The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-26 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CONSERVATIVE PEERS The Conservative party in the Upper • Heusi will meet again to-day to settle the question of a leader. The Pall Mall Gazette understand! that two names are to be proposed—first, the Marquis of Salisbury, and next, the Duke of Rich mond. " The informal advances made some time since to the Marquis will be renewed in a formal manner ; and should he accept the invitation, there the matter will end. If he likewise declines, we understand that the post will be pressed upon the acceptance of the Duke of Richmond." Of course it is impossible to forecast the result, but the strong feeling in favour of the Marquis of Salis bury was evidenced by the fact that on Wednesday morning all the leading party and independent jour nals appeared simultaneously with strong recommen dations that he be chosen. There are, ho wever , various well-known considerations on the oth er s id e. the weight of which this important meeting will shew. THE. LEAGUE AND THE BILL. .he Central Executive Committee o f the League has finally resolved upon its campaign. The League's own measure will be withheld for the present, and the energies of the body will be concentrated upon the amendment of the Goverznent Bill. The points which will be most ener getically assailed aro those already so much discussed and censured by thinkers of League principles. Compulsory attendance is to be generally enforced, instead of being left to local boards. Admis sion to board schools must be free. The in struction in such schools is to be entirely un sectarian, religious teaching being given before or after the ordinary work. Fourthly, the boards themselves are to be elected by the rate payers, and not by the town councils or vestries. The League intends to make every effort to pass these Amendments. It may well withdraw its own mea sure, for if all these changes are made, the Govern ment Bill will be the League Bill, and nothing else. NOMINATION AMENITIES. The proceedings on nomination day at Maidstone appear to have been a grand mistake. They certainly dialer from every other late exhibition of the kind, and it would appear that we are in some danger of losing our ancient reputation. The mob did, it is true, make a little excitement, but of a very good humoured kind, whilst the politeness of the two can didates was most discreditable to our electoral system. Mr. Foster White, the Conservative, said that the late Liberal member, Mr. Lee, had retired with the good wishes of all classes. He hoped that similar feelings would be entertained towards him, and he would do all that lay in his power to ensure that this should be the case. Of his opponent he spoke in the highe s t t erms , an d declared that neither Sir John Lubbock nor his friends would have any ground for complaint as to the manner in which the election had been conducted by the Conservative party. Sir John Lubbock, the Liberal candidate, spoke in a similar strain. lie thanked the Conservative electors for the courtesy with which they had received him. The behaviour of the Conservative employers had been irreproachable. He only wished that, all elec tions were conducted on the same principles. Of such speeches the leading impression is that they properly belong to some future golden age of elec toral purity, and not to this bribing, bullying, and rioting year of grace 1870. Mr. White and Sir John Lubbock ought to think seriously of the effect of such examples. The idea of decency at a British election, and above all at a British nomina tion, is simply absurd. WATERFORD. The nomination in the South of Ireland, on the other hand, was not only up to the usual mark, but far beyond it. Such a scene of scurrility and violence has seldom been equalled, even on the hustings. Sir Barron, who proposed Mr. Smyth, termed Mr. Osborne a hypocrite, an abettor of treachery and perjury, a second edition of Jeremy Diddler, &c., &c. Mr. Osborne was not behindhand in his mastery of Billingsgate. Alderman Redmond he spoke of as "the original old donkey ; " Sir H. Barron as " the old woman," who never would be admitted to society. One epithet procured. for him the threat of being knocked down, but still he pursued his triumphant way, deliverinc, a speech bristling with personalities, and de vo id o f a single allusion to a public topic. This is indeed the right kind of thing, and obviously superior to the tame Maidstorte doings. For it is needless to say that the purport of elections is not to advance the business of the nation, but to give extra facilities for disturbance, and to enable candidates to look smaller and meaner than in any other relation of life. NOTTINGHAM. Mr. Digby Seymour, the defeated candidate at Nottingham, speaks of a petition against the return of the Hon. Auberon Herbert. On whatever grounds this appeal may be based, it is clear that the " lambs" lost none of then: activity at the late election, and that they received from somebody the due reward of their services. More than five hundred who had been engaged attended to receive payment. Each had a ticket bearing his name and address. There was so much crushing to get up the stairs to the pay " office " that a ladder had to be reared at the side of the chamber window, by which mewls the lambs descended after being raid. THE IRISH LAND BILL. "H," in a letter to the Timex, directs attention to that part of the Irish Land Bill which refers to .graduated compensation. He says the justice of such compensation is universally admitted. What he objects to is the method in which this object is carried out by the third clause of the bill. He fears that this graduated scale, however advan tageous to the existing tenants, will operate most injuriously upon the prospects of that numerous class of the Irish peasantry. who are expecting to be, and are daily becoming, in the natural cource of events, the successors of the present small tenants. He also believes that it will annihilate their hopes of succession, and that these provisions of the bill will be pregnant with future and greater discon tent. lie submits that the consequences of a mistake upon such a point are too serious not to demand careful consideration, A SOLUTION OF THE IRISH DIFFICULTY. An amusing notion about Ireland appears in the Pall Mall Gazette. It would be an interesting experi ment, our contemporary thinks, to people that country with Chinese. They are just the kind of people best fitted to deal not only with Ireland, but also with the Irish. They would not understand the threaten ing letters which they would probably receive, and if once they took root in the country no amount of oppression would put them down. 'they would be inoffensive industrious neighbours, who would soon draw out tke capabilities of the soil, and be really contented with their lot. In fact the Chinese a re p ar exc ellence the mechanical and agricultural labourers of the earth. They form one-third of the human race, and do about two-thirds of the manual labour of the world. They are match less for docility, sobriety, and endurance, though they may not possess some of the good qualities which apper tain to other races. The Americans seem to be fond of the Irish and to dislike the Chinese. Let them exchange their Celestials for our Irishmen._ LORD ELMO AND THE VOLUNTEERS. At the meeting of Volunteer commanding officers, held for the purpose of forming a Volunteer Associa tion, reference was made to a letter of dissent from Lord Mao. This nobleman now publishes the letter which he wrote to Lord Ranelagh disapproving of the establishment of such an association. Firstly, he is afraid that the plan of meetings taking place in London during the sitting of Parliament, and watch ing over all parliamentary doings with regard to the force, would be looked upon with disfavour by Government. Again, Lord Elcho thinks that there is no necessity for the formation of this association. Twice only since the existence of volunteer corps has any occasion arisen when it appeared necessary to ascertain the yams of the whelp force upon any matter; once in 18G7 relative to the capitation grant, and again lately with reference to the War-office "suggestions." On these occasions the opinions and wishcs of the volunteers throughout the kingdom were made known, without being expressed through any commanding officers' association. THE SEIZURE OF TIIE TORNADO. Further correspondence respecting the seiz•ire of the Tornado has been published among the parlia mentary papers. It extends from May 9, 1809, to February 5, 1870. The latter part of the corre spondence is the most interesting, containing, as it does, the letters offering £1,500 as compensation for the crew of the seized ship. Mr. Forbes Camp bell, the anent for the officers and crew of the Tor nado, is at first highly indignant at the smallness of t ha sum oared. The amount lost by the crew was J.:1,0:)3, which when deducted from lie !7:1,f300 offered, leaves a bah:l:cc of ;0407. Thi s cl:s . ,ributed among the seamen giveseach a little over Li, or a mohth's v.-a: 7 ;es for §ix month's imprison ment. The total amount claimed ter wages, compen sa: ion, and property lost or stolen by the 55 men coin rosing the officers and crew of the Tornado, is f.:13,("4?3: at which, it must be acknowledged, the £1,500 offered forms but a very small part. The answer from Mr. k, Hammond is that the Spanish Government refuse to acicnowledge that the Spanish sailors seized :,,•i. a: .y private property, and they do not : - 7- - .Trofess to pay the wages owing., but 1 - . ", dy to give some " pecuniary assistance'' . , the crow, owing to their unfortunate position. The a ' , ,.:,, immander, Captain Collier, on hearing the terms in 7. 2 V;hich the offer is made, declares that it adds insult e l 'to injury, and contrasts Lord Clarendon's conduct in the affair with that of his predecessor in office, very , unfavourably to.the.former, . It is i then Proposed by the claimants to submit the matter to the mum tion of the Emperor of the French, a proposal which our Foreign office refuses to enter tain. Consequently, after a prolonged paper war the offer of £1,500 is accepted, apparently in despair of obtaining bettor terms. Her Majesty's Government having acquiesced in the condemnation of the Tor nado, refuse to entertain the claim for £64,000 put forward on behalf of the owners of the vessel by the inspectors of their estate. SILK SUPPLY ASSOCIATION. -- - Many influttntial gentlemen, and amongst them representatives from India, Egypt, China, and the United States, have met together in London for the first time as an association for promoting the supply of silk to this country. The re commendations of a committee will probably be acted upon in endeavouring to induce the further production of -silk in the various British colonies. It is said, too, that the United States con tain immense districts su . table to the growth of the mulberry tree. At the meeting referred to, it was contended by the chairman, Mr. Thomas Dickens, of Manchester, that their efforts should be directed towards keeping the reeling in the hands of the ►manufacturers, and to have the cocoons imported. STATE OF TIIE IRON TRADE. The Iron and Coal Trades Review states that the reduction of the Bessemer royalty has given consi derable stimulus to the hematite pig iron trade. It reports the intention of extending the finished iron trade by the erection of plate mills at Barrow-in-Furness; also that iron shipbuilding is likely to form an important industry at the same place before long. The accounts from South Staffordshire it says, continue unsatisfactory, as do those from South Yorkshire and the West Riding. At Leeds the Monkbridgo Iron Company are making careful experiments with their Siemens puddling furnaces with every hope of eventual success. In Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire the manufacture of pig iron is likely to increase with the additional furnaces in contemplation. Accounts from the Continent, says the same authority, are of an equally satisfactory character. A PM3LISIIER'S SUBTERFUGE. At the Guildhall police-court the attention of Alderman Lusk, M.P., was called to the character of a publication which had on its title-page, in large letters, " Tl:e Infidelities of a Prince," " The Prince of Wales's Feathers," and in still larger letters "Unparalleled Revelations." The Chief Commissioner of the Police, it was stated, considered the publication a very unjustifiable one. The publisher stated that the contents referred to George the Fourth. It was composed solely of parlia mentary papers and reports which were in the British Museum. He admitted that it was published on the 24th of February, in consequence of the proceedings in the Divorce Court. Alderman Lusk expressed his opinion that it was a very offensive publication. lle said he was surprised at the state of morality of persons of respectability who could for the sake of a penny fraud on the public, disgrace themselves. The matter ended with a promise, on the part of the delinquents, that the publication should be with drawn. THE OPPOSITION. The opposition to the dogma (the Vatican says) is becoming weaker. The German bishops are so startled at the construction put upon their acts that they recoil from them altogether. The Archbishop of Cologne has issued a pastoral telling his flock that they need be under no apprehension, for everything will be settled by the Divine Spirit—the dogma, its opportuneness, and everything beside. The French bishops are very much divided; and Bishop Casimir, of Laval, has issued a protest against what Mgr. Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, and leader of the "Gallicaus," has been doing. No notice is taken of the compromise which seemed likely a short time ago. NEGRO SUFFRAGE. The American States have occupied themselves for several months past with an amendment in the constitution, giving the suffrage to all citizens with out distinction of race or colour. This measure would let in Negroes and Chinamen. Being a change in the constitution the consent of three-fourths (twenty eight) of all the individual State Legislatures was needed, and tha process of ratification has been slowly going on dur ing the summer and autumn. The twenty-eight States have at length given their consent, and the formal proclamation may soon be looked for. It would be made, indeed, at once, save that the decision of Indiana is in some way informal, and that New York has rescinded the resolution of its late Legislature. Thus, the action of one or two more States will bu wanted before the formal step is taken. THE CONVOCATION OF YORK. In Thursday's sitting of the Convocation of York the Dean of Ripon put forward a resolution with regard to unity amongst Christian Churches. The substance of it declared that, for the attainment of true unity among the Churches of Christendom, there must be a re cognition of lilerty for every Church to ordain• or change any rites or ceremonies, so long as nothing be ordained against God's word. With a Church however, maintaining dogmas repug nant to the Scriptures there can be no Christian union. The Dean considered that it was the duty of the Convocatiou, in these days when union with the Church of Rome or with the Greek Church has been so much discussed, to give its opinion on the subject of such a Christian unity. lie re marked that while a disposition for unity Lad been shown by members of the Clutch of England with bodies holding entirely contrary beliefs to their own, no such disposition has been shown in favour of Xteiconformist bodies where no fundamental contradictions in doe rine stand in the way. No one seconded the proposition,and the president said he inferred that the Synod was indisposed to discuss the subject. A reso lution was carried asking the President to obtain from the sister Convocation any report which it had drawn up on the subject of the appointment of Bishops, and bring it before the next session of the Northern Province. A judgment was given in answer to an appeal against an elec tion of proctors by which the Archbishop decided that a Bishop has a light to preside at such an election in spite of any established custom to the con trary. It was stated that the Ecclesiastical Dilupidations Bill had received no real opposition. A motion was carried to the effect that the House, though prepared to receive with respect the now lectionary recommended by the Royal Commissioners on ritual, yet thinks it right to refer the subject to a committee of its own. L 157 FOR THE USE. OF VISITORS TO THE METROPOLIS. MUSEUMS. Antiquarian—Somerset House. 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On Thursday afternoon the case had been concluded so tx as the learned counsel were concerned ; and it now Ally remained for the Judge ordinary to sum up. Before the adjournment of the court on the previous day his lordship had stated that in putting the issue to the jury, he proposed to ask them, first, whether the respondent was on the 30th of April in such a condition of mental dis order as to be unfit and unable to answer the petition, and duly instruct her attorney for her defense ; and, secondly, if she was then in such a condition, did she at any and what time afterwards cease to be so ? If they wished to say anything on this subject next morning he would be glad to hear them. This morning the court was as much crowded as on any of the preceding days. When the Judge-Ordinary took his seat, some conversa tion took place between him, Dr. Deane, and Mr. Serjeant Ballantine as to the issue to be submitted to the jury; and finally it was agreed that the second point should be slightly altered from the form given above, and stated as it was subsequently put to the jury by his lord ship. Lord Penzance then proceeded to sum up. He observed that they were now approaching the end of this inquiry, and the learned counsel, he was happy to say, agreed with him as to the questions which were to be submitted to the consideration of the jury. He had no doubt that they would give as much attention to this part of the case as they had bestowed upon it throughout, and he had as little doubt that if they did so, they would arrive at a just conclusion. The case had occud a great deal of time and a great deal of attention. Perhaps there had been no case for years which had occupied so much public attention as this had. There were some who thought that matters of this kind, arising between husband and wife, should become the topics of public discussion ; and there might be some who thought that such public discussion—carrying with it, as it did, a knowledge of immorality and other matters which every body would wish should be kept from the eyes of the many—was not desirable. And it might be said—probably had been said—that the avidity shewn by the public to take part in this trial was to be deprecated, as shewing a desire to participate in the investigation of immoral subjects. But he was not quite sure that this was a correct description of the reason why so much attention had been paid to this case. Those who stood in high places were always the objects of atention. If mere detail; of immorality or divorce cases were inter esting, he was scary to say that scarcely a day—certainly not a week—passed, in which they were not accessible in that court. But in truth it was on account of the position in society held by those who were implicated in this matter that so much attention had been attracted to it. Surely it was natural that those who stood in high places should be conspicuous, and those who were conspicuous naturally attracted attention. It .was no doubt an evil connected with this *ate of things that in an inquiry which was properly instituted only between husband and wife, evidence was given and remarks were made which more or less affected the character of other persons, some of whom were no parties to the inquiry. And it almost savoured of injustice that they should be discussing in a Divorce Court details which, it was true, primarily affected the parties to the suit, but which, in their secon dery effect, dealt a serious blow at the character of others. It seemed the more to be an injustice because sometimes there parties were not always entitled in law to instruct counsel to defend them. Still, if this was an injustice, was it not a necessary one ? Was it possible to conduct an investigation of this kind fairly, heneetly, and truly, without sparing anyone, if they were to keep out of sight the circumstances which would tend to injure other persons? It seemed to him to be impossible and that the supreme interests of justice were served by permitting all matters material to the issue to be gone into, however much they might affect the interests of others. And he was not quite sure that these were not some corresponding benefits arising from the great publicity with which such cases were con ducted in this country. Indeed he was sure that with regard to the persons to whom he alluded as having been introduced into this case, that they feel that publicity of the investigation had its advantages. This began something like a year ago. In the month of June last affidavits were filed in this court, the purport of which became more or less public. " The Warwickshire scandal," ai he thought this case had been called in the newspapers, was by no means a private matter. Throughout the country people were busy, as they naturally might be, with all that concerned a person like Sir Charles Mordauut. Many tongued rumour gave a dozen accounts of those implicated in this matter ; ant while such rumours were going about in all classes of society, was it altogether an evil that they should in open thy and in (pen court investigate these matters? No doubt they were not called upon to give any verdict on those matters affecting other parties ; but was it not a bsnefit that al that was known, or to be proved, or to be sleeken of, should be done in open court, without fear or favour ? The case on the part of Sir Charles Mordaunt heel been conducted by an intrepid advocate, who weuld shrink from nothing which he felt it his duty to de in the interest of his client, who was a consummate m titer of his profession ; and, after everything which in hi; jial en-lent could be brought forward with advantage he'd been heard, he (Lord Penzance) could not help thinking that they were no losers by all that had been said or done. As regarded the Prince of Wales, and the otliers whose names had been mentioned, this investiga tion had taught them precisely what was known, what could be proved, and what was true ; and he thought it mist be a matter for congratulation to them, as the result of what could be proved, certainly as regarded the Prince of Wales, the advocate for Sir Charles Mordaunt said honestly and fairly, "This is all that I can put before you to justify the statements which Lady Mordaunt made in relation to the Prince of Wales, and I do not now im pute that he was guilty of the crime of adultery." And it was only. just to the learned counsel to state that what he said after hearing the evidence about the Prince of Wales, so he had said substantially when he opened the case. He (Lord Penzance) feared he had caused the learned counsel some embarrassment by suggesting that no names should be individually mentioned ; but on reading the shorthand writer's notes, he found that Seri eant Ballantine did not impute at first, as he • had not imputed in the end, any thing like adultery to the Prince of Wales. With these remarks he would leave this part of the subject. It would assist the jury somewhat to know more than they had yet been told as to the course which this case had taken from the first. The petition was filed and served on the 30th of April, and according to the practice of the court, the respondent would have been allowed three weeks to answer. But the advisers of the respondent, considering that she was not in a proper state to give instructions, came before him, and stated that in such a condition of mind, the respondent could not be expected to answer within the usual time. That representation was very fairlyreceived by Sir Charles Mordaunt in the first instance, and the summons for extension of time was allowed to stand over from time to time. Affidavits were made from time to time also, and in the result Lady Mordaunt having gone to Worthing, and being there in charge of her father, about the 6th July the court made an order that the medical men engaged on the part of Sir Charles Mordaunt, should be allowed to go down to see her, so that the question of the state of her mind might be brought to a point. On the 10th of July four medical men went down—Mr. Orford, Mr. Jones, Dr. Reynold's and Dr. Burroughs. Aft er th e y re p or t e d it was said by the other side that some time would be required to answer their affidavits, and in the result on the 27th of July, the summons for time to answer this petition came on to be heard before him in chambers. Having these affidavits of the doctors on one aide and those of the servants at Worthing on the other, referring to Lady Mordaunt's habits, he felt that it was impos sible for him to determine the question whether further time ought to be allowed until it was shewn in a more satisfactory way whether Lady Mordaunt was in a condition to answer. Therefore he suggested that it was desirable that the matter should be tried before a jury. Upon that an appeal was filed for mally for the purpose of raising the issue, and so the case came before the jury. There was one proved ; that Lady Mordaunt was now unfit to answer there would be an end of Sir Charles Mordaunt's suit. And, further, it had never yet been decided—it was an open question—whether, supposing Lady Mordaunt was out of her mind, Sir Charles could not go on with the suit notwithstanding. That was a matter which counsel on either side would have to argue. There was not a word in the statute under which these proceedings were taken to determine it. In Criminal matters they could not advance a step if one of the parties was out of his mind ; but in civil matters that was a point which had been somewhat misrepresented, and that was as to what would be the effect of the verdict one way or the other. It was clear that if Lady Mordaunt was out of her mind, and that if in the course of a year, or two years, or five years, or any number of years, she ceased to be our of her mind, and was restored to her reason, Sir Charles Mordaunt would have as good a right to a divorce as any he had now, and he would at such future time be able to come to that court and make pre cisely the same demand as he did now. Therefore, it was wrong to say that if it was so, because the " next friend" could come forward and act for the person accused, this matter of adultery occupied in some aspects a middle position between civil and criminal affairs. These remarks would not be material if it had not been for certain topics which had been brought to bear by the counsel for the petitioner. The topic which had occupied the greater part of the attention of the jury was the question whether Lady Mordaunt did or did not commit adultery. Qf course that was not the ques tion which they had to determine ; it would not be their duty to give a collective oobelon on that head ; but the question of Lady Mordaunt's misconduct was intro &iced for the purpose of drawing an inference, so that they world have to weigh the evidence upon that matter ; for the purpose of ascertaining how far the statements made by Lady Mordaunt just after her confinement were true, or were made without reasonable foundation. These statements of Lady Mordaunt were not introduced in the ordinary way to prove the adultery ; but the adultery was introduced to prove the correctness of the statements and the sanity of the respondents. Thus the usual process of reasoning was reversed. They had, there fore, to ascertain, setting aside the statements, how far there was evidence of the truth of the facts to which these statements referred ; for if the statements were true that fact would go some way to prove that sanity ' though not so far as had been as sumed. With regard to Lord Cole, the inde pendent evidence seemed to be of a cogent character. pointing to a number of cases which had been described. Whether these circumstances proved that Lord Cole was the father was not so certain, but it was proved that on the 27th of June Lord Cole dined with Lady Mordaunt, and was alone with her for an hour and a half. Was it according to the usages of society that he should do so? THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1870. tint the matter did not stop there. He saw her again ;he rode with her in the train to Beading ; and three days after he went to Walton, and stayed four days. the sole truest of Lady Mordaunt. Dr. Deane said there were two other points. Lord Penzance said he should be glad if this was true. Mr. Inderwick thought it was. Lord Penzance said then his remark must be NI ith . There were other facts in evidence, one being that immediately after confinement Lady Mordaunt said to the nurse, " That child is not Charlie's ; it is Lord Cole's." The evidence against Captain Farquhar was not so strong • and, indeed, there was little against him 12A . the evidence about the burnt later. His lordship examined the evidence on this point given by Bird, the butler, and Clarke, the lady's maid, pointing out some elements of suspicion. The case with reference to Sir F. Johnstone was of a character so slight, that if he were trying the question of adultery he would be obliged to tell them there was no evidence of it independently of the statement of Lady Mordaunt. Beyond the fact of his being a visitor at the house, the whole evidence was that he stayed late after dinner on one occasion, It was hot correct that Lady Mordaunt was then up in town clandestinely ; and he hoped we had not arrived at such a point that because a gentleman dined alone with a lady, we were to assume that, therefore, adultery was committed. In going through this part of the case, he must not omit the evidence as regarded the Prince of Wales. There were three witnesses called on this point, and their statements were evidence simply of visits. Although he should, if they were trying the question of adultery, be bound to tell the jury that there was not the slightest evidence upon which they could find adultery. The statements were that a gentleman called upon a lady frequently at an ordinary hour of the afternoon and stayed a time more or less long ; sometimes an hour and sometimes more. There was one fact introduced which presented some appearance of peculiarity, namely that no one else was admitted while the Prince of Wales was in the house. But as stated by the learned counsel for Lady Mordaunt, that was done in conformity with the established etiquette in all European countries that wherever a royal personage made a call, the doors were closed during his stay. Setting aside the admissions of Lady Mordaunt, he should have withdrawn such a case as this also from their consideration as one on which there was no evidence with which they could deal With much pleasure he passed from this part of the use, and approached the real question, namely, the sanity or not of this lady at certain times. There was no more difficult matter than to find words to accurately express what was in the mind on this question of sanity or in sanity ; and therefore he prefarred to put the issue thus— Was the mind of thie lady so disordered that she was unfit or unable to instruct her attorney for her defence ? The respondent's counsel confined himself to the period from the 30th April to the present time. The petitioner insisted on introducing an earlier period—that between her confinement and the 30th of April ; so that they had two periods—March and April, the first period ; and from April to the present time, the second period. No doubt the question they had to decide was connected with the second period; but still they could not be asked to form an opinion on the second period without knowing some thing of the first. Two tests were applied by the learned counsel for the petitioner to prove sanity. In the first place he said : "If the statements this lady made were true, there is an end of the question ;" and in the second place he asked " What reasonable things did she say or do ?" But it would be right for the jury to ask, whether, supposing it were true that Lady Mordaunt had committed adultery, it was quite certain she was in a sound state of mind when she made confes sion of it. Was not the time of a woman's confinement the time when her mind was more shaken than at any other ? And in such a condition, even provided she was not absolutely insane, was she sure never to refer to any thing that had never taken place ? Was it beyond their experience that in certain conditions of the mind a person, not insane, would state that which was true and add to it that which was false ? Was it possible that a woman might confess guilt, and acted u p on by a consc i ousness of that guilt, state other things beyond it ? Then they must ask why the lady made such a damning confession ; a confession that would ruin her character for life. It was said that she did so because she knew that the child was diseased, and that her guilt must be discovered. If that was so, then they would find a person acting in a reasonable way from a reasonable motive ; but the facts did not support that position. The dates and facts, on the contrary, disproved it. On the Monday and Tuesday she stated that the child was Lord Cole's, but at that time when she asked if there was any thing the matter with the child, the nurse replied " No." It was not seen that anything was the matter with the child until later. Notwithstanding that, Lady Mordaunt made her confession. It might have been thought that she would do so in the hope of obtaining her husband's forgiveness; but the evidence shewed that she would not seek such forgiveness, saying she would stoop to no man. He made these observations because through out the case it had been assumed far too easily that if there was truth in what Lady Mordaunt said, there would necessarily be so to shew that she was sane. The other part of this subject related to the question whether Lady Mordaunt did things which were reasonable. But here, again, the question must be asked—ls it not within our common knowledge that persons whose minds are disordered will constantly speak very reasonably upon many topics ? Apart from monomaniacs, who would talk sensibly of every subject but one, would they not find in any lunatic asylum number of persons who could answer question reasonably? Therefore he thought the proper question to ask was—What unreasonable thing did she do or say? The learned Judge quoted from the evidence re lating to the time of the confinement, and especially called attention to the letters of Sir Charles Mordaunt to Lady Louisa Moncrieffe, as sheaving that his wife was in a peculiar state. These letters wore written after the con fessions, and this shev.-ed that Sir Charles Mordaunt did not believe them then. In fact, he did not believe them until he found the other letters in her desk. The learned judge, alluding to what he called the "his torical part " of the case, described how Lady Mordaunt left Walton on the 15th May, and went to London under the care of her father, and there wrote the letter of the IGth May. Supposing it to be a genuine letter, it seemed impossible that a sane person could have written it while she understood that she had left her husband's house for ever. Although in other respects is was a perfectly reasonable Jotter. As to the alleged shamming of Lady Mordaunt, what could she hope to gain by imitating insanity, when she must have known that to be successful th e deception must be maintained all the rest of her life ; unless, indeed, her object was simply to prove that she was insane at the time of her confinement, aid therefore her statements were not to be credited. After reading the evidence descriptive of Lady Mordaunt's condi tion and conduct at Worthing and at Bicldey, and pointing out the conflicting testimony on some of the 'points, his Lordship referred to the fact that Dr. Tyler Smith con firmed Sir James Simpson as to the delusions of persons suffering from puerperal insanity, and that there was no evidence to show that Lady Mordaunt, whatever she imagined was actually diseased. One o r t wo b roa d v i ews presented themselves. Were there any facts to show where the line could be drawn between the sanity and insanity of Lady Mordaunt after her confinement ? Those who denied her insanity had not been able to controvert the acts and conduct on which others concluded that she was insane ; nor had they been able to controvert that con clusion, provided that the acts and conduct on which it was founded were genuine. It was admitted by the peti tioner himself that she was now insane ; could it be said that by simulating unsoundness of mind Lady Mor daunt brought on real insanity ? The two questions he had to put to them were—First, whether Sir Thomas Moncreiffe had established that on the 30th of April Lady Mordaunt was in such a condition of mental dis order as to be unfit and unable to answer the petition and to duly instruct her attorney for her defence ? And, secondly, whether Sir Thomas Moncrieffe had in like manner established that Lady Mordaunt became so unfit and unable at any time since the 30th April, and if so, when ? IL - Lordship's address, which occcupied over three hours in delivery. concluded at 2.26 p.m. The jury immediately retired, but returned into court at 34 minutes past 2. Being asked whether they found that the respondent was, on the 30th April, in such a condition of mental disease as to be unable to answer the petition and duly instruct her attorney for the defence, The Foreman replied : She was unfit. (A slight attempt at applause was repressed.) Lord Penzance : The other question is not' materipl T suppose Dr. Deane : We should be glad to have the verdict o , the second point. The Foreman : We are of opinion that she is still um and has been ever since. An application as to costs stood over. It is proposed to erect a cottage hospital at Shaftesbury as a memorial to the late Marquis of West minster, available for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. A committee consisting of clergymen and gentlemen has been appointed to carry out the object. With reference to the extensive naval frauds which have been lately discovered in the Victualling-yard at Gos port, it is now reported that the offenders will not be brought to justice, their confession having been secured by the pro mise of immunity from legal punishment. Hobart Pasha, the British naval captain in the employ of the Turkish Government .has offered a composi tion to his creditors, which they have accepted. The salary the bankrupt receives from the Sultan is £3,000 a year ; and he sets aside a certain portion till his credi tors have received ss. in the pound. It is stated that a large and influential deputation from Ireland is being organised to wait upon Mr. Gladstone with reference to the Land Bill, and especially with regard to the " contracting out clauses, and the diminishing scale of compensation," which, in the opinion of the objectors, affords inducements to evict the small tenantry. In committee on the Ballot Bill, Mr. Cadogan will move that every voter shall be at liberty to attend at the appointed place to register his vote, any hiring or employment notwithstanding. Any person attempting to hinder any voter from proceeding to the place of elec tion shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liable also to forfeit £5O to any person who shall sue for the same. All doubt as to the fate of the Blue Jacket, of Boston, portions of which have been washed ashore on the east coast during the last few days, have now been set at rest by the arrival of the crew at Colchester yorterday in tiro fishing smack Celerity. The vessel struck on the Long Sand on Monday last. A fearful sea was running at the time. The crow took to the rigging, where they remaiued upwards of six hours, when they were- rescued. The vessel was on a voyage from Newcastle to tiouthamp ton. and she is now a total wreck. A. man, named. Tredwell, was charged, at the Coventry County Petty Sessions, with allowing his dogs to worry two sheep, the property of Mr. Cagton, of Monk's Kirby. It was proved that the d e fend a nt had three dogs answering to the description of those seen chaAng the sheep, and the Bench inflicted a penalty of £7 165., including the value of the two sheep, which were killed, and the costs. STATE INTERFERENCE WITH FRIENDLY SOCIETIES. —A meeting has been held, under the presidency of the Earl of Lichfield, to consider the bill introduced by Mr. Lowe on the subject of friendly and benefit societies. A pa7cr was read, it which it was said that the abolition of the office of Registrar would have most important effects. Statistics were given which shoWed that there had hssn in 1868 an increase in the deposits amounting to iJ,000,000, and in 1869 there could be no doubt that a • further increase had taken place. ' There were 27,000 societies having 3,000,000 members and receiving more than £4,000,000, while not less than £l5 000,000 was in vested. Lord Lichfield said that he did not think there was sufficient information in the hands of the Government tO enable them to go beyond a measure similar to that Vlich he had introduced in 1868, and he thought a conk mission should be appointed, _MONETARY REPORTS—Yesterday. Inc attention of the House was principally directed to the fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign bonds. The tone of the various departments has been healthy, and there has been a tendency to improvement. Consols have been firm, at 92i, 93 for money, and 92i, 92 for March. Reduced and New Three per Cents, 921, 93. Bank Stock has marked 240, 24L India Five per Cents have been clone at 112, 112, and India Bonds at 205., 255. prem. Metropolitan Board of Works 94, Exchequer (March), 2s. dis. to 3s. prem., and June 2s. dis., 3s. prem. In the market for English railway stocks a full average business has been transacted, and with but few excep tions, the fluctuations have been of a favourable nature. Great Western, having been over-sold, has recovered to the extent of t London, and North-Western, and Mid land shew an advance of I and respectively. Great Eastern has risen b, and Great Northern ; but Caledo nian has- fallen I, and Metropolitan 1.1. The demand for Indian Railway Stocks has been quiet, but prices have been maintained. Canadian Shares have been without movement of importance. For foreign s'iarea there has been a moderate demand. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have improved to 191, 20. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank is In the rates for Foreign Exchange no material altera tion has taken place. Messrs. Pixley and Co. remark that the only transactions in gold during the week have been an arrival of £7BO from Halifax, and the export of £27,150 to India, and £lO,OOO to Rio. There are indications of a demand for the Continent, and in the absence of other remittances it is expected that some portion of the £348,000 due by the Overland Mail from Mel bourne, on the 26th inst., will be taken for Paris. Silver continues flat ; the price remains as last quoted -602d. per oz. standard for fine bars. Mexican dollars have been in moderate demand, and the price at 59id. per oz. remains without alteration. The market for foreign bonds has been characterised by a fair amount of firmness, and the quotations have been fairly supported. Spanish, Turkish, and Egyptian have been firm, at an average improvement of I per cent. Peruvian (1865) have been flat, and lower; whilst Ita lian (1861) show a decline of 1 per cent. The Russian Loan has been firm and I better, at 31, 31. The Chaim' is quoted at 1 prem. American securities have been steady. The Fve- Twenty and Ten-Forty Bonds have risen and Atlantic Bonds ; but Erie shares have fallen I, and Illinois Central I. In Bank shares the business doing has been only moderate, but prices have been supported. Telegraph shares have been steady in value. British India Submarine have risen 1, and Falmouth, Gibraltar, and Malta, Telegraph Construction shares have been firm and better ; India Rubber shares have been steady ; Hooper's Telegraph Works have been firm at I, I. For miscellaneous securities the inquiry has been limited at about previous quotations. The report of the directors of the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, to be presented at Liverpool to-day, shews that the premiums in the fire department have amounted during the year to £904,516, against £867,374 in 1868, and the losses to £461,505, against £539,916. In the life department 1,130 policies were issued for £661,066 ; 183 proposals for £119,773 were declined, and 178 proposals accepted, but have not yet been completed, for £185,590. The November annual premiums were £24,085, and the renewals £248,259, making a total of £272,344. £117,525 will be appropriated to paying a dividend. A payment of 10 per cent. has already been made and warrants for the balance of 20 per cent., free of income tax, will be payable on the 15th proximo. The sum of £153,880 will be carried forward. The prospectus has been issued of the Blaen Caelen Company (Limited) with a capital of £20,000 to purchase some lead and copper mines in Aberystwith. At a meeting of the Langham Hotel Company the directors' report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared, carrying forward £921. The shareholders of the Liverpool, London, and Globe Insurance Company held their annual meeting at the Liverpool offices to-day, Mr. Charles Saunders in the chair. The report stated that the tire premiums for the year amounted to £904,616. The income from the life premiums was £272,344. The fire losses amounted to 2161,505, and the claims under policies, including bonuses, to £162,355. The reserve surplus fund stood at £911,409, the same as last year. A payment of 10 per cent. on dividend account had already been made, and the directors recommended an additional amount of twenty per cent., which together would absorb £117,525, and leave a balance of undivided profit to carry forward of £133,880. The report was adopted. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Dickson, Bro thers, and Co., Australian merchants, it was shewn that t'le liabilities amounted to £124,000, and the assets, sub ject to realisation, to £125,000. A composition of 15s. in the pound, payable by instalments, was accepted. The following is from the Levant Herald of the 16th inst. :—" With the return of more favourable weather business appears inclined to shew a certain amount of animation, a change that was wanted, seeing that it was almost entirely paralysed during the month of Ramazan, a state of things that was rather increased than diminished by the recent cold weather, in fact the general business in our markets had reached such a point that all trade had ceased except a few transactions in the common neces saries of life required for local consumption. At present, however, there is every appearance of an in creasing demand for imported articles, which are becoming somewhat scarce, and as buyers from the pro vinces are beginning to arrive, it is to be hoped that before long we shall be able to chronicle a general improvement in all branches of trade. Our export transactions have not been large owing principally to our stock of produce being low, but as soon as the results of the late harvest arrive we shall, no doubt, see our sales increase innumber.' The following are the official `: making up " prices of to-day, being the first day of the account in shares and foreign bonds :—Railways— Metropolitan, 79 ; Cale donian, 77 ; London and Brighton, 44 ; South Eastern, 76i ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, 50 ; Great Northern A, 118; Midland, 104; London and North-Western, 1241; Great Western 62i ; Great Eastern, 38 ; Erie, 22 ; Illinois, 112 ; Great Luxe mbourg, 13i ; South-Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 19i ; and Great Western of Canada, 161. Foreign Bonds—Egyptian Nine per Cents, 99 ; ditto, Seven per Cents (1868), 78 ; Italian (1861), 551 ; Peruvian .(1865), 80i ; Turkish (1865), 681; ditto Five per Cents, 45 ; Spanish (1867), 26k; Mexican, in. Miscellaneous — Imperial Ottoman Bank, 131 ; Anglo-Mediterranean Telegraph, 17; French Cables, 16; Telegraph Construc tions, 43 ; Don Pedro Mining, 3 15-16ths ; Yudanama tana, 1 ; Hudson's Bay shares. 121, MARKETS—Yesterday. MARK LANE, FRIDAY.—From Essex and Kent the receipts of wheat have been on a liberal scale. ' , there has been a fair attendance of millers, but a want of animation has characterised the inquiry for both red and white produce, at about Monday's quotations. The show of foreign wheat has been good. The trade has been quiet, at late currencies. With barley• the market has been moderately supplied. Sales have progressed slowly, at last week's prices. Malt has been dull, on former terms. Oats, of which a fair supply has been on sale, have changed bands quietly, at about late rates. Beaus and peas have been dull, but unaltered. Flour has sold slowly, at Monday's prices. Arrivals.—English and Scotch wheat, 1,870; barley, 1,590; malt, 1,080• oats, I,f 30 ; beans, 570; and peas, 300 qrs. Foreign wheat, SO ; barley, 2,910 ; oats, 6,700; maize, 11,883 qrs. ; and flour, 110 sacks and 4,410 barrels. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.—The supplies of meat are moderate. The trade has been quiet, at about late rates. Beef from 3s. 4d. to 4s. Cd. ; mutton, 3s. 4d. to ss. 6d.; veal, 58. to ss. 6d. ; and pork, 3s. Bd. to 58. 6d. per Sibs, by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.—The business doing has been very moderate in all descriptions. Prices, however, have con tinued firm in consequence of the paucity of samples. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l3 ; Weaids, £6 to £8 ss. ; Sussex, £5 153, to £7 ; Bavarians, £6 10s. to £lO les •, French, 45 ss. to £ 7 ; Americans , £4 ICs. to £ 6 ; and Yearlings, £ ll5 to £3 10s. per cwt. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—TaIIow is dull, at 468. spot, 465. March, 455. Od. June, 465. 6d. last three months. Lin seed oil fiat, 335. London, and 30s. 6d. Hull. 425. spot for English brown rape. Petroleum fiat, at Is. Sid. to Is. lOid. - • - - - LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, FRIDAY.—The sugar market has ruled quiet, but the quotations have been firmly maintained. Common brown hemps are not obtainable under 445. 3d. A small private business has been concluded in coffee, at steady prices. Tea has tended downwards in value. Rico dull and inactive. LONDON METAL MARKET. FRIDAY.—A steady tone Pre vails. Tin firm, at £ll6 10s. to £ll7 for Straits, Copper tending upwards. Chili bars, £55 Os cash, and £67105. three mouths. Scotch ui; iron, 51s. Cd, cash. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—There has been little inquiry for goods to-day, either for export or home consumption. Although spinners have shewn no disposition to give way; the endency of prices has been in favour of buyers. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—The wheat market is dull, but prices are without quotable change for any quality. Reds are in chief request. Corn is steady, and sound samples have advanced 3d. per ceutel. Fr uch four dull. Oats drooping. LIVERPOOL corroN MARKET, FRlDAY.—Market quiet but steady. Sales, 10,000 bales, of which 2.000 were on speculation. sales of the week en led yesterday, 53 625 bales, of which 6,250 were on speculation. and 5,125 for export. The actual export is 2,000, and the consumption by the trade, 42,375. The import has amounted to 33,275 bales, and the stock is 311,000 bales. LivilarooL COPPER, MARKET, FRIDAY.—Ban, (;(1 to 661; ores. 13 t.) 131. ; quiet. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—There is no change to notice in the value of wheat to-day, the inquiry for which has con tinue I very limited, Spring core of all kinds has ruled dull cf bale. Flour dull. PARIS, FEB. 25.—Flour, current month, 55 59: March-April, 55'50 ; May-August, 56 541 Rape oil, current mouth, I , X; ; May .4.uguat, 134 &O. BERLIN, FEB, 24.—Rape oil, February, 13 1-6th; Autumn, 131, Spirits, February, 14'10; Autumn, 141. FrapA.Y.—Rape, Buica tin, 691 buyers. March, 173'50: May , 176'51 - - HAMBURG, FEE. ft. —Wheat, Februiry, 103; March, 1031; April-May, 106. Rape oil, spot, 274 ; May, 274 ; Avltist, 254. NEW ORLEANS, FEB. 24.—Four days' receipts, 26,720 bales ; fon days' exports, 13,000. Stock, 249,000, Middling upland cotton i quoted at 231 cents rer lb. HAVANA. Tin. 24.—N0. 12 sugar, 82 ; Muscovado. it. Messrs. Alexander Collie and Co., send the fol lowing from Manchester : " Very little business doing, but the market remains steady, and manu facturers, being well engaged, show little disposi tion to meet purchasers." CONGRESS. SENATE. 28 --John 'W. Johnston, Senator elect from Virginia, was sworn in. The Bill Amen datory of the Virginia Bill, allowing affirmation where the officers are conscientiously opposed to swearing, was passed. On the motion of Mr. Ed munds, the Judiciary Committee were directed to report if fur' her legislation is necessary in organiz ing the Georgia Legislature. The President's veto of the Rollin White Relief Bill was considered. The Military Academy Appropriation Bill was reported. Mr. Sumner presented a bill, which was referred, for the payment of bounties to coloured soldiers and sailors, without regard to their previous servitude. A substitute for the bill to establish a line of steam ships to carry mails to Europe and Asia, lessen ocean postage, &c., was reported and recommitted. Mr. Sherman tried to get his Currency Bill consi dered, and Mr. Stewart the Census Bill. but the bill appropriating $30,000 for the relief of the poor in the District of Columbia was taken up and Pa, ssed and the Senate adjourned until M on d ay . Jan. 21—Mr. Cragiu introduced a bill abolishing the office of Surveyor of Customs. It transfers the duties of that officer to the Collectors of Customs, and directs the payment of the Surveyor's share of fines and forfeitures into the United States Treasury. Tho resolutions of the Ohio Legislature, ratifying the Suffrage Amendment., were presented. On the motion of Mr. Morton, the President was asked for information in regard to the ratification of the Suf frage Amendment by Mississippi and other affair s of that State. Mr. Ramsey, from the Post-office Committee, reported back with amendments the bill to establish a postal telegraph system. Mr. Morton in troduced a bill providing for the admission of Missis sippi,which was referred. It is similar to the Virginia bill, but requires no test oaths. The Currency Bill was taken up, and Messrs. Morton and Sumner with drew their amendments. An amendment was then adopted, yeas 43, nays 12, allowing a bank located in a State having more than its proportion of cir culation to be removed to any State having less than its proportion, provided the amount of issue of said bank shall not be deducted from the amount of new issue provided in this Act. Mr. Morton moved an amendmegt making the increase $52,000,000, and Mr. Chandler one making it $100,000,000. Mr. Chandler's amendment was re jected, and the Senate adjourned, with an under standing that the bill would be voted upon next day. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.--Jan. 28.—James K. Gibson, member elect from the Eighth Vir ginia District, was sworn in. Bills were intro duced to collect debts due from Southern railroads, and amendatory of the bankrupt laws. Mr. Cake, from the Printing Committee, reported a bill, which was passed, abolishing the office of Congres sional Printer, a n d p rov idi ng for the elect i on of a Superintendent of Public Printing, to perform the same duties, at a salary of $4,000. A report from the Election Committee was adopted, declaring the claimants of seats from Georgia under the election of April 20,1868, not entitled to their seats. These claimants were admittel to seats in the last'Con gress. The Election C omm i ttee were discharged from considering the claim of Simpson, member elect from the Fourth South Carolina District, he being unable to take the oath. Mr. Culloin intro duced bills to organize Lincoln Territory, and con solidate the Indians under a Territorial Govern ment ; also giving a Territorial Government to the District of Columbia. The House went into Committee on the Legislative Appropriation Bill, and Mr. Voorhees made a speech to show that the holders of the public debt since 1862, taking into consideration the prices of gold over currency had paid for the whole bonded debt no more than $1,371,424,288. , lie advocated green back payment of the Five-twen ice. After some remarks by Messrs. Butler and Dawes, the latter declining further controversy, the Committee rose. The Postal Route Bill was reported and passed. Mr. Reeves introduced a bill to abolish the pro duce brokers tax ou farmers. The House adjourned, with the understanding that to-day's session should be for debate only. Jan. 31—A number of bills were introduced and referred, including the following:— By Mr. Scofield, for apprenticeship in the Navy ; Messrs. Cessna and Whittemore, for the admissiot of Mississippi ; Mr. Sherrod, to remove all political disabilities; Mr. Beck, requiring all orders of the Commissioner of 'eternal Revenue concerning dis tilleries to be signed by him personally, and en dorsed by the Secretary of the Treasury ; Mr. Mor gan, to abolish the Department of Agriculture; Mr. Armstrong, for the redemption of United States Bonds not exceeding $100,000,000, by the issue of an equivalent amount of interest-bearing notes, and by Mr. Wells fixieg the pay of Senators and Representatives at $3,000 per annum, and reducing mileage to 10 cents per mile. Mr. M'Neely offered a resolution declaring the Five-Twenties payable in legal tenders, and censuring the bond purchases of the Secretary of the Treasury. The resolution was tabled by a party vote. Mr. Ingersoll offered a resolution directing the Banking and Currency Committee to re=tort within six days his $44,000,000 Additional Legal Tenders Bill. The House refus ing to second the previous question, the yeas being 43 and the nays 71, the resolution went over. Mr. Marshall offered a resolution declaring that the constitutional authority to levy taxes does not in clude the power to impose duties except for the collection of revenue, and directing the Ways and Means Committee to report a bill accordingly. Mr. Kelley moved to table the bill, when, the morning hour expiring, it went over. Mr. Fitch offered a resolution giving belligerent rights to Cuba, which was referred to the Foreign Committee. Mr. Cox desired to offer a resolution looking to the repea l of the tariff on coal. Objection being made by Mr. Cessna, he moved to suspend the rules, but the House, by a vote of 75 to 24, refused to sus pend them. Messrs. Gouger and M'Kenzie, mem bers elect from Virginia, were sworn in. Mr. Sco field introduced a bill authorizing transfers in Navy appropriations to the Bureau of Construction, which was referred. The House at five o'clock adjourned. Bank of France. rants, Feb. 24 The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Feb. 24. Feb. 17. fr. fr. c Capital of th o B an k , 182,500,000 c. 182,500,000 Profits in addition to Capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation . Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight 42,659,297 62 41,924,322 24 Treasury account cur rent creditor 166,417,086 15 153,480,915 16 Current accounts, Paris 303,951,102 71 308,425,453 66 Do. branch banks 47,145,791 43,256,499 Dividends payable 1,991,511 2,129,145 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months 1,305,522 15 1,305,522 15 Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries --- Total CREDITOR. Feb. 17. Feb. 24. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due . ............. Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 294,855,193 07 292,759,689 61 Do. branch banks 290,866,997 282,802,571 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch b an k s 1,462,500 Do. on French Public Securities 19,219,300 Do. by branch banks 7,919,750 Do. on railway shares and debentures 39,412,500 Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 255,488 15 123,749 19 12,116,800 - 1;682,400 - 18,944,600 - 7,770,950 - 39,421,50 31,981,550 1,154,500 - 1,140,100 - 1,249,100 - 1,211,000 --- 60,000,000 - serve Do. disposable Rentes Inunobalisees 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 80,595,187 21 80,595,187 21 (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the 135uk and landed propel ty branches Expenses of manage- 100,000,000 - 9,082,030 - 9,082,890 - meat Sundries 275,678'40 474,888 58 6,293,471 33 8,297,816 04 Total ............... 2,195,993,868 91 2,196,936,263 65 Certified by the Senat o r-G overnor o f the Bank of France. (Signed) ROULAND. ADVERTISEMENT. 1-U0110w:13 - '8 Ointment and Pills are • the most reliable remedies for the blotches, pimples, boils, and carbuncles which, often appearing at the change of soasons, are ever annoying, sometimes dangerous, an I always disfiguring. The subtle permeating powers of this Ointment, by repressing both inflammation and irrit.ktion, reduce the skin to its natural temperature and colour, whilst radically expelling the cause of the blemishes from the system. The Pills zwe'st the cooling and purifying in fluence of the unguent by expelling all that is gross from the bowels, and by thoroughly rectifying digestion. Under this treatment every organ throughout the body is compelled to dislodge both irregularities and impurities, whereby the skin becomes soft and silky, the spirits gay, and health robust. AMERICAN PRESS. In an article on "Editorial Perspective," the Nation discusses a proposition to confine newspapers strictly to news. It is asserted that the editors and re porters' functions not only differ, but are incompa tible. The business of the reporter or the corre spondent is a minute and cmfprehensive inquiry. The editor's is the furtherance of a practical measure, such as the extinction of slavery, the extension of the suffrage, the acquisition of territory, the depres sion or the advance of shares. This practical turn is likely to work havoc among t h e f ac t s scientifi cally collated for his consideration by the reporter. Suppose the latter concluded that Mariposa or Pacific Mail was not so likely to rise as to fall for various scuud reasons, while the editor bclieves in either, then comes out th e we ll-k nown a rticle beginning—" There are always some persons in every .community ready to backbite and slander,and we are not therefore surprised a t se malignant allusic:es_ and misstatements designed to i n j ure th e financial reputaCon of a great enterprise." The reporter talag h;s cue from this, and thereafter paints in har mony Mariposa or Pacific Mail. And thus it always is when the facts of a case become disagreeable to a° editor, whose work must be made to accord with them , the facts suff er . Th e reporter i s o f a sens itive nature, editorial opinion acting on him with sudden and irresistibl e p ower . H e soon l earns w h at todis close, what to hide, when to report broadly, when hint a doubt. S e p arate t h e e di tor i a l functionwill from the other, s a y many , an d t h en t h ere be no conflict. . In this, however, lies no small error. Of course the editor will Lever willing'," surrender his double authority of distributor 01 news and public exhorter, for he is not willingly going to yield that most delightful of human opeor' tunities to another. But, suppose he did abdicate, would the result be a perfect newspaper ? Fa r from it. The selection of news is as difficult as any part of the work ; and for such work, says the Nation, we not only seem to have among us fey( competent minds, but,worse than this, the tendency of all newspaper training appears to be to take away whatever natural fitness nature seems to have ori ginally provided. What is wanted is, in one word, a sense of perspective. The first thing for a jour nalist is to be able to distinguish between the 1 01 : portant and unimporta n t, th e t rue an d f a l se ; what ought to be given to the world, and what to the fire. Tne popular impression is that news comes to newspapers as rain and sunshine do to earth, with out any unpleasant human exertion whatever ; th e , journalist having only t o p r i nt w h at th e b oun tiful hand of Providence has sent to the office. But the fact, as the professional reader will readily agree, is quite otherwise. What he really does is to survey an immense field of fact, rumour, fancy ; and 9 make a " composition" of it, throwing into rebel , what touches, or ought to t ouc h, th e pu bli c nearly, and keeping in the shade what is doubtful, irrelevant, or, in its nature, private. This is Or tirely in his power, and the journalist's right to bls title depends on his sense of perspective, if he puts uniteportant news in the foreground, and the impor tant out of sight, he has no right to exist. let this distortion some gentlemen in the daily ptess conside r their charter of succe s s. F or i ns t ance , a co l um n °f telegrams from Europe is referred to as the latest foreign intelligence, yet it f ormer l y on l y con t a ined an unimportant extract from a Times or other leader on French affairs; neither wise, witty, nor especially well written. After these extracts had long UFO,. solemnly I riut e d d a y a ft er d ay as news o f t h e firs t importanc e , t h e w h o l e t hi ng was one fi ne morning stopped ; yet, if important, they have not noNr ceased to ba so ; if unimportant, then why had the confiding public been imposed upon ? A more , re markable c ase was the Curtis-Churchill nose-plik. ing affray in Boston last fall. " The other daP when Mrs. M‘Farland-Richardson was plunged l° the deepestafilictinn by event s o f w hi c h ever ybody had been informed through the enterprise of the daily press, a reporter was sent to Boston to 6' her, and report for the jour na l w i t h w hi c h h e w as connected her condition and feelings. In this be failed ; but not to be baffled, he set about disco vering whom he might interview, and his meinori, recalled to him the name of Fisk, jun. Fisk, it true, lives in New York, but Mrs. Fisk lives . 111 Boston, and there had been s t or i es o f matrimonial, difficulties between the two. The reporter straight way rings Mrs. Fisk's bell, and proceeds to tak e dmn what she m a y h ave t o say on h er re l a tiong with her husband. Next day, as usual, the publl C is regaled with full particulars of the conversation; But the most astounding illustration of the wa nt 01 a sense of moral and intellectual perspective in the e very class whose bu s i ness it i s to put the even t s 01 the day before the public in their true relations 10 other events has been furnished within the past fe ll weeks by the Cooke case. The Rev. Horace Cooke , an obscure Methodist minister, elopes with an utteili unknown school gi r l, l eav i ng b e hi n d hi m a w if e ao,. family. A case c a n h ar dly b e i mag i ne d in whlc' the public have as - littl e i n t erest as t hi s, t o 5 3 . 7 nothing of the exquisite cruelty to the families 10- volved in publicity. Quite otherwise did it seernt ° the editorial eye. The st or y i s ra k e d out i n a ll . ts disgusting details; column after column is devote:: to a discussion of the crime ; Cooke's history r given ; the causes which led to his sin are analyse°', and the whole cou n t r y i s scoure d f or memo i res 1 01 i servir. A petty sc an d a l swe ll s t o t h e dimensioes . °,_ a public ca l am ity. C oo k e f avours the publ i c e lm, a card, and a ssau lt s au e dit or, an d t h e reporte r . 01 the Tribune i n t erv i ews M rs . C oo k e — no other bell admitted—(private and excl us i ve i n f orma ti on abotl f her feelings only to be found in the columns ° that great daily). What an odd condition the edi torial eye must be in when metropolitan papers have come to this." COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 11 171 ... 11 181 Do Rotterdam ... 12 1 ... 12 1 Antwerp ... 25 3i ... 25 421 Brussels ... 25 35 ... 25 42 Hamburgh — ... 13 10 ... 13 10i Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ..• 12 0 1 Vienna ... 12 70 ... 12 76 , Trieste — ... 12 70 ... 12 7 0 Petersburg ... 281 ... 281 Copenhagen — ..). 9 21 ... 9 24 Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 49 ... 491 Leghorn Milan — ... 26 40 .., 26 45 Genoa — ... 26 40 .., 26 45 Naples Palermo —. ... 26 90 - ... 26 45 Messina ... 26 90 ... 26 45 Lisbon — •... 51} ~ 521 Oporto — ... 52 ... 52} Rio Janeiro — ••• ... -- New York ........ .., The armoured iron frigate Hercules, Captai n Lord Gilford, arrived at Spithead Thursday after' noon from Lisbon, and on anchoring exchange d salutes with the flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Si t James Hope, K.C.8., Port Admiral and Na' l Commander-in-Chief. The Hercules will go int o Portsmouth harbour from Spithead, and wh ile lying alongside the dockyard will land her dis abled 18-ton Woolwich-built gun, and receive On board the one forwarded there from Woolwich to replace it. LAD vEzaisxlfENT. j —Avoid Medicines they al wa y s aggro, rito chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabic., Food, which yields thre e ti mes t h e nourio' . mentof the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedn and invariably restores perfect digestion, trong nerves, soon lungs, healthy liver , pure blood, refreshi ng s l eep, f unct i o nal r'" gularity, amt energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We es tract a few out of the 68 , 000 cures :—" The Pope ' s health restore d ' : by Du Barry's Food. C ure No. 68,413.— " R0me, July 21, 1 86 —The health of the H o l y F ather is excellent, especially sine „, ; abandoning all other remedi es , h e has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he eonsuine ° a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly belle, tidal effect on his health, an d hi s H o li ness cannot praisethis ea_t° lent food too highly. F rom t h e "G azette du Midi, July 25 Ow No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' live complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nevi ralpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, a n d the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; L O i r . i e Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of W a t er f or d , o f many Yea , dyspepsia. No 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agory fro '" dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulen4 spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jo] —Cure 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 yea_ta diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver d erangemen t, an partial deafrlitis. Important Caution.—Beware o f the 1133°1 unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, withol authority, Baron Liebiefs name is most aud ac i ous l y atta ched' In tins, at is iid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb is 6d; 5 lb 115; 12 lb 22e.; 24 lbs 4 s.—Also I PARDY's RUNALENTA A RADICA C HO OOLAT' POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 1.? cups at 2s, for 24 nal;.! at Is 6d, for •,8 cups at 6s, for 283 c u p s at 30s, for 576 cups at 5' —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and n5B tins are se ll free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Orderl ARRY De* BARRY and Co., N o. 77 , Regent-street, London; a° all Grocers and Chemists. BIRT BS. Inns—On the 23d inst.,. at The Grove, Hillingdon, the Hon. Mrs. Augustus Irby, of a daughter. LAMBERT—On the 25th inst., at Balhana, the wife of E. Lambert, Et , q., of a daughter. MARMA GM. BLISS-13LooK—On the 24th inst., at Bighburv, 31r. Edwi° Bliss, of Sun-street, Fin& ury, to Sarah Elizabeth, tl!! fourth d aug h ter of A. J. Brook, Esq., of 36, Arun d e l - square, Finsbury. Coo( —JEwELL—On the 24th inst., at St. Gabriel's, War hick-square, James L. Cock, of 20, Cork-street, Burl lington-gardens, to E mma (Elli ce ) . e ld est daugh t e r 0 the late Robert . J. Jewell, cf Newport, I.W. DEA7'IIB. 14 XKING—On the 24th iust., at Streatham-common, J Oll/1 Ranking, Esq., aged 74. &VIM— On the 23d lnsL, at Stamford-hill, Sylvanus Sioe ° ' • aged 34, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AND E,. Lof No. 12, St ran d , Printer, at THE SUN Office, DO. 112, Stra n '' in the Precinct of tho Savoy, in the County of Middiese%" aturday, February 26, 1810.