The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-25 00:00:00

MONETARY REPORTS-YESTERDAY. The steady rain which has fallen to-day has imparted a firm tone to the market for Government securities, and the quotations have improved. Railways also have been in request, at enhanced prices ; but foreign bonds have generally been quiet. Consols have been 4 per cent. better at 92k, 92t ex div. for delivery, and 921, 921 ex div. for July. Reduced and New Three per Cents. 92L 921. Exchequer bills ss, par to ss. prem. Bank stock 233-235. Indian Five per Cents., 1101,1111, and Indian bonds at 20s. to 255. prem. An increased amount of steadiness has been noticed in the market for the English railway stocks. Metropo litan has been freely purchased at 70, shewing a rise of 11,-. North-Eastern also has been freely purchased, and at 146 k has been 2 better. Great Northern (A) is 2 better at 1331; Great Eastern /, at 402 : Midland g, at 1314, and North-Western g, at 129,1. The tone of the market for Indian railway stocks has been decidedly healthy, and the quotations have been well maintained, notwithstanding that business has been by no means brisk. Canadian shares have been quiet. In foreign shares very few transactions have taken place, and prices have been without alteration. Business in foreign bonds has been to a very moderate extent, and the fluctuations have been quite unimportant. Italian (1861) at 59 1-16th are better. On the other hand, Mexicans have been flat, and are lower, at 16. Spanish (1867) chew a fall of 1-16th, the price being 31 9-16ths. Peruvian (1865) are firm, at 82. The new Peruvian loan is quoted at /to 1 prem ; the Spanish at 1 to 1 prem. The Honduras loan has fallen 2, the quotation being 1/ prem. American securities have been firm. The Five-Twenty (1882) bonds are it better, the 1885, 1887, and the Ten- Forty, t. Erie shares and Illinois Central L. Bank shares haee been steady in value, but the demand has not been active. Telegraph shares have been dealt in quietly ; neverthe less the quotations have been maintained. Telegraph Construction shares have been flat at 26k. In miscellaneous securities the transactions have been to a very moderate extent, at about late rates. As regards the exchanges, the rates on St. Petersburg and Vienna are lower, otherwise there is no alteration. Influenced by the refreshing rain which has fallen during the greater part of the day, and by the absence of Continental buyers, the grain trade at Mark-lane has been in a quiet state, and, although the value of wheat has not not been actually lower, forced sales could only have been concluded on easier terms. The discount market has been fairly supplied with capital. The demand for accomodation has been rather quiet, and three month's paper has been freely taken at 24 to 3 per cent. The Bank of Holland has reduced its rate of discount from 3 to 3 per cent. In reference to the state of the bullion market, Messrs. Pixley, Abell, Langley, and Blake remark :—The bank has received nearly the whole of the late arrivals of gold, and there is but little now left on the market for disposal. The amount sent in since our circular of the 17th inst. is £446,000; and as the Continental Exchanges are still very high, all sums coming to hand will be retained here. Silver remains firm at 600. per oz. standard, the demand being for Holland and Japan. There are no orders what ever for India. We are without any arrivals to report. Exchange on India for banks drafts at 60 days' sight remains as quoted in our last, viz.:-Is. 10/d. to is. lid. per rupee. India Government Joan notes—we quote 4 per cents 921 to 93 ; 5 per cents 102 to 103 ; and 51 per cents 1091 to 110. The report of the Bank of South Australia recom mends the usual dividend at the 'rate of 10 per cent., and the appropriation of £5,975 to the reserve fund. The prospectus has appeared of the Commercial Ac cident Assurance Society (Limited) with a capital of £lOO,OOO in shares of one pound each. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE-YESTERDAY. LATEST PRICES -AFT. GOVERNMENT Three per Cent Consols 92j 921jxd Do. for Account Three per Cent Med .. 921 921 New 3 per Cent _ 921 92 Exchequer Bills.Al arch, par 5 pin Do.„June Bank Stock India 5 , per Cents 110i1114xd Can.6pcJaustJulylB77-84 1071108/ Do., 5_ per cOut do. 981 991 Doffin. of Can. 5p c 1903 974 98 4 New B. W. 5p c 1871-76 102 103 ISew Zealand 6 pc 1891.. 112 114 Do. 5 per cent 9911001 Do. 5 p c Consolidated Queensland 5 p c 1882 Victoria 6 p c Jan.& July 115 116 Do. 5 p o do. 104 1041 RAIL, Bristol and Exeter B6 88 Caledonian 77/ 77/ Great Eastern Great Northern 122 123 Do. A Great Western Lancashire &YorAshire 133 134 L. B.,and South Coast Lou. Chat., and Dover Lou. and North-Western 1291130 Lon. and South-Western 91 92 Man., Shet., and Lincoln 52 52/ Metropolitan 7Ol 701 Met. District 2B/ 281 Midland North British 371. 8 North-Eastern Consols Do. York — 'ER OFFICIAL HOURS. SECI7RITIES. Brazilian, 1865, 5 p 92j Egyptian, 1868, 7p c 82 821 Do. Rail. Debeu., 7 p c 1614102 i Italian, 1861, 5 per cent 59 59/ Peruvian, 1865, 5 percent 91i 921 Portuguese, 1869, 3 p c 331 31 Russian, 1866, 5p o 931 94h I Do. Nicolas, 4 per cent 6B 698 Spanish, 1867, 3percent 3l 318 Do., 1869, 3 per cent .. 31 1-16, 3-16 Turkish, 1854, 6 per cent 81 89 Do., 1865, 5 per cent 521 521 Do., 1865, 6 per cent. 73/ 74 U. 13.5-20 Bonds, 6pc 1882 901 938 Do., 1865 Do., 10-40 Bonds,s pc 1901 871 88 Erie Sha., 100 dole. all,pd. 181 19 - kYs. South-Eastern Bom., Bar., &CLlnd.g.s pc 1074108} East India guar. 5 p c Grand Trunk of Canada 14k 15/ Do. Ist Preference Bonds 64 66 Great Indian Pen. g. 5p c 108 109 Great Western of Canada _15*,151 Madras g. 5 pc lOBl Scinde, Delhi, do. Scinde, Punjaub, do 106? Dutch Rhenish 24i Eastern of France Great Luxembourg l4i Northern of France 0 ttom. (Smyrna to Aidin) 6 Recife and San Francisco 15: San Paulo (L.) guar. 7p e 21 S. Aus. & Lom. Venetn. 16; ;113q 1107 i 110711 25 241 • 141 48i BANKING COMPANIES. Pa Agra Bank (L) A .... 11 m 10 Imperial Ottoman 43pm Alliance ( Limited ) 141 15-i 20 Lon. Char. of Austrlia 13 24) Anglo-Austrian .... 16 18 pm 20 London and County 50 51 Anglo-Egyptn (Lim) 24/ 24) 15 Londo a Joint-Stock 341 351 British NorthAmrcn 54 56 20 Lndn & Wstminstr 61.-i 62i Ch.of India,Australla 17 18 j 10 Metropolitan 9 9) Char. Mere, of India 30 31 20 Midland (Limited) 1 dis, par City Colonial Consolidated (Limtd) 31 pm 25 Union of Australia.. 46 47 Eng., Scot. & Aust. C 17) 18/ 15 Union of London .. 39) 40) Imperial (Li, nited) l9 19) TELEGRAPH COMPANIES, Pd ;10 Anglo -American (L) 82 85 100 Atlantic 3 British Ind. Ex. (L) 6} 7 10 British Indn Sub. (L.) 8 8} 7 Fal, Gibraltar, /cc. (L) 9 9} Pd 10 Great Northern .... 111 12 25 Indo-European (Lmtd) 14 18 10 Med. Extension (L).. 51 61 20 Soc. Trans. France (L) 141 151 51W. India & Panama 7 71 MISCELLANEO' Pd 10 Berlin Waterworks (L) 141 15.1 27 Canada Company 78 80 II Ceylon Company (L) 24 die 20 Colonial Adis. fpm 10 Cred. Foncier of E (L) 2* 100 Crystal Palace 13 Fore-st Warehouse (L) 5 6pm n Gen. Cred. k Dsct pm 14 Gen. Stm Navigation 29 31 45 Hooper's Tel. Works 1 dis s SSCURITIES. Pd 51. Rbbr. G P Tel, Wks. 46 47 100 Intr. Financial (L) 1 die 5 Mdras Irrigton g. 5p c 104 105 5 National Discount (L) 111 12 50 Ocean Marble 20 Pninslr & Orntl Stm. 41 43 Telegraph Constrctn 261 27 St Tobacco 6 p c Ln, Qua. 5 by Italian Chrumnt 91 93 Trust &Ln oVU'enda g pro MINING SHARE LIST.-JuNE 24, Messrs. WATSON BROTHERS. Mining Offices, 1, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London With the exception of a demand for East Lovell, at 354- for cash, the market is very dull, and there is scarcely any business doing. Australian 'United, 21, 2i Bwlch Consols, 3, 32 Bronfloyd, Chiverton Moor, Chiverton Valley, Cook's Kitchen, 22, 24 Chontales (Gold), Drakewalls, lf, , 1; Don Pedro North Del Rey, 21, 3 East Bassett, East Caradon, 41, 5 East Lovell, 341. 351 East Wheal Grenville, 217, 2; Frontino and Bolivia (Gold), Prince of Wales, 15s, 17s Providence Mines, 40, 41 Rosewall Hill and Ransome United, South Caradon, 2i Tankerville, 175,171 Tincroft, Tan-yr-Allt, Taquaril (Gold), Trumpet Consols, Van. 77k, 80 Van Consols, R. 3i West Chiverton, 55, 56 West Frances, West Maria and Fortescue, 21, 21i West Drakewalls, West Caradon, West Panty Go. West Seton, Wheal Agar, 2i, 3 Wheal Chiverton, Wheal Grenville, 21, 21 Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Wheal Mary Ann, 9, 10 Wheal Seton, 23, 25 19s, Ms General Brazilian, Great Laxey 18i, 19 Great Retallack, Great Wheal Vor, 9}, 10 Kingston Down, Marke Valley, 7, 7} New Lovell, 22, 3 North Crotty, 3-3 North Treskerby, Pacific, 8/, 91 MARKETS. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.—Very few samples of English wheat came to hand to-day. Owing to the wet weather the trade has been less active, and prices, although not actually lower, have had a drooping tendency. As regards foreign wheat the receipts have been moderate. The demand has been inac tive, at barely previous quotations. The market has been mode rately supplied with barley. Sales have progressed quietly, but at full prices. Malt has changed hands on former terms. Oats have been in request, at improving currencies. Beans and peas havebeen steady, at late rates. Flour has been dull, and coun try marks have been rather easier. Arrivals : Wheat—English and Scotch, 450 qrs. ; malt, 170 qrs. Foreign : Wheat, 2,010 ; barley, 8,000; oats, 43,610; maize, 15,210; peas, 1,990; flour, 2,250 sacks and 3,150 barrels. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.—TaIIow quiet, 455. 9d spot and June ; and 465. 3d. October, December. Linseed oil steady : London, 31s. 6d. ; Hull 31s. to 31s. 3d. spot. Rape oil 435. to 435. 6d. for English brown. Metals quiet. Straits tin, £133105. to £134. Copper—for Chili bars, £6B cash. English tough, £73 to £74. LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, FRIDAY. The sugar market has continued flat, but values are without further change. Good colony coffees have ruled firm, but all other descriptions have been neglected. Rice afloat has been in good request, at rather unproved rates. Russian hemp is firm, with a good inquiry. Bengal fine pearly white, 13s. 6d. to 13s. 9d.; good white, 12s. 9d. per cull. Butter is depressed, at 104 s. the top price for Friesland. Bacon has declined 25., the top for best Waterford being 745. f.o.b. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.—The supplies have been short, and the trade has ruled firm, at our quota tions :—Beef, from 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; mutton, 3s. Bd. to ss. 4d.; lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. 4d. ; veal, 4s. 6d. to 55.; and pork, 3s. 4d. to ss. 4d. per 81b. by the carcase. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, FRIDAY.—First report. Market dull. 60s. sd. to 60s. 3d. in a month. ; 60s. 2d. to 595. cash. Sellers close at above quotations. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1870. BOROUGH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.—The market has been in a quiet state, but prices have ruled firm. Favourable accounts continue to be received from the plantations respecting the progress of the bine, and prospects are regarded as decidedly satisfactory. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 12s. : Weald of Kents, £6 to £8 ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 12s. ; Bavarians, £6 6s. to £9 ; French, £5 to £6 10s. ; Americans, £4 ss. to £6 ; and yearlings, £1 10s. to £3 15s. per cwt. MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—There is more depression in the tone of this market to-day. Producers who are not under contract have at last shewn more willingness to accept lower rates, and rather more business is heard of as the result. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.- - The business done in wheat at this market to-day was quite of a retail character. Prices are is. lower than last Friday. Stocks here are, however, so small, and prices so much lower than in agricultural markets, that factors shew little disposition to press sales. Spring corn is fully as dear. LINCOLN CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—This market is exceed ingly dull to-day, no purchases of extent having been made. A few small commissions have been executed at last week's prices. This applies to all kinds of grain. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—The attendance at this market to-day was very limited ; and the demand was so contracted that prices of wheat are nominally without alteration from Tuesday's rates. The same must be quoted of flour. Indian corn is rather more inquired for, and 3d. advance has been paid. Beans and peas were in limited supply, at slightly in the seller's favour. Oats maintain the late advance. Oatmeal was steady. Imports :—lreland, &c.: Wheat, 321 qrs. ; malt, 7 qrs. ; oats, 392 qrs. ; beans, 36 qrs. ; oatmeal, 207 sacks ; flour, 152 sacks, Foreign—Wheat, 24,465 qrs. ; oats, 1,120 qrs. ; beans, 36 qrs. ; peas, 23 qrs. ; Indian corn, 12,599 qrs. ; oatmeal, 83 sacks ; flour, 2,166 sacks, and 2,656 barrels. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—This market opens with a slightly improved tone. Sales probably 8,000 bales. Sales for the week, 46,720 bales ; speculation, 4,480 bales ; ex port, 5,920 bales ; actual export, 4,427 bales. Imports, 63,195 bales, of which 36,342 bales were American. The stock on hand is 642,350, of which 402,830 bales are American. The sales of American were 35,430 bales.—Market closed quiet. Sales 7,000 bales. Speculation and export, 1,000 bales ; 4,500 American bales sold at Bd. to llid. ; 200 Pernambuco bales, lOid. to llid. ; 200 Maranham, 11d. to 12d.; 200 Egyptian bales, 11d. to 19d. ; 30 Smyrna bales, 81d. ; 1,870 Surat bales, 51d. to 9id. Imports, 8,837 bales. SOUTH WALES TRADE, FRIDAY.—Since the last report little change has taken place in the staple trade of this district. Ac tivity continues to characterise the ironworks. In consequence of the heavy American and Russian orders which have not yet been completed, it is thought that higher prices will be obtained for any fresh contracts which are undertaken. Present quotations for rails chew an advance of 15s. per ton as compared with the early part of the year; and the autumn prospects of the iron trade are considered decidedly encouraging. For pig iron a brisk demand continues, and prices steadily improve. Complaints are still made of the depression under which the steam coal trade labours, notwithstanding the fact that many collieries are working short time the production is still too great for the demand ; shippers' requirements being exceptionally small. In house coal there is the average demand at thls season of the year. More business is being done at the tin works of the dis trict ; but makers carefully limit their productions to the supply of immediate requirements. Prices are said to be still unre munerative. CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Grdinary firsts, 113 s. ; seconds, 110 s.: thirds, 105 s. ; fourths, 993. ; fifths, 755. ; sixths, 555. 1,753 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts, 116 s. ; seconds, 113 s. ; thirds, 0. 96 firkins in the market. THE YACHT RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. The English schooner yacht Cambria, Mr. James Ashbury, early on the morning of the 4th of July will start with the American• schooner yacht Dauntless, from off the Head of Kinsale for Sandy Hook,, in a match across the Atlantic. The yachts may make a certain portion of the voyage in company, or, what is equally probable, may not sight each other from the time of leaving the English Channel until they breast the waters of the Hudson. It is not at all improbable, however, that something may be heard in this country of the progress of the yachts prior to any intelligence of their arrival off the American coast being notified through the Cable, the owner of the Cambria having taken measures for sending such in telligence whenever a fitting opportunity may be con sidered to present itself by the sighting of an home ward-bound steamer, or at a time of crossing the probable track of the homeward-bound vessels. As the vehicle for conveying such intelligence, Mr. Ashbury takes out in the Cambria several of the " sea messengers " invented. by Mr. Julius Vandenbergh, jun. The " sea messen ger " is a vessel of narrow boat-like form, made of cop per, with a cork lining, having a watertight cover and a leaden keel. The cover unscrewed and taken off dis closes a central compartment, 18in. in length by 12in. in breadth and depth. This compartment is intended to hold the papers or intelligence to be sent from a ship, either despatched from a vessel on passage to a distant port on the chance of recovery by some other vessel, or. in the event of any sudden calamity at sea such as befell the President, City of Boston, and thousands of other vessels never seen or heard of after leaving port. The sea mes sengers supplied to the Cambria are painted in blue, white, and red bands, or tricolour. The flag surmounting the messenger will be copies of the Cambria's racing flag —a white ball on a blue ground. LAW AND POLICE. YACHTING TRANSACTIONS.—In the Court of Queen's Bench the action brought by Sir J. P. Shelley, Bart., against the Marquis of Drogheda, with r.spect to tho sale of a yacht, was called on, but it was announced that a juror had been withdrawn. HEAVY DAMAGES.—A heavy claim upon the North- Eastern Railway Company has been the subject of inves tigation this week before a special jury in the Sheriff's Court at Doncaster. The claim was for severance and damage to warping works adjacent to the new Doncaster and Hull Railway. After a three day's hearing the result is a verdict for 216,567. " DEARLY BELOVED."—There was a curious discussion before the Dublin Court of Probate as to whether a tes tator's " dearly beloved " was his widow. The testator, Michael Sullivan, of Cork, by his will, dated the sth November, 1869, bequeathed alibis property "to my clearly beloved, and I appoint her executrix." It appeared that the deceased had instructed his solicitor to leave his pro perty to his wife, and that the solicitor, in drawing his will, intended to write the words "my dearly beloved wife," but by mistake omitted the word "wife." Judge Warren took time to consider whether the evidence was admissible ; he had no doubt that it was conclusive. THE MEN IN FEMALE ATTIRE.—It has been ascertained at the Judges' Chambers that no further application had been made to put in bail in the cases of the defendants committed to the Old Bailey. The sessions will commence on Monday fortnight, the 11th proximo, and the only de fendant on bail at present is Mr. Hurt, who will be defended through Mr. George Lewis, jun., by Sir John Karslake, on a very large fee. The deendant Fiske expected to find bail on the reduced amount of two in £5OO each, but at present has not been successful. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., has been retained on his behalf. The other other defendants, Park and Boulton,will be defended by Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and Mr. Serjeant Parry. The Attorney General will prosecute in the several cases. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn is the presiding judge on the rota at the forthcoming session-of the Central Criminal Court. THE SPECIAL JURY SYSTEM.—In the Court of Common Pleas a special juryman in a railway case applied to be excused from further service, inasmuch as he had served several times during the present sittings. Mr, Justice Brett said it was part of the present inconvenient sys tem of special juries, which everybody hoped would speedily be remedied ; but in the meantime the complain ing juror was only in the same position as many others, and could not be excused on the ground alleged. If parties paid for a special jury they were entitled to it. SAVAGE FREAK OP A DOG FANCIER.—DanieI Walsh was charged at Liverpool, at the instance of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with brutally ill-treating a dog which he used for breeding purposes. He had not only drawn all its teeth, but had removed the greater portion of its jaw. The animal had died in con sequence. Walsh was fined 60s. and costs, with the alternative of six weeks imprisonment. THE BUENOS AYRES RAILWAY COMPANY AND THEIR CONTRACTOR.—Vice-Chancellor Stuart has granted an injunction against the Northern Railway of Buenos Ayres Company, at the instance of the assignees of their late contractor, Mr. Eugene Murray, restraining them from raising debentures to the extent of £lO,OOO, for the pur pose of paying dividends, until his own claims shall have been satisfied, and also from converting their tramway into a railway, or by any means extending their undertaking, until they had increased their original capital to £250,000. Sir J. Stuart expressed his opinion that the directors, of whom Mr. C. Seale Hayne is chairman, had acted in an unauthorised manner, and granted liberty to the plaintiffs to apply for a decree to examine the accounts of the company hi order to ascertain what sum was owing in respect of the con struction of the line over the contract price of £lOO,OOO. A JUVENILE SHOPLIFTER.—Sarah Ann Jackson, aged 16 ,years, was brought up at the Thames Police-court, charged with stealing three rings and two earrings, the property of David Davids, a idealer in fancy goods, No. 48, Commercial-road The prisoner came to his shop yesterday afternoon and looked at a large quantity of articles, but she did not buy anything. She then drew his:attention to two men in the street, and said she did not want to be seen by them. She was advised to go to the back part of the shop, where she remained a short time, and left. After she had gone he missed two pairs of ear rings and three rings, in all about 18s. He went after her, but did not find her. He then gave information to the police. This morning he saw her go by his shop and gave her in charge. In answer to the magistrate he said he had often seen the prisoner loitering about, but had no suspicion of her. He thought she was a respectable girl. The prisoner NV 'IS remanded for a week. - DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT AND ASSAULT.—Geo. Cook, a bootmaker, was charged before Mr. Benson at Marlborough street Police-court, yesterday, with being drunk, disorderly, and assaulting Richard Edwards, in the employ of Messrs. Roberts and Edwards, furniture dealers, near Wardour street, Soho. The complainant said that on the previous afternoon the prisoner entered his employers' shop, and demanded the sum of 25, which he said one of the clerks owed a loan office. No one knowing anything of the prisoner he was requested to leave the shop, when he refused to do so. As it was then observed that the prisoner was drunk, and there were several ladies in the shop, the prisoner was put out, when he returned and kicked him and knocked him against a cabinet on which there was 100 guineas worth of china. Re was then given into custody. The prisoner said he knew he had done wrong, and that he ought to have gone out when re quested. Mr. Benson said it was veiy gross misconduct, and inflicted a fine of 20s or seven days. _ _ £5OO DAMAGES FOR THE Loss OF A WIFE. —ln the Divorce Court the cause of "Batty v. Batty and Gower" engaged the attention of Lord Penzance and a jury. The petitioner prayed for a dissolution of his marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent. The parties were married at Derby, and there were seve ral children.. Subsequently they removed to London. where Mr. Batty carried on the business of a tailor in the Poultry, and had a country house in Clifton-road, Dalston. The respondent was landlord of the Lord Stanley Hotel, at the same place, and through his children going to the same school the families became intimate. One evening when the petitioner arrived home, he found his wife missing, and on inquiries being instituted it was found that she had gone away with the co-respondent.—These facts were clearly proved, and the jury awarded the petitioner £5OO damages; whilst the learned judge granted a decree nisi for a dissolution of the marriage. QUESTION OF SCOTCH DOMICILE. —Vice-Chancellor J ames delivered judgment yesterday in the case of Aiteheaon v. Dixon. The question at issue was, whether the widow of Mr. Allen was entitled to property left her by Mr. John Gough, who, at the time of his death was possessed of considerable wealth. The plaintiffs disputed her claim, alleging that the domicile of Mr. Allen was Scotch, and that the property in dispute, according to Scotch law, could not vest in Mrs. Allen. Mr. Allen was born in Scotland, and had-carried on business with his father as a banker in Edinburgh. He came to England, and the remarried Mrs. Allen. They went to Scotland, where they resided until 1843. They then went abroad, and Mr. Allen did not return to Scot land, but a house was purchased at Brighton, where they settled. His Honour was of opinion that the domicile of Mr. Allen at the time of his death was at Brighton and not in Scotland, and dismissed the bill of the plaintiffs with costs. A JEWELLER'S BILL.—An action has been brought in the Court of Exchequer to recover the balance of a jeweller's bill amounting to nearly £4,000. The defen dant paid £ BOO into Cot, and pleaded never indebted as to the remainder. He is a young man, named Blyth, and is entitled to considerable property under his father's wilL He was introduced to the plaintiff, Mr. Webling, who carries on the business of Metcalfe and Co., by a Mr. Ellis, who said the defend ant was a minor who wanted credit for some jewelry until he was of age. In a few months he was sup plied with goods amounting to nearly £9,000. A set of coral studs, buttons, and links were £300; a dressing-bag, with silver fittings, £5OO ; and other articles were charged at the same rate. The plaintiff swore that the profit upon the whole of the articles supplied did not exceed 30 per cent. Four thousand five hundred pounds had been paid to him on the defendant's behalf, and he now sued for the balance of his bill of £8,411. After several witnesses had been examined, the case was adjourned. It was ultimately agreed that the question as to the prices charged for the jewellery should be referred, Mr. Huddleston stating that the plaintiff was anxious to have and courted the fullest inquiry into all matters re lating to his transactions with the defendant. SERIOUS CHARGE OF FRAUD AND SUBORNATION OF PERJURY.—At the Guildhall Police Court, Henry Banks, an accountant, carryinc , on business at 2A, Wells-street, Cripplegate, John Harris, his assistant, and Julius Lawrence, a solicitor, in practice at 50, Liiacolns Inn fields, were charged on remand, before Sir Robert W. Carden, with conspiring together, and with various other persons, •to defraud the " Society for the Discharge and Relief of persons imprisoned for Small Debts," &c. Several witnesses who had been taken through the Court of Bankruptcy by Banks, detailed the procesSes which the prisoner adopted, including the petitions which pro cured them money from the society in question. A man named Beckett deposed that Banks agreed to take him through the Court of Bankruptcy, and did so. First heard of the society from " Banks while he was in prison. Banks drew up his petition to the society, and when wit ness went to present it Harris gave him a piece of paper on which was written ' George Wilkie,' and Banks told him that he must remember that that was the name of his detaining creditor, as he would be asked the name of his detaining creditor. No stipulation was made that Banks was to have any portion of the grant if it were got, and no person of the name • of Wilkie was a creditor. In one case there had been great cruelty, A young lady . named Miss Hall had a claim made on her for £25, by a man named Little, and she was served with an eight-clay writ from the Mayor's Court. Not understanding the meaning of it, and knowing that she did not owe 'the debt, she took' no notice of the writ until she was arrested in May last, and lodged in White cross-street Prison. There she was introduced to Banks, who advised her, as it was an unjust claim, to go through the court rather than pay it. He undertook to take her through the court for 35., which she paid him. When she came up to pass her examination Lawrence success fully opposed her on a technicality, and then Banks sug gested to her that she might probably prefer an arrange ment to going back to prison, and she agreed to pay £4 per month, and did so until she paid it all off. Banks then commenced visiting her, and on his second call she forbade him ever to come to her house .again. He went away, and some time after sent her in a bill for £2l 10s. for services she had already paid for. To that letter she sent an indignant reply, stating that if he dared to make another attempt to extort money from her her friends would take steps to punish his rascality. She heard nothing from him until one day the sheriff put in an execution from the Mayor's Caurt for £24, debt and costs. Nearly the whole of this sum was spent in law costs, repelling the claim of the man Banks. The prisoners were again remanded, Sir Robert Carden peremptorily refusing bail. THE EXTRAORDINARY LIBEL CASE. Yesterday the case of "Miss Morgell v. Sir E. and Lady Gambier " was resumed before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and a special jury. The action was for libel alleged to be contained in two letters written by Lady Gambier to her sister, Mrs. Searle, imputing that the plaintiff, the writer's niece, had destroyed her brother's will, and calling her a "cheat." The defendants pleaded that Lady Gambier did not intend to charge the plaintiff with de stroying the will, but with fraudulently removing certain securities before the French officials sealed up her brother's property on his decease at Versailles. _ _ _ The plaintiff was closely cross-examined by the Solicitor General. Her reason for bringing the action was be cause her honour was assailed in being designated cheat. Much amasement was caused by her reusal to state her age, although assured that the question was material to the case. She would not say whether or not she was seventy, or whether Lady Gambier was eighty. She appealed to the .Court whether, according to British law, she was not justified in refusing to answer.—The Soli citor-General said he would have no objection to tell her his age. Plaintiff : I don't want to know it, Sir. (Laughter.) The jury suggested that she might write it on a piece of paper, and hand it to the counsel but she still refused and after some more " fencing," the Solicitor-General waived his right to press the question. Plaintiff, in further cross-examination, said her reason for not brincinc , the action until two years after receiving .the letters, was that the defendants were ill, and that she wished to give them time to recover first. Sir Edward was about seventy-five years of age. If Mrs. Searle swore that she sent the letters to plaintiff in April, 1867, she must have made a mistake in the date. Her witnesses in the former action would have been the letters, and that the God of Truth would—The Solicitor- General (interrupting) observed that she need not call on the Almighty, and begged the witness to confine herself to human beings as witnesses. Sir Edward Gambier was formerly a judge in India, and plaintiff's brother consulted him about making his will.—The Solicitor- General addressed the jury for the defence, deploring that parties so advanced in life should be disputing in the Court of Common Pleas instead of casting up their accounts to meet another Judge in charity one with the other. The evidence of. Sir Edward and Lady Gambier, taken by commission in France, was read. The defendants declared that they never accused or suspected the plaintiff of destroying her brother's will ; and that the expression " Cheat ' only referred to her removal of the securities, Lady Gambier further declared that she would have called the plaintiff a " criminal " had she known that the latter had taken a false oath before the French official. THE INDIAN PROBLEM. • The advent of the chiefs to Washington has brought out the feeling of the people upon the Indian question. We are glad to see that it is, on the whole, temperate and just; and that the country is wakening to the fact that this problem is the gravest and most important which itis called upon to face. Extermination is still urged by such army officers as are able to see in it only service for them selves and full pay for a prolonged period, and by certain editors to whom extreme and final measures are always welcome, as they save them the trouble of thinking. There is, however, despite the awakened attention of the people to the general issue, great misconception of the importance of this visit of the chiefs. Several of our contemporaries gravely advise "the offering them showy presents, so dear to the Indian heart, and the subsequent terrifying of them by the display of arsenals, review of regiments," &c. We conceive that the time is past when the gift of a few beads or tobacco pouches would blind the judgment of such men as Red Cloudor Spotted Tail. The effort to scare them, too, reminds us forcibly of the clamor and the painted monsters of the Chinese, by which they hoped to drive back the English barbarians. These men have probably as clear an idea as ourselves of the relative strength of the red and white men. " Our na tion," said Red Cloud, " is melting away like the snow on the side of the hills where the sun is warm ; while your people are like the blades of grass in spring, when summer is coming. You are great and powerful. We are but a handfuL" There is a marked change in the spirit and tone of the Indian tribes from any that have been made since the days of the first encroachment of the whites. There is apparently a fuller comprehension of the power with which they have to cope, and a remark able absence of any former attempts to conciliate it by humility. The statement of the wrongs done to them is calm and moderate in tone, but almost hopeless of re dress. This savage, though his skin be red, sees more plainly, perhaps, than the men to whom he talks, that the two races are brought finally face to face, and the issue for him and his people will most probably be death. We do not think that showy gewgaws, or State dinners, or warlike tom-toms, will affect him very deeply. We have ho wish to put out of sight the Indian outrages on the border. The amount of butchery and theft has been very equally balanced between the redskins and the whites. The savages naturally are savages, and the pioneer settlers are assuredly not saints. The innocent have suffered in consequence on both sides. But these are surface matters, which will adjust themselves when the basis of injustice is set right. Underneath lies the imminent problem of the false position which the nation holds to these people. Shall we pay this creditor the debt we owe him, or rid ourselves of his importunity by taking him by the throat and strangling him and his little ones? There is to us a terrible pathos in the words of this Indian, spoken in behalf of his people. , Pathos, however, should have no power-to interfere with j us ti ce; but we commend his calm statement of the case to the gravest con sideration of those whose office it is to adjust his claims, especially his recognition of the ineradicable distinction between himself and them which we are so apt to keep out of sight. " The Great Spirit has raised me in this. way. He raised me naked. The Great Spirit has raised you to read and write and put papers before you ; but lam not so." Half of our maltreatment of the Indian has arisen from ignoring this simple fact. We hope that there will be no disposi tion to either palter or practice diplomacy with this deputation. If the answer be given in the same dignified and just spirit as the complaint and grasp the position as fully, we may hope for the best results. The Indian question trenches as deeply on human rights as did that of the negro, and the onus of guilt is as heavy upon us as slavery. - The ordinary argument that the savage must from inexorable law of nature give way to the civilized man is our old friend " Cursed be Canaan " in a new guise. It is the very problem that vexed us for nearly a century—a gigantic wrong versus expediency. The result of our error in the first case steeped us to the lips in a bloody war. We can come to its choice of the second with experience of wounds not yet healed to give us. At least let us recognize the importance of this question, and bring to its decision the coolest reason and best thought which the nation can command, and not leave it to the chance settlement of a few hot-blooded soldiers and ag grieved frontiersmen.—New York Tribune. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND OCEAN TELEGRAPHY. " His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and Ocean Telegraphy" was the toast of the evening at Arlington street, Piccadilly, on Thursday night. In a spacious and handsome pavilion built for the purpose, and in the presence of scme seven hundred of the leading members of the scientific, the political, and the fashion able world, the Heir to the Crown conversed freely with the King of Portugal, the Khedive of Egypt, and the Viceroy of India; sending mes sages to and receiving answers from, Lisbon, Cairo, and India, in the course of a few minutes. The comple tion of submarine communication between London and Bombay, by the successful laying of the Falmouth, Gib raltar, and Malta, and the British Indian cable lines, was the immediate cause of the remarkable gathering, which was successful throughout, and which will be re membered hereafter as one of the most brilliant and interesting soirees of the season of 1870. Mr. John Pender, the chairman of the two lines named, and one of the chief promoters of submarine telegraphy, determined that the opening out of direct communication with India should be celebrated in a way fitting the occasion ; and it was on his premises, at 18, Arlington-street, that a great variety of electrical experiments were carried on. The pavilion we have mentioned was erected in and covered the whole of the court-yard of Mr. Pender's house, and here, beneath delicate draperies of soft colour were the batteries, retorts, and wires, by means of which instantaneous communication was established with the countries named. Thursday night was the first time in the history of telegraphy when the Eastern and Western hemispheres were spanned, and when quasi public experiments were tried as to the possibility of in stantaneous speech between them. Arlington-street has thus gained another tradition, and henceforth, when those versed in street-lore point to " the house in which the famous, or infamous, Duchess of Cleveland lived after the death of Charles 11., and when she could no longer afford to reside in Cleveland House ; to that of the neglected wife of Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, who was called in derision, and during her husband's life-time, " the dowager duchess ;" to that in which Lady Mary Wortley Montague spent her youth ; to that in which Sir Robert Walpole lived when he went out of office, and where Horace Walpole was born ; and to that from which Lady Nelson left her husband, never to return, after the altercation about Lady Haanilton, which Charles James Fox overheard they will add, when talking of Ar lington-street, that to No. 18 belongs the honour of enabling the Heir to these realms to talk freely with her Majesty's Viceroy in the East. The Prince of ' Wales arrived shortly before 11 p.m., the whole company standing up to welcome him. The scene now was very brilliant. Over one of the doors of the pavilion a huge cluster of gilded hooks, like one of the drags of the Humane Society in gold, but four times their size, was pendant. Behind it was a coil of rope decorated with laurels. The first was the grapnel which picked up the cable from the bottom of the Atlantic in 1866, where it had lain twelve months. The second was a portion of the cable so rescued, and both were hung up as appropriate relics. Shortly after his arrival his Royal Highness signified his wish to send a message to Lord Mayo, and the following words were flashed under the ocean to India :—" I congratulate your Excellency on England and India being now connected by a submarine cable. I feel assured this great achieve ment will be of immense benefit to the welfare of the Empire, and its success is thus of Imperial interest." Before the news that this message had been sent circulated the crowded rooms, its receipt had been acknowledged by the operators in India. Lady Mayo had previously to this sent "a message to the Viceroy in India ; and when the word went round that his lordship was in bed, but that he would be roused with all speed to receive her ladyship's and the Prince of Wales's congratulations, commiseration was expressed, and the ladies said " Poor man ! " The Prince subse quently communicated with the King of Portugal and the Khedive of Egypt. Mr. Pender sent messages to Colonel Staunton, her Majesty's Consul-General in Egypt, to the Governors of Malta and of Gibraltar ; and to the Governors of the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras. The Prince of Wales finally sent a congratulatory mes sage to the President of the United States, and answers were received at short intervals from the King of Portu gal, the Khedive, and the President. When Lord Mayo's message came soon after midnight it was dated Simla, 5.4 a.m., and there was considerable laughter, His Ex cellency had been taken from his bed at an unseason able hour. The actual time occupied by the mes sages from India to London was four minutes and two seconds. Amongst the guests present were M. de Lesseps, Sir William Armstrong, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince Teck. THE COMPETITION FOR THE QUEEN'S PRIZE.- The National Rifle Association have announced that the competition (Ist stage) for her Majesty's Prize at the ap proaching rifle meeting at Wimbledon shall commence on Wednesday, July 13, and continue till the following Friday. A. POLITICAL INTERREGNUM. The Memorial Diplamatique says that there has seldom been a more complete dearth of foreign news than there is at present. In all the different capitals of Europe the solution of difficult questions are literally in suspense. The cause may be partly attributed to the hot weather, which has scattered diplomatists, ministers and statesmen far and wide. The momentary interruption in political matters is also occasioned by the difficulties of certain questions, for after having spent some pains in seeking to settle them, the statesmen were fain to leave the result to Time. Of all the parliamentary assemblies which are now seeking to be released from the cares of State, the Spanish Cortes is the most impatient. When Senor Martos proposed that the sitting of the Cortes should be suspended until the 31st of October, 91 votes against 41 were readily given in his favour. The Italian Parliament can ill support the heat of summer, complicated as its deliberations are by financial questions of exceptional gravity. CONVENTUAL AND MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS. The Select Committee on the conventual and monastic institutions of England and Scotland re-assemble yes terday, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers in the chair, and proceeded with the evidence called by Mr. Newdegate. Mr. Dewar, of Glasgow, was recalled and produced a copy of the newspaper in which the sermon preached by Dr. Smith, with a letter from the reporter offering to swear to the accuracy of the report, The sermon was preached by Dr. Smith, on the occasion of the opening of the new chapel by the Redemptorist fathers, and expressed the gratification which the Roman Catholic Church felt at the peaceful opening of such a chapel, after a period of 300 years of persecution. He then produced extracts from the valuation roll relating to the property of the Convent of St. Margaret's, Edinburgh, the value of - which was put down at £5,000 ; the occupier was Marjory Clapperton, annual rent £380; and St. Catherine's, Edinburgh, Sisters of Mercy ; occn-. piers, the • Sisters of Mercy; the property owned by Colonel Hutchinson's trustees ; annual rent, £340. He also produced the valuation roll of the establishment of the Jesuits, in Lawnston-street, valued at £4OO a year ; proprietor, Mr. Wansley ; and the valuation roll of the establishment of the Nuns, at Leith, the proprietors being the trustees of the Roman Catholic chapel, including the dwelling-house, the annual rent being £45.. The sermon referred to stated that it was not in tended by any means that the establishment of the Redemptorist Fathers should interfere with the regular missionary work of the district, or should supersede the religious work of the clergy. On the contrary it was to help them, and to afford retreats for a short time for prayer and penitence. Mr. Robertson was then recalled, and produced a map of Glasgow and the description of the Franciscan priory in Cumberland-street, and read a list of trustees. There were means in Scotland of enforcing the proper application of the trusts in the case of the misappropria tion of charity. Some of the Roman Catholic deeds avowed the purposes for which the money was left, but others did not. He had not seen any of them which he was prepared to say were illegal ; he never heard of one being disputed. Land could be left for religious purposes in perpetuity in Scotland. In Scotland the Roman Catholics held their property in precisely the same way as other dissenters. There was no difference in law, the difference was in the terms of the contract made by the deeds, the difference being that the community cannot in the case of Roman Catholic pro perty exercise any power over it. He was not prepared to give any authority for that statement, but it was his general impression; and there was nothing in the deed he had seen which was contrary. In Scotland, in cases of dispute, the property followed the decision of the Ecclesiastical Court. His opinion was that in Roman Catholic Matters such disputes would be left solely to the bishop or some other higher authority. He knew of no rule which made Catholic trusts illegal fa Scotland. Mr. O'Reilly : Is there no law against religious men or men bound by vows ? Witness : In regard to monasteries, I know of no difference between them in England or Scotland. I could not say whether the Statute of Superstitious Uses applied in Scotland, but I should think so. The witness said he was not aware that the names given as the owners in the valuation roll was in every case correctly stated. Mr. Matthews pointed out that the Franciscan Con vent was held in trust by the Right Rev. Bishop Murdock, Vicar Apostolic, and the Right Rev. Dr. Smith, for pur poses of education, whereas in the valuation roll it was stated to be held by the Franciscan, Dr. J. Conolly. The witness said that there was no limitation in the deed as to the disposition of the property, but he was not pre pared to say that they had sold it to the Franciscans. Mr. Matthews next pointed out that the property said to be occupied in Mungo, Glasgow, by the Marist Brdthers, was held in trust by two Roman Catholic bishops and several Roman Catholic clergymen in trust for pur poses of education and religion. The witness sad that he was not prepared to shew any deed by which property was to be held in trust by any monastic institutions, but that property was held by them he had not the slightest doubt. He subsequently sad there were 120,000 Roman Catholics in Glasgow. The committee soon after adjourned. FRENCH AND ENGLISH SHIPS.—The committee of inquiry into the Finch Mercantile Marine has addressed a letter to the Minister of War, desiring that in future the transport ships for the conveyance of troops between France and Africa shall be built in French ports. Hitherto these vessels have been built in England. THE NEWARK ACCIDENT.—It is noted as a curious fact that of the passen g ers in the train which met with the terrible accid e nt at Newark, all, or very nearly all, who were asleep at the time escaped uninjured—nature's anaesthetic ensuring them, not only against fractures and contusions, but even against the bad effects of shaking and concussion. A BANKRUPTCY CASE.—A wine merchant named Sharpe has been charged at the Mansion House with a fraud under the Debtor's Act. It was alleged that he obtained from the complainant, on credit, a quantity of wine of, the value of £2O, within four months of the pre sentation of a bankruptcy petition. After some conflict ing evidence had been given, the defendant was committed for trial, bail being accepted. THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.—NearIy double the necessary sum has been guaranteed for the Universal Ex hibition of 1873 in Vienna, and the realisation of the scheme is looked upon as certain, although the Czechs have refused to take any part in the affair. Fortu nately the chief branches of' industry in Bohemia are in the hands of the Germans, so that the absence of the Czechs will not diminish the eclat of the affair, to which Austria attaches so great an im portance. THE ST. GOTHAIID RAILWAY.—The remarks which the French press made on the discussion in the Corps Legislatif with respect to the St. Gothard Railway have not given satisfaction at Berlin. The North German Gazette, an official organ, regrets that the French Minister for Foreign Affairs should have deemed it necessary, in consequence of a misunderstanding, to preface his reassur ing remarks by a sally against Count Bismarck on account of his speech at the Reichstag on the 25th of May. The same journal observes that the Duke de Grammont and M. Plichon seem to entertain more fears on the subject than Austria had done. GERMAN POLITICS.—The Spenersehe Zeitung, in an artiec on Bavaria and Wurtemburg, says that Herr von Prankh, in the former, and Herr von Suckow, in the latter State, will have a very difficult position to main tain towards the Landtags, for if they refuse to do the will of the so-callgd Popular Party, the cry will be— " This Minister of War can never shake off the prejudices of his military caste, but we, men of the people, know the martial disposition of our race better ; " or else : " The War Minister dare not give way on account of Prussia." Acordiug to the beobachter of Stuttgard, the proposals made by the leaders of the Popular Party are exceedingly moderate, " having been merely intended to prepare the way for a system of defence based on liberty." TRANSPLANTING HUMAN SKIN.— The extraordi nary case referred to in a note which we published the other day, in which it was stated that a piece of skin had been removed from the body of a negro to that of a child, is thus explained :—" A child had sustained an enormous burn, leaving a wound so large that the powers of the little sufferer were totally unable to heal it. It was determined to make an attempt partly to cover this wound by the transplantation of skin, and the attempt was followed by results which rendered it desirable, for their correct interpretation and kir the surgeon's future guidance, to transplant a piece of skin of darker tint as a test to determine how much of the fresh piece became itself incorporated with the tissues over which it was placed. For this purpose a morsel of skin was taken from the coloured man in question, and the little experiment is expected to determine a point the knowledge of which will in all human probability enable the surgeon to save the child's life." A PLAGUE OF FOG. Aristophanes, when he put a certain invocation into the mouth of Socrates, must have been under the influ ence of some such meteorological conditions as those to which, for several weeks past, New York has been sub jected. In the " leafy month of June" we might, with out over-sanguine anticipations, have looked for a fine day or two ; but we have thus far been treated to little more than " a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours." The protracted fog and the never-ending drizzle are teach ing us, in a word, what it is customary to regard as at once the main English incentive to ennui and excuse for • suicide Aristophanes makes even the clouds them se l ve s so ' exasperated with the dull, encircling mists, that they pro pose to scatter and dissolve them, to the end that they may " shew themselves to the earth in their immor tal beauty." The Greek satirist may have been a little uncertain in his science, but he had a just conception of the effect of fogs and mist upon the spirits and temper of mankind. These are elastic, as he knew, and, with an occasional relief from pressure, return with ease to their normal cheerfulness. But when, as of late on our Atlantic seaboard, days and weeks follow each other enlivened by the scantiest and most transient gleams of sunshine, and bestowing as staple weather a succession of dismal fogs, relieved by steady down-pour, Aristophanes may have doubted, as we do, whether there might not be limits to . human endurance. There is a melancholy conso lation in reflecting that others have • passed through worse vicsisitudes than those which have lately disturbed ourselves. In London one .expects to hear of dense fogs as matters of course, so that accounts of extraordinary phenomena of the sort that reach us, as occuring in that city, excite little wonder or attention. But even in beautiful Paris such things now and then have been. An old journal of the reign of Henry 111., published in French, says that "on Sunday the 24th of January, 1588, there rose over the City of Paris and its environs so dense a fog, lasting from noon until the next day, as never was seen before within the memory of man. It was so black and thick that two persons walking together in the street could not see each other, and were compelled to provide them selves with torches, in order to recognize one another, when it was not yet three o'clock. Very many wild geese, and other flying creatures of the air, were found where they had fallen bewildered in the courtyards of the houses, having dashed themselves against the buildings and the chimneys." This was nothing, however, to the great fog of 1783, which spread all over Europe, and lasted for something like two months ; or to the fogs at Lima, which are said to have lasted in some instances for half a year. In the latter city, however, it seldom or never rains, so that the fog, by moistening the s o il an d p reserv i ng th e freshness of the vegetation, is a blessing, and not an unmitigated annoyance. Some philosophers tell us that we ought to find comfort in our recent affliction, in the probability that it is caused by the Gulf Stream, which, by being deflected nearer and nearer to the American coast, is gradually altering the climate, and making it mild and soft, like that of the south-western counties of England. But those who have been off Newfoundland will have an uneasy apprehension that the climate of that damp locality, rather than of Torquay 'or Bournemouth, is what such a change would bring us ; and certainly late experience gives colour to the fear. The theory that we are indebted for our obsti nate visitor to the proximity of icebergs is plausible enough in a scientific sense, although not corroborated by incoming ships. In either case, the grounds for con gratulations are slight, since on both hypotheses we can only look to be made uncomfortable without any visible corresponding advantage. A third possible cause is even less agreeable to contemplate. We know that the phenomenon is produced by the meeting of two currents of air of unequal temperature. It is con ceivable, then, if not probable, that by some as yet mys terious process, two such currents have established a con stant friction in the neighbourhood, so' that our atmos phere may be reduced to a state of chronic murkiness, and fogs be with us much more frequently than we have been accustomed to see them heretofore. Lieutenant De Haven, of the United States Navy, during his expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, saw, we are told, what appeared a similar instance. At the northern extremity of Welling ton Channel he beheld a dense fog-bank, motionless and suspendedin the air—a " water- sky, " rising above the Polar Sea discovered by Dr. Kane in 1854. Very much such a sky seems of late to have hovered over New York, and we can only still'cling to the hope that we shall get rid of it be for the Fall season fairly sets in. The French always associate London with melancholy vapours, and the weep ing sky typifies for them the conventional gloom of the English character. When the choice drama of "Jack Sheppard " was adapted and brought out at the Porte St. Martin—the principal scenes being in the London streets —it was christened Les Chevaliers de la Brouillard " " The Knights of the Fog "—and dun-coloured gauzes were stretched across the stage to give proper effect to the action. If the atmosphere of New York does not quickly change for the better, we shall eventually eclipse the well won reputation of London, and usurp in the estimati on o f the lively Gaul the place she has hitherto occupied. The capital of perfidious Albion will no longer be to his mind the synonym of sadness and weariness of spirit—the dis tinction will be fairly wrested away by the foggy triumphs of Manhattan.—New York Times. NEW IDEAS IN OLD VIRGINNY.—The times change and the men change with them. What would the men of Virginia. who grew to greatness on her rich tobacco crops in the old days, say to the sight of the people of the old State huckstering for the Northern market on straw berries and green peas ? They would have thought it a small business and beneath the Virginia dignity. Strange are the ideas of dignity. Why is it more dignified to cater for one appetite than for another—why nobler to fill the old clay pipe than the dainty china dishes that set off the rare piece of colour combined of strawberries and cream ? Now this answer of the supposed old Virginia gentlemen would only chew once more -what a set of old fools made up their generation ; for after all their dignity was according to their account at the bankers' ; and a man with a hundred acres in strawberries and green peas will make more money than the old farmers did with five hundred acres in tobacco.—New York Herald. " LOTHAIR ' AND MR. GOLD %UN SMITH. The Nation very naturally comes to the assistance of Mr. Goldwin Smith. It condemns " Lothair "as a trashy novel, and makes a point of overlooking the wit, the knowledge of the world, and the keen observations on social and political affairs, with which the book is literally crammed. The wonderful sketches of character are ne cessarily only an odious feature in the work, since they include a portrait, as Mr. Goldwin Stnith is pleased to assert, of Mr. Goldwin Smith himself. The Nation refers to Mr. Disraeli's satire as " praise in disguise "—disguised so thoroughly that it even deceived Mr. Goldwin Smith, and led him to write a letter such as a quarrelsome school boy might be ashamed of in his cooler moments. Why should Mr. Smith have resented " praise in disguise ?" Why abuse the writer who praised him ? Either the Nation or Mr. Smith must be wrong—and it would be strange if there really were any difference of opinion be tween these authorities.—New York Times. A CANADIAN ON ANNEXATION. The Ottawa correspondent of the New York Tribune of Jnne 11th gives the substance of an article published in La Minerre, the French Canadian Government organ. "It is," he says, "on the subject of the responsibility of the United States for permitting the assembling of Fenian troops, and of England for not being able to protect Canada. "Such is really the meaning of the article, and it is quite from high quarters. It is not difficult to under stand what Sir George E. Cartier, who inspires the Minerve, and who is the Government in, himself, is driving at. It is the old cry which the Tribune was the first to perceive and report last summer coming up again, bnt this time in official quarters. The article in question contrasts the conduct of the United States and that of Canada under similar circum-. stances of raids and invasions. Correspondence between the two Governments during the last American civil war is quoted to shew that the United States demanded the most complete and efficient measures to be taken by Canada for the purpose of preventing any hostile expe dition from the latter country, and a list of these measures is given, by which it was intended not only to prevent such expeditions leaving, but also to prohibit their formation within, Canadian territory. These went so far as not only to prohibit the importation of arms, but also their transportation from one point to another within Canada. More than that, in the case of the St. Albans raiders, our Government admitted their responsibility for the depredations of these latter, who operated from the base of our frontier, so far as to appropriate a sum of money to cover the losses of the banks of St. Albans which they had robbed. The conduct of the United States has been the reverse of all this. The Fenians, whose avowed and chief design was the invasion of our territory, have all along been tolerated by its Govern nielit, flattered and encouraged by the press and public men, and sympathised with by its people, and when, at the last moment, silence became no longer possible, the commands of the First Magistrate of the Republic were trodden under foot. We have no concern with the special quality of anyone coming thence ; it is enough that they are subjects of a neighbouring country, and if that country has not thought fit to arrest its subjects, it is to its Government we look as being responsible therefor. It is thus the matter was understood by our authorities when they reimbursed the St. Albans banks for their losses. It is our turn now to demand the application of the same principle, and we are not content to let the matter rest where it is: It is true the Canadian Govern ment has made out its account for the Fenian raid of 1866, and placed it in the hands of Great Britain for collection. But, proceeds the Minerre, we have lost all confidence in the liberal disposition of the men who govern Great Britain. They make use of the Fenian claims to combat those of the Alabama, and seek to protect their own interests by sacri ficing ours. There was hardly six months between the lodging of the claims by the St. Albans banks and our satisfaction of them ' • we have a right to exac t th e same diligence. In order to do this we must address ourselves through England, and she must insist for us. If England washes her hands of the Red River imbroglio, we wash our of that of Fenianism. Fenianism is purely an Im perial quarrel. The Fenians attack Canada merely to revenge themselves on England. Is it not our turn to say to England, ' This is a state of matters that can be no longer tolerated?" English statesmen of the present day have carried selfishness so far as to deprive us of British troops, and even to make us pay for the use of and dam age to the arms lent us to repel the Fenians. If this is to be the way of it, if England can no longer protect us against the consequences of her own acts, we have a right to insist that we be not made to suffer exclusively from her quarrels. Once confidence between the colony and the mother country is lost, there can be no mire union possible, and no sympathy can be felt for a power that shews a disposition to crush us. " The greatest evil that could befall us would be our abandonment by England, and we hope it will never be thus, for we are not ripe for independence, and we do not want annexation ; but the scourge of Fenianism may compel us to a choice between two evils, and if England is not generous enough to recognise the responsibility that falls to her, all the consequences will be in favour of a system where there will be many privations to bear— many risks to run, but where there will have to be no de liberate injustice endured. Injustice is the hardest trial to bear—no man of spirit would submit to it. We have, therefore. serious claims to make on England—claims of indemnity for the past and protection for the future. The feeling in Canada is unanimous in support of these claims and will warmly support any Government that will enter into negotiations on the subject, and so far as legitimate satisfaction is not given to the most faithful subjects of the British Empire, the most loyal will be powerless to preach devotion to it." The North German Correspondent says the an nouncement of the death of Charles Dickens is deeply and generally regretted in Germany, where he had many ardent admirers. The Figaro and the Gaulois say that, in reply to the Orleans letter, the Emperor has written to Emile 011ivier to the effect that he is anxious by a spontaneous measure to put an end to the exile of the Bourbon princes, and begging him to inform them that it has ceased so far as they are concerned. d'Andrimont, ex-Burgomaster of Liege, who so liberally extended his hospitality to the British Volun teers during their visit to Belgium last year, has arrived. in London. He intends to pay a brief visit to the manu facturing districts in the North of England, and will re turn to London to be present at the annual meeting of the Volunteers at Wimbledon. A WONDER IN UTAH.—We will never know when the great natural wonder of this Continent has been discovered. A dispatch from Corinne, Utah, now re ports the discovery in that vicinity of an immense mael strom, supposed to be the outlet of that other wonder, Salt Lake. Scientific men are already on the way to in vestigate the matter. There is nothing so calculated to give us great ideas of the grandeur and magnitude of the domain we occupy as thus to suddenly discover on the silent, unexplored wilds of the great West such stupen dous wonders, hitherto unknown. —New York Herald. GREAT FIRES.—The recent fire in Constantinople will probably rank in history next to the great fire of London. There is something appalling in the swiftness with which the conflagration must have spread and on the inexorable doom of those who were hemmed in by its progress. The imperturbahle fatalism of the disciples of Mahomet was forcibly illustrated by the calmness with which the Turks met their impending destruction, and their refusal in many cases to avail themselves of and chances of escape. The fire itself probably origi nated in some such exercise of stoical indifference con cerning the relation between cause and effect, but we are quite sure that the Turks are no wiser on the subject now than they were before.—New York Times. LADVERTISEMENT. I Consumption, and all m rvous bilious, stomach, aid liver complaints in every tae are only aggravated and acc3lerated by drugs of every description, but perfe tly curable by Dc BARICY'S health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, consumption, h ,bitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ner vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, ti_htness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and bei•ween the shoulders, &c. We quote a few: -The Pope's health restored by Du 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, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalonta Arabica Food., of which he consumes a plateful at every meal It has produced a surprisingly, beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July 25. Cure No. 46,270.—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford of many years dyspepsia. —No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, con stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.-11 aria Jolly " Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig name is most audaciously attached. 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On the 22d inst., at Norfolk-crescent, Hyde-park, Joseph L Alexander, eldest son of Joshua Alexander, Esq., \Vim pole-street, Cavendish-square, to Ada Rachel, daughter of Jacob Montefiore, Esq., of Oriental-place, Brighton. DEATHS On the 22d inst., Frederick Albert Gade, Esq., of Highbury. park north, aged 66. On the 22d inst., at St. Leonard's on-Sea, Thomas Davis. Esq., of Gresham-buildings, London, solicitor, aged 47. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th e County of Middlesex.—Saturday, June 25, 1870. In t suitab emine. Green Green The Noti and pi GRAN THIS .The Carl ; Condu Adn stalls: Esti ROor v i Saturd spared furnish be secs at Mitc music- Box, C It° Gres R e-eni Sherri] Le Pe Gynam Georgi Madan Barrie evenini .'~~l DREs! dren ui a.m. til A' The If the the eh pate it Music have I most 3elebre chef, S positio: assign( W. 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