The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-25 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS AEWS. TUE SICK STATESMEN. Our great political personages fall ill more rapidly than they recover. Lord Granville is now iwrs de combat—confined to his house by an attack of gout. :gr. Disraeli is coming round but very slowly. He was unable to attend the meeting of the sub-comi mittee for carrying out the monument to the Earl of Derby, and some days must elapse before he can tak6 part in public business. Mr. Bright is doing moderately well. As to the ot her sick statesmen it may be almost said of them that they are "too numerous to mention." THE LAND BILL. Mr. Butt, Q.C., the great representative of the Irish tenant farmers, of whom it has been said that he could be returned for any county in the South, does not, at all events, consider the land bill entirely unsatisfactory.. It 'is beneficial in some respects, though it contains elements of discord which `will yet shake Irish society to its base. His chief 'objections are to the third clause, respecting tenancies iron, year to year. Sir John Gray has also given his -opinion. He thinks there are so many objectionable provisions in the measure that the utmost present energy will be needed to secure a really good result. NORWICH. Norwich is agitated by a general report that Sir W. Russell, M.P. for the borough, will shortly resign his seat. He is at present the only representative Norwich possesses. Two were duly elected in November, 1808 ; but by means of an elec tion petition one, Sir H. J. Stracey, was taken, and the other, Sir W. Russell, left. The electors of the borough have for some time past enter tained fond hopes that a writ would be issued to fill up the unseated member's place,. cash, possibly, being somewhat tight in Norwich just now. If Si r W. Russell resigns, a writ must be issued for his seat, * and it is very likely that a generous Parliament lnight not object to fill up the other also. If such be the case, it is to be hoped that there will be no lack of suitable candidates. Hitherto neither side has been able to make sure of one. BRIBERY WITH THE BALLOT. The experience of the Australian politicians, whose elections are conducted on the secret system, roves that the ballot is not necessarily an infallible security against bribery. In fact a letter extract published in the Pall Mall Gaze tie goes to chew that it is possible for the ballot to aid, rather than to hamper, corrupt operations. At Geelong a Liberal committee established their room opposite the chief polling booth. The first manoeuvre, wo are told, was to send in a voter who was supplied with a blank piece of paper, the exact size and colour of a balloting ticket. Having ob tained his ticket from the returning officer, he retired to one of the private desks used by voters for filling up the forms, placed the ticket in his pocket, and the blank paper in the urn. He then took his ticket back to the committee-room, where the Liberals erased the name of the opposing candidate, leaving only that of their own nominee. This ticket was then handed to the next voter, who. placed it in the box as his own vote, and brought back his ticket to be used in the same manner by the next voter. Thus the Liberals bribed 300 voters with perfect ease, and received a certificate that the job had been properly done by the voters returning their own paper unaltered. It should be remembered, however, that the repression of bribery is not the primary object sought by the ballot. TRADE UNIONISTS AND THE EDUCATION BILL. A conference of trade delegates at Halifax has been usefully employing its time in discussing the Government Education Bill, with the assistance of a League representative. The League objections were substantiated—in particular the points that compul sion ought to be universal, instead of permissive, as Mr. Forster proposes, and that the settlement of religious teaching ought not to be left to the school boards. The Government bill, too, contains a clause retaining school pence, but allowinc , those persons to escape payment who sign a statement of thei r i na bility. This the League thinks highly injudicious. Such a provision will, it is maintained, brand with pau perism those poor families who seek free education. The trade delegates endorsed these views. A resolu tion was passed declaring the League Bill to be the I only proper one. UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN IRELAND. A declaration in favour of the mixed s y s t em o f education has been forwarded to Mr. Gladstone from the Provost, Vice-Provost, and a large number of Fellows, Tutors, and Professors of Trinity College, Dublin. These influential memorialists are con vinced of the advantages of united academical education. They believe that the association of young men of different religious persuasions in the same lecture halls, and at the same common table, is productive of the best results in assuaging the feelings which aro apt to spring from differences of religious creed, and in teaching all to tolerate and respect the conscientious opinions of others. These advantages are especially estimable in Ireland, where sectarian animosities prevail to a greater extent than elsewhere. To destroy such a system, and replace it by denomi national colleges would be productive of the worst results. CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT OFFICES. The extensive prevalence of bribery between con tractors and Admiralty officials led to the issue, in April last, of a circular stating that the Lords of the Admiralty would be ready to grant an independent re - examination of samples on the request of any contractor who felt that his tender has been unfairly rejected. This intimation, however, had had no effect in staying the corruption of some incurables. It is now posi tively declared that any a tt emp t to bribe or to seek a bribe will be visited with the most severe steps on the part of the Government, who are determined to eradicate this scandal from all the public establishments. The conviction last spring of those two enterprising gentlemen, Gambier and ;Rumble, seems not to have had the effect that was hoped. PROSPECTS OF NON-PURCHASE CORPS. A statement by an actuary is generally pretty correQt. The prospects of the Non-purchase Corps, judged by this standard, are, therefore, not very promising. For years the cry has gone up from the Artillery, Enginee r s, a n d Marines, for some measure to avert the stagnation of promotion amongst the officers, especially of the junior grades. And now, if matters still go on as they are doing at the present day, we shall soon see bat teries of artillery and companies of infantry com manded by captains of 60 years of age, with senior subalterns of 46. To be sure such sights as these have not yet gratified us, because something has been done by fits and starts at various periods to quicken the sluggish flow of promotion. Sometimes an increase has given a few steps ; at other times half-pay retirement has been lavished on some half-dozen officers, but as yet no fixed scheme has been put forward by which a subaltern will be sure of having a handle to his name before his hair is gray. SUNDAY TRADING. Lord Chelmsford's bill against the practice of Sunday trading has not met with a welcome from the shopkeepers of Whitechapel. They are forming a committee to oppose the measure. It is urged that the bill will hand over the trading community to the tender mercies of the police, that it is class legis lation, and that "it attempts to deal a severe blow at the common necessaries of life for the most needy" .--whatever this last interpretation may mean. ADULTERATION OF FOOD AND DRINK. The present Act of Parliament relating to the adulteration of food and drink has been found ineffec tive in stopping these injurious and fraudulent practices. Mr. Muntz and Mr. Goldney have now prepared a bill for the amendment of the old law, by which the heavy penalty of £5O may be enforced in cases of the admixture of any injurious or poisonous ingredient with any article of consump tion. A second offence will be met with imprison ment for six months with hard labour. A most deserved punishment, and one which will go further in protecting the public than any amount of fines and imprisonment, is reserved for those blood-sucking tradesmen convicted more than once of selling articles they know to be adulterated. The magistrates will have power—and may it be often exercised—of causing such offenders' names, place of abode and offence to be published in a public newspaper, or in any other manner that may seem fit. The public must be very forgiving if, after going through such an ordeal, the culprit should find him self able to begin again. BILLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT. Air. Lowe's measure for the amendment of the law relating, to the coinage and her Majesty's Mint pro vides a regular schedule of the weight and. fineness of the various denominations of coin to be struck here after. Some additions are to be made to the category of coins of the realm. Five-pound and two pound gold pieces will be issued, and the tilver crown, half-crown, and fourpenny piece, now wcon;:cg obsolette, will reappear in their former brivlitness. Silver pennies will undoubtedly be wel2onied, in spite of the danger of small holes in • one's pockets. . Nor need anY alarm be felt by 111 possessors of very old silver coins, as they , ~. may Le exchan;ed for new ones at the ' . .',- Mint. 1 .: lt will ho tho duty' of any sub i !•, ject on receiving a light gold coin to cut, brealr, ,s and deface it, and the person tendering the same will , .‘ have to bear the loss. The expediency of maintaining ,7 . the patent laws is to be discussed during the session. `,' Mr. - Maclie produces a return of official documents received at the Foreign Office, showing the reason ',-,:'..i why the Clovernmonts of Prussia and the Nethers ft.lllds have recommended the abolition of patents for .itentions. THE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE. The expediency of a new version of the Scriptures is beeoming a very prominent question ind ee d, if we may judge by the quantity of epistolary matter written about it. The Lad of Shaftesbury writes to explain that his hos tility to a new version is not on behalf of the Bible Society, of which he is president, but on his own behalf. The society wishes to remain neu tral at present. The Earl, however, has no inten tion to remain either neutral or silent, "believing that a new translation of the Holy Scriptures into . the language of modern days, though it will not affect in any degree our faith and doctrine, will pro duce a momentous and permanent change in the thoughts and feelings of e very English speaking people." Canon Cook, of Exeter, writes to say that the prac tical accomplishment of a revision will be secured in a few days. A commentary ou the Bible, undertaken at a suggestion of the Speaker in 1803, is shortly to bo published. In this work the authorised version is given without any change, and a correct render . ing of every p assage is printed in conspicuous type below the text. The list of writers on this Com mentary, selected by a committee under the Arch bishop of York, comprises the names of a large num ber of the ablest scholars of the Church. The suggestion has been discussed in the Convoca tion at 1 ork. The expression of the general opinion of the Synod, which was decidedly adverse to any revision whatever, will no doubt carry weight with it in any future progress of the movement. Canon Hey proposed a resolution moving the appointment of a committee to confer with the committee of the Southern Province on the subject. The Bishop of Carlisle, who said he would on no account touch the present version, moved an amendment, which was carried, expressing thankfulness for the possession of a version accepted and valued by the English speaking people throughout the world, and depre cating any revision which might lead to a complete recasting of the text. His Grace the Archbishop of York said there existed no necessity justifying the extreme step proposed by Canon Hey. The move nent was one which had taken everybody by surprise. THE CIFURCII IN SOUTH AFRICA. Bishop Gray, in his charge to the Synod, which met at Capetown in the latter part of January, gives Dr. Colenso up. He is thoroughly weary of the mathematical prelate, and he thinks all other Church men are weary also—as well they may be; for Dr. Colenso is still unvanquished. He holds his own against all hostility. Bishop Gray thinks contro versy can do no good. The Bishop of Natal's works, though they made a great stir at first, have sunk into oblivion. "It costs little to start an objection—to make an assertion, or a denial; but it might require a volume to refute objections, and to establish the truth of an asserted position; and who has the time for writing such books, or who would purchase them, or devote days and weeks to reading lengthy discussions on the details of a thousand different questions ?" And in this mode Dr. Gray gets rid of the unbelieving pre late. TILE STAGNATION IN ENTUBPILISE. The great falling off in late years of railway and joint-stock enterprise of ail kinds is abundantly shewn by the sums in shares and loans which Parliament has been asked to sanc tion. In 1869, the aggregate amount of capital proposed to be raised by shares and loans was £29,221,706. Of this total £17,756,335 was in shares, and £11,465,371 in loans. In 1868 the total was rather more than 25 millions; in 1867, over 421 millions; in 1866, " the " year, not less than 1751 millions ; and in 1865, 1261 millions. Here, indeed, is a falling off. The largest amount raised in 1869 was £3,333,000 on behalf of the Port of London and Billingsgate Railway. No other sum was as high as twe millions. IMMORAL PUBLICATIONS. It is satisfactory to learn that the Society for the Suppression of Vice, in doing the work of a public prosecutor, has laboured with great energy, and with a large result. It has been the means of destroying 129,681 prints, 16,220 illustrated books, five tons of letterpress of the same character in sheets, large quantities of infidel and blasphemous publications, 16,00.5 sheets of songs, &c., 5,503 cards, snuff boxes, &c.; 844 en graved copper plates, 428 lithographic stones, 95 wood blocks, 11 printing presses, and 28 cwt. of type, including stereotype of several entire works of the grossest immorality. As each prosecution costs the Society about £3O, this destruction must have been expensive work. But the trade still flourishes, nevertheless. We hear of large seizures by energetic policemen, and great doings on the part of the Society. Every now and then the police go down to Ilolywell-street and capture cart loads of dirt. But it always reappears in the interval between one visit and another. Anybody who chooses to pay a visit to the well-known and delightful spot can bear witness to the fact that the police come once in a long while, and the crop of obscenity blooms again immediately they aro gone. A GEOLOGIST UPON FLINTS. Sir Roderick Murchison upholds the argument for the steam roller in a smart letter to the Time& In his neighbourhool cartloads of rough, unbroken flints are poured out on the roadway, and left to be ground down by the light carriage wheels and the feet of horses, for few heavy waggons pass that w*y. This nuisance is often inflicted when the road is per fectly smooth. "'The frequent conversion of our spiare into this p3culiar quarry of chalk flints has resulted in the fact that the central part of the road is already much higher than its sides ; and, therefore, in the absence of any other explanation, I am left to suppose that the parochial or public operator who has produced this phenomenon is determined to convince an old geologist like myself what a won derful amount of denudation can be produced by the diurnal friction of comparatively small bodies, and the occasional descent of water from that central' elevation which he himself has created in our road way." A LUNATIC'S CRY FOR MERCY. The Brentford Board of Guardians have received a letter from Jane Brown, a patient in the Hanwoll Lunatic Asylum. If the subject of it has any foun dation of truth, then the committee to which it has been referred has the power of ex posing a cruel evil, and bringing punishment on the heads of persons who richly deserve it. Jane Brown writes a long and most consistent letter, im ploring the protection of the Board against the acts of cruelty committed on patients at the asylum by the servants of the establishment. Among other acts she says that a female attendant lately tore the hair out of her head and burnt it. She is constantly dragged from her bed when too ill to rise, and is otherwise brutally illtreated. The wretched woman states in conclusion her readiness to meet any exam ination, which she hopes, and no wonder, will come soon. It probably will come, no thanks, however, to the chairman of the Board of Guardians mentioned, who said he did not think the letter ought to have been recognised, having come from a lunatic. THE LATE MR. BURLINGHAME. The Hon. Anson Burlinghame, whose death has just been announced, was an American. He was employed in the American diplomatic service in China, and in 1868 he entered the service of the Emperor of China. His name will be connected with the remarkable treaty which he drew up and submitted to the Government of the United States, and which was the subject of so much discussion. Mr. Burlinghame officially visited the various courts of Europe with the members of the Embassy, for the purpose of establishing more direct diplomatic relations between China and the Western Powers. His mission will cause his name to be remembered, for he was the first European chosen by the Chinese Government to do its diplo matic business. Such a recognition of European aid was justly considered a remarkable step in the dim= tion of progress. DISTRESS AT JERUSALEM. A. Hebrew letter has been addressed to Sir Moses Montefiore by the Jewish congregation of Jerusalem, entreating help for the distressed people of that place. From this pathetic document it is clear that a mit famine, rages at the Holy City. " All help from without is closed, and hunger rages within ; for the rains of Heaven are restrained, so that one cannot procure water even for money; every well is empty and every spring is dry; added to this hosts of locusts have encamped on all our borders, and every blade of grass grown for our support have they appropriated to their legions." The stores and granaries have become empty, and all kinds of provisions increase in price from day to day. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Do . Rotterdam — ... 12 A ... 12 1 Antwerp.. Brussels lin mburgn — ... 13 10 ... 13 101 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 12( i• Vienna — ... 12 7') ... 12 75 Trieste — ~ 12 70 ... 12 75 Petersburg Cr.Tenhagen. • • ....... Berlin Madrid.. - Cadiz Leghorn Milan — ... 26 40 ..,.. 26 43 Genoa .. — ... 26 40 ...• 26 45 Naples Palermo — ... 26 40 ... 26 45 Messina Lisbon — ... 51i .... 52 It Oporto - ... 52 ... 521 THE MORDAUNT DIVORCE CASE. desirable to =cues runner questions m relation to MS Royal Highness. Ido not think he in any way whatever shook the position that originally and after due considera tion we took up ; that Lady Mordaunt was more intimate than her husband wished her to be. That she wished to convey that idea, and intended to convey no other, is what I sincerely hope and trust; and after hearing his Royal Highness upon the subject. I am obliged to say that I also believe it." But it must have no operation in your minds unfavourable to my client. If I thought it necessary to point out that which would be criminal in the highest in the land, I hope I have firmness and honour enough to do so. I hope at the same time that in the con duct of my profession I have sufficient feeling for those of whom I am obliged to speak to cause no additional or un necessary pain. If you are forced to the conclusion that the words of this lady meant something that I have not put upon them, that must be your construction. But I invite you to consider that all Lady Mordaunt said is consistent with the evidence and with the case which I present to you on the part of Sir Charles Mordaunt. SIXTH DAY. THURSDAY. The trial of this remarkable case was resumed to-day, before Lord Penzance and a special jury. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. inderwick were for the petitioner (Sir Charles Mordaunt) ; Dr. Deane, Q.C., Mr. Archibald, and Mr. Searle for the respondent (Lady Mordaunt) ; the Attorney-General, Dr. Tristram, Sir John Karslake, Q.C., and Mr. Lord held watching briefs for the co-respondents and other parties affected by the evidence. All the evidence in the case proposed to be called by the learned counsel on either side had been completed on Wednesday afternoon. A Juryman now asked that Dr. Jones might be recalled to explain what he meant by saying that at Walton Lady Mordaunt was generally sane. Lord Penzance referred to the evidence, in which the following passages occurred :—" What do you mean by `generally sane ?' That all the peculiarities that she ex hibited were produced by the crushing weight upon her mind, which the pressure of circumstances could scarcely fail to produce. She could not by possibility be called a lunatic ? Certainly not." The juryman, having heard further portions of the evi dence of Da Jones, expressed himself satisfied. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine then drew the attention of the judge to a letter which had appeared in the London news papers, purporting to have been written by an eminent firm of attorneys, and directed to the evidence in this case. He felt, and he was sure his lordship would feel, that if they had any comment to make upon the object of any witness in the case, they might in common decency have waited until the trial was over. Lord Penzance: I quite agree in that. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine then proceeded to address the jury on the case of the petiti oner . H e o b serve d th a t th e y had now arrived near the termination of this case, which had properly been described as a most painful one s al though every endeavour had been made to make it as little so as possible. But interests so important were very seldom at stake in a court .of justice, and he felt deeply the responsibility resting on him, now that he was called to address the jury in support of those interests,. for in all probability upon the jury depended, the happiness, comfort, and respectability of the remain der of Sir Charles Mordaunt's days. He would ask them, then, to consider more particularly the months of March, April, and May, 1868. The issue before the jury was this. It was for the Moncrieff family to show that this lady was insane at the time when she made certain state ments, and at subsequent periods when she was said to have been incapable of instructing her solicitors. They liad undertaken to show this on the part of Sir Charles Mordaunt, although he had only to show a negative. Every witness who could possibly throw light upon the case had been called. But a most remarkable difference occurred uixm. the other side, and upon due reflection he characterised that difference as being a deliberate attempt to keep back the materials most calculated to enable the jury to form a conclusion. He advanced that proposition after the gravest consideration and in the broadest terms that could be used. They had confined themselves to the evidence of four women-servants, whose evidence was incredible, and which he would shew was untrue; and they had striven to overwhelm the opinion of the jury with the theories of a swarm of eminent men who knew nothing about the case. Where was Lady Louisa Moncreiff ? She was in London ; she was said to have been in court. Where was Mrs. Forbes ? It was said her confinement prevented her attendance. Where was Miss Blanche Moncreiff ? No reason had been given for her not being present. Where was Mr. Fiennes, the uncle of the respondent, to whom she was sent to obtain advice, and with whom she did advise for the purposes of this suit ? Would his learned friend say why these persons had not been called? Could any argument remove the fact. that Lady Mon creiff, the most important witness in this case, had never been called, and that no excuse had been offered for her absence. They were trying the sanity of a young girl of one or two-and-twenty, brought up in her father's house under her mother's care, and who could better tell them what was the difference between the daughter's present state and her previous life than the mother ? If this were a mechanic's case would not everybody expect that the mother who vas with her daughter during her confine ment would be called ? Of course it was painful to have to appear in a witness box, but it would be no more unpleasant to Lady Moncrieff than it had been to Jessie Clarke. His learned friend-must know that there was some reason behind for not putting her in the box, because something would be obtained from her which would destroy the respondent's case. Mrs. Forbes would have been a witness almost as important but she had n o t been called. They would be inclined to excuse the younger and unmarried sister abstaining from joining in such a case ; but still in the silence of Miss Blanche it would not do for the other side to impugn the the evidence of the witnesses who had been Speaking of the other persons mentioned in the case, the learned counsel remarked that while two of the gentlemen named by Lady Mordaunt had been called to deny what was said there were two others who had not been called; namely, Lord Cole who was charged with being the father Of this child, and Captain Farquhar, against whom, un contradicted, the evidence was conclusive. The affidavits containing the accusations against these persons had been open to them in the court for many months, and therefore he thought their non-appearance was con clusive as to the truth of the allegations. With regard to Sir F. Johnstone it was noticed that while he denied the adultery with comparative mildness, he was quite indig nant about the other accusation. No doubt in this he met with the sympathies of those who did not attach the same amount of criminality to adultery which they did attach to that which would be thoroughly ungentlemanly. But what business had this young man to meet this young lady at an hotel and remain from eight to twelve o'clock ? At any rate he compromised her character and there was nothing in the case to shew that in speaking of Sir Frederick Johnstone Lady Mordaunt was telling a falsehood. After commenting on the absence of Mr. Fiennes, the uncle of the respondent, Mr. Serjeant Ballantine concluded his address with a brief but eloquent appeal to the jury to consider well the interests of his client. The address of the learned serjeant occupied about two hours and three quarters. Dr. Deane proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the respondent. He observed that his learned friend had mixed up the questions for consideration with . some with which the jury had no concern. There was no question of damages ; but the point for the jury to decide was simply as to the sanity of Lady Mordaunt at a given time. '1 he e friends of the respondent had thought it right to confine themselves to this course, and therefore they had not called some of the witnesses named bythe learned serjeant. But the other side had taken a different course, and the result was that they had supplied links of evidence so fitly joined together that he should be able to lay before the jury a chain of evidence without flaw or break, extending from the 28th of February down to the present hour. He felt deeply for the position of Sir Charles Mordaunt, but he also felt for the family of Lady Mordaunt, and he should be obliged to speak strongly of the odious cause of all this trouble. He would at once call their attention to what he believed to be the foundation of this case. , Sometime in November a strange conversation took place between Sir Charles and Lady Mordaunt with respect to Sir F. Johnstone, and Sir Charles told Lady Mordaunt that Sir Frederick was suffering under a complaint which might bring disease upon any child which he had. They had it from Mrs Cadogan that Lady Mordaunt was very anxious about her confinement. It was not true that the day after this conversation she came up to London to meet Sir F. Johnstone, but she did meet him accidentally while staying at the Alexandra Hotel with the Duke and the Duchess of Athole, and the impression made upon her by the conversation and this event together, in her state of mind at the time, remained fixed until the child was born, when she asked, "I s t h e ch ild di seased ?" The learned counsel referred to the fact that Sir Charles lived with his wife after his return from Norway, as proof of the position that the lady simply inquired if the child was suffering from a disease, and added that he thought Sir Charles would for ever regret the conversation he had held with his wife in November. The case pre sented by the other side was that Lady Mordaunt had made certain admissions ; that these had been found to lie true ; and that therefore Lady Mordaunt knew what she was saying, and was consequently sane. The learned sergeant also concluded that when Lady Mordaunt spoke of the Prince of Wales, she meant that she had disobeyed her husband's direction not to keep up her acquaintance with his Royal Highness. But there was not a tittle of evidence that Lady Mordaunt, after being told to be more guarded, ever set eyes upon the Prince of Wales, except in the pre sence of her husband. Lady Mordaunt's confession must have had some other meaning ,• but if, as was shewn by the evidence of the P r in ce of Wales, her self-accusation in one case, arose from delirium, how dared anybody to say that the self-accusation was not also a delusion in the others ? The case with regard to Sir F. Johnstone was as much a delusion as the other ; and with regard to Lord Cole, who simply paid homely visits to the sister of the lady to whom ho was betrothed, it was no stronger. As to Captain Farquhar, the evidence of Clarke about the letter which she said was burnt, and the fact that his name was not inserted in the petition, were circumstances which threw discredit upon the charge against him. The learned counsel, after examining the medical evidence, and cha racterising Mr. Orford as a man who had throughout held to one idea simply, went on to speak of the utter incredi bility of the statement that Lady Mordaunt wrote to her nurse a letter begging the latter not to repeat the nonsense she (Lady Mordaunt) had talked. It would not do to throw doubt upon the colfelusions of Sir James Simpson, and the other doctors called on behalf of the respondent for the statements of the doctors on the other side were founded on an observation of the same circumstances, although from a- different point of view. Dr. Deane proceeded to refer in detail to other points in the case, quoting the affidavit of Mr. Haynes, solicitor to Sir Charles, as proving the insanity of lady Mordaunt when the citation was served upon her. He than pro ceeded to refer to the evidence of Dr. Gull, which, he said, was of great and special value. At the conclusion of the learned counsel's address, Lord Penzance said he should not sum up till to-morrow. examined. It was necessary to bear in mind the follow ing dates : The confinement occurred on Sunday, February 28, 1868, Lady Louisa arrived at Walton upon the follow ing Wednesday, March 3, and remained until March 6; the original confession to Sir Charles was made upo n th e Bth of March, and there was a second confession upon the 13th ; while the letters from Sir Charles to Lady Louisa filled up the interval between the Bth and the 13th. On the 14th Sir Charles discovered the letters, and the hotel bills ; then a communication was made to Lady Louisa. She arrived at the house upon the 16th, and re mained some days —over the 20th March, at which time Sir Thomas arrived. Sir Charles, who did not see any thing of his wife from the period when he discovered what he conceived to be crushing evidence of her guilt, left Warwickshire on the sth April. Then came the service of the citation upon April 30th. Lady Mordaunt left Walton on the 15th May ; and there was a letter on the 16th. These dates exhausted the period to which he must refer in detail. The references to Sir Charles Mordaunt's letters gave him an opportunity of referring to the character of that gentle man. He was a country baronet, probably not very fami!iar with fashionable life, though possessed of con siderable fortune. So far as they could prove from his manner he most likely passed more time in the country than in the metropolis, except during the period when he was attending to his duties in Parliament. He seemed to have been a man of thoroughly sincere mind, and to have been devotedly attached to this lady, his wife ; and the letters which lie wrote at this time exhibited in every line his disbelief that anything of blame attached to his wife, and a clinging hope that.one dear to him was not guilty of great crime. Up to the 13th he appeared to have been trying to believe that his wife was innocent ; and if his letters were not very logi cal or even true in their description of Lady Mordaunt's health, they shewed what was the state of his mind. Coming to the consideration of the circumstances sur rounding the confinement, it was seen that up to the 3rd March, when Lady Louisa arrived, except the inquiry of Lady Mordaunt about the child nothing occurred to indicate anything of what afterwards came out. It appeared that certain statements were mach to the mother, and yet it was asserted by the other side that Lady Moncrieff left the house while there were about her da,ughter signs of mania,which, if their case was true, must have been evident to the most ordinary understanding. And at this point he might take the opportunity of observ ing With regard to the confessions of Lady Mordaunt that while his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was mentioned in the first, his name did not occur in the second. It was but just to make this remark ; and at a later period he would shew the distinction between what was said of his Royal Highness and what was stated of other parties. But, if they were to believe the evidence on the other side, Lady Mordaunt must have been maniacal for three or four days after her confinement, over the Bth, when the first confession was made, and the mania was at its height, and up to the 13th, when the confessions were repeated. Her mother was with her on the 16th, and learned from her daughter that she had confessed and yet his learned friend would not call her. Mrs.'Forbes also was staying with her sister at this time, when she was alleged to have been maniacal. Instead of calling either of these ladies, Sir Thomas Mon crieff, who knew nothing of these matters, had been put in the box. Commenting further on these points, the learned serjeant observed that the evidence of Mrs. Hancock (the nurse) went to shew that in the conversations between mother and daughter it was fully admitted that this child was the child of Lord Cole ; and in the absence of the other witnesses to whom ho had referred, it must not he said that the nurse, in speaking of the wretched chaf fering which took place as to providing for the child, was describing what never took place. It was singular that although this lady was said to have been insane, she was left almost entirely to the care of a country doctor ; and it was somewhat extraordinary that the medical certificate should have been given without more complete inquiries being made. No evidence could have been given with more candour than that of the Dowager Lady Mor daunt, - and it went to shew that on the 13* of May, when the respondent sat on a coal-box in the passage, she was attempting a puerile sham. Mrs. Cadogan saw nothing of this insanity ; and it was strange that the acts of Lady Mor daunt which were said to shew her insanity were never committed before the medical men, but occurred during the attendance of the women sent down as to take care of a lunatic patient. And it should be observed that although Lady Mordaunt was said to have tried to throw herself from carriages she never hurt herself. Passing briefly' over some portions of the medical evidence, the learned serjeant went on to say that it was immaterial to his case from which specific diseases the respondent suffered. It was enough that knowing nothing of the nice distinctions which could be drawn by medical men, Lady Mordaunt felt it would be useless to attempt to deceive 'iir Charles. He would say nothing to imply that he dis believed Sir Frederick Johnstone's denial. lie did not disbelieve him. LI,S7 FOR THE USE OF VISITORS TO THE METROPOLIS. At this point the Court adjourned for a brief interval. On its reassembling, Mr. Serjeant Ballantine alluded to the letter written by Lady Mordaunt from Belgrave-square to her husband in Scotland on the 16th May, as being inconsistent with any theory of insanity. And here he remarked on the absence of Lady Kinnoul, another important witness, adding that there seemed to be an epidemic amongst all the people connected with this lady, the respondent, which kept them out of the court. It appeared to be spread through all the Moncrieff family into every channel from which information could be obtained. They would smother them with doctors, but not give a bit of information. Was it not too bad that they did not attend? It was an insult and a cruelty to Sir Charles Mordaunt. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1870. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) A letter appeared in the New York Nation on Massachusetts credit. Tha writer states that the market relied on for money by Massachusetts has been small, her loans having all been raised through a few bankers who had confidence in the management of her finances. When Mr. Walker of Springfield was sent to Europe to nego tiate a loan he found the usual market closed, not from want of faith in the credit of the State.but from causes of a special and temporary character. This threw bins on the general market; and then the fact transpired that the credit of the State had been impaired by the mismanage ment of the last year or two. The agent was reminded of the loan to the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Rail road, and the lloosac tunnel jobs. We never know, said the lenders, whore your State is going to be six months hence ; her loans come along a few millions now, a few more next year, more the year after so no man in 1869 can calculate on the indebtedness of 1870. The agencies at work in impairing her credit are these two undertakings. The Springfield Republican has been actively engaged in showing them up, but every second man in Boston being loaded down with " the worthless stock or the imperilled bonds of the company, the press of that city is silent or else apologists or defenders of the jobs." An effort was made to get Judge W. A. Richardson, lute As sistant-Secretary of the Treasury, or Congressman Dawes, to take the Presidency of the Hartford and Erie, in the room of Mr. Eldridge. Neither, however, could be in duced to do so, and Messrs. Rice, Oakes, Ames, George M. Barnard, and others, fled from the direction when they found how bad the state of affairs was. Mr. Eid.idge has re-entered on the management, and has marshalled his forces for another vigorous invasion of the Treasury; but the Commonwealth has awoke to the necessity of checkmating these moves, as they now find the proud position imperilled which Massachusetts credit once held. Orders have been introduced into the Legislature re quiring the Attorney-General to appear and repre sent the interests of the State in all the applications for money, and another for the full examination of the Com missioners ejected last year, at the instance of Mr. El dridge. In the face of such an opposition the -rail road clique is likely to be defeated, still it is added that this is by no means certain. The House of Representatives last Tuesday adopted a resolution calling on the President for' the in formation in his possession relative to American citizens confined as Feuians in British prisons, and their treat ment. From the facts which have transpired their treat mont is none of the best. We grant that they rillty be very troublesome prisoners; that, being rebels, they are of a rebellious turn of mind; that, considering their country , and themselves grievously injured, they entered the pri sons saturated through and through with grievances, and, as a natural result, that they are difficult to manage. But prison officials should never forget that many of those men, O'Donovan Rossa for instance, were influenced by patriotism, fully believing in the righteousness of their cause, and in defeat and humiliation should still retain respect. If the London correspondent of the Dublin Freeman be - correctly informed O'Donovan Rossa has been subjected to corpora Ipunistnuent, receiving ten lashes for insubordination. A few days ago an in quest was held in the Spike Island Prison, Cove of Cork, on the body of Michael Tarbert, who there died on the tsth Feb. of dropsy. He had been sent to Spike Island, from Mountjoy Gaol, as Dr. O'Connell considered him unlit to undergo cellular discipline, which means solitary confinement ou bread and water. Although received in the prison with this certificate he was frequently sentenced to close confinement for breaking the regulations, and this undoubtedly hastened the prisoner's death. In deliver ing the verdict the jury strongly censured the practice of frequently punishing a man in his state of health. Although the exhibition of impatience of restraint on the part of these political prisoners may irritate the gaol-offi cials wheat they frequently insult, the greatest forbear ance should be exercised, for they are not ordinary cri minals however strongly we may censure their attempts to carry fire and sword through their native land,the very course best calculated to retard instead of to hasten the removal of the grievances of which they complain. As we suspected, a Democrat, Mr. M'Neely, of Illinois, out of "pure cussedness" offered the resolution in the House cf Representatives on the 31st Jan., which was tabled by 3 to 1, " That the National Debt should be paid in strict compliance with the csntract, and that the Five-Twenties are payable in greenbacks : condemning at the same time the policy of the Administration iu redeem ing such bonds at a high premium while it has the clear right to redeem them at par." We would like to know what Mr. M'Neely's object was. He had no right to ex pect even as large a vote against Mr. Jones' movement to lay the resolution on the table, therefore no practical pur pose could be served in Congress; but is Mr. M'Neely aware of what the effect is in Europe ? The Times' special correspondent immediately telegraphs a resolution which has no point or value : through the French cable comes an other tidegram, which is published, headed, A motion in the Representatives to repudiate the national debt. For that day one of the common subjects of discussion was the insecurity of American Securities, and thousands congratulate them selves that they did not take the advice of Sir. Jon: s, Smith, or Robinson, to invest in Five-Twenties. It is not that the value of the securities is lowered, for such paltry motions by such paltry people cannot haw, that effect even ou this side; but their upward tendency is certainly checked, and that time delayed when American cred.t will stand where it ought. Who suffers? Americans who are forced to pay an unduly high interest on the debt.. Who gains? Why the foreigners, who have the sense to see that such mo tions mean nothing, the American people having shouldered the debt, and are able, willing, and intend to carry it to its destination, from which they derive an excessive rate of interest, considering the nature of the security. The exact sum that such a motion as Mr. M'Neely's costs the United States could not be calculated, but if it could, we are slue that its magnitude would astoun d.the citizens of the Union. Does Mr. M'Neely know why the enemies of the Republic are so sharp in telegraphing such idiotic motions as his? If he does not, we can tell him—that it is because they are better acquainted than he is with the consequences on this side. Mr. Arthur Folsom having been U.S. commer cial agent in Hayti has now become the Haytian agent at Washington. He, with Mr. Delmonte, a Haytian resident in New York, are at Washington, acting in the interest of the new Government of that portion of the island, Gen. Tate, Salnave's Ambassador, having been superseded and banished. Mr. Folsom, whose evidence is certainly un biassed by any wish to baulk the aggrandisement of his own country, does not hesitate to describe the feeling in Hayti against annexation as very bitter, and to predict trouble in the event of the policy as regards San Domingo being carried out. We now learn from a telegram, dated Washington last Monday, that he and his colleague have been officially informed by the Secretary of State that the Union has assumed the Protectorate over the Baez (o veinmeut in virtue of the Samana Bay Treaty against aggression from Cabral Imperon and other insurgents. We can tell Mr. Fish what the result will be as well as if writing after, not before, the events. The United States must become involved in a war which will last over several years, and will end, after considerable bloodshed and expenditure, in th , conquest of the whole island. The United States will then possess a conquered colony, held against the wish of the majority of its inhabitants; while,in so far as this hap pens it will depart from the great Republican principle upon which the Union is founded, and thereby shake the rock upon which the structure has been built. We regret to see this false step taken ; we admire the honest stand made against it by the New Fork Tribune, and we feel assured that the President's Administration, unless the Senate wisely draws it back from its false position, la ill soon have cause to repent the movement. AiILITARY ITEMS.—General Sherman issued an order, Jan. 31, abolishing the First Military District, and creating the Department of Virginia, with General Canby as commander. The new Department comprises Virgi nia, West Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland, and forms part of the Military Division of the Atlantic, under command of General Meade. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.--Commodore Vanderbilt refuses to make a will. He desires that his youthful wife shall have her full legal share of his property. She will be heir, therefore, when he dies, to some $23,000,000.—A Washington correspondent says that Revels, the new Mississippi Senator, has " a yellow skin . a conical shaped head." —Gonzalo Castanon, enitor -r of die Voz de Cuba, while standing on the hotel porch, at*.Bey West, Jan. 31, was attacked by several Cubans, who „fired pistol shots at him. Ho returned the fire, and then received a shot, from the effects of which he died in fifteen mi nutes. He succooded in wounding three of the assas sins before he died. Saveral arrests were made.-- The ReV. R. R. Collyer has been offered $7,000 a year and a parsonage by the " Church of the Unity" in Boston. Mr. Seward's prophecies aro always unlucky. He had hardly foretold unbroken peace for Mexico before there was another revolution there.—Camilla Urso has secured all the singers and musicians necessary for her " monster fe* tival" at San Francisco.---Joseph Pulatizar, member of the Missouri House of Representatives, was shot and wounded on Thursday, the 27th of January, by Ed ward Augustus, Supervisor of Registration for St. Louis. The shooting was caused by charges made by Pulatizer against Augustus in the liresflicher Post. Minister L)w and suite left San Francisco for Pekin on the Ist inst.—G.)vernor Hoffman has offered a reward of $3OO for the apprehension of the murderers of Robert Harper, who disappeared from Albany on the evening of Jan. 22, or for the discovery of his body.—The fifth annual reunirn of the Yale Alumni took place at the Parker House, Boston, on Monday evening, January 31. The following onlaers were elected : --President, the Hon. Dwight Fos ter; Vic2 7 Presidents, Linus Asahel Huntington, Wm. G. Bates, John P. Putman, W. Hoppin; Secretary and Treasurer, S. Arthur Brut.—ln the United States it is reported that ex-Minister Jan P. Hale was at Rome ill and not likely to return to America till June.—J. B. Kerr, of Missouri, has just been appointed Consul at Scio.—The Louisiana House has passed a resolution of impeachment against State Auditor Wickliffe, for maladministration, bribery, and fraud, while in office, and has appointed a committee to conduct the impeachment trial on the part of TIIE PRINCE OF WALES IN RELATION TO THE CASE. Mr. Serjcant Ballantine went on to refer as follows to another part of the case :—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales appeared in court yesterday and denied in the only way that any subject of this realm can deny a fact, however exalted his position may lie, that he had ever committed adultery, or been guilty of impropriety of that character with Lady Mordaunt. Gentlemen, I had no reason whatever to cross-examine his Royal Highnes. I never opined that he had done so ; I opined an entirely different state of facts. I compared his position with others who had been named, and I said, "It is perfectly consistent with my case that Lady Mordaunt has dis obeyed her husband in a very grave matter ; and with the expressions used—possibly not perfectly falling in the way in which Sir Charles may have given them, because a great deal depends upon them." It by no means neces sarily implied that any guilty act had taken place, and was entirely consistent with the impropriety et F 1491; Ale had I)9m, guilty. I think Aot 3IITSEUMS. Antiquarian—Somerset House. Admission by application to the secretary. Botanic —Royal Botanic Society of Lond m. Ttegent's park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. Royal Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free. British—Great Russell-street. Open free on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10 to 4 ; summer months 10 till 7. 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Open free, daily at or .e o'clock Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily. Rosherville Gardens—Gravesend. Open daily. Gd. Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by members' order. Windsor Great . Park Windsor. Open free. Windsm Castle may he visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fri days, by tickets obtaikable at the Lord Chamberlain a Office, in tee Castle. The engines of the Sultan, 13, iron steamship of 1,200-horse power, now building at Chatham ; are being cons►rutted . at Messrs. Penn and Son's fac tory, at Deptford. The launch of this ship, which was fixed for the 3d of next month, has been post poned to the 15th of April. Workmen are now engaged in fitting a sli ling auxiliary rudder through each quarter. This is a new improvement in the steering capabilities of ironclad vessels. The cruising turret frigate Captain, 6 guns, 4,272 tons, 900 horse power twin screw engines, Capt. IlughT.Burgoyne, V.C., at Portsmouth, has bent sails, taken on board her trial coals, cables, and other weights, and is expected to commence ber speed trials about Monday next. the House.—Abel R. Corbin' threatens to prosecute Fisk for libel.—The will of Edwin M. Stanton, written on one page of letter paper, was admitted to probate in Washing ton, on Saturday, Jan. 29. He bequeaths two-thirds of his property, chargeable with payment of two-thirds of his debts, to his wife; and the remaining third, chargeable with one-third of the dlebts, to his mother, the surplus, at her death, to be divided among his three youngest children. The Kansas Senate has passed a resolution asking for the recall of Hugh Ewing, the Americen Minister to the Hague, on the ground that he is not a resident of Kansas, was a supporter of Andrew Johnson.—Nathan Matthews returns the largest income in Boston, $730,000. He is a real estate speculator. -The successful revolutionary party in Hayti have offered $5,000 for General Tate's head, Sal nave's Minister in Washington.—A memorial chapel to Stonewall Jackson is to be erected at the Lexington (Vir ginia) Military Institute.-- Governor Wat,hburne is lying dangerously ill at Woodstock, Vt., and there is little hope of his recovery.—Mark Twain has been married to Miss Olivia Langdou.—General Ames has change d his mind about resigning his commission in the Army, and hopes so to arrange matters that ho can suspend it, while taking his seat as Senator from Mississippi.— Mr. John Blight's health has benefited from the change of air to Norwood.—A denpatch from Key West to New Orleans, says Castanon, of the •' Voz de Cuba," was shot dead after having slapped one of his adversaries in the face. POLITICAL—A telegram from General Alfred H. Terry to Adjutant-General Townsend states that the '3eorgia House of Representatives was organised January 26th, by the election of M'Whorter, Republican, as Speaker. Three members were excluded as. ineligible, and eleven of those whose cases were inquired into were declared eli gible. Sixteen, who had refused to take the required oath, were declared to have become ineligible by their refusal. General Terry says that, after a careful examination of the Act of December 22, 1869, he had decided that he was not authorised to give the vacant seats to the candidates having the next highest number of votes. A resolution was agreed to Jan. 31st in the U.S. Senate, instructing the Committee of Reconstruction to inquire and report whether further legislation is necessary on the subject of the organisation of a Provisional Legislature in Georgia. General Canby, Jan. 28, issued an order turning over the administration of affairs in Virginia to the civil authori ties. Tho Legislature of South Carolina elected J.J.Wright, coloured, through the Democratic vote, Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court. The election was regarded as an acceptance of Republican doctrines by the Demo crats, though it might have been dictated by very different motives, but it was most likely a bid for the Negro vote. The New Jersey Assembly, on the Ist inst., rejected the Fif eenth Amendment by a vote of 32 to 27. Leon Abbott, Speaker of the House, spoke for an hour and a half against its adoption. JOURNALISH.—Among the novelties, is the ap pearance in London of a new daily, not a newspaper, but an index to all the metropolitan pipe's and magazines. It does for the Times and other principal journals what the Times Index did for the Times alone ; and we can see no reason why the Telegraph, Daily News, Stanctird, and Pall Alan should not have their contents classified and arranged for ready reference as well as the Times The News List and Index is published at two o'clock every afternoon, and sold for one peony, and ought not only to be taken, but filed by every club, library, reading-room and in all places to which men resort to obtain any spe cial information, for it cannot fail to save that most weari some of all work, weding through ponderous files of newspapers to get at some special article. The Brooklyn Union has passed into the hands of Mr. H. C. Bowen, proprietor of the New Yerk Independent. Its principal editor is to be ex• Lieutenant Governor Woodford. John F. Mines, formerly of the Troy Times, will also be on the staff. In politics it will continue Republican. The Stand ard's American correspondent gives some curious infor mation extracted from tabular lists about the Now York press, where there are now published 150 papers. "Of tLese, 24 are issued daily, 13 in the morning and 11 in the evening. Three of the daily papers are printed in the German and two in the French language. Of the 126 weeklies, 18 are printed in German, one in Italian, and two in Spanish. But there is not one comic paper after the manner of Punch, the Charivari, and Kladderadatsch,. The experiment has been often tried, but the countrymen of Artemus Ward were lacking in appreciation of the fun, and the poor paper went through the humiliation of being called a weakly and died. Artemus was himself a contri butor to Vanity Fair, the best of half-a-dozen efforts in this line. Mr. Maverick tells a good story of the Lantern, a comic paper that blazed a little while and went out under the charge of John Brougham, the popular actor. " Brougham one day, on entering a restauran t,found Burton, a rival comedian, sitting at a table. Burton replied to the question, ' Have you read the Lantern this week ?' by saying, 'No, I never read the thing, unless I'm drunk - unless I'm drunk (repeating in a louder tone)—unless I'm drunk !' " Brougham immediately rose from the table at which ho was sitting, advanced, hat in hand, towards Burton, and making a bow in his grandest manner, ob served, "Then, Mr. Burton, I am sure of one constant reader!" Returning to statistics, however, it may satisfy A not idle curiosity to know something of the monetary standing of the New York doilies and weeklies, of which Mr. Maverick gives us a table. The computation of gross receipts is made for the nine months erding with the 30th June, 1869. The Herald's receipts were 1093,071, the TV arld4 8342,933, the Tribune's $425,267, and the Times' $344,861. Among the weeklies the receipts of the Ledger reached $196,638 ; of the New York Weekly and Phunny .Phellow (the New York Weekly very closely resembles Bow Bells, and the Phunny Phelloui is made up of coarse comic engravings that are not funny at all), $372,107; and of Harper's Weekly and Bazaar (the latter a ladies' fashion miscellany like the Queen), $332,285. _ . OBITUARY.—Wm. Coniston, the President of the Boston Metropolitan Horse Railroad Company, died 30th January.—The Hon. Alexander M'Leod died at his late residence, No. 351, West Twenty. first-street, at 11 p.m., Jan. 31. He was a son of the Rev. John M. APLeed, who officiated for many years as pastor of A the Twelfth -street Presbyterian Church, and was born n August, 1832. Mr. Charles 0. Faxon, formerly political editor of the I ouisville Courier, died in Clarksville, Tennessee, on the 27th January. He was connected with several Southern papers during the war; and was editor of the Chat tanooga Rebel when that city was captured by the Union forces. He is said to have wielded a very caustic pen, and, according to The Louisville Courier Journal, he ranked next to Prentice as a keen paragraphist. He was a son of the founder of The Buffalo Express, and a brother of Henry W. Faxon, who was the author of the famous "Silver Lake Snake Story," and whose friends claim for him the authorship of "Beautiful Snow."—William H. Keith, President of the Pittsburg Gas Coal Company, died on Friday, Jan. 28, at Cleveland, from injuries received two days previous from a runaway. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.--All Act has passed the Legislature, and been approved by the Governor t f Tennessee, granting aid to the Mediterranean and Cliental Steam. Navigation Company of New York. The measure is intended to promote the immigration of labourers from Southern Europe. —A reformed thief, on being discharged from the gaol of Keokuk, took along with him the gaoler's revolver.—The fashionable Chinese restaurant in San Francisco is the " Canton Chow Chow 'long."- A St. Louis husband seeks a divorce because his wife keeps too many fast days, and almost starves him.— A South Carolina paper declares that a young man who lost his wife one week, married another while friends were making preparations for the funeral, and with his bride followed the remains sorrowfully to the grave.—Twelve thousand pupils attend private schools in New York city. 'treasure shipped from San Francisco overland to New York, for the week ending Jan. 29, amounted to $160,000. —The Pa eitic mail steamship America sailed from San Francisco, Feb. 1, for Hongkong, via Yokohama, with $636,000 in treasure, and 500 passengers. Of the treasure gt;420,U00 are for Hongkong, $200,000 for Yokohama, $12,000 for Shanghai, and $4,000 for Iliego.--Two medals, connected by a gold chain, were picked up by a farmer while building a fence at Lawrence, Kansas, the other day. One was stamped with the British coat of arms and a bust of George 111., while the other has the inscrip tion:-"`Second Presidency of George Washington, MDCOXCVI." Five hundred dollars has been offered for the medals. The results of the direct tea trade to Chicago ria San Francisco are said to have been very satisfactory. During the month of Dec. 5: 1 ,363 pounds of tea were shipped east from San Francisco, most of which, it is believed, went to Chicago. The ocean freight to San Francisco by steamer was $3 25 per cwt., and the railway charges $4 20.—. The Washington Chronicle makes the stet tliug statement that the agitation of the question of removing the Capitol "has already cost the people of Washington not less than $12,500,000 within a year in the depreciation of real estate."—The Government recently sold 8,000,000 acres of land in Texas for unpaid taxes, realizing only $6,000. Vice-Chancellor James has appointed Mr. Cape official liquidator of the North Kent Railway Ex tension Railway, which is ordered to be wound up under the Railways Abandonment Act. 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We quote a few out of eB,OOO cures —The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food, Cure No 62.413 Rome, July 21, lBiB. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, aband _ming all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revs', nta Arabica Foe 1, of which he c onsumes a plateful at every meal. It hae produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the Gazette du Midi, July2s. Cure No. 0,832: " s'ifty year. indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma cough, eonstipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting. Maria Jolly. `Northam, Ling, near Dies, Norfolk Cure i% o 47,1 : Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicaraye Waltham Cross, Herts, of extreme n e rvousness, indigestion gatherings, low spirits. and nervo u s f an cies. Important Caution —Beware of the many unsavoury and more than m name is m im o ita t tions to which without authority, Baron Liebig's audaciously attached In tins, at s d; Ilb 23 2cl; 2IAbLE4B6tI , 11. ; 511 , 11 c 1 A 13612 0c lb oL 2 A 7, T s E : 24 lbs 4 s.— %is° u BARBY's RD NNT !co, foruspsa :.6 t 2 78, o f o or ps 24 at cuj s s at 3s POWDER fiso m sB k o e u d ps in a t t in Cs, c t a o ni r s 2 te dB rs o t op fo s r 1 at 30s, —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and ..5s tins are sent free of carriage iu England on receipt of Post Office Order.— ARItY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Chemists. MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday. An increased amount of animation has been noticed in the Stock Exchange to-day. The business doing, especially in railways, has boen on a more liberal scale, and the move ments generally have been favourable. Foreign bonds have participated in the improvement. Consols have been firm, and 1 better, at 921 to 921 for money, and 921 to 921 for the March account. Reduced and New Three per Cents, 921 to 92k. Bank Stock has marked 240 to 242. Exchequer Bills, 2s. dis. to 3s. prem. Metropolitan Board of Works, 9 3 t. India Five per Cents have been done at 1111 to 112 ; and India Bonds, 20s. to 255. prem. In the market for English Railway Stocks the prtncipal transactions have been in Metropolitan. During the oilier hours of business largo purchases were made on the and nouncement that Mr. Salisbury's application for an injunc tion Lad been refused, and the quotations advanced to 801. A reaction, however, was caused by realisations of profits , and the quotation relapsed to 781 to 791, showing an im provement of per cent. on the day. Caledonian has risen 1, but Midland has fallen 1, while Great Eastern and Great Western are lower. Indian railway stocks have been quiet, and without nlove ment of importance. For Canadian shares the demand has been inactive. Foreign shares have been dealt in cautiousiy. Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have been dealt in at 191. Tho market for Foreign Bonds has been steady. Peruvian have boen in request, and have risen 1/. Russian Nicolas R tilway Bonds have improved f , and Sardinian. 1. On the other band Spanish have been flat and lower, and New Grenada have receded to a similar extent. Thursday, the 3rd of March, has been appointed special settling day in Russian Scrip, the quotation of which is Ef to 31 prem. Amarican Securities have been steady. The 5-20 and 10-40 Bonds havo risen f, and Atlantic Bonds, Erie MAW, and Illinois Central Shares, 1. Bank Shares have bean in moderate request, at steady prices. For Mining Shares there has be= very little inquiry, and Assheton have been I lower. Telegraph Shares have been in improved request. Anglo noditerranean have advanced 1; British Indian Extension, ; British Indian Submarine, ; Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta, j-; but French Cable'Shares have been i t lower. Indian Rubber Shares have been flat, and lower; Tele graph Constructions also have fallen ; Hooper's Telegraph Works opened firmly at to 1 prom., and after being buyero at 1, closed at to j prem. Miacellaneous Securities have been quiet, at about yester day's closing quotations. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank to day. There has been a strong demand for monlly to-day both at the Bank of England and in other quarters, and three months paper has been charged 3 per cent. The Bank directors have failed to make any alteration in the official rate to-day, which still remains at 3 Per cent. The present tightness in the market is caused 1/ the revenue payments to the Bank, and a return of ease mly be looked for so soon as these matters have been arranged. The Clearing House return for the week ended F e b. 23 shews a total of £60,718,000, against £58,230,000 for the corresponding week last year. A meating has been held of the South-Eastern Railwei Company, and the directors' report has been adopted. Tile directors of the Agricultural Hall Company announce a dividend of 8 per cent. fre e of income tax. A meeting has been held of the Indo-European TelegrePh Company, and the directors' report has been adopted. Monday, the 28th inst., has been appointed special settling' day in the Great Northern Extension Telegraph Company* The directors of the Falmouth Dock Company state that the profit for the past year was £4,685, against £3,103 in 18G8, and £3,317 in 18G7. £1,500 bad been repaid to the Public Works Loan Commissioners, and a further sum of 1, 000 was now at their disposal. The Lagos, from the West Coast of Africa, has brought about £3,000. The report of the Patent Nut and Bolt CompanY (Limited), to be presented at Birmingham on the 26th inst., shows an available total of £21,348. A dividend a t the rate of 10 per cent. per annum is recommended, the payment of which will absorb £12,000. The reserve fund will be increased to £25,115 by the addition of £5,0 00 : leaving a balance of £4,348 to be carried forward. In reference to the colonial wool sales now in progress, Messrs. Southey, Balme, and Co. remark :—The in quantities have passed the hammer to this date inclu sive :-10,941 bales Cape, 5,416 Sydney, 11,430 Port Phillip, 2,764 Adelaide, 1,510 New Zealand, 21 9 :Van Diemen's Land—Total, 32,340 bales. Notwith standing a crowded attendance in the sale -roomy and the exhibition of considerable spirit and animation on the part of buyers, the course of the market has not shown the improvement which had been generally expected prior to the commencement of the series. As far as the selection of wool offers an opportunity of comparison, we consider the current quotations about id' per lb. higher than the closing rates, or about on a par with the highest prices, of the November sales. Port Phillip parcels of the new clip command brisk competition at full rates, greasy parcels ruling especially firm. The bulk of the Sydney wool forward consists of scoured wool, and the marked improvement in inferior and motey descriptions of this class which was es tablished during the close of last year is fully maintained- As regards Capes, all descriptions rule firm, with the ex ception of scoured and inferior snow white sorts, which shew no improvement at the lowest November quotations. As at present arranged the second series stands fixed for the 7th April. The railway traffic returns for the weak endingFebruarY 20 are as follows :—Great Western £68,340, being a de' crease of £624 when compared with the corresponding week of 1869. Great Eastern, £32,577 ; decrease of £99 4. Great Northern, £37,784 ; decrease of £642. North Eastern, £74,869; increase of £3,950. Caledonian, £35,9 34 ; increase of £33. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, £20,435; decrease of £1,516. Bristol and Exeter, £6,421; increase of £6l. Lancashire and Yorkshire, £46,053 ; decrease, £B6l. The return of the Bank of England shews the folio)/ ins results when compared with the previous week decrease of circulation of £264,239; a decrease of public deposits of £117,037 ; an increase of other deposits of £752,700 ; a decrease of Government securities of £500,000; an increase of other securities of £720,024; on increase of bullion of £124,663 ; a decrease of rest of £26,746 ; an increase of reserve of £381,943. The circu lation (including Bank post bills) is now £22,733,774; public deposits amount to £9,274,118 ; and private de• posits to £17,295,689. The securities held represent' £32,781,581; and the stock of bullion is £19,889,996. The rest stands at £3,367.776. MARKETS—Yesterday. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, TuunEThe suPP I I .f beasts has been moderate, axd some prime stock has been exhi bited. For all breeds the trade has been heavy, and the value of the best Seals and crosses has not exceeded ss, per 81b., many really good beasts being disposed of at still lower rates. The show of sheep has been tolerably god. Prime breeds have been in moderate request, at full prices, otherwise the market has been quiet. Calves have been steady in value. with a moderate inquiry. Beasts have sold at iron. is. 2d. to is. ; sheep, 3s. 4d. to 6s. • calves. 4s. 2d, to 61. 4d. ; and pig s , 4s. 6d. to ss. 10d . per 811 is„ to sink' the offal. Total supplies.—Beasts , 844; sheep, 6,270 ; and calves, 44, Foreigu.—Beasts, 340; and sheep. 3,250. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKET, THlntsDAY.—lncreased supplies of potatoes have been on sale. Th! trade has been quiet, as follows :—English thaws, 70s. to 955.: regents, 100 s. to 120 s. ; Scotch regents, 90s, to 110 s. ; rocks, Us, to 755. • and French, 50s. to 70s. per ton. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TnunstiAlr -The supplies have been heavy, and the trade has been dull, as follows :—Prime meadow bay, 755. to 82s Ed. ; Inferior ditto, 605. to 70s. ; Rowen, 50s. to 655. ; prime clover. 115 s. to 120 s. ; inferior ditto, 100 s, to 11(4. ; prime second-cut clover, 100 s. to 110 s. ; inferior ditto. 80s, to 90s. ; and straw, 265. to Ws. per load LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS, THIIRSDAY.—The demand; for sugar ha 4 not been active, but the value of both raw and venued has been well maintained. Coffee has been held for full quotations , with a moderee inquiry. Tea has been dull and drooping. LONDON METAL MARKET, THURSDAY.—Scotch pig iron ha` been quiet, at 545. 6d. cash, and 545. 9d, one month. Copper has been firmer. Chili bar iron, £66 to £66 ss. Other metals have bee' steady, but quiet. LONDON OIL MARKET, TIIURSDAY.—Linseed oil has been dull, at 328. spot. Rape has been Sat, with spot sellers at Vs. Other oils inactive. LONDON TRADE REPORT, THURSDAY.—TaIIow dull, at 46%. sellers spot and March, and 465. 6d. last three mouths. LONDON 'WOOL MARKET, TllVlUMAY.—Quietness still Pre" vale in the worsted trade. Business is small in wool, worsted yarns, and pieces, and prices generally are rather easier. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TRIJRADAT.—Trade Bales, 10,G00 bales, of which M AR K ET, r export and speculation. LIVERPOOL COPPER TIII3IBDAN.—The market has been firm. HAVRE COTTON MARKET, THUR. sDA.Y.—Market quiet / prices easier. Orleans, 138 ; low middling to ordinary, 136, 135 ; 11 00 G middling, 132, 131. AMSTERDAM, Fan. 24.—Wheat quiet and unchanged. RSV.: seed oil, spot, 412 ; May, 412 ; autumn, cf. Linseed oil, spot 312 May, 312 ; autumn, 312. Banes tin, 64, buyers. HAMBURG, F. 23.—Wheat and rye unchanged in all positions./ LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Sale.? probably 10,000 bales. The market dull. BIRTHS. GREEN - On the 24th inst., at 159, Holland-road, Kensing ton, Mrs. Joseph Green, of a son. WALKER—At St. John's -wool-park, Mrs. James Walker, of a son. MARRIAGES. CURTIS—ROE —On the •z2d inst., at Barnes Church, Richd• Curtis, of 14, Langham-place, Rogent-street, to Mariau, wi':ow of the late Theodore Roe, of Langlutm Lodger Cas elnau, Barnes, S.W. GILES—FRY—On the 23d inst., at Margate, Samuel Giles , 111. D., of Upper Lewisham-road, w Caroline, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Thos. Fry, Esq., of Purnivars inn, and Caraborwell. DEATHS. KEATING On the 23d inst., at Bayswater, Thos. Keating , Esq.. of 79, St. Paul's-churchyard, aged 85. OGDEN—On the 22d inst., at Wimbledon, ,Mr. Michael Ogden, aged 73. - - London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THB Sum Office, NO. 112, Strand , in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex -- Friday, February 25, 187(1. th RI -; Th Rol thou a.rA PAG! c i a F gam of t ( nal r prey are Joh/ fes. bin est fig an( La Cai Le