The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-28 00:00:00

lIIIPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Plymouth Corporation Water and Weymouth Con sumers Gas Bills were read a second time ; the Salford Borough and Herne Bay Water Bills were read a third time. THE CONVICT BURKE. Lord CLARENDON said he hoped that in asking a question in relation to the convict Burke, the most strin gent investigation had been made in the matter possible; and after the announcement that had been made on Satur day last by the noble earl opposite, that, through a depu tation which had waited upon his Lordship, that the Council would reconsider their decision, lie (the noble earl trusted that the greatest consider ation had again been exercised to ascertain if possible whether Lis life could be spared or not. Lord DERBY said that no one could conceive the deep responsibility which rested upon those who had the duty of advising her Majesty to exercise her preroga tive of mercy or not than he did. It was the responsibility that should decide the life and death of a fellow-creature, and deeply had they felt this on Wednes day last on looking into all the circumstances, and were deeply grieved that they could not do otherwise than advise her Majesty that the sentence of death should be carried out against the convict Burke. But since that period they had been convinced by repre sentations from the highest quarters,which representations deserved the highest respect, that the feeling of the whole country was that mercy should be extended, and therefore they had advised her Majesty to exercise her royal prerogative of mercy, and her Majesty had signified her assent. The life of Burke would, there fore, be spared. But he (the noble earl) must ask their lordships to remember that this was no rebellion in which the feelings of party might be concerned, but an attempt by misguided people to upset the peace and order of a whole people, and to retard in all probability the progress of Ireland for a long period. Under . those circumstances the offences of Burke were of the highest class, and deserved most fully the punishment awarded to them. However, they (the Government) had concluded to exercise mercy, and if they had erred it was on the side of leniency. He trusted that the warm hearted feeling of the Irish nation would appreciate the concession. (Hear, hoar.) A NOBLE LORD said that would be the crowning act of vengeance against the misguided Fenians. THE ADMIRALTY, PROBATE, AND DIVORCE COURTS. On the motion of the Lord Chancellor for the third reading of this bill, Lord CRANWORTH moved, according to notice, that ' be read that day six months. He considered that, although he had the greatest respect for him as a judge, that he had very light duties, inasmuch as he only sat eighteen weeks in one year, and if this was contrasted with the sittings of the Judges of the Common Law Courts would be found that they sat twenty-four weeks in one year besides circuits. Ile considered that under the circum stances, and looking at the facts dispassionately, there was no case at all made for any in the Divorce Court. There was therefore no reason for the creation of new judges, and in his (the noble lord's) opinion such creation was a positive evil. He proposed to show their lordships that the. present staff of judges was quite sufficient. The sittings in term occupied 13 weeks, and during that time four judges sat in each Court. Now he having been in one of 'those Courts himself was prepared to say that the fourth judge was an injury. There were two judges sit ting on each side of the chief, and the fourth judge was quite outside, and therefore what good could ho do? By some arrangements which might be made by the circuits beginning earlier and other concurrent arrangements judges might always be at disposal. Although it was the duty of the country to provide adequate judicial strength, still unrequired increase of strength should not be allowed. He thought that the latter evil might bo avoided if they would consolidate the whole of the three courts under discussion into one equivalent to the other common law courts. The Divorce and Probate were conducted on the same principles, and there was only a slight difference in the Admiralty. His grounds for op posing the bill, therefore, was that there was no cause to make a new court, and that there was a sufficient number of judges if further judicial assistance was re- quired. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he must say he thought that his learned and noble friend had taken a very narrow view of all the advantages that were to be ob tained by the scheme, and if he had exercised his candid mind upon the subject he would have thought differently. The noble lord then reviewed the whole of the circumstances which had led to the construction of the Divorce and Probate Courts. On a division thB bill was ordered to be read a third time by 8G to 40. It was then passed. The National Debt Bill was read a second time ; the Criminal Law Bill, the Labouring Classes Dwelling-houses Acts (1866) Amendment Bill, and the British Spirits Bill were passed through committee; and the British White Herring Fishery Bill and the Sale and Purchase of Shares Bill were read a third time and passed. The Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland) Act Conti nuance Bill was moved on the second reading by the Earl of DERBY, and the motion gave occasion to Earl Russell to descant on Irish grievances, and to intimate that after the -Whitsuntide recess he should call attention to the question of the Irish Church Establishment. The noble earl ad mitted, however, that it was necessary to continue the extraordinary powers required by the Government under the bill. The debate which followed was closed by the Earl of DERBY retorting on Lord Russell that, if the Irish Church were such a grievance as ;he noble earl regarded it, it was strange that during the eighteen years that he had been in office out of the last twenty he had never taken any steps towards legislating upon the subject. The bill was than read a second time, and their lord ships adjourned at a quarter to eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMAIONS—LAsT EVENING. The SPEAKER. took the chair at four o'clock. THE TORNADO. Mr. GREGORY gave notice of his intention after Whit suntide to call the attention of the house to the affair of the Tornado and Victoria. SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE. In reply to Mr. B. COCHRANE, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the privileges of pivate members would not be interfered with in the event of the motion which he intended to make with respect to the alteration of the time of morning sit tings. The discussion of the notices of motion would commence on Tuesday and Friday at nine, instead of six o'clock in the evening. BOUNDARIES OF BOROUGHS. In reply to Mr. BUTLER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the formal arrangements of boroughs would entirely depend upon the decision of the Boundary Commissioners. SCURVY IN THE MERCANTILE NAVY. In reply to Mr. Alderman SAMMONS, Mr. CAVE said scurvy had disappeared from the navy in consequence of the use of lime juice and vegetables; and as there were certain defeCts in the law with respect to the carrying and storing of lime juice, steps would be taken to remedy that evil. THE FENIAN CONVICT BURKE. In reply to The O'DONOGIIIIE, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said her Majesty's Ministers had, after the most anxious inquiry, come to the conclusion that it would not be their duty to interfere with the sentence of the law with respect to the convict Burke, who was found guilty of high trea son. But within the last few days a divided opinion had become apparent, and the Government felt that the deterring effect of carrying that senteneo into effect could not be attained in the face of that divided opinion. Her Majesty had been most graciously pleased, on the recommendation of her Ministers, to express her will that the capital sentence on the convict Burke should be remitted. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped her Majesty would never have to repent that most gra cious act of clemency, and that it might be looked back to with perfect and complete satisfaction. MORNING SITTINGS. The CHANCELLOR of tho EXCHEQUER moved the suspension of the standing orders with the view of moving that tha house for the future would commence * its sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays at two o'clock in the afternoon and continuo until seven o'clock. That public business would at that hour be suspended, and resumed again at vino o'clock. Mr. BOUVERIE moved, as an amendment, that the morning sittings, as proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, should, by way of experiment, be confined to the ensuing month of Juno. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be had no desire to oppose the amendment of the right lion. gen tleman, tut as the motion was merely permissive and might be altered in a week, he did net think it was neces sary to alter it. The amendmont of Mr. Bouverie, howover, was ulti mately agreed to. TILE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUEE said be would make a few observations with respect to a subject on which there appeared some misunderstanding. In laying the resolution he had done on the table with respect to the compound householder, he thought the Government were in that resolution embodying the proposition of the hon. member for Newark, which stated that no person other than the occupier should be rated, and also that they had embraced in the rider which he hon. member for Pomfret had thought it was desirable to make to the proposition of the hon. member for Newark. The direction given to the person who drew up the clause was to embody such a clause as would fulfil to the very letter and spirit the proposal of the hon. member for Newark. He was surprised that it should have been said that the Government had in what they had done THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 187. sought to deceive and entrap the house into a step which it was most desirable should not be taken. The clause that had been brought forward by Government was with the view of fulfilling an engagement made with the House of Commons originating with the proposition of the hon. member for Newark. The policy before the house was the policy of the House of Commons, and not that of her Ma jesty's Government. If the house did not approve of the propositions of the hon. members for Newark, Pomfret, and South Lancashire, the house objected to their policy, and not the policy of her Majesty's Government. With re spect to the county franchise, the Government could not adopt the proposition of the honourable mem ber for Bridgewater ; and in the adoption of £l5 as the qualification for the county franchise, the Government only adopted that figure because they thought it gave a real and substantial basis for resting such qualification. With respect to the proposition of the hon. member for Kent, a £l2 county qualification, the Government feeling that it was desirable that mutual concession would only enable them to make a good and efficient measure would if it was consistent with the general feeling offer it no opposition. ([Tear, hear.) Mr. MILL said if any one had on the occasion referred to by the Chancellor of the Exchequer charged the right hon. gentleman with having broken faith with the house and the country—charges which no man made, and of which he (Mr. Mill) most explicitly acquitted him—the right hon. gentleman would now have rebutted them. He was well aware that the shaft used by the right hon. gen tleman was taken from their (the Liberal) quiver—(hear, hear) —that it was the amendment of the member for Pontefract ; and from the first he felt and said if it was carried it would compel them to begin all over again. (Hear, hear.) It had not been in his mind that the mem ber for Newark expressed his concurrence ; and, though he was now aware of it, he remembered that the hon. gen tleman afterwards completely withdrew it by bringing in a fresh amendment. (Hear, hear.) As the Chancellor of the Exchequer did him (Mr. Mill) the honour to refer to what he said, the right hon. gentleman was doubtless aware of the reasons why he thought the third and fourth clauses are inadmissible. (Hear, hear.) He made these remarks to set himself right with the right hon. gentle man, against whom he had always endeavoured to say nothing personally offensive. Mr. CHILDERS said he had fully understood that the policy of the Government as to the abolition of the com pound householder was the original policy of the Govern ment--(cheers)—and therefore thought the original provi sions of the measure should be consulted rather than the suggestions of an independent member. But when he put his amendment on the paper ho had no idea the abolition would receive any general support, and regarded it as a sort of forlorn hope. Thinking abolition would be at tended with difficulty, he thought he should not do wrong in attempting to remove some of the difficulties. His an ticipations were pleasurably disappointed ; and under the circumstances he thought it unnecessary to take any course with respect to his amendment. The right hon. gentle man must have forgotten that he told the house he had an original policy, and that he promised to bring down clauses to carry it out. (Cheers.) The clause now on the paper differs most materially from that which he (Mr. Childers) proposed. It enables the compound householder system to be carried on in all parishes in parliamentary boroughs; and that whereas the latter took it for granted that the first general election after the passing of the Act would take place on the votes of all householders, leaving them the power afterwards to accept the compound system if they chose and disfranchise themselves, the pre sent amendment has a proviso, the effect of which will be that the first general election will take place on a register which does not include the compound householders. He trusted that proviso will not be pressed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. lIODGKINSON explained that he from the first, and still, disapproved of the amendment of the hon. mem ber for Pontefract. Mr. GLADSTONE said ho did not think any charge of breach of faith could be brought against the right hon. gentleman. He understood that the provision accepted by the Government was the proposal of the hon. member for New ark without any regard to the rider, as it had been called by the hon. member for Pomfret. He hoped that some pro posal would be made which would relieve them from the difficult question of the compound householder—(hear, hear) ; and that, he thought, could only be effected by separating the matter of compounding altogether from the franchise. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Dodson) explained the position of the question, and said that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer having availed himself, of the indulgence of the House to make a statement and take a retrospect, and members alluded to by him having given explanations, it would not be convenient to confine the discussion to the subject-matter of the clause. The question was, " That the words or tenement' stand part of the clause." Mr. AYRTON thought the words "land or tenement " aro not sufficiently definite. He had proposed to negative them, intending to withdraw the amendment of which ho had given notice the other night, and to substitute " a house, with or without land." No one desires to promote the manufacture of voters fur dependent persons by the manipulation of land. The only ground for objection raised the other night was that in some cases farms in one county had a portion of the land attached to them situated in an adjoining county. He did not believe this to be the case with regard to small farms generally —(0 h oh) — though there may be a few cAscs of this sort, and more cases of large holdings on the boundaries of two adjoin ing counties. But we are to frame a definition of the franchise to meet such exceptional cases, while by so doing wo shall leave an opening for the wholesale manufacture of votes? (Hear, hoar.) He thought that the opposition to the words " dwelling house" arose from the misapprehension that some amount of residence was proposed as a part of the qualification. That was not intended, and it is hoped to got rid of the difficulty by the present language, which is to the effect that there shall be a house, or building, or appurtenances, whatever they may be, on the land. He proposed to withdraw the amend ment which he formerly suggested, and to negative the amendment of the right hon. gentleman (Mr. G. Hardy), in order to insert other words. The hon. gentleman's former amendment was then withdrawn. Sir J. TROL LOPE was surprised to hear the hon. mem ber for the Tower Hamlets (Mr. Ayrton) propose disfran chisement instead of enfranchisement. (Hear, hear.) Ho will by his amendment not only disfranchise voters situated on the borders of counties, as already stated, but a larger class of very respectable dwellers in towns who occupy small plots of land beyond the borough boundaries. (Hear, hear.) These men aro as independent as any other class of voters. Many years ago a gentleman in his own county (Lincolnshire), a relative of and bearing the same name as the right hon. member for Pontefract (Mr. Childers), cut a large farm up into these small plots of land, and let them to the inhabitants of the town in the neighbourhood of which they were situated. This gentleman was a Liberal, and came down to oppose his (Sir J. T ro llop0's) e lection, but he did not find that the renters o f these plots of land voted in accordance with his principles. They were men of intelligence and education—{laughter) — and therefore nine out of ten voted for him (Sir J. Trollope). (Loud laughter.) Mr. R. GURNEY said, in his experience as a revising barrister, he could not remember a case in which votes wore manufactured in the way which the hon. member for the Tower Hamlets suggests. That is not the mode in which votes were manufactured. If a landlord wishes to manufacture votes he does so by the creation of life rent charges, and other persons do this by the creation of forty shilling freeholds. (Hoar, hear.) Mr. G. Hardy's amendment was then put, and the house divided: — For the amendment 25.3 Against 254 Majority for the amendment ... —1 (Laughter). The words of the amendment wore accordingly added to the clause. Sir E. COLEBROOKE moved the addition of the words "with a house" after " lands or teeements." The committee divided on the question, that the pro posed words be inserted. The numbers were -254 Noes ••• "• ••• ••• ... 264 Majority ... —lO The amendment was, therefore, lost, and the announce ment was received with cheers from the Ministerial side. Mr. LOCKE KING moved -to substitute £lO for £l5 as the limit of the franchise in counties. He urged that the principle of reduction in counties having been agreed to, they had simply to determine on the figure ; and that looking to the democratic change in the character of the borough franchise, it was impossible to propose a less liberal limit than that which was offered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the bill of 1859. In that measure it was proposed to fix the county franchise at £10; it was a constitutional figure, and if now adopted would prevent renewed agitation. In proof of the necessity for such a reduction, the hon. gentleman mentioned that although the county population was eleven millions as against nine millions in the boroughs, the number of electors in both was nearly the came. Sir T. LLOYD had no fear of the consequences of pass ing the bill, for the influence of country gentlemen did not depend upon the franchise, but upon the identity of inte rest between them and the electors. The Government measure was a large and liberal measure, but it was not the measure of a party so much as of the house. If it were the bill of a party he would not have so much confidence in it. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LIDDELL trusted that after the largo and liberal concession which had been already made, the house would hesitate to deprive property of its legitimate influence by accepting the proposal for reducing the county franchise to £lO. Mr. BRIGHT said the hon. member who spoke last took up some of the phrases which he thought the house had got rid of. The Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke last year of the representation of interests, but the House had passed all that a good way. (A laugh.) They must all admit that the reduction of the couuey franchise from £5O to £l5, or £l2, or £lO was a large It duction ; but no one need be frightened at that, because they had 80011 such a wonderful change with regard to th boroughs that it was quite impossible for any member t get up and alarm the House with regard to any change in the counties. It was quite clear that unless hon. gentlemen opposite were absolutely alarmed at the course they were taking with regard to boroughs, there could be no impropriety or dan ger in the proposition of the hon. member for East Surrey. It was worth while to consider whether by keeping up a higher figure for counties they would like to have the question of the county franchise discussed again at no very distant period. (Oh, oh.) There was no value prescribed in boroughs. The man who paid a rent of £3 in boroughs, if his rato were paid, and it was not a composition rate, would have a vote. In the borough of East Retford, which ran nearly to the walls of Doncaster, the agricultural labourer paying £3, £4, or £5 for his house, if he paid his rate, would have a vote ; while the householder in Don caster would not have a vote unless his house was rated at £l5, which would be about a rental of £2O. He put it to the hon. gentlemen opposite whether it would not be better to accept the lower proposition of £lO, with the view of removing from county voters the sense of in equality and injustice which they might otherwise feel. He was free to admit that the difference between the £lO and the £l2, which he understood the Chancellor of the Exchequer was willing to concede as a compromise, would have no appreciable effect upon the condition of the re presentation ; he only advised the adoption of the lower figure as offering the surest grounds for a permanent set tlement. (Hear, hear.) Mr. A. EGERTON did not suppose, whatever figure was adopted, that agitators would relinquish the occupa tion ; but, although they might continue to call spirits from the vasty deep, tho spirits might not come. He thought that £l2 would be a just and reasonable conces sion, and if the forms of the House permitted him he should propose that amount. Lord GALWAY submitted that East Retford could not be taken as a fair instance of the disparity between the borough and county franchise, inasmuch as it contained a large agricultural area. Mr. PEASE would support the proposition of the hon. member for East Surrey, because it offered the largest measure of enfranchisement to the inhabitants of the large unrepresented towns in his county (Durham). Mr. PUGH said that as he had voted on a former occa sion for a £lO county franchise, he should not turn his back upon it now, more especially as the Government were proposing an unexampled extension of the borough franchise. (Hear, hear.) In Parliament and out of Par liament Lord Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer said they wished for no triumph over any party, but invited the Liberal party to assist them, and it would be a gracious concession to agree to the proposal of the hon. member for East Surrey. (Opposition cheers.) There was no man in the country who did not wish to see the right hon. gentle man the member for South Lancashire to retain the posi tion he was so eminently qualified to fill. (Ministerial murmurs.) They knew that the right hon. gentleman lost his seat for Oxford, which was punishment enough. (Renewed murmurs.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped there had been no mistake as to the statement he had made at an earlier part of the evening, when he stated that the Go vernment were prepared to support the amendment of the hon. member for Kent (Sir E. Dering), and to substitute £l2 for £l5. There is good reason for adopting that pro position, which is a compromise between opposite opinions. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member (Mr. Locke King) ex pressed an opinion that he (the Chancellor of the Exche quer) would be inconsistent in opposing the proposition of £lO, because ho proposed a £lO franchise in 1859. if the hon. member is willing to accept the coaditions under which that was proposed, that would be another ground for a compromise—(laughter)—but if he is not willing to agree to them, there is no ground whatever for the taunts which ho utters. He hoped that the committee would agree to a £l2 franchise. Mr. GLADSTONE said tho question technically before the committee is not whether we should have a £l2 or a £lO franchise, but whether we should have a £l5 franchise or not. But from what the right hon. gentleman said ho assumed that the £l5 franchise is virtually negatived, and that the question is between the two other alternatives proposed. He agreed with the hon. member for Birming ham, and preferred the £lO franchise, because it affords a greater promise of durability. He was not prepared to accept the proposition that it does not much matter which franchise you adopt because you will always have agita oapTAa ratesxwiheyvc Tnreeropthvor agita tion and agitators. It depends upon the judgment with which the House adopts its measures. Discontent and agitation may not be absolutely extinguished, but they may be so insignificant that we may fairly overlook them. He thought it likely' that this question of Reform may re ceive a settlement this year, and did not think any one would wish for a disturbance of it at a very early date. But the unsettled part of the scheme of 1832 was the county occupation franchise, between which and the borough I occupation franchise there was a broad interval. Therefore to prevent a revival of the agitation on that point, it would be wiser if we gave a general support to the proposition of the hon. member for East Surrey (Mr. Locke King). My hon. friend and colleague (Mr. Egerton), in supporting a £l2 franchise, paid us the compliment of founding himself on the fact that such a proposal was made in our bill last ear. But it must be remembered that we took our ground y • upon a £l4 rental with reference to the borough franchise which wo proposed, namely, £7 rental. If there is to be a distinction between counties and boroughs, it should not be less than that ; but the house has gone far below that £7 franchise, and therefore, a considerable enlargement of the interval between the occupation franchise in boroughs and in counties. lie was, therefore, sure that it would bo wiser to accept the £lO proposal, and would support his hon. friend if he went to a division ; but at the same time would venture to propose to his hon. friend that he should accept the proposal of the right hon. gentleman, as the difference is not such as to justify him in insisting on a division. (Cheers.) After a few words from Mr. NEWDEGATE, Mr. L. KING said he would accept the proposal of the right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but he felt that if ho had not proposed the £lo' franchise, the right hon. gentleman would not have made this con cession. (Laughter.) The figure £l2 was then substituted for £l5. The proviso moved by Mr.H.BAILLIE to the effect that one-half the occupation should be in land, was briefly dis cussed, but withdrawn, and Mr. Kinglake's amendment which had been referred to by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on going into committee was postponed. Clause 4, as amended, was then agreed to. As previously arranged, the committee next proceeded to consider the 34th clause, relating to the compound house holder, when, by mutual consent, Mr. Hodgkinson with drew his amendment, on tho understanding that the third and fourth sections of the new clause proposed by the Go vernment should also be withdrawn. The first and second sections, abolishing the liability of owners to bo rated in Parliamentary boroughs, and enacting that hereafter no e a rst, rate aeedwur permitting w e tnd e o. f l Rf l i ntn thehg te dwelling-house, poundueroaus eltpve, owners payable book, ,soy other kbat übo ltme providingc, s ebo e r3m p e, apart compound u t er o ne tene ment,eoddot ehftuoao-rt. et t ews a n:a s h l a fi h inw t om s ro t t o db e duaa so u lweeeebedcbi thereafter rated t o to the tphr provided, doerd insteadn d that f thean occupierfull rate able no compound o ev t fte c b iule c orYl d nn u nl pier in such cases should be entitled to se t c o ti s o u n bs w a t a u s t corollary a provisiont o th o third, that anwdbMerre. the tenement was lot to an occupier for less than a year the owner as well as occupier should be rated ; but the occupier's liability to pay the rate should not thereby be affected, and in case the occupier should not pay the rate within two months after demand the owner should pay it. This amendment was subjected to some debate, and negatived without a division. Mr. AYRTON next moved to enact, as an amendment to the same section, that where the tenement should be wholly let out in separate apartments or lodgings the owner should be rated, and the proposal was agreed to. Several verbal amendments were subsequently intro duced into the new clause, which was then read from the chair, and, amid loud cheers, ordered to stani part of the bill. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER announced that in consequence of the adoption of the new clause it immediately prepared a n s b u e c ca ce m e e di n n e g c , e s t s a h e r y 3 t s o t h r . e c H o n e s t r h u a c d t the r clause , amended clause, and the right hon. gentleman placed it on tho table accordingly. Progress was then reported, and the chairman obtained loave to sit again this day at 2 o'clock. In committee of ways and means, a vote of £1,700,000 was taken for Exchequer Bonds, and a further sum of £14,000,000 out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the current year. passed through com miTttheee,Rasailwwaasy a C ls o o m ptahnoieLsoßcaill G lw o a y s ernment Supplemental Bill. The Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Masters and Workmen Bill, from the Lords, was read a second time. Leave was given to Mr. Secretary HARDY to bring in a bill for amending the law with respect to the accounts of the receiver for the metropolitan police diArict and for other purposes. The house then adjourned. Mr. Howe, chairman of the American committee for assisting the Candiotes, has arrived at Athens. Ile has already forwarded to Syra several hundred breech-loaders for the insurgents. Count Bismarck will accompany the King of Prussia to Paris. [ADvnuirtsnmE:s-r.]-laolloway's Ointment and Pills. — Rheumatic and Nervous Pains.—The chilly mornings and evenings provoke these tortures in constitutions suscep tible of such maladies. Nothing affords so much relief as Holloway's Ointment well rubl,ed upon the skin after re peated fomentations. Thousal ids of testimonials bear wit ness to the wonderful comfort obtained from the safe and simple treatment which all can adopt. Holloway's Oint ment, assisted by a judicious. use of the Pills, is especially serviceable in assuaging the sufferings from cramp and other muscular pains, whether they be acute, chronic, ex ternal, or internal. It is earnestly recommended that every sufferer from these, pains should give Holloway's re medies a few days' trial, which will fully convince the inva lid that a cure will bei the reward of continued persever ance. Education d S tatas, We have received from the Consul at Sheffield' the speech delivered by JAMES A. GARFIELD, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives on the Bth June last, as Chairman of a select committee to report on . a bill for the establishment of a National Bureau of Education. The pamphlet is of national import, involving as it does the subject of the greatest moment to the American people. Mr. GARFIELD remarks with truth, that stolid ignorance, of which there is little among the white population of the States, is not the most dangerous enemy. Stolid ignorance, as in Europe and among the late slaves of the Southern States, produces merely inert masses, moved upon and controlled by the cultivated and intelligent aristocracy. There is no great danger from the unenfranchised class in Europe, where such ignorance generally, prevails ; but the case is widely different in the United States, where every man has a political power for good or evil. " The alternative is not between education and no education, but shall the power of the citizen be directed aright towards industry, liberty, and patriotism, or, under the baneful influence of false theories and evil influences, shall it lead him continually downward, and work out anarchy and ruin both to him and to the Go vernment. The census of 1860 showed that there were 1,218,311 inhabitants of the United States over 21 years of age, of whom 871,418 were American born, who could neither read nor write." Add to this a third of a million immigrants annually, the greater por tion uneducated, and swell the total by four millions of enfranchised slaves, and it will be conceded that Mr GARFIELD was justified in urging on Congress with al his force the necessity of inamedi ate action. " I the citizen be not educated," said this Representa tive, " in the school of virtue and integrity, he will be educated in the school of vice and iniquity. We are therefore afloat on the sweeping current—we must make head against it, or we shall go down with it to the saddest of destinies." Mr. GARFIELD was advocating the establishment of a department of education at Washington for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of educa tion in the several States and territories, and which, by an annual report to Congress, might diffuse the fullest information on school systems, which would tend to promote the cause of education throughout the United States. It is held in America that it would be unconstitutional to make education compulsory. It is, we believe, ob ligatory in Rhode Island for every child within its borders to attend school, and Mr. SUMNER lately urged the introduction of a clause establishing a public School system for both white and black when the Reconstruction Bill was debated in the HOLM. Although Mr. GARFIELD did no t ur g e compulsory education, he maintained that the col lection of the educational statistics of each State, published side by side with the authority of such a bureau, would shame the States that lagged behind into the education of their children. The four States that have led the way in this important ob ject are Massachusetts, New York, Pennsyl vania, and Ohio. The last annual report of the Board of Education of Massachusetts shows that about 5,000 pupils were added to the public schools during the year, and a thousand more by the enforcement of the Truant Law, an act which in itself proves that there is some compulsion in Massachusetts also. There are now 7,598 teachers employed in the schools of this State, of which 6,512 are women. In spite, how ever, of the encouraging nature of this report an article lately appeared in the American " Presbyterian and Theological Review," wherein it is urged that the public school system does not accomplish its object, and that, as a matter of fact, the majority leave the common schools before they have acquired qualifications fitting them to act as juror, referee, or school director. The Review certainly demands ahigh standard from the bulk of the people, and it is perhaps wise that it should do so, for a more perfect goal should always be kept ahead. But if Massachusetts falls short of the standard, what can be said of the . great mass of the States? Mr. GARFIELD remarks ou the many good things that have been said, and the few done by the national statesman in favour of education. "If we inquire, what has been done by the Govern ments of other countries we are compelled to con fess with shame that every government in Christendom has given a more intelligent and effective support to schools than has our own." This certainly is stronger language than the facts justify, but the Ohio member was speaking for an object which fairly entitled him to strain a point. The figures he gave from the census return in 1860 scarcely bore out his allegation. There were then in the United States 115,224 common schools, 500,000 school officers, 150,244 teachers, and 5,477,037 scholars, thus show ing that more than six millions of the people of the United States were directly engaged in the work of education. These figures Mr. GARFIELD had gathered with great labour from va rious resources, but he was satisfied that they were far below the truth. He estimates that $50,000,000 have been given by private individualS for the sup port of schools. To 14 States and Territories Con gress had awarded 53 millions of acres of public lands for their maintenance. In the old ordinance of 1785 it was provided, that one section of every township-1-36th of all the public lands of the United States should be set apart and held forever sacred to the support of the schools of the country. From the School Statistics, which could only be o b ta i ne d with tolerable accuracy, for 17 States of the Union, it app eared that $34,000,000 were annually appropriated by their Legislatures for this object. Notwithstanding the expenditure of the Five Years' War, this• appropriation was maintained, and it was found in many that more than 50 per cent. of all the tax imposed for State purposes was for the support of these schools. It was under such circumstances that the Represen tative urged the formation of the Educational Bureau, which was carried by a vote of 80 yeas to 44 nays ; and future members will not be compelled, as Mr. G A RFIELD was, to grope i n th e d ar k for reliable statistics, showing the educational condition of the whole country. This is indeed the question of hinges the whole future of the Union. History has shown, that ignorance is the enemy to be most dreaded by which are so effe c ti ve l y h an dl e d by men who trade a l stepublic, generating those false theories in politics to the detriment of the people, and as a means of plunder and corruption. After the above had been sent to press, we learn that Mr. COLFAX was received by the Union League Club of New York, at the Club House on the 6th inst. H e alluded pointed l y in his s p eech on this occasi on, to Mr. SUMN ER'S p ro p osition to make the provision of free schoo ls one of the con ditions of reconstruction, w hi c h he regretted had not been ad o pt e d. It is to be hope d that the Southern States will do this of their own accord, and all the more cheerfully that it has been left to their own action.— Anglo-A nzerican Times. --- THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESEiV7'ED IN THE EXHIBITION- (From the Anglo-American Tinies.) We propote under this head to refer to all articles of interest presented by Americans, and shall an nounce the prizes so soon as the list is made perfect. It will, no doubt, be interesting to our readers that we should at first give a complete list of the United States Commissioners who have arrived and are now in Paris :—N. M. Beckwith, Paris ; Samuel B. Ruggles, New York ; F. A. P. Barnard, New York ; Charles B. Norton, New York ; Frank Leslie, New York ; Paran Ste vens, New York ; Wm. W. Budd, New York ; Charles Seymour, New York ; J. P. Lesley, Pen ns y lvania ; T. W. Evans, Pennsylvania ; W. J. Valentine, Massa chusetts ; Charles R. Goodwin , Massachusetts ; E. R. Mudge, Massachusetts ; Ja mes H. Bowen, Illinois ; Henry d'Aligny, Wisconsin ; William Slade, Ohio ; John P. Kennedy, Maryland ; J. Lawrence Smith, Tennessee ; and R. Rerney, Paris. Twelve other gentlemen have been appointed by the President, who have not yet entered _upon their duties ; as they a rrive we shall publish their names. In addition the commission has taken advantage of the privilege given by Government to elect twenty new members, and several gentlemen of science and skill have been already elected. As soon as we can secure a list of these names we sh dl not fail to make them known. An official catalogue has been published by the Commissioner- Goneral, which from a partial exami nation we find to contain somewhat less than 1,000 articles, represented by about 600 exhibitors. We give herewith the distribution amon g t , States as a matter of interest :—New York, 291; Mama cliusetts, 121 ; Pennsylvania, 59 ; Louisiana, 35 ; California, 33 ; Illinois, 28 ; Connectiout , , 25 ; Missouri, 20 ; New Jersey, 19 ; Ohio, 19 ; Dis trict of Columbia, 14 ; Maryland, 10 ; Michigan, 11 ; Wisconsin, 10 ; lowa, 9 ; Indiana, 7 ; Maine, 8 ; Vermont, 6 ; Kansas, 5 ; Rhode Island, 1 ; Virginia, 4 ; New Hampshire, 3 ; Minnesota, 3 ; Nevada, 3 ; Florida, 2 ; \Vest Virginia, 2; Ala bama, 2 ; Kentucky, 2 ; Texas, 1 ; Arkansas, 1 ; Colorado, 1 ; Georgia, 1 ; Mississippi, 1 ; Nebraska, 1 ; Oregon, 1. It will thus be seen that every State awl territory in the Union is represented with the exception of North and South Carolina, Delawarre, Tennessee, Dakota, Montano, Idaho, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Should a second and more complete catalogue be printed we will then make. such corrections as may be necessary. Through the personal influence of the Hon. Samuel B. Ruggles, Vice-President of the Commission and Chairman of the Committee of the whole, we have been so fortunate as to se cure a most admirable representation of the great mineral wealth of the north-west. • The State Go vernments have liberally contributed to this result, and great credit is due to State Commissioners Reynolds of Illinois, Hoyt of Wisconsin, Usher of Massachusetts, Butler of Missouri, and Wilstach of Indiana, for their active labours both at home and in Paris to insure success. The cereals of our country have through the in fluence of these gentlemen been well brought for ward. It is to be regretted, however, that none of our Western States, so open for immigration, should have availed themselves of this opportunity to pre sent in a popular form the particular advantages to immigrants in respect of cost of land, climate, cheapness of living, &c., &c. It is in this way that the large sums expended by our Government could be applied to practical use and advantages. In the Paris Exhibition of 1855 the United States received in proportion to the number of articles exhibited a larger number of prizes than any other nation. The exhibitors were not assisted at all by the United States, but by the various State Commissioners organised under the presidency of Mr. W. J. Valentine, who personally expended a large sum of money for the success of our representation. In future numbers we shall continue our remarks upon this subject, and commence our special notices of the various articles exhibited. At the later meeting of the Commission the fol lowing members have been elected by virtue of the last act of Congress :--Eliot C. Cowdin, New York ; Wrn. J. Flagg, Ohio ; Professor Win. B. Rogers, Massachusetts ; Dr. Alex. Thompson, New York ; George S. Hazard, New York ; L. T. Mellen, Alabama ; W. S. Auchinclo . ss, New York ; Pro fessor S. F. B. Morse, New York ; Professor John F. Frazer, Philadelphia ; B. F. Nourse, Massachu setts ; and the Hon. M. P. Wilder, Massachusetts. These gentlemen, with those already in Paris, make a total of 30, this being the number as originally appointed by the President. Mr. Ruggles, chair man of the committee of the whole, has appointed the following special commissions :-1. On new in ventions—Messrs. Barnard, Norton, and Valentine. 2. On the application of advanced science to the arts—Messrs. Smith, Slade, and Seymour. F. On mineral and vegetable products and their connec tion with ocean transportation—Messrs. Ruggles, Kennedy, and Hazard. 4. On chemistry and its application to food and clothing—Messrs. Bowen, Stevens, and Berney. 5. On nietallurgy—Messrs. Hewitt, J. P. Lesley, and D'Aligny. 6. On raw materials and manufactures—Messrs. Mudge, Budd, and Cowdin. 7. On machines—Messrs. Auchin gloss, and Goodwin. By the appointment of these committees the first active duties of the Commission are com menced. It is to be regretted that the appropria tions made by Congress are not sufficient to enable the commissioners to prepare reports of equal value with those of other nations, who have already at work photographers, draughtsmen, and experts, engaged in preparing such material as shall be of the most practical use. With such an army of able men as the United States Commission is now composed of, we may feel confident that their report when made will be of great value; but when it is considered that two-thirds of these gen tlemen doing equally their share of work with the paid commissioners are compelled to pay for such services as they may require, it does not place our country in as honourable a position as we could wish. 111EXICO. The conduct of MAXIMILLkN in Mexico will shed a lustre on the ancient family which claims to be the successors of the C.ESARS. It is seldom that a Prince has been subjected to so fiery a trial, and few, when thus tried, have like him stood the test. Scarcely three years have elapsed since MAXIMILIAN lauded at Vera Cruz. He had taken long to decide on the wisdom of accepting the dignity offered, bu had he been well advised he would have given a prompt and decided refusal. Unfortunately for him, that nation to which, above all others, he should have turned for guidance and counsel, was absorbed in the struggle that then threatened to rend it to pieces. Although the United States held his destiny in the hollow of its hand, that hand was closed on the hilt of a sword, the point of which was at a brother's throat. The Union glanced a scowl of disapproval in his direction while involved in the fearful difficulties of its own task. When MAximiLIAN accepted and seated himself on the throne of Mexico he felt that he had pledged his honour to uphold the posi tion, and to defend, at every hazard, those who had given him their countenance and support. From the moment he assumed the reins, to the time that his dynasty closed in such disaster, he adhered with a noble tenacity to the cause. Maxi milian's fate was in truth decided before Richmond, and, with the Confederacy, fell every hope of his success. The establishment of his Monarchy vio lated a principle of policy which the American people have laid down as a guiding rule. How ever excellent, therefore, as a chief he might be ; however brave, firm, judicious, and generous, he could not be treated by the United States other wise than as a usurper. Although his Government might be temporarily beneficial to the governed, and would have relieved Mexico from chaotic anarchy, it was held, and we believe with truth by the Americans, that nations should work out their own redemption without the aid or intervention of foreign bayonets, and that the Continent should be freed from the violent inter position of European States. When the Confede racy fell, JUAREZ was all but a fugitive. His foot. was on the last strip of Mexican territory, and the war was on the bank of the Rio Grande. So rapid has been the change brought about by the moral and material support of the United States to the so-called Liberal cause that within a year the position has been wholly reversed. MAXIMILIAN might have retired with honour from his untenable post some months ago. lie was a member of an Imperial family holding the highest rank in Europe =he was the inheritor of a large fortune—his pre vious career, as well as the events of his Govern ment in Mexico, added lustre to the adventitious circumstances of birth and riches, but his chi valric nature prevented his choosing the course which common prudence dictated. What to him, could have been this barren and profitless throne ? An alien in a strange country, with no thing but the wrecks of civilisation around, amidst a lawless, degenerate, cowardly, treacherous, and cruel race, all chat Mexico offered him was a life of toil, deprived of the pleasures and amenities of civi lisation, with every chance of a violent end, and this to uphold an almost hopeless cause in intrigue and ingratitude. In one word this wealthy brother of an Emperor descended to the grade of a Mexican partisan chief, with the United States for his enemy, and therefore with the poorest chance of them all. On the other hand, his place in Europe would have been one to be envied by most men. But an in- superable bar stood between him and the choice his inclinations must have prompted. That bar was his own fine sense of honour. He scorned to fly a fugitive from his kingdom as long as he had a man to back him and a sword to draw ; he scorned to leave his adherents to a fate he himself was not prepared to share. He fully identified himself with his administration, and per haps of all his party he was the most true and un selfish upholder of the cause. With his administra tion have vanished all hopes of order and good government. Already another faction has gained strength, and the country as in olden times will become the prey of successive adventurers, who rise for a moment to power, and disappear even more quickly. The future of Mexico is something too horrible to contemplate. It is now a byword and a disgrace, but it threatens to sink to such a depth of infamy, as to stigmatise the human family with pro ducing bipeds of a viler type than any known ani mals. The voice of the civilised world will compel the intervention of the United States. If American opinion will not endure the violation of the Monroe doctrine, the Americans must in the cause of civi lisation interpose. The task is no light one, and will perhaps be as thankless and unprofitable an office as could be undertaken. But it is incumbent on a nation that aspires to lead the opinion of the world to show that they have not interposed on behalf of the most degraded and abominable anarchy ever fastened on a country. If such chiefs as JUAREZ were really fighting in the cause of liberty, it would be well to leave the people to work out their own redemption. But long experience has shown what the objects are for which Mexican factions strive. Whether Europe has or has not a right to interfere, there can be no question about the right of the United States, bordered as it is by Mexico along its southern territory. It is for the interests of the world that the Government of Washington should now in tervene promptly and effectually between the contending factions, and hold the country as British India holds the territory of native rulers, so that the mandate of the American Minister will have a weight at Mexico that none dare dispute. We trust that the United States will be slow to elevate such a set as the Mexicans, to the dignity of citizenship, for little could be gained, and much might be lost,lby adding to their body such a leaven of disorder, but . the Republic might secure the ascendancy of the best and most popular of the Mexican chiefs, and give a direction and weight to his administration, which was denied to MAXI LIAN. —Anglo- Ante; icon 2 Imes. RAPID STEAMING. Those who stay at home at ease cannot fully ap preciate the interest taken by travellers on the high seas, in rapid steaming. Americans, as a rule, are bound to cross the Atlantic, for the Old World has to them an attraction greater far than the New World has to Europeans. Therefore this interest is more strongly felt in America than in England. There the merits of the different lines, the qualities of the various ships are keenly scanned, for each feels that his own comfort—it may even he, his safety—is concerned. In London the relative powers of the Scotia and of the City of Paris as a dinner-table topic, would excite little animation, for some are ignorant, and most are incompetent to form an opinion. The reverse is the case in New York, where . every detail is argued, from rapid steaming down to the changes of sheets and towels. Thus the controversy which has arisen between the Cunard and Inman Companies will be more eagerly read, more generally discussed, and better understood on the other than on this side of the ocean. Though Englishmen know comparatively little of the sub- ject, yet all are aware that since ocean steaming began the great Company has been the Cunard. For a quarter of a century the magnificence of the vessels, their extraordinary speed, the splendour of their fittings, the substantial excellence, and even luxury of the fare, have been acknowledged. The Line has thus attained to such world-wide renown that it will astonish many of the readers of adver tisements in the 2 znies to see that there is in actual operation a fleet that not only challenges equality with the great firm, but even alleges a superiority on the vital point of rapid steaming. That our readers who do not see the Times may understand the letter from Mr. INMAN, we publish in another part of our columns, we give a rapid sketch of the subject in dispute. On the 22d April the log of the Cunard vessel Australasian appeared in the Liverpool Daily Post, with a few remarks to the effect that the voyage thus de tailed from New York to Liverpool was the fastest, with few exceptions, ever made. The exceptions were in favour of herself, the Persia and the Scotia, all Cunarders ; and it was added that another, the China, in March, 1865, made the fastest run of any screw on record. This excited the attention of Mr. INMAN, who, in a letter to the editor of the same date, questioned the accuracy of these statements. lie enumerated five occasions on which the voyage recorded was outstripped by a vessel of his Com pany, the City of Paris. Referring to the voyage of the China, he remarked that on the 23d June, 1866, that voyage was surpassed by the City of Paris, claiming for that passage the fastest run ever made by a screw. In conclusion, he observed that the average speed of the City of Paris has been superior to every other British steamer, paddle or screw, on the Atlantic, subsidised or unsubsidised, except the Scotia. This called from Mr. M'lvEn a reply, in which he answered the INaiaN statement by a carefully compiled table from official data, giving 52 voyages of the Cunard fleet from New York and Halifax to Queenstown, and a corresponding number of return passages during last year. In the same way he prepared a table of a similar number of the voyages by the INMAN fleet made during the same year, both from New York to Queenstown and from Queenstown to New York. Striking an average, he calculated the time of the Cunard line outwards at 10 days 11 hours and 34 minutes ; that of the INMAN line 11 days 22 hours and 39 minutes, giving a difference in favour of the Cunard of 1 day 11 hours and 5 minutes. On the inward voyage he found the Cunard passages to average 9 days 4 hours and 39 minutes, and the INMAN 10 days 13 hours and 9 minutes, being a difference in the Cunard's favour of 1 day 8 hours and 30 minutes. The point of Mr. INmaN's - objection to this table, may be thus summarised. The ships of his company ply only to New York ; the ships of the Cunard ply both to New York and Boston. The trade of most importance being, of course, that of New York, commands the best vessels, and it is • notorious that the finest of the Cunard ships are placed on that line. Thus this table compares all the INMAN against a selected number of the Cunard, such as the Scotia and the Persia, which he contends to be unfair. This point he urges in a letter to the Daily Post, and asks to substitute a table he had prepared of the voyages of both lines, from the Ist November last to the present time, in which he endeavours to work out a comparison of the performances of all the vessels of each line, mile for mile. The result is that of the average of twenty-three passages the Cunard time is, on the passage out, 11 days 21 hours 35 minutes. The average of twenty-two passages of the INMAN is 11 days 15 hours 18 minutes, making the time against Cunard for a mile for mile comparison of 6 hours 17 minutes. The Cunard's runs home from twenty-four passages average 10 days 6 hours 28 minutes, and the Inman, on twenty-five passages, 10 days, 11 hours, 12 minutes, which gives 5 hours, 12 minutes in favour of the Cunard. By this calculation therefore on the round voyages the INMAN time appears to be 33 minutes shorter than the Cunard. The objection to Mr. INuaN's table lies in the fact that it is impos sible accurately to calculate the time a ship loses by calling at an intermediate port. Mr. INMAN allows the detention at Halifax as stated in the logs ; but this, it is contended, does not cover over the whole period. The difficulties are thus shown of obtaining a fair average even between two fleets plying be tween the same ports, for there can be no question of the justice of both objections. In our remarks last week we were in error in supposing that the voyage in which the City of TVashington brook down was included in Mr. M'lvEß's average. The shortest run ever made to New York was by the paddle steamer Scotia, in 8 days 4 hours 34 minutes, and the same vessel made the fastest run home in 8 days 7 hours 10 minutes. There is no fact so strange shown i n this con troversy, as the astonishing speed of the Is - MAN fleet. Everybody knew that the vessels bui lt for the Cunard were largely subsidised to con ve y in all weather, through storm and ca lm, the 5105", important mails. That the INDIAN, unaided, ca n have worked up to such excellence, speaks volinnes for the energy and skill with which the enormon n .! capital has been applied. The Pen insular Oriental Company seems to wither un der the corn; petition of the French line, both being supporte", by vast subsidies. No ship in their possession cola. be brought into comparison with such vessels as. the City of Paris, City of Boston, or the City oi Baltimore, and the partners of the INMaN CornP a a n / have good cause to be proud of sustaining , as l have, the trying test of a comparison • fleet which, from the commencement of ocea steaming, has taken the lead.—Anglo - A nzeriectA limes. w i t h that COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—MAY 25. a This market was moderately supplied with w h e at, ~ - there was a thin attendance. In some CaSOS is per qr a aucta vancc was made. Beans and peas were v er y Scarce' IL were mostly disposed of at last week's prices. qq . 3'3 8 Wheat, white 68s 7 1 s Beans , Alazagan...•••' os red: 63s 67s Middle and 5ma11...44s ,2, Barley 428 48s Peas, white .......... a 36 742 s Oats ........—s — s grey ........ ....38 CHELIISFO: RD—MAY 24. Trade rather dull, an d 's prices were baroly roali ms remains firm. aroy 13(35.1 A good supply of wheat. little business done last weok' Spring corn of all descriptio: in some demand, but scarce. Whektt, old white.... 525 663 new ..53s 69s Peas, Partridge ...... 400 I, ° „ White ...... ....345 080; Boiling ....... .36s In; Dun.... ..... „JR; ditto, nevi.. 459 Beans, Tick, new. •..391 4468 V Harrow ficks.i 1.08 new.... 419 438 Alaz%gan. ..... 1393 old red sls 60e new. 53s 62s 8ar1ey..... 26s 33s Chevalier I's 53s Grinding• 26s 32s Malt... 66s 74s Chevalier 68s 76i Oats ABERDEEN—MAY 24. At our market to-day all kinds of grain were advalleill„s in price, but there was not a great deal o f business d°ll''' White wheat 58s Od to 63 s Od Red wheat 5 0 s Od to 58 s Od Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Od 6 1 2 n: : b b u u s s i : ell ' Common oats 2 6 s 6 d to 27 s Od '''''" Bore 35s 6d to 36s 6d t cqb ifl bushel' Barley 35s 6d to 36s 6dl "" 2 801 b• Oatmeal 20s fid to 21s 6d 11 boll of ~ ,o .v . Flour, fine 52s Od to 54s Od 111 sank of 4' KIKCALDY—MA 25. Small supplies of all kinds of grain,Y w ith prices ill faVUt of buyers. Wheat. Barley. Oats First t7s 6d ' 3tis od 283 641 k•eoond Cgs Od 3s Od 303 Cd Tuird 6ls 6.1 393 Od 31s Od COAL MARKET. Price por ton at the closeof the market. 0 0 s. d. Holywoll Main West Hartley Wyltun ll B7 6 0 Original n l d i art o o l e s p f o o rt el i ;l7 9 3 06 17 0 Haswell ............. 47 Walls End 'Jetfoil Ships at market, 87—sold, 85. Foreign Mail Packet List• MAILS DUE. June 19* Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoil.••• • JO ° Ditto, via Marseilles Ditto, via Panama •• • 4. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .......... 22 . J 10 1° Ditto, by French packet ........... 4; Cape Verde, by Brazil packet . ................... Ju ne JuP Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. lielena•• • • China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton••'''-e2B, ?SO Ditto, via Marseilles Faiklaud Islands g2g, 33. 7 °3l Gibraltar, via Southampton ............ 29. India, via Southampton .......................... 9, NOY Ditto, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, to. slaY 28 Ditto, Marseilles... .................... . Mauritius, Cap,: of Good Hope, and Natal, via Jtlle '- Southampton l3. Jun e Ditto, via Marsei lee J une Newfoundland June Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ........... Ditto ditto to Lisbon ............. United States, Canada, California, So., by Britisil.l y packet ............................... . .• • ...... Ditto, by United States packet ................ Ditto ditto (New York) .................... Ditto ditto (New York) ........... • • ...... Ditto ditto (Baltimore) ....... '" 31 ' .. Ditto, by Canadian packet .................. juo West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe.• .• • West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Balla: fo e mas) ......................................... : Foy 2 9, Cuba and Mexico TO 5Y ". .. Bahamas, via New York ......................... j oie Bermuda, via Halifax ...... • IMPORTANT LETTER FROM MAXIMILT.-14*---0,5' understand that there is circulating in the Ifoxiean ilgeoi pmatptearns, down the coast, an intercepted letter fre ln --/ the actsl in which he condemns and disavows Wall ( 3 ) f e jia, mi ofhis Generals. He is particularly severe on w i t h ha t v ron, and Marquez. General Me is is charged , t io feigned sickness to evade the responsibilitieSse'ess, campaign. ng: General Miramon is charged with re c re r; aS P nessandncompetency in giving battle before h° i t 001 , pared for it, and without any prospect of winniag it' and the ral Marquez is charged with cruelty, plunder, lettef alsoutter disregard of the laws of civilised war. ,'rail hi° (the E charges these Generals with having de cei ,,a e o ° , l Emperor) in regard to the resources and Pr ° ''i o c eg e ,' the ° empire , and that it was futile to hold out au/ t fro Our informants say that they brought along d ir l e ,;lo lr i ° the th Mexican coast copies of this letter, and that ":0013', did em na tothe telegraph agents at the Pass, viob, aiv read Spanish, and therefore have not fc)rWracle —New Orleans Picayune. d 10 1 ,1 6 Major-General Joseph Hooker has rec ei/e- i li v. of absence for one year to go abroad, and Gen e his n binson will command the department of the Lag absence. - P t George Francis Train telegraphs fr °lll n I°e . r t a V n a d lle l y, in the Far West, that he is "shooting i lt .„ 11- 1 1 .te0 P ' hour." volves from a car window, going at 4° '.- O ' ANOTHER INDIAN MASSACRE. ,J 10-0 _A cora l° clio ° tion which has been received at the Bar e° u f O P? Affairs, from George W. Dent, superintendent ° da l !: affairs for Arizona Territory, and dated at La r" ' if 0 ,,, 1 1 v.. the month of March, reports another raelanereeavy nacre of American citizens by the Apac be ,„ ° °- ree, i4 : llo of uella on March 2. Two teams belonging l'y - ~, 1: * :4,1 La Plaz, returning f • c harg" ° pi rom Prescott In ore tie drivers, and accompanied by five other WM, 0 in die into by a party of about forty Apaches at a Vf - a a ; open t country sparsely covered with sage br us , o .4 0 o f f :to calamity o drivers and ono traveller were killed. Til e ; d l3 of ',it) was about eight miles on the La ro 0; - : p pit o Creek. Two of the travellers were wounded, an w ",: t , led"; the two others who were unhurt, escaped. .."`",l- ue '''''"; destroyed part of the harness of the teams, ri fle- t ill eSt'9 o' gons and ran off the stock, consisting of eiglit e ,?ree e i i‘t ' o four horses. About three hours after the eee"'"oxelA;s tiler train of waggons came up and being P r il er e Id ny i "cl, tempted to recover the stock. They f llowed tae ° fv s 4 to a cannon in the mountains to tll e °north, :011:13004,:tof when they were charged by the Indians an" ~'` ',ty• 'ili j the Indians thus made off with their entire ° a - a - a t f i oe burying the dead by the roadside, they Pr°c°wodeetPv Of town t c ow rr n e and reported the foregoing. This der, r dd e V u din a part of the road heretofore ree f * )0 ill e against hostilities, and is an additional proof °"' t silt 00 ing boldness of the Apaches. , a 0 trap A man at Pawlet has caught walla 0 7, - „ Vie' one spot 60 foxes, 30 skunks, 5 coons, an d iv —° --. , e 4 ___........ _______—_ 0 ' Births. oorieJ d , HORLEY — On the 27th inst., the wife of J. ir. e ll ill° 5, Upton-road, Kilburn, of a daughter. sof ROSE—On the 27th inst., at Uppe r Too „law: 0 , d t. wife of Alderman Rose, of a daughter. . o p, ti 1t , "17 TURNER—On the 27th inst ,at The Lodgo,l' r 69t' sex, the wife of Captain . H. Scott ura° I ment, of a son. BLOTT—WHITE — On la / VO Itilhear2rsithagieuss.t., at ~. cc, ._ , , golm'l Vi beth, Frederick Blott, of 23, Lambeth -terra Ajo White, of 23, Camberwell New-road. u Clic i leP t CitoLmLEY—LEAVENS—On the 25th Wt., a t t :01 ,° ,1tie St.Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, Sir Georgjoe, l ical'' Bart., of Howsham Hall, Yorkshire, 0.010, daughter of Mr. Thos. Leaven, Of NOrtoll shire. . l ik Deaths. sir iV el'' Auso-st. —On the 23d inst ,at Fossil 'nous°, 1 00 BuAlison, Bart., Sheriff of Lanarkshire, aged f 0 ,00 p is : ON—On the 25th inst., Elizabett, ageAvidoNg°a 7 9, 0 0, Buisson, Esq., Wandsworth-comon, l,ico SMITH — On the 26th inst., at St. Mary 's-s(4ll4°' __ 0 I William Smith, Esq., aged 60. STODDART—On the 22d inst., DA 43, t-O sq ' el, burgh, Frances, daughter of the late 11° t o, Stoddart. VP: 4 " DP I° WthnmAs—On the 24th inst., apedYotes Cour: Kent, J. B. Wildman, Esq., ag 79. 1 0'1 London:— I:ri — n - te 7 d DT — d P-u----blished---by ----NVLIA‘j-Pal4,l)qll4li of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUS Cl i r -ce o oot' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ja '.-° Middiesex.—Tuesday, &lay 28,1867. Irgri° jr,A SU After After After After After After After London Si ---__ RIN A Thi s Thlin Pi It i s p tome. Sold in hp the 1 1 t°hrqnßale R, Gfli nb,„, " Riarthai riOUN kJ P inl . 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