill was carried on a division by 43 to 5. The other business was disposed of, and the house ad journed at a quarter to 2 o'clock. The State Auditor of Virginia announces that arrangements have been made to pay the interest on the Virginia debt regularly and punctually. Provision, how ever, is only made for the payment of 4 per cent. per annum, West Virginia being considered responsible for the remaining 2 per cent., and also for one-third of the principal. -- • • LADVERTISEMEN T. j —Holloway's Pills.—The truest philosophical spirit of inquiry led to the discovery of this priceless medicine, and the most unselfish labour and ex pense have been incurred in bringing so great a boon to the knowledge, and within the reach, of the afflicted throughout the world. Every invalid who can read will understand the plain directions in his own language which are folded round the pills, which should be taken in the doses and at the times distinctly specified therein, while great attention should be paid to diet and many minor matters, all of which, however, are important, inasmuch as they augment the curative powers of the pills, prevent them from disagreeing with the most deli cate and spare time and suffering. to withdraw the amendment. He (bir. Baxter) had made up his mind to do everything in his power to facilitate the passing of the bill during the present se ssion ; but, look ing at the amendment which at present stood on the paper, and considering they were then in the month of July, he feared that if each amendment were to be discussed there would be little hope of the house passing the bill this the estimates of the commissioners and the State Andrews, one of his colleagues, and there was a engineer. The governor and council, however, great crowd to hear the eulogies pronounced on the have decided 'to defer the ratification of the con- deceased. No business was transacted, except the tract until the sureties required by law are fur- appointing of a committee to accompany the re nished. mains of the murdered member to Syracuse. During the month of May 75,724 pounds of mail Mrs. Cole is a daughter of Judge Barto, of matter were sent from Boston and 81,353 received Trumansburg, Toinkins county, and half-sister of over the Boston and Providence Railroad, and Henry D. Barto, a prominent Democratic politician, 150,711 pounds received, and 206,272 sent over a member of the Democratic States Central Com the Boston and Worcester Road and the Wood- mittee of the present State Convention. Mrs. Cole socket Branch. has a large property in her own name, and is re- The main line of the Union Pacific Railroad was ported to have a half-interest ill the bank of Hew y completed 361 miles west of Omaha, on Tuesday, D. Barto and Co. at Trutearmburg. June 4, and Senator Wade's party of excursionists A report is said to be gaining ground that Cole spent the day there in General Augur's camp at the was instigated to the murder by Hisceck having end of the track, two and a quarter miles of which advised his wife not to bequeath all her property to had been laid since ten o'clock on Monday morning. her husband. General Sherman was with the party, and was to start on Thursday morning for Fort Sedgwick, Julesburg Station, to look after Indians and the safety of the mail route. The Nebraska Legislature has appointed a committee to act with one from the citizens of Omaha, to give the excursionists a grand reception on their return to that city. There were heavy snow storms in Colorado between the 15th and 20th of May, and the snow in the mountains was so deep that the coach could not get through to Central City. The annual meeting of the Chicago and North- Western Railroad Company has been held at Chicago, and the result was the election of the old Board, the Wall-street ticket having been thoroughly beaten. The vote will stand about 240,000 votes, representing $24,000,000 of stock for the old Board, and 60,000 votes, representing $6,000,000 of stock for the opposition. About $6,000,000 have been expended on this road during the last year, which will account for the fact that no dividends have been declared. The permanent value of the road has been so much increased that this stock will now become a favourite one for speculation. On the Board of directors are some of the most sagacious railroad men in the country, and its property, which is developing with great rapidity, is now of great extent and value. There is no injunction pending against the Union Pacific Railroad, as was reported on the authority of a St. Louis paper. At the last meeting of the directors of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, JohuT. Shelton was elected treasurer, and Edward J. Sanford secretary. Within forty years 51,000 miles of steam rail roads have been built in the United States, costing $1,502,594,000. New England has 3,851 miles in use, costing $199,071,483 ; New York State, 4,025 miles, costing $152,579,769 ; Pennsylvania, which built the first Railroad in the country, in 1809, 4,038 miles, costing $210,680,000. This road has also 700 miles of underground track in connection with coal mines. The suit of Dr. Mather Williams against the New York Central Railroad Company for alleged damages done to his property along the line of East Washington-street, ia Syracuse, was decided re cently, and the damages estimated at $19,600. This case was commenced about thirty years ago, and involved the question of the right of railroad com panies to use the streets of a city or village after permission had been granted by the authorities. The Wall -street Journal informs us that the rates and time for passengers from Omaha, by Union Pacific Railroad and Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s Stages, are as follows : To Denver, Col. e Central City, Col 3 .„ 108 00 „ Salt Lake, Utah 7l „ „. 210 00 „ Virginia City , „ 11-1- „ 305 00 Virginia City, Nov. . „ Boise City, Idaho „ 305 00 „ Helena, Montana „ Sacramento, Cal. „ Austin, Nevada l7 10 225 00 The Little Miami Railroad Company was to pay on and after June 20, a dividend of 4 per cent.. free of income tax. The correspondent of the Si)ringlielcl Republical writes as follows on " Railway Projects :"—The Hartford and Erie Bill went the; ugh the House without even a count of the members for or against it, and with only two speeches on the subject. Still more fortunate, the subsidy of a million dollars to the Williamsburg and North Adams Road went through without even a word of debate. The bill was not even read in the House. There was a sharp fight by Mr. Bird against the grant of $600,000 for carrying on the tunnel, and also against the appro priation of $lOO,OOO for Provincetown harbour. Th e Walpole representative got no help in debate from any quarter in his tunnel fight, but got on one stage over eighty votes against the appropriation, and succeeded in defeating the project for changing the commission, which was believed to be designed for the purpose of getting rid of Messrs. Shute and Hudson, and putting the whole work into Mr. Crocker's bands. Rumour says that a large con tract has been made with some Chicago parties, and that Mr. Crocker desired to have them, on account of the exceeding reasonableness of their price, exempted from giving bonds, but the governor and council held that that was one of the very best reasons why they should insist upon proper COIiNTILY MARKET:3. COLCUESTER-JuNE 29. The supply of wheat was agaiu barely sufficient for con sumptive demand. Prices were firm, and against buyers. Beaus and peas were scarce, and quite as dear. Wheat, white G3s 743 Beano, Mazag,an......33s 3 s red: G 43 tBs Middle and 5ma1t.. 443 .18 s Barley 428 483 I Peas, white 38s 423 Oats —s s grey ..... 423 ;curities. 211 E MURDER AT ALBANY, CHELMSFORD-JUNE 28. On Tuesday, the 4th inst., a coroner's inquest was held at Albany on the body of L. Harris His cock, of Syracuse, a member of the New York Con stitutional Convention. The circumstances of his death were these : —Mr. Hiscock was a prominent lawyer and politician; for several years a member of the Legislature, and lately chairman of the Judicial Committee. He was about forty years of age and a widower. The causes of his death were given by his murderer apparently with truth, and for the present at least we accept them. General George W. Cole, brother of Senator Cole, of California, entered the United States army as a private when the war broke out, and attained before it closed to the rank of Lieutenant -Colonel. He was a friend of Mr. His cock, married, and with two children. In 1864, while absent in the army, his wife was taken ill, and sent for Mr. Hiscock to make her will. The lady could not have been in such extremity, as her position appears to have excited the lawyer more to love -making than to drawing wills. Some very curious interviews followed, in which Mrs. Cole appears to have been subjected to strong importu nity and insult, at the same time that Mr. Hiscock professed friendship for General Cole. The lady dreaded an exposure, and the consequences of in forming her husband of the indignities she had suf fered. After the General returned from field service, he had occasion to visit Washington about four months ago when Mr. Hiscock renewed his impor tunities. The changed manner of his wife appears ' to have excited a feeling in the mind of the husband that something was wrong. She seldom smiled, and seemed broken-hearted. His suspicions being aroused, a direction was given by Mr. Hiscock re peatedly inquiring when he would again go away. He wrote to a friend asking if he had ever seen any improprieties between Mr. Hiscock and his wife, who replied he had seen suspicious circumstances. Immediately he applied to the lady, and from her lips learned the circumstances. At her earnest so licitation he delayed shooting Mr. Hiscock at once, intending first to remove his wife, and then force Mr. Hiscock at the mouth of a pistol to beg forgiveness on his knees, for the injury he had done, and compel him to leave the country in ten days. He went over to his hotel to see him. Mr. Hiscock was leaning against a pillar in the re ception-room at Stanwix Hall, talking to Moses Somers and Patrick Corbett. George Cole ap proached from the Maiden -lane entrance. When about twelve feet off he raised his right hand, Mr. Somers's impreinion being that he was about to shake hands with him. He continued to advance, lifting the arm. higher until his hand almost touched Mr. Hiscock's head when he fired, and his victim fell backwards on the floor, almost instantaneously dying without even an exclamation. The general, in a rather incoherent manner, kept repeating, " He has dishonoured my simple, innocent wife." He was taken to the station-house, where, besides his pistols, there was found concealed upon him a long sharp-bladed spring-back knife, from which it is supposed that he contemplated suicide. In the Constitutional Convention, on the sth inst., the death Qf Mr, Iliscock was announced by Mr. This market was very poorly supplied with wheat, and Little business was done. Last week's prices were about made. Spring corn of all descriptions generally brought the prices of last week. Wheat, old white....s2s 676 new . .538 71s old red Nis 61s new. 538 63s Barley 26s 33s Chevalier 41s 538 errind.ng 268 32s Malt 66s 748 Chevalier 688 76i Oats ... 203 26s Peas, Partridge 408 429 White ..34s 388 BAling 36s 408 Bun—. ..... ...38s 40s ditto, new --s —9 Beans, Tick, old 4os 458 new 303 434 HarrOw rlcks 428 408 new 41s 458 Mazagan 393 43s ABERDEEN-JUNE 28. At our market to-day there was a quiet business done, with a thin attendance. Prices for all kinds of grain were the same as last week. White wheat 58s Od to 63s 0d) 62/b ? bushel. Red wheat 50s Od to 58 s Odi Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Odi 40lb 11 bushel. Common oats 26s G(.l to 27s Od Bere 35s 6d to 36s 6d) s"lb lil bushel. Barley 35s 6d to 36s 6d j Oatmeal 20s 6d to 21s 6(1 '4l boll of 2801 b. Flour, tine 52s Od to 51s Od V sack of 2801)). KIIIKCALDY—JuNE 29. • Small supplies of wheat. Only two samples of black oats and no barley. Wheat in favour of sellers. Wheat. Barley. Oats. tBs Od ' 33s Od 3os 6,1 l!'eeoud 60s 61 36s Od 31s Od Tuird 62s Od 36s Gd 32s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. s. d. s. d. West Hartley Keno() Cassop lB 3 Eden Main East Hartlepsol Hartlepool T unstall Ships at market, 32—sold. 30. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles ................ ... .... July 14. Ditto, via Panama . • • Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video July 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde. by Brazil packet July 4: Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Lieleua July 8. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton July 3 Ditto, via Marseilles July —. Falkland Islands _ . _ Gibraltar, via Southampton .• Julyl3. India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es" July 7. Malta, Egypt, &e ......... July 13. Ditto, Marseilles July 3. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton. July 21 Ditto, via Miami les July 11. Newfoundland ..July 3. Portugal July 4. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ... Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet July - West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe July 4. We.t Indies and Pacific ',except Mexico and Baha mas) July 5. Cub f. and Mexico July Bahamas, via New York July Bermuda, via ditto The Springfield Republican states that a hale and venerable fellow-townsman, who has paid the compliment of 43 years continuous subscription to the paper, has pre sented it with a copy of the Boston Chronicle of June 6, 1768, or just 99 years ago. It is a small quarto sheet, with a folio supplement, " printed by Mein and Fleming, at their printing-office in Newbury-street, almost opposite the White Horse Tavern." it announces with a flourish the latest news from London of the 28th of April, or six weeks previous, and boasts of its large edition of 1,500 copies. Admiral John A. Dahlgren has written the life of his son, Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, whose death in the futile dash on Richmond excited such general national anxiety. Dr. J. G. Holland has sufficiently recovered his usual health to be at work again on his poem, " Katrina," said to be his chef d'ceuvre, much of which is already in type for publication early in the fall. Senator Sumner is reported to be preparing a work, but on what subject is not stated. Rev. Dr. Curry, editor of the Methodist Chris tian Advocate, says the Atlantic Monthly, is the organ of free-thinkers; the New York 2'ribune has always been anti-Christian ; the Nation is edited by polite infidels ; the Times is " reckless of truth, propriety, and decency," and the Eveuing Post has "Unitarian proclivities_" On this the Springfield Republican remarks—" The good doctor finds no paper he can read with satisfaction but the Jlerald, which he declares to be "the least dangerous oe our dailies." What a funny doctor of divinity. The Boston correspondent of the Springfield Re publican tells the following story :—A very eminent poet, resident near this city, is specially sensitive under the scrutiny of strangers ; nothing annoys him so mucrt as conspicuousness. The other day he went into a book-stc.re and was received by an attache who at once recognisedlis distinguished customer, and shrewedly resolved to make the most of his visit. The store was full of custom ens. " Step this way, if you please, Mr. (in a vmiry loud voice), step this way, Mr. —; I think we have jrist the book that you want, Mr. —; Mr. allow me t`cs show you this book of plates." And so on for ten minuttle at least, till every ono of the scores of people in the store sated their curiosity with gazing, and mentally thanked the officious clerk for his loud proclamations. At last the* poet escaped into the street ; but his persecutor followed him nearly a block, and was with difficulty shaken off at all. Such is one of the many penalties of greatness. General Grant, accompanied by his son and. several members of his personal staff, attended at West Point the annual examination at the Military Academy, now in progress. The result of the examination is thus given by the Springfield Republican :—" The South appears to take all the honours at West Point this year, strangely enough, but it is only in appearance, for the students ap pointed to Southern cadetships during the war were chiefly Yankees. The six highest on the list rank as follows : Ruffner of Virginia leads, and Sears of Virginia is third; then .there are Mallory of Alabama, Rogers and Haupt of Georgia, and Griffith of North Carolina. in the next six there are three Tennesseoans, Pitman, Maguire, and Bell, while Turtle of Massachusetts, Greer of Pennsylvania, and Ileintzelme,n, at large, occupy the other three places. Thus all the first six and nine of the first twelve represent the South. Births. Cons—On the Ist inst., at Latymer Lodge, Hammer smith, the wife of Mr. L. Coils, of a son. CHICHESTER —On the 28th ult., at Neyland, Pembroke Pock, the wife of Major E. Chichester, of a son. GOULD— n the Ist inst., at Clifton Villa, The Wood lands, lsleworth, the wifo of Abraham Gould, Esq., of a sou. Marriages. COXIIEAD—STILLIVELL—On the 29th ult., at S. Clement Danes, Strand, the Rev. John J. Coxhead , M.A. curate of Fulham, Middlesex, e ldest son of J. Coxhea.d,'Esq., of Russell-square, to Martha, fourth daughter of J. G. Still well, Esq., of Arundel-street, • Strand, and Dorking, Surrey. WIGRAM - SoLLY—On the 29th ult. at St. Luke's, Ber wick street, Robert Wigram, of 9, New Burlington-street, fifth son of Money Wigram, Esq., of Moor Place, Iferts, to Mary Edith, second daughter of Samuel Sully, Esq., F.R.S., of 6, Saville-row. Deaths. BAYLY—On the 29th ult., at Richmond Lodge, Forest-hill Charles R. Bayly, Esq., aged 59. CHARLTON -On the 29th ult., at Picton, Haverfordwest, Henry Charlton, Esq., aged 71. CHORLEY—On the 29th ult., at 76, Chester-square, S.W., John R. Chorley, aged 60. MAotnun—On the 29th ult., at Haslar Hospital, Capt. B. Maguire, RN., late Commodore on Australian Station. PANISURE—On the 25th ult., at Paris, the wa dy P a n RUSSELL—On the 29th ult., at The Nook, Mortlake, John. Russell Esq., aged 75. RUTT—On the 29th ult., at Berne Bay, Wm. Butt, Esq., aged 80. ------- London Printed and Published by WILLIAM A/sagtEW S . of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SnN Office, No. 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in the Comity 0 Illiddlesoz.—Tuesday, July 2, NG SUN, LOM)Ois, TUESDAY EvENING, JULY 2, 1867. ,n Press. Sheffield Tray .., e aten ConaraiseioD. Spirit of the WOMEN AND JURIES. At the Bitting of the Court on Friday Mr. Sugg I It appears to be a settled principle of jury-made said that he wished to offer the evidence of a volun- Mr. Tyzack with that offences agai nst chastit y ma y be p unished tary witness to show that on the nig h t with death by the woman's nearest relative, or, in was shot at with a revolver he fired the revolver off himself. default of a m ale relative, by herself, and that no warning need be given to the culprit nor explana- Mr. Tyzack was then recalled, and stated—On the tion asked of him. Moreover, it is no longer neces night that he was shot at, in Abbeydale, no woman' sary that he be taken flagrance dclicto in order to came to him and asked him to take her up in his warrant his kill in g , or that the evidence against him gig. LIP never said to anybody that night that he be at all conclusive. A simple statement of a woman was loaded, and could not take anybody up at that of night. The person who, as he supposed, that a man has insulted or seduced her is now re timegarded by juries as sufficient to justify his being fired a revolver at him was on the right hand I slain unawares, with all his imperfections upon his side of the road, on the footpath, going to Abbey- h e ad. We might fill a column with illustrations of dale—on the plantation adjoining Mr. Cockayne's what we are here asserting, in the shape of stories premises. He and his brother had had revolvers for of cowardly murders perpetrated by women, or some years before this occurred—ever since revolvers friends of women, which juries were asked in vain were invented. They had spent dozens of nights in Ito punish. The last case of this kind is one of watching their premises, revolver in hand, after de- w hich everybody in this State is now talking—the predations had been committed. lie had never in m urder of Mr. Iliecock, a member of the Constitu his life fired a revolver as he was going home. Ile tional Convention at Albany. He is shot suddenly was not carrying it when he was shot at—he re- by one of his friends, a Gen. Cole, and in defence of gretted that he was not, for then he would have his crime the murderer tells three different stories faced his assailant. He was quite sure he was shot --first, that Hiscock had violated his wife; secondly, at in 1862, and not in 1859. that he had seduced her ; and thirdly, that he had Mary Ann Needham, wife of Thomas Needham, simply insulted her—all of them resting on the state who was sentenced to four years' penal servitude in ment of the wife herself, who, it appeared, did not 1865, for blowing up Mr. Tyzack's wheel, at Dron- discontinue her intercourse with Hiscock in conse field, was next examined. She said her husband quence of anything that had happened. The only was an engine-tenter. After his conviction she went bit of corroborative evidence drawn from the hus with Sam Crookes to Derby to see him. Crookes band's observation consisted, it seems, of highly asked her to go, and paid her railway fare. Crookes suspicious circumstance that the murdered man went in his own name, but he told her to sa y at asked him ono day, " when was he going away ?" Derby that he was her brother. She stayed in So that if Cole should be- acquitted we shall have Derby a week. She asked Crookes for money, and fresh support for the theory that any woman who he gave her some. Before she went to Derby, and has a jealous or crackbrained husband, and little at different times afterwards, he gave her some, regard for her own reputation, may have any man amounting to £3 in all. Before her husband was shot or knifed by reporting him as having behaved sent away from Derby gaol she went to see him, unhandsomely to her. In fact, a bad woman who CroolLca aaklus Inez to go, and paying her expenses had tried to seduce a man and failed, might in this as before. Crookes's wife and witness's sister-in- way gratify her rage and desire of revenge by hav law and a brother-in-law went as well. On this ing him incontinently " taken off;" and if juries occasion Crookes gave witness a new dress and allowed this doctrine to take root and flourish, the bonnet. She applied to him for money be- best and most proper man in the community would cause her brother, Bradley, told her to do so. hold his life at the mercy of any worthless couple She lost a child, and Bradley told her to go to who happened to have an acquaintance with him, Michael Thompson for money to bury it. and might for any reason desire his destruction. Thompson referred her to Crookes, saying he did The law, we believe, forgives the slaying by not know her. She said she would make him know a husband of a man taken in adultery ; but it her. She said this because she thought by her hus- does so not because it approves of the prac band sending to Thompson that Thompson knew tics of avenging one's own injuries, but because it some thing about what herhusbaud. was suffering for. supposes some injuries to be too great for ordi- Mary Ann Morton, sempstress, was called by the nary mortals to submit to them in cold blood. In defence committee to say that when going home to other words, it is presumed that a man who wit- Abbeydale, one night about nine years ago, Mr. nessed his own dishonour would be sure to lose all Tyzack, the witness who was shot at, passed her iu self-control. But there is in this no sanction what his gig. Immediately after she beard a revolver fired ever for the modern doctrine if A. hears or suspects off three or four times. A person to whom she spoke, that B. has been ruining his domestic peace he may Mr. Hall, said it was Mr. Tyzack, who fired it, and go in search of him with deadly weapons, and added that Tyzack's men were out on strike. The in- whenever he meets him, be it days or mouths ference the committee wished the Court to draw afterwards, kill him on the spot. In fact, a good from the evidence was that Mr. Tyzack was in the many of these moral murders are now committed habit of firing off his revolver when going home, not only in cold blood, but by gentlemen and ladies and that it was he who fired on the night when he who are not much troubled at all by the loss of alleged he was shot at either by accident or by their " honour," and sleep just as soundly as if design. they still had it in their keeping. They kill Mr. Tyzack was recalled, and denied in every " seducers" simply because it is " the thing" to do, particular the evidence of the last witness. and the public expects it of them ; or because they Mr. hall, of the firm of Martin, Hall, and Co., think it will procure them a little pleasing noto the gentleman to whom Morton said she spoke riety. Nothing could better prove the debauched when she heard the revolver fired off by Tyzack, condition of public opinion, a s expressed by was called, and he denied ever having seen Morton. than juries , th e fact that so me of the mur- The evidence she had given, so far as it had derers whose wrongs have excited most sympathy affected himself, was utterly untrue. have been themselves rakes and adulterers of the Morton was recalled, and was told by Mr. Over- worst kind, and, after polluting other peo • end that if she had said that which was untrue, it pie's homes for years, have been suppo sed would be the duty of the Court to prosecute her —poor fellows — to be incapab le of enduring the for perjury. The Court, however, would allow her pollution of their own. We a ll know the way in to save herself if she chose to withdraw what she which these beautiful justifications of the uncon had said. The witness said she was prepared to trollable indignation of the injured husband or the stand by her statement, and she gave the names of betrayed woman are got up. The murder is gene several persons to whom she related at the time rally committed in some public place, so that there what she had seen. may be plenty of witnesses. As soon as it is done, Joseph Machin, secretary to the Scythe the murderer, though pale, becomes perfectly calm, Grinders' Union, said the story told by and surrenders without difficulty, and after giving Morton was related to him on Saturday by Win. some slight signs of intended but easy-to-be-foiled SI, .rpo, an.l be asked Alorton to repeat it before suicide is conducted to prison, where he is the . object the Court. In further exatuivatiou witness admitted of marked attention on the part of the gaoler or his that a number of rattenings previously spoken to wife, and is waited on soon after by some of the ha:l been done on behalf of the trade. Witness's liveliest and most graphic members of the " repor cash-book was examined, and in 1862, at the time it torial corps." Then come the most delicious mo was stated the union found money to seal Need- nwuts of the whole drama. The murderer gives his ham out of the country to prevent his giving evi- own version of his wrongs, with the delightful con deuce against Michael Thompson for having found sciousues.s that he cannot be contradicted, the only money to pay for the blowing up at Droufield, person who could contradict being dead. He tells there was a balance in hand of £l2l. The contd.- of his agonies, of " the fire in his brain," his bution book of the same date showed that the ac- sleepless nights, his horrible misgivings, his early counts had been falsified, and that the total at the happiness, his passionate love, his wonderful sa bottom of each page was considerably less than the crifices for " the frail being" for whose sake he sum actually received. Witness was still unable to has assassinated ; and down it all goes on paper, account for these discrepancies. So me o f th e ba- and soon appears in print. And while the lances represented that more had been received than tale is fresh the newspapers are never weary was the case. The page in the cash-book oppos it e of making additions to it, and the hero enjoys to the one containing the balance of £124, an d th e more notoriety than ever he hoped in his wildest one which most likely contained entries of h ow t h a t dreams. When the day of trial comes on it is a money had been expended, had Penn torn from the grand day. The court, is crowded ; the audience book. By whom and how that was done witness and the jury lay in extra pocket handkerchiefs ; the could not say. The auditors had passed the b oo k s pr i son er is dressed simply, but with care, and wears as they appeared. au interesting and melancholy air. The leading Thomas Bamforth was called and was questioned masters of balderdash at the bar are engaged for the respecting the shooting at Mr. Tyzack. lie deni e d d e f ence , a nd the defence consists mainly of fulsome emphatically that the woman Morton had ever men- p ra i se o f the assassin and abuse of his victim. All tioned the circumstance to him. that fustian can do is done to make woman appear any en naughty co mes th m e an description can seduce, uc o e, f The witness Morton was again called, and she a kind of pretty ani mal w i thout sense, or discretion, persisted that her statement was true, and refused to or conscience, whom must, be e t h let e m l o u n r e_ a withdraw from it. The Court told her she might be and whom Haughty mennf h e husband therefore, prosecuted for perjury. At present they would not one husband'spa inofdeat a h g . say what they would do with her. th Michael Thompson, formerly secretary to the derer. He is presented to the jury as a mad bull, Scythe Grinders' Union, admitted having been im- whom the mere sight of "the destroyer of his plicated in the outrage at Dronfield. lie paid money peace" rouses iuto uncontrollable fury, and who from the funds of the union for the support of has to go about trying to kill him by a law of the wife of Needham, who was convicted of the his being, just as tigers have to prowl and spring outrage. He made no entries in his books of the and tear in order to satisfy their hunger. Now we payment of this money. lle w as a w a re that Need- think the better portion of the public has reached the ham admitted to Mr. Tyzack that he (witness) em- conclusion that we have had enough of this sort of I, pl o yed him to do this outrage. He took little notice thing ; that it is high time that the old doctrine that of this rumour, and did not see Needham after he premeditated killing, no matter what the provoca came out of prison. Witness denied having had tion may be, is murder, and deserves, in the interest anything to do with the shooting at Mr. Tyzack, of society, to be punished as murder, ought to be, and he did not find funds to send Needham to reasserted. The only possible excuse that can be America. put forward for the conduct of juries in refusing to, Joseph Crossland, secretary to the union of the c onvict "injured husbands" for killin g s educers in pen and pocket blade grinders, said he suc c e eded cold b l ood , is t hat the honour of wives c annot be Bromehead, and most of the books when he came preserved in any other way ; but thi s excuse we into office had been destroyed. It was said they imagine very few men would be willing to accept as had been buried with Brouiehead. (Laughter.) valid if presented to them in its naked simplicity. At a general meeting a question wes raised respect- If wives need any legal assistance in preserving ing the sum of £7O, which had been invested in the their virtue, it ought to be supplied in the regular savings bank in the name of four persons, and the way, by making adultery a criminal offence ; so that names of three were necessary to draw it out. The when a man is accused of destroying anybody's money had been taken out, and one of the persons, peace, he will at least get a hearing for his version Geo. Law, complained that his name had been forged. of the affair ; and even if he is to be put to death Nothing could be learned as to how the money had on conviction, will be put to death with decent been got or what had become of it, and at a mee ti ng h um an formalities instead of being shot like a on the 10th April the following resolution was come mad dog. But pending the provision of legal to :—" That, after a great deal of investigation, we punishment for these offences, wives and hus are of opinion that the £7O was drawn out of the bands must be left to take care of their own bank for trade purposes ; but, at the same time, we honour, and must find other means of taking deprecate the manner in which it has been drawn car e of It than the use of deadly weapons against out, and hope in future the committee w ill b e ver y any b o dy th e wife chooses to point out as her " be particular in the mode of doing their business." trayer." We think that, however opinions may Witness admitted ratteniug was practised in his differ as to woman's f i t nes s for the suffrage, very trade, but hoped it would s oon b e d on e awa y. Ile f ew people will be found to deny that, in her pre had no doubt the books had been destroyed to eon- sent state of mental a n d mo ral dcvelopment, mar mil improper entries. tied women, at least, ought to be able to take care The Court then adjourned until Monday morr of their own chastity, and ought to be made to do it, and be punished, if anybody is punished, when it is lost. Their whole training from childhood up is concentrated on their preparation for this one duty, and society and the Church have surrounded the discharge of it with the most terrible sanctions. Married women, too, have what young unmarried women have not, the knowledge and experience ne cessary to warn them of their danger ; and there is something false and ridiculous in the po s eilar theory that when they fall they are the innocent victims, the men the real criminals. Women, to be sure, are proverbially " frail," but so are men ; and in the existing state of opinion a woman brings to the violation of the marriage vow a much stronger and more deep-rooted sense of the sin of it than a man does, and is, therefore, on any sound theory of account ability, by far the guiltier of the two. The theory of woman's character and position on which blame, in cases of adultery, is now distributed, and on which the murder of seducers is justified, is really very little superior to that set out in the laws of chronic complaints: ields throe times the nourish hwelayl l a - r g e g r s t a o T r i a n t g e I whichßo[vAeD:::lAsratlfbEi.:T);)-bc-irtu 11,Beadrryieyin.sesd:eltflaasal f et digest;on, strong nerves, sound and invariably restores per e refgeshing sleep, functional lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, went of the best meat, saves 00 times its cost in other remedies, d o e p ra o d pe regularity, am , energy to t he most d ! s T o . s aeletbhle es extract a few out of 6 8 , 000 cures; 13.__ " " Rome, July 21, 1866. by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68 % 4 —The health of the Holy Fathe r is e x ecilent, especially since,ft health rust red I N en o t . s fo s to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, o A d a surprisingly bone s plateful at every meal. It has pro.uce of h t ig h h e ly m .' a ' re F b r i o o m ne t s h s e d ` o ` also this excel abandoning all other remedies, he has confflnwehdichhimhseeleof entirely tidal effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pr ,02416t0f seven ye y ars' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervousd palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, an the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord dyspepsia. No. 49,832: Gaßrzeehatten,de Midi, Jul 25. Cure Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, " Fifty years' indescribable agony from spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."--Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., lls. ; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s .— BARRYv Du BABA , / and Co., No. 77. Regent-street, London; also Fortnam and 111. son, 182, Piccadilly g ' . and at 61, Gracechurch - street; 4 , Cheapsi de; 63, 150, and 298, % Oxford-street 330, Strand ; and all grocer 4 and chemists. Menu. She is so helpless, so consciencekss, so ready to fall, that to throw temptation in her way is con sidered the foulest act a man can commit, and it is so hard to keep her from falling that public senti- ment authorises the husband to assassinate his best riends in broad daylight for the protection of her purity. The case of young, unmarried women is, we admit, different. Whether rightly or wrongly, they are so educated that they neither know when they are running risks nor how to guard against them, and as long as this system of education is or has to be continued, fathers and brothers must be armed with summary powers for protecting them, or the legal penalties of seduction must be made vastly heavier then they are now. nut, as a matter of fact, the women who take the law into their own Lauds, and kill their faithless lovers and secure im punity from juries, are hardly ever youthful inno cents. They are generally tolerably mature spin sters, who know perfectly well what they are about, both when they are lavishing their affections ou the unworthy object, and when they are pistolling him for running away, and there is probably no more repulsive spectacle to be witnessed than the mock trials of offences of this kind by which our courts are sometimes disgraced. In fact, side by side with the agitation in one portion of the com munity for woman's admission to greater social freedom, is growing up a tendency, in another portion, to release her more and more from both legal and moral responsibility. There is strong re luctance abroad to convict a good-looking woman of any offence whatever. We even doubt whether Bridget Dorgan, who killed her mistress the other day in New Jersey, would, though not good-look ing, have been convicted, had she simply killed her master. But when it is made to appear that love is at the bottom of a young woman's crimes, juries become deaf to the claims of order, and law, and Morality. As soon as the tender side of the tra gedy begins to show itself in the evidence the jury men wipe their eyes, the court blows its nose, the counsel's voice grows husky, and the " poor young thing" is dismissed with the deepest emotion, and the friends of the dead man sneak to their deso late homes amidst the frowns of the indignant and virtuous crowd.-7he Nation. TILE FUEL PROBLEM. The great, important, and constantly increasing part which steam power is taking in the world's progress has awakened the attention of thoughtful political economists to the fact that the material necessary to evolve the vapoury but untiring giant from the simple elevation of water is constantly de creasing in quantity and increasing in value. Coal is now so universally employed as domestic fuel that the immense supply needed for the generation of steam in the various industrial pursuits, and the steam marine of the world's commerce, and the navies of the nations, is taxing the means of almost every individu d in the community. The present rapid consumption of coal is therefore a subject of deep and profound interest, and much care and atten tion have been given to maturing plans for a less rapid and more economical consumption of the valuable fuel. The latest discovery in this direction promises to be of the utmost importance, and its ultimate and complete success seems certain. The new method proposes to abolish coal altogether from beneath steam boilers, and put in its place petro leum. The mode of effecting this desirable change was originated by Colonel Henry It. Foote, of Ten nessee, and his process has been patented. The attention of the United States Navy Department has been already called to this new steam generator, and a Board of three chief engineers have examined it, and rendered a favourable report. Chief Engi neer Isherwood ordered the fourth-class United States steamship Palos to be fitted up for a full and complete trial of the new invention ; and on board of this vessel the experiment is now in progress in Boston harbour. The new apparatus is simple and inexpensive, consisting of a small iron box or retort located in the grate bars, and having burners all around it. Its bottom is kept hot by burners beneath. The oil is carried into it by a small iron pipe and vaporises as soon as it enters. Steam is then intro- ' duced through a coil of iron pipe filled with filings and located over the burners, where it is intensely heated and decomposed, and its gases enter the retort, into which air is at the same time forced, and the whole forms a gas which escapes from some nine, hundred burners, where it burns with a clear, intense blue flame, completely filling the furnace and extending into or through the flues. The heat is very great. It emits no smoke, can be increased or diminished in a moment, or be entirely extin guished by turning a stop-cock. The apparatus is very simple, and any part of it, if broken, can be repaired or made new by any mechanic. No alte ration of boilers is required. It will burn whatever coal will, and the fire can be run by any man of ordinary intelligence after an hour's instruction. It dispenses with all coal heavers, and requires one man to every two or three fires, to keep them in perfect order. It is clean and convenient, and saves the time and trouble of taking in coal and disposing of ashes, and, there being no sulphur in the oil, as there always is in coal, the boilers and flue will be more durable, notwithstanding the greater intensity of the fire. But the great value of this invention in steamers is the gain in space and ton nage. The amount of fuel required is only about one-seventh of the weight and bulk required of anthracite coal, and the inventor is satisfied that after perfecting his apparatus it will take less than one-tenth, leaving all the remainder for freight or passage room. If this fire succeeds, it will enable ships to steam from sixty to one hundred drys, and to visit ports of the world from which they are now excluded, while the direct gain in the saving of the fuel of the civilised world will be almost beyond computation. The best petroleum for the purpose of fuel for steam boilers is that which is obtained from wells in %Vest Virginia, on account of its gravity, which renders it non-explosive, and can be handled and stored with the same safety as lard oil or coal, thus avoiding all the objections to the light oils of Pennsylvania. The quality of the oil used in the experimental test should receive particular attention, in order to make the success complete, which it is sure to be in the hands of practical men. 'Philadelphia Inquirer. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The stockholders of the Manchester and Law rence Railroad held their nineteenth annual meet ing at Manchester on Friday, June 8, at whicl 5,803 shares were represented. The old board o directors were ousted, and a new one elected by over 3,000 majority, as follows :—Asa Fowler of Concord, Ezekiel A. Straw of Manchester, Benjamin F. Martin of Manchester, Joseph T. Cross of Hook sett, Edward A. Abbott of Concord, George B. Chandler of Manchester, and William W. Stia -ne Y of Exeter. The new board subsequently organised by electing Asa Fowler president, and re-electing E. W. Harrington of Manchester treasurer, and William C. Clark clerk. The stockholders of the Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth Railroad held their annual meeting at Kittery on Monday, June 3. The receipts of the road for the past year were $529,326, and the ex pense and renewal fund $298,500, leaving a net income of $230,824. A resolution was offered declaring that the contract for the lease of the road to the Boston and Maine and Eastern Railroad Companies had been violated, because they have failed to pay the rental in gold or silver, according to agreement, and instructing the directors to take possession of the road. This resolution and the entire matter was referred to the directors, to be reported on at a special meeting within six months. The old board of officers were re-elected for an other year. The directors of the Boston and Worcester Rail. road have given notice of an issue of $500,000 worth of new stock, one share of new to be given to hol ders of nine of old. This makes the capital of the road an even five millions. The Western Railroad has purchased for $5,000 the Childs Place, at Pittsfield, now occupied by Miss Clara Wales as a young ladies' seminary. The contract for completing the Hoosiac tun nel has not been awarded to the builders of the Chicago lake tunnel as reported, though they have bid for a certain portion of the work, including the whole of the central shaft, at prices much below N