The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-29 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. VALETTA, April 22.—Her Majesty's ironclad frigate Resistance, 18, Capt. H. S. Hillyar, C. 8., arrived here on the afternoon of Friday, the 19th inst., and, having been ordered to prepare to enter dock and make ready for sea again with every pos sible despatch, she was admitted into the dry dock this morning. She left the Piraeus at 4 p.m. on the 16th inst., having been relieved the preceding day by the Endymion, 21, Capt. C. Wake, from Malta. The Resistance brought here as supernumeraries Assist.-Paymaster-in-Charge John L. Page, Mr. J. Harris, engineer, Mr. John Kelly, assistant engineer, and Mr. Alfred Roberts, gunner, all of whole proceed home in the Peninsular and Oriental Corn pay's steamer Syria, arrived to-day from Alexandria; Captain S iyer, and Mr. and Mrs., Munday, also arrived by the Resistance. The ships of war at the Pirtwas were the French frigate Renomme (bearing the flag of Rear-Admi ral Simoom), the Russian frigate Grand Admiral, 68 guns, the Greek frigate Hellas, and three Greek gunboats. Prince John of Denmark had arrived at Athens to take the office of Regent during the King's intended absence. Her Majesty's ironclad ship Enterprise, 4, Commander G. S. Bosanquet, returned on the night of the 19th inst. from Tunis and Gerbah, bringing from the latter place several Maltese concerned in a murder committed in the Regency of Tunis. Letters have been received from H.M.S. Cruiser, 5, Commander Morgan Singer, on the coast of Syria, to the 3d inst., stating that, in consequence of a slight uneasiness prevailing be tween the Mahomedans and Christians, she was likely to remain at Beyrout for the present. Her Majesty's gunboat Wizard, 2, Lieut.-Commander P. J. Murray, arrived from the island of Candia this morning, having left Canea on the morning of the 19th inst. Omer Pasha, Generalissimo of the Turkish army, and the newly-appointed Governor- General of Candia, had arrived, and was making preparations for a de.isive struggle against the in surgents at the close of the Bairam, which termi nated the day the Wizard left. Omar Pasha seemed impressed with the magnitude of the task imposed upon him, and it is believed that what his prede cessor failed in effecting with double the number of troops and a local knowledge of 30 years' expe rience, he can hardly be expected to accomplish with the small means at his disposal. Want of military roads and the insufficiency of the blockade appear to be the chief obstacles to putting down the insurrection. If sufficient time were granted to him, however, he might be able, as in Montenegro, by the construction of roads, to bring the disaffected to terms, if not to submission. Coroneos has gone to be present at the defence of Sphakia, and throughout the whole island every man capable of bearing arms has joined the insurgents. It is even affirmed that the women of Sphakia are dressing themselves in men's clothes, and arming themselves for the final struggle. Whatever may be the result, we may feel assured, uuder the direction of Omer Pasha the conflict will be carried on in a more orderly and humane manner than hitherto. Instead of the hordes of Cretan Bashi-Bazouks accompany ing the army under no control, and only seeking revenge and plunder, the new Commander-in-Chief has organised a force of 4,000, who are to be regu larly paid, and have already received two months' in advance. This force will be under the immediate orders and control of the military, and will do much towards mitigating the sufferings of the unhappy women and children. Mr. Campbell Johnston, nephew of the Duke of Argyll, has arrived in Crete from England and the Piraeus. His Excellency Sir Henry Storks, having resigned the Governorship of Malta, took his final departure from this island on the 17th inst. for England, via Marseilles. Major- General Ridley, the senior military officer, has assumed the reins of Government until the ar rival of the new Governor, Sir Patrick Grant. Dr. Sutherland, the Sanitary Commissioner, took his departure by the same vessel. The English yacht schooner Marcia (having on board Mr. Sheri dan, M.P., and family) left ois the 17th inst. for Candia and Smyrna. The English yacht schooner Bell, Capt. R. A. Smythe (proprietor), left on the 18th for Algiers. The English yacht schooner Red gauntlet, having on board Mr. Haig and family, left on the 19th for Alexandria. The English yacht schooner St. Ursula, having on board Mr. A. Ken nard and family, arrived on the 19th inst. from Syracuse. The following appointments have been made by the Commander•in-Chief :—Mr. David J. Low, Assistant-Paymaster, supernumerary of the Victoria, to the Hydra, vice Andrews, appointed by the Admiralty to the Donegal, coastguard ship. Mr. E. G. Ashworth, supernumerary engineer of the Ocean, to the Royal Oak, as supernumerary en gineer; Mr. Robert Spiers, assist.-engineer, first class, of the Victoria, passed on the 17th for en gineer. The quarantine imposed here on the 17th inst. on arrivals from Calabria and Sicily was re moved on the 18th, in consequence of the official communication from her Majesty's consul at Palermo having been misunderstood. The only port in Sicily on arrivals from which quarantine is established here is Girgenti, where cases of cholera have continued to manifest themselves throughout the winter and spring. Her Majesty's ship Hydra, Capt. Shortland, left Malta on the 17th instant for Sicily, to resume hydrographic operations on the coast. A confirmation was held on the 17th inst. at St. Paul's Church by the Lord Bishop of Gibraltar. Owing to the absence of so large a portion of our fleet the number of candidates was this year smaller than usual. Last year there were 200 applicants for the rite ; this year the whole number confirmed amounted to about 120, 80 of whom were present on the 17th, while 40 men and officers from one ship only, the Endymion, had been confirmed the week previous. O n b ot h occasions adult in dividuals who had not been baptised in their infancy presented th emse l ves prev i ously for bap tism in order to qualify themselves to take part in the confirmation at these annual opportunities. To-morrow the new English church at Silema, built chiefly through the exertions, and, in a great measure, at the expense of the Right Rev. Dr. Trower, bishop of the diocese, will be consecrated, when a farewell sermon will be delivered by the Bishop, who has come to the decision of resigning this see on account of Mrs. 'Tower's health. It is proposed that on the occasion cf his departure means should be taken to show the sense of the English community in regard to the very high esteem and respect in which his Lordship is held in this island. The paddle frigate Terrible, Capt. Commerell, C. 8., V.C., &tiled from Spithead on Saturday for the 'Mediterranean. She takes out supernumeraries for the ships serving on the station. The Prussian brigs of war Rover, Captain Prandt, and Mosquito, Captain Berger, arrived at Spithead on Saturday front the Mediterranean, and after taking stores on board sailed again the same evening for Kiel, to which port they were ordered to proceed without delay. The Imperial Russian ships of war Askold and Variag, lying at anchor at the Motherbank, off ityde, commenced the celebration of the Easter festival of the Greek Church at 12 p.m. on Satur day by a salute of 21 guns from each ship. The re ligious service on board commenced at the same t'me, and lasted till 2 a.m. yesterday. To-day being the birth-day of the Emperor, the ships will " dress in colours, and at noon fire a national salute in honour of the day. The Lords of the Admiralty having decided on disposing of the stores of ballast iron at Chatham dockyard, better known as " Seely's Pigs," orders have been received for 2,000 tons of the iron at that establishment to be at once sold, and the pro ceeds cArried to the public account. The whole of the arrangements for the sale of the iron have been intrusted by the Admiralty to Afes. , :rs. Ryland, of Birmiugham, who will be paid a commis sion of 5 per cent. on the amount realised. The iron will be disposed of by tender, the minimum price to be received having been fixed by the Admi ralty. The tests of the ballast iron in use at Chat ham doelTyard show there are four or five different qualities, the best kind being very valuable. The quality of the iron, however, can only be ascertained after each pig has been split asunder to allow of the crystals being seen, and as the method in which the iron is broken has been found to materially affect its quality, the duty of breaking each of the pigs the quantity of iron sold will be under taken by Messrs. Ryland, who will be paid at the rate of Is. 6d. per ton for this work, in addition to their commissions on the sales. The Admiralty order also directs the sale of 2,000 tons of the ballast iron in store at Sheerness dockyard, on the same condi tions. The circumstance of the iron requiring to be broken before it is sold will render the entire 4,000 tons useless as ballast iron should the Admiralty terms not be accepted. It is worthy of remark that, notwithstanding the comparatively high value of the ballast iron, the experience of the last few years has completely proved that in a dockyard like Chatham, in which the traffic of enormous armour plates, with the heavy slabs, plates, and iron beams used in the construction of iron ships is going on at all hours of the day, the granite tramways laid down require renewing and repairing at intervals of a few months, while, on the other hand, the passage of the heavy weights has no perceptible effect over those portions of the yard where the tramways are laid with pigs of iron. An order has been received from Admiral Eden to dispose of the old stock of anchors now in Wool wich dockyard in the most advantageous manner. Some of them have lain in the yard since 1846, and uow occupying a space of ground on the wharf uselessly. Some of those of the most recent date, it is stated, are to be issued for moorings and for the use of coasting vessels, &c., and as the metal has been proved to be of good quality, an application has been made to Mr. Martin, one of whose self-canting anchors has just been put on board her Majesty's ship Industry, to break up the remainder of the stock and reforge the metal in the construction of new anchors under his patent. The Winchester, lndiaman, Capt. Gideon, be longing to Mr. George Marshall, of 18, Philpot lane, London, arrived at Spithead on Saturday, from Calcutta, with the head-quarters of the 98th Regiment on board, in the following strength:— Col. F. Peyton and Mrs. Peyton ; Capts. S. C. Walker, T. T. Sirripson, and C. H. Griffin ; Lieuts. B. Wolselsy, W. O'Toole, J. G. Ballantyne, and H. J. G. Robinson ; Ensigns H. Boileau and A. Abbott ; Surg. A. Humfrey, Mrs. Humfrey, and child; Lieut. and Adjt. R. Townley, Quartermaster M'Gregor and Mrs. M‘Gregor ; 341 men, 27 women, and 36 children. Eight died, and two were born on the voyage. The troops were disem barked from the ship at Portsmouth dockyard on Saturday evening, and joined the left wing and re gimental depot in the Cambridge barracks in the garrison. The Winchester sailed from Spithead again for London at 5 30 a.m. yesterday. The camp at Aldershott is now receiving con siderable accessions of troops, which will shortly enable the Lieut.-General commanding to com mence the field-day season with an adequate force, if not with quite the usual number of regiments. On Thursday the 70th (Surrey) Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Col. W. Cooper, arrived at the North Camp from Dover. The marching in strength was 39 officers, 45 sergeants, 20 drum mers, 531 rank and file, 45 women, and 61 chil dren. The regiment is quartered in A, B, and C lines, North Camp. On Friday the first squadron of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, under the command of Capt. the Hon. 11. Chilton, ar rived from Liverpool. The squadron consisted of 5 officers, 71 men, and 78 horses. The second squadron, under the command of Captain H. E. Bridges, and consisting of 5 officers, 68 men, and 75 horses, arrived on Saturday. The third squadron, under the command of Capt. C. MiDon nel, consisting of 5 officers, 82 men, and 85 horses, will march to-day, and the head-quarters and the remainder of the regiment, under the command of Colonel Shute, on Saturday. The regiment is quar tered in E, F, and I lines, North Camp. The 2d Royal Surrey Militia, the recruits of which have already undergone a fortnight's training, will leave Guildford to-morrow afternoon, and proceed by train to Tonghani, whence they will march to the South Camp and occupy G, H, and M lines. The Ist Royal Surrey Militia will leave Richmond early on Wednesday morning and proceed by the South- Western Railway to Farnborough, whence they will march to the South Camp, and occupy C, B, and F lines. The Hants Militia will leave Winchester early on Wednesday morning for Farnborough, whence they will arrive about 11 o'clock, whence they will proceed to the South Camp, and take up quarters in P, Q, and L lines. The Oxford Militia and the Berkshire Militia will leave Reading by the South- Eastern Railway on Wednesday morning, and pro ceed to the North Camp. The Oxford Militia will occupy K, M, and 0 lines, and the Berkshire Militia D, G, and H lines. The 72d Highlanders, from Edinburgh, are also expected to arrive at the Camp about the middle of May. The man Coleman, belonging to the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, at Aldershott, who a short time ago sustained serious injury at ball practice by a shot fired by Private Edward Halpin, of the same regi ment, notwithstanding the amputation of his right arm, is progressing favourably towards recovery. Halpin has been tried by court-martial on the charge of making away with one round of his ammunition. He was found guilty, and sentenced to 42 days' im prisonment. One half of the punishment, however, has since been remitted. Considerable dissatisfaction is heard in the ranks at Aldershott concerning the " extra pay" which the men believed was granted to the army on the recom mendation of the Recruiting Commissioners, and which they expected would take effect from the Ist of April. This is the all-absorbing topic in the camp, and an official intimation on the subject is anxiously looked for. OLD AMERICA.* (From the Anglo-American Times.) It is with difficulty the European mind admits the fact, that instead of being new, North America is a continent old to the human race. Tbat North America was peopled by tribes in comparatively ad vanced stages of civilisation is proved beyond ques tion, by the remains extending from the Isthmus of Panama to the shores of the Canadian Lakes. So completely have we imbibed the notion that America was a terra incognita, inhabited by a few tribes of roving wild Indians, till discovered by Columbus and other adventur ous seamen, that it is with some incredulity we learn of unknown cities, crumbling amid the forests of Central America—of pyramidal temples and tumuli, entrenched camps and fortifications, walled towns and villages, amphitheatres and pic torial grottoes, embankments and bridges, towers and obelisks, wells and aqueducts, high roads and causeways, gardens and artificial meadows. That these vestiges are there, there can be no doubt— what they prove is the question. Every now and then we are told of the discovery of a city amid silent jungles, 200 miles away from the nearest path, which speaks as eloquently of former life as the ex cavated remains of Pompeii ; as full of temples, pillars, and sculpture as any city of Egypt or Greece. That such vestiges not only attest former inhabi tant; and also a certain degree of civilisation, can not be questioned ; but we are left with no other clue to their history or attainments than these signs afford. They have passed away, leaving no written record behind them—no characters to translate, no emblems to decipher. In the works themselves, however, when properly interpreted, much infor mation will be obtained. If a city implies citizens, a temple implies a worahip—a fortification, war—an arrow, a hatchet, the implements—embankment s and bridges, engineering skill—highroads and cause ways, traffic —gardens and artificial meadows, agri culture. By a study of the architecture the notion may he gleaned of the country from which the art was derived and its period. By the formation of the houses an idea is conveyed of the habits of the inmates. The pottery and implements tell some thing of their customs. A careful investigation of the material and the known influence of time on certain portions, may give an approximate know ledge of the date of erection. Much in this way may be done to bring to light the history of races of men who have long since disappeared from these scenes of their labour, " bequeathing to posterity no written nor even a * American Archaeology, Elinburgh liwiew, April 1, 1867. Lonns, Li:Maga. solitary traditional memorial of themselves or of their ancestors." In this age of research it is singu lar that so little attention has been directed to this interesting subject. The information obtained leads to the conviction that the races who have left behind them these monuments of their civilisation came from Asia. It is probable that the first settle ment of both North and South America proceeded from the West eastwards. Japan was in all pro bability the country that imported into Central America its civilisation. The remains show that this civilisation travelled from the West eastwards, hardly, if at all, reaching the States of the Atlantic seaboard. Thus, the early settlement of America brought Europeans scarcely into contact with these remains of antiquity. In the New England States we are not aware that any have been found, though pyramids, as well as sacrei and sacrificial mounds, abound in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and through out the Valley- of the Mississippi ; and vast entrenched camps and colossal fortifications in earth and in stone are found in Ohio, Illinois, and throughout the Cen tral States. While the early settlers in New England came only in contact with wild Indians and pri meval forest, the Spanish adventurers who landed in Mexico penetrated at once into a region rich in civilisation. It is a striking fact that the New England settlers, reared in the comparatively sterile country that fell to their lot a civilisation which now challenges comparison with any in the world, and that the Spanish conquerors swept out of exis tence the arts and refinements they found established on the soil. The fact that the most interesting of these relics lay beyond the reach of the more civilised intruders, and have only at a comparatively late period become known, may account for the general ignorance of American antiquities. It is not easy to remove a strong and generally held opinion, and the man would probably be considered mad who penetrated into the wildest parts of the United States to prosecute antiquarian research. Yet this must be done, soon or the loss to science may be great. Mr. Leland, in his pamphlet re viewed in this and in our previous number, speaks of the celebrated rocks covered with Indian hiero glyphics discovered several years ago in Kansas by Max Green, who expresses the hope that some one skilled in archaeological lore will visit this spot. "There are hundreds of large flat rocks," he says, " some 20 feet broad, walling an acclivity from the river course to the south-west. Some of the cha racters are like those I have seen on the ledges of Rio Puerco, and among the head waters of the Gila. There is nothing modern in their appearance. They must have been graven there ages ago, " While yet the Greek Was hewing the Pentelican to forms Of symmetry, and rearing on its rock The glittering Parthenon.' These remains, I believe, are many leagues north of where any other inscriptions are extant, similar to those of Uxmal or Palenque, and this fact may serve to strengthen the theory of the Cambrian legend of Azatlan and the Toltec tradition of their journeying southwards." Mr. Leland says that there are many of these inscriptions on the rocks of Kansas, all of which will probably ere long vanish. " I regretted to hear," he adds, " of a very curious and attractive, one which has, even within the past year, been so shamefully defaced as to be at pre sent well nigh destroyed. There is reason to be lieve that Aztec influences once prevailed among the tribes of Kansas, and it is possible that these picture rocks, which are said to differ very much from the 'common Indian markings, may con firm this theory." It will be seen from the annexed extract that the Edinburgh reviewer holds the same opinion that the Aztecan came from the head waters of the Gila, and as they were a nomadic tribe, it is more than probable that they penetrated into Kansas. The national records of the Aztecas, confirmed in a great measure by the observations of their con querors, establish several most interesting and im portant facts in the natural history of civilisation. When first confronted by the Spaniards they had been seated in Mexico rather less than one hundred and fifty years. Towards the close of the 12th cen tury of our era they had migrated from a spot tra ditionally known as Atzlan, or "the country of waters," most likely the territory enclosed within the angle formed by the junction of the Rio Colorado and the Rio Gila at the head of the Gulf of Cali fornia. They did not reach the table land of Ana huac, however, until the year 1324. No date in their history has been better established than this. We have an indubitable instance, therefore, of a nomadic horde suddenly suppressing the instincts of their nature, relinquishing the habits of savage life, becoming a permanently settled people, develop ing a capacity for political organisation, raising stupendous piles of brick and stone, constructing and embellishing innumerable cities, cultivating the arts and sciences, and making such advancement in astronomy more particularly, as not only to rival but to surpass that which was made by the most en lightened nations of antiquity in Asia and Europe. And all these astonishing results are crowded into the space of a century and a half ! We are left in no doubt, moreover, whence these extraordinary people, and the tribes associated with them, derived much of their ivilisation and a knowledge at least of architecture, facts which are quite as remarkable as those just mentioned. The Mexican empire was built on that of the ruin 3 of the Zoltecas, who, in the 11th century, had been overwhelmed by the suc caaLelnilskdys fvreetaohemecc according h a dz e m it nen i ge t oa i erstst, to t o - htw f et neaZoltecas parts famine, a t had travelled historians, and artna hsv ce l pestilence.torigin-cm continentpj e e le Zv s t a° l e r o l ; l rary with the first Spanish adventurers, had occu pied the vale of Anahuac from the seventh century of our era. They are said to have been established in New Mexico from 300 8.C., which we may observe, by the way, is the earliest assumed date in the annals of the aboriginal American. The origin of the Zoltecas is shrouded in mythological fable. It was traditionally held that their ancestors had migrated from the distant East, beyond immenseseas and lands. They had wrested the territory of Anahuac from a powerful nation called the Ulmecas or Olmecas, who, in their turn, had displaced the Quinames, a fabulous race of giants. The light of documentary history just reflects the declining years of the Tol tecan dominion, and discloses to our view the pre eminent position which they held in the eyes of their contemporaries, and the favourable influence they had exercised over them. Of all the ancient Ame rican nations of whom tradition or history has pre served any notice, these people were by far the most civilised and ingenious. Humboldt has designated them the Pelasgi of the Western hemisphere, and Prescott states that their tribal appellation is syno nymous with Architect. The survivors of their race, when driven from their old habitations, retreated towards the Isthmus of Panama, and scattered themselves about Yucatan, Guatemala, and Nica ragua, whence their presence may be traced to this day in the language of the people, and in the num berless ruins of once beautiful structures. This accounts for the silent cities in the tropical jungles of Guatemala and Nicaragua, but it throws no light whatever on the sacred and sacrificial mounds so generally found in so many States of the Union. "In some instances," observes Mr. Squier, " they are terraced or have successive stages; but, whatever their form, whether round, oval, octangular, square, or oblong, they have invariably flat or level tops of greater or less area." They are usually approached by im posing graded avenues, and encompassed by ram parts of earth, or walls of Cyclopeian masonry. Some of these temple mounds are upon a truly gigantic scale. That, for instance, of Cahokia, in Illinois, is reported to be 700 feet long, 500 feet wide at the base, and 90 feet in height ; its solid contents have been roughly estimated at 20,000,000 cubic feet. An immense tetragonal terrace has been raised by the side of it which is reached by means of a talus. This mound is constructed with as much regularity as any of the teocallis, and was originally cased with stone (some American archaeologists maintain with brick), and surmounted with one or more buildings. The sacrificial mounds which are peculiar to the New World are much less imposing structures than the temple mounds. Each is crowned with a symmetrical altar of burnt clay or stone, on which ara deposited numerous relics, in all instances exhibiting traces of their having been exposed to the action of fire. " From the Alleghaniea to the Rocky Mountains THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1867. a perpetual succession of vast entrenched camps and ' colossal fortifications, in earth and stone, follow the entire route. Every eminence is defended, as well as every delta formed by the junction of two streams. Redoubts and breastworks, ramparts and circumvallations, mounds of observation and—ana chronistic as it seems—casenzates (as in the ruins of Marietta, near the mouth of the Muskingum) attest equally to the number, the skill, and the industry of the population which constructed them. The most perfect and characteristic, as well as the most emi nent of these stupendous defences, are to be met with in the State of Ohio. A brief description of those in the county of Licking must here suffice : ' Between the delta formed by the New/irk and the Racoon there is a perpendicular table-land about 35 feet high, upon which regular fortifications of great extent are built. On the west side of the platform is an octangular fort, enclosing a space of about forty acres, with walls about nine feet in height, and of equal breadth. This fort was entered by eight gates about five yards in width, each protected by a tumulus placed in the interior in front of the entrances. Two parallel walls lead to another circular fort, placed south-west of the first, covering a space of twenty-two acres. Proceeding towards the south, you see an observatory that commands almost all the extent upon which these divers con structions are erected. Beneath the observatory a secret passage leads to the bank of the Racoon. Farther to the right, is a third fort, also circular, of about 26 acres, with an interior moat, out of which the earth was taken to form the walls of the fort, which are about 25ft. or 30ft. high. Two other parallel walls, very distant from each other at this place, run to the north, gradually diminishing their distance, and terminate at another fort, of quad rangular shape, 20 acres in extent. These four different forts are connected by rather low walls, and in the centre is a shallow pond covering a super ficies of 150 or 200 acres, which probably afforded water to the flocks collected within the wide en closure. Towers of observation are placed from distance to distance on the rising points of the plateau.' " Two classes of objects are equally distributed over the whole continent, namely, ornaments for the person, in copper, and various utensils in pottery. Copper, in its virgin state, obtained from the vicinity of the Great Lakes, and hammered into the forms of bracelets, anklets, axes, mauls, &c., appears to have been in very general use from an early period. Silver, lead, and iron were also worked, but on a limited scale ; whilst brass and bronze, the former in the north, and the latter in the south, were more extensively employed. A few years ago the corpse of a warrior was discovered in one of the sepulchral mounds in the streets of Marietta, Ohio, with the remains of a baldrick or buckler, ' composed of copper overlaid with a thick plate of silver,' lying across his breast. By his side were several broken pieces of copper tubing, filled with iron rust'—all, in fact, that remained of his scabbard and sword. A piece of iron ore, which had the appearance of having been vitrified,' was likewise found with them. In reference to this discovery, Mr. Squier remarks, ' These articles have been critically examined, and it is beyond doubt that the bosses are absolutely plated, not simply overlaid, with silver' (p. 188). But we can hardly accept this conclusion. The effect described was produced more likely by chemi cal action ; in other words, the 'metals had become partially amalgamated by the lapse of time. The presence, however, of oxydised steel or iron, as well as a specimen of iron ors,' in the same monument, is a much bore interesting and important fact than the other ; it betokens an advanced know ledge of metallurgy invery primitive times—a know ledge which must havebeen lost to succeeding gene rations, and long anterior to the age of the conquest. Iron was then absohtely unknown in the New World, excepting to one solitary tribe, established at the mouth of the la Plata, whose arrows and spears were tipped wits it. But of all the abori ginal arts that of pottery had attained to the highest degree of perfection. The t •rra-cotta vases have been compared in fulfil with the choicest antique specimens in Europe. Those found in the pueblos and wells of New :Mexico still retain,' says the Abbit Domenech, a , ery perfect varnish ; they are ornamented with brillant paintings, lines, scallops, frogs, butterflies, toroises, and monkeys' heads.' In the States to the eat of the Mississippi they are almost equally excellent. Yet it has b een questioned whether the aborigines were ac qua i nte d with the potter's wheel. Besides a large ass or t ment of cine rary urns, many of Old World types arrow-heads , of rock hatchets, ckcrysta l,agate, and silex, copper and stone axes,gouges, and chisels, knives in obs;_ dian, perforated shells—some from the Gulf shores, and others from the southern coasts of India —the most ancient of the mounds have also yielded brace lets of brass, smooth and polished, rings and tubes of the same material, venous ornaments for the per son in silver, pipes of terracotta, slate, and steatite, rude sculptures in wood, and fi ner sculptures in more durable materials, representing tropical qua drupeds, birds, fishes, &e." IRE SUE•2REASURY. ARGOSIES OF GOLD—NINE . ..IC TONS OF COIN IN SAFE. The vaults of the United States Sub-Treasury are said to exceed in size those of the Bank of Eng land. The strong and burglar-proof manner in which they have been constructed excites the admi ration of all beholders. There are two of these im mense vaults, one at each corner of the Pine-street end of the rotunda. The rooms are perhaps 20 feet long by 15 feet wide, and 10 or 12 feet high. They contain no window ; there is but one door opening into each, and gas-lights are kept burning inside. The internal appearance of these vaults has a striking resemblance to a fashiona,ble tomb in Greenwood Cemetery, rows of cases being arranged around the sides of the room, each about two feet square, with iron doors attached. There is one door for each case, and when the apartment has been filled with bags of gold or bundles of green backs the doors are closed. Each case will contain half a million of dollars, put up in bags of five thousand dollars each. When a case is thus filled the door is closed, and a seal is affixed in the pre sence of the Naval Officer and the Surveyor of the Port. It takes 100 bags to hold half a million of dollars. In the first vault entered there were 72 compartments arranged round the room, which formed a tier somewhat higher than a man's head. Running over the top of these was a balcony with an iron railing in front. There was piled up in this balcony, in one heap, six million of dollars, in five and ten dollar bills ; one-half million of dollars in internal revenue stamps, fifty thousand dollars in fractional currency, put np in large paper boxes, and five and one-half millions in United States bonds. The floor of the vault rests on 30 feet of solid masonry, from the ground up. On the top of this granite there are two feet of wrought iron, and be tween the iron plates a space filled up with bullets. If a rogue should succeed in boring through the granite and iron, the moment his drill touched a bullet, that would commence to revolve, and by the time he had penetrated it another ball would drop in its place ; in this way be would soon find that he bad an endless job before him, and the attempt to get into the vault would have to be abandoned. The sides and top of the room are composed of eight feet of granite and two of iron, arranged in the same nianner as for the floor. This safe, as it is called, was invented by Mr. Isaiah Rogers. Mr. Rogers once remarked that if the people at the Treasury building should happen to get locked out of the safe it would take him a month to break into it. A night watch is kept to look after these strong boxes, but they are considered perfectly safe with out him. There are four doors to be opened, one after the other, before we can enter the safe. Each one of these doors weighs two tons, and contains locks of different patterns. A lever is so arranged that after the doors are closed four large iron bolts are thrown across the door-way, resting in sockets, which have been made in a pillar of wrought iron. If a thief should succeed in cutting the hinges of one of these doors, usually considered to be the most vulnerable point, the door would not drop down from its place, and nothing would be gained. Like the deacon's celebrated one-horse shay, these doors are made as strong in one part as in another, and the hinges show no signs of weakness. It will take a fearful earthquake to shake them down. No good idea can be given to the reader of the locks and their operation, but a few general remarks may be of interest. The first door has one of Dobb's Eureka locks ; there is no key-hole for this, and the outside combination wheel is divided into the let ers of the alphabet, the nine units, and fractions of figures. The combinations which may be made by this arrangement are endless, and no one can open the lock, shoving back the bolts, unless he knows the words, figures, and fractions which have been used in locking the door. Even if a person was so fortunate as to get from Mr. Birdsall the combination, he must have an ex tensive acquaintance with the lock to know how to manipulate it correctly. The second door contains an Ishain lock, which is altogether different from Dobb's lock. The third door has L. Gale's Monitor lock, and the fourth door contains Gale's double Treasury locks. From one of these doors, after it has been fastened, a portion of the lock is taken off, and put under lock and key in some secret place. Without this it would be useless to attempt to get into the safe. The second vault is much larger than the first one described, but just as difficult to get into. There are one hundred and twenty cases in this room where gold can be put and sealed up. At the time we looked into the vault there were ninety tons, or forty-five millions of dollars in gold, stowed in the room, and twenty millions in paper. The green backs, es they are paid into the Treasury, are put up in packages of one thousand bills each, all of the same denomination. A package of one dollar bills contains one thousand dollars ; of five dollar bills, five thousand dollars ; of five hundred dollar bills, five hundred thousand dollars. In one small box we were shown six small packages, each of which contained one million of dollars. Money is handled in the Treasury building in a wholesale manner, packing trunks standing about full of it, large willow baskets on wheels being used to carry it in, &c. The sight of it be comes so common that the clerks employed regard it with the utmost indifference, handling it as they would so much brown paper. The vestibule of the second vault is called the book vault, and contains the cancelled obligations of the United States, a ton or two of paymaster's checks. All these books and checks are carefully preserved.—New York Gazette. PARIS EXHIBITION. AMERICAN NOTES. The American Department at the Exposition presents many attractions which, in spite of all the delay in its completion, makes it well worthy of notice. We propose to mention, during the period of the Exposition, all the varied articles on exhibi tion in our department. In the Annexe, and near the American locomotives, may be seen the life saving raft, an invention of Mr. Perry, which is rapidly coming into favour in America. From its compactness and lightness, and the ease with which it can be used, it has been selected by the Navy Department of the United States for universal adoption. The raft on exhibition is capable of saving the lives of 50 persons; it cannot be overturned, and so much confidence is felt in the merits of the invention that a party of navigators propose to leave New York for Paris upon one of these rafts, to arrive during the Exposition. A large number of interested persons may always be seen in the vicinity of the models of street rail ways and cars, as exhibited by Mr. Eastman, our Consul at Bristol. By a practical use of this sys tem, it is believed that all objections to city rail ways will be surmounted. By the arrangement of the rails any other vehicle than the car itself can travel on them with great facility and comfort, thus making the street railroads thoroughly popu lar with every one. The immense convenience that such a road would furnish to the travelling public in Paris is hardly conceivable, and it is to be hoped that the authorities will see the importance of this matter and introduce it. There is in tlle - Ainerican department a small cannon, which, from the fact of its being securely chained, one would imagine liable to a sponta neous explosion. We are informed that this is the famous " Ferris Gun," ordered to be built by Pre sident Lincoln. It is made of wrought iron, with a series of rings surrounding it, and outside still another set of rings made of steel. The peculiarity of this gun is the fact that a much larger amount of powder is used in proportion to the weight of ball than in other guns of the same calibre, viz., 240 z. of powder to a 31b. ball, while the usual charge for a muzzle loader would be 4oz. of powder for the same weight of ball. This particular gun has been fired several hundred times with the result that at 35 deg. the ball was fired to a distance of nine miles. This was done in the presence of an examining board of and under orders from the United States 'War Depot. The initial velocity was 2,200 feet per second. It has been estimated that a gun built on this principle, with a dumber capable of burning 9lbs. of powder, would throw a steel ball of 1001bs. through twelve inches of solid iron, or, elevated to 35 deg., would send the same ball or shell ten miles. We last week spoke of some of the most supe rior American products in the Exhibition, and in this issue we propose to call the attention of our readers to goods in the American Depart ment which arc attracting great attention, and, in our judgment, deservedly so. Among them are those of the Tucker Manufacturing Company of Boston, Massachusetts. These consist of chan deliers, lamps, brackets, clocks, cases, statuettes, &c., made of bronzed iron. They are from beauti ful original designs, and reflect great credit on Mr. Francis Fracker, the company's designer. Mr. Niram Fracker, of Boston, Massachusetts, is the inventor of this method of bronzing, and by the discovery he will work an entire revolutio❑ in this important branch of trade. These goods are equal to the finest French bronze, and can be manu factured for one-fourth the price. The company have on exhibition a statuette of Webster, the great American statesman, that cannot be sur passed. The Daball Patent Rotary Fog Trumpet i 3 the invention of C. L. Daball, of New London, Con necticut., U.S.A., and represented here by Mr. S. T. Daball. We were present when this trumpet was in operation, and confess we have been very much pleased with it as a means for the transmis sion of sound. It can be heard from ten to twenty miles, is easily worked, and for marine purposes, to protect our seafaring people from harm, and our merchants from the loss of their property, it is an invaluable invention, and one that cannot fail to commend itself both to the scientific and practical man. This trumpet produces a sound unlike any other ; and what adds to the worth of the machine, the sound can be increased to almost any volume. The trumpet is worked by the " Ericsson Caloric Engine," and has been adopted and set up in several places by the American and English Governments. We believe it is the best thing of the kind yet produced, and worthy the attention of all National Governments. The Special correspondent of the Standard re marks, that " now that the American department is beginning to be opened, we find that it contains many of those ingenious notions and inventions in which our cousins across the Atlantic excel. There is a small machine called The Matrix Composi tor,' invented by John Sweet, who is in attendance to explain it. It is a most ingenious contrivance,. and for some sort of work is likely to supersede the present mode of printing. It is about half the size of a piano, and is furnished with keys. Upon the top is a revolving wheel with letters, which, upon the keys being touched, press upon a soft block of paper, on which they leave a deep impression. As this operation is continued, pages or columns are impressed, forming a mould from which stereotype plates can be cast, the labour of distributing the type, and the very numerous errors caused in proofs by the letters getting into the wrong boxes of the type case, being entirely avoided. A lad or girl could after a little practice work with this ma chine faster than the most experienced printer could set up type. It is, however, only admissible for some sorts of work, and this because mistakes can not be corrected. For reprints it is admirable, but for the printing of original matter or newspaper work, where after corrections are needed, it could not be used. The sort of mistakes likely to occur in setting up a reprint, such as repeating a word or a line, can be obviated by cutting out the part re peated, and closing up the remainder before sending it to be stereotyped, but even this sort of alteration would be attended with considerable difficulty. An other invention, and that of the most important and useful kind, is exhibited by Dr. Ileim, of Spring field, Ohio, the inventor and patentee. It is called the hydrostatic Scale,' and is used for ascertain ing the exact load which a vessel is carrying, and also to indicate the existence of leakage at sea. Admirably simple as the invention is, it is yet rather difficult to describe lucidly. Each vessel should be fitted with two of these scales, one near the bow, the other near the stern. A hole is made in the ship's bottom of two inches in diameter ; from this a tube of about three inches in diameter goes up to the level either cf the deck or cabin, as may be desired. The water in this tube will manifestly be at the same level as that outside the vessel. In the tube is a light hollow eopper rod, which floats in the water, and projects up beyond the top of the tube. Upon the upper part of this hollow rod is a graduated scale. As the level of the water is in the tube, so does the rod rise or fall, and indi cate the level of the water outside, that is the depth of submersion of the ship. Supposing now that the vessel were empty, these rods would be down level with the tops of their tubes. Every ton of cargo which was put on board would sink the vessel so much in water. Say, for example, that one hundred tons in the fore compartment of the ship and an equal quantity in the stern would bring her down a foot. The rods would then pro ject a foot, and their scale would mark 20) tons. So on until the full cargo was reached, and the rods would then show that the vessel was down to her full burden line, and that no more cargo should be taken on board. These rods could be enclosed in glass cases, so that they could not be opened or tampered with, and the Government inspector would be therefore able to see before a vessel left harbour that she was not loaded beyond safety mark. In a similar way after the vessel was once at sea, if she sprung a leak, the captain would at once notice by the rods that she was lower in the water than before, even if the difference were only a few inches, and according as the fore or aft rod was elevated he would be enabled to tell the general position of the leak. The total expense of one of these rods for a ship of large size is only ten pounds, and as it occupies no appreciable space, it would be well if the authorities could direct that in future no ship, at any rate no emigrant ship, should go to see without one. Had the ill-fated London been furnished with one of these little in struments, no question could have arisen as to whether or not she were overloaded. The Govern ment inspector would have seen at a glance how many tons of cargo she bad aboard, and how low she was in the water, and had she carried more than her authorised freight he could have prevented her putting to sea. "Degener and Weiner, of New York, exhibit a patent hand-press for circulars, cards, or other small printing, which works with twice the rapidity of any hand-press with which lam acquainted. It Is well worthy the attention of makers of small presses, and would be likely to meet with a very extensive sale." SPIRIT (iF THE AMERICAN PRESS. FENIANISM.—TOO MUCH BLARNEy. Mr. Banks's resolutions of sympathy with Ireland were sustained by the Democrats as well as the Republicans in Congress, so that they amount to little in the way of cajoling the Fenians politically. Sensible Irishmen cannot fail to see the motive and despise the act. If this sort of gammon had no other effect besides deluding such Irish voters as are too stupid to distinguish blarney from ho nest t a lk , it would be comparatively innocent and harmless. But it encourages the Fenian leaders in their law less and dangerous schemes, and if there shall be another attempt to invade Canada no small share of the guilt will rest upon our politicians, who know the criminality and fully of such an enterprise, and yet encourage it for the sake of winning a few Irish votes. The time must soon come when the Irish will see how shamefully they have been played upon, and they will never after trust those who so basely d ece i ve d t h em. No doubt the Fenian rising in Ireland, so manifestly hopeless and certain to bring sor r o w an d d eat h to those engaged in it, is in part to be accounted for by the doggedness with which the Irish go into a fi g ht, reckless of consequences, when their blo o d i s up. But with the leaders it comes from a worse motive. Men like Stephens and Roberts, who have sense enough to lead, must know that Ireland can not be separated from England until the power of the latter is totally demolished, and Great Britain ceases to be a power among Governments. Eng land could better lose Canada, India, all her colo nial possessions, than allow the United Kingdom to be dissevered. Why, then, th e l ate r i sing, and the t er rible suffering of a few th ousand Fenians among the mountains and bogs of Killarney ? The leaders must have known to absolute certainty that this little spasm of rebellion wou ld end in the death o f some of their deluded followers, and the cap ture and dispersion of the balance. Why do t hey inflict these calamities upon the Irish people ? There is no apparent motive b u t a mean an d sor did one. The Fenian treasury, which means their own pockets, can only be replenished by keeping up the e xcitement and making a show of doing something. This was the secret of the false movement upon Canada last year, and there is nothing wore in the intimations of a repetition of it this year. The same motive has prompted the weak and hopeless attempt at revolution in Ireland. It ought to be the last of the kind. Irishmen should be able to see by this time what Feuianism amounts to, and abandon it as an ex pensive delusion. In this country its demonstra tions upon Canada are in violation of the laws of the United States, and an outrage upon its honour, which no good citizen can assist in or countenance, to say nothing of the expense and trouble to the Go vernment, growing out of the disturbance. The obvious policy for Irishmen, at home or here, who seek liberty and prosperity for Ireland, is to act with John Bright and the English reformers in se curing enlarged suffrage, from which must soon come the removal o f t h e di sa bili t i es un d er which Ireland labours. But so long as they allow them selves to be made th e easy d upes o f Y an kee poli ticians who seek their votes, or Fenian leaders who covet their money, th ey w ill accom pli s h nothing for Ireland, and only was t e mone y and effort, with out getting so much as g l or y ou t of it.—Spring field Republican. AN INTERNATIONAL NUISANCE. We have very little doubt that if either the news papers or the telegraph company cannot make ar rangements to have the European news collated, or condensed, or boiled down, or whatever it is that telegraph operators do to news, by more competent persons than those who now perform the duty, it will be generally agreed, a year or two hence, that the Cable not only does not fulfil its mission of bringing the two continents into closer relation, but acts as a positive breeder of misunderstanding. The habit of telegraphing his own vague impressions and guesses as positive facts, by which Reuter's operator on this side of the water did so much mischief during our war, is evidently growing on the gentleman who collects news for the Associated Press on the other. A despatch appeared a few days ago, after the announcement of the Russian treaty, announcing that " regret was generally expressed by the press and in political circles at the proposed sale of the Russian possessions in North America to the United States." An attempt was made by some of the papers by using such sensational headings as " Excitement in England over the Proposed Sale," &c., to use this utterly worthless announcement to give the treaty popularity here. But it will be seen, on a moment's consideration, that the report of a man of whose judgment, or acumen, or social position, or education nobody knows anything, as to what is expressed in " the pri_ss" of a particular morning, or as to the feelings of people in " politi cal circles" during the twenty-four hours last past in a place like London or Paris is not only good for nothing, but, when factitious weight is given to it by telegraphing it along the bed of the ocean for 3,000 miles, may prove positively mischievous. We know nothing of the facilities which the agent of the As sociated Press has for forming correct impressions, but we infer from his despatches that these are ex ceedingly small. On Sunday last he telegraphed : 'There is a general distrust in political and finan cial circles all over Europe ;" a statement the entire value of which depends on the character and position of the man who makes it. It would take Rothschild himself or Count Bismark to say, with any approwth to accuracy, what the feeling is in political and financial circles " all over Europe." We may be quite sure the opinion of the gentleman who compounds these little despatches for the press here, on a subject of such vast range, is not vit 3l l 3 l more than that of the first man one nigh happen to see in a Cheapside chop-house. Oa M° ll t day he went to work again, and telegraphed The feeling of distrust in financial and Pni teal circles has increased to a war panic. T hel uncertainty in regard to the future action , of the Emperor Napoleon, and the fears that he will adopt a warlike policy, c rea t e w id esprea d distrust ana° c l3 e g . , business men, and great d e pression in c°. n quence exists in comme r ci a l an d financial circles both in this city and in Paris." be fi cllO u re effect of this stuff was , o f cours e, to prod depression and alarm here, which is the 111°.„ surprising as a refut a ti on o f it was to be found 10" f the same batch of despatch e s. The true gaug e .. 0 the feeling in financial ci rc l es i n L on don is the 14% of the funds. We find on looking at this that ft ) d r week before last Monday, Ce,nsols stool at 91 ; i lin re the influence of th e " p an i c " d escr ibed by to. porter . they fell to 901, which shows what,, lllB ,,: e , t . ormation is worth. if a "panic" pervaded r-x t r yt h ) the . present state of English politics and 01 Icl English army and navy, the stock exchange w°l_lo - a very different story to tell. The 41,er elated _Press ought to do one of two things, el t- , by a large salary tempt a first-class man in L c ' don, whose political and financial judgmen ts t r le worth . something, and who does know bow P 7 ,0 feel . in political and financial circles, to rna i i`, e + o their . news for them, or else rigidly reject all 'lr. portion of the despatches of the present w orthy l d cumb . ent which consists of his own guesses, al : 10 predictions, and publish nothing but his Otherwise the Cable will become a pest a t w nuisance as far as the public is concerned ---- "9 1)e great a pest and a nuisance nobody can inlag i he who does not know how many people get an Lie foreign news they ever read from the telegraP" despatches.— The Nation. THEA7RICAL AND MUSICAL. +IP On Wednesday evening M. Gompertz gave his S p ec :, trescopo Entertainment in St. James's Hall. popp er ~ Ghost is an ordinary spectre compar e d to those rais ed this magician. As he announced, Goothe's Faust le d selected, as the spectators aro familiar with the stall', 3n , it best admits of bringing his won d er f u l illusions ill ° play. Marguerite's appearance as represented at Drury-I°. beautiful as it was, was nothing to the spectral Margue rite , introduced by Gompertz ; and the scene of her death a beautiful tableau, so perfect in its delusion, that it a rie out from nothing and again faded into nothing, leaving th a e mind of the beh3lder convinced, that the a ctual ,„ figures were as he saw them on the stage. That t"" actual figures are occasionally on the stage there eau b : little doubt, though they seem to assume f ° ts from vacancy and vanish as they come, for gh °s cannot throw shadows, nor can they jump, makinlal noise on the boards. By what means could the act u substantial, stout, speaking, and acting being beaseize d b d a ghost, and vanish before our eyes, to re a pp e ar a singing 10 dancing spectre, and again fade away ? "I s he a real 0111 ,, , exclaimed a child behind us. "I believe he is, mY de it e ;;l "Then, where is he gone ?" a question more easily s Er ;, than answered. The "Revolt of the Ghosts" li ty 'd marvellous effect, considering the substantial reality the figures as they stood and sang on the stage, thee r up the walls and along the ceiling, tumbling llea di° „ 1) 0 down, passing through each oth er , n ot like shadoW o " 0 a wall, but rosy-cheeked, talking, healthy characters, so perfect in illusion that there was no diff erence w hatever t the eye between the ghost on the stage and the ind ividiP : the ghost repres en t e d. W e h ope M r . Gompertz will rec° : eider his determination, and extend the entertainme nt " as to afford th e c iti zens o f L on d on an op p o rtunity seeing this marvellous exhibition. LIVERPOOL THEATRES. The Prince of Wales's Theatre and the Royal AMP lii' theatre re-opened on Mond a y n i g ht , un d er th e jein t/n3 ; „,. nagement of Mr. Alexander H en d erson an d Mr. - 11 ' Byron ; and if the programme submitted at both houses "- taken as an indication of the intention of the now I I; nagement, the local playgoers will have every reas °° , e congratulate themselves on the friendly union of the s o `", - ; times rival magnates of the Liverpool theatrical W°l.' The former theatre has, during the recess, undergone 6414; siderablo alterations and improvements. The d re- d, circle has been enlarged, the flooring of the stalls eleva te t and theseadng in thepitand gallery circles so arrange dth t erg a perfect view of the stage is now obtained from °T b part of the house. These alterations, coupled v il fii " an increased brilliancy in the lighting, and a c°, . 1 .-- ; plate renovation of the georgenus decorations, r°11",,,- this theatre now second to none in the king d° ; The piece selected for the inauguration of the summe r s°- : son was " A Midsummer Night's Dream," and never P e ` - haps was this, the most b e autiful of Shakspere's creat i°l36 produced with a greater degree of completeness and sP le° ,:f dour. With Mr. Ph e lp s i n hi s ce l e b ra t e d character " Bottom, Miss Julia St. George as Puck, all the other O rt , g. sustained with more than average merit, b ea utiful scer or) by Grieve, presentin g a se r i es o f exqu i s it e pi c t ures , an d : i b f e musical selections rendered with rare ability by a hig , ' . l , °- trained and efficient orchestra, this " s ec ond g r a nd Sh 3 - 1; sperian revival" at the P r i nce of W a l e s Theatre wil l - 4 long remembered by all wlw hav e th e g ood fortun o " witnessing its representation. At the Amphitheatre Mr. J. L. Toole, always an esP ei ' ll e favourite in Liv er p oo l, h as ma d e th e acqua intance of thy( habitues of that house, and has been welcomed by his 13 :1 4 friends (for the great comedian possesses the happy of making friends of all with whom he comes in co ntacw i with an enthusiasm which leaves him no cause to regre having for a time forsaken the scene of his former triumPlioii The fact of his appearance in three of his most celebvitef characters sufficiently explains the nightly crowding ° the theatre. The excellence of the entertainments at both houses set at rest whatever feeling of uncertainty mighty l be existed as to the results of the amalgamation, an prospective announcements are of such a character as once to give assurance of the determination of the manage, ment that the reputation severally earned will be i nil/t uphold. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. We had only a moderate supply of wheat at our COr. market to-day ; and the demand being tolerably brisk, s , to 2s per qr. more money was given for best descriptio%, The barley trade may be reported as closed for the seas° White wheat (weighing 631 b), 70s to 74s ; o ld red aiL tcl (weighing 631 b), 62s to 655; new red ditto (weil i c a g 601 b to 631 b), GOs to 65s ; best malting barley (weilii,), 521 b to 531 b), 44s to 46s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 0; • to ' 40s to 44s • distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 33560 36s : oats, 24s to 28s ; beans, 57s to 395 ; peas (maple) , " to 38s per qr. Flour, 43s Od per sack. NOT TING HAM—SATURDAY. of At our market to-day there was a tolerable supplY ZS wheat, and the demand was firm, at an advance of is coati, per qr. Barley in limited supply, at last week's Pr' Oats also in limited supply, and made higher rates. Pe" and peas at more remunerativo prices. ne 4 Old white wheat, 68s to 74s ; old red, 64s to 6 , s ;o it tS, white, 66s to 73s ; new red, 58s to 65s per 36 stone. e s, old, 33s to 36s ; new, 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Bean°. 490 56s to 60s ; new, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Fine flour, to 51s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. ' ply At this day's market there was a moderate oy li r e r, of wheat, and prices may be quoted is to 2s per qr. ne d Barley firm, at about recent currencies. Oats maint.,,%/id last week's prices. There was a tolerably good cle"" for beans, at is per qr. advance. New white wheat, 68s to 72s ; new red, 54s to 645 white, 70s to 73s ; old rod, 64s to 68s per 36 stone. '''sSO ley, for malting, 38s to 48s per qr.; grinding, 31s t° 24 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 34s to 37s • new, 26s to 3 3 s pro. stone. Beans, old, --a to --8 ; new, 44s to 49s per 38 6 ° Fine flour, 50s ; seconds, 45s to 47s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. sro There was a limited quantity of wheat at our 111 t ° QS to-day, with a fair inquiry, and buyers had to pay is 408 per qr. more money. Barley a dull trade, and P' t ber similar to those of the preceding week. Oats at r 8 higher prices. Beans were readily disposed of, at price' sellers' favour. I' o6 New white wheat, 58s to 68s ; new rod, 5t is to 64s r c e tio g t stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 40s per qr• ; grin to ns' 33s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26s to 285 per 24 s Beans, new, 45s to 48s per 38 stone. Mat, 68s to v Flour 47s to 49s uer sack of 2801bs. The native silk merchants of Shanghai have re : quested the foreign consuls to notify to their coup trymen that in future, silk purchases caLL on l y effected for cash. :- Births. NETTLEFOLD—On the 27th inst., at Sutton Rowse, bury New-park, Mrs. E. J. Nettlefold, of a datre te t he PRODGERS - On the 26th inst., at Dane End, \VW°, wife of the Rev. Edwin Prodgers, of a daughter- 00 STRATHMORE— On tho 2Gth inst., at 8, Rutland -gat 1° Countess of Strathmore, of a so;. Marriages. ato - IfouTos—BßoAD—On the 27th inst., at St. Paul's, niersmitli, Alfred Horton, Esq., of Clement's-int,- late Burton-ou-Trent. to Jessie, filth daughter of the John Broad, of Ilitehin. t IP'° LIGHTON —NICOLL -On the 27th inst., at St. D uns East, Wm. Lighton, of Berkeley Villas, Loughb orot i ,.o. park, to Mary Elizabeth Nicoll, fourth daughter of Nicoll, of Clothworkers'-hall, Miueing-lane. Deaths. 4 e t. CREED—On the 26th inst., at 61, Great Hermitage-sbr- Wapping, Mr. James Creed, aged 71. FERGUSON —On the 27th inst., Mr. James IL Fergusoo, 21, Giltspr-steet, Cty. HoRNE—On u the r i 18th inst., at Woburn-place, 113c1'ile9' 'Abraham de Horne, Esq., aged 71. I WO." PICKETT-0 n the 26th inst., at 15, Princes - str eet, can, Gilbert J. Pickett, aged 81. London: Printed and Published by WILLIA.M ANDl°' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Oillee , .`" l° ,.; of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the G °4l" micl4l9sex.—.llcruday, April at), 1667.