The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-25 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. Shute B. Piers, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday, with the 3d, 4th, and Bth batteries, 6th brigade, Royal Artil lery, from the Channel Islands. They disembarked at the dockyard, to be stationed in this garrison to supply the place of the three batteries by whom they have been relieved. The Simoon, steam troopship, Capt. T. B. Leth bridge, was taken into the steam basin on Saturday, her crew having been removed to the Blonde hulk. She will be placed in No. 11 dock this morning for any necessary repairs and survey. Several cases of smallpox having broken out on board the Rodney, Capt. Ileneage, at Spithead an chorage, some delay is likely to occur in her sailing for China to enter upon her duties as the flag-ship of Sir 11. Keppel, G.C.8., the successor of the pre sent Commander-in-Chief on that station. Her Majesty's ship Narcissus is now at the Falk land Islands. At Monte Video are H.M.S. Spiteful, Linnet, and Dotterel. H.M.S. Spider left Buenos Ayres on the 6th for a cruise, being relieved there by the Gleaner. Great surprise is felt in the River Plate at the apathy of the English Government with regard to the prolonged war between Paraguay and the Brazils. The Americans and French have sent vessels of war to Corrientes, and the Italians are about to follow the same course. The iron screw steam storeship Industry, Staff Commander Youel, from Woolwich, bound to Rio Janeiro, arrived at Plymouth on Friday, and will proceed as soon as the weather moderates. The head-quarters of the Ist battalion of the 20th Regiment, 330 rank and file, under command of Col. J. Cormick, which arrived at Plymouth on Saturday morning in the hired transport Patrician, disem barked in the afternoon, and marched to the Raglan barracks, Devonport, in which the depot company of the regiment has been for some time quartered. A party of 50 rank and file, " transfers" from the depot, 2d battalion 6th Regiment, to the service companies of the Ist battalion, has left the camp at Colchester for Fermoy. Major Cowell, of the Bth depot battalion, has assumed the command at Land guard Fort and Harwich from Capt. Reid, 98th Regiment. Staff Assist.-Surg. Jay, of the Bth depot battalion, has assumed the medical charge of the Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards until the arrival of Staff-Surg. White, who has recently been appointed to the Rent. The Field-Marshal Commanding-in- Chief has approved the following arrangements : Lieut. Nevile, 84th Regiment, to join the depot; Lieut. Luck, 84th Regiment, and Lieut. Orange, 2d battalion, 16th Regiment, to join the service com panies of their regiments. The E battery of the 6th Brigade of the Royal Artillery, comprising 6 officers and 151 men, with 92 horses, en route from Hilsea barracks to Water ford, arrived at Southampton on Friday afternoon, and left at 7 o'clock on Saturday morning for Salis bury, on their way to Bristol, at which port they will embark for Ireland. The 68th Regiment returned to its old quarters in Portsmouth garrison on Thursday evening by special train from Cowes. The 3d (King's Own) Hussars, now stationed at Aldershot, are under orders to proceed from the camp as follows :—One troop to Kensington on the 30th inst. ; two troops to Hounslow, on the 2d of April ; one troop to Hampton Court on the same date ; two troops to Hounslow on the 3d of April ; and two troops and head-quarters to the same desti nation on the 4th of April. A fire broke out at Aldershot Camp a few days ago in the servants' kitchen in the P Lines, South Camp. The hut and some officers' property were destroyed ; but through the exertions of the Camp Fire Brigade the flames were prevented from com municating to any other buildings. A Court of In quiry has since investigated the origin of the fire, but the result of its deliberations has not transpired. It is worthy of remark that the services of the Camp Fire Brigade have also been called into requisition at three fires in the village of Aldershot within the past month or live weeks, and at each of which pro perty to a large amount was destroyed. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. J. 11. Vidal, to the Excellent, additional, for study ; W. P. Haynes, master, to the Zebra ; 11. Smith, master, to the Vigilant ; IV. T. Tregidgo, master, to the Rinaldo; A. C. Allen, midshipman, to the Rodney, as super numerary, and his appointment to the Niobe can celled ; G. W. Pickthorn, paymaster, additional, to the St. George ; F. Gransinore, paymaster, to the Impregnable; W. Hickman, paymaster, additional, to the Donegal ; M. C. Raymom), second master, to the Fox ; F. S. Bruwn and C. W. Stuart, master's assistants, to the Princess Royal ; and W. J. Sulli van, master's assistant, to the Rodney. H.M.S. Royal Alfred. The armour-plated converted wooden frigate Royal Alfred, 18, 4,068 tons, 800-horse power, Capt. F. A. Herbert, fitted at Portsmouth as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir G. R. Mundy, K.C.8., appointed successor of Vice-Admiral Sir J. Hope in the com mand of her Majesty's ships on the North America and West India station, underwent her trial of speed over the measured mile iu Stokes Bay on Friday, at deep load draught. This ship is one of five pro duced by the Duke of Somerset's Board, by the sanction of Parliament in 1861, to add as rapidly as possible under the circumstances to the numbers of the ships forming the ironclad fleet of the country by their conversion from line-of-battle ships partly built to ironclad frigates. The Royal Oak, Ocean, Prince Consort, and Caledonia were completed, ac cording to the original intention of the Board, with 4i in. armour-plating all round their hulls from their upper deck beams to a certain distance below the water line ; but the Royal Alfred was converted and plated in a very different manner, and accord ing to designs submitted to the Admiralty by the Chief Constructor of the Navy. As a merely con verted ship the Royal Alfred could only carry a certain weight of armament and armour, and as both were by Mr. Reed's plan to be very mate rially increased in powers of offence and defence, a " reconstruction" of her weights in those respects became a part of the new plan. Her armament has therefore been altered from 40 guns of small calibre and power to 18 guns of tremendous power—viz., ten 12-ton gin. muzzle-loading rifles, and eight 6f - ton of the same description. In the weight of her armament the Royal Alfred is at present only equalled by the Bellerophon in the navy of this country, and stands first of all other vessels forming the navies of Europe or of America. In the new arrangement of the ship's armour the complete sys tem has been abandoned, and a certain portion of the hull above the water-line belt, forward of the foremast and abaft the mainmast, has been left en tirely without armour, while the weight of this die carded plating has been added to the armour cover ing the central battery of ten 12-ton guns, by giv ing anincreased thickness there to the plating. The armour of the ship now, therefore, is disposed over her hull in a complete water-line belt, from which rises amidships on each side armour-plating of six inches in thickness, covering in the main-deck bat tery of 12-ton guns. Armour-plated bulkheads, built up across the main deck at each end of this central armour-plating, enclose the battery of 12- ton guns in an ironcascd citadel of oblong form. The weakest part of the whole of the battery's pro tective armour appears to the eye to be around the edges of each of the gunports ; but this has been provided fur by fixing round each port, and un d er the outer 6-inch armour-plating, hammered wrought iron shields or strengthening plat es , with ports worked in their centre, which increases the thick ness of plating round each p)rt front the of the out , r pitting to a total of ten inches. no Lows and stern of the :hip iu all their curved lines are covered with 41 -inch plating, rising upwards, like that of the central battery, from the water-line armour belt, and through this bow and ,tern armour four 6i -ton guns fire in a line NI WI the ship's keel. 'The other four 6f-ton gnus are mounted on the upper deck as chase guns, or for long range firing. In converting the ship to her present form special care has been taken to give ample room between each port for the working at the extrernest possible ranges of her immense ordnince, the distance from centre to centre of the ports in her central battery being no less than 25tt, :the iron carriages and their slides which mount the ship's 12-ton guns are much heavier and stronger than the carriages and slides supplied to the Bellerophon for her guns, but they are still but single-sided carriages, and do not therefore equal in strength and lasting power the box-girder form recommended by Admiral Key's Gun Carriage Committee. The conversion of the ship to her present form was effected with every care for the strength of her hull as a heavily plated vessel, and a vessel also intended to carry ordnance of exceptional weight. Detailed notices of the ship's conversion have appeared in the Naval Intelligence column as the work progressed, and it is sufficient, therefore, to observe here that, while the Royal Alfred is an admirable specimen of an armoured frigate, produced from the frame of an unarmoured two-decked ship, she at the same time possesses those points of structural weakness which are inseparable from all wooden-built ships clothed with armour-plating. As she is, however, she is a heavily-armed, heavily-plated ship, wonderfully handy under steam, having a very fair rate of speed, and possessing altogether a capacity of doing a long and hard day's fighting. Her present form is mainly due to the foresight and energy of Rear-Admiral Robinson, the Controller of the Navy. She was converted and fitted according to his notions as an ad miral's fighting flagship in tropical waters, and his judgment in the matter was more ,than confirmed by the opinion expressed by Rear-Admiral Golds borough, commanding the United States squadron in Europe, during his visit to Portsmouth yard last autumn, when he declared the Royal Alfred to be a far superior " fighting machine" for general purposes to either the Warrior or the Mino taur, then lying alongside her in the steam basin of the yard. The engines of the Royal Alfred are by Maudslay and Field, supplied when the Admiralty of the day contemplated sending the ship afloat as an unar moured screw line-of-battle ship. They are of the ordinary two-cylinder type of the firm, of 800 no minal horse power, with cylinders of 83in. dia meter and a 4ft. stroke of piston, and drive a .Maudslay-Griffiths screw set at a pitch of 27ft 6in., the diameter being 191 t. 2iin., with a length of the blades of 4ft. The trial of the ship over the mile in Stokes Bay on Friday was made under the management of Mr. Andrew Murray, chief engineer of Portsmouth Dockyard, and Mr. Geo. Murdoch, chief inspector of machinery afloat, assisted by Chief Engineer W. Bardin, Assistant Master Shipwright W. Brain, and other officers. Captain W. C. Chamberlain, as the officer commanding the steam reserve of the port, was in temporary command of - the ship dur ing the day's trials. The ship weighed her anchor from Spithead, and entered upon her runs over the mile about 11 a.m. under favourable conditions of wind and weather, her draught of water being 22ft. 6in. forward, and 27ft. aft, and her length of hull between perpendiculars being 273 ft. The main re sults of the trials are summarised in the following figures :—Six runs over the mile, with full power, gave 11.356, 12.543, 10.434, 13.235, 10.583, and 13.333 knots ; steam pressure, pounds, 19, 19, 18 . 5, 20, 20, and 20 ; vacuum, inches, 23.5, 23, 23, 24, 24, and 23 ; engines' revolutions, 59, 58.5, 55, 6u, 60, and 60. Mean speed of the ship, with full full boiler power, 11.796 knots. Two runs afterwards made with half boiler power gave 9.137 and 8.071 knots, or a mean speed of 8.604 knots. Steam pressure, 141 b.: vacuum, 23.5 and 24 inches ; and revolutions of the engines, 42. Under full boiler power a half circle was made in 2 min. 56 secs., and the full circle completed in 5 min. 43 sec., the helm being put over to starboard. With the helm put over to port, a half circle was made in 2 min. 37 sec., and the full circle completed in 5 min. 15 sec. The engines gave great satisfaction by their working throughout the trial, and especially so, indeed, if due consideration is given to the fact of their being what may be termed of the old type. In timing their action in answer to signal from the bridge telegraph, they were stopped dead from the time of moving the telegraph-handles in 15 secs., started ahead to full speed from rest in 17 secs., and, reversed to full speed astern from full speed ahead in 31 secs. After the trials were condoled the Royal Allred was re-anchored at Spithead, where she will be swung to-day under steam, to ascertain the deviation of her compass. The trial of the Royal Alfred over the measured mile, and her intended departure in a few days from England to enter upon the duties of a flagship on foreign service, affords a fitting opportunity for our again suggesting for the consideration of the Admi- ralty the propriety of selecting other than fighting ships as the residence of an admiral and his suite when commanding squadrons on active service. An entire change from the present system is most de sirable for many reasons. It is highly objectionable, for instance, that a ship of war, which has been completed at immense cost as a fighting machine, should be under any circumstances turned into a floating residence for an admiral and his suite, since this cannot be done without sacrificing some portion of the ship's fighting efficiency, and interfering very materially with the drill of her crew. An admiral commanding a fleet in the day of battle should also possess the same free means of personal movement, independently of his fighting ships, as is possessed by a gen9ral in directing the movements of his battalions on land. Shocking Murder and Attempted Suicide at Norwich. A brief telegram in Saturday's impression stated that a shocking murder had been committed on the previous day at Norwich. The Norfolk News gives the following particulars : " Two old people—John and Elizabeth Winter, man and wife, the former 71 and the latter 73 years of age—have been living together in a single room in Fountain-yard, St. Benedict's, their means of subsistence being parish relief, and some little assistance from their son, a man named Hardesty, in the employ of Mr. James Hardy, grocer, St. Stephen's. Ihe woman being paralysed was unable to do any active work, and for some time past her granddaughter, a girl of about 14 years of age, who lived with her father on Grapes's-hill, had been in I the habit of assisting in her house work. On Fri day morning, between eight and nine o'clock, she Went to the room for that purpose, and found that the old man had got up and lighted the fire. Her grandmother was lying in bed, but they all had breakfast together, and at the time nothing was noticed to occasion any alarm. The repast, how ever, had not been concluded very long before the old man turned her out of the room and locked the door, giving no explanation for this singular pro ceeding. The girl immediately ran home and told her elder sister of what had occurred, and the latter (Laura Hardesty) at once proceeded to Fountain yard. Finding that the door was locked, she looked through the window, and saw her grandfather in the act of leaning on the bed and cutting the old lady's throat with a razor. Frightened at the horrible act which she had witnessed the girl ran out of the yard and told her mother of what had occurred. In the meantime a neighbour looked through the window and saw the old man lying o❑ the bed by the side of his dying or dead wife, with his own throat cut. It seems that he had only that moment committed the rash act upon himself, for he was laying down the razor at the time the neigh bour looked in at the window. The door being forced, it was found that the deceased's throat was cut on the left side, the wound being about four inches in length and of considerable depth, and severing the windpipe. The tLitrilerer had inflicted a wound upon his own throat, extending almost from ear to ear, and penetrating the jugular vein ; and from the jagged character of the cut the razor appears to have had a backward and forward move ment. The police found on the window shelf a razor covered with blood. A quantity of cord was tied round the handle so as to enable the murderer to hold it with a firtn grasp, and the blade was also tied to prevent it from shutting. Mr. Bailey, sur geon, who was the first medical gentleman in the house after the discovery of the occurrence, dressed the old man's wound, and he was conveyed to the hospital. He was able to speak, but the injury is of so frightful a character that there is little chance of his surviving. It seem; that tlrc old people were in tolerably comfortable circumstances as regards THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEAING, MARCH 25, 1867. food and clothing. The room in which they lived was furnished with two or three old chairs, a table, and other trifling articles, and in the centre of the floor was the bed, provided with plenty of clothing. A neighbour states that he had got it into his head' that he and his wife would be taken to the work house, to which he had a great objection ; and others state that during the past week or so he had behaved more roughly than usual towards his wife. There seems no reason to doubt, from the condition i❑ which the razor was found, with the cord round the handle and the blade secured, that he had premedi tated the murder. Hannah Goulder, who was the first neighbour attracted to the house after the oc currence, says that she saw the old man as he was taking the razor from his own throat, and on ask ing, What have you done?' he replied with violent language, ' Go to -.' " ment would be administered in the interests of the masses of the people, and not to favour a privileged class. But it ere long became evident that Louis PHILIPPE, a member of the House of Bour bon, and one of the highest of the ancient nobility, listening to evil counsellors, was leaning more and more towards exclusive legislation for the aristocratic classes, and that he was forgetting popular rights. Again, the French people rose almost as one man in 1848, and Louis PHILIPPE, without a single ad vocate to defend his cause, fled a fugitive from the kingdom. Miscellaneous American News. The new steamship Mississippi, of the United States Mail Line, arrived at Falmouth on the 16th inst., after a rough passage of unremitting north-east gales. As she left New York on the 2d, the run was made against au unusual dead-ahead storm in fourteen days. The following is the specie on board for France :—Raphael, Berend, and Co., Paris, $256,283 ; J. A. Haude and Co., Havre, $226,200.—T0ta1, $482,483. The Atlantic cable informs us that the Virginia Senate has offered to co-operate with General Scho field, in command of the Virginian district, under the bill for the military government of the South. Although last week it was announced that this bill was in operation in the State of Louisiana, it now appears that the Senate of that State has made -an appropriation to test the constitutionality of the Military Bill. It was telegraphed from New York, March 17, that the Upper House of Congress had passed a supplement to the Reconstruction Bill, directing the commanders of the military districts in the South to take measures for completing the regis tration of the voters by September next, and then to cause an election to be made in each State. The majority of the electors thus registered are to decide whether a convention should be held in order to form a constitution to be submitted to the people and to Congress. This supplement passed the House of Representatives, but it was expected that the President would veto it, in' which case the mea sure was sure to be passed over his veto. The Legislative Council of British Columbia has passed a vote in favour of admission to the Colonial Con federation. The Congress House of Representa tives passed a resolution instructing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquire why the Alabama claims have not been paid, and what ought to be done to secure their payment. A Senatorial Caucus has pronounced in favour of Congress remaining in session until the Presi dent has appointed the commanders of the Southern districts and then adjourning until November. A joint resolution of the same body has been referred to the Judiciary Committee to amend the Constitu tion, and so prevent any State from prohibiting voting or office holding on account of colour. The Maine Legislature :has passed a resolution protesting against the establishment of a kingdom of Canada, and has asked the national Govern ment to interpose, by a friendly remonstrance, against the proposed confederation. A resolution expres s i ng sym p a thy with Irela n d i n the pending struggle for constitutional liberty has been referred by Congress to the Committee of Foreign Affairs. At a recent municipal *election the negroes claimed to vote, under the Reconstruction Bill. The authorities received the votes separately, but refused to count them. The negroes intend to refer the matter to the courts. A letter from Secretary Seward has been pub lished officially, offering the mediation of the United States between Spain and the Republics of Peru, Chili, Bolivia, and Ecuador, proposing a con ference of Plenipotentiaries of those countries to meet at Washington on the Ist of April next ; the President to designate the presiding officer, and in Case of disagreement to indicate some state o sovereign to act as umpire ; and an armistice to be declared as soon as the belligerents agree to the conference. The Fenians appear to have agaih become active and threatening on the Canadian frontier. It was stated in New York on the 15th instant that several detachments of British troops had been sent to the frontier, a raid being apprehended. On the 18th the New York Herald asserted that Mr. Johnson, in reply to a Fenian delegation who waited upon him to ask for belligerent rights for the Fenians, said he would give the question the most serious considera tion, such as was necessary to decide a matter of so great importance. On the 20th the New York journals reported that a strong Federal detachment has been sent to Oswego to guard the frontier against Fenian movements. This message, which was sent at noon, was denied five hours after. Last January was a bad month for railway earn. ings both in England and in the United States. The lines were for days blocked with snow or cleared at great expense, and the weather was so cold that few travelled, except under urgent necessity. The gross earnings of the .Pennsylvania Railroad w ere , not withstanding,sl,o4o,4s6, aga i ns t 170,957. Th e expenses for January, 1866, amounted to january,lB66 fo , r sl, that month, $1,066,957, while for last January the sum was reduced to $886,685. Thus the net earnings of the company show an in crease for the first month of this year of 00,726, the total sum being for January, 1866, $103,011, and for January, 1867, $153,770. The New York Times, quoting a despatch, of January 13, from Yokohama, received via San Francisco, states that a most disastrous conflagra tion had occurred at Yeddo, far worse than that at Yokohama, and laying in ashes the mos t prom i nent business and commercial part of the c ity. The to P asnciafic Francisco, bringi ng bringmail-shipi Colorado has re turnedng news from Jap an to February 27th, and dates from Chi na t o t h e 17th ult. The Mikado of Japan had lately died, and business was dull, more especially in cottons. Teas were nominally lower ; the best were sold at from 31c. to 41c. ; sterling exchange, 52d. The British steamers Scylla, Basilisk, Argus, and the Foam were at Yokohama. The Japanese embassy to Washington are among the passengers, and the cargo includes 270 chests of tea. The American Minister at Peking was in high favour with the Im perial Court. The Chinese Government resisted all efforts to obtain authority for the construction of a railroad through Mongolia. The French were about to make a short . road from Shanghai to Lei chow. The Russian fleet was to sail for the Medi- terranean. Piece goods were firm at Hong Kong. Canadian postmasters have received their instruc tions, as regards the new postal route from Canada, to Australia, and New Zealand, via Isthmus of Panama. By this route the American line is used to Panama, and the British line thence to Australia. There is a considerable saving of time as compared with the old route by England. The Canada mails to the West Indies will go by the American lines from New York. These are important improve ments. The Canadian Parliament is summoned to meet on the 6th of April next, but not for the despatch of business. It is positively asserted that President Johnson means to nominate a woman to a consulship in Great Britain, and su b m i t t h e appo i n t men t t o the Senate. The Hon. Reverdy Johnson spoke on the Recon struction Bill in the last Congress. Ile said—" I have from the firstbcen ready to agree to any proposition which I believed would result in bringing the Southern States back, however much I may be opposed to the conditions that might be expected of them." From this time to the close a perfect still ness reigned in the Ch amber. " If, " cont i nued the u a ld ite a a t r o t u f e u e ll roef cSenator, in had is Clamber, conviction that they would be true to their duty, to the country, and that they would promote its perma nent interest. But I have not my own way. lam obliged, therefore, to acquiesce in the decision of the majority of Congress, however erroneous or unjust I may believe that decision to be, provided I believe that it will end in a comparatively short time in restoring the Southern States to the brotherhood of States. I am unwilling that this Congress shall adjourn without the adopt ,n of some measure that holds out a hope, however distant, that this may be the result of our deliberations ; and, be- lieving that this will be done ty the adoption of the measure as it uow stands before you, I shall give it my vote, not because I approve it in the abstract, but because I think I see in it a mode of rescuing the country from the perilous predicament in which it is now placed." After voting for the bill he pro ceeded to the White House and urged the Presi dent to sign it, which Mr. Johnson could not be persuaded to do. If one could have believed the reports in the Irish papers, Mr. John Morrissey ought now to be in an Irish prison instead of in his place in Con gress. Mr. Morrissey is, however, in his place in Congress and not in an Irish prison. Although he was not arrested, and did not faint as alleged, he has probably had quite enough of fighting, and naturally prefers to enjoy his pile of greenbacks in Washington and New York to taking part in abor tive risings, which might end on the gallows. The President was constrained to sign the bill depriving him of his power as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, as it was tacked to the Act making appropriation for the support of the army and other purposes. The following is Mr. Johnson's protest that he did so under coercion : "TO the House of Representatives— " The Act entitled Act making appropria tion for the support of the army for the year ending Jane 30, 1868, and for other purposes,' contained provisions to which I must call attention. These provisions are contained in the second section, which in certain cases virtually deprives the Presi dent of his constitutional functions as commander in-chief of the army, and in the sixth section, which deny to the states of the Union their constitutional right to protect themselves in any emergency by means of their own militia. These provisions are out of place in an appropriation act. lam com pelled to defeat thenecessary appropriations if Iwith hold my signature from the bill. Pressed by these circumstances, I feel constrained to return the bill with my signature, but to accompany it with my protest against the sections which I have indicated. (Signed) " ANDREW JOHNSON. " Washington, March 2, 1867." A report has been received in Washington from Havannah, by Commander Cooper, of the United States steamer 'Winooski, who has been cruising round Cuba, to look after the landing of negroes on that island. He reports that for wore than a year no such importation has occurred. The merchants of the island were satisfied that the slave trade is at an end. Many plantations are worked with white and free coloured labour, while others are divided into farms and worked on shares, and both plans are found successful. The vigilance and good faith of the Spanish authorities against slave•trading is testified to. The Tax, Bankrupts', Compound Interest Note Funding Bills have been passed by Congress, and signed by the President. The Judiciary Committee have reported on tl•e impeachment of the President and on the arrest of Sun att. The language in both cases is ambiguous. They decline to say whether the charges against the President have been sufficiently sustained for im peachment, while they admit that enough has been substantiated for further consideration by the new Congress. The minority report on this matter that there is not one particle of evidence to sustain any of the charges which the House directed the com mittee to investigate, and that the case is wholly without a particle of evidence upon which impeach ment could be founded ; and that after all the efforts that have been made, and the mass of evidence that has been taken, the case is entirely bald of proof. This report was drawn up by Mr. Rogers, who has come to the conclusion that no good can eventuate from a continuance of the investigation, which only tends to keep the country in a feverish state of excite ment. With regard to the arrest of Surratt, they report a want of diligence on the part of the Exe cutive in seeking the arrest. They hold that the President did not exercise proper activity in pro curing the arrest, although they are unable and un willing to make any direct charge. They add that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of War attempt to justify the tardiness of the Executive, but not to their satisfaction. The crops for 1867 seem to promise well in Louisiana, the weather having been highly favour. able to the planting of cane. The smaller farms only will be put to cotton. Most of the freedmen have contracted for the year, and at increased wages ; men average $l5 per month and rations. The experiment of coolie labour is now in progress on one plantation. The Nation very happily illustrates the New Tariff Bill, which has perished in the late Congress. "Nobody understands it, and most of its supporters are rather ashamed of it, and even if it does pass, do not want to be held responsible for it. It bears about the same relation to a good law that a Celtic cairn bears to a building. The cairn is a heap of stones contributed one .by one by the passers-by, to the memory of a murdered man, and it often at tains to considerable magnitude. The new tariff is a string of taxes, each clapped oa by one member, and nobody caring whether his tax harmonised with anybody else's tax or not, provided it swelled the total bulk, all contending for the honour of furnish ing the biggest contribution. The result is a bill which has had no parallel in any civilised country within the last century. The Tribune has had to go back to the Middle Ages to find anything like it. The latest votes on it in the house indicate a general disposition to let it drop ; but Mr. Morrill announces his intention to force it through if possible. We sug gest that he leave it to Mr. Stevens, who is the only political economist in Congress who can do full jus tice to this remarkable measure. The committee appointed to inquire into the whisky frauds, as might be expected, have a start ling story to tell, but have made an excellent re port. The cause of the abuses they find where every intelligent man expected them to find it--in the weight of the tax, which is one of the largest pre miums on fraud ever offered, and in the utter de moralisation of the revenue force, which seems in the large cities, at least, to be composed, in the main, of unmitigated knaves, whose chief function is the promotion and covering up of cheating amongst manufacturers. There is no reform so much needed as Mr. Jenckes's, but we suspect it will be some time before Congress will be virtuous enough to swallow it. The epidemic from which investors in England have suffered so severely appears to have extended like a plague over the world. Europe, India, China, Australia, South Africa, have all been hit, and the following extract shows that the United States have _ -- not escaped :—" Since January 2d there has been a fall of $19,237,000 in the value of eleven of the fashionable stocks dealt in at the New York stock board, and adding eight more the total depreciation amounts to $24,812,000. Some of the principal items in this decrease of market values are, Pacific Mail Stock $4,600,000, New York Central Railroad $2,500,000, Erie $2,650,000, North-Western Common $ 1 ,300,000, North-Western Preferred $2,210,000, Cumberland Coal $2,500,000, and Western Union Telegraph $1,250,000. This de crease in market values, says the Tribune, gives an idea of the extent of the collective loss to what is known as the street,' and shows why speculation for an advance halts. In this period there has been a large advance in Government stocks of all issues, and a steady rise in bank shared and railway mort- gages, the whole movement showing a disposition ou the part of the people to put money where it can draw certain interest." A special despatch of the same journal from Washington, dated February 28, gives these in- teresting surmises on the Reconstruction of the Cabinet :—John B. Haskins, of New York, had a long interview with the President to-day, and talked over the situation freely. He came to the conclu- sion, at the close of the interview, that the Presi dent has determined on a change of his Cabinet, and is of the opinion that it will be constituted as follows :—Secretary of State, Chas. Francis Adams; of the Treasury, Hugh M'Culloch ; of War, Major- General Meade ; of the Navy, Admiral Farragut ; of the Interior, ex-Governor William Aiken ; At torney-General, Alex. 11. Stephens ; Postmaster- General, Horace Greeley. One of the most pleasing subjecti of speculation to the:American press is what General Grant thinks and says. To those who read the Southern and the Northern press, and believe what is told them, General Grant must be the most wonderful thinker of the age. His thoughts must appear to revolve like a kaleidescope, and assume all sorts of hues and colours. We would recommend the distinguished General to give up thinking for himself and allow that many-headed monster—the Press—to do all his thinking for him. If he collects these thoughts and stories, and strikes an accurate average, he will probably hit on what be ought to think, and come in triumphantly as the next President. This is the report of the most accurate journal we know, the Spring field Republican:—" Gene ral Grant is said to have talked in favour of the Sherman Bill, in the presence of Senator Wilson and Secretary Stanton, and expressed the hope that the President would sign it. He was against the bill, as at first presented, because it undertook by clandestine means to make him Commander-in-Chief. General Grant is also reported to have said that no military man, while in the service, should be eligible to the Presidency, and that he should be glad to see Reverdy Johnson the next President. If we believe half the reports of the General's sayings, it is clear that he will not answer as a Presidential candidate for either party. The Pall Mall Gazette remarks that a few months ago there was considerable speculation at Washing ton concerning a somewhat disguised expedition of Mr. Frederick Seward—son of the Secretary of State—who went by night to Annapolis, and thence embarked on a special steamer for some unknown port. It seems that what was speculation at Wash ington had become suspicion in St. Domingo. A Matanzas paper of the 6th ult. has the following letter relating to Mr. Seward's voyage before he arrived at Nassau, which, it would now seem, was not the port he first aimed for. The letter says : " St. Domingo continues quiet, but I think on the same day that the Barcelona left there was a riot on account of the presence in the river of an Ameri can steamer ; for it seems that there is some fear that this Government is in treaty with that of Washington to cede to it some part of the island— for example, Samana. According to the captain of the Barcelona, there were several shots fired, although the result was not known. The American steamer immediately left the river and anchored in the roads. The Reconstruction of Europa. The following article is from the pen of the Ame riean historian John C. S. Abbott, and is the first of a series written for our contemporary the Anglo- American Times : The great question which engrosses the attention of thinking men, the world over, is that reconstruc tion of Europe which is now in progress, and which nothing can avert. When the Empire of the First NAPOLEON was overthrown by more than a million of foreign bayonets, the Allies, having garrisoned all the fortresses of France with foreign troops, assembled an army of 80,000 foreigners upon the plains of Chalon. At the signal of a gun three cheers were given by this multitudinous throng. It was despotism's defiant and exultant yell—the most awful roar ever heard on earth. The thunders of that cry reverberated through France, and fell upon the ear of the enslaved nation as the knell of death. The Allied Sovereigns, having crushed out the Empire with its principle of equal rights for all men, met in Congress at Vienna to divide out Europe anew between them. It was their great object so to reorganise Europe as 'to render it impossible for the people anywhere again to rise in advocacy of those popular rights which had been so widely pro claimed upon the banners of the Empire. The Congress, taking its name from the year of its session, 1815, was composed of a motley, discord ant, contentious assemblage, held together but by the single bond of a common hatred of those principles of equal rights for all, which NAPOLEON had so grandly maintained in France, and which the peoples of Europe were so eagerly coveting. The Congress of 1815 was the most formidable and atrocious conspiracy against the rights of hu manity of which we have any record. Truly does the British Quarterly say : " The treaties of Vienna in 1815, though the most desperate efforts have been made by the English diplomatists to embalm them as monuments of poli tical wisdom, should be got underground with all possible despatch. For no compacts so worthless, so wicked, so utterly subversive of the rights of humanity are to be found in the annals of nations." The following incident illustrates the principles which reigned in this Congress. METTERNICH, its presiding officer, gave a banquet. At the table the conversation turned upon those principles of popular equality, for the advocacy- of which NAPOLEON was then entering upon the long agony of St. Helena. After dinner Lord CASTLEREAGH and METTERNICH stepped out upon a balcony which commanded an extensive view of the surrounding country. METTERNICH pointed to the peasants, men, women, and girls, toiling in the fields, and said,— " Behold, my lord, the true philosophy of society— gentlemen in the parlour, labourers in the field, and an impassable gulf between them." I can refer to but a few of the measures of this Congress as a specimen of the rest. The kingdoms of Italy, with freedom of conscience and equal rights for all, which NAPOLEON had aided the Italian people to establish, were overthrown, and the old and loathsome regimes of civil and religious despotism reinaugurated. Spain was driven back into ignor ance and barbarism. The Italian people, under the regeneration which NAPOLEON had enabled them to effect, had tasted the sweets of Governments instituted for the bene fit of the in ►sses, and not for the nobles alone. As it was certain that the Italians would be restive under the reimposed tyranny, Italy was cut up into fragments and parcelled out, so as to render any rising of the people almost impossible. Venetia and Lombardy, with a population of nearly seven million:, were given to an Austrian duke, who held the population in subjection by Austrian armies. Modena, with about five hundred thousand inhabitants, and from which a revenue could be extorted of about seven million of francs, was placed under the guardianship of one of the nephews of the Emperor FERDINAND. Parma, a duchy of about the same size, population, and revenue, was assigned to the EMPEROR'S daughter, MARIA LOUISA, with Count NEIPPERG to collect the taxes. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, with a population of one and a half millions, and a revenue of twenty-five millions of francs, was placed in the hands of the Austrian EMPEROR'S son. The nine- teen States of the Church, with a population of about three millions, were restored to the temporal dominion of the POPE. The kingdom of Naples, inhabited by seven millions of people, was surren dered to that hoary debauchee, FERDINAND, who had married a daughter of Austrian EMPEROR, and who was as worthless a tyrant as ever sat upon a throne. Thus it will be seen that nearly the whole of Italy was surrendered to Austria, and was virtually cut up into provinces of the Austrian Empire. The same process was pursued in all other parts of Europe. Wherever any Governments had been established, pervaded by those principles of equal rights for all, which the Empire of NAPOLEON had so nobly maintained, these Governments were over thrown, and the old feudal despotisms reinstated. Years rolled on—years of feudal oppression and the degradation of the masses. In various parts of Europe, in Italy, Hungary, Poland, desperate attempts were made by the people to throw off the intolerable yoke, imposed upon them by the treaties of 1815. But these attempts were easily crushed by the combined armies of the Holy Allies ! In one of these uprisings in Italy, the present Emperor of France, with his elder brother, joined the people in their struggle to regain their liberty. The elder died, from the exhaustion of the campaign, in the arms of the younger. In 1830 the French people rose successfully, and drove CHARLES X. from the throne upon which tho bayonets of foreigners had placed him. The remains of NAPOLEON were now mouldering beneath the sod at Longwood. His only son, the Duke of REICHSTADT, had pined away and died in the palaces of Austria. All the members of the BONA PARTE family were exiled from France. It was a perilous hour, which might usher in the reign of anarchy or of terror. The most devoted and intelligent frfends of popu lar rights, men whose love of liberty cannot be questioned, and who were intimately acquainted with the internal condition and foreign relations of France, did not think France prepared for the esta blishment of a republic. LAFAYETTE presented Louts PHILIPPE to the people as the candidate for the vacant throne. In this eventful hour, as LAFAYETTE held the hand of Louis PIIILIPPE at the hotel de Ville, wishing to impress upon the new candidate for the throne his duty to rule in the interests of the masses of the people, and not for a privileged class alone, he said to Lours PHILIPPE, " You know that t am a Re- publican, and that I rogard the Constitution of the United States as the most perfect that has ever existed." " I think as you do," replied Louts PHILIPPE. " It is impossible to pass two years in the United States, as I have done, and not be of that opinion. But you think that in the present state of France a republic can be sustained here ?" " No," said LAFAYETTE," that which is necessary :or France now is a throne surrounded by Repub. jean institutions." " That is exactly my opinion," replied Louis PHILIPPE. The French people, however, were bitterly disappointed. They hoped that the prin ciple of the Napoleonic Empire would per vade the monarchy, and that the govern- COMMERCIAL. NEW Yonx, March 2. Although money continues plentiful, and is procured easily on Government collaterals at 5 por cent., yet it is loaned with the greatest caution, on securities narrowly investigated before it is parted with. The same remark applies to business paper, which is now rarely obtained under 7 per cent. Long dates aro looked at unfavourably four months being the limits, and one to two months pre ferred. A wholesale grocery and tea house has failed, and there aro indications that more will go if credits are fur ther restricted. The stringency in this respect in the face of an ample supply of money indicates some thing bad, and it is idle to disguise that there is an uneasy feeling abroad. The tendency of gold is upwards-if slowly, still surely, and closed on Thursday almost touching 140. It is probable that this advance has been caused by the suspension of sales on Government behalf. There is a considerable demand also to pay duties at the Custom House. There is no great export, though the steamers from this port last Saturday took out $486,000. There were no shipments last Wed nesday from Boston nor from New York by the late steamers. The whole amount in January was but $2,505,211, being loss than half that exported for January of 1864, and considerably less than for that of last year. Bullion must, under these circumstances, be increasing in Now York, as the last Aspinwall steamer brought in nearly a million of treasure. While fancy stocks continue to fall, the stocks of the Government of all kinds are daily grow ing in demand and rising in price. This is more marked in the gold-bearing securities, which receive a strong sup port from the European demand. The Cable news reports favourably of the 5-20's in your market, and the conversion of other stocks into 5.20's continues to be made on a large scale. The Treasury-office in New York on Wednesday re mitted $7,000,000 of conversions of 7-30's to the Department at Washington. The inclination is very general to close transactions in speculative investments, and the securities now preferred are the Government Stocks, though some of the best paying railway and other sound paying securities are in favour. Some attention has been attracted to a London circular, which speaks unfavourably of the man agement of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, accusing it of being untruthful in the returns of the busi ness in 1865. On this subject, however, your London readers are more fully informed than we are here. The Report of the Pennsylvania Central for 1866 is favourable. The net earnings were $3,792,973, and the gross receipts $16,583,882. The company claims to be the owner of property to a total of more than $45,000,000. It is said that their earnings for January show a consider able increase, not in the gross, but in the nett amount, and there is no doubt that the line is thoroughly well managed. Both Erie and New York Central have risen ; the latter, in consequence of an expectation of favourable legislation, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago are depressed. Hereafter, the dividends are to be 4 per cent. half-yearly, instead of 21 quarterly. American gold 1391, United States Fivo-twenties (1862) 1111, (1864) 108,. (1465) 1081, (1865, now issue) 1061, United States Ten forties 1011, United States 7 3-10 Loan 106, Missouri Sixes 921, Virginia Sixes 58, Now York Central Railroad 103, Erie 561, Erie Preferred 73, Hudson River 1381, Reading 1031, Michigan Central 1071, Michigan, Southern, and Northern Indiana 721, Illinois Central 1161, Cleveland and Pittsburg 80, Cleve land and Toledo 119, Chicago and North-Western 354. Chicago and North-Western preferred 651, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 941, Chicago and Rock Island 054, Ohio and Mississippi Certificates 251, Western Union Telegraph Company 421, Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany 138, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company 79, Cumber land Coal Company Preferred 34, Canton Company 451, Quicksilver Mining Company 381, Mariposa Mining Com pany 91, Preferred 221. (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, March 20.) The advicos from New York by the Java only came to hand this morning. During the fortnight which had elapsed since our last report of the Now York Market, business has been on a limited scale, Government Secu rities being firm, especially for the Bonds issued before the war, and for the last issue (1865) of 5-20's ; the former axe quoted at an advance of 1 per cent., and the latter 3 per cent. The evident intention of Congress to proceed with the gradual contraction of the currency has operated un favourably on the share market, and most railroad stocks exhibit a decline of from 2to 3 per cent. Railroad bonds and State btocks were rather more offered. The Now York banks' return shows some important changes, the discounts having increased seven million dollars during the fortnight, and the specie exhibiting a decline of three millions. The monthly official statement of receipts and disbursements at the Sub-Treasury indicate an addition to the balance on hand of eleven millions, the total amount to Feb. 28 being $114,386,074. BONDS. In our Circular of last week we alluded to a few English, Foreign, and Colonial Railway Preference and Guaranteed Stocks, which we consider offer a fair rate of interest on investment, and which wo think to be perfectly safe. We now take such Foreign Government and Colonial Bonds as have always kept faith in payment of interest, giving the price and percentage of interest which they will yield to investors, irrespective of any profit or loss which may accrue on redemption. On the Foreign Bonds it will be seen the rates vary considerably—from four per cent. on the Turkish Loan, guaranteed by England and France, to 8i per cont. on Egyptian ; while the Colonial securities offer an average rate of about 5/ per cent. Present Rate of Int. on Price. Investment. *Brazilian Do. new issue 5 do. 73 Chilian do. 6 do. 82 *Egyptian *Peruvian Russian (1822) * Do. (1864) 5 do. 92 *Turkish (1854) 6 do. 78 * Do. (guaranteed) 4 do. 100 Dutch United States 5-20's 6 do. 74 Canada Government 6 do. 100 Do 5 do. 88 Cape of Good Hope_ 6 do. 103 Do 5 do. 92 Ceylon (1872) Now South Wales ... 5 do. 95 Do. New Zealand Do. Queensland 6 do. 91 Victoria - 5 11. 1 Whose marked * are redeemable by Sinking Fund. A moderate amount of business has been transacted in American securities on the London market during the past week, but without any very material change in quo tations. United States 5-20 Bonds have been steady with but slight variations, leaving off 74 to I. For Illinois Cen tral Shares there has been some demand on bothAinerican and home account, the latter being stimulated by rumours that the forthcoming annual report would prove very favour able ; they have been taken to-day as high as 79. Eries have been firm •at about 40, they close 401- to the best price of the week. In Atlantic and Great Western securities the debentures have been in request at from 33 to 34, while the Consoli dated Bonds remain steady at 241 to 25. Pennsylvania Railroad Second Mortgage Sterling Bonds continue in good demand for investment, at 92 to 94, thus establishing au advance of 10 per cent. during the last three months. For Virginia Sixes there aro numerous inquiries, at an improved quotation of nearly 2 per cent., the last price being 141 to 441. The Duke of Beaufort Las been invested with the Order of the Garter, vacant by the death of the Marquis of water, A Strange Charge. A special petty sessions was held at Enville, Staf fordshire, on Saturday, before Mr. Fereday, at which Thomas Bowker, a rate collector at Trysull, near Wolverhampton, was charged with having feloni ously sent to the Eight Hon. George Harry Grey, Earl of Stamford and Warrington, a certain letter demanding £5O, with menaces, and without any reasonable or probable cause. The prisoner was in the first instance brought up at Enville-hall on Saturday week, and remanded, since which time he had been lying in Stafford Gaol. The second hear ing took place at the Stamford Arms Hotel, Enville, instead of Enville-hall, as had been intended, the magistrate stating that, although the prisoner elected to have the case heard at Lord Stamford's house, it was thought the ends of justice would be better met and " observations of any ill-natured character entirely prevented" by hearing the case in that public hotel. There was no legal adviser pre sent on either side, and the examination of the wit- nesses was conducted by the magistrate's clerk from Stourbridge. The Earl of Stamford was sworn, and said that he received the following letter by post on the 28th of February :—" Wolverhampton, Feb. 27, 1867.—Most noble Earl,—Being in London last week, and hearing your name mentioned in a noted betting-house between two great book-makers, I paid great attention (unknown to them) to their conversation, which I very clearly understood (which was), that a strictly private correspondence was being carried on with one of your men from Di vine, who was touting for this party, and he got a deal of money from the same men last racing sea son, which I am sure made a great difference to you and will again the coming season, if you do not know their plot to checkmate them. It would also through (sic.) them into your power. For my information and the name of the tout I want £5O, which, when you know, you will say is very reasonable, and I am not afraid you will give me another £5O without asking for. Circum stances, which have nothing to do with your case, prevents me getting a personall (sic.) interview, or giving you more than my initials at present. lam well known to you, and I assure you this is a bona fide appeal. If you will send a check made payable to John Jefferies, per return of post, to R. A. D., post-office, Wolverhampton, to be left until called for, I should be sure to get it, and would without fail send you a reply by return. From your lord ship's faithful servant, R. A. D. P.S. When you know this information of mine you will see the de ceit carried on by men in your own station of life, and by them as you have thought friends." He (Lord Stamford) had had no previous communica tion with the prisoner, neither upon the subject of that letter nor any other matter. He sent a reply to the effect that he could not send £5O to a person who wrote anonymously, but if evidence was pro duced that there was some conspiracy in the stable he should be happy to make him a handsome pre sent. He addressed the letter "R. A. D., Post office, Wolverhampton." Thomas Lawley, school master at Trysull, said he knew the prisoner, and had seen some of his handwriting. The letter be ing banded to him he said he thought some of it was very like the prisoner's handwriting, and many of the characters in the letter were like the pri soner's. He was certain the letter "R" of the in itials was in the prisoner's handwriting. Charlotte Salloway, of Trysull, said the prisoner asked her on Wednesday week to call at the Queen-street post office, Wolverhampton. for a letter addressed " R. A. D." She called at the post-office, and received a letter so addressed. The prisoner called on her for it. Inspector Goddard and Sergeant Baldwin de posed to the apprehension of the prisoner. To both of them he admitted that he sent the letter in question. He told Baldwin he had never been himself since, and he said it was the devil that caused him to do it. He said his parish books were behind about £5O. Prisoner being cautioned, said he had nothing to say. Mr. Fereday committed him for trial at the next Stafford Assizes. From the " atrocious nature of the crime" he should re quire heavy sureties for bail. These he first fixed at two of £3OO each, arid the prisoner himself in £6OO, but subsequently reduced the amount to £2OO and £4OO respectively. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH-SATURDAY. At this day's market there was a tolerably good supply of wheat, and prices may be quoted about the same as last week. The barley trade is becoming a nominal one, for buyers being now in the market. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s ; old red aitto, (weighing 631 b), 60s to 62s ; now red ditto weighing 601 b to 631 b), 60s to 62s ; best malting barley weighing 521 b to 531 b), 44s to 46e ; runs ditto (weighing 511 to 521 b), 40s to 44s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 34s to 36s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, Sis to 398 ; peas (maple), 3 68 to 38s per qr. Flour, 45s Od per sack. NO T T INGHAM—SATURDAY. At this market to-day the supply of wheat was moderate, and finest dry samples were rather dearer. A tolerable show of barley, most of the samples being of a secondary character. For choice lots prices not much altered ; other kinds were is per qr. cheaper. The show of oats tires middling, at late prices. Beans the turn higher. Pi ) " unaltered. Old white wheat, 68s to 72s ; old red, 64s to 68s ; new white, 60s to 70s ; new red, 56s to 65s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 33s to 36s ; now, 26s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, Ms to 58s ; new, 42s to 48s per 38 stone. Fino flour, 48s to 52s per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. The supply of wheat to-day was tolerable, with a steady demand, at extreme rates. Barley inactive, at a declino of is per qr. Oats changed hands at last week's prices. Beans sold at an advance of is per qr. New white wheat, 65 s t o 69 s ; new red, 54s to 63s ; old, white, 67s to 71s ; old red, 60s to 65s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 45s to 52s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 33s to 36s ' • new, 28s to 30 s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 56 s t o 60 s ; new, 44s to 495 per 38 ston e. Fine flour, 50s ; second s , fo s t o 46s per 20 stone. YORK-SATURDAY. We had a small supply of wheat at our corn market to day ; the demand was healthy, and prices advanced 10 per qr. The inquiry for barley was limited, and prices similar to those of the preceding week. Oats at late prices. The supply of beans was scanty, and sold at their extreme values. New white wheat, 56s to 648; new red, 50s to 58s per 3 6 stone. Barley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, new, 42s to 44s per 38 acme. Malt, 68s to 70s. Flour, 47s to 498 per sack of 2801bs. THE RUSSO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.—The Re chaster (New York) Express, of the 25th ult., representS that at a meeting of the Western Union Telegrap h directors it has been d ec id e d, i n v i ew o f th e s uccessful working of the Atlantic cable, that it is not advisable to expend any mo re mone y on th e R uss i an e xtension at present. The distance across the Russian territory yet to be completed is about 3,000 miles, a nd it is possible that the Russian G overnme nt may fee l sufficient pride and interest in completing its connec tion with the Western World to finish it. In any even t the suspension of work on the line will not involve an en tire loss, as there is property worth about $1,000,000 novr on hand which will sell for as much as it cost. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. With the weather so cold, and the winds so keen, what is to be done to keep the human body healthy—to protect the weak— to renovate the diseased? The reply is—supplant the OP pressed action of tho skin, through an alterative like these Pills, by a freer action on the liver, bowels, and kidneys' This will preserve the delicate internal structures from congestion, irritation, and inflammation, and early vU those noxious matters ordinarily itself' and through ,`" integuments. A course so natural must commend tse..P,l and must elicit the unqualifi e d a pprobation of all think and understand how nature invariably aids a defec tive._ organ by accomplishing it s un p er f orme d functions by means of increased activity elsewhere. HA c S . S O AL . iir as O sa n u t , h ß e . 2 N l . s , t o i f n a st. s , o a n t . Walmer, the wife of Births. Lieut. HOWARD—On the 23d inst., at The Green, Tottenham, the wife of Theodore Howard, of a daughter. Morrox—On the 18th inst., at Sumtnerhill, Clonmol, alo wife of Captain Villiers Morton, J.P., of a son. Marriages. GAVIN —BROWN—OU the 21st inst., a t Edieburgb, Al • Gavin, Esq., merchant, London ' to Jane Pollok, daugh ter of J. C. Brown, Esq., A.R.S.A. t holif LAWItENSON - LILLICRAP— On the 21st inst., a t the Ca Cathedral, Plymouth, Richard C. Pasley, h AsAst.-Surh• H.M.'s Flag Ship Royal Alfred, eldest eon of Ralph U. Lawrenson, Esq., barrister-at-la'w, to .2.lartha, daug of the lato Wm. B. Lillicrap, Esq., of Plymout h. ter Deaths. BRANKSTON—On the 22d ißlackheath, Mr. Richard inst., at Brandston, aged 80. HIPPISLEY—On the 20th i ns t. at the Manor, House, Men g ' Sir John Stuart H ippisloyßart., aged MARK-- On th o 22d lust., Henry R. Mark, Esq., of Rutland House, Kingstou-on-'haines. 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