The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-04 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE LAND BILL. A number of " suggessions for amendments" in the Government tenure measure are now being circulated j.n Ireland. They affect almost every clause in the bill. In the first clause it is provided that tenants "who claim under the Ulster custom cannot claim under any other provision of the bill. The " sug,ges lions " recommend that he have the option of receiving 'compensation either in respect of custom, or of dis turbance in occupancy, in addition to compensation for improvements. Tenants who do not come under the Ulster custom should have a similar option; if they relinquish the benefit of custom by accepting a 'lease, they ought to be able to claim for improve- Jnents also. Any contract that a yearly tenancy !should be determinable otherwise than by a twelve -* mouths' notice to quit, on the last gale day of the calen :daryear should be void. There are a multitude of ether amendments, and as many are supported by members of Parliament, there is likely to be plenty of work in 'committee. IRISH TENURES. A return of the number and kind of agricultural - noldings in Ireland shews that the great majority of the small holdings are tenancies-at-will, but the 'larger farms are held on better terms. 01 the tenures in Ulster under £l5 a year, 167,742, out of a total of 194,265, are at will. In Munster there a r e 69,423 tenancies-at-will out of a total of 95,961; in Leinster, 74,287 out of 91,401; and in gonnaught, 117,483 out of 130,453. Of holdings be tween ££ls and £3O, there are in Ulster 26,789 ten ancies-at-will, out of 36,774 ; 14,407 out of 2:5,564 in Munster; 15,666 out of 23,043 in Lei ns t er ; an d '6,292 out of 8,717 in Counaught. As the holding !becomes more valuable, the cases of precarious tenure are fewer; but the number of larger farms is not Kreat comparatively. The vast majority of Irish 'holdings are small, and of those the greater portion Are DISSENSION IN THE CAMP. The Rev. Edwin A. Abbott, who is a member of ,th e National Education League, and Mr. H. Fry, who is the secretary of the London branch, are at Idirect issue concerning the Government Education Till. Mr. Abbott cannot understand what the prin ciples of the League are. Somewhat angrily he icomplains that the word unsectarian in the hands of 'the League means "anything," and adds that the Government measure is calculated to diminish the importance of sectarian differences. Mr. Fry smartly retorts that Mr. Abbott should have dis covered what the principles of the Leaguewere before , he joined that society. As to Mr. Forster's bill diminishing the importance of sectarian differences, the evidence is everywhere to the contrary. The Roman Catholics object to it; so do the Dissenters of Wales. In fact the bill contains so much that is ob jectionable, that Mr. Fry believes it will be with- Arawn at the last moment, albeit he grants there is gust a possibility that it may be amended. BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT. The preamble of the Medical Acts Amendment IBM prepared by Sir John Gray sets forth at length :that such a measure is necessary, as the provisions of !the old Acts, though framed with a view to enable persons requirinc , medical aid to distinguish be tween a qualified and unqualified practitioner, have altogether failed in that respect. The General Council of Medical Education and Registration will hereafter have a more centralised power, and a regu larly-constituted Board of Examiners under its direc tion will it is hoped, go far to do away with existing abuses wrth regard to the granting of licences to unfit persons. Mr. Cowper-Temple's bill for the pro tection of suburban commons and waste lands in England takes away the authority of the Commis sioners to inclose such places, and allows a scheme for the local management of any common or waste land to be made by the lord of the manor, or by any 'ten ratepayers of the parish in which it is situated. The Sunday Closing Movement culminates in a bill brought in by Mr. Rylands and others, enacting shortly that no liquors shall be sold on Sunday, Christmas-day, or Good Friday, except to travellers and lodgers. MB. SPEAKER. Bonus Homerus aliquando dormitat. The Speaker is not often caught napping; but on T u e s d a y n i g ht he did fall under the influence of "Nature's sweet restorer." The hour was late, and Mr. Maguire was moving a select committee in re the Prison Ministers' Act, Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Bruce both taking part in the discussion. It is not clear whether , Bruce, Newdegate, or Maguire produced the somni ferous effect, but certain it is that when the discus sion had ceased, and the "question" had to be put, the Speaker, instead of reading the motion of the member for Cork, read in solemn and sedate tones that which stood next on the notice paper, and which had reference to the production of returns in some way relating to the river Tweed. Amazement soon gave way to a general shout of laughter. THE EASTER VOLUNTEER REVIET:, There is usually much competition amongst places referring claims for selection as the site of the Easter MondayVolunteerßeTiew. This year Brighton has been proposed by Colonel Penton, of the First Sussex Brigade, and has been unanimously agreed to by a 'meeting of commanding officers of volunteer corps. The-review will be dependent on the willingness of the powers that be at Brighton to afford proper faci lities for the Metropolitan corps who will take part in it l / 4 As, however, such a gathering is in ma n y ' ways of interest in a pecuniary point of view to local authorities, it may be regarded as d ec id e d th at this' favourite watering place of L on d oners w ill le the scene of this year's turn-out. The committee appointed to consider Mr. Cardwell ' s " suggestion s " forwarded their report cm the same to the Secretary of State for War, who has now pointed out, in a letter to L or d El c h o, what are hi▪ s own ideas regarding the high expenses of metropolitan corps, which are so much complai▪ ned of. He says there are too many of them competing against each other. They have also too many rifle ranges, when a much less number would suffice for all. He therefore sug gests a judicious amalgamation of weak corps, which will effect a considerable saving. THE FLOCK IN THE WILDERNE§S. Dr. Abraham, who is now in England, will shortly resign his see of Wellington, New Zealand. He pre fers to be the lieutenant of a see in England to being the commander of a see in a colony; and he has ac cordingly agreed to become a suffragan of the Bishop of Lichfield. He will take charge of the "Bla c k Country" district. It is curio us that Bishop Selwyn and Bishop Abraham were together at Eton, after wards together at Cambridge, and afterwards toge ther as bishops in New Zealand, and will now be together as bishops in the diocese of Lichfield- DR. MAGEE ON THE CLERGY. Speaking at Oxford on the proposal to take educa tion altogether out of the hands of the clergy, the Bishop of Peterborough complained that the clergy were generally misrepresented. By noisy spouters on platforms the clergyman was regarded as a sullen, monastic sort of creature. But Dr. Magee urged that it was the great strength and glory of the Church, and he trusted that it would ,long remain so, that she had a body of clergy who were liberal, because they were cultivated, accom plished gentlemen, and scholars. While it would be an evil thing for the Church that this divorce should take place between the Church and education, the evil, he thought, would be far worse for the laity. If they , ever succeeded in estranging the clergy from edu cation, they would not only have a demoralised and degraded clergy, but a demoralised and degraded laity. lle hoped that learned men would continue to be trained in religion, and that religious men would be trained in learning and science. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN INDIA. Lord Napier of Magdala, in his position of Com mander-in-Chief in India, has been heard on Indian subjects with much interest in London. His lordship did not agree with the enthusiasts of the vernacular in India, and would much prefer to see the native population translated into English in language and habits. That was impossible, however, he said, because they could not send their agents into the abodes of the different tribes in India. It had been said that they ought to forget all about the great mutiny. Ile hoped that would never be the case, but that they would remember their faults in connection with it, and endeavour to pre vent a recurrence of them, the best means of doing which would be by the dissemination of education throughout India. Lord Napier eulogised the ser vices of the missionaries in India, and sidled that much ignorance prevailed with reference to the Ilindoo, who was, amongst other things, capable of great affection. his entire expression of opinion was indicative of a great desire on the part of his lord ship for the extension of education in our Eastern possessions. TUE WICKLOW CASE. Tho Telegraph has fallen into the too common error of commenting, on a pending case. In an article on the Wicklow Peerage romance, it raised the presumption that Mrs. Howard had " bolted,' becawe she could not be found on the day when Si, Roundell Palmer brought forward the extraordinary evidence respecting the pauper woman Best and het child, which, she said, Mrs. Howard adopted and palmed off as the heir to the Wicklow peerage. Mrs. Howard's solicitors write to say that she has not "bolted." She had gone to see a firm of solicitor on the day in question. She is ready to receive an order for attendance, and to meet the witnesses - the other side. NINE HOURS' WORE. titilltai the filasoldoinera are strikinz on behalf. vi Ln mile flours - worn movement, the Lon don building trade are preparing for a campaign in the same interest. Several meetings of dele gates have been held, a code of working rules has been drawn up, the society and non-society men are to be asked at an aggregate gathering to adopt them, and then the attack will be made. The men argue that they are not acting selfishly, for they do not seek ten hours' pay for nine hours' work. They are willing, they say, to sacrifice one hour's pay to increase work in the trade generally. They see that whilst hundreds of men are walking about doing nothing, many shops are systematically work ing overtime ; and they consider the nine lours' movement the proper means of put ting an end to this state of things, and securing an equality which they deem desirable. The rules drawn up prescribe nine hours a day except on Saturdays, when five honrs are to be the quantum ; the abolition of pie Ce-work ; that overtime be paid for at the rate of time and a half up to ten o'clock, and double time after that hour; and that all dis- 3ntes be referred to the arbitration of a council con 4isting of employers and employed. ot - LOW RAILWAY FARES. • Mr. G. W. Jones, who may be called the light-fare champion, has been reading a very carefully , compiled paper before the Society of Arts. He proposes a great reduction of railway fares by abolishing the system of charging by mile, and substi tuting "the stage" instead. The stage" shouli be from ten to twenty miles, and the traveller over a portion of the way should pay as if ho had gone over the whole. The shorter distances would thus con tribute for the longer ones. Mr. Jones proposes to charge labourers one penny, middle-class persons threepence, and first-class passengers sixpence the stage. He calculates that the adoption of his plan would save £150,000 a-year in tickets alone. Passengers, he argues, may be taken upon his prin ciple to Holyhead (264 miles) at fares of is. 6d., 4s. 6d., and 95.; and to Edinburgh (405 miles) at fares of ls. 11d., ss. 9ds., and lls. 6d. During the discussion that followed the balance of opinion was decidedly in favour of Mr. Jones's idea ; but Mr. Allport, the well-known railway manager, expressed the opinion that it would ruin every company in the country. FOOT-WARMEUS. The question is asked by the Daily 'News whether the change of weather had anything to do with the decisive, not to say contemptuous, rejection of Mr. Plimsoll's bill for compelling railway companies to provide foot-warmers in second and third-class carriages. Precautions against biting frost do seem out of date. It may also be worth - while inquiring whether members of Parliament, who are not sup posed to travel third class, feel such intense . anxiety a for the comfort of those who do as to pass bill on their behalf. But there are undoubtedly strong arguments against such a measure, and in the opinion of the Daily .News, those arguments• are con clusive. If shareholders are . alive to their interests they will insist upon doing voluntarily what Mr. Plimsoll would use force to effect. "If any one of two competing lines wishes for a monopoly of the traffic, let it act on Mr. Plimsoll's suggestion, adver tise that all its carriages aro warmed, and see what will be the result." A FEMALE PRISONER'S ANTECEDENTS. At the Middlesex Sessions, Elizabeth Bagwell. alias Manning, aged 26, was indicted for steali ng upwards of £lB. The antecedents of the lady were shewn to be of a very extraordinary character. In 1864 she engaged a cabman, and o n hi s ca lli ng th e f o ll ow i ng day at' her request for the fare, gave him a glass of gin, which rendered him senseless. On recovering he found that his watch and chain, a gold ring from his finger, and 4s. in money had been stolen. He subsequently met the 'prisoner in the street, and on being charged with the- robbery, she coolly handed him the pawn-tickets of the articles stolen, stating that she l:ad bought a new bonnet with the money. For this offence she was tried at the Middlesex Court and sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for seven years, of which two years are unexpired. On being convicted for that offence it trans pired that in 1863 she had been apprehended for stealing a. twenty pound note from a medical student whom she had " hocussed " and left in bed. When taken into custody a certificate of marriage by special license between herself and a young midshipman with whom she was in company was found upon her. This was greatly to the asto nishment of the middy, who stated that it was the first time ho had heard that he was a married man. He said that in throe days he had spent £lOO on the woman in jewellery, and that the marriage must have taken place while he was in a state of unconscious ness. His friends got him a ship ; he went to sea, and has not since been heard of. The medical student declined to prosecute. She resumed her old mode of living, and now, turned up again, as stated. The judge sentenced her to ten years' .penal servi tude. TEMPORA ET MORES AT CAMBRIDGE. The Cambridge magistrates have had before them two cases of bad behaviour on the part of university men. One light of the academy bad been breaking street lamps, and pleaded that "he had been dining out." As intoxica tion or semi-intoxication does not excuse an ignorant criminal, the magistrates were unable to perceive how it should condone the offence of an .3clucated man. In . the other case, the con ,luct of two University .members was:disgracefully low. They threw water from the windows of their rooms on women passing by, and used ungentlemanly language to a policeman. These per sons are not at all representatives of the university body generally; they are discreditable exceptions; but such exceptions bring disgrace upon the rest. The firmness of the magistrates may, however, serve to prevent repetitions of such behaviour. They fined all the offenders. TIIE TEMPERATURE OF LAST MONTH. Mr. R. 11. Allnatt, of Eastbourne, gives the results pf his observations on the temperature of last month in the Times. He questions if there can be found in the annals of meteorology a month of more abrupt vicissitudes than that which has just expired. He says that from the Ist to the Bth the mean tempera ture was in daily excess, the range of excess being from a minimum of 3.7 degrees to the maximum of 6.8 degrees above the mean. Then followed a period of intense frigidity. On the 9th the thermometer fell in a few hours from an excess on the preceding day of 5.8 degrees to a point 6 . 5 degrees below the computed average. This, however, was almost the minimum defalcation, for as the days advanced the cold in creased in strength, and on the 12th the temperature tell to 13.4 degrees below the mean. The morn ing register was 24 degrees, and the night 20 degrees; the night, therefore, indicated 12 degrees of clear frost, that is to say, 12 degrees below 32 de grees, the freezin g point of Fahrenheit.. Mr. Allnatt adds that several deaths occurred during the month from exposure to the cold. THE DARIEN CANAL. Long before we have ceased our nine days' won dering at the feat of joining the waters of the Medi terranean to those of the Red Sea, it is probable that attention will be absorbed by a still greater wonder.. There is another narrow strip of laud connect ing two vast countries, that seems as if it were made to be cut through. The Isthmus of Darien, however, presents a difficulty unknown to M. de Lesseps in his undertaking, and hitherto considered insuperable. A. range of mountains runs throughout the entire length of the isthmus; but as the explorations of the locality seem to have been far from perfect, there is room for hope that the assertions of some travellers may be true, who say that in the vicinity of Caledonia harbour there is a valley enclosed between the over 'apping extremities of two mountain ridges, of which me commences and the other terminates there. , Joinmander Edwardes, R.N., writing to the Morning Post, asserts this pleasing fact, in verification of which ho is willing to shew his plans, and views taken when surveying in 1854, in company with the engineers of the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company of London. That expedition, says the writer, was a painful failure, w h ereas it might have been a brilliant success. lie says that the party never approached this happy valley at all. The United States have now despatched a party of typo graphical engineers to the isthmus. May they be more successful than their predecessors, and solve the great mystery of the West. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. The Emperor Napoleon's son is "coming out," and is about to take an active part in public affairs. The first grown-up ball that has yet been given in his honour has just come off. Henceforth he will take part in the opening of public works and other cere monies of that kind. Such labour is getting fatiguing for his father, and, moreover, speech making is now deemed rather hazardous for a Constitutional Monarch. The young Prince will get into har ness, and the French people will have a fine oppor tunity of accustoming themselves to the youth whom it is fondly hoped will one day rule over them. SAN DOMINGO. Another step has been taken in the direction of taiting the the llepuhl:c of San Domingo to the Unitd States. The inhabitants have voted in favour annexation by a large majority, small opposition !Kling shewn. The transfer has to be sanctioned by !.!ongre;is, and neither House has yet shown itself quite favourable to this new acouisition. THE RED RIVER. The " insurrection " at the Red River settlement has taken a new and very remarkable turn. The English and Canadian loyal settlers have risen against the insurgent French Canadians under the command of Riel. The former nartv repudiate the Goveyr, THE SUN, LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1870. meat or the insurgents, and demand liters retire ment. They have from four to five hundred men. Thus the insurgent half-breds have to contend both against the Canadian Government and against a hos tile force in their own settlement. try the experiment. When robbery, for instance, combined with violence, assumes the proportions which threaten a reign of terror, when the consi deration of the ruffian for the peaceful citizen con sists in fracturing his skull, or kicking in his ribs while he is lying stunned, robbed, and helpless at the feet of the brute whom he had never before even seen, then it is about time for the inhabitants to demand whether the sentimentality of their philo sophers should be permitted in any way to shield such persons from the scaffold they deserve. There is no necessity for Lynch law or Vigilance Commit tees in New York if the people sternly demand that their own laws shall be executed. Were every murderer hanged, murder would be less frequent ; and this is undoubtedly a fact, that nothing being so dreaded as the death penalty, if it were inflicted for every wanton and malicious murder, it would almost abolish murder, and thereby put an tnd to the ncc2ssiity for executions. New York, more than any oaler city, requires a stern enforcement of the law ; yet there is more sentimentality there, than anywhere else, and often we are inclined to agree with the World in regarding the Tribune as the bulwark of the worst of the scamps, but from a very different reason. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE ARMY ESTIMATES. Although, observes the Times from the publication of the army estimates it has been possible to anticipate the tenour of Mr. Cardwell's statement on Thursday evening, yet there was enough of interest in its details amply to reward public attention. If the plans of the, Secretary for War do not present anything abso lutely novel, he has the merit of having seized what is best in the ideas that are current, and of placing himself in accord with the tendencies of the time. The call for reduced estimates has been loud and general, and reduced estimates Mr. Cardwell gives us. There has been a prolonged complaint that, though we pay for a large army, our shores are insufficiently defended, and Mr. Cardwell is able to announnce that there are more armed men in the 'United Kingdom than ever there have been in our time. British troops are, for the first time during this century, mainly stationed on British shores. In our opinion, this concentration is, independently of the saving that it allows, the most satisfactory point in recent arrangements. If this country is to have a really effective army, it must not be frittered away in colonial garrisons, but massed at home, where it may.learn the art of war, and not merely the details of drill and the routine of barrack life. Henceforth we shall know that in return for the vast sums spent on the army we have real security and a force efficient in numbers and discipline capable of taking the field. The Standard says that the army estimates fell flat upon the ears of the House of Commons. The fact that Mr. Cardwell has been for some 'days unwell may to some extent account for the dulness and want of connection exhibited in his speech ; but it was impossible to avoid noticing that the task before him was beyond his powers. The endeavour to prove that military strength is increased by the reduction of twenty-four thousand men in two years was too much for him ; and the knowledge that it was impossible to build up a fabric on such a basis. which would not be demolished by the first speaker who might rise to reply, weighed like an incubus upon him throughout the two hours and a quarter during which his speech lasted. As Sir John Pakington observed, it was without doubt a difficult speech to deliver; but it was a far more difficult speech to follow and understand. Turn the matter round and examine it on every side ; it presents even on that side which Mr. Cardwell has coloured the bare truth still apparent—a reduction of twenty-four thousand men in two years, and no provision for reserves, and against this there is no constitutional remedy. It is for the Government to fix the number of forces necessary, and not for the House of Commons to declare that it should be increased. TIIE FINSBURY MURDER. The man Spines was sentenced to death yesterday for the murder of the woman Aldridge in Finsbury. The defence was confined to an attempt to prove that the offence was manslaughter and not murder. Serjeant Sleigh argued that they were both intoxicated and that whilst in this condition nothing was more probable than that a quarrel should arise, and that the act was committed whilst the prisoner was in a state of hot blood and excitement. In that case the jury would be justified in returning a verdict of manslaughter only. The jury, however, decided otherwise. PUNISHMENT OF CRIME IN NEW YORK. (From the Ang 7 o American Times.) As our New York correspondent last week ob served, the ruffian BREAM alias O'BRIEN,a/ias REY NOLDS, has given the philanthropic HORACE GREELEY a hard nut to crack. His remark when arrested for a brutal murder, that " hanging for murder is played out in New York," places the morality preached by the Tribune in a very curious light. No paper more strongly denounces the infliction of the death penalty; every execution is held up to scorn and execration. The incidents attending the really barbarous exhibi tion are dwelt on with force, and the more bungling the operation the more pointed and telling are the Tribune's comments. Many good men are equally earnest in their efforts to abolish legal killing, and it is because of their advocacy, that society listens with respect, and feels so far persuaded that these philan thropic gentlemen are right, that such a ruffian is able to exclaim that " hanging for murder is played out in New York." But is it not a strange co incidence that such good men, actuated by the purest motives, should be yoked in the same team with the greatest villains in the American commer cial metropolis. BREAM alias O'BRIEN, alias REY NOLDS, and the philosopher, HORACE GREELEY, are working together for the same object, though they clash when they come in contact, and the collision proves that there is a hitch—something wrong in the policy which the philanthropists advocate. - When the Tribune is on its philosophic tack it writes is a lofty strain on the folly of the law in setting an example of killing to the murderer, and the crimi nality of making life cheap in the eyes of the community, but when its own correspondent is shot in its office, when a respected citizen is wantonly murdered in his own store, and before his family, then the cry of the Tribune is, "Up with the ruffian to the nearest lamp-post !" " Let the criminal suffer the extreme penalty before the burial of his victim" —an exclamation which is exactly the same thing as the French cry, " A la lanterne," for it really means execution without trial. Glaring as is the inconsistency, still, we can sympathize with the Tribune in both its moods. Nothing tries the phi losophy of a philosopher more than the rude shock of the actual contact with the event about which he may be philosophizing in his study. A murder is heinous, almost in proportion to its proximity to the individual. A Chinese city of 100,000 people might be depopulated by an atrocious massacre, while only the faintest shadow of horror might be con% eyed to the best informed European ; but let one person be murdered in his own neighbourhood, in his street, in his house, and his hair rises with horror and indignation. We can preach morality about the former event, and recommend that the barbarians be taught and civilized, not exterminated ; but our cry as regards the latter is, " Lynch the ruffian !" Wherever else the extreme penalty might be abo lished, New York City is not the place wherein to try such an experiment. It has become the para dise of ruffians, as its Republican institutions have thrown municipal and political power into their bands. The scroundrels of Europe are more strongly attracted there than the good New Yorkers are at tracted to Paris, for not only do the former find a con genial society among their "pals" of the Old World, but they can ply their trade on more favourable terms and with greater impunity. When the crimes are investigated it nearly always transpires that the criminals have been imported, and many of them but recently. BREAM, for instance, was an Irish man, who had not spent five years in America, while his experience was almost confined to the pri sons of the country, and his victim was an English man from Birmingham ; APFARLAND was an Irish man ; and so it will be found in most cases. It is not surprising that if America has the benefits of getting, for nothing, the services of the skilled workmen of Europe, that it should be qualified by the evil of a considerable importation of pick pockets, and others, trained in the villainous walks of life ; that is, that weeds should spring up with the good grain. It would be impossible to prevent this, but why should the citizens of New York idly look on at the weeds flourishing to the serious detriment of the crop. Republican institutions com mend themselves to the common sense of mankind so long as the people are educated and respectable; but if a large section of the inhabitants of a city be thieves, shoulder-hitters, and burglars, such institu tions are dangerous, tending to give criminals a ma terial advantage ; for, in practice, it will be found that men will organize for vicious objects if there from they can extract a personal gain, more rea dily than to do good, from which security alone can result. Alluding to this subject the New York World says : "You may construct a costly mill after an approved model ; every part of the machinery may be admirable and perfectly adjusted; and yet, if the water wheel is so placed that the stream turns in the wrong way, all the elaboration is useless. The great need of this city is a municipal system that will give us pure elections. If mat ters are so shaped and fixed that the elections thwart, in stead of executing, the will of the people ; if the water wheel, the great moving-power of the machinery, turns backward, everything will go wrong." The Tribune, in its remarks on the article, asks the leader of the Democratic party, " Will you help us to break down the power of these bad men and to drive them from place ?" Help you? replies the World. Why the corruptionists can count with absolute certainty upon your betraying any ally against them. It is shere impudence for you to pretend a desire to break down the power of bad men and to drive them from place ; for their pre sence in office is the very thing which has lifted the Republican party into power. What we will do to put an end to corruption is, to inform the pub lic that the Tribune is its stiffest bulwark. It is thus these leading newspapers, which in New York are very powerful, deal with this grave question affecting the lives and property of the citizens. Both admit that the city is " villain ously misgoverned by Democratic thieves," who perpetuate their sway by ballot-box stuffing, nu re form they think being practicable until the election frauds are stopped. But it appears from the charge of Judge INGRAHAM, at the opening of the Oyer and Terminer, that there is another means, at least, of checking crime together with the audacious mid day infractions of the law. " I regret to be com pelled to say to you," said the Judge, " that of late ,crime has much increased ; the best remedy for it, is speedy and prompt trial and punishment." They may depend upon it in New York that the Judge is right ; that the laxity with which justice is administered, and the impunity accorded to cri minals, through the political power acquired by , means of the democratic institutions of the coun try, have given an impetus to the lawlessness which would, no doubt, be quickly checked by speedy and sure punishment. Of all preventatives certainty of punishment is the most effective. Crime will increase in a direct ratio with the probability of escape, and this argument has been ably used for the abolition of executions. A jury shrinks from bringing in a verdict which consigns a man to the gallows ; the Judge shrinks from the sentence, the Governor from signing the death warrant ; and this natural reluctance is increased by the well-intended efforts of many good men and women. The consequence is that, even in the best governed city of Christen dom, numbers of criminals who ought to be hanged are let loose on society, and the chance of escape incites others to acts from which they would otherwise most carefully refrain. By abolishing the death penalty, punishment, say those who op pose it, will be more certain, and crime in con sequence diminished—a sound argument, we con fess, but New York is not the place in which to THE MOABITE STONE. Tho discovery in Palestine, announced a little while since, of a stone with Moabitish inscriptions upon it, ar rested general attention. The public curiosity was raised still more when M. Ganneau published a hastily made interpretation of the hieroglyphics. His deciphering was evidently not perfect. He made the stone speak to us after the manner of the Hebrew scriptures, though it told a different story. The children of Moab are said, in the Bible, to have been defeated by the rsraelites. " And Jehovah " said this stone (according to M. Ganneau) " fled before Chemosh "—Chemosh being the Moabitish Deity. There has been a general demand for further information about this strange monument. Captain Warren and Dr. Deutsch, the well-known Eastern scholar, were appealed to to lighten our darkness. They have done so : in the Timei of yesterday letters appeared from both the gallant explorer and the learned Oriental investigator. The first= named deals with the history of the stone ; the latter with the stone itself and its inscription. Captain Warren relates how he heard in the summer of 1868 of a stone at Dhiban, with characters upon it. There seems to have been general curiosity awakened, and the natives became suspicious—so much so that be fore the explorers could take an impression of the writing, the stone had been broken up and distributed, so that the Franks miht not get it. Capt. Warren at first tried to get ` ? squeezes "of the stone, and failed ; but hearing afterwards that M. Ganneau had been more fortunate, he tried again, and got impressions of some of the broken pieces. M. Ganneau meanwhile published his attempts at deciphering. _ Witli'his pi:eduction Dr. Deutsch does not agree. lie points out the needfulness of almost microscopic accu racy in such matters, and shows that no such accu racy was obtained by M. Ganneau. The text which he forwarded to Paris, so far from being an almost photographic fax simile, w*s avowedly but a lithographed reduction to the third of the size of those characters which M. Ganneau had sent to Paris as his ' own readings. Dr. Deutch reads also the text very differently from M. Ganneau. "Jehovah" is not to be found in his tracings at all, and most of the words are different. Count de Vogue, who received M. Ganneau's lithographs, says that further information has thrown new light on the whole stone; and Dr. Deutch asks everybody to wait for further information. "At this moment there is but one thing certain—that, whether we recover the whole of the stone, the fate of which is still uncertain, or must remain satisfied with but half intelligible fragments, the gain to Palaeography and Semitic science is already enor mous. It is unquestionably—whatever the precise date of this King Mesha—the very oldest Semitic lapi dary record of importance as yet discovered. And, apart from certain geographical and other data given in it which are already incontestable, it illustrates to a hitherto undreamt-of degree the history of our own writing —I mean that which we all use at this hour. Nearly the whole of the Greek alphabet is found here, not merely similar to the Phoenician " shape, but as identical with it as can well be. And another thing will become clear—viz., that the more primitive the characters, the simpler they . become ; not, as often supposed, th more complicated, as more in accordance with some ria tonal prototype." CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: THE NEW LAW FOR UNDERGRADUATES. At a Congregation held on Thursday, the following graces having received the sanction of the Council, were recommended to the Senate ;-1. That the degree of Doctor of Divinity be conferred upon the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A, who has peen appointed to the Dea,hery of Rochester, under chapter 1, sec. 5, par. Bof the statute of the University. 2. That the edict proposed in the report of the Council of the Senate dated 1 ebruary 14, 1870, and amended February 21, 1870, be confirmed. The edict provided that persons in statu pupillari arc forbidden to take part in gaining transactions in any way, to have dealings with money-lenders ; to resort to or take part in meetings for the purpose of pigeon-shooting; to take part in steeple chases ; to ride in a horse-race, or otherwise promote horse-racing ; to drive " tandems " or "four-in-hand" carriages ; to discharge firearms, air-guns, saloon-pistols, or any small arms of the like nature within the precincts of the University, excepting in the way of military duty ; to give or join in giving an entertainment at a tavern without the permission of their college tutor. Members of th 3 University in statu pupillari who are guilty of any of the foregoing practices render themselves liable to be punished by suspension, tustication, expulsion, or otherwise. Members of the University in statu pupil lari who may be convicted of resorting to any unfair means, by copying or othprwise of passing any public examination, shall be punished by suspension, rustica tion, expulsion, or otherwise. TENNYSON'S W ORKS.—An application was mad. on Wednesday before Lord Gifford, in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, at the instance of Alfred Tennyson an d Messrs. A. Strahan and Co., publishers, for an Interdict against five Glasgow booksellers importing and selling any reprint or edition of Tennyson's Poetical Works printed in the United States and published there by Ticknor and Fields, and by Fields, Osgood, and Co., Boston. Hi s Lordship pronounced the following interlocutor :—"T o see and answer within eight days, meantime grants in*. diet as craved, and to be intimated." STRIKES IN VIENNA.—The printers' strike Vienna still continues, and the leaders seem amp l y pro , vided with funds. The employers held out because to grant their demands would be to entail ruin on tho Vienna journals. Women are being instructed to do cora positors work, and the plan has been carried out with success. The Frenidenblatt says that the printers' strike has set an example to others, for the waiters at the hotels, restaurants, and cafés, the journeym en b a k ers, s h oe , makers, and tailors, will shortly go on st r ik e . At a meet ing of the proprietors of printing-houses and letter, foundries a revision of the tariff of the workmen's salaries took place, and the new scheme was to commence on gig Ist of March, simultaneously at all the workshops, - - *THE ALLEGED CONSPIRACY W PARlS.—Thenq are murmurs among the Democrats of Paris that the Go vernment has unduly delayed the examination of a great number of the persons arrested during the disturbances of the beginning of February. The Journal de Paris has an article on the subject, demanding either that the accused should be set at liberty, or that the c h arges aga i nst them should be substantiated. It is now said that a voluminouti correspondence has been discovered at the house of ax; agent of Mazzini's, which will supply the missing evi l dence of the conspiracy suspected by the police. The Independance Beige puts little faith in the report, anti remarks that Mazzini is in the habit of carrying on an, extensive correspondence, and is undoubtedly constantly labouring to organise a general revolutionary movement ; but that is very different from a direct consvirac7 filach aft that indicated in the Parisian story. THE Ex-QUEEN OF SPAIN AND HEE FORTUNE.—. Queen Isabella of Spain, as is generally known, retired from her kingdom with a comfortable fortune, and this fortune is likely to give rise to a cause celibre before the Parisian tribunals. Her husband, Don Fran) cisco de Assis, wishes to take the admi nistraiton of this fund out of the hands of t Queen, and her trustees, contending that they are git in useless expenses, to the prejudice of the future fortunes of the family. Isabella has already expended large sums in trying to regain her Grown, and the ex-Bing Consort appears to apprehend that future attempts of the kind will be equally futile, and equally expensive. • There has lately been a large sale of Spanish stock which has exasperated Don Francisco into taking legal action. The court has prohibited the Queen and her officers from all acts of administration pending the decision. Don Francisco has left the Queen's resi dence in the Avenue du Roi de Rome, and has taken up his abode with a friend. MURDER IN PARIS.—Last Sunday night a hor. rude murder was committed in the Rue Annelot. A car penter, named Maillot received a letter from Praise, * porter who lodged in the same house, to say that he h a d killed his wife. On the door of Frame's room being forced open, the woman was discovered on the bed with her head nearly cut off. She had been murdered in her sleep. The woman before her marriage had been in the service of M. Humbert, and on the afternoon of Sunday sho had been attending on Madame Humbert, who was ill. r lt appears to have been jealousy . of M. Humbert which l e d Fraise to the commission of the crime. The husband and wife had dined with their neighbour, M. Maillot on Sunday evening, to keep the fdte of the °rival and had made pancakes for the occasion. When t ey re tired they appeared to be on good terms with each other. M. Claude, the police agent, spared no pains to seek out the fugitive, and they made special researches in the neighbourhood of Vincennes, because the letter sent to Maillot bore the post snarl of that place. At last the Commissary of Police found the body of a man sus pended from a tree, and this proved to be the assassin. He was taken to the Morgue. and placed tear the boci s T A his victim. EBAUD BY TRADESMEN.—Vice - Chancellor Malins has given judgment in the case of " Borwick v. Neale," Plaintiffs, a well-known firm in London, had manu factured a composition called " Borwick's Baking Powder." The defendant was a grocer at Nor wich. The motion was for an injunction to re strain the defendant from selling a deleterious article for that manufactured by them for more than 20 years.— For the defendant it was alleged that the sale of the article in question was done inadvertently by his shopmen and without his knowledge.—His Honour severely cen sured the conduct of the defendant. He had adopted the course of occupying a considerable portion of the time of the court in endeavouring to vindicate conduct that was most fraudulent and indefensible. He made an order for a perpetual injunction against the defendant with costs. A subscriition is (says the Western Morning News) in progress among the recently discharged established dockyardsmen at Devonport, with a view to obtain legal assistance and test the question as to whether their compulsory superannuation is not contrary to both the letter and spirit of the Superannuation Act a 40, OPPOSITION TO THE LAND BILL. The Telegraph remarks that the " extreme Irish'.' oppo sition to Mr. Gladstone's Land Bill has been stifled almost before it was born. At the meeting of Irish mem bers every shade of opinion was more or less represented ; but the final result was, that all idea of collective oppo sition to the second reading of the bill was at once , dropped. A resolution was then proposed, expres sing, with qualifications, the assent of the meet ing to the second reading ; but, on the expres sion of some dissent, this resolution was followed by an understanding that nobody was to be bound by it. So that a resolution by which nothing was resolved was the end of the meeting. The bill is a legislative success far greater even than the carrying of the Irish Church Act through Parliament in a form which was virtually unaltered from first to last. Mr. Gladstone has won the new Irish victory, not through the power of his majority but through " the strength of his cause. He has forced English Tories and Irish Radicals alike to accept a policy of compromise, concili ation, and common sense. In committee thera will, no doubt, be protracted and fierce fights, until news paper readers will shudder as the familiar words Irish Land Bill again meet their eyes ; but we have no great fear that in the discussion of details Mr. Gladstone will be overpowered. It is there that he is most strong. One can fancy him like the second Ajax, taking on his shield any number of Irish amendments hurled at him from all sides of the House. CLOSING OF PUBLIC-HOUSES ON SUNDAY. The Daily News refers to the deputation which waited on the Home Secretary to recommend the closing of all public-houses on Sunday, and says that the well-meaning gentlemen who represent the Central Association have persuaded themselves on evidence, which in the nature of the case cannot be conclusive, that the majority of the working classes desire the closing of public-houses on the Sunday. The sub ject, however, is one on which the right of a majority to dictate the conduct of individuals is too lightly assumed. The majority can practically close the publichouses on themselves both on Sundays and on week-days, by simply keeping out of them. A majority of un believers would have no right to close churches, or a majority of vegetarians to close butchers' shops, be cause the former may think religion a hurtful super stition, and the latter may regard the slaughter of animals as immoral, and the consumption of flesh meat as a brutalizing and besotting indulgence. The limits of the rights of a majority form one of the first lessons in political tolerance which the working classes need to learn. Questions decided for the community as a whole, must be left to the wish of the, majority, against whose deliberate judgment there is no appeal. Ques tions which each individual can decide for him self cannot properly be put to a public vote. It would be as reasonable to put everybody into a uniform and upon a rerimen dictated by the majority, as to interfere on the grounds and in the manner proposed by the Central Association. Except on principles which would justify the most penetrating and vexatious inter ference with the private life and conduct of individuals, the policy advocated by the deputation cannot be justified dither in theory or in practice. A telegram from Rome, dated noon yesterday, states that the medical opinions as to the state of Bishop ill-rant arc more favourable. Capt. Wilmot, Superintendent of the Royal yards at Deptford, has succeeded to the rank of senior captain of the Royal Navy by the death of Admiral Sir Henry Loeke. A Canonry in Ripon Cathedral has been conferred upon tbo Rev. Wolbury Motto; Vicar of St. Ilan ningharn, Bradford. Intelligence has been received that the illness of the Rev. Newman Hall has assumed a very alarming charac ter. Special prayers were offered up in his behalf at several of the weekly meetings 3 esterday. Mr. F. M. Mallalieu, who retired a few weeks since from the position of inspecting superintendent of metro politan police employed at the Admiralty Government establishments, expired yesterday morning, at his resi dence, New Cross, having been attacked with an apo plectic fit. The death is announced of Sir James Menteith, Bart. Sir James was in the male line lineally descended from the third High Steward of Scotland, who, in the right of his wife, the Countess of Menteith, became Earl of Men teith, who also distinguished himself at the Battle of Largs, 1263. The treaty of commerce between England and Austria has been published. It stipulates that British produce and manufactures shall be admitted into Austria at the rates prescribed in the treaty of commerce with the Zollverein. There are some articles to which special duties are attached, being certain descriptions of cotton wares and woollen wares. Our readers will learn with regret the retire ment of the Dean of Canterbury from the editorship of the Contemporary Review. The cause assigned is the having undertaken "an arduous Biblical work " In the notice from which we gather this information it is stated that the Review " will bo conducted on the same principles which have hitherto guided it."—Literary World. The invitations to the Conservative banquet, at the Cannon-street Railway Station have, according to the Globe, been very numerously accepted—the Duke of Aber corn, the Duke of Marlborough, the Marquess of Hamilton, the Earl of Abergavenny, Lord Colville, Lord Jon Manners, Lord If. G. Lennox, Lord G. Hamilton, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. G. Ward Hunt, Hr. J. R. Mow bray, being among the acceptances. M. Ch. de Mazade, commenting in the new num ber of the Revue des Deux Mondes on English politics, ob serves that events are moving quickly in England. If the workmen aro not already in Parliament, they are knocking at the door, and Mr. Odger the other day all but obtained an entrance. When they do get in, although the English Con stitution will not be destroyed by the fact, their success will be a notable event, and the symptom of a remarkable trans formation in British society. A tramp, named Jchn Smith, was brutally mur dered last night at Ecclesfield, near Sheffield. Smith, ac companied by a woman, went into a public-house on Ecclesfield Common, where a party of men were drinking. Some dispute arose respecting a broken glass, in conse quence of which the landlady turned them out. Shortly after Smith was brought back dead. He appeared to have been brutally treated, his chest being smashed, as though he had been jumped upon. An inquest will be held to- day. The recent destruction by fire of the old parish of Meigle, in Perthshire, has drawn attention to the sculp tured stones in the churchyard, some of which received serious injury from the fire. One of these stones according to the tradition of the place, commemorates the faithless Queen Ganore or Guinevere, and the rude symbols on the stone were regarded by the inhabitants as setting forth the punishment which her infidelity drew . upon her. The name of Arthur is to be found in many parts of Strathmore, whore Meiglo lies, and also among the Grampian hills. UONVO C ATION ' OF UANTERBUItY.—W e are re quested by the Prolocutor, Archdeacen Bickersteth, to state that his Grace the President has arranged that the next meeting of. this Convocation for business shall be on Tuesday, May 3, instead of Tuesday, April 26. — Times. THE CZECHS.—The Eastern Budget says that " the negotiations with the Czechs have completely failed. The national leaders have refused the invitation of Dr. Giskra, the Minister of the Interior, to a conference on the subject of their claims, and declare that they have no confidence in the present Ministry." _ _ A LIVING FASTING GlRL.—Apropos of the prose cution of the defendants in the Welsh fasting girl case, it may be stated that there is a more extraordinary case than any of those stated by Mr. Fitzwilliam, where a girl named Mock, of Bideford, North Devon, lived fifty-one weeks without partaking of food or drink of any kind. After that time the girl gradually took in sustenance, and recovered, and is now a strong, healthy-looking young woman of 19, and residing in the above town. The occur rence was four or five years since. The Freeman's Journal understands that Monsieur Etienne Stanislaus O'Dunlevie has arrived in Dublin for the purpose of prosecuting his claims to the possession of the extensive estates of his ancestors. MonsieurO'Dunlevie is described as the lineal descendant of Mac or O'Dunlevie, who went to France in the time of the reign of James 11., with the object of superintending the education of his only son, Andre Maurice O'Dunlevie. He was born in Poland, and is great grandson of Andre Maurice O'Dunlevie, who was Lieutenant-Governor of Treves, and died at Coblentz on the 19th of June, 1751. The estates to which Monsieur O'Dunlevie lays claim are situate in the counties of Down and Antrim. DIPLOMATIC CHANGES.—The North-East Corre spondence publishes intelligence from Vienna stating that a rumour was current that General Lamarmora was to replace the Marquis Pepoli . as Italian Ambassador at Vienna, but that no official communication to that effect had been received. Count Bray, Bavarian Minister at Vienna, will accept the office of President of the Bavarian. Council, in place of Prince Hohenlohe, who is to repre sent Bavaria at Vienna- The Czechs have elected Herr Dittrich, who is not one of those who signed the declara tion, as burgomdster of Prague, a choice which has some chance of being confirmed by the Government _ SPORTING INTEL LIGENCF. 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Age st lb Fancy Bay 3 6 2 Threatener ... 4 6 2 Miss Sheppard ... 3 6 2 Romaney ... 3 6 2 Good Wine 3 5 10 Mortlake ... ... 3 5 10 Hush Money ... 3 5 10 Roxana ... 3 5 11 Thornettle ... 3 5 12 Lady Somerset:f ... 3 5 7 Lady Blanche f 3 5 7 HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MENTS. Feb. ndi ca 2pl, atu r 9 di Harlington, out of Hertf or d s hi re H Feb. 25, at 8 . 20 p .m., Lair d of Sc o tland, out of Stan d Handicap He Tale. Plate, Nottingham. Feb Fugitive, out of all Ha n di caps w h ere weightstbe 26 at h 9 av " appeared. Fob. `6, at 9 a m., Nightjar, out of the County of Harts handicap. Feb. 2G, at 1.45 p.m., Anak, out of tho Brigado Cup at Windsor. Feb. 28, at 9 a.m., Paul Jones, Vestminster, Van Am burgh, and Masaniello, out of Nottingham engagements. Feb. 28, at 9 a m., Diadem, Una, and Metaphor, out of Hertfordshire engagements. Feb. 28, at 9 a.m., Madr i d out of the Open Steeple Chase, Mal ton. Feb. 28, at 9 a.m., Sexton, out of the Epsom Derby. Feb. 28, at 9 a.m., Fitzwilliam, out of the Grand Na tional Steeple Chase at Cambridge. Feb. 28, at 10.15 a.m., Whitehall, out of Hertfordshire engagements. March 1, at 9 a.m., Forum, out of Twelfth Sale Stakes at Newmarket. March 1, at 9 a.m., Warlike, out of both Hurdle Races at Nottingham, and the Maiden Hurdle Race at Hert fordshire. Feb.l, at 9 a.m., Saturnalia, out of the Welter Cup and County of Herts Handicap. Feb. 3, at 9 am., Titterstone, out of Grand National Steeplechase, Liverpool. The following assumed names have been registered : Mr. Berkeley, Mr. Cecil, and Mr. Eardley. COLOURS OF RIDERS.—Mr. Harold, sky blue, primrose sleeves and cap. The following names have been given :—Mr W. Day's c by Caractacus —How d'ye do, 3 yrs, Good Morning; c by Citadel, out of Precise, 2 yrs, Precision ; o by Citadel, out of Cassiope, 2 yrs, Capitol ; c by Arthur Wellesley —Weather wise, 2 yrs, Waterloo Hero; c by Neptunts, out of Maybud, 2 yrs, Trident; Mr F. L. Popham's foals —F by Wild Dayrell out of Helia, Hemisphere ; c by Wild Dayrell out of My Pleasure, The Queen's Prcctor ; c by Wild Dayrell, dam by Lamb ton, out of Latakia, Chilton; filly by Wild Dayrell, darn by Flatcatcher— Dromedary, Suez; colt by Rubin flood, out of Spots, Iron Mould. Mr Webb's b c foal by Young Melbourne, out of Faith, Peniston. Mr Do Grott's bf by Blair Athol—Lightheart, 2 yrs, Lady . Glonlyon. Capt. Tempest's gby Knight of Kars—Novelist, 6 yrs, Karelake. FORFEIT LIST.—The forfeits of the follo4ing horses have been paid:—Centipede, Gellyewick fiabrina, and Sleeping kleggie, MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday. The feature of the Stook Exchange markets to-day h ag been the strong speculative business in telegraph shares. Steady sales have been made, resulting in an almost gene. ral, and, in some instances, important reduction. For railway stocks and foreign bonds the demand has been steady, and prices have been mostly supported. Consols have been steady at 920, 922 for money and the 9th inst., and 921, 93 for April. Reduced and New Three per Cent? , 91g, 91 ex div. Bank stock has marked 241, 243. India Five per Cents. have been done at 111, 112, and Ind ia Bonds at 205., 255. prem. Exchequer Bills (March), 2s. dis. to 3s. par ; and June, 2s. dis. to 3s. par. There has been a good inquiry for English railway stocks, and with the exception of a fall of * and in Great Western and Caledonian respectively, the alterations have' been favourable. Metropolitan has risen London and Brighton Great Northern Al, Midland g, and London and North-Western Indian Railway Stocks have been quiet, at about pre vious quotations. Canadian shares have been firm, an d Great Western have further advanced Foreign shares have been in moderate request. Buenos. Ayres, Gre st Southern have fallen In the money market to-day a quieter feeling has been noticed. The inquiries for accommodation have been less numerous, but no three months' bills have been negotiated under 3 per cent. The Bank directors have failed to make any alteration in the official minimum, which stil l remains at 3 per cent. The sum of £B,OOO in sovereigns has been withdraw from the Bank for shipment to South America. The Clearing House return for the week ended Mare" shews a total of £90,399,000, against £89,264,000 for the corresponding week last year. Foreign bonds have been dealt in to a fair extent. Egyptian and Turkish have been firm, at an occasional improvement of * per cent. Brazilian (1865) have lin" proved to a similar extent ; as have also Russian (18221. New Grenada have been flat, and have fallen 3 / 4 . The Russian loan is quoted at 3i to 4 prem. American securities have continued steady. The Fiv e- Twenty (1882) bonds have risen and Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, *. In Mining shares the principal transactions have hee ° , in Tan-Yr-Att, which have been dealt in from 1 . 1.7 to 11k. As regards Bank shares, Imperial Ottoman have been in request, and they have been done as high as 4g Pren 3 ' Other shares have been steady. A large speculative business, principally for a fall, ha l been passing in Telegraph shares. Anglo-American 1,1.. Brit" ° risen ;I; but Anglo-Mediterranean have fallen *; Indian Extension, *, and British Indian Submarine, i• Telegraph Construction shares have been subjected t ° some severe fluctuations. After being dealt in as high 421, the quotations fell to 40k, from whence, howeve r ' there was a subsequent recovery to 41, 41k, showing lb reduction on the day of 1. India-rubber Shares hav ° relapsed 2 : HOoper's Telegraph Works have been flat sympathy, and are quoted at * dis. Miscellaneous Securieties have been quiet; at ab out previous quotations. The return of the Bank of England shews the follosv ing results when compared with the previous week increase of circulation of £373,318 ; an increase of Publ deposits of £519,209 ; a decrease of other deposits ° £20,918 ;an increase of other securities of £989,070 ; increase of bullion of £139,459 ; an increase of rest ° £256,920 ; a decrease of reserve of £236,510. The c ur lation (including Bank post bills) is now £23,107, 292; public deposits am oun t t o £9,793,327 ; and private i posits to £17,274,771. The securities held repres ent £33,770,631; and the stock of bullion is £20,029,45 5 . 11° rest stands at £3,624,696. The report of Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co. (Limit ed) ' for the past year, shews an available total of 2144, 876 ' including a previous balance of £4,052, and recommend dividend of £4, and a bonus of £l, per share, which a absorb £100,000; £40,000 will be added to reserve, a n £2,165 will be employed in the reduction of minor lle" counts, leaving a balance of £2,711 to be carried fe r. ward, MARKETS—Yesterday. LONDON TRADE REPORT, TriunsDAY-Tallow has beellotio, Spot and month, 465. ; spring, 455. 9d. ; a nd l as t three luu 465. 9d. a for LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, THURSDAY.-The clems l3 ,,ar tea has been only to a moderate extent, but prices have been vet , twined. Coffee has sold slowly ; the shortness of the supply, 1 1 , 0 ", has imparted a tone of firmness to values. Sugar has been ewe ' steady in value. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-T.“ -- , e rasi been a moderate supply of beasts on sal e h ere t o -d a y, in, reuTheeli speaking, good condition. For all breeds the demand ha s ,-,0 0 limited, and the quotations have been barely maintained. As I.e '',aid sheep, the show has leen moderate. Therehas been very little yo ur f r any treed, and the tendency of prices has been 1 11 ' L a ive! of buyers. Lambs have sold quietly, at about late rates- w its' have been firm in value and demand. Pigs have been in request. Beasts have been disposed of at from Is. 2d. to 0 . aus sheep. 3s. 4d. to 6s. ; lamb, 7s. 6d. to ; calves, 4s. 2d. to 6 , - .1 1,5-- pigs, 4s. 6d. to ss. 10d. per tabs, to sink the offal. Total suPY, 26. Beasts, 596 ; sheep and lambs, 5,555; calves, 103 ; and Foreign-Beasts, 205; sheep and lambs, 2,175 ; and calves, 6. 1 , 10 . H BOROUG AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO M- Tnu sDAY.-Full average supplies of potatoes have been (2*, , t0 ale, °n The trade has been quiet, as follows ; - English shaws. 100 5 . ‘7. 0 750 , regents, 70s. to 80s. • Scotch regents, 70s. to 10Cs. ; rocks, 7 00 . aud French, 60s. to '7os. per ton. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, Tii ii ra 9 ll„t i -The supplies have been good, and the trade has 6n: follows :-Prime meadow hay, 755. to 60s. ; inferior d""derS i t to 7.'5.•, Rowen, 50s. to Us ; prime clover,. 115 s. to 120 8 . ; iufe ditto, 10Cs. to 110 s. ; prime second-cut clover 100 s. to Ws ; ditto, 80s. to 9Cs. ; and straw, ns. to 3es. per load. LONDON WOOL MARKET, Tii USDAY.-At the' Inl f i b i ,, e r eig'; of colonial wool the att en d ance o f b uyers, b ot h E ng li s h and. hs'" has been good. Biddin g s h ave no t b een an i ma t e d, but Prlc ruled firm. English wool have been steady. • ' po t ' quiet, OIL MARKET, THURSDAY.-Linseed oil h as ol) o ' quiet, at 31s. 9d. spot. Rape h as b een flat. English broWn, on 41s. 3d. to 41s. 6d. Other oils have sold slowly. , tee' LONDON METAL MARKET, THURSDAY.-Iron hag t quiet. Tin has been firm, at further enh ance d rates. St'''. £ll9los. to £l2O. Copper firm. Chili bars, £66155., buyers. dalL LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY. -Tra de Sales, 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 for export and speculation. low CORK BUTTER MARKET, THURSDAY.-Ordinary, I „ 3 ' s l'! G ure d ' 1125., 81s. Fifths and sizths not quoted ISt fi rkins. Dill 1365., 121 s. ; four firkins. ibF PARIS, MARCH 2.-Wheat has been quiet at barely late ," (torn dull. Oats dull. Oats, 1715 to 17'50; rye, 18 to 18.50. AMSTER,DAAI, 111A.Rca. 2.—Jana tin firm, buyers at 71. FRW ORLEANS, MARCH 2.—Middling Upland, 223/4. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 1117} ... 11 in Do 3 Ms .., 12 ! Rotterdam — ... 12 -,1- ... 12 ,„' Antwerp — ... 25 85 . . 25 1,1 Brussels — ... 25 35 .. 25 n .. Hamburgh ... 13 10 ... 13 ,i,X Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main .•• 1208 1201 ••• 7 Vienna — ... 12 70 ~. 12 °, Trieste Petersburg .... 28 ... 288 Copenhagen.. ......... Berlin Madrid. Cadiz — ... 49 491, ••• Leghorn Milan — ... 26 40 .. 26 l''„ , Genoa .. — ... 26 40 ..„ 26 `N Iv aples ... 26 40 ... 26 . 1", Palermo • —.... 26 4, 26 - C I 45 " Messina Lisbon ... 511 . 5 Oporto = ..... 26 62 40 ~..... 2 6 5:2i • Rio Janeiro ••• -- ••• Neve York ....,... .... . __ --- The coloured National Exec u ti ve Committee, at 5t Washington, have issued an add s e ss recommending ti:bo upon the official announcement of the a d o pti on of ' te Fifteenth Amendment the coloured people in every P o and Territory shall assemble for prayer and thanksgiv lnfs t Almighty God. As Texas has r a tifi e d th e Amendule:re the requisite number of States, beyond all question , " a , now secured, and a proclamation may be issued at anY moat by the President announcing the Fifteenth ra °° 4 ment to be part of the Con s tit u ti on o f th e U n it en OBITUARY.—The wife of the Hon. John W re fy worth of Chicago di e d su dd en l y a t T roy on satur- Feb. 3.—Rufus B. Kinsley, a prominent citizen of , re d port, Rhode Islind, and proprietor of Kinsley's expreu s w ,' itou on Saturday morning, F e b. 3, age d 73.—Th e R ev . Dr. died at the Park House, Boston, Feb. 3, after a e hort, se ness. He graduated ac B rown U n i vers it y i n 1813 su w „,„4 quently founded two scholarships i n th a t institutinul,(ero for several yearsw a s p as t or o f a B ap ti s t c h urc h i n Win ds r' Connecticut.- His Excellency P e t e r T. W as hburn, u ° ' nor of the State of Vermont, died at his residenu, e , a o Woodstock, Feb. 7, aged 55 years. G overnor Wanb w A - to was a native of Lyme, Massa c h u s e tt s , b u t rernove": oC e Vermont when three years of age , where he has ever si„,,a resided. He was graduated at Dartmouth College, ' r d, was by profession a lawyer.—Mrs. Elizabeth King I),°,rc wife of the Rev. Dr. Nathan Lord, ex-President of v`",,,a mouth College, died on Sunday, Jan. 30, at Lowell, of . '„ - t, 78.- Dr. Charles M. Rublee died at Montp e li er , Verrn ° ' on Wednesday morning, Feb. 2, at the age of 47. BIRTHS. Iris ANDOVER —On the Ist inst., at 137, Ebury-street, th e countess Andover, of a daughter. ° f S TA NLEY— On the 2d inst., at Ponsonby Ball, the sin" Wm. Stanley, Esq., o f a son. MARRIAGES. n CLARK—WILLIAMSON—O n th e 27th ult , at BrighL °- ,,' 0 11 W. Clark, Es q . o f M a i da-hill, to Antonia' Helen , , 1 .1. „fl daughter of A. Willi amson, Esq., of Brighton, and f`' gate, Lewes. el% OWEN—ANDERSON—On the 2Gth ult., mu at S• t W e" n Highgate, Frederick Augustus, eldest son of J. 13 ' ° l ) ter Esq., of Hor nse y- r i se , t o Ell en Augusta, fifth deer''. at of the late G. W. A n d erson , E sq., o f H am ilt on - terr a St. John's-wood. DEATHS. E h Di DINSDALE —On tho Ist inst ., at Darli ng ton, .0- 11— ° Dinsdale, Esq., aged 71. ty LIGHT—On the 8d inst., at Falmouth, Sir Hwy A"'" .K.C.B , aged 88. , v 4S, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANII P " - a t of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THB SuN Office, o. 112, in the Precinct of the Savoy, In the County of Middleso Friday, March 4, 1870, II