The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-15 00:00:00

if.iscellaneous Foreign News. (From Correspondents of the Auglo-American Times) • PARIS, April 11. This has been a week of unusual political excite ment in Paris. I may, therefore, be pardoned if I touch for a few moments, on the " bones of con tention." The Luxembourg' affair Las been temporarily quieted by the resolve of the King of Holland to desist from further negotiations with France for the sale and alienation of the Grand Duchy. This de termination was influenced by the rather menacing attitude assumed by Prussia, who, although declin ing to express any positive official opinion on the subject, still gave unquestionable evidences of her disapprobation of the whole proceedings. Holland fears Prussia, and loves tranquillity and independ ence. She knows that, in the event of a struggle between France and Prussia, her contingent of 60,000 men would be too important an addition to either side for her to be permitted to remain neutral. A considerable military success gained by either party, on account of the Grand Duchy affair, would entail consequences ultimately menacing to the independence of Holland ; and while the Dutch, in case of such an alternative, would unhesitatingly choose the rule of France in preference to that of Prussia, they like their present independence better than either, and will not by any dangerous foreign negotiation compromise it. Under the old Germanic Confederation, Prussia had the right to garrison the fortress of the Luxem bourg ; but as that Confederation no longer exists the right ceased to exist with it, and Prussia's pre sent occupation is unjustifiable to an extent amount ing to usurpation. Should France acquire Luxem bourg by purchase, Prussia would have to evacuate the fortress, or resist the transaction, and declare war with France. The Power holding this almoEt impregnable natural fortress would have the advan tage it guarantees, in commanding the whole valley of the Moselle, and threatening at the same time Treves, Aix-la-Chapelle, Bonn, and Cologne. Its possession would be incalculably important to France if she ever should attempt the annexation of the left Bank of the Rhine, by affording her advan tageous means for the invasion of the Frans- Rhenane province of Prussia. The House of Hohenzollern is aware of this, and of the great importance, in a strategic point of view, of this fortress. Prassia is caning a covetous eye upon the Duchy, and is doubtless entertaining hopes of embodying it in her dominions. It is q.iite cer tain that France will not suffer this, an I it may be equally certain that Prussia will not submit with out a struggle to its acquisition by France. The question of the cession was in all probability first mooted by the King of Holland, who sup posed that it could be accomplished without diffi culty. France, desirous of obtaining a fortress, erected, in part, by one of her great generals, and proving one of the strongest strategical positions on her.north-eastern frontier, hearkened readily to the overtures of Holland's King, and was proceeding to benefit by the opportunity offered, when Prussian grumblings and Prussian interference put an end to the negotiations. This question will be renewed by France at some more opportune time. Stung to the quick, she will treasure up in her long account of grievances, this additional one, to be settled at some future day with her neighbours beyond the Rhine. Prussian Ministers and journalists are jubi lant now, but they may soon find that their rejoic ings and braggadocios have been premature. Monsieur Schneider has been appointed, by the Emperor, President of the Corps Legislatif, in the place of Count Walewski resigned. The members of the Assembly expressed themselves satisfied with the appointment, and welcomed with considerable applause the address pronounced on his taking the President's chair. Schneider has filled creditably many offices under the French Government. He was sent in 1845 Deputy from Saone and Loire; in 1851 Minister of Public Works, and in December of the same year, one of a consulting committee, organised to act with the President of the Republic, for the purpose of preparing the Constitution. In 1852 he was Deputy to the Corps Legislatif, and then, Vice-President, was re-elected by an overwhelming majority in 1863. The Senate is discussing the advantage and necessity of discontinuing the burial of the dead within the limits of Paris, and of establishing a vast cemetery for the purpose at some distance from the capital. The three cemeteries—Pere-la-Chaise, Montmartre, and Montparnasse are too re stricted and insufficient in circumference for the increased population. The earth cf these burial grounds is already saturated, thereby endangering the health of the city. A committee, appointed by the municipal council, for the purpose of studying the subject and selecting a suitable spot for new places of sepulture, reported in favour of Mery-sur- Seine, where suitability of soil, atmospheric cur rents, &c., joined to its remoteness from habitated spots, rendered it above all others the most desirable. The municipality, acting upon these representa tions, purchased a considerable quantity of ground at Alery, where it is intended that all burials here after from Paris shall take place. A railway run ning from the centre of the city, and connecting by branches the existing cemeteries, will be esta blished, and conduct the funerals to the new. ceme tery. A station is to be built in each Paris ceme tery, with chapels sufficient to contain all the corpses the train can carry. The funeral will take place in the usual manner ; the body will be carried to one of the three 'great cemeteries, and from thence taken by rail to Mery. In the front of each mor tuary carriage will be a saloon for the transporta tion of the family and mourners of the dead. For the poor, transportation will be gratuitous, and for other classes, reasonable enough to prevent dissatis faction. The Paris cemeteries will be preserved, and open to visitors, but no more interments will be allowed, in them. The brother of the Tycoon of Japan has arrived at Paris, accompanied by his suite, consistin g of a minister, officers, and servants. This prince, heir to the temporal throne of Jaran, is not quite 15 years of age. Ile is small, and appears to possess a serious disposition and an observing mind. His suite maintain in his presence the strictest ceremony and deference. Near him, a Japanese nobleman holds a sword always unsheathed and elevated. He and his cortege are clothed according to the customs of their country. The Prince comes not only to visit to the Exhibition and study it in its various details, but to pus five years in Franc e , t o l earn French, and complete his education. The tailors and shoemakers in Paris have been on a strike for some time, and are still heroically hold ing out. It is almost impossible to have anything done in the way of covering for the body and feet, THE SUN, LOisIDON, MONDAY EVEMNG, *" APRIL 15 1867 a- ~. Application for a Summons against the "Times" for Libel. At the Guildhall Police-court on Saturday, Mr. Rigby Wason applied to Alderman Sidney for a summons against the proprietors of the Times for libel, and Alderman Sidney requested the presence of Sir John Musgrove to hear the application. .111 r. Wason said his application was very shortly as follows :—By the present law anything published in a newspaper of a character to bring a person into ridicule or contempt was a libel. The publication of reports in Parliament rendered the parties pub liThing them liable to an action for damages or a criminal protTeution. In the present case there would be no action for damages for himself, but the question was, whether in the paper he complain cd of there was prima facie evidence that there was a libel in the publication. Alderman Sidney asked what was the nature of his application. Mr. Wason said it was a summons against the proprietors of the Times. . Alderman Sidney wished to know for what pur pose. Mr. Wason said for a report in Parliament and an article in the 7 lines. Alderman Syney asked if it was for a false report. Mr. Wagon said—Oh, dear no ; it was not for a false report. Alderman Sidney wanted to know which House of Parliament it was in. Mr. Wason replied that it was in the House of Lords. There was a bill in Parliament which bad already passed the house of Commons and the second reading in the House of Lords which would make the publication of speeches in Parliament privileged, but that was not the case at present. No doubt their answer would be that it was quite true, or that it was no libel. Alderman Sidney asked Mr. Wason if he expected the Bench to grant a summons without considering whether the article complained of was a libel. Mr. Wason said—Decidedly he did. Sir John Musgrove said it might save Mr. Wason a long statement which might be irksome to him if he would read the libel complained of. Mr. Wason then referred to a copy of the limes of Wednesday, the 13th of February last, and said. the first of the report that be had to complain of was in a speech of Earl Russell's, in which he says : —" I did this that when the petition was presented there might be a full opportunity of an answer to the charges which it contained. That opportunity the noble and learned lord on the woolsack has fully and properly availed himself of. lle has given a complete answer to all the charges made, and it appears to me a matter of the greatest public im portance that the character of our judges should re main, as I am happy to think they have hitherto been, unstained and pure -in the eyes of the public. It appears to me, my lords, it is better that before an assembly such as your lordships such charges should be heard and refuted and shown to be totally destitute of foundation, than that every peer should refuse to listen to a petitioner, and that a person aggrieved should not have an opportunity of obtain ing a hearing in the House of Lords." The next was from a previous speech of Earl Russell's—" In the next place it appears to me that Mr. R. Wason could hardly have refrained from pressing his charges from any feeling of personal tenderness for Sir F. Kelly, but rather because he felt his proofs were insufficient, and that he could not bring to the test of inquiry the grave charges which he desired to make." The next part he complained of was the speech of the Lord Chancellor, in which he said--" Now, my lords, assuming that every word of this position is as true as I shall prove it to be false, we must not forget that the facts upon which these most grave charges against the Lord Chief Baron are founded took place no less than 30 years ago, and that during that long period my right hon. friend has twice held the office of Solicitor-General and one of Attorney- General," &c. The next part of which he com plained was in a subsequent r - orion of the same speech—" Therif‘.re I must ask your lordships to go through the charges contained in this petition as briefly as I can. In doing so I will refute them utterly - , and leave it to the judgment of every im partial man to say whether there is a single word of truth in them." In those speeches he was accused of fabrication and making a false and unfounded charge. Alderman Sidney observed that Earl Russell had presented a petition from him (Mr. Wason) to the House of Lords, and it was his lordship's remarks upon that petition that he complained of. Mr. Wason said that was so. Sir John Musgrove asked to see the act on which the application was made. Mr. Martin (the chief clerk) handed him the Ist volume of " Russell on Crimes and Misdeameanors." Mr. Wason said that Earl Russell never told him the course he intended to pursue on presenting the petition. Sir John Musgrove said he wanted to see that they were proceeding rightly, and he therefore wished to know whether Mr. Wagon went on any other ground than the report of the speeches in the House of Lords. Mr. Wason said he also went against the /bites for a leading article. Mr. Martin observed that he did not rely on that the previous day, when he made his application to him. Mr. Wason said that he knew he did not, but he could not go against one without the other. Sir John Musgrove referred to " Russell on Crimes," page 326, and read the following para graph :—" The members of the two Houses of Par liament, by reason of their privileges, are not answerable at law for any personal reflections on individuals contained in speeches in their respective house ; for policy requires that those who are by the Constitution appointed to provide for the safety and welfare of the public should in the execution of their high functions be wholly uninfluenced by private considerations." And again, at page 330, it laid down as a rule that, " Though the publication of a proceeding in Parliament will in general be consi dered as privileged, and protected from being deemed libellous ; the presenting and delivering a petition to members of a committee of the House of Com mons, being according to the order of proceedings of Parliament iu their committees, has been held to be justifiable." Mr. Wason said he had nothing to do with that. Sir John Musgrove thought it was a question for the Bench to consider. Alderman Sidney said the question was whether it was true or not, for if true there would be no libel. Mr. Wason said that was so. Alderman Sidney asked whether, if they had . only published that which was true, that would not be an answer to the charge. Mr. Wason said it would not. Although it was true the speeches were made in the House of Lords, the matter in them was not true ; and although the speeches in the House of Lords were privileged, the publication of them was not. Alderman Sidney said then, if he understood the application, Mr. Wason did not complain of any thing libellous that had been said in the House of Lords, but of the publication of it., Mr. 'Wason said that was so. Alderman Sidney said then they would have to decide upon that point. Mr. Martin advised the magistrates that the ques tion they had to consider was whether the speeches were libellous, and then to consider whether the limes was justified in publishing them. Sir John :Musgrove said that, after all Mr. Wa3on might'say, his brother alderman and himself must consider whether the report was libellous or not ; and, supposing that they should consider that it was not, they would not be justified in granting him a summons. Mr. Was o n said that un d ou b tedly i t would b e libellous if it were not true; but it was true. Sir J. Musgrove . said they wo u ld cons id er th e queStion, and give h i m an answ er on a f uture d ay. Mr. Wason replied that their time was his. Sir J. Musgrove observed that he was very ac commodating, and they would give it their best con sideration. He, however, would like to ask Mr. Wason whether the pamphlet he had handed to him was his. Mr. Wason said it was. Sir J. Musgrove read the titlepage as follows : " A letter expo Sing the falsehoods of Lord Chelms ford and Lord St. Leonards in order to deceive the House of Lords and stifle inquiries into the charac ter of the Lord Chief Baron." He then asked Mr. Mason whether he did not consider that libellous. Mr. Wason said they could bring their action. Alderman Sidney asked, in the event of their de ciding that the report was not libellous, had Mr. Wason any other remedy. Mr. Martin said—Yes, he had an action for damages in a civil court. Mr. Wason said he did not want damages. The magistrates then retired with Mr. Martin to consult, and in a short time returned into court, when Alderman Sidney said—l thought it right to save your time, Mr. Wason, if I ascertained the opinion of my brother magistrate after going in ; and I have just put my decision—because your application is really to myself as sitting magistrate, Sir John Mus grove having kindly come here to hear your appli cation—down in writing, and it is this :—" I have duly considered your application, and having read the paragraphs of which you complain, after con ferring with my brother magistrate and our legal adviser, Mr. Martin, I am of opinion I ought not to grant the summons applied for." Mr. Wason asked to have a eopy of the decision, as he wished to take it to his barrister, and get him to take steps to try the question in a legal manner. The request was courteously complied with, and Mr. Wason, having thanked the worthy alderman for the attention they had given him, retired. and were there not a good supply on hand, the visi tors to the Exhibition would find us not clothed a la derniere mode, but in a seedy and dilapidated con dition. Three hundred and fifty handsome basket can: riages are preparing and will soon make their ap pearance on our streets ; a decided improvement on the clumsy, dirty vehicles now ,doing service in Paris, and one that will be welcomed by the cab riding public. The omnibus company is about to establish a line of vehicles built on a new model, and capable of containing 50 persons each. They will start from the Palais Royal every five minutes and run to the Bridge of Jena, conveying visitors to the Exhibition. Other lines have been consider ably increased, so that there are now in Paris over seven hundred omnibuses. I must now give a few► jottings relating to the Exhibition. Much hat, been said about the exorbi tant prices for living, which the Exhibition, with its immense influx of visitors, will entail upon all classes in Paris. To remedy this as much as possible a grand popular restaurant has been established under the patronage of the Imperial Commission ; the prices will be fixed and remarkably cheap. A meal, consisting of bread, soup, meat, vegetables, cheese, and decanter of wine, will cost from 17 cents to 20 cents. The cooking is said to be excellent, and the accommodation all that could be wished by those desirous of living economically. Another praise worthy establishment is an infant asylum destined to receive the children of the labourers from the various nations. Children under three years will be admitted and taken care of gratuitously, during the stay of their parents in Paris. A solemn inauguration of this charitable institution will shortly take place, and we shall then expect to see a multitude of pretty little cribs and cradles, tiny white sheets and hand some furniture, all graced with the smiling faces of numerous cherubs. In the square placed in the centre of the Exhibi tion building, an elegant pavilion will display the Crown jewels of France. A circular glass enclosure around the crystal pavilion will contain coin, money, stamp, and medals struck in France during the reign of Napoleon 111. By an ingenious mechanical contrivance the pavilion sinks into the ground after the closing of the Exhibition. The opening is masked by the soil, and protected by a roof of impenetrable cement. One of the chief attractions of the Exhibition will be the International Theatre, which has announced its opening representation for the lbth of April. There will be 1,300 places, elegantly and conveniently arranged for spectators. Repre sentations will take place every evening at eight o'clock, composed of operas, ballets, &c., in which the theatrical "stars" of different countries will appear. From two to four in the afternoon ex hibitions of all kinds, pantomimes, concerts, chil dren's balls, &c., will be given. The orchestra is to be composed of 50 musicians, the opera troupe of 40 chorists, and 60 dancers; all young and pretty. The 20 Indians sent over from America are to make their Milt in this theatre. The total number of exhibitors enrolled for the World's Fair amcunts to 42,000. France has 11,645 ; the Ottoman Empire comes next, with 4,496, and Great Britain third, 3,609. I have not learned the number of American exhibitors. Up to this time they have made but little show iu their section. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is last on the roll, having only 10 exhibitors. Since the completion of the great works of the Champ de Mars, and the Trocadero, from 8,000 to 10,000 workmen have returned to their regular labours in the city, and the activity of the gigantic public works has recommenced. The price of entrance to the Exhibition has been reduced to one franc per head. Weekly tickets are issued at the rate of six francs, giving admission to the palace, park, and grounds at Billaueourt, with the privilege enjoyed by season visitors of entering as early as nine in the morning. The photograph of the bearer must be posted on the ticket, having the face exposed. Thomas 11ill, the American artist and painter of the "Yosemite Valley," has arrived in Paris from Rome. 11. G. Bispham, also an American artist of some note, is visiting Paris for a day or two preparatory to starting for home. Messrs. John Munroe and Co., the Paris agents for the Great Eastern, have received a despatch from New York, stating that the " big ship" arrived there safely on the 9th. PARIS. I am very much afraid that all the nations of the world who are expected in Paris between this and the end of May will find the French nation out of town. People are scampering off to the chateaux with all the Parisian fashions packed up in large arches as if they were determined to hide the trea sures from the imitation of invading barbarians. Others mean to make a good speculation out of the Exposition visitors by letting their houses furnished to the highest bidder, including even their own ser vants, horses, and carriages, which it will be so convenient to have kept at the expense of others, while the happy owners are at Dieppe or Trouville dining at the table d'hote, living on a fourth flat, and declaring that Paris is so intolerably full they could not put up with foreigners any longer. This is not very truthful, and the only natives I see any real objection to are , those of the Celestial empire, in which elevated region it is not customary to use pocket handkerchiefs, as far as I have been able to judge at least, but then in a country where inhabi tants must naturally hold thei r n oses ver y hi g h pocket handerchiefs may be superfluous. The weather is the great topic of conversation in all d u r lo dust, s z o s n a d u ns n , g a e n n d cer uez t e a p i h n y i r t s th at the ot v r e a r i y n , lively.md u is ar th e a My impression is that the sun is confused; he finds all his favourite haunts jumbled together round the Champ de Mars, and when he shines on the Egyptian Temple he suddenly comes across Gus tavus Vasa's cottage in Sweden, which makes him recede. Thus it is he gets into the Russian izba, and does not find his • way out again. I do not wish to say anything disrespectful of the Exposition, but I do not think the Park can be finished till the said exposure is over. A permanent standing ought to be voted, considering what labour the highly worked ornamentation will cost. The fol lowing is the result of my observations in the dif ferent departments I have visited. An excursion through France leads one to a firm conviction that her machinery, porcelain, and jewellery are not sur passed by those of any other European nation. Her crystal, bronzes, and tapestry are perfect, but her ironmongery cannot come up to England, even though she is trying hard on stilts. The arrangement of her articles is mare effective than that of the British section. The Fine Arts of England, our pride, are not excelled by the works of Italy, Spain, or France. Prejudice alone is blind, but connoisseurs are cos mopolitan ; they love art for itself, and all are unani mous in praise of our English paintings. Men of talent do not inquire what was the birthplace of a landscape-painter before they discover the beauties of his production. The unenlightened are those who, on being told that they are in the English Fine Arts Court, shut up their eyes, sneer, and call our green, spinach " our flesh tints," pastry our azure " washing blue." Ignoramuses of this description remind inc of the Asiatic who went to the opera to hear " Dame Blanche," and on being askei at the end how he had liked it, said the finest part, in his opinion, was the first piece that had been played. The loaler was requested to have the overture executed over again in honour of the guest, but the Asiatic said they were not playing what he meant. After fruitless endeavours to hit on the particular part, as he called it, that had taken his fancy, the musicians all set to tuning their instruments anew, and the foreigner exclaimed in ecstacy that that was the first piece he had heard. And so he had, and so every one does at the opera before the leader puts an end to the unearthly groaning of violincellos, violins, and all the other wailing, let loose by dis cord before the unwelcome tuning is over. Such are most judges of the fine arts, the first impression is the lasting conviction, and as impres sion exists abroad that all the English are either lords or stable boys, created for the sole purpose of buying choice wines and rearing all the best race horses, of course painters and paintings are out of the question, the more so as the sun never shines in England ; there is not a flower to be got,- not a peach to be seen ; all the women are tall and thin, wear ringlets, and red, blue, and violet at the same time. I conclude that the greatest infliction a man could make his worst enemy undergo would not be, if in Paris, to take him to the Champ de Mars on the top of an omnibus, and when there to keep him on his legs till five without giving him any refreshment ; far worse would it be, if in London, to drive him out to some of our lordly seats, and there to sit before the usual amount of food that is laid out on our English tables, food of native pro duce, not forgetting our hothouse dessert, home made bread if possible, and home-brewed beer, vegetables from our kitchen gardens, fruit from our well-kept orchards ; and when he had tasted of all, to let him crawl up to his room a victim of English native produce. But to return to the Exposition. Prussia and Austria are acting like sisters; they are both be hind. Russia is in a pretty mess with all the powers, but America seems inclined to help her. Italy is not in decent order at all. Spain cannot look np, she never will now ; it is too late to mend. Turkey is heart-broken, very much in want of a main-spring in my opinion; whereas Sweden and Norway are on the look out in an advanced state of progress. ROME, April 2. The last few days have borne little resemblance to the delightful weather previously enjoyed. Cloudy skies, heavy rains, and damp cold winds have sug gested what is called a " sea-turn" on the further shore of the Atlantic. Such a period must be dreary, for nature then has little beauty, ruins cannot be visited, or if they were, most persons would probably think more of the present mud than of the Caesars' past magnificence. I doubt if the Coliseum viewed from beneath r.n umbrella would seem ma jestic even to a Byron, while all painting and sculp ture require the sunlight to add a finish beyond the last the artist can give. Sculpture, of course, en dures the trial best, losing only something of dis tinctness of light and shade. One cannot but wonder if the streets of ancient Rome, in the days of its magnificence, were as narrow and as dirty as most of them are to-day. Doubtless some of them were, for the poor then were probably much like the poor now, only not so numerous. But one cannot but fancy that better streets led to the forum than now lead to St. Peter's, and that the sound, common sense of that sturdy race would have objected. to splashing in mud their embroidered sandals when there was labour enough at hand to clean the streets and money enough to pay the labour. It is pleasing to find that on at least one of their roads they had a side-walk, paved and guarded, a thing which can scarcely be said to exist in modern Rome. This, in fact, is only a part of the problem con tinually forced on one's mind here, whether the Romans of to-day fairly represent the conquerors of the world. We feel sure they do not. These people, glad to serve for a more or less honest profit the inhabitants of what was once. the distant and savage island of Britain, or, still better, of that wider country which lies where their ancestors supposed the shades of the departed to dwell, cannot compare with those men who subdued all the shores of the Mediterranean, fought their way through France, and subjected the greater part of Britain to their dominion. Cicero's eloquence would hardly find a fit audience to tempt it, if he were alive, to wield the Italian tongue. At least so it seems to a foreigner's per haps too limited observation. It is a view we are pleased to take, for it is hard to believe that mere force of circumstance determines whether the same spirits shall command or cringe, gain new conquests for literature and art, or allow those already won to fade utterly from their remembrance. This is, in fact, an impossible thought, for greatness, in any adversity, and under whatever oppression, will still be *great. 1 was much interested during a recent visit to the Capitol in noticing the many heads and busts, of which we know only that they are portraits of persons whose very names arc now forgotten. We m.Ly suppose them, then, to repre sent an average of the better classes of ancient society here, and to show something of that sub s stratum of character on which the greatness of Rome was founded ; and they are faces and heads such as we should look to for valour, intelligence, and virtue now. They are beyond all expression superior to those prelates, with whom portraits eh, too, were the old masters in painting. were forced to deform their convictioncanbelieveou t r othe aac t i h ea a t t a ß n a d pl i l n ae sculpture, u n lj d )tu others deeds, tieancient compositions. rest race S o corresponded foundation as solid as the marble which has survived Vandal violence and mediaeval oblivion. It is especially p leasin g to meet in the female 7 n a , self-reliant dignity, which does not faces thus preserved that nobilit y of ex p ression, a self-respecting, destroy feminine gentleness and tenderness—a cast of countenance so common in America and Eng land, but elsewhere, if not rare, rarely seen. One has good opportunities here to compare the faces of various nations. It seems fair to presume that the great body o f travellers from each are of about the same relativ e p osition in their res pe ctive lands, and Americas and English faces can be dis tinguished half-way across St. Peter's, and a com parison of them with those by whom they are sur rounded is seldom such as a citizen of either country need be reluctant to make, even if his national pride is as high as each declares the other's to be. Our language is here so surprisingly common that one ceases to be sur p rised at it. You hear it ar ound you thoughtless l y for a while , until at length thevEisaigtlri seth, reflection theec a t i n odnwaerises these people ar e s p ea ki ng are in Rome." In a moon li g ht Coliseum, indeed, some of us were a little startled at the general laugh raised by a jocose reference to Byron's description, for the ruin and the moonlight made all seem so intensely foreign, as to make it surprising that others there could comprehend the language of our distant land, but we soon found that of all the crowds which trod the arena and the galleries on those bright evenings there were few who could not read Byron without translation. The progress our language is making abroad is striking, though hardly wonderful. It is true, the number who speak it is not great, but the number who attempt it is considerable. The pains that waiters and tradesmen take to bring out their little store of half a dozen words of our tongue, and the pride they evince when they find themselves under stood, are amusing in the extreme. All around the streets are placards announcing that one " Signor" teaches " Inglese," or that from another it can be learned completely in six months ! One tradesman is expecting the return of a son who has been a year in England, and will speak the language per fectly; another forces upon your notice the feet that he himself uses it " a leetle. " Of course no hotel's appointments a re comp l ete w ithout at least one English-speaki ng attendant. The euphemistic French may lon g cont i nuo the language of the fashionable world and of diplomatists, who may well shun a speech so logical and determinate as ours ; the time must be near, if it has not already come, when one to whom it is native may travel round the globe and find it everywhere sufficient. Nor will it be found in Asa unworthy of the im perial position which the greatness of the nations who own it is preparing for it so speedily and so surely—unle:s some inconceivable catastrophe shall Lreak the rower of both America and England. Among the few incidents which are worthy of record at this quiet period, the most interesting was the complimentary dinner of the resident American artists of Rome, in honour of W. C. Bryant, given both as a testimonial of personal esteem, and in recognition of his long and earnest advocacy of the claims of art. At the well. furnished tables at Nazzari's, some twenty artists gathered, including, of sculptors, Messrs. Rogers, Mozier, Rein hardt, Stone, Ives, and Haseltine—of pain ters, Messrs. Freeman, Vedder, Inman, Coleman, and F. 0. C. Darley. General King, the American Minister, presided, and among the guests were the Consul, Mr. Cushman, and Drs. Gould and Burridge. The toast of the evening was given by Gen. King. Mr. Bryant, in his brief reply, referred to the progress of art in America within his own recollection, stating that when he was a young man the number of American artists was small, and their position one slightly esteemed, while at present not only were their numbers very consider able, but they enjoy high consideration in all culti vated society. He was very happy to believe that he had contributed in any degree to such an ad vance. The occasion, though not furnishing► many long speeches to report, was one to be pleasantly remembered by all present —an agreeable tribute from the brotherhood of the pencil and the chisel to that of the pen, which they have found a faithful and powerful ally. NEW Yon; March 15. It is now nearly a month since I reached New York, and passages across the ocean are matters of such every day occurrence that it hardly seems worth while to say much of my voyage, yet there are one or two points which deserve mention. I was passenger by the noble steamer Virginia, Captain Prowse. We had an exceedingly rough passage ; indeed one more severe and trying is seldom made. From the day of sailing until we neared the Ame rican coast wo encountered incessant headwinds, and g ale 3 of great violence, amounting on one occasion to a hurri cane of twelve hours' duration, with a sea which Captain Prowse pronounced the heaviest he had ever experienced on the Atlantic. The behaviour of the Virginia, however, was splendid. Very few seas came on board, although our cargo was principally dead weight—a decidedly dif ferent experience from that which I had, on a previous passage, when I crossed in a smaller ship, the waves often breaking over the vessel, flooding the saloon, and making everybody on board exceedingly uncomfortable. At that time I deteymined that whenever I crossed the ocean again should bo in one of the largest and best sea-going vessels ; and the selection of the Virginia proved a most fortunate choice. She and her companion craft of the National Line are among the largest passenger steam vessels in the world, their average measurement being over 3,000 tons. Their great length and beam enables them to ride the sea much more easily than smaller vessels can, while their passenger accommodation is of the best order as regards comfort, convenience, and safety. Families and those who value such quali ties as these, as well as reasonable rates, rather than high speed and high prices, should remember the " National " Line. Captain Prows° and his chief officers did all in their power to make the rough voyage a pleasant one, and so far as I could observe, they were all admirably qualified for their respective positions. Every traveller who has written an account of this part of the world has described the mag nificent harbour, which gives New York its commercial importance and its pre-eminenco among the cities of the New World ; but there cannot be too much said of its beauty, even in winter. Tho clear and smokeless atmosphere—contrasting strongly with the fogs of London —enables the voyager as he comes up the bay, 25 miles in circuit, to take in at a glance all the leading features. Upon landing the traveller notes first the marked contrast between the New York Docks, which are simple wooden structures, and the splendid docks which afford such facilities for commerce at Liverpool and London. INumerous schemes are already discussed for building structures around New York which shall accord with its wealth and dignity, and before many years elapse some of them must take definite form. A characteristic of New York is its din and ex citement. Everything seems to be done in a hurry. The people one meets in the streets have a restless, anxious look, which comports with their hurried walk, seeming to say, that darkness will overtake them before their day's work, is half done. In their talk, too, one notes extravagant adjectives and expressions, which well accord with the high pressure under which they seem all the time to be labouring. Street railways have been reduced to a science. The horse cars traverse almost every street, over three hundred miles of tramways being in operation in the city, and with the ex ception of Broadway the omnibuses have entirely dis appeared. Broadway—famous among the noble avenues of the first cities of the world—=presents its usual thronged and bustling appearance. Various plans for relieving the crowds that daily push and surge through this and the other great arteries of New York are proposed, with a fair prospect of success. The most comprehensive of the dif ferent plans contemplate the addition to the city of a great avenue underneath Broadway. It is proposed„ first, to ex cavate the entire street, and construct another below it at the depth of 15 feet, with two tunnels in the centre for railways, with sidewalks on either side, making into shops what are now the basements of the buildings. The old street level is then to be replaced as before, supported by arches. Light is to be afforded to the sub-street, or ar cade, by openings between the upper windows and the side walks, enclosed with iron railings. Steps at each crossing will lead from these openings to the substreet, and pedes trians will be sheltered from storms as well as from the summer sun. Pneumatic railways aro also talked of, as a means of communicating different points in the city, a. 4 well as for passing under the north and east river to New Jersey and to Brooklyn ; and considerable interest is felt in that now being constructed under the Thames. Political affairs are just now in an anomalous condition. It is customary when the term of one Congress ex pires, for the Senate alone, to reorganise immediately, and hold a short extra session in order to act upon any nominations the President may send in. For . rea sons which your readers fully understand, Congress passed a law before adjournment, that the New House of Representatives should organise simultaneously with the now Senate, immediately upon the dissolution of the old Congress ; and, on the 4th inst., accordingly, both branches of the national Legislature reassembled, and organised for business. The House selected as Speaker the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who has served two terms, or four years, in that capacity, with great credit. The Senate chose as its presiding officer Senator Benj. Wade, of Ohio, a Radical Re publican. Some importance attaches to this office just now, because he who occupies that position, will be Acting President, in the case of Mr. Johnson's death or removal from office, by impeachment or otherwise. The new Congress is the fortieth since the organisation of the Government. The thirty-ninth (which has just been dissolved), before its adjournment received President Johnson's vetoes of the measure known as the Military Governments Bill, also of the Tenure of Office Bill. The latter deprives the President of much of his appointing power, and prevents him from removing from their places any of the civil officers whose terms of service are not limited by law, without the advice and consent of the Senate. The Military Governments Bill you fully under stand. Both measures ware vetoed by the President on the ground of their alleged unconstitutionality ; each was immediately passed, over the veto, by much more than a two-third vote. The fortieth Congress is even more strongly opposed to the President, politically, than its predecessor was, and Mr. Johnson will find it harder to deal with and utterly impossible to manage. Probably it will soon adjourn until next December, when it will be known whether the Southern States have accepted or rejected the ultimatum just submitted to them. Then the reconstruction question will come up in a new shape. General business has been stagnant during the last few weeks, merchants were so uncertain of the future, in consequence of the doubt which rested upon the fate of the Tariff Bill. Since that has been shelved, as a whole, trade mayrevive, but many insist, that there must be a fall from the present extravagant prices, before any permanent improvement can take place. Great preparations are making for the Paris Exposition, where twelve thousand American exhibitors will repre sent the ingenuity and industry of their country. Double the space allotted to America in any previous exhibition has been appropriated, and will be well filled. Steam engines, caloric engines, locomotives, lightning printing presses, type-setting machines, sewing machines, agricultural machines, musical instruments, American watches, Sm., will compete with those of European manufacture. The Fine' Arts will be represented by paintings and statuary, many private citizens having lent their choicest specimens for the purpose. Curial products will be sent from every State in the Union. The improvement made in firearms during the late war will attract no less attention than the needle-gun. Western lif e i n A merica will be ill us t ra t e d by an Illinois farm-house, fifty feet square, 'to be erected in the park. The chief representatives, however, will be human. Seventy th ousan d Amer i cans w ill visit the Exposition. Every steamer cr os si ng th e Atlantic from this country is crowded with passengers—the state-rooms being all engaged for months beforehand. Numerous excursion parties aro •being organised, and Paris is the destination of them all.—G. W. B. EMIGRATION TO NEW YORK.—The New York Commissioners of Emigration state in their report to the Legislature that iu the course of the year 1866 294,357 passengers landed from foreign countries at that port, being 37,066 more than in the year preceding. 60,939. were citizens of the United States ; of the other 233,418 it is stated that 10G,716 were from Germany, 68,047 from Ire land, 36,186 from England, and 22,469 from other countries. 97,607 reported their intended dt.stination to be the State of New York, 32,751 Pennsylvania and Now Jersey, 18,743. Now Eug,land, 71,485 Western States, 5,333 Southern States, 2,932 Kansas, Nebraska, Canada, Ste. The commissioners state that 12,487 were tompararily relieved with board and lodgment, and 10,771 were provided with situations The very large sum of $132,495 was received by the com missioners in the year from relatives and friends of immi grants to aid in forwarding them to their destinations.• 6,829 cases, including 438 births, were under medical treat ment ; the percentage of mortality among them was 813. In the medical hospital alone the mortality was 11.64 per cent. on the cases treated, or 14.41 on the dis charges. The average number of patients in the hospital was 648; the deaths were 788. The average number of in mates in all the institutions—refuge, hospital, &c.—was 1,081; the total number in the year 10,306, including the 438 births ; the deaths were 871. The cost of the support of the institutions was $142,749. The Commissioners de sired to express their thanks to the Sisters of Charity for their invaluable services in the dangerous duty of attend ing the cholera cases. THE SOILED DOVE CASE. The Committee, who met at Tattersall's on Saturday, have come to the following decision:—" Soiled Dove 3 years old, having been disqualified by Rule 17, all bets which were won on the three sweepstakes and match must be refunded ; but the backers of that mare in the above, mentioned races are not liable for the amount for which they respectively backed her. The money for which she was backed in the races in which she was beaten is to be refunded." (Signed) " EXMOUTH. " 0. HIGGINS.. " VIVIAN. " Capt. BATCHELOR. " W. G. CRAVEN. " G. PAYNE. " April 13, 1867." (From the Racing Times). The decision given by the committee at Tattersall's on Saturday, which will doubtless appear in your paper to day, will, I am sure, give the greatest satisfaction to the community at large ; and as there is no racing during the present week, I shall content myself with asking you to reproduce the arguments which you have allowed me to furnish from time to time relative to this subject. 1 can at least claim credit for having advocated these opinions months before any one of your contemporaries had a single word to say on the subject : DEC. 3, 1866.—The Soiled Dove objection, it is gene rally thought, will be substantiated, and, if so, there is no doubt all bets must go to the second horse, according to the present rules, in all those races, of which the filly was declared the winner; and I contend that this is a far greater hardship on Mr. Chaplin and other owners, who aro entirely innocent in the matter, than it would have been to decide the bets against the owner and backers of " Landlbrd." In fact, these rules ought to have no ex ception, and be like the laws of the Medes and Persians, which do not alter. But one rule stultifies another, and when an objection is lodged, it is a common topic of conversation in the best informed racing circles that it is quite a toss up which way the decision will be given. DEC. 31, 1866.—Admiral bus having been requested to give his opinion respecting the effect upon Lets and other contingencies, consequent upon " Soiled Dove's" disquali fication, has forwarded the following elaborate communi cation to your well-known contemporary Bell's Life:— The Admiral's arguments are, as usual, lucid and clear, but I think, under the circumstances, the innocent backers of this filly have good grounds for objecting to one part of this decision. Having had the evidence of two experienced veterinary surgeons that the animal had been incorrectly entered as regards age, the Jockey Club were justified, and acted in a perfectly consistent manner, in disqualifying her for all her engagements. The decision of bets, however, comes before another tribunal, and I contend that Rule 17, or, at any rate, that portion of it which concerns the bets, has no right to bo applied to this case without much stronger evidence than has been adduced in the Ad miral's letter. In the first place, it quotes several rules, amongst others Rule 15, quite applicable to the purpose, and which cannot bo gaiusayed ; but on reading Rule 16, which is not quoted, viz.—"lf any horse, dm, shall be named or entered without being identified as before di rected, he shall not be allowed to start in the race, but his owner shall be liable to pay the forfeit, or, if a play or pay race, the whole stake." I think it cannot be denied that sonic of the officials of the Jockey Club have been guilty of negligence, especially where thousands, indeed tens of thousands, of pounds aro at stake. The simple question, therefore, is, as she ran second in the First Spring Meet ing at Newmarket, and was then claimed by Mr. Chaplin, is it not monstrous to inflict such a serious loss upon him and a host of others when it has been incurred entirely through the gross negligence of some of the Newmarket officials of the Jockey Club, who accepted the nomination or entry in direct opposition to the above rule. The only excuse to be made on behalf of the stewards is that it is not part of their duty to enforce it, but in such case it cer tainly ought to be, and it is quite clear to my mind, in any court of justice the Jockey Club and Mr. Chaplin would join issue on very much pleasanter terms to the latter gentleman. JAN. 7, 1867.--" Savo me from my friends" is a very trite axiom, and fully exemplified in the following com munication with which Admiral Roux has supplemented his letter of last week concerning tho " Soiled Dove" case : Our celebrated Draw now modifies part of his previ ously expressed opinion by saying that as there is no proof of this filly being foaled out of the United Kingdom, his remark, that the 'lsth Rule demanded a certificate'may be misplaced. In which case so also are the observations made by me in your last week's publication concerning the 16th rule, but surely Mr. Marson can throw some light on the matter. 1 can only say, however, the more consi deration I give the matter the more satisfied I am of the injustice the Admiral's decision concerning the bets will do to Mr. Chaplin, Captain Machell, and the public backers of the animal in question, provided she was foaled abroad, as it is a libel on common sense to inflict a loss of thousands of pounds on several of the parties concerned, through what in that case is nothing but gross negligence of the Jockey Club or their officials. My argument, of course, entirely depends upouwhere the animal was foaled, as if it was in this country, the 13th ruled was complied with, and I think Mr. Weatherby in that case acted wisely in refusing the nomination to the Maiden Two Year Old Plate, "out of a mare, pedigree unknown," and was quite justified in accepting ono for the Selling Stakes, with the addition of "bought of Mr. R. Arnold, of Rugby." It ap pears; from the statement of a contemporary—" Admiral Rous attended at Tattersall 's on Monday last, in the hope of being able to make up a quorum to adjudicate upon the bets in this case; but there was not a sufficient number of the committee present. This is greatly to be regretted, as it is important that the matter should be settled with out further delay." To my thinking it is equally important to institute the fullest inquiry before any decision is arrived at, and I hope on the next occasion the Admiral will not only be assisted by the quorum in question, but a full number of the committee, who will first take care to ascor tarn in what country "Sailed Dm" was foaled, and be guided in their decision by that fact. I have the highest respect for Admiral Rous; but his judgment is not infal e and mine, certainly di s i n t erested, is at wide variance with his (always in case th e fil ly is a foreigner) on this infal lible, l , subject. Thereupon Rule 16 is ignored by the Jockey Club, through whose officials' lax method of taking the en try in this instance, to which that rule applies, Mr. Chaplin is a severe sufferer, and rule 17, made by the same authorities, strictly enforced with all its pains and penalties. JAN. 28, 1867.—Another "Act" of justice in the "Soiled Dove" case has been meted out to the principal performers by the stewards of the Jockey Club, and it only remains now for the committee at Tattersall's to decide respecting the bets in this unfortunate affair. Admiral Rous, one of the adjudicators in question, has already expressed a de cided opinion on the subject, which simply amounts to this, that any one who has made any wagers about any race this mare won last season will have to refund the amount he received, and also the amount he risked provided she had lost. One of your Saturday contemporaries says, "she was foaled either at General Shirley's place, near Rugby, or at his training establishment at Ilednesford," and adds, "One link in the chain of evidence is missing, how and when Soiled Dove was conveyed to Belgium." This is asserting facts, relative to which there is not the slightest evidence, and I have as much right to believe, on the contrary, that she was foaled abroad until proofs are forthcoming. Furthermore, I contend no satisfactory decision can be properly come to until her birthplace is substantiated. Let any person of impartial mind study the rules now in force, and whilst there is a doubt if the filly was not foaled abroad, say the Jockey Club or their officials have not neglected their duty by allowing the mare to start at Newmarket—the first place whore she made her appearance —and acted in direct contravention to Rules 15 and 16. They exercise the most arbitrary power ac cording to these rules ; but if it is proved the mare was foaled out of England they are certainly responsible for the loss inflicted upon the public for their lathes in this instance. If all bets were declared off the innocent and bona fide backers of this filly would not have much cause to complain, but when the Admiral insists upon enforcing all the penalties attaching to Rule 17, it is natural for those parties interested to say, " Had ''your other rules been enforced this could not possibly have occurred," and he must see the invidious position in which the Jockey Club are placed." FEB. 25, 1867,—The following remarks respecting the Soiled Dove case, from the pen of " Argus," appear in to day's Morning Post. • • • I have taken no little trouble in enunciating views dia metrically opposed to those published some short time ago by Admiral Rous, and it affords me no little pleasure to ascertain, front the above quotation, that other parties dispute the Admiral's dictum on this question besides myself. MARCH 18, 1867.—The decision respecting the Soiled Dove bets was promulgated at Tatteesall's last Monday afternoon, as follows : . . . . Mr. Chaplin, however, has forwarded tho following . pro test, but I think it might have been made on much broader principles : And a more unsatisfacfory conclusion, in my estimation, was never arrived at. Underneath is a list of the members of the committee, and I may be permitted to express some surprise at the majority of them being conspicuous by their absence. When one notices the names of Beaufort, New castle, Coventry, and Westmorland on the committee, it is natural to wonder at their not being present upon such an occasion as this to lend their influence and posi tion to a satisfactory solution of this unfortunate affair, which must, as a matter of course, be a great injustice to some of the parties concerned. The first rule of betting says that "in all bets there must bo a possibility to win when the bet is made ; you cannot win when you cannot lose ;" and why innocent parties should be made to suffer for the offences of others is beyond my comprehension. When the gallant Admiral nsils his colours to the mast he has a right to adhere to them, but in this case he certainly has been premature in doing so. Supposing himself the innocent holder of a forged cheque or Bank of England note, would it be just, or right, or proper that he should suffer the penalties attaching to the guilty party by law? and unless an answer is given in the affirmative hcw can he, in common honesty, inflict on Mr. Chaplin and others the penalties which are put in force by Rule 17. Does the Admiral doubt Mr. Chaplin's entire innocence, as most assuredly on no other grounds can he justify the decision given. If, as I believe, Soil e d D ove was f oa l e d a b ro ad, there can be no doubt that the officials of the Jockey Club were guilty of negligence quite suf f icient to make them liable in a court of justice to him for whatever loss he may sustain should the above decision be enforced. Rule 15 has been entirely ignored by them, and from that lathes arises all the mischief, as in the other case Mr. Chaplin would not have bad the opportunity of claiming Soiled Dove, and who did so under the responsibility of the Jockey Club management. On looking over the list of names it is re tuarkable that although the bookmakers as a class - are more enterprising and energetic their any other, they appear to have been quite indifferent to have their interests properly represented on the committee. Surely now, when their transactions are daily of such magnitude, it would be worth while for some of the leading bookmakers to take counsel together, and draw up a code of better rules for themselves. The only difficulty I can foresee is the requisite unanimity amongst them. With it there is nothing to prevent them not only framing the rules, but enforcing them. Their power properly managed would be fully equal to the Jockey Club, and I hope the suggestions I have made will attract their notico. MARCH 25, 1867.—The correspondence which has taken place between Admiral Rous and Mr. Chaplin clearly . proves that the latter gentleman is by no means satisfied with the decision arrived at by three members of the committee at Tattersall's, last Mon day, respecting the Soiled Dovo bets; indeed, I hope and fully expect, if the whole of the committee C3ll be induced to put in an appearance, this unjust decision may yet be reversed. I have written over and over again, usgqu,e ad nauseam, concerning this unfortunate affair; and, I suppose, with some such feelings Admiral Rous, in his answer to Mr. Chaplin's objection, writes : " With respect to the Soiled Dove case, which has been postponed from the 22d November to the 11th March, owing to the inability of collecting a quorum of three members, the sooner the accounts are settled the better it will be for all parties." A remark like this, especially _ to a gentleman who will be mulcted out of six or seven thousand pounds by the transaction, is quite un called for to my thinking. What on earth has Mr. Chaplin to do with the committee's negligence, and why should it be better for him to submit to the loss when he believes, in common with myself and numerous others, that the decision is in violation of Rule 8 ? At any rate, it would be far more satisfactory to all parties concerned if the Dukes of Beaufort aud Newcastle, the Earls of Coven try and Westmorland, &c., &e., who are on the committee, would take part in a settlement of tho case. That any of ' these noblemen would endorse such an outrageous decision . against Mr. Chaplin and the innocent backers of Soiled Dove I cannot for one moment believe; and, so long as they lend the influence of their names and position to the committee, it is a manifest injustice to that gentleman for them to stand aloof. Should the decision be again given against him by a proper quorum, my opinion is that what ever loss may be sustained by him can be recovered against the officials of the Jockey Club in a court of law for gross negligence in allowing the mare to run, unless some tech nical difficulties stand in the way respecting the illegality of betting. A Paul, 1, 1867.—The confounded Soiled Dove case is again on the carpet, as a meeting of the committee at Tatter sail's was held on Saturday, when, after a long discussion amongst the members present—who were the Duke of Newcastle, as chairman, Lord Frederick Fitzroy, Lord Exmouth, floe. Admiral Rous, Colonel Ouseley Higgins, Captain Batchelor, and Mr. George Payne—they decided upon re-opening the case. In consequence of • this deci sion Admiral R 3113, with his usual impetuosity, removed his name from the committee, and retired from the room; whereupon, as several members declined, from the fact of having an interest in the matter, to give a final decision about it, the settlement was still further adjourned till Sa turday, April 13. There can be but ono common-sense view of the matter, and that is, as Mr. Chaplin was in duced to purchase Soiled Dove through the negligence of the Jockey,Club officials in allowing her to start in the first instance at Newmarket, iu contravention of Rule 15, to declare all bets on her null and void. Several parties to whom I have read over the decision to which Admiral Rous is a party, insist upon my being in error in supposing ho decides upon Mr. Chaplin having to return his win' nings, and also the amount which he backed the brute for on each occasion ; and although they say it is too mon strous to be believed, 1 can put no other construction on the wording of that decision. If the Admiral means to in sinuate any doubt of Mr. Chaplin's entire innocence in this fraud, why does he not say so ? on the other hand, vir 11 );, should that gentleman be punished as a guilty party ? can only ask again, would the gallant Admiral like to g o through a period of penal servitude because ho was the innocent holder of a forged cheque or Bank of England note ? It is not possible to deny that the neglect of cer" tain parties connected with the Jockey Club has been the first cause of all the mischief which has arisen in connec tion with this miserable affair, and to turn round an d punish one of the most liberal patrons of the turf by en forcing a penal rule against him is what I will never lieve any committee of noblemen and gentlemen can coil scientiously do. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH-SATURDAY. Wo had a fair supply of ' wheat at our corn market to day ; the demand was moderate, and in some instanc e° about 3s per qr. more money was given. The barld trade has now become a very limited one, at late prices. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 70s to 74s ; old red dittof (weighing 631 b), 60s to 65s ; new red ditto (weighing , 601 b to 631 b), 60s to 6b s ; b es t ma lti ng b ar l ey ( we ighjob, 521 b to 531 b), 44s to 46s ; runs ditt o ( we i g hi ng 511 b to OOP 40s to 44s ' • distilling ditto (weighing bOlb to 521 b), 34s , p t ° 365: oats, 24s to 28s ; beans, b7s to 395 ; p eas ( ma ple), 3°4 to 38s per qr. Flour, 43s Od per sack. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. Wheat in fair demand, and the best samples were 2s Vr qr. dearer ; inferior lots at is per qr. advance. Barley limited supply, at last week's prices. Oats in limite supply, and best qualities made higher rates. B° 3ll° at more remunerative prices. Peas at late rates. Old white wheat, 67s to 71s; old red, 62s to 675; white, 62s to 70s ; new red, 51s to 60s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 33s to 378; now, 24 s to 32 s p er 24 s t one. B eans , of :e s Ms to 588 ; new, 425 to 46s p er 38 s t one . Fi ne flour, 31 to 49s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. At this day's market there was a rather small suPP l r. of wheat, and priced may be quoted is to 2s per qr. highe d Barley firm, at about recent currencies. Oats maintain c A last week's prices. There was a tolerably good deman" for beans, at a small advance. NeW white wheat, 66s to 71s •, new red, Ms to 64s ; Id, white, 68s to 73s ; old red, 62s to 68s per 36 stone. ii „ g ,;; ley, for malting, 38s to 47s per q r . ; gr i n di ng, 30 s to 0 7 4 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 33s to 36s ; new, 26s to 33s per , stone. Beans, old, as to 57s ; new, 44 to 47s per 38 sto ne Fine flour, 50s ; seconds, 45s to 46s per 20 stone. YORK—SATuRPAy. kat There was a moderate quantity of w h ea t a t our mar- 20 to-day, with a fair inquiry, and buyers had to pay is to per qr. more money. Barley a steady trade, and Pit t similar to those of the pre ce di ng wee k . O a t s a t rat' higher prices. Beans at rather higher currencies. 36 New white wheat, 56s to 64s ; new red, 52s to 58s pe r stone. Barley, for malti ng , 36 s to 40s per qr. ; g rindin! 32s to 34s per 30 ston e . O a t s , new , 24s to 28s per 24 st ale Beans, new, 42s to 45 s p er 38 stone. Malt, 68s to Flour 476 to 49s per sack of 2801bs. The Nation thus writes of General Banks • " The indefatigable General Banks has got into the chi"; of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the house 00 0 more—a fact not creditable to Mr. Colfax, as Mr. Baul' ° o report on the neutrality laws, of which Mr. George Be of made such a shocking exposure, ought, in the eyes every intelligent and honest man, to disqualify the allt i : ° o for any position of responsibility with regard to our forcog. t relations hereafter. It is hard to say whether the rce l d was more marked by ignorance or unscrupulousness, ae it ought to have relegated the writer to as private a static as his peculiar gifts will allow him to occupy. FADTERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Experience before Authority.,—For nearly the third o f fo f century have these remedies stood in the foremost rank,,,, overcoming ulcers, sores, swellings, rashes, and all , scription of skin diseases. At first the Faculty u , e i o nounced these medicaments, but the experience of suffo r . overthrew all interested opposition. Those whom kJ °iyo 0 way's medicines had cured told other invalids the boD oc t they had derived from their use ; these in their turn trio° them, found equally satisfactory results, and thus are ti l o , admirable curatives used and prized throughout the ha ity able globe. The Ointment has always been applied w ive , the most marked success in erysipelas, varicose swelled alleles, and numberless other infirmities by W' thousands around us are sorely oppressed. Births. . 0 0 HATNEs— On the 12th inst., at Maida-bill, East, the vi of Fred. Haines, Esq., F.S.A., of a son: , JOHNSON—On tho 13th inst., at T a unton-ro a d, Lee-gr all Kent, the wife of Wm. Johnson, Esq., of t daught er ' ire SOWILAY-011 the 12th inst., at 80, Ebury-street, the lc J. R. Sowray, of a daughter. Marriages. JP , ..4,Buitnow—GowEn - On the 23d Feb., at Howrah, Charles Foster, eldest son of Wm. and Frances Ahu r , / „ . ; of of Westbourue-park, to Emmeline, youngest daugh- .. . Benjamin Gower, Esq., of Calcutta: - r o rcl' HALDANE—BATIIGATE—On the 11th inst., at Abbots' - 13 io , road, Galashiels, Esq., Robert Haldane, Esq., of Fi 4 4., lee, to Mary, second daughter of George Bathgate , Galashiels, N.B. _ • Deaths. BELL —On the 12th inst., at 11, York-street, P° l. "'" square, Robert Bell, Esq., aged 64. to 'Li ll CARTER—On the 13th inst., Wm. Carter, of LudP and Newington-causeway, aged 61. Cole' HAWLEY - On the 9th inst., John Hawley, Esq., 0 ' man-street, City, solicitor, aged 59. HALL--On the 12th inst., at Camberwell-green, gr . '— Hall, aged 63. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AND...„ 11 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE S U N Office, .0°;), of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tho 00W' Middlesex.--Monday, April 15, 1867. 1 1 tl,, Sul ~l' r' n Ar s 1 Irj I ' I °ll