The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-04 00:00:00

THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks that no ono willingly assumes even the appearance of harshness, and Mr. Gladstone seems to have felt on Thursday afternoon in a very special de gree the unpleasantness of having to say " No" to a plausible prayer. Tho promoters of the National Emigration League waited upon him at the Trea aury to urge him to adopt the policy of affording assist ance from the Exchequer to the unemployed who de- , Aire to emigrate to other fields of labour. They had, of Course, many things to say, and not a few of their state pents were such as to be painful to all, but above all to a Wan of acute sensibility. Mr. Gladstone was undoubtedly embarrassed in his reply. His perplexity may easily be understood. He has lived so much in the eye of the world, ho has always been so eager to catch at anything which offers scope for charitable action, that we may well believe we know what he felt as much as if he had spoken with his usual effusion instead of being shy and reticent under a new and strange sense of not being sure of his ground. It is disagreeable, as we have confessed, to appear un gracious, yet we are sorry that what NA al administered to the Emigration League was not a tonic instead of a sooth ing draught. There is not one of the statements of facts upon which they base their proposals which is not open to serious question, while their plan of curing the social maladies of the nation must be condemned upon the con siderations we have on another occasion advanced. The annals of emigration are full of wretched tales of misery, oven of starvation and of death, suffered by bands who were sent forth full of hope and zeal, aided by the gifts of their Sovereign and countrymen, to find a fate worse than that from which they thought they had escaped. If any one wants an example, let him follow the fortunes of the German emigrants, as brave and industrious as any colonists could be, who were settled in Nova Scotia. The sick and despairing workman of England dreams of pastoral plenty in happier lands, and he may himself secure the blessing, but the Government which would undertake to convey an army of 100,000 such . to their Canaan must expect more murmuring than gratitude from the first generation. The Standard considers that the deputation of the Emigration League received such an answer on Thursday from Mr. Gladstone as might have been anticipated, Although the Ministry have been for the last six months at least fully aware of the emergency of the case—although it has been brought to their minds by such unexceptional authorities as Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. G. Potter, and Mr. Beales ; although the distress, both in the metropolis and in the provinces, has been a matter within every body's immediate cognisance—the desirability of affording some help to the existing schemes of emigration is to the Primo Minister only a subject for "serious consideration.' Not a single word of comfort beyond this was Mr.. Gladstone able to afford to the members of the deputation. We have not a hint as to what is the policy of Ministers on this most important national question, nor a word even to show that they have conceived in regard to it any notion of duty at all. To settle the conditions and the form which national emigration should assume belongs to the prerogative of the Government. To decide in what shape the emigrant is to be assisted is the duty of the Administration. The first practical step to be taken is to shorten and cheapen the road to our colonial possessions, so that, at least, the emigrant may get there as easily as he could got to any other coun try. What we want, in fact, is, to use Mr. M'Cullagh :Torrens's happy phrase, to establish third-class parliamen .t trains across the ocean We want to make it cheaper for a working man to get into the heart of the Canadian Dominion, or even to Australia, than to reach such of the United States as offer him a home. We want to bridge the Atlantic between Great Britain and Canada, and to make the road to Melbourne no more inaccessible than the road to New York. This can only be done by the help of the Imperial Government, acting in concert with the colonists. We have indicated briefly some of the ways in which the State could assist the movement, and it is impossible to see how any of them are in excess of the ordinary duties cf the Government. The working men, at least, ought to be curious to know upon what principle a Government which has undertaken to interfere with the natural relations between the landlord and tenant in In land—which has spoken through one of its members of ofres land" to be provided in some way by legislation for the people of Ireland—can excuse itself from the far easier and more legitimate task of providing a systemof national emigration. The Daily News observes that the liberation of William Strong, the young Western farmer, on the hardship of whose imprisonment we commented, a day or two since, has naturally followed on publicity being given to the case. It was clear that the attention of the Home Secretary needed only to be called to the matter, and the Queen's pardon would be granted at once. ➢Tr. Bruce has acted with commendable prompti tude, and his action has given universal satisfaction in the district. Still, not even the Queen's pardon cuLe obliterates the wrung which has been done. William Strong returns home with the most cmphatio testimony in his hand to the wrongfulness, if not to the illegality, of his conviction ; but the painful impression the event has made on the public mind will not entirely pass away on the remission of his punishment. The public will remember that the law which snakes it a crime even for a Wry to slay a pheasant still remains, and that the magisterial jurisdiction is in the hands of men who could imprison a man because in his boyhood he had run away to avoid arrest. The Came lA's's are not only in themselves oppressive, but cases which arise under them are tried by the very persons in whose interest the laws were enacted, and whose sports they are intended to protect. This is the moral which the people in the neighbourhood of Tiverton are drawing from the case of William Strong, and it is the moral the public at large will draw from it. The world is moving, says the Telegraph. In a petition to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York,:a considerablenumber of clergymen and laymen have stated that, in their opinion, some measure of relief with respect to the use of the Athanasian Creed would tend to br!ng back to the communion of the Church many English separatists. By a large number of ardent Church men that opinion has long been ho;d, and many also refuse to repeat a creed which places beyond the pale of salvation all who do not hold the precise Tri nitarian doctrines which it inculcates. Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, whose responses in chapel were wont to be so clear and ringing, said no Amen to what is incorrectly called the Creed of St. Athanasius; but, while its words were sounding through Rugby Chapel, he followed the well-known example of George 111. and pre served an expressive silence. In this respect Dr. Arnold represented a large class of Church men. Those who have gent the petition to the Archbishop of Canterbury do not, however, seek to blot the creed out of the Prayer-book. They desire "that the creed itself should be retained, but that in the rubric preceding it the word `may' be substituted for 'shall;' or that some moUtrxi be devised whereby certain of the clauses commonly . called damnatory 'be omitted, or receive an authorised explanation, which may be appended to the rubric." The Dean of Westminster signs only the part of the petition which proposes to make the rubric say that the creed " may " be sung or said at Morning Prayer, instead of " shall be sung or said," as the rubrio at present directs. Such a plan is eminently characteristic of Dean Stanley, whose aim is to enlarge the genuine catholicity of the Church, by meeting the TIOWS alike of the Low, the High, and the Broad parties. Into the merits of the rival plans of change we 'need not enter. The important fact is that they have Deon submitted by men representing all sections of the. Church to the chief ecclesiastical dignitaries, 'and that the two Archbishops have themselves drawn attention to the petition. Days of reform are in store for the National Church, under the impulse of those who can have nothing in view but its renewed life and energy. The Toll mat Gazette says that the Roman "Passion Drama " increruses in interest. The world at large, which has hitherto looked on with a sort of languid wonderment akin to contempt, opens its eyes and listens. Instead of rumours more or less contradictory, we have been able to Vesgai our readers in the course of the last few days with a series of dominants which certainly were worth perusal. There IfaS the Petition for the Infallibility —which breathes the spirit, the learning, and the righteousness of our own Cardinal in spe, Monsignor Manning— s i gne d b y a nrceless crowd of Italians. Then came the counter peti tion, rauoh shorter, ver y much to the pc int, full of dignity, cad ominous in its bearing; and it had the signature s of °train:Z. Schwarzenberg and the Archbishops and Bishops of Oorrnany and Hungary. Next we had the manifesto attributed to Cardinal P.auscher, signed by the same, or nearly the same, distinguished prelates, against the Papal ordn a proceedings, introduced, contrary to all Prece dents into this Council: an order which is mco.nt to gag and kill that which is the first condition cf a co.:ncil —freo expression of opinion. Over and above those wo have had the protest of " Janus "-DA:inger, for which the Municipal Council of Munich have offered him the free dom of tht.ir city. Of the new "moderation" petition lot us, in all charity, be silent. It gives five raisons and trembles all over. If we were in the habit of grating Scripture, we would mention a certain passage which talks of things neither hot nor cold, and what happens to them. So will it happen unto that expression of opinion. The "Countess of Derwentwater " has gained celebrity, if nothing else. On Wednesday the streets of Ne---%."-i were thronged to get a sight of her, as she ; 4 to an attorney's office in that town. NETBOPOLITAN GOSSIP—Feb. 3. The statement made a few days ago that the Broad Church party in London have originated a movement foi effecting important changes in the English Church is correct. The matter has not yet gone farther than sug gestion, but it is probable that the clergymen who aro . acting in it, will, before long, be able to embody their ideas in a practical shape. Among the subjects which it is proposed to include aro Church govern ment, Ritual, and Education. The reformers would subdivide the larger dioceses, abolish the forms of election and confirmation of bishops, promote a better diocesan organisation, and encourage the bishops to hold communication with the bishops and leading members of other Churches. They would establish parochial Church Councils, have parochial boundaries revised by a royal commission, obtain some provision for enforcing the repair or authorising the disuse of Church fabrics, and increase the Church patronage in public hands. They ask, also, if boards of patronage ought not to be established; if there ought. not to be an appeal against undesirable appointments, and how the scandal of the sale of livings can best be abated. They would abolish clerical subscrii,tion, remove all obstacles to the renunciaton of holy orders, and lay upon a public prosecutor the duty of proceeding against clerical offenders. They would place the Athanasian Creed, without a rubric, at the end of the Prayer-book, allow persons not in Angli can orders to preach, subject to the inhibition of the ordinary, revise the services by Royal Commission, substi tute " accept " for " believe " in the question and the answer relating to the canonical Scriptures in the ordina tion of deasons ; and they suggest that some arrangement might be made for extempore prayer in the regular services. They would, while retaining theological instruction, open Church schools and colleges to all persons, permitting those who desired it to exempt themselves from such instruction ; and they would have grants of money and other public advantages given to all schools and colleges, whether denominational or secular. They would like to see the ' English Bible revised by a Royal Commission, the Cathedrals made centres of the higher church studies, and a graded educa tion, with exhibitions, established, so that the poor might be elevated to clerical functions. By reforms such as these the reformers believe that the Church would strengthen its title to be called both Catholic and National—Catholic as acknowledging in common with all Christendom the one divine Head of Manhood, as professing loyalty to the Apostolic teaching, and as seeking to hold communication with other branches of the Church. National as acknow ledging the supremacy, and cherishing the unity of the nation, as receiving its Bishops and many other ecclesias tics from the Crown, as admitting the people locally to a share in its management, and as having its disputes determined in the public courts of law. This programme, I should add, is subject to revision. Whatever may come of this movement, one thing, I think, is certain; the reading of the Athanasian Creed will not be much longer enforced upon the English Church. For the last fortnight English bishops and clergy men all over the kingdom have been holding out the right hand of fellowship to an Archbishop of the Greek Church, whose members are by the above creed consigned to eternal damnation. EN en clerical Conservatism cannot much longer retain such a practical absurdity as that, and I am not surprised to find in the Times of to-day that a memorial has been presented to the Archbishop of Canterbury, signed by both clergymen and laymen, praying that the reading of the Creed may be made optional, or atleast that the damnatory clauses may be omitted, since they now prevent men from conforming to the English Church, who conform to what is substantially the same church in the United States. Among the memorialists are men of all parties— Dean Champneys, Dean Stanley, several canons, and the Hon. Mr. Lyttleton. There is little doubt but that the Archbishop sincerely sympathises with this memorial. There is trouble in store for Mr. Cardwell. He will have to give an account of the new changes effected by the control department. So far as they have yet gone they seem to have produced only increased salaries for the officials, and increased red-tape for the public. There is great dissatisfaction, except among the few gentlemen who ha-re profited in pocket by the alteration. Soros of these dined together a few evenings ago to rejoice over the fact that their salaries had been doubled. How far the dis charged employes at 'Woolwich rejoice with them that rejoice is another matter. Tho naval gun-carriage invented by Captain Robert Scott has been introduced throughout the service, and is answering admirably. Only half the number of men that were formerly required to work a gun are now needed. In fact, guns which could not be worked at all on the broad side system are now perfectly manageable, and it takes only sixteen men to work an 13-ton gun. The success of this carriage has induced foreign Governments to press for its adoption into their respective services; and the Government at Berlin lately asked our own to manufacture some carriages for the Prussian navy, a request which, however, was not granted. At the present time two monster guns are being prepared, in order to test the merits of the Woolwich and the Whit worth system. Our War Office offered Sir Joseph Whit worth a trial with a 30-ten gun, but he would accept nothing less than 35 tons ; and that is to be the size. Sir William Armstrong is no longer competing, having enough work on hand in supplying foreign countries. Major Palliser has been placed by that wonderful body, the Ordnance Select Committee, upon a committee which is investigating the merits of his own shot. So far the new cab regulations have been a complete failure. There were a few flags visible at first, but these seem to have disappeared, and the streets are fuller of " crawlers" than ever. It is clear that Mr. Bruce will have to revise his amended regulations; at present they suit neither the public nor the cabmen. Meanwhile a company has been established on the same principles as the London General Omnibus Company, with the in tention of running vehicles of a superior class— some of them hansoms, some " growlers." The intention is to start such a number that they will be able to hold their own against any amount of "nursing." For this pur pose tenders have been invited from tile London coach builders. To supply so large a number as is contemplated in so short a time will require all the resources of Lone Acre. The English Mayors have had a pleasant time at Brus sels, which it is to be hoped compensated for the very un pleasant passage across the channel. The Brussels station was most gaily decorated, and there was a great concourse of persons gathered to witness the worshipful visitors. Perhaps there was some disappointment felt when it was seen that they did not wear the gorgeous robes which the Continental mind has learnt to associate with civic dignity. The mayors arrived at six on Monday even ing, and the burgomaster of Brussels addressed them in a neat English speech. Mr. Gourley, M.P. for Sunderland, replied in the same language, and then the visitors were conducted to their hotel, where apartments had been pre pared for them. On Tuesday morning the mayors set out for the Ducal Palace (the Royal Palace being under repair), and traversed streets gay with Belgian and British flays. 'nd crowded with people who were on this occasion delighted with the sight of a multitude of costumes — civic, volunteer, clerical, and military. At noon the King wearing the uniform of a General and the Order of the, Garter, entered with the Queen, who wore black velvet and Brussels lace. Mr. Gourley and Captain Mercier made speeches, and the King replied in English; and then the beautiful casket was presented to his M-tjesty, together with the illuminated address. Several of the London papers have sent over special correspondents. The Daily Telegraph is represented by Mr. Le Sage (formerly of the Western Morning News), the Standard by Mr. Horace St. John, and the Daily News by Mr. Holdsworth. The French Government has just made an arrangement which is worth the consideration of our own. Recently one of the Gardes de Paris fell down the stone staircase of the Palais-de-Justice. He was taken up insensible, and surgical aid was sent for. But it was so long in coming that it seemed as if the unfortunate man would die before it arrived. It has now been determined to attach a medical man to the Palais, and he will be at the service of all persons frequenting it, judges, council, jurymen, suitors, and officials. Perhaps Mr. Lowe will consider the arrange m- it worth considering for our own law-courts when they are built. There is rather a good story told of M. Prevost-Paradol, the well known writer in the Journal des Dobai; and the author of some very able letters on France which appeared in the Times a little while ago. One of the Paris papers announced that he was on the point of being nominated Ambaskador to England, which country he has lately been visiting. On reading the announcement M. Paradol re marked, "Please let it be understood that I have not paid for this." Never at any previous time was there so much interest felt 'n science as there is noay. Women as well as men hav3 now such opportunitie3 of studying science as they never bad beore. The lecture classes are almost past counting, and the lecturers are men of the highest attain ments. For instance, taking the Royal Institution pro gramme for the season, I find lectures by Professors Tyndall, jia- c ley, Odling, Ruskin, Sylvester, Rolieston, Humphrey, Max Killer, Blackie, Grant, Seeley, Roscoe, Dr. Carpenter, Mr. E. J. Reed, Mr. Norman Lockyer, Dr. Masters, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Kingdon Clifford, Captain Wilson, of the .Sinaitic Survey, and Mr. R. Scott, of the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade. Then ,there are lec tures at St. George's Hall, Queen's College, Harley-street, and the South Kensington Museum, for ladies; and lectures at the School of Mines, Jermyn-street, for the upper classes and for working men. These last are thronized to . over/MAL, and in __thejnaelva in4tly LONDON, the existence of the Institution, though I regret to say that the number of evening visitors to the museum is so small that every one costs the country ss. On Tuesday I had the pleasure of listening to a most admirable lecture by Professor Ramsay, who showed how mountain lakes had been hollowed out by the action of glaciers. Scien tific teaching is now being introducedinto our public schools. Bishop Temple was one of the first, if not the first, to set the example. At Harrow Mr. Farrar has taken the lead, and he is now about to be assisted by Mr. Bowen and Mr. Quick, the author of "Educational Reformers." Even at conservative Eton a telescope has been erected, in order that the boys may learn astronomy. Visitors to the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1506 will remember the very remarkable picture by Noel Paton, entitled Mors Janua Thee. Thi spicture so highly pleased the Queen'that she knighted the artist on the strength of it. The artist himself prized it highly, for though a comparatively small work, I should think not half the size of "The Light of the World," he has refused 1,800 guineas for it. For some time past the work has been in the bands of Mr. Simmons, the well-known engraver, and he has so nearly completed his task, that subscribers may look for their copies during the coming summer. The engraving will be worthy of the painting. The work is highly allegorical. It represents a knight kneeling down before an old stone cross tomb, overgrown with hemlock and other gloomy flowers. An angel appears as the knight is kneeling, and drawing back a black curtain, bids him bo of good courage, because, having been faithful unto death, he shall have a crown of life. A butterfly hovers over the tomb, as a symbol of the resurrection, and in the sky is a waning moon, to denote the transitoriness of earthly things, and a bright star to symbolise the steadfastness of heavenly things. The con ception is most admirable, and the rendering of it perfect. Already forty proofs, at eight guineas each, have been ordered, as devotional pictures for bedrooms by various persons. The first proof is reserved for the Queen. Sir John Lubbock has in the press the first volume of his work on the " Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man," which work treats of the moral and social condition of savages. Mr. Stewart Rose has a his tory of "Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits." Messrs. Edmonston and Douglas are publishing Professor Berg mann's " Inquiry into the Origin and Signification of the Romances of the Saint Graal." 'This fact, which reminds me to say that a very able letter in the Spectator of January 1, respecting Tennyson's new volume does really explain what the Poet meant, and accurately states that the poem is not only a narrative, but an alle gory, with a high moral and religious purpose. In fact, Mr. Tennyson considers this the best criticism on his poem which has yet appeared. Professor Rogers (to whom Mr. Gladstone intimated his intention of favouring a measure for relieving from their present disabilities clergymen who have resigned their profession) is bringing out a second series of Historical Sketches, viz., of Wicklif, Laud, Wilkes, and Horne Tooke. Mr. Clements Markham, who accompanied our army to Abyssinia, has written a life of the great Lord Fairfax. Miss Olney's story, "Estelle Russell," which has been running for so many months in Macmillan's Magazine, is concluded in the present number, and will appear shortly in two vols. A Cornish writer, Mr. Nicholas Michell, author of "Sybil of Cornwall," and " Ruins of many Lands," is bringing out a new poem, entitled "The Immortals, or Glimpses of Paradise," which will deal with, :among other subjects, the question of a Central_ Sun. In journalism and periodical literature I may mention that the proprietors of the Graphic have seat out a special artist to take sketches fur that paper of the country that lies on the Atlantic and Pacific Railway, between New York and San Francisco. The gentleman in question is Mr. Houghton, whose picture " A.D. 1580," in last year's Royal Academy, many persons will remember, and whose picture "Night Charges" in the second number of the Graphic, attracted much notice. ➢lr. Houghton has been supplied with wood blocks, and will execute his drawings with his own hand, and send them home to England, so that every touch engraved will be the /cc imile of the draughtsman's original production. Mr. tildes, whose picture, " The Casual Ward," in another number of the Graphic was also much praised, and excited the admiration of Mr. Dickens, has been selected by that gentleman to illustrate his new novel, whereof the first part is to appear on March 1. Mr. James Greenwood and Mr. Edmund Yates are con tributing tales to the now cheap weekly paper, The Million. The People's Magazine will, during the present year, have articles by the Dean of Chester, Mr. Edward Spender, and a series, entitled "Food and Physic," by eminent London medical men, and the same magazine will contain a trans lation of Erckmann-Chatrian's tale, " Waterloo." The author of the article in the last number of the Saturday Review, on Professor Huxley and "a Devonshire man," was Mr. Freeman, the historian. P.S.—The consecration of the Bishop of Nottingham yesterday was in every way a remarkable event. Not only was this the first of the revived order of Suffragan Bishops, but there were during the day incidents of great interest. Tho consecration sermon preached by Mr. Morse, the Vicar of St. Mary's, was the Broadest of the Broad, yet gave general satisfaction. The Greek Archbishop Lycurgus vas present, and although the Bishop of Lincoln refused to allow him to join in the act of consecration, he paid his Grace a most delicate compliment. Evensong was said at the Bishop's private chapel at Riseholmo, and at the second lesson Bishop Wordsworth (who is, perhaps, the best Greek scholar living) went up to the lectern and read the whole chapter in modern Grce'c, translating it from an English Bible as readily as though he were a Greek himself. Out of consideration for the same distinguished visitor the Nicene Creed was subsa tuted for the Apostles' Creed, and the " Filioque " clause was omitted. This, indeed, was something more than a compliment. I have reason to believe that the Bishop of London will apply almost immediately for a suffragan. Convocation is to meet next week for business after all. The notices had been sent out stating that it would be merely a formal meeting, but all has been sacred at the last moment, and work will commence at once. It has been decided that Bishop Mackenzie shall sit in the Lower House, not, of course, as bishop, but as Archdeacon of Nottingham. At the Nottingham meeting yesterday, the Bishop of Hereford, Dr. Atlay, made a very pronounced Church and State speech' _ blusling effrontery, was Contanied - Drum IN RI - 10AM Clonvention. The Earl of Clarendon has taken the matter up, and has instructed her Ma jesty's Charg6 d'Affaires to protest strongly against the robbery. He may protest. It is to be presumed that if the Ecuadorians had any lotion of giving up their swindle they would never have incurred the disgrace of it. It is too profitable. The confiscation reduces the bonds to the lowest possible price, and then the Government begins to buy them up. FOREIGN NOTES. THE CRISIS IN BAVARIA. The crisis in Bavaria is assuming a threatening aspect. Tho King, it is said, will neither receive the deputa tion with the address from the Chamber of Peers, nor the address itself. He intends to dispose of the latter by means of a special rescript. Prince Hohenloho has endeavoured to induce the King to accept it. So strong is his Majesty's feeling on the sub ject that he has invited the peers who voted with the minority to his table, while severely reprimanding those members of the Royal Family who opposed the Ministry, and forbidding the Princes Otto, Louis, and Leopold to present themselves at Court until fresh orders. The language of the majority in the discussion of the ad dressmay perhaps have had something to do with the King's irritation. Herr Creil said in his speech in the Upper Cham ber, "In all that concerns our internal policy we are obliged, in the interest of the dynasty and of the people of Bava ria—in the interest of right and of the future of Germany and Bavaria, to declare that the entry of this country into the Confederation of the North is not possible, and it is not even possible that Bavaria should rest upon that Confederation. I would not live in a palace cemented with the blood of brothers, fir the blood of brothers is not a good cement. Neither vould I support it from without, for the wall might fall outside." The speaker added for the future in consequence of the treaty of alliance with Prussia, Bavaria would no longer enjoy complete independence, since the treaty would prevent the diminution of the military charges. Prince Hohenlohe upon this rose, and without denying the latter statement, argued that the maintenance of the existing system was neces sary for the interests of Bavaria. Whatever the result of the crisis, it is believed that the schemes of uniting Prussia and Bavaria must be for the time delayed. JEW VICISSITUDES. . . Some time ago it was announced by Central Press Telegram that a large number of Jews resident in the western part of Russia had been maltreated and for cibly removed from one locality to another. The New York Times tells us that these Jews, find in, no toleration among the Muscovites, are coming to the Land of Freedom. Committees are organising a general fund on the Russo-Prussian frontiers, and soon a fine cargo of indigent Israelites will be landed on the shores of America. They will be welcome, says the New York Times, and though poor they will find perfect freedom to do and think as they please in the United States. " Owing to this very freedom a large section of the Jews themselves begin to think of modifying their ancient faith. It has survived eighteen centuries ,of persecution, but liberty is acting upon it as a powerful solvent." Nothing, in the opinion of the New York Times, is so remarkable as the dis integration of mere creeds perpetually going on in America. The Republic is achieving what Pharaoh failed to do. No doubt of it; commercial morality, for example, which has long been a mere creed on both sides of the Atlantic, has suffered complete " disintegration " in New York, and has given way to a system c ' of rascality quite unequalled either in the age of Pharaoh or any other potentate, TRADE WITH CHINA. There is a difference between the London and Shanghai merchants as to the merits of the new Chinese treaty. They agree in commending the throwing open of new ports, the opening of mines, &c. They agree also in condemning the increased duty on silk. But whilst the London merchants raise no opposition to the augmented duty on opium, they are averse to the increased import duty in place of transit dues, for they fear there is no guarantee that the latter will be abolished, and thus the addition to the import duty will be with out compensation. On the other hand, the Shanghai merchants are mild in their treatment of the transit dues, but severe on the increased impost on opium. The London merchants have no interest in opium, and one eminent representative says he would be glad if the increased duty compel the Indian Government to develop the resources of our Eastern Empire in a less objectionable direction. TIIE RED RIVER REBELLION. If the telegram received by the Hudson's Bay Com pany be correct, we have got to the end of that troublesome Red River business much sooner than was expected. Riel has been captured, and Riel, it may be necessary to explain, is the leader of the half-breed insurgents. Authority has been restored, and thus the rebellion is at an end—provided always that the telegram be correct. If it is, it will differ materially from various other me.tsages we have had from the Bed River. STATE ROGUETtY. Diplomacy has interfered in the question of the Ecuador bonds. That exemplary south American Republic owed about a million and a half to European capitalists, and a part of the customs re :eipts was mortgaged to pay the interest. Last August, to the amazement of the civilised world, the President issued a decree, stating that inability to pay a debt was a recognised reason for renouncing it alto ;ether, and that the hTpothecation of the Ecuadorcus toms (112.68_11111A P.O.W._ d@ '@Q. SP 111Actu© . ii it§ ull7 SECULAR EDUCATION IN SWITZERLAND. The Grand Council of Geneva has just adopted an im portant resolution in favour of what we call secular educa tion. In the Canton of Geneva the public Instructors are not obliged to give religious teaching, but, in point of fact, they nearly all do so, being partly influenced by the special gratuity attached to that branch of education. The commission of the grand council charged with the exami nation of the Budget proposed to suppress the vote of £320 for these gratuities. In spite of the opposition of the head of the department of Public Instruction, this proposal was adopted by twenty-four votes against twenty three. As the decision will come immediately into force, the Geneva Canton will henceforth have it¢ public schools absolutely neutral, and parents must themselves under take the religious instruction of their children. A GOOD EXAMPLE. The young Prime of Roumania has just set a good example to older monarchs. He has refused to accept a dowry for the Princess Elizabeth, his bride, contenting himself with his civil list. The proposal for this gift was introduced in the Chamber by a deputy of the majority, but was declined in the Prince's name by the President of the Council, who gave as the reason tho Prince's convic tion that the financial situation of the country should be Gdjusted before charging the Budget with a new expense. ENGLAND FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OP VIEW. Tho 2 ew York Times has an " editorial" t.O the condition of England, in which it calmly pronounces the fact that English patriotism is on the decline. The struggle for bread, the pressure of poverty, the difficulty of getting on, and the numerous burdens imposed on all classes, have almost extinguished the love of country. Mr. Fronde has advised the victims of national extravagance to go to Australia; but the New York Times asks why they should go to the antip6des, when at a distance of throe thousand miles , ney can find a land - where every man who la !rifling to work can get a living ? There are heavy taxes, it is true, but they will molt away by degrees ; whereas there is to such hope in England. The pensioners on the country do not diminish. Every pinco who marries must have a large allowance, so must his wife, so must his family. The charges from this source alono are sLartling. The English Government keeps the figuret as much out of sight as possible, but they are a terrible drain on the resources of the country, and England will flourish no more until her whole machinery of Government is greatly reduced in cost. TILE BISHOP OP ORLEANS. At the beginning of the year the clergy of Orleans sent an address to Mgr. Dupanloup to pro test against the attacks which had been made upon him. The Bishop replied in a letter, in which he expressed his desire to aid the work of the Church to the best of his ability. Ho declared that he had maintained the principles he had professed when he quitted them. Ho reassured them as to the chief point of their communication, and said that nothing vexatious would come of the attacks they referred to, and that they might derive, therefore, a useful lesson. The world had witnessed the ill-treatment of a Bishop who had given many proofs of his devotion to the Church and the Holy See, and whose only offence was that he gave utter ance to his opinions on an important question which con cerned the real interests of religion and the Papacy. So much passionate excitement had been brought into the affair, which called so little for its exercise. They must remember that life contained some periods which Were set apart for the performance of painful duties, and it watt necessary to fulfil them in the right spirit, if the exercise of these obligations entailed suffering they must prepare their minds to endure it. VIRGIN/A. Preparations are being made in Richmond for a grand demonstration. On the admission of the State the repre sentatives of the Republican and Conservative parties have united to hold a celebration. A. joint com mittee applied to the Washington authorities for the loan of a cannon for firing salutes, and the application has been granted. From West Virginia it is stated that Governor Stevenson's message to the Legislature is able and thoroughly matured. The finances of the State are most satisfactory, and the population has increased, despite the losses of the war. Referring to immigration, he said "It cannot be doubted that were the facts extensively shown, thousands who now locate in the far West would find more desirable homes in West Virginia." He closed by especially com mending the interests of free schools. THE INDIANS IN DACOTAIX TERRITORY. General Sheridan has forwarded to the War Department at Washington General Morrow's report on the condition of Indian affairs in the vicinity of Ford Buford. Several recommendations are made in the report for the amelio ration of the condition of the friendly tribes, among which it is suggested that the control of Indian affairs on the frontier be transferred from the Interior to the War Department; that agents near military posts be under the orders of the military commander; that all trade with the Indians except by Government be abolished ; and that all Indians be transferred forthwith to reservations. ne Emperor Napolt on has caused inquiries to be made by special telegram respecting the health of the Queen, who has been suffering from neuralgic paths for some days past. Her Majesty has returned an answer in the same way, stating that she was better, and returning thanks for the solicitude shown. The death is announced of a very distinguished Peninsular veteran, Colonel Sir John Henry Cooke, who expired at his residence, at Hampstead, on Monday last. Sir John held at the time of his decease a post very much coveted atnongst military men, viz., that of Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Body Guard to her Majesty the Queen. It was intended (says the Guardian) by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury not to summon his Convo cation for despatch of business until he should be able to preside in person, which he hoped to be able to do after Easter; but a letter just received from the Prolocutor informs us that after all it is now decided that Convock tion shall meet, under commission, for business, on Wednes day next, the 9th inst., at eleven o'clock. It is understood that, immediately after the meeting of Parliament, Mr. Candlish, who was Chairman of the Committee appointed by the House of Commons to iLquire into the expense of the .Abyssinian Expedition, will move for the r& appontment of the Committee. Since the prorogation of Parliament, Mr. Candlish and Captain Beau mont, another member of the Committee, have been to Bombay and other places, and have made strict inquiries, particularly in reference to the transport service and the cost of coals, and upon those points as upon many others addi tional evidence will be called. [AnvEirrisEmtlYr. I—Holloway's1—Holloway's Pills.—No Distrust.— Pub! opinion si e..ks in no feeble or uncertain voice COD - cern in g the merits of these Pills for purifying the blood, regul atti. g the action of different organs. and strengthening the human body generally. Holloway's Pills have gained a reputation for curing disorders of the stomach, diseases of the kidneys, and affections of the brain and nerves, previously unexampled in the history of medicine. An important matter regarding these Piils is that the invalid by reading the accompanying "directions for use," can determine the proper dose, decide upon the right diet, and other accessory matters, which will render him a profi cient in successfully treating any disorder or disease by which he may be threatened or already assailed. THE SUN, 1870. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, Tim clownplvonon as The hearing ot the case a the "Queen v." Williams," who is charged with perjury in connection with this note tioufi llfrOrocs case, was resumed on Thure day in the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. Forder,who was the medical at tendantef Mrs. Godrich, stated that in 1865 he went with his patients to Brighton, and whilst there he continually visited Mrs. Godrich both in the morning and in the evening. He took her to the theatre once, and they had a private box, but her husband knew of it. They returned home in a car riage. He had occasionally stayed with her as late as ten or eleven o'clock. In London he visited her two or three times a week. They had frequent readings of Shakespeare's plays. One was Henry IV.—Mr. Sergeant Parry remarked that this was a very moral play.—The Lord Chief Justice said that some parts of it were moral. They also read "Julius Caesar," but not "Romeo and Juliet." Mr. Forder could not remem ber if the bedroom scene in " Cymbeline " was read. In the theatricals witness played the prin cipal male character, and Mrs. Godrich the female character. The scenes were very pleasing and lovable. Mr. Godrich used to seem pleased for witness to pay attention to his wife; he used to say, "I have an order for the theatre; will you take Mrs. Godrich?" Witness was certain he never kissed Mrs. Godrich on these occasions. In 1866 he commenced sending flowers and bouquets to her ; they were from Stephens, the gardener. In that year he went to Ramsgate, and Mrs. Godrich came down shortly after. He visited her there, and sometimes stayed with her till eleven o'clock. Mrs. Birch, a daily governess of Mrs. Godrich, deposed to the sobriety of her employer. Mr. Haxell, an hotel-keeper in the Strand, said that Mrs. Godrich stayed three months, with her children; at his hotel, and during that time behaved like a lady. The bill for the three months was £96. This concluded the case for the prosecution. Dr. Kenealy then opened the defence. He said the real object of the prosecution was not to prove the innocence of Mrs. Godrich, but to induce Lord Penzance to grant a new trial. Mrs. Godrich had taken no steps to set aside the verdict of the jury, in which she nad been proved guilty of adultery with two persons. At this point, Mr. Sergeant Parry said that warrants had been applied for against persons who had proved the adultery.--Dr. Kenealy characterised Mrs. Godrich as a cunning woman who had taken out sum monses for the purpose of cutting away the ground under his feet. He would prove that she had been guilty of drunkenness and adultery as alleged by the defendant. The case was again adjourned. THE RITUALIST PROSECUTIONS. xwe Ritualist prosecutions were decided by Sir Robert Phillimore in the Court of Arches on Thursday—the Isle of Wight case, " Sumner (late Bishop of Winchester) v.Wix, and the Brighton case—the Bishop of Chichester v. Pur chase. In the first case the defendant was the Rev. Richard H. E. Wix, Vicar of St. Michael's and All Saints, Swanmore, Isle of Wight. He was charged by the promoter of the suit with having con traversed the canons, rubrics, and general law of the Church or England by having lighted candles burning upon the Commuion table, and using incense in the celebration of the Holy Communion. Sir Robert Phillimore was of opinion that the practice complained of in the first article as to the lighted candles, was unlawful. He was glad to observe that Mr. Wix had thought proper to abstain from such an illegal custom in future. He should strongly admonish him to adhere to this present resolution. With regard to the other charges, that he on several stated occasions used incense in the celebration of the Holy Communion, his lordship observed that the use of incense was intended to be subsidiary and preparatory to the celebration of the Holy Communion, and therefore he must pronounce these practices to be illegal, and Mr. Wix to be guilty of the canonical offence charged against him. At the same time, he must admonish the rev. gentleman to abstain from these usages in future. His lordship condemned Mr. Wix to pay the costs of the suit. After his judgment in this case, Sir Robert gave judg ment in the suit against the Rev. Mr. Purchas, Per petual Curate of St. James's Chapel, Brighton. His lordship observed that many of the charges were of so frivolous a nature that he regretted very much they should have ever been permitted to occupy the attention of the court. The main charges were that Mr. Purchas wore a vestment called a cope while reading the morning and evening services, that he also wore a chasuble in the administration of the Holy Communion, an alb, instead of the customary surplic:., a girdle manicle, and a head covering known as the baretta. All of these vestments, it was contended en behalf of the defendant were not repugnant to the rubric of Edward VI., but, on the contrary were, if not expressly, at least tacitly sanctioned by that eccle siastical enactment. That rubric had never been repealed by subsequent or existing law. The surplice, it was contended, ought to be worn instead of these vestments; yet it was considered by the Presbyterians, one of the worst relics of Popery which the Church of England had retained. The learned judge said on this point he should be guided by the opinions he had already expressed in the cases of "Martin v. Mackonnochie and "Westerton v. Liddell," and the decisions giuen therein by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and he would therefore hold Mr. Purchas blameless in wearing the cope in the celebra, bration of the holy Eucharist, but it would be an illegal act wearing it at either morning or evening service, and also the wearittg of stoles of any kind. As to the charges about the amice, girdle,, and dalmatics, they had not been proved. Mr. Purchas was charged with wearing or holding in his hand to wear in a procession, a cap called the baretta, but his lordship conceived this to be as innocent as the wearing of a night cap, or any other simple head covering. (A laugh.) The other charges against him of using wafer, or small circular-shaped bread, instead of that customarily used in the Lord's Supper; mixing a little water with the wine in the celebration of the Holy Sacrament; having vases of flowers on a ledge or shelf above the Communion table ; holding ceremonial processions in the church, in which acolytes, and crucifers, or crossbearers took part, were not sustained, and he should therefore, dismiss such charges against l'i'q'ttrchtts m-king no order as to the costs of the suit., The English Independent has an earnest article pleading for unity between the English Church and Nonconformists. The fraternization of the Archbishop of York with his grace of Syra and Tenos is much, if it means what it seems. But " charity begins at home," and unity should be first expressed there also. "We long intensely and ardently," says the Independent," for the dawn of the day of unity. Theologically we are not half so much divided as we are ec clesiastically. If all the proud priestly pre tensions of the Roman, Greek, and Anglican Churches were out of the way, we might see an agape of all the Churches at no very distant day. The anathemas come not half as much of the creeds as of the spirit of the men who deem themselves the heaven-commissioned janitors of the creeds. We fear, however, that we are a long way off the day when the Church of Christ shall hays outgrown, or the intelligence of the world shall have laughed clown these proud, priestly pretensions to the exclusive right of admission to the kingdom of heaven." AN IRON MASK FOR A DRUNKEN WIFE.—At the Police Court at Jersey, on Monday, John Le Roy, an elderly man, a watchmaker and greengrocer, carrying on business at Charing-cross, was charged with having cruelly ill-treated his wife by having, among other things, fastened her head in an iron mask, the latter offence having been committed on the Saturday previous. This invention for curing a drunken wife was produced in court, and excited no little astonish ment. It consisted of two stout iron rings of about a quar ter of an inch thick, attached to each other by vertical bars of strong hoop iron, each at least an inch wide. One of the rings was about nine inches in diameter, and the other six inches, the smaller part resting upon the shoulders when the instrument was placed in position. The bars were about two inches apart, and to prevent the wearer getting anything to her mouth a piece of iron was placed across two of the bars in front. It weighed three pounds. It turned o ut, however, on trial that she was able to defeat this object by reversing the mask during the short time (about an hour) that she had it on and drinking a glass of spirits. The mask opened with a hinge in front, and was fastened behind with a padlock. The wife, who had a half-stupid appearance said that the prisoner forced the mask over her head while she was in a kneeling posture. She contrived to let some of the neigh bJu:s see it on her bead, and they sent for the police, who wont to the house and compelled the prisoner to take it off. In addition to this and other ill-treatment the pri soner had sometimes shut her up in a largo box on which he had put on iron bars, making it resemble a cage. Beyond the confinement she had suffered no injury, as there was ample room in it. 'rho prisoner, on being asked by the magistrate what he had to say, replied that what ho had done was solely for the purpose of curing his wife of har drunken habits. Hs had tried various means, and had plac d ber five times in the workhouse. He bad locked her up at home, but she escaped by the window in order to get drink. He did not know he was acting illegally by putting the mask on his wife, or be would not have douo so. The wife, who admitted the truth of what the prisoner said, ex pressed herself willing to accept ss. per week and leave her husband. The latter agreed to this, and was then fined 10s. for the assault on hie wife. The mask remains in the ros session of the police. SHERMAN AND SUMNER'S FINANCE BILLS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) • Senator SHERMAN, of Ohio, has r:-ported a from the Committee on Finance, to provide a na tional currency of coin notes, and to equalise the dis tribution of circulating notes. This bill proposes the addition of $45,000,000 in notes to the $300,000,000 before au:herised, apportioning their circulation upon the census of 1870. The Secretary of the Trea sury is, however, directel to redeem and retire an equal amount of the temporary Three per Cent. Loan Certificates. The third section provides for the issue through associations depositing United States gold-bearing bonds, of notes equal to 90 per centum of the gold value of the bonds, but not ex ceeding 80 per cent of their par value, the notes bearing on their face the promise of the association to redeem them in coin when presented at its office ; every national banking associatio❑ to keep coin on hand equal at least to one quarter its circulation. There are provisions besides for the reception at par of these gold notesamong other banking institutions, and freeing all those organised to issue such notes from the clause of the National Currency Act which limits the circulation of National Banking %ssocia- tions to $300,000,000. The tendency of this bill is to increase the National Bank circulation, and with it the paper money of the United States, though temporary loan certificates would be retired. Senator SHERMAN aspires to return to specie pay ment and to inflate the currency at one and the same time ; but as the bill alond is before us without debate or comment, except that it is approved by Secretary BOUTWELL, we may mistake its tenour. To secure public confidence, Mr. SHERMAN pro poses that the banking institutions shall deposit in the Treasury Five-Twenties or other gold-bearing bonds, on which security the Comptroller will issue notes like those of the Bank of England, payable at the office of the bank in gold or silver. To meet this demand he requires the bank to keep 25 per cent. of its circulation in coin, evidently cal culating that the hollers of the notes will not present them in sufficient quantities to jeopar dise the bank, as they will be aware that the law has enforced the deposit by the bank in the Treasury, of United States. Bonds more than sufficient to cover the amount on the face of all its notes. The bank will gain in being able to cir culate in notes, $4 for every $1 it holds in gold ; and its security held by the Treasury, in which the other three-fourths of its capital might be invested, will bear a good rate of interest. Does Senator SHERMAN propose to establish two orders of banks, the one specie-paying, the other paper-paying ? If so, he may be running good against evil, substance against shadow, a promise to pay something against a promise to pay nothing, with no one to forecast the result, as the experiment is novel and without precedent in finance. On the 12th instant Senator SUMNER introduced his bill " to authorize the re funding and consolidation of the National Debt, to extend banking facilities, and to establish specie ayments." It consists of nine sections, of which the three first authorize the Treasury to issue three classes of Government Bonds, each of $500,000,000, in denominations of not less than $5O. The first class to be redeemable in coin after ten years at the option of the Government, and after forty payable, bearing 5 per cent. interest in semi annual coin dividends. The second to be redeem able in fifteen years at the option of the Govern ment or payable in fifty, bearing 4,1 per cent. ; and the third redeeamble after twenty years, or pay able in sixty at 4 per cent., all in coin. By the fourth section these bonds are exempted from all taxation, by or under National, State, or municipal authority. The other sections of the bill provide for a new issue of $200,000,000 in bank notes to replace an equal amount of greenbacks withdrawn. When the premium on gold sinks to 5, legal-tenders are to be receivable for import duties. The bill repeals all previous Acts making anything but coin a legal tender in the United States, to take effect from Jan. 1, 1871. The Senator supported his bill by a long speech. It is his opinion that Mr. BOUTWELL'S measures will not secure his propositions, which be thus classifies : "1. To fund $1,200,000,000 of Six per Cent. Five- Twenty Bond. into Four and a Half per Cent. Fifteen- Twenties, Twenty-Twenty-Fives, and T wouty_Fore- Thirties. "2. To make our exports equal in value with our im ports, and to restore our commercial marine. "3. To do these before any attempt to reduce taxation cr to resume specie payments." , There not sufficient inducement, Mr. SUMNER thinks, for the bolder of a Five-Twenty Bond to exchange 6 for CI per cent. It woull be one rous and objectionable to make the interest payable at various points in Europe. Foreign Powers might obtain a certain jurisdiction over American monetary transactions, while the arrangement would help to postpone the time when New York will b:come that commercial centre designed by PROVIDENCE, and confirmed by man." Does Mr. SUMNER ima gine that a foreigner would prefer his proposed bond at 4 per cent. with interest payable in New York, to Mr. BOUTWELL'S 4i per cent. with intere t payable in the city wherein he resides, and does he suppose something unpalatable becomes more attrac tive by being made longer in duration ? If Secre tary BOUTWELL'S Bond has not s ufficient attraction to draw coin, as well as the exchange of Five- Twenties Bonds, as Mr. SUMNER asserts, then assur edly his has not. We have no space to go over his road to specie payment. Although the Senator says that the more he has considered the provi sions of his bill (which, indeed, embodies one he before introduced for the withdrawal of greenbacks) the more he is satisfied of their value, yet we doubt both the efficacy and simplicity he ascribes to them. Where he mainly differs from Mr. BOUT WELL is in recommending that the Debt should be left for redemption hereafter, and taxes reduced; while Mr. BOUTWELL holds that taxes should be kept up, and the Debt reduced. Finance Bills are crowding on Congress, and the members will end by getting into a financial muddle. SAN DOMINGO. A letter has appeared in the New York Tribune, from the pen of what it calls a respectable gentle man in London, having reference to the annexation of San Domingo to the United States, and the loan contracted for by Messrs. Peter Lawson and , Co. The property, he says, of Sausana Bay and peninsula has been used by President Baez, and unscrupulous parties in the United States, to " swindle" the Washington Government, as well as to induce English capitalists to invest for the benefit of the triangular ring of Baez, Lawson, and Co., and Hartmont. the the loan, although asserts that the public has not taken up h Stock Exchange although the laws of the compelled it to recognize the amount privately subscribed by the firm and three or four of its friends. The writer produces facts to show the discredit in which the loan is held on the Stock Exchange. Then follows a full account of Edmund Hertzberg, a most instructive history if true, of which one of the little events is that he began business in London as a merchant, was imprisoned for two months in Whitecross street, and was made bankrupt for £240,000, whereof he never paid a cent of dividend. The par ticulars of his connection with Baez are given, whose concession of Alta Vela he failed to turn to profit in London until the loan was concocted. The gentleman quotes the Boletin Oficial of Santo Domingo of the 25th September last, as announc ing that Mr. Hartmont was to receive £lOO,OOO commission on the nominal loan of £757,700, " and as the bank commission of 14- per cent. would make £18,400, consequently Baez would have to receive : Loan (real amount), £420.000 ; less as above, £lB,4oo—total, £301,600; and the Santo Domingo Exchequer has to repay in twenty-five years, each year £58,900, or £1,472,500 ; being nearly five times the amount actually received." This is what appears to the public, but the gentleman asserts that a private understanding exists be tween Mr. Hartniont and Baez, which we do not here choose to reproduce. The Mess's. Lawson can defend themselves against such damaging state ments, all our business being t.) call their attention as well as that of the public to these staitling charges, the more so as the City Editor of the Tines has favoured the arrangements. For instance, last Tuesday the following appeared : —" The Com mittee of the Stock Exchange have to-day granted a quotation for the full amount of the San Domingo 6 per Cent. Loan of £757,700, introduced in July last, on the certificate of the agents, Messrs. Peter Lawson and Son, that the balance of the bonds not originally allotted are now placed. It is understood that these bonds have been taken up by a body of capitalists, who are probably influenced by the treaty now being negotiated with the United States for the lease of Samana Bay, as well as by the, ruinous iu eircul ttion pointe.g to an annexation 0; the whole Republic. In the latter case i. is as:aunt-a the obi,gadoe, of Eh,. 6 per Gee. Loan would be undertaken by the United States' Govr.rnment• Since the loan was issued Messrs. Spofford, Tilestoni and Co., a highly respectable mercantile firm 10 New York, have been appointed (through t heir agency at an Domingo) receivers of the Custom! hypothecated for the payment of the interest and sinking fund." What interest the limes may have in the matter we fail to see; but what the Tribune. letter asserts is true ; that the Times has suppo rted the annexation of San Domingo to the United Sta . tes.• Lde: We recommend. to the attention of the City for this letter of the New York. Tribune, dated January 10, headed.", San Domingo." The treaty of annexation was negotiated by President Baez , and the U.S. commercial agent,. Mr. Perry, and !t was submitted with a secret message of the Presi dent to the Senate, Jan. 10. It is known to contain a the fat) wing propositions :—" First--The United States stipulate to pay the sum of $1,500, 000. Second—This money is to be devoted to the liquidit tion of all the obligations of the Republic of S: 111 Domingo, including the redemption of its currency; which is represented to be of comparatively smallamount. Third—ln case the obligations to be a.- sumed by the United States shall exceed the before mentioned sum of $1,500,000 the public lands of San Domingo are pledged as security for the Oxon' Fourth—The liquidation of the obligations is to be intrusted to commissioners, one to be appointed b 7 each of the contracting parties. Fifth—ln CO deration of the discharge of these obligations, 5 513 Domingo cedes to the United States all forts, dock o l custom-houses, and all other public buildings, .arse' Dais, &e., and complete jurisdiction over the territorl. Sixth—San Domingo to be annexed or acquired 8 s a Territory, and not as a State, and subject to the 'Territories of Congress, in the same manner as t,b, a of the United States. Seventh- I°3 treaty to be valid to all intents and purposes wh ea l ratified by the Senate of the United States, an confirmed by the vote of a majority of the c itizens of San Domingo. There is another letter in the same paper bearing on the lease from a person w." 1," describes himself as intimately acquainted w it Haytian affairs. He declares that the $15 0 , 005 already paid by the United States have been throw o i. away, " because in spite of the partisan strife wh ich appears to divide Haytian society, the whole. na tive population of the island of Hayti constant!' one nation whose foreign and domestic policy. 18 based upon three. cardinal principles—territorial to tegrity, political unity, exclusion of all persons II?' of the African or Indian race from membership 1u .. the body politic. The first of these prin ci p les ha : become so deeply rooted in the popular mind th e: the mass of the Haytian people would sooner s he l their last drop of blood than permit one inc h Haytian soil to be under foreign domination and because General Baez has no power " to lease , sell, or otherwise alienate any portion of the P°: minican soil. Whatever powers he possesses ery t conferred by the • Dominican Constitution ; Art. 3 of that Constitution declares that " no pev (t nor authority shall be able to alienate the terril either in whole or in part. Furthermore, Art. 6.s provides that " in no case shall the operation of th/ 0 Consi itution be suspended either in part or in whe le .' The letter thus closes For these reasons I a' „ led to conclude that, if your correspondent's sto ic, ~ ment prove true, either the United States Gove rn ' went has been shamefully swindled, or else is ab °ll to become particeps criminis in the spoliation of weak and apparently defenceless nation." Sever n protests come from San Domingo, all emplattlea l t , 3l denying the right of President Baez to sell country. One asserts th a t h e h as by turns tree Spain, France, and England, before he was su e , cessful at Washington, an d t h a t th e ty r ant only been upheld by the as s i s t ance o f th e IThiveds States, or he would long since h ave b een d r iven of the island. On the whole, we would strongl a recommend the readers of the 7 inzes to wait awh i : before investing in the loan of the Messrs. Lawso n under the impression that it will be paid by t he United States. Bank of France. PARIS, Feb. 3• The following is the return of the Bank of Fran ce for the week ending to-day, together with the co l " responding figures of the previous account DEBTOR. ------ Jan. 27. Fob. 3. g.• fr. c. fr. - Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500, 000 Profits in addition to Capital (Art. 8, Law, 4 r• 6 0 ,- , June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,014,i i Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,0 00 --- Notes in circulation Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at 1 91 sight 41,593,771 45 42, 658,22 Treasury account cur- /6 rent creditor 164,620,483 rel 158,035 ,0 18 ' - i 04 Current accounts, Paris 279,586,821 50 311,892,8 6 = ..., Do. branch banks 42,484.011 45,828,4 90 Dividends payable 3 ,14 5 , 1 43 ...... 2 , c 3 400 8 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last 1,914,131 95 2,388,004 40 six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 1,305,522 15 1,305,522 15 9,938,120 64 10,741,00 21 01 Total CILEDITOR. Feb. 3. Jan. 27. c, Cash in hand and in fr. c fr. Branch ba n k s 1,212,1 2,859 48 . 1,202;001,07 8 14 Commerci a l bill s over due Commercial bills dis- -27 80 counted, not yet due 333,320,156 91 326,011,i Do. branch bank s 318,470,021 313,182,182 Advances on deposit of bullion 14,364,300 Do. branch banks 1,630,000 Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Fancier Bonds Do. branches . 1,21: Do. to the State..(Con vention, June 10, 18 57) G overnment Stock re serve ,750 14 Do. disposable Relates Inunobalisees (Law, June 2, 1857) 160,000,000 Elotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage- (2 ment 2 2 1,124 17 39,9. 8 ,0 Sundries 164,252 8 6 14,927,81 0 -**- 2,212,700 -- 20,926,400 - 8,211,460 - 20,992,400 8,718,950 89,580, 60 ' 33,047, 550 - 1,150,900 1,214,900 - 1149,300 ---_ 420, 100 --- 60,000,000 -" 12,980,750 14 12 980,750 11 80,595,187 21 80,595,181,2 1u0,000,000 ' 9,074,396 - 9,074, 384 --. Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the 1 3 a u of FraLce. (Signed) RoULAN COURSE OF EXCHANGE. —., Anistordani„. Sh ort... 11 17 ... 11 17 1 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 ••• 12 Antwerp — ... 25 37 1 ... 25 421 Brussels Hamburgh — ... 13 104 ... 13 11 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 1 1 20 1 Vienna — ... 12 65 ... 12 70 „ Trieste Copenhagen ........... Petersburg 9 18 ... 9 2 ' ... 281- ... 28i1 . , Berlin ... 6 ... 27i 628 Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 49 ... 49 Leghorn Milan — ... 26 75 ..: 26 7 7 Genoa .. .26 75 .., 26 7 7 1 Naples Palermo _ ... 26 75 ... 26 7 7 1 Messina Lisbon — ... 514 ~ 52 Oporto — ... 514 ... 52 Rio J aneiro — New York .—... The 66th Regiment is under orders to ernbar K for Bombay—the right wing on the 18th, and the left wing on the 25th inst. BIRT LIS. LLOYD—On the Ist inst., at Ty-Mawr, Abergavenny, Ai r°. Graham Lloyd, of a daughter. MACHIN— On the 2d inst., at Walton-on-Thames, the wife of F. Machin, Esq., of a son. MARRIAGES. CASWELL FINDEN—Ou the 2d inst. at Paddington, George Caswell, E sq , to Florence , youngest d a ughte r of George C. Finders, .. park. Esq,, of 21, Talbot-square, 1 - 1 Y"' ) WityrE—lllxpE —On the 2d inst , at St. Gabriel.'_, INT: wick-square, M ar k B eres f or d Whyte, Esq., to widow of Captain Jacob Hind; late of Clifton, Glow' costershire. DEATHS. rt BEDINGFIELD—On the 3d inst., at 26, Ryder-street, James's, Charles Bedingfield, Esq. BRAYLEY—On the Ist lust., at 53, Ozil:l,y-road, ra William Bray ley, Esq., F.it.S., coo., aged G 9. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM • W of No. 12, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office, L'N 0. 112, Strat" in the Precinct of 'the Savoy, i. the Oouuty of MiddlosoV.' Friday, February 4, 1870. I.c . L . Ari AN 0 .iry 3 the Re! nku ' " , nti ,ty Th s celeb -am' Pri Pure, 1.1 Id _ _ _ id in Bcf the Xgenta in ',no tc, OFtE neru AL ancoi 14, RIISSELI. NIIVANCES MC ' , old or Leaseho s'le weekly, mo P rrne free on r( STABLI! J dur The rolativE fessional Men, weekly nayme binod with the establishment, This establii Wised by her 3 and it is mar Lady Laura Caroline Russ All informs ten or persona S übseriptiot Treasurer, at THE DE -a- JEWS receive APP] and DUMB ?nulls, for in The systei manual alpha A public 1 , when the st nessed. Applicatioi other partieu T HE L Offices-- The Inver Fire Bevenu The modera Bonusf or t value as render then leave is gra! thirty days ?THE 11 1 of 01 Upwards this Hospitl The Oom enable numerous helpless by Bankers, street; and Waterloc "ATIc V Riche Under the pi whereby a Girls of all :3 the kingdon The objei ish eda esti( and laundry wise provid suitable site The Comi entirely sus Offia9. 121 -t R OYA PIINDSPiI GRP, This tic eetablisbe fres. Bankers street, Me See.. 3'. 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