The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Saturday Review thinks the alarming riot at Thorn oliffe, in the Barnsley district, will not increase the popu larity of trade unions. Not only were the rioters members of a Union, but the atrocities which they committed were perpetrated in assertion of their right to exclude competi tion. As in the great majority of similar cases, the immediate sufferers were not members of the hostile body of employers, but working colliers, with their wives and children. The severities of internal discipline among themselves are in this instance more formidable than tote sufferings which are inflicted on the enemy. The capitalist may be ruined, or forced to retire from business ; the non-unionist workman is insulted, mal treated, or driven ; as at Thorncliffe, with his family, out of his home. The mob of colliers appear to have behaved with a brutality worthy of their neighbours, the saw grinders of Sheffield, or of the Manchester bricklayers. The case will be too serious for the magistrates to dispose of, and full justice will be done by the regular tribunals. The law is happily not yet administered by juries selected, a3cording to the audacious demand of unionist agitators, from the very body which promotes tyrannical acts of injustice ; nor will the offenders be able to plead, in the terms of a clause in the bill of last session, that their crime was committed in the course of a trade dispute. The provocation which the rioters may allege that they have received will be considered by the court in passing sentence, if it appears to form any excuse for an outrage on non-unionist workmen. Between the dis putants in the Thorncliffe case it would be premature, as it is unnecessary, to decide in default of thorough know ledge of all the circumstances of the earlier struggle ; but it is impossible not to see that there is a third party which requires protection more urgently than either masters or unionist workmen. The men who were assaulted and plundered were also hard-working miners, whose only fault was that they had infringed a local monopolY. It is absurd to say that they were deserters from their order who were justly exposed to the penalty of treason or mutiny. If there had been work enough in the Barnaley district or elsewhere for both sets of men, and for all other unemployed colliers, t l he Therncliffe lessees would have been defeated In the field of battle which they had selected. It may, perhaps, be a misfortune that capital should prevail over labour where two workmen are working for one employer; but the result is inevitable, unless one of the workmen imposes himself by force, not only on the master, who might, perhaps, 1 e loss entitled to compas sion, but on the competitor, whom he excludes by superior strength. The Thorncliffe rioters may, perhaps, in their normal condition, be useful and industrious members of the community, but there is no presumption in their favour when they are compared with their victimr. All the unions in the kingdom include less than a fifth part of the able-bodied population, and probably two of the remaining fifths have also to live by labour. Legislators who measure rights by numbers will commit a grievous error if they grant privileges to guilds with numerous mgabers at the expense of a still larger body outside. In the only dull part of his introduction, says the Spec tator, Lord Russell twice criticises us in in somewhat sneering and abstudly incorrect terms—precisely in the manner in which he might have raised a cheer at the expense of Mr. J. S. Mill, had he been answering him in Parliament. Lord Russell quotes the Daily News to prove that fixity of tenure in Ireland would "diminish progress and stereotype desolation," and he adds, with almost inconceivable misunderstanding of what we have written, " The Spectator seems to have no objection to desolation, and says that 'the more wealth Ireland has accumulated the more loudly and bitterly she has protested against our rule.' But surely it is not the business of Parliament to stereotype desolation, to stop the accumulation of wealth, and to foster the agrarian murders which, instead of being stopped, would be promoted by such legislation." And in another place Lord Russell says," The course proposed by the Spectator would produce, instead of fertility, desola tion; instead of hatred, contempt. Here would be a fine result of statesmanship applied to Ireland." Now, this misunderstanding of our argument is marvellous. Our position has been simply this—that to force on Ireland an agricultural system which, though it might be absolutely the best for any country where it finds popular feeling and natural circumstances suitable for that system, is utterly alien to Irish feeling and Irish circumstances, on merely economical grounds, is not good statesmanship, and xpay end, as it has ended in Ireland, in accumulating con siderable wealth, which is devoted, not to the production of more wealth, but for the purpose of rendering all pro perty insecure by fomenting political conspiracy and paying for foreign intervention. As to having no objec tion to the " stereotyping of desolation," that is Lord Russell's own fancy, which we take leave to say, though it might have been a happy and telling imputation in debate, is a little beneath him in serious disquisition. But, on the whole, Lord Russell's introduction to his speeches and despatches will add very justly to the esteem with which he is regarded in England. It is the work of a proud, upright, candid, shrewd mind, a little arrogant, a little narrow, especially on topics with which it is not very familiar, a little careless of the personal feelings of others; but typically national, and for a mind so national and so Whig in all its traditions, very noble. Lord Russell's influence on English politics has been enormous, and will be felt for all time to come. Few statesmen in our history have exerted an influence showing so vast a preponderance of good. The John Bull observes that the current number of the Edinburgh Review contains a very temperate and well reasoned article on the now engrossing question of land lord and tenant in Ireland. We cannot, of course, infer fiat the principles avowed in this essay are those on which Mr. Gladstone will frame his forthcoming measure. But we have here, at all events, a proof of the requisitions which an influential class of his supporters will make to him on the subject. We can only say that, as far as it is possible to speculate on the results of legislation on this matter, Ministers can hardly do better than place them selves under the guidance of so discreet an adviser as the one who has just now spoken. The Quarterly Review also has its essay op the " Irish Cauldron," and finds therein ample theme for the witches' refrain—" Double, double, toil and trouble." Our Albemarle-street friend does not seem disposed to offer any contribution of his own to the seething mass of perplexity. He dwells on the difficulties of the case, and insists, not without reason, that the government of Ireland is not just now in the most capable hands. As, however, the Quarterly has worked zealously for some time past to make a Conservative Government impossible, this complaint is not put forth just now with a very good grace. Tu l'as voulu Georges Dandin b—and must make the best of the consequencss. For our own part, we believe fully that - the Conserva tive leaders are ready to give their sincere and active support to any sound and wise measure on the subject that may be offered by Government. s pf course their first business will be to watch that the forthcoming bill is not of too reckless and sweeping a character. Some modification of the existing law of landlord and tenant must take place and we assume that in the first instance it must take the shape of some encroachment on the right now exercised by the landlord. We believe, as we have said, that the concessions required of them are not of a very serious nature, that they will, in general, gladly advantageou s in making them, and that the result will be highly advantageou s to themselves and to the rest of the com munity. The Economist is strongly opposed to the movement for securing State aid to emigration. The scheme is in fact socialist —that is to say, it proposes to take from John what he has, simply because he has it, in order to give it to George, simply because he has it not. Mr. Torrens affirms, indeed, that there is no gift, but only a lean, but ho is talking what commercially speaking is mere non sense—a loan by a State without security being to all practical purposes a gift. We can understand very well that a State may find it expedient or feel it right to assist the helpless, or even to prevent starvation among the able bodied—though the expediency of the latter proceeding is more questiouable,—but to compel one man who has some thing to give tb another because he has nothing is to break up th e very foundations not only of our society, but of any society of any kind not organised like a regiment, for it would either produce universal idleness or substitute for a temptation to work a compulsion to labour. And for what is the nation to make this gift? Not, it is acknow ledged, to reliove pauperism, for paupers would not go and the colonies would not accept them ; but to extend the frightful area of pauperism by tempting new classes to apply for State aid. Every body of workmen, in fact, Who were discontented with their wages, or out on strike, would be authorised to apply to the State for a free las _ sap to a colony, PO when he got there, and a homestead freo of cost. Was ever such a premium offered for failure by one's country at its own cost, or did anybody ever sug gest a more reckless reward for improvidence ? The sav ing are actually to be plun.lercd to mace the wasteful snore comfortable than themselves, and this at a moment when we are about to tax the workers anew, in order that the whole body of the people may acquire by education now eapaciti. , :s both for work and for economy, and when statesmen are patiently striving to reduce the, burden which unavoidable distress throws upon the country. The pre:ect is entirely inadmissible even as an experiment. PArErt Hot'sEs.—The American invention for paper building material has been recently tested in Chicago, with the result, we are informed, of establishing its utility. It is said that a house, 22ft. long, 16ft. wide, and 14ft. high, can be covered on the outside fot less than nine dollars ; and a home wit. by 22ft., and 20ft. higb, foz *twenty THE CAMBRIDGE WRANGLERS. The Cambridge list of honours was issucl yesterday. The senior Wrangler is Mr. Richard Pendlebury (St. John's) the son of Mr. James Pendlebury, of Fairfield. Liverpool. He was educated at the College, Liver pool, under Dr. Howson, the present Dean of Chester, and the Rev. C. W. Underwood, now Vioar of Histon, near Cambridge. He obtained the first (most valuable) mathematical minor scholarship at the election of minor scholars and open exhibitioners at St. John's College, in April, 1866, and became a Foundation Scholar in June, 1868. At the University of London he obtained the first B.A. Mathematical Exhibition, in August, 1367, and the second B.A. Mathematical Scholarship in October, 1869. Dr. Parkinson was his college tutor at St. John's, and Mr. Routh his private tutor. The second name on the list is Mr. George Alfred Greenhill (St. John's). He is the son of Mr. Thomas Greenhill, civil engineer, of Addison-road, Kensington He was educated at Christ's Hospital, where Mr. Webster and Mr. Potter were his mathematical masters He became a Grecian in 1364. He obtained a Somerset Exhibition at the election of minor scholars and open exhibitioners at St. John's College in April 1866, and become a Foundatian Scholar in June, 1868. He obtained the first B.A. Mathematical Exhibition at the University of London, in August 1868. At the first election to the Whitworth scholarships for mechanical science in Sep tember, 1869, Mr. Greenhill was a successful candidate, being second in the theoretical examination, and fifth in the final list. Dr. Parkinson was his college tutor, and Mr. W. 11. Besant (St. John's), Senior Wrangler in 1850, his private tutor. The third wrangler is Mr. Edward Lawrence Levett (St. John's), the son of Mr. Benjamin Levett, of Hull. He was educated at the Pocklington Grammar School under the Rev. J. C. Gruggen, and subsequently at Cheltenham Col lege; and for some time before coming to the university he had the assistance of his brother, Mr. R. Levett, late scholar of St. John's College, who was 11th Wrangler in 1865, and now of King Edward's School, Birmingham. Mr. E. L. Levett obtained a Somerset Enhibition at the election of minor scholars and open exhibitioners at St. John's in April, 1866, and a Foundation Scholarship in June 1368. Dr. Parkinson was his college tutor, and Mr. Marshall and Mr. Routh liken in succession his private tutors. The fourth on the list is Mr. Willir.na D. Stephen (Corpus); Mr. Hunter (Jesus). The fifth, Mr. Haslam (St. John's), and Mr. George Henderson (Pembroke). Thus St. John's College has produced the first three and one of the fifth of Wranglers. THE SOLICITOR-GEN'ER►_AL - WITH HIS CONSTITUENTS. One or two points in the address given to his constituents by the Solicitor-General, at Exeter, on Thursday, deserve notice. The learned gentle man replied to the various criticisms made upon the Government policy especially in the matter of the working- ;lasses. THE DOCKYARD REDUCTION. The first attacks upon the Ministry (said Sir John) are made in respect of what has been called the dockyard ques tion, and which in substance is this—that the Liberal Administration have discharged a vast number of persons employed in the dockyards in a cruel, heartless, and unfeeling manner, and have made no provision what ever for them. Now the answer to that charge is twofold. First of all, recollect that when a Liberal Government comes into power its great object is, and ought to be, to lessen the burdens on the masses of the people, and if there has been an enormous and extravagant expenditure in any ono branCh of the public service, it is their sacred duty to put an end to that expenditure in the in terest of the great mass of the community. That would be the answer if the fact were true, but it is not. The facts broadly are these. A large number of persons were employed in the dockards far beyond the require meats of the naval service. Mr. Corry, the First Lord of the Admiralty in Lord Derby's and Mr. Disraeli's Admi nistration, a man of whom I will never speak otherwise than with great respect, in the conscientious discharge of his duty reduced by between 4,000 and 5,000 the persons engaged in the dockyards. I do not blame him for that ; I should he ashamed to make political capital out of what I know to have been a necessity. While the discharges were proceeding he went out of office, and Mr. Childers succeeded him; and he, instead of discharging 5,000 men, discharged 1,500. He went on in a very limited way in the course which Mr. Corry had very properly begun. Mr. Childers, at a very large expenditure, made a more satisfactory pro vision than did Mr. Corry for nearly two-thirds of the people discharged by him. The result, therefore, is that a far larger number were discharged by the Tories, and were not provided for, and that a smaller numbes were discharged by the Liberals, and were provided for. Now, this is the truth of the dockyard question. Did the gory speakers know it to bo the truth? If they did know .t, they were guilty of the baseness of attacking poli tical opponents upon grounds that they knew to be false. I.f they did not they were guilty of the grossest ignorance. The: c has been front the tcp to the bottom cf the ,:telminis aa tion, throughout all del :laments, a vigorous and un paring lit,nd laid at the root cf abuses, and immense reductions have been effected in the miecellanecus and civil expenditure of the country. I ant quite aware that ,eductions have a twofold aspect. All reductions are made somebody's expense; there will always be persons who will cease to be paid, and the friends of these persons will be discontented. Therefore it is only a strong Government, which can rely upon the people, which can fall back upon the sympathies of the whole community, that can apply vigorous and unsparing hand to abuses such as I nave pointed out. A weak Government will be always an extravagant one, because a weak Government, by the very necessity of the case, depending from day to lay and from vote to vote for its existence, cannot have the courage and strength to do what a really strong and popular Government can, and, if they can, ought to do. EDUCATION' AND THE RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY. Sir John went on to talk of education and the religious difficulty. He was glad that people had awakened to the importance of the whole question. "As for the difficulty the proceeded), far from being an advocate in itself of non-religious education, it appears to me that apart from all religious and moral grounds, it is upon purely intel lectual grounds a mistake to educate without religion, be- cause the relations of man to God and to Ms creatures are equally matters of knowledge, and come within the circle of any education that can be called complete. Nevertheless, if we cannot get all we want, if wo can get only something that is not in itself wrong, we will get that something and be content with it, and try to get the rest as time goes on. If the Ministry are in earnest, as I believe they are, in meeting this great national want, the Liberal party will not be so unwise as to split upon into sections because the particular measure that ministers may bring in may not in all respects meet with every requirement." The Solicitor-General referred to univer sity reform, on which subject a sweeping measure would, he hoped, be passed. The Government would also have to deal with the Ballot and the law as to the rights of women. " The law relating to women in this country (he said) is absolutely barbaric; there is nothing like it in any other civilised country. Although Sir Roundeil Palmer makes a good speech in favour of the existing law I don't think he will be able to carry the Liberal pally with him; and I believe that there will be a large arill substantial measure passed in this or the succeeding" Parliament. Whether that will lead to their enfranchisement as 2arlia men tary voters I am not prepared to say." TIIE LAND BILL. In concluding, Sir John spoke shortly on the Land Bill. It is very difficult for me to speak on this subject, except in very general terms, but I may say, without any danger of misleading, that there is no chance that a bill brought forward by a Government which contains in it some of the largest English and Irish landlords and their sons will be any very rude shock to what have been rather too frequently called the rights of property. When people talk about the rights cf property they veryof ten mean the rights of the landlords. It has been common to say that tenant right is landlord wrong, forgetting that land lord right may possibly be tenant wrong ; that if the land lord is the proprietor of the land, so is the'tenant the proprietor of what he puts into it; and that there is except, by artificial rules —no more violation of principle, of common sense, or of justice, in giving a tenant security than in giving a landlord security. There ought to be nothing, therefore, which should in any way affect the strictest rights of property in this country in securing to the Irish tenant that which he has a right to, a feeling cf security in his holding. If I were to adopt the language of any other man, it would be that of the Earl of Devon, at a dinner at Newton, in Noventer last. Ire is a . man of the highest character, a very large Irish proprietor, and I believe rejoices in a perfectly contented tniantry ; and he said that the tenantry in Ireland ought to have security for what improvements they might make, and that he would gave a measure which would effeat that ohject, whatever name it might be called, his undeviating and hearty supp or t. What the Earl of Devon said at Newton I know he will carry: cut in the House of Louis. General Garibaldi will viii England, if his hogith permits, in the middle of March, acwinpani:d by Father Gavazzi, for the purporie of having an interview Itith Signor Mazzini. DESTRUCTION OF A STATUE ABOUT TO BE CAT Ix BnoNzn.—The sculptor Marcello—a pseudonym for the Duchess Colonna, the author of two busts of Marie Antoinette, and other works—has just had a sad mishap. She had sent to Paris, from Rome, a statue to be cast in bronze by one of the best French artists. This work has arrived broken to yiecem. The duchess has thus lest 4 year's labour. 111 E tJN, LONDON, SATURDAY •EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1870, SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART. The A thenceum has the following:—M. Ste. Deuve's library is to be sold in a clay or two ; it numbers nearly 30,000 volumes, and possosses considerable interest.—Mr. Tenny son's " Holy Grail" is published in America at 10 cents, a price that must be more agreeable to the purchasers than the author.—A uniform edition of the poems and imagina tive tales of Dr. George MacDonald will shortly appear.— At an unusually full meeting of Members and Associates of the Royal Academy, which was held on Tuesday even ing last, the majority seemed bent on electing a landscape painter, and Mr. V'. Cole was chosen A.R.A. This gentle man and Mr. Peter Graham having an equal number, nine, of scratches at the preliminary stage of the proceedings, a ballot was held, when Mr. Cole distanced his rival by several votes. In the "scratching" Mr. Mr. F. Walker re ceived six favourable marks, Mr. Marks five, Mr. IVoolner four, besides one which was not attested by the signatpre of the giver. A large number of candidates were nomi nated; of these most had no scratches, others obtained but one or two.—M. Girard, the engraver, has just died at the age of 83. He engraved works of Ary Schefier, Girard, Delaroche, Winterhalter, and others. FOREIGN NOTES. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE . . Yesterday the Ist Infantry Brigade at Aldershot, under the command of Major-General Lysons, C.B , formed up at 10 o'cicck cn theßrigade Parade, South Camp, ar.d thence marched ;o on which the irigade wns exci ciz,ed in a series cf. field movements, such as changing front to flank on detached points, forming echelon, &c. The brigade is composed of the 2d Battalion 7th Royal Fusiliers., 2d Battalion 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and the 42d Highlanders. The weather was excessively cold, and ;.fter the manoeuvres a brisk return was made to quarters. On Thur.Ady the 2d Infantry Brigade at Alder shot, under command of Colonel Elrington (4th Battalion Rifle Brigade), Acting Brigadier, formed upon the Brigade Parade, Centre B'ock, Ferma t:ea Barracks, and, after presenting medals for long service and good conduct to Colour-Sergeant West, 4th Battalion 60th Rifles, and a private of the 67th Regiment, proceeded on route march, taking the line of country leading through the Long Valley and past Caesar's Camp . to Farnham, and returning by way of Hale and Heath-end to quatters, which were reached shortly before one o'clock. The brigade was composed of the 2d Battalion 13th Light Infantry, 4th B tttalion GOth Rifles, 67th Regiment, and the 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade. On the same day the 3d Infantry Brigade, consisting of the 2d Battalion 3d Buffs and the 2d Battalion Rifle Brigade, was exercised in several field movements and in skirmishing on Cove-cotn mon. The B battery, B Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, and the A battery of the C Brigade, under the command of Col. Tod Brow; were also put through numerous field movements peculiar to that branch of the service on Eelmoor-hill. A commencement is to be made in breaking up the Depot Battalions statione . 1 at Chatham garri son. Orders have arrived there from the Horse Guards for the depot of the Ist Battalion of the 2d (Queen's) Regiment and that of the Ist Battalion of the 15th Regiment to proceed on Tuesday next to Gosport, to be attached to the 2d Battalion of the 2d Regiment stationed there. This order will take a depot from each of the two Depot Battalions in Chatham barracks. It would appear from this order that the authorities intend to futile!) the depots of corps serving abroad to corps stationed at home.. By the abolition of the whole of the Depot. Battalions, it is computed that a reductio❑ of £14,000 a sear could be effected, by dispensing with the staff now employed. Should all the depots be removed from Chatham, it is expected that the spacious barracks at that garrison which would thus be left untenanted would be occupied by regi ments of the line. Yesterday Colonel J. W. S. Smith, C. 8., com manding the Chatham garrison; during the absence on leave of Major-General Freeman Murray, the commandant, inspected the depot of the 82d Regi ment previous to its departure, in a few days, to join the regiment on its arrival home from India. The Secretary of State for War has accepted the tender of the Fairbairn Engineering Company for the iron work of the first of the great armour- . plated forts at Spithead. A 35. 7 t0n Woo,lwich gun is ordered to be-mann factitredatthe'Royal Gun Factories, RGYal.Ariena'l,. Woolwich;• to , compete with one on the Whit_ worth prinCiple, of the same weight, now being constructed. The gulis, Stc,,,for the:Viilture, 3, double Screw gun vessel; now fitting for sea at §heerness, have been supplied to her from the Chatham Gain Wharf. Her armament includes two of the 61 ton Wool wich pattern guns. _ Her Majesty's turret ship Captain will leave Liverpool this morning for Portsmouth under the convoy of the Valiant. On - the passage she will touch at Holyhead. _ The screw steam surveying vessel Nassau,.s, w.►s. put out of Keyham yard ou Thu's lay, and!place4 in No. 4 dock at Deironport to undergo a thorough repair. The double screw composite gun vessel Pert, 4, Commander Jones, having been overhaule 1 and cleaned, was removed on Thursday fro►n - No. 4 dock in Devonport yard, to moorings in Hattloaz?,. where she will be stored and victualled for service on the West Coast of Africa. The paddlewheel steam sloop BazzArd, 2, St,,ff Commander Jam, s G. 11. Thain, fl om l'ortsmoT b, arrived on ihursday at Devonport with kup er u metary seamen, •among whom weie sjine gunners for service in the Pert. A paragraph has lately appeared in Eeveral of the daily papers stating that the freehold of . Wool wich dockyard would be disposed of in plots on the' 21st of next month. This, however, is not the'cAse ; the sale already announced to commence on that day comprised the whole of the surplus stores. The secretary of the . commiftee of house proprietors ire Woolwich has received an official communicatio❑ from the Admiralty to the effect that the plariS for the sale are being prepared, but are not yet ready for issue. It was originally intended to dispose of the dockyard in time to include the amount in the Navy Estimates this year, but, owing to the large quantities of stores in the yard, it has been found impracticable to do so ; as at present contemplated, the sale will be held about the end of March or early in April. At the last meeting of the Wool wich Local Board of Health it was decided to me morialise the Lords of the Admiralty for the gift of a portion of the river frontage in the dockyards for the use of the parish as soon as the plans are published. _ . _ The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Wm. Fedarb and James Hook, engineers, to the Pert ; and Felix Foreman, first- Class assist.-engineer, to the Pert. I?.IILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES. RAILWAY BILLS. • The Examiners into the Standing Order Proofs presided in the House of Commons' Committee rooms yesterday. Before Mr. FRERE the following bills had com plied with the Standing Orders :—The Bedford and Northampton Railway ; the Furness Railway ; the London, Worcester, and South Wales Railway; the Greenock Harbour ; the Burnham Tidal Har bour; the Liverpool Tramways; the Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway ; the 'Feign Valley Railway ; the Caledonian and Glasgow and Soutli-Western Railway ; the London, Blackwall, and Millwall Extension Railway. These were all unopposed bills. The opposed North London Tramways Bill was decided to have complied with the Standing Orders; the Barnstaple and Ilfra combe Railway (No. 1) was withdrawn ; and the Bude and Torrington Junction Railway was post poned until the 10th of February. The North Metropolitan Tramways had not complied with the Standing Orders. Before Mr. ROBINSON, the Belfast Harbour, the Great Western Railway, the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal Navigation, the International Communication, the Metropolitan District Rail way, the llereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway, com plied with the Standing Orders; and the Bury St. Edmunds and Thetford Railway Bills had not com plied with the Standing Orders. THE ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH, Yesterday an extraordinary general meeting of this company was held at the Loudon Tavern —the Hon. R. Grimstou in the chair. Mr. WEAVER, the secretary, having read the no tice convening the meeting, The CHAIR3fAX raid the proprietors had been called together for the purpose of e:mlirniii!g au dividend which had been proposed by the directors for the past half year. The directors had never taken this course before of proposing an i:►- teritn dividend without acco►►nts, though it was usual in some companies, and he would tell them why the directors proposed to do it now. It had bee❑ settled that the Government should take to the telegraphs at the end of 18G9, so all arrangements were made to meet that purpose ; but at the last moment the directors received information from the Postmaster-General that the plans of the Chancellor of the-Exchequer for raising the money were not com pleted, and that day was fixed for the transfer. Under these circumstances there was one of tined courses for the directors to pursue. They might have closed the accounts at the cnd of December, and have taken January by itself, but this was a course which would have caused confusion ; then they might have postponed making any declaration of dividend for a month, and that would have been incon venient ; and the third course is as that. which the directors had adopted—the proposal of an interim dividend—which would leave them time to see what more could be paid. (Cheers.) The register under his hand was the register on which would be paid the Government purchase money, and this purchase money would be paid at the Bank of England on the 7th of February, while the intirina dividend would be paid at the company's banker's on the same day. Before he mentioned the amount which the shareholders were to receive, it wou!d be well for them to understand their position. They were aware that in this coral any.there was no preference stcck whatever, and the directors thought there was nothing in the ct mpany's affairs which would re quire them to go defore the arbitrator. But that did not turn out to be the cas2. In 1860 the com pany issued 15,000 new shares, which, if they had been fully paid up, would have been £lO each. These were issued for the purpose of extinguishing the deLenture debt of the company, and to make additions to the system as additions were required. These shares were not issued to . the public, but were allotted rateably to the proprietors, and the very small portion which fell to trustees, and were not taken up, were sold at a premium for the benefit of the company. As the debentures fell in they were paid off, and as lines were. re quired they were made ; but when the proposi tion for taking over the telegraphs arose only £8 of the £lO had been paid. The company had no wore debentures to pay off, and no more lines to make, so that no more capital was required. Not withstanding this, claims were made by certain shareholders of this stock, who urged that if the £2 had been called up, that £2 would have been as good as £5. This point went to arbitration, and Mr. Liawkshaw, the arbitrator, decided that the £8 stock should be calculated at £B, and uo more. Now, as the company stood, it had to decide the problem of dividing the Government award of £2,938,826 between the holders of cons ilidated stuck ;aid orthe 15,00 u shams 9i each. The directors prutO6ed to pay at once for every £lOO share £250, and for every share £2O, leasing a bdance of £14,1:38 10s. to be carried forward to account for distribution on the capital account. So much for the purchase account. Then the direc tors recommended an interim dividend 9f £lO per cent. per annum, free of income tar, and there would be still more to come. lie moved the adop tion of the interim dividend. Mr. NICKLETHWAIT seconded the motion. A PROPRIETOR asked if it was proposed to divide the res rye fund, £63,700. He mov,d that it should be divided at the same time as the other. The CHAIRMAN said that of course the reserve fund would be divided, but not at present. The motion was then carried. Mr. A. Sim then proposed a special resolution, authorising the directors to apportion among them selves X.10;000 as a payment for their special ser vices, and that each of the AttlitOrS should be paid Mr. Ettsbtu. seconded the motion. A long discussion ensued, in the'course of which -an amendment.was Moved to the effect-that the chairman ,should have £5,000 'alone, and on. this being put the chairman said he Would have nothing apart from,his colleagues, for if the amendment vas carried-he would not accept the money. The amendment was lost. Another was proposed by Mr. Southane for the appointment of a committee to raise a testimonial for the directors. Mr. PILCHER Leconded the amendment, which was carried by a majority of three, and the meeting separated. 11E6TER'S TELEGRAPH. ..kn -extraordinary meeting of this company was held-yesterdAy at the City Termiuus Hotel, Colouel J. Hollaudin the chair. The report was taken as read. • The CHAIRMAN explained that the purchase money amounted to £726,000. He bore testimony to the .valuable services of Mr. Harcourt, as the cXripc.ny's counsel, and the services of Mr. Bony is, the company's solicitor, and stated that the dir,c tors recommended special acknowledgments should lie ykide to the first-gamed gentlea.an. of £l,OOO, and to the latter of £2,000. • They alio recoin men.led that £5,000 should be given to Mr. Reuter, £4,00 to the directors, and £7,000 given to the - officers of the company . and others., The sum of til.e proposals for the future of the company and for the dis•rtoution were : —l. That the sum of £l7 per lai.., representing . the capital outlay for . the Nor derney.cable‘and land lines be returned to the share hotiier6, together with a .bunus of 60 per sou m4l(- 114; a total cash return of £77 pir share. 2. That the present elpital of the company be reduced to £BO,OOO, - divi• - led into 10,000 shares of £8 each that 9,000 of this:: shares, equal to £72,000, beiu 6 approximately the amount raised for the purchase of the original business, be substituted for the existing 9,000 shares of . £25 each, leaving 1,000 shares unailotted, as at present, every share holder under this arrangement receiving a paid-up share of £B, in addition to the cash payment of £77 per share. 3. That £7,000 be retained as working capital for carrying on . the original business. He concluded by moving that the report of the direc tors upon the distribution of the purchase-money for the Norderney cable be received, adopted, and entered upon the minutes. Mr. I.LVEDAY seconded the motion, and bore earnest testimony to the arduous work entailed upon the directors in negotiating the transfer of the company. The motion was carried unanimously._ _ The CHAIRMAN then proposed the following re solutions, which were seconded by Sir Joing HAT, and carried unanimously :—" That the 26th Article of Association be amended by the addition of the following words :—"l'he company may a'so from time to time 'by special resolution reduce its capital.' fhat the 52d Article of Association be altered and amended as follows The number of directors shall not be less than three, nor more than six, exclusive of the managing director.' " Mr. REUTER and Mr. BOMPAS expressed their thanks to the meeting for the generous recognition of their services, and the proceedings terminated. THE MORDAUNT DIVORCE SCANDAL. Whatever doubt existed as to the trial of " Mordaunt v. Mordaunt" taking place, must now vanish, as the day for its hearing was fixed in Chambers on Friday morn ing. What with the case of " Kelly v. Kelly," and "Smith v. Adkins," the latter of which was argued for nearly four days, theundefended divorce causes will stand a very poor chance of being got through. " Mordaunt v. Mordaunt," which is to come before a special jury, is fixed definitely for the 12th of February, on which day a jury will be empanelled to try whether the respondent is or is not sane. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. F. A. Inderwick are retained for Sir Charles Mordaunt, and Mr. Deane, Q.C.. and Mr. R. A. Searle are the counsel for Sir Robert Mon crieff? Lady Mordaunt's father, who, on the plea of insanity, is mtide a party to the suit. If that plea is successfully established, of course the trial on the issue of adultery will not take place and most likely Sir Charles Mordaunt will have the custody of his wife. If the main issue is not tried there will, of course, be great disappointment felt by some of the public, but it will, doubtless, be a great relief not only to the co-respondents, but to others implicated in suits. LAW AND POLICE. Tam Nonwicn 4EcnoN,—The trial of the charge of bribezy against Sir Henry Stracey at the last election for Norwich, had been fixed to take place in the county. On Friday, in the Court of Queen's Bench, the application was argued to change the venue from the city of Norwich to the county of Norfolk, or some other county on the ground that it was impossible t 3 try a case in a district where party feelings run so high. The Court decided that the venue should be changed from the city to the county; and that instead of trying the case by special jury, struck out of the common list of special juries, the special jurors in this case should be struck upon the old principle, that is to say so many chosen by the sheriff, each party to have the power of objecting to any juror. By this means they would probably get a jury they would not say less par tisan, but less open to observation. The rule was made ab solute accordingly. TnE NEW Cuoss ACCIDENT.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Friday, a very strange case was argued. The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company sought to set aside a verdict given for £1,500 damages given in the case of Dear against the company. They took this actien on the evidence of a discharged clerk of plain tiff's attorney. The plaintiff, who is the wife of a publican, was stated at the trial to have had four ribs broken in the New Cross accident of June last, and she got £1,500 damages. The clerk deposed to takirg the evi dence of plaintiff in getting up the case, and he alleged that no medical man bad been called in to attend plaintig until the afternoon of the day following the acci dent. He also charged his master with urging that two expert medical witnesses ought to be engaged for twenty five guineas each, and he further stated that the husband of plaintiff told him that ho (Mr. Dear) had taken a slip of paper from a friend on the jury stating that they had agreed on giving £1,500 damages, that Mr. Dear handed it to his attorney, who was about to show it to the learned counsel in the case, but that Dear snatched it out of his attorney's hand. Mr. Nasmith now, in shewing cause against the rule, read several affidavits contradicting in de tail every allegation made by the discharged clerk. and the court decided on discharging the rule, as the alleged misconduct on the part of the plaintiffs was con clusively contradicted. There was such strong evidence of damage that the court could not interfere with the ver dict of the jury. ANOTHER NEW CROSS ACCIDENT CASE.—Another New cross accident case came up in the same court. It was an action tried before the Under-Sheriff of Middlesex, when the plaintiff (a drayman of Barclay and Perkins, the well known brewers) got £BOO damages for injuries which incapacitated him from following his vocation. The injuries were to the hand, knee, and spine, but none of them were permanent. The Court of Queen's Bench were not asked to order a now trial on the ground of the damages being excessive. The Court made the order for a new trial, unless the plaintiff would consent to £6OO damages within a week. A QUESTION AFFECTING TILE the Exchequer Court on Friday, their lordships decided a point which affected the members of the bar. It arose out of a motion submitted to the court to renew certain costs allowed by the taxing master in one of the now well-known series of actions brought against the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company for the re covery of damages for injuries sustained on the company's line at New-cross in June last, on the occasion of the return from the Licensed Victuallers' Fete at the Crystal Palace. At the trial in Mr. Secondary Potter's Court, two counsel, a Q.C. and a junior, were engaged for the plaintiff, and the costs for these learned gentlemen were allowed by the Master, but now disputed on behalf of the company, it being contended that one counsel was quite sufficient for the purpose. The court, how ever, held a different opinion, upholding the finding of the Master. A rich company could command as many as they liked, and it was therefore only just that a plaintiff of more limited means should have the benefit of two counsel. TRADE AND FINANCE. FRIDAY EVENING. The announcement of the Russian loan for £12,0)0,030 nominal capital, though not so large as was expected (for it was understood that that would be the sterling amount to be raised) has caused considerable stringency in the money market. There has been an active demand for accommodation, and the quotat tion for prime short-dated paper has been nearly equal to the Bank rate in the open market. This move ment, however, is likely to be of a temporary character, as the disbursement of the capital in payment for the tele graphs by the Government will soon cause a large influx of money into the market. Tho actual amount to be set free in this manner is £5,775,050, nearly the whole of which will require to be reinvested in some manner. The success that has - so far attended the issue of the new loan may be attr'• bitted to the fact that there will be so large an amount of capital available for investment in a short time, and the period of the announcement has therefore been well chosen. The loan, however, is not likely to have the field to itself for long, as we understand that several new tele graph companies have been incorporated, the prospectuses of which will be issued in a day or two. It may scarcely be necessary to warn investors against forming too sanguine an opinion as to the probable return to be obtained from investments in the shares of telegraph companies. In point of fact, the short time which has elapsed since many of the companies commenced operations has not afforded sufficient data to allow of the formation of an adequate opinion on the subject. The matter is, therefore, somewhot of a speculative character, as although rapid strides Lave been made in this direction, business men have not availed themselves to the extent they were expected to do of the now means of communication, or possibly to the extent they would have done had the profits on their transactions afforded the expense of telegraphy. It maybe remarked, however,that the field is a very limited one, and it is difficult to see how fresh lines can be continually added to those already existing without diminishing the chances of profit. Of course every addition to enterprise, of whateN er nature, is a national blessing, and it is for the original shareholders —a uniformly unfortunate body—to judge of the prospects of the successful issue of their undertakings. Our food prospects continue very favourable. Both wheat and meat have tended downwards in price, and there is every reason to believe that the quotations for both will recede to such a point as to place them Loth within the reach of a much more extcndel class tUan at preent. This will probably have a great influence upon the trade of the country, generally, and already we see a decidedly cheerful ft cling amongst manufacturers. At 11IancheLter this week, a further advance has taken place in the value of cotton goods, manufacturers being heavily under contract, and refusing to engage in further business, except at enhanced rates. In cotton, a steady trade has been concluded, but prices are still high owing to the uncertainty attending the out-turn of the current crop. We believe that the last accounts from New York considerably under-estimate the yield, and still hold to oar original figure of 3,00),000 b 4 1 .95, or thereabouts. TUE AustitiAN CALINET. Herr von Kaiserfeld has, it is said, refused the Presi dency of the CiEleithan Ministry, and the appohltment of Herr Hasner to the office is now thought likely. The discussion of the address proceeds actively at Vienna. Herr Giskra, the Minister of the Interior, delivered on the 26th a moderate speech, in which ho said that the position of the Cabinet imposed reserve on the Ministers. The pretensions put forward in the Czech manifesto were visionary and impracticable, but conces sions in harmony with the spiLit of the Con stitution might be made. The members of the existing Cabinet had always, he said, sought the inte rest of the whole country, and not of a party, and had done all they could to advance the principle of nati,nal autonomy. Count Beust said that after the conciliatory speech of Herr Ciskra, he would give his full sup port to the address of the majority. He was followed by Herr Rechbaur, whose speech produced a great effect. He declared himself to be favourable to a policy of compromise more liberal than the Ministry. He hoped to arrive by means of mutual concessions at a complete under standing between the Crown and the nationalities which obeyed it. PROTECTION IN • AMERICA. The tariff question in the United States is far frcm being settled. The Ways and Means Committee *f the House of Representatives are working at the tariff of import duties, on the old Protectionist principle, bat they do not seem very anxious to report the Bill. Mr William Arnaud, President of the Executive Council of Nova Scotia had been lately before the committee arguing in favour of the reduction of the duty on imported bituminous coal, which naturally interferes very much the Nova Scotian trade. Unless there is a great improvement in the temper of Congress ob. this subject, Mr. Arnaud has not much chance at present, for the Pro tectionists are more vehement than ever, being greatly incensed by Commissioner Wells's report. Mr. Kelley, the Republican member for Philadelphia, has been put f rward to reply to the Revenue Commissioner, and has made a speech which lasted three hours and has beer. since published and distributed by the Protectionists. Mr. Kelley contends that the country is in a highly prospe rous condition, i ts only drawback being caused by insuffici, nt protection. Mr. Wells, in the opinion of his adversary, is a traitor, whose opinions have been bought in the interests of Great Britain and her American colonies. The United States would be flooded with the productions of the under paid labourers of Europe if Mr. Wells's tariff were adopted ; the looms and factories would be silenced, and the cora. for which, according to Mr. Kelley, there is now no market in Europe would rot in the field. Why the corn is to rot in the field because the tariff on foreign manufactures is reduced, is not immediately apparent. Aowever, the Protectionists appear to find Mr. Kelly's logic conclusive. EDUCATION IN NEW YORK. Governor Hoffman, in his annual message, has given some account of the progress of education in New York State. He says that there arc in the State nearly ono million and a half of children of school age, about a million of whom attended the public schools during some portion of the year, while 126,000 were attending private schools. The total number of public school-houses is 11,693. The governor thinks that these facts show the great proportions to which the com mon school system has grown. - There may be ddccts in it, but taken A's a whole, it commands and receives the hearty commendation and cordial support of the great body of the people. WHALING. T:io.American whale fishery is on the decline. Accounts horn Massachusetts skew that great depression exists at the ports engaged in this trade. The business of 18G9 resulted in a loss of $200,000. Most gloomy accounts arc issued by Newburyport, Boston, and other ports engaged in the Atlantic fishery. The New Bedford papers say that indiarubber, kerosene, gas, and lard have robbed the whales of their importance. Within a few years the value of whalebone has depre ciated 250 per cent. The business is, however, still suffi olentlf remunerative to keep a few whalers afloat. It is estimated that the Arctic ground will afford profitable fishing for ten years longer, when the trade will most likely be abandoned. GERMANY AND MEXICO. During Mr. Seward's journey in Mexico an entertainment was given by the North American Ambassador, at which Mr. Romero, the Minister; proposed the prosperity of the North German Confederation, and the health of its Pro tector, King William, and. its wise statesman, Count Biunarck. He said that while in otßee Mr. Seward had done evprythino to restore the diplomatic relations of Mexico, and that he had succeeded in doing so with Germany, one of the most intelligent and powerful nations of Europe. There were some points of resem blance between the United States and the North German Confederation. The struggle for unity had welded a number of powerless German States into a single mighty Power. The United States, too, had heroically battled fur unity. In the eyes of the world there were two great nations on which the hopes of the oppressed were fixed, they were the United States in the New World and the North German Confederation in the Old. PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S GERM THEORY. The Lancet, this week, commenting upon Professor Tyndall's germ theory of disease —the theory, namely, that the air is carrying about with it atoms of contagion—utters a note of caution. The doctor's conclusions may, of course, be true ; but the Lancet does not think he has proved them. He has only demonstrated the existence of dirt in the atmosphere; he has not shewn conclusively what that dirt is. Were there no dirt, yet there might be germs ; the one has no relation to the other. The professor's recipe of a cotton wool respi rator, therefore, must not be implicitly relied upon. It may be of use, and can do no harm, but will probably be only a nine days' wonder, to be replaced by and by with something stranger still. Such is the conclusion of the Lancet. MEDICAL TESTIMONY CONCERNING BEER. The other day a Liverpool vestryman called attention to the adulteration of beer, especially denouncing the brewers as helping to swell the insanity of the coun try. Good beer, he said, could do no harm. Probably it would not ; for it would not be drunk. The Lancet, which has been investigating the subject, states, on the authority of a brewer, the owner of several public-houses, that any good and wholesome beer sent to the publicans would be at once returned upon the brewer's hands. The consumers like to feel muddled by what they drink, and to procure this lummy at a small outlay.. Labourers refuse to go to this or that house, saying that they had a pint there last week, and felt nothing of it;" whereas they had a pint at such another one, and could scarcely get home. This view is not a new one ; but it de serves repetition at a time when the regeneration of the working classes is to be brought about by some politicians by the prohibition of adulteration, IIarSCOVITE BORROWING. The Russians are great favourites in the English money market. Their new little loan of twelve millions sterling has been subscribed for, it is calcu lated, to the extent of three times the total re quired. The five per cent. deposit on this sum of thirty-six millions is £l,Boo,ooo—an enormous amount to be withdrawn from circulation just now. Many subscribers, knowing that they will be allotted only a percentage of their claim, make a very large elajpa, in order to receive a Proportionate allowance. - BUDGET Or MISCELLANEOUS.—An lowa paper advertises for "a girl to learn the printing savings ntingtrad banks of will wear pants and saw wood." — 'h of Massachusetts, according to the recent message of Go vernor Claflin, hold deposits amounting to $112,200,000, an increase of $17,500,000 over the deposits of 1868. The se serve funds of the institutions amount in the aggregate to S - 2,500,000. —Noticing the purchase of a pew in Plymouth Church by James Fisk, jun., the Boston Transcript says, "This proceeding has led to the gossip that he purchased in order to ring Mr. Beecher into some sort of an injunction, with a receiver, &c., whereby Fisk may become manager of the Church."— One of the new Mayors in Massachusetts, in his inaugural speech the other day, said:—" As tho Eastern horizon of the present is math) glorious with its beaming rays of opportunity, so may the sunset hour of the future, by the refractive influences of faithful duty, greet us with its gorgeous panoply of prismatic light."— The pews of Beecher's church rent for $58,113 this year. Henry C. Bowen, of the Independent, whom Mr. Beecher will not speak to, paid the second largest premium, $390, for his. The Boston Times calls Mrs. Stowe's new Byron story "The old ono hammered out thin."—They have a curious style of love-making out West, for a paper there :aye: "The young people who wire seen feeding each five fashion, over a gate post the other even ing, had Letter be a little more cautious in the fu ture." The late City Councils and Mayor of Los Angeles, California, have been indicted for a fraudid2nt u;e of the city scrip to the amount of 550,000.—T he Adjutatit-Gi•rieral of Maryland recommends three honour able orders for the State Militia-the "Order of Merit,' the " Order of Perfection," and the "Logien of Honour.' BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.— GRATEFUL AND CoM FORTINO,—The very agreeable character of this preparation has r,ndeted it a geueral favourite. The 'Civil Scrv:ce Gazette' re marks:—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his h. mceopathic i reparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast fables with a deli cately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doe tors' bilk" Made simply with boiling water or mills. Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled "JAMES EPPS & Co., Thimmo pathic Chemists, London. MIDLAND AND SOUTH WALES. A special meeting of this company was held yesterday . at the offices, Victoria-street, Westmin ster, Mr. Beattie in the chair, for the purpose of considering a bill for authorising an extension of the company's railway to the Buckinghamshire Railway, for the construction of works and an alte ration of the financial arrangements. The CHAIR3IAN said it was proposed by the bill to make a line to Banbury, and from Banbury to Blockley and Chipping Norton. To do this the raising of additional capital was necessary, and it was proposed to issue shares, bearing 5 per cent. interest, to the amount of £500,000, of which £IUO,OOO would b..! required for making the line to Banbury and £400,000 for the line to Blockley and Chipping Norton. Mr. BIRT, solicitor, then read the heads of the bill. The CHAIRMAN moved the approval of the bill, which was seconded by Mr. WiLsoN, and carried. The proceedings then terminated. ESL' 01' is 3 :Eft )r,laoi Do I.lot l 111 AUtWerp ••• 12 ... 42. lirussvls -• a/ 421 ••• )5 371 ... 25 421 11 , indatrgn ... 13 10 1 ... 13 11 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main •.• 120 k ••• 121 1 Vienna .. — •• 12 65 ... 12 7 u Trieste Petersburg Copenhagen.. ........ . ... 9 22 6 271 .. . 6 28 Berlin Madrid.. t2adi7 — . ... 49 ... 49i Leghorn Milan — ... 26 73 ... 26 771 Genoa — ... 26 75 .., 26 771 Naples - 75 - ... 26 77/ iIIiiRRICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The House Banking and Currency Committee has revived the Great Gold Gamble Case ; and there was a pretty gathering setting in towards Washington. The offi cers, the T , .uth National 13, .k of New York,.Cien. Butter- , field, and other officials of the Government were there, also Mr. Corbin, James Fisk, jun., and other noted persons, bad beea summoned. Mr. Fisk's outspoken evidence can scarcely fail to bo of interest, as well as Mr. Corbin's art ful fencing. Fisk has to prove Corbin to be "the greatest toad in the puddle," or to admit that he slandered that gentleman. From the ample telegraph communication of the Pall Mall we learn that Mr. Corbin, the President's brother-in-law, was examined on Thursday before the Congressional Committee, as to his alleged share in the great gold conspiracy of last autumn. " The evidence ad duced at this inquiry has as yet been kept secret ; but se much is known as this, that it conflicts in several not un important prtticulars with the assertion lately made by James Fisk, jun., of the Erie Railway Company. It is generally believed here that President . Grant's sister, and possibly his wife, will yet be summoned before the com mittee to testify as to the alleged connection between the Administration and the gold conspirators, which is so boldly alleged by Fisk, and so sturdily denied by Corbin. The worst that is believed here is that there may Pos sibly have been some p:omise of pecuniary advantage in the way of business or speculation for some members of the President's family." President Grant has vetoed a measure of the Senate, and this is his first essay of a practice in which President Johnson grew to be such an adept:—" To the Senate of the United States.-1 return herewith, without my approval, the Senate bill No 273, entitled An Act for the Relief of Rollin White,' for the reasons set forth in the accompanying communication, dated Dec. 11, 1869, from the Chief of Ordnance—U. S. GRANT. Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., Jan. 11, 1870." The communication referred to is addressed to the Secretary of War, and states that in the year 1855 Mr. White made an improve ment in repeating pistols, among other things extending the chambers of the rotating cylinder through to the rear by hand, or by a self-acting charger. The patents ex pired by limitation April 3, 1869, and thus the invention became public property. The validity of the patent hag been a question for some years, and it is understood it wag affirmed by the Supreme Court only by a tie vote. The bill authorizes the Commissioner of patents to rehear and and determine the application of Rollin White for an ex tension of his letters patent issued in 1855. The applicant urges renewal on the ground that he has not been suffi ciently compensated. Smith and Wesson, the manufac turers of the arm, have returned an income amounting in the aggregate to about $1,000,000, on which Smith has re c,Avell a royalty of nearly $71,001. For these and other reasons General Dyer opposes the extension, as it would be detrimental to Vie interests of the Government by ccm pulling it to pay for the use of pistols on' which the inven tors have already realized a large sum of money, and on which the patent has expired. Among the propositions made for the revival of American shipbuilding is one by Mr. Joseph Snelling, who advised the passage of a law to reduce duties 15 or 20 per cent. on all goods imported in American bottoms. This would be Protection hilts most objectionable shape, as well as in its most ineffectual. In the first place, it could not affect exports, and an ocean trade to be healthy must convey goods both ways. The export trade of America, consisting mainly of raw and agricultural material, is infinitely greater in bulk than the import trade ; but one class of veseels would be employed for the conveyance of the exports, and another for the conveyance of tho im ports; au obvious waste, and it is more than probable that the discrimination would be met by European nations, with port dues against American ships. Mr. T. F. Rowland declared the difference in the cost between American and British shipbuilding to depend entirely on the price of the raw material in the yards, the wages paid to skilled labour being nearly the same in both countries. Perhaps Mr. Rowland is not aware that there is a marked difference in the cost of labour on the Thames and on the Clyde, that is, between two places OA the same island, yet it is nut this difference alone which has built up the Clyde at the expenSe of the Thames. Tke differences in the cost of fuel, in the cost of pig-iron, in the extensive premises re quired, all favour the Clyde, which has, in consequence, as completely shut up the London yards as it has the Ame rican. To revive shipbuilding in London, as much Pro tection is required against the Clyde as to revive ship building in Nsw York; but one thing is certain, and that is, that the Thames shipbuilders will not get it. The National Intelligencer has again died, Mr. Alexander Delmar notwithstanding, and the prestige of 1 1 j 3 statistics. That National Intelligencer was a voracious mon ster while it lived, eating up the substance of every one connected with it. Its last essay at living, short as it was, cost several thousands of dollars, and Mr. Delmar lost 11 1 ' 6 health as well as his money in trying to keep the ricketty thing on its legs. Any one who wants to achieve a sun -Jess likely to make him famous ought to take hold of the National Intelligencer, and coach it into a vigorous exist ence. Senator Spi ague had his eye on it, but, rich anl enterprising as he is, he prudently concluded that the ex ploit was beyond Lis powers. The meeting of the Georgia Legislature at At lanta on the 10th inst. was as interesting as it was impor tant. The scats of Senator Adkins, Representatives Ayers and Flournoy, killed during the recess before reaching their homes, wore trimmed with crap; and remained vacant. The Hon. J. B. Conley was elected President of the Senate, and J. G. W. Mills secretary. Mr. Barris called the House to order, and the members proceeded to take the prescribed oath. Thirty-six Senators, with a single exception, took the oath, and all the Representatives present ; but a scene of great confusion followed the real ing of Attorney-General Furrow's opinion regarding the scope of the oath. Captain S. E. Bryant of Augusta pro tested against the reading, and refused to sit down when ordered by the Chairman, who directed the Sergeat4-at - Arms to arrest him. When Mr. Hinton laid his hand on Captain Bryant the latter menacingly raised his cane, on which Mr. Hinton drew a pistol, and several sprang to their feet; weapons were immediately produced; the gal leries now cheering Bryant, now cheering the Chairman. Fortunately, uo blow was struck, and quiet was sufficiently restored to proceed with the business, wlien Captain Bryant moved that J. H. Cald well take the chair. Mr. Caldwell went to the Speaker's desk with Bryant, when s motion was made toadjourn, amidst great excitement, and pending another that Captain Bryant be Speaker pro terra., that gentleman got in front of the Speaker's desk and put the motion that the House adjourn, declaring it adjourned till ten o clock next morning. Mr. Harris, who appears to have displayed firmness and moderation, then said he was there to organise the House, and he was enabled to pro ceed with its business, as many of the disturbers, including Captain Bryant, had left. Mr. Corbett, of Oregon, lost no time in offering this resolution in the Senate on the annexation of British Columbia :—" Whereas it is believed that it is the earnest desire of the people of British Columbia to be annexed to the United States of America, as appeared from a petition recently forwarded to the Queen of Great Britain (a copy of which petition accompanied the resolution and was read), therefore, resolved, That the Secretary of State inquire into the expediency of proposing to the Government of Great Britain to include in any treaty for the adjustment of all matters of difference between the two Governments an article for the transfer of British Columbia to the United States: " Senators from these wild regions know little of the tone of feeling in Christendom. if they did they would not propose such resolutions to the injury of the very cause they desire to serve, damaging as well the dignity of the Senate. When this was followed up with the remarks made by Mr. Howard, of Michigan, the conclusion in Europe is that the Alabama claims have been seized on and tortured and twisted with the nefarious design of using them as a means of wringing her North American colonies from Great Britain. Should this impression become general, the claims will assume a new dangerous character, for England will feel that she has to fight, not to negotiate. Senator Howard assessed the value of the claims at $200,000,000, and signified his readiness to accept Co lumbia as an instalment. It is almost incredible that men should be sent to the U. S. Senate to talk such rubbish ; but tho value of such talk is now known on this side the water, and the main weight of a motion depends on the Senator who introduces it. Suppose a petition to the Queen wore presented by some citizens of Georgia, ask ing the British Government to extend its sovereiguty over that State, what would Mr. Howard think of seeing the Duke of Norfolk, the head of the House of Howard, rising in the British Parliament and proposing that Geor gia be accepted as a small instalment fur the expense Bri tish citizens had been put to by the conspiracy in the United States against the peace of her Majesty's. Empire which lately resulted in an outbreak in Ireland, fostered, armed, and led by the Americans? What would be foolish bun combe in the House of Lords, is foolish buncombe in the Senate Chamber, and becomes the one as little as the other BIRTHS. EMERY —On the 96th inst., at the College, Ely, the wife of Archdeacon Emery, of a da ghter. PALMER—On the 26th ins! . ., at Emberton, Bucks, the wife of G. A. Palmer, of a sob. MARRIAGES. - - - BIioWNE —BOWLEY—On the 27th inst., at Paddir.gtoli, Frederick P. Browne, of Benham 1.0 Igo, Borks, to Ca rolino E. Bowlby, eldest daughter of the Rev. Edwari llowlby, rector of Little Thurrock, Essex. WARD—ALDERsoN,. On the 27th inst., at Highbury, Jas. Hand Ward, of Port House, Hinckley, to Mary Mab.?lla, third daughter of the 14e Wm. Aldeison, Esq., of Hud dersfield. DEATHS. BARNES -On the 2Gth ;inst at Asbgate House, Chesta field, Ed ward Barnes, Esq., aged 50. HODGSON—On the 27th inst., at Syd6nhatn, Rd. Hodgson, Eq., aged b 3. London: Printed and Published by WILLIA9i ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, 0. 112, Strand. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex:" Saturday, January 29, 1870. 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