The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-03 00:00:00

THE CHURCH GOVERNMENT QUESTION. On Wednesday night a meeting was held in Bryanston square, London, for the purpose of adopting a plan for the formation of a Church Council for the congregation and parochial district of St. Mary's, Bryanstou-square. The chair was taken by the Rev. Mr. Freemantle, the rector, and on the platform were Mr. Baron Pigott, Lord Lichfield. Mr. T. Chambers, Q.C., M.P., and Mr. G. Hanbury. The regulations for the formation of the Coun cil, as prepared by the parochial committee, were, first, to the effect that a Council be formed to co-operate with the rector in the management and control of the arrange. ments in the church and parish. The topics to which this rule will apply include the mode of conducting the ordinary services, the amouut and character of the sing ing, the use of hymn-books, the manner of administering the Holy. Communion, arrangements of the Church as a place of worship for the - benefit of all classes, and the charitable relief the p Dor. No proposal to take effect which shall not have obtained the consent of the rector and either the majority of the whole Council or three-fourths of those actually present. The other regulations point chiefly to the constitution of the Council, in which four classes are to be represented, viz.: the congregation, the resident gentry, the trading classes, and the mechanics and labourers. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, said it was highly important to get the laity to co-operate with the clergy in the management of Church affairs, and it was with a view to bring that about that the regulations had been framed, and the present meeting called. Mr. Woodhouse, in the course of some remarks, said he feared Dissenters would join the Councils. Mr. T. Chambers, Q.C., M.P., said he had come forward to support this movement because he felt there had been for too long a time a divorce between the laity and the clergy of the Church. The Church of England lost ground every day through the existence of this state of things. He begged to move— " That, having heard the plan proposed for the forma tion of a Church Council, this meeting pledges itself to use its best efforts to carry it into effect." Mr. Norton seconded the resolution, which was carried. Mr. Baron Pigott, in moving the appointment of a committee to carry out the election of the Council, said it was to advo cate the principle of the movement that he was present on that occasion, but he did not pledge himself to the regula tions, because he had not had timeto study them. He hoped thismovementmightlead to the establishment of a Council with which the rector could carry out the work of the Church amicably; and he hoped that Parliament would relax the stringent rules which bound down the Church of England so as to leave something in the discretion of the rector and allow the people of the parish to regulate forms and ceremonies—he would almost say the Liturgy itself. He wished every succcess to this movement. Mr. G. Hanbury seconded the motion, which was passed. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also present— Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., W. H. Harton, Esq., Admiral Sir W. H. Hall, K.C.8., Admiral Ryder, Sir Wil liam Clayton, Bart., Capt. do St. Croix, John Griffith, Esq., Colonel Fitz Roy Clayton, Admiral McHardy, Colonel Palmer, and Richard Lewis, Esq. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, rewards were granted to the crews of different lifeboats for services on the occasion of ship wrecks on our coasts. The Willie and Arthur, tubular lifeboat at New Brighton, went off in reply to signals of distress, during a strong gale from the S.W., on the 12th of May, to the barque Ida Maria, of Dantzic, bound from that port to Liverpool, with a cargo of timber, which, in attempting to enter the Mer sey, had gone on the Little Burbo Sandbank, while a very heavy sea was running thereon. The life boat stood by the vessel for some time, and used every exertion to get her off, but without avail, and the crew of thirteen men and a pilot were then taken into the boat and brought safely ashore, the barque afterwards becoming a total wreck. The Newbiggin lifeboat William Hop kinson, of Brighouse, had also rendered important service, on the 11th of May, to six fishing cobles of that place, which had been caught in a storm, and were in imminent danger. With the lifeboat's assistance the boats and their crews were all fortunately got home in safety. The Christopher Ludlow lifeboat, at Dungarvon, Ireland, was the means of saving the crew of three men of the schooner Bertholly, which struck on Dungarvon Bar during a southerly gale and heavy sea on the 30th May, and was in danger of breaking up. On the 17th May the sloop George and Margaret, of Allonby, in attempting to enter Maryport too early on the tide, struck upon Skinburness Point during a very heavy gale, and in a tremendous sea. In a very short time she capsized, filled with water, and the crew of two men were unhappily drowned before the Silloth lifeboat Angela and Hannah, which was most promptly launched, could get to the scene of the wreck. The silver medal of the institution and a copy of the vote, inscribed on vellum, were 'granted to Mr. William Stug gins, the second coxswain of the Teignmouth lifeboat, on the occasion of his retirement from that office, in acknow ledgment of his long and valuable services in the lifeboat during the past nineteen years in saving life from ship wreck. Various other rewards were also granted to the crews of different shoreboats for saving life from wrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom. Payments, amounting to £l,BOO, were ordered to be made on various lifeboat establishments, £l,OOO stock of the funded capital of the institution being ordered to meet in part the said pay ments. £5O had been handed to the society by William Chippindale, Esq., of Tunbridge-wells, at the request of his late son, Dr. Walter Chippindale. The late John Abbott, Esq., of Halifax, had left the Institution a legacy of £2,000, part of which sum was to be applied towards placing another lifeboat on the coast. The late Miss Sarah Dorset, of Reading, had likewise bequeathed £lOO to the Society. A new lifeboat had just been sent to the Isle of Arran in Scotland ; and the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company had readily granted the boat a free conveyance over their line. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief had informed the institution that he had given orders for the institution's revised instructions for the restoration of the apparently drowned to be circulated at all the stations of the British army at home and abroad. The committee expressed their sincere condolence with the family of the late Mr. Mark Lemon, who during the past twenty years had, through the medium of the well known publication which he so ably conducted, ren dered most important service to the lifeboat cause. Reports w•re read from Captain J. R. Ward, R.N., the inspector, and Captain D. Robertson, R.N., the assistant inspector of lifeboats to the society, on their recent visits to the coast, and the proceedings then terminated. A. CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST DIRECTORS. At the Mansion House, on Thursday, Major the Hon. A. G. F. Jocelyn, Major J. W. Carnegie, Captain G. E. Bulmer, and Mr. Joseph Taylor, four of the late directors of the Monarch Insurance Company, now in course of liquidation, again surrendered before the Lord Mayor to undergo a further examination upon the charge of fraud and conspiracy preferred against them by one of the share holders in reference to their management of the affairs of the above company. Mr. G. Nursall, a Yorkshire farmer, whose name had been put down on the list of shareholders of the Monarch as the holder of five hundred shares, proved that he had never applied for a single share, and that he had not given any authority to the defendants or any one else to apply for shares in his name. He was not even aware that such a Company as the Monarch Insurance Company was in existence. The first intimation he had of the fact was an application being made to him by the official liquidator for the amount due• on his shares. Mr. Lewis said the witness was liable to pay £2,500 upon the shares supposed to be held by him in the company. Evidence of a similar character was given by several other witnesses. Some of them were placed on the register as the holder of a hundred, others a hundred and fifty shares in the company, but they utterly repu diated any connection or liability in relation to the company. Mr. Lewis said that nearly the whole of the names in the list appeared to have been placed there under similar cir cumstances, but as it would entail enormous expense to bring forward the whole of the parties, he suggested that it should be admitted on behalf of the defen dants that the list of shareholders was ficti tious. Mr. Digby Seymour said that on the part of Captain Bulmer he had no objection to admit the fact, but at the same time he must state he knew nothing whatever about the way in which the register was made up. A similar statement was made on behalf of the other defendants by their learned counsel. One witness proved that a person to whom 150 shares was allotted occupied a room, for which he paid 4s. a week. He had decamped. A carver and gilder proved having had £1,400 worth of shares allotted, to him at the request of a person with whom he had merely a " public " acquaintance. Mr. M. Low, who had ad vanced £3,500 t o th e com p an y, p rove d that two bills endorsed by the whole of the directors, had been dis honoured. They were for £2,000 and £1,500. From representations made to him he subsequently ad vanced £l,OOO more, and was shorty afterwards told that the company was about to be would up. It appeared from the share list that £190,000 had already been subscribed, and he lent his money on the security of that list. Mr. Low further stated that he was given to understand that £40,000 had not been called in. At this stage of the proceedings the case was adjourned until Monday week. At an early day Mr. Eyken intends calling the attention of the House of Commors to the unsatisfactory condition of the Metropolitan Police Force, and to move that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the constitution of the force, with a view to ensure its in creased ef4ciency. ANOTHER CRYSTAL PALACE.—Various parties, with an eye t' business, are beginning to discuss the ques tion of another Crystal Palace for New York. Let us have it, and let it be in our great Park, and let it be built to stand, like the Sydenham Palace. Why not ? New York Herald. A. letter from :Newmarket says .—" Wheat, barley, and oats are, in almost every part of this district, looking very healthy, are growing fast, and are of excellent colour. The bean and pea crops require rain, as do the mangold and seed crop ; at present, also, there is a pros pect of a light hay crop, in consequence of the long drought. " RATES AND RELIGION. At an an agricultural meeting in Somersetshire Arch deacon Denison expressed his belief that there was am end of religious teaching with the introduction of the rate system. He said :—" If once you establish an education rate in this country it is as demonstrable as any proposi tion in Euclid, you cannot have any school which shall have any religious education in it at all. Directly you have established a rate at all, you must have a body of managers of all people who contribute to the rate. They will try for a time to arrange the religious difficulties, which they will certainly find to be i m p oss ibl e ; an d then they will say, ' Well, we will cut them up 137 having no religion at all ! ' That is what you must come to if you have an education rate, This is one of the things with which it is very kindly proposed to saddle us. For my part, if I am compelled by law to pay an education rate, I must pay it. I don't mean to go to prison. The inevitable consequence will be, I shall withdraw from the support of schools every six pence I now contrjbute as a voluntary subscriber, which would amount to at least five times £he utmost rate I could be made to pay." DEATH OF CONSUL CAMERON. Captain Charles Duncan Cameron, F.R. G.S., formerly British Consul in Abyesinia, and whose imprisonment by King Theodore was the prime cause of the Abyssinian, war, died at Geneva on Monday last. Captain Cameron entered the army in 1846, serving as ensign in the 45th Regiment. From 1846 to the end of 1847 he was engaged with the Irregulars in the Kaffir war for which he received the Kaffir war medal, and he served again through the Kaffir war of 1852-3. In the Russian war he served under Sir William Fenwick Williams, of Kars. On the death of Mr. Plowden, in 1860, he was appointed Consul in Abyssinia, to reside at Massowah, where he arrived in January, 1862, in which year he attended the Duke of Saxe-Coburg on his expedition to the interior of that country. On the Bth May of that year he left Massowah for Gondar, bearing presents and a letter from the Queen to King Theodore. He arrived at Gondar on June 23rd, and was favourably received by the King. But in 1864 he met with the King's displeasure, and was imprisoned from January 2nd to April 17th, when he was given over to Mr. Rassam, who had been sent out on a special mission for the purpose of obtaining his re lease. In the following July, however, he was again im prisoned by the King, this time having for fellow pri soners Mr. Rassam, Lieutenant Prideaux, and Dr. Blanc, of the Indian Army, and a number of other Europeans who were resident in the country. The story of their release by Theodore, after two years' captivity, on Lord Napier's appearance before Magdala (April 11, 1868), is too recent to need recapitulation. Captain Cameron, on his release, returned home, where he arrived in July, 1868, broken down in constitution by the sufferings he had undergone. PRIMARY EDUCATION IN IRELAND. The report on Primary Education in Ireland, adopted by the majority of the members of the Royal Commission, has been .published. Appended to it are a series of one hundred and twenty-eight " conclusions and recom mendations contained in the general report." The general report has been signed by all the commissioners except three. Two of the commissioners who sign it reserve objections as to particular propositions—Mr. Justice Morris and Master Brooke. The three commis sioners who have dissented—D. Wilson and C. Gibson, Q.C., Presbyterians, and Sir Robert Kane, Roman Catholic, have prepared separate reports. The most important of the recommendations contained in the report, are stated as follows :—That it would be inex pedient to pass any law compelling attendance at school in the country. That in towns it is de sirable that provision be made for the education at the expense of the parents, if possible, or, if not, at the expense of the community of all children who are of school age and are not actually at work. That no child should be considered as having made attendance, who has not been present in the school during four hours of secular instruction. That all children should either pay themselves or be paid for ont of a public rate. That in places where there is only one school, religious instruc tion shall be confined to fixed hours. (a.) No child registered as a Protestant shall be. present when religious instruction is given by a Roman Catholic. No child registered as a Roman Catholic shall be present when religious instruction is given by a person who is not a Roman Catholic. (b.) No child shall be 'allowed to join in or to be present at any religious observances to which the child's parents or guardians may object. (e.) The school books shall be such as have been allowed by the National Commissioners of Education for use in a mixed school. That henceforth the distinction between convent schools and ordinary schools should cease. That the rule which prohibits the members of one religious com munity having more than one school is inexpedient, and should be repealed. That the rule of the Irish Educa tion Board, prohibiting aid to monks' schools should be repealed. That all teachers, religious as well as lay, should give proof of their competence to teach before they are entitled to class salary. That the teachers in convent schools should be examined and classed like other teachers. With reference to the maintenance of the schools, the commissioners advise that the grant made by the Commissioners of National Education should bear a fixed proportion to the amount locally contributed, and that the commi3sioners should main tain this rule in all places except those where they should be satisfied that, after all due local exertion has been made, its application would close a. necessary school. That in default of voluntary local payments or school fees, the requisite local contribution be raised by rate. That if the principle of an educational rate be adopted, such rate should be raised like the poor rate, which is paid half by the owner and half by the occupier. That where " local aid " falls below one-third of the amount of the board's grant the board's payments should be proportionately diminished, unless after report of head and district inspectors the board judge an exception necessary. That income arising from permanent endow ments should not be included under the term "local " aid for the purpose of securing the full amount of Government aid. That the local rate should not exceed 3d. in the pound. That the amount raised by rate and local subscriptions, together with the school fees, should reach one-fourth of the total cost of the school. That rent and repair of school-houses and teachers' residences should be a first charge upon the education rate. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EN ENING, JUNE 3. 1670. DISASTROUS STORM IN GERMANY. The Industriel Alsacien says :—" Germany has been visited by a dreadful storm. The disasters are immense, houses have been carried away, and a large number of persons have perished. At Grosbun (Siebenburgen) the rain was so heavy that houses and their inhahitants were carried away by the current of water produced. After the subsiding of the flood hundreds of cattle, interspersed with human corpses and the ruins of houses, were disco vered in the slime; more than forty dead bodies have been recovered up to the present time ; of the sixty fami lies composing the commune scarcely ten remain alive. At Nazy-Kun eighty houses were carried off by the waters; sixty persons were destroyed by this catastrophe, to say nothing of the loss of property, which is exceedingly great, At Erfurt the lightning struck several objects, notably the steeple of All Saints' Church, consuming the spire.' THE RACE-COURSE AT NIGHT. We all know how cheerless a ballroom looks on the morning after the ball ; or, worse still, the supper-room, with its fragments of programmes, odd gloves, and bon bon papers- littering the grates, in which only the ashes remain. Still all these are hilarious symbols compared to the Derby course at night. The Grand Stand is a mere white spectre : the hill-side is empty, but sparkled over with little fires, which twinkle far and near. Nearly all the booths are closed, though there is loud swearing and obscene talk to be heard from most, and in all lights shine brightly. This has sometimes a curious effect, for the shadows thrown on the thin canvas have the effect of a fantoccini show, and thus the figures of men in their shirts, and women washing in equal dishabille, are constantly passing over the scenes. The " German Opera" is an institution which only such a gathering as Epsom could produce. It is held on Epsom common at a public-house called The Two Brewers. Here all the German, Savoyard, and Italian girls who play on tambourines and hurdy-gurdies regularly assemble of a night during the race week, and here, too, a very fair sprinkling of what are termed "swells" may be met who are so kind to the youngest and the prettiest of the foreigners as even to offer to drive some of them back to London—an offer which is seldom de clined. The back of the great stands only recall to mind some bad colliery accident when the bodies have been brought "to bank," and lie huddled about in their tattered rags. Beneath Langland's stand some 400 people were sleeping of every age and of every sex. One was a child of about twelve months old, who was evidently ill ; but nobody knew whose it was, except that the mother—a tramp—had left it there while she went to look for its father. We met the mother a minute after, and she said she had walked from London to meet the father, to whom, of course, she was not married, to try and make him do something for the infant. Her search had been fruitless, however, though she was confident of ultimate success. Behind all the stands it was the same tale— men and women, boys and girls, lying huddled up toge ther for warmth in heaps. These, however, were the lnxurious spots—the posts of vantage. Those who could not find room slept out upon the common round little fires of furze, and the police had sometimes to drag the people from around them to prevent their clothes being lighted by the spreading fire. In one case the tattered jacket of a man was smouldering beneath him, and yet, though quite sober, it was with difficulty he could be awakened. These, as a rule, were all of the ~lass who " brush you down," fetch water for horses, shoeblacks, and all sorts of nondescripts ready to turn their hands to anything, and to whom nothing comes amiss, from holding a horse to steal ing a watch. The majority, however, leave Epsom as hungry as they entered it. Under one waggon—for it must be remembered that, as a rule at Epsom, the people who have waggons never sleep in them but under them, sheltered round by bits of canvass—we come upon a party of negro serenaders. They were very exhausted, having walked from London the previous ni g ht, an d having been singing incessantly for twelve hours. They had, however, taken £7 Bs., with which they seemed con soled, though they, in common with every other person on the course were loud in their denunciations of such a poor Derby day. We have as yet only spoken of the comfortable sleepers out, but beside those who had the shelter of being under stands or waggons there were literally hundreds upon hundreds who slept in dry ditches, under the lee of any wall or bush, or, as with the Savoyards behind the shelter of their organs. It was a band of homeless London, with all its vice and poverty con densed into one little space, where wasteful riot in the dan cing booths and misery and squalor outside them, could be seen in every form. To those who want a new picture of life in these days of universal novelty we can only say let them see the Derby run and then go on the course at midnight and remain till the shivering dawn wakes up its wandering population. They will come back from this inspection certainly wiser and most probably sadder men. —Pall Mall Gazette. TADvEunsEuENT.] —Holloway's Pills are strongly recom mended to all persons who aro much reduced in power and condition, whose stomachs are weak and whose nerves a r t . shattered. The beneficial effects of these pills will be per ceptible after a few days' trial, though a more extended course may bo required to re-establish perfect health. tl(l -loway's medicine acts on the organs of digestion and in duces com lets rt gularity in the stomach, liver, pancreas, and kidneys. This treatment is both safe and certain iu re sult, and is thoroughly consistent with observation, experi ence, and common sense. The purification of the blood, the removal of all noxious matter from the secretions, and he excitement of gentle action in the bowels, are the sources of the curative powers of Holloway's pills. GYMNASTICS FOR GIRLS. An unusual, but very pleasing, private morning per formance was given at the Hanover-square Rooms a day or two ago. Madame Brenner is a lady who has for some time been engaged in teaching gymnastics to girls ; and on Monday an audience of relatives and friends assembled to witness the results of this training. Nothing could be more gratifying. The young ladies were very prettily dressed in tunics and trowsers of flannel, which afforded absolute freedom of movement without trenching upon the borders of masculine attire. The programme was a lengthy one, perhaps too lengthy, but it was divided into three parts to afford intervals of rest ; and it comprised all the exercises taught, from simple marching to rope lad ders and the trapeze. The performances in the last part appeared to involve rather severe exertion ; but the performers were certainly not unduly distressed or, fatigued ; and they seemed thoroughly to enjoy the plaudits that their skill called forth. The Times, which gives an account of the performance, criticises it thus :—The real test of Madame. Brenner's system, however, is to be sought in the more simple action which resemble those of ordinary life and here its success was most remarkable. We never before saw a dozen girls so thoroughly well "set up," so erect without an atom of stiffness, or so steady, prompt, and certain in their movements. All who have watched women are fami liar with a certain jerkiness for which they are usually conspicuous, and which is partly the result of temperament but chiefly of the spasmodic irritability of untrainedmuscle. Of this jerkiness Madame Brenner's more finished pupils shewed no trace, except, perhaps, in the exercises with battledore and shuttlecock, in which many of them were deficient in firmness and steadiness of stroke, as well as in the power of measuring the force to be exerted for the pro duction of a given effect. The exercises with rings, and those with hoops, and the skating (on wheels) were all very graceful and effective, and the whole performance, ex cept in its more violent parts, was pleasing in its cha acter. It is more than likely that the violent parts may be necessary or useful as matters of training, and that to them some of the finished ease in other movements may ba due. We affirm no more than that the latter are the more graceful.. The impulse that has of late years been given to the mental education of woman, and the existence of such institutions as the college at Hitchin, are facts that require to be counterbalanced by a cor responding attention to physical development. Girls of sedentary habits will either be unable to rival others in point of attainments, or else they will be unable practically to apply their attainments to the work of life. Physiology teaches how easy it is to produce an overgrowth of one side of an organism, and how certainly this overgrowth is followed or attended by diminution of power in other directions. On the other hand, it is far from easy to overwork the frame as a whole ; and if only due proportion and symmetry between all functions be preserved, there is no fear that the young will be pdshed too much. Gymnastics, or at least well-regulated bodily exercise furnishes the proper security against over-taxing the brain by study ; and study renders a correlative service by securing the muscles against being strained by excessive effort. The greater the pres sure of women towards the higher classes of industrial employment, the greater and more earnest their demand for schools and teaching; the greater the tension put upon their minds by examinations and by competition, the more imperative will be the necessity for the careful and sys tematic training of their bodily powers." LAW AND POLIeE. DESPERATE ASSAULT BY A SOLDIER.—Wm. Youle, a private in the let Battalion Grenadier Guards, was charged at the Westminster Police-court with the following violent assault :—Joseph Wye, who had to be seated while giving his evidence, said at half-past one he was going to his home in Leader-street, Chelsea, when the prisoner, who, without any provocation struck him a violent blow on the head and rendered him insensible. He lost a great deal of blood, and his watch . and chain, Wit he did not know whether he had left them with his friends:The injured manw.ts picked up in the road, and the prisoner was stopped with his belt in Lis hand, who, he said, had merely defended himself when he was attacked. He was remanded. ROBBING AN EMPLOYEL.—Ed ward Tobin , errand boy to Mr. James Batsford, comb-dealer, of No. 11, Warwick-street, Regent-street, and Chath, rine 'Oarthey, a charman, were charged at the Marlborough-street Police-court, before Mr. Knox, with stealing some combs, the property of Mr. Bats - ford. Tobin was seen yesterday to leave his employer's shop and meet the pristmer M'Carthey at the corner of Marshall-street, St. James's, and he handed • her a white paper parcel containing some combs, and they were afterwards given into custody. On showing the combs to Mr. Batsford he identified them as lais property, and of Cue value of 7s. The prisoners were committed for trial. PLAINTIFF OR DEFENDANT ?—.A:curious case has been brought before the Court of Common Pleas. An action was brought in Berkshire for the breach of a warranty given with a mare, in which the jury, after hearing the case, found a verdict for the de fendant, damages £3O. The judge, treating this as a mistake, entered the verdict for the plaintiff. The jury, after having heard this, returned into Court to say they intended their verdict to be for the defendant. The Judge asked why in that case they had given damages, to which the jury replied that they thought the defendant had been put to a good deal of expense, and should have £3O. Upon this the judge entered the verdict for the defendant, and the question was whether a rule should be made absolute to enter a verdict for the plaintiff, as was at first done, or for a new trial. The Court, after hearing the argument, discharged the rule. • AN OFFER OF REWARD.— An action has been brought in the Court of Exchequer to recover a reward of £5O offered for information leading to the apprehension a n d conviction of the persons . who stole a horse belonging to the defendant, Mr. liumphreys, of Chingford. The plaintiff gave information which led to the conviction of the receiver of the stolen property, but on his claiming the reward the defendant refused to pay it. It was urged on his behalf that the claim could not be supported, as the plaintiff had not seen the advertisement before giving the information, but the court held the objection was un tenable and gave judgment in favour of the plaintiff. A CURIOUS CASE.—An action was brought, in the Court of Exchequor, by the assignee of a policy for £2OO, effected in 1841 on the life of a Mr. Lacon, who went to France in 1853, leaving his wife and child behind him. He was taken ill, and his wife went to him and remain e d some weeks, after which she returned to England, where she died the next year. Nothing had since been heard of Mr. Lacon, and it was presumed on behalf of the plaintiff that he was dead, and the money must be paid over. The company contended that there was no proof of death. It was finally agreed that judgment should be entered for the plaintiff, on his undertaking to indemnify the company against all future claims on this account. THE LIABILITY OF HORSE OWNERS DECIDED. --In the Court of Exchequer the case of Tunstall v. Nunn came on to enter a non-suit for the defendant, under the fol lowing circumstances :—Mr. Nunn's servant was driving a horse in a brougham up Park-street, and on comin g c , into Oxford-street, he was run into by a cab horse which caused Mr. Nunn's horse to bolt, and•damaged the plaintiff's cab. The plaintiff brought this action to re cover from the defendant for the damage done. There upon the defendant moved for a non-suit, and stated that the horse had been hunted for two years, and. broken to 'harness, and consequently the owner could not have been guilty of negligence. In giving judg ment. the Lord Chief Baron said there was no evidence that Mr. Nunn knew that his horse was unfit to go in harness in the streets of London, and it would be too bad to hold a horse-owner responsible for damage done by his horse through some defect unknown to him. Mr. Baron Martin said there was no evidence of negligence; it was a pure accident. If because 'a horse had a hard mouth he was not to be driven, one half of the horses in the kingdom would have to be sacrificed. The other judges concurred, and the rule was made abso lute, taking away the owner's liability in such cases. BANKRUPTCY OF AN Ex-M.P.—The first examination sitting was held under the bankruptcy of Edwin Baldwin Courtenay, commonly called Lord Courtenay, described as a gentleman, of 25, Ryder-street, St. James's, ex-M.P. for Last Devonshire. Mr. Chatteris produced a statement of the bankrupt's affairs, which shewed total unsecured debts and liabilities about £250,000, and creditors holding security about £300,000. The assets consist of estates to which his lordship will become entitled upon the death of his father, subject to the mortgages thereon and the value of which cannot at present be correctly stated. Mr. Henry Chatteris was appointed trustee, and three credi tors a committee of inspection of the bankrupt's estate ; and the next sitting for the examination and application for order of discharge of the bankrupt will be held before the Chief Judge. DERBY DAY FRIVOLITIES. —There were several charges at the Metropolitan police courts arising out of the inane practices indulged in by rough patrons of the Derby. At Wandsworth John Chaplin a servant of the Coach and Horses, Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, was charged with pea shooting. Prisoner : lam very sorry, but everyone was doing it. Mr. Dayman : It is a very foolish amusement, and ought to be obsolete, like badger or bull baiting. The prisoner was then fined ss. Charles Boyd, a painter, of Felix street, Hackney-road, and Richard George Fostick, resi ding in Park-street, Islington, were charged with shooting peas from a van while passing atong High-street, Clap ham. Mr. Dayman fined each prisoner ss. Two fellows, for beating donkeys, were sent to prison for a fort night. George Anderson, a coke-dealer who had a cut and blood on his face, was charged with furious drivinr , along the Balham-road. Mr. Marl complained that the prisoner drove against his trap, knocking off the hind wheel and throwing out his party. The damage was £4. Mr. Dayman said it was a case for an action. Lord Napier's term of service as Governor of Madras, expires in March next, and his lordship will probably return home in April. It is believed that Lord Napier will succeed Viscount Canterbury as Governor of Victoria, Australia—an office worth £lO,OOO a-year. SA'USAGES.— Rivalry in trade is shewn in the case of two sausage dealers in Paris witJ shops adjoining, one of whom has painted on his glass window, over a pyramid of sausages, " at 30 centimes a pound-- to pay more is to be robbed„- " while the other puts his sausages into an obelisk, and paints over it, " At 40 centimes a pound—to pay less is to be poisoned." THE CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.—The judges of the superior courts met yesterday, in their private room, and fixed the circuits as follows :—Horne Circuit : Lord Chief justice Bovill and Mr. Justice Blackburn. Norfolk Circuit : Mr. Baron Channel and Mr. Justice Keating. Western Circuit : Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willes. Oxford Circuit : Mr. Justice Mellor and Baron Pigott. Midland Circuit : Lord Chief Baron Kelly and Mr. Justice Brett. North Wales Circuit : Lord Chief Justice Cockburn. South Wales Circuit Mr. Justice Hannen. MORE DISTURBANCES LN ITALY. Some particulars of the insurrectionary movement on the shores of the Lake of Como are given in a Florence telegram. The band, numbering about fifty men, and carrying a flag with the inscription "God and the People," upon arriving at Casino seized the ammunition in the Customs guardhouse. The sentinel resisted, and was taken prisoner, but afterwards released. Pur sued by the troops and the Carabineers, the band took to the mountains ; but when • they came to Gir'a they found the place occupied .by the troops, whereupon they retreated to Colico, where they were again met by the troops and dispersed. The band comprised some non-commissioned officers who had deserted from Pavia after the mutiny there. General tranquillity (the despatch adds) prevails fn Italy ; but unfortunately a Naples telegram comes to hand with the information that a fresh Republican band has appeared in the province of Terra di Lavoro, and there is a rumour that twenty-five Greek brigands have disembarked on the coast of Calabria. CANADA. COLLINGWOOD, ONTARIO, May 18, The steamer Chicora arrived at seven o'clock this evening, having again been refused permission to pass Ste Marie Canal. Colonel Wollon, commanding the British forces, waited on General Cooke, in commxid of the dis trict, and asked the intention of the American Govern ment with regard to the Chicora. General Cooke replied, " My instructions are absolute ; nothing whatever con nected with the Red River Expedition can pass the canal. I must, therefore, absolutely refuse to allow the Chicora to pass." TORONTO, ONTARIO, May 19, The Globe and Telegraph this morning have strong articles in favour of building a canal on British ground round Sault Ste. Marie, and that the privileges now employed by American vessels in Canadian canals shall cease until the question at issue is adjusted. HALIFAX, May 18. Dr. Tupper enters the Dominion Cabinet as Receiver- General, in place of Mr. Kenny, who has been appointed Governor of Manitoba. WASHINGTON, May 19. With regard to the dispatch from Collingwood, Canada, received to-day, announcing that the steamer Chicora had arrived there, having been absolutely refused permission to pass the Sault Sainte Marie Canal, it should be stated that the last orders of this Government had not reached the commandant at the Sault when the Chicora sought to pass. Ere this the order under which she was refused has been reversed.-- New York Times. THE C LPITAL QTJESTI.ON: We publish herewith a western call for a Convention to meet next October at Cincinnati, to consider the location of the capital of the United States. The invitation is very broad, and we trust it will be widely accepted. Con gress is now pressed to authorise novel expenditures, for objects nowise pressing, at our present seat of government; and these expenditures, if justifiable at all, must assume that Washington City is the permanent capital of the United States. If this be so—if the stupendous acquisi tions, and discoveries, and upturnings, of the last seventy years, haVe left Washington incontestibly the point at which Congress should sit, and the Executive transact the diplomatic business of the nation, then let the people, by some direct and emphatic declaration, so proclaim it. If it be not so—if the American people, for reasons satisfac tory to themselves, prefer a different location for their capital—then it is high time the fact were ascertained and respected. The question has been raised ' • it ought to be fully considered and decisively adjudicated. It is not well that million after million be spent in en larging public grounds and multiplying public edifices destined to be abandoned ; nor is it right that such ex penditures should be incurred in order to strengthen the argument against relocation based on the vast amounts of public money expended on the present Capital. Let us first decide that the Capital is or is not to remain where it is ; then act in conformity to our knowledge. And, now that our Westward march has been arrested by the Pacific, while our Southern boundary seems permanently traced by the Rio Grande and the Gila, it seems fit that the Federal metropolis shall be placed where it is to remain, or that it shall be conclusively located where it now is. We respectfully suggest that Congress authorise the President to select an able Commission to survey the whole field, and report what action would most conduce to the national well-being.—New York Tribune. STRANGE SOLUTION OF A QUARREL. A strange affair has just taken place at Vienna. A , few days ago, one of the guards in the Stadtpark heard the report of a firearm at a very early hour—about three in the morning. Following the sound, he found, after long search on the bank of one of the bywalks a large pool of blood and a hat, but no person in the park. He called for assistance from the police, and the search was continued, but, so far as the park was concerned, without success. Outside of it, however, the commissary of police in search saw a man lying on some leaves, and, thinking him drunk, ordered that he should be removed to the station. On raising him it was found that he was covered with blood, and that he held a pistol in his hand. The shot had gone through his neck, and had shattered his jaw. On searching him four letters were found, 'one addressed the authorities, another to his parents, a third to his lady-love, and a fourth to his colleagues in the opera house. The youth was the son of a dancing-master, and himself employed as one of the dancers in the corps de ballet of the opera-house. In the letter addressed to the authorities Reisinger announced that he was the victim of an American duel, and that the motives which had in duced him to act would be found in a letter which he had deposited in the dressing-room of the male dancers of the opera. In this letter, which was found in the place indicated,after thankinghis colleagues for their kind ness to him, and asking them not to judge him too harshly, he tells them that he had made the acquaintance of a lieutenant, who was a Maltese Knight of St. John ; that they had quarrelled, and that the lieutenant had chal lenged him to fight with pistols, which he had accepted. As he came next day to the rooms of the lieutenant there were already several officers there. When he came in they began to talk French. After a time the lieutenant came in, and told him that he could not fight him, as he was too young. On this the youth says that he became violent, but the lieutenant told him, smiling, that there was a way to fight without exposure, and this was that each should wear a glove on the left hand, and whoever was seen in the street by the other without the left glove on his hand should kill himself. The writer of the letter says that he had been so unfortunate as to be seen by his adversary without the glove, so if he did not wish to be dishonoured he had to kill himself. He says that he would not have been so foolish as to take off his glove had he not yielded to the remonstrances of one for whom he would always have ventured to expose his life. The young man has died since, but before his death he had given the name of his adversary, a cavalry lieutenant, who had been a fre quent visitor at the well-known dancing school which is kept by the father of the youth, and had made advances to the lady-love of the latter. This was the ground of the quarrel. Both the girl and his own relations, who did not know the meaning of his always wearing the left glove, had taunted him about it, and the first time he yielded he met the lieutenant, who looked at his hand, and the young man thought' himself bound to fulfil the stipulations of their foolish duel. The authorities are looking for the lieutenant, but have not been able to find him. The Times correspondent observes that it will be a cnrious case if he be tried, for there are no provisions made in the criminal code against this sort of duelling, and a fight with murderous weapons is necessary to make out a case of duelling. At a meeting of the Manchester district committee of the National Education League, the original programme of unsectarian, compulsory, and free education in public elementary schools was unanimously re-affirmed. At a meeting of the Manchester education bill committee, resolutions were passed cordially approving of the amend ments which the Government propo se t o introduce into the bill. The vicarage of Broad Chalke cum Bower Chalke, in the county of Wilts, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams, and worth between £3OO and £4OO a year and a residence, has been conferred by King's College, Cambridge, on th e R ev . Willi am H enry Whit ting, M.A., Fellow of King's College, and curate of St. Benedict's, Cambridge. There has been an apprentices' strike at Messrs. Clover's shipbuilding yard at Birkenhead, and the turn outs have resorted to viclence to coerce one of their number. They seized their working companion and threw him into a tank of water. Some of them were taken before the magistrate, who fined the ringleader (John Linton) £5, with the option of two months' impri sonment ; two others being fined £3, with the alternative of imprisonment for six weeks. M. Theodor Wachtel writes a letter to the papers, in which he says , "Durin g th e recen t represen t a ti on o f " Don Giovanni" at the Royal Italian Opera, Madame Adelina Patti (Marquise de Caux) believed herself insulted by me, and, in consequence, informed Mr. Gye that she should decline to sing again with me. Although after wards it was proved that the alleged insult was the result of a misunderstanding on the part of Madame Patti, and as such acknowledged by her, yet I felt it due to my repu tation as an artist, and also to my personal honour, to re quest Mr. Gye to release me from my engagement, which he has accordingly done." PRESIDENT GRANT. In his speech at the celebration of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in Baltimore, Postmaster- General Creswell said :—" It was not permitted that Lincoln should survive to see this glorious consummation; but the great Captain in whom he trusted implicitly; and to whom, in his last speech, he attributed all the honour of leadership in the stupendous military operations which closed the war, now by authority of the people occupies the Presidential chair. In his inaugural address he ex pressed a desire for the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment ; and he has ever since shewn his sincerity by his unceasing labours to accomplish that result. His anxiety may be gathered from the language of his recent proclamation, where he declares the ratification to be `the most important event that has occurred since the nation had come into life.' To him more than to any other living man is its final success attributable. The leading part which he has taken in dedicating the coloured race to freedom and to the service of our common country, has crowned his career with the most admirable triumph of his life, and has fully established the truth of that saying, once applied to Cromwell, but which Crom well lived to verify only in part : Peace bath her victories No less renown'd than war.' " A HUSBAND'S RETRIBUTION. In the Hudson County Court of Sessions, at Jersey City, the trial of Charles Schultz for cutting his wife's throat, with intent to kill her, was brought to a clos e. Schultz, who possessed a large amount of property, went to California to avoid the persecution of his wife, and when he returned the wife had all the property in her own name, and threw him out of doors. He went to work as a barber till his sight failed him, as he was 65 years old, yet the family merely allowed him "the crumbs that fell from the table." His wife and children were placed in the witness stand at the trial, and all manifested the" most intense animosity against the old man, except one son. His daughter declared she would not call him father. The overseer of the Poor testified that Schultz applied to him for relief, but he declined to grant it, as Schultz had over 40,000 dols. worth of property. The old man's reason was at length giving way, and in a moment of desperation he cut his wife's throat with a razor. Judge Randolph, in his charge to the jury, delivered a withering rebuke to the unnatural wife and children, and declared that the evidence for the defence revealed a terrible state of things. It revealed a feeling towards a father which, if directed towards him (the Judge) by his children, would certainly crush his heart. At the close of the Judge's remarks, as well as the address of counsel for the defence, many persons shed tears. When Mr. Rowe, prisoner's counsel, concluded, an outburst of applause followed. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the count charging the prisoner with assault. Great sympathy is manifested for the prisoner, who stated that even if he were discharged he had no home to go to, and he was too old and feeble to work. A GOOD EXAMPLE OF JUSTIOE IN BROOKLYN. The punishment of highwaymen, burglars and garotters means the security of peaceful and respectable citizens. The public, therefore, know how to appreciate the hone sty and firmness of judges who give this class of rascals their due. We have an energetic City Judge—now on the briny wave—who does not - spare crime when it comes before him in a convicted form. He has set a good example in dealing with criminals who are alike the danger and the terror of society—fellows who would cut your throat for a dollar, or break into your house for a silver spoon. We are glad to see that Judge Troy, of Brooklyn, has followed the example of Judge Bedford in inflicting summary punishment upon two ruffians who attacked, garotted, and robbed a New York lawyer within a short distance of his own home in Brooklyn. The Judge sent both of them to the State Prison for terms of fifteen and ten years, where they can meditate upon the atrocity of robbing a lawyer, or any other man. Such exercise of the judicial authority is just what we want to break up these organised gangs who infest the community. These fellows rely as much upon the leniency of the courts as they do upon their own skill to commit crime successfully, and to esc a p e its penalty by avoiding arrest and prosecution. They should be taught that justice is swift and sure, and that the bench is not to be polluted by the filthy stream which floats upon the surface of all our political institutions. Therefore Judge Troy did well in putting these enemies of society out of harm's way for some years to come.— New York. Herald. FIGHTING FOR THE SPOILS. The political situation in Trenton continues to excite the indignation of the citizens who are without legislative advantages. while the present order of things lasts. The Charter election, held in April last, resulted in a tie in the Common Council, owin. , to a tie vote for Coun c il man i n the Seventh Ward. At ° the first meeting of the Council, after the election, the Republicans demanded an equal division of she offices to be filled, and the other patronage of the City Government. The Democrats were reluctant to accord this, and demanded a special election for Coun cilman from the Seventh Ward before any other business should be attended to. The Seventh Ward is strongly Democratic, and the tie was the result of certain local disaffection. The Republicans refused to order a new election, on the ground that no business transaction by the body before organisation would be valid, and they refused to organise without an equal division of the spoils. So, with the refusal of the Democrats to organise upon the plan proposed by the Republican members, the matter stands at present. Meantime, all the old city officers, in cluding police, are continuing to do the duties of their positions ; but since the Republicans positively declare that they will not, under any circumstances, order the payment of their salaries, the City Government promises to be carried on quite economically.. The next regular meeting of the Common Council will be held on the first Tuesday in June, but from present appearances it is very likely that no compromise will be effected. The Democrats threaten to appeal to the Supreme Court, which meets in June, for a mandamus to compel the council to order a special election for the seventh Ward, but as the council . has not been legally organized there would seem to be no one upon whom a mandamus could be served. RIGHTS OF WOMEN. One of the topics discussed at the commencement of the Columbia College Law. School, recently, was " the Legal Status of Women." The sneaker failed perhaps to treat the subject with that clearness of statement and distinct array of hard facto which the Tribune brought to bear upon it some time ago—that indeed was hardly to be ex pected—but he did call attention to some peculiarities in the legal privileges of the sex which, we regret to say, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Henry B. Stanton are not in the habit of treating with that engaging frankness which so well becomes them in other matters. In many of the States, and especially in the State of New York, the legal condition of woman is far better than that of man. If she is single she enjoys all the rights of property which belong to the other sex. If she is married she may spend her husband's money, but he may not spend hers. She may hold, control, and devise property independently of him. She may sell her real estate without his consent, but he cannot sell his without her consent. He is liable for her debts, but she is not liable for his. If he has money the law will compel him to share it with her. If she has money and he has none he may starve and the law will not interfere. In point of fact the statutes shew marked favouritism to women, and if men and women were not as a rule a great deal better than the laws that are made for their govern ment, we should call the case of the men an outrageously hard one.—New York Tribune. FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT CELEBRATION. BALTIMORE, May 19. The coloured citizens of Baltimore celebrated the ratifi cation of 15th Amendment by a grand procession and other suitable demonstrations. The number in the pro cession is variously estimated at from 8,000 to 12,000. In the front carriage of the procession were seated the Hons. Horace Maynard and William B. Stokes of Tennessee, and General H. Heath of New-M ex i co . Frederick Douglass was in the second carriage. Most of the Government officials of the city, the collector, Post master, surveyor, naval officer, and internal revenue officers, were in the line. Among the more prominent civilians were C. C. Fulton, Esq., and the Hon. W. J. Albert. Military, civic, and benevolent organisations, and the different trades and clubs were represented. Among the military represented were the Butler Zouaves and the Boys in Blue, the Pioneer Corps of Washi ng t on , representatives from Excelsior Brigade of Philadelphia, and large delegations representing orgagisations from various parts of the State. A number of portraits of dis tinguished men were borne by the different delegations, including that of Henry Winter Davis, with the motto " The iron hand that held Maryland to her allegiance ;" that of William Lloyd Garrison, with the motto " The liberator has at last been heard ;" and that of Thaddeus Stevens, with the motto " Ecce Homo." The most perfect order and quiet prevailed. ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS At last we know the worst. The Senate has amended the concurrent resolution sent from the House, fixing the day of adjournment for the 15th of July, instead of the • 4th, and the House promptly agreed to the alteration. A motion to reconsider the resolution was subsequently laid on the table, thus making the decision final—so that definite calculations can now be made with reference to the work yet to be done, and the time remaining in which to do it. Within the next eight weeks both Houses must bring their deliberations to a close. WhEli we consider the large amount of unfinished business on the calendar, and the important consequences to the commercial interests of the country which are involved, the interval seems brief ; but it is to be remembered that most of the leading measures have been thoroughly discussed, and are as well understood now as they are likely to be if the whole summer were devoted to them. If Congress is disposed to address itself to practical busi ness, all the esssntial legislation now pending can easily be disposed of before the middle of July. It is to be hoped that the warning we have had of the approaching heat will check the profuse eloquence of garrulous members, and induce them to expedite matters as much as is con sistent with safety. Both houses ought to take up the most pressing business first, and dispose of it while there is opportunity for reflection and prudent deliberation. In this category may be included all the currency and tax bills, the Georgia Bill, and all legislation directly affecting business industries. These once out of the way, Congress might spend its unexpired time in miscellaneous work, and even in quarreling with each other over unsettled problems in philosophy and religion. We hope to see a greater disposition manifested for good, honest work, now that the end of the session is no longer among the uncer tainties of the future.—New York Times. A GOOD TIME FOR THE OPERA GOERS' After all the flickerings of Italian opera during the la st winter and this s p r i ng we are really to have one sh °r " , season of the genuine article. Our fashionable people ar e not to go away to the places of summer resort before theY have tasted this most delightful of all amusements. The company is a sort of combination one, to which the bee' and most popular singers belong. It is under the direction of Albites ; but that famous tenor, Brignoli, is the bet and front of it. Brignoli comes back fresh to New V l. ' after a successful tour to California the Sonth and the West. He will uncage his sweet birds at the Academy of Music in " Tiovatore," when he, Mlle. Kellogg, G 3l ; zaniga, Petrili and Fossati will perform. This cast carin o, fail to fill the Academy. Then on Tuesday evening Ft are to have " Martha," with Brignoli again, and v ll5 charmincr, fresh, and popular American prima dx o t Miss Isabel McCulloch, with a new importation frZ Europe, Miss Clara Perl, who, it is said, has a sPlen' voice. With " Lucia di Lammermoor, " and a success i T l of other attractive operatic entertainments afterwar u ; the fashionable world of New York ought to be Y e " thankful.—New York Herald. THE BITER BITTEN. NEW YORK, May A German, named Peter Kaise r , livi ng i n Palisade Avenue, Yonkers,Westchester county, obt a i ne d a warra nt not many days since, in which he charged a fell° s° : countryman, Henry Fleck, proprietor of a boarding- 11 ° 115 " in Jefferson-street, with having, on April 9th, w hile tea tifying in a civil suit before Justice Donohue, committl perjury in regard to some moneyalleged to have been paid by Fleck to the complainant. Yesterday morning, an t before Fleck had been arrested, he swore out a warrt% charging Kaiser with wilful and corrupt perjury ill affirmation relative to a like charge in the warrant obtained by the latter. Roundsman Austin, in whose hands the documents indicated were placed, secured both parties, and locked them np. In the afternoon Fleck had a n urination before Police-Justice Baird, when it was elici„ t fi n that Kaiser had agreed to sell the defendant some 4v cords of wood, and had receipted for 150 dollars paid ilif a by Fleck to bind the contract, which rec e ipt was o ffer in evidence. All this had been denied by Kaiser in hi affidavit charging the other with perjury. A number o lawyers and a justice of the peace were called by the defence, each testifying that Kaiser was not to be beliee , under oath. Both parties were represented by couns' and, after a patient hearing of the case, the court ( 31 !" charged Fleck and held Kaiser without privilege of ba ll ' on a charge of wilful perjury. THE RECENT CHANNEL RACES. We are astonished that the British press does not se e the real points of significance in the remarkable victory ° the Sappho over the Cambria in the Channel races. What these races exhibit is, first, the immense superiority of the American model of yachts for all qualities of 6 ° . going boats, for general seaworthiness and clear sPFe d i next, the superior spirit, nautical skill and seamanship ° American yachtmen and sailors. As to the first of these points, the Sappho's victories are demonstrations thst i s l sane sailor could not dispute. In the two races in the Cambria went over the course the victory was so el and the Sappho was so much ahead that she would st,, have been the victor if she had been compelled to make allowance for time of her opponent's size. In the other rse of the three her victory was, perhaps, a fi ner o ne bean so purely intellectual. It was the victory of a spi r it readY, t venture any sea over the s entim en tal sa il or w h o likes t!a: " soft and gentl e ga l e " f or w hi c h th e gen tl eman in th song "heard a maiden sigh." Is it so strange, after aP,' that they do not recognize this on the other side ? 113 ,.f" do not like 'unpleasant f ac t s . I n w h a t con t es t o f inter national character, of th e man y i n w hi c h we h ave beate n them, have the English eve r h an d some l y ac k no wledr; their defeat ? It was almost worth o ur w hil e t o have t b o Harvard boys beaten last year for the sake of the geoe„r ° ,4 example they gave ; but it has had no eff ec t.—New Herald. It is now admitted in England that no schooner thel l ' e , can sail with Mr. Douglas' yatch, the Sappho. Mr. "t e ,,, , a bury will also come to the conclusion by and bY,Fi` t it Americans were really able to teach him something au ° t, e yachting. In betting circles long odds would probably given that in a fresh wrangle about measurement , ° e tonnage, or the wind or some other fuss and n onseli% which nobody can understand, Mr. Ashbury will pretext for spreading his sails for Norway instead of Nei York next July.— New York Times. WHAT HAS THE PACIFIC ROAD DONE F° CALIFORNIA ? The effects of new channels of commerce are always ar i/1 capable of being accurately estimated before hand. ° A years since, if any one on the Pacific coast had utte r ': any financial prophecy with perfect confidence, it iv o°l have been that the immediate results of the expected act tinental railroad would be unmixed prosperity to Cal l fornia and San Francisco. Another prediction 1 7 0° c i also have been made, though with less confidence-:1i that is, that the increased traffic and travel by land wC`",i have have its usual effect on competing water routes, 1 0 that, after a temporary depression, the li ne o f steamersii. San Francisco would prosper as well as the r road. This certainly has been the experience on ti , Sound and the Hudson River in similar comp t, tion. It certainly seemed a rational forec os ; that a road which could transfer a labour e o for sixty dollars from New York to San Francisco, W °° o lJ at once cheapen labour on the Pacific coast, and m ake productions more profitable. Settlers, too, would un doubtedly be attracted by the delicious climate and chl lands, or by the new chances of business, and would .„ up town and country. All these reasonable expectatil; however, were doomed to disappointment. Cong,ressi„ its rich subsidies of land to the Pacific R a il roa d s , 01 9 4 them, in fact, to compete at ruinous rates with the rac i g Mail steamers. The latter did not apparently sufficient popular efforts to turn the new tide of freig o i and travel, so that at present the great current both A . commerce and of -- passenger business passes. , over lso 4' Undoubtedly in a year or two more this will ‘ all chilal;a as California itself recovers ; but at present, the I° o 3 B route has won the race in competition with, h the sea. But 03 effects on California itself are the most singular. So farfr o it the State prospering under the new order of things , io has not been for years in a worse condition.. Businet g . San Francisco is flat ; town lots ,are, dow ;it trade is t o o gush, and a multitude of unemployed labourers have 1- ; i ibe besieging the city' authorities. foi heipand 7 work. t he explanation seems,totbe that the, railroad bringstwho , b,.,. o l economists call " the distributing clasgini , the Cer",,a West in competition with th a t o f 'th e P ac ifi c coast, o ' oo the wastefulness and extravagance of the latfer,h o Y e t io chance against th&'econo my of the former. That is, exchangers, retailers, an d wholesale dealers of Chic ap ,, e n supply inner California-'' an d N eva d a w ith goo ds Ito cheaper than the San F rancisca ns can - d o it, and j uin) beaten them o u t o f th e fi e ld. Thi s v a l eaves tradedw e the city, and everpthi ng su ff ers i n consequence . Prodl i j too, from the interior near the railroad, goes eastll-„0 instead of to the ca pit a l. T oo man y l a b ou rers Iv!, crowded the city, a n d wages h ave no t y e t a dj u sted tlie ti Ty selves. The w h o l e St a t e i s i n a con diti on o f hea'bol transition. When it is over, she will res u me more her old prosperity.—. New York Times. Several diplomatic changes are intimated as r o ' bable. Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, who is g ett to better, is again designated as the probable Minist ft e' Vienna in the place of the Duke de Grammont. be again reported, too, that M. Prevost-Paradol virw appointed Minister at Washington. M. de Barth 6le .,;ce will probably be appointed Minister at Brussels, Viscount de la Gu6ronniere, who goes to Madrid. LADSERTISRMENT.J—AYOId Medicines—they always 0446 -sv ia „r or ? chronic complaints ; but Du Barry's delicious health-re s. r i s li; Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the ne s A dieEy mentor the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other reravousa and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves , 8 1 i' lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functi ol 4 es, gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. o r& tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health re s iB6 6 . by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 2 1 A isce , —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially tirelr abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself 000 to Du Barry's Revalenta. Arabica Food, of which he ee,n_ s pee, a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprising! ). e% car flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise 011 , s our e lent food too highly. —From the "Gazette du Midi," July 2d., vet No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Yee' rs e rici complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with 0 1 , ralPitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessne, e 7 the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,7 71 +, 0 0 4 Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of InanY . "tycO dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agePio s aq, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fla l 4, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cf s reiPa 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 3 diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangeni en,' 4 A .09, partial deafness. Important Caution.- -Beware of the .f aol , ' unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which , , a " - ojet ; authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously st:.,a, In tins, at is Ilb 2s 9d; '2 lb 4s ed; 51b lls.; 1 ' 0 0' 8 24 lbs 4 s.— tlso Du BARRY's REVALENTA • RABICk CO' A 24 Ctfy POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, fo r A at at 35 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 258 cups at 30s, for 576 cuP r e se", —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins 4 9 :r jer• free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office 0 0 BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lan doll all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS. No el On the 31st ult., at Cheltenham, the wife of Lieut. -0 C. Brown Constnble, of a daughter. be° On the Ist inst., at Park-road, Dalston, Mrs. G. of a daughter. MARRIAGES. 0 0° 1 On the 3"st ult., at the University Church, Stephen '--- on Dublin, Thadeus E. Ryan, Car ain R.A., eldest - c "ir, l ° the late John Ryan, Esq., Scarteen, county Lip' power' Gwendoline Agnes, second daughter of Sir James Bart., Edermine, co. Wexford. it? vi se e On the Ist hitt., at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, r r• Fa o f of 62, Chandos-street toAnna Maria, d ati ghtdr o o 6 bite T. L. Henderson,and niece of W. M. Mead " Leyton. 10 ° ,rO-1 DEATHS On the 30th ult., at Geneva, Captain C. D. Cam e: H.B.M.'s Consul at Massouah. god On the 30th ult. at 22, Westbourne square, Charl es Ansley Martelli, barrister-at-law, aged 58. J 0 Loudon: Printed and Published by WILLIAM A p s. - of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at T EE S U N Office,, o tf Strand, in the Precinct of the Sav o y, in the 'iv Middlesex.—Friday, June 3, 1870. .m......... li i This `•ol,i he A able ‘- Po 1 0-Aa C r Adn 12 mo . L A ''eiTies Teens , Were News, No should C R D of Mm e . SiMr. ductoi tile weath Mich s banks eye an of this atrnosi roo ms. Achr ICTO - t . 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