The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-14 00:00:00

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE. (From the Anglo-American Times) WASHINGTON, April 22. Senator Thurman left to-day for Ohio quite in, and he has had enough worrying and bickering in the Chamber to make any one ill. lam surprised that more Senators, considering the state of mind into which they work themselves, do not fall sick. Stephen Preston, a white man, though a citizen of Hayti, has arrived here to take the place of General Tate. The President gar a dinner to the new Judges on Wednesday, all the members of the Cabinet, many Senators, and several leading lawyers were present. We do not get on fast in the investigation business. The House Committee on Education and Labour, to whom Gen. Howard has been turned over, have examined Mr. Mullett, supervising architectof theTreasuryD epartment, an d his evidence certainly goes to prove that the Howard University was not built of good brick, that the patent building block was not of suitable material, that even had it been, the brick put in had not been properly hardened, and Mr. Clarke, architect of the Capitol, corroborated that testimony. The Senate have gone in for an extensive investigation, having handed over to their Judiciary Committee charges asserting that the votes of Senators against the Bingham amendment to the Georgia Bill had been bought with money. Assistant-Postmaster Porter offered Judge Hughes, formerly a member of Congress, a large amount of railway bonds, en dorsed by Georgia to secure Senator Carpenter's vote against the amendment. Porter was rigidly cross-examined, and his testimony is considered far from satisfactory; indeed, it is openly an nounced that the Committee have information injuriously affecting certain Senators. The Sena tor-elect from Georgia, Joshua Hill, submitted papers showing that Mr. Carpenter had been offered $lO,OOO of bonds; but while the reports of corruption are freely made, they are as confi dently denied by many, who assert their purpose is to influence the vote on the bill. The acts of Ter ritorial officials is being looked into by the House Committee on Territories. The legislators have a playful way of levying black mail; for instance, in Idaho they mulcted and pocketed $5 per month from every Chinaman who entered their precincts. In collusion with the officials large sums are ex tracted from the U.S. Treasury. The salaries of Go vernment officers are fixed by law and paid by the general Government, but they get more from the Territorial Legislatures, which, at the same time, vote something for their members, and all has to be made good by Uncle Sam. Mr. A. E. Boon, of Tennessee, who was driven from his home in Benham county, has been before the Reconstruc tion Committee, giving evidence, I suppose, not favourable to that State. The French Minister has presented from his Government, through Mr. Fish, a fine gold watch and chain to Dr. G. E. Cooper, the surgeon at Fortress Monroe, another to Dr. Galt, and a third to the Rev. Father O'Keefe, for their services to the French man-of-war Le Curteux when in Hampton Roads last summer with yellow fever. There were some exciting scenes in the House on Wednesday, when 100 members of the Ohio Legis lature were admitted to the floor. The case of J. H. Sypher was called up, and a vote to admit him for the First District of Louisiana being carried, the Representative walked to the bar to be sworn in, when the aspect of affairs suddenly changed. Mr. Brooks moved to reconsider the vote, which the Speaker pronounced to be out of order. Mr. Ste venson, who was managing the case, flew at Brooks, and during the wrangle " Sun-Set " Cox came for ward with a written protest against Mr. Sypher, when Stevenson turned on him, and while that wrangle was going on a conspiracy was hatched against Mr. Sypher, general filibustering com menced, and a motion to adjourn was made; but while the votes were being counted the active canvass against the new member was continued, and a resolution to reconsider being carried, an other followed declaring that the election was not valid in the First District of Louisiana, that neither Sypher nor Martin was entitled to the seat. Never was there a closer affair, and the failure is ascribed to Mr. Stevenson, who is a young member. The Free-Traders declared that the ironmasters of Pennsylvania had determined to vote for Mr. Sypher on the understanding that he would sup port the Tariff Bill of the Ways and Means Com mittee, and Mr. Kelley was accused of having in a conversation said that he would vote for him in order to get another vote for the Tariff, a statement, however, which Representative Kelley positively denied. Controller Hurlburd declines, though pressed, to give his views on the Funding Bill, and it is believed they would be in opposition to those of his official superior, Secretary Bout well. He thinks we cannot fund under 5 per cent. until we have returned to specie payment, and he would favour a uniform 10-40 Five per Cent. Bond without forcing the national banks to take these securities. General Spinner is not so reticent, as he keeps on writing to the directors of the national banks. He tells a story in a letter to H. B. Wilson how a board of directors sent a resolution they had passed to the Representative from their district, directing him to vote against the Funding Bill. Gen. Spinner says that the Government could at any time resume specie payment within 90 days, were it not for its endorsement of the national bank notes. The banks are not prepared to pay, and have no intention of preparing until forced by Con gress, and it is for this reason he hopes that the Funding Bill will be passed. To the lobbyists have been added the committee of steel manufacturers, who brought up a petition signed by nearly 100 railroad officers, asking fora specific duty of two cents per lb. on steel rails. The signers are sup posed to represent half the tracks laid down in the United States, and the steel manufacturers have sent a circular to each member appealing for a law to prevent the annihilation of their business—for " 1. They are ignored in the present law, from the fact that, when the Tariff of 1864 was enacted, steel rails were not made in America. The use of steel rails began shortly afterward, and they were classed among 'manufactures of steel not otherwise provided for,' subject to a duty of 45 per centum ad valorem. 2. The present classification discri minates unjustly against this branch of manufac ture. 3. This manufacture is new, and in its earliest stages, and should just now receive excep tional protection. 4. The capacity of the present works is ample for the present American de mand, the total yearly capacity of these Besse mer steel works being 100,000 and 200,000 tons. 5. The establishment of works in America has been followed by an enormous decrease in the price of foreign steel rails. 6. The Western and Southern Railroad Companies are at present only interested in the price of steel rails to keep it down at that point which will make the domestic manufacturer safe, and encourage him to perfect his works. 7. There bas been expended $5,000,000 jn the erection, and establishment of Bessemer steel works in the United States, and none of the steel-rail makers in the United States have paid a dollar of dividend. They therefore pray for a specific duty of two cents per pound on all steel rails imported." It is ru moured that Secretary Robeson is engaged to be married to a daughter of Ex-Secretary Bork, and it is also said that Secretary Fish has renewed the lease of his house, which means that he remains in office. There is quite a number of editors here ; the Chicago Tribune, the New York Evening Post, the St. Louis Democrat, and the Hartford Courant, all being represented. Yesterday Miss Hattie Nichol was married at the Epiphany Church to Captain Henry Metcalfe, U.S.A. It is denied that Miss Fenton, the daughter of the Senator, is en gaged to General Starring. General Rosecranz has arrived. You recollect that attention was called a short time ago to a surplus of $400,000, standing over from a sum advanced by China to reimburse Americans who had suffered when the foreign warehouses were burnt at Canton. The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations have had the sub ject under consideration, and have decided to return the money to the Chinese Government, to whom they maintain it rightfully belongs. Congress will soon consider the resolution, and if the money be returned, it will be the first instance on record where a nation haS so acted. The Parliamentary committee on. the Abyssinian Expedition sat for a short time thi s morning. The evi dence was unimportant. The death is announced of Mr. Mann, the second engineer of the ill-faced Earl of Elgin, who was injured in the late collision. A new- monthly magazine will be shortly pub ished, entitled the Waif, by Messrs. Bull and Simmons, Wigmore street. A large list of contributors is announced. The Emperor has signed a decree raising M. Emile 011ivier to the dignity of Vice-President of the Council of Ministers. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. The Athenaeum announces that Sir Henry Bulwer's. " Life of Lord Palmerston " will appear before the end of the present season. It is said that it will probably shew Lord Palmerston's character to have been simpler and more frank than the present generation is inclined to believe.— Mr. S. P. Tregelles has nearly finished the fifth and con cluding part of his elaborate critical and annotated New Testament in Greek. The issue has been confined to sub scribers, but on the completion of the work it will be pub lished on the ordinary terms.—Mr. George Macdonald is preparing for publication a number of plays for young people, several of which have been duly tested by actual performance. A com mittee has been appointed by the Society of Arts to confer with the Lord Mayor of London and the Chair man of the Metropolitan Board of Works, with the view of establishing such harmonious action between the seve ral authorities they represent as may prevent the erection of ugly public buildings in future.—Before leaving Paris for London, Mdlle. Nilsson received from Napoleon the Third a group of daisies in diamonds.—According to L'Art Musical, the programme of Mdlle. Nilsson is com plete up to the point of her retirement from the profes sion. After the present London season she goes to America, remaining there thirteen months. Returning, ehe takes the place of Madame Patti at St. Petersburg, and then bids farewell to the lyric stage.- Some new and stringent rules are in force at the Munich Opera. No body is ellowed to enter during the performance of the overture and those who arrive while the curtain is up are required to wait till it falls before taking their seats. Nature announces that Professor Stokes will be a member of the Royal Commission to inquire into the present state of Science, in this country. Up to the present time then, so fdr as we are informed, the Com mission stands as follows : President, the Duke of Oevonshire. Members : Professors Huxley, Stokes, and W. A. Miller : Dr. Saarpey, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P. ; Messrs. Lyon Playfair, M. P., and B. Samuelson, M.P.—At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, on Monday, Su. Roderick Murchinson announced that the Earl of Clarendon had decided, on the part of Her Majesty's Government, to provide means for relieving Dr. Livingstone by land from Zanzibar, news from the doctor having been cut off some time since by the out break of cholera on the caravan route. The filmic& Standard says :—" Mr. Sims Reeves will make his first ap pearance (on his return from Italy) in the " Messiah " at IVIr. Leslie's concert, to be held at St. James's Hall of the 25ti inAtp-t. COMPULSORY PILOTAGE. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, The select committee upon compulsory pilotage resumed their inquiry this afternoon, Mr. Shaw Lefevre in the chair. Captain J. Roper, harbour-master of the port of Bristol, was called, and stated that all sailing ves sels exceeding eighty tons were obliged to take a pilot iu the Bristol Channel. The jurisdiction of the Bristol authorities had been diminished because various new local authorities had sprung up at Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, &c. The Channel was very dangerous at Bridgwater, and the haven up .to Bristol was even more dangerous. There were at present no less than sixty . pilots at Bristol, and forty-four boats of various sizes up to forty tons. The pilots were a very respectable class of men; there was a general tendency to confine those of each port to that port. He was in favour of adopting the compulsory system as far down the Bristol Channel as Lundy, while it was absolutely necessary from Kingroad to Bristol on account of the tortuous character of the Severn. The maintenance of the compulsory system would tend very much to the efficiency of the pilots and the protection of the shipping. The restrictions were not so great but• that the master of a brig might employ a tug. If they were to Abolish the compulsory pilotage from Lundy to Kingroad, it would still be necessary to have it up the Avon from Ree to Bristol. . . Captain J. Rosser, deputy harbour master, and Captain Ford, merchant and ship-owner of Swansea, having al .lo given evidence, The committee then adjourned at four o'clock. LOCAL TAXATION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY. The Select Committee on Local Taxation resumed their sittings this morning, the Right Hon. Mr. Goschen, the President of the Poor-law Board, in the chair. The first witness called was Mr. William Middleton, the Chairman of the Board of Guardians, of Leeds, who gave evidence as to the principles of rating in that locality. Speaking generally, he said, if the landlord paid the rates in Leeds he would increase the rent, whereas if the tenant paid them he would expect a reduction from his landlord. Houses were the same as any other marketable commodity. A man of business would not pay more for a house than he thought it worth. If he thought that the rent and rates together exceeded the value of the house according to his estimation, he would not take the house. Mr. Avery, who has been twice Mayor of Birmingham, was then examined, and described the rating of Birming ham, but was of quite a different opinion to the last wit ness, and thought that it would be far better that the rates should comtinue to be collected by different local bodies. He stated that a very considerable sum was received from the rating of railways. Mr. Dudley Baxter, a gentleman well acquainted with the subject generally, and with the condition of property at the East En:. of London, stated that at the time of the distress at the East End it did not in the least degree affect the rents of the houses, because there happened to be at the time a great demand for them. He was of opinion that the rates fell partly upon the landlord and partly upon the tenant, and that so far as the ground landlord was concerned, he had received a great advantage by the granting of his land for building leases, because in consequence of doing so he had escaped all the subsequent local taxation. After hearing some further evidence from Mr. Baxter the committee adjourned at four o'clock. M. FLOURENS AND THE FRENCH POLICE.—It is stated by some French journals that in awaiting the per mission of Parliament to alter the provisions of the Alien Bill, Lord Lyons has been commissioned to inform the Court of the Tuileries that the English Government will have no objection to the supervision of the refugees by the French police. M. Pietri, it is added, has availed himself of this permission to send over a certain number of his most skilful agents, charged with the special mis sion of discovering if Flourens has really left England, or if his pretended departure is not a ruse invented by his friends to baffle attempts at investigation. SPANISH CARICATURES.—PoIiticaI excitement is producing at Madrid a plentiful crop of caricatures. One represents Prim dancing on a slack rope upon the points of swords, which he wears as stilts, while the Republi cans and partisans of the various candidates for the throne look on, in expectation of a fall. It is called " Equilibrios del Interinidad." Another consists merely of a sheet divided into thirty squares, each square con taining a comic portrait of some of the claimants of the throne. In the host of others, the " Auction " and the duel are worthy of notice. The former represents Prim knocking down the crown to the highest bidder ; the latter depicts him as engaged in a mortal combat with a friar, while a bishop acts as second for each of the opponents. THE TOAD AND THE CARP.—In the seance of the 11th of 'April M. Duchemin brought before the academy of Sciences of Paris the following curious fact in natural history . :—ln the park of the Chateau de Montigny (Eure) belonging to M. Deroche, there is a large piece of water, through which a gentle current of beautifully clear water flows. In this lake numerous carp are reared, which thrive well, except during the first days of spring, when each year an extraordinary mortality oc curs amongst them. In each animal one morbid symptom is always . observable in the dead animals as they float on the surface of the water. In every case the animal is blind ; a kind of film covers the eyes and even a part of the head. An examination of the body brings to light no internal disease, beyond a slight fatty degene ration of the tissues. The viscera appear healthy, and contain no intestinal worms. The cause of this strange malady has not hitherto received any notice ; but from M. Duchemin's researches, in con junction with M. Deroche, it seems that the toad (Bufo catamita) is an enemy, if not of all fishes, at least of the carp in spring. It attacks it, exhausts it, conquers, and kills it. To determine the point, they examined all the carp in the pond, and found squatting on the head of each of those that were diseased an enormous toad, the fore-paws of which were placed on the two eyes of the unfortunate fish. Thus, this ugly Batrachian, which presents so stupid an aspect, has yet sufficient intelligence to assume the offensive, and to overcome a large fish. If it has not agility and energy, it has cunning and persever ance. It would appear to kill by exhaustion, but it remains to be ascertained whether the acrid secretion of is skin assists in the conctuest.--Nature. LADVERTISEMENT. j Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, ani liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated and acc3lerated by drugs of every description, but perfeLtly curable by Do BARRY'S health-restoring Revalenta Anhica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough asthma, consumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derangements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nor vousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throat, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sink ing fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tii!htness 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 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 enti re l y to D u B arry ' s R eva l enta Arabic°, 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 2 . 5. Cure No. 46 270 —Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, 'of ihirty . years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Cure N 0.1,771. Lord Stuart de D ecies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford. of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fif ty years' indescrib able agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough stipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, an d vomiting.-2 con vomiting.—. Maria Jolly" Important Caution. — Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, w i t h out authority Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 2 lb is 6d ; 5 1b lls.; 121 b 225; 24 lbs 4 s.— Also Do BARRY 'S REvALENTA A UAB ICA CHOCoLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups st6s, for 2258 cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per c u p. The 309 and 55s ti ns are sent England on receipt of Post Offi ce O rder.— BAR fr eeRY of p c carriage r i B a it g ß R e Y in and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London an d all Grocers and Chemists. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAI , MAY 14, 1870 THE LORD-LIEUTENANT ON IRELAND. Earl Spencer is visiting Mr. Stewart Trench, F4itsex Castle, Carrickmacross. .His Excellency, attended by Mr. Trench, drove through sane of the most charm:Lb:lß parts of the county of Louth, a distance of some fourteen or fifteen miles, on Thursday. He afterwards rode over portion of the extensive estates of the Marquess of Bath, in the historic barony of Farney, to see the various im provements being carried on upon the property, and especially in the building of good slated labourers' cottages, farmhouses, &c. In the afternoon the Earl and Countess were at Enniskillen, where they were presented with an address, in reply to which the noble lord said :—" Lady Spencer joins me in acknow ledging the kind welcome which the people of Enniskillen have given us on our first visit to your neighbourhood and town. I must congratulate the inhabitants of this town on their peaceable character, owing to which the presence of a large force is no longer re quired, as it unfortunately is in other places in Ireland. As to the navigation of Lough Erne, it is my earnest wish that it should be complete, but the suc cessful issue of such an enterprise must depend principally on the exertions of the inhabitants of the locality. The Go vernment can assist mainly by powers which must be en trusted to them by Parliament ; but I shall rejoice to be in any way instrumental in making the views of the townspeople known to the Government." MARKErS—Yu.sTERDAY. LONDON ()EN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY.-At Mark-lane this morning the allow Of English wheat' was only moderate. In fluenced by the wet weather, And th 4 benefit likely to accrue to agriculture from the same, the trade has been less active. Prices have been without change. With foreign wheat the market has been moderately supplied, The demand has been inactive, on former terms. The show of barley has been moderate. The trade has been quiet, at previous quotations. Malt has been dull, at late rates. Oats have been in moderate supply and limited request, at pre vious prices. Beans and peas have been quiet. Flour has been firm. Arrivals.-English and Scotch : Wheat 97, malt 940, beans 110, peas 80 sacks. Foreign : Wheat 12,570, barley 8,460, oats 59,970, maize 3,250, peas 110, flour 990 sacks. LONDON TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.-The tallow trade is fair, at 445. 9d. to 455. for Y.C. on the spot. Hemp and jute steady. Linseed oil firm. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAY.-A moderate busi ness has been transacted in tea, at steady quotations. Sugars have boen little inquired after, but strong refining sorts have commanded late rates. Inferior parcels have tended down wards. Coffee has ruled fair for both native and plantation sorts. Rice afloat steady. METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET, FRIDAY.-The supply of meat has been moderate. The trade has been rather steadier at our quotations. Beef from 3s. to 4s. 6d. ; mutton, 3s. 6d. to ss. 2d. ; lamb, 6s. 6d. to 7s. ; veal, 4s. Bd. to 53. 2d. ; and pork, 4s. to ss. 6d. per 81b. by the carcase. BOROGUH HOP MARKET, FRIDAY.-The hop market has continued very quiet. Very little business has been doing in any description, at about late rates. Mid and East Kents, £7 to £l2 12s. ; Weald, £6 to £8 ; Sussex, £5 12s. to £6 13s. ; Bavarians, £6 6s. to £9 ; French, £5 2s. to £8 10s. ; Americans, £45 to £6 ; and yharlings, £1 10s. to £3 15s. per cwt. LINCOLN GRAIN TRADE, FRIDAY.-At our market to-day there was a fair attendanoe. Business was firm for all kinds of grain at last week's prices. A general complaint of the pre vailing dryness was made by the farmers. They loudly expressed their need of rain. Wheat is in better supply and demand, at last week's prices. Other grain is unaltered. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, FRIDAY.-Market steady, at last Tuesday's rates, but only a moderate business transacted. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-Large show of wheat, and prices were easier • where sales were effected. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.-The demand for wheat has ruled steady, at fully Tuesday's rates. Flour firm. Beans scarce, and dearer. Indian corn rather easier. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.-Sales of the week, 82,750 bales, of which 46,500 American ; on specu lation, 16,800 ; for export, 7,375. Actual export, 10,500 ' • taken by the trade, 58,500 ; import, 55 , 750 ; stock , 627,000, of which 320,000 bales were American. To-day's market firm Sales 12,000, of which 3,000 on speculation. PARIS, MAY 12.-Rape oil, current month, 127•75 ; September December, 11015. BERLIN, MAY 12.-Rape oil, May, 14 5-6 ; September- December, 131, Spirits, May, 15f ; August-September, 16k. ST PETERSBURG, MAY 12.-Y. C., spot, 56 ; 3 roubles, 501. Clean hemp, spot 39. HAMBURG, MAY 12.-Rape oil, spot, 31 ; May, 311 ; autumn, 27f. Wheat, June-July, 119. HAVRE COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.-Stock, 94,270 bales, of which 70,800 are American and 10,000 Indian. Afloat, 60,100 American and 30,900 Indian. AMSTERDAM, MAT lg.-Banco tin firm, 784. Rapeseed, autumn, 77f. HAVANA, MAY 12.—N0. 12 sugar, 141; Muscovado, - - CORK BUTTER MARKET, FRlDAY.—Ordinary firsts, 111 s. ; seconds, 106 s. ; thirds, 955. ; fourths, 90s. ; fifths, 70s. ; 1,000 firkins in the market. Mild-cured : Frets, 115 s. ; seconds, 112 s. ; thirds, 1035. ; 120 firkins in the market. SOUTH WALES TRADE, FRIDAY.—The activity which we reported last week as characterising the iron trade continues in all departments. It was feared that the long-continued drought would interfere with the operations at some of our iron works, but happily that source of danger has been averted. For railway iron there is a brisk inquiry, chiefly for foreign ports. The home trade shews an average demand, whilst for miscellaneous descriptions of make inquiries are active, and prices gradually improving. A slightly better tone pervades the tin plate trade, and a few sales have been effected at slightly higher prices. Steam coal proprietors are shipping large quan tities of coal, their chief complaint being a want of tonnage, rather than shortness of demand. The house coal trade evinces little change, an average business being done. Employment is good at all the collieries, the owners in some instances having to complain of an indisposition on the part of the men to work. _ THE L OF THE GREEK MASSACRE. " Histmicus," in a letter to the Times, examines the bearings of international law on the late Greek massacres. He insists with Sir R. Palmer that the law has been vio lated in the person of Mr. Herbert, and repudiates the suggestion of the Times that the excursion upon which Mr. Herbert was engaged might have deprived him of the special right to protection to which he would otherwise have been entitled. That protection extends to him at all times and in all places: The case of a minister is different from that of an ordinary traveller. The present is an offence against international law, and we can here claim to "look behind the Greek municipal jurisdiction, and to, if necessary, take the law into our own hands in a manner which would not be justifiable in the case of common travellers." It is understood that among the amendments to the Government Ballot Bill will be one for the omission of the provisions for scrutiny and substitution of inviolable secresy ; another for removing the expenses from the can didates, and a third for the extension of the bill to municipal elections. Sir C. Dilke will probably move the first, and Mr. Fawcett the second, of these amend ments. Mr. Robert Shields, of Sarahs-town, near Cross akiel, county Meath, was fired at the other evening, through the window of the hall of his house while he was ascending the staircase. Some grains of shot touched his cheek. He had a grass farm, which the tenant said he dared not hold, and gave up. He attempted to put cattle on it himself. The Weekly Register says it does not appear probable that any very strenuous opposition to the dogma of Infallibility will, after all, be made by the Magyar or Slave Episcopate, Magyar Strossmayer is said to have completely renounced any idea (if he ever had any) of making any opposition, beyond a verbal one within the Aula. There is every hope that the unanimity will be nearly complete. A mysterious murder is under investigation in Paris. Some persons employed in the washing barges near the Pont d'Arcole remarked two persons, apparently workmen, walking by the side of the river disputing. They disappeared under an arch of the bridge. A mo ment after the report of a firearm was heard, and several men, amongst them an inspector of police, hastening to the spot, found the dead body of a man lying in.a pool of blood, with the face mutilated. Mr. Edmund Yates, in a London Letter to the lI estern Mail, says :—lt is understood that Mr. Seely, the terror of the Admiralty, who has been singularly quiet this session, has been occupied in preparing a thunderbolt' which he will shortly launch at the devoted head of the First Lord. Of the nature of the charges to be brought against the department nothing specific is known, but the member for Lincoln is said to have prepared his case with great care, and to be tolerably certain of proving it. A very distressing accident happened on Thursday, at Northowram, near H a lifax. Mr. John Cawthera has a coal pit there, and two of his sons, one aged twenty-six and the other fifteen, were being lowered down the shaft when the chain broke, and the cage and its occupants fell to the bottom—about fifty yards—and were killed instantly. A third brother, employed in the pit at the time had the mournfnl task of assisting in bringing the bodies to the surface, their father being also a witness of the melancholy disaster. WILLS.—The will of Admiral Sir Henry John Leeke was sworn under £lO,OOO ; of Miss Harriet Luttrell, of The Priory, Dunster, £70,000 ; of Joseph Gibbins, Esq., of Houndshill, near Stratford-on-Avon, under £300,000 ; of John Cotton Wheeler, Esq., under £60,000 ; and of Mrs. Harriet Fans under £40,000. DESTITUTION OF THE SMITH FAMILY.—One morn ing a pompous little man called upon. Sydney Smith, saying that, being about to compile a history of distin guished families in Somersetshire, he had called to obtain the Smith arms. " I regret, sir," said the reverend wit, "my inability to contribute to so valuable a work ; but the Smiths never had any arms,and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs." SEA WATER FOR LONDON.--A " Learner" writes to the Builder :—A sea water lake of ample circumference would be a great boon to the inhabitants of London. Salt water might be forced up, on an eleevated part of the coast, and conducted perenially, into thermal reservoir. Many lives would be saved, many morbid states cured prevented by it, and the physical condition of the popula tion much improved. The surplus water might help to flush the sewers. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED SWINDLER.—Mr. James Henry Pritchard, who has transacted large business in Dublin in the tea trade, under the name of " Stephens and C 0.," and who some days since was dec lared a bankrupt, arrived in Kingstown on Wednes day evening by the mail steamer from' Holyhead, in company of Acting-Inspector Cooke, of the G Division, who took charge of him in London, where he was arrested. Mr. Pritchard was conveyed by train to town. The property found with him was duly catalogued. It is stated that he had on his person over £l,OOO in money, and in a valise a vast amount of valuable property, consisting of gold watches, chains, rings, breast pins, lockets, armlets, necklaces, brooches, pencils and pencil cases, and a large number of documents. On Thursday he was brought before the magistrates and re manded. A new stipendiary magistrate for Sheffield has been appointed in the person of Mr. James Edward Davis, heretofore the stipendiary for the Potteries. Mr. Davis was called to the bar 2,5 th November, 1842, and joined the Oxford Circuit, attending the Shropshire and Staffordshire Sessions. DB. ROWLAND WILLIAMS'S WILL.—The will of the Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams, vicar of Broad Chalke, near Salisbury, one of the. authors of "Essays and Re views," has been proved by the executrix and executors —Mrs. Ellen Williams, the relict, and the Rev. Augustus Jessop, Rev. John Pryce, and the Rev. John ()wen, clerks in holy orders. Deceased bequeaths his extensive and valuable library of books "to the first town in Wales or Monmouthshire which will provide a suitable reposi tory and means of paying a guardian of it, giving how ' ever, the first offer to Swansea and the second to Carnar ven, the library to be usefully but prudently open to all creeds, colours, and nationalities or ranks so ever." THE FRENCH MINISTRY.—The Menzorial loinatique says that experience has confirmed the justice of its denial of the rumours relating to the resignation of the Ministry immediately after the Plebiscite, Those who circulated the report loaf sight of the object of the Plebiscite, which was intended to confirm by universal suffrage the liberal concessions of the Ministry of the 2nd of January. Had the appeal to the people resulted in a failure, in all probability M. 011ivier and his colleagues would have resigned, but, under the present circumstances, there is no occasion for them to do so. The vacancies in the Cabinet will not be filled 'up until the plebiscitary vote is verified by the Senate and the Corps Legislatif, shortly after which the Journal Officiel will Probably publish the list of the co feted AUSTRALIA. We have received, via Brindisi, in anticipation of the Australian mail, advices from Melbourne to the 29th of March. The principal portion of the news has been already received by telegraph. The Melbourne Argus, in its summary for Europe, states that Victoria has been suffering severely from the drought, but in New South Wales there have been severe floods. The firm of W. Degraves and Company, millers, merchants, and owners of squatting property, temporarily suspended operations, with liabilities to the amount of £350,000. Their difficulties have, however, been arranged, and they have resumed business. A pedestrian match for 21,000 and the " Championship of the World," between. John Gregory Harris, described as the Australian cham pion foot-runner, and . Frank • Hewitt, the English champion, had taken place at Melbourne in the presence of twenty thousand persons. The match consisted of five flat races, and ended in a draw. Another Ministerial crisis had occurred at Melbourne, and it was thought the MacPherson Ministry, which had not been in office many weeks, would be forced to retire, and in its place a strong coalition Cabinet, comprising the foremost men of the present and of the late Government, would resume office under Mr. McCulloch, the leader of the Opposition. The rock on which the present Ministry has split is that of excessive expenditure. The adult male population of Victoria does not exceed 250,000 souls yet the outlay required to govern them does not fall much short of four millions sterling, or rather more than £l5 per head of taxation. Were it not for the constant production of gold the colony would be seriously embarrassed. The legislators are unwilling to impose a land tax for fear of alarming immigrants. The settlers if they invest all their money in land and mortgage it as they generally do,suffer from the high rate of interest, and in case of a few bad seasons they lose their freehold. The system of selling Crown lands by public auction stimulates a system of gambling and there is no first-rate land to be had in the open market except at exorbitant prices. A heavy land tax on those who do not farm their own land is thought to be indispensable to the welfare of the country. Several heavy failures are announced in consequence of the banks suddenly calling in advances and declining to con tinue the usual discounts. THE MURDERS IN GREECE. In another series of letters on the murders in Greece, Lord Clarendon makes some very severe observations on the late melancholy event. "It is a scandal to civilisation and an offence to the Powers who called Greece into existence as an independent State, and as such have protected her, that, after the lapse of more than forty years, such things should occur." His lordship expressed approval of Mr. Erskine's conduct. Several general instructions from Lord Clarendon, and the de - positions of certain brigands are printed with this series of despatches. On the sth instant Mr. Erskine transmitted to the Earl of Clarendon a translation of Colonel Thdag(inis' report upon the events of the 21st ultimo, which led to the disastrous collision be tween the troops and the brigands, and adds these - obser vations on the cause of the final catastrophe :-- 7 " It is, I think, now clear that it was provoked, if not rat niencsd, by the soldiers sttemeting to provost the escape of the bric•an and them captives to a patt of the country where the former might have "hold oat film any conditions shay thought tit to impose. FPOSii this orate nient I infer that if Alexandrca had been in earnest, read had hastened to rejoin the brigands, they /night possikly have been induced to retrace their steps to Sykanaenon, and to believe in the assurances of Col. TioSagdnis and the terms originally offered were still open to their acceptance; but as Alexandros did not make any effort to overtake the brigands ociore the fatal collision had taken place, it would now be s waste of time to discuss what they might under other circumstances have .done." Likewise accompanying these letters is a very important document—the directions of the Council of Ministers to Colonel Theag6nis, who was sent to treat with the brigands. Their instructions run thus : "Athens, 6-18 April, 1870. "M. Th6agais,—You are aware of the sad event of the capture of two Secretaries of Legation and other travellers. The Ministers of England and of Italy have demanded that all pursuit of the Arvanitis should cease, and Govern neat felt itself obliged to agree to this, so long as the captive; remained near Athens. But, instead of con tinuing at Keramidi, the Arvanitis, carrying away their prisoners, have removed from the capital, and gone towards Oropos. The emissaries sent to the Arvanitis have repeatedly declared and ex lained to them that Government could not 'rant them an amnesty, the Constitutional charter not _awing conferred on it this right. The Arvanitis, how ever, persist in demanding that the ransom should be paid to them, and that all of them should receive the advan tage of an amnesty. Confiding in your ability, therefore, we beg you to betake yourself to Oropos, and to give those men the following assurances and explanations :—First, that according to the instructions which have been fur nished to us by the interested parties, the ransom to be paid to them is at their disposal, and that they may re ceive it, and quit the territory of Greece either by land or sea, embarking on board an English tnan-of-ia=ar, if it is possible to accomplish this. Secondly, that it is impossible an amnesty should be granted to them. Thirdly, that they must take good heed that not the least harm is done to their prisoners, that not even the nail of any of them is injured; for, o therwise ; Govern ment will treat them with the utmost rigour. h ourthly, that they are not under any pretext to leave Oropos, in order that the prisoners may be able to com municate easily with their respective Ministers ; that if the band quit Oropos, Government will feel itself freed fromits obligation to the Foreign Ministers to suspend all pursuit of the Arvanitis. For all the rest, we entrust it to your prudence and ability.—Signed, Th. A. Zaimis Th. P. Delyauni, S. Valaority, A. D. Avierinos, G. Tombasi, D. Saravas, S. Soutzo. In a despatch addressed to M. Zaimis dated " Thebes, .13.25 April, 1870," Lieutenant-Colonel Th6agenis reports that, in pursuance of the directions he had received, he went to Oropos, arriving there on the mor ning of April Bth. Having taken Takos Arvanitaki apart, he communicated to him, in pre sence of Mr. Noel, the propositions contained in his instructions of the 6th inst., concerning the delivery of the prisoners. These were refused both by Takos and the other brigands, on the ground that they could not treat unless they were first assured of an amnesty. When Lieutenaut-Colonel Th6agimis urged them to remain at Oropos, declaring that if they did not do so, Government would be absolved from its promise not to pursue them, they became irritated at this menace, declared that the promise which had been given to them had been broken, and that they were now free to go to Thebes, Locride, or anywhere else they pleased. On the 9th instant M. Thdagdnis received the order of Go vernment to surround the brigands at Oropos, and on the same day he wrote from Salessi to Captain Liacopoulo to come there with the force which he had, and to give orders that other detachments should follow. The rest of the story has been told before. MR. RUSKIN ON WOMEN. Mr. Ruskin, at the close of a recent lecture on war, addressed to the Royal Military College, Woolwich, made the following remarks to the ladies present :—" You may wonder, perhaps, that I have spoken this night in praise of war. Yet truly, if it might be, I for one, would fain join the cadence of hammer-strokes that should beat swords into ploughshares ; and that this cannot be, is not the fault of us men. It is your fault Wholly yours. Only by your command, orby your permission, can any contest take place among us. And the real, final reason for all the poverty, misery, and rage of battle throughout Europe is simply that you women, however good and religious, however self-sacrificing for those whom you love, are too selfish and too thoughtless to take pains for any creature out of your immediate circles. You fancy that you are sorry for the pain of others. Now I just tell you this ; that if the usual comae of weir , instead of unroofing peasants' houses and ravaghig peasants' fields, merely broke china upon your ewn drawing-room tables, no war in civilised countries would last a week. I tell you more, that, at whatever moment you choose to put a period to war, you could do it with less trouble than you take any . day to go out to dinner. You know, or at least you might know, if you would think, that every battle you hear of has made many orphans and widows. We have none of us heart enough truly to mourn with these ; but, at least, we might put on the outer symbols of mourning with them. Let but every Christian lady who bas con science toward God vow that she will mourn, at least inwardly, for His killed creatures. Your prayer is useless, and your church-going mere mockery of God, if Lou have not plain obedience in you to your conscience. et every lady in the happy classes of civilised Europe simply vow that, while any cruel war proceeds, she will wear black—a mute's black—with no jewel no ornament, no excuse for an invasion into prettiness ; ] tell you again no war would last a week." Nature says that the number of entries for the examination for women at the London University, which takes place during the current week, is seventeen, against nine last year. Of these, twelve will be examined in London and five at Cheltenham. Admiral Russell Henry Manners, F.R.S.A., has just died in his 70th year. He became rear-admiral (retired 1i5t).1855, vice-admiral 1862, and admiral 1865. Admiral Manners married, 1834, Louisa Jane, daughter of the Count de Noe, a peer of France. CANADIAN AFFAIRS The Fenian "scare" over the border has half amused, half annoyed the United States. The American press assure Canadians that international obligations will be rigidly observed, and laugh at the farce enacted by the Fenians, while they ridicule the grand pre parations made in the Dominion to receive the invaders. So absurd does the fright of the colo nial papers appear to the people on the other side of the Border, whose throats are not threatened, that they ascribe the alarm kept up to a deliberate purpose on the pact of Canadian politicians who desire to represent the United States, one New York paper says, as a vulgar, greedy, unscrupulous, scheming enemy, so hungry for Canada, and so en viously hateful of England, Oa t nothing would please itbetter than to turn loose on the other side of the bor der a hoard of Fenian murderers. The Toronto (71obe is said by another to be one of the few papers which " kept its head." The Detroit Post gives a satirical account of the first encounter which took place on the 17th of April at Windsor, when. a Fenian was knocked down by a red coat. It is very well to de pict the Fenian organization as a conglomeration of Irishmen of vivid imagination, limited means, and unlimited brass, who since 1866 got a living by pre tending a yearly invasion, and who are ousted after every failure, iu favour of another set who make the fine promises which bring in the subscriptions from the servant girls ; but men who hear George Francis Train's declamation may well find their hair stand on end with fright. " Fenians, to arms ! Rally for Ireland, cry a Hofer 1 a Tell I a Fitzgerald ! a Cor coran! Down with Saxon ;up with Cat Wipe out centuries of brutality— strike now or never. Cry an O'Neill, a Savage, to the rescue ! ambush the troops ! Rally to Riel ! Backwooodsmen, woodchoppers, and raftsmen! Remember Seventy six ! Lexington and Bunker Hill ! I am off to Stump Minnesota. Twenty-eight engagements in May. No British troops shall pass that gate. One Million poor men dead. Three Thousand Millions of Debt on the backs of the people. Commerce destroyed. Citizens in Bastile. Blockade Bills Unsettled. Banquets to Arthur. On to Victory !" While these soul-stirring words are ringing in our ears, can we wonder that the blood of the Canadian curdles? Independent of Fenian threats and pre parations, Canada has difficulties enough on her hands. It is true that a delegation is on the way from British Columbia to arrange the terms of con federation of that Province with the Dominion; but, on the other band, Newfoundland is discontented not only with the prospect of its connection with Canada, but with the new attitude of• England. Its House of Assembly has distinctly expressed the latter feeling in an address to Lord Granville on.the withdrawal of troops. Newfoundland, it says, is the resort of capitalists, who go there to make for tunes, but return to England to spend them ; that the bulk of the property is owned in Great Britain, and the revenues of the island are drawn to the mother country, leaving Newfoundland poor, and unequal to the means of providing defence. In Nova Scotia and Newßrunswick annexation leagues are active. In the Nova Scotian Assembly an ad dress to the Imperial Government has also been prepared, and in it the following questions are propounded:—" Whether the Dominion will be allowed, if desirous, to become independent ; and again, whether Nova Scotia, if desirous, would be allowed to become independent alone. The Attor ney-General, in commenting on the resolutions, expressed the belief that independence must lead to annexation." Even in Canada the annexation party grows in strength. Meanwhile the Domi nion is actively engaged in preparations for the expedition to Winnipeg. It will consist of 600 regulars and 1,100 volunteers, with a steel battery, and 300 armed and mounted police, the whole under the command of Colonel Wolseley of the regular army, who is described as a distinguished soldier who has served in New Zealand, the Cape, through the Crimean war and the Indian mutiny, with seven medals, five wounds; a first-class officer, brilliant and solid. The expedition has its rendez vous at Collingwood, on the Georgian Bay, which is now in communication by rail with Toronto. By telegram we learn that the troops are already mus tering at Toronto, and it was announced by mail that they expect to be afloat during the latter part of next week. From Collingwood they will pro ceed in steamers to Fort William on Thunder Bay, a distance of 540 miles; but an obstacle inter venes, for to reach Lake Superior from Lake Hu ron a canal about a mile long has to be passed, and that canal is in American territory. The cable brings a report that " the steamer Michigan has been sent to Detrcit with instructions Rot to allow the British Winnipeg Expedition to cross United States Territory through the St. Marie Canal." Now, as the Sault St. Marie Canal is about 800 miles from Detroit, there is here an evident error, the meaning being that the steamer Michigan has been ordered from Detroit to Sault St. Marie. We now learn that the Michigan has been lying at Erie, on Lake Erie, and was ordered to be got ready for active service about the 20th April, it being then supposed that the movement was in connection with the Fenian operations on the Lakes. If intended to prevent the passage of the troops through the Canal, a very great diffi culty will be thrown in the way of the Canadian expedition ; but supposing this to be surmounted, and Fort William reached, Col. Wolseley will thus proceed, according to the Ottawa correspondent of the Tribune, our readers supposing that the troops are now in Thunder Bay, at the further end within British Territory, of Lake Superior : " There are, first, 28 miles of a march to Dog Lake, where the boats will be called into requisition. The next stage is along Dog Lake and River, a distance of 35 miles. The river is a sluggish and winding stream, about 25 yards wide, rising only 18 feet in 35 miles, and running through a flat and swampy valley about one mile wide. At its head there are three portages five miles in length, rising 205 feet, and traversing the height of land between the levels of Lakes Superior and Winnipeg. These are the Prairie, Middle, and Savanne portages, and are easily made, though the last is swampy, and would re quire drainage. Over all, these hoats must be dragged by oxen or horses, and the provisions, &c., conveyed by hand. Taking to water again, the troops proceed down the Savanne River, a muddy and meandering stream, much clogged by drift-wood, to Lac des Mille Lacs, 19 miles, and across the lake, 36 miles, to the Seine. This lake is s udded with numerous islets, and the scenery is bold and rocky. Entering the Seine, which is from 100 to 200 feet wide, and winds through a flat, wooded valley, a sail of 10 miles brings us to the Little Falls at the junction with the Fire-Steel River. These are literally Little Falls, only 25 feet high. Down the Seine, bounded by low hills of the primitive formation, a course of sixty six miles, with five portages, leads to Rainy Lake. This lake contains some 500 islands, mainly composed of pale red granite and chloritic and green stone slate ; and, though they are very picturesque, they are desolate and barren. There are some 15,000 Indians here of the Saul teaux tribe, and loyal to England. The distance over and along the lake to Fort Francis is 50 miles. Here, at the Hudson Bay Company's post, there is a portage of 200 yards past Rainy Falls, 23 feet high, and entering Rainy River. This is a glorious stream, from 250 to 450 yards wide, winding through an alluvial country rich and beauti ful, and studded with groves of maple, birch, and oak. There are a quarter of a million acres of the finest land in the world here, and navigation is only interrupted by two insignificant rapids. In the whole 74 miles of river the fall is only 26} feet. The river debouches into the Lake of tho Woods. We have left behind the Laurentian formation and the sterile belt, and at Rainy Lake have struck the wooded and fertile belt which runs west to the great plain of the Saskatchewan. The Lake of the Woods is crossed into its north-western angle, 84 miles, and here, the boats must be left. The lake is crowded with nume rous islands, on which the Indians grow maize, and wild rice springs up everywhere in the water. The line of march is now due west, over the prairie. The first sixty miles are wooded and swampy, the last thirty-two are open prairie. The wood is, however, light and open ; the few ravines are mere gulches, and the swamps can easily be fascined. The Government road has been built as far as the White Marth River, Crossing the Red River, about 300 feet wide, we were at last, after 534` miles by steamer, 345 miles by batteau, and 120 miles by road—a total distance from Collingwood of exactly 1000 miles—at Fort Garry. The town of Winnipeg contains only some 250 or 300 inhabitants, the total population of of Red River settlement is between 12,000 and 15,000. This is now Riel's headquarters. It is 74 miles from Pembina, and 580 from St. Paul. You will see on a gene ral review of this route that it is an arduous and danger ous one. If Riel had 500 good men, and opposed the ad vance of the English with resolution and sense, there is no doubt but that at every portage and defile he could repeat the story of Braddock. Regulars and volunteers accustomed to open warfare and to act in mass would be useless when caught in an ambush. But although Mr. Scott, Riel's delegate, is sure that Riel will fight it, I doubt it. In the first place, he has his hands full in keeping order in the settlement, and only rules by terror. Again, the Indians despise his conciliatory policy, remain loyal, and will fight on the other side if they fight at all. On the open prairie and in the lightly wooded stretch to the landing at Lake of the Woods, he could not successfully oppose the regulars nor dispute, the landing, so that he must go to meet them in the swamps and creeks,3oo miles from home, ere he can do any effective damage. It is not likely then that weshall see any fighting or bloodshed till the end of March. Will Riel run ? If he does not, as was observed by one of the Canadian Cabinet, 'he's a d-d fool.' If he is caught, there will not even be a drum-head court-martial. .1 anticipate that by the let of June we shall leave Collingwood, and Fort William by the 10th, and arrive at Fort Garry about the 12th of July. About the let of August matters will be ' all quiet on the Red River,' and about the 25th, after riding 600 miles across the prairie, under the cool sky and brilliant stars of the North-West, we shall strike the borders of civilisation , telegraph offices, and railroads at St. Cloud. In all the trip will occupy from ten to twelve weeks, and will bo glorious one." The Imperial Government has guaranteed the peaceable transfer of the Hudso❑ Bay Territory to the Dominion, and the arrangement with the Hud son Bay Company has, we understand, bee❑ com pleted. General Lindsay, under whose directions the expedition will act, will be appointed to the Governorship of the Territory until peace is fully restored, and it is calculated that most of the volun teers enlisted in Canada for three years' service will settle at Winnipeg. The bill introduced into the Canadia❑ Parliament for the Government of Prince Rupert's Land provides for two Legislative Cham bere, the first nominated, the second elected on household suffrage of one year's residence. Two Senators and four Representatives to sit in the Dominion Parliament, 80 cents per head of popu lation to be paid by Canada annually, together with $30,000. Twelve hundred thousand acres to be re servel for the extinction of Indian titles. The province is to have power to amend municipal con stitutions, except as •to execution; to comprise territory from 96 to 98 degrees 15 minutes wesv , longitude, and from 49 to 50 grees and 30 minutes, north latitude, and to be named Manetoda. Ali other portions of the north-west territory to be governed by Canada. On Thursday evening ques tions were put in both Houses of Parliament for any information Government might have recciaed, and Earl Granvil•e replied, showing that the Red • River Convention had agreed to the above terms of the Canadian Government, that the bill was pass ing through the new Dominion Parliament, and that the expedition will be one of peace, as the Red River settlers concurred in the terms as heartily as did their delegates. Riell had issued a proclamation pardoning those led astray, and generously accord ing an amnesty to all who would submit to the Government : "Prom this day forth the puhlic highways are open. The Hudson Bay Compary can now resume business them selves, contributing to the public good. They circulate money'as of old. They pledge themselves to that course. Elected by the grace of Providence and the sufferance of my fellow-countrymen to the highest position in the Gre vernmeut of my country, 1 proclaim that peace reigns in our midst to-day." Externally also, says Riell, matters are looking favourable:— "Canada invites the Red River people to an amicable arrangement. She wants to guarantee us our rights, and to give us a place in the Confederation equal to that of any other province connected with the Provincial Govern went." In its leading article of yesterday on the subject the limes hits the Dominion Government fairly. Ere entitled Ottawa despatched officers to administer the government of the Red River, and surveyors alarmed the people by mapping tracts of land for their friends. This caused the insurrection, when the very Government to whom it was owing re fuse i to pay the money in the terms of the contract when due, on the ground that the Province was in a state of anarchy. Sharp practice, observes the limes, considering that the anarchy was their owe fault. The limes has a hit also at some kind things said in the U. S. Senate touching the refusal to per mit the expedition to pass through the Sault St. Marie Canal, which it asserts were unnecessary, as the British Government did not intend to make the request, though, in the opinion of the 'limes, these remarks supply evidence of the temper of the Iron.- tier people. Brigham Young and party have returned to Salt' Lake City. They were received with a display of flags, It parade of the school children, and a general turn out of the faithful. The telegraphic news of Monday last re ported the Mormons as secretly arming to resist the en forcement of the national laws against polygamy. The Chicago Triblaie supports the Cullom, Bill, ridiculing the notion that polygamy is entitled to forbearance because its professors may believe in its sacred origin; and asks if as set of horse-stealers had a divine revelation, whether those they robbed should pay any attention to their religious scruples, and should not hunt them down and string them up as if they stole from pure cussedness. The cases are not, however, parallel, as the horse-stealer interferes with the property of another, whereas the Mormons confine their rites to themselves, all being consenting parties. The Thugs murder as a religion, but then it is not their own brethren, but travellers of the outside public that they strangle. If they restricted the practice to their owl' community, as the Jews do circumcision, the chief cause of complaint would be abolished; but we are not so cer tain that a Jewish baby has not a right to complain, and exercise it to the full extent of his lungs. It is now evident that Chief Justice Chase was not present at the time of the frightful accident in the Court-house at Richmond, as he had decided to adjourn the Supreme Court last Saturday, at the time announcing his intention to proceed next Monday to hold Court in Rich mond, and the accident had of course occurred ere he left Washington. Every one was taken by surprise when the cases of Latham v. the U. S. and Deminy v. the U. S. (being appeals from the Court of Claims against the recep tion of greenbacks in payment for contracts made with the Government before the Legal-Tender laws were passed) were called, and withdrawn by the counsel for the appellants. It is even insinuated that their claim must have been satisfied by persons interested in maintaining, the decision of Hepburn v. Griswold. On the motion be ing made to dismiss, the Attorney-General opposed, but desired, in case the Court concluded to dismss these appeals, that tha motion be granted he had made to rehear Mr. Pot ter's Hepburn v. Griswold and left undecided. He said it in volved many important interests, and e .pecially in view of the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitu tion has ratified the Legal-Tender Act of Congress ; assert ing that the validity of this issue of the public debt, to the full measure of its statutory qualities, could no longer be questioned in the courts. Justices Miller and Bradley suggested doubts as to the rights of the appellants to withdraw the appeals, and asked for a conference. After a brief conversation among the Judges the Court retired, but shortly returned, when the Chief Justice said the motion to dismiss the appeal was unanimously concurred in by the Court as the absolute right of the parties, and announced that the Court had determined to deny the motion of the Attorney-General for the rehearing in the Hepburn and Griswold case, as none of the four Judges now on the bench who concurred in the opinion in that case desired to have it reheard, and, under the rule of the Court, without the consent of some one of the Judges who concurred in the decision of a case, it could not be reheard. Justice Bradley remarked that, according to the practice to which he had been accustomed, an appeal on a writ of error could not be dismissed without the consent of the other party, but as the practice of the Supreme Court was other wise, he had yielded a cheerful concurrence. In one of the appeal cases withdrawn the Court of Claims had ruled, as a conclusion of law, that the United States notes offered to and received by the claimants were a legs tender in payment of any debt due to the claimants in the premises, whether due under the special contracts set forth in the petitiOn or in any other manner whatsoever. The Secretary of the Treasury, in the years 1855 and 1856, had agreed, on behalf of the United States, to pay to the Lathams good and lawful money of the coin of the United States, such being the terms of the special con tracts alluded to. Sir John Simeon, M.P., has been ordered by his medical advisers to go abroad, in the hope that entire rest may speedily enable him to resume his duties. FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.—OR Thursday a, your/ woman, respectably dressed in black, was seen by severe persons to mount the balustrade of Waterloo-bridge. Silo waved her arms in a frantic manner, and then, before anY one had time to get to her, she sprang from the bridge- Instead of plunging into the water, as she no doubt in tended, she fell upon the foot promenade of the Thames Embankment, close to the spot where two ladies were standing. Upon examining her it was found that the injuries she had received had caused instantaneous death. BIRTHS. On the 9th . inst., at Byron Rouse, Ealing, the wife of Charles Atlee, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Midsomer Norton, the wife of Alex ander Waugh, Esq., L.R.C.P.L., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. On the 12th inst., at St. Mar" Magdalen, Bermondsey, George J. Newsom, of Rathgar, near Dublin, to Elizabeth, daughter of Alfred Bevington, of the Grange-road, Ber- mondsey. On the 14th inst., at St. Peter's, De Beauvoir Town, Thomas James Adey to Mary Frances Reeves, London. DEATHS. On the 10th inst., at Rochester, Adam Martin, Esq., M.D', aged 77. 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