The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-14 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE. TKO HAMPSTEAD , JUNCTION RalLwAY.—Lord Romilly pave judgment on Thursday in the case of Kirby v. Carter, which related to the construction of the Hampstead Junc tion Railway. It appeared that the late Mr. Thomas Ilaydon contracted with the company for the construction ;uf works for which he was to be paid £95,031. After only small portion of the works were constructed Mr. Haydon idled. His executors then continued the construction for a few months, but as they had not sufficient money to go on with the undertaking, the railway company took the con .ractor's plant, and having themselves completed the works, preferred a claim of £23,647 against the estate of tithe deceased contractor.—The Chief Clerk certified that RI several respects the company had not completed the works according to their contract with Mr. Haydon.— "Lord Romilly therefore expressed his opinion that the company had no right to make a claim against Mr. Hay don's estate, and that his executors were entitled to an Anquiry in Chambers as to the amount due to them nuclei 'the contract. ALLEGED PERJURY BY ATTORNET.-At the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday, Mr. Murray, on behalf of the :Incorporated Law Society, moved for a rule to shew cause why an attorney of that court should not be struck off the roll. The attorney in question, he said, was admitted in 1861, and took out his certificates regularly until 1865. He continued without a certificate from that year untillB6B. In November in that year he served the usual summons on the Law Society, calling on them to shew cause, before a learned judge, why his certificate should not be renewed. He filed an affidavit in support of that application, in which he swore that he had not practised, either in his own name or with that of Any other person, whilst he was without a certificate. The Law Society appeared before Mr. Justice Mellor, and the affidavit being fair on the face of it, an order was made that the certificate should be renewed. It turned out afterwards, however, that the statement in the affi davit was utterly false, and the Law Society therefore felt it to be their duty to bring the matter under the notice of the court. Information had been received that shortly before filing his affidavit the attorney had been employed in a county court case, and sent in his bill for that very business after he filed the affidavit; and also that he had been engaged in bankruptcy, conveyancing, and insti tuting praeeclings in Chancery.—The rule nisi was granted. A Corrox CASE.—The case of Fairlie v. Fenton has been brought before the Court of Exchequer. It was tried before the Lord Chief Baron at Guildhall, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £1,748 16s. ld. A motion has now been made in the Exchequer on behalf of the defendants to set aside the verdict, or reduce the damages. The plaintiff is a cotton-broker in London, and the defendants are manufacturers in Man chester, and the dispute arose respecting a contract for the sale of 100 bales of cotton, the plaintiff being the agent for another person. The defendants had refused to fulfil the contract on the ground that it was a "bear" contract entered into in the expectation of the price of cotton falling. Judgment was postponed till another motion connected with the case was heard. Mr. BRADLAtiGH'S CASE.—It will he remembered that Mr. Bradlaugh, a few days since, applied to the Court of Common Pleas for a rule to compel an arbitrator in a case in which he was plaintiff to take his evidence, which had been objected to on the ground of his religious op nions. The court, however, has refused to interfere, after hearing Mr. Bradlaugh, on the ground that it was unusual to interfere with the decisions of arbitrators, and to do so would establish a most inconvenient practice, for which there was no authority. THE NEW CROSS ACCIDENT AGAlN.—Another case of damages against the Brighton Railway Coinpany on account of the accident at the New Cross Station has beenassossed in the Sheriff's Court. The plaintiff was a publican, who was strong and healthy before the accident, but who has since the accident become paralysed owing to an injury to the spinal cord. The jury awarded him £3,500 damages, being half the amount claimed. SWINDLING A RAILWAY COMPANY. —ln the case or William Dickeson, who was charged at the Central Criminal Court, with obtaining £250 com pensation in respect to the New Cross accident, on false pretences, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The judge, in passing sentence, said his only doubt was whether he should not pass a sentence of penal servitude. Ho sentenced the prisoner, however, to two years' hard labour, at the same time denouncing the conduct of his principal witness as most disgraceful. THE MARINE INSURANCE CASE.—Francis Brown, the Gravesend fisherman who has been several times examined at the Mansion House on charges of defrauding marine insurance companies, by forging false bills of lading, has been finally examined and committed for trial in respect to the shipwreck of a vessel called the Hope, for which he obtained in all £1,35 from five different companies. He had previously been committed on another charge. THE ROBBERY OF £l,OOO BY Boys.—The two boys, Thompson and Simpson, who, about three months ago, stole £940 from some solicitors' at Walsall, have pleaded guilty to the charge at the Quarter Sessions. The pri soners had, it seems, taken the notion of going to Australia, and wanted to get the money for their passage. Simpson, suggested they should rob the house of an old man, but the project failed. The prosecutors, who had employed Thompson, said they could not recommend him to mercy. It was said by his counsel that his head had been turned by sensational novels, and that he took the money from an unlocked drawer. The prisoners were each senteneed to nine months' imprisonment. CHARGE OF FRAUD.—At the Liverpool Police-court, Xennaird Bayley was brought up on bail, charged with having fraudulently obtained a quantity of cotton, value £5OO, from Messrs. Chambers, Holder, and Co., cotton brokers, Liverpool. He had authorised his salesman to give the name of Mr. Seddon, cotton manufacturer, Bolton, as the buyer. A warrant was issued against the prisoner, and he was apprehended in Glasgow. The prisoner was committed for trial. In 1852 some workmen kindled a fire in a Missouri coal mine to warm themselves, and last week it was found gstill burning. Most of the members of the "Left Centre" have received—doubtless from the same " Irreconcilable "--a New Year's present, consisting of a box of bonbons, with the motto, "In politics as in numeration, ciphers aro of DO value unless they stand to the Right." Said Stubbs to one of his debtors, "Isn't it about time for you to pay me that little bill ?" "My dear sir," was the reply, " It is not a question of time--it a question of eternity." NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKED.—Sir Henry Smith, long M.P. for Colchester, was one of the Tories of the old school; and among the advocates of reform, his resolute opposition to all change gave him a reputation for folly and obstinacy which was not borne out by his real character. On one occasion he was canvassing in presence of numerous friends, and on asking a heavy looking farmer for his vote, the man replied, " I'd vote for ye, Sir Henry, as usual, only you're such a fool."-- " Fool, am I?" retorted Sir Henry; "then Pm the very snail to represent you.' The diamond shaft of wit went to 'the farmer's heart, and with a loud guffaw, he promised his vote. A NEW BURGLAR'S DODGE.—It is stated that a gang of burglars is going round the most respectable streets in Pimlico trying a new " dodge " They dress like gentlemen returning from evening parties. One of them goes up to a door at about midnight, and tries the lock gently with a latch-key. If it fail to open, being !duly barred, he tries another door till he reaches one "Mich has been left on the latch for some of the inmates. When he signals his confederates, and the house is at their mercy. If met by the police, the burglar appears to be a , gentleman innocently walking home. If caught (as in one case) actually trying a door, the polite thief civilly apolo gises for having " mistaken the number of his friend's louse," and goes elsewhere. THE PEERAGE.—Who's Who in 1870" sup plies the following facts about the peerage :--The oldest duke is the Duke cf Leinster, aged 78; the youngest, tthe Duke of Norfolk, aged 22. The oldest .marquis is the Marquis of Westmeath, aged 84 ; the youngest, the Marquis of Ely, aged 20. The oldest Earl is the Earl of Onslow, aged 92; the youngest the Earl of Carnwath, aged 11. The oldest viscount is the Viscount Moles-worth, aged 83; the youngest, Viscount Clifden, aged 6. The oldest Baron is Lord St. Leonards, aged 88; the youngest, Lord Kenyon, aged 5. The oldest 'member of the Privy Council is Lord St. Leonards, aged 138 ; the youngest, the Duke of Norfolk, aged 22. The oldest member of the House of Commons is Mr. William H. Barrow, member for South Notts, aged 85 ; the youngest, Mr. John Hutton, member for Northallerton, aged 22. The oldest Judge in England is Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, aged 76; the youngest, Sir Henry Mullen, aged 49. The oldest Judge in Ireland is the Right Hon. David It. Pigot, Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, aged 66 ; the youngest, the Right Hon. Michael Morris, Coin men Mae, aged -12. The oldest Scotch Lord of Sessions is Hercules J. Robei tson, Lord Eenholme, aged 73 ; the youngest, Lord Mure, aged 58. The oldest archbishop is the Archbishop of Armagh, aged 68 ; the youngest the Archbishop of York, aged 50. The oldest bishop of the Church of England and Ireland is the Bishop of Cashei, aged 80; the youngest, the Bishop of Derry, aged 45. The oldest baronet is Sir Thomas Beckett, aged 9) ; the youngest, Sir Thomas Gresley, aged 3. The oldest knight it J Htnii poke, flied 8331 ,9r youngest, Sir —iied_sl;4l— METROPOLITAN GOSSIP—Jan. 13. Have your readers noticed the new agitation which has just commenced in British Columbia for the annexation of that colony to the United States ? Taken in connection -kith the suggestion made in the United States Senate, that England should cede the colony by way of set off to the Alabama claims, it is clear that we are entering upon a new and serious phase of the American difficulty. It is now twenty-four years since the treaty was signed defining the frontier line between British America and the United States. Every one knows how, in consequence of imperfect maps, a dispute arose as to the channel through which the boundary line ought to be drawn. We said that the only channel marked on the map was the line intended : the United States insisted that a channel discovered subsequently was the one that ought to be adopted. The difference involved the most momentous consequences—nothing less, in fact, than shutting us off from the Pacific, the first step towards, what Mr. Seward has described as " crowding " Great Britain out from that ocean. But the Pacific will, before" long, become the highway to Japan and China, and ex perience of Morrill tariffs has taught us that the Washington Govet nment will most certainly prevent our Eastern trade passing through any United States port without paying a heavy import duty. It is, therefore, essential to us if we would maintain our trade with the East to retain some good port on the Pacific. To do that we must keep the island of San Juan, which General Harney forcibly invaded in 1859, thereby nearly involving the two countries in war. This island would be ours if the boundary line which we claim were established. About fourteen years ago commissioners were appointed by the two Governments to settle the question, and it was while the matter was still under consideration that General Harney adopted the high-handed course of landing an armed force on San Juan. It was only by the extreme forbearance of Governor Douglas, and Captain, now Admiral Hornby, that bloodshed and a revolting war were prevented. The commission continued their labours until the civil war broke out. England magnanimously forbore to press her claims during the troubles of the United States, and it was not till 18618, when peace bad been restored,that negotiations were renewed. This magnanimity, so different from the conduct of the Emperor Napoleon in attempting to found a " Latin" Empire in ➢lexico, ob tained no recognition and called forth no thanks. It was proposed by the Clarendon-Johnson convention to refer the matter to the arbitration of the President of the Swiss Republic; but we all know what became of that convention. Viscount Milton says, in a volume just pub lished, " The San Juan Water Boundary," and which every one should read who desires to understand the matter, " Great Britain believes her rights to be so clear that she does not fear the result of a fair arbitration; the people of the United States, on the other hand, sem to think their right to the disputed territory to be so extremely clear that it ought not to be submitted to arbitration." The word " seem " is a very appropriate qualifica tion. Most persons who have read the despatches which Lord Milton has published—many of them for the first time—will not only agree with him that the English people ought not to be any longer kept in ignorance of this important question, but that the more the matter is explained, the less chance will there be that the claim set up by the Washington Government will be approved even by that Government itself. It is, no doubt, this conviction which has induced the proposal that we shall cede British Columbia as a set-off to the Alabama claims; in other words, shut ourselves out from China and Japan in order that all the trade with those countries may pass through the United States—a very costly mode of paying the Alabama claims, even were they twice as heavy as they are. My expectation that Mr. Bright would reveal no State secret when addressing his constituents has been fulfilled, and the announcement made by the Morning Post and the Observer that he would make important disclosures has been falsified. There is one revelation, however, which the President of the Board of Trade made—a personal but not a State revelation—viz., that Mr. Bright can make a speech as moderate and unaggressive as any ever made by the suave Mr. Cardwell himself. It is most satisfactory to find that the right hon. gentleman has at last comprehended the difficulties of a Cabinet Minister. He no longer talks, as he did less than a year ago, of a measure which will settle the Irish land question at once. He admits that the question becomes more diffi cult the more closely it is approached. He no longer calls upon the Government to undertake four or five first-class measures in the same session, as he would have done if he had still been a private member. Even if Mr. Bright should quit office to-morrow he will have profited for the rest of his life by this short taste of official labours and responsibilities. Two important political incidents are reported in this morning's papers. The first, and most important, is a speech by Mr. E. A. Leatham to his constituents at Halifax. Now, this gentleman is an advanced Liberal, and is brother-in-law to Mr. Bright ; yet he has declared against one of the main principles of the Birmingham League—compulsory education. This is but one fact out of many to shew how little agreement there is among the Liberal party as to the education question, and how unlikely it is that the programme of the extreme reformers will be passed. If a settlement of the question were to be postponed for some years, it is possible that the League might prevail; but as by common consent the question must be settled by next year at the latest, there is little proba bility that the League will be able to bring the majority of politicians to accept its programme. The other incident is the speech made at Christchurch by Sir H. D. Wolff, the late Conservative candidate for that borough, in which he denounced the new cry for reciprocity. Lord Malmesbury was one of the speakers, and seems to have approved Sir Henry's sentiments. It is noticeable, too, that the audience consisted mainly of farmers. It is no longer the agriculturists who ask Protection, but working men in the towns ; and it is no longer the squires who proclaim it, but men like Mr. Odger. There are rumours that Mr. Lowe will be able to shew a magnificent surplus, and that he will bring in the Budget very early in order to announce the good news as speedily as possible, and so counteract the irritation which the demand for the payment of taxes in advance is causing. It is even said that the surplus will be between five and six millions—a splendid bonne bouche, which will pacify even the irate British tax payer, and induce him to refrain from looking the Chancellor's fine gift-horse in the mouth. The Conservatives have not yet overcome the difficulty about the leadership in the Upper House. A little while ago it seemed pretty nearly certain that Lord Derby would be the man, and those who ought to know are certain that he will be still. But it would appear as if Lord Derby him self desired to defer his acceptance of that very onerous and not very cheerful office until he has had time to feel his feet. When three such questions as the land, education, and university tests are coming on, it may be that so liberal a Conservative as Lord Derby may desire to see what the Government propose to do before he undertakes to lead the Opposition. Lord Cairns will, therefore, not only meet Parliament in his capacity of leader, as I mentioned last week, but will, in all proba bility, continue to hold that post until Easter. This will give Lord Derby sufficient opportunity to see how far he is en rapport with his party on the great questions of the day; all the more opportunity because Easter is late this year, and all the great Government measures are likely to be introduced before that date. Let me relieve these political matters with incidents of a lighter kind. Your readers may remember that after the opening of the last session of Parliament a bracelet was discovered in the Peeresses' Gallery. It was ad vertised, but though it was very massive, and contained some splendid stones, it was never asked for. It was then taken to a jeweller's, who at once pronounced the hand some ornament to be a sham—a sufficient reason why it was never demanded. Here is another similar incident, of which the explanation is not so apparent. A large crush party was given in one of the West-end squares a little while ago. After the visitors were gone a bracelet was found, and, as in the other case, notice was given of the treasure to all the guests and friends of the giver of the entertainment. But none of them claimed the bracelet. It was taken to a jeweller's, who declared that it was worth about £lO, and was therefore worth claiming. Why was it not claimed ? Why has it never been claimed to this day? I suspect that the explanation is to be found in an incident mentioned in the obituary notices of the late Lady Palmerston. It was stated that her ladyship used often to see at her receptions in Cambridge House people whom she had never asked. She never took affront, but would say that if such people liked to come uninvited they would do her no Wm. Now, it is by no means an unusual thing for persons in London, fond of going out and of boasting of the grand houses to which they kive the entrée, to make their way into a house where they ;Fie a regular crush party going on. It does not signify that they are not able to get near the hostess; it would he rather awkward if they were able. So they stand on the staircase or in the ante-room, and experience all t'ie delight of being jostled by countesses and honourables. The game is a tolerably safe one, only if the intruders should happen to drop a bracelet they could not very well call for it afterwards, and thus unless due caution is exercised the amusement may be a little costly. From time to time the papers have announced the speedy opening of the Alexandra Park and Exhibition building on Muswell Hill. The building was erected out of the inaterials which constituted the International Exhi bition of 16/1.. Eutkoine sayears thusrorkhaa Ineuxhag. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1870 , on, and for halt that time it has been on the verge of com- I of goods from Russia to India vid Aistria, the Austrian pletion. But the financial crisis has prevented the directors Lloyd Company is to employ two of its steamers exclu from "crowning the edifice," and it remains incomplete. sively on the service between Trieste and India. A uni- The surrounding park is also only partly laid out, and form charge is to be made for goods of every kind sent though it offers fine opportunities for a beautiful pleasure direct from India to St. Petersburg. ground, it is little better than a wilderness. All this while TEE JEWS IN 110173IANLS. the shareholders have been receiving no return for their money, and recently they proposed to sell their property to a building company, who should cut it up into small lots and lay it out in suburban squares and terraces of the usual stucco order of architecture. Fortunately the com mercial depression has led to the failure of that scheme also, and negotiations are now on foot for carrying out the original design. Mr. Cadman, of Marylebone, has invited the laity of his parish to meet him to confer upon the best means of obtaining co-operation between the clergy and laity in parochial work. Mr. Cadman contends that every layman is bound to give up some portion of his time to this kind of work. One of the judges, Baron Pigott, will preside at the meeting. The correspondent of the Eastern Budget, at Bucharest, says that the question of the Jews has placed the Rou manian Government in a great difficulty. The guarantee ing Powers ask that justice should be done to the Jews, while the Ministerial supporters in the Chamber urge severe measures against them. The Prime Minister has said that the Roumanian Government considered the Jewish question a purely internal one, and a declaration to that effect had been made to the diplomatic agent of a foreign Power a few days ago. In reply to a proposal that they should adopt measures against the Jews, the Ministry declared that they were prevented by the Constitution from taking the initiative in the matter. A commission of members was appointed, for the purpose of considepiag the we tion. On Monday night there was a capital amateur perform ance at the public rooms in St. John's-wood. The chief actors were Mr. W.J. Dixon (son of Mr. Hepworth Dixon; Mr Harry King, and Mr. S. Dawson. The actresses were also amateurs, and performed most admirably. The prin cipal piece was Mr. H. J. Byron's " War to the Knife." It was followed by the farce of "A Thumping Legacy." Tho mention of Mr. Hepworth Dixon's name reminds me to say that his new journal, Light, is at present only a name. The title has been registered, but Mr. Dixon is too busy over his Russian book and other work to start a new journal, at all events for the present. Sir Charles Dilko is now editing the Athenaum, but Dr. Doran still writes in that paper. Of other literary news I have none to-day except that the last number of Meliora has appeared. The object for which it was started twelve years ago—the promotion of social science —has, thanks to the continuous advocacy of that magazine, been so well served that there is no longer need of a special organ. Social science is now one of the staple commodities of all our magazines and newspapers. Certainly Meliora has not died from want of vigour. The last number was one of the best. It should be mentioned that this was the first of the shilling magazines, having been started several months before Macmillan and the Cornhill were heard of. EMIGRA77ON CENTRES. (From the Anglo-American Times.) COUNTY AROUND KANSAS CITY (CONTINUED). We cannot leave this, the finest block of land in the United States now open for emigration, with out touching on its history, for the emigrant - would not understand without it the state of society. It was in Missouri, along where the river separates that State from Nebraska and Kansas, that the great struggle between free soil and slavery was commenced. Indeed the admission of Missouri into the Union was not effected without a fierce debate in Congress and a compromise on the subject of slavery, by which it was agreed that no more Slave States should be admitted north of the parallel 36.30, and this was the celebrated Missouri com promise line which was abrogated in 1850. For thirty years that truce held, and was respected in the West, hut, as the parties became embittered and the final contest approached, the slave owners of Missouri formed the design of carrying their slave property through the country back westward as far as the Rocky Mountains, perhaps even to the Pacific. The South, although such action openly violated the law, pledged its aid to these planters, Ind they commenced by extending the frontier west ward from the line drawn north and south through Kansas City, adding six large counties to their State. This illegal action passed unnoticed until the attention of New England was attracted to the fact that Kansas and Nebraska were about to be added to the Slave States, which would carry the slave line as far north as Boston. Then Massa chusetts moved, forming a northern emigrant aid society,and pushed ma ny fervid opponents of slavery, as settlers into Kansas, determined to vote there a free Constitution. The first New Englander who crossed the stream was stopped, turned adrift in the middle of the river, without food or oars, and a resolution was carried unanimously at a meeting of Sons of the South to assist in removing any and all immi grants settling in Kansas Territory under the au spices of the Northern Emigrant Aid Society, and this was supplemented by the declaration of this Squatters' Sovereign, that we, the planters will con tinue to lynch and hang, tar and feather, and drown any white-livered Abolitionist who dares to pollute our soil." It was not in the nature of these Sons of the South to bark without biting, and that they were prepared to bite was soon tested. In July, 1854, thirty well-armed New Englanders crossed in open boats, and pushing up the Kansas River founded the city of Lawrence, and the following month seventy more joined them. Three hundred and fifty Sons of the South were soon mounted and before Lawrence, whose inhabitants they gave three hours to pack up and be off, if they promised never to return. The answer was a firm, but civil refusal, and then commenced the events which earned for the State the mournful name of Bleeding Kansas. To all intents and purposes a condition of war prevailed, but the New Englanders maintained their ground with all the courage and tenacity of the Puritan, and the frightful persecution to which they were subjected only kindled within them the enthusiasm which made martyrs of such men as John Brown. Lawrence was held through six years of con test, its houses seamed with the scars of grape and canister, and every street of Leavenworth has been the scene of a fierce fight. In one of these sonflicts John Brown defeated Captain Clay Pate and 56 Sons of the South with his band of but 27 Freesoilars, disdaining even to meet his enemy any where but in the open field. Nor did he only de feat the enemy, but captured the commander with 21 of his men and all the spoils of Palmyra, a Free- Soil town that Clay Pate had just been looting. It was not till 1861 that the wounds of Bleeding Kansas were healed by the State being admitted into the Union as Free-Soil; and then commenced the great war, when the strong arm of Uncle Sam, using all its might dashed into fragments and for ever annihilated the " Domestic Institution" of the South, which bas been such a curse to the Con tinent. Those then who seek a home in Bleeding Kansas must expect to hear tales of stirring adven ture, of recent strife, the embers of which still smoulder, and on this frontier they will see ground which we believe to be the scene of the highest of all New England's achievements, indeed of one, the gallantry, the pertinacity, and the high principle of which, is as yet but little known to the world. Nor will the settler who moves far to the West be exempt from the chance of hav ing his own blood spilt on his own hearthstone, and the hair, if he has any on the crown of his head, wrenched off with the scalp. But he must go quickly if he has a fancy for such contingencies, for thelndian is retreating with the buffalo, few being left, and soon profound peace will reign throughout the West. In continuing our subject, we cannot do better than follow in Dr. Bell's footsteps, throw ing our further remarks into a review of his work lately published, perhaps the most interesting which has appeared in London within recent years on Ame rica, New Tracks in N orth A merica. We may, how ever, conclude this portion of our subject by noticing the rise of such a city as St. Louis, the commercial emporium of the Mississippi Valley, though not the State capital of Missouri. It was founded by Pierre Lascede in 1764 as a trading post, at the junction of the two great rivers. In that year the country east of the Mississippi was ceded to England by France, and the French possessions west of the river were made over by Louis XV. to Spain. In 1804 Spanish Louisiana became part of the United States ; in 1815 the first steamboat made its appearance at St. Louis, and five years later, after a full debate, the citizens of St. Louis voted to establish slavery, by which they saddled upon Missouri that pernicious institution. In 1830 the population of the town wasbut 5,852, which shows that though Chicago was unborn, still St. Louis was not till then of much account. In 1840 thepopulation was 16,469 ; next decade, 74,439; in 1859, 185,587 ; in 1866, 204,327 ; in 1867, 220,000. The emigrant will perceive in such rapid rises the chances open to the early settler who has the foresight to choose a good location. The man who owned a few valueless acres in the neighbourhood of St. Louis 20 years ago, would now possess a con siderable fortune, without having improved the land. The moment slavery ceased, Missouri be gan rapidly to rise ; nearly all the uncultivated land, estimated by Dr. Bell at the close of the war at 25,000,000 acres, has been taken up, either under the Homestead Act or by the small pune chasers from the original great landowners. In 1860, before the war, the corn receipts amounted to 4,250,000 bushels ; in 1863, during the war, they fell below one million of bushels, and in 1866, after the war, they reached 7,233,671 bushels. All other industries have increased in the same ratio, machi nery and iron goods being manufactured to a great extent at St. Louis. Two hundred and sixty steamers are employed in the carrying trade of that city, ascending the Mississippi 740 miles to St. Paul, descending 1,212 to its mouth ; up the Mis souri 685 miles to Omaha, and beyond, for 1,166 miles. The Ohio River takes them to Pittsburgh, 1,195 miles, and its branches are navigable to the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Indeed the Mississippi and its tributaries represent a navigable length of 12,000 miles, placing St. Louis in communication with every city of importance in the largest river basin on the globe. The emigrant therefore, if he chooses to go to Kansas City by water, can proceed every yard of the way in a steamboat. Mr. R. A Holmes, of the British Museum, has been ap pointed her Majesty's Librarian at Windsor. There were hundreds of applicants. Very different was the case when the late Librarian, Mr. B. B. Woodward got the post. No one applied for a long time, and when Mr. Woodward entered the field he at once secured the appointment, being competent and without competitor. He was at that time a Dissenting minister at Norwich. Some of Mr. Wood ward's friends are raising a subscription for his wife and children, who are left uprovided for, owing to the sudden death of their protector. Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt, Sir Antonio Panizzi, Mr. John Ruskin, and others are on the committee. A VOYAGE THROUGH THE SUEZ CANAL. Mr. Blon, Marine Superintendent of the North China Steamship Company, writes from Bombay to the Times, and gives his experiences of , a voyage through this new "highway to the East." The writer started from Greenock in the Sive Nauzing, a paddle steamer, 722 tons register on the 11th November, and entered the Suez Canal, which he describes as a great, long, straight, deep ditch, on the Ist December. Th e y went through sometimes steaming eight knots an hour, but this he considered much too fast for the safety of the banks of the canal. At three in the afternoon they grounded on the edge of the starboard bank at Lake Ballah, a narrow and difficult part, and got off, after nine hours' delay, with the assistance of two small steam tugs. The rest of the voyage to Suez was completed with safety. Mr. Blon recommends that paddle steamers should be towad through, where the banks have been injured by the wash of the wheels, and thinks the pilots ought to be better acquainted with the configuration of the bottom of the canal. The pilots should be men of all nationalities He combats British prejudice by the ar gument that the clays of sailing vessels are numbered, and that no other nation can compete with her in the construction of iron steam vessels. For this reason alone the Suez Canal cannot fail to be of enormous benefit to England. THOUSANDS OF PRESENTS.—We strongly recom mend the Nobility and Gentry to visit Parkins and Gotto's extensive show-rooms, where may be seen thou sands of useful and elegant articles of English, French and Austrian manufacture, especially adapted for birthday, wedding, and christening presents —in fact presents for every conceivable purpose, at very moderate prices. This is, without exception, the largest and best selected stock in Europe : each article is marked in plain figures, andlin consequence of a rapid sale is perfectly new and fresh (a great oonsideration in a present). The stock consists of portrait-albums, writing-eases, dressing-cases, dressing bags, despatch boxes, envelope cases, and blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, handbags, card cases, book-slides, glove and handkerchief box(); purses, pocket-books, cigar-cases, reticules, opera-glasses, scent cases, smelling bottles, bronzes, electro-gilt, oxidised and ele, gently mounted articles for mantelshelf, dining, drawing and library table, chess-boards, bagatelle-boards, card trays, scrap-books, Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser vices, plain and elegantly mounted, besides an endless variety of other articles to suit every taste, purpose, and pocket.—rarkla and Gotto, 21 and 25, Oxford-greet 1 TY • AN EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THIEVES. -- -t---_ The night before last about 220 guests of Ned Wright were treated to soup and psalm-singing at a place in the New-cut, which was a penny gaff, but which vow, under the regenerate name of Gospel Hall, is used as a sort of chapel and school room in one. The audience assembled in Gospel Hall was a somewhat remarkable company, as will be understood when it is said that " none but male thieves who have been convicted" were allowed to enter. Invitations to the number of 195 had been issued ; and, in addition to these, as at the late Lady Palmerston's parties, there was a rush of un bidden guests who were allowed to remain. About ten or twelve were veritable crackamen, who have reached and passed the dignity of transportation or penal servitude, seven of these having served an aggregate of 67 years and upwards in her Ma jesty's gaols. But the far greater number present were stars of inferior magnitude, such as " bluey hunters," " smide-pitchers," and ordinary "prigs." Of a total of 188 thus made up, with 376 convictions among them, a few cases call for note. As a matter of good faith, we shall of course withhold names and addresses, though there can be no harm in saying that Kent-street seems to be an especially favoured place of resi dence for gentlemen in the thieving interest. G. G., against whom as many as fourteen convic tions are scored, and who has passed ten years of a still young life in prison, has principally been in trouble for " smashing," and is so good an adept in the trade that he is able proudly to "give a reference." J. S., who bas been convicted six teen times, and has spent seven years between Wandsworth and Coldbath Fields, " came out o' Christmas Eve ;" and J. left prison for the eighth time " the day afore yesterday." And now, hav ing spoken of the feasted, at last night's banquet of soup and bread, let us find a few words for the feaster. Looking at Mr. Edward Wright, in the flesh, and in the plain-cut black clothes and white necktie of a minister or missionary, it would be difficult for you to suppose that, like the good cham pion of the faith who forcibly converted Colonel Quagg, he has " belonged to the ungodly order of men called prize-fighters." It is, nevertheless, per fectly true that Ned Wright had both fought a tough battle of two hours and seventeen minutes, and taken his trial for cracking a crib, before he was seventeen. He is, however, a man of such frank and pleasant presence, and of such open ho nesty of face, that we must in reason separate him from the common run of burglars; and, indeed, it is plain from his own story that the wildness which often accompanies rude health and strength led him, more than mere viciousness and depravity of nature, into crime. Ile is, for all that, of John Bunyan's mind, in holding that his early life was passed entire in the service of the devil, even when his energy was not directed to any breakage of the law. He speaks of that early life with un affected horror ; but does not shirk allusion to it or to the unpleasant circumstances of impri sonment. When asked whether ~he had been in the habit of visiting gaols, like his namesake, the Manchester philanthropist, he answered with a smile half melancholy and half cheerful, " All my visits to such places have been against my will." It was in managing his decidedly unruly guests that Ned Wright showed most force of character last evening. When, a little before six o'clock, there was an ugly rush at the door, he threw him self with admirable promptitude and determina tion into the narrow passage, and by sheer strength turned the tide of a dozen bulking vagabonds who were endeavouring to push their way in with out tickets. It is not likely that Ned Wright has ever read Hazlitt ; but the idea of dominating men through their own wills was not the less. clearly understood by the converted burglar Finding that many unauthorised entrances had been made, he told the men with tickets that, un less they ejected those who were without, all pro mised benefits would be suspended ; and at later periods of the evening he relied, with perfect success, on the self-interest of the mass for the preservation of order. "Now look here," he said I once, " there are only so many pieces of bread, and there are only so many persons to eat 'em ; so if you catch anybody taking two pieces you must round on him." To which proposition the assent, 66 IVerry proper, too," was growled in chorus. Halves of half-quartern loaves having been first distributed—and, by the bye, the avidity with which they were clutched told plainly that dis honesty is not conducive to luxurious living—the savoury soup was served round in white basins, fur nished with tinned iron spoons of an infinitesimal value. In the majority of cases the meal about this time of day, if obtained at the personal cost of the consumer, would have been " a palmer's pint and three;" or in other words a pint cup of the curious street-stall coffee and three slices of bread and butter. There was more nourishment in the soup and hunk of bread, which had the additional merit of costing nothing. It would be idle to say that the task of Ned Wright, in maintaining strict dis. cipline was, with all his tact and energy, an easy one. But he ruled, and ruled successfully, more by friendly words than by sternness. One particu larly obnoxious blackguard gave so much trouble that a cry arose of " Chuck him out !" Where upon Ned Wright interposed with " No; don't chuck him out ; whisper to him kindly, and say, 6 Old fellow, hold your row.' " Thenceforth the offender was wonderfully subdued and attentive. A notable and somewhat pathetic appeal from Wright had also a marked effect upon the whole assembly. " Let us show our kind visitors on the platform," said he, " that we really are men, if rough and desperate ones. Don't let it be said that we are sunk to the level of brutes." The British " chaff" relieved any dullness there might have been at some stage of the proceedings ; and many of the ready answers and comments of these poor thieves showed a sharpness of intellect that contradicted the expression of face which, in many instances, was that of semi-cretinism. Of Ned Wright's ad dress, we can only give a general idea. It was thoroughly earnest ; and, though we can scarcely hope that its argumentative piety prevailed with more than one or two, the small result of good is somewhat increased by the knowledge that in no possible case can any harm be done. Moreover, the genuine conversion of even a single hearer must in cite season increase and multiply, as is exemplified in the case of Ned Wright himself, who was called to righteousness one Sunday night when he entered a theatre in which a special service was going on. His homely exhor tations to repentance were free from any tinge of pride, it being observable that in the constant use of the pronoun " we" he made common cause with his hearers, and considered his and their interests alike. "If I were to get into trouble again," he said, " and should be taken before a magistrate, my old character would be brought up against me. There would be a man in a blue coat to say " He's known, your worship, as a convicted thief ;" and then, when I went up to the sessions, and heard the foreman of the jury give in the word "guilty," I should feel sure that the sentence pro nounced by the judge would be harder for that cruel recollection of a former crime. It's too true, friends, that, try as you may, in this world, you can't escape the consequences of having once sinned. But that's why I want you not to depend on the mercy of this world. That's why I want you to come with me to Jesus, to come to Him as I came, without a plea, bringing all my guilt with me. There's the difference between this world's judgments and God's judgments. The magistrate will and must look to your past faults as determining your present character; but though you and I continue to sin against God, what will He say to us if we go to Him, humbly and truly penitent? He will say. " Thy sins and thine iniquities I will remember no more." For the most part, though homely, the language of Ned Wright was fairly grammatical; but now and then he seemed to drop, from positive sympa thy, to the habit of speech common to his hearers; and he stirred them to the depths by a personal re miniscence, very creditable to himself, narrated with manly simplicity. " You remember, some of you," he said, 44 and I remember too, ah as if it was yesterday, when six watermen was to row on the river Thames. Me and young Short, of Ber mondsey, was favourites for the coat and badge. There's men here now, in this hall, who ran along the river bank that day, up to their knees io water, and swore vengeance against all who denied fair play to Ned Wright. Well, in the midst of the great excitement of that match, a cry was heard that a boy was in the water. I saw where he had gone down, in the wake of a steamboat, or a little abaft the paddle, and I saw the bubbles rise hat might have been the bubbles of his last breath. I was pretty usedito getting people out of thewater, and so, knowing how to go about it, 1 made no diflieulty about diving and bringing up the body of tho boy. He was laid on the table of a tap-room, and hot bricks were got, and hot water, and the proper restoratives; and after he had seemed quite dead for six minutes, he began to breathe, and was clasped in his mother's arms. Some money was collected for me in a hat that was sent round, and I, being in the Devil's service, spent it soon enough. But only think, if I had pleasure, as in deed I had, in saving the life of that child, what happiness would be mine if I could save any of you, and bring such of you as have mothers back to their hearts, a blessing instead of a curse." Ano ther, and a more painful story of his past life, was told with force. lie had served in the navy, and, for some crime which he frankly acknowledged to have merited punishment, had received two dozen lashes. It was when referring to the effect of the preacher's voice upon him, in Astley's Theatre, that he said, " Though the navy cat could not make my heart beat, it beat at the sound of the words that called me to repentance." After the extraordinary gathering, there was the usual gospel meeting, to which many—perhaps half—of the guests were induced to remain, by an intimation that certain benevolent plans for start ing men on an honest way of life would be sub sequently discussed. Those plans, as explained by Mr. Wright, were as promising as any that could be devised. A proprietor of barrows such as are used by costermongers had thirty of those vehicles disengaged. The project of Mr. Wright was to find thirty men for those thirty barrows, and to give them each a shilling to begin business. Many a thriving salesman has risen from as small a capital to independence. The Standard publishes a very interesting account of a supper to thieves, given in the midst of their metropolitan quarters—the New Cut, Lambeth. The hour was six o'clock ; the place—what was recently a " penny gaff," and is now a gospel hall. " Ned Wright, the burglar," is the chief man of the night. He used to be called " Mickey Moon " among his associates. His fame amongst his late fellows, now his " parishioners"—if we may use the word—is very extended. Some four or five years ago he became a deeply religious man, abandoned his burglars' tools, and was not only bent upon becoming honest himself, but has devoted all his energies to inducing his former companions to follow his example. Among the roughs and criminals of the New-cut he has worked with great succeess. Speaking their language, sympath ising with their prejudices, acquainted with all their dodges, it is probable that his rough-and-ready eloquence may find its way to their hearts, while the more refined language of the regular clergy never penetrates beyond their ears. Encouraged by his measure of success Ned Wright determined to have a grand field night with the pickpockets, and he issued invitations to all who would come, the sole condition being that every person who desired to attend must have been convicted at least once. There is something a little startling in the fact—for the district is not a large one—that not less than five hundred applications were received; but as not more than two hundred tickets could be issued the process of selection was rigorously enforced. In the result the guests of the evening were roughly analysed thus : There were 183 menand boys who had altogether served in prison 142 years 4 months and 2 weeks; and there were seven men who had between them served 67 years and 4 months; or a total of 195 guests who had undergone nearly 210 years of imprisonment. One of them had been convicted no less than 16 times, and had served seven years ; against another 13 convictions and 10 years' imprisonment were on record; and the degree of criminality gradually dwindled down from those extreme cases until at the other end of the scale stood a boy of tender years who had been sent to prison for 14 days for stealing four turnips when he was hungry. The Standard reporter had some conversation with Mr. Wright about the audience which had gathered together "to eat and listen." 'Wright admitted that, for the most part, they were " bluey hunters " and " pigeon coves," or in other words scamps who stole lead off the roofs or bell handles from doors, and the like petty descriptions of larceny, but he added that he expected some swell mobs men and "opera jumpers " (men who dress well and pick pockets at the opera), who being down upon their luck would be glad of a basin of good soup and a half quartern, after having been reduced for some time to " a palmer's pint and three "—i.e., a pint of bad coffee and three slices of bread. Thieves led by no means easy lives, he said, want and hunger and cold were often daily experiences with them. It was suggseted that emigration was the only means of affording them a fresh start. Wright replied that they were likely to do better in the old country, because they required to be kept in hand and under the influence of some visible autho rity. The audience itself seems to have been a surprise. " The first impression occasioned by the assem blage was decidedly disappointing in the complete absence of any typical character about it. One might have sup posed that in a company every member of which was morally a black sheep there would have been some traces of lawlessness, of cunning, or of vice stamped inde libly on the countenances of the guests. Nothing of the sort. You might have fancied yourself in the gallery of any of the East end theatres. The bullet-head, the shifty eyes, the crafty expression, the knavish look, the uneasy bearing—all the outward and visible signs which sensational writers are in the habit of attributing to our criminal classes whenever they attempt the de scription of them—were all conspicuous by their absence. There were some exceptions, it is true. Out of the two hundred men and lads in the hall it was easy to pick out twenty or thirty upon whose physiogno mies nature had written " thief," or " bully," or " blackguard," in her plainest characters; but the majority were neither better nor worse looking than the ordinary run of men and lads in their class of life. There was plenty of noise and horseplay in the hall before the visitors entered; but none, or very little, afterwards. Ned Wright received around of cheers, mingled with some good-humoured chaff, which he put a stop to by telling them, " You're going to have a clinking clump of bread each, and if you make your jaws ache now they'll be no use when you get the tommy. Now, there is one piece of bread for each of you, and if any one sees his neighbour trying to take two, you must round on him "—an order that was vigorously hurrahed. The bread, on being passed round, was snatched and devoured with the avidity of extreme hunger. The clothes worn were deplorably ragged and scanty. But, though exceedingly hungry, theyobeyed orders, and sat patiently in their seats till they were served in their regular turn. The hot soup was, probably. a still greater temptation. The waiters were few, and the basins circulated too slowly for the eager appetite of the guests, but, as a rule, they put a curb on their impatience, and abstained from making a rush. One burly fellow, who was inclined to be demonstrative, looked thoroughly ashamed when Mr. Wright, pointing to him, cried, "If our friend in the white jacket were to do that in Wandsworth, they'd know what to do with him, eh ?" To which appeal came a general cry of " Three days' bread and water, sir." Supper over, a hymn—a " revivalist " hymn, with a quick time and chorus—was sung, and Mr. 'Wright then addressed his guests. At first he was told to shut up; but gradually the men became interested, and listened with the greatest attention. His opening speech will perhaps give an example of his style. The hymn had been about "the Eden above," and Mr. Wright commenced: "Now, would you like to go there ? Now, I'm going to wrap up what I've got to say, so as to finish before eight. What have you come here for? Not only for the soup, but chiefly for the salvation of your souls. I tell you that, whatever you may think to the contrary, your souls are as valuable as that of the Queen that sits on the throne. Some people suppose that men and lads who subject themselves to thieving are to be lost sight of—that they are to go down with the tide. But I say no,' because I am myself an example that, however bad a man's character may be, there is a chance for him to recover it. In this world, you and I know very well that a man's past character will tell against him, but it is not so with God. Now, before I was seventeen years old I lived at Rotherhithe, and it was my unhappy lot to be taken to Newgate to be tried, and I was found guilty and sent to prison. I know very well the effect of that. If I was to go outside here to-night and commit a theft, and was to be taken to Stones-end, I know that I should not have been there long before a kind friend, with a blue coat, would come and say,' He is known. He was convicted before' And then, however slight the case, the magistrate sends me to the sessions, and though my last crime may not deserve a year, the judge says—' I'll g i ve you one year, and six on theback of it, because of your former conviction, and so the country remembers, as it were, a man's offence against him all his life. But when you sin against God, if you repent, He blots out your sin and remembers it no more." The effect of this oration the Standard thus described : Mr. *Wright "certainly carried with him the attention of the audience. Faces that were careless and mocking at first gradually grew deepened into seriousness, and any attempt at ridicule or noise was immediately suppressed. Another hymn having been sung and a prayer offered up, the assembly was told that those who wished to do so might leave ; but that a promised statement respecting coster mongers' barrows would not be made till later in the evening. It was remarkable and satisfactory to observe that a considerable portion of the gathering preferred to remain. The proceedings lasted about two hours; during the whole of that time we did not hear one blasphemous or indecent expression from the assembled thieves." The Duke of Richmond, who, as Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, had the casting vote in the voting of the " nations" for the Lord Rectorship, has de cided in favour of Sir William Stirling Maxwell, as against Mr. Grant Duff, M.P. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.— Portrait albums, dispatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, dressing bags, envelope cases, blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, bookslides, work boxes, tea caddies, hand bags and reticules, card cases, purses, scent bottles, cigar cases, card trays, pocket books, ornamental articles in chins, bronze gilt, and elegantly m oun t e d f or m antel shelf, drawing and library tables; bagatelleboards, indoor croquet and indoor games of all kinds ; Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Services in every type. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new and fresh. Small articles carefully selected and sent post paid upon pre payment. catalogue:llm NAVAL AND MALI7ARP IN2ELLIGENCB. The paddlewheel steamvessel Salamander, 2, Staff Commander Swain, left Plymouth Sound on Monday evening for Glasgow, to navigate to Devonport the new iron armour-plated ship Invin cible, 14. The double-screw steam gunvessel Teazer, 4, Commander Bloomfield, left Plymouth Sound on Monday for the Suez Canal, calling at Lisbon. The screw steamship Bristol, 31, Capt. F. W. Wilson, recently returned from the West Indies, was appointed to be removed on Tuesday from Plymouth Sound to the Devonport Dockyard, is order to undergo exte9sive repairs. A draught of the Ist Battalion of the 2d Regi ment, selected from the depot at Chatham, is to leave on Friday, under the command of Lieutenant Hope-Johnstone, of the 2d Battalion of the 60th Rifles, to join the service companies in Bombay. The draught will embark at Southampton in the Zianzi steamer. A fire has occurred in the pay-office of the 38th Company of Royal Engineers at Brompton Box.- rack, Chatham, which has led to a Court of Inquiry being held. A number of documents were de stroyed by the fire, and the lives of ten men who were sleeping in a room above were placed in peril. The inquiry has led to the placing under arrest of the pay sergeant of the cmnpany (Sergeant Law rence), pending further investigations as to the cause of the disaster. THE RED RIVER REBELLION. The Toronto Globe says that Governor or ex- Governor McDougall is greatly disappointed at the state of affairs at the Red River, not so much from the insurrection itself, which he regards as a small matter, as from other causes. The authorities of the Hudson's Bay Territory are very reserved in giving information, and it is thought that some of their employes are at the bottom of the whole affair. The American residents, too, are pushing annexation ideas, in which respect they are openly encouraged by the New York press. The notorious Herald declares that the Government of the Dominion is entitled to no good offices from President Grant. On no account, says the Herald, ought the territory of the United States to be used as a means of suppressing the revolt—a refusal which will come with a better grace when the Canadians ask for the privilege. The journal which so specially complains of British " unfriendliness " during the civil war is of opinion that the Dominion States are all gravi tatinr towards annexation. FOREIGN NOTES. ARCHDUKE ALBRECHT AT PARIS. The visit of the Archduke Albrecht to Paris is said to be connected with political designs. The marriage of the Prince Imperial with the Princess Giselle, the Austrian Emperor's daughter, will probably form one of the topics of discussion during his stay in the French capita). Another subject of interest is the candidature of the Archduke Ludwig Victor, the youngest brother of the Emperor of Austria, to the Spanish throne. Francis Joseph is averse to the scheme in consequence of the sad recollection of Maximilian; but the project is regarded in a favourable manner by the Spanish and Austrian clergy. The Archduke Albrecht will, it is expected, ascertain the state of feeling in Paris, and more particularly what are the views of the Emperor on the subject. The Empress is supposed to favour the scheme of the marriage. FRANCE AND AUSTRIA. The news of the appointment of the 011ivier Ministry has been well received at Vienna. Since Count Beust has been Minister there has been a change in the old policy, which brought Austria into a close alliance with Russia and Prussia. France is now regarded as her natural ally, and hopes are entertained that France will follow a rational policy—join with Austria in repressing the advance of Russian military despotism. It is believed that a Parliamentary Government in France will give up the policy of the first Napoleon, and only resort to war when the interests of the country are con cerned. The Committee of the Upper House in Vienna have met to discuss the address. They express a decided opinion that the Constitution should be strictly adhered to. E. ectoral reform is declared to be desirable. Concession on the nationality question has gone far enough, it is considered. The address was carried without material change. The Austro-Hungarian delegates having expressed a wish that the Consular service of the Empire should be reorganised, a congress is to meet at Vienna for that jurpose an the 25th inst. The Congress will be opened with a speech from Count Beust. PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. The Tayespresse, of Vienna, published on the 12th a telegram from Berlin, stating that Count Bismarck had de clared to a high personage that he had a great desire to see Prussia and Austria holding amicable relations, that he had no thoughts of German unity effected by constraint, and that be wished to fulfil conscientiously the conditions of the treaty of Prague. This declaration has produced considerable sensation in diplomatic circles, THE CECUMENICAL COUNCIL. Telegrams from Rome on the 11th inst., state that on Friday, the 14th, the general congregation of the Council will commence the discussion of ecclesiastical matters, and elect the deputation on the affairs of the Eastern Rite. Another telegram, from a Roman source, announces that the protest of some bishops against the organic Council remains without result. The petition in favour of the Infallibility of the Pope had received numerous signatures, without counting those of the Spanish bishops. RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE EAST. The Moscow Gazette publishes a letter from Paris stat ing that General Fleury, the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, was instructed to propose a conference on the Turco-Egyptian dispute, but that the proposal has been de clined. " This has doubtless," says the letter, "been the cause of a certain coldness between the two tuts." The demand of the Porte for further concessions from the Khedive has, according to this correspondent, proved an unpleasant surprise to both England and France. So much importance was attached to the demand respect ing the Chassepots and ironclads that Lord Clarendon telegraphed to Mr. Elliott, who was absent on leave, to return to Constantinople. The policy of France is un certain, as she is alternately apprehensive of offending England, Russia, and Prussia. " Napoleon 111. re volves in a dangerous circle of compromises and contradictions, which weaken his authority and excite suspicion, and awaken the alarm and mistrust of Europe." The writer is of opinion that the Powers who signed the quadruple treaty of 1341 and 1856 should re-assemble to examine the situation in which the new State which they created and guaranteed has been placed by the demands of Turkey. NEW ROUTE FROM RUSSIA TO INDIA. Authorised representatives of the Russian and Aus trian railways have held a conference, at which wa.L_Aacided _fiat -to fgailitate_the OURSE OF EXCHANGE. ArtniCrdam .. Short ... 11 181 ... 11 -19 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 1f ... 12 11 Antwerp — ... 25 371 ... 25 42 Brussels ilamburgh — ... 13 101 ... 13 11 Paris Ditto Marseilles ... 25 35 ... 25 40 Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120 1 ... 1201 V ienua ... 12 65 ... 12 70 Trieste — ... I`2 65 ... 12 70 Petersburg Copenhagen. — ~ 9 18 ... 9 22 Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 49 ... 49 Leghorn Milan — ... 26 75 ... 26 7 71 Genoa Naples Palermo — ... 26 75 ... 26 77 Messina Lisbon — ... 511 _. 52 ... 511 ... 52 Oporto Rio Janeiro — ••• ••• .... New York ...... Bank of Engla-d Returns. An Account, pirsuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1870. 'A-RTMENT. Governmt. Debt.Xll,ols,loo Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £33,298,790 LPARTMENT. Governmt. Seen rities(includin,,,, Dead Weight Annuity) £15,911,399 Other Securities 16,511,781 Notes 9,708,910 Gold and Silver Coin £43,025,723 ISSUE DR Notes issued £33,298,790 £33,298,790 BANKING Di l'roprietors'Capi-__ tail - £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts 6.312, 2 06 Other Deposits 18,312,239 Seven Days and other Bills 503,078 £43,025,723 The chief meteorological features of the week, as recorded at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, were as follows :—Mean height of the barometer, 29-450 in. The barometrical readings increased from 29.24 in. at the beginning of the week to 29.73 in. on Tuesday, the 4th inst., decreased to 29-59 in. on Wednesday, increased to 29-69 in. on Thursday, decreased to 28-91 in. on Saturday, and was 29.18 in. at the end of the week. The mean temperature of the air was 45.2 deg., or 8.9 deg. above the mean temperature of corresponding weeks in 50 years (181363), as determined by Mr. Glaisher from the thermotnetrieal observa tions taken at the Royal Observatory. The highest day temperature was 50.9 deg. on Saturday last. The lowest night temperature was 37.2 deg., on Wednesday and Thursday. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 13.7 deg. The mean temperature was above the average on every day in the week. The mean of the highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 40.6 deg. ; that of the lowest was 38.5 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 3.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 87, complete saturation being represented by 100. Rain fell to the amount of 0.79 in. The general direction of the wind was S.W., S.S.W, and W.S.W. BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—The new American postage stamps will be the size of the old stamps, and will comprise the heads of the following distinguished men : One cent, Franklin, by Burton; two cents, Jackson, by Powers; three cents Washington, by }louden; six cents, Lincoln, by Volk; ten cents, Jefferson, by Powers; tw e lve cents, lay, by Hart; fifteen cents, Webster, by Clerenged; twenty-four cents, Scott, by Coffee; thirty cents, Hamil ton, family bust; forty cents, 0 H. Perry, by Wolcutt. Frank Leslie adds, 'Let us hope the Government will stick to these stamps, and, above all, put something on their backs that will mt.ke them stick " The new hotel in New York, the " Southern Hotel," now building, will be the largest hotel in America. It will cost $2,114,000, one-fourth being for the furniture; will accommodate 2,000 guests, has 700 rooms, 1,500 windows, 2,000 doors, four dining rooms, six par lours, and be in all respects the " Hotel of the Period." The New York Herald refers any one not satisfied with this palatial edifice to St. Peter's at R me, or the "late Coliseum of the Hub."—Governor Campbell, of Wyoming, has signed the Woman Suffrage Bill, passed by the Democratic Legislature of that Terri tory. This makes the bill a law, and now, for the first time in America, the right of women to vote has been legally recognised by a political community.—There are 32,000 "drummers" from the North engaged iu selling goods in the Southern States.—Perhaps Mr. Dickens will be in terested in knowing that a bookseller's advertisement re cently read thus: " Barny by Rudge, sl.so."—An Ame rican paper says: "Mrs. M'Farland-Richardson with an eye to business, announces two new books."—A! coloured gentleman in Texas went into a blacksmith's shop with his coat-tail full of powder. He came out through the roof. -A doll's department has been opened at Stewart'a dry goods store, New York, which is quite as complete as that of the ladies in every respect.—The year 1870 will have fifty-three Saturdays. It came in on a Saturday and will go out on a Saturday. —A game of chess, lasting ten yea's, has jest been decided. One of the players lives in Germany, the other in New York.—There were 609 failures in the United States during the six weeks ending with December 16.—St. Louis has a free trade league, of which the mayor of the city is president. [ADVERTISERENT.J—Avoid Medicines they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta, Arabic& Food, which yields three times the nourish mentof the best meat, eaves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional re gularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We ex tract a few out of the 68,000 cures:—" The Pope's health restored by Dn 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 Bivalents. 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