The Sun. — London, England, 1870-07-26 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS.- YESTERDAY. The publication by a leading contemporary of the draft of a treaty, which has been under process of con sideration between France and Prussia, and the ratifica tion of which would have undoubtedly compelled England to have engaged in hostilities with the above mentioned countries, threw the stock markets again into a state of confusion, and caused a heavy reduction in values. Eventually, however, on the rumour gaining currency that the rejection of this treaty by Prussia had been one of the causes of the war between that country and France, confidence in some measure returned, but a lingering source of irritability at the perfidiousness of France was still apparent. Towards the close of business, although there was a complete absence of any approach to activity in the demand for any class of security, the tendency was less favourable. All descriptions of stock have partici pated in the uneasiness, and have fluctuated in sym pathy. In the consol market there has been a renewal of de pression, and notwithstanding that prices do not close at their worst, they shew a fall of per cent. At one period of the day the price fell 89a, but it subsequently re covered to 89-i to 892 for delivery and the account. Reduced and New Three per Cents. 892 to 892 ; Bank stock has marked 232 to 234. Exchequer Bills, 2s. to 6s. prem. India Five per Cents. 110 f to 1102, and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem. In foreign bonds very few transactions have taken place, and prices have receded in most instances. Spanish, Italian, and Turkish each shew a reaction, as well as Egyptian, Prussian, and United States Five-Twenty Bonds. Spanish have fallen 2to 1; Turkish (1865), 1; ditto Five per Cents, 2 ; ditto (1815), 2 ; Egyptian (1868), 1 ; Mexican, ; Peruvian, ; and United States Five Twenties, per cent. English railway stocks have been depressed, and, with 99t,e?iception, the movements have been unfavourable. Great Eastern, Great Northern A, North-Eastern, and North-Western, each shew a decline. Metropolitan has fallen 1, Caledonian 2, Brighton South-Eastern Great Northern 1, ditto A 2, Midland 3, North-Western Great Western and North-Eastern 3i. In Indian Railway stocks there has not been much inquiry, nevertheless prices have been maintained. Cana dian shares have been almost entirely neglected, scarcely a transaction being recorded either in Grand Trunk or Great Western. Foreign shares have been dull, and Lombards have receded In Bank shares the business has been to a very moderate extent. Anglo - Egyptian have fallen 1, and Imperial Ottoman I. Telegraph shares have been dealt in to a very moderate extent. British Indian Submarine have fallen it. Miscellaneous securities have commanded but little attention. Telegraph Construction have fallen The report of the Crddit Foncier of England (Limited), shews that during the last half year there has been a profit of £29,903, equivalent to a dividend of nearly 6 per cent. on the reduced capital of £1,000,000. Of this sum £6,937 has been produced by what may be termed windfalls, but the remaining portion of the profit of £22,155 has been made upon considerably less than half of the capital. The company has also paid off £40,000 of the loan raised on its debentures, but also £11,473 by way of interest and bonus on this loan. At the meeting of the shareholders of the London Financial Association, Mr. John Borradaile in the chair, the report of the directors was adopted. It was stated that the liabilities had been reduced £53,000 during the half-year. Proposals had been received in regard to the Muswell Hill property, which were likely to be accepted. At Mark-lane to-day the favourable harvest prospects caused a reaction in the grain trade, and prices gave way 3s. per quarter on both English and foreign wheat. It is believed that a large portion .of the crops of Northern Germany will be sacrificed, as the harvest has not yet been commenced there. A few samples of new wheat from Cambridgeshire were exhibited to-day, but their quality was very indifferent, and they commanded very little attention. The numbers of 134 certificates of the Roumanian Go vernment Iron Bridges Annuity issue have been drawn to-day for redemption according to the terms of the pros pectus, and will be duly advertised in a few days. The sum of £98,000 has been withdrawn from the Bank to-day. The Nevada, from New York, has brought £73,095 in specie, and the Batavia £25,000. The Australian Mining Company have declared a divi dend of is. per share. The discount market has been very firm. The demand for accommodation has bean tolerably active, and the rate for negotiating three months' paper has been steady at 3i to 4 per cent. The steamer, which left New York on Saturday, took £420,000 in specie for Europe. The report of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, to be presented on the Ist of August, recommends a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, absorbing £21,000, and leaving, after an appro priation of £l,OOO to premises account, a balance of £520 to be carried forward. The reserve fund will be reduced to £45,000 by the withdrawal of £.5,000 on account of the depreciation of squatting properties. The deposits held are £782,259, and the paid-up capital is £600,000. The report of the London and South-Western Bank (Limited), to be presented on the 2nd of August, shews an available total of £4,107, and recommends a dividend of 6s. per share, or at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum, leaving, after an appropriation of £245 to premises account, a balance of £1,162 to be carried forward. The deposits held are £560,201, the paid-up capital is £179, 980, and the reserve £3,000. The following has been received from the Don Pedro North del Rey Gold Mining Company (Limited) : Weighed to 29th of June, 4,736 oitavas ; estimate for June,. 6,736 oitavas. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-MONDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done. GCVERNMENT SECURITIES Three per Cent Consols 891 892 Brazilian, 1865, 5p c 891, 90, 891, 1,1 88, 51 Do for Account 892,1, 2, 8 68, 71, 88. 61, 8, 61 ex-div Three per B9f Cent Reduced 891 89/ Do Rail Deben 7 p .. 92 95 1, I New 3 per Cent 891, 90, 891, 90 45, 41, 48 Exchequer Bills, March 2s, 6spm Peruvian, 1865, 5p c Do, June 2s, 6s pm 85, 31. 41 2s prem Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c. Bank Stock India 5 per Cents llOlllO2 Russian, 1866, 5 p c.. 1101, .1, 2 Do Nicolas 4 p c India Bonds 2os, 25spm 651, 5, 3 20s pm Spanish, 1867, 3 pc Can 6pc Jan&JulylB77-84 99 101 '241, 34, 41, 32, 4 100. 99 Do, 1869, 3 c Do March & Sept. 103 105 231, 44, 3l, 4, 31 Do 5p c Jan & July .. 92 94 Turkish. 1854, 6p c BO 83 93, 1 81 Do Inscribed Stock .. 92 94 Do. 1865, 5p c Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 94 95 38 , 74, 88, 74, 2, 71 ex-div Ceylon 6 p c May and Do, 1865, 6pc November 1878 lO7 109 58 Mauritius 6p c Jan and U.S. 5-20 Bonds, 6p c 1882 811 812 July 1873 lOl 103 821, 1, 21, 2,1, 11, 24, 1/ New S Wales 5 p clB7l-76 98 100 Do do 1885 81 811 98 Do 10-40 Ends, 5p c 1904 79 81 New Zealand 6 p c 1891 lO7 109 80, 1 Do 5p c Do 5p c Consolidated 93 95 151,16, 151 931 Illinois Central Shares .. 100 102 Do 6pc Mar & Sept 1891 105 108 100, 992 Do June & Dec 1891 104 107 Atlantic and GW R Con Vict 6pc Jan & July 1891 109 111 Mortgage Bonds 2O 22 109 211, 3, 204, 2, 11, 21, 201 DoApril & Oct 1883-85.. 108 110 Vict 5p c 9B Jan & July 1894. 97 100 85 87 ... 444 454 ... 83 84 27 28 . 86 89 . 63 65 RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B3 85 Do Equip Mort Bnds, 1 Caledonian 74 32, 3 Do 2nd do Scrip .... par 3 pm Great Eastern 331, i, 4 , 3 Grand Trunk of Canada Great Northern 1151 38f Do A l2l 123 Do 3rd Fret Stock ...33 35 1223, Grand Trunk of Cana:da, Great Western 62 63 4th Pref Stock 631, 21,3, 2,3, 2 Great Indian Pen g 5 p c 104 106 Lancashire & Yorkshire 127 129 Great Western of Canada 133 143 129 Do 6p c Bonds, 1873 97 99 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 361 371 Do 5/ do, 1877-8 95 97 371, 61, 6 Do 5 p c pref, issued 80 par 2 pm Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 12 14 Madras guar 5p a 13 12, 3 N. Railway of Canada, Lon and North-Western 121 122 6p c I st Pref Bonds 1221, 11, 23, 1 Oude and Rohilkund g Lon and South-Western 86 88 5p c 873, 6 Scinde, Punjaub, and Man, Shef, and Lincoln 40 42 Delhi guar 5p c 423, 13, 21, 2, 40, 1 1021, If Metropolitan 65, 41, 51. 43, 161 173 Midland__ l2l 122 _ g 7 p el 7i _. _ _ ... 37 41 Belgian BJunction .... 1 2 331 341 Buenos Ayres Gt Sthrn.. 24 25 -.-. Dunaburg and Witepak 16 171 North-Eastern Consols 13011311 Dutch-Rhenish 2O 22 133, 4,2, 3 Eastern of Frarce 2O 22 South-Eas 67/ tern 67 68 Great Luxembourg .... 10 10/ 10 Atlantic and St Lawrnce 75 50 Lemberg Czernowitz gua Bombay, Baroda, and 7 p c l4 15 Central India, g 5 p c.. 103 105 Northern of France 103 Ottom (Smyrna to Aidin) 41 51 Buff & Lake Huron Pref 4 5 Recife and San Francisco Do 51 p c Bonds, 1872-3-4 80 83 (Limited) guar 7p 0 Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5p c lO3 105 San Paulo (L) guar 7p c 194 20i East Indian, g 5 p c Grand Trunk Canada Southern of France .. ~ 21 23 123, 21, 1i North British .... BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd 10 Agra Bank (L) A .... 10 104 20 Imperial IL) 25 Alliance (L) 12/ 11, 10/, 111 10 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo ol 49i -Egyptian (L) 20 22 20 London and County 48 50 2 50 British N American 52 54 15 London Joint-Stock 31 33 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 154164 20 Lon and Westmnster 59 61 25 Char Mem of India 26 28 10 Metropolitan B4 9 10 City 25 Colonial 41 25 Omtal Bank Corporn 39 41 4 Consolidated (L) .. . fi pm 25 Union of Australia.. 39 41 20 Eng, Scot, and Ausb 17 18 15 Union of London .. 35 37 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. Pd lOTI Anglo-American L) 80 85 10 Great Northern .... 101 10 821, 41 6 Great N. China, and . 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) l4 141 Japan Extension.. 321 d!s 100 Atlantic ll 13 25 Indo-European (L).. 13 17 100 Do 8p c 3 British Australn (L) 10 British IndExten (L) 5 51 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 5 , 1 6, 51, 5 n Pnma and S. Pofc(L) 32 dis 10 British Indian Sub- 8 Reuter's marine (L) 7,1 141,1 2 China Submarine (L) 414 dis 100 Submarine 235 241 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, 1 Do Scrip 2 21 and Malta (L) .... 81 81 10 Wlndia It Panama(L) 61 61 81.1 TE-1 E SUN, LOINDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1870. LAW AND POLICE. ACTION FOR SEDUCTION.-At the Shire Hall, Dor chester, on Friday, the acting Under-Sheriff had before him an action for seduction. The plaintiff, a farmer, Mr. Spencer, claimed £1,500 as damages sustained by the loss of his daughter's services. The defendant, Mr Sherren, was a gentleman farmer, a neighbour, and had allowed judgment to go by default. The defence set up was that the plaintiff had allowed his daughter to visit the defend ant at his house, and on her returning home, accompanied by her lover, they were left together ; therefore that the seduction was owing to the plaintiff's indiscreet conduct. Defendant said that if he married the young woman he should be ruined by his relatives. The jury found a ver dict for £350. A CLERGYMAN ASSAULTING A BOY. —At the Thames Police-court, the Rev. William Wallace, vicar of the new parish church of St. Luke, i n th e Burdett-road, Mile-end Old Town, which was consecrated in October last, was charged with assaulting and beating Charles Winningale, aged 13. The complainant stated that on Friday, the 15th inst., he was playing in the Burdett-road, about half-past 6 o'clock in the evening when the defendant stepped up to him and struck him on the side of the head. He asked him why he did that, and the defendant kicked him and caused him to fall. In answer to Mr. Lushing ton, the witness said he offered no provocation whatever to the defendant. In reply to the defendant, he said neither he nor a boy who was with him called out to the defendant " Wally, Wally," or laughed at him. The de fendant, in reply to the charge, said he was about to open the doors of his church when he was assailed with cries of'" Wally, Wally," and he intended to trip up the com plainant and do nothing else. He denied having kicked him. The fact was the boy and his friends disliked the whole cloth to which he belonged, and this charge was preferred out of spite. Mr. Lushington said he could have no doubt of the accuracy of the evidence for the prosecu tion, and be was astonished that a gentleman in the position of the rev. defendant could have acted as he had done. He fined him ss. and costs. SEIZURE OF A VESSEL FOR SMUGGLING. -At the Mansion House George Adams, an engine man, was charged before the Lord Mayor with smuggling 39-Pbs. of tobacco and 1 lbs. of cigars on board the Hollander. Mr. Beverley, junior, solicitor, appeared for the prose cution on behalf of the Commissioners of Customs. On Sunday William Henry Lucraft, an examining officer of Customs, rummaged the vessel, and discovered the tobacco concealed between the lining and the bulwarks. The prisoner admitted the tobacco was his, and Lucraft then seized it and the ship also. A gentleman who appeared for the owner of the vessel, said that notices were posted upon a board, cautioning the men against smuggling. The Lord Mayor, addressing the prisoner, said he had subjected himself to a very heavy penalty, which he (the Lord Mayor) had no power of mitigating. The sentence upon him was a fine of £lOO, and, in default, six months' im prisonment. The vessel had been seized, but that would probably be arranged with the commissioners. Mr. Beverley said application must be made to the commis sioners. DISASTROUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION. On Sunday morning intelligence arrived at Swansea, that an explosion of fire damp had taken place at Llans amlet, in the Charles Pit, the property of Mr. C. H. Smith. The explosion happened the previous evening, resulting in . the death of 19 persons, and in the injury of five others, when there were fifty men in the pit. The utmost consternation pre vailed at the surface, no such explosion hav ing taken place there for thirty years. Steps were at once resorted to to ascertain the extent of the casualty, and by two o'clock on Sunday morning the whole of the men in the pit, except one, were brought out, the one that was left being brought up at a late hour. Nineteen of them were dead, and five more or less injured. Yes terday's Western Mail says :—" Persons were in Swansea on Sunday procuring timber, with which to construct shells for the reception of the mutilated remains of the deceased. It is stated that the scene around the pit, as the remains of the deceased were brought to the surface was heart rending. Two married sisters were watching the result of the painful proceedings with intense anxiety, and found eventually that each of them had a husband and a son amongst the slain. Mr. Smith, the owner of the colliery, it is stated, was at his marine residence, at Tenby, at the time of the accident, and was telegraphed for immediately. Every assistance was ren dered by the medical gentlemen of the neighbourhood to the injured. Another account says that just previous to the men terminating their day's labour for the night turn the explosion of fire-damp took place, entirely destroying the workings and killing nineteen men, besides burning in a most frightful manner five others who were at the outer part Hof the pit airways. The noise of the explosion was heard for more than a mile. The pit has always been considered safe and well ventilated. Many of the bodies were smashed nearly to pieces, while all were fearfully burnt. Mr. Mills, the manager, and William Evans, of the Prince of Wales, Morriston, were the first to volunteer to descend the pit. The pit was worked with naked lights, and it is supposed that a " fall " had taken place in an old working near the cutting, and the gas had been driven on the lights. The men had just de wended for changing the shift ; both sets were, therefore, in the pit at the time of the acoident. THE FORTUNE-TELLING CASE.-At the Middlesex ses sions, Susan Lee, 25, a prepossessing looking young woman, who gave her address at 12, Lower Queen-street, Essex-road, Islington, was charged with having, by frau dulent pretences, obtained from Catherine Ann Pollard, a servant, three dresses, three night gowns, four petticoats, two jackets, and one pair of stays, of about the value of £3. There was a further charge of her having received from the same person property belonging to her mistress, a Mrs. Norman, residing at 6, Beresford-terrace, Highbury New-park; this consisted of one pair of sheets, two pillow-cases, one toilet cover, and one tray cloth, of about the value in all of £llos. The facts of the case appear to have been these :—The prisoner is connected with a gang of fortune-tellers and thieves, who practice upon the credulity of female servants in the localities above-mentioned, and under the pretence of telling their fortunes obtain from them, in lieu of money, their own clothes and the property of their employers. In this case the prisoner called upon the girl Pollard, and stated that she could tell her fortune. To this the complainont assented, but, unfortunately, it ap peared the planet had not reached its proper destination, consequently the prisoner at various times obtained the above-named articles from her, the prisoner having sug gested to her that she should also appropriate some of her mistress's property. After this had gone on some time, her mistress one day discovered a bundle containing broken victuals, and interrogating the girl about it, the latter confessed the whole proceeding„ and on the pri soner, who was very importunate with regard to fresh plunder, coming to the house, she was given into custody. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. After some formal evidence the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Police-sergeant Merton, 9 Y, proved that the prisoner was tried at the Middlesex Sessions in 1865, and convicted and sentenced to two years' penal servitude, the charge being similar to the present. On that occasion she obtained goods to the amount of £4O from a servant in the- Archway-road, Highgate. The servant was also tried and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The learned judge said that the sentence of the court was that she should undergo seven years' penal servitude. The prisoner was then removed. A DISORDERLY GENTLEMAN.-Philip Cosby Lovett, 30, Golden-square, gentleman, was charged at the Westmin ster Police Court with riotous conduct at Gunter-grove, Chelsea. John Smith, 288 F, said—At half-past three on Sunday morning I was in Gunter grove, and heard a great noise. I went to the spot and saw prisoner and another gentleman. Prisoner was shouting at the top of his voice, " Hansom." There is no rank within five or six minutes' walk. I went to him and requested him to desist. He refused to go away, and continued shouting, and at length said he would be locked up, and I was com pelled to take him to the station. Mr. Selfe—What have you to say? Prisoner—l had been drinking. Mr. Selfe— You are fined ss. or five days. THE 4ITRAIkLEUR. It is Surprising how little inforMation is curre t on the subject of the French mitrailleur, al hough it is generally understood that this gun is destined to play an important part in the present war. We are not ourselves in pos session of all the necessary data ; but it will be remem bered that experiments were made at Brussels about two years ago, when, we believe, the following results were obtained :—The mitrailleur then used had 37 barrels, and in o•ie minute's firing the results obtained exceeded those of four six-pounder field guns which fired twelve rounds. In ren rounds, five at intervals of half a minute, and five in 40 seconds, out of 330 cartridges ex ploded, 278 bullets hit the target (measuring 10ft. to 12ft. at 437 yards, and with only one man serving. At 650 yards, 58 per cent. of the total number of bullets struck ; and at 866 yards, 33 per cent. The machine worked perfectly, although it had been exposed to several hours' rain, and, we believe, a charge of from 400 to 500 grains was used safely. This gun is essentially the same as the G-atling, an American invention, used towards the close of the war. It has ten barrels of one-inch calibre, and throws iron balls of half-a-pound weight. It fires 250 rounds per minute with great accuracy, at from 2,000 to 2,500 yards. It is understood that the Prussians have ordered a large number of mitrailleurs--.-more than 100, we are told. The experiments with this gun which were commenced by our own Government, and which have been suspended during the last year or two, have now been resumed. Ve might ask why they were suspended, if we did not know beforehand what the ready answer would be. This reminds us, by the way, of our frequently repeated inquiry concerning the torpedo experiments, for which small votes were taken in the last two years' estimates, If independent members of Parliament would oecupy themselves with inquiries directed to the elucidation of these matters, instead of making opportunities to express their crude opinions on the policy of foreign Powers, it is possible that they might do the country some service.—Broad Arrow. Steam communication is to be established, at the commencement of next month, between Bridgwater and Ireland. Two enterprising townsmen of Bridgwater have had a new screw steamer of 200 tons built at Liverpool for the purpose. The inquest relative to the mysterious death of the young lady—Miss Alice Francis—who was found drowned on the Rhyl sands on Friday morning, has ter minated in a verdict of " Found dead," no light being thrown upon the sad occurrence. CO➢IMUNICATION WITH THE CONTINENT.—The exodus of tourists and others from the Continent in con sequence of the war still continues, and the mails from Calais for Dover bring over a large number of passengers. Very little difficulty, however, is encountered in getting home by this route, and the authorities announce that the route via Dover and Calais to the Continent is open the same as usual, and that it has met with no interrup tion. DEPARTURE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES FOR DENMARK.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and suite arrived at Great Grimsby on Saturday en route for Copenhagen, to join her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. About 300 persons assembled on the pier and cheered the Prince as he passed along. A gangway was constructed, by which his Royal s Highness and suite descended, from the pier to a barge in which they were rowed to the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which was lying about three miles off the port. The Prince heartily acknowledged the loyal greeting which he received from the spectators on the pier. Their Royal Highnesses are expected to return to England via Grimsby. A BAD BANK.—Julia Toon, an elderly wowan, was brought up before Mr. Lushington, at the Thames Police court, charged with stealing £7 10s., the money of a sea man named Frederick Martin, of Rose-lane, Ratcliff. The prosecutor was paid off after a long voyage a few weeks since, and he'gave to his wife £7los. in gold, which she deposited under her bed, and between the bed and the mattress. The prisoner, who then lived in the same house knew where the money was concealed, and spoke to Mrs. Martin about it. On Wednesday last Mrs. Martin discovered that her poad had been tampered with, and instead of l Os. there was 4s. only between the bed and the mattress. It was proved that the priso ner had been changing gold and paying debts to more than one person. She also made an overture to a woman named Caroline Foster to obtain two counterfeit sovereigns, and on being asked what she wanted them for she replied that her brother was in the practice . of sending her money, and if she could obtain two bad sovereigns she would substitute two good ones, and cheat her brother. The witness refused to comply with the prisoner's request and came to the conclusion she was a very bad woman. Mr. Lushington remanded the prisoner till Thursday next. FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.—On Friday night a fatal accident happened to Mr. J. T. Kershaw, of 90 St. Paul's-road, Canonbury, editor of a well-known hand book on the principle of rating. The deceased was riding on the box seat of a " Favourite " omnibus, and when within a few yards of Highbury-corner, from some unex plained cause, he fell into the roadway, and one or two wheels passed over him. When lifted up he was quite dead. Mr. Kershaw was a man of the most abstemious habits, but he was not able to insure his life owing to a bodily deformity, and he has left a widow and eight chil dren in dependent circumstances. A POLICE-OFFICER SENTENCED TO PENAL SER VITUDE FOR PERJURY. —At the Derbyshire Assizes, on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Brett, John Johnson, a police-constable of the county of Derby, stationed at at Allestree, was found guilty of committing, on the 27th April last, wilful and corrupt perjury. The evidence shewed that the prisoner had sworn what he knew to be false in order to shew his superior skill and activity as a police-officer. His lordship, in passing sentence, remarked that an enormous power, both for good and evil, lay in the hands of the police, and he had been guilty of the most serious crime. After some most strong remarks on the enormity of the offence, his lordship sentenced the • prisoner to five years' penal servitude. MISS TERNAN.—As Mr. Charles Dickens's will has been published at length, it may not be indecorous to mention that Miss Ternan, whose name appears first on the list of legatees, is the daughter of the Miss Jarman who many years ago was a very favourite actress at the large London houses. (We remember, by the way, seeing her play Amy Robsart to Cooper's Leicester, at Drury Lane.) She married a clever tragedian, named Ternan, who appeared with Charles Kean when that actor first emerged as a bright particular star. The Ter nans afterwards managed the Newcastle Theatre for seve ral years ; and two.of their daughters—one of whom is the lady mentioned in Mr. Dickens's will—attained con siderable popularity at the Haymarket. —London Figaro. THE DENHAM MURDERS.-011 the conclusion of the trial of John Jones, at Aylesbury, on Friday, for the murder of the Marshall family, Mr. Baron Channell re quested Inspector Dunham, of the Bucks county police force, to stand forward, and having complimented him highly on the ability he had shewn in tracking ou; and arresting the prisoner, said he had much pleasure in availing himself of the power given him under a recent Act of Parliament in ordering that the sum of ten pounds be paid to him, not as compensation for his time and labour, but in recognition of his courage and diligence. Inspector Dunham thanked the judge for the compli ment paid him. Mr. Dunham, it may be remembered, received information of the murder at Slough, where he is stationed, at ten o'clock on the Monday night, started at once for Denham, and never took rest or refreshment until he had traced out and gallantly captured the mur derer at Reading at six o'clock next day. NEw YORK IN SUMMER.—It is to be hoped that the time will come when New York will be delivered from the contractors who now create an artificial atmos phere of pitch and concrete for the benefit of people who cannot go out of town. Those of us who are disposed to be satisfied with city life during the summer--in other words, the wisest portion of the community, not reckon ing invalids, of course—find it a hardship to be smoked out by the inventors of" poultice pavements." Last summer Fifth-avenue was practically closed to us, and weall know what came of it—eye diseases, lung complaints, ruined furni tureiand ultimately the necessity of restoring the street to its original state. This year various side streets are being operated upon, and the City Park is also turned into a nuisance. In New York we have all the comforts of life at our fingers' ends, while people at the seaside and else where are taking nondescript food out of greasy little dishes, drinking bottled cider under the impression that it is champagne, and sleeping in bandboxes. Everyone to his taste—but if the poultice makers would only leave our streets alone, most judicious persons would find New York quite good enough to answer all purposes. —New York Times. AN ASSASSIN NEEDED IN IRELAND.--Baron Fitzgerald has just sentenced Mr. Michael Fox to five years' penal servitude, for soliciting one Mr. John Foley to commit a murder. Michael Fox was in treaty for a farm in Roscommon county, and had a troublesome com petitor in the person of Thomas Kennedy, bailiff to the estate. He accordingly wrote to a friend, named John Foley, whom he "always tuck to be a man in hill and hollo," suggesting that, as " the Driver " was likely to get the farm, John Foley should " come or send some person that would Put out of the way." " I would be thank to you," be adds, " and anything that ever would be in my power I would do it for you. Take the train from Athlone to Knockburghero, and I will meet you there and recom mence him for your trouble." There is a sang froid about this log rolling that savours of - Oyclopian manners. " Kill my man," says Mr. Fox to his friend, " and I will kill yours when you want it done." Fortunately, the letter was delivered to the wrong Mr. John Foley. The wrong Mr. John Foley was a - retired constable, and when Michael Fox met the Athlone train' he saw his arrestor face to face. To hire a bravo has a romantic sound about it—in novels. Reality shews us what murder by deputy is like, and suggests that so sordid and cowardly a crime cannot be too severely punished.—Echo. THE PACIFIC COAST. • SAN FRANCISCO, July 9. . _ The meeting of the Labour Associations, last night, was largely attended. The speakers protested against fuither Mongolian immigration ; against the payment of subsidies to steamships in the China trade, and advocated the repeal of the treaty with China. The meeting re solved to call a convention in this city on the Chinese question. The official canvass of the Oregon election re turns give a Democratic majority on the Congressional ticket of 343, and a majority of 621 for Grover(Democrat) for Governor. One of the buildings of the California Powder Works was blown to pieces to-day by an explo sion. One white man was killed and two Chinamen were seriously wounded. MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES. Pd Pd Anglo-Austrian End- 100 Do 6p c Bonds, re holders' Certificate 13 21 deemak:e 1870 58 62 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 12 13 30 London Fin Assoc (L)191181dis 12 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .... 2/ 20 30 Bolckow-Vaughan (L) 35 45pm 2 Lon & Prov Marine (L) /f pm 100 Boston City (U.S.) 5 100 Madras Irrig &Canal, p c Sterling Loan 88 90 gsp c by Ind Gov. 101 103 4 Brit & Fgn Marine (L) 23 22pm 2 Mauritius Land (L)..1 dis, par 27 Canada Company. .. 73 76 5 NatnlDisct Comp (L) 10 11 10 Ceylon Company (L) 5 4 dis 11 35 City Offices (L) .... 253 243 dis 23 N Zealand Loan and 20 Colonial (L) 5 Com Union Assurnce 223 pm 5 N Zealand Loan and 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 13 21 Trust (L) 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb lO9 114 50 P and 0 Steam 4O 42 273 Ebbw Vale Steel (L).. 11 9 dis 10 Do do New, 1867 5 3dia 100 Egyp 9 p cV'roy Loan, 50 Rhymney Iron guar by Egyp Gov.. 88 92 15 Do New lO 101 91, 88 60 Royal Mail Steam 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 553 pm 20 Tel Con and Main (L) 22/ 223 10 Fgn and Colonial Gov 221 Trust 6p c Bonds.. 87 92 2 Thames and Mersey 71 Gen Credt &Disct (L) 3dis,par Marine Insur (L) 7 1-16, 7 St Tobacco 6 p c Loan, 14 Gen Stm Navigation 29 31 guar by Italian Gov. 78 82 7 Hooper's Tel Works 4 3 dis 5 Trust and Loan Co of 4 U Canada . 20 Hudson's Bay 45 Indrbbr, Gut Per, and 20 Union Steamship (L) 21 23 Tel Works (L) 41 5 Univ Marine lnsurlL l 31 4pm 20 Intern' Finan SociL) 2 l3dis 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7p c It Irrig 31 (Can Cavour) 3 4 6 Mortgage 9 Loan.... 67 72 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 dis MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY.-Very few samples of English wheat were on sale. The trade was very dull, and prices were 3s. per quarter lower. A similar reduction took place in the value of foreign wheat, for which there was very little demand. The supply of barley was moderate. The trade wasfirm, and prices were 6d. per qr. higher. Malt was inactive, at about late rates. For oats there was a healthy demand, and prices were fully ls. per qr. higher. Beans and peas were firm, and ls. per qr. dearer Flour was steady, at late rates. Arrivals : English-Wheat, 5,736 qrs.; barley, 106 qrs.; malt, 14,063 qrs.; oats, 345 qrs.; beans, 261 qrs.; peas, 193 qrs.; tares, 11 qrs., linseed, 61 ; rapeseed, 60 ; maize, 83 ; sundry, 396 ; flour, 14,143 sacks. Scotch-malt, 375 qrs. Foreign-Wheat, 43,747 qrs. ; barley, 10,756 ; oats, 58,077 ; beans, 126 ; peas, 8,346; tares, 20 : linseed, 2,940 ; rapeseed, 2,655 ; maize, 11,620; sundry 32 ; flour, 14,253 barrels and 2,023 sacks. Exported-Wheat, 1,630 qrs. ; barley, 1,010 ; oats, 42,835 ; peas, 4 ; rapeseed, 5,352 ; maize, 70 ; and flour. 2,365 cwts. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY -The sup ply of beasts was large. The trade was dull. The general top quotation was ss. 4d., but many good serviceable animals were disposed of at 4s. 10. per 81bs. The market was well supplied with sheep. Sales progressed slowly. The extreme quotation for the best Downs and half-breeds was ss. 6d. per 81bs., but many sales of good breeds were effected at ss. per 81bs. Lambs have been dull. Calves and pigs have sold slowly. Beasts have sold at from 3s. 2d. to ss. 4d. ; sheep, at from 3s. 4d. to ss. 6d. ; lambs, 6s. 4d. to 6s. Bd. ; calves, 3s. 10d. to ss. 6d. ; and pigs, 4s. 6d. to ss. Bd. per 81bs. by the carcase. Total supplies- Beasts, 4,690 ; sheep and lambs, 28,360 ; calves, 449,' and pigs, 100. Foreign-Beasts, 1,750 ; sheep and lambs, 7,700 ; calves, 385 ; and pigs, 35. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.—The supply of cattle, sheep, and lambs at this market to-day was about the same as last Monday. The demand for each was fair, at full prices for cattle. Sheep sold dearer. Lambs were without change in value. Prices : Beef, 6d., 7/d., and Bd. per lb. Mutton, 7d. to sid. per lb. Lamb, 7d. to 8/d. per lb. There were at the market 1,803 cattle, and 11,590 sheep. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, MONDAY.—The supply of meat has been moderate. The trade has been steady, at our quotations. Beef, from 35.4 d. to ss. Od. ; mutton, 3s. 10d. to ss. 2d. ; lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. Od. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. Bd. ; pork. 4s. Od. to ss. 4d. per Blbs. by the carcase. LONDON TRADE REPORT, MONDAY.—The tallow market is quiet, at 465. for Y.C. on the spot. Stock, 35,094 casks against 26,367 casks last year. Town tallow, 435. 3d. nett cash. Oils have remained steady at late rates. Sales of Spanish indigo have gone off at a decline of 3d. to 4d. Straits tin, £120; copper regulus, 13s. 3d. LONDON COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKET, MONDAY.— There has been little inquiry for Colonial produce to-day, and the tendency of prices is again in favour of buyers. War articles are undergoing a reaction in value. Saltpetre is lower, and 295. has been accepted for a parcel on the spot ; 28s. 6d., landing. Sugar has been very little inquired after, and values are nomi nally lower for parcels on the spot and afloat. Rice has met with more inquiry, but values are unaltered. Hemp is un changed, at £34 for St. Petersburg clean. Coffee has met with little inquiry, at the late lowest point. MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. —This market remains very dull, but prices are no worse since Friday. In consequence of the steadier tone with the reduction in values, buyers have been induced to give orders previously held in abey ance. There is, therefore, not that total absence of business which was the case for a week after the declaration of war. All our large buyers still keep aloof from entering into fresh con tracts, even though prices are temptingly low. TESTIMONIAL TO COLONEL TAYLOR, M.P. On Saturday afternoon a number of the members of the Conservative party met to present a testimonial to the the Right Hon. T. E. Taylor, M.P., in consideration of his long and zealous services to the party as " whipper in." The Right Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., presided on the occasion. The testimonial was in silver, and was composed of a plateau, a seven branch candelabrum, and two desert stands. The inscription was :—To the Right Hon. Thomas Edward Taylor, M.P., by his political friends, in appreciation of his long and faithful services to the Con servative party." The Chairman said : Colonel Taylor, I have been re quested, on behalf not only of those who are here present, but also of some 600 other gentlemen, to ask you to do them the great kindness to accept at our hands this small testimonial of our opinion of your great deserts. In a matter of this kind the testimonial must not be reckoned merely according to its pecuniary value. We ask you to accept this as a memorial of the political struggles through which we have passed, and as a pledge of the respect and affection which we entertain towards you, and it reminds us of the good fight which we have waged together in many a battle. I shall not, on my part, conceal that I feel it a great honour to have been called to perform this office, because it enables me to be the means of expressing to you the feeling of regard and affection which we all en tertain towards you. I beg now to offer you the testimo nial which has been prepared in your honour. Colonel Taylor said : Mr. Henley, my lords, and gentle men—l assure you lam very sensible of the great honour which I am now receiving at your hands, and I feel very deeply the kindness which has dictated the presentation to me of this magnificent testimonial. Mr. Henley alluded to the fact that we have both been ahout thirty years in Parliament. I believe that we both belong to that small number of men who during that period have sat uninter ruptedly for the same constituency. I have represented my county for upwards of twenty-nine years, and for more than half that time it has been my privilege to act as "whip," at one time with Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, and afterwards with my friend Sir William Joliffe, now Lord Hylton. lam conscious of the responsibility which the office involves, but that I have not been wholly unsuc cessful the attendance on this occasion shews. In 1868, for the first and only time in my life, I became seriously ill, and when I got about again I felt that I was not up to my old work. It then became matter of consideration whether I should not best promote my own health and the interests of the party if I made way for some younger man. At that time Mr. Disraeli was pleased to offer me a high and honourable place, involving not nearly the same amount of work, and Mr. Noel became my successor. As regards to party, it is true that we are now in a considerable minority, but we still number 265 in the House of Commons, and what adds to our importance is that we are a close, compact, and united party; whereas the "tyrant ma jority, " which stands opposite to us, with a majority which may be counted at 130, is split up into sections, which do not, and will not, alirays pull together. In all the battles for counties lately we have won handsomely. We have run our opponents very hard in large cities like Norwich and Bristol, and in the small places we have met with a good degree of success. With re spect to the future, too much attention cannot be given to the subject of working men's associations; and a care ful attention to the revision of the register may help us to increase our numbers. I trust that our organisation in the future will be found to work better even than in the past. I return my heartfelt thanks to the personal and political friends who have invited me to accept this magnificent testimonial, and I tender my thanks also to those who have done me the honour to attend here to-day. Mr. Disraeli, whose rising evoked much cheerifig, said : I am glad to have the opportunity of expressing my grati fication at a time when such an appreciative tribute in connection with such important services is being rendered. to Colonel Taylor. The office which Colonel Taylor occu pied for so long a time is one which requires energy, com bined with great judgment, perfect temper, and also com plete firmness. It is the possession of these united charac teristics which has enabled him, under very disadvan tageous circumstances, acting with a minority of the House of Commons even when we were in, office, to bring about results many of which were satisfactory, and to all of which we can look back without shame. On the motion of the Earl of Abergavenny, a vote of thanks to the chairman was cordially adopted, and Mr. Henley briefly expressed his acknowledgments. THE LATE NORWICH ELECTION.—The petition presented by the Conservatives against the return of Mr. Tillett, M.P. for Norwich, will be tried before Mr. Justice Byles. . _ THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.—It is understood that Mr. WC. Torrens will, in the course of the present week, ask her Majesty's Government whether the statement received by telegraph from the United States, that the late Lord Clarendon had refused to re-open negotiations with the American Government in reference to the Ala bama claims, is true ; and, if so, whether the correspon dence bearing upon such refusal will be produced? THE HYDE PARK BRAWL. At the Middlesex sessions yesterday, before Sir Wm. Bodkin, Major Frederick Campbell Kane, of No. 16, Piccadilly, surrendered to his bail on a charge of assaulting Major Robert Gordon, of 32, Clarges-street, Piccadilly, a short time since. It will be remembered that a dispute arose between the prosecutor and defendant with reference to the accidental spilling of some wine over a lady's dress, at a supper party which they both attended. The parties afterwards met in Hyde-park, when the assault alleged was committed. Mr. Metcalf now appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sergeant Ballantine for the defendant. When the charge had been read over, Mr. Metcalf intimated that he did not intend to call any evidence in support of the case, and the defendant was therefore acquitted, Sir William Bodkin saying that all the costs would have to be defrayed by the parties themselves and not by the county. A REVOLTING CASE. At the Middlesex Sessions, yesterday, before Sir Wm. Bodkin, a gentlemanly looking young man, named Frederick Henry Park, said to be a brother of the Park who figures in the " Men in female attire" case, was charged with indecently assaulting a man named White, formerly a police constable, and now a letter carrier in the General Post-office. The offence was perpetrated so long ago as 1862, and the prisoner was committed for trial, but was admitted to bail. He, however, did not surrender, and the bail wasestreated. A warrant for his apprehension was issued, and was only executed a week or two since, when Super intendent Thompson apprehended the prisoner at Lanark. The evidence in support of the case was that prisoner met the Constable early is the morning, in Marylebone, and asked him to accompany him. The constable, thinking that prisoner had discovered a burglary or something of the sort, went with him to a back street, where he made a filthy proposition, and committed the assault charged. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. THE WEATHER AND TIIE CROPS. The harvest, according to the Magnet, will in all proba bility be general in the course of the week, and the accuracy of previous anticipations as to the extent of the yield will soon be tested. It has no hesitation in affirming that the fears so freely expressed a month ago of a partial failure of the wheat crops, will prove to be entirely ground less; in fact, opinion at the present moment is ra,ther inclined to support the belief that the yield will not fall far short of the average ; whilst, should the present dry weather continue the grain would be secured in excellent condi tion, and wc uld be immediately available for the market. The quality also promises to be good. As regards spring corn, the yield certainly will be short; but we doubt very much whether it will be confined to the miser able proportions a short time since assigned to it by per sons who regarded the state of affairs as gloomy in the extreme. NEGRO SUFFRAGE.—It is as we expected. The democracy of the border states of the olden time decline to count negro suffrage, and the negro question generally, among the " dead issues "as to which the leaders of the party at Washington deprecate discussion. They insist that whatever concerns the negro is a live issue in their respective States, and govern themselves accordingly. Hereupon the World scolds these members of its party as "hide-bound Border-State politicians," and exerts itself to convert them to moderation and common sense. The task is ungracious, and will be bootless. The K en tucky Democracy may be supposed to understand their own principles and purposes, and if they choose to commit political suicide, shall the World hinder them? They dictated terms to the party at New York in July, 1868, and they, propose to do as they please in July, 1870.—New York Times. AMERICA AND CUBA. The official statement of the outrages perpetrated in Cuba more than confirm what has already been stated here of the inhumanity of the Spaniards on that island. Against this inhumanity the United States Government has, it appears, frequently and strongly protested. More it could not well have done, but the protests have been in vain. It is not certain, however, that all which might have been done has been performed in protecting American citizens in Cuba. The report contains a list of murdered and illegally executed persons, " said to be citi zens of the United States." It was enough that they claimed to be citizens to have entitled them to protection until it was proved that their claims were false. We have never been as prompt nor as positive as we ought to protect our citizens abroad, It is clear that our into conduct in regard to the unfortunate Americans in Cuba has not been any improv,ement on our past policy.— Tribune. THE INDIANS. WASHINGTON, July 9. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs received a telegram from Colonel Chambers, commanding Fort Fetterman, re. porting that Red Cloud and the Ogallala Sioux had gone up to the Powder River country to hold a general council with the other Sioux. The Powder River is within the hunting country reserved for the Sioux, and it is under stood that Red Cloud will exert his influence for peace. Colonel Chambers further reports that the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, not 'members of R ed Cloud's band, are com mitting some depredations. CHEYENNE, m. WYOMING, July 9. , The Laramie Sentinel publishes the following in regard to the Big Horn Expedition :—" Judge Jones informed us that but little was known of the party since they left Camp Brown and struck out into the wilderness, further than that they were beyond the reach of hearing of friends, among intensely hostile Indians, and the Judge expressed the belief that not one of them would ever get out alive. Judge Jones would not express such an opinion if there were not the best grounds for apprehen sions of the worst." THE "THIRD PARTY" IN PENNSYLVANIA. The Third Party movement in Allegheny County seems to have resulted in a most signal failure. In only seven teen districts were meetings held and the form of electing delegates gone hrough with. The Hon. R. B. Carnahan presided at their Convention on Wednesday. Less than fifty delegates appearing, it was, on motion, determined that persons present favouring the movement be admitted as delegates to represent districts unrepresented. In this way about 76 delegates were secured, when in a full con vention there would be about 244. This is a most miser able showing for the new party. The convention must have been very friendly to Mr. Mackey, as most of the candidates for the Legislature are his warm friends. This is as it should be, and we are glad to note this evidence of good feeling on the part of our friends of the Commercial. The convention was far from harmonious, many delegates advocating the policy of making no nominations. The best evidence of the weakness of the movement is that Moorhead and Carnahan both refused to permit the use of their names. Many of the nominations are very weak, owing doubtless to the tact that good men refused to permit the use of their names. The defeat of Anderson for Senate is a surprise, in view of the earnest manner in which the Commercial urged his claims last year. We hope that ere long our friends in that county will settle their difficulties, and that Moorhead, Carnahan, and Brigham with his Commercial will fall into the support of the regular nominees. The Etening Chronicle seems to have backed out of the movement, and the Commercial stands alone in the advocacy of the third party.—Beaver Radical. _ _ The attempt to disorganise the Republican party in Allegheny county has proven the sorriest failure we re member in politics. On July 5 the bolters were called on to elect delegates to a convention, and in Pittsburg and Allegheny city only ten wards out of the thirty-one wards into which these two great cities are divided held any election at all, and these ten wards only cast 161 votes ! The relative strength of these bolters and the Republican organisation may be seen at a glance by comparing the vote cast for Geary last year, and the vote cast on Tues day last. Geary, whose majority was more than 5,000 below the regular Republican majority in Allegheny— polled 9,404 votes in the two cities, which now give to the "bolters less than one-fifty eighth of the actual vote on a reduced poll last October. The highest vote cast for de legates on Tuesday in any one ward was thirty-seven, the next eighteen, the next seventeen, two wards cast fifteen votes each, one ward cast three votes and one seven, while in twenty-three wards not one vote was polled. The con vention was filled up with self-elected delegates. These assume to speak for 15,000 voters who ignore them. The " reform" is thus completed.—Harrisburg Patriot. ALLEGED SEIZURE OF PROPERTY BY AMERICAN OFFICERS IN CANADIAN TERRITORY. A case is reported from the St. Clair frontier which will doubtless engage the attention of both the Canadian and United States Governments, and if the fact turn out as stated by our correspondents, there can be little doubt that the person who has suffered by what appears to have been a very uncalled-for act of interference, to use no stronger term, on the part of some over-zealous American customs officers, will obtain full and early reparation. The facts stated are follows :—Mr. John Brown, a contractor, has been for some years engaged in dredging a new channel through the St. Clair Flats to the eastward of the old ship canal. That this gentleman's works are within Canadian jurisdiction will not be disputed. In the ordi nary course of his operations Mr. Brown purchased wood, which was shipped in the Sydenham River on two vessels, a steam barge and a wood scow, the property of Mr. Hiram Little of Wallaceburg. On its arrival at the scene of operation the wood was discharged on the western side of the works. The men had not unloaded the freight, however, when they were pounced down upon by a party of revenue officers from Detroit, who seized the vessel and wood (fifty-eight cords), and Mr. Little, happening next day to follow his cargo, they arrested him also, and car ried him off along with his property to Detroit on a charge of smuggling. He was ultimately released with his effects on giving bonds for the property in $2,500 and $5OO for costs. If Mr. Little had, without notice, landed dutiable materials on American soil, however openly, we may assume that it would constitute a contraband pro ceeding, however mitigated by the absence of any attempt at concealment. The question which arises is, therefore, the very simple one, whether the boundary dividing Canada from the United States is to the west of the point at which the seizure took place, or more to the eastward, in which case the American officers might be technically in the right. But in the face of the settlement under the treaty of Ghent in 1822, it appears hardly possible to doubt that the act com plained of is altogether unwarrantable. After tracing the boundary line up the Detroit River to Lake St. Clair, the boundary is defined to run through the middle of said lake in a direction to enter that mouth or channel of the River St. Clair which is usually den )urinated the Old. Ship Channel • thence along the middle of the said chan nel, between Squirrel Island on the south-east and Her son's Island on the north west, in a direction to enter the strait or passage between Drummon's Island on the west and the little manitou on the east, thence through the middle of the passage which divides the two last men tioned islands, &c. Mr. Brown's works are said to be on the east of the channel thus indicated, and consequently . within Canadian territory. Two points, therefore, if there really is any question at all about the matter, have to be decided. First, whether there exists a doubt as to the boundary, and secondly—that settled—was the pro perty seized in United States territory or no not ? Read ing the definition above given, we are not able to discover any ground for dispute as to the respective limits of the two countries. That conceded, a demand for due com pensation to Mr. Little and an apology for the mistake would follow, and we should suppose not be disputed or refused. It is for the interest of the natives to avoid any difficulties of this nature. The officers who made the arrest probably acted on their own responsibility, and al though that does not relieve the Government of its lia bility to Mr. Little, it woidd render it the more easy to settle the difficulty. It is a case that should be dealt with promptly and energetically, and if as described, is one that should be very easy of solution. - -Toronto Globe. VIRGINIA.—Some of the Virginians are labouring in a field that will ultimately prove to be far more profit able and vastly more promotive of the good of the people of that great State than giving so much time to politics. The State Agricultural Society is earnestly striving to make its next fair and cattle shew the largest and most attractive ever held in Virginia, embracing not , only specimens of the various minerals and other rich deposits of the State, but also to exhibit the most extensive vai iety of the industrial productions of the people in every form, combining the whole in one grand exhibition. Virginia is opulent in natural resources, and ought to be the seat not only of a great agricultural community, but of vast manufactures and commerce. Philadelphia Ledger. CHINESE NATURALIZATION AND LABOUR. There is great misapprehension of the points involved in the debate on the Chinese naturalization question in the Senate on the fourth of July. The point (and as we have already remarked, it touches the labour question) which turned the vote of the Senate was, that under the Coolie contract system these Chinese immigrants are owned by the contractors, and are not free agents, as other immi grants are—that they are in point of fact slaves for a term of years. There is another misapprehension. Many writers for the newspapers seem to be of the opinion that the refusal of the privilege of naturalization to the Chinese is an infringement of the recent (Burlingame) treaty. This is not so. To guard against just such complications as the present that treaty was amended by the insertion of these words :—" But nothing herein contained shall be be held-to confer naturalization upon citizens of the United States in China, or upon the subjects of China in the United States." This was a notice that the question of naturalization was not to be effected in any way by the treaty. Such is the statement of Senator Williams, of Oregon. upon whose motion the treaty was so amended.— Philcalelphia Ledger. FRUIT REPORTS AND PROSPECTS. It has come to be almost a matter of course that with the close approach of every fruit season, unfavourable reports are circulated as to the extent and quality of particular crops. This is done chiefly in the interest of speculators. The process is, however, a very absurd one, and is sure ultimately to defeat the originators. So many predictions of scarcity have been followed by over whelming supplies, that the public ceases to believe state ments put forth without good proof. Still, it may not be amiss to contradict false reports by citing good authority, and thus to prevent the circulation of other fictions. For example, a report is finding its way through the Press that the Delaware peach crop will not be more than half the usual average, and that growers are-refusing to contract to deliver on the railroad for less than a dollar a basket. Of course this report may be true so far as the intention to force artificial prices is concerned, but the facts as to the crop are the reverse of those stated, if the Department of Agriculture is to be believed. Its report asserts that a full crop of peaches may be expected in Maryland and Delaware, and that the peach regions mostly depended on for market supplies will harvest fully an average crop. This being the prospect, any attempt to produce alarm must fail. The people, after having suffered from the sweltering heat of an ex ceptional summer, look forward with some interest to the enjoyment of cool and luscious fruits, and any combination which should deprive the poorest among us of this boon ought to be prevented as far as pos sible. Abundant supplies of other fruits are confidently expected. It is, says the. Report, " a great apple year in New England." The amount of bloom was extraordinary in New York, and the promise of a fine crop is excellent, as in all the Middle States— with some trifling local drawbacks, which will not affect the general result. There can, therefore, be no scarcity such as has occurred on some previous occasions. It will be of no avail for speculators to repeat their alarm note of short supplies and high prices. The season is one of abundance, and prices must be governed ac cordingly. AMEBIC kN NOVELS. The London Saturday Review, in summing up the field work covered by Dickens, complacently remarks : " Martin Chuzzlewit ' left no characters in America un described which are susceptible of embodiment in fiction." Surely the critic has forgotten our typical young lady, well known to all Englishmen, who always prefaces her remarks with " Du tell ! " and who, when known to Mr. Anthony Trollope in a foreign Court where her father was Minister, habitually saluted her friends as "You ass ;" but who afterward, so Mr. Trollope tells us, with a deal of naïveté, " married into the highest ranks of the British peerage, and adorned her position by her man ners." We assure the critic also that Jefferson Brick did not exhaust the types of American editors ; but the " New York Key-hole Reporter" and " Back-door Listener " have lately appeared under new forms, better fitted for circulation in the higher classes. The " Mother of the Gracchi," too, since Dickens was here, has for saken her natural babes, and adopted her sex. " For it," she tells us, " she suffers, she toils, she is crucified." She no longer pours forth her deep truths in a snuffle at the hotel table, but in the rostrum, or in a broker's or lawyer's office. Seriously, nothing has cramped our writers so much as such ludicrous criticism as that of The Review, which only echoes that of this country. We are perpetually told by our own critics that an American novel is impossible. That field of literature is closed to us, until our social condition can be happily brought into a mould more nearly approximating to the settled forms of the English. Now, the truth is, there is no country in the world where individual character is developed as freely among circumstances as varying or dramatic as our own. We have every nationality under heaven interfused or repelling each other, every variety of religious creed, every possible background of scenery, from Arctic snows to tropical sands. Whether the work of the novel-writer be simply to amuse or to present human nature in new and effective forms, embodying vital truths, he can hardly want for dramatis personce in this great plain, stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific where savages and saints, Pagans and Presbyterians, Digger Indians and women, enlightened and fashioned to Brahmanism, are all at home together. Specimens of what a novel should be in character and scenery are per petually placed before us from the other side of the water. We are bidden to watch the dilemmas, both social and housekeeping, of gentlemen who have married below them into commercial circles. We are kept by the aforesaid Mr. Trollope on the tenterhooks of anxiety for a year, while Miss Rowley makes up her mind whether or not she Is in love or not with Mr. John son, and six months longer while she finds a chaperon to guard the proprieties. But do these works of High Art exhaust all the springs of human action ? We confess we are growing a little weary of pictures of British society which are precisely the gossip we hear at tea-tables or the club, in print with change of name. We want to hear how Passion and Virtue, God and the Devil, shew them selves through the stronger, fresher natures of a new world. Can none of our writers go out, as Dickens did, and paint what lies about them ? One hint we will give them. In out-of-the-way corners of the older States there is fast dying out now a race which has never yet, except in New-England, been photographed or chronicled—the " old settlers "—men and women sometimes of great native strength and large culture, whose natures are broadened and hardened into queer idiosyncracies by dint of wrestling with a crude, unsubdued soil, and a solitary half-civilised life. They form an invaluable portrait gallery for the artist who knows his opportunity, posses sing strong, acrid individuality in themselves, and repre senting a phase of American history which, once suffered to fade from the canvass, can never be restorrd. Let us have no more talk of the impossibility of American novels. If we have any genuine writers of fiction among us, let them go to work.—Tribune. PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE. With this cheerful invitation that modern Radcliffe, Mr. Charles Reade, introduces us into a very magazine of horrors, the more than mysteries of the British Trades- Unions. In our sympathy with his hero, we are expected vicariously to be shot at w ith arrows , an d slung at with knives, and burnt up in stables, and blown up in forges— only stopped on our way to the sky by sticking in cleft iron bars—and splintered into bits by nitro-glycerine, a stray arm or a leg of us " Found Drowned," to say nothing of minor drains upon our feelings by flood and field. The great American nation is also getting out a novel, a serial experiment, of which we have been favoured with some of the advanced chapters. It is called " J ohn,"' but the title borrowed from the British workman will do as well. John, we glean from these early pages, is to have a very hard time of it while the plot is being played out. He is to Put Himself in the Place of a great many things. He is to receive the skull and cross-bone warnings, is to have his pig -tail cut off, and his shanty fired, is to find powder in his forge, and poison in his puppy-stews. This is Mas sachusetts. In New York he is to be hanged to lamp posts, or beaten to death in the Bowery, or found floating—the bits of him—down among the docks. In Pennsylvania he i s t o b e bl own u p i n coal mines, and charged to " fire-damp," or scalded to death in Iron Furnaces, or run down on railroad tracks, hours after he has gasped his last sigh. For, are not the Trades Unions omnipotent ?' and has not labour learned at last how to hold capital in check ? And between these mill-stones, the upper and the neither, it is easy to see the pulverized fragments of John. But, bor rowing a trick from Mr. Reade, you see, after he has been ground to powder, he comes out again, this ever-renewing John, good as new, to undergo fresh trials and vexations, and another martyrdom. For, now that Sambo has been satisfactorily put out of the way, having proved that he won't leave his place in the sunny south to take the bread out of white labourers' mouths in the frozen North—in fact, that he won't put himself into anybody's place but his own, as a God-fear ing, upward-striving, American citizen—what would the politicians do but for John! Put himself into the place of the hitherto irrepressible negro, he must and shall, say they. For a war-cry, and a shibboleth, and a Tally-ho, what so new, so stirring ! "We won't hays him !" say the Democrats, watching the Irish immigrant ship safe into harbour. " We're afraid to touch him," whisper some of their opponents ; " we would like to, but Nativism isn't dead yet, and 'tis much as we can do to attend to one colour at a time !" And the standing joke of the American people, the laughing-stock, will have to be painted anew. It used to have thick lips and a woolly head, and its shin-bones were of the fashion it pleased God. Now, its eyes must be slanted obliquely, its head must be shaven, it must dress in strange stuffs, and carry a fan. But we'll back the American nation, in the winding-up of its novel against any Charles Reade on earth. We shall waken up some morning in the Seventy-first Chapter, to find that all is serene, that the hero John has wedded Patience, and that all goes smoothly in workshop and forge. The " intelligent American mechanic " will discover that the world is wide. And in Central Park, . the Irishman with his shovel, in Schuylkill County the Cornishman with his pick, may possibly strike out the solid truth that the rights of labour and capital go hand in hand, but that the crowning rights of humanity, of flesh and blood and human brotherhood, are through all and above all.— Tribune. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has declined to hold out any hope of a commutation of the capital sentence passed upon the man Carr, who murdered a woman named Margaret Murphy in Dublin some weeks since. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., at Seale, Surrey, the wife of Colonel Ellington, Rifle Brigade, of a son. On the 22d inst., at Oxford, the wife of Professor Wall, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 20th inst., at 41, Bedford-square, Godfrey Davis, of 19, Montague-plac e , R usse ll- square , t o J eannette Beatrice, second daughter of John Wolff, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Stoke Church, Guildford, Charles S. Heard, of Fenchurch-street, E.C., to Marian, the only daughter of W. J. Highgason, of Guildford, Sur rey. DEATHS On the 21st inst., at the Franciscan Convent, Bayswater, Sister Mary Elizabeth Lockhart, aged 59. On the 21st inst., William Brown, Esq., of Conduit Lodge, Blackheath-park, and 11 and 12, Love-lane, Alderman bury, aged 51. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, and Published by him at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in t County of Middlesex. Tuesday, July 26, 1870. f•A i . , RY. -r, .-_ tiful. Feitil Fine A trait Bus Admissi dating to Note.— Exhibitic new photo to t 4 TI flies, Trio Spinner, lous feats persons, Japanese has ever mission 1 C " B. C " Tl be repre Professo C RI FEE A Wonder Rope b Grand • Offenba Athiiissi AL ItOoin Saturd spared furnisl be see at Mit, music• Box, ttc , N°. Palac( Terrai Piano: Orche Royal A' Al is a7l Chaff vale BOC be h Buc 0111(