The Sun. — London, England, 1867-07-27 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Sevenoaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway, Dun dalk and Greenore Railway, and Devon and Somerset Railway (Extension) Bills were read a third time. THE SKIPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL BILL. Lord CRANWORTH, in resuming the adjourned debate on Lord de Grey's amendment on the third reading of the bill, said that he would move a clause which would provide that no appointment made under this act should give a - rested interest so as to interfere with future legis- lation. Earl DE GREY still expressed himself dissatisfied with the bill, and thought that it ought to have been ad journed for the report of the royal commission. After some further discussion the bill was read a third time, with the addition of the insertion of the clause pro posed by Lord Gran u-orth. THE STATUE OF MR. CANNING. Lord STRA.THEDEN moved that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, to give instructions that the statue of Mr. Canning may be removed to its original site, or to a spot not more remote from the House of Commons. He complained that the statue had been re moved to a spot where it could not be seen, and ques tions had been asked by several noble lords, " where is the statue of Mr. Canning gone to ?" It was removed he knew to carry out a design which was now before their lordships elaborated and carried out. The whole trans formation could, however, have been made, and left the statue of Mr. Canning still standing. The question was whether their should not be a restoration, and he wished for a petition to pray her Majesty that it raii,ht be re stored to its site. It appeared that the spot on which the statue stood formerly belonged to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, but it was afterwards granted to the Crown, and by it granted to the subscribers, and therefore there was no difficulty in restoring it. Mr. Canning had died shortly after coming into high office, and he had been buried with the utmost honours ; his remains were deposited in Westmins:er, and this spot, this site, was consecrated to his memory. Upon this point he principally founded his motion. Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE said that, as a near surviving relative of the late Mr. Canning, he must inform their lordships that although 40 years had elapsed yet still he, had the same feeling towards that great man. Whether the statue be removed, or, like all other perish able things perish, it would not alter his feelings towards him. The object in placing the statue where it was was that it should stand near the arenawhore his great abilities were well known, and his eloquence so often heard. If there was a necessity for its remcval, no one would be mme ready to agree to it than himself, but it appeared, from what had fallen from his noble friend, there existed no such necessity under those circumstances, and having no other information, he thought that it would be better that me morials of that kind should remain whore they were. It was now completely in the shade, and in the future other statues might be placed near which would completely hide it. lie therefore agreed with the resolution of his noble friend. Lord MALMESBURY, observing that the arrangement objected to had been made by the late Government, under took that the subject should be reconsidered by his col leagues and himself. Upon the question for going into committee upon the Railway Companies Bill, Lord REDESDALE took exception to several of the clauses, especially those relating to arrangements to be made between the shareholders and debenture holders of insolvent railway companies, which he intended to move should be omitted. A brief discussion followed, in which Lord Overstone expressed a strong opinion against the authorisation of pre-preference stock, which he considered would be un just towards the debenture holders and injurious to the shareholders, by indisposing persons to advance money for the purposes of railways. The house then went into committee upon the bill, and the various clauses were agreed to, a motion to omit Clause 6 being defeated upon a division. In reply to a question from Lord LICHFIELD, The Duke of BUCKINGHAM announced the intention of the Government to introduce speedily a bill upon the subject of public agricultural gangs, requiring the masters of such gangs to be licensed, and prohibiting the employ ment of mixed gangs. Tho sitting was closed at eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. GOOD-SERVICE MEDALS. Mr. M'LAREN asked the Secretary of State for War why cavalry soldiers ware obliged to serve for twenty-one years to entitle them to the good-conduct medal, whilst all other branches of the sarvice hal only to serve eighteen years to qualify them for that distinction. Sir J. PAKINGTON said the circumstance arose from the difference of the times of enlistment, and also to the fact that the medals had been given to infantry soldiers three years before the time they would become entitled to them . . However, from the steps that had been taken in the present session, both branches of the service would receive.them at the same time. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. In reply to Mr. WHALLEY, Mr. HARDY said ho had not received complaints from Petersborough and other plaz:e respecting , the mode of enforcing the law adopted by the police in regard _to the violation of the Act 25 and 6 of Will. IV., c. 63. There was some difficulty, it was true, existing in conse. quence of the standard weights in some parts of the coup. try not having been suffi..iently tested, but ample protec- tion was affords I to the traders in those localities. COUNTY PRISONS IN IRELAND. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. BL AKE called the attention of the house to the state of the county prisons in Ireland, in some of which the fool given was quite insuffi,Aent to keep the prisoner in a state of bodily health. He condo led by moving a resolution, affirming it to be the duty of the Government to increase the dietary tables now in existence in all cases where the prisoners wore confined for more than two months. Mr. BRADY said the treatment of the prisoners in the county prisons in Ireland was cruel in the extreme. Instead of receiving the sort of food ordered by the inspectors of prisons, they received eight ounces of Indian meal for breakfast, and 14 ounces of brown bread for dinner. The meals were served at 9in the morning and 3 in the afternoon, so that for 18 hours the poor creatures were left without food or drink. When the men left the prisons they were quite unable to perform the ordinary duty of life. In Gibraltar the food given the prisoners was altogether sumptuous compared with that in Iceland, and when the house for one moment considered that the charge per diem for the keep of each prisoner in Ireland was only 3d., ho was sure it would be at once seen that the diet such a sum cost was totally inadequate for the support of health. He condemned the practice of making men sant to prison endure more hardships than the law inflicted on them. Lord NAAS said some time ago, prior to 1849, it was discovered that the dietary given in prisons acted as a sort of premium to crime, and therefore it was thought proper to reduce it ; but even then it exceeded that given in the workhouses. In 1850 it was still farther reduced, soup being substituted for milk. In 1854 another alteration in the dietary tables was made, and from that time to the present no further alterations took place. He admitted that the time had now arrived when the subject should be thoroughly i. quired into, with a view of making such alterations as might now be considered necessary, and he was also of opinion that some change in the dietary tables was required, but they must bo careful they did not go too far. In some prisons in Ireland an increased quantity and quality of diet had already taken place, but before the session closed he should introduce a bill on the subject with a view to its being fully considered during the recess. He did not think the deaths-in the Irish county prisons were greatly in excess of those confined in prisons in England. After a few observations from Mr. NEATE the motion was by leave withdrawn. STATE OF IRELAND. Sir O. O'LOGTILEN called the attention of the house to the state of Ireland, and the legislation for that country proposed during the present session by her Majesty's Go vernment. In one part of the country in Scotland all was quietness and comfort. Scotland had no grievances, and if she had they were not heard of in the house. In Ireland, however, the laws with respect to the land and the Church remained in the most unsatisfactory state, and it was the (vision of those best able to give an opinion that the land laws formed the groundwork of the wide spread disaffection which unfortunately existed in Ireland. The Church question was another subject of disquietude. In Ireland they had two churches, one the Church cf the SLAP, which was alien to the people and the Church of the people alien to the State, and ho full quite certain that, whoever might be the occupants of the Treasury bench next session, that question would have to bo taken eat n-stly and serion , ly into consideration. With re spect to this manner in which Irish affairs had been col2flucted by the Lord-Lieutenant awl the noble lord who tilled the office of Chick Secretary, he bad no fault to find ; on the contrary, the nobleman who filled the office of Lord-Lioutenant had con ducted matters with dignity . and prudence, whilst the noble lord the Secretary for Ireland had acted throughout a mos t t r ying period with the utmost dis cretion, and had treated the whole of the Irish mem bers with the greatest courtesy. (Hear, hear.) When the greatest pressure was put upon them during the Fenian ou tb reak, and every one who did not advise acts of coercion was nearly looked up on a s one implicated in the disturbance, the noble lord, amidst all this, determined to depend upon the he had been sucmcealefsty of the law, and in that course L He thought he was entitled he had displayed; but that house for the energy to the hea r ty thanl: of then something else was required. In the Speech from the Throw) the Govern- mint promised a bill to settle the land question, but it had altogether failed, not from the opposition of the Irish • members on his (Sir Colman O'Loghlen's) side of the house, but those who sat behind the Trea sury bench. The great curse of Ireland was absen teeism, and, with the greatest respect for Her Majesty, he thought that if Her Majesty and the Royal Family would stay for a short time in that country she would more effectually put down the effects of that system than regi ments of soldiers and police. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER acknow ledged that the social state of Ireland, with the Habeas Corpus suspended, was not satisfactory, but the responsi bility could not be traced to the conduct of the present Government or of their predecessors ; it was due to an unprecedented external influence, the extent of which could not be known at present. The opinions he had ex pressed in the speech to his constituents, referred to by Sir C. O'Loghlen, were unchanged as to Irish emigration and the possibility of applying a remedy; but, remembering that the emigration was greatest from Uulster, it was diffi cult to believe that the land question could be the cause of it. But the Government, he maintained, Lad shown their appreciation of the importance of that question by bringing in two large measures, which, though members supposed peculiarly to represent landlords, were ready to deal with them in a conciliatory spirit, were criticised in a bold and captious tore by those who professed to speak for the tenants, and who suddenly discovered that the compensa tion on which they had insisted for years was " all moon shine." The question of Irish University Education, he admitted, must be met, and he hoped that by a wise for bearance a settlement might be made conducive to the public interest. To Sir C. O'Loghlen's complaint that he had not spoken on the Established Church he retorted that debates consisting chiefly of historical retrospects and re presentations of the Irish Church as a badge of conquest, which ought therefore to be abolished, would not conduce to a state of feeling favourable to a settlement, and he ex pressed strong doubts whether Ireland—whose misfortune was that much had been destroyed and little had been created- would be benefited by persisting in a policy of indiscriminate pulling down. Desiring to see Ireland thriving and prosperous, he looked for that result to a combination of tle circumstances which produced good government elsewhere—a desire to act justly on the part of the governors, and a willingness on the part of the governed to look with forbearance and gratitude on the acts of those whem they believed anxious to befriend them. By an improvement of her agriculture and the introduc tion of manufactures and the combination of various in dustries he hoped that the state of Ireland would be im proved ; but ho admitted that material causes alone would not bring this about, and that the Government must be inspired by the spirit of justice and complete impartiality. Sir J. GRAY, in interpreting Mr. Disraeli's speech as a declaration that the Government declined to deal next year either with the Church or the land question, expressed his disappointment with their decision, and denied that the Irish Liberals opposed Lord Naas's Land Bills, or had repudiated their claim for " compensation." Lord C. HAMILTON, on the contrary, insisted that it was the representatives of the tenant interest who had prevented those bills passing this year. Mr. Pim, Mr. Monsell, and Mr. O'Beirne followed in a . . similar strain, dilating on the grievances of Ireland, and predicting that the refusal of the Government to deal with the Church and the land questions would greatly increase discontent there. An imputation made by Mr. O'Beirne on the sincerity of the Government called up Lord NAAS, who asserted emphatically that they had seriously and earnestly desired to pass the two land bills, and had been prevented pressing them forward by the pre occupation of all available time by the Reform Bill. On the general question, Lord Naas, while acknowledging that, owing to the peculiar circumstances of the session, Irish legislation had not been very important, expressed a confident hope that it would soon be possible to deal with these vexed questions ; and with the patriotic assistance of both sides the University question would not be found very difficult of settlement. Mr - H.-D. SEYMOUR called attention to the condition of the Abyssinian captives, and moved an address praying her Majesty to take steps to recover them, by force of arms if necessary. He discussed at length the various objections to sending an expedition for their rescue, its expense, its risk, and the danger of precipitating the death of the cap tives, contending that the proper course was to forward an ultimatum demanding their release within a certain time, and to follow it up if unsuccessful by the despatch of an armed force, which he showed could with little difficulty reach the vital point of King Theodore's power. Sir H. RAWLINSON maintained that to bear longer with the indignity King Theodore had put upon us would be an act of suicidal cowardice, and that we had no alter native but to take some strong steps at once to liberate the captives. The advance of a well appointed force from the coast to Abyssinia, though arduous, was not by any means impossible, and as to the expense, it would be nothing as compared with the loss to our reputation and prestige in the East if we left our captives longer in their present wretched state. The danger of precipitating their death was, ho showed, very :.light, they were quite willing to risk it, and he strongly recommended that if an expedition were sent wo should not entangle ourselves in foreign co- operation. Mr. LAYARD stated that, having been formerly strongly opposed to an expedition, he had o now come to the opinion that there was no other means left of rescuing the captives. Lord STANLEY said the matter had been under the at tention of the Government ever since they came into office, and after mature consideration they decided to attempt the release of the captives by friendly means, which he de scribed, but these had now failed finally. In deciding what should be done next, though he entirely agreed that to leave the captives to their fate would seriously damage our pres tige, it could not be concealed that to obtain their release by force would be a most arduous task, so great were the difficulties of country, climate, transport, &c. To throw a British army into an unknown country without an inquiry into the means of feeding and moving it would bo madness, and courting not only political discredit, but a military disaster. Sir S. Northcoto had telegraphed to the Bombay Government to send over officers to consult with Colonel Merowether and to make these inquiries, and, though admitting that it was impossible to leave the captives in Abyssinia, ho declined to give any pledge as to what the Government would do until the result of these inquiries was known. Colonel SYKES strongly opposed the notion of an ex pedition, which, he contended, would be full of difficul ties, and would lead to great loss of life. Mr. AYRTON took the same view, and recommended the employment of some of the African traders as nego- tiators. The motion was then withdrawn. The remaining business was disposed of, and the House adjourned at half-past 1 o'clock. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS• The usual weekly meeting of the members of this board was held yesterday at their offices in Spring gardens, Sir John Thwaites in the chair. FINANCE. The cash statement showed the following sumsin he hands of the treasurer up to the 23d inst., viz. : —ln the London and Westminster Bank, £247,091 9s. 3d. ; in the Bank of England, £239,718 19s. 4d.; total, £486,810 Bs. 7d. Cheques not presented, £65,005 84. 7d. ; and mortgage debt sinking fund, £27,176 19s. 7d. New Three per Cent. Annuities. On the recommendation of the Works and Ge neral Purposes Committee cheques were ordered to be drawn to the amount of £32,981 12s. 3d., and another cheque for £750 on general account, in favour of Messrs. Dyson and Co., for Parliamentary services. FIRE BRIGADE. The report from this committee was brought up. It recommended that the tender of Messrs. Shand and Mason for the supply of 24 new manual fire engines for the sum of £1,560 be accepted. There were two other competitors, being Messrs. Mere weather and Messrs. Roberts, bath of whose tenders exceeded £1,700. Mr. NEWTON moved that Messrs. -Shand and Mason's tender be accepted. Mr. LAMMIN moved, as an amendment, that the report be referred back to the Fire Brigade Com mittee, in order that they might be enabled to ascertain and report on the relative cost of repairs of the engines manufactured by Messrs. Shand and Mason and Messrs. Mereweather. He said that without such information they might, by fixing on the lowest priced engines, really buy the most ex pensive ones. Messrs. Shand and Mason had cer tainly many more of their engines employed in the fire brigade than Messrs. Mereweather, yet it ap peared to him tha, taking that fact into conside ration, there was still a very much larger sitar placed to the repairs of the engines manufactured by Messrs. Shand and Mason over that of Wssrs. 1 Mereweather than the extra number Warranted. On a division the amendment was agreed to. CATTLE PLAGUE COMMITTEE The following recommendation from this commit tee was agreed to :—" That the letter of Jr. Crookes, with reference to the use of carbolic acid as a disinfectant in cases of cattle plague, be sent to each of the inspectors appointed by the several local committees." IMPROVEMENT IN WHITE HORSE-LANE, MILE-END• ROAD. A letter was read from Mr. Pric vestry clerk of Mile-end Old Town, requesting motion to loan THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENiNa, JULY 27, 1867. of £1,600 for the purpose of carrying out an im provement in White Horse-lane, Mile-end-road. Mr. BRUSHFIELD moved that the letter be referred to the Works and General Purposes Committee. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR objected to such a course, as unfair to the city of London, the board having only last week refused to give them any assistance towards the improvement in Ludgate-hill. Mr. NEIVTON thought it would be very unfair to refuse that courtesy to a local board of considering, their memorial, which had been so very freely ac corded to the city of London. On a division the motion was carried, Mr. H. L. Taylor being the only dissentient. ADJOURNMENT OF TILE BOARD FOR THE HOLIDAYS. The following resolution, moved by Mr. SAVAGE, was agreed to :- 6, That the board, on its rising on Friday, the 9th August, do stand adjourned till Friday, the 27th September." WET DOCKS AND THE SOUTHERN EMBANKMENT. The meeting was then made special, according to notice, for receiving a report from the Works and General Purposes Committee. It recommended, " That the board do agree to the proposal made on behalf of Messrs. Doulton and Mr. Stiff for the for mation of dock entrances in lieu of the subways agreed to be constructed by the board, on condition that Messrs. Doulton enter into an agreement that their dock shall never be extended beyond the limits shown upon the plan submitted by Mr. Leach, on their behalf, to the arbitrator, without the previous consent of the board ; and that Mr. Stiff do enter into a similar agreement, that his dock shall never exceed 100 feet in length by 50 feet in width, without consent of the board ; and upon fur ther condition, that satisfactory arrangements be made to enable the contractor to take immediate possession of the lands required for the construction of the works of the embankment, and that the reso lutions of the board of the 25th January, 1867 (No. 3), the Ist February, 1867 (No. 3), and the 28th June, 1867, in relation to the subject, be not fur ther acted on." Mr. FREEMAN moved the adoption of the report. Mr. COLLDTsort opposed the motion, on the ground that the report contained no information as to whether the cost of compensation would be more if the present plan should be adopted than if that which recommended eight subways had been decided on. He also considered that having large open docks would prove a nuisance to the neighbourhood. Mr. RICHARDSON moved, as an amendment, that the report be referred back to the committee for fur- ther consideration. Mr. PHILLIPS seconded the amendment, on the ground that no breaks should be allowed to be made in the embankment at all, and he believed that the proper course for the board to adopt would be to give Messrs. Doulton and Mr. Stiff a proper amount of compensation, but not allow them to break into the embankment for the purposes of making their wet docks. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR found fault with the course pursued by the arbitrator, in saying that the amount he would award would greatly depend upon the facilities afforded to Messrs. Doulton and Mr. Stiff for carrying on their business. Mr. TITE, M.P., was of opinion that although such entrances for wet docks were undesirable, yet that they were far superior to the eight dirty holes or subways, which, if made, would prove an intoler able nuisance. On a division, the original motion was not carried, there being a majority of 16 to 10. The amendment was then put and carried as an original motion, after which the board adjourned. THE MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY Al LIME. ROUSE. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner, held an investigation at the Salisbury Arms Tavern, Elstaeld-street, Limehouse, respect .ng the death of Agnes Oakes, aged 22 years, who was found lying dead in a room under circumstances of such a character as to lead to a suspicion of foul play. Great interest was shown in the proceedings. from is a that of Thebody regular features . pretty young T room, m an of fair complexion, the quantity of blood which was about it, has been compared to a slaughter-house ; and the coroner himself said that in all his experience he had never seen such a sight before. The sister of the deceased, Rose Ellen Oakes, sat on the door-step crying, and was with difficulty prevailed upon to accompany the jury and give evidence. Rose Ellen Oakes was the first witness called. She said her sister, the deceased, had lived with a man named Wiggins about six months. Witness and her sister had been in London about two years, hav ing walked up from Liverpool in search of their father, Thomas Oakes, an engineer, who was said to be working in Limehouse. They heard he was married again and had more children. He took their two brothers with him when their mother died and went to London in search of wark, but he left witness and her sister to do what they could. They were unable to find their father, and took places as domestic servants. Agnes got into a place at the Crown, Salmon's-lane, Limehouse, and Wiggins was courting her there. Witness did not know when Wiggins seduced her sister. Agnes never told her anything about it. She was only a servant. She lived at the Crown, and at the Cock at Wapping for 18 months, and all that time Wiggins courted hex. She had never done evil before she met him. Witness had not seen her sister since Sunday week, when she stopped with her until ten o'clock in the evening. They were quarrelling then about some money. Witness did not think it was about jealousy. He did not (hesitating) strike her then, he threatened to strike her. He was telling his father and mother something, when Agnes went to listen on the stairs, and she then went into the room, and she said that all he had stated was false, and that he had told an untruth. She did not fly into a passion, and she left the room after she had spoken. She said to witness, " I have pawned a flannel shirt of his, and I must get it out, or he will be the death of me." Wiggins had said, " I wish you were -." The Coroner asked her if she did not hear her sister say that her life was in danger ? Witness replied not until lately. She never said he was going to kill her. A witness was called who had known deceased all her life, and who said she was a meek, quiet young woman, who did not get into a passion, but would sit down and cry if anything was said to her. Dr. James Horton, divisional surgeon of police, High-street, Stepney, said that he found deceased lying on the floor in the top room of the cottage. She was lying on her back and her head was under a chair underneath the railing. There was a very extensive wound in her throat, and he had examined that wound well. It was such that it might have been self-inflicted under powerful excitement and determination. The wound was a jagged one, and extended below the left year. It was of a semi circular shape, and extended about an inch beyond the middle of the throat. There were also two slight wounds in the throat running into it. Rose Ellen Oaks was recalled, and said that her sister was not left-handed. Dr. Horton resumed—The muscles on the lef t hand side of the neck and all the l;trgcrarteries were divided. The wound had the appearance as if a knife had been turned round in it. The wound was so deep that it extended to the spine. Coroner—ls it physically passible that a woman could have the strength to turn the knife in the throat after having inflicted that gash extending to the spine? IVitnes-1--I think it would be alinaA impossible, for a faintness would come on before it could be done. he coroner said he should adjourn the inquiry for the attendance of Wiggins. He directed the constable, as soon as the surgeon thought him well enough, to take Wiggins to the Worship street Police-court, and request a remand, in order that he might be brought before the jury. At the request of a juror, Dr. Horton promised to examine the bands of deceised to see if there were any cuts or bruises on them. The inquiry was then adjourned. It is officially announced that Turkey has joined the International Telegraph Convention, so far as regards her Asiatic dominions, Miscellaneous Foreign News The Reconstruction Amendment Act had occu pied both branches of Congress during the week end ing Saturday, the 13th July. The bills did not agree in detail, though both were limited in scope to the acts and intentions of last spring. The Represen tatives passed their bill on Tuesday, but the Senate, who were in a more talkative mood, did not get through theirs till Thursday. On Friday the bills were discussed in a conference of the two branches, to harmonise conflicting points, and on Saturday it was thought they would be forwarded to the Pre sident. Mr. Johnson did receive them, and did--- as every one expected—veto them. Congress re ceived them back, and immediately passed them over the President's veto by an overflowing majo rity of both Representatives and Senators, so the whole programme has come off as laid down. The following are the provisions of the House Bill. The bill declares that Congress intended to have it understood that the provisional Governments are illegal or void; that last spring's Reconstruction bills authorised the military commanders to remove civil officers whenever they think necessary, and to appoint others to fill their places ; explains more fully the duties of registering officers ; provides that no civil court shall have jurisdiction of any pro ceeding, civil or criminal, against any district com mander for any official act done under these acts ; and declares that no district commander shall be removed from the command assigned to him with out the advice and consent of the Senate, or unless cashiered or dismissed, or unless he consents thereto. Before the bill was passed it was amended by_a section declaring that any person who shall obstruct the execution of this act, or the acts to which it is supplementary, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and on conviction shall be subject to a fine not ex ceeding $5,000, or imprisonment for a year, or both; and another providing that the right of any person to be registered as a legal voter shall not be in any way changed or affected by virtue of any pardon granted by the President for participation in the rebellion. Governor Crawford, of Kansas, has written fully to Senator Ross on the subject of protection to citizens, and more especially to railways and rail way parties in Kansas, against the Indians. He says that if Congress will not act he will take the matter into ,his own hands. Several attacks have been re ported on the laboure rs _ employed on the Pacific Railroad (Eastern Division), and it is mainly on their behalf the Governor writes. The Indians, being now about to receive their annuities, the outrages may cease for a week or two till the goods are secured, when they will recommence robbing and murdering. Lieutenant Kidder, of the 2d Cavalry, left Fort Sedgewick on the 29th ult. with ten men and a guide, carrying despatches for General Custer. As nothing has since been heard of the party, it is feared they have been captured. Gene ral Sherman proceeded to Fort Harker from St. Louis to meet General Hancock, and mature their plans for effectively clearing the Indians from the Pacific Railroad, and removing the obstructions from the Smoky Hill route. Reports prevail that the Government at Wash ington is about to purchase the Sandwich Islands, but, although premature, they have some founda tion, and it is a fact that a commercial treaty has been negotiated between the two Governments. Mr. Harris, the Chief Minister of the Government of the Islands, arrived at Washington on a special mission. The Springfield Republican states that it suspects the United States naval authorities of the Pacific Ocean were for some months under secret instructions in case of the King's death ; in the absence of a legitimate successor to seize the islands for the United States. At the pre sent rate of decrease the native race will have died out by the end of this century, and the white population, chiefly American, has all the business and property in its hands. The sugar consumed in the Pacific States is chiefly raised there; the position is half-way across the Pacific Ocean between China and Japan and the Eastern States, and it is a rendezvous for American whalers. The new treaty grants to the Republic important advan tages ; all produce of these islands is to be admitted into the United States free of duty. The old treaty was adopted in December, 1849, to last ten years, and to continue thereafter till either party ter minated it by notice. The correspondence between Mr. Seward and Colonel Naphegzi, Santa Anna's agent, has been published. Naphegzi, on the Bth inst., asked Mr. Seward to demand the release of Santa Anna, and rebuke Commander Roe for interfering with his movements. Mr. Seward replied, justifying Commander Roe, on the grounds that Santa Anna had attempted, under the protection of the flag, and in the presence, and with the co-opera tion, of the United States, to foment civil war in Mexico, and that only great national injury would justify the United States in assuming a hostile attitude towards the Republic of Mexico. The Union League Club of New York has estab lished 120 subordinate clubs in the Southern States to support the Liberal policy. The negroes register in large numbers, but the whites slowly, and in some States scarcely at all ; in Louisiana there are double the number of negro voters registered. Senator Sumner said it would be the duty of the Senate in a few months to welcome negro Senators upon the floor. Wendell Phillips calls for a black Vice-Pre sident, that the negroes of the South demand such a recognition. The r i g ht to v ote includes the right to stand as Represe ntative, an d there can be little doubt ti vef r t o h m a t thera anynegroes will be s en t as Southernrepresenta tives States. General Sickles has recorded his conviction of the necessity for a general amnesty, as nearly all the best men in the South are ineligible for office under the recent laws passed by Congress. He says, in a letter to Senator Trum bull---" Now more than ever men of ability and experience in public affairs are disfranchised, and especially those who could fill judicial stations. This exposes the experiment of general suffrage to need less hazards. If the experiment fails, it is more likely to fail from the inability of the people to put in office those who could and would insure its suc cess. . . I find myself prevented, as will the people by-and-bye, from securing for the public service men of aptitude and character." The North German Lloyd's steamer Union, Captain Von Santen, from New York, 11th inst., arrived at Southampton last Sunday, with 143 passengers and $122,193. The same day the Cunard extra steamship Tripoli arrived at Queens town passengers. The Ville de Paris arrived at with 154 Brest valued at from New York with specie at £127,400. On Wednesday the Hamburg and American steamship Saxonia arrived at Southamp ton, having left Ne w York on the 13 t h instant, w ith 130 passengers an d $480 , 512 for London, and $159,335 for France, an d $47,105 for Hamburgh. On Thursday the I nman steam er City of London arrived at Queenstown at 2.30 a.m., having left New York on the 13th instant with 53 passengers and $1,383,066. On the same day the Guion steamship Manhattan arrived at the same place with 53 cabin and 69 steerage passengers- The Cunard steamer Jay I, from B oston an d Halifax, passed the Brow Head sign a l station on Thursday at 8.15 p.m. The letters w ill b e d e livered this morning. The Java brought news to th e 16th inst. (evening), 153 cabin passe ngers, an d $195,082 and £ 4Bl . The National Steam Naviffation Company's steam— ship Erin, from New York, arrived at Queenstown at 2 a.m. yesterday, with $250,000 in specie. On the 19th July the steamers Allentania and Deutschland arrived at New York. On the 20th the Inman steamship City of Antwerp and Edin burgh arrived out. A te l egra m dated New York, July 20, states th a t th e Ci t y of Paris arrived out with over $1,000,000 i n spec ie, but this is evidently a mistake, as that vesse l arr ived at New York on the 13th instant, and she is more likely to have sailed with that specie on board for Liverpool, than to have carried it from Liverpool to New York. The Minnesota arrived out on the 20th, and the Moravian and Belgian on the 22d. On the 23d the U.S. mail steamer Arago and the Helvetia arrived out, and on the 24th the Persia and the Bellona. The tribunal of police of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, has lately been engaged in trying a young man named Piquill ou d, c h arge d with having for some time past practis e d me di c i ne an d surgery in female attire. It appeared that he h a d eucoeeded La completely disguising himself as a woman, and had obtained, under the name of Miss Abbots, and in the quality of an American, admis sion into several families, offering his services chiefly to ladies. The fraud was detected by a hairdresser, to whose shop he went to purchase a chignon. It was found that he could only be convicted of the illegal exercise of his pebfession, and on that count the Court condemned him to one month's imprisonment. It is said that the late Emperor Maximilian and the Empress Charlotte each made a will some years ago, leaving the whole of the property of the first that should die to the survivor. Tho value of the property left by Maximilian, including the estates of Miramar and Lacrome, is estimated at from ten to twelve millions of florins about (£1,000,000), and would, in virtue of the above will, descend to his wife. The Empress has no children, and, if she continues incapable of managing her own affairs, is consequently unable to make a new will, the property will pass on her death to the Royal Family of Belgium. " A Virginian" writes to the Times to make the following statements with resp3ct to the Virginia Five per Cent. Stock, upon which Messrs. Baring resumed pay ment of interest in full on the Ist of July. Ho says that the original issue was but £373,000, upon which interest was punctually paid up to July, 1862 ; that the waste of war at last rendered the State unable to meet its obliga tions ; that since peace has boon restored Virginia has been exerting herself in every possible manner to do so, and that the dividends in arrear between 1862 and 1867 have all been funded. As the means of Virginia arise from taxation, its financial condition must necessarily improve as its people recover from the effects of the war ; and there can be no doubt that this early effort to redeem its cha racter for solvency is highly creditable to it. CANADA.—The new Confederation began its course on the Ist instant, constituted of four provinces— Quebec (late Lower Canada, or Canada East), extending over 210,020 square miles ; Ontario (late Upper Canada, or Canada West), 121,260 square miles ; New Brunswick, 27,105 square miles ; Nova Scotia, 18,660 square miles ; making an area of 377,045 square miles. The population was 3,090,561 in 1861, and may now have- reached about 3,800,000. At the census of 1861 the number of men cap able of bearing arms (between the ages of 20 and 60) was 653,567. The mercantile marine comprised in 1865 6,575 vessels of 943,533 tons, of the value of $32,844,069 ; a marine exceeded only by three States—the United King dom, the United States, and France. The imports amounted last year to $75,270,566 ; the exports to $71,951,699. The public debt of the Confederation amounts to $77,500,000. The ordinary revenue in 1865 was $13,023,169 ; the ordi nary expenditure $14,173,071. If the Confederation should eventually include Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, the Hudson's Bay and North-West territories and British Columbia, the total area will amount to 3,369,300 square miles, and will exceed the whole territory of the United States. Thirty-seven whites, and seventy-four thousand blacks, have been. registered in Louisiana as voters. A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOLD.— It is stated that an American has discovered a beautiful alloy, which has been most successfully applied as a substitute for gold; it is composed of pure copper, 100 parts; pure tin, 17 parts ; magnesia, 6 parts ; tartar of commerce, 9 parts ; sal ammoniac, 3.6 parts; and quicklime, 1.6 parts. The copper is first melted, then the lime, magnesia, sal ammoniac, and tartar are added, little at a time, and the whole is briskly stirred for about half an hour, so as to -nix thoroughly, after which tin is thrown on the surface in small grains, stir ring until entirely fused. The crucible is now covered, and the fusion kept up for about 35 minutes, when the dross is skimmed off, and the alloy found ready for use. It is quite malleable and ductile, and may be drawn, stamped, chased, beaten into power or into leaves, like gold leaf. In all of which conditions it is not distinguishable from gold, even by good judges, except by its inferior weight. The alloy has already been largely applied in the United States, and requires only to be known in Great Britain to become a general favourite.—The Engineer. TROUBLES AMONG THE MORMONS.—The Salt Lake fidette of June 15 says :—" On Sunday afternoon Brigkam Young preached a lengthy sermon, boldly and openly an nouncing that Amar a Lyman, Orson Hyde, and Orson Pratt had apostatised, and were cut off from the Church. Orson Hyde had been chosen President of the Trrelve Apostles last April. Pratt is one of the twelve, and Lyman had been one of the apostles also. Young was severe on Hyde, but parti cularly so on Pratt. He denounced the letter as an unbe liever, and as now in possession of the devil." A corre spondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Salt Lake City on June 18, says:—" There are palpable signs of dis solution in the Mormon Church. The Josephites (the fol lowers of Sniith) pronounce polygamy a sin, and they claim to bo the true Mormon Church and entitled to the Church Property. When Brigham was south this spring he had to cut off several hundred members for heresy because they adhered to Smith, and over 100 waggons of emigrants aro now in the mountains on their way east to escape his fearful vengeance. The Morristes are another class of Dissenters, and have no fellowship with the Salt Lake Church. They denounce polygamy, and are constantly receiving acquisitions to their numbers. They have a strong settlement in Utah, at Sod:!§prings, under the very shadow of tLe Prophet. Every sermeintheard from the Mormons betrayed nervous fears as to divisions ; somo appealed, some unfolded the duty of submission, and Bright= thundered his fierce anathemas against the faith less. Gentile dealings and associations are forbidden, be cause Mormonism cannot bear contact with virtue and truth, nor can its crowning crime of polygamy bear contact even with vice. Virtue and vice aro alike its foes, and equally fatal to its perpetuity. Thus is the Mormonism of Young beset by schisms, perilled by growing intercourse with gentiles, and soon the Pacific Railroad will pour thousands of population into all the fruitful valleys of the West, and ha but a few years the distinctiveness of this people must fade away." CURIOSITIES FROM THE "BRINY DEEP."—Mr. G. W. Fuller, of S axon ville, Massachussetts, a submarine diver, has sent for our inspection some "greenbacks" taken from a wallet found in a coal-laden vessel which bad been sunk i n Long Island Sound, near the Beaver Tail light, in 96 feet of water. The notes had been in the water fourteen months. One ten-dollar and a one-dollar Treasury note are reduced almost to the condition of tinder; but the paper of one five-dollar Treasury -note and ono fire-dollar national bank-note is not perceptibly injured, showing in the former case that there must have been some chemical difference in the paper; but what is even more remarkable is that the green ink shows so many different changes. In one note the green on the face is as bright as ever, while that on the back is a bluish grey. In another the green on the face has been darkened almost to a black, showing that different kinds of green ink have been used for the printing.—The American Artizan. The movements of the precious metals during last week were on an extensive scale as regards the im ports, which amounted to about £995,640, including £73,000 from Now York by the Palmyra, £40,000 by the Teutonic, £288,350 by the Russia, £105,800 by the Fulton, £150,00 0 by the City of Baltimore, and £22,000 by the New York. The Christiana Thompson, from Sydney, brought £11,844; the IVellesley, from Port Philip, £90,000; the Tasmanian, from the West Indies• and Pacific, £194,96i ; the Athenian, from the West Coast.of Africa, £1,830 ; and about £14,850 in silver received from the Continent. The exports comprised £2OO to the West Indies by the Rhone, and remittances to the Continent through private sources, estimated at £188,733 ; the total amounting to £188,933. The Paris correspondent of the Stnndard re marks :--" We are promised a startling novelty in the way of restaurants at the Exhibition. The Situation says that a new refreshment-room is about to be opened there by an American, who has trained largo apes to act as waiters. The writer says he was present at a rehearsal, and that the quadrumane garcons went through their work with a steadiness and gravity worthy of their biped colleagues at the " Trois Freres" or the "Cafe Anglais." Russia has signed the International Sanitary. Convention for the care of the wounded in time of war. We learn from China, dated May 30th, - that "the feeling of the Japanese towards foreign intercourse is very favourable. An American vessel, in endeavouring to anticipate the opening of the ports by trading, has been seized while flying the Japanese flag. We have no news from the Corea, but it is thought that the Freneh fleet will renew their expedition to obtain satisfaction for the murder of their missionaries. There is not the slightest indication of feeling on the part of the Americans on account of the seizure and burning of the General Sherman and .murder of the passengers and crew. The building of two spacious premises on the old Factory site at Canton has been con tracted for by leading American firms." Wilkes's Spirit says—" The Confederate's Daugh ter; or, the Tyrrant of Now Orleans," is produced in effec tive style at the Colosseum, in Liverpool. It draws tears of generous sorrow from that high-minded, consistent nation which is just now feting Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the Liberator. It also adds, on Liverpool theatricals :—Henr y J. 133 ron, who is ono of the most prolific burleslue writers of the day, is out with a single-act piece, entitled, " Orpheus ; or, the Young Gentleman who Charmed the Rocks." It was produced at the Priece of Wales' Theatre. Rosa Celeste proposes, in August, to rival Blon- din, by attempting the crossing of Niagara Falls on a rope. Helen Western is playing " Green Bushes" in Sacramento, with a stock company of " stars." Miss Louisa Myers, who has achieved deserved popularity in the Now England States, played recently at Milford, Massachusetts. At Minneapolis, in Minnesota, an opera-house has been inaugurated with all the honours. It cost fifty thousand dollars, and will seat fourtoon hundred people. Harry Pearson, whose John M'Clish is one of the standard representations of the day, was the recipient of a benefit lately in Now Orleans, at which the profession assisted largely. Harry served for a short time during the war as aide-de-camp and chief commissary to the provost marshal-general of Hampton, Virginia. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, Saturday, July 13, The National Banking law fixes 7 per cent. as the legal rate of interest banks can charge. This was to operate in States where there was no rate fixed by law, where there was the banks were bound by the State law. The late Massachusetts enactment declares it to be lawful to contract for any rate of interest. This has been inter preted by the Comptroller of the Currency as fixing the rate of interest, therefore the national banks in Massa chusetts are at liberty to get what they can. Some were foolish enough to suppose that this would work a revolu tfon, and that people who wanted money would be fleeced by the banks in that State. They are, therefore, surprised that no change has followed on the new law coming into operation. Money is as plentiful as ever, and the supplies ample throughout that State at 7 per cent. In New York it ranges between 4 and 6 per cent., with a large business done at the former rate on first-class securi ties. It was doubtful in Boston whether they would be able to maintain the figure at 7. There has been consider able excitement during the week in Wall and Broad streets, and the rise was considerable in railway securities, with heavy purchases. But there was a reaction towards the and of the week. Erie, however, continued buoyant. Michigan Southern Steck has also risen, and-although New York Central has not advanced in an equal degree many speculators have predicted a strong rise for the stock of that line. It is said that the rise is mainly due to incautious speculators, who look for large receipts from the transport of the excellent harvest in the coming fall. During this summer the receipts of 1867 have been less than those of 1866. On every side the crop prospects are encouraging, and although the effect is as yet little felt, a heavy fall in the flour and grain market is looked for. From California we learn that the yield is likely to be so large that a difficulty in transport is anticipated. Gold has not fluctuated, although it was slightly higher yester day, and as the demand is large for export speculators count upon a rise. Last week the export amounted to $1,908,701, and on Wednesday the sum taken out was $1,441,748, with a considerable addition yesterday as well as to-day. The New York Sub-Treasury paid out last week $5,669,000 gold as interest on the public debt, due in July. American silver is in moderate request at 6to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are quoted at 103 to 1034 in gold. Mining stocks remain dull, though there has been some inquiry for a few of the cheap stocks. Smith and Parmlee advanced $l4. The bulk of the business continues to be transacted in Consolidated Gregory, Corydon, and Quartz Hill, which have slightly improved. Foreign exchange is firm and active, and there is a good demand. The junction of the London banking houses, Finley, Hodgson, and Co., and Basing Brothers and Co., has been noticed with interest by the American press, and it is understood that the correspondence of Messrs. Duncan Sherman and Co., which has lasted for some years, with Messrs. Finley, Hodgson, and Co., will be continued with Messrs. Baring Brothers, and Co., while the accession of the Messrs. Hodgson will be acceptable to the numerous correspondents in America of tho Borings. The failure of Wickes and Co., dry goods merchants, is announced, with liabilities in the United States of $1,773,287 against assets of $1,403,7 Ll. The capital cf the house has melted under the heavy losses on its stock in common with many other large firms. Prices closed as follows :—Gold 138 k, United States Five-Twenties (1862) 112 f, (1864) 109 f, (1865) lot (1865, New Issue) 1091 United States Ten-Forties 104, United States 7-30 Loan 108, Missouri Sixes 98f, Tennessee Sixes 66, New York Central Rail road 106, Erie 711, Hudson River 109 k, Readi ng 1051, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana 891. Illinois Central 1231, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 93, Cleveland and Toledo 1201, Chicago and North western 46, Chicago and North-western preferred 681, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, -and Chicago IC2f, Chicago Rock Island, T and Pacific 98, Ohio and Mississippi Certifi cates 24, Western Union elef,raph Company 49i, Pacific Mail Steamship Company 143 i, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company 1081. (From Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.) Paris, July 26, 1867. In our report upon our market we can do tkut little more than repeat the substance of late circulars. 'l'h3 general feeling of depression continues unabated ; prices are all lower, and transactions very limited. Americans are unchanged at -821 for the issue of 1862. 80 i ), 71 1865. and the variations during the week have been trifling. Purchases for permanent investment are steadily increas ing in number and amount, and the slight degree in which these securities have shared the universal decline, is a strong proof of their growing popularity. Any reaction in the general market could hardly fail to produce a marked advance in value. Our latest quotations from New York are of the 23d instant. Gold, 139 k ; United States Bonds (1862), 1111. The Rente closes at 6B 65 The Italian closes at Exchange on London 5 25 171 (Front E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, July 21.) London, July 24th, 1867. The advices from New York by the Russia aro to the 9th inst. ; they report a continued abundance of money at four per cent. ; all borrowers on Government securities were readily supplied, while five to six per cent, only was asked on Railroad Stocks. The public funds were steady and in good demand by investors, the 10.40's showing a marked improvement. The speculation in railroad stocks con tinued, Erie and Michigan Southern being most in favour ; quotations continued to advance notwithstanding the general falling off in traffic receipts. State Stocks were well supported, Tennessee and Missouri being most in quired for. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR JUNE. Miles 1867. 1866. Inc. Dcrse. open. $ Atlantic and Gt. Western Chic. & Alton 2Bl 343,671 371,543 25,530 Chic. &N.Westn. 676 898,357 922,891. 24,534 Chic. & Rock Is. 182 261,480 850,920 89,440 Illinois Central .. 706 496 , 6 16 560,025 63,409 Michigan Central 329 - 284,077 235,022 50 , 105 • -- MICHIGAN CENTRAL. On a careful analysis of the annual report of this com pany (which has just come to hand, and which we give below), we see much reason to be satisfied with the pre sent prosperous condition of the undertaking, a state of affairs duo to able and honest management. It will be observed that, in the report of the vice-presi dent, the amount of bonded debt and capital stock differs from that stated by the treasurer ; this apparent discre pancy arises from the fact that the treasurer has to pro vide interest for the entire bonded debt, while the vice president takes credit for the amount of the sinking funds, which now amount to over $1,000,000. Taking the treasurer's report as a basis of calculation, we find that, during the fiscal year, the gross earnings of the road were 28.25 per cent. on the entire capital. This, to holders of English stock, must appear a large receipt, when it is remembered that our own London and North- Western earns less than 10 per cent. on its entire outlay. There is a slight falling-off in traffic, as compared with the previous year. This is due entirely to a diminution in receipts from passengers, as under the head of freight we find a small increase. The income of the road has been appropriated as follows: - 65.23 per cent. for operating, including $902,265 expended in repairs of road and buildings. 3.97 do. for sinking funds and Government tax. 1449 do. for interest and exchange. 16.31 do. available for stockhol 'ors. 00.00 The large expenditure on the track and buildings is an evidence that the line is maintained in efficient repair, and at the same time its permanent value is enhanced. The increase of capital other than by conversion of bonds is $893,300, of this there appears to have been appropriated $614,391 for construction; the additional cash on hand was $258,000, and the balance appears under the hands of the General Superintendent. The transactions in American securities on the London market during the past week have been numerous and im portant, prices generally being well supported. United States Government Stocks show little alteration; the 5-20's of 1862 being last,quoted 721 to i,:and the 1865's 714 to Illinois Shares close 76 77, or half per cent. under the price of this day week. Eries, after our last, declined to 44, but from this on renewed buying fcr shipment to America they have reacted to 474 to 484. _ . Some buying on Continental account advanced tho quo tation for Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds to 21, but the decrease in traffic receipts for June, on this line in common with nearly all American railroads, has had a prejudicial effect, and they have to-day declined to 221 231. The Divisional Bonds have also receded about 2 per cent. CIVIL SERVICE SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.— Yesterday a supplementary estimate for civil service was issued. The amounts are :—For purchases at the Paris Exhibition for the Department of Science and 'Art £15,000 ; entertainment of the Sultan of Turkey and the Viceroy of Egypt, on their visit to this country £25,000. [ADVERTISEMENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stcmach and liver complaints in every stager are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every drption, but perfectly oau ble by Du Barry's health -restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhma, all gastric derange ments, haemorrhoids, liver comp laints, flatulenc y , nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fluenza, noises in the head and cars, rheumatism, gout, impu rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness=, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of 'the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Harry's Food. Cure No. 63,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other ienaedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi." July 25. Cure No. 48,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.— Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s. 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., 11s.; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77, ilegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Gracechurch - street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and 298, %04611-street; 330 Strand; and all grooerkand olunniatot Maxim Anna. Maximilian, born archduke, some time ruler of one empire, and, but for a sickly child, heir appa rent to another, sleeps with his fathers. The deed has been consummated for which the Emperor Napoleon may be partly responsible, but which blackens with an ineffaceable stigma the Mexican name. The murder of this unfortunate prince is entirely in keeping with the traditional cowardice, the bloodthirsty cruelty, the feminine spite which have long been recognised as the nation al cha racteristics of his assassins, and which have earned for them the loathing of Christendom, the undisguised contempt of every Anglo-Saxon soldier. By, for the Mexicans, an unfortunate coincidence, their wanton crime comes upon the very heels of an act of clemency in a contiguous nation, which, as a sequel to provocation far more bitter to the conquering majority than the course of Maximilian could be to the majority of Mexicans, sets forth his murder in colours more offensive and pitiful by the contrast. It is urged that a certain retributive justice extenuates the course of Juarez and his associates, since Maximilian had caused the execution of some of the Liberal officers. To this it is to be said, first, that, granting the facts, they were necessarily covered by a plea of mili tary necessity which was entirely inapplicable to the retaliation ; and, second, that we have strong assurances from sources entitled to credit that Maximilian repeatedly insisted on 'saving, and actually did save in many instances, the lives of officers whom his military tribunals had con demned. But the cases are so far different that a comparison becomes idle on the least survey of the two situations. In the heat of war, with rival parties struggling for existence, actions are performed ou both sides in most cases which would never be tolerated or excused under other circumstances. When the ex-Emperor was shot war was over. There was not the least pretence of danger from further military measures on the part of the Im perialists. Their cause, long before known to be hopeless, had now absolutely collapsed, and the fact was matter of notoriety. The handful left to Marques might retire to the mountains, but with far less chance of protracted resistance than Johnson had after the surrender of Lee. Moreover solemn assurances were tendered to the Repub lican leaders that their captive, if suffered to depart, should never again set foot on Mexican soil. Maxi milian was allied by blood or marriage to nearly every reigning family in Europe, and the representa tives of their respective nations offered to Juarez every security, exhausted every argument, pleaded, implored, threatened, but all in vain. The generous nation wanted blood, and blood alone would appease its thirst or assuage its patriotic fury. The people who for forty years have misgoverned themselves rather worse than the most savage African tribes could not forgive even an unsuccessful attempt to in troduce among them the intolerable curses of law and order. Notwithstanding a large party among the Mexicans themselves desired the establishment of the empire, none, it seems, in the hour of peril has had courage to stand forth and protest against a deed which for needless and dastardly cruelty, outside of Mexico, is almost unparalleled. The Republican leaders have thought proper in this business to treat with contempt the entreaties of the repre sentatives of the great Powers of Europe ; this they may afford to do, since further infringements of the Monroe doctrine are likely to be indefinitely post poned. They have also passed by with disdainful indifference the humane solicitations of the United States Government ; how far this will prove to have been a judicious policy remains to be seen. The shooting of poor old Santa Anna, which seems to have been regarded by his sanguinary captors as a suitable afterpiece to the bloody drama already enacted, is, in some respects, less defensible than the execution of Maximilian ; but it is to Ls remembered that Santa Anna had been the occasion of infinite misery to his country, and that the suc cessive offer of his services to Maximilian and to Juarez deprived him of his last right to be credited with patriotic motives. Neither of these deeds Will be forgotten or forgiven. They will do more to sink the credit of the Mexican nation than anything in its history. It is amazing to find writers in our own press seeking to palliate crimes so shocking and so useless. They are the acts of wolves, n ot men, and as such they deserve to be recorded and expiated.—Round Table. COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVERPOOL.—FRIDAY. There was a moderate attendance at to-day's market, and the improvement gained in wheat on Tuesday WO lost, and we quote a decline of id and 2d per cental on the rates of Tuesday last. Flour was quiet. Malt as before. Barley scarce, and firm. Oats in fair request, and prices fully supported. Indian corn quiet. LINCOLN.—FRIDAY. A scarce supply of wheat. Trade good, and prices 1 6 to 28 per qr over late rates. Very little grinding barley', which was unaltered in value. For oats there was a fair demand, in favour of sellers. Beans firm. New white wheat, 70s to 75s ; new red, 64s to 70s per 3 6 stone. Barley for malting, 49s to Ms per qr ; grindi n g' 35s to 37s per 30 stone. Oats, 29s to 355. Beans, 47s to 50s per 38 stone. S T AMF ORD—FRIDAY. We hal a very meagre show of wheat to-day again, and the business done was limited. Barley was in slow re quest at late currencies,. Oats firm at rather higher price s ' Beans in short supply, at the extreme rates of last week. 6 New white wheat, 64s to 70s ; red do., 58s to 65s per stone. Barley, malting, 40s to 50s; grinding, 27s to 353 per qr. Oats, new, 28s to 335; old, 30s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, 43s to 48s per 38 stone. Peas as of late. • DERBY—FRIDAY. There was a tolerable show of wheat on offer to-day, an d last week's prices advanced is to 2s per qr. A small sholv of grinding barley, at unaltered rates. Nothing doing ill malting sorts. Oats and beans slightly improved. New white wheat, 62s to 76s ; do. red, 58s 70to s per 3 6 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 47s per qr. ; grinding , 32s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28s to 345; old, 34s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 58s to GOs ; new, 38s to 4 53 per 38 stone. WAKEFIELD.—FnMAY. At our market to-day English wheat met a slow demand , and the business done in fine fresh parcels was at rather higher rates than last Friday. Other articles unaltered. BRISTOL S UGAR—FRIDAY. There has been again a dull demand for sugar durinS the week, both for raw and refined, and few sales hto ° been made ; prices must be quoted the same as of late. t, The enormous commerce of the lakes is forcibhl illustrated by the fact that not less than 50 million bushels of grain were loaded in Buffalo alone last year. A sailing vessel or propeller now often comes into Buffalo with i 25,000 bushels of corn or other grain, dumps it into one u the storehouses through the agency - of the elevators , and before night is on the way back, and sometimes with f` cargo for the point of departure.—New York Herald. [ADVERTISEMENT:I —Holloway's Ointment and Dangerous Diseases.—How many life-long maladies sprT,lgo, from neglecting trifling symptoms. The pimple, rea di 'J curable in the nursery, becon.es through carelessness tb irremediable torment of after life. 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