The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-10 00:00:00

INFERIAL FARLIA.DIENT HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at fire o'clock. THE REFORM BILL. The Earl of DERBY said that as the House of Commons had disagreed with the amendments their lordships had made in the clauses of the Reform Bill, and had trans mitted their reasons to the house for their consideration, be should move that they be discussed on Monday next, on which occasion he should be prepared to make known to their lordships the course her Majesty's Government thought it expedient the house should adopt. POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM stated that he was happy to lay before the house a convention with the United States, greatly reducing the expense of postage to that country. The postage of a letter now was ls., it would be reduced to 6d.; and whereas now the postage to Canada through the United States was ls., it would be reduced to Bd. The United States in this arrangement had shown the greatest cordiality. While on the subject he should like to mention that the postal communication with India and China would be greatly facilitated, and that on the advice of the committee, who had long considered the matter, they had agreed to make a mail to Bombay and thence to Calcutta and Madras. As an erroneous im-, pression had gained ground that the Government were about to place the postal regulations in foreign hands he took the present opportunity of contradicting it, and stated that they had no intention whatever to do so, and w ere prepared to adopt a scheme approved by ntlemen ge on the opposite side of the house. PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS. The Marquis of WESTMEATH withdrew his notice of motion for a committee to inquire into the arrangements for reporting the s p eeches in the House of Lords, bat re peated his complaint that he was not fully or fairly re ported, and that he had been spoken of in a most disre spectful manner by one of the reporters. Lord DERBY was glad the motion was not pressed, and stated, amid the cheers of their lordships, that he thought they might congratulate themselves on the wonderful ac curacy, correctness, and fairness with which their debates were reported. He had never seen the slightest indication of partiality in reporting, and thought they would have no cause to felicitate themselves if the reporters were to take down and give to the world their speeches in a verbatim form, for they would then scarcely stand the test of critical examination. He did not for the moment believe there was any combination to suppress Lord Westmeath's speeches, and still less that it had been con cocted on account of the number of " Jesuits" connected with the press; the idea was entirely confined to the mind of Lord Westmeath. He condemned as most improper the language which it was alleged a reporter had used in speaking of ,Lord Westmeath, but thought his lordship owed no thanks to the confidential friend who had in formed him of it. In moving the second reading of the Factory Acts Ex tension Bill, Lord DEVON generally reviewed the whole subject, and pointed out the value of the clauses in the new bill, most especially tied one which made its pro visions applicable to any warehouse or place of business where 50 or more persons were employed. He was sure their lordships would be satisfied of the necessity of thie bill when ho informed them that the number of women and children on whom it would confer great moral and physical benefits exceeded a million and a half. Lord SHAFTESBURY expressed his deep gratitude to her Majesty's Government for having introduced this mea sure, and l.ointed out with great force the evils which it would either amend or put a stop to. He trusted that, late as it was in the Session, the bill would be carried, for passing it would carry comfort and peace to the hearts of many thousands. I,ord HARROWBY, with a few words of warm eulogy on Lord Shaftesbury's exertions in this good cause, sup ported the second reading, which was carried nem. con. In Committee on the Admiralty Court (Ireland) Bill a discussion arose on clause 5, directing the removal on his full salary on the present Judge of the Admiralty Court in Ireland. This was strongly opposed by Lord Cranworth and the Marquis of Clanricarde, and as strongly supported by, the Lord Chancellor. The discussion was pressed to a division, when there were,— er For the clause ..................... .............. 25 Against it .......................................... 5 Majority ......................................... The clause was therefore agreed to ; as were the other clauses, and the bill passed through committee. The other orderi of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at 25 minutes past 7 o'clock se . HOUSE OF COMMONS —LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took E the chair at 2 o'clock. TH REFORM BILL. Sir R. PALMER brought up the report of the commit tee appointed last night to frame the reasons for disagree ing with certain amendments by their lordships to the Bill for the Amendment of the Representation of the People. The "Reasons" were read at length by The Clerk at the table, and ordered to be transmittel to the House of Peers for their lordships' consideration. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF LORDS, AUG. 8. CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. Moved, " That the Bill be now road a second time" (the Earl of Morley); objected to. An amendment moved to leave cut "Now," and insert "this day three months" (the Lord Delamero). On question that " now " stand part of the motion ?—Contents, 24 ; Not-Contents, 82. CONTENTS. MAncans Laws. LORDS. Townshend Belper Londesborough EARLS. Camoys Lyveden Abingdon Charlemont (E. Mostyn Campe r d own Charlemont) Romilly Cowper Churchill Seaton Granville Conglet3n . Somerhill (M. Morley [Teller] Dunfermline Clanricardo) Russell Foley [Teller] Stratheden VISCOUNT. Houghton Taunton. Lobster (D. Lein star) NOT-CONTENTS. CHURCH RATES. Mr. GLADSTONE gave notice that next session he should move for leave to introduce a bill to abolish the r ayment of compulsory Church-rates. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER appealed to several hoe. members who had notices of motion standing on the paper on the motion for going into committee of supply.- The right hon. gentleman said it was of the highest importance that the remaining votes in supply should be taken, and therefore he hoped hon. members would not persevere that day and bring forward the sub jects standing in their names. Mr. FAWCETT said he bad a notice to the effect that it would be undesirable for the Government to advise her Majesty to grant a new charter to any new university in Ireland without first consulting Parliament. If the right hon. gentleman would give him an assurance to that effect he would gladly give way. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having given the required promise, the hon. member said he should not bring forward the motion of which he had given notice. The other hon. members having consented to postpone the motions that stood in their names the amendments for the Church Temporalities Orders (Ireland) Validation were considered, agreel to, and the bill lead a third time. The same course having been adopted with respect to the Railway Companies (Ireland) Advances and Merchant Shipping Bill, the house went into C ommittee of Supply. DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART. On the vote of £162,387, to complete the sum of £206,387, to defray the expenses of the Science and Art Department of the United Kingdom being proposed, a desultory discussion arose, which terminated by the vote being agreed to. The next vote proposed was £5,711 to complete the sum of £165,700 for the London University. The vote was agreed to without discussion. The remainder of the sitting was occupied in disposing of the votes in supplementary civil service estimates. At the evening sitting the house went again into a com mittee of supply. On a supplementary Civil Service vote of £25,000 for the entertainment of the Sultan and the Viceroy, Mr. Ayrton took objection to the form of the vote, maintaining that it wore the appearance of an irregular addition to the Civil List—to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer (supported by Sir R. Palmer) replied that this had nothing to do with the Civil List, and that the visit being a na tional one a special vote was necessary; and Lord Elcho drew attention to the inconveniences and the loss of national credit resulting from the want of a suitable resi dence in which distinguished visitors could be entertained. A vote of £15,000 for purchases at the Paris Exhibition was agreed to, Mr. Hunt explaining that it was to be saved out of the £116,000 vcted for the expenses of the British Commission. .The committee then took the vote for Irish Education, the debate on which was adjourned on Monday last. Sir J. GRAY went at some length into the statistics of Irish education to show that the mixed system had not succeeded, and contending that the model schools were ugelisior purposes of proselytism, and that children were educated there whose parents were able to pay for them elsewhere, moved to strike out the £23,500 expended on them. Similar view were expressed by Mr. P. Urquhart, Sir G. Bowyer, and The O'Conor Don, who, however, depre cated the proposed reduction of the vote, on the ground that the whole subject was to be inquired into by a Royal Commission. Mr. F. POWELL expressed his regret that soms com prehensive scheme of education could not be devised, which !night be imparted to children of all denominations. Lord C. lIAMILTON made some strong remarks on what he characterised as the ludicrous misstatements of Sirj. Gray and others, and, after some observations from Mr. Whalley, Lord, NAAS brought the discussion to a close by ex plaining- that the Commission would be limited to inquiring into primary education, and expressing a confident antici pation that its result would be to suggest alterations which would make the system more universally acceptable ; and, Sir J. Gray's motion having been withdrawn, The vote vies agreed to, as was also a vote for the salaries of the lish E I ucation C om missioners' Office, which concluded the Irish ElucatiOu ComrniB3ions' Office, which concluded the business of Committee of Supply for the ons Bill a year. On going into Committee on the Fortifies._ short discussion oa the coast fortifications took place, Mr. O'BArae and Lord Elcho complaining that sufficient pre cautions had not been taken to ascertain the best system of building forts, and suggesting that fresh experiments should be made before further progress was made with these works. Sir J. PAKINGTON explained the intentions of the War-office, and the bill passed through committee. Some other orders were disposed of, and the house ad journed at ten minutes past two o'clock. ARCHBISITOP. Malmosbury Colville of Culross Canterbury Mansfield Crofton LORD Cla \ CELLOR. Nelson (Teller) Delamere [Teller] Chelmsford Powis Denman DUKES. Romney De Ros Beaufort Selkirk. Dunsandle and Buckingham and Shaftesbury Clanconal Chandos Shrewsbury Egerton Marlborough Tankervillo Foxford (E. Lime- Richmond Winchilsea and rick) min g/38E2, Nottingham Gage (V. Gage) Abercorn VISCOUNTS. Grantley Bath De Vesci Hartismere (L. Bristol Eversley Henniker) Exeter Hawarden Hey tesbury Salisbury Melville Hylton Westmeath Stratford de Red- Level and Holland EARLS. cliffe (E. Egmont) Abergavenny BISHOPS. Lyttelton Amherst Chester Northwick Bathurst (ilocester and Penrhyn Beauchamp Bristol Rayleigh Bradford Ossory, &c. Redesdale Brooke & Warwick Oxford S herbaria() Cadogan Peterborough Silchester T. Derby Salisbury . Lon g ford Devon LORDS . Skelmersda e Graham (D. Mon- Bagot Sondes trose) Boston TemplemDre Grey Brancepeth (V. Tenterden lladdington Boyne) Thurlow • Harrow by Churston Vernon Leven and Melville Clinton - Wynford Lucan Colonsay Miscellaneous Foreign News. (From Correspondents of the Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, August 8. "Well met by moonlight, proud Titania." I am apt to think the quotation pertinent, inas much as the brilliancy of the harvest moon has by no means waned by nine o'clock on a summer morning in Paris, and also as I probably play the part of Bottom in thus perpetually roaring out hints possibly undesired and unappreciated ; however, as I have as yet heard of no active proceedings, such for instance; as the stopping of a few papers having been taken, I will venture to resume, with the reader, our interrupted promenade, taking as our point of depart the palace of all the world, backed by the Seine, with its shady boulevards and glittering shop-fronts, in which are displayed the treasures and fabrications of east, west, north, and south, and we enjoy a spectacle which I can only represent to your imagination by asking you, gentle reader, to picture to yourself the aforesaid Seine running through the finest streets of London, or rather of the splendid Broad way. But we do not pass shop fronts only ; from time to time on the right and left tower the public buildings ; churches, &c., rise in view ; we are pass ing the Louvre, with its architectural restorations and embellishments ; in the vast square of the Palace yard are drawn up a battalion of infantry, they are the Zouaves of the Imperial Guard, in their m agnificent oriental costume, the picked soldiers of the Empire, whose bronzed, manly features play the deuce with the hearts of many a dame and damsel fair of La Belle Paris. On a sudden three cavaliers ride forward, clad simply in black, and as the foremost approaches, the bayonets of the square flash in the sun, as if moved, not by the hands of living men, but as if by the action of machinery, for that plainly dressed gentleman, mounted on that magnificent light chestnut, is no other than his most gracious and puissant Majesty Napoleon the Third, Emperor of France. Various evolutions follow with the same automatic precision, the Emperor and his Staff fol lowing on horseback the movements of the Brigade. At last, however, the Review is finished, and we again move on. We pass the Hotel de Ville, the Institut Francais, the immense Casernes or Bar racks of the Troops anti Gendarmerie. We reach the Pont Neuf, long ago celebrated in the Paris annals of crime, with its Grand Equestrian Statue of Henri Quatre, hero of many a French Le- ' gend, whose white-plumed helmet served for the Oriflamme, the ancient standard of France, in the Great Battle of the League. Further on we arrive opposite the ancient and celebrated cathedral of Notre Dame, with its exquisite architecture immortalised by the fertile pen of Victor Hugo in the " Hunchback ;" but as iu the case of the Exhi bition we must content ourselves with only a pass ing glance at present. In front of the cathedral, on the opposite side of the river, lies moored a long line of barges, from which large panniers of fruit, apples, pears, or grapes are continually passing to the shore, or lie exposed for sale upon the quays, for these are the market-boats which come up from Fontainebleau and its vicinity ; whilst above, on the Boulevard, the attractions of the Seine are heightened by the varied hues and' perfume of an open-air flower market. On, still on, though we feel that we could linger a little longer were it only to masticate a few of those tempting purple clusters lying so neatly in their little willow-baskets. But our moral policemen exhorts us to move on, and we obey the mandate. What building are we passing now with its double entrance and constant stream of visitors. We enter, and we find the Morgue, the Seine has been fertile in accidents, and three corpses lie exposed for recognition on stone benches, behind a thick glass screen which divides them from the public ; the room is full of anxious relatives eagerly scanning the pale faces of the departed, in most in stances!, however, without recognition. Two in scriptions on each wall invite the visitor to afford whatever information may be in his power, and acquaint him at the same time that he will incur no expense thereby. But the view of the Morgue is too saddening to invite a long delay, and we pass on along by the Wine Hall until we reach the Jardin des Plantes, which we may more properly term the Paris Zoological Gardens with its rare col lection of animated nature. The entry is free, and the gardens are seldom without a crowd, the majority being composed generally of young soldiers of the line, whose spending allowance of one sou, or halfpenny, per day does not warrant them in indulging in too expensive pleasures. The collet tion of birds and beasts is rare and extensive, and the warmer climate of France has accomplished the preservation of some choice specimens, which the more humid climate of England has failed to effect. The gardens, mixed with groves, are extensive, and most artistically laid out, and studded throughout with museums, lecture rooms, &c. A cup of exqui site coffee here, worthy reader, in front of the quaint little cafe adjoining the gardens, and in an other quarter of an hour we reach Bercy, the scene of the tournament—(for we must post-date that in teresting event, and come at once upon the spec tacle.) A large parallelogram of water is enclosed by barges moored together, the fourth side of the paral lelogram being formed by the quay itself, on which is erected a large enclosed tent and tribune filled with the elite of the fort. Ladies, naval officers, judges, visitors, &c., for the water jousts of Bercy are no ordinary event there, and although I made repeated inquiries I found no one sufficiently well informed as to be acqu tinted with the period of their origin. The scene is a very animated one, for the Seine here, of considerable width, is covered with plea. boats of all descriptions—steamers are passi •ng up and down incessantly, whilst a little lower down the trains of the Lyons Railway thunder ever and anon over one of the many bridges which span the river ; on the broad quays are ranged long rows of casks frequently arranged under camp tents, for Bercy has been colonised, as it were, by wine and brandy merchants, and as such seems their special habitation and resort. In the enclosed space of water two quaintly -shaped boats, made so as to pull either way, are advancing against each other, each impelled by two pair of paddles, two or three others of the respective crews lying about in the boats at their ease, the helmsman standing erect and steering with a cu iously shaped Ls are THE SUN, LON JOS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10 1867. oar, whilst behind him, upon an elevated platform, stands the champion, armed with the veritable blunt lance of antiquity, the knob, however, at the extremity covered with padded leather. Like the tournament of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, there are two parties, each furnishing from time to time its champion ; the uniform of the one being a tight-fitting white jacket and trousers, broad red sash, and red fez with blue tassel ; those of the others diversified only by blue being made the most prominent colour. As the boats are pulled swiftly towards each other the champions lean slightly forward upon their lances, held upright in their right hand. As they approach nearer, however, the other hand is shifted to the grasp, the lances being'lowered and levelled at the same moment, the butt being firmly pressed against the chest, the shock resulting in one or both combatants being precipitated into the water. In case of failure, however, both lances are recovered with great dex terity as the boats passed on to the respective ends of the watery lists. Considerable skill was exhi bited by these naval champions, whose success or failure appeared to excite the greatest possible in terest in the crowd present. lam inclined to think that these jousts date from considerable antiquity, or are at least coeval and similar to that of the water quentin in our country. But we may linger no longer. Back by the Rue St, Antoine until we reach the towering monument of the Bastille, or rather the celebrated Column of July, which com memorates its destruction, from a railed balcony on the summit, to which you are permitted to ascend for a trifling payment, you enjoy a panorama of Paris which no other point affords. Descending, we reach, still in our homeward course, the long, and continued line of the grand boulevards, the most brilliant of the Rues of Paris. In the course of another hour we have passed the greatest part of the theatres, the vast Cirque Napoleon re. minding us of the gigantic arenas where the stern gladiators of antiquity have so often uttered the mournful " Ave Caesar morituri to salutant," you can scarcely tread your way along, for the Trottoir in front of the hotels and cafes is densely crowded with guests; but you have doubtless by this time reached your destination in the shape of one of the magnificent hotels with which the whole line of the boulevards is so thickly studded, and as our walk comes to an end we will, with thanks for your patience and good company, wish you a cordial good night. His Royal Highness the Prince Imperial has re tpurirnaedcesfrohmealßthagiaanespedrfeeeLtiltychroen.estotaSbtliaChledou.d.. Great g ur ma St. for hsh the ap de H at on th e e re E , ng Ern . pbraseepya,raßtiaoensdaure in Fabaebo g proaching arrival of Lord L y ons, the new Ambassa dor. In order to a dd additional brilliancy to the E mperor ' s Birthday fete, the p ro p rietors of the bal loon the " Gcant" ar e makin g arrangements for ano ther ascension on Friday, the 16th of August, the day following ; the ordinary prices will be lowered on the occasion. The " Fetes de Nuit," so often announced and adjourned, are likely to be given on the double occasion of the Emperor's fete, and that of the International, given by the Expo sants in honour of the Emperor. The following details concerning the latter celebration are published in the Situation. The committee is composed of 41 members, under the presidency of M. le Baron Millet, and selected from amongst the most cele brated representants of the industry of the world. The fete is now definitively fixed for the 17th of August, at the Hippodrome. It will comprehend a banquet, a military concert, a carrousel or exhibition of equestrian statues, a cortege or procession, and a theatrical representation. As regards the banquet the centre of the Hippodrome will be occupied by a table of honour reserved for the committee, from which will diverge, like the radii for circle, 30 other tables, the Imperial table being placed at the extremity of the Grand Axis, and facing the municipal entrance. The splendid military band of the Garde de Paris will execute at the entree of his Majesty the most brilliant pieces in their repertoire ; and, among others, the overture which gained for the distinguished leader the triumph of the Ist of July. At the end of the banquet, cavaliers and amazons, in military costume, will execute quadrilles, arranged specially in honour and emblematic of the nations visiting the Exposi tion. The procession will be accompanied by a number of triumphal cars, each representing one of the ten groups of the Exposition, and escorted by a number of cavaliers. The theatrical representation will consist of a grand allegorical pantomime, com posed specially for the fete, and executed upon a theatre elevated in front of the Imperial table. At three o'clock the ladies invited will be introduced by the commissaries into a special tribune, where re freshments will be served them. The subscription list will close definitively on Friday, the 11th inst. Two commissaries are permanently in attendance at the Cercle International to receive the na'nes, which will exceed 5,000. The Emperor has left for the Camp at Chalons, the. squadron of the Cent Gardes accompanying him. The King of Sweden inhabits the Hotel Rue d'Elysee, belonging to the Empress, and the cus tomary residence of Madame la Comtesse de Mon tijo, when visiting Paris. The Emperor had placed at the service of his royal guest, in the event of his wishing to renounce his incognito, the palace of the Elysee. The departure of the King and Queen of For tti;al is adjourned to the 16th of August, at nine in the evening. Their Majesties will spend the day of the 13th at Bordeaux, whence they will visit Lisbon, en route for Madrid. Preparations are actively going on at the Trooa dero for the fete of the 15th of August. Already the summit of the Grand Escalier is decorated with an Egyptian. In the lowest part of the Escalier, to the right and left, on the turf which forms the y y o ma t e doa most te to ebl elegant da i e l n i rt t e a de i :wa :i r at e he p t r ien e s r n. e u n mA t aetriaobnlse. great l amphitheatre, rise two large theatres, which will be improvement t T le h se shops o g p r a an o d f da th lel e ve is about to be brought into the service of the tele graph by the use of despatch stamps. This will give the public the opportunity of affranchisinff their telegraphic correspondence to the bureau. either by messenger, post, or by the means of specie' boxes, which will be erected for that purpose. This new method will come into operation from the Ist of January next. On Thursday last the proclamation for the edu cational prizes of the Concours des Lycees of Paris and Versailles took place. The Minister of Public Instruction presided. The Prince Imperial assisted at the solemnity. corn PARIS, Aug. 8. It is always a serious thing to have to refute an argument held up by those whose position, dignity, and talent so blind their hearers as to make very absurd theories look plausible. " Allah is great, and Mahomet is his prophet," says the faithful Mussulman, and no one thinks of contradicting him now. " The English are the freest nation on the face of the globe," says the Briton, and if that is not understood it cau be punched into one too. " The French are kept in fetters and chains of their own making," declare those who know that this closes all discussion on the subject of their liberties, and we have got so accustomed to audacious para dox that we are willing to drop every question ending with the above untruths. We do not yet see why, after having dropped the cable besides, that straightforward thing should tell roundabout stories. No, readers, the cable does not tell the truth ; it is too deep. 1 am afraid, and as the Franco American cannot be up to it, it means to be down on it every time white lies, such as the follow ing, are conveyed by it. I copy from all the New York papers, headed " Cable News," ou July 15th alt. : A NEW AMERICAN PROTESTANT Cl/URCII. Paris, July 14, 1867. The corner-stone of a new Protestant Church, for the accommodation of the American residents and visitors in this capital, was laid yesterday in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. At the conclusion of the ceremony the United States Consul at Paris, John G. Nicolay, gave a dinner, at which all the principal American citizens now here, and several eminent European frionds of the United Stabs, wero present. In the evening there was a tasteful display of fireworks in honour of the occasion. Who is responsible for this? What has the United States Consul done that he should be dragged into the Atlantic by means of a dinner or worked on by a dinner through the Atlantic, as rhetoricians like best. The truth is that he gave no dinner ; that a corner-stone of a new Protestant Church was not laid ; and that the fireworks alluded to were displayed in the following circum stances :—The Fourth of July Celebration having been abandoned by the news of the execution of Maximilian, the committee of arrangements had on hand a few pieces of fireworks which had been made for that occasion. The chairman of that com mittee, Mr. Tucker, one of the leading American bankers in Paris, obtained permission from the proper authorities to have these pieces displayed on the evening of the 13th July, on a vacant lot nearly opposite his residence. This lot has been purchased as a site of a French Protestant Church, the excavations of which were commenced a few days before, and the corner-stone of which is not yet reached. The members of the -nittee, with their families and other friends, were invited to Mr. Tucker's residence to see the fire works. A crowd also collected in the streets, but the workmen were not " regaledby glasses of punch distributed by the order of the Consul," as one of the French journals affirmed. The beautiful front of the Capitol at Washington was supposed, and an nounced in this same F rench journal , to be the ne w American temple." In such simple social affair possible, of no f w a i g s a e de th o e f m th os e t sort of interest to any but the few participators iu it, is made an event of vast magnitude concerning the public generally, combining religious ceremonies with worldly festivities and civic fetes. It becomes a matter of palpitating interest to know who really is responsible ; the glasses of punch and American grogs are, I am certain, not paid for. But I have not yet done with the Cable, for, con nected with iy, and among the recent arrivals in Paris, I have to mention Thomas Silver, of Phila delphia, the inventor of the Marine Engine Gover nor, arranged for controlling the motion of steam ships in rough seas. It is not generally known that the above eminent engineer has ever since 1859 toiled unremit tingly in order to discover machinery by means of which cable can be paid out in any weather. He has succeeded, but a greater difficulty arises, that of convincing the learned and scientific that his method insures security and an immense sav ing in expenditure ; consequently, cheap tele grams, an essential point, a point completely over looked up to this present time. Any one who has read the report of the proceed ings on the Great Eastern when the attempt was first made to lay the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, must remember the vicissitudes and accidents it experienced. How at one time it broke when the strain rose to 60 cwt., and had to be picked up ; how often that it fell overboard to the bottom of the ocean, and had to be lifted up with grapnels ; how the spur wheel of the picking-up apparatus flew asunder when 500 fathoms were on board ; how a little later the drum flew rapidly round and the other end dived into the ocean ; how the cable was caught again; but just when all hearts were rejoicing another disappointment occurred—a swivel pin gave way as the cable came over the drum, the un shackled end leaping into the sea and joining the cable. Every one knows what next happened ; how, to the honour of science be it said, despair took possession of none of the learned staff, and how ultimate success crownei persevering effort. But, even when the work was satisfactorily completed, all offered up an act of thanksgiving that " fair weather had been granted, without which the enterprise could not have been achieved." If all depends on fair weather we must not expect transatlantic cables to be worked at reasonable charges. Mr. Silver's paying-out cable machine works automatically, is never affected by rough seas, lays down with and against wind, tide, and storm, mid, if adopted, as it is hoped it will be by Mr. Allan, when his great project is carried out, we shall soon correspond with our relatives far West for the small sum of 10s. The Paris Correspondent in the Franco- American of last week gave a clear and scientific description of Mr. Silver's invention, which has called the attention of the learned to a subject of such universal interest to the public. Another piece of seafaring intelligence is that Messrs. J. W. Tucker and Co. have received a de spatch from Mr. 11. Webb, announcing the safe arrival of the Danderberg at Cherbourg, after a passage of only 14 days and 17 hours. She had bad weather and high seas, but proved herself an excel lent sea-going vessel. A pity, indeed, it is that the American Government should have parted with her. It may be remembered that she was sold to the Emperor for 15 millions of francs. The builder, Mr. Webb, has also built two ships for the Russian Government, and two for Italy. Mr. Tucker left Paris evening, where his pr a e r s is en yesterdayho transactions for the erneeua ut s ale of the Dund erber g havin g be en co mmitted to him. In my ne xt 1 will g ive a descri p tion of the for was Cherbourg necessary, r noble vessel, one of the grandest that ever entered a French port, and now, alas, hoisting the colours of qie triumphant tricolor. Our Homburg Correspondent informs us tha' of Prussia are at the forer crowds g ismarck's m advent he EnCountfolloweds. the r e cki *theyn an , d ba rruti the l oß n f was dogged at every step, and his Majesty was left in peace. Nobody looked at the Sovereign when the Minister came on the stage, not deeming the King of much account. Americans swarm on the Continent, filling all the hotels, and generally rais ing prices. Our correspondent says they univer sally exclaim on buying anything, "How cheap !" which, we must say, is not the habitual exclamation of the 'cute Yankee. The effect, our informant adds, is to en h an ce prices, for the tradesman natu rally objects to sell for less than he can get, and he would be very obtuse if he did not narrowly scan the national peculiarities and cure the next American corner of any delusion that he was buying a cheap article. We witnessed a dreadful acci dent between Coblentz and Frankfort. The high road runs between the Rhine and the railway, and as our train was rushing along, the horses in a cart, in which there were two men and three women, took fright, swerved off the road, tumbled headlong down the bank, and the whole party disappeared into the river. As we swep t alon g we eagerly loo ked for the result, but all we cou l d see were one m an and one horse swimming, and a wheel of the cart just showing above the water. The river ran swiftly a, this spot, and I fear the whole party must have been drowned. It was peculiarly unfortunate that the horses took fright and ran off the road at the only place unprotected by a railing, and the open• ing was just large enough to allow the cart to pt. through. It seemed, too, so horrible that we, who had been the innocent cause of the catastrophe, should glide on unmoved and unchecked on our iron course the silent spectators of such a disaster." They tell me this place looks different to what it did formerly, owing to the fearful financial crash of last year, followed by the railway ruin of this. So many well-to-do people who used to pay Hom burg a visit every summer are now obliged to stay at home and economise, that the present company consists mainly of " the residue." The following fires are reported :—The wooden bridge of the Rensselaer and Saratoga railroad, near Salem, New York, was burned on Thursday night, July 25 loss $10,000; other fires have damaged the freight depot of the New York and new haven Railroad, in the former city, $3,000 worth, and destroyed T. C. Riley's building on Main-street at Buffalo, New Ycrk —loss to the owner and occupants $90,000; Crane, Reed, and Ce.'s coffin manu factory at Cincinnati, Ohio—loss $75,000, mostly insu red ; a tobacco factory, a cotton warehouse and other property in the navy yard at Memphis, T enne ssee —loss $ 150 , 000 ; Mears and Bates's shi ng l e m ill and lumbe r y ard at Chi cago—loss $30,000 ; the principal busin ess p ortion of Tar boro, North Carolina--l oss $75,000 ; seve ral stores at Port Hope, C. W.—loss $50,000; and about twent y houses in Oliver and Latonville streets at Quebec. THE AMERICAN LIFE RAFT.--This diminutive specimen of nautical architecture, which arrived at South ampton a fortnight ago, having been navigated across the Atlantic by throo men in 43 days from New York, has been a source of great attraction during the present week's regatta at Cowes, and her Majesty the Queen went along side in her yacht and looked at the little craft. The raft left Southampton yesterday for London for the purpose of being exhibited at the Crystal Palace. This frail structure is so made that it can be taken to pieces or put together iu about 20 minutes. There has been a great freshet in the Upper COMMERCIAL. Mississippi River, the heaviest that has been known since sible it is even for the best informed to speculate with any 1850; and it is estimated that the Minnesota lumbermen 1 degree of security on the future.* have lost thirty-five million feet of lumber, worth at least The Stock Exchange is active, and notwithstanding the $350,000. The wreck of the old North Minneapolis heat of the season, and the large number of operators ab- Bridge has been swept away, and the stone abutment of sent, shows no sign of dulness. Most of the linos have the Pacific Railway Bridge across the Mississippi at had a continual rise, although there are some exceptions. Minneapolis has fallen, involving a loss of $20,000. New York Central has steadily improved. Erie Stock is The Spring field Republican states that " the also in demand, and will, it is said, go above the limit of Montreal Minerve, the Catholic organ, reiterates its story 80. The dry goods trade continues stagnant, but there is that it was a Protestant clergyman, now living in a a decided improvement over last week in the confidence northern city, who originated the idea of assassinating manifested. All look to be relievedfrom the intolerable dul- President Lincoln ; and adds further that the Minister ac- tress by the splendid harvest. I inclose the latest quotations. tually made a private ettompt to assassinate Mr. Lincoln. Gold 139, United States Five-Twenties (1862) 109 to Having gone so far the editor of the Miner ve is morally 1111, (1861) 1091, (1885) 1091, (1865, New Issue) 1081, bound to expose the assassin, that he may be brought to United States Ten-Forties 1021, United States 7-30 Loan punishment, otherwise be will himself be justly held guilty 108, Missouri Sixes 105 , Tennessee Sixes 671, New York of complicity in the great crime." Central Railroad 109, Erie 711, Erie Preferred 80, Hudson The iron Age, of July 25, says the new Postal River 1191, Reading 108, Michigan Central 1121, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 831, Illinois Central 1191, Convention between the United States and Great Britain, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 92, Cleveland and Toledo 123, of which official proclamation is made to-day, and which Chicago and North-western 481, Chicago and North will go into effect on the Ist of October next, provides for an western preferred 721, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago exchange of correspondence between the two countries, 106, Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific 103, Toledo and British and also be ost- tw office ageneics een the Uuited States and Bermuda, and tho Wabash 521, Ohio and Mississipp i Certificates 27, Adams p established in the Danish colony of St. Thomas, iu Panama, Colon , S an Juan, and Express Company 73 to 7 4 , American 75 , We lls, Far g o, and Co.'s 691, Western Union Telegraph Company 481, Porto Rico. A Pacific Mail Steamship Company 116 1, Cumbe rland Coal number of documents have been published Company preferred 381, Canton Company 501, Quicksilver relative to the capture of Santa Anna on board an Ameri- Mining Company 311, Mariposa Mining Company, 341, can vessel. The most important is the protest by John Mariposa Mining Company Preferred 238,805t0n Water Deaken, captain of the Virginia, who declares on oath that Power Company 23. when Santa Anna was taken by force from his vessel, the Virginia was anchored more than a marine league from the port of Sisal. During last week the movements of the precious metals were of a rather extensive character as regards the imports, which have amounted to about £1,187,160, including £231,000 from New York, by the City of Paris ; £134,400 by the Aleppo, £60,000 by the Hansa, and £353,030 by the Scotia. The Dover Castle, from Australia, has brought £132,112; the Douro, from the West Indies and Pacific, £232,179 ; the Euxine, from Alexandria, £483 ; the Oneida, from the Brazils, £14,328 ; and about £29,628 in silver has been received from the Continent. The exports have been £l,O 0 to the West Indies by the La Plata, and there have been remittances to the Continent through private sources estimated at £350,384, the total amounting to £351,381. The Springfield Republican tells the story of the (Front Messrs. Bowles, Dreveg, and Co.'s Circular.) Paris, August 9, 1867. Tho tendency to improvement noted in our last circular continues, and the market has been active and higher. United States Securities have been largely dealt in at steadily advancing rates both for speculation and invest ment, and the issue of 1862 closes in active request at 831. Several transactions have occurred in 1865's (daily becoming better known) at 81k. Our advicos from New York are to the 6th August. Gold 140 U.S. Bonds (1862) 1131 The Route closes at 69 421 Tho Italian closes at Exchange on London 25 171 (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Aug. 7.) Our advises from New York, by the Scotia, bear date the 23d July ; they report a slightly decreased demand for Government Stocks, but without any noticeable decline in quotations. The conversion of the 7-30 Treasury Notes duo this month, continued at the rate of about two millions daily. In the Railroad Share Market great activity pre vailed, and prices were well maintained on speculative buying; Hudson River was the favow ite stock, and after touching 121, closed at 120, an improvement of four, and the latter of two dollars per share. State Stocks were in good demand, and first-class rail road mortgages were readily taken at enhanced quotations. Gold had been steady during the week, ranging from 139 to 140. sad suicide at Monson, where a Japanese student hanged himself :—Ashiwara, one of the six Japanese youths who have been pursuing their studies at Monson for several months, committed suicide by hanging, on Sunday even ing. He was last seen alive about half-past 8 o'clock p.m. on that day, not far from the place whore his body was found, and probably committed the act of self-murder soon after. His absence from his boarding house all Sunday night roused suspicion and alarm for his safety, and on Monday search was commenced by a number of the citi zens, and about 8 o'clock in the evening, 24 hours after his appearance, his body was found suspended from the limb of a tree in a retired spot about a mile east of the village, and a little distance from the highway. Beside him on the ground lay his hat, coat, and umbrella, and around his neck was tightly knotted a strip of cotton cloth which ho had taken with him from his house, showing that the act was one of mature and deliberate premeditation. His watch was found going, and his money safe, and all the con tents of his pockets undisturbed. His last walk on Sun- L day:evening last was taken alone, an unusual circumstance or the Japanese, as they generally go out in groups of three or four, or quite often the entire six take their strolls together. Ashiwara also was gone horn home for a long time on Saturday on a similar solitary excursion, and doubtless then meditated the act of suicide. His body was immediately removed and the remains prepared in the Christian order for burial, his countrymen assisting in the sad offices. Tho cause of the act was undoubtedly ex treme depression of spirits, resulting principally from a chronic disease which had for many months afflicted him, and from which there was little or no hope of relief. The dejection and melancholy may have weighed upon the un fortunate man so heavily as to produce during the last days of his life positive insanity, though from his mild and retiring disposition it would not have been of very decided manifestation. Ashiwara was about thirty years old, and left a wife at his home in Yokohama, whence he came by by way of San Francisco, arriving in Monson in Novem ber. He was sent directly to the care of the Rev. Charles Hammond, principal of the M onson Academy, by the Rev. Mr. Brown, the American missionary, while his comrades came from Nagasak i, by way of London, ultimately to Monson, but under different patronage. The deceased Japanese is spoken of by his instruc tors and acquaintances at Monson as a man of true and unusual nobility of character, and industrious and faithful to his duties. Ho was sensitive to the last degree on all points of honour or personal reputation, and during his stay in this country bad woe tho esteem and sincere regard of all with whom he had come in contact. During the first few months of his residence at Monson, he was often oppressed with home-sickness and earnest longing for his native land, but bad lately seemed to overcome in a great degree those feelings and appeared quite contented. The Rev. Mr. Brown arrived at New York on a return visit to this country only a day or two since, and has boon summoned to Munson by a telegraphic despach for con sultation as to the disposal of the body of Ashiwara. This death among us of the stranger student from the other side of the globe, thousands of miles away, is a most sad event, and doubly painful from its peculiar and impressive circumstances. CALIFORNIA WILEAT.--The importance of Cali fornia as a source of supply for a superior quality of wheat is just beginning to be felt. This season, for the first time in Now York, there is a market for the San Francisco grain merchants. From a letter from the latter city wo learn that the crop this year is not far from 7,500,000 bushels, and up t o this time, since July 1, there have been exported 2,022,59 1 sacks of 100 pounds each. The stock now in store in San Francisco is 1,500,000 sacks, and estimate 1,000,000 sacks in the interior, making 2,50),000 sacks, or 7,500,000 bushels. The season is very propitious, and tho crops to be harvested next July will reach fully 12,000,000 bushels, not including some 2,000,000 bushels of Oregon wheat. California wheat, it is to be understood, is, owing to the peculiarity of climate, the best in the world, and is produced at relatively less expense than elsewhere. The soil is very prolific, and thirty or forty bushels per acre is not a large yield. It is the climate, however, which facilitates the work of the farmer. Thet rains usually commence in October, lightly ; in November they aro generally heavy, which soaks the ground completely and prepares it for the plow. The grain is then got in and the rains continue through January and February very freely ; they then are loss f.equont and heavy, generally ceasing altogether in April. From that time to the Ist of July the grain gets no water. It results that the grain ripening in tho midst of drouth, becomes very hard and free from mois ture. It is then cut and left in the field without any danger of rain until October. It is gradually harvested and sent in sacks. Owing to its dry nature it never heats, never requires rehandling, nor does it require to b 3 reshel tered, thus saving a great expense to the firmer. The same qualities of wheat make the flour fit for any voyage and for any climate without the least danger of spoiling. Where the wheat is first introduced it is supposed to be hard, flinty, and very dry. When used alone many millers damp it to make it more easily floured, but mixed with other wheats no difficulty is encountered in treating it." A SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—A few days ago, while ono of the clerks in the Now York Post-office was stamp ing letters to be sent by mail, he was much frightened by an explosion occurring. A part of a letter he was stamp ing was blown away, and his hands wore slightly burned and his face scorched t y powder. For a moment ho sup posed that an infernal machine had boon placed in the letter, but as no very serious results ensued he regained his self-possession, and took the letter to Assistant Post master Norton. He recognised the card of a respectable firm on the outside of the letter, and sent for an explana tion, which was readily given. It appears that a gentleman wished to send some percussion caps to his boy who was in the country, and without considering the liability to accidents mailed them in a letter. Tho result was as above 1 stated.—N. I'. Post. ,ass Money continued abundant at from four to six per cent. RAILROAD TRAFFICS. The Now York Commercial Chronicle, of 27th July, gives tho following with regard to railroad earnings : The results of the second quarter of the current year compared with those of the corresponding quarter of 1866 aro shown in the statement which follows :- 1866. 1867. 1866.1867 Railroads. Gross earnings. Ear.p.mo s n. in.Dec s . 8 $ Atlantic and Gt. Western - Chic. & Alton 970,643 966,313 3,466 3,461 - 15 Chic.&GLEastern 341,256 280,286 1,219 1,001 - 218 Chic. &N. Westn. 2 , 275 , 944 2,406,744 2,205 2,102 - 103 Chic. Rock Island and Pacific 925,400 793,679 2,257 1,936 - 311 Erie 3,498,709 3,458,014 4,384 4,462 78 - Illinois Central 1,518,534 1,394,230 2,187 1,970 - 217 Marietta and Cin cinnati Michigan Central 1 044014 981,712 3,66 3 3 , 445 - 218 Michgn. Southern 1,228,560 1,051,996 2,344 2,007 --337 Mil. &Pr.duChien 637,742 321,193 2,724 1,372 -1352 Milwk. & St. Paul 611 507 644,735 2,223 2,199 - 24 Ohio & Mississip. 814,477 807,803 2,395 2,376 - 19 Pit. Ft. W. & Chi. 1 915 983 1,660,115 4,091 3,547 - 547 St. L. Alt. &T. m. '503:099 515,263 2,395 2.459 64 - Tol. Wab. & Wes. 912,424 950,940 1, 751 1,829 78 - Western Union 232932 159,121 1,316 899 - 417 - --- Total 2d qtr. 19,123,37617,939,672 2,639 2,446 - Total Ist qtr. 16,231,753 16,071,818 2,241 2,192 THE END AT LAST. NEW Yong, July 27. The California steamer arrived on Sunday with ' $1,162,000 on board. The import up to the present time is $5,776,076 less than for the same period in 1866. Money continues easy, and the accumulation goes steadily on. Advances can be readily obtained on Governments at 3 to 4, and on Stocks from sto 6. First-class paper is scarce, and sought for by banks and lenders at short dates at from 6to 7 per cent. The idea is that trade will become more active in the fall, and the demand for accommodation in crease. The Government notes maturing in August will help to increase the supply and circulate some of the large surplus now accumulating in the Treasury. The re ceipts from Customs have risen from $300,000 up to $500,000 per day, and as these sums are taken in gold, a healthy check is kept on the room, the operators fearing to push up the premium, as it might bring in the Treasury as a seller. On Monday it touched 140, but closed on Friday at 1391. There was some little excitement at the receipt of warlike ncws from Europe, but it was not main tained, and wo aro beginning to got used to this cry of " Wolf " by our news agent on the other side of the Atlantic. American silver sells at 6to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars aro worth 1031 to 103} in gold. Foreign exchange is quiet, and as the supply of bills is liluited the rates are maintained. There seems to have been a son, of panic in mining stooks at California, and the mining share market at San Francisco shows a great falling off in price. Here mining stocks are in fair demand, and a good business is doing in the better class of Colo ' redo at remunerative rates. Petroleum stocks are also in , piked for, and as the price of oil has risen the market is becoming active. Government Funds advance steadily, and the advance is supported by a sound demand, princi ; pally for the 5-20 Bonds. The Government are issuing them in exchange for the Ist Series of 7-30's. The State ment of the Public Debt will, it is said, when it comes out in August, show a decrease of two or three millions, which will belie Mr. M'Culloch's expectations when he wrote his letter. to the Boston merchants. This shows how impos- mittee knows, and that the efforts of the minority have for the last six months been directed simply to making up in bulk of evidence for what was lacking in quality. When this movement was first started, nearly a year ago, we attempted to show why it ought not to succeed, and we prophesied that it would not meet with any popular favour, although at that time the country was seething with excite ment, and the penalties of differing from Messrs. Stevens and Boutwell on any public question were heavier than they are are now. We have never since then abated one jot of our confidence in the popular good sense with regard to it, in spite of many vigorous remonstrances from excitable sub scribers, and the result has fully justified us. So, too, when shortly 'after the Nation was started, we ventured to controvert the theory which was set afloat in Massachusetts, that the Supreme Court could be got to establish negro suffrage by declaring all governments to be non-republican which made electoral discriminations based on colour, we in curred some obloquy for taking such a cold, heartless view of the powers of the court in opposition to such weighty authorities as Messrs. Boutwell and Sumner, and we forget how many others of like respecta bility. We were not shaken, however, and we have lived to see this same Court decide against Mr. Boutwell's whole plan of reconstruction, and see him denouncing it with his usual fervour and threatening it with abolition for its perverseness. We have not the slightest doubt that the confisca tion scheme will meet with the same fate as the im peachment scheme. The knowledge of history and of legislative science may not be very widely dif fused amongst the American people, but the sound common sense, the feelings, hopes, and sympathies out of which the lessons of history and the princi ples of legislative science are drawn, pervade all classes and conditions, and any writer or speaker who holds to these lessons and principles firmly may feel right well assured that even if his path should temporarily diverge from the popular path, he will not fail to come out in the end in the same place. Speaker Colfax told the story of reconstruction to the crowd under his window on Saturday night, in Washington, in fewer words and with more force and effect than we have ever seen it told, and it is a story which does infinite credit both to Congress and to the people. The process has now lasted two years ; it has been marked by much foolish speak ing, no doubt, and much waste of time, but we doubt if it would be possible to point to a legislative process in any age or country of equal intricacy and gravity which has been marked by so few mis takes. The essential facts of the case were, when the war closed, little known ; they were infinite in number and variety, and they had been complicated by Mr. Johnson's premature and unwarrantable interference. Every step taken, therefore, at the outset, had to be tentative. Nothing positive was done till the South had fairly recovered its self possession, and had revealed its real spirit. This spirit was then met by a minimum of coercive legislation. The Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act were the least that could be done, if anything was done at all, to secure to the negrocs not political rights, properly so called, be it re membered, but the common rights of humanity ; and the Southern States were offered, in the Con stitutional amendment, conditions of restoration in which the North exacted nothing whatever as a victor in a bloody struggle. It.. simply asked the South to adapt its political organisation to the alterations in its social organisation. The South, acting under the advice of Northern Democratic politicians—perhaps the shallowest politicians which any country or age has ever produced—refused this offer with much bombast and rant. A whole year was then taken for the next step, and this next step was to arrange machinery for bringing the South into the Union nolens volens, not as a slave or a vassal, but with every form and guarantee, right and privilege, which has ever been found in, or suggested for, a free government. Affliction and disappointment have, beyond a doubt, reconciled the Southern whites to their fate, 4nd this time the revolted States will qualify for readmission, and will be readmitted. The duty of the Northern people in the meantime is clear. They ought, in the first place, to embody in their own legislation the principles they are forcing on the acceptance of the South ; in the next place, bear with patience and good temper any capers which Southern politicians may be pleased to cut while coming back to their old places ; in the third place, devote themselves strenuously during the next ten years to the work of education. If the experimen t of freedom and equality should not end well in the South, it is ignorance that will cause its failure. What the blacks as well as the whites need is not land but light, and this no expense or labour ought to be spared to supply, and the more' demagogues rave and rant, the more car-loads of teachers and books we ought to send off. Every time Governor Perry makes a speech, a dozen fresh schools oug ht to be opened with Northern money. Every time Wendell Phillips calls for forty acres of land and a nomination for the Vice-Presidency for ever/ black head of a house, a ton of school books, besides periodicals, ought to be ordered and despatched• Of this work we cannot do too much, and in it We cannot waste or go astray. ie The total length of the above railroads having been in 1866, 7,24 A, and in 1867, 7,331 miles. With regard to the quarterly summary, the result is a decrease in earnings, as compared with the 2d quarter of 1866, to the extent of 6193 per mile of road operated, and since January 1 the decrease has been $242 per mile. This is about 5 per cent. on the aggregate. These results are better than were anticipated, and the loss has probably been balanced by reduced expenditures. If this has been the case, the not earnings will not be in jured, while the coming half year is full of promise, and may, from increased business, fully make up the gross totals of the railroad year 1866. We have to report a steady business in the London market for American securities. United States Govern ment Bonds have been taken for home and continental ac count, where, as well as at home, there seems to be a grow ing disposition to look favourably on them as a permanent investment; this, coupled with higher quotations from New York, has advanced the price about 4 per cent., the 1862 issue closing 731 to 1, and the 1865's 724 to 4. Illinois Central shares have been steady during the week, and at 771 to 774 exhibit an improvement of nearly $1 per share. In Eries there have been some marked changes ; after being taken last week as high as 49, they declined on telegraphic prices to 44 ; but to-day there has been a decided reaction, and th'y close 46 to 461. There has been inactivity in railroad bonds of all descriptions since our last, and they remain without change in price. * A telegram from Now York, dated August 6, informs us that the debt is $,2,511,000,000. (From the Nation.) We presume the work of reconstruction, so far as Congress has to do with it, is now over. This tim , there is no mistake about the meaning of the Re construction Bill. The military commanders arc fairly installed in possession of the supreme autho rity in the districts assigned to them, and the Pre sident is more powerless than ever he was, for he has fired the last arrow in his quiver. He has said, it is true, that he will never " willingly execute" the law—a speech which threw Mr. Boutwell into a state of great excitement, and made him call more solemnly. than ever for impeachment ; but then if presidents were to be tried and deposed for not we fear hardly any exe cuting laws " willingly," presi dent would reach the end of his term, because at least one law is passed in every term which the 46 chief magistrate" would rather not enforce. The mass of the public, we think, will be perfectly satis fied if he executes the law at all, and has given up caring greatly what his state of mind is. His last two communications to Congress, particularly the one in which he suggests the possibility of Congress having to assume the whole debt of the Southern States as the legal consequence of its interference with the work of reconstruction, were too foolish to make it worth anybody's while ever again to fol low the course of his thought with either interest or anxiety. As long as he seemed a bold and desperate man, as he undoubtedly did when he first began the game of vituperation in the spring of 1866, his manner of looking. at public questions naturally was of considerable importance. But the course which Congress has ever since pursued has so cooled his courage that we really believe him to be at this moment one of the most inoffensive men in public life. As a general rule, when a president announces that he means " to take the Constitution for his guide," as Mr. Johnson has so frequently done of late, he means that he intends to pursue a perfectly harmless career. The South, too, has by this time given up depending on him. No doubt there was a good deal of mischief done at first by his exposition of his views, but the extent of his powers is now known to everybody, and whatever hates or hopes Southern men may cherish they certainly have ceased to rely on Andrew Johnson for the means of gratifying them. We have no doubt impeachment is by this time an unpleasant subject to a large and respectable body of members in both houses of Congress. In deed, we know from Mr. Stevens himself that he, at least, wishes he were never to hear it spoken of again, and we feel sure that many other members are equally sensitive. We therefore refer to it with considerable reluctance, and without the least desire or intention of wounding any gentleman's feeling. But we owe it to ourselves and to the pub lic to mention that the affair has ended very much as we expected it would end—in rather ridiculous failure. The longer the investigation lasted, the louder were the promises of the inpeachers and the smaller their performance. The com mittee has quarrelled .a good deal, and indulged in much open recrimination ; but in spite of their quarrelling none of their " startling revela tions" have ever reach ed the public. We venture to repeat the assertion which we have already several times made, that the public knows now as bad things of the President as any member of the com- COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. There was a good attendance at to-day's market, Au d i with a good consumptive demand for wheat, we q uote tb rise of ld to 2d per cental on the rates of Tuesday last. Flour also was in good request, at former rates. BarleY and malt unchanged. Oats and oatmeal steady. lndit lu corn in good request, and prices improved 6d per qr. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. A fair supply of wheat. Trade steady, and late POI were fully supported. Barley was a scarce show, an readily made higher rates . For oats there was a fair de mand, and unchanged in value. Beans were stoadily posed of. New white wheat, 70s to 76s ; now red, 68s to 7081 )4 ° 36 stone. Barley for malting , 49 s to 54s p er q r ; grindiat 35s to 37s per 3 0 stone. Oats , 29s to 355. Beans, 476 to 50s per 38 stone. S TAMF ORD—FRIDAY. We hal about the usual show of whe at to-da y , but the business done was limited, at former currencies. Bola, was in small show at high prices. Oats no higher than ' late. Beans firm, but a moderate show. 86 ' New white wheat, 68s to 75s ; red do., 63s to 70s pe r stone. Barley, malting, 40s to 50 s • grinding, 27s to 3° ' per qr. Oats, now, 28s to 33s ; old, 30s to 32s per 24 s tone Beans, 46s to 54s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. DERBY—FRIDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat on offer to-d ll , l ' and last week's prices prevailed. A small show of burl?' and trade firm at slightly improved rates f or best kill: Beans in short supply, at the extreme rates of last vice Oats were steady. Peas unaltered. 3 6 Now white wheat, 62s to 75 5; do. red , 56 s t o 65s P a, e stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 48 s per qr. ; grind'%; 33s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26 s to 34 s ; old, 345,5,4 36s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 58s to 60s; new, 38s to per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.—FRIDAY. At our market to-day English wheat met a quiet de day. and the business done was at the rates of last Ifridoi Other articles rather dearer. Weather fine. BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. There has been very little demand for sugar doril36 the week, and prices must be quoted rather easier. Births. 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