The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-30 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS-YESTERDAY. In the Stock Exchange to-clay the business doing has been very moderate. 'The tone of the market has not been so strong, and the quotations have had a drooping tendency. Consols have been quiet and easier, at 92* to 92a ex-div for delivery, and 92i to 92/ ev-div. for the July account. Reduced and New Three per Cents, 92i to 920; Exchequer Bills, par to ss. prem. ; Bank Stock, 233 to 235. Indian Five per Cents. have been done at noi to 111*, and India bonds at 20s. to 255, prem. For English railway stocks there has been very little inquiry, and the bulk of the alterations have been un favourable. Metropolitan have been flat on the announce ment that the directors would be liable to capital account for all dividends paid from that source. A fall of 1 per cent. has taken place, the quotation being 691. South- Eastern, at 76*, are * better, whilst Midland, at 131*, and North-Western, at 1291, are * and a better respectively. North-Eastern, at 1451, are 4 better. Great Eastern has fallen a, or to 38*, and Great Western; or to 710. Indian stocks have been dull, and without movement. Canadian shares have been flat, and Great Western have fallen *. Foreign shares have been cautiously dealt in, and Great Luxembourg have been * lower. The tendency of the foreign bond market has been favourable, but the demand has not been active. Italian have risen *, or to 59 7-16, and Peruvian Loan has been * better at 4 prem, Peruvian (1865) at 91k; Spanish (1867), at 31 11-16 ; ditto (1869), 31 3-16 ; Turkish (1865), 73a ; ditto (1869), 64 ; ditto Five per Cents., 53 1-16 ; Egyptian (1868), 83 ; and Mexican, 17 7-16 are unaltered. The Spanish (Quicksilver) Loan is quoted at 'l, It prem. American Government Securities are steady. Erie shares are 4 better, and Illinois Central *. Bank shares have been dull, and prices have been un changed. In telegraph shares the transactions have been cn a limited scale, at the quotations of yesterday. Tele graph construction shares, at 27a, are a better. There has been a good demand for money to-day. The supply of capital has not been extensive, and three months' paper has not been taken under 5 per cent. Bombay advices, dated June 27, state that £36,000 in .specie, have been recovered from the wreck of the Hamilla Mitchell. Paris advices state that the Cabinet have decided to raise the loan for the City of Paris to £27,200,000, in order to continue the public works already commenced. The report of the Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph Company (Limited) to be submitted on the 6th inst., shews that a provisional arrangement has been entered into with the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company for laying a duplicate cable by next December for the sum of £lBO,OOO. To meet this outlay it is proposed to create additional capital to the extent of £170,000, by the issue of 26,000 shares of £6 10 each, and 100 shares of £lO each, and by the appropriation of £ll,OOO from the reserve fund, making together £lBl,OOO. The half-yearly report of the Bank of New South Wales, presented at Sydney on the 27th of April, shewed an available total of £79,855, including a previous balance of £4,763 and announced a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, leaving £4,855 to be carried forward. The deposits, &c., held by the bank are £5,305,132 ; the note circulation is £618,221, the paid-up capital is £1,000,000, and the reserve £333,333. At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New Zea land at Auckland, on the 27th of April, the report shewed an available total of £45,513, including a previous balance of £4,539, and a dividend was declared at the usual rate of 10 per cent. in addition to a bonus of ss. per share, equal together to 15 per cent. per annum, , and leaving £8,013 to be carried forward. A general meeting of share holders is to be held at Auckland to consider the proposal of the directors to increase the capital by £lOO,OOO. The Board of Trade tables just issued for the month of May contrast favourably with the corresponding period last year, but exhibit a decrease when compared with April last,so far as the exports are concerned. During the month of May the shipments of British and Irish produce and manufactures amounted to £16,786,940, against £16,316,540 last year, and £14,670,035 in 1869. In the month of April they were valued at £17,335,470. The tota value of the exports in the five months has been 279,801,184 against £747,744,620 last year, and £70,668,103 in 1868. The computed real value of the articles imported was £73,146,806, agaainst £66,949,136 in 1869, and £68,416,563 in the previous year. In 1868 the imports reached a total of £24,202,817, against £17,858,517 in 1869, and £91,969,564. The traffic returns of the Midland Railway for the week ending June 26 shew an increase of £5,488 over the corresponding week of last year. The aggregate increase for half a year is £164,459. The North-Eastern Railway shews an increase of £9,661, and a total increase for the half-year to June 25 of £203,750. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. LATEST PRICES ---AFT. 'ER OFFICIAL HOURS. G OVE ELN3S ENT SECURITIES. Three per Cent Consols-929 921xd Do. for Account 921 921xd Three per Cent Rdcd 929 921 New 3 per Cent Exchequer Bills,March, par 5 pm Do., June Bank Stock India 5 per Cents llollll9xd Can.6pcJan.&JulylB77-84 107 108 Do. 5 per cent do. 989 999 Domin. of Can. 5 p c 1903 979 989 New S. W. 5 p c 1871-76 102 103 ew Zealand 6 pc 1891.. 112 114 Do. 5 per cent 9991009 Do. 5 p c Consolidated Queensland 5 p c 1882 Victoria 6 p c Jan.& July 115 116 Do. 5 p c do. 104 1049 Brazilian, 1865, 5 p 911 921 Egyptian, 1868, 7 p 0 821 861 Do. Rail. Deben., 7 p c 10111021 !Italian, 1861, 5 per cent 591 591 Peruvian, 1865, 5 per cent 911 92 Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c 331 34 Russian, 1366, 5 p a 931 948 Do. Nicolas, 4 per cent 69 691 Spanish, 1867, 3percent 3ll 311 Do., 1869, 3 per cent 311 311 Turkish, 1854, 6 per cent 87 89 Do., 1865, 5 per cent 53 531 Do., 1865, 6 per cent 7 731 U. 8.5-20 Bonds, 6pc 1882 9 90 Do., 1865 Do., 10-40 Bondi, spc 1901 871 88 Erie Sha..loo dole. all pd. 181 19 RAIL' Bristol and Exeter B3 88 Caledonian 771 78 Great Eastern Great Northern 12111221 Do. A Great Western Lancashire St Yorsshire 133 134 L. B. and South Coast Lon. Chat., and Dover Lon. and NOrth-Western 12911291 Lon. and South-Western 901 911 Man., Sher., and Lincoln 51 52 Metropolitan 7O 701 Met. District — Midland Northßritish 371 38 North-Eastern Consols Do. York — South-1 astern B o m., Bar, &CLInUS pc 107 f 1081 East India guar. 511 0 , . 1134114 f Grand Trunk of Canada 141 141 Do. Ist Preference Bqnds 63 65 Great Indian Pen. g. 5p c 10841094 Great Western of Canada 15k 151 Madras g. 5 p c 10841094 Scinde, Delhi, do. Minn Seinde, Punjaub, do Dutch Rhenish 244 25 Eastern of France 24 25 Great Luxembourg l4l 144 47 434 Northern of France t) ttom. (Sinyrnapa Aidin) 6 7 Recife and San Francisco 15 16 San Paulo (L.) guar. 7p c 21 21f S. Aus. & Lon). Venetu. 16} 161 BANKING COMPANIES. Alliance ( Limited ) NI 11 RI Anglo-Austrian .. 16 18 pm Angla-Egyptn (Lim) 241 241 British IS firth-Amren 54 56 Ch.otlndia,Australia 16i 17j Char. Marc. of India 30 31 City Colonial Consolidated (Limtd) .11 pm Eng.. Scot. & Aust. C 17113} Imperial (Li. sited) l9 191 TELEG ItAPIJ 10 Anglo-American (L) 78 82 100 Atlantic 3 British Ind. Ex. (L) 8i 7 10 British Indn Sub. (L.) 8 Si 7 Fal, Gibraltar, &c. (L) 9 9,1 Pa 101 Imperial Ottoman 4 3 /4 4fpm 20 Lon.Onar. of Austrlia 23} 24 3 / 4 201 London and Oounty 50 51 15 Londo a Joint-Stock 34 35 20' Ludn dt Watminstr 61 3 / 4 62 10 Metropolitan 9 9i 20 Midland (Limited) 1 dis, par 20 New South Tales 25 Onital Bank Oorprtn. 42 43 25 Union of Adiltralia 46 47 15. UniOn of London 40i COMPANIES, Pd 10 Great -Northern .... 11i 12 25 Indo-European (Lmtd) 14 18 10 Med. Extension (L).. 51 61 20 Sot. Want. France (L) 14k 15-i SW. India & Panama 7 74 JS SECURITIES Pd 51. Rbbr. Gl' Tel. Wks. 45 46 100 Intr. 'Financial (L) 1 dis 5 Mdrasirrigton g. 5p c 104 105 5 National Discount (L) 111 12 50 Ocean Marine 20 Pninslr & Orntl Stm. 40 42 Telegraph Constrctn 271 27/ St Tobacco 6 pc Ln, Gua. 5 by Italian Gvrnmnt 91 93 Trust &Luof U Cnda 6 Ipm lIISCELLANEOU Id Berlin Waterworks (L) 141 151 27 Canada Company 78 80 I 0 Ceylon Company (L) 34 24 dis 20 Colonial idis. ipm 10 Cred. Foncier of E (L) 211 24 100 Crystal Palace 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 5 6pm 7i Gen. Cred. & Dsct pm 14 Gen. Stm Navigation 29 31 45 Hooper's Tel. Works lk 1 dis MINING SHARE LIST.—JUNE 29. Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London With the exception of a dem is very quiet. Australian ;United, 2, 2} Bwlch Consols, Bronfloyd, Chiverton Moor, 41, 5 Chiverton Valley, Cook's Kitchen, 20, 22i Chontales (Gold), Drakewalls, Don Pedro North Del Rey, 2, East Bassett, East Caradon, 41, 5 East Lovell, 36, 37 East Wheal Grenville, 2, Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), 18s, 20s General Brazilian, Great Laxey 18, 184 x d Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vor, 91}, 10 Hingston Down, Marke Valley, 7, 7} New Lovell, 2(, 21 North Crafty, North Treskerby, Pacific, 8,1, 8,1 and for East Lovell, the market Prince of Wales, 15s, 17s Providence Mines, 39, 41 Rosewall Hill and Ransom° United, --- South Caradon, Tankerville, 171, 18 Tincroft, Tan-yr-Allt, Taquaril (Gold), Trumpet Consols, Van. 78, 80 Van Consols, 3,3 i West Chiverton, 541, 5.51 West Frances, West Maria and Fortescue, 2, 21 West Drakewalls, \Vest Caradon, West Pauty Go, West Seton, Wheal A gar, Wheal Chiverton, Wheal Grenville, 21, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Ann, 9, 10 Wheal Seton, MARKETS. LONDON TRADE REPORT, WEDNESDAY.—TaIIow is quieter. Y.C. spot, 455. ; June, 455., sellers. Last three months, 465. 3d. buyers. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS, WEDNESDAY.—The public sales of Indian tea have gone off flatly, and the quotations have been barely maintained. Sugar has been dull and easier. Mauritius, fair and superior yellow crystallised, ss. Bd. duty, 345. to 355. 6d. ; good middling and good yellow, ss. 3d. duty, 325. 6d. to 335. ad. per cwt. Coffee has been in fair request at late rates. LONDON CORN EXC the 1A E, ts WENESDA at Y.—Fresh up toa o -M ar k-lane this morning receip of D whe from Essex _Kent were on a very moderate scale, and the arrivals from THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORMNG, JUNE, 3Q 1670, baroad were not extensive. The tone of the market con tinued quiet, and business in both red and white produce progressed slowly at Monday's reduced quota tions. The supply Of barley was moderate. The trade was quiet, on former terms. Malt was dull, at late rates. Oats changed hands to a limited extent, at about late rates. Beans and peas were steady. Flour was dull, at the late decline. Arrivals: English and Scotch— , Wheat, 640 qrs.; malt, 1,350 qrs.; oats, 250 qrs.; beans, 20 qrs. Foreign—Wheat, 6,010 qrs.; barley, 6,620 qrs.; oats, 28,110 qrs.; maize, 3,980 qrs.; peas, 2,220 qrs.; flour, 750 sacks and 5,220 barrels. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The supply of meat was moderate. The trade was quiet, at late rates : Beef, from 3s. 6d. to ss. ; mutton, 3s. td. to ss. ; lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. 4d. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to 55.; and pork, 4s. to ss. Bd. per 81b. by the carcase. LONDON. METAL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The price of copper has been advanced £2 per ton. Tough cake, £73 ; best selected, £75 ; sheet, £77. Tin has been quiet. Straits, £133105. cash. Iron has been firm. LONDON OIL MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Linseed oil has been dull, at 31s. Ld. to 31s. 6d. spot. Rape is quiet. English brown spot, 425. 9d. to 435. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The hop market has been in a quiet state. Thedemand for all qualities has been restricted. Nevertheless prices have ruled steady. The planta tion accounts are still favourable, but complaints of want of rain are heard in some quartets. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 125.: Weald £6 to £8 ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 12s. ; Bavarians, £6 6s. to £9 ; French, £5 to £6 10s. ; Americans, £4 ss. to £6 ; and yearlings, £1 105. to £3 155. per cwt. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—This market closed quiet to-day. Sales, 8,000 bales. Speculation and export 1,000 bales. 6,000 bales of American sold at 71d. to 11d. 300 bales of Pernambuco, 10td. to 11d. 100 bales Bahia, 101 d. to 101 d. 60 bales of Maranham, ll d. to 111 d. 300 bales of Egyp tian, 111 d. to 186. 10 bales of Smyrna, 91d. 10 bales of Peru, 12. id. 1,220 bales of Surat, 6-id to 94d. Imports, 4,755 bales. MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, WEDNESDAY. This market opened to-day without animation, and the quieter tone prevailing in the Liverpool Cotton Market has imparted addi tional dulness here; and prices, though not quotably lower, are always the turn in favour of the buyers. When any change occurs buyers cautiously wait in expectation of lower rates than those now current, and they are under no pressure to buy, having generally large quantities of yarns and goods still to receive. LEEDS CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—At this market to-day the number of beasts was 556 ; sheep and lambs, 4,470. Cattle met a slow sale, at from 74d. to Bd. per lb. ; second quality, 6d. to 7d. Sheep, 71d. to 7/d. per lb. A few small weights Bd. per lb. Lambs from 21s. to 31s. each. WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The num ber of fat beasts at the market to-day was 790; sheep and lambs, 5,030 ; lean stock, 42; pigs, 2,040. There was a good demand, at the following rates :—Beef, Bs. to 9s. 3d. per fourteen pounds; mutton, 7i-d. to Bd. per lb. Pigs met with a ready sale. SOUTHALL CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY. —Trade ruled brisk this morning. Prices advanced all round 2d. per stone on last week's rates. Towards the close of the day trade turned slack, and a few things consequently remained unsold. The top price for beasts and sheep was ss. 6d. per stone of 81bs. sinking the offal. NEWARK CORN MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—There was only a small quantity of wheat offering at this market to-day, but it was more than equal to the demand, everyone being anxious to run stocks as low as possible. The little business done was 2s. to 3s. per puarter lower. The trade in beans, peas, and oats was small, and prices were slightly easier. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—The supplie, at this market to-day were good. Wheat met with a slow sales at Is. per quarter reduction. In barley the sales were dull, at former rates. The trade in oats was heavy ; prices were in favour of the buyers. Beans were without change. EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—At this market to-day the supply of sheep and lambs was about as good as last week. The extreme top price of sheep 84d. per lb., top 81d. per lb. ; current, Bd. per lb. ; ewes, 7d. to 71d. per lb. Lambs, top 335. each ; others sold at from 325., 305., and down wards. Cattle were a dear trade, although there were more in than last week, and a clearance was effected at prices fully better. Top, 9s. 6d. per stone ; current, 9s. 3d. per stone ; secondary, 7s. to Bs. per stone. Store cattle were a readier mar ket, and among the Irish lots, two-year-olds sold at £l5 15s. each ; Stirks, £7 10s. to £lO each ; Ayrshire cows. £l5 to £2O each : Shorthorns, £lB to £23 each. Pigs were a duller trade, at from ss. 6d. to 6s. 6d. per stone. Young pigs were about ls. lower. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—This market was very flat to-day. Business was done at from 60s. li-d. to 595. 100. cash ; 60s. 3d. one month. Closing sellers over at lower prices.—Second Report: The market is still flat. Business was done down to 595. Bd. cash in ten days, and 60s. in a month. The close was steady at these prices, perhaps in favour of the buyers. CORK BUTTER MARKET, WEDNESDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 112 s. ; seconds, 1095.: thirds, 102. ; fourths, 995. ; fifths, 755. ; sixths, 555. Mild cured, firsts, 116 s. ; seconds, 113 s. ; thirds, 105 s. 2,140 firkins in the market. Ordinary, 90s. Mild cured, 1275. LAW AND POLICE. ENGLISH AND IRISH COURTS.—A suit was instituted in Vice Chancellor Mathis' Court for the purpose of setting aside two deeds compromising the plaintiffs right under a settlement respecting certain large estates in the county of Mayo. The `principal defendant filed a plea stating that the plaintiff was resident in France and the defendants in Ireland, that the estate to which the settlement related was in Ireland, and that this court had therefore no jurisdiction. The Vice Chancellor said there were properly established courts in Ireland for the determination of questions relating to land in that country, and there was no reason why such a suit should be brought in these courts. He therefoae allowed the plea of the defendants denying the jurisdiction of his court in the matter. DISTURBANCES IN COURT. —Several persons, both men and women ) hate been summoned at Bow-street for interfering with the officers of the Court in the discharge of their duty. They were fined or com mitted, the magistrate observing that this kind of offence was very much on the increase, and he intended to deal with it severely. The court and its approaches are very insufficient for the amount of business which is daily carried on there. A new court is much wanted, which, in addition to other advanta , es, should have a good yard for the prisoners' van, where the prisoners could be taken into the court without risk of obstruction by their associates. RAILWAY FARES.—Thomas Vernon and Augustus Potter, both described as gentlemen, of Lewisham, have been summoned at Southwark, by the North Kent Railway. Mr. Vernon was charged with attempting to pass the barrier at London Bridge, without having first paid his fare, and Mr. Potter with obstructing and assaulting the °Steers in the execution of their duty. The particulars of the affray having been given by the ticket-keeper, Mr. Potter said he had taken a return ticket at Lewisham, and he supposed the return half got clipped by mistake. Mr. Vernon said he saw his friend in trouble, and went to help him. The officer said it was well known that no clipped or cancelled ticket was ever allowed. Vernon was fined £5, and Potter £3, with the alternative of imprisonment. STEALINd PHEASANTS.—Two men, described as labour ers, have been charged at Huntingdon with steal ing fifty - four live pheasants from the aviary of Colonel Duncombe, M.P., Waresley Park. Colonel Duncombe is the chairman of sessions, but did not preside. The pheasants had been stolen and taken off in a cart, being afterwards sent fo London. Several of them died on the road through close packing. Evidence having been given which identified the prisoners with the crime, they were sentenced to twelve months' hard labour. A CANNIBAL IN A WORKHOUSE.—Mary Higgins, a pauper, was charged at the Westminster Police Court with assaulting Miss Charlotte Thompson, assistant matron at St. Luke's Workhouse, Chelsea, and also Fanny Cannon, the task-mistress, by biting them. Miss Thomp son said, in going her rounds with the master, she found prisoner was at work in the oakum room, whereas she should have been in the yard. She ordered her out, but prisoner !refused to go, and when removed bit witness severely in the hand. Fanny Cannon, the task-mistress and wife of the porter, corroborated the last witness, and shewed a severe contusion on the hand from a bite from the prisoner. A pauper inmate, who was called to assist in ejecting the prisoner, also proved that she bit his little finger to the bone. The prisoner said she was not going to work out in the cold yard, as she was not well. Miss Thompson said she was a most disorderly inmate. She was sent to prison for two months with hard labour. SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT DISTILLERY AT HUDDERSFIELD. —At the Court-house, Huddersfield, William Kitson, about 60 years of age, cloth finisher, Berry Brow, was charged with having in his possession an illicit still. Mr. Bright, supervisor, stated that they had received infor mation of Kitson carrying on an apparatus for the manufacture of illicit whisky, and his house was watched, but appearances did not warrant its being searched. On Saturday, however, a police-constable (Charles Wilson) saw the prisoner leave his house, and accosted him. The prisoner, who exclaimed, •`lt is all up with me," had in a basket two bladders containing whisky. On his house being searched by'lnspector White, there were found a still, still head and worm, two casks of wort in a state of fermentation, &c., all of which were seized. The wort was of a very fine description ; and the still was capable of distilling about five gallons, representing about £3 every time it was charged. The prisoner had been twice previously convicted of the same offence, and was fined in the full penalty of £3O. THE SALE OF BANKRUPT'S STOCKS BY TENDER.—A case of great importance to the drapery trade, containing a point affecting tenders generally, was argued in the Court of Common Pleas. A London firm issued circulars to the wholesale trade, stating that they were instructed to offer for sale a stock-in-trade, valued at £2,503135. ld, to be sold at a discount in one lot and paid for in cash. Tenders sealed and en lorsed were to be sent to defen dants. Plaintiff's tender was the highest ; but defendants refused to accept it, and the present proceedings were thereupon commenced. Plaintiff contended that the issuin g of that circular was an implied contract to accept the highest tender ; but the Court held that no such construc tion could be placed upon the circular, in the absence of an express stipulation. The highest tender might only amount to half the ascertalned value of the goods, and to accept such a tender would be selling at a sacrifice instead of a discount. The circular was merely an invita tion to tender without any undertaking, and the judgment of the court must be for the defendants. FURIOUS RIDING IN HYDE PARK.-Mr. Simpson, a gen tleman, residing in Brompton-square, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with furious riding in Hyde Park, and also with assault• ing Police-constable,Robert Anderson, 438 R. Police-con stable Warley, A division, said that while on duty in Rotten-row the previous evening, he saw the defendant. who was on a high-bred horse, ac companied by a lady on another, galloping his horse at a furious rate toward Kensington-gardens. He followed the defendant and attempted to stop him, but did not succeed. He then asked the lady for her address but she refused to give it, and the defendant then came back and said he would give his address if he would let the lady alone, but instead of doing so he rode off and went down the Brompton-road, and on being stopped by a con stable assaulted him, and was then taken into custody. Police-constable Anderson said that on stopping the de fendant, who was going at a furious rate along the Brompton-road, he struck him with a hunting whip. The defendant was fined 40s. for furious riding and 40s. for the assault. The magistrate said he hoped the fine for furious riding would soon be raised to £lO. ESTABLISHING A PRECEDENT.—The case of Ingram v. Lowrie, which came before the Court of Common Pleas, raised the important question of the status of Colonial Courts. The Supreme Court of Jamaica, had given judgment in two actions between the parties, and the defendant applied to have these judgments set aside on the ground that they were obtained by fraud. To this the plaintiff demurred that such a plea was not a competent one; and Mr. 111`Nair submitted that there was no case in which such a plea had been allowed. The Colonial Court was one of her Majesty's Courts, having concur. rent powers with this Court, and, therefore, he contended, this court had no right to interfere with its judgments, which could only be set aside by appeal to the Privy Council. The Court, however, decided that the matter should be tried before a jury, as prayed for by the defen dant, in order that they might have the facts of fraud properly before them before delivering judgment. If an • injustice were done by fraud, it was clearly the duty as well as the right of an English superior court t o interfere upon the facts being legally proven. The defendant would have leave to amend his plea by declaring that the alleged fraud was practised upon the court as well as upon Limseif. The principal item of fraud was said to be the falsification of memoranda. HORSE COPING.—John Forester, a horse toper, was charged with stealing a mare, the property of James Goldsmith, a carman, of St. James's, Aldgate. It appeared that the prosecutor hsd a mare for sale, and during last week the prisoner waited upon Goldsmith and said. " I hear you have a horse for sale," and represented that he knew a person that wanted to buy one. He allowed the prisoner to take away the mare, and Gold smith's man accompanied him. The horse was taken to Millwall and shown to a respectable man named Burt, who wanted to purchase a horse. Mr. Burt, foreman, said the horse was not fast enough, and would not suit his master. He declined to purchase it. The prisoner sub sequently took the horse to another place, where he effected a sale. He offered £lO for the horse, which was declined, and promised £3 the following Monday, which was refused. The prisoner sent a receipt up for £lO, which he purported to have received from Mr. Burt for the horse. Mr. Pelham, for the prisoner, said the hoise had been fairly disposed of; and the receipt forwarded. Mr. Goldsmith said he never authorised the prisoner to sell the horse at all, and no price was mentioned. He allowed the prisoner to take the horse away on the re presentation that he would find a purchaser for it. The receipt was a mere trick, and had been made out to mis lead his man. The prisoner was remanded. THE CARDIFF ABDUCTION CASE.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, the case of " Lyons v. Thomas " was again heard. The .plaintiff, Mr. Lyons, brought an action at Cardiff Assizes against the Rev. Mr. Thomas, a Baptist minister, and others, for having taken away his daughter, he thus losing her services, and converting her from the Jewish to the Christian faith. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with fifty pounds damages against some of the defendants, but not against others, the rule having been obtained to enter a nonsuit or a new trial on the, ground of insufficiency of evidence ,of enticement or loss of service. Mr. Giffard now chewed cause. He should assume that there was a relation of master and servant between Esther Lyons and her father prior to the taking away of the former; and he should con tend that there was an actionable wrong in enticing the girl away. The learned counsel argued from the circum stances that the Thomases induced the girl to go away, and kept her from her father's home. Mr. Grove, Q.C., and Mr. Turner, in supporting the rule, submitted that there was not any evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas having induced the girl to leave her home. She left her home of her own free will, and that being so, no action would lie against the defendants. Though denying that there was a slight inducement used, still he contended, if it was used, it was not an actionable offence.—The court made the rule absolute for a nonsuit on the ground that there was no evidence to submit to the jury ; but at the same time they commented strongly upon the conduct of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, from which the jury might reasonably, though not legally, have in ferred the guilt of defendants. STREET PREACHING.—A Case which excited great inte rest has been tried at the Farringdon Petty Sessions, Oxford. Samuel Insull, agent to the United Kingdom Alliance, a yeoman named Belcher, and two Nonconfor mist Ministers, were summoned for causing an obstruction in the Market-place, Farringdon. Mr. Insull was lecturing in behalf of the United Kingdom Alliance to some 500 persons. A police constable said that it was almost impossible to pass, and the crowd seemed irritated, buckets of beer being handed amongst them, He afterwards saw the defendant Belcher followed by a crowd of 100 persons, and he asked witness to protect him. The witness was cross-examined with the view to prove that the noise and obstruction complained of were caused chiefly by the beer being given away. A brewer who was driving past was called to prove the obstruction, and a shopkeeper and surgeon gave similar evidence. The counsel for the defendants contended that they were on private property and therefore should not have been summoned. He called the lessee of the tolls of the manor who proved letting the ground for the meeting. It was often let to cheap Jacks, showmen, and others. Witnesses were called to prove that before the beer was distributed there was no obstruction, but vehicles were trotting past. When the beer was brought out the crowd rushed tcwards it, and this caused the confusion. The bench was of opinion that the case should have been made one of indictment, and dismissed the complaint making no order for costs. FRAUDULENT CONVERSION OF RUSSIAN BONDS.-At the Marlborough-street Police-court, Mrs. Ellen Jemima Downs was charged with having fraudulently converted to her use eighteen Russian bonds, of the value of £9OO, and of which she was bailee. Mrs. Mary Maeon, wife of a bcotmaker, deposed that in 1867 she was in posses sion of eighteen Russian bonds of £5O 'each, left under her mother's will, and which she kept in an iron box. During an illness last year she went to stay with the prisoner, whom she had known for thirty six years: Witness then went into the country, and on returning the prisoner told her she had taken the coupons off the bonds. She had no authority to do so. WitneFs went with her to Rothschild's, and she said she had got the interest of the bonds, but witness could not tell whe ther that was the case. On going to the defendant's house witness saw the box containing the bonds, but she fell asleep, and on awaking inquired about the box, and the defendant told her she had put it on the rafters of the house. • Afterwards, when she demanded the bonds, she was told that they were in the custody of a clergyman. That was in August last ; and since then she had been unable to get at them. In cross-examination the prosecu trix, who frequently lost her temper, said she had never heard of another will of her mother leaving property to the prisoner. She never signed any agreement for the prisoner to sell the bonds. Her husband knew nothing of them. Mrs. Margaret Morris deposed that the prisoner had said to her (witness) that she was in trouble for havinc , interfered with the papers of the prosecutrix ; that she pledged the bonds at Mellish's, in Duke street, for £6 or £7 ; and that one of them, worth £5O, was lost. The prisoner also said, " You come up to dinner, and we will enjoy ourselves. I will then kick up a row with her (the prosecutrix), and I will throw the papers at her and say, Now go out of my place, you and your papers,' and you take her to where she came from. I will afterwards come to you with Mr., Lee, a lawyer's clerk, and I will say, `Here's your bond's. Just shew me the bonds and papers, and then I will miss one, and, as they will have been once out of my possession, all will be right ;" and on her suggesting to the prisoner that she might get into trouble, the prisoner said she would get her out of any she might get in. The prisoner was eventually remanded, bail being accepted. THE BABY-FARMING CASE. DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER DEAD BODY. Yesterday information waslorwarded to Mr. Carter, he Surrey coroner, of the discovery of the body of a dead child under the arches of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, at Camberwell. It appears that on Tues day afternoon, while some men were removing a heap of rubbish from under one of the railway arches near the ballast-hole pond, a large piece of water situated close to the Brunswick-road, Camberwell, they found, wrapped up in a bundle of rags, the dead body of a child, in a dread fully decomposedcondition. The police were instantly sent for, and they removed the body. to No. 4. Frederick's terrace, Brixton, the residence of the baby-farmers, Waters and Ellis. Several of the witnesses in the baby-farming case were then sent for, to see if they could identify the child by means of its clothing as having been one of the infants that had formerly inhabited the house, which is situated within a quarter of a mile of the scene of the discovery of the nfant's body. It may be stated that the ballast hole pond is a piece of water of about two acres in extent, and twelve feet in depth, and it is believed in the neigh bourhood that a number of children's bodies have been thrown into it. THE MONARCH INSURANCE COMPANY. Yesterday, at the Mansion House, the preliminary inves tigation in the case of the directors of the Monarch Insu ance Company was brought to a close. It will be remem bered that the directors, and Mr. W. Hodges, the younger, are charged with conspiring to cheat and defraud the public, and also with publishing a false balance sheet, with in tent to defraud. The defendants who surrendered were the Hon. A. G. F. Jocelyn, Mr. G. E. Bulwer, and Major W. Carnegie. Mr. Joseph Taylor, who appeared at the former examinations, and who was admitted to bail, himself in £2,000, and one surety in £2,ooo—did not now surrender, and Mr. Lewis, the solicitor for the prosecution, asked that his re cognizances be estreated, remarking that he was credibly informed that he did not intend to appear, and that he was probably on the Continent with Messrs. Wright, Harward and Hodges, the three defendants who had not surrendered at all. The application was granted, and the necessary steps ordered to be taken: The evidence of the various witnesses was then read by Mr. Oke, the chief clerk. On one of them Mr. Hales • Swetnan, a brother-in-law of Mr. Taylor's, being called, he did not appear. The charges against the defendants were then read, and in reply, Major Carnegie explained with reference to the balance sheet that he was asked to sign it by Mr. Taylor, the managing director, on the day previous to that fixed for holding the general meeting, and he did so, but having thought over the matter during the night he went to the office and desired that a note of explanation should be added with regard to the 30,000 but he was informed that the balance-sheet was not to be printed, and he was perfectly horror-stricken when he found that some copies had been circulated. He added that he had never been a director of any other company. Major Jocelyn said he looked forward to the result of the trial with the utmost confidence, because he felt that he was perfectly innocent of the crimes laid to his charge. The prosecutor, Mr. Dumas, then entered into his re cognisances in the amount of 2,500 to proceed with the case at the Central Criminal Court, and the proceedings then terminated, the defendants being, as before, liberated on bail. COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) • MORE FEVER THAN FODDER.—A physician advertises a book on " Hay Fever." This work has run to a sixth edition. Hence it would seem that Hay Fever is a pre valent complaint. But has not that disease been named in a mistaken idea of its cause ? The fever may be raging now ; but where is the hay ? WORKING MEN AND TALKING MEN.—The collective wisdom in the House of Commons is known by its much speaking, which commonly keeps our loquacious legis lators up till past three o'clock in the morning. What, it is asked, is the work of the hardest worked working man when compared to that of a member of Parliament ? Little enough in point of duration ; but work is one thing and talk is another. MANNING THE SHIP. —ln the debate on the Gun Licence Bill, when " Mr. Henley inquired who was to pay for arms, such as muskets, &c.,. carried in a vessel — the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he had often heard of a man being termed a chosen vessel, but never of a vessel being termed a man. However, the Government would look seriously into the question. " Suppose, on looking seriously into the question the Government should discover a man-of-war?" What would Brightßob say then ? (From Fun.) ROUGE ET NOlR.—Captain Waddylove has fired off a round or two of blank to propitiate "Little Pitcher." —Little P. :—" Oh, let it off again—do !" Captain :—" I have no more powder." Little P. :—" But Cousin Emma, won't that red powder in the box on your dressing-table do ?" SUCH A GETTING-UP STAIRS.—WeII may you open your eye ! But don't stair—it's rude :—The Earl of Stair will succeed to the lord-lieutenancy of Aryshire, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Ailsa. The Earl of Stair has clearly got •a step. But we don't see what it leads to. A stair thas's raised in Ayr must come to nothing—unless it has a landing-place in Skye. THE LAW - OF HARMONY.—We are informed by a con temporary :—" Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has accepted the dedication of the " Wandering Jew," the poem by Mr. Charles L. Kennedy, of the Inner Temple, the music composed by Mr. James L. Molloy, also of the Middle Temple." And yet people say that the law does not con duce to harmony ! Mr. Kennedy is clearly skilled to address the " Wandering Jew "-ry, while Mr. Molloy as a bar-rest-er, supplies the da capias—or whatever it is— and runs up the scale from John Do to fi-fa. The Chief Justice takes notes. Letters from Munich announce that Baron von Liebig, the celebrated chemist, is now completelyrestored to health. Amongst the last batch of Parliamentary papers are the bill as amended in committee for regulating postage ; trade and navigation returns ; copies of Orders in Council relating to the War Department; a return respecting provisional orders and certificates ; a return respecting the fellowship of Trinity College, Dublin; and a report touching the abandonment of the South Wales and Great Western District Railway. According to the New York Herald of the 18th the latest news from Fort Garry is that Riel can muster 300 fighting men, which could he swelled to three times that number provided there is no fighting, but plenty of plunder. The prevalent opinion in the settlement is that Riel will not make any determined opposition to the British and Canadian forces. THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF AGRAM.—In the recent consistory which was held by the Pope, Mgr. Michalowitz was to have been made Archbishop of Agram. The Vienna journals had said that Mgr. Stross mayer would be the new Archbishop, as a reward for the energy he displayed in the midst of the Council. There were, however, objections to this scheme on the part of the Hungarian Cabinet, because of the opposition dis played by Strossmayer to the annexation of Croatia to Hungary. Mgr. Michalowitz, on the contrary, has always shewn great sympathy for Hungary although he belongs to the Croatian race. CRITICISMS ON DICKENS. Would that there were a Dickens left to treat as they deserve the foolish and arrogant teachers who stand in high places to slander Dickens dead, and exalt their own vanity by assaults on his fame ! Only such delicate scorn such biting humour, mingled with ever-present charity, as was his, could fitly chastise such outrages upon human nature as have been thought appropriate to the death of the great writer for whose loss millions of hearts are aching, Such violations of the essential spirit of Christianity might indeed be more seriously to be re gretted were they conceived in apparent candour and ad dressed in reasonable arguments. But when their authors barb their shaft against a great man struck with unconsciousness leading directly to death, with the absurd taunt that " no word of hope or trust was uttered in his " last moments ;" when they assign to " the world of fashion" a man as far from that sphere as the most earnest missionary on the globe ; when they convert the quiet family meal in a country house into a " fashionable dinner-table "in a " gilded chamber ;" when they attri bute the height of worldly and frivolous happiness to a life chastened by almost every affliction that Providence can send ; they create a disgust which only reacts against themselves and the cause which they seek to advance. It is for this reason only that we refer to a matter in which the press usually leaves the pulpit to speak its sentiments without contradiction. We wish to defend the pulpit against itself, and to point out that such words of folly as have been spoken in a church here . and there are by no means to be taken as repre sentative of the feelings of the Christian corn-. munity 'or its leaders. No portrait of Stig,gins or Chadband or Murdstone, were they drawn in infinitely darker colours than they are, would do half as much harm to the interests of Christianity as one such sermon, were the impression to become general that it fairly represents the body of believers for whom it assumes to speak. There will always be such exceptional instances to be deplored, as when Abraham Lincoln fell there were some who find in that life and that death no better lesson than a sermon on a judgment against theatre-going. But in our age of the world we believe they may fairly be treated as exceptional, and as growing rarer and rarer every day. And with this protest in behalf of that gentle religion whose first principle is charity, we can afford to let alone the silly slanders against the teacher of charity, the enemy of hypocrisy, the friend of the fallen, who has just gone to his reward. They may safely be left to find their antiuote in the simple words of faith and trust and consciousnese of duty done which we have printed from the pen of Charles Dickens, and in the tributes to his great service from the leading clergymen of the land, who, however great their congregations, however lofty their pulpits, swayed all together a power for good less mighty than his. In an swer to those who accuse him of associating religion with the lack of all the genial affections, with repulsive and fo6idding sternness, with avarice and meanness, we call to mind the words of the dead and defenceless author describing the good old clergyman in " The Shipwreck." " So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affectation as true practical Christianity ever is ! I read more of the New Testament in the fresh frank face going up the village beside me, in five minutes, than I have read in anathe matising discourses in all my life. I heard more of the Sacred. Book in the cordial voice that had nothing to say about its owner than in all the would-be celestial pairs of bellows that have ever blown conceit at me." How unfair and ungenerous to charge the author with attacking reli.-. pion, when the blow is aimed at the wolf within its fold ! --Boston Advertiier. THE SENATE " RELIEVES " A RAILROAD COMPANY. The passage by the Senate of the bill for the relief of the central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany again takes out of that body one of the questions about which there has been a long and bitter controversy. One relief bill was passed two years ago, but failed in the House. The present bill will go into that branch with the support of its own railroad committee, and seems likely enough to succeed. This road got certain rights under the acts of July, 1862, and July, 1864, of which it claims that it has been deprived by the rulings of the Interior Department under the act of June, 1866, against the passage of which it formally protested. It has built its line from Atchison to a point 100 miles north west out in Kansas, and now asks such legislation as will enable it to form a connection with the line of the Union Pacific just west of Fort Kearney. It asserts that it is entitled to a subsidy of Government bonds, but now pro poses to compromise on a gift of 20 sections of land per mile for its completion. The peculiar feature in connection with the grant is that it will largely give the road the even-numbered instead of the odd sections. This result is due to the fact that the odd-numbered ones have been given to the so-called St. Joe and Denver-road which lies to the northward at a varying distance of from 12 to 30 miles from the proposed line of the Central Branch. The bill was opposed on four grounds, viz : By those who object to any further railroad grants at present ; by Mr. Ross, who wants the Central Branch to make other connections than those it proposes to make ; by Mr. Thayer, who wanted the lands it would get in Nebraska for companies in which he and his people are directly interested ; and by Mr. Sherman and others, who objected that all the land in a strip 50 miles wide by 200 miles long, except such as is now in the bands of settlers, would pass into the control of railroad corpora tions. Mr. Howard produced a paper shewing that the Central Branch and St. Joe roads had come to such an agreement as would prevent any clashing there, and Mr. Tiptt.n secured a little amendment, which, he said, would prevent any trouble with the Nebraska roads. The bill was carried through, on the ground that the Central Branch is entitled to some relief. If it passes the House, the road, when finished, will furnish a feeder to the Union Pacific from St. Louis and Southern Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The drought in France has become very serious—in fact almost unparalleled. Three months of uninterrupted fine weather have hardened the soil and scorched up the roots of the forage crops. The harvest of these crops has been of the scantiest sort in the most fortunate places, and has amounted to nothing in those districts which suffered the most severely. Already it is predicted that the oats will fail as well as the hay and thus the horses will lose another source of supply. The grain will be more scarce and dear than ever, and the chances are no better with respect to the root crops. Such a want of provisions has led to a reduction in the number of cattle, while a general cry of distress is heard through the districts, which are the most affected. Beasts have been sold for next to nothing. Proprietors and farmers not knowing how to feed them have got rid of them as best they might; in some cases abandoning them to their fate. Such a reduction in the price of cattle would lead, one would suppose, to a diminution in the price of meat, but on the contrary, the butchers are resolved to turn the general loss to account and derive from thence an individual profit. During the last month, while the prices of cattle have been rapidly decreasing in value, the cost of meat has increased, although it was previously raised to an exorbitant sum. The public natu rally feel indignant and make protests against the extor tion but to little purpose, since all end in paying the ex travagant sum which is claimed. A correspondent of the Eastern Budget has the follow ing c—" The prospects c f the corn harvest in all parts of Austria and Hungary are still excellent, but the news from the vineyards are not so good. It is expected that the vintage will be only a middling one as regards quan. tity ; what will be its quality cannot be determined until the autumn. Whether the favourable harvest will cause a large exportation of corn must depend solely on the state .of the French market, now that the English crops have been so much improved by the recent change in the weather. Hungary will have a large quan tity of wheat and maize to dispose of, but she will not be in a position to sell at low, or even moderate prices, for wages in Hungary, especially in favourable years, are much too high, and the charge for the conveyance of corn by rail is very heavy. Oats, which would probably fetch high prices in England with the present scarcity of green food, are Comparatively little cultivated in Hungary, but large quantities will doubtless be exported from Bohemia and Moravia." The Belfast News Letter gives a very cheering account of the state of the crops in the North of Ireland, and states that, simultaneously with the promise of an abundant harvest, there has been a decided improvement in trade during the last three weeks. The Cornish potato crop is turning out remarkably well this year. FLOATING TELEGRAPH STATION. When the first Atlantic telegraph failed, considerable study was devoted by scientific men to the discovery of means by which relief might be %fforded to the stretch of line which was to extend from the coast of Ireland to Newfoundland. Among others who directed their attention to the subject was Cap tain John Moody, late managing director of the Goole Steam Shipping Company, who has been for many years engaged in superintending the building of steam and sail ing vessels. The result of Captain Moody's application is the production of a flat-bottomed boat or launch, now lying in the Thames, off Grays. This was inspected on Tuesday by a party of scientific and nautical men. The vessel is intended to be moored by four anchors at any point where she can be useful either as a telegraph station, as a place of refuge, or as a light-ship. She is built of iron, something after the Minotaur fashion, and is pro vided with four water-tight chambers, which project in star-fashion from the centre. This naval structure draws but twelve inches of water, and her inventor claims for her not only perfect seaworthiness, but a power of righting herself superior even to that of air-chambered lifeboats of the National Institution. The vessel is, in effect, an inhabitable buoy, and when securely moored would serve the purposes of a light-ship. Captain Moody would have one stationed some distance west of Valentia Island, off the coast of Kerry ; another off Brest, and others east of the American coast, to receive Atlantic cables, and to be the means of transmitting early intelligence of and from ships at sea. The present experimental vessel has a breadth from ray to ray of 65 feet, and a circular hold of 12 feet in depth. It would be quite practicable for a crew suffi cient to manage a light-ship to find comfortable quarters on board, provided that the vessel is found to be perfectly trustworthy when stationed at anchor in a heavy sea. On this point Mr. Fox, Lloyd's agent at Southend, has re ported that the vessel rode out a storm there in May, without shipping a pint of water, at a time eighteen large steamers were unable to proceed on their voyage on ac count of the gale. On Tuesday the ship was rigged fore and aft, and in the short trip she made with a mere breath of wind, on the reaches of the Thames off Grays, she was found to act, not only as well as could be expected in the case of a vessel which is intended to be stationary, but to be possessed in no small degree of the sailing qualities of a sea-going craft. THE ALBERT ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—An application was made to Mr. Bloxam, Chief Clerk in Vice Chancellor James Chambers on the part of the liquidators of the Albert Assurance Company in the matter of a policy effected on the life of the Earl of Fife. The policy in ques tion was effected on the occasion of his lordship's marriage and was vested in the hands of trustees. The latter were now desirus of reasuring under the new construction sub ject to the leave of the court. The liquidators considered that it would be of advantage to the society to carry out the proposal, and the Chief Clerk concurring an order was made accordingly. THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN ON THE VATICAN COUNCIL. —The Guardian publishes a letter addressed by the Bishop of Lincoln to the Bishop of Ely as President of the Anglo-Continental Society. A question has, he says, arisen whether it is desirable the Church of . England should remain a passive spectator of what is going on at Rome, or should avail itself of this oppor tunity of publicly declaring its own sentiments. The Bishop of Lincoln inclines to the latter course. The Fathers of the Reformation set us an example how to act in the present crisis. The Church of England did not remain a passive spectator of the Council of Trent. Bishop Jewell put forth his celebrated "Apologia," which was translated into most European languages, and the Thirty-nine Articles themselves were, in fact, produced by the Council of Trent. The Bishop thinks that the English Church ought now to follow this precedent, and fulfil her mission on the Continent by shewing how a Christian Church may be at once scriptural and Catholic. He commends the question to the Synod of Canterbury. ~~_ POSTAL REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES. While the bill to abolish the franking privilege was pending, Mr. Sumner took an advantage of the opportu• nity to give the reasons for a reduction of letter postage to one cent for all distances, in connection with which all franking should be dispensed with, and all business through the post office be done by stamps. The argument is un answerable; and when the public mind does come to the serious consideration of cheap postage, as-England came to it twenty-five years ago, Mr. Sumner's speech, though made to an indifferent Senate and to a country not yet specialty interested in the subject, will be 'referred to as one of the most striking and effective in the course of this debate. Fortunately the efficacy of cheap postage has been vindicated by the most striking of examples. The experiment has been tried, and, in the face of predictions of failure the most sweeping and the most despondent, it has proved successful, both as a measure of economy and of general public beneficence. Nobody would now return to the old rates if it were pos sible, and no rising man w ith p rospects o f a d vancement would dare to suggest it. If any descendant of the scep tics who at the outset submitted unwillingly to the change were now to propose a return to the old rates with any hope of carrying it, it would create a revolution in Great Britain strong enough to sweep every advocate of the change from power forever. But cheap postage was a plant of slow growth in Great Britain, and it will be of slower growth among us. It took three years after Rowland Hill got his commission of inquiry to make the change there. It would take a longer time here. The field is larger ; an d th e i n t erests to be consulted much more diverse and complicated. The present rates are not felt to be peculiarly oppressive, and the need of a sweeping reduction has not taken a very strong hold upon public opinion. Are we to wait for public opinion to be aroused and public men to be convinced upon the wisdom of this whole scheme of reform before correct ing the confessed abuses which have fastened themselves upon our postal system ? The frank ing privilege as it is now used is a burden for which the country gets no adequate return. It is a costly luxury which through ong channel (,r another helps to swell the tax levy where all currents of expenditure and waste meet at last. The old theory that it was compen sated for by the advantage of having free intercourse be tween constituents and their representatives is a fanciful one in these later times, when the means of communica tion have been multiplied a thousandfold, and when it is impossible for a representative to take an important step affecting the special interests of his constituents, or the general welfare of the country, and conceal it from them for a single hour. The new avenues for the diffusidn of intelligence and sound information have conveyed the substance of all important intelligence to and from the capital, while the public printing-office is pouring out its waste of printed paper, to be scattered abroad at the public charge. The people are no longer infants to be nursed and coddled in this way. Leave them to their own devices and they will get what they want, and in the long run all that will be of use to them. Mr. Sumner argues that the post-office should not be made a source of revenue. It should not be ; and there is very little danger of its be coming so, while our mail routes have such vast distances to traverse, and while tracts of newly-settled country, large enough for empires, are awaiti ng t o b e d eve l ope d . But the service should be made self-supporting. The first step is to take off the leeches. Reform the abuses first, and correct the system as rapidly as possible.—Boston Ad vertiser. Alarming symptoms of suffrage fever :—Little girl in Wyoming :—`"There, dolly, you must be still and sleep all day, 'cause I've dot to do and vote." Despite the opinion delivered by King Richard in an exigency as to the value of a horse, the noble animal may be an unwelcome visitor. A Mr. Clarke, of Chico, Cal., while recently taking a drive with his wife in a buggy on a road near Little Butte Creek, found that a drove of wild horses had completely surrounded them. One of these horses actually attacked the buggy, kicking it with his heels, while the others sought to make acquaint ance with the horses of the buggy. Mr. Clarke struck the attacking horse with the whip, whereat the animal became terribly enraged, ran in front of the carriage horses, kicked them with vigour and viciousness, and was driven off with great difficulty. Mrs. Clarke thinks she has since seen him as a nightmare. A_ bill recently introduced Into the Senate may facilitate the chances of promotion in the army by en couraging its offieers to depart this life. It enables any commissioned officer to assign part of his monthly pay to any life insurance company in the United States in pay ment of dues upon an insurance on his own life, so that the company shall be paid direct. It further enacts that a policy, the dues of which are so provided for, " cannot in any event whatever be suspended, rendered ineffective, or in any .4 4 anner made forfeitable." If this bill b ecomes a law, and the class of whom, at prese n t, " f ew di e an d none resial 2 " insure under it, they may take great com fort in the knowledge that any moment the amount of their policies can be obtained for their families, since suicide cannot work a forfeiture. SOCIAL SCIENCE. The late meeting of the Western Social Science Asso ciation at Chicago was moderately successful, though the attendarice was not large. The papers were on fresh topics, and the proceedings were decorous, except when the Al`Farland case was introduced—a case which led to a lively discussion in the convention. The chief comba tants were the two Colliers—Robert Laird on the M`Farland side, and Robert on the side of Richardson. Quite sharp personalities were exchanged between these two distinguished preachers. Goldwin Smith was the star of the occasion, though his paper on "The Political Crisis in England," was hardly up to the standard of his productions. It seems somewhat unnecessary for a person to argue, as Professor Smith did, that the sovereign of Great Britain is now a " mere lay figure." He would not exclude religion altogether from our form of government, for he thought "atheism was inflicted with imperialism." This is not unlike General Butler's argument that gold and silver are the currency of despots.—Boston Advertiser. MR. DISRAELI AND " LOTHATR." The controversy over Mr. Disraeli's novel grows more fierce and bitter as it proceeds. It was always so with everything Mr. Disraeli did. People set to work tearing and rending each other about him in a way which some times suggests the thought that a sinister influence is exercised in Mr. Disraeli's lot, and that he is doomed to be a " bone of contention " all his life. Blackwood's Maga zine has signalised itself by publishing an attack on him which journals of all parties concur in describing as infa mous. The Spectator is an old foe of Disraeli, but even that protests with energy ag-ainst the freshly furbished-up in sults directed against the Conservative leeder on the score of his Jewish extraction. " Sprinkling vitriol," says the Spectator, "is not war, but attempted murder; and the practice should be left to the ruffianly lads who in vented it, not as a weapon, but as a means of insulting the weak." The truth is that the vile attack in Black wood bears internal evidence of being the work of a man whom Mr. Disraeli once °ailed a literary louse!"—a most ob jectionable epithet, we admit, but it was generally thought at the time to be very descriptive, like most of the Dis raelian epithets, of the person on whose back he pasted. it. The parasite " in question never forgave Mr. Dis raeli, and it is pretty clear that he has been trying to pay off his old score in Blackwood. At such a moment an article conceived in a very different spirit in the forth coming number of Putnam's Magazine, will be read withinterest by the public. It corrects two or three popular misconceptions relating not only to Mr. Disraeli's latest novel, but to his life and character. The writer in Putnam is able to express an intelligent opinion, because he has obviously been at the pains to make him self acquainted with the facts concerning Mr. Diwaeli's life, and with his speeches and writings. Many in this country have taken up a cry against Mr. Disraeli at second hand. They have accepted the aspersions of his enemies as facts fully proved—not knowing or not remembering that this man is more bitterly hated in England than any living statesman. He has offended the aristocracy by treating them with scorn. He has of fended his own party, the Tories, by constantly advocating liberal measures. People here forget that England is indebted for the last Reform Bill to Mr. Disraeli. The English Tories, however, will never forget or forgive it. The Liberals do not like him because he is too clever, and is fond of exposing any " shams " in which they may be interested. Thus it happens that in England Mr. Disraeli is friendless, so far as the press is concerned. Every new writer begins his career with an attack on " Dizzy. This may be deemed fair play in England, but in this country it would only be natural for people to inquire for themselves into Mr. Dis raeli's career before joining in the hue and cry after him. The able writer of the article in Putnam has done this, and the result is that he has produced the best criticism of " Lothair " which has yet appeared in any of our periodicals. He points out that the novel " suggests, where it does not positively embody, the results of well-nigh half a century of hard thinking on all the perplexing proplems that have entered into the recent political and religious agitations of England and of Europe." On one point only is the writer mistaken. He is under the impression that Mr. Disraeli took side against the North in the recent rebellion. The truth is that he carefully avoided this error. While Mr. Glad stone was declaring that " Jeff. Davis had made a nation," Mr. Disraeli was treating the question in a spirit worthy of a responsible public man. Perhaps the certificate given by Mr. Bright on this point will satisfy even the most implacable opponents of Dis raeli. In a speech delivered in the House of Commons on March 13, 1865 Mr. Bright told the Tory party to " learn from the example set them by the right hon. gentleman, (Mr. Disraeli.) With a thoughtfulness and statesmanship which you do not all acknowledge, he did not say a word likely to create difficulties with the United States. I think his chief (Lord Derby) and his followers might learn something from his example." People have objected to " Lothair " on the ground that it " toadies" the British aristocracy. That shews how tho roughly they have misunderstood the book, and how ignorant they are of all that relates to Mr. Disraeli. He has been " chaffing" the aristocracy all his life, and he renews the pastime in " Lothair." Do those who accuse him of worshipping rank remember that he refused a peerage the other day—a peerage pressed upon him by the Queen herself? Do they forget that when he was Premier everybody in England went about making merry over the way in which Mr. Disraeli " snubbed the Duke ?" Did he not dismiss the Lord Chancellor much as other people turn kitchen maids out of their employment ? The Spectator disposes of the charge we have referred to in a passage which we commend to the notice of those who call " Lothair " " snobbish "As to his snobbishness, if there is a speciality in his intellect, which shines out in every book he ever wrote, it is his deep concentrated scorn for those parochial gran dees, these county magnates, aered up to their lips, con soled up .to their chins,' his certainty that their one real claim to distinction is their cash. He has said over and over again that they are barbarians, men without blue blood, who `did not conquer the land and do not defend it, and who are, as in " Lothair," feeble dandies as to ideas, as their forefathers were feeble dandies as to dress ; who ' excel in athletic sports, speak only one language, and never read.' So deep is this scorn, so incisive, and so peculiar in tone—for it is not, the reviewer will pardon us for saying, the scorn of envy, but rather the scorn of a white noble for a Hindoo rajah, of a Chinese mandarin for a white officer, a scorn leading each to exaggerate ceremonial reverence to the other—that it has been attributed to Mr. Disraeli's aristocratic pride, pride in the only pedigree except that of the Roman nobles, and perhaps that of the Boreish, which in his eyes has any validity, any claim to the pre ferential reverence of mankind, to a certain loathing of men so meanly born as the Percies or the Seymour Um ways whom he has held up to ridicule." Perhaps the article in " Putnam's " may lead some people to read "Lothair " again in an intelligent manner. If it also induces the readers of the novel to study Mr. Disraeli's life for themselves, the writer will have served the cause of justice, without injuring the cause of liberal ideas.—New York Times. It has been remarked that in the adverse division on the Irish Land Bill, which took place in the House of Lords on Monday night, the Bishops of Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Down, Exeter, and Manchester voted with the Government. No prelate went into the lobby with the Opposition. A RASH VENTURE.—The City of Ragusa, an ar gosy twenty feet long, manned by two sailors and a dog, and bound on a voyage across the Atlantic to New York, has put into Queenstown for repairs, having sprung a leak. It is to be hoped the necessary plugging will give the ad venturers on board time for consideration, and that they .will abandon their foolhardy purpose. If they meant to risk their lives in a new attempt to find a convenient North-western passage, there would be some justification for the enterprise. But as it is, the voyage is simply an outrage upon the confiding nature of the Newfoundland dog.-1V ew York Times. ArivmaisEmENT. 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