The Sun. — London, England, 1870-04-23 00:00:00

EMIGRATION FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS. In the course of a very good speech on emigration al, Richmond, Sir William Denison called attention to the need of some outlet for the surplus energy and capital of the middle class, He said wish, 'however, to draw your attention to a class to whose interests but little attention has hitherto been paid, but which is gradually assuming an important position owing to its numbers and the character of those comprising it. I mean the middle class, or what may perhaps be more correctly termed the professional class. I mean to include in this body, not merely the learned professions, the Church and the law, nor active professions as the army and navy, but all that great body who labour more with their heads than their bands, and who, while they get from such labour a suffi cient return to enable them to live and educate their chil dren, can only leave to these the heritage of brains, the produce of which is in many cases far in excess of the demand. A single instance will shew the extent of the charge in the demand for the labour of this class which half a century has produced. In 1820 the King was wil ling to give gratuitous instruction to a class of young lads called cadets. They were trained at the Royal Academy at Woolwich, and received pay at the rate of 2s. 6d. per day, out of which the cost of their board was defrayed, and, after a certain period of instruction, they received commissions in the artillery , or engineers. In 1869 the state of things was changed. Great additions had been made to the strength of the two corps above-mentioned, yet, notwithstanding this increase of demand, the supply of candidates for admission was so far in excess of the demand that while seventy-six young men of from seven teen to nineteen were allowed to enter the academy, 260 who also offered themselves were refused admission merely on the ground that there was no necessity for their services. This is but a type of the state of things which prevails generally among the class I allude to, and I think that I have a right to say that so far as regards both the middle class and the working class the supply is in excess of the demand ; while of capital, the fact that it is seek ing for employment everywhere, that the Emperor of Russia, who wants a few millions, had £50,000,000 offered to him, is sufficient to shew that of this also there is an excess in the supply. Emigration, therefore, which would carry off a portion of our surplus supply of men, would be a dear benefit to the middle class and the work ing class ; and as its tendency is to create a market for our manufactures it would be a great, though indirect, benefit to the capitalists also. WOMEN STUDYING MEDICINE. Some smart speechifying . took place over Professor Masson's motion in favour of admitting women to the medical, classes of Edinburgh. University on the same terms as men, "except in cases where the court may see special reasons why the instruction should be separate." Professor Masson was very indignant at the refusal to allow Miss Pechey to enjoy the scholarship she had won. It was, he said, a bad thing for the University that it was driven to the vast unseemliness of doing an act intrin sically ugly and justly most unpopular—that it was driven by the existing arrangement to deprive Miss Pechey of the place to which she stood entitled. He was ashamed, as an atom of the University, of having it reported, perhaps without knowledge of the facts, in the south—in the Times, and else where—that the University of Edinburgh had done this glaringly ugly and detestable thing. On the whole, he thought the University was bound to set the matter right. Was there any objection intrinsically to the proposal of mixed classes He saw really none. Did not men and women go to church together ? Did not men and women attend lectures on various subjects together? Did they not in Edinburgh attend together the lectures at the Philosophical Institution ? Were they not there lectured to by medical professors on scientific subjects ? And was there anything in the nature of botany, or chemistry, or various other subjects—(A voice, " Anatomy")—that would make it improper for men and women to study them together? They found that various European Universities did what he proposed to do. The great University of Paris did it. They might have seen accounts in the newspapers of the classes there where the ladies sat in front, immediately opposite the Professor. In the University of Vienna the same thing was done, as also in the University of Zurich. In Stock holm it was the same. Nay, in the South Kensington Museum, under the auspices of the Government, there were courses of lectures on physiography, physics,chemis try, botany, human physiology, andanatomy in relation to art, the lecturers being Professors Huxley, Oliver,Guthrie, and Marshall of University College. He h a d b een i n f orme d that ladies went there as part of the general audience, the arrangement' eing that they sat in front, and there was no difficulty about the matter. Among the ladies under whose general assistance these lectures were given were the Duchess of St. Albans, the Marchioness of Salisbury, the Countess of Tankerville, Countess de Grey, Countess Granville, Countess Cowley, Baroness Mayer de Roths child and Lady Elcho—names which might be taken as a guarantee that the thing was correct in a social point of view. To come still nearer home, the Watt Institution, in Edinburgh, in consequence mainly of the action of the University, had opened its classes, and seventy-six ladies had during the past winter been distributed through the various classes, including natural philosophy and chemis try, the thing having beenmanaged without any trouble at all.—Professor Laycock was equally strong on the other side, urging that he would be compelled, if ladies were admitted to his class, to leave out much that he would otherwise having thought it needful to say. Professor Laycock, as has been already announced, carried the day by '5B to 47. SYMPATHY FOR SMALL CREATURES. It is curious to observe how insensible we are to suffer ing which does not immediately come under our eyes. Indeed, it may safely be laid down as a rule that the amount of our sympathy depends entirely on the magnitude of the object on which it is conferred. The beetle feels as great a pang as the giant when it dies, but we feel very little pity for the sufferings of the beetle compared with what we feel for those of the giant—and for anything smaller than a beetle we have little or no pity at all. Al though it is pretty clearly demonstrated that we swallow myriads of insects in the water we drink and the air we breathe, we are utterly indifferent to the pain and incon venience we cause them. Our great-great-grandfathers were as hard-hearted as ourselves, and in the supplies granted by Parliament in the year 1781 a reward of £3,600 was actually voted to Mr. H. Philips (probably the Harper Twelvetrees of that day) " for his discovery of a certain powder for the destruction of insects." We carry this indifference to the fate of the diminu tive almost too far in some respects. We speak of " infant mortality " as a thing entirely apart from the mortality of adults. We know that the large majority of children born in this country die before they reach the age of two years ; that many of those who re main are then run over and killed, and that a large pro portioh die of scarlet fever. If all these misfortunes hap pened to portly human creatures weighing thirteen or fourteen stone, the whole nation would be in tears. On Wednesday evening Mr. Langham, the coroner, held an inquest at St. James's workhouse on a little child aged 10 months, accidentally suffocated in its bed. How many hundreds of such cases there are every year ! But if a dozen fat aldermen were suffocated in a twelvemonth, we should soon find out the reason, and take measures to prevent its recurrence. Dr. Stevenson, medical officer of St. Pancras, reports thirty-one deaths from scarlet f ever during the past month, and a great increase of smallpox. It is chiefly children who suffer, so why should we grown-up people mind? But still for elders to muddle away the lives of their juniors, is, like many other fashionable practices, rather questionable morality, and that these little lives are muddled away there can be no doubt, when we look at our bundles of sanitary Acts, all neatly tied up with red tape, and we stand blandly smiling while troops of help less infants are toddling into the grave.—Pall Mall Gazette. LADY MORDAIINT.—Lady Mordaunt continues in much the same health she has had for many months, her mental condition being neither perceptibly aggravated nor perceptibly relieved. For tLe last few weeks her ladyship has been residing with Dr. Wynter and his family at Chis wick. We may add that dementia resulting from ordinary insanity, is almost invariably hopeless, but as the sequela of puerperal mania its prognosis is more favourable.— Lancet. FATAL COLLIEBY ACCIDENTS. —An accident occurred on Thursday morning at Messrs. Sparrow's, Millfield Colliery, Bilston. Two colliers got into the skip to begin work in the pit, and intimation was given to the engine -tenter that they wished to be lowered down. The engine was set in motion and the covering over the mouth of the pit was taken off. Instead, however, of the colliers being let down, they were drawn up to the "pulley." One of them saved himself by clinging to the supports of the pulley-wheel ; the other, who is named John Ashley, and is fifty-seven years of age, was carried over the wheel, and fell upon the pit bank. He died within half an hour. The engine-tenter has absconded, and is now being pursued by the police.—A fatal accident also occurred at Smithfield Colliery, near Bolton, on Wednesday morning. Two pit men, named John Leddon and James Walker, were about 100 yards down the shaft bricking up the side, when a quantity of earth suddenly fell upon the scaffolding, breaking one of the ropes by which it was suspended and precipitating the men a distance of 150 yards. Both the nien were killed instantaneously. They leave large families. APPREHENSION OF A SUPPOSED MURDEILER.— There is now in custody in the Rotherham police station a man who is supposed to have committed a brutal murder at Blackhill, in Perthshire, on the 21st of December last. The prisoner is a tramp, and on Wednesday he solicited alms from Inspector Sowrey, in College-street, Rother ham. The officer, who was in plain clothes, at first affected to take into consideration the man's request, with the ob ject in the meantime of thoroughly examining his appear ance, having at the first glance been struck with his resemblance to a Scotchman who was " wanted" for the murder referred to, and for whose apprehension a reward of £5O has been offered. He was invited to the police station, where he was examined by Superintendent (xillatt, who, being also impressed with the man's similarity to the supposed murderer, ordered him to be detained on the charge of vagrancy until inquiries had been made. Not only the man's appearance, but his own account of his movements at the time of the murder bear out the grave suspicion against him. - ' The murder was committed on December 21, the victim being John Miller, a toll-keeper, who was found in his toll-house with his brains knocked ont, the person who perpetrated the deed having also robbed, the unfortunate man of a silver lever watch and a quantity of wearing apparel. The prisoner states that he left Leith in Scotland a few days before Christmas, and that on December 25 he reached Stockton where he worked for three months. His general appear ance corresponds in many particulars with that of the missing man, the only material difference being that he has rather a bushy beard, and his height varies a little from that of the police description of the mur derer. Communications have been made with the police in Perthshire. THE RED RIVER REBELLION. Mr. Setter, an intelligent half-breed, and Mr. Charles Mair, reaches Toronto on the Ist of April from the Red River. They were en route for Ottawa to represent to the Government the feelings of the Portage people, who are strongly opposed to the insurrection, though Riel has forced them into outward obedience. The execution of Scott has excited the greatest indignation among the settlers and the people of the Portage find great fault with the Scotch settlers, on account of the apathy which they shewed during the late rising for the rescue of the prisoners held at Fort Garry, and it is alleged that there was some collusion between them and Riel, and that they kept him well posted on all the movements of Boulton's party. Regarding Scott, Mr. Setter says that he was tried by seven French half-breeds, who con ducted the proceedings entirely in their own language, so that the poor fellow had no idea of what was going on, nor did he understa n d a wor d th at was said. He was blind folded and taken out in front of Fort Garry, where he was shot at by three men, who did their work in such a bungling and brutal manner that he was not killed, but was taken up by his inhuman executioners and placed in his coffin, where he lay writhing in helpless agony for a whole hour, until death terminated his sufferings. This act has created an intense feeling in the settlement, and no man now feels his life safe for a single minute in the hands of the detested ruffian to whom they render an unwilling allegiance. Messrs. Mair and Setter have both left their families at the Portage and the latter expects that during his absence the whole of his property will be confiscated ; but neither he nor Mr. Mair has any fears as to the personal safety of their relatives. Mr. Setter imputes the orio - in'of the insurrection to the priests, and c o ns id ers th a t the Hud son's Bay Company have done their best to foment the disturbance. American wire-pullers have also been ex tremely active, but outside of the French half-breeds the whole population is now waiting anxiously for a movement on the part of either the Imperial or Canadian Government in the direction of sending troops to their assistance, when they will rise to a man. He deprecates the idea of the Indians being employed. Troops could be got into the territory by way of Fort William immediately upon the opening of navigation, and it would take them about three weeks to make the journey from Fort William to Fort Garry. On the other hand, the Toronto Globe strongly advocates the employment of the Indians, and says the aid of such valuable auxiliaries cannot be lost on account of unreasoning prejudice. The safety of our own people depends on using them for scouts and guides, though they need not be employed in actual warfare. The New Nation, a Winnipeg journal, says that before long the rule of the Hudson Bay Company on the Saskat chewah will be as extinct as though it had never been. The general cry of dissatisfaction, we need hardly add, is everywhare echoed by the red man. Least of all, will the wandering tribes in the interior allow a few adventurers in London to sell their hunting grounds. They have undoubted claims as children of the soil— claims paramount in their eyes to almost every thing else—and they will not allow the company to infringe on them in any way. This is the attitude they now take, and it is one they will maintain at all hazards. 'They have had many councils on this subject recently, and, from all we can learn, are determined to shew that they will not be deprived of their rights withouta struggle. On all hands, then, the company's action in selling this country has been repudiated. It was taken without in the least consulting the wishes of the people—without even so much as notifying their Governor and Council— and those who took it, and all others disposed to usurp similar powers, will, if they are wise, profit by the lesson so. summarily taught by the half-breeds of Rupert's Land. A HAPPY RECONCILIATION.—It may be remem bered that some time back the son of the Count d'Aquila- Bourbon contracted a marriage which was not approved of by his father. The young married couple went to the United States, and after remaining there some months, lately returned to Paris. A reconciliation has now been effected, and a family meeting took place on Tuesday, when everything passed over with the greatest cordiality. M. OLLIVIER AS FOREIGN MINISTER.—It is be lieved in diplomatic circles that immediately after the Plebiscite, which is fixed for the Bth of May, M. 011ivier will relinquish the post of Minister of Grace and Justice, and assume the functions of Foreign Minister. This arrange ment will give general satisfaction to the foreign Cabinets, who fully appreciate M. 011ivier's talents and intimate acquaintance' with other countries. The Marquis d' Andelarre and M. Brame are spoken of as the suc cessors to M.M. Buffet and Dam. MAnsuAL llEss.—The most distinguished act in long military career of the late Marshal Hess was his strategical scheme in 1848, when, as head of Marshal Radetzki's staff, he manceuvred to lead the garrisons that were disseminated through the Lombardo-Venetian king dom through the countries that were in open insurrection, and to concentrate them in the fortress of Verona. The success of this scheme saved the Austrian army, and enabled Radetzki to resume an offensive position, and to reconquer the Italian provinces. The Emperor Francis Joseph, desiring to do honour to the memory of the illus trious captain, has decided that the infantry regiment which he commanded shall in future bear his name. The Marshal's funeral took place at Vienna on Easter Day, and was performed with the greatest military pomp. The funeral procession, headed by Archduke Albrecht, crossed the inner court of the Imperial residence. THE MONTENEGRIN QUESTION.—The Menzortat Diplomatique thinks that a solution has been found for the Montenegrin difficulty, which has for many years past been a source of anxiety to diplomatists. The cause of the dispute between the Porte and Montenegro concerned some pasture-grounds which are situated on the Turkish territory, and the occupation of which, on con dition of service, was left to the inhabitants of the Black Mountains. These latter have, however, each year, extended their privileges until they have encroached upon territory that belonged to the Ottoman subjects. In consequence of their com plaints the Porte drove the Montenegrins beyond the frontiers, and withdrew the right of pasturage from them, which act gave rise to a protestation from the Prince of MontenegTO, on behalf of his subjects. A Committee of the Consuls of the guaranteeing Powers, has been empowered to arrange the basis of a compromise. Two alternatives have been suggested—either that the Porte should give up all claim to the pastures, on the pay ment of a fixed sum, or that an exchange of territory should suffice to compensate for the relinquished grounds. The second proposal is that which stands the best chance of being accepted. THE LATEST PARIS MYSTERY.— A clay Or two ago a my s t er i ous announcement was made of an attempt to murder a banker named Espir, by a person named Gener, in the Rue du Cardinal Pesch, Paris. Further particulars not only explain the affair, but render it some what deplorable that it did not end differently. It appears that M. Espir was formerly an agent de change; he failed several years ago, and fled to Geneva, where he made the acquaintance of one Gener— another financier under a cloud. Gener treated his new friend very kindly, and gave him a lodging in his house. - Gener was a married man, and Espir requited his kindness by seducing and running away with his wife. After sundry perigrinations the guilty couple came to Paris, and Espir started a kind of bank at No. 8 bis, Rue du Cardinal Fesch. Gener followed in the track of the fugitives ;he was fond of his wife still, and entreated her to return to him, but on her refusal he determined to chastise her seducer. A night or two ago he therefore went to the house, and met Espir going out. As he was conning down stairs,Gener struck him a violent blow over the head with his loaded cane ; Espir felt stunned, and sat down on the staircase, but he recovered almost immediately, and, drawin g a sword- s ti c k, rus h e d at Gener and plunged the blade into his stomach. The blade was a short one, but andbthr bruise si blow ne flii inflicted d a h s aas s m o b s oe t r r et o na n l g al r ri, t .o h eu a sn t t ed i , was bent by its violence, aEnsP ir's d now at itshea Ccmeren ziergerie whilst Geller has been transferred to the HO. Wel Csi f 44 A93;o44ssidre. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1870. THE FRENCH NOTE ON THE CECUMENIOAL COUNCIL. The Allgemeine Zcitung publishes an abstract of the note sent by Count Daru to Rome on the (Ecumenical Council. This note is a reply to Cardinal Antonelli's despatch of the 19th ult., in which he says that the ques tions whicn are to be discussed at the Council in no way affect the relations between the Church and the State in the various European countries, and that their scope is purely religious. Count Daru observes upon this that the rench Government has no desire to interfere as regards the dis cussion of purely spiritual matters, and that the Emperor had therefore made no use of his right to be represented at the Council, although this right has always been pos sessed by the French Crown, and has not hitherto been disputed in the case of any Catholic Power. Certain questions, however, which touch upon political and civil organisation, and on the relations between Church and State, have been brought before the Council, and the French Government is consequently entitled and in duty bound to represent the disturbance which would 133 caused in the minds of its subjects by the acceptance of principles which are opposed to the laws of the land. France desires everything to be removed from the schema de ecclesid which she fears would have grave con sequences for the legal and social order of the European States, as several articles in it would involve the entire subjection of civil society to the Church. Such is unmistakably (continues the note) the object of the schema de ecclesid ; for by declaring the infallibility of the Church, it extends her province to all questions of politics and science. It is evident that if such principles were put in practice, Governments would have only so much power, and civil society only so much liberty, as the Church would choose to allow them. Nor is this all ; after all political and religious power has been placed in the hands of the Church, all the power of the Church is to be con centrated in the hands of the Pope. Such principles, pro ceeds Count Daru r are not accepted in any part of Europe, and if the schema is passed, a general anathema will have to be laid by the Pope on all the institutions and peoples of Europe. We are told that, although the Church promulgates truths, she does not require people to practise them when by so doing they would place them selves in opposition to the law. But can it be believed that people will be taught to-morrow in 40,000 parishes that they may think one way and act another? The French Government has too much respect for the Church to admit the possibility of such a proceeding. What it fears is that by the promulgation of these principles an antagonism will spring up between the people and the Church which must lead to terrible consequences, for both. This must be the inevitable result if the eccle siastical authorities in every parish throughout the land should condemn, in the name of the Pope, the principles on which all modern legislation rests. The note concludes by professing the most friendly sentiments on the part of the French Government towards the Church, and express ing a hope that the considerations above pointed out will induce the Council to withdraw all dogmas which may be calculated to disturb the existing relatons between Church and State. DESOLATION AT FORT GEORGE. A. melancholy description of the desolation at Fort George is given by one of the Scotch journals. An o-.Aer, it states, has just been received in Fort George- by the Barrack Department to have ready for shipment for Woolwich 'on an early day all the surplus furniture, comprising metal coal-boxes, soldiers' tables of the old pattern, fenders, &c. Many of these articles; especially the coal-boxes, were supplied to the garrisons for the use of the troops in the reign of George 11., some time after the battle of Culloden. Some few years ago Fort George possessed many relics of many battle-fields—steel armour in com plete sets, helmets and shields of the most antiquated discription, broadswords, old muskets, bullets, anti even skulls, regimental and other colours ; in fact, the place was a sort of repository for many such things. Now, beyond a few heavy guns, mortars, and shot, and a magazine well sup plied with powder, scarcely an article is left in the place except the rifles of the Ross-shire Militia", at present being trained there, and a few old muskets for the use of the Pensioner force at their annual training. Euerything else has been, or is about to be, re moved : even the articles 'of furniture supplied for the use of the officers' mess-room, for which a monthly charge of 15 per cent. on the value was made, are not spared, but ordered. to be removed with the other things to Woolwich. Fort George will in all likelihood soon .become a desolation, be forgotten, and become the habitation of the-moles and the bats. Some twelve or fourteen years ago it had its governor, garrison chaplain and surgeon, barrack master, clerk ofi works, engineer, &c. ' • now none of these officials are known th ere . A ssum i ng that these officials were not wanted and have been fairly pensioned, we should not mind whether they lived at Fort George or elsewhere ; but even rigid economy might have spared the Culloden coal-boxes, which will probably cost more to convey to Woolwich than they will be worth when they arrive there. Nature is informed that the Duke of Devonshire will probably be the president of the Royal Commission to inquire into the Present state of Science in, this country. London and Paris have doubled their population since 1832; in Vienna the increase has been still greater ; Liverpool has almost tripled hei population. But we learn from Cosmos that Berlin surpasses the exampless we have just cited, inasmuch as the ratio of the present population to that of 1832 is as 3 . 2 to I.—Engineer. THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY.—The Austrian Minis try has determined on withdrawing the bill imposing a tax on salaries, which was introduced by the preceding Cabinet, but excited great dissatisfaction among the lower classes both in Vienna and in the provinces. The disso lution of the Reichsrath, and of the provincial Diets, which was considered doubtful, appears now to be decided upon, and will be shortly announced. RUSSIA AND T (MERL—The New .Free Press of Vienna says that several communications have passed be tween Constantinople and St. Petersburg on the subject of the Greek Patriarch's refusal to accept the reforms of the Bulgarian Church. The Russian Government sup ports the Patriarch, but a despatch from Constantinople says that the Porte has withdrawn the firman by which he instituted Mgr. Hassou as Armenian Patriarch. THE PLEBISCITE IN FRANCE.—The Presse states that at the last Ministeriol Council at the Tuileries the Emperor read the proclamation to the French people, which will be posted throughout the communes on Sunday, at the same time as the decree convoking the electors to vote on the Bth of May. The period allotted for public meetings is to begin immediately, and will last eight days, from the 25th of April to the 2nd of May, five days' reflection being allowed to the electors. The Moniteur Universel says that it is certain each elector will receive a printed copy of the Emperor's proclamation. DCCTOIt GISKRA.—Some Vienna journals have declared that Herr Giskra, having resigned his position as Minister, intends to resume his old place of leader of the Opposition in the Reichsrath. On the other hand, it is pointed out that Herr Giskra, as Privy Councillor, has taken an oath of fidelity to the Emperor which would pre vent him from assuming the attidude described by the Centralist press. At the formation of the Cabinet of which Herr Giskra was" a member, the Emperor only accorded the title of " Excellency " to him and his colleagues so long as they should be in office. In order to secure the services of Herr Giskra in the work of conciliating the nationalities, the Emperor has now bestowed upon him the definitive title of Excellency which belongs to the rank of Privy Councillor. TRAINING SH - trs.—Some encouraging facts were noted at the quarterly meeting of the ,governors of the Marine Society. The training on board the ship War sprite, had been very successful. Among 136 whose names are mentioned there are no less than 124, whose conduct is marked " very good." Many prizes have been gained for progress, and one captain writes—" I have no hesitation in saying that they are the best boys we get." Nine boys had been apprenticed to shipowners at Swansea, and it was hoped this new opening would continue available, as the difficulty of procuring ships for the boys in the Thames, except coasting vessels, was increasing. A STRANGE AFFAIR NEAR BEItWICK-ON-TWEED. —A young gentleman, named M. H. Gilbert, of London, who has been staying at loittal; - left ins lodging on Wed nesday, and was seen during the afternoon wandering about the banks near the sea. About ten o'clock he was found by some fisherwomen lying on the shore in an in sensible condition. On Thursday morning it was found that one of his legs was broken at the knee, and both of them were much bruised. Both the jaws were broken, the lower one in three places. He was alive on Thurs day night, but in a precarious state. No money was found in his pockets, nor was there any evidence to shew how the injuries had been caused. When found, he was lying at the high water mark, and his clothes were very wet. The place where he was found is called Sandbed. A FAITHFUL TIGER.—An amusing scene occurred the other day at the citadel of Dover. The 102nd Regi ment have a very fine tiger just come to this country with the regiment from India. He is very tame, and is daily taken for a walk, and he also goes round the mess table getting tit-bits. The other day his keeper got the worse for drink, and made his way to the (1.,, fearing detection. An officer, seeing that the man LI ) —web and the tiger sitting beside him, sent for the picket, who at any other time can do what they please with the beast. The moment they attempted to go near the keeper the tiger growled, and very soon let them see they must keep off. For two hours the tiger kept guard over his keeper, who, on awakening, was surprised to see no one dared come near his charge. THE IRISH EXODUS.—The Cork Herald says:— " Emigrants are flocking into Queenstown on an unprece dented scale, and it is expected that by this evening (Wednesday) over 2,000 will have arrived for embarkation. The flow of emigrants is contributed chiefly by the mid land and Connaught counties, Cork, Kerry and Waterford being but poorly represented. The emigrants embrace the cream of the agricultural population, being nearly all young, and mostly unmarried. The pas sages of one half of them have been prepaid in America but even the remainder, with the rather high rate of wages which the services of good farm hands now com mand, find very little difficulty in providing the where withal to emigrate. The rate for a steerage passage is six guineas." THE FENIAN COLONEL WARREN'S CLAIM AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN.—The Washington correspon dent of the New York Herald says :—General Banks is to present to the House of Representatives a petition from John Warren for damages against Great Britain to the tune of half a million dollars, because he was arrested and tried as a Fenian conspirator, contrary to the laws for such cases made and provided. Mr. Warren, it will be remembered, was arrested, tried, and convicted as a British subject, although he proved himself to be a naturalised American citizen. The charges against him were based mainly upon words spoken and acts committed in America, for which he contends he cannot be touched in Great Britain. He declares he committed no overt art in Great Britain or Ireland, and that if he had done so he was entitled to trial by mixed jury. It is not known what action will be taken in regard to the matter. A RUNAWAY IN PURSUIT OF THE ROYAL CAR RIAGE. —On Monday last, soon after noon, as the Royal carriage, containing the Queen and the Princess of Wales, was being driven along the road near Osborne, three horses, which were attached to a waggon standing opposite Mr. Dashwood's, took fright, and started after the Royal equipage at a rapid pace. The waggon belonged to Messrs. Roach, millers, and a boy was standing by in charge of it, but he lost all command over the horses, which dashed along driverless. Finding himself thus pursued, the Queen's coachman put his horses into a gallop, and instead of risking the delay which turning in at the first lodge , gate would necessitate, as the gate was closed, he drove down a narrow road through Brock's Copse, still closely followed by the waggon and horses with unslackened speed. Fortunately the latter turned in at the second lodge gate, where they were secured by Mr. Page, the head keeper. Had they continued their mad career down the steep and narrow "shoot" along which the Royal car riage was passing, the consequences might have been very serious. It has been reported to us as a singular coinci dence that on an Easter Monday morning some years ago a similar circumstance occurred In connection with Messrs. Roach's waggon, but on that occasion there was, unfortunately, loss of life, the man in charge of the wag gon being killed on the spot.—Hampshire Independent. • • WILLIAM ROLTPELL AT PORTLAND. — I n giving a description of convict life at Portland to which prison the Prince of Wales has lately paid a visit, the Sherborne Journal alludes to the life of the convict Roupell, for merly M.P. for Lainbeth, who has been at Portland during the last six years. Our contemporary says : " Roupell seems to have looked skywards whenever he had the chance, and proved himself so different to the majority of prisoners, that he was trusted with the position of hospital nurse. Here he was very attentive to the poor wretches who came in. One young con vict was very ill, and there was every likelihood of his dying. the doctors having very little hopes. To this young fellow Roupell, as he did to the others, gave every instruction, and directed him how to prepare for the great change. But the ex-M.P. was practical in matters of this life, and sat up with him night after night, bestowing such attention upon his fellow prisoner that eventually the latter recovered. On the sth instant an inquest was held at the prison on a convict who had died of cancer of the lung, and Roupell was called to give evidence, which he did in such a decorous and intelligent manner as quite won the compassion of the coroner and the jury. After the witnesses had retired, and the verdict had been returned, a conversation took place between the governor, the coroner, and the jury. The governor said that if ever a criminal had been reformed it was Roupell ; but unless a special reprieve were granted he could not be liberated until he had served twenty-one years at fewest." The coroner and jury too seemed to be of oßi .. !_i . ion that Roslll raightmll released, MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, April 8.) For the first time in many weeks there is some activity in the loan market at New York. On Saturday the bank statement indicated a marked falling off in the greenback averages, and this, with an unusual demand for money, carried the rate of interest as high as 7 per cent. in some instances. On Monday and Tuesday greenbacks were scarce on the street and among the banks, and the latter wore borrowing of each ether. Call loans, however, were generally obtainable at 6 tp 7 per cent. There is no ground, iu the state of business, for this sudden flurry, and no dependence can be placed upon it as au indication of legitimate monetary movements. Very little currency has been sent out of New York,and the present scarcity is pro bably due to speculative manipulations. The dullness of business and the heavy loanable reserves of the banks render it very difficult to accomplish a successful "lock up" of currency at the present moment, and we can hardly believe that any one will seriously attempt it. The Funding Bill still rests with the Committee of Ways and Means and awaits the return of Secretary Boutwell from a brief business visit to his home in Groton. The indica tions are that the House will pass the bill, retaining the bank clause, and Mr. Boutwell is confident that such will be the result. The latest objection to the bill is that it conflicts with the "Public Credit Act" of March 18, the first bill signed by President Grant. This Act gives a solemn pledge that "none of the interest-bearing obliga tions (of the Government) not already due shall be re deemed or paid before maturity unless at such time United States notes shall be convertible into coin at the option of the holder, or unless at such time bonds of the United States bearing a lower rate of interest than the bond to be redeemed can be sold at par in coin." The New York Times says that under this bill greenbacks must come to par be fore the Government can ask the hanks to exchange 6 per cents for 41- per cents. We do not so understand it. The "or" in the bill substitutes another condition, namely, that the bonds of low interest must be at par in gold before the Government can compel the exchange. And as, by the provisions of the Funding Bill itself, the two higher classes of the new bonds cannot be "placed" at less than par in coin, the two measures dovetail into each other ex actly. Looking at it from anothet point, the present Ten- Forty Bonds (5 per cents) are nearly at par in coin ; with the passage of the Funding Bill and the consequent fall in gold, they would soon be quite at par, when the conditions of the "Public Credit Act" would be entirefy fulfilled, as 6 per cent. bonds are the only ones it is proposed to call in. Again, the Funding Bill should contain a clause re pealing previous inconsistent legislation. The purpose of the law above quoted was to strengthen public credit. Since every indication of the passing of the Funding Bill has had a depressing effgpt upon gold, and has caused our bonds to rise, there can surely be no objection, legal or moral, to the repeal of the previous Act by its enactment. If the Act of a year ago was a pledge to the creditor, the bill of to-day is much more a pledge, and is so regarded, else quotations lie. The creditor will not object to having the good supplanted by the better•. Some journals have lately renewed the clamour against Mr. Boutwell and his bill, as beiiig responsible for the present dullness in busi ness. Forgetting the remote series of financial mistakes which have resulted in the present state of affairs, they charge the present disease upon the physician who is try ing to cure it. Business is dull, to be sure, but its only hope of activity is in specie payments and financial sound ness—ends to be gained through the Funding Bill. Mr. Boutwell and Congress, instead of being "rash," "incon siderate," "reckless," &c., have been altogether too slow. Their courage at no time has been up to that of the sove reign people behind them, and so, to-day, business waits for them to bring up the rear. The condition of the na tional banks of Chicago on March 24 was as follows: Capital stock of the 14 banks, $5,920,000; surplus and undivided profits, $2,554,615; deposits, $18,778,401; cir culation, $4,436,801; cash on hand, $5,493,203. These are the banks which are whining about small profits, and lobbying against the Funding Bill. Lately many national bank officers have written to Washington that the banks are in no danger of being injured by the bill. One autho rity declares that he would be willing to " run " a bank honestly, and pay a 10 per cent, dividend, based on bonds as low as 4 per cent. Gold has been steady at New York during the week, the quotations clustering about 112, gene rally a fraction below. Foreign exchange is abundant. The exports from New York last week were not equal to those of the week before, but the Southern ports con tinue to ship cotton freely. Oue of the principal sources of exchange now, however, is the constant shipment of railway bonds to Europe. The Times says that this move ment is much more extensive than the pu huh; are aware of and embraces a great Nariety of securities, some of them unknown to the New York market. These mortgages on southern, western, and Pacific roads are pain for with the bills of Germany and Holland and with large ship ments of rails from England and \Vales. European in vestors, with all their cau►iJn, are very gullible, and very likely some of the paper now going abroad is n.. 4 of a cha racter to raise our credit. Mining Oorualissionar, 11. W. Raymond, reports to Secretary Boutwell that the bu►lion product of the country in 1869 was $63,500,000. Oi this amount California produced 820,000,000, Nevada $140;00,000, Montana $12,000,000, and Idaho 57,000,000, the rest being dislllauted among . other territories. Go vernment bonds have not been so active as they were at our last review, but have been very steady, advancing a trifle. The Ten-Forties are 1 per cent. higher. The Pacific Railroad Currency Sixes continue at or above par, while the long Gold Sixes, p tyable in 1881, are 2 to 3 per cant. above gold. The following table shows the amount of the Five-Twenties of different issues, which bear coupons payable iu May and November, their distribution among domestic and foreign holders, and the interest due on them Foreign Domestic Total, May U. S. 5-2 Us holders. holders. and Dee. 18625, Coupon $350,000,000 $35,214,000 $385,214,000 1862; Registered 20,000,000 96,22(3,850 116,226,850 18645, Coupon 30,00,000 21,219,960 51,219,950 1864; Registered 5,000,000 58,886,500 60,686,500 1865; Coupon ... 90,000,000 44,082,500 134,082,40 18655, Registered 5,000,000 56,451,750 61,451,750 Total 5500,000,000 $311,881,530 $111,881,550 May interest 15,000,000 905(1,456 24,356 : 456 Southern State Bonds have been very quiet. Tenuessees spurted up to 531 on Tuesday, but speculators apparently tired of this Sort of small play. Railway Stocks are also very dull, and good rascally "operations" are so rare that the market is losing all in terest. North-western has advanced moderately, and St. Paul common more noticeably. Hartford and Erie fluc tuates 2to 3 per cent., a wide margin on stock that is never worth more than 4, and invites much gambling. The Kansas Pacific, last year, made a net earning of $839,690, over a. total expenditure of $1,386,108, and expects to meet Denver by September. The earnings of St. Paul during March were $377,000, $12,952 less than in March, 1869. The gross earnings of the Union Pacific during February were $500,000, and for March they are estimated ats7oo,ooo. The Vermont Central earned $37,000 more in Dec., 1869, than in the same month of 1868,and i n Jau.rnade another gain of $32,00). The Norwich and Worcester earned $43,000 in February, a gain over the previous February of $2,140. A Concord (N. 11.) dispatch says that the ring formed there several months ago to get control of the stock of the Concord Railroad, so as to dictate affairs at the annual meeting in May, have so far succeeded as to claim that they have already stock sufficient to do it. Several of the savings banks in the State have made large loans, which have been used in buying up the stock. Among the most prominent of the ring are ex-Governor Smyth, George Clough, John H. Pearson, and J. M. Johnson. .Tudge Minot, president of the.road, refuses to enter in the market in the competition for the stock. General besiness for the past week has been of an average extent, and, with the steadiness of gold, subject more to commercial and less to financial influences. Cotton declined after a specu lative advance, but has resumed firmness. Provisions are more active, both pork and beef products, while breadstuffs continue dull and irregular. Wool closes firm and brisk after a dull week. Tobacco is a little more active, with sales of Connecticut wrappers, crop of 1868, for 45 to 50 c. The market for this aescriplon is more unsettled than that of other vat ieties, as the growers were paid high prices, and the present holders hesitate to meet the views of buyers. Groceries are steady, with some heavy failures, but no general appre hension of trouble, though dealers are cautious. ; 'ry goods are more settled. There has been a reaction from the extreme low prices induced by Stew art's bear movement. The parties principally benefited were some country mer chants, who bought at $l5 to $25 per cent. less than their neighbours will be able to do. The Financial Chronicle thinks present prices of dry gods not too high. The New York Times, in a review of the real estate market, says that there will be a general reduction in rents at New York after May 1. People who have hither...Gs submitted to the high rents are now moving further up town, or on to Long Island, or into other suburbs, where residences are being built more freely than usual. Many Southern families also, who have paid high rents, aro now moving b a ck to their old homes. The New Fork Bulletin says many Western merchants are buying heavy goods in Bos ton because freights are cheaper than from New York. For instance, the rate to New Albany, Indiana, is $1 25c per 100 from Boston, and $1 75c from New York, while other Western points are in equal proportion. (From the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, April 8. Business is slow, and failures are far from few. Among the most recent we notice F. H. Abbott and Co., 13, State street, of this city ; E. A. Souder and Co., shipping mer chants, Philadelphia, and the dry goods firm of Howell, Wood, and Read, of Memphis, together with many others. Money on call is easy at six per cent., with exceptional transactions at five and seven per cent. Discounts are easily obtained at seven to eight per cent. for prime names, and at eight to ten per cent. for No. 2. Gold is firm, owing partly to a further advance in foreign exchange and partly to a decline in Five-twenties in Loudon, and closes at 1121. The following are the quotations for specie : Amer. silver... 914 to 951 I Eng. sous 486 to 488 Mex. d011ar5...1031 „ 101 1 20 francs 385 „ 387 Eng. silver 475 , 480 I Thalers Five francs .... 941 „ 95 I Government Bonds are steady in the gold bearing issues, but weaker on the currency's. Sixes, 1861, registered to Sixes, 1881, coupon Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad Five-twenties, 1862, registered to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Fivo-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lO9 to 109 f Ten-forties, coupon • Ten-forties, registered — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes 1881 — to Tol. & Wab. Equip 7B Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — Gal. & Chic. Ext 9B Gal. & Chic. 2d M 94 I Chi. & R. I. Ist M 100 , Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 9 8 .; Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 100 . N. J. Central Ist M 102 N J. Central 2d M 1021 Pitts.Ft.W., & 01.1.15 t M 104 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2d M 97j Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d M 93 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 761 Chic. & Alton. S. F. lnc 100 Chic. &Alton, S. F. lstM 1021 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M.— 92 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M 824 Marietta & Ist M 9ll Morris & Essex Ist M 103 Morris & Essex 2d M 96 Joliet & Chic. Ist 11 & Gt. East'n Ist M — N. Y. & N. H. 6s ...97. Dubuque &S.City,lstM. 96 Peninsula Ist M 9O Ohio & Miss. Ist M 97 Ohio & Miss. Con B4j Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D B3 Atlantic & G. W. 2d M — Del., Lack., & W., 2d M 100 Lake Shure Div. Bonds 85 Cleve, P. & Ash. N.B — gages: -- The following for the Mor N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 921 N. Y.. Central 6s, 1887 89 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est 89 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 89 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876 103 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 — Erie Ist Mort, Ex 100 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 94 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 87 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 80 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 821 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. & E.lst M, '77 9O Hud. R. is, Ist 11, '69 103 11 , 1 d. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 104 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 103 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 120 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 -- Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 971 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B —llich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c 101 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 110 Alton &T. H. let M 941 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 81 Alton & T. H. 2d M.lnc. 80 Han.&St.J.LandWrntsloB Han. & St. J. Con • Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 111 Chi. & N. West, S. F 94 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony 9l Chi. & N. W. Int B 91 ('hi. & N. W. Ist M 94 Quincy & Tol, Ist M, '75 83 111. & So. lowa Ist M 7O Gt. West. Ist M, 'BB Bl Gt. Western 2d M '93 Bl Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex 931 The following were the closing quotations this day for the various Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks : N. Y. Cent. & Hud. Rr. 921 Pacific Mail 561 Erie Reading Mich. Central ll9l W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg. 99 Mariposa Preferred Chi & North-West .... 721 Ohio and Mississippi 29 Nc:th-West Preferred 841 Boston Water Power l7 Canton 64/ Cumberland Rock Nand Cleveland and Toledo M & St. Paul Fort Wayne 94 1M & St. Paul Preferred 73 Do. Union Pacific Gold 8... 84. Central P.RR. Gold 8... 92 Pacific RR. guar. by Mo. 96 FOREIGN EXCHANGE. Sixty Days. Three Days London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lOB-1081 Paris, B ankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 35 —351 Frankfort, 0.3,1 " 4u-401 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.25-5.20 Amsterdam, Bankers S wiss Express Stocks are weak : Adams 6l to 611 American Merckants' Union 38 to 88 Merchants' Union, old Stock 8 to 8 United States Wells, Fargo, and Co l9 to 197 State stocks are active, particularly New Tenessees, in which there is considerable speculation : Tennessee 6s, ex coup.. 59 Illinois coupon 6s, 1877.100 Do. new bonds 53 Do. 1879 100 Virginia 6s, ex coupons 70 Illinois War Loan lOO Virginia 6s, new bonds 69 Ohio 6 per cent. 1875 102 Georgia 6s Georgia 7s, new bonds 93 Do. 1886...1031 North Carolina 6s Do. new bonds 21 Do. 1878 95 South Carolina, 6s B7 Do. 1883 95 S. Carolina, new bonds Michigan 7 p cent. 1878 93 Do. Aprl and Oct Bll Michigan 7 p cent War Missouri 6s Do. 11. and St Jo les 92 N.Y k reg'd vounty loanlo9l Louisiana new bonds... 721 N.Yk coup. S'aty loan 1119 i. Do. 6s, Levee bonds 76 N.Yk 7s, Canal In. 1870.105 Connect.cut 6s 100 N.Yk 6s, Canal In. 1873.106 Rhode Island 6s lOO Do. 1874.105 Alabama 55... Alabama 85......... Illinois Canal bonds Do. 1878.105 1870 lOO N.Yk ss, Canal In. 1874.105 5.181-5.17; Messrs. Drexel and Co., the Philadelphia hankers, report as follows on the Bth April:—Pennsylvania Railroad Shares, 57f 571; Sixes, Ist Mortgage, 99 100; Sixes, 2d Mortgage, 95 97. FINE ARTS IN BOSTON. L. Prang, the head of the house known as L. Prang and Co., is the oldest and most distinguished of all the chromo-lithographers and print-publishers in the United States; and has brought this popular branch of art to such perfection that his name has become synonymous with excellence, and a household word throughout the country. Displaying as much taste and judgment in the selection of works for reproduction, as in the rare quali ties he exhibits in the execution of the chro'no-copy, Mr. Prang for some years has wielded a salutary in fluence, tending toward educating the masses in art matters. In short, he has done more than any other man in the same space of time to popularize American art. Such is the confidence reposed in Mr. Prang, and so well do our artists appreciate his skill, in his department of the art, that he finds no difficulty in securing copyright for chrome purposes from the most eminent painters. Hence he finds it comparatively easy to sustain the high reputa tion he has so honestly won. As America is the great mart for all the finest foreign prints, as well as other pictures, your English readers will readily suppose Prang and Co. have their hands as well as their heads busy to keep up to the European standard of excellence. But they not only do this, they do more ; some of the prints published by this firm are the finest specimens of chrome-litho graphy ever exhibited on our side of the Atlantic. As the new works brought out by this house may soon again bring the proprietors under our notice it will suffice for the present to mention a few of their late chromos, in order to show the high class of paintings they select to popularize : —"A Family Scene in Pompeii," after the ori ginal by Joseph Coomans, an eminent Belgian artist, is a masterpiece—a perfect copy in every way, notably in the colouring of the painting; "The Boyhood of Lincoln," after Eastman Johnson, of New York; "The Unconscious Sleeper ;" after Perrault, the French genre painter; "The Baby" (or "Going to the Bath"), from the original by Bou gureau, the great French artist, is charmingly rendered ; "Sunset in California," from a picture by A. Bier.. stadt, of New York; 'The Birth-place of Whittier, the Poet," after Thomas Hill, a Boston landscape pain ter of high repute ; "Rest by the Wayside ;" and " Under the Apple Tree," from originals, by Mr. Niles, of Boston, a rising young genre painter. Then we have fine chromes, after landscapes, by James M. Hart, G. L. Brown, S. Colman, and others; Marines, after E. Moran, De Haas, &c.; Still-life, Fruits and Flowers, after Mrs. L. M. Spencer, Mrs. James M. Hart, Miss V. Granberry, &c. Messrs. Prang and Co., having just disposed of a large collection of paintings, are at present making efforts to collect works of the highest order to supply their place for future publication ; and, it may be proper to add, they have engaged pictures of some of our most distinguished artists. Miss Mary Kollock, a rising young landscape painter, has just completed two or three charming little landscapes, which she proposes to send to the Academy. One of these, called "Afternoon on the Kishacoquilla," is full of tender ness and sweetness; with fine sentiment, both in colour and treatment. The warm, hazy sunlight comes struggling through the tree tops, throwing twilight shades over the water and its undergrowth surroundings, while some wild ducks, and other water-fowl, glide over the tranquil bosom of the lake, forming a complete picture of primeval loveli ness and quietude. "Long Beach, near Cape Ann," is the title of another of these little gems. GEOLOGY OF ALASKA. —The American Naturalist remarks as follows upOn M. Dull's explorations:--" The most interesting results are the determination of the facts that west of tie 105th degree of longitude the Alaskan coast is riing, that the former violence of volcanic forces is diminishing throughout the territory, and that there are no evidences of general glacial action. Mr. Dall has travelled thirteen hundred miles up the valley of the Yukon, and explored on the shores of Norton Sound, without obtaining any evidences of glacial action. The whole territory north of the Alaskan Mountains could not therefore have been covered by the same general sheet of ice whilh has scratched the section east of the Rocky Mountains. This raises an unexpected obstacle in the path both of the hypothesis of a general terrestrial glacial sheet, and the theory of floating ice." MONETARY Y REPORIS- -ESTERDAY. The market for English railway stocks opened heavili. at further reduced rates ; but towards the close more animation was apparent. Nevertheless, compared with last evening, the quotations are easier. Midland has beta done as low as 1232, 126, but has since recovered to 126*, 1268, shewing a fall of A similar reduction took place in the value of London and North-Western, whilst Great Western has been 2 lower. Great Northern A, after being dealt in at 1261, 127, recovered to 127, 1271. Indian railway stocks have been quiet. Canadian shares have been dull, with a tendency to weakness. As regards foreign shares, Lombardo opened at 16t to 16S, but subsequently receded to 16i to 16g. Firmness has continued to be the feature of the market for foreign bonds. There has been a good demand for Egyptian (186 S), and Turkish Five-per-Cents., at an advance of Guatemala (1869) bonds have risen 1. Chilian (1867), and Turkish (1863), Russian (1859), and Chilian (1870), Portuguese (1867), Spanish (1869), ani Turkish (1869), per cent. ; but New Grenada have faller. per cent. American securities have been flat. Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage Bonds have fallen 11. Erie shares, ; and Illinois Central, ; but Philadelphr , have risen 1. Telegraph Construction shares have been dull, and I lower. Hooper's Telegraph Works opened heavily at dis. but recovered to dis. In miscellaneous very little business has been doing at about previous quotations. In the market for mining shares, very little business has been doing, and prices have been without change. Bank shares have conimanded more attention, and full quotations have been realised. Telegraph shares have been flat. British Indian sub marine have fallen 1. The discount market has been fairly supplied with capital. There has been a moderate demand for accom modation, and three months' paper has been taken at 21 per cent. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank to day. In the rates of exchange no alteration has taken place. At Mark-lane to-day the wheat trade was quiet, but at fully late rates. Spring corn was quite as dear. In reference to the state of the bullion market, Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake remark, " The French exchanges still keep firm, and all gold goes into the Bank; the quantity sent in since our Circular of the 13th inst. being £lB,OOO. Further amounts will follow in the next few days as the Peninsular and Oriental steamer is due on the 23d inst. with £403,000, all of which will be kept here. The silver market is very flat, there being no de mand for India, and sales that have been made have con sequently been for Holland, the price being somewhat flatter at 603 d. per oz. standard. There has been very little doing in dollars during the week, the price, how ever, keeps tolerably firm, andthere are orders unexecuted at 590. per oz. Tenders have been invited by the Bank of New South Wales and the Consolidated Bank (Limited) for £lOO,OOO Tasmanian Government Debentures, bearing 6 per cent interest, and redeemable in 1901. The capital is to be employed in the Launceston and Western Railway, and is secured upon the public revenues of the colony. Tenders will be received until the 28th instant, and a payment of 2 per cent will be required on application, a further sum on allotment to reduce the amount unpaid to 100 per cent., and the balance on the 30th of June next. A prospectus has appeared of the British and Foreign Plate Glass Insurance Company, with a capital of £lO,OOO in shares of £2 each. The South African Gold Fields Exploration Company (Limited), have received by mail information from Mr. Tiaomas Baines, F.R.G.S., the leader of their expedition, that by advice of Mr. Nelson, the geologist, he has laid out a claim to an auriferous tract of country in latitude 18'10 South, on behalf of the company. MARKETS-YESTERDAY. • inactive, at about late rate s . The show of foreign wheat hex been tolerably good. Sales have progressed slowly, on formel terms. Moderate supplies of barley have been brought forward The trade has been quiet, but firm, at late rates, Malt has been inactive, at previous quotations. Oats, the show of which hai been moderate, have been in limited request, but at full prices. Beans and peas have been steady in value and inquiry. Flout has been dull. Arrivals :—English and Scotch—Wheat, 1,290, barley, 230 ; malt, 2,870; maize, 210 ; and beans, 20. Foreign— Wheat, 18,131 ; barley, 8,340 ; oats, 48,640 ; maize, 6,030; and flour, 1,090 sacks. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—TaIIow has ruled dull, at 465. 6d. spot. Linseed oil dull, at 325. 3d. London, and 31s. 9d. 325. Hull, spot. English brown rape,42s. Gd. spot and one month. Bengal saltpetre, 225. 9d, business done. LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, FRIDAY.—Sugar has ruled quiet, and both raw and relined goods have been obtainable on former terms. Tea dull, and good common Congous were sold at Md. to per lb. Coffee steady for both native and plantation sorts. Rice on the spot has been more inquired after. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY. —Moderate supplies of meat have been on sale. The trade has been very •dull, as follows :—Beef from 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; lamb, 6s. Bd. to 7s. 4d. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to ss. ; and pork, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. per Bibs., by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.—The position of the hop market has been unaltered. The demand has been inactive, and prices have been without change. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 12s, ; Wealds of Kent, £6 to k:.B ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 125.; Bavarians, £6 6s. to £9 ; French, £5 to £6 10s. ; Americans, £4 ss. to £6 ; and yearlings, £1 10s. to £3 18s. per cwt. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, ERIDAY.—SaIes of the week, 50,500 bales, of which 31,000 were American ; on specu lation, 7,000 ; taken for export, 3,750. Actual export, 6,750 ; taken by the trade, 39,625. Import, 53,000 ; stock, 483,750 bales, of which 291,625 were American. To-day's market firm. Sales, 12,000 bales, of which 3,000 were on speculation. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—Wheat firm in value and demand. Maize 3d. dearer. Flour unchanged. French flour quiet. LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Market steady. Bars, 67} to 68 ; ores, 13k. _ MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.--The market has shewn a firm tone, and a good business has been done in shipping yarns at very full prices. China qualities have been difficult to procure for early delivery. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—Wheat held for is. more money, which millers refuse to concede. Spring corn of all kinds firm. Flour steady. CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 1350. seconds, 130 s. ; thirds, 98s. ; fourths, 80s. ; fifths, 60s. ; sixths, not quoted ; 660 firkins in the market. Mild cured : firsts, 1265.; seconds, 1265. ; thirds, 101 s. ; 60 firkins in the market. AMSTERDAM, APRIL 21.—Banca firm, at 69. Rye, May, 107; October, 107. HAMBURG, APRIL 21.—Wheat, June-July, 112. Rape oil spot, 30k; May, 30. PARIS, APRIL 21.—Rape oil, current month, 125 ; September- December, 109.60. Flour, current month, 57.75 ; May-June, 58 I July-August, 58.50. BERLIN, APRIL 21.—Wheat, April-May, 61} ; May. June, 61f. Rape oil, April-May, 15.01; September-December, 13k, Spirits, April-May, 151; August-September, 16. ST. PETERSBURG, APRIL 21.—Wheat, May, Clean emp, June, 381. Tallow, spot, 50} ; 3 roubles, 16f. [ADVERTISEMENT. I Consumption, and all neryour, bilious, stomach, mil liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and a,cc3lerAted by drugs of every description, but perfe tly curable by Du BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric; derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ththtness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few: -The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68,413 "Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to. Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi,' July 2 Cure No. 46,270.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafcess. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. —No. 49,83?. "Fifty years' indescrib• able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.--Rana Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s ttcl; 2 lb is 6d; 51b Ils.; 12Ib 225; 24 lbs 4 s.— Ise Do BARRY'S REVALENTA RABIC CHOCOLA.TR POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1.! cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at6s, for 2'B cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 555 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. — BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists. BIRTHS'. GORDON—On the 21st inst.,the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Geo. Grant Gordon, Scots Fusilier Guards, of a daughter. LEIGII—On the 22d inst., at 5, Sussex-gardens, the wife of Oholmeley Austin Leigh, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. TRENCH—SPLIVAN — On the 21st inst., at Bournemouth, William W. Trench, Esq., to Catherine Sabine, the third daughter, of Vice-Admiral Sir B. James Sulivan, K.C.B. WELCH --LAMBERT On the 21st inst.,- at Upper Tooting, Charles, second surviving son of John Kemp Welch, Esq.. of Clapham-cormnonito Jessie Ann, second daughter of Charles Lambert, Ersq., Wandsworth-common. DEATHS. BATESON - On the 15th inst., at Oestrus°, Sir Robt. Bateson, Bart, aged 78. STEHELIN—On the 19th inst., at 37, Westbourne-park-road, Lieut.-General B. S. Stehein, aged 73. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tin SUN Office, Ne. 11 2 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Ifiddlesex..—a.turiey, April 23, 1879. Ti th e tor 11 Tt oN E _ the I EiE/ N A] TIE) Lip, cute] I I Pa 10s c aeaig W. C Thot CJ chiti n calle, Che n Chei, this t he as tt adapt Alld IL) uili ca b onleott lea] vore, an or posh Bt A. b .0 .0. 1 ot 4;