The Sun. — London, England, 1870-06-29 00:00:00

MONETARY REP ORTS-Y - ESTERDAY. .Although the commencement of the fortnightly settle ment has had the effect of curtailing transactions in stocks and shares, except so far as has been necessary for an ad justment of the account, the tone of the various depart ments has been steady, and prices have improved in some instances. Notwithstanding the increased firmness in the value of money, the consol market has been steady, and the quotations have risen / per cent. The steadiness is no doubt in some measure attributable to the telegraphic advices from the provinces, announcing a further reduction in the value of wheat, and the generally enhanced aspect of agricultural affairs. Consols for delivery are quoted at 92k, 922 ex-div., and 92k, 92 ex div. for the July account. Reduced and New Three-per cents 92k, 921; Bank stock 233, 235 ; India Five-per cents have been done at 1101, 1111, and India► bonds at 20s. to 265. prem. Exchequer bills par to ss. prem. Very few changes have taken place in the value of English railway stocks, and the business doing has been unimportant. South-Eastern has fallen or to 76i; Great Northern A 1, the quotation being 132 ; whilst Great Western, at 72k, shews a rise of /. Metropolitan, at 69k ; Caledonion, at 781; Brighton, at 43/ ; Great Northern, at 1221; Great Eastern, at 391; Midland, at 1311 ; North-Western, at 129/ ; and Great Western, - at 720, are unaltered. North-Eastern is I lower, at 145/. Indian railway stocks have been dealt in to a very moderate extent, and prices have shewn no alteration. Canadian shares have been quiet. For foreign shares there has been only a moderate demand ; but Lombards, at 16k, are 1 higher in value. The market for foreign bonds has been characterised by increased firmness. Further purchases of Mexican have been made, and the price has risen to 171, shewing an ad vance of /. Turkish Five per Cents, also at 53 1-16, are 1 higher, and the Six per Cents (1869, I, at 63) ; Russian Nicholas Railway Bonds have risen 1, or to 691; Egyp tian (1868) are I better, at 82k ; Peruvian (1865) are quoted at 92 ; Spanish (1867), at 31i ; ditto (1869), 31/. The Buenos Ayres Loan is quoted at 11 to 1 prem., the Honduras at 10 to lfi prem., and the Spanish at to 11 prem. American Government securities have been steady, •at the recent improvement. Erie shares have been fiat, and easier. Bank shares have sold quietly, and prices have been without change. In telegraph shares, also, the business doing has been unimportant, and the movements have been trifling. Telegraph Construction shares, huwever, have advanced the quotation being 27*. There has been rather more demand for bills to-day, and the tendency has been less favourable to the country. At a meeting of the Brighton Chain Pier Company it was stated that the pier was in an efficient state of re pair, and that all liabilities had been paid off. A divi dend at the rate of 3 per cent.. free of income-tax, was declared. It was stated that several applications for leasing the surplus lands belonging to the pier were under the consideration of the directors. The supply of money has been less extensive. More animation has been noticed in the demand, and the gene ral rate for negotiating three months' paper has been 3 per cent., occasional transactions, however, have been effected at 2i. The report of the Hudson's Bay Company, to be pre sented on the sth of July, shews that the Company's returns for the outfit of 1868, representing the year, ending May 31, 1870, shew a profit of only £53,321, as compared with £71,533 on the outfit of 1867, and with £54,874 on that of 1866; which was the lowest made in many years. It is too early, as yet, to form an opinion as to the result of the outfit of 1869, but the disturbed state of the Red River settlement cannot fail to produce a detrimental effect. An interim dividend of 4s. per share has already been paid, absorbing £20,000, and, after mature consideration, the directors have re solved to retain the balance until more definite informa tion has been received from the colony. The sum of £300,000 has been paid to the company by the Canadian Government, and this sum will be employed in the reduc tion of capital to the extent of £3 per share, making the shares £l7 instead of £2O paid. The company's premises in Fenchurch-street have recently been sold for £45,000, which will result in a credit to the company's profit and loss account of £11,424, when the money shall have been divided. In relation to the winding-up of the Joint Stock Dis count Company, Messrs. Gruning, Sheppard, Smith, and Rudge, on behalf of themselves and other large share holders, sent a circular on the 18th ult, to all the share holders, suggesting their taking the liquidation out of Chancery and managing it themselves, by seven or nine shareholders of good position acting as voluntary liquida tors. This was assented to by such a large number of shareholders, representing over 22,000 shares, that at a meeting on the 3d of June it was resolved to take the necessary steps for carryipg out the scheme, and a special meeting of the shareholders will accordingly be held on the sth of July, at two o'clock, at the Cannon-street Hotel. A report has been circulated that the London and St. Catherine Dock Company had resolved to declare a divi dend at the rate of 11 per cent. The Secretary states that-up to the present moment the accounts up to the 30th of June have not yet been made up, and the direc tors have no means of ascertaing with accuracy the earn ings and expenditure of the company. They are, there• fore, not in a position to state the amount of dividend to be declared. At a meeting of the Bank of South Australia, the direc tors report was adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. was declared, after appropriating £5,795 to the reserve fund. A favourable report has been received from the Tag naril Gold Mining Company, dated May 28th. The following are some of the official "making-up" prices, being the first day of the fortnightly account : Railways : Metropolitan 70, ditto district 28, North Eastern Consols 1451, North Western 1291, Great Western 72k, Midland 1311, South Eastern 761, Great Eastern 39/ Erie 181 Foreign Bonds : Peruvian (1865) 911, Egyptian (1868) 82k, Mexican 16/ Turkish Five-per cents 52k, ditto (1869) 631, Italian 59, Spanish (1867) 31,A ditto (1869) 31. Miscellaneous : Tan-yr-Alt Mining 41, Anglo-American Telegraph 15k, West India and Panama 71, and Telegraph Construction 26a. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE-TUESDAY. LATEST PRICES ----AFT: GOVERNMENT Three per Cent Consols 922 921 Do. for Account Three per Cent Rdcd New 3 per Cent Exchequer Bills. March, par spm I Do., J une Bank Stock India 5 per Cents 110211121d Can.6pcJam&JulylB77- 84 197 108 Do. 5 per cent do. 981 991 Domin. of Can. 5p c 1903 971 981 New S. W. 5p c 1871-76 102 103 Is ew Zealand 6 pc 1891.. 112 114 Do. 5 per cent 99001 Do. 5p c Consolidated Victoueensland 5p c 1882 ria 6p c Jan.& July 115 116 Do. 5 u o do. 104 1041 RAIL Bristol and Exeter B6 88 I Caledonian 7B 78; Great Eastern Great Northern 1214122!, Do. A Great Western Lancashiie StYorashire 133 134 L. 13. and South Coast Lon. Chat., and Dover Lou. and North-Western 12911291 Lon. and South-Western 91 92 Man., Sher., and Lincoln 521 522 Metropolitan 691 70 Met. District — Midland North British 379 .i 8 North-Eastern Consols Do. York — South-Eastern 80m.,8itr.,&C1.1 id. g. 5 pc 107 3 / 4 108 3 / 4 East India guar. 5p c Grand Trunk of Canada 14 3 / 4 15 Do. Ist Preference Bonds 64 66 Great Indian Pen. g. 5p c 108 109 Great Western of Canada 15 3 / 4 151 Madras g. spc 108110 9 3 /4 Scinde. Delhi, do. _ lO5. 107 3 / 4 Scinde, Punjaub, do lO ' 107 3 / 4 Dutch Rhenish 2 4 3 /4 25 Eastern of France 24 25 Great Luxembourg l4l 14 3 / 4 Northern of France Ottom. (Smyrna to Aidin) 6 3 / 4 7 Recife and San Francisco 15 3 / 4 161 San Paulo , (L.) guar. 7p c 21 21 3 / 4 S. Aus. 8t Lom. Veuetu. 16 3 / 4 16 BANKING COMPANIES. Pal Pa 10 Agra Bank (L) A .... lot 1l in i 10 Imperial Ottoman 4l 42p 25 Alliance ( Limited ) .. 142 152 20 Lou.Cnar. of A ustrlia 231 241 10 Anglo-Austrian .... 16 18 pin 20 London and County 50 51 20 Anglo-Egyptn (Lim) 242 242 15 Londo a Joint-Stock 341 351 50 British NorthAmrcn 54 56 20 Lndn & Watminstr 611 621 20 Ch.of India, Australia 17 18 10 Metropolitan 9 91 25 Char. Mere. of India 30 31 20 Midland (Limited) 1 dis, par 10 City 25 Colonial 4 Consolidated (Litntd) ii pm 25 Union of Australia.. 46 47 20 Eng., Scot. & Aust. 0 17218} 15 Union of London .. 391 401 20 imperial (Lwaited) l9 191 TELEU RAPII COMPANII4B. Pd I'd 10 Anglo - American IL) 78 82 10 Great Northern .... 111 j 12 100 Atlantic 3 British Ind. Ex. (L) 61 7 10 Med. Extension (L).. 54 6) 10 British Indn Sub. (L.) 8 81 20 Soc. Trans. France (L) 14k 15, 7 Fat, Gibraltar, &c. IL) 9 9} SW. India & Panama 7 7 MISCELLANEOUS SECURITIES Pd Pdi 10 Berlin Waterworks (L) 14 2 1 51 s!l.llbbr.G P Tel. Wks. 45 46 27 Canada Company 78 80 100 IIntr. Financial OA .. 12 1 dis I 0 Ceylon Company (L) 31 21 dis 5 Mdroslrrigtong. spc 104 105 20 Colonial ldis.ipm 5 National Discount IL) 111 12 10 Cred. Fonder of E (L) 2 21 50 Ocean Marine 100 Crystal Palace 13 Fore-at Warehouse (L) 56 pm Telegraph Constrctn 27 271 71 Gen. Cred. & Dant .. 12 pm St Tobacco 6 pcLn, Gua. 14 Gen. Stm Navigation 29 31 5 by Italian Gvrumnt 91 93 45 Hooper's Tol.Works. ,11 2 dis Trust &Lnof U Coda 2 2 Pin 'ER OFFICIAL HOURS. SECURITIES. Brazilian, 1865, 5 p o 9li 929 Egyptian, 1868, 7p c 821 83 9 Italian, 1861, Deb s per ce p 101 cent 59 91029 59i Peruvian, 1865, 5 per cent 919 92 Portuguese, 1869, 30 c 339 34 Russian, 1866, 5 p c 939 949 Do. Nicolas, 4 per cent 69 699 Spanish, 1867, 3percent 319 313 Do., 1869, 3 per cent .. Turkish, 1854, 0 per cent 81 89 Do., 1865, sper cent 53 539 Do., 1865, 6 per cent 73 74 U, S. 5-20 Bonds, 6pc 1882 90 939 Do., 1865 B9 9 0 Do., 10-40 Bonds, spa 1901 81; 88 Erie Sha., 100 dole. all pd. 189 19 WLYS MARKETS. LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUEESDAY.—TaIIow quiet, at 455. 3d. spot, 455. to 455. 3d. June ; 465. 3d., buyers, October- December. Linseed oil, £3l ss. to £3l 10s. spot. English brown rape, £42 15s. to £43 ; July-August, £42 105. to £42 155. ; September-December, £4l 10s.; refined, £45 ; foreign, £4B. Cocoanut and olive oils unchanged. LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, TUESDAY. The sugar market continues flat, but values are without further change. Havana No. 121} to 13 have sold at 275. 9d. for the United King dom. Refined goods have been inquired after on previous terms. Coffee has ruled steady at late rates. Stock 20,503 tons, against 19,336 tons last year. Tea has sold quietly, at pre vious quotations. Ruin remains firm for all descriptions. LONDON WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.—At the public sales of Colonial wool the attendance has continued good. Home _buyers have operated freely, but the transactions for export have been limited. Pieces have ruled steady. English wool has been firm on former terms. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO' MARKETS, TUESDAY.—The supplies of potatoes have been short. The trade has been quiet, as follows :—English kidneys, 13s. to 16s. Jersey ditto, 14s. to 15s. ; rounds, 12s. to 148. ; Cornwall, 15s. to 165.; Scotch, 13s. to 145.; and Lisbons, 12s. to 14s. per cwt. METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, TUESDAY. —The market was fairly supplied with hay and clover, for which the demand was quiet, at a decline of ss. per load in the latter. For straw the trade was better, at an advance of 6s. per load. Prime meadow hay, 110 s. to 1205.; inferior ditto, 85s. to 955. ; prime clover, 130 s. to 140 s. ; in ferior ditto, 110 s. to 1205.; prime second-cut clover, 115 s. to 1255. ; inferior ditto, 90s. to 100 s. ; and straw, 265. to 365. per load. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, TIIESDAY.—This market was thinly attended to-day. Wheat was rather irregular in value. The demand was moderate. Most sales shew a decline of 2d. to 3d. per cental since Friday last. Flour is pressed for sale, at 6d. to Is. reduction. Beans are very dull, Saidi, 395. 6d, Oats and oatmeal are nominally unaltered. Indian corn was in fair re quest, at full rates ; round yellow, 31s. 6d. Imports—lreland, etc.: Wheat, 459 quarters ; oats, 411 quarters ; malt, 19 quarters; beans, 36 quarters ; flour, 153 sacks ; oatmeal, 542 sacks. Foreign: wheat, 37,747 quarters; oats, 1,120 quarters; beans, 2,604 quarters; peas, 1,356 quarters ; Indian corn, 22,305 quarters ; flour, 2,238 sacks and 8,398 barrels ; oatmeal, 1,156 sacks. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—This market opened rather quiet to-day, at yesterday's quotations. Sales will probably be 8,000 or 10,000 bales. MANCHESTER COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—This market opened quietly to-day, and there is only a small business doing, at barely steady rates. There is certainly less eagerness to sell to-day than on Friday last ; and prices generally shew less irregu larity than on that date as producers consider they had already reduced their prices to the full extent of the fall in the value of cotton. They now await the course of events before making further concessions. Meanwhile stocks are not on the increase, otherwise in so quiet a market, and with the prospect of an ample supply of cotton, the pressure to sell would be much greater, as the latest advices from India and China are still unfavourable. The buying for these markets is suspended ; for cotton, owing to the large stock in Liverpool, is in a weak position, and the prospects of future supply are improved ; there is, therefore, a hope that yarns and goods may touch a safer, because a lower range of prices. Other foreign markets are also quiet, whilst the demand for the home trade continues on a limited scale. It is well for our market that the stocks are light, with considerable contracts still in hand ; otherwise a severe decline in price would have been the result, followed probably by a reaction which would unsettle the trade and lead to other difficulties. Quotations are the same as those of Friday. LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—The larger manufac turers report that they have received orders to a fair extent for Meltons and Tweeds ; but scarcely adequate profits can be ob tained. Some of these manufacturers have home orders which will absorb three months' work, but not many are in that happy case. The small millowners are completed for little more than journeyman's wages. The trade in woollens suitable for the fall trade would be better if merchants' stocks were not so heavy. There have been about thirty buyers fn the town from the South from Scotland, Canada, and other large centres. but finding the state of stocks they made only experimental offers for tweeds. Coatings of medium quality commanded little attention to-day. Considerable sales are expected for the end of the week. Victorias, which are a broad twill, with a firm setting of the threads and reeds, are in force for ladies' dresses, and mantles in various attractive colours. Other fancy twills of thicker makes move off less satisfactorily. In the domestic coal trade there is a marked falling off. Stocking is going on, and short time at almost every colliery around Leeds. The ship ping trade is the best. The iron and steel trades are busy; but axle-making has received a check till the panic of the Newark slaughter has subsided. DONCASTER CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a poor supply of beef at this market to-day, which sold at from Bs. to 9s. per stone. There was a large supply of sheep, and a good business was done. Mutton, 7d. to Bd. per lb.; shearlings, Id. to 84d. per lb.; lamb, from Bd. to 9d. per lb. Butchers seemed determined not to give the prices, and the market was heavy until the latter part of the day, when business became brisk. LEEDS CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was only a thin attendance at this market to-day. The wheat trade has been very inactive. Millers are acting very cautiously, and to make sales 2s. per qr. decline from last Tuesday's rates was sub mitted to. Barley nominal. Oats and beans were fully as dear. Average prices for the week ending June 27th :—Wheat, 562 qrs., at 525. 6d. ; Oats, 20 qrs., at 275. HULL CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—There was a fair show of beasts at this market to-day, but no business doing. Milch cows rather higher in price. There were no sheep on offer. There was a good show of pigs, which found few purchasers, though offered at a slight decline on the prices of last week. Trade was altogether very slow. - • • HULL WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.—At this market to-day there was a very large show of wool ; but sales were only mode rately brisk. Hog fleeces 21s. to 225. ; ewes 16s. to 17s. GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, TIIESDAY.—First report : The market was firm at the following rates ;-60s. Bd. a month, 60s. sd. cash paid. Closing—sellers. 60s. 4}d.; buyers over. Shipments from Clyde last week, 10,325 tons, against 12,868 tons in the corresponding .week last year. BELFAST LINEN TRADE REPORT TuEsDAY.—The business accomplished in yarns during the week was of a good steady character. Common weft linens, twos, being in special request. Transactions on the home account, however, were.scarcely so ex tensive as during the preceding week. Some manufacturers ap- peared in the market, who operated freely, owing to the con tinued unfavourable reports from Holland, France, and Bel gium regarding the coming flax crop. Some continental orders have come to hand. Stocks have again become further reduced. Spinners are considerably oversold. Prices continue firm, at advanced rates of last week. For Brown power loom linens, and light linens for bleaching manufacturers decline accepting orders unless at advanced rates. The demand, though of a fair character, is not by any means active, and stocks have increased. Heavy linens have again met with a moderate request. Stocks shew a slight in crease. Prices are firm. In cloth suitable for the foreign cloth ing trade, mBre business has been accomplished, still the orders on hand are small. There is no change in prices. In cloth for dyeing and Hollands the demand, though not active, was of a fair steady character for approved makes. The stocks are not extensive. Common sets a dull sale. Stocks are the same, barely kept in check. Prices are steady. Roughs of approved makes continue in request. Inferior descriptions changed hands with difficulty. Stocks on the whole have not increased. Prices are generally well maintained. There have been more inquiries for linen handkerchiefs, still the business transacted has not been large. Stocks are not extensive. Prices are barely tested. There was only a moderate business done in Cambric handker chiefs. No change of importance either in stocks or prices. CORK BUTTER MARKET, TUESDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 112 s. ; seconds, 109 s. : thirds, 102. ; fourths, 995. ; fifths, 755. ; sixths, 555. 2,300 firkins in the market. Mild cured, firsts, 116 s. ; seconds, 113 s. ; thirds, 106. 100 firkins in the market. REPORT OF THE FRENCH MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE. M. Henzi, the French Minister of Agriculture, has just published a report on the best means of mitigating tha effects of the drought on the forage crops. The prefects have been directed to distribute this document to the agricultural associations, and to give 'it all the publicity possible. M. Houze, after remarking that on the deeply ploughed soils the crops have suffered less than on those superficially cultivated, advises the sowing of maize for summer forage. He recommends, too, the cultivation of nettles. M. Ht.nzd expresses great apprehension that the drought will continue, and is especially uneasy respecting the turnips. He recommends that they should be sown mixed with Tartary buckwheat. Vine-leaves, observes the minister, make good autumn forage, and in Lower Languedoc sheep are allowed to brouze in the vineyards after the vintage. This year he expects acorns, chestnuts, and beech nuts will be in demand. The report goes on to enumerate several other resources for the cattleowner, such as Jerusalem artichokes, the stalks of several cereals, and the small leafy branches of several trees, the elm, birch, poplar, &c. Agriculturists are advised to sow rye grass, winter oats, colza, and turnips, along with the autumn rye. In default of straw, the report suggests ferns, rushes, dead leaves, heath, and dry turf. Coming to the question of the scarcity of water, M. Henz6 pur poses to purify the contents of the ponds and pools by filtering them through charcoal. CONSUMPTION IN AUSTRALlA.—TheMelbourneAge discusses at some length in a recent number the curative influence of the Australian climate upon diseases of the lungs or pulmonary consumption. Arguing from statistics furnished by the colonial hospitals, the writer concludes that the long sea voyage acts as an invigorating tonic where the disease is in its earliest stage, and that in such cases the changes of habits which life in a new country involves may also be productive of considerable benefit. But in every case where the malady is established it is mere cruelty to expose a patient to the certain discomforts of life on shipboard, and to an early death in a distant land, if its shores be ever reached. Whether from " empirical restlessness, a desperate throw for health, or the desire of getting rid of troublesome patients," the system of encouraging the emigration of in curable as well as curable cases, prevails largely among English doctors. During the past four years one out of every sixteen patients entering the Melbourne Hospital has been consumptive, and the chances of recovery may be estimated from the fact that 52 per cent. die there. THE FENIAN PRISONERS' INQUIRY COMMIS sioN.—In the course of the present week it is expected that the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the treatment of the treason-felony convicts in English prisons will commence their sittings. The Commissioners, of whom the Earl of Devon is chairman, have made the following provisions for conducting the inquiry :—The prisoners will be afforded full 'opportunity for making oral statements before the Commissioners respecting their treatment. A private room will be provided, in which the prisoners can make their statements in the absence of any prison officer, and after a distinct intima tion from the Commissioners that the prisoners shall in no way be prejudiced as to their future treatment by their statements so made in private. Full opportunity will be given to the prisoners to make any written statement they desire, and the Commissioners will receive any written or oral statement from any of the prisoner's friends, or from any person acting on their behalf, which shall be revalent to the treatment of the convicts. The evidence of a released prisoner, in this respect, will also be received. The Commissioners have recommended to the Home Secretary that access should be given to the prisoners by their friends at reasonable hours and under proper regula tions, for the purpose of assisting them to prepare their statements. The report and evidence will be made public at the close of the inquiry, which will be held at No. 3, Parliament-street, Westminster. One of the first wit nesses will be the notorious O'Donovan Rossa, who some month's since was returned member of Parliament for the county of Tipperary, but whose election was declared void by a resolution of the House of Commons. THE SU N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 29,. 1870, LAW AND POLICE. AN IRISH BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. A GENTLEMAN KILLED IN THE STREET.—On Monday a French gentleman named Remont died in the Royal Free Hospital from the result of injuries he sustained through being knocked down and run over by a Hansom cab on Saturday night. The driver of the cab, James Stanley, was brought up at Bow-street and remanded, on his own recognizances only, the magistrates thinking that the evidence shewed he was not to blame. In the Irish Court of Exchequer, on Monday, the suit of " Mary St. Lawrence v. Michael Skehan," for alleged breach of promise of marriage, was heard. Serjeant Armstrong stated the case for the plaintiff, who was, he stated, a member of a most respectable family, and daughter of Mr. St. Lawrence, a gentleman, who carried on an extensive business in Limerick as a hat manufacturer. She was of prepossessing appearance, and was a perfect lady in manner and address. The defendant, Mr. Michael Skehan, was a native of Ireland, and pos sessed of considerable property in the county Clare. He had been married before, and was between 40 and 50 years of age. In the month of April, 1869, he met Miss St. Lawrence, and then commenced to pay her marked attention. No secret was made of their engagement, and his proposal for her hand was accepted by the lady's family. The only matter suggested in reference to the postponement of the marriage ceremony was a desire of the defendant to have his sons settled. Shortly after being accepted the defendant appeared to change his mind. And he (counsel) would prove to the jury that the defendant's only pretence for the change was that he could not get married while his unmarried, daughter was in the house. It would be established in evidence that no stipulation on this point was made between the parties. After full and ample time had passed the lady requested the matter to be brought to a close, and he (Sergeant Armstrong) thought the best way in which he could explain the position of affairs was by reading some of the correspondence which took place between the plaintiff and defendant. Counsel then read some letters from which the following are extracts :-- THE LIABILITY OF COMPANIES. —An action has been brought, in the Court of Queen's Bench, against the Thames Iron Works Company. A young man, named Passmore, was killed by the falling of one of the iron girders over the Metropolitan Railway, while the train, in which he was seated, was passing. His father, brought an action against the company, the girder having been hoisted into position while the train was in motion. The defence set up by the company was that the negli gence was that of the contractor and his men. The ques tion was reserved for the Full Court, the damage being conditionally settled at £lOO. - . - OLD PORT WINE. —An action has been tried in the Court of Exchequer between two wine merchants, the matter in dispute being a pipe of port wine, described as " superior old port," which, instead of improving with keeping, turned sour. It was contended that such an accident will occasionally happen, but the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff (who bought the wine which turned sour), damages being £ll5. Leave was reserved to move for the verdict to be set aside. OMNIBUS DRIVERS IN TROUBLE. —NO less than thirty omnibus drivers and conductors were summoned for the Lord Mayor for stopping in front of the Mansion House, and looking out for passengers. The proprietors had pre viously been warned. Twenty-seven of them were fined 10s. each, and two others 4s. 6d. for infringing the Traffic Act. The Lord Mayor told them that on another occasion he would double their fines. The men chiefly belonged to the General Omnibus Company. Twenty of them paid their fines, but nine being unable to do so , were " 20th May, 1869. " My dear Mary,—l received yours, and I cannot tell you how delighted I was for the first time. As I said in my last letter, do not mind what other folks say ' • treat them with contempt, and let them guess about what is to come on, and it will be a mystery to them when and where we will spend the honeymoon. Do not shew the white feather; dress and walk with better airs than ever you have done.----I remain yours faithfully, " MICHAEL SKEHAN." locked up in default. CHANGING CLOTHES.—A young man from Gloucester shire, named Mansfield, surrendered himself at the Wellington Barracks, and was charged at Bow-street with wearing the uniform of a private in the Coldstream Guards. He had been out drinking with a soldier, who asked him to change clothes for a joke, to see how he would look in uniform, and then taking advantage of the prisoner's intoxicatectstate, went off and deserted. His dupe was remanded for a week. " 6th July. 1869. "My dear Mary,—l wish to let you know that Delia will be married on Saturday ; this is strictly private. I have nothing to say, only it is a good job Excuse haste, my dear Mary.—Your 'or us. and " MICHAEL." " 23, Clare-street, Limerick, " 14th Sept., 1869. A Riccous ORATOR.—A man named Morritz Perper was charged at Clerkenwell with threatening to shoot Detective Renners of the A Division. The defendant made a speech at a meeting of the Land and Labour League, held at Clerkenwell, in which he said he had suffered six months' imprisonment, and that a constable named Remmers had given evidence against him, also that he had bought a pistol and intended to shoot him. The detective stated that the prisoner had often been to Scotland-yard in an excited manner. He was remanded for a week to ascertain the state of his mind. "My dear Michael,—Your note reached Me on yester day; I am very jealous with you for not coming down on Friday ; indeed, it looked rather strange, no matter what friend may have been with you, you could very easily spare time to come down if you only wished to do so. Now, this business of ours is going on a lOng time, and I think the sooner it is arranged the better it would be for all parties. Now that the boys are gone, and Delia mar ried. I don't see the reason why you should defer it any longer.—Yours affectionately, " MARY ST. LAWRENCE." THE ATHENS AND PIR/EUS RAILWAY UOMPANY.—A case connected with the Athens and Piraeus Railway Company has been tried in the Court of Exchequer. Some interest was felt in the matter, as Mr. Lloyd, who was one of the victims of the massacre at Marathon, was managing director of the company. The case was rather an involved one, but the point at issue was whether a sum paid on certain bills of exchange had been paid by the plaintiffs, Messrs. Pickering, at the request of Mr, Edward Pickering, their brother, who was con nected with the company, or at the request of the late Mr. Lloyd, managing director, and Mr. Hutchinson, secretary of the company, in their official capacity. The jury, after hearing arguments on both sides, found for the plaintiffs, Messrs. Pickering, for £l,BBl, and interest. THE SCOTCH WILL CASE.—The remarkable will case in the Scotch Court of Session, has come to a close after a trial of six days. The action was brought to set aside the will of the late Mr. William Maxwell Stewart, of Lochnagar, on the ground that deceased, when he made the will, was of unsound mind. A sum of about £30,000 was involved in the action. Some curious evidence was given in the course of the trial in proof of insanity— one or two of the witnesses taking exception particularly to Mr. Stewart's conduct on Sundays. The will will be set aside, the case having resulted in favour of the pursuers. THE ESTATE OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. in Rolls Chambers the case of Bubb v. Yelverton, being a suit for the administration of the estate of the late Marquis of Hastings, came before the chief clerk on a summons for the production of documents. The order made in the previous instance was now partly complied with, but application was made for a further adjournment until the 25th of July, . for the production of the remainder. The solicitor to the estate, in reply to a question by the Chief Clerk, said the income of the estate was about £6,000 a year, and that there would be enough to satisfy all the creditors. The Chief Clerk said the interest for the period of adjourn ment applied for would, at 4 per cent., amount to £2O, but granted the application. AN ALLEGED " PIRATICAL" GUN MAKER.—Mr. Pryse, gun and pistol manufacturer, -of Ashton-street, Birming ham, was the owner of a patented invention by which the hammer of a gun or pistol constructed on the central fire or needle principle, after striking the percussion cap on the nipple, returned to half-cock, and only re quired to be raised to full cock by the hand prior to a second discharge. Mr. Stanton, who carried on a similar business at Birmingham, seeing the value of the invtntion, contrived to arrive at the same result, though by an entirely different process. He was thereupon sued by . Mr. Pryse for infringement of patent. Vice-Chancellor James, befoee whom the case was heard, was of opinion that, although the defendant's process appeared to be an improvement upon the plain tiff's, it was a colourable imitation ; and he therefore granted the injunction to restrain as prayed. A FAMILYLITIGATION.—The Master of the Rolls delivered his judgment, yesterday, in the case of Barker v. Barker. The bill was filed on behalf of five sisters, and the chief object was to obtain a declaration that they were entitled to a charge on freehold estate and cotton mill situated in Yorkshire, under the provisions of the will of their father. The defendants were the brothers of the plain tiffs, and they contended that, according to t he terms of the will, the latter had no claim to the property in question. The testator left £2,000 to each of his daughters, which legacies were to be paid out of his estate. He appointed one of his sons and a daughter his executors, and they con veyed the property to a third party, the four sisters con senting to the conveyance. The question for the court was whether, under the circumstances, the property as conveyed was liable to the legacies of the daughters of the testator. His lordship regretted that he could not give the plaintiffs any relief. Their bill must be dis missed. "17th September, 1869. "My Dear Mary,—l received yours, and am sorry to tell you that I am laid up with a very bad cold ; and I can assure you that the tone of your letter gave me great pain, for you want me to do what I have no notion of doing—that is, as long as my daughter is with me. lam doing what I can to get her married, and I am more anxious than you are. You must have a poor opinion of me when you say lam bantering with you. .You cannot say that. You said to me that you should be mistress of your house if you got married. I can assure you I will lose no time in trying to do so. So you are aware such things cannot be done in a hurry.—My dear Mary, your fond, " MICHAEL." " 23, Clare-street, Limerick, 23rd October. " Dear Michael,—l received your letter on Saturday, and, indeed, I must say it was almost time for you to write. lam very much surprised that you did not come to see me during your stay in town, according to promise. At the time you proposed for me I was led to un derstand that our marriage would take place in the course of a few months after. That was in April last ; but then you seemed anxious to have the boys gone be fore you came to any arrangement about it. The boys are now gone nearly three months, and, as that was the only obstacle which appeared to . be in the way, I don't see why we should defer the matter any longer. You never said a word to me about Norah until after the boys had left ; and I don't think you should let her or any other person dictate to you. lam placed in a very unpleasant position, particularly since the races. I have to request that you will make up your mind, and let me know what you really intend doing ; it is now six months on hand, and I don't wish to have my name any longer before the public.—Yours sincerely, " MARY ST. LAWRENCE." " sth November, 1869. "My dear Mary—l received yours, and I have nothing to say only what 1 said over and over, and I do not see for the life of me what anyone has to say to you on my account. I can assure you I will never bring in anyone as mistress over Norah as long as she is with me, let it be short or low , . It is no use for me to tell you that lam doing my best to try and get her married, but I never will sacrifice my child to gratify the wishes of others. — Yours faithfully, " MICHAEL &MAN." Serjeant Armstrong continued to say that the plaint and defendant were to have been married on the 26th o, April, and the action was brought on the 2d of May in the present year. The defendant then ,wrote to say that he would marry the plaintiff and settle the action. She accepted the offer, but in consequence of a statement made by the defendant, in reference to two gentlemen of his acquaintance, the match was finally broken off. Mary St. Lawrence, the plaintiff, was examined—l reside with my father in the city of Limerick. My father has retired from business. I first knew Mr. Skehan when he came from Australia some years ago. He first began to pay me attentions in March, 1869, when I was staying on a visit with Mrs. Hare, at Kilaloe. I believe Mr. Skehan has five sons and eight daughters. On the 30th of March he asked me to marry him, but there was no suggestion that the marriage would depend on any of his daughters ; he only alluded to his two sons, Michael and Peter ; the sons went to Australia some time in July ; it was in Limerick I accepted him ; I told him at Killaloe I would take a month to consider —to commit my friends ; that was on'the 30th of March ; he said he would only give me a fortnight ; I consulted with my friends, and he came to me in about three weeks from the 30th of March ; it was then finally arranged ; he told me when he proposed that his income was about £6OO a year ; he said he would make a settle ment on me; when he came the second time he said he had only £4OO a year; he came to Dublin soon after, and I corresponded with him ; I wrote to him on the 14th of September a letter complaining of his not coming to see me ; in another letter I wrote to him telling him it was reported in Limerick that the marriage was not coming off ; some time after, at the time of the Limerick races, he said, "If I don't marry you I shall have no one else ; but my daughter does not wish m e to marry." I never saw him after that. On the 4th November I wrote to him telling him of the talk of the people of Limerick. I told the ° defendant that I had received a proposal from another gentleman from Cork. I knew he had twelve or fourteen children. How often did you see Mr. Skehan after the engagement? I could not say ; I have certainly seen him six times ; I was always willing to marry him if he made a settlement. How much did you expect ? I suppose about a £lOO a year. When you said in your letter—" If you don't hurry I'll go into a con vent," were you serious ? I don't know (laughter) ;it was in November I first consulted my attorney, Mr. Molloy. Mr. Heron then opened the case for the defendant. He said it was true the defendant had gone to Australia some thirty or thirty-five years ago, and that when he came back he purchased a small property in the county Clare, but it was heavily mortgaged. This was not an action of the ordinary love -making nature between parties of the same age or position. The defendant would tell the jury that Miss St. Lawrence was fully apprised of his intention not to get married to her until his daughter, Norah, should be settled. The reas on so many of this kind of actions were successful was because a great many women have at some period of their lives behaved badly towards men, and fancy it is a cheap way of having re venge by putting their hands into a fellow man's pocket to make him pay damages as reparation to her sex; The defendant was in no hurry to get married, and he (Mr. Heron) believed that the plaintiff herself had postponed the ceremony from disinclination to marry the defendant. He submitted that Skehan, forced into a corner as he was, was willing all through to marry the plaintiff, and if the court would but adjourn he was quite willing to do so still. (Laughter). Damages in such a case as this could only be given for the loss of the man ; but she had not lost the man, for he was was still willing to marry her. He did not think that from the 26th of April to the 2nd of May was a reasonable time to elapse for the com pletion of the promise, and he would ask the jury to say this lady had a very happy escape from mar rying this aged widower with twelve children. Mr. Michael Skehan, the defendant, was then called and examined. He deposed that he had twelve children, and that all he derived from his property was £3OO a year. From the very first he was sincere in his intention to marry the plaintiff. I suppose you were head and ears in love. INTERRUPTING A TELEGRAPH MESSENGER. —At the Chel tenham Police-court, Thomas Tibbles, a lad about 18 years old, was summoned, on the information of the head postmaster, for assaulting Thomas Lawrence Lox,_ telegraph boy employed at the General Post Office. The lad Cox said that he was a telegraph boy at the Post Office, and on the 16th of May he was taking a message to Lansdown Parade on a bicycle. He saw the defendant, who pushed him off the bicycle, put a child on it, and went away with it. He asked the defendant for it, but he refused to give it him, and said he would punch his head if he did not get away. He was delayed twenty minutes in delivering the message. The defendant denied that he pushed the boy off the bicycle, but said that, seeing it at the door, he merely put a child on the bicycle and went off with it. Mr. Harford said they wished it to be understood that her Majesty's messengers—for really the telegraph boys were so—were not to be interfered with in the discharge of their important duties ; and to mark their sense of the defendant's conduct, they would fine him £l, with 7s. 6d. expensa3, or twenty-one days impri sonment. THE WAY TO CHECK WIFE BEATING. —Wm. Harper, a car man, living in Little Pulteney-street, ._'was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at Marlborough-street Police Court, yester day, by Jeffrey, one of the warrant officers, charged with assaulting his wife.—The complainant said that about seven o'clock the previous morning, while in bed, the pri soner, without any words haying passed between them, struck her a violent blow in the mouth, loosening her teeth.—ln reply to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said the prisoner had assaulted her before, and she had had him before at that court. She • had four little children to keep, and the prisoner did not do anything towards their support. He had made use of dreadful oaths and threats towards her, to the effect that he would rip her up, throw her out of the window, and that he would kill her, and a few days ago he threw some cold water over the baby, which was ill with the measles. Mr. Tyrwhitt said when it was known that a man did nothing for his family a magistrate's course was clear. The pri soner would be committed for three months with hard labour, and at the end of that time he would have to find bail for another three months. A DISGRACE TO THE ARMY. —Henry Longley, a stalwart young fellow, who is a private,in the Grenadier Guards, was charged at the Westminster Police-court, yesterday, with violently assaulting Pitt Tarleton, an inspector of the T division of police, in the execution of his duty. Mr. Tarleton, whose face bore frightful marks of a cut with a soldier's belt, said at 20 minutes to 12 last night he came out of his own house smoking a pipe, and saw the prisoner and a woman conducting themselves in a very disgraceful manner. Witness expostulated, when the prisoner, belt in hand, attacked him, striking him first in the eye ; his hat fell off, and before he could recover it, prisoner inflicted another frightful wound on his head and then ran away, but in doing so he picked up a brick and struck the inspector on the shoulder with it. Prisoner said he did not know the complainant was an inspector; the blow on the eye was done with the fist and not the belt. Mr. Arnold said he intended to commit the prisoner, but he was remanded for the attendance of the surgeon. A RESPECTABLE BOY.-Alfred Collins, aged 14 years, of 6, Church-terrace, Cubitt-town, errand boy, was brought before Mr. Lushington, yesterday, at the Thames Police court, charged with stealing a watch, the property of Mr. George Till, tailor and draper, carrying on business at No. 5, York-terrace, Commercial-road, near the rail way bridge, Stepney. The prisoner was recommended to Mr. yin, a few days ago, as an honest boy. The parents were respectable. The boy was only in Mr. Till's employ twenty-four hours, when he absconded, taking with him a silver watch. The watch was pawned by a ' woman, who received it from her son. Her son received it from the prisoner. The mother of the boy said she ' had always found her son a good, honest boy, and was quite surprised when she heard of this robbery. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Lushington said the boy • obtained a good situation in the house o f a respecta ble , tradesman, and immediately commenced robbing him. Whatever the boy might be at home he was a very dis- I honest boy out of doors. He sent him to prison for two months. - (Laug: ter) ? No answer. I was engaged to the plaintiffin May, '69. lam not engaged to any other lady. I don't know of any little rich widow. Since the engage ment Mrs. St. Laurence borrowed money from me on every occasion that I went to her house ;• keep a wag gonette, brcause I am unable to walk any considerable distance. His Lordship having charged the jury, the latter, after about an hour's consideration, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £lOO damages. THE FATAL MARCH.—A memorial has been signed by the vicar, magistrates, and other inhabitants of kingston-on-Thames, in which the memorialists pray that the-churchwardens will take such steps as will ensure the holding of an inquest on the body of, the soldier be longing to the 9th Regiment of Infantry, who died at the Militia Barracks, Kingston, after a day's march. Mr. Carter, the coroner, stated on Saturday that, if called upon by the churchwardens, he would hold an inquest. AMUSING INNOVATION IN A SHEFFIELD CHAPEL. —ln one of the chapels at the West End of Sheffield on Sunday night the officiating minister announced the result of a special collection which had been made in the morning. The sum realised was a very respectable one, and perhaps several of the members of the congregation were a little surprised, but one youngster in the gallery expressed his astonishment and admiration by utterance of a long low whistle. Notwithstanding the seriousness of the preceding discourse, many of the hearers had their gravity thoroughly upset by this unexpected and involun tary demonstration. GENERAL BANKS ON CUBA. The special correspondent of the New York Herald gives the following description of General Banks's great speech on the Cuban question. Writing from Washington on June 14th, he says : "It is very refreshing to hear once in a very long while a speech from the heart—one of those spontaneous, unela borated pieces of eloquence which a real orator, under the inspiration of the moment, gives free vent to. It is very seldom we get such luxuries here. Senators and members have got so much in the habit of reading somniferous es says that it has come to be a sacred rule now almost never to attempt a speech, unless of the most ordinary kind, without the most extravagant destruction of foolscap in advance, and, altogether, the most exhaustive prepara tion. The result is that generally one is most profoundly overcome by learning and sleep combined in the effort to follow debates in the Senate or House. But now and then these drowsy spells are broken ; something comes up that sets the fullest preparation at defiance and we get a speech, a real one, such as rouses people and makes them recall the days of Clay and Webster, and Henry and Burke, and Cicero and Demosthenes. Grant's message yesterday on Cuba furnished such an occasion to-day, and General Banks delivered a speech which, though it may not read in print like a finished piece of oratory, was certainly in delivery the most effective thing I have heard here •in over three years. It is not the habit of General Banks to write out his speeches in advance, but he generally studies up his subject beforehand and trusts to luck or inspiration for the rest. No doubt he had thus fortified himself to sup port his report on Cuba, but the message of Grant; of Fish, or Cushing, as the case may be, intervened and operated to modify his entire plan. The result was that when he spoke to-day before a full, excited, and sympa thising gallery he found himself obliged to treat of the President's message more than of his own report. He found himself thrown upon his own native strength of in tellect and fertility of resources, and, discarding all pre conceived plans of argument, he launched into a strong impromptu address, which made up in•fire and vigour what it may have lacked in study and preparation. I have never seen the members themselves, as well as the spectators in the galleries, so thoroughly worked up. Several times the excitement and en thusiasm found freedom in applause, clapping of hands and stamping of feet, and murmurs of approbation from members themselves. This is a rare compliment in these days, but it was richly deserved by Banks. His ad dress throughout was a very thinly concealed criticism of President Grant's message. It overflowed with sar castic references to the authorship of the document, the singular similarity in thought and expression with diplomatic notes of the Spanish Minister, and the pusillanimity of our foreign policy. It referred to Caleb Cushing, not by name, but so plainly that everybody on the floor and many in the galleries knew who was meant. When the orator allowed to escape some bitter, deeply cutting words about a lawyer who might be in the employ of Spain, and Grant and Isabella at the same time it sent a shot, not an occasional one, at President Grant and Congress both. When it declared the administration was not to blame, because the national Le g i s l a t u re had taught it was dangerous to have a policy ; but for the American lawyer who could send such a document as the message of yesterday to Congress nothing but everlasting disgrace could follow him. It shewed up the barbarities and outrages committed by Spain in Cuba, the insults to the American flag, the impunity with which our citizens were murdered there, and the protection enjoyed at the same time by the subjects of Great Britain, and then it declared that the cowardly policy of our Government was the cause. In words of stirring impert it threw forth the noble idea that to be safe as a nation we must be brave as a nation ; we must be ' firm and just ; only cowardly, pusillanimous people were imposed upon and abused. It shattered to atoms the pretence that the Cubans were not belligerents because they held no towns and had no seat of Government, and brought down a hearty laugh by remarking that man made the town, but God made the country, and that no seat of government was needed or could be fixed by a people car rying on a struggle for independence, if, in dealing with international objections, it was equally fortunate, demon strating that should we proclaim neutrality we would only be following in a juster and more discreet manner the example of Spain herself and all the nations of Europe. When, at its conclusion, General Banks related an alleged remark of Minister Roberts, to the effect that he (Banks) was actuated in his advocacy of Cuba by . improper mo tives, and when Banks declared that a Minister who could say that deserved to be drummed out of the country, he had his listeners at a pitch of sympathy and enthusiasm that was quite remarkable. Cheering, which Speaker Blame made little effort to suppress, greeted General Banks when he took his seat, and members of both sides of the House crowded about him to offer their congratulations. After thus congratulating General Banks the members scattered over the hall and went into the cloak-looms to discuss the merits of the speech. Judge Orth, who fol lowed as the representative of the minority of the com mittee, advocated the bill of Senator Morton, which simply provides for a strict enforcement of the neutrality laws. He laboured under great disadvantage, coming upon the heels of an effort like that of Banks. The mem bers did not listen. Many of them went out of the hall and others were standing here and there, in corners, dis cussing the points of Banks's speech. The audience in the galleries left, not seeming to wish to have the good effect of the speech to which they had listened disturbed. Orth was followed by Farnworth, who made a rambling attempt to sustain the minority report. Governor Swann, of Maryland, .who represents the democrats on the Foreign Affairs Committee, read an elaborate written speeeh in favour of Banks' report. Mr. Ambler, of Ohio, made a short speech in favour of the minority, after which the House took a recess until half-past seven." THE DOMINICAN NEGOTIATIONS. The Senate Investigating Committee in the case of Hatch in St. Domingo continued the examination of General Babcock to-day. The testimony was chiefly in reply to Perry's statement that Babcock wrote to Baez to appoint Mr. Fabens to represent the Dominican Government at Washington. This General Babcock denied, but admitted that he did suggest the appointment of M. Gautier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. As fur ther bearing upon the case of Hatch, General Babcock presented the report of Commander W. W. Queen, of the cruise of the Tuscarora after the revolutionary steamer Telegrafo, giving an extract as follows :—" The policy of the Government of the Island Tortola in relation to the Telegrafo has, been extremely vacillating, caused, no doubt, in a great measure by the persons interested in the vessel, many of whom are at present here. Having accompanied Governor Pine from Antigua, the Governor himself has developed that the sale of the vessel was a sham. The officer effecting the sale has been dismissed, and the money paid into the colonial treasury, and the commission in the sale has been returned. The only paper which the vessel was enabled to exhibit at Tortola was a bill of health furnished by one Hatch, an American, at Barahona, a Dominican port, not a port of entry. A cer tifi ca t e dated August 6, 1869, also states that the vessel put into Tortola under the Dominican colours, produced at the custom-house a clear ance and bill of health from the port of Barahona, St. Domingo, and no other documents to prove her nationality and ownership were exhibited." A letter was presented regarding some of Perry's trans actions while acting as consul, that when the Tybee was in port at St. Domingo, in March last, a Danish subject prosecuted an American sailor belonging to that vessel ; that Consul Perry went into the Court-room, and during the trial of the case slapped the plaintiff, who was a coloured man, in the face : that the court broke up and Consul Perry fled to the consulate and hoisted his flag for protection. The letter of the Dominican Government was produced in which the conduct of Consul Perry was complained of. The laws of the country in such cases required imprisonment and a fine. The Government adopted a pacific course, and merely requested the recall of Consul Perry. A very long letter from Mr. Hatch to General Babcock was also read. The above account is the Babcock version. The Perry ites have a slightly varied account. They say that Babcock was cornered several times, and that he admitted that he t3ok Fabens with him to Samana, and told the men he left in charge of the American flag in that place to look to Colonel Fabens. They also say that it was proved that Babcock recommended the Navy Department to appoint Fabens to take charge of the coal station at Samana, and that he admitted having procured the release of an me rican sailor guilty of murder, although he refused to in terfere in Hatch's case. The following is the note of Gautier, which admits that Hatch was confined for hos tility to the annexation project : " ST. DOMINGO CITY, Feb. 19, 1870. " MR. CorrsuL,—ln virtue of the evidence produced pending the trial of Mr. Davis Hatch, he was condemned to death, when President Baez appealed to the honourable body of Senators, asking them by means of a special message for their co-operation to save the life of that indi vidual, and for no other motive than that of his being a citizen of North America. According to our insti tutions the grace of life which is accorded to one condemned to death does not prevent, by any means, his being consigned to perpetual imprison ment ; but the President directs that his pass ports may be given him as soon as circumstances will permit, so that he may enjoy full liberty in any place wherein his acts will be inoffensive to us. The repeated and urgent solicitations which you hnve made in favour of the said Hatch, united with the desire which my government has to please that of Washington, should have persuaded us to concede his passports at once had it not been for the irrreoncileable enmity with which he attacks the government in all of its acts through the newspapers and their agents, inventing calumnies to divert the publlc mind against annexation to the United States, which desire has been manifested so loudly and publicly by the people. I desire that you will be good enough to assure his Excellency, the Secretary of State, in Washington, the prolonged sojourn of Mr. Hatch here has been only to punish his hostile action in New York, assuring him, at the same time, that if this reason will not satisfy him, and that should he insist on his (Hatch) being permitted to go to the government which has had no other aim than that of preventing_ falsehood, and the misleading of public opinion in the United States, we will be very glad to satisfy his wishes. I avail myself of this occasion to reiterate to you the sentiments of my most distinguished consideration. " M. M. GAUTIER, " Minister of Foreign Affairs. " To Raymond H. Perry, U. S. C. A." This letter was written in answer to a peremptory de mand for Hatch's release, made by Consul Perry. The latter made another demand after receiving this note, and failing to accomplish his object immediately sent for Admiral Poor, accompanied by whom he went to Presi dent Baez and requested the release of Hatch forthwith ' This belligerent demand was instantly complied with. This letter of Gaiitier's was read before the special Senate committee, and is said to have produced quite an impres sion.—New York Herald. MR. DISRAELI. Mr. Disraeli has something of the merit of Sir John Falsta f f, who was not only witty himself, but the cause:of wit in others, for his late literary activity has stirred up Blackwood's Magazine from its lethargy into something like the spirit of the days of Wilson and Maginn, when literary men in opposition laid about them for the amuse of half the country, and the chagrin of the other half. It is true that Blackwood for June does not shew the old pungency, but it laughs rather cleverly for all that, and predicts the passing over of Lothair to the Jewish creed in Disraeli's next work, as confidently as Bickerstaff pre dicted the death of Partridge, the astrologer. The hint about the existence of the Hebrew Messiah, now on earth, at the ripe age of sixty-five or thereabouts, is very much in "the Dean's " manner. But Mr. Disraeli is too much used to attack to be very angry over this sudden onslaught of a partially galvanized Blackwood.—New York Times. THE GENERALS AND THE ARMY BILL. It is a suspicious circumstance when individuals take personal offence at the result of national legislation. General Sherman is indignant at the passage of the Army Bill, and, it is said, means to resign. General Farnsworth feels outraged because General Sutler has succeeded in Committee in having the Bingham amendment stricken out of the Georgia Bill. Common people wonder at this rage against legislation made for the benefit of the whole country, and not intended to work to the disadvantage of any individual. We beg that Generals and all others concerned will learn to curb their temper on these occa sions. It looks too much as if they were hurt.—New York Tribune. MONUMENT TO DICKENS. Thousands of persons will esteem it a privilege to con tribute for some enduring and outward manifestation of the love in which they hold the memory of Charles Dickens. This wish can in no way be better gratified than by a popular subscription to secure a memorial of the novelist of humanity in Central Park. It may take the form of statue, or some other shape which after thought may deem preferable; but whatever it may be, there can be no more appropriate place or more fitting means for its erection. Dickens was near and dear to the people, and out of their means should come the memorial to be placed in their favourite resort.—New York Tri bune. LITERARY RESPONSIBILITY. The extraordinary and melancholy interest excited by the death of Mr. Dickens has yet hardly at all abated ; the newspapers still come to us full freighted with notices of the departed novelist. No literary man has died in our time whose loss will be so generally regretted. indeed, Mr. Dickens's fame quite stands out from ordinary literary success—certainly since Voltaire (who was quite a different writer) we suspect that no one has had so many readers ; and yet between the number of Voltaire's admirers and that of Mr. Dickens's it would be absurd to make any comparison. For the purpose of any such com putation the two men • are not to be named together ; for Mr. Dickens was fortunate enough to live in an age of universal reading and of a light and portable literature which has made reading universally possible. When Sir Charles Grandison came, with his ineffable grace and his inexpressible goodness, he came in so many volumes that only rich people could afford to buy his biography. Smollett, we think, set the example of publishing one of his novels in cheap monthly parts, but even this expe dient could not compensate for the small number of ordi nary people who preferred a book to beer. •Compare this state of things with the hordes, the swarms, the countless caravans of readers which Mr. Dickens has had. What a tremendous power has been his, and how faith fully and honourably has that power, on the whole, been exercised ! If there be here and there in these novels a few things which have made people no better, how few are there which have made them worse. Now, knowledge may be power, but it is not always peace of mind or even temporal pros perity. There is a Knowledge of Good and there is a Knowledge of Evil. There are books which confuse the moral perceptions, bewilder the heart, and make truth and virtue seem but empty cheats—popular books, fas cinating books, which the Devil himself might have writ ten, and then scattered broadcast to work an infinity of misery and wo and degradation of body and mind. There is one book in the English tongue written by a man of singular literary dexterity, which has done infinite mis chief—a book not to be named, and for the writing of which, if the author was not condemned to unquenchable fires, he must now be at least in Purgatory with but infinitesimal chances of getting out. This was the kind of Popular Literature which was once supplied for the reading of the poor in England ; and it may be sold there to some extent still. But the differ ence is that there are now better chances, if one chooses to seek them, and inexpensive chances at that. We question whether Mr. Dickens's works are so much read in England as in America ; but even there they must have had a most refining influence. He is not " goodyish ;" he can call a spade a spade upon occasion ' • but he is a sin gularly clean writer, and absolutely free from pruriency of thought, though employing occasional coarseness of expression • and the moralty of his books is always healthy, robust, and benevolent. But we are not intend ing a criticism of Mr. Dickens's books, nor specially a notice of their author. What we desire to point out is the immense responsibility which the general addiction to reading has imposed upon the literary class—upon the writers particularly of poems, dramas, novels, and newspapers. We do not think that there is so much bad and cheap printed matter in the market as there was a few years ago—but there is enough to do a great deal of mischief, though fortunately much of it is too dull for the general endurance of mankind. But in the heat and hurry of fugitive literary labour. even the cautious may lapse into the promulgation of error or into offences against good taste and sound criti cism. It isn't a pleasant consideration that you may be in danger of misleading a fellow-creature, who, in his turn, may mislead one of his fellow-creatures, and so on, ad infinitum. It makes one see a deadly weapon in his pen, and all Tartarus in his inkstand. Mr. Carlyla once humourously said in a preface to a new edition of his own "Life of Schiller," that it was a book whirh deserved "to be knocked " on the head :" yet a book once printed unfortunately couldnot be knocked on the head, but went up and down doing all manner of mischief. This is true of much printed matter, though (during a scarcity of rags) the paper mills have sent quantities of folly to oblivion. But we have often thought that the old verse about dying and leaving no line which one would wish to blot out, had in it a good deal of pathetic significance. It is easy to be wrong. It is so difficult to comprehend the exact wants of the reader. It is so hard even with the best intention, always to avoid the suggestion of the false. Well, God grant that all honest gentlemen who are plying their pens may make no mistake of matter or manner. As for the dishonest writers in the back slums of literature, they are past praying for.—New York Tribune. American papers just to hand state that the offer of the Cunard and Inman lines (which has been accepted) was to carry the mails between the United States and Great Britain for the amount of the sea-postage on the mails conveyed. 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