The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-22 00:00:00

MURDER OE TWO ENGLISHMEN AT BUENOS AYRES. Particulars have been received by the mail just arrived Df the death of Mr, Robert Bald, 8.A., Cambridge, second son of Mr. John Bald, Wells, Roxburghshire. The deceased was murdered at his estancia, about twelve miles from Rosario, Santa F 4, Buenos Ayres One evening two native 3 arrived, and purchased 150 c heep when it was arranged that they should remain Over the night and remove the sheep next day. On the following day Mr. Bald was found murdered in his louse, his body pierced with many wounds. Henry Tait, boy of 14, who was in his service, sharedthe same fate, _laving been asleep in an adjoining room. It is believed chat the crime was perpetrated between nine and eleven o'clock, and that Mr. Ball was treacherously stabbed while sitting at his table, on which a book was found lying open. He appears to have sprung up in order to defend himself, as the room gave all the indications of a violent struggle, and there were numerous wounds in his arms. Two boxes were ransacked, and several articles, including Mr. Bald's watch and /evolver, were stolen. The crime has caused a most painful sensation throughout the province. The Pre sident of the Argentine Republic immediately offered a reward of $5,000 (21,000) for the capture of the murderers. One has been taken, and has confessed his guilt, but refuses to give any information as to his accom plice. Mr. Edward Bald, a younger brother of the deceased, who had only been a couple of months In the country, was at Rosario on the day of the murder. He has since travelled over a great part of the country in search of the other assassin, who has hitherto escaped detection. The lamentable event has been reported to the Earl of Clarendon, who immediately forwarded instructions to her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Buenos Ayres to afford every assistance io his power in bringing the murderers to justice. Mr. Bald was a young man of high principle, frank and genial nature, and ac complished mind. THE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF TH: ONEIDA. The Overland China Mail, of February Bth, gives a full account of the inquiry into the Oneida disaster, which was commenced at Her British Majesty's Consulate, at Kavaganna, on the 27th of January. The first witness examined was Captain Eyre of the Bombay, who said he was in command on January 24, at Cri par., in sight of the lighthouse. He saw two side lights on the port bow, and kept porting the helm. Immediately after he observed the coming vessel crossing his bow with full sails and steam. 1 stopped my engines, said Captain Eyre, when she came 3.early ahead of me, I put my helm hard-a-starboard to clear her, immediately after striking her behind the mizen ear, our starboard bow striking her on the starboard ~carter—the shock not being more than a graze. I turned round to see what damage was done. 1 had sent the eaief officer down to see if we were making water. I &aid to the pilot " I don't think much harm is cone, if there is we shall soon see signal rockets." Ay engines were stopped about ten minutes. The chief officer came and reported the ship making water lerward. I then said, " I see no signals of distress ;go ahead." Nor did I hear anything • and as the ship W 3.4 making water, I made speed for Yokohama. While look ing at the vessel astern I asked my pilot. " Supposing that ship hurt or I should require it, where could we go for irdety ?" The answer was, "Not the slightest fear, the Spit is near, you cannot get down." Even after I came to Yokohama I thought little of the collision. I had not the slightest idea of the harm done. I did 'tot know what ship it was. I said when it passed me " That is an auxiliary crew." . . . . I did not hail the ship. I was too busy at the time to avoid the collision. The concussion was very light. On my bow were hanging afterwards the other ship's gaff and a boom. I was not at all entangled in the ship. The Bombay is an old iron ship, her plates a quarter of an inch thick. A spar from the other ship has perforated both sides of my ship and is sticking in broken off. It is below water mark. The spar has gone right through, in the stem Sup posing I had turned round after the collision I don't think I should have reached her in less than half an hour, be cause the other ship was flying off before the wind, Mali the other ship remained stationary after the collision, 1. would have taken me some ten minutes to swing back ts, the place of collision. When two ships come in collision during a dark night, I am not aware that it is customary for the one to ascertain if the other has suffered damage. Perhaps in the open sea, not in close proximity of land. I cannot say that it is a recognised practice that ships do not communicate after a collision, unless the 7ne sends up rockets or fires a gun. My instructions as captain of a mail steamer are to stop for nothing but to save life. It was at that time my firm opinion that there was no danger. The pilot said the Spit is close to if there is any danger. It did not occur to me, being so close to my anchorage, and seeing no signals, to stop until I had communicated with the Oneida. . . . . This is the first accident I ever have had. When two ships collide, I do not consider it usual to communicate or stay by each other, unless you think the other seriously damaged. I did not think the other seriously damaged. I did not think the other ship was harmed. I asked the pilot if he thought so, and he said, " no, there is the Spit." 11fr.Leggin, chief officer of Bombay, corroborated the Captain's statement. In answer to Mr. Barnard who watched the case on behalf of Captain Eyre, he said :—The other vessel came right against us, her steering caused her to come across us. It was the Captain who ordered the helm a port, not the pilot. It was more than an hour after the collision that I found out the spar had gono through our ship. I , did not know the other ship's quality or nationality. Our speed was eight knots ; our course was due north. The other ship's speed I suppose was about eleven knots. I saw no measures taken on board the other ship to avoid the collision. I heard no sound or voices from the other ship, nor saw or heard any signal from her. Until I went below to sound our ship I should have seen or heard such signals if there had been any. Durin e ,crthe - second day's proceedings a stormy discussion arbse. Mr. De Long, the American Minister, who is a lawyer by profession, had been permitted by the court to cross , exaunne the witnesses on behalf of the sur vivors the day before, and in so doing shewed some asperity towards Captain Eyre, Mr. Barnard, therefore, protested against any American gentleman cross-examining in a British court. If the American Minister would swear allegiance to the British Queen, ho would not object to hif appearing in this inquiry. Mr. Lowder, H.B.M. Consul, who presided over the court, here interrupted Mr. Barnard, and told him that if ha persisted in saying that this was no competent court, he would have to treat him as guilty of contempt of court, and make him leave the room. There was no appeal from this court. Mr. Barnard wanted it recorded that he protested Against the jurisdiction of this court in its present forni because there had been no complaint made by any one in terested in the Bombay, and because the interest of the owners of the ship or the cargo did not require it. Mr. De Long stated that if he there occupied a false position, it was not solely his own fault, as he had con ferred with the British Consul, with whose consent he Itad done what he had hitherto done. He had not stated yesterday in court that he would prosecute Captain Eyre for murder, he had said that he would prosecut him for what crime the evidence of this court of inquiry should bear out. - This matter was subsequently arranged, and the evi dente was continued. Mr. Loggin, the chief mate, said: When we passed the light ship we made our mail signal, and fired a gun, two rockets and a blue light. I saw no response given from the light ship. It did not occur to me that the Oneida's injury might be serious. I did not make any suggestion to the captain that it might b e b e tt er t o s t op an d see. In addi tion to finding our cutwater taken away, I also found a spar gone right through our bow. The sp ar i s a b ou t t wo feet in length and eight inches in diameter. It has passed through two iron plates, each a quarter of an inch thick. Richard Connor, the pilot of the Bombay, an American was not licensed, but had piloted some 30 vessels. After describing the collision almost exactly as Captain Eyre and his mate had done, he said—" If I had thought there was any danger of lives being lost in the other ship, I should have desired the captain of the Bombay to stop. If I had been in the position of Captain Eyre I should have gone on as he did. I do not think the captain had any idea of the other ship being seriously hurt. . . . I thought of the Bombay's safety, I knew it was a mail and passenger boat. I saw no signal of distress from the other vessel, and I judged it best to go on with all speed to Yokohama. Had I known that the Bombay was in compartments my opinion might have been different. I heard no hail from the Oneida ' lie by us, you have cut us down !' I heard no word of command on board the Oneida—heard no one speak. I heard a jar and crash of heavy timber cracking. I noticed the Oneida was a smaller vessel than ours, and I thought her deeply laden." The report in the Chinese papers goes no further, but the result has been made known by . telegraph. The captain's certificate was suspended for six months. A startling example of the Dutch penal code is recorded. A girl, four and a half years, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, because she kept watch while another girl was stealing something of trifling value. - - - Madame Adelina Patti has had a narrow escape from being burnt to death in a railway_ carrriage on h e r way from St. Petersburg to Berlin. The stove set fire to the furniture of the compartment, and had the train not stopped at a station just as the fire was discovered, the great singer would have been lost to the world. She is going to sing at Liege on Monday, in " Les Huvienots," being the first time she will have appeared in Europe as Valentia. BULL FIGHT EXTRAORDINARY.—The other morn. ing one of the bullocks brought from South America to Falmouth strayed on the line of rail between Penryn and Perranporte, and charged a gang of the permanent-way staff, driviving them up the embankment. A few moments afterwards it charged in gallant style an engine, but was knocked down and run over. The vanquished men then killed the unfortunate stranger with a pick. A MODEL nrnY.—We regret to say that at the tnal of a Chinaman for murder, on the 17th instant, the jury, who were locked up from an early hour in consequence of a difference of opinion a 3 to whether the verdict should be one of murder or manslaughter, behaved most disgracefully. A mock court was instituted, shouts of laughter disturbed the pro ceedings of the court, where another trial was going on in the interval, filthy expressions were used, and altogether the conduct of the great majority of the jurors was such as to draw down a sharp rebuke from the judge, and a casti gation from the press of the colony. As no agreement had been come to by nine o'clock p.m., the jurors were discharged, but it would have been well had they been locked up till next morning, if ouly l2 sober them clew-, vrgeowri 6_*qte. Fe/ 7 . . I ` 4 ''t""-""z' THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. Vessels were despatched to the scene of the collision between the Normandy and the Mary immediately the sews of the disaster was made known at Southampton. Dne ship, the Ccesara, quitted the Southampton Docks at iix o'clock—only two hours after the first intimation of ;he collision was received—with orders to proceed over the ground and keep a strict look-out. At ten )'clock the same evening the Dumfries, another of the ;ompany's steamers, was sent out, her captain also receiv :us, orders to cruise over the scene of the accident, to and 'ro, in the Channel, and if any one was found, to remain about the spot even one or two days, but if there was no lign of any one, to return on the following day. The cap ;ain of a third vessel, which left for the Channel Islands, vas instructed to keep a look-out as he passed the spot. But, of course, very little hope was entertained of any of ;hese precautions. Some further particulars as to tie lisaster itself are given. The Normandy had not lad thick weather up to within a minute or awe of . the collision, and immediately there was to indication of fog, the chief mate, Mr. Ockleford, who was in charge of the steamer, sent a man to call captain Harvey, who, as soon as he put his foot on deck, Beard the mate ask the man at the wheel if it was hard a starboard, and the man replied, " Yes, sir." The captain ;old the man to keep it so, and within another minute the tccident is stated to have occurred. The Mary was sighted two points to the starboard bow of the Nor nandy, and the chief officer of the latter vessel acted ,with good judgment in starboarding and hard-a-starboard :rig his vessel, to clear, if possible, the Mary ; and, al :hough that was [not done, some of ithe survivors think that the effects of the collision were thereby rendered less iisastrous. The Hampshire Independent says that the mast-head light of the Mary was not up at the moment the was first sighted by the Normandy, as it was down on the deck for the purpose of cleaning. " Had the light peen up doubtless the crew of the Normandy would have teen the vessel much more quickly, and hu manly - speaking, would have passed well and ;Ileared her." From the account of the Mary, It appears that the whole time of sightin,..e , the vessel and the time of the collision taking place did not )ccupy more than one minute. Had it not been for the turbulent sea running at the time it might have been ex pected that the Normandy would have floated, but the water getting into her after-compartment to so great An extent, the sea rushed in with such violence as to break a board, and the stream of water was supposed to have entered the engine-room from the top, thus causing the fires to be put out, and the ship to fill quicker, At the spot where the Normandy sunk there is about 25 fathoms depth of water, and there is no probability of reaching either cargo or mails. The list of crew lost- has already been given. They are 16 in number,. The follow ing is the tale of lost passsengers so far as can be ascertained :—General Grantham Mr. Westaway, and Mr. Kinloch, first class ; Mrs. Lucas and three other female and four male passengers, whese names have not yet transpired, Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Cluett, second class ; and on deck two labourers, two soldiers, one naval seaman, and one merchant seaman, whose names also are not yet known. The Hampshire Independent observes that since the loss of the Amazon by fire some sixteen or seventeen years ago, such a calamity has not been known in connection with Southampton. The _Record understands, on good authority, that the Bishop of Winchester denies the report that he is seeking a suffragan. _ -- - - BILLIARD MATCH.—At the. Corn Exchange, Pres ton, Cook, jun., and Roberts, jun., played a game of bil liards, a thousand up even. The game began at 8 and anished at 10.45, when Roberts had scored 614 only. The Bolton Master Cotton Spinners' Association have refused the demand of the operatives for an increase of five per cent. fn their wages. The result will probably be a strike, which will throw 10,000 men out of employ ment. Some Plymouth builders have complained to the Plymouth board otguardians of having received threaten ing letters biddinrhem prepare for death for employing men from the workhouses, although, as they allege, they are being paid the value of their work. The re- Jieving officer had also been threatened, and the guar dians resolved to offer a reward of £5 for the discovery of the writer of the letter. The police are also investigating the matter. SMALL-GAUGE RAILWAYS.—When tho advocateS for the narrow gauge so vehemently opposed the adoption of the seven-feet track, it is certain that they never dreamed of their own hobby ever being regarded with the same feelings with which they viewed that of their oppo nents. Yet such is now the fact. Not only ourselves, but other people, French, Russians, Prussians, and most of the continental nations, are awakening to the reality tlaa . ;. even the narrow gauge is in excess of the demand that are frequently made upon it. With ourselves, in England Sootland, and Ireland, this truth is notorious. We dk, not mean to assert that the narrow gauge is too large for our great routes of national intercommunication, such as that between Manchester and the metropolis, or London and Liverpool ; but that adherence to that gauge has led it to be adopted where it was not required. There is probably not a shareholder in the kingdom who is not aware of this fact. Some excuse may be found for the construction of railways upon this gauge in districts and localities where there is not traffic enough to pay an omnibus, in the circumstance that it is illegal to carry passengers over one of smaller dimensions. But it may be fairly supposed that an ap plication to Parliament to have the Act rescinded would have been attended with success, if not to all lines in general proposed to be made on a smaller gauge, at lea.st so that one in particular seeking for the proposed pa*eis. —The Mechanics' Magazine - - - The Secretary of two building societies in Dur aam has absconded, leaving defalcations in the books of £7OO. A surveyor at Brackley, who sued the Highway Board in the Banbury County Court to-day, for wrongful iismissal on account of drunkenness, was non-suited, the judge decreeing that the Board had power to dismiss,. OFFICIAL RETURNS.—Official returns have been published on " Poor Rates and Pauperism," "East India Mails," .` Pilot Authorities," and " Civil Services and Revenue Department." Lord Gifford has issued an interdict prohibiting the Caledonian Company from running any train on the line between Greenhill and Larbert during a certain time in the afternoon. The North British Company applied for the interdict in order to stop the Caledonian Company from running a train to the north, advertised to start from Glasgow at the same time as the North British train, and to go over the same line. The confirmation of the election of the new Bishop of Manchester (Dr. Fraser) is to take place at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, on Wednesday next, in the afternoon, at three o'clock ; the consecration will take place in the cathedral at Manchester on Friday. The consecration of the Bishop Suffragan of Dover for the pre sent Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Parry), will take place at Lambeth Place Chapel on the 25th inst. ROYALTY AND GENlUS.—Apropos of the reet.it reception of Mr. Dickens by the Qneen, it may be re marked that her Majesty, like George the Fourth , has a penchant for the society of men of genius,_ especially if they do not appear to be the dull dogs that men of genius generally are when you take them out of their study and ask them to talk instead of writing and, like most authors, is fond of exchanging autographed books, plumes herself upon having personally known most of the authors of her reign, from Wordsworth to Tennyson; and the three most frequent visitors at Cowes and at Windsor are all three men of letters—Dean Stanley, Mr. Arthur Helps, and Mr. Theodore Martin. George the Fourth's three favourite men of letters were Sheridan, Scott, and Moore.—Court Circular. BREACHES OF PEOILISE.—Baron Martin has ex-. pressed a very strong opinion as to the inexpediency of the recent change in the law admitting the parties in cases of breach of •promise of marriage as witnesses, and he added a hope that its manifest. mischief would lead to the abolition of. this form of action. A legal journal comments strongly on a recent case at the Stafford As sizes, where a jury gave a girl £2OO damages for asserting on her unsupported oath that a farmer's son in the house where she lived as domestic servant, had promised to marry her when his father died. She was a pretty domestic, and she admitted that other men about the place had kissed her often, and that she had once consulted an attorney about brin_o-ing an action against one of these amorous young men. Yet the jury gave the girl heavy damages. She had the ad vantage of the new and inconsiderate law which provides the facility for fraud and falsehood. Though in this case no falsehood may have been committed, yet it will be -ad mitted how very easy it is to add to the fact of a kiss the fiction of a promise to marry. HYDRAULIC PRESSES.— The hydraulic, or, as some persons erroneously term it, the hydrostatic, press, was patented by Bramah, in 1796. It has, therefore, been shewn to the world for 74 years, and is now applied in a multitude of operations which absolutely could not be performed at all without it. Presses exerting a force of 500 tons, and having ranges of 10 ft. 12ft., or even 15 ft., and being capable of exerting ft., force we have named at an art of the stroke, are by no means un common. We do not stretch a single point 'when we say that no arrangement of screws or levers would supply us with a press of equal range, power, and speed. It is not that an arrangement of levers could not be planned quite able to exert the strain of which we speak ' • but such an arrangement would lack all the characteristics which are essential to a mechanical device intended to serve the purposes of manufacturers. For example, had the work done in raising the tubes of the Britannia Bridge been performed by a simple lever, one arm must have been 448,000 ft. longer than the other, and to enable a pound to raise the load through 100 ft., the pound must have passed through space for a distance of 83,522 miles. In simplicity, in cheapness, and in efficiency, the hydraulic press stands totally without a rivaL Whether assuming the form of the gigantic apparatus employed in bending armour plates, or that of a little 30 cwt. jack, it is equally com met. inexpensive, and elegant. —The Engineer. 111 E DANUBE AT V lENNA .—AII important work —the canalization of the Danube—will shortly be ccm menced at that part of the river which is nearest to Vienna. Though broader than the Rhine, the Danube has hitherto presented great difficulties to navigation, owing to the shiftiness of its bed and its frequent inunda tions. The new works will, it is expected, entirely obviate these evils, and also reclaim some valuable ground on the banks of the river, for Wilding pwposes. The South _bnulon, Press announces an alarming prospect in the baking trade. In consequence of the police prosecutions, the journey/nen bakers of London a re ac;:tating for a strike a ll over England, in the event of the Government refusing to strike out the word ." baker"from the smoke nuisance measure. As the masters will pro. bably support the men, the result, should the strike be cpirguo9clazilill. a gpacnilsialkg THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1870. WILLS AND BE4UESTS, The Illtistrated Loudest News states that the will of Richard Kershaw Limb, Esq., formerly of Halifax, York shire, and late of The Elnis, The Park, Cheltenham, Where he died en the 3rd ult., aged 81 was proved in Loridon, on the Bth inst., under £200,000 personalty. The will was midi: January 23, 1868, and two codicils, November 1869, and February 1, 1870. The executors are his relict and his brother-in-law, Algernon Sydney Aspland, Esq., together with William Briggs and James Stansfield, E-iqs., both of Halifax ; to each of whom he leaves a legacy of £BOO. To his wife he leaves his residence at Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, and all his freehold pro perty in Yorkshire and elsewhere : a sum of £40,000 under an ante-nuptial deed of settlement, or an equivalent in one sum; and appoints her residuary legatee of his property, real and personal, absolutely. To the brothers and sisters of his wife £lOOO each, and liberal legacies to thirteen cousins on his father's and his mother's side, to the family of La m Ate, and to many other of his relatives and friends. He has left legacies to the' following societies—viz., the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, £l,OOO ; the Ministers' Benevolent Society, £l,OOO ; Ministers' Augmentation of Stipend Fund, £5OO ; Home Missions, £5OO ; Cheltenham General Hospital and Dispensary, £2OO ; Baker-street. Mission Schools at Cheltenham, £lOO ; Cheltenham Protestant Asylum for Orphan Boys £5O; and a like sum to the Cheltenham Asylum for Orphan Girls and Old School of Industry. All legacies to be free of duty. The will of Sir Charles Darling, K.C.8., formerly Governor of Jamaica, has been proved under a nominal sum. The following wills were also recently proved :—G. E. Foster, Esq., of Cambridge, £120,000; Miss Sarah Fennell (Bury St. Edmunds), £120,000; John Morley, Esq. (Manchester), £90,000 ; T. Mellersh, Esq. (Surrey), £70,000; Daniel Collen, Esq. Bradford, k 60,000; Samuel Copeland Kell, Esq„ of Bradford, Yorkshire, £35,000 ; J. Hudson, Esq., Lein ster-square, Bayswater, £30,000; R. Tippetts, Esq., surgeon, Brompton, £20,000. STORY OF A SOMNAMBULIST. The inhabitants of a Silesian village were recently startled by the announcement that tone of their number —a young girl—had become a somnambulist, and that she saw visions, and had received the gift of prophecy to an unprecedented degree. Instantly the interesting creature's fame was spread far and wide, and people made long journeys to enjoy the privilege of seeing and hearing her. At last, tired of easy triumphs at home, she resolved to go forth to new conquests among strangers, and consequently set out for a neighbouring village. Here she was received by many admirers, and conducted to a dwelling prepared for her beforehand. Hundreds of people at once came crowding to the house to catch a glimpse of the far-famed' prophetess, and, resolved not to disappoint them she announced her intention to proceed with one of her mysterious ceremonies forth with. She began by asking the crowd to sing a hymn, in the midst of which, marvellous to say she opportunely fell asleep. Just as the singing was about to cease, she rose from the stool on which she was sitting, and in a state of trance, lay down on the floor with her arms stretched out so as to form the shape of a cross. In this position she was raised by her friends end carried to a sofa. Then commencd the real part of the performance. With upturned eyes, and every feature expressing the most rapt devotion, she declared to the eagerly listening audience that she saw " the heavenly Jerusalem ;" and then followed glowing descriptions of unearthly splendour, and music such as never greeted mortal ears. By and bye she came down to more mundane subjects, denouncing unbelievers, and threatening them with the most awful punishments. She ahen uttercd many prophecies, some of a rather personal character — one that she was herself soon to pass on foot from Europe to America 1 At this point the startling disclosures were brought to a sudden stop by the entrance of the police, who, Certain that so large a number of people could be about no good, pressed forward, and took " the observed of all observers " into custody, Let us hope that some vision was vouchsafed to her by which she soon escaped from the hands of her very unpoetic and unbelieving persecutors. But meanwhile it does not say a great deal for the much-boasted culture of the German people that so many of them should give such ready credence to so obvious an impostor.—Globe. An inquest on the body of the late Mr. J. C. W. Lever, formerly manager of the Starand Garter, at Richmond, has been held. The deceased perished in the fire which destroyed this well-known hotel on the 12th of January last, and his remains were not discovered until a few days ago. A verdict of accidental death was re turned. The Era points out a practical difficulty which will always prevent the use of the new theatre in the Hay market as a house for the production of grand opera. It is too small to pay. The very limited stage in the old house has been replaced in the new building by a hi, -ger, at the expense of the " seatage." The consequence is that where there was space in the old building for 300 stalls, there is not room in the new for more than 120. That the principle of loading guns from the breech is not an invention of the present day is a fact that has been brought to our notice through the kindness of an eminent London gunmaker. We have been favoured with a gun made by one Barber, of Newark, in the last century, which not only loads from the breech, but charges, primes, and cocks itself, by one action. The pawder and bullet magazines are on either side of the stick, and we need hardly add, it is a flint gun. —Land and Water. ROUMANIA.—The last news from Roumania is very unfavourable, and the situation of Prince Charles is described to be most critical. The agitation partakes of a double character, one part of the Opposition wishing to restore Prince Cong and the other endeavouring to secure a Republic. The latter is conducting itself with great violence, and one of its organs in the press calls upon the Roumanians to resort to arms and chase the German in truder from the sacred soil of Roumania, in order that they may proclaim a Republic with Jean Bratiano at its head. MEnco.—The latest advices from Mexico foretell new disturbance of a serious character. Hostilities have broken out in the Magatlan district, and revolutionary proclamations are rife. A strong opposition to Juarez is said to be the cause of the trouble. There is a movement in favour annexation to the United States. Many of the best citizens favour annexation in the hope of permanent peace. Filibustering is said to have begun in California, and it will no doubt be responded to from the States and territories lying along the Northern Mexican boundary and also from the South. OALCRAFT'S RETAINEIL—In consequence of the respite of the convict Cunningham, Mr. West Watson, City Chamberlain, on Thursday, intimated to Calcraft, who had been engaged to carry out the last sentence of the law, that his services would not be required. As one of the stipulations of that dread functionary on accepting an engagement is the payment of £5 in the event of his not having to leave London, that sum was remitted along with the communication.—North British Mail. PROVINCIAL GAMING HOUSES.—A correspondent informs us that "in Windsor, almost under the shadow of the Castle walls, and at the back of the Town Hall, a gambling-house has been open during the Ascot and Windsor race meetings for many years past." "It is kept," he says, "by a cheerful fraternity of night-house proprietors and betting men, and large sums change hands nightly under their auspices. The Windsor police can hardly be said to be unaware of its existence, as I have before now been shewn the way to it by one of that active and intelligent body of men. Would it be too much to ask, in the interest of public morality, that steps should be taken to put a stop to the nuisance ?" —Pall Mall Gazette. SPARTAN HEROISM IN THE PRESENT DAY.—Th() New York Army and Navy Journal comments very tem. perately and sorrowfully on the subject of the collision between the Bombay and Oneida, and says :—" Spartan heroism survives to-day ; but where Spartan civihsation taught its sons to save first those who were most useful to the Republic and to leave quickest to perish the infirm and helpless, Christian gallantry gives the first chance of life in stress of peril to those who are too weak to seize it for themselves, and snatches first from death the sick and suffering. The spectacle of that boat load of 'sick survivors saved out of the wreck, in which, standing by their posts, the brave and strong went man fully down, is noble and pathetic: Nor are such spectacles lost to the world, being immortal in the spirit of self dero, tion and manly heroism they kindle." OUDA.—The second carnival celebration took place at Habana on the 6th of March. The concourse of people was unprecedented, and fully fifty-thousand people joined in'the procession, but no disturbances took place. Captain- General do Rodas has issued a proclamation in relation to the 'murder of Isaac Greenwaldth, and the execution of-Zamora. He says that the latter was justly executed for his crime, for he outraged the law, and disgraced the Spanish flag, under whose protection Greenwadth was at the time of his assassination. A brother-in-law of the American Consul at Trinidad, who was in prison on a charge of sedition, has committed suicide. Eighteen laborantes have been court martialed in Bavamo, documents havingbeen found upon the person of Mircano, implicating them in the movements Of th: i=urgents. The Echo understands that the proposition to form London into one school district under the Education Bill is to be withdrawn, and that a plan for two divisions, east and west, the former to include the City, is to be sub stituted, Mr. W. Torrena is likely to move the amendraea. A California paper says the Japanese " will wit universal respect by a sort of heathenish habit they have of minding their own business." THE RELIGIOUS Dirrre uLTY. --Arch de aconDew son gives the John Bull some facts as a sample of what is to be found in many parishes. The parish of East Brent population 800, contains four schools all in his hands. The schools are :—The National school, on the books, GO ; present at diocesan inspector's examination, February 25, 1870, 48. 2. Dames' school, 18 ; 3. Ditto, 43 ; 4. Middle school, 13. Total, 104. The condition of admission to all these scholarr, is the having been baptised in the Church of England. The rev: gentleman can see his way to no other rule. uari.nal Uullen has expressed from .1 - Come his ap proval of the Government Coercion Bill A. contemparary says that the wife of a weli gnown dissmting minister has eloped with a captain. Twenty-three farms in the neighbourhood at Swindon are infected with the foot-and-mouth disease. Returns are being made by the chief towns of the statistics of drunkennoss duce the new Beer Act came into operation. 0r ;.a ••• • 4 Fever has broken out in several of the pauper establishments in the metropolis. At the school recently built at Highgate several childron died last week, owing, it is thought b.Y.tin medical, mfai—t9 prsrerowanz. THE NATIONAL MONUMENT TO ABRA• HAM LINCOLN. (Translated from the " Riforma," of Florence, Italy, Feb. 22, 1870.) Even though " Ingratitude with the vulgar is a vice innate," it is equally true that the public directs its admiration and its affection to those who, from time to time, appear a'nong men to sweep from existence the shame of humanity, and to wipe a ay its tears. To honour uici it is the crowning beauty of greatness. Hardly had the American people recovered from the horror cf that ass •ssina don which struck down Abraham Lincoln, than they applied themselves to the task of raising a sum sufficient to erect, at Springfield, Illinois, a bronze monument which should be worthy of the man whose mine is written side by side with that of Washington. For if Washington, by founding the American Union, merited the gratitude of his country, surely Lincoln, who preserved that Union, and abo ished slavery, s merited the gratitude of humanity. The commission for this monument being thrown open to competition 32 designs were presented, upon the examination of which the honour of preference was bestowed upon that of Mr. Larkin G. Mead, an American sculptor, whom the Italian School, the School of Michael Angelo and of Canova, reckons among its pupils. For the execution of this design, the idea of which, we may here mention, was conceived before the death of Mr. Lincoln, the city of Florence was selected. We visited, a shoot time since, the studio of Mr. Mead, and were stuck by the manly and command ing figure of the President, through whose noble and majest.c countenance shines the great mind which conceived and ultimated the liberty of the slaves. The statue, colossal in size, and standing erect upon the monument, holds in the left hand a scro 1, upon which is written " Emancipation," and in the right the pea with which Abraham Lin coln erased from the page of human history the dis grace t f slavery. As a symbol of the Union to which he dedicated his life,there stands at the side of the statue the consular fasces, about which is thrown the glorious banner of the Republic ; the banner which at Mobile and at Richmond waved for Liberty and Justice. At the foot of the fasces rests a crown of laurel, that crown which humanity, with one ac cord, placed upon the brow of the great. citizen. At the angles of the monument are placed four groups, representing the various force 3 which were united iu the Tttanic war of Secessionists and Unionists— namely, cavalry, infantry, artillery, and the marine. The talent with which Mr. Mead has designed the monument, and the boldness with which he has modelled this colossal statue, and surmounted the difficulties which the precise neatness of the modern costume, so different from the grace of the heroic mantle, presents to the artist, reveal in him beyond doubt a profound knowledge of his art. But the pros ince of art is passed when life is to be infused into the inert material. Then to art must succeed inspiration ; to the compass, sentiment ; to aesthetic rules, a spirit capable of reflecting as in a mirror, the greatness of the hero whose form is to glorify the clay ; then the artist, the new. Prometheus, would fain wrest from the gods the vital spark ; and, in the noble frenzy of his genius, shivers the marble because it speaks not. And in this also Mr. Mead has exceeded our expectations. We ear nestly hope that, by exhibiting the model of the monument, he will give the inhabitants of Florence au opportunity to judge of the sincerity of our words and the exactness of our impressions. And we feel sure that all will admire the work of Mr. Mead, and will render homage to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, who is no in - we a citizen of America, but a citizen of the whole world—a glory to humanity. FUNDING THE UNITED STATES DEBT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES. PARIS, March 16. _ _ have frequently encountered in the American papers, and in circulars reprinted in your columns, the views of a very patriotic writer, who has devoted much time an I space to the task of inducing others to believe that European in vestors are ready to give up obligations of the United States, bearing interest at six per cent. in coin, payable in the United States, and to ac cept in place thereof obligations to pay interest here at the rate of four per cent. I think there are few Americans who would not be gratified if the fact was as the enthusiastic writer referred to as sures us it is. I have looked in vain for any con vincing proof that there is a disposition anywhere in Europe to make the exchange referred to, and the writer of the circulars has failed to adduce any. We may safely assume that buyers of securities at the great bourses of Europe will hardly give our bonds preference over those of European countries in good credit, the rate of interest and other con ditions being the same. What reasons are there why they, in such a case, should prefer our bonds ? It is a fact greatly to be regretted that the United States, though as well able to pay the obligations as any country on the globe, suffers in the estima tion of European financiers by reason of the fact that repudiation, entire or partial, is a subject fre quently discussed, not only in Congress, but in political conventions and newspapers. '1 he ques tion, whether or not our debt is to be repudiated, is one which no American will stop to discuss, for we all feel entirely certain that such an iniquity can never be consummated ; but foreigners, men who do not speak our language or comprehend the peculiarities of our politics, are alarmed when the subject of repudiation is mentioned. I suspect that a New York capitalist, who hal been in duced to. invest largely in Prussian Five per Cents., would feel some uneasiness if he were to read in his morning newspaper that a proposition had been made in the Prussian Chamber to pay off the nit oral debt in an irredeemable paper cur rency, and that not only did a large party in the country favour such repuliadon, but it was openly discussed in .the public journals. On learning that Herr Somebody, the influential member of the rul ing party iu the Chamber and the most powerful with the Executive, wits openly in favour of such repudiation, he would hardly be willing to ho!d his securities long, much less to convert them into the same kind of paper at a lower rate of interest. Yet the writer alluded to expects the German and other capitalists to do just this. Frankfort-on-the-Maine is beyond question the largest European market for American bonds, and it is so considered by all Euro pean capitalists. It may be regarded as tolerably cer tain that whatever the great dealers at that c ntre do, other dealers in Europe will do. Let us see what they consider the value of American securities and those of Governments of undoubted credit, and as to whose debt no word of repudiation has ever been, or is likely to be, uttered anywhere. On March 12 Prussian Four-and-a-Half per Cents sold at 931, Four per Cents. at 841 ; Bavarian Four and-a-Half per Cents. at 92k; Wurtemburg Four and-a-Half per Cents. at 91g. These three coun tries named enjoy an unexceptionable credit, and their securities are held chiefly at home for perma nent investment. On the same day United States Six per Cents. of 1862 sold at 951, those of 1865 at 95g. What good reason is there to believe that capitalists will prefer our Four per Cents, at par to the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. of their own Go vernments at 91 or 92? What is to compensate them for this sacrifice of more than 15 per cent.? It may be that differences in the method of com putation, taxes, &c., may slightly diminish the dif ference shown, but they cannot materially alter it. Anxious as every good citizen must Le that Mr. Boutwell may succeed in reducing the rate of inte rest, and thus lighten the burthen of taxation, I have conversed with very many leading bankers at London and at Frankfort on the subject of the rate of interest, and I have yet to find one who believes that any considerable amount of the debt can be converted at less than 5 per cent., and have yet to find one who does not treat the 4 per cent. proposition as one bordering on the absurd. No good is done by advocating a course of action which can never be successfully adopted; in fact, such agitation is mischievous. If Mr. Bout well has been led to believe that the money-lenders of Europe are ready to exchange Six per Cent. Bonds for those bearing interest at 4, even though it may be payable here, it is time he was undeceived. The time to discover his error is before he has made the attempt to do a thin°. which, I believe, no financier of any experience has ever openly stated to be within the range of possibility. If there are any facts within the knowledge of the advocates of the 4 per cent. doctrine (if there is mare than one such advocate), drawn from actual experience, which go to stio%, their theory to be sound, it is to be regrett •d that, to place of much speaking and many glittering generalities, they do not plainly state them, and allow plain men to judge whether or not all the world is mistaken in relation to this business. _* [Our correspondent is certainly in a position which gives him good opportunities of forming the opinion he has so forcibly expressed. His remarks are applicable to every money market in Europe, as well as to those of Germany, to which they are chiefly confined. Money is, how ever, cheaper in London than in Frankfort, and a Five per Cent. Loan, if not a Four-and-anilf, could have been floated, had Congress sanctioned the payment of the interest in Europe. 'Will that clause erased, we hold, with our correspondent, that a Four per Cent. Bond is a simple absurdity. - ED. A. A. T.] AMERICAN AFFAIRS, (From the Anglo-American Times.) Among the latest items of mail news are thts —The North Carolina House lies refused to provide for paying the interest on the State Bonds. South Carolina will pay the interest on its bonds in gold. The Tennessee Legislature has made no provision for paying the interest on the State debt. Portland, Me., is paying its coupons in gold. The Wall-street Journal reports :—" Southern State Bonds are heavy on the new North Carolinas and Ten nessees, the former having declined to 201. Virginias, Georgias, and Missouris are however strong." The rise in the Virginias' in the London market and the satisfactory standing of that State's credit, with the growing confidence in it, may soon teach North Carolina and Tennessee that, whether honesty be the best policy for individuals or not, it is unquestionably so for communities. A large ma jority of the North Carolina Legislature passed the Bill repealing all acts authorising special tax bonds or requiring that taxes be levied to pay interest on them ; and the House refused to provide for any interest whatever, either on the new or old bonds. From Tennessee the news was that the Bill reducing the new bonds to the price at which they were sold has passed to a second reading, and the Finance• Committee has favourably reported on it. O'Donovan Rossa's letter, which we published last week, has been answered by the Government, and the Times has devoted a leading article to show the prisoner up in the worst light. The statements published by the Marseillaise have been contradicted in seriatim. They consist of assertions often made before, inquired into, and proved to be untrue ; and partly of incidents, only deriving importance from the falsehood with which they have been embellished. Rossa is declared to thrive upon the food he gets; to work in au airy, well-lighted room, or at healthy employments outside. A Bible or other religious book is given at the discretion of the priest. He was indulged in the letters he was allowed to write; but such as falsely described his treatment were stopped. Three or four times he was stripped between Feb. and May, 1867, as he was in the habit of passing oat surreptitious communica tions. He was punished for reading when he ought to have been working, and he was refused permission to visit another prisoner. To show the falsehood of the story of the attempt to strangle Rossa, a letter is published giving another account of his being harnessed by the neck to a cart, and being allowed to tilt up would have strangled him had not the noose slipped over his head. The letter was stopped by the prison aut!torities, and is now sent to the daily papers to show how these charges are concocted. Then the Governcr gives his own version. Finally, it is as serted, that the slightest punishments have been inflicted, and only for offences which could not be overlooked in a convict prison, and great care has been taken to deprive the prisoners of an excuse for complaint in even the ap pearance of undue severity. Most of the Fenian prisoners have so ccnducted themselves as never to have been subjected to punishment, but the more notorious of them have proved wanting in the "patience and fortitude" to be expected from political prisoners. Among these O'Donovan Rossa is represented as about - the worst. He was remark able, says the document, above all the other prisoners for his ungovernable temper and his resistance to the ordi nary i ules of prison discipline." It adds :—" If men in such a position cannot see the folly of measuring their strength with the authorities of the prison, and applying themselves by force or cunning to violate or evade the rules, they have only themselves to blame when they suffer unnecessary inconvenience and exceptional punish ments." We do not see the strength of the observation that political prisoners should be expected to display an extraordinary amount of patience and fortitude, unless the Governor recognises in them an extraordinary degree of virtue. If injustice stirs up all the antagonism of our nature, latitude ought to be given to men who consider themselves "patriots," imprisoned and subjected to the treatment of convicts for performing what they have been taught to regard as the highestduty connected with this o rld. POLITICAL NEWS. —General Sherman has issued an order, turning over the control of affairs in Mississippi to the State authorities. The Fourth Military District is abolished, and Mississippi attached to the Department of the Cumberland.--The Virginia Legislature, March 2, elected John L. Marye, jun., Lieutenant Governor, and W. 13. Ruffner, Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Radicals declined voting for Lieutenant Governor, asserting that the election was unconstitutional. —The friends of ex- Congressman Whittemore have arranged for a series of public meetings in the Third Congresssional District of South Carolina, with a view to his re-election. Whittemore is to speak in defence of his disposal of cadetships. Leading papers fail to see Whittemore's guilt, hidden as it is behind the fact that the money he took was used for a charitable and unselfish purpose; and if such a paper as the Boston Advertiser excuses the crime, it is not surprising that an ignorant constituency, like that of Whittemore, should take a similar course. ELECTION NEWS.—The House Committee on Elections, by a vote of 7 to 5, decided against the admis sion of Mr. Segar as Representaiivo at large from Virginia, on the ground that the State is not entitled to such &- presentative. BUDGET OF PERSONAL—The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is said to have declined a 825,000 call from Chi cago.—The father of the Hon. Anson Burlingame, Joel is living in Dunton, Cook County, Julia Coffinbury is a Wisconsin Commis sionerßi iu Illinois.—Miss n i s g o. Burlingame, t e e , ei sdsEs s .yerger, the murderer of Colonel Crane, has been surrendered by the military authorities to the Sheriff of Hinds County, Mississippi, and committe d to stand trial for murder.—J. C. Thompson, deputy postmaster at the University of Virginia, was sentenced in Richmond Feb. 28 to 10 years' imprisonment, for robbing the mail.— James Fisk, jun., is reported to be ambitious of building a more magnificent depot in New York than Vanderbilt's monster station. He has offered $600,000 for a site on Ninth-avenue.—Corti, at present Minister of Italy at the Hague, it is reported, has been appointed to succeed Cer ruti, as Italian Minister a. Washington.— Chang, the Chinese giant, has joined an Ethiopian minstrel troupe.— Mr. Henry D. Palmer, manager of Niblo's Garden, arrived at New York on the 28th Feb. in the steamship France from Europe.—The Right Rev. Thomas Foley has been consecrated Bishop of Pergamuc and Bis'aop Coadjutor of Chicago, Illinois.—Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker has brought an action against a New Orleans policeman for not driving away the crowd of vulgar little boys who threw mud on her pantaloons. This is the costume that was muddied: —A chinchilla cloak, trimmed with satin;. a velvet hat trimmed with lace and gold wheat; a broadcloth dress, cut in gabriella style, and pants of the same.—Edwin Forrest is playing in Ohio ; Joseph Jefferson is said to be ill at Mobile.—President Grant says ho hopes Congress will adjourn early, so that he can go to Long Branch early in June-General Wool has bequeathed $2,000 to General Hardee.-Fisk, jun., contemplating another op3ratic ven ture, has sent Max Maretzek to Europe as his agent.- The impeachment trial of Judge Harrison, before the West Virginia Legislature, was prevented March 2 by his resignation of his office to the Governor a few minutes before the proposed arraignment.-In the Louisiana Le gislature Auditor Wickliffe has• been unanimously im peached.- The M'Farland trial will not be commenced until March 21, and is expected to last at least one month. The prisoner is not in good health, but is cheerful, and sanguine of an acquittal. His visitors average six or seven per diem, many of them being ladies.- Marshal 0. Roberts has been appointed Receiver of the Franklin Telegraph Company.-The failure of the usurious banks of Naples has spread a panic in Rome. Among the sufferers are Count de Caserte for 80,000 francs, General Zappi 30,000 francs, and the Princess ,Sciarra and the Marquis reodoti for considerable sums.-We learn from tho Paris papers of yesterday that Father Hyacinthe was present at Count Montalembert's funeral, and that he appeared in the dress of a layman.- Senator Revels made his first speech in the Chamber last Thursday in favour of universal amnesty and universal suffrage. "ALTERA ItY.—Alessrs. Harper Brothers have just issued a valuable work, entitled the "Andes and the Ama zon," by Professor James Orton, who, with his party, fol lowed that great river from its source to its mouth. Such a book cannot fail to be of a most interesting character.- Henry B. Stanton, the well-kncwn lawyer and politician, is writing a history of the New York bar, with biographi cal sketches of its principal members, fro .n its earliest o rganization to the present time. OBITUARY.—Captain Jacob W. ilugg, one of the most 'prominent shipping-masters of Baltimore, died on Sunday, Fob. 27, aged 69.—The numerous friends of the young and gallant Lieutenant L. A. Hughes, of the United States Army, of Hagerstown, Maryland, will re gret to hear of his recent sudden death, caused by falling down the shaft of 4 mine in California, which ha was in specting. MONETARY REPORTS.-YE ST E RDAY. In the Stock Exchange to-day, the business doing haf been very moderate, and the quotations have ruled emier hi some instances. Consols have been quiet, and un• altered at 921 and 93 for money, and 93 and 9n for the April account. Reduced and New Three per Cents, Olg and 91g. India Five per Cents., 1121 and 113 i, and India Bonds, 203. to 255. prem. Exchequer Bills par. to 4s. prem. There has not been much inquiry for English railways, and the quotations have had a drooping tendency. Great Northern A has been dull, and 1 lower, and Metropolitan has fallen On the other hand, Great Western has risen South Eastern f„ North Eastern, Berwick, L, and ditto York 1. Indian Stocks have been quiet. Canadian Shares have i t been flat, and Grand Trunk have fallen t. Foreign Shares f , have changed hands slowly. For British mining shares the demand has been heavy. I Assheton have fallen b. Colonial and foreign mines have participated in the dulness, and Pacific have receded Bank shares have been in moderate request. Agra have risen Telegraph Shares have sold slowly, and have been without movement of importance. British Australian have receded Owing to heavy sales caused by the settlement, Hooper's Telegraph Works shares have been much depressed, and the quotation has fallen to 2, dis. Telegraph Construction Shares have been dull, and lower. Silver's India Rubber have been unaltered. The prospectus has appeared of the Empire Gold Mine Company (Limited), with a capital of £lOO,OOO in £ 2 shares, the whole of which willl be paid up, 'viz, los per share on application, and £1 108 on allotment. The Company is being formed with the object of pur chasing and working the mining property well, known as the Empire Mine, situate at Grass Valley , Nevada County, in the State . of California. The prospectus has appeared of the Buenos Ayres Street Railway Company, with a capital of £65,000 in £2 shares, 10s. to be paid on application, 10s. on the Ist May, and £1 on the Ist June. It is stated that the cable for the Jersey and Guernsey Telegraph Company is expected to be laid and opened be tween the islands in the course of a fortnight, weather permitting. The materials for the land lines have been shipped. The report of the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Copenhagen, to be presented at Copenhagen on the 2nd of April, shows that the profits for the first five months' working will allow of the payment of a dividend of 6s. 6( 1 • per share, equal to 8 per cent. per annum, after carrying over 10 per cent. of the net reccipts to the reserve fund. The announcement was recently made of the arrival of the Ariadne (steamship) off Falmouth, with a first con signment of South American cattle from the River Plate, consisting of 144 bullocks, 300 sheep, six cows, five calves , and seven horses. Much interest was excited by the venture, which, however, has not turned out so satisfac torily as could be desired. The weather appears so have been very bad all the way, causing delay to the vessel and considerable damage to the stock, of which several died during the passage. On the arrival at Fa' mouth the animals were in very bad condition, an d g reat difficulty has been found in disposing of them at a price at all approaching the anticipations of the consignees. As the animals are altogether unfit for the London market, they are not likely to make their appearance at Isling,ten• At Mark-lane to-day wheat has sold slowly, at a redue• tion of ls. per qr. Spring corn has been finn. MARKETS-YESTERDAY. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY.-Fresh up to Mark• lane this morning the receipts of English wheat have been only moderate, and the generrl quality has been but middling. For both red and white produce the trade has been dull, and prices have given way is. per quarter: With foreign wheat the market has been fairly supplied. The trade has been quiet, and Ameri can qualities have been is. per qr. lower. Moderate suplies or barley have been on the stands. With a firm trade, prices h ave been well supported. Malt has been quiet, at previous quotations. Oats, of which a moderate supply has been on sale, have been In request, at fully late rates. Deans have been firm, on former terms. For Peas there has been a steady demand, and Canadian have risen ls. per quarter. Flour has been dull and drooping. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The supply of beasts has been moderate, and has included some useful stock. For all kinds the trade has been dull, and prices have . given waY 2d. per lb. Increased supplies of sheep have been on the stands. The demand has been heavy. Even the best Downs have been neglected at a reduction of 2d. per 81b., whilst inferior and foreign breeds have relapsed to the extent of 4d. per 81b. Tile top price of clipped sheep has been ss. per sibs. Lambs have sold at 7s. M. to Bs. per 81bs. Calves have been dull, and pigs have ruled easier in value. Beasts have changed hands, at front 3s. 2d. to ss. ; sheep, is. to ss. 10d. ; calves, 3s. 10d. to ss. ; and pigs, 3s. lod. to ss. 6d. per Albs. to sink the offal. Total supply. -Beasts, 3,329 ; sheep 27,605 ; calves, 149 ; and pigs, 200. Foreign : Beasts, 677 ; sheep, 7,620 ; calyes, 142 ; and pigs, 100. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, MONDAY.-The supply of meat has been moderate. The trade has been heavy, as follows :-Beef, from 3s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. ; mutton, 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; lamb, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 4d. ; veal, 4s. 10d. to ss. 2d. ; and pork, 3s. Bd. to ss. 4d. per 81bs., by the carcase. LONDON TRADE REPORT, MoNDAY.—Tallow has rule{ steady, at 465. for Y. C. on the spot. Stock, 28,573 casks, again. 37,064 casks last year. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, MONDAY. —The colonial markets ,opened with more spirit. Strong refining sugars have been in good demand, and the currencies have rather favour ed holders. Prices have ruled firmer. Coffee has been in demand, and both native and plantation sorts have tended upwards in value. Rice has continued dull. Tea has met with some inquirY at 10d. for common Congou. Cocoa steady. - - . LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET 3IoNDAY.--Market firTl Sales 12,000 bales ; of which, 3,000 on speculation. Import of the day, 14,750 bales. BRADFORD WOOL MARKET.—The worsted trade has con tinued inanimate, and the amount of business passing i n pieces, yarn, or wool, is very limited. P r i ces h ave f avoure d buyers. TT lIAVRE COON MARKET, MONDAY.—Market quiet. New Orleans, 137•50 ; Oomrawutte, 11700 HAVANA, MAncif 19.—N0. 12 sugar, 114 ; 3luscovads, 710 Stoc7 between here and Matanzas, 92,500 boxes. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 21.—Rapeseed, spring, 784 . ry e, March, 1124. Banca tin firm, 714. PARIS, MARCH 21.—Rape oil, current month, 118.50 ;.Sep tember and December, 108.50. Flour, current month, 56 ; Aprll 56 ; May and August, 16.752. MARSEILLES, MARCH 10.—Wheat quiet. Stock 128,0 00 hec troletres. HAMBURG, MARCH 10.—Wheat—March, 1061; 1071 ; June, 106. BERLIN, DlAncn 10.—Rye—March, 441; April-bray, 4 15 41. Rape oil—March, 131 ; April-May, 13k. Spirits—March, *: April-May, Sir W. Russell has not yet given in his resignation of his seat for Norwich, although it is expected that he will do so. Candidates are already spoken of. The Duke of Argyll has declined to accede to the request of the Governor-General of India to be furnished with quarterly statements of the progress of receipts 'and expenditure in England. The iron ship Allahabad, from Sourabaya to Amsterdam, ran on to the rocks near Boulogne last Thurs ilsy night and was wrecked. She bad on board a general East India care-o. Dart of which has been saved. LAnyehrISEMENT.J—Avoid Medicines—they always aggravat e chron'c complaints; but Du Barry's delicious health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish mentor the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, ant , energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—"The Pope's health restored by Da Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since , abandoning all other remedies, ho has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly ben'!" flcial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly. —From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure liver No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation? Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years ' dyspepsia. No 49,832 "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency , spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." Cure N o ; 46,270: Mr. James Roter t s, of. Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the maul unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is Lid; 1 lb 2s Vd; 2 lb is Gd; 5 lb 115; 12 115 225; 24 lbs 4 s.— A lso D o BARRY'S REVALENTA a RABICA CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 555 —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sen t free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. aII B G A r a o n c r e r D s o and BARRY A C R h R e Y mi and sts Co., No. 77, Regent-street , London ; and BIRTHS. 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