The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT or7Trtt PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times observes that by deciding on a liberal course :or himself the Emperor of the French has solved the doubts of most of the time-servers, and the danger is that freedom in the present Chamber will have only too many And too eager friends. The so-called " old parties," as we learn from our Parisian correspondent, have lost their hold both of the people and their representatives, and the r econciliation of that stanch Orleanist, TA. Darn — than whom there is not a man of higher honour in France—to the Second Empire proves that the cause of the banished dynasties is lost in the opinion of their most sincere supporters. Truly, the same correspondent and many grave politicians think that what ever is lost to the old Monarchy is so much clear gain to the Republic. But we trust that society in France, as in other countries, will at last learn to take care of itself. with all the freedom that since last July has been allowed to the press, and in spite of the hazardous experi ments that were made of mob agitation in public meet lugs, in the midst of the excitement of popular elections, what is it that we have witnessed? We have seen a people sobered, as it were, by the sight of the drun kenness of their would-be leaders ; we have seen Paris elections going against all the candidates of extreme democracy except in one single instance, and in that single case—that of M. Rochefort—we now see the multitude very mu ch at a loss what to do with their idol, and ready b feel ashamed both of it and of themselves. And all this, b:., it remembered, occurred long before the Emperor's let t to M. 011ivier and the new Ministry had removed every d uibt as to the Emperor's fidelity to his engagements, before it was quite clear whether the Message of last July boded any greater good than the January letter of 1867 or the Decree of November 1860. Even amid the heart sickness of hope deferred, the French people refused to listen to the voice of their Ultra-democratic charmers. Are they likely to be more easily seduced now, when, under the Ministry of such men as M. 011ivier and his col leagues, France may have as much liberty as she really aspires to, when the Empire is not unlikely to be hailed as "the best of Republics ?" Where was St. Patrick born ? asks the Daily News. The question, we are persuaded, will appear to the vast majo rity of our Irish brethren as ridiculous as to the compa ratively few students of ecclesiastical history who have t iken the pains to ascertain the acknowledged facts of the case. Nine-tenths of Irishmen, we fully believe, and of Englishmen, too, for the matter of that, would treat it a 3 a joke of the "festive season" if we ventured to suggest that the great Apostle of Ireland was anything but an Irishman native and to the manor born. The ilea of St. Patrick being an Englishman, a Welsh man, a Scotchman, or a Frenchman! Why, every Dublin boy knows that Nelson and Wellington were Irish heroes. One might as well pretend that the first of the royal race of O'Brien was a native of Middlesex, as that St. Patrick was born out of the Emerald Isle. It so ppens, however, that while there has never been the slightest reason to believe that St. Patrick first saw the light in Ireland, the controversy about his birthplace has raged among English, Scottish, Welsh, and French anti quaries almost as fiercely as the contest among the Islands of the Agean Sea for the birthplace of Homer. Was the Saint born at Dumbarton, at Eristol, at St. David's, at Boulogne, in France, or at Glastonbury? In the preface to the second volume of the collection of Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland, the Irish editors of the " Senchus Mor " have thoroughly examined the interest• ing question; and have arrived at the conclusion, sup ported as it seems to us by the incontrovertible testimony of the Apostle's own confession, that St. Patrick was born at or near Glastonbury, in Somersetshire, and that he returned in his old age to end his days in the land of his birth, and amidst the scenes of his early youth, and was not born, according to the prevalent belief, in / Ireland, at Downpatrick, near Saul, "where ho had made his first convert, and founded his first Church in Ireland." It will be rather a shock to Irish patriotism to learn that her patron Saint was the descendant of Roman colonists, a young Somerset shire gentleman, and son of the Roman Decurio, or Mayor of Bath. But it may console them to reflect that Glaston bury, "where the winter thorn Blossoms at Christmas, mindful of our Lord, and where Joseph of Arimathea had deposited "The Cup, the Cup itself from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with His own," under the shadow of the Tor of St. Michael, was no unfit ting or unworthy birthplace for this immortal confessor of the Christian faith. The Standard remarks that the present weekly return from the Registrar-General shcws eleven deaths from relapsing fever in London, between December 18 and 31. "A merry Christmas" truly, with such a return as this. For every one that dies of this disease there are at least twenty sick, and the disease itself is the direct result of starvation. Those who suffer from relapsing fever are famine-stricken, that is all ; and those who are killed by the disorder are the victims of destitution. Another weekly return, from another department of the State, gives further information as to the condition of the London poor. By it we learn that the pauper list continues to rise. 1% ith occasional excep tions, the weekly return of metropolitan pauperism sliews a progressive increase during the last four years. The Poor-law Board are observant of the fact, and it troubles them. Next to pauperism itself, the Poor-law Board seem to dread the exercise of charity. One great object of the famous minute of November last was apparently to prevent an inflow of charity towards the distressed districts. The device has not been wholly unsuccessful. It is a remarkable fact that durfrig the last three years charity has declined as pauperism has increased. We derive one comfort from the present agitation of the subject. Attention is thereby drawn to the state of the poor, and the facts way be expected to make them selves felt. Anything is better than apathy. If we do but move, we may at last thunder into the right path. As for the poor law, not a pri n cipl e it pro f esses i s prac ti se d i n its integrity, and perhaps nothing would bring it to speedier ruin than the rigid enforcement of its own rules. Mr. Goschen seems conscious of the latter fact in his recent confession that "no hard and fast lines can prac tically be drawn." The cable must be cut and the ship must drift, for she cannot face the storm that is now bursting upon her. " Thou shalt not drink !" sap the Telegraph,might stand first in the list .of human commandments, if inborn con hcience were to point the way by whleh we should obey the injunction. Of course, we use the word in its more restricted and painful sense. We have not a word to say against the physi ca l wor k er ' s p i n t o f b eer, or theintellec tual worker's glass of wine, so that his moderation be known to all men ; but when we write " Thou shalt not drink !" we mean "Thou shalt not get drunk!" If our fellow creatures would but keep this law, seven out of the ttn other prohibitions would be more often fulfilled. We will not b e b old enough to affirm that it is only the drunkards who covet their neighbours' goods; but we do asser t very emphatically that the gin bottle is the Privy Councillor of the murderer and the thief. We venture to go a little higher to-day. and to lift up the corners of purpl e curtains ! How about the fine ladies who drink? How about the fine ladies who get drunk? How about the fine ladies who see snakes and go off in the horrors—just like Flash Sall or Dirty Bet? This is to run up the carnut of drunkenness with a witness. We have the d ru n ken men who are criminals and criminals mainly because they are drunkards; we have the men who are drunken sots, but not criminals ; we have gentlemen —we mean oy the word people in good social position—who, without gettin ,, drunk, drink themselves to death for all that; we have the female drunken criminal, and the mere female sot ; and, finally, we have the fine lady drunkard, and the fine lady who drinks her self to death. W e have a coroner's inquest held at Skip ton upon a certain wretched lady ; the verdict was, "Died from congestion of the brain, caused by excessive drinking' Very lately another lady died, amid all the horrors of delirium tremens—a result brought about by her drunken habits. We fear that such cases are of constant, if no t o f daily , occurrence. Put the question to any physicia n or medical practitioner who is in the habit of attending, families in the upper and mid lle classes of society. Ask him, without mentioning names, to tell you fairly what the result of his experience has been, and mark his answer! He cannot avoid the admis sion that the charge is l amen t a bl y true. The evil , terribly increasingas it is, mu s t speak for itself ; and if it do thus speak distinctly and loudly, it may —nay, it must—more or less slowly work out its own cure, through sheer horror and affright. Hence the advantage of plain words ; hence the fatal mischief of silence. The Pall Mall Gazette thinks the fact that the p n ilhough through through no fault of its own—issi e a s d s i — ly extending its lawful influence into an illegitimate call scarcely be questioned. If the despotism of one Empire is a peril for France, is the growing might of the press no danger for good government in England? Our a pprehension i s , no t so much that the press ex ceeds or abuses the influence that rightly belongs to it, as that the exertion of that i n fl uence h as results which it is not bound to contemplate, and which it has no business to take into account. The fault lies with the pub lic men who live in nervous dread of public opinion, who try to conciliate it by letting its professional repre sentatives think for them, while they hold their posts on the tenure of independen ce o f thought. The greater the danger, the more difficult the Bair , tion, the more eagerly do our governors now listen for the predominant note in "public opinion." They go for guidance to the journalist, and that, we take it, is a new and dangerous, just as it is a fast-increasing, disposition. And it is likely to increase yet more. Journals are made to cell, as. the frime3 reminded us the other day; and the way to make them sell in large num bers is to flatter the prejudices and pander to the interests of the general public from day to d a y. The response to heee flatteries is called "pub bile opinion," just s the response to more noble preaching is ; and we aro greatly afraid that this " public opinion'' is followed with loss discrimination and with greater cowardice by our rulers every day. The English press, like the Enelish Cm:still - Wien, has been the slow growth of generetioes, and has conquered fragment by fragment the liberty it enjoys. Its most distinguished representetives have accepted this in •• h - full r - .se of the responsibility it entails, and to abuse it. But the responsibility right direction of their influence, it may go. When the func- 1 tor and the critic blend in sinister waits upon journalists for ,nd the ether get into a hopelessly natio:. is the sufferer. 'Slit it is the P1=440 ) . 74110.! Finally to . fluenee with a full sens honest desire not ti extends to the to the lengths the original when a DI e one an and the not MR - g.STOWE'S DETENCE. The Pall 111a11 Gazette is commencing work well. It publishes a full column from the United States—a tele gram " by English Atlantic Cable," giving a lucid abstract of Mrs. Stowe's new work defending herself, and main taining her story as to Lord Byron. It is dated New York, January 5, and tells us that the work is entitled " Lady Byron Vindicated.' It is disappointing, in so far as it contains no documentary evidence and few new statements of fact. The author confines herself very much to argument, rather forcibly stated, and does her best to explain away the various objections that have been made to the credibility of her story. In effect what Mrs. Stowe says is this : that Lady Byron's charge of incest against her husband was made on the authority of his own confession. She avers also that when Lady Byron made this statement to her she was of sound mind ; and therefore maintains that, as Lady Byron was totally incapable of inventing such a story, it must be received as true. Mrs. Stowe relates i all that she can remember of the now famous conversation which passed between herself and Lady Byron in the year 185 G, declaring that the particular accusation which has been so much debated and so stiffly denied was made in terms that were quite unmistakable. It seems that the precise words used by her ladyship were these :—" Mrs. Stowe, he was guilty of incest with his sister:" and here, adds the recipient of these confidences, " Lady Byron became so deathly pale that I feared she would faint, and hastened to say, 'Dear friend, I have heard that before' She asked quickly, 'From whom ?' and I answered, 'From Mrs. —;' when she replied, ` Oh, yes!' as if recollecting herself. She said that from the outset of their married life his conduct towards her had been unaccountable. He seemed resolved to shake and combat both her religious principles and her views of the family state ; and told her that as he could not be expected to confine himself to her neither should he expect or wish that she should con fine herself to him. She could have her lovers, and must allow him the same freedom. She said she did not comprehend to what this was tending till after she went to London, and his sister came to stay with them. At what precise time the idea of an improper connection between her husband and his sister was first forced upon her she did not say; but she told me how it was done. She said that one night, in her presence, he treated his sister with a liberty which both shocked and astonished her. Seeing her amaze ment and alarm, he came up to her and said in a sneering tone, I suppose you perceive you are not wanted here. Go to your own r,om and leave us alone. We can amuse ourselves better without you.' She said, I went to my room trembling. I fell down on my knees and prayed to my Heavenly Father to have mercy on them. I thought, What shall I do?' She did not tell ma what followed immediately upon this, nor how soon after she spoke on the subject with either of the parties. Byron boldly avowed the connection as having existed in time past, and as one that was to continue in time to come, and implied that she must submit to it. It was no sin; the world was first peopled in that way. Afterwards he took another turn, and said that the horror and crime were the very attraction. He had worn out all ordinary forms of sin, and longed for the stimulus of a new kind of vice. She spoke of the danger of detection, and then he became furious, swearing that she at any rate should never be the m?ans of his detection. She should leave him—that he was resolved upon ; but she should always bear all the blame of the separation. In the sneering tone which was common with him, he said, The world will believe me, and it will not believe you. The world has made up its mind that By is a glorious boy; and the world will go for By right or wrong. Besides, I shall make it my life's object to dis credit you. I shall use all nay powers. Read Caleb Williams,' and you will seo I shall do by you just as Falk:and did by Caleb." Lady Byron said she at first believed her husband to be insane, and pitied and excused him. Mrs. Leigh was weak and wholly under his control. She afterwards repented, and became a truly good woman, and Lady Byron seemed to take comfort from the recollec tion:of her subsequent intercourse with her. Lady Byron said in reply to a question, that she had letters and documents in proof of her story, but Mrs. Stowe did not see them. The memorandum to which she alluded in the article pub lished in Macmillan's Magazine was returned by her to Lady Byron. It contained only an outline of the facts, but without dates. Mrs. Stowe conjectures that Mrs. Leigh persuaded Lady Byron at first that her brother had only made insane attempts, which she re sisted, and that she alone could control his in sanity. It was in this belief that the letters published in the Quarterly Review were written. Fuller revelations were, however, made later. Mrs. Stowe has no proof of this theory, but shews that Mrs. Leigh did represent Byron to be insane. Lady Byron told Mrs. Stowe that there was a daughter who gave her friends much trouble. From other sources Mrs. Stowe learned that the daughter escaped from her friends to the Continent, and that Lady Byron assisted the efforts that were made to recover her. An English correspondent, it seems, has written to Mrs. Stowe averring that the crime was first committed and the child born shortly before Byron married. The child, a daughter, must not be confounded with the natural daughter of Lord Byron born about a year after his sepa ration. The history more or less of that child of incest is known to many, for in Lady Byron's attempt to watch over her and rescue her from ruin she was compelled to employ various agents at different times.' An allusion possibly to this child is made in a letter to Moore, February 2,1818. Mrs. Stowe pronounces the letter of Forbes Winslow fatal to the theory of hallu cination, and writes at length of Lady Byron's strength of mind and high regard for truth. She also supports her story by passages in the poems and diary and by what is known of Byron's conduct at the time of the separation; but she adds nothing to what has been said already on those points in the Saturday Review and Temple Bar. She treats the controversy as a question of veracity betweeD Lord Byron and his wife; and fills nearly half the book with a review of the poet's efforts to make good his threat of treating her as Falkland treated Caleb Williams. She declares that her disclosure in Macmillan's Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly was prompted by a sense of duty to a slandered memory, and was made after it had been noti fied to her that trustees of Lady Byron had determined that no memoir should be written, as the papers in their hands could not be published in full. In America (says the Pall .3fall Gazette) the public indignation at Mrs Stove's conduct in this matter has only been intensified by the publication of this so-called defence. A TESTIMONIAL FROM THE 'UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—The members of the senate of the University of London have just now done a wise thing, and in a very liberal way. The salary of the Registrar, Dr. Carpenter, who has distinguished himself by his important researches in deep-sea soundings, is advanced to £l,OOO per annum, and an Assistant-Registrar is about to be appointed, with a salary of £5OO per annum. It is stated that in closing the Chatham paint-shop the Government have in view not only the saving of the wages of the master-painter, his assistants, and the labourers connected with the establishment, but also the material improvement in the quality of the paint supplied by private manufacturer.; over that hitherto produced by the Government. Against this, however, is to be placed tha charges for superannuating the artificers who are now no longer required. A WOLF AT LARGE.—It is stated that great ex citement and alarm were caused in the neighbourhood of Folkestone on Monday by the escape of a wolf. The ferocious animal took advantage of the absence of its owner, Major Ditmas, R.A., and absented itself from his quarters at Shorncliffe. On being communicated with, Major Ditmas kindly gave instructions that if it could not be captured it should be shot. If the account given of the wolf's proceedings is correct, the gallant major was by no means premature in his in structions. It had, we are told, ravaged several hen-roosts in the vicinity, and so severely injured six sheep that they hadto be killed. Apparently, however, no time was lest after its owner's permission to arrest its destructive career had been received, for a hot pursuit was made, and after considerable search the animal was found and shot in the Kiln Wood. THE WAY THEY WRITE ABOUT ROYALTY IN Russu.—The following curious specimen of Russian Jeakinsism is cut by the Pall Mall Gazette from the 2 tm1,017 Gazette, under the head of " Court News":— " Yesterday his Imperial Majesty deigned to wake at 7 a.m., and after a frugal breakfast, ivas graciously pleased to go for a bear-hunt. On entering the wood with his suite, a hear, moved apparently by a happy instinct to recreate the mind of the father of our holy Russia, imme diately came to the spot where his Majesty had posted himself. Paralysed at the sight of the ruler of millions of beings who idolize him, the bear stood still, and it was observed that instead of the fierce aspect by which this savage animal h usually characterised, his countenance bore an eipresion of blissful anticipatfon, as if he were looking forward, liko a loyal subject, to the happiness of being put to death by his gracious sovereign. On returning from the chase, his Majesty caught cold; but the usual remedies having been applied to him, he deigned to feel better. He then went to bed, and next mornings cractio_nsil pleasedt9,ll (.1"4-49.Yull . THE SUS, LONDON, THURSDAY . EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1870. REPORTED CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. The There de la Loire contains the following :—" Let ters from St. Petersburg state that a vast conspiracy has been discovered against the life of the Czar. The centre of action of the conspirators was the city of Odessa. The pupils of the University Papich andYcremichew are prin cipally inculpated. In order to carry out their object, the conspirators had resolved to tear up the rails of the line aring the journey of the Emperor from Odessa to St. Petersburg ; but the rigorous surveillance exercised over the whole line the Czar was to use prevented them from executing their project. The police did not even suspect that the rails had been removedby such dangerous conspirators. This offence was attributed to the peasants of the neighbourhood, v. Ito, Nvhen in want of iron, .have recourse to robbery in order to obtain it. The most rigor ous surveillance is powerless to repress this kind of theft, and this deplorable cupidity of the ignorant peasants exposes the lives of the travellers who take the line from Balta to Odessa, to grave danger. The conspirators arrested 1 elong without exception to the Russian nation ality. A largo number of Looks, pamphlets, and revolu tionary proclamations, emanating from Russian printing offices abroad, were found in their possession. The Rus sians are much astonished that no Pole was affiliated to the cons' iracy, although the I'olish nationality is repro sented by a large number of young men at the Univer sity of Odessa. The police have also discovered a con spiracy at :St. Petersburg. Several young men are accused of having disseminated revolutionary proclama tions. It appears, however, that this second conspiracy is a mere childish affair, and the young people mixed up in it will be tried in public. Lists of proscriptions, upon which figures, among others, M. Katkoff, the famous editor of the Moscow Gazette, have also been discovered. The Go vernment of the Czar is anxious to ascertain whether these plots were fomented by the Russian exiles in Switzerland. The conspiracy, ramifications of which were discovered at Moscow and St. Petersburg, has nothing in common with the Odessa plot. FOREIGN NOTES. TIM FIASCO L'l SPAIN. At Madrid of course the one topic of interest Is the re fusal of the King'of Italy to allow the Duke of Genoa to become King of Spain, and the resignation of the Prim Ministry in consequence. The Politica, the journal which first announced the King's refusal, says that afterthegreat efforts made by the principal men of the Revolution to esta blish the supremo power of a king, after General Prim is con vinced that it is impossible to enthrone in Spain the exotic boy he desires to elevate to the head of the State, without considering that that head would be the most un conscious subject of the Regent, the tutor, the interpreter, and the Ministers—after, in short, seeing that it is im possible for the three parties to agree respecting a Roya: candidate—it seems they have resolved to establish the empire of the interim, the conqueror cl Alcolea remaining as Regent, Marshal Prim Presi dent of the Council, Brigadier Topete of Marine, the Cortes being declared ordinary and consequently dissoluble, and proceeding instantly to the election of the Senate. The Epoca strongly advocates the Prince of Asturias, under the regency of Montpensier. There is, it affirms, no other solution but the Republic. The Catholic journals coincide in this belief, but prefer the alternative of a Republic, which they declare they see coming. AN ARCHDEACON ON EDUCATION. At a meeting held in connection with the St. Leonards Church Schools at Bilston the other night, Archdeacon Moore said that he thought the first thing to take care of in the matter of education was that it should be a religious one. There was a great danger in these days. There werepersons who told them they wished the people to have a religious education, but they would leave it to be given haphazard. They would open schools where they would be bound to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, tut not religion. If they read the Bible, they would not be allowed to explain it Whereas the foundation of all schools should be a religious education, it was the last to be considered in the proposed schools. The chaplain of Newgate had stated that of the masses who went to gaol for terrible offences, the worst of all were those who were well educated without religion. They used that which was given to them to improve them to corrupt them. They read all manner of bad books, and imitated the badness contained in them. Therefore it was their duty to be wary of all systems of education which were propounded, in which religion was not the foundation. The Archdeacon proceeded to say that if they were to teach religion they must teach it as they would anything else, on certain fixed and definite prin ciples. There was a great deal of talk about reading the Bible in school; but what was the use of the Bible being read if it was not explained? Let them take the Bible and put it into the hands of a man who had never seen it before, and how little ho would be able to make out of it. He might learn a good deal of good from it, but when they placed the Bible in the hands of a person— either child or man—they were bound to teach him what they believed to be the meaning of it. Therefore, he said to all members of the Church of England, " You are not only bound to advocate a religious education, but you are bound to advocate an education based on the religion of your own Church, which you know to be founded upon God's blessed Book, the Bible—to advocate for your schools the religion found in your Prayer-books." Speaking of the scheme of the National Education League, the Archdeacon said the proposed tax would effectually destroy private subscription. With regard to the compulsion clause, he did not believe English men would stand that a poor foolish fellow should be sent to prison for not sending his child to school. To him such a thing appeared foolish, monstrous. Let them, however, make a bold stand against that greatest of all evils, the rooting out of religion from education. He strongly objected to the power of refusing admission to the child of a Dissenter to a national school being takes out of the hands of the manager. As a fact no child was ever turned away, and where notice was given the religion of the Church of England was not taught to the child. A FARMER CHARGED WITH CRUELTY. At the Herts Quarter Sessions, Mr. John Ginger, farmer, of Hemel Hempstead, appealed against three convictions of justices on petty sessions, for causing horses belonging to him to be cruelly ill-treated and tortured. The prose cution was instituted by the Royal Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr. Ginger, who had been previously convicted of a similar offence, had been sentenced to be imprisoned for a month for each offence. Against these convictions Mr. Ginger appealed. He was represented by Mr. Serjeant Sleigh, with whom was Mr. Clark; and Mr. Harris, with whom was Mr. Lucas, appeared for the Society. When the case was called on, Mr. llarris said he felt bound, on the part of the respondents, to inform the court that he was satisfied by evidence which had been put before him that if the case were proceeded with, the appellant's reason, and probably his life, would be endangered. Under these circumstances he felt that, acting on behalf of a society which was established for a humane object, he could not, by going on with the prose cution, be a party to what he believed might be the infliction of the penalty of death. Lord Salisbury said that the course taken by the learned counsel was most irregular. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was not the party to judge whether there has been sufficient punishment. There was another course open, namely, to apply for an adjournment of the appeal, and then go to the Secretary of State for a commutation of the sentence. Mr. Harris said the Secretary of State had no power, unless there were a conviction and punishment following. Lord Salis bury: There is in this case. Serjeant Sleigh: No; the technical difficulty is that inasmuch as an appeal has been lodged, the sentence is suspended, and the Secretary of State cannot interfere unless the appeal is withdrawn or the sentence confirmed and the man remitted to prison. Lord Salisbury, after consulting with the other magistrates, intimated that if no evidence were offered, the conviction would be affirmed, and the counsel on both sides then agreed to go on with the case. The evidence on the part of the respondent showed that on the 28th of September, 1869, Mr. Ginger had several teams ploughing in one of his fields, and that in these teams there were three horses in a state unfit for work, having old sores, which were discharging water and blood, under their collars. It was also stated that these horses were under fed and overworked. For the appellant a number of- veterinary surgeons and farmers were now called, who stated that they saw the horses on various days from the sth to the 16th of October, and that they were in good working condition. Evidence was also adduced to shew that Mr. Ginger had been out of health for some time past, had latterly left his affairs more in the hands of his servants than formerly, and did not regularly see his horses. Medical men were called, who stated that Mr. Ginger had had a severe attack of bronchitis, that his health was quite shattered, and that if the sentence of the justices were carried out, the most serious results might be expected. After this, Mr. Ginger addressed the court, stating that he was absent from home on several days preceding the 28th of September, and never saw the horses; but since his conviction he had shown his respect to the decision of the magistrates by purchasing a new team of eight horses at a cest of £4O apiece ; that the prosecution and appeal would cost him £l,OOO ; and that if he were sent back to prison it would kill him. The magistrates then retired for consultation, and on their return Lord Salisbury stated that the Court confirmed the conviction, but that they had requested him to make a representation to the Secretary of State for the Home department with a view to the commutation of the sentence, being of opinion that the penalty was out of pro portion to the offence. Mr. Ginger was then liberated on bail, pending the decision of the Home Secretary. In the case of the appeal of William Sharpe, Mr. Ginger's foreman, who had been sentenced to six weeks' impri sonment, the conviction was affirmed, but the court stated that, in confirming it, they did not expresss approval of the sentence. A contract is spoLen of in Central America to ouild a railroad across the republic of Guatemala, to unite the two oceans. A new tale ley the author of "Thu Ifeir of Itecl clyffe " is commenced in the Monthly Packet for January, entitled " The Pillara of the House ; or, Under Wode under Rodc." Mr. Abernethy rarely met his match, but on ono occasion he fairly owne:l that he had. Ho wai sent for by an innkeeper, who had had a qUarrel with his wife, who had scarred his face with her nails, so that the poor man was bleeding and much disfigured. Abernethy thought this an opportunity not to be lost for admonishing the -of fender, and said, "Madam, are you not ashamed of yourself to treat your husband thus—the husband, who is the head of all—your head, madam, in fact "—" Well, doctor," fiercely rat: 049 virago ? " 4114 why I pat i!crAtat tiaq ITU 401 CI THE EMPEROR. OF ACSTrIA AND TILE KING OF ITALY. The Turin Gazette says that several papers have alluded to the probable meeting of the Emperor of Austria and the King of Italy, and have fixed the date at the 15th of next month, and the city of Ancona as the place of meeting. In awaiting more positive information respecting the in terview that may take place, the Turin Gazette affirms that all statements that have been put forth on the subject are at least premature, THE RUSSIAN ARMY. The Moscow Gazette compares the relative force of the armies of Europe, and comes to the conclusionthat Prussia is the only Power that is a match for Russia. Russia, it states, is now more powerful than at the time of the Cri mean War. The armies of Austria and Turkey are not worthy of mention beside that of Russia. The Gazette infers from this that Russia should cultivate a good under standing with Prussia, as she is the only Power that might prove dangerous as an enemy. This journal is looked upon ai a semi-official organ of the Russian Government. It seems that such a trifling Power as France is not worthy of consideration in the Muscovite Empire.' THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION. The North Fast Correspondence still continues to publish unfavourable letters from Constantinople. According to them, the Egyptian difficulty has not yet been happily dis plsed of. The Sultan did not think that the Khedive's letter was a satisfactory one, and was resolved to carry out his wishes on the question of the armour-plated ships and the needle guns. The Berlin correspondent of the Ade pendance Beige re ports that the surrender of the vessels in question is looked upon as probable, but that at any rate the occurrence must b' regretted, as it might renew the vexatious discussions which have prevailed on the subject. CHARGE AGAINST A CEYLON MERCHANT. The Ceylon papers tell a gainful story of the arrest and canviotion of a merchant in Colombo on a criminal charge. Mr. Theodore Mackenzie, of the firm of Maclachlan, Mackenzie, and Co., was arrested at Galle, at the suit of the Madras Bank. It seems lie was heavily involved with the bank, and suspicions being excited respecting the snurities which he had given,he was pressed for payment. 113 paid part of the money demanded, and promised to pay the rest in a few days, but started for Galle in the interval. He was followed and arrested on a charge of fraud, but a more serious charge was brought against him by the Chartered Mercantile Bank, of forging and negotiating false bills of lading of coffee, by which the bank was de frauded of £3,000. On his trial, at Kandy, the accused pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to ton years' transpor t ttion. The affair has created great excitement in Colombo. CHOLERA IN PERSIA. Cholera has been raging in Persia during a great part of the past year, extending gradually from the North to Teheran, Ispahan, and Shiraz, where great sufferings have been endured. The deaths in the spring were computed to have been 2,500 out of a population of 35,000, and in the surrounding villages a still larger proportion fell victims to the epidemic. In September it gradually left the higher land and spread in the direc tion of Bushire. The adoption of the precautionary measures of quarantine was suggested to the Foreign Agent at Bushire by Colonel Pelly, but he was told that the custom had never been followed in Persia, and the caravans and merchants would be sure to complain of it. The Governor has, however, directed that persons going from other places into Bushire should remain outside the walls for two or three days to see whether any sign of disease shelved itself. TIIE CIIEAN QUESTION. The New York ration says tha ,- , the Spanish gunboats have tai'ed amid fierce protests from the Cuban partisans. A detachment of marines was s , ramoned to keep back the m)b which collected on the wl:arf and threw stones and o'her missiles at the del aring vcs;tl3. A depressing ilfluence has been exercised on the insurgents by the release of the gunboats and the improved health of the Spanish troops. The Cuban interest is on the decline at Washington. There is an eY.ess of Cuban bonds, and Cingressmen arc getting weary of the importunities of the Cuban Lobby. SAN DOMINGO. News received in morica frmn. Habana by the Cuba cable on the 23rd December staves that the lease of Samana Bay to the United States had created intense excitement among the people of San Domingo. The revolutionists were endeavouring to overthrow Ba. z, before the American Congress could ratify the arrangements for the lease. Baez's troops had captured two of Cabral's general who were immediately executed. It is said that negotiations for the cession of St. Thomas and Santa Cruz to the United States have been re-opened. Salnave on December 9 only held the city of Port-au-Prince, and had threatened to burn it before he would surrender. The revolutionary President -Saget had informed the foreign representatives at the capital that five war vessels were waiting at St. Mark's for the ourpose of bombarding Port-au-Prince, and that a simultaneous attack was to be made by the land forces. One dollar in gold was worth $4,000 in Haytian curretcy. THE WA': IN PAR! GUAY. Telegrams received by the French Agence Havas through a Brazilian medium, state that the last advices from Paraguay report Lopez to be entirely without resource. A telegram received at Montvideo from Buenos Ayres announces that helms retired.into Bolivia with all his family and some officers. An agreement had been signed between the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Minister of the Argmtino Cinfederation, by which Brazil was to withdraw 1,000 men from Paraguay, and the Con federation was to withdraw its whole contingent. Count d'Eu, son-in-law of the Emperor of Brazil, and grandson of Louis Philippe, has just been declared presumptive heir to the crown of Brazil. THU CREDIT OF TEE UNITED STATES. The Times and the Daily News have entered into a mild controversy respecting the American Bonds as an investment. The former, in an article on the public credit of the United States, observed that whilst British Three per Cents. were at 92, American Six per Cents. were only at 86, the difference in public confidence being so great that twice the amount of interest would not bring the American bonds up to the English figure. The Daily News contested this theory, arguing that in the United States the chances of investment were so excellent that nobody would think of laying out his money in a four per cent, loan. Says its American cor respondent : "I have never seen or heard of any body yet who was willing to take four, or even five per cent. for money in this country on any security whatever. You can get seven per cent., and even ten, on mortgages on real estate in nearly every city in the Union—that is, on as good security as there is in the world." The Times has the best of this interchange. Its remark did not apply to the price of the bonds in America, but to their price in England. In New York, indeed, the five twenties range at present from 113 to 111 ; it is in England that they are only 86. Now, excellent as investments may be in the United States, it is not easy here to get seven or ten per cent. "on as good security as there is in the world," and the fact that a six per cent. American loan is only 86 does shew undoubtedly that public confidence in such investments is far from being as strong as perhaps it reasonably might be. THE SUEZ CANAL. The screw-steamer Leith, which left London some time ago for Bombay, rid the Suez Canal, has safely passed through. She was drawing 171 feet of water, but made the transit without the slightest difficulty. Active preparations are still going on in Liverpool for keeping up the trade between that port and Bombay, by way of Port Said. Already there are three steamers on the loading berths. SPAIN. The latest suggestion respecting the Spanish unbroglio is that the Regent, Marshal Serrano, should be invested with sovereign powers. It is said that the majority of the Cortes are opposed to this notion ; but it does not appear that any plan whatever can be suggested which does not meet with the hostility of " a majority of the Cortes." Better a Republic, surely, than the present miserable state of affairs. The - Teazer, 4, composite built double screw gun vessel, Commander Blomfield, sailed fcom Ports mouth yesterday on foreign service. * The United States lost within two months, by death, one - ex President, two ex-Secretaries of the Treasury, the Secretary of War and an ex-Secretary of War, two ex- Senators, one ex-Posiumster-General, the Rear-Admiral, and a Unjor-General. THE LATE EDWIN W. 87411 kPOIV. (From the Anglo American Times.) The past year is remarkable for the deaths of celebrated citizens of the United States.* Perhaps the most remarkable of these is the statesman whose career closed at Washington on the night of the 23d December. EDWIN M. STANTON then died of general debility, after a long and wearing illness, aged 55. We need not dwell on the general cir cumstances of his life, as its outline, extracted from " Men of the Time," has gone the rounds of the English Press. Suffice it to say that he was edu cated for the law, and found himself Attorney- General on Mr. LINCOLN'S succession to the Presi lotcy, a post from which he was transferred, on the outbreak of the rebellion, to that, then the most important in the country, viz., Minister of War. the most striking phase of Mr. STANTON'S career was his connection with the events which led to the impeachment of ANDREW JOHNSON when PRE SIDENT of the United States. Mr. STANTON was as determined and obstinate a man as Mr. Joitx soN ; he had the advantage of a legal education, And was backed by Congress and the dominant party in the United States. On the other hand, ANDREW JOHNSON was the PRESIDENT, and there fore-wielded a weighty authority. Two men hold • ing views so diverse as regarded the policy towards the South, and both placed in posts which brought them into contact with that section of the Union, cou'd scarcely fail to clash. The South was divided into Military Districts, a Major-General presiding over each. These officers were Union Generals who had pined distinction in the war, and as far as they had given utterance to political opinions were in favour of the Republican patty. By the Recon struction Acts Congress haddelegated to the General Commanding-in-Chief the power of appointment and removal of these officers, an infringement of the PRESIDENT'S authority who is the Commander in-Chief both of the Federal Army and the Navy. General SHERIDAN was sent to command at New Orleans, and his conduct there failed to meet with the approval of the PRESIDENT. Mr. STAN TON, the Secretary of War, and tieneral GRANT, Commanding the Army, supported Gen. SHERIDAN, as did the majority in Congress. The PRESIDENT, however, was backed by his Cabinet, of which STAN TON, as a member, became so peculiarly obnoxious to him that he (the PRESIDENT) made up his mind to get rid of him. As early'as November, 1867, it is said that the PRESIDENT was only dissuaded from removing Mr. STANTON by the entreaties of 'DEUR LOW WEED and HENRY T. RAYMOND, after General SHERMAN had been called from the West to Wash ington to hold the post ml interim. The Tenure-of- Office Bill was passed expressly when Congress met to prevent the PRESIDENT from discharging the Secretary of War. In vain. Mr. JOHNSON informed Mr. STANTON he would accept his resignation ; the Secretary paid no attention to the hints until this curt communication was wrung from the PRESI DENT : "Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug. 5, 1867. "Sir,—Public considerations of a higli character con strain me to say that your resignation as Secretary of War will be accepted.—Very respectfully yours, _ "ANDREW JOHNSON. "To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War." The pith of Mr. STANTON'S reply was that public considerations of a high character constrained him not to resign the office of Secretary at War. Even tually the PRESIDENT removed him, and appointed General GRANT to act in his place. During this period scandals were industriously circulated against Mr. STANTON, one of which was that he had de tached from the papers of the Court's proceedings of the trial of Mrs. Sueearr, prior to their sub mission to the PRESIDENT, a recommendation to commute the sentence of death to one of imp i somnent for life. The failure of the Tribune to defend Mr. STANTON was attributed to an order once made out by Secretary STANTON for the arrest of Mr. GREELEY, who had been negotiating with rebels .in Canada, an order promptly sup pressed by President LINCOLN. Ou the re-assem bly-of Congress the Senate adopted a resolution rein stating Mr. STANTON as Secretary of War, where on General GRANT vacated the office, and the for mer Secretary resumed possession. Another com plication arose out of this, for the PRESIDENT as serted that General GRANT bad engaged not to surrender the office without communicating his in tention ; hence sprang a charge that the General had betrayed his superior, and a very disagreeable cor respondence was the result. It was evidently the PRESIDENT'S intention to fill the office with a man who would hold it at all hazards, if General GRANT declined, but on the evening of January 13, 1868, the deci,ion of the Senate pronouncing the PRESI DENT'S charges against Mr. STANTON unsuetained, and his removal unjustifiable, was officially served on both STANTON and GRANT. The General left the key of the War-office with his adjutant, and west to the headquarters of the Army early the next morning, when Mr. STANTON took possession, the PRESIDENT afterwards learning the fact from the let ter then addressed to him by GRANT. Then com menced a turmoil at Washington, where ANDREW JOIINSON was busily engaged in stirring up the mud with which he covered everybody near, friend and foe ; but at last he proceeded to an act which led to serious consequences. While Congress was discuss ing some business on Feb. 21, 1868, messengers ap peared inboth Houses from the PRESIDENT, andiron) Mr. STANTON, announcing , that the latter had been removed by the former, Adjutant-General LoenNzo THOMAS being appointed to hold the post ad interim. Major General U. 11. THOMAS at the same time was promoted Lieutenant-General and General by brevet. The Senate immediately ceased its de bates and went into secret session, and, after seven hours of closed doors, resolved that the PRESIDENT had no power under the Constitution and laws of the United States to remove the Secretary of War, and to designate another officer to perform the dutieb of that office. The scene in the House is described as being the most exciting ever there witnessed. Its business of course was interrupted, and the fol lowing resolution, after a wild debate, was referred to the Reconstruction Committee, " That ANDREW JOHNSON, President of the L nited States, be im peached for high crimes and misdemeanours." That committee reported in favour of impeachment, an announcement made through the late THADDEUS STEVENS, and charges were ordered to be drawn up by a committee specially selected to prepare them. Perhaps never before for a short period had the United States been thrown into such a fever of ex citement; indeed, for a moment it almost appeared as if the civil war was about to be renewed, for Mr. STANTON fortified himself in hie office against the PRESIDENT, remaining there night and day, in momentary expectation of being turned out by an armed party of soldiers. Our readers know the re stilt; how the PRESIDENT was tried before the Senate Court on the charges framed by the House of Representatives; how, after lengthened proceed ings, which called forth the highest talent in the United States, he was acquitted, as two-thirds of the Senate failed to pronounce him guilty, the nation being kept in suspense till the last moment, as all hinged upon one vote. After ANDREW JOHNSON had thus scraped through Mr. STANTON resigned, and was succeeded by General SCHOFIELD. Mr. STANTON then retired into private life, his health doubtless injured by what be had recently gone through, as well as by his close ap plication and the long continued strain of his work during the war ; but he supported as actively as he could the nomination of General GRANT to the Presidency, and there was no more effective or eloquent speaker on the Republican side. After a residence on the sea coast he lately returned to Washington in a feeble condition, but still able to take his daily exercise, though it was much doubted whether lie was in a fit state of health to assume the duties of the Supreme Bench, to which it was known the PRESIDENT desired to nominate him. A telegram, however, of last week announced that he had been appointed, and the nomination was con firnied in the Senate by 41 votes against 11. Thus this able and energetic man put on harness almost on his deathbed, and it is also a singular fact that one of the last debates he heard consisted of eulogies on the character of Senator FESSENDEN, through whose instrumentality be was finally defeated in his great contest with ANDREW JOHNSON. When Mr. STANTON heard that Senator's praises sung in the House by the very men who a year and a half ago assured all that he especially (as the leader) wa on the dark and dreary track to infamy, as well a: General BUTLER, who had led in the Impeachment trial, censuring and proposing the repeal of that law which had enabled him thus to prosecute, he might well question whether all these exciting scenes through which his memory carried him back had not been a stage play, or acts tending to mo dify the Constitution of a mighty nation. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (Fro2n the Springfield Republican, Dec. 18.) The money market has experienced a little more activity since Monday, but in a great measure from causes that afford us no reason for self-congratulation. The immense frauds perpetrated by Gray and C , ., by the comparatively simple device of borrowing money on stock collateral that was counterfeit, have thee oughly alarmed many capitalists and led them to shift their loans, or to demand higher in terest commensurate with the increased risk. Of the two elements that weigh in the lender's mind, the ri ,k of losing his money and the profit that can be got from its use, the former for the time assumes an importance that it ordi narily does not, and ought not to have in law-abiding and rogue-punishing communities. The " insecurity of property," an expression we have been apt to associate with an early and Arab state of society, comes close home to our business and bosoms, in view of the gigantic robberies that are now daily perpetrated with im punity, not only by professed thieves and swindlers upon the innocent and helpless public at largo, but also by magnificent ruffians, with $l,OOO memberships in stock exchanges, upon the business community itself, shrewd and cautious and hard to " gull" as that community is supposed to be. It is difficult to deter mine how much of the present activity in money, such as it is, is duo to this affair, and how much to greater activity in business. The West calls for moderate amounts, which are easily supplied. The tremendous reaction against spe culation, which has been gaining ground steadily for many months, has turned much money from that channel into the legitimate loan market, while on the other hand busi ness men are working on a short tether and using as little credit as possible. The cause of • this anti-speculatio❑ sentiment and of this business caution is undoubtedly the underlying sense of the community that specie payment is impending. There never has been a time when the disposition to prepare for it has been so great as new. The temper of all classes is cheerful, however, and confi dent of ability to weather the storm. The prospect of the money market for the winter is very favourable. Gold has been quiet, without much change in quotations. It was thought that the Bank of England would raise its rate of discount at a meeting of its directors, held last Thursday, but such a step was not taken, and the result was an un usually weak market for gold in New York on the follow ing day. The sales of Government gold and the purchase of bonds to go abroad have since kept the price down to 122 to 1221. Considerable interest just now centres in Government Bonds, which have risen to an uprecedented figure in the foreign markets,and at home also if we should quote them in gold, though the greenback quotations do not rise to those of a few months since. On Tuesday the Five-Twenties of 1867 (the standard bond abroad) were quoted at 87 in London, or with the exchange added, 96. The bonds of Great Britain, or Consols, bearing 31 per cent. interest, were quoted on the same day at 92 to 92f. As our bonds now bear 6 per cent. interest, even at 41 per cent. they might be quoted higher than consols, though we hardly see how they could get up to par. The Turkish Government has just "placed" $60,000,000 of 6 per Cents., and has got but 54 for them. The messages of the Presi dent and Secretary Boutwell are well received in Europe, and probably make more stir there than here, for we were more confident than people over sea of the soundness of those documents on the financial question. Southern State bonds are now the "wild cat" of the market, and afford much field for speculation. The several Legisla tures now in session seem inclined to "stand by " and re deem the promises of their States, though some of them are also pretty free to extend those promises still further. Ten nessee is a specimen State, having a debt of $39,000,000, of which $20,000,000 was issued for the benefit of railroads. These roads altogether cost about $65,000,000, and half of them are able to, and do, pay the interest on their bonds. The Legislature is taking measures to secure the payment of the holders of the interest on all the bonds promptly. Governor Scott, of South Carolina, is endea vouring to raise the credit of that State, and gets many cuffs for so doing from the Charleston papers, which claim that he has invested largely in State Stocks. Patriotic governor! Wouldn't it be expedient to fur nish all our executives, and legislators too, with such a motive, by paying them their salaries in the bonds of the Governments for which they labour ? If wo did, Massachusetts sixes wouldn't be dropping below par. Alabama seems to bo on the point of burying her credit under railroad bonds, but we trust she will give the cor porate lobby a decided snub. Louisiana stands very well in the market. Her debt is but $10,588,880, on which the annual interest is 8661,575, and $71,000 of this is upoe trust funds in her own hands. North Carolinas are subject to considerable variation. On the whole, the South stands considerably better than it did a few months ago. The quotations of railroad and miscellaneous stocks for the week together have not varied much. St. Paul common has risen 3 per cent. on account of the declaration of a dividend that was somewhat doubtful. Reading has appreciated to 984, and Rock Island fallen off slightly. Pacific Railroad bonds aro quoted at 841 to 841 for Union, 931 to 94 for Central, and 90 for Western. The railroad commissioner of Ohio publishes the earnings of the Fisk ridden Atlantic and Great Western for the year ending June 30, 1869, amounting to $5,097,367, $1,638,069 more than the expenses for the same time. The earnings of fourteen of the principal railroads of the West dur ing November amounted to $7,111,324, an increase of $777,945 over the same month last year. The earnings of eleven of these roads for the eleven months were $61,177,848, an increase of nearly three and a half mil lions over the amount for the same months last year. But one road, the Ohio and Mississippi, suffered a de crease. The movement in behalf of tho Chesapeake and Ohio line to the West is attracting considerable atten tion. From Chesapeake bay to the Ohio river, by the proposed route, is but 400 miles. The new project will have to compete, however, with four very strong corpora tic us, which now do the business between the grain basin and the sea,—viz., the New York Central, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern line ; the Erie and Atlantic and Great Western line ; the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago line ; and the Baltimore and Ohio and Ohio and Mississippi line, The dry goods business is extremely dull, and the sales for November were 15 per cent. less than during the same month, last year. The depression in prices during the last four years is estimated at 65 per cent., being 21 per cent. in 1866 and 11 per cent in 1869. These figures of course are very general and must not be much built upon. At the present time, however, collections are easy, losses small and few, and extensions of credit are not much asked—all indications of safety. The old dry goods firms are confident, and new ones are venturing in New York. The jewellery trade is pretty badly down and some manu facturing firms have suspended work, but hope to revive with the Christmas trade. (From the ►Wall-street Journal.) Nrw Youx, FRIDAY EVENING, Dec. 17. Money on call is active, and borrowers readily pay seven per cent. in currency and in gold, with a commission in exceptional cases. Discounts are slow, and prime busi ness notes are with difficulty negotiated at 10 to 12 per cent., and with single names at 12 to 20 per cent. Heavy failures continue in all our leading commercial centres, New York, of- course, being the heaviest sufferer. We regret in this city to have to note the failures of Richard Patrick and Co., whose house in San Francisco was the loading hardware firm on the Pacific; of L. Edgerton and Co., the second largest importers of foreign carpets. in the country, and of numerous other respectable firms. Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore show a heavy list, in which latter city we note the suspension of Howard, Cole, and Co., dry goods jobbers, who owe about half a million, and show assets to the amount of three-fourths of a million, but who Gave been crippled in making collec tions. The gold market is considerably demoralized, and since the acceptance of ,the offers to-day, by the Sub- Treasury, the price has fallen to 120 k. Government Bonds are freely offered, and prices, 6pito of the energetic repudiation of the Demo cratic party in Congress, of Repudiation in any shape or form, are heavy. i sixes, 1861, registered lll to 112 119 to 119} Sixes; 1881, coupon -- to _ Sixes, 1868, coupon .................. -- U.S. 65. Pacific Mahout lOBl to 109 Five-twenties, 1862, registered 111 to 112+ Fi ve -twenties, 1862, coupon ......... - to 113+ Five-twenties, 1864, coupon ........... . Five-twenties, 1865, coupon : ll2l to 1121 Five-twenties, 1835, coupon, new - to 1141 Five-twenties, 1867, coupon ..... U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 . ll5 to 1151 Ten-forties, coupon ll9i to 109:i 109+ to 109 i Ten-forties, register ed Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 Miscellaneous Stocks show little activity, and Pacific Mail has fallen off to 49+. Railroad Stocks aro heavy and dull, spite of every effort to drive them up. N. Y. Cont. & Hud. Rr B7 Erio Hudson .. Atlantic Fort Wayne Pacific Mai1.. Quicksilver 33 cidAleagiTia:Ph" — W. U. T Mariposa- Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 25 Boston Water Power l4 Cumberland d maven N Y and H_ M & St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 841 FOB, SPECIE. Eng. sous 4BB to 490 j 20 francs 386 „ 388. I neioZ"P t 0 „ 70 Reading Mich. Central Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittslog. 82; Nortb-West North-West Preferred 82), Canton.. Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo QUOTATIONS Amer. silver 974 to 98 I Mex. dollars 1034 „ 104 Eng. silver 470 , 480 Fin franca ~, 96 +? 97 London : Printed and Published by WILLIAII ANDREWS. of No. 112; Strand, Printer, at THE Sux Office, NO. 112, Strand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Oounty of KiddlgoeV' raureday, Jumpy 6, 1670, Foreign Exchange is eas leading drawers offering free: The following wore for Mc N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 86 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 86 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 851 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 98 Erie Ist Mort, Ex — Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 BB Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B4 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 74 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 6B Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &Kist M, '77 B4 Hui. R. 7s, Ist M, '69.4101 11. , d. R. 7s, 2d M, 'B5 100 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 95 Mich. C. Ist 11T, 69'72 116 Bich. new Ist M 88,'82 So., 7 p. c. 2d M BB N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Nlicli.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 96 [ll. Cen. p. c, '7O 116 Alton & T. 11. Ist M 921 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd Alton & T. 11. 2,1 M. Inc 7l ilan.& St.J. LandWrntslo7g flan. & St. J. Con 109 Chi. B. & Q., let M 109 Chi. & N. West, S. V._ 96 Chi. it N. W. Con Cony. 88 & N. W. Int B B4 Chi. N. W. let 31 9ll Quincy & Tol, let M, '75 70 & So. lowa Ist M — C %West. Ist M, 'BB 7B Gt. Western 2d M '93 771 Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex BB Express Stocks are slow of Adams American Morcl4ants' Unic Merchants' Union, old Stoi United States Wells, Fargo, and Co.. Ler, and the demand small, Irtgages Tol. & Wab. Equip 74 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M & Chic. Ext 101 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 9Ol Chi. & R. I. Ist M 101 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 971 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 96f N. J. Central Ist M 100 N. J. Central 2d M — Pitts.Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M 101 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M. 95 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3 , 1 M. 90 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 73 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. Chic. & Alton, S. P. Ist M. 102 Mil. & St. Roil Ist M 9O Mil. & St. Paul 2d M Marietta & 'in. Ist M 87} Morris & Essex lst, 11 95 Morris & Essex 2d 31 92 Joilet & Olie. Ist Chi. & Gt. East'n lst3l 75 N. Y. & N. H. Gs 95 Dubuque &S. City Ist M 911 Peninsula Ist 31 hu Ohio & Miss. 14 31 93 Ohio & Miss. Con., Bl Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D 7B Atlantic & G. W. '2d M — Deb, Lack., & W., 2d M. 92 Lake Shore Div. Bonds 78 Cleve, P. & A sh. Do. 0.8... linion Pacific Gold 8... 831. Central P. 1.11:.. Gold B 93 Pacific RR. guar. by Mo. 90 sale, and we quote : 601 to 60! )n 4O to 401 ck 9l to 10 49 to 491 18 to 181- Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia bankers, report as follows ou Doc. 17 :—Pennsylvania Railroad Shares, 54 5 ; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 99 994 ; Sixes, 2d Mort gage, 95} —• NAVAL AND 311LI7ARY IN7ELLIGEIVCE. Mr. Childers having approved the reports of the committee appointed to investigate the method of keeping the accounts at the several divisions of Royal Marines, one of the principal recommenda tions came into effect at the Chatham division on the Ist inst., as an experiment for six months—the payment of the men once a week, instead of three times a week as heretofore, the abolition of the credits on the men's individual ledgers, and the Paymaster being held responsible for all cash transactions. By this method the number of the pay sergeants will be reduced by one-half, and the work in the Paymaster's office sensibly diminished. The credits, on these ledgers, amounting to several hundred pounds, were paid over to the men at the end of the year without any prejudicial effect. The new system of payment, it is understood, is most acceptable to the men, and, as all the married men and Marines employed as artificers have heretofore been paid weekly without any hindrance with re spect to discipline, there would seem to be no rea son why the experiment should not prove a success, and thereby engender habits of frugality. The system will doubtless hereafter be adopted in the other Divisions and in the Royal Marine Artillery, and may eventually be introduced into the army generally. The paddlewheel steam storeship Dee, 1, from Woolwich and Portsmouth (having had to put into Dartmouth through stress of weather), arrived on Tuesday at Plymouth. After discharging super numeraries for the Royal Adelaide, boys for. the Impregnable, and stores into Devonport yard, she will embark two gangs of riggers and a party of seamen from the Indus, in charge of Staff-Com mander Spain, for the purpose of navigating the new double-screw iron armour-plated ship Invin cible, 14, from Glasgow to Devonport. The Dee will probably sail about the 12th instant. The Cerberus, 4, armour-plated turret-ship, pre paring for sea in No. 4 Dock in Chatham dockyard, is making great progress towards completion. The riggers are busily engaged in their department, and the other work is being pushed forward, so that there is no reason to doubt that the ship will be ready to leave for Australia at the time fixed in May next. The Cerberus is intended for the de fence of Melbourne. Lieutenant-Colonel W. Lawtie Morrison, R.E., has joined the School of Military Engineering at Brotnpton Barracks, Chatham, to succeed Colonel Gerald Graham, C. 8., V.C., who has been ordered to Manchester for duty. The draught of the Ist battalion of the Ist Regi ment, ordered to join the service companies in Madras, is to leave Chatham on Friday for Ports mouth to embark. The large draughts which have left Chatham lately have so reduced the number of duty men in Chatham Barracks that the various garrison duties fall very heavily on those who re main ; the draughts of the Ist and 2d Regiments, who are under orders to leave, will augment this pressure on those who remain. OBITUARY.—The numerous friends of Major George W. Whistler will learn with regret of his sudden death, at Brighton, England, on the morning of the 14th December. Major Whistler was the builder of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Railroad, in company with Winans and Brothers. A man of much intellect, of considerable wealth, and of great liberality, ho was a frequent contri butor to Notes and Queries, and published an edition of some of Shakspere's plays with original notes. Ho probably possessed the best and largest of the many editions of Shakspere existing in any private library. His family will remain for the present at Brighton.— Minnie, the only daughter of W. T. Mortimer, Esq., of New York , died of consumption at Paris a few days ago.—Dominique Lanata, an old merchant of New Orleans, died recently, leaving a fortune of a million and a quarter. —Mrs. Schutt, probably the oldest person in Massachusetts, died at Mout t Washington, Berkshire county, on Monday, the 13th of December, aged one hundred and seven years.-- Deacon Edward Southworth died at West Springfield suddenly, Dec. 11.—Dr. Albert J. Bellows, the celebrated hotnceopathic physician, died at Boston on Saturday, Dec. 11, aged 65.—Among the deaths in Providence a nd vicinity are Amass Manton, for half a century a leading Providence merchant, Rev. Dr. George Tait, 78, for 49 years rector of St. Paul's Church of Pawtucket, and Dr. Johnson Gardner, 71, once member of the governor's council in Massachusetts.—Ex-Chief Justice Henry M. Waite died at Lyme, Connecticut, Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 14, aged 83. LADTERTIEBMENT. I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.-- Fear Not ! Though surrounded by circumstances disad vantageous to health, these remedies, if properly applied, will cut short fevers, influenza, inflammation, diptheria, and a host of other complaints always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, and unwary. The superiority of Holloway's medicines has been so fully and widely proved for subduing disease, that it is only necessary to ask the afflicted to give them a trial, and if the instructions folded around them be followed, no disappointment will ever ensue, or dangerous consequences result. In hoarse ness and ulcerated sore throat, the ointment should fre quently be rubbed on the neck and top of the chest, it will arrest the increasing inflammation, allay disquietude, and gradually cure. LADVERTISHMENT.J—Henceforth no one will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica , Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the " Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21,1866. The health of the Holy ( F i i a e t s h , e h r e i s h e a x s c e c l o l e n n fl t , e e d s p h e l a s i y l f s entirely n n c t e a l y b a t n o d o D n u i n_ B g a r a r l y l o s t R h e e r y ar Revalenta Arabic& Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. Ithaspredu cannot praise t g h ly is b e e x n e e e tl l c l i e t e f ff o e o e d t health,o to n o h h is ighly." and his Holiness We e m o ß r r e e h than 6 0 8 f , 0 8 0 e 0 v c e u n r eyse: years u l r i e v e N r o . e 5 0 8 m 4 p 1 1 6 a , o n f t nervousness, with a ner vous pa l p i ta ti o n, wt e h x .e t s r t a i In c a t gr a ca h f w e i oa w ny ,e o suste debility, it y, and the most in atoll c o r v a e b r fo b ad nervous digestion, a gt a c t o i o n n s ta n t c s ur l e e e p N I e o s ess, 1,771: Lord Stuart do Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, 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, Im portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebies name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is ;Ilb 2s 9d; 2lb 4s 6d; slb lls; 12 lb 225 11 one aypenny and Co per ., N cup.o. 24 lbs 4 s.—Also GU BARay's 11,nriAI NNYI A RA.BICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed i n t i n can i sters : for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 c ups at 3s 6d, for 48 c u p s at Sc,for 28 8 cu ps at 30s, for 576 cups at 55a free of carriage in England on receip t of Pos t Office Order.—beingl3Aßlt y D aboutl —. treat, London ; and all Grocers and Ch em i s ts. n 7, The 30s and ;.5s ti ns are sent liegent-street, BIRTHS. lIOSEHILL—On the 4th Jan., at Easter Warrister, Princes-square, Kensing e de Lauer-Munchhofen). s Edin burgh, x3Rvio.s,stenhie*? Marro,. o (a f ut a a r2 s oo o n, n np . wi.e of Richard Jenery Shee, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. MARRIAGES. HAMMOND —BUCUMASTER— On the 4th Jan., at St. George's , Hanover-square, Henry Blyth Hammond, Esq., Of B a magate, son of George Hammond, Esq., J.P., of Dealt to Dlarion, youngest daughter of the late William Buck" master, Esq., of Kensington. nonsox—EELLEY—On the sth Jan., at St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Robert Robson, of London, to Margaret Ann, only daughter of James Kelley, Esq., of Newcastle. DEATHS'. - ABRAHAM —On the 3d Jan., at 3, Mansfield-square, W. , George Frederick Abraham, solicitor, aged 88. 141OLLETT —On the 17th Doc., at his residence, Gold-hil l, near Slough, Bucks, John Mollett, Esq., of Austinfriare, London, aged 65.