The Sun. — London, England, 1870-07-20 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS .-YESTERDAY. _ESTERDAY. The absence of any further intelligence in this morn ing's telegrams tending to foster the belief of a spread of the war on the Continent, was regarded as a favourable featue on the Stock Exchange this morning, and notwith standing business was still confined within very moderate limits, the tone of the various department was rather more healthy. Howevor, vague rumours soon began to circu late, which, although they have not received confirmation, have at least been of sufficient consistency to cause further sales to be succeeded by a general decline. The most important report was that an affiance had been concluded between Austria and France, and, it being expected that were such an amalgamation of forces to take place, Ruisia would not long remain an idle spec tator of the scene, but would speedily support Prussia with the whole of her available power, the effect upon the stock market was electrical, and the fall very severe. Consols at one time fell to 89 sellers, the lowest quotation touched since 1866, and shewing a decline of 4 per cent, since the first rumour of an outbreak of hostilities, but the price subsequently recovered per cent. Railways and foreign bonds fluctu ated in sympathy. Turkish, Egyptian, Italian, Spanish, Peruvian and United States Five- Twenty bonds each shew a reduction averaging about 1 per cent ; whilst the railway market has been more severe, averaging as much as 2 per cent. The Consol market opened with a fair amount of steadiness. The quotation being 90i, 90i. On a pres sure of sales, the price then receded to 88, 89, but at the close it had recovered to 89k, 89% for delivery and the account. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 89i, 892 ; Bank stock has marked 231, 233 ; Exchequer bills are quoted at Is, to 6s. prem.; India Five per Cents., 110 f, 1111, and India bonds 21s. to 265. prem. The Metropolitan Board of Works Loan has been done at 93. An unsettled feeling has again predominated in the forefgn bond market. At the close there was a slight reaction, and prices, although much lower, have not closed at their worst. Italian 1861, at 44k 45i, are k lower. Spanish 1867 at 23k 24. ditto (1869) at 23k, 23/ ; Turkish Five per Cents. 1, at 36k, 37k; ditto (1869) 2, at 46, 48; Egyptian (1861) 2, at 67, 69 ex div. ; Brazilian 1, at 88, 89 ; Peruvian k. at 84, 86 ; and United States Five-Twenty bonds 2, at acq, 81k. The Spanish Quicksilver Loan has been dealt in at 12s. discount. Numerous heavy fluctuations have taken place in the value of railway stocks, and the fall in prices has again been very important. North Eastern has further re ceded 6, making 10 per cent, in two days, the quotation being 129} to 130} ; Metropolitan have been 2 lower, at 67 to 67} ; Caledonian 1, at 73} to 74i ; South-Eastern 2, at 67} to 68 ; Great Northern 3, at 115 to 117 ; ditto A, 3i, at 121 to 123; Great Eastern, 2f, at 33 to 34 ; Mid land, 2, at 123 to 124 ; North-Western 2, ate 122 to 123 ; and Great Western 4, at 64 to 64k. For Indian railway stocks there has been very little inquiry, and a general decline has taken place. Great Indian Peninsula have fallen 2, Madras 1, and Scinde 1. Canadian shares have been flat. Great Western have fallen }, and Grand Trunk, Ist Preference Bonds 2. For foreign shares there has been but little inquiry. For Bank shares the demand has been limited, and the tendency of prices has indicated depression. Chartered of India have fallen 1, and Imperial Ottoman k. Telegraph shares have been flat ; Atlantic Eight per Cent. Stock has fallen 2, British Indian Extension Shares and Falmouth f, Telegraph Construction Shares have been f lower. Miscellaneous securities have been dealt in quietly at drooping prices. The sum of £24,000 in bars, and £lOO,OOO in sovereigns, have been withdrawn from the Bank for Belgium. It is expected that further withdrawals will take place. The City of Brooklyn, from New York, has brought £69,000. The Pereire has has arrived at Brest from New York, with £lOO,OOO in specie. The Bank of France has raised its rate to per cent. The silver market has been firm. Business nominally quoted at 61k, 61. i per ounce. As regards the exchanges the rates are entirely nominal. _ _ The Money Market has again been very firm. Capital has been rather sparingly offered, and the demand for accommodation has been strong. Three months' paper has not been negotiable under 3 per cent. It is expected that a rise in the official minimum will shortly take place in sympathy with the upward movement on the Con tinent. The Bank of Prussia has raised its rate of discount to 8 per cent., and to 9 per cent. for advances. The report of the Bauk of Egypt to be presented on the 22nd instant, shows an available total of £22,115, in cluding a previous balance of £3,370. The usual divi dend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum is recommended absorbing £12,500, and leaving £9,615 to be carried for ward. At the corresponding period last year, the avail able total was £31,109, and £7,000 was then carried to reserve, leaving £10,709 to be carried forward. The paid-up capital is £250,000, and the reserve £lOO,OOO. The report of the Fore-street Warehouse Company (Limited), to be presented on the 20th inst., recommends a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent., which will absorb £19,500, and the appropriation of £20,000 to extinguish the amount due to Mr. Morrison for good-will, leaving £15,381 to be carried forward. The Staffordshire Joint Stock Bank (Limited) has de clared the usual interim dividend of 15s. per share, being at the rate of 7i per cent. per annum, absorbing £6,538, and leaving £7,299 to be carried forward. At a meeting of the City Bank, a dividend of 7 per cent. per annum was declared, and the reserved fund was increased to £95,000 by the addition of £5,000. A meeting has been held of the Metropolitan Bank. The directors' report has been adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum has beeu declared, At a meeting of the Imperial Bank a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared, and £3,543 was carried forward. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.-TIIESDAY. LATEST PRICES.-AFTER OFFICIAL HOURS. The prices under the lines indicate the business done, GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols 891 891 Brazilian, 1865, 5p c .... 85 88 901, I - , 891, 9 88, 7, 5 Do for Account 908, 891, 9 70, 69, 70, 67, 5,7, 9 Three per Cent Reduced 898 891 Do Rail Deben 7 p .. 89 93 901, 1, 898 Italian, 1861, 5 p c New 3 per Cent 94 891 858, 41, 3, 48 Exchequer Bills, March ls, 6s pm Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c.. 26 29 Do, June ls, 6s pm 271 Bank Stock 83 8 India 5 232 per Cents llOlllll Do Nicolas 4p c 6O 65 111 65; 31 4, 60, 28 India Bonds 2ls, 26aprn Spanish, 1867, 3pc Can 6pc Jan&JulylB77-84 102 104 25, 38, 1. 3, 1 Do _ March & Sept. 105 106 _ Do, 1869._Ap_c Do 5p c Jan & July. : 94 96 Turkish, 1854: 6 p c.. Do Inscribed Stock .. 94 96 801 Dom of Can 5p c 1903 .. 95 97 Do, 1865, 5 4 p c Ceylon 6 p c May and 381, 6, 74, 6 ad November 1878 lOB 109 Do, 1865, 6p c Mauritius 6p c Jan and IL S. 5-20 Bonds, 6p c 1882 804 814 July 1873 lOl 103 8 24, t, 14, 24, 804, L, 4, 1 New S Wales 5 p cliiil-76 99 101 Do 81 do 1885 80 81 100 f New Zealand 6p c 1891 lO9 111 Do 10-40 Bnds, 5p c 1904 794 804 Do 5p c Do 5 p c i_ Consolidated 97 99 Erie Sha, ls 100 dole, all paid 144 154 97, 144 Do 6p c mar & Sept 1891 110 112 Illinois Central Shares .. 99 101 Do June & Dec 1891 108 110 101, 991 Vie 6p c Jan & July 1891 111 113 Atlantic and GW R Con DoApril & Oct 1883-85 llO 112 Mortgage Bonds 2O 22 110, 111 201. 21 Viet 5p c Jan & July 1894. 99 101 81' 83' RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter B5 87 Do let Pref Bonds .... 58 60 Caledonian Grand Trunk of Canada 74 37 371 2nd Pref Stock Great Eastern Do 3rd Pref Stock , ... 33 35 ' 61 119 121 Grand Trunk of Canada Great Northern Do A 117 127 128 Great Indian Pen o3l g 5 p c 103 105 106, 1 12 Great Western 67 68 Great Wes m te of Canada. 14 144 66, 4, 5 141, 1 Lancashire & Yorkshire 129 130 Do op c Bonds, 1873.. 99 101 1291 Do 51 do, 1877--8 97 99 Lon, Brigh, and S Coast 38 39 Do 5p c pref, issued 80 34 pm 381, 71 Madras guar 5 p c Lon, Chat, and Dover .. 14 15 1031 14 N. Railway of Canada, Lon and North-Western 124 125 6p c let Pref Bonds 125, 4 Oude and Rohilkund g Lon and South-Western 88 30 5p c Man, Shef, and Lincoln 441 451 1031, 3 Metropolitan 68, 73 Delhi guar 5 p c Midland 125 126 1031, 21 125 f, 5, 3 Bahia and San Francisco North British 341 Belgian E Junction ... 1 2 North-EasternConsols.. 140 141 Buenos Ay res Gt Stium ••. 240 25 135, 6, 129 Dunaburg and Witepek 17 18 South-Eastern 7Ol 711 Dutch-Rhenish 2O 23 Atlantic and St Lawrnce 79 81 21 Bombay, Baroda, and Eastern of France 22 23 Central India, g 5 p c.. 104 106 Great Luxembourg . • a • 1041, 4 Lemberg Czernowitz gu Buff & Lake Huron Pref 4 5 7p c l5 16 Do 51 p c Bonds, 1872-3-4 81 83 Northern of France Cape guar 6p c East Bengal guar 5p c lO5 107 Recife and San Francisco East Indian, g 5 p c 108, 7, 1 San Paulo (L) guar 7p c 21 211 Grand Trunk Canada Do Equip Mort Buds, 1 135, 13 charge 6p c Do 2nd do Scrip BANKING COMPANIES. Pd Pd .. 10 Agra Bank (L) A .... 10 101 20 Imperial IL) 25 Alliance (L) 131, 14 131, 101 10 Anglo-Austrian .. 57 pm 20 Lon Char of Austrlia 23 24 20 Anglo-Egyptian (L) 221 231 23 50 British N American 53 55 20 London and County 50 51 20 Ch of India, Austrlia 15 16 15 London Joint-Stock 32} 331 15 20 Lon and Westmnster 60 62 25 Char Merc of India 28 30 10 Metropolitan Bl 91 10 City 25 Colonial 43} 25 °natal Bank Corporn 4111 421 4 Consolidated (L) 41 15 Union of London .. 36 37 20 Eng, Scot, and Aus C 17 18 36 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. I'd Pd MO Anglo-American L) 80 85 10 Great Northern .... 101 11 80} 6 Great N. China, and 10 Anglo-Meditrn (L) l4 141 Japan Extension.. 321 dis 14} 25 Indo-European (L).. 13 17 100 Atlantic 100 Do 8p c 28} 10 Mediterrn Ex (L) .. 52 6.1 3 British Australn (L).. 431 die 21 Pnma and S. Pcfc(L) 3 2 die 10 British Ind Exten (L) 5 51 8 Reuter's 5} 20 Soc Trans Fpance (L) 148 14i 10 British Indian Sub- 141 marine (L) 71, 1 1 Do Scrip 2 China Submarine (L) 4 3fdis 10 Wlndia & Panama(L) 2 6/ 7 2 1 10 Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta (L) .... 8 81 8 1, it 8 THE SUN, LONDON, WNDNESD AY MORNING, J (SLY 20, 1870. FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS' ACT. The select committee appointed to inquire into the bill for the further regulation of workshops and factories, principally with respect toihe employment of women and children, assembled yesterday, and proceeded to examine the provisions of the bill relating to the print works. Some of the provisions of the bill were opposed at con siderable length by gentlemen from the manufacturing districts, who sent in memorials stating the injury which would be done to the trade if such restrictions were per mitted to exist. The committee declined to hear any evidence on the subject, and Mr. Ayrton, the chairman_ stated that they had determined to confine themselves to the examination of the clauses and to taking such advice upon them as they deemed necessary. The com mittee-room was accordingly cleared, and the proceedings of the committee were conducted in private. At the close of the day the parties in attendance were informed that the committee had determined to report against all the pro posed modifications, and to recommend to the House that a general provision should be enacted to the effect that all children under 16 should come in under the Factory Acts, and that boys between the ages of 16 and 18 should be permitted to work between the hours of six in the morning and nine in the evening, for seventy-two days in the year, instead of ninety-six as proposed by the bill. The committee then proceeded with the consideration of that part of the Act which relates to Turkey red-dyeing in respect to which it is proposed that women and children shall only be employed by permission of the Secretary of State, that the work shall be fixed in the order, and that the Factory Acts shall apply to such hours. The Committee decided to apply the same provisions as regards the employment of women and children to the case of the dye works as to the print works. THE IRRIGATION COMPANY OF FRANCE. THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S JUDGMENT. Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Malins delivered judgment yesterday in the matter of the petition presented by Mr. Fox, of Newport, Monmouthshire, for the compulsory winding-up of the above company, and the removal of Mr. T. Cave, M.P. for Barnstaple, and Mr. A. Young as liquidators. His Honour, having explained the nature of the petition, remarked that the object of the company was the acquisition of a concession granted by the Imperial Government of France for the con struction and working of certain canals for irrigation within the empire, for which purpose a capital of £BOO,OOO was to be raised in forty thousand shares of £2O each. Among other things the article of assignment gave the directors power to constitute the company a French organisation, if they thought fit so to do. The petition alleged that the company was brought out of the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England ; and complained that £90,000 was improperly paid for the concession for the construction of one of the irrigation canals ; that very large sums of money and securities were secretly, improperly, and in fraud on the shareholders, retained amongst the directors of the Credit Foncier ; and that a large portion of the eight thousand shares stated to have been subscribed by the company were merely colour able payments, and were eventually recouped. It was clear that neither the present directors of the Irrigation Company nor the liquidators under the voluntary winding up were implicated in the transaction ; and, therefore, he had no power of affording the petitioner any redress. It must, however, be observed that the petitioner was him self one of two auditors appointed in 1866, and that in that year, as well as 1867 and 1868, he audited the accounts, and had, therefore, ample opportunity of de tecting the discrepancies of which he now complained. If the company had proceeded strictly, the property would have been sold, but if that had been done, he (th &Vice-Chancellor) was assured that a great advantage would have been given to the French shareholders, whilst the petitioner and his fellow English shareholders would not have had a farthing. In all mercantile concerns the interests of the great majority must be attended to, and the court should be slow to sanction such proceedings as were contem plated by the petition at the instigation of an insignifi cant majority. He was satisfied that nothing more injurious could be done than complying with the three first prayers in the petition. If the petitioner's case had been good in other respects, a fatal blot would have been delay ; but he (the Vice- Chancellor) thought the petitioner was entitled to have an inquiry instituted, either in Chambers or by arbitration, as to the value of his 300 shares, and to be paid the amount out of the fund in court. The hostility with which the proceedings had been conducted, and the fact that the charges of fraud had been wholly unsustained, would have fully justified him in dismissing the petition with costs; yet considering that it had been induced by the erroneous course pursued by the directors in refusing to pay the petitioner the value of his interest, he thought tne justness of the case would be met by dismissing the petition without costs as to the first three prayers. Although no language could be sufficiently expressive of the conduct of the old directors, it was only fair to Mr. Moore, of the Credit Fonder, to say that the charges against him were entirely unfounded. Mr. Cave had also been unfairly treated as to the manner in which he had been interrogated by counsel. That was an additional proof of the hostile feeling actuating the petitioner, and it was only right to say that he was convinced that Mr. Cave, who had at tained the high social position of a member of Parliament, returned to this country to answer the inquiries which were made of him at the earliest possible moment. It is stated as being probable that the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor will be appealed from. THE PRIVY COUNCIL ON EDUCATION. The Lords of the Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council on Education have issued the report of their efforts during the past year for promoting education among the " labouring classes of her Majesty's subjects." At the opening of the volume the committee state that some more powerful impulse must be given to the working of the system they have attempted to carry out if efficient elementary education is to be brought within the reach of every home. This im pulse must plainly, moreover, be sought outside of, and beyond the benevolent energy of the small body of voluntary subscribers, upon whose co-operation the com mittee have hitherto relied. The help given by voluntary aid will be best judged of when it is stated that in 1869 the sum of £448,946 Bs. was contribnted to the annual support of aided schools -by 14,014 subscribers of £5 and upwards ; £83,270, of £1 to £5 ; and £109,888 of less than £l. Mr. Forster says that "In 1869, the inspectors visited, in England and Wales, 11,404 day schools, or departments of day schools receiv ing annual aid, and under the charge of separate teachers. Of these schools or departments 2,383 are for boys only, 1,721 for girls only; in 5,430 boys and girls are instructed together, and 1,870 are mainly attended by infants. These schools would hold 1;765,944 scholars, and 1,062,999 (601,344 males and 461,655 females) were in daily average attendance throughout the year. In their instruction were employed 6,108 schoolmasters and 5,644 schoolmistresses either already certificated or passing the probationary period of two years, between the date at which they successfully passed their examination and the issue of their certificates. Of the scholars below six years of age for whom grants may be paid (Article 40, b. 2) without in dividual examination, 245,300 had attended the number of times (200) qualifying them to bring grants to their schools, and of these 219,970 were present on the day of inspection; of the scholars above six years of age, 843,142 were qualified, but only 696,440 were tendered for exami nation." The committee assume that it has been suffi ciently shewn as the result of the numerous inquiries held in late years by commissions and committees official, parliamentary, and independent, that the best education, at present available for the children of the labouring classes, is that offered by the schools under inspection and in receipt of annual aid. They do not, of course, deny that there may be cases, perhaps many cases, in which schools not under inspection are doing a good amount of faithful work, but these, even at the highest estimate of their numbers, must be regarded as comparatively rare, in dealing with the question of a national school system. The committee think it expedient to mention that in the estimated popu lation of England and Wales there are 183 children out of every 1,000 who are between the ages of 5 and 12, and that the number of children of the poorer classes who might have been affected in 1869 by the provision of the educa tion bill for compulsory attendance at schools was 3,430,335. The reports of the inspectors over the various schools for last year cannot, the committee say, be looked upon as satisfactory as they shew that out of every 1,000 children in the schools for the poorer classes, qualified .by age and attendance, only 98 were presented in the tw o higher standards of examination afforded, instead of 319, who ought have been prepared to pass in them at the close of what must be to most of them the brief period of their school life. The committee add that the reports with respect to the practice either of keeping back from examination children who are duly qualified by age and attendance, or of presenting them in standards too low for their age, have conclusively proved the necessity of making a careful organisation of infant schools the basis of an efficient system, With reference to the difierent classes of school teachers, the committee say the gradual rise in the salaries of the masters and mistresses of elementary schools, and the growing importance which attaches to the occupation of a teacher, are all tending to draw to the profession a larger proportion of candidates of a class who, in the daily increasing pressure upon the means of employment in this country will not easily find a more honourable or more remunerative career. The English Normal or Training Schools, which furnish accommodation for about 2,soostudents, it is stated could turn out every year 1,250 teachers who had gone through a two years' course of training. This supply, if the school life of a teacher, under a thoroughly organised system of public instruc tion is estimated at twenty years, would keep up a staff when once established, of 25,000 trained teachers, for the elementary schools without taking into account the number that enter the profession through other chan nels. The Report of the Council concludes with the following expression : We regret that the failure of the attempt made in 1869 to effect by legislation some improvement in the school system of Scotland has made it necessary for us to continue the provisional arrangements under which the parliamentary grant has been administered since 1863 in that part of the United Kingdom. THE 44TH REGIMENT.—The. Dublin Daily Express states that the 44th Regiment will shortly proceed from. Ireland to the Cape of Good Hope, and regards this as a proof of a change of colonial policy on the the part of the Government. MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES, Anglo-Austrian Bnd- 30 London Fin Assoc (L)181171dis holders' Certificates 1 21 4 Lon Gen Omnibus .... 21 2; 10 BerlinWaterworks(L) 121 141 21 30 Bolckow-Vaughan (L) 35 45pm 2 Lon & Prov Marine (L) 11 pm 100 Boston City (U.S.) 5 100 Madras Irrig & Canal, 4 Brit & Fgn c Sterlin Marine g (L) Loan 2i 88 22pm ,g 101 p c by Ind Gov. 102 103 27 Canada Company 75 78 2 Mauritius Land (L)..1 dis, par 10 Ceylon Company (L) •5 4 dis 5 Natnl Disct Comp (L) 111 11; 35 City Offices (L) 101, 1 Merc Agency IL) .. 11 pm 20 Colonial (L) 5 Com Union Assurnce 2121 pm Trust (L) 10 Crdt Fonc of Eng (L) 2 21 61 N Britsh and Mere (L) 28 30 100 Crystal Palace 100 Do Pref 100 Do 6p c Perp Deb.. 109 114 10 Do do New, 1867 6 3dis 271 Ebbw Vale Steel (L)..11 10 dis 50 Rhymney Iron 100 Egyp 9 p eV'roy Loan, 15 Do New lO 101 guar by Egyp Gov.. 90 95 60 Royal Mail Steam 90, 95 20 Tel Con and Main (L) 231 231 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L)5; 61 pm 241, I 19 2 Thames and Mersey 10 Fgn and Colonial Gov Marine Insur (L) Trust 6p c Bonds.. 95 ItO St Tobacco 6p c Loan 71 Gen Credt & Disct (L) 11 dis guar by Italian Gov — 14 Gen Stm Navigation 29 31 5 Trust and Loan Co of 7 Hooper's Tel Works 3121 dis Upper Canada ', . i; pm 20 Hudson's Bay 45Indrbbr, Gut Per, and, 20 Union Steamship L) 21 23 Tel Works (L) . 20 Intend Finan SociL) 2Ms 5 Univ Marine lnsuriL% 411 pm 31 100 Viceroy of Egypt 7 p c It Irrig (Can Cavour) 31 4 Mortgage Loan.... 68 70 100 Do 6p c Bonds, re- 691 deemaKe 1870 . _ 12 Warrant Finance.... 9 7 dis MINING SHARE LIST.—JULY 19. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London Market particularly dull. Prices in most cases nominal. Australian United, 2, 21 Prince of Wales, 14s, 16s Bwlch Consols, Providence Mines, 36, 38 Bronfloyd, Rosewall Hill and Ransome Chiverton Moor, 21, 44 United, Chiverton Valley, South Frances, 271, 30 Cook's Kitchen, 18, 19 Tankerville, 16, 16/ Chontales (Gold), Tincroft, Drakewalls, 235, 25s Tan-yr-Allt, Don Pedro North Del Rey, 21, 3 Taquaril (Gold). East Bassett, Trumpet Consols, East Caradon. 54 Van, 72, 74 East Lovell, 271, 30 Van Consols, 31, 34 East Wheal Grenville, 3, 31 West Chivertou, 531, 54 Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), West Frances, West Maria and Fortescue, 2, 21 West Drakewalls, West Caradon, West Panty Go, West Seton, Wheal Agar, Wheal Crebor. Wheal Grenville, 21, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. A Sues, Wheal Mary Ann, 9, 91 Wheal Seton, General Brazilian, Great Lazey 18, 19 Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vor, 10i Hingaton Down, Marke Valley, 8, 8} New Lovell, North Crofty, North Treskerby. Pacific, MARKETS. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—This market was fully attended to-day. There has been a large business in wheat both for consumption and speculation, at ls. to ls. 3d. per cental over last Friday's rates. Flour sold readily, at 2s. to 3s. per barrel and sack advance. Beans, 2s. to 3s. higher. Saidi, 425. 6d. per quarter. Oats direct are 2d. to 3d. per bushel dearer, which checks business. Indian corn was' in good healthy demand, at 2s. 6d. to 3s. per quarter over Friday's rates. Round yellow, 365. to 365. 6d. per quarter. Imports : Ireland--Wheat, 172 quarters; oats, 3,667 quarters ; barley, 330 quarters ; malt, 9 quarters ; oatmeal, 605 quarters. Foreign—Wheat, 887 quarters; peas, 959 quarters ; Indian corn, 12,428 quarters; flour, 10,498 sacks and 21,161 barrels ; oatmeal, 167 sacks. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TIIESDAY.—Trade is very unsettled, but not so excited as on Saturday. Factors scarcely know what to ask, but Saturday's prices are fully maintained. Millers are asking higher prices than warranted by the price of wheat, to prevent a run on their stocks. Flour is sa, per sack higher than a fortnight ago. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a smaller supply of cattle, but larger supply of sheep on sale here to-day. There was a good demand for beef, which sold on rather higher terms, best qualities ranging from 9s. 6d. to lOs per stone. Mutton sold at 84d. to qd. per lb. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, TUBSDAY.—At to-day's market there was a better supply of cattle, which met a fair demand. Sheep and lambs were less in number. Trade ruled steady, and prices were in favour of sellers. Quotations were as follow : Beef, first class, Bd.per lb. ; second, 70. to 71d. ; sheep from 7d. to qd. per lb. ; lambs, Bd. to 9d. per lb. LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The tallow market has been less excited, but the quotations for Y.C. remain at 465. spot and 495. last three months. Considerable anxiety is mani fested at the Baltic to learn the attitude to be taken up by Russia. Hemp is very firm, £34 being demanded for St. Peters burg clean. Saltpetre is again higher, at 275. 6d. to 28s. for Bengal. Linseed oil, £3l 10s. spot. English brown rape, £42 15s. spot. COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS, TIIESDAY,—The colonial produce markets have been much excited to-day, and war articles have sold at corresponding prices. Sugar.— The market is very inanimate, and transactions are not sufficient to test prices, which are very weak. The stock in London is now 97,493 tons, against 80,694 tons last year. Business in refined goods is very limited, and pieces remain dull of sale. Coffee.—Sales are on the most limited scale, and values are much depressed. Stock, 21,830 tons against 20,694 tons in 1869. Rice remains flat, notwithstanding the excited state of the corn market. Rum. -- There has been a steady inquiry, and prices have been on the advance. Jamaica, 3s. 9d. r Demerara, 2s. 2d. ; Cuba, is. 10d. ; Mauritius, ls. 6d. to ls. 7d., per gallon. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY.— The supply continues short and the trade firm at further ad vanced currencies. Annexed are the quotations :—Prime old hay, 110 s. to 1265. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; prime new hay, 90s. to 105 s. ; inferior ditto, 70s. to 80s. ; prime old clover, 130 s. to 1455. ; inferior ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime new clover, 110 s. to 1265. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; and straw 245. to 365. per load. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, TUES DAY.—The supplies of foreign potatoes have been good, of Eng lish only moderate. The trade has been slow, at our quotations. English shams, 78. to Bs. 9d. ; Jersey kidneys, Bs. 6d. to 10s. : ditto rounds, 6s. 6d. to 78. Gd. ; and French, ss. to 6s. per cwt. LONDON WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.—The depression in the manufacturing districts caused by the war, by failures, and by the rumour of further existing complications, have checked the inquiry for wool. At public sale, biddings for all qualities have been much less extensive, at fully the recent decline. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TIIESDAY.—This market opened quiet to-day. The sales will probably only reach 5,000 bales. LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The woollen market has been in an anxious state as regards the war. No doubt it is a serious thing for our clothiers, that at the very beginning of the autumn trade so formidable a check to it should have arisen. Manufacturers and merchants concur that should the war last twelve months, it will be one of the best things that has hap pened lately ; for the manufacturing districts of the North of England will have become the carrier for the Eastern Hemis phere ; and English woollens will be acceptable where they have been for some time superseded by home produce. At present the sellers of home tweeds are in the worst case. Large quanti ties of their goods are on foreign consignments ; and the diffi culty will be to transfer them elsewhere. Nothing could be flatter than business is because of the uncertainty as to to the course events may take. The buyers from London and the large towns are still absent, and fancy and plain new goods are at a com plete standstill. Woollens, cotton, yarns, oil, mangols, or rags, if bought in a large scale, can be had at a loss to clear. The hand-loom and the power-loom weavers still continue in work. The hand-loom workers at best can only get twelve shillings weekly, but hundreds have no employment at all. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TUESDAY.—Market opened steady, with business at 535. 6d. cash and 535. 9d. fourteen days—but subsequently realised 525. 9d. cash, closing rather sellers. At the public sitting of the Council on Monday the formal vote on the dogma of Infallibility was taken when 533 placets against 2 non-placets were recorded. We believe we are correct in stating that the Admiralty are still discharging dockyard hands at Devonport. It is stated also that, in consequence of the war, 150 dock labourers have been discharged at Grimsby, At a meeting of the London Commissioners of Sewers, held at the Guildhall yesterday, the medical officer reported that no less than 0,3311b5. of meat had been seized at the Metropolitan Meat and Poultry Mar ket during the week and condemned as unfit for human food. On Friday Inspector Newman seized the hind quarters of an animal, supposed to be either a mule, ass, or pony, which the justices had condemned as unfit for human food. Further proceedings were ordered to be taken in the matter. kustria now has six universities, namely—Prague (founded in 1348), Cracow (1364), Vienna (1365), Gratz (1585), Innsbruck (1677), and Lemberg(l7B4). In 1868 the number of professors in these establishments was 513, and of students 7,899. Of the former 56 belonged to the theo logical faculty, 96 to the juridical, 174 to the medico chirurgical, and 187 to the philosophical; of the latter, 1,246 to the theological, 2,692 to the juridical, 2,124 to the medico-chirurigical, and 1,837 to the philosophical. 4,058 of the students were Germans, 1,385 Czechs, 902 Poles, 483 Ruth en i ans , 423 Sl ov elis Croats, and Servians, 336 Ma- gars , 184 It a li ans, 73 Roumanians, and 53 foreigners (English, French, and others). 5,936 were Roman Catholics, 889 Jews, and the rest of other eligions. It is said that the Daily News has despatched two correspondents to France and Prussia, that Mr. White house is going as correspondent for the Morning Post, and that Mr. Sala will have an assistant in Mr. Kingston in the descriptions of the war sent to the Daily Telegraph. The Standard is also about to send a special representative to the front. The London Figaro says at the eleventh hour permission was refused to Captain E. Hozier, of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, to accompany Dr. W. H. Russell to the seat of war, notwithstanding the fact that on the previous Saturday he had purchased three splen did chargers, at Tattersall's, with the full knowledge and acquiescence of the authorities ! The reaso ns asssigned are that it is the intention of Government to send a band of offi cers ofin telligence and experience a kind of roving special commission—to observe the tactics, movements, and general operations of the combatants. mr. hear that i Captain E. Hozier will be attached thereto n a position of c on fid ence an d great responsibility. Hi s military rank renders him subservient to the authorities here, and invests his conduct with a responsibility from which Dr. William Henry Russell is happily free. LAW AND POLICE .A DANGEROUS PRACTICE —William Harrison Hislop, ay traveller, residing in Bentinek-street,. St. James's, was brought up at the Marlborough-street Police Court on a warrant by Costigan, one of the warrant officers, charged with using threatening language towards his daughter, Eveline Hislop. The complainant, a little girl, said her father, the prisoner, came home on the Bth June, having been absent a week, with his face and hands blackened, said he would " do for her," and very much alarmed her and the other children, they not knowingit was their father at the time. The prisoner's wife gave evidence as to threats being used tows rds the complainant, and said the prisoner was in the habit of Musing her and all the family. The magistrates after remarking that the act of the prisoner might have had a dangerous effect on the children for life, ordered him to find two securities in £lO each for six months. FRIGHTFUL CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—A. costermonger and his wife, named Shack emere, were brought up at the Westminster Police-court, charged with shocking cruelty to a child. The complainant, her own daughter, 14 years old, was frightfully disfigured in the mouth. A number of neighbours and witnesses were called, from whose tes timony it appealed that the prisoner lived at 24, Paradise walk, Chelsea, and for some time past the cries of the girl have frequently alarmed the neighbours, who appear deeply to have sympathised with her ill treatment. On Thursday last her screams attracted attention, and the father was -then seen to hit her as he would have struck a man, and to kick her. On Tuesday the neighbourhood was again put into a state of great alarm by the child's shrieks, and the woman was seen beating her in some way while lying upon her back, and her father was then striking her with the buckle end of a leathern belt. She was afterwards seen in the yard bleeding and in a frightful state. Her father then beat her and made a kick at her. Defendants denied the vio lence imputed to them—the mother saying she had never touched her, and they declared that she was a very bad girl. Mr. Arnold—Your conduct as parents is likely to make her a fiend. You are remanded for a week. THE BRIXTON BABY FARMING CASE. Margaret Waters and Sarah Ellis, the two women remanded in the Brixton baby farming case, werelarought up at the Lambeth Police Court yesterday for further examination. Mr. Poland regretted to state that since the last occa sion another of the children had died, making five deaths with Miss Cowen's child. Since the last occasion a post mortem examination had been made on Nos. 7 and 9, and no doubt the causes of death in all cases were the same. Mr. Bullen, surgeon at the Lambeth Workhouse, attri buted the deaths of the children to insufficient dietary and to the continued administration of opium. The two children remaining had been very ill from the same causes, but were now getting in a satisfactory condition. By Mr. Mayo, for the prisoner : Had heard that the mortality at a Miss Broughton's school had recently been considerable. She did not know that the establishment was in connection with the Lambeth Workhouse, but had heard that the guardians permitted the removal of chil dren to that place if the parents wished it. Mary Joy, of 14, Albert-terrace, Guildford-street, wife of James Joy, said she used to wash for the prisoners while they were at No. 4, Frederick-terrace. She knew them by the name of Mrs. Blackburn and Mrs. Ellis. Had often seen babies at their house, and had asked Mrs. Blackburn how many she had got. Mrs. Blackburn would count eight or ten. She said when they were ill she took them home. Whit- Tuesday, the 7th June, Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Blackburn took away one each about 8 in the evening. They were young babies, and appeared to be a girl and a boy. The girl was crying, and appeared very ill. The prisoners appeared to be in a hurry, and said they were going by the train. Didn't know what became of the children. —This witness identified several articles of clothing found on the bodies of the children as having been washed by her several times for the prisoners. The prisoners used to speak of the children as beasts and devils. Eliza White said she went to work for the prisoners when they first went to Frederick-terrace. The three days she was there she washed things for the children. The things shewn to her by the police as taken from the bodies of the children found were those she washed, On the 10th June there were eleven with Mrs. Ellis's child. Mrs. Waters said she had had four deaths in four years. She wanted witness's mother to take Miss Cowen's child to give it the breast, as she wanted to get the rest of her money. Little COwen was very ill indeed. Mrs. Ellis went out saying that she was going to the station to meet some one. Ann Harknett, female searcher at the Brixton police station, proved searching Waters on the 17th of June and finding on her 79 pawnbrokers' duplicates, which she handed to the police. . . 4A. piece of reallannel, and a child's nightgown were - iproo duced which were identified by Alfred Sergeant, pawn broker's assistant in the Brixton road, as haVing been pawned by Ellen O'Connor. O'Conner said she often pawned baby things for Mrs. Waters, who told her to give the name of Ellis. Sarah Sellers, identified the red flannel and nightgown as hers. They were on her child when it was given to the prisoners. The other things produced were also on the child when Mrs. Stuart (Waters) took it away. Wit ness had searched for her child, but could not find it. It was not among the children at Lambeth Workhouse. Waters told the constable that she had sent witness's child away, but she did not say where. Cross-examined : I did not sign a paper not to have the child back again. Mrs. Stuart signed it herself. I did not expect the clothes, but expected tD see my baby. William Tyers produced various babies' things found at the prisoners' house, 4, Frederick-terrace. These were identified by Sellers as hers. He also produced an apron and some black stuff found at the prisoners house, which corresponded with that taken from the body of the male child found on the 12th of June. Mr. Poland said this was all the evidence he had to offer them. He had one witness more, and asked for a remand. At the next sitting he should ask that the prisoners should be sent to the Central Criminal Court on these - most serious charges. Remanded accordingly. BABY FARMING AT ISLEWORTIL The adjourned inquest on the death of a nurse child, named John Fenn, has been brought to a conclusion at Isleworth by Mr. Hand, deputy coroner for West Middlesex. Several witnesses were called, among them Annie Ditch, who had been brought up by Mrs. Higgs (who had the charge of the child), and who said that there were two girls of eight and ten years old at Mrs. Higg's, but they were never allowed to nurse the baby. She fetched it from the union herself, and was certain it did not fall. Witnesses were then called from the union to prove that it had received no injury when there, but had seemed thin and neglected. The coroner summed up at some length, and Dr. Mackinlay said his theory was that some person knocked the child's head against the piece of board which was put on the chairs, but it was impossible to say how long it had been done. The jury after a deliberation re turned an open verdict of death from an injury to the head. The Royal Victoria Yatch Club Regatta is fixed for the week commencing Monday, August Bth. M. DE LESSEPS IN ENGLAND.—M. de Lesseps has dis covered that in England " nothing succeeds like success." But a few years ago no scheme was more persistently de cried by British statesmen and publicists than the Suez Canal. Lord Palmerston led the way in an implacable and consistent opposition to it, and other public men followed his example. Now we find, by a cable telegram, that the great Frenchmen has been feted by the Duke of Sutherland — the fidus Achates of the Prince of Wales—and that Cabinet Ministers and parliamentary leaders have united in doing him honour. " The man who abolished an isthmus" seems to have achieved a triumph equally com plete over an obstinate and long-standing British prejudice. —New York Times. THE PRUSSIAN NAVY.—In 1862 and 1863 it was urged. in the Prussian Lower Chamber, as an objection to the creation of a navy, that Prussia could not furnish the requisite number of seamen. Since that time, however, great changes have taken place; the acquisition of tlio new provinces has more than doubled the available number of sailors, while iron-clads require smaller crews in proportion, than other vessels, and as ships do not fight nowadays under sail, it is no longer necessary to have men to attend exclusively to the rigging. According to official returns the North German Confederation can at present dispose of the following number of sailors : In Old Prussia, 12,005 ; in the new provinces, 17,420 ; in Mecklenburg, 3,462 ; in Oldenburg, 2,440 ; in Lubeck, 600; in Hamburgh, 7.243 ; in Bremen, 5,150—0 r alto gether, 48,320 men.—North German Correspondent. AN ART CHALLENGE.—Mr. Nathan Hughes, who painted in twenty-four days a picture of the " Riot in Hyde Park," which attracted much attention at the time, and was viewed by many thousands of specta tors in London and elsewhere, has addressed a curious challenge to the members of the Royal Academy. Both in England and in the foreign countries where h© resided for many years in enjoy ment of a lucrative practice es a portrait painter, Mr. Hughes has given frequent proofs of his astonishing celerity. His favourite theory, fortified in his opinion by the examples of many old masters, who are known to have painted with extraordinary rapidity, is that a picture suffers in spirit and dramatic effect by being too minutely elaborated. He holds that inspiration lan guishes when the painter lingers too long over his canvas, and that sufficient finish and mush greater strength of character may be attained by a swift and dashing style, always provided that the artist knows what he is about. With these convictions strong upon him, Mr. Hughes comes forward to defy the R. A..'s to a trial of skill and swiftness, daring them to prove " their self-assumed superiority by painting with him against time the best work, combining rapidity and excellence, for £l,OOO a side, before any large general audience empowered to decide the 'question by ballot." The proprietor of the fine building in Argyll-street, Oxford-street, heretofore known as the Corinthian Hall, but now called the Palais Royal, have offered to place their gallery at the disposal of the antagonists, should any such appear to take up the cartel. Kent v. All England is long odds in cricket, but Hughes v. The Royal Academy is no shorter in art. We live in strange times, and there is no knowing what we may be called upon to see, but the sight of the whole host of R.A.'s on one side, and Mr. Nathan Hughes on the other, arrayed face to face in pictorial strife, all painting away for their very lives, amid the bravoes and huzzas of an excited mul titude, would be as curious a spectacle as the youngest amongst us is ever likely to witness. THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR. General Grant left New York on July 2d, for Hartford, Connecticut, to be the guest of ex-Governor Jewell. Everywhere along his route he was enthusiastically received, the people of all political denominations turning out heartily to welcome not only the President or the General, but the man ; for although our people naturally entertain that high respect for the chief magistrate which his office should always command, and feel the greatest gratitude to the commanding officer of the armies that rescued the Republic at its hour of need, the unpretentious and democratic bearing of General Grant in his private relations, and his straightforward course as a public officer have also strongly endeared him personally to the hearts of the people. We have never been among those who caviled at his taking recreation in journeying about among the people. On the contrary, we believe that the Presi dent of a government of the people like ours should not hold himself aloof from the people, but that he should mingle among them and study their wants and resources. This trip especially is one that we can commend, for he went to celebrate his Fourth of July with the people of the good old Commonwealth of Connecticut, and in com parison with the action of the Senate, which declined to adjourn over that sacred day, his example is a brilliant one.—New York Herald. THE EDUCATION QUESTION. There is probably at this moment no contest more widely diffused than that between the advocates of secular education and those who favour the introduction of cer tain religious standards into the public schools. The discussion of the question " drags its slow length along " in the English Parliament, without any reasonable prospect of an early settlement. M. Guizot has made, on behalf of the Protestants, of France, a rather inconclusive attempt to free the higher culture from ecclesiastical control, and the geneaal ques tion is one that divides with Centralism and Federalism public attention in Austria. In Belgium the Liberals only bide their time to open the crusade; in Italy there are signs of its early agitation ; and only the political dis memberment of Spain prevents an advance being made on this subject parallel to the liberal line laid down by the Constitution. —New York Times. CRUELTY IN CUBA. Spain may be as chivalrous and plucky as the Spanish journals of Habana declare it to be ; but it cannot with impunity disregard the protests of the civilised world against the horrible cruelties which have disgraced the couduct of hostilities in Cuba. We have no doubt that the Cuban insurgents have disgraced themselves and humanity by barbarities and outrages as flagrant as those for which Spaniards are account able ; but that does not alter the case as between Spain and the public opinion of the United States or of Europe. There is another fact, too, of which the Habana journalists may rest assured. This country will not be a passive spectator of injustice and cruelty even in Cuba, when American citizens are the victims. We have no in clination at present to meddle in Cuban affairs ; but this country will tolerate no further the merciless and unjust exercise of Spanish authority at the expense of Ameri cans.—New York Times. THE FOURTH OF JULY. The Fourth of July, 1870, is more truly an occasion for national self-gratulation than any the American people have ever seen, not even excepting the days in which they immediately celebrated the assurred fact of independence. It is the first return of our great anniversary that sees all the States in the enjoyment of the rights that constitute them equal members of the Union, after the privation of these rights in a struggle of greater danger to us and greater moment to humanity than that against the British tyranny. Had our forefathers failed to make good against Britain the claim of 1776, that they were of right entitled to the control of their own destinies, that failure would not have given the English domination a respite of twenty years. In that early age we were already a resolute race, and if ever there was a people fitted to bequeath " from bleeding sire to son" the unfinished fight for freedom it was the people that bred their cool temper and firm will on every slope from the cold shores of Maine to the blue hills of the old Mother of States. The power competent to hold this people in a system of government against the general con sent bas not yet grown upon the earth. Looked at justly, therefore, our independence of a domination beyond the Atlantic, if it had been deferred in one decade, would have been secured in another ; it was simply no more than. a question of time as to who should pre vail; and we cannot believe that our defeat in the first war would have ultimately imperilled this grandest humane experiment of all the ages by which we are endeavouring to demonstrate that the best government is that which views humanity from what we may suppose to be the standpoint of God Almighty Himself, and recognises no distinction between His creatures but such as we must believe He also would recognise. . . But there was a greater danger than that with which we were menaced by the Government of the country from which the first colonies came. It was a danger that was great only because it had its growth among ourselves, because it was rooted in our vices, weaknesses, passions, and vanities. This danger was that the consent of the whole people to a single system of government would not continue long enough to give our experiment a fair trial—that it would fail not on a test of its merits, but because on minor points the great nation would split up into half a dozen or more parts as contemptible as the worst of antiquity in their pitiful bickerings and wasted wars. This danger arose from two facts. Slavery was one of these ; the other was that mischievous invention of small politicians, inspired with geographical prejudices— the notion of State rights. In the organization of the country there was a seed of civil war—of bitter collision between the parts—which needed for its germination only the heat of party contests. The States, it was con ceded, were separately sovereign within certain limits. The whole nation was sovereign also within certain limits. If either power should pass its as signed limit it must collide with the other. Here, then, were hostile soverei g nties operating within the same circle, and each kept in its proper sphere only by the intellectual restraint of a set of legal definitions. Legal definitions are an infinite subject of dispute, and it there fore could not but happen that such differences of opinion should arise touching the respective theatres of the two systems of government as would put the whole people by the ears. Conciliation, mutual deference—a spirit of giving away on the smaller points in the view of greater ones—the moderate tone of public thought which was not swayed by party passion from the regard to public welfare—all these things kept the national , harmony until the fight arose and the quarrel was pushed on the topic of slavery. Here the time had come when there could no longer be any com promise. The founders of the Government had first assented to this institution from the necessity of the case. On no other terms could the slave States have been brought into the same unity of government with the free States. But undoubtedly the true spirit and aims of the American republic were more nearly laid down in the Declaration of Independence than in the constitution, and it was the aspiration and tendency of the national thought to grow towards the better ideal. Half a century made a sentiment against the institution, which, while it was morally praise worthy, was fanatically aggressive in taking no regard to the right of the other side and to the compromises that bound us to respect that right. Some were thrust into a war to determine whether slavery should perish, or whether, slavery surviving, the union of the States should give way and the future should see on one hand a slave republic, on the other a fanatical puritan republic, with a great group of commercial States growing between, and the West behind all with a destiny vague and unde fined. No human creature can doubt but that we have reached the better result, and certainly none among us dispute this but those to whom the issue was individually oppres sive in crushing aspirations of personal ambition and a pride that could only have been gratified at a price that no pride is worth. We have come gloriously through the war, and at last are escaped from even the dangers of anarchy that threatened as a consequence of the war. Safely for the present, therefore, we stand, a republic of thirty-seven States and a dozen Territories—without an immediate internal danger and without a foreign foe— and the Fourth of July that finds us thus is certainly the most truly glorious the nation has ever known.—New York Herald. MR. CHARLES READE'S WORKS.—There have been some very sharp criticisms uttered in reference to the publication of Mr. Charles Reade's story of " Put Yourself in His Place," by three separate firms. It has been assumed that Messrs, Harpers, who issue one edition of the novel, pirated the work from the Messrs. Sheldon. This is not the case. The Harpers paid a price agreed upon for the right to publish the novel, and they have a proper understanding with Messrs Sheldon on the sub ject. The same remark applies, we believe, to the house of Fields, Osgood, and Co. It is only right that this should be understood by the public, since more and more importance is very justly being attached to the necessity of fair and honest dealing between publishers and authors. —New York Times. RETIREMENT OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONER WELLS. --The Hon. David A. Wells retires to private citizenship to-night, with the expiration of the office he has held for four years. It deserves to be said of him that he has shewn rare faithfulness to duty, and that his name has never in the least degree been mixed up with any of the jobs in or out of Congress. He goes from his duties with the personal good-will of nearly every public man here, and the complimentary letter, which has been sent to him, is signed. by some of those strongly opposed to his recommendations on the tariff and taxation. The tender of an appointment from Governor Hoffman he still holds under consideration. The office has no connection with politics, and his acceptance or declination will have no political significance. THE ALASKA FUR-SEAL BILL.—The Alaska Fut seal Bill has been signed by the President. The contarct under it will undoubtedly be given to the Alaska Com mercial Company, which consists of ten California and four Connecticut gentlemen, with General John F. Miller as its president. He was a good soldier from Indiana during the war and, then for some time collector of the port of San Francisco. This company is largely in business with Alaska, has three steamers and eight schooners in the trade, and holds seal privileges from China, Japan, and Russia, on the islands westward from Alaska. It did something in the salmon fishery last year, and this year is greatly increasing that branch of its busi ness. It has from 30,000 to 50,000 seal skins now on the islands of St. Paul and St. George, on which it must pay a tax of one dollar each, and has supported the natives of those islands for about a year on the chance of getting the contract provided for in this measure. General Miller has had a talk with the Secretary of the Treasury, who must make the regulations governing the seal business, and said to him that his company had no other purpose than to work in full harmony with the department. Poston Advertiser. SILVER MINES IN NEW MEXICO. SANTA FE, July 2, 1870. A letter to the Daily Post from Grant county, New Mexico, descriptive of the new silver mines, states that the newly discovered mines are 5,000 feet above the sea level. There is a population at Ralston, the new village, of two hundred persons. It is located about twenty-five miles from the nearest river. Two hundred and eighty-five ledges have been discovered, and over fifty miles of claims have been located. Many of the claims not being designated in accordance with the laws of the territory are thrown out, but almost immediately relocated. A municipal government has been formed and a recorder elected. There is no doubt of the immense wealth of a great many of the claims. A canal and rail way company, with a capital of $1,000,000, has been formed to take the ore to the mills at the river and to carry water in canals to the mines. The mines are in the heart of the Apache Indian country, and the settlement will be a great security to the pioneer settlers and travellers. Very rich silver mines have been discovered eight miles from Fort Bayard. THE SMALLPDX IN PARIS-AMERICAN ABSENTEEISM IN EUROPE. We are sorry to hear that there is no apparent dimi nution of the smallpox in Paris. It has been prevail ing there as a sort of epidemic, and the Paris comic papers have found in the ruling passion of the citizens for vaccination frequent subjects for amusing caricatures. One thing, however, will be apt to follow these reports of the continuance of this loathsome disease in the gay French capital— to wit, a reduction this year of the usual heavy American summer migration to Europe, for Paris is the grand ob ject and centre of all the hopes and aspirations of our young moths and butterflies of fashion, who find life at home too slow, too monotonous, and too precise to satisfy any but "old fogies." How many millions of American money are thus yearly squandered abroad we have no means of ascertaining ; but we dare say that the sum of twenty-five millions, exclu sive of the passage money of the European steamers. is within the mark. We have here the beginning of that absenteeism which has been the ruin of Ireland, and which is yearly increasing the piuperism of England. But how are we to remedy it ? Only by making the attractions of our own country, even to summer tourists, equal to those of Europe, and by making the city of New York, which we can make, as attractive as Paris. Thus a hundred millions, yea, five hundred millions, as we go on, to five millions of people, expended in beautifying the city, will, in the long run, be the most profitable investment that can be made for the people of this island, and so in proportion to its importance with every place of any consequence throughout the United States. Louis Napoleon, understanding this secret, has made the four quarters of the globe tributary to the atrractions of Paris, and so with a tithe of his outlays wisely applied we can make New York in its attractive ness the peer of Paris.— New York Herald. THE DOMINICAN PRISONER. (From the New York Herald of July 4th.) Mr. Davis Hatch, a resident of South Norwalk, Connec ticut, left this city in 1862 for the island of St. Domingo, to assume control of a salt mountain in the Neba dis trict, about fifteen miles from Barona and 100 miles from St. Domingo city, and for the working of which a number of New York capitalists had obtained a grant from the government of Spain. Mr. Hatch subsequently returned to the United States, and again in 1865 went to St. Domingo to resume operations at the salt mine. Yester day he again returned to this city, after an absence of nearly five years, although only expecting, when he went to the island the last time, to be absent two or three months. In the course, however, of the many revolu tionary movements going on there under Cabral, Baez and the triumvirate—Pimentel, Garcia and Luperon-- Mr. Hatch became involved in certain official transactions with them, growing out of his assertion of the rights of the corporation which he represented, and ultimately fell under the ban of President Baez's displeasure, the result being that he was arrested, charged with inciting hostility to the designs of the government (which was President Baez), treason, &c., was finally tried without any opportunity for a defence and sentenced to death. The sentence was subsequently commuted, and an immense amount of the customary indifference of the United States Government for the rights or protection of its citizens abroad was manifested throughout the entire transaction. Another phase of the trouble has, however, been brought very prominently before the public lately in consequence of the investigation by the United States Senate into the question of a claim asserted by Mr. Hatch against the Baez Government. This inquiry has brought up the whole Domini can question, including the overtures made by our Government for the annexation of St. Domingo, and the result has been the " washing " of some very dirty diplomatic linen, and in the course of the disclosures there are many hints and riddles about Mr. Hatch having been imprisoned by Baez because he opposed the scheme of annexation, and was influential in that opposition among the Dominicans. Whether he were guilty or not of such an indiscretion is really a matter of no importance in justification of the act of imprisonment, but the main prominent fact is that an American citizen has been treated with unusual severity, imprisoned, tried, sentenced to death, without any cause to warrant such action, so far as has yet .been shewn, and that prominent government officials have been fully aware of the fact by written and verbal notifications, yet have winked at the outrage and, apparently, have been in collusion with the perpetrators. One thing in this connection is certain, and that is, that if Mr. Hatch had been a British subjecf Baez would never have imprisoned him, or if he did, and refused to surrender him on demand, even without diplomatic formality, a British frigate would have made the tem perature even more than tropical about Baez's domicile. Mr. Hatch arrived here by the steamer De Soto from Habana, and is evidently suffering from nervous prostration, consequent upon his incarceration and the harass of mind and body to which he has been subjected. He is a man of about fifty years of age, gentlemanly de meanour and pleasing, frank a pp earance an d expression. When visited yesterday by a Herald reporter he declined to give any details at present for publication of his difficulty in St. Domingo, as he did not wish to place him self in the position of endeavouring to create any outside feeling during the Congressional investigation now pending at Washington. However disappointing this course may be to the public, it must be admitted that it bears the im print of a frank straightforwardness, as his statement of actual facts would perhaps put affairs in a startling aspect ; but he prefers to allow matters to take an official course without prejudice on his part, and if the Senate Committee desire to hear his evidence, as it seems they should do, he will doubtless respond with alacrity. Mr. Hatch was released by Baez, with his sentence commuted to immediate and perpetual banishment, and has since that time been detained in St. Thomas, endeavouring to effect a se ttl emen t o f thi s b us i ness an d private affairs in St. Domingo. This he was unable to do before leaving, as by the arrangement between Rear- Admiral Poor, commanding the United States West India squadron, and Baez, Mr. Hatch was obliged to " make tracks " direct, in a " bee line," from his prison quarters to the ship which bore him away. He was, in fact, unable even to procure the necessary wearing ap parel. Mr. Hatch will leave for Norwalk to visit his family. The Narcissus, Aurora, Cadmus, Immortalite, and. Wolverine will be commissioned next month for the Fly ing Squadron. The three first are at Devonport, the Immortalitd at Portsmouth, and the Wolverine at Sheer ness. The squadron will be under the command of Rear- Admiral Beauchamp Seymour, who will hoist his flag on board the Narcissus at Plymouth about the end of Sep tember, and the squadron will leave England early in Oc tober. We understand that Captain W. Codrington will be his flag captain. TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.—When the Indian tele graph was lately set to work for the purpose of offering congratulations to eminent officials, a message was dis patched to the Governor-General of India from his wife in nine minutes. The distance travelled was about 12,000 miles. A message to the Governor of Bombay found that potentate in bed, and he was obliged to get up to answer it, _seeing that it came in the name of the Prince of Wales. Perhaps the message to the President of the United States arrived at an equally inopportune hour, which would account for the allusion in the reply to " balance of the world."—New York Times. CLOSE OF WHITE CROSS-STREET PRISON.—Mr. Leonard Edmunds is still confined at the suit of the Crown a prisoner in Whitecross-street Prison. It appears that this prison is to be closed within a few days, and the in mates, 34 in number, will be transferred, by order of the, Secretary of State, to the criminal convict prison at Hol loway. It appears that these 34 prisoners are Mr. Leonard Edmunds, the one solitary "prerogative " State prisoner —the only " prisoner for debt" within the United Kingdom ; 2. Mr. Fennell, under sentence of imprison ment for 12 months in the late Bridgwater election case —a " State," but not a " prerogative " prisoner ; and 3, A floating body, never exceeding 32 or 33, committed either for contempt of one or the other of the superior courts of law and equity, or for a limited number of days in contempt of county courts. Both Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Fennell have been informed by the authorities that cells are assigned to them in the criminal convict prison at Holloway. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at 32, Lowndes-square, the Lady Agnes Wood, of a son. On the 15th inst., at 7, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, Lady Northwick, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 14th inst., at Fair Oak Church, Bish•pstoke, Cap. tain Robert Horace Hudleston, Bengal Staff Corps, to Maria youngest daughter of George Palmer, Esq., of Greenwood, Hants. On the 14th inst., at Bushey-heath, Herts, Charles Rice, of Chalk-hill, Bushey, to Clarinda, second daughter of the late James Ward, of Aldersgate and Islington. DEATHS On the 17th inst. ' at Sussex Villa, Campden-hill, the wife of Thomas Faed, R.A. On the 17th inst., at 6, Hyde-park-terrace, David Cop land, Es q ., ag d 83. London : Printed by GIDEON ACLAND BOYCE, of No. 112, Strand, Printer and Published by hi m a t. THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the: Savoy, in t County of Middlesex. Wednesday, July 19, 1870.