The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-11 00:00:00

SPIRT' OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, ALLEGED MriTDEB AT LIMEHOUSE. 'Whether Lord Napier's defence was necessary or not— ' A charge of wife murder, alleged to have been corn and of this point he may, perhaps, himself be considered mitted under very aggravated circumstances, has arisen the best judge—the Times is very glad that he has made against a man named Ezra Noane, residing at No. 27, it, since it has led incidentally to his public and emphatic Gill-street, Limehouse. The wife of the accused, Jessie avowal of the policy which dictated his final terms to Zeno, a woman 42 years of age, was found Theodore. He "felt that the honour of England stood Mont midnight on - Saturday under the window before all things." • There is nothing very novel of the second floor of 27, Gill-street, lying help in this sentiment itself. It has elicited cheers less and insensible on the pavement. A neighbour, at many an after - dinner speech before that at living nearly opposite, states that she saw the man Ezra Welshpool, and will, we trust , elicit m a n y more. Neane fling the poor woman out of the window, or rather But the practical application to which it had been put by force her out ; that when she clung with desperate the man who uttered it is something more than novel ; ; ; tenacity to the window sill, and hung on by her hands, in modern history it stands, to our thinking, alone, and a her assailant wrenched her hands loose, one by one, and we cannot easily find language in which to say how much toppled her backwards on to the flags, some thirty feet we honour and admire the moral courage which made the below. The woman was at once picked up and carried application possible. Lord Napier himself is well to Dr. Nightingall's surgery, but when she was seen by known to be one of the kindest-hearted and most con- that gentleman he pronounced her to be dead from the siderate of human beings, and it must have cost effects of the fall. The husband was forthwith arrested by him unspeakable suffering to think that it only wanted the police, and charged with causing the death of his wife. one word of his to rescue many innocent fellow- The motives for the outrage have not been clearly !incr. creatures women as well as men from the too faked. The accused is a saddle-maker and has been for some time past.resident in Limehouse. Probable risk of a horrible death, and yet that he could not say that word ; and, over and above his feeling as a man, as a general, honourably anxious to succeed in the discharge of his duty, and to win a soldier's best and most-coveted reward, he had to feel that all he valued was at stake upon that single throw ; that if his calculations as to Theodore's conduct failed, and the cap tives were butchered, all the glory to be reaped from the campaign was in a moment gone. Not the capture of Magdala, the defeat and death of Theodore, nor any aeries, however brilliant, of military exploits could have atoned for this one tragedy. There are men among us who would rather drag the nation through any amount of dirt and dishonour than delibe rately sacrifice a single life—men who saw with regret the righteous retribution inflicted upon even such a monster as Theodore. Let us, then, make the most of a general who under the severest temptation to indulge this feeling in himself and to conciliate it in others had, nevertheless, the courage to act on the grand maxim that " the honour of England stood before all things." The Post holds that though possibly Theodore was the great man his admirers represent him to have been, that is no reason why, under the circumstances of his life and his conduct towards us, he was to receive from us more than his life with honourable treatment. And that offer was made to him in plain terms, and ample time given to him for decision. If ho did not chose to believe in its sincerity, that was clearly his affair, for which Lord Napier cannot be held responsible ; and if Theodore chose to trifle with his fate, and in the crisis of his career to exhibit the absence of every great quality which we are assured be possessed, and to fling away his last chance, it is too much to carp at the course which such a mixture of indecision, disbelief, and despair imposed upon his antagonists. Lord Napier may rest assured that the public opinion, not only of England, but of Europe and the whole national world, will sustain him in the course of policy he laid down for himself and never swerved from in his treatment of Theodore. It was simple, consistent, and just. The King pitted himself against us, and was fairly beaten. on his own ground ; his troops had surrendered and been disarmed, and if he would not trust to the generosity of an antagonist who offered him the fairest terms he could expect, but chose to die by his own hand, his blood is upon his own head. It would have been most impolitic to have left him alive and free in Blagdala . , and as he refused to come out of it there was only one way left to settle the question, and that way was adopted. But even then his life would have been spared if he had consented to spare it himself. The fact is, as Lord Napier puts it, Theodore's high courage failed him at that supremo moment, and in a paroxysm of despair he destroyed him self. The Daily News says that the revolt of what is respec- table in Conservatism from the tactics of Mr. Disraeli is only a question of time. The party which follows that ver• satile statesman has been educated out of its natural perceptions ; and at the bidding of the sorcerer is ready to believe and vote that black is white, that odd is even, that right is wrong. It has been whirled out of its wits by the rapidity of the evolutions which it has been forced to go through ; and scarcely knows whether it stands on its head or its heels. But even Mr. Disraeli's arts of mystification are not endless ; and a time of awakening will arrive. The scales will fall from the eyes of the voluntarily blind ; the glamour will lose its power ; the illusion will cease. There aro in the Conserva tive party a few men of sense, sobriety, and honour, who have viewed the strange practices of their titular teacher with anger, and the credulous faith of his followers with pity and shame. Of course they have shared the fate which a small minority of sane men might expect in a world of lunatics. They have been set down as besides themselves, as devoured by envy and personal pique, and as deserving only political outlawry. The few who will not join the Conser vative party in its triumphal march over the brink of a precipice are regarded with contemptuous aversion by the heroes, who, with banners flying and trumpets blowing, are rushing on to self-annihilation. The nobler beasts of the field, obediently following the leadership of the fox in an expedition against henroosts, would form as close a parallel as can be suggested to the docile support given by respectable peers and country gentlemen to Mr. Disraeli's assault upon the places of the Whigs. The above remarks refer more especially to Mr. Butler. Johnstone„ whom the Daily News calls an enlightened and moderate Conservative. The Times censures the Duke of Buckingham for his conduct in the matter of the Darling grant. After review ing the origin of the dead-lock in Victoria, the Times pro ceeds to say : Unfortunately, when Sir Charles Darling retired from the service, the Duke of Buckingham, who had by that time accepted the seals of the Colonial Office, wrote to Sir Henry Manners Sutton acquaint. ing him with the fact of Sir Charles Darling's retirement, and leaving him free to do what ho chose under the circumstances. Sir Henry Manners Sutton sent a message to the Assembly; recom mending the grant to their attention, and the Assembly at once agreed upon a vote of £20,000, which was there upon included in the estimates and in the Appropriation Bill. Thus a second time did a Governor of Vic toria, though on this occasion by the authority of the Colonial Secretary, apply the powers of his position to the assistance of the Assembly. Instead of leaving the Assembly and the Council to settle their differences as they might have done, he precipitated a new conflict. The Council rejected the Appropriation Bill with the obnoxious vote once more. The Duke of Bucking. ham, conscious of his first error, wrote a second despatch, telling Sir Henry Manners Sutton not to recommend the grant a second time, unless on the express understanding that it should be introduced in separate bill. The Ministry, which had the confidence of the Assembly, persisted in resigning upon receipt of this despatch, and after a long delay Sir Henry Manners Sutton formed a new INlinistry and dissolved the Assembly. But the new Assembly has proved of precisely the same temper as the old. The Ministers and their supporters barely number a fourth of the House, and the majority appear as resolute to push on the Darling grant as ever. The Standard thinks it is at all times a pleasing task to render justice to those who make large sacrifices in order to maintain their" sincere convictions, and it is especially so in the case of an official Liberal who breaks away from his party on a question which they have made a cardinal feature of their policy. There have been too many instances of late of " rising lawyers " who have proved remarkably plastic under the manipulation of Mr. Gladstone, and who have been as ready as their leader to throw overboard their " convictions of a lifetime " when there was an object to be gained by the sacrifice. But there is very little doubt that Sir Roundell Palmer has upheld his convictions 'at the cost of letting slip, for a time at least, the highest prize in his profession. ' There is no lawyer in the ranks of the Liberal party who has a higher title to the Lord Chancellorship on its next avoidance, and there is no ono who would fill it more worthily or with more dignity. It is understood that ostracism from the next Liberal Cabinet is the penalty which Sir Roundell Palmer will have to pay for daring to remain a consistent Churchman when the exigencies of his leader required a laxer sense of self-respect and a less rigid conscientousness. The Telegraph reminds the Liberal voters that if they wish to secure a triumph at the next election, they must ho guided by one paramount principle - that of unity among themselves. If they wish to accomplish what must be the great work of the session, the disestablishment of the Irish Church, they must send such a Liberal majority to Parliament as shall make resistance hopeless; and in order to secure success they must learn from the example of their opponents. Where do we ever find an instance of division in the Tory camp, or of a superfluity of Tory candidates for any county or borough ? The " Constitu tional " party, as it is pleased to designate itself, is im measurably superior to the Liberal in organisation, dis cipline, and strategy. 0 4 COLLIERY ON FIRE. A PEY.SCRIPTION Fon POPPET:Y.—Some years ago a barn near Worcester was struck by lightning. Many of the citizens had gone to the fire, when a fop met the cele brated Dr. G —n, and accosted him in this wise, " Can you—ah—tell me, doctah, how fah they have succeeded in extinguishing the conflagration of the—ah—unfortunato fellah's barn ?" The doctor eyed the individual attentively, and then, slipping his thumb and finger into his waistcoat pocket, took out of it a couple of pills, and handed them to him, saying, " Take these, sir, and go to bed, and if yoR 40 A not feel better i 4 tho morring viN,ll otti my Illretaw! I Early on Saturday morning last the colliery of Messrs. Mercer and Evans, in Park-lane, near Wigan, was dis covered to be on fire. Several seams of coal are got at the colliery, and there are four shafts for the purposes of winding and ventilation. It was in the seam known as the Ince Four-foot, about 70 yards from the surface, and in the No. 1 or furnace shaft, that the fire was first noticed, about four o'clock on Saturday morning, by a workman whose duty it was to feed the furnace. He saw as he supplied the fuel that there was a current of air so strong as to blow it away, and fearing something was wrong he proceeded to the surface by one of the winding shafts, and gave an alarth. By the time some of the firemen had been summoned to the spot flames and smoke were issuing from the mouth of the pit, and on a party of explorers descending they found that the west side of the workings was in flames, and so rapidly was the fire spreading that it had already attacked the woodwork in the shaft, and in a few minutes more it was playing about the head-gear. A stream of water was sent down the shaft by a small pumping-engine, but this was of no avail, and it was soon found that the only chance of saving the mine was to shut out the supply of air by closing the whole of the four pits. This was accordingly done, and all was believed to be progressing favourably during Saturday. On Sunday morning, about six o'clock, a man named Thomas Bromilow, a carpenter in the employ of the firm, proceeded, from curiosity, to the No. 4 shaft, where he noticed that the covering was not quite air-tight, as some steam was escaping at the side. He jumped upon the clay, and began stamping it down in order to close the aperture, when, unfortunately, one of the planks upon which the puddle rested gave way, and the poor fellow slipped through. He held fast to the board for a short time, but assistance not being prompt, the intense heat, the clouds of steam that escaped through the hole, and the fact that the covering where he was hanging was some short distance down the shaft,-it was almost difficult to render him any aid. An attempt was made to reach him, but it was unsuccessful, as the strength of the ill-fated man failed, and he fell down the shaft, a distance of 240 yards. A short time afterwards the shaft was again closed, and remains in this state at present. LAW AND POLICE. - 4 1. A BETTING TRANSACTION.-At the Ipswich Assizes, the case of Simpson v. Mullet was heard. The facts of the case shortly stated were that the plaintiff made a bet of £25 to £5O with one Goodwin that another person would run from Ipswich to the Bull, in Aldgate, London, and back in 36 hours. Upon this bet the plaintiff deposited with the defendant as stakeholder his £25, Goodwin depositing another £25 out of his £5O. The race did not come off. The plaintiff then claimed the £5O in the defendant's hands, and the defendant offered a cheque for £23 15s. (his own commission of 2i per cent. having been deducted.) This was refused by the plaintiff, who brought his action for the whole £5O. By the direction of the learned judge, a verdict was given for the plaintiff for £25. PERSONATING VOTERS.—At the Bristol Assizes a man named Cogan was indicted for impersonating a voter named John Newth at the late Bristol election. The prisoner went to vote for Miles, but was objected to, and then took the oath of identity and voted. The jury found him guilty ; and Morris, the man convicted of a similar offence on the preceding day, was brought up for sentence. Mr. Justice Mellor ordered the prisoners to be kept in nrisou for twelve months with bard labour. C.lO - NywrioN OF A SOLICITOR FOR ASSAULT.--At the Pontefract Police-court Mr. William Allatt, a solicitor residing at Knottingley, was charged with a=saultim, - ; Sarah Beaumont. The complainant was on her doorstep when the defendant, who was inebriated, struck her with a stick, which she took away from him, and he fell. She saw him again in half an hour in his shirt sleeves, and he challenged her to fight. She was prematurely con fined on the evening of the following day. For the defence Rhoda Hirst stated that when Mr. Allatt got opposite Beaumont's house, he pointed his stick, and the com plainant got hold of it and pulled him into the house. She pushed him out again by the shoulders, saying, " Get out, or I'll give you some more." The defendant was fined £2 and costs. A DANGEROUS LUNATIC.—At the Monmouth Assizes William Jenkins was indicted for maliciously shooting at Sarah Green on the 26th of June last, at Risca ,with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. On the morning of the 26th of June Sarah Green was in the garden belonging to the house of her mistress, a Mrs. Jacob. The prisoner was the next neighbour of Mrs. Jacob, and he appeared at his bedroom window, which looked into his own and Mrs. Jacob's gardens, and shouted " Heigh !" to Green, and at once fired off a revolver, pointing it towards her. She saw the flash and heard the report, but nothing struck her, nor did she hear anything strike any part about her. The accused was a Baptist minister, and had borne an excellent character till the death of his wife, some two years ago. The jury found that the defendant was insane, and he was ordered to be confined during her Majesty's pleasure. THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF STEALING A CHILD. —At Marlborough -street Police-court Charles Miller and Bertha Miller were charged on remand with stealing Elizabeth Chard, aged five years. It will be remembered that the prisoners stated that the child's mother had given them the child. The mother now stated that on the day the child was abducted she went into an inn and left her daughter for a few minutes while she went out, but on returning the child was gone. She denied having said that the prisoners might have the child. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the case for trial. Mr. Frederick Calvert, Q.C., has, with the close 4 the session, retired from the parliamentary bar, where for many years he has held a prominent position. LYON V. HOME.—In this case the order has men drawn up for the defendant to deposit £794135. 2d. in the Court of Chancery by a certain day, on disputed items in the account ordered to be taken. RELEASE OF MR. Praorr.--Mr. Richard Pigott, proprietor of the Irishman newspaper, was released from prison on Saturday, having served half the period for which he was sentenced. CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND. - The an uouncement that General Dunne, M.P., will probably be selected to fill the Chief Secretaryship for Ireland, about to be vacated by Lord Mayo, will no doubt give general satisfaction to the Irish people, as a more thoroughly qualified man cannot be found, nor one more fitted for the post of Chief Secretary, than the hon. member.—Limerick Southern Chronicle. FATAL RESULT OF DRINKING BRANDY.—The Liverpool coroner held an inquest on Monday on the body of William Henry Whitehead, 7 years of age, whose parents, occupying a respectable position, reside in Heyworth-street, Everton. The father of the lad kept in a cupboard in his bedroom a bottle of brandy for medi cinal purposes. The child managed to get possession of this bottle, and drank so much of the brandy that he was found insensible, and shortly afterwards expired. The following appears in the Dublin Gazette:— " Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of Ire land, granting to James, Marquis of Abercorn in the Peerage of Great Britain, Earl of Abercorn in the Peerage of Scotland, and Viscount Strabane in Pecrage of Ireland, N.G., and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, Vie dignities of a Marquis and Duke of this part of her Majesty's United Kingdom called Ireland, by the names, styles, and titles of Marquis of Hamilton, of Strabane, in the county of Tyrone, and Doke of Abercorn. BRIGHTON AND THE BRITISII ASSOCIATION'. On Monday a town meeting was held at Brighton for the purpose of inviting the British Association to holds its 1869 meeting at that place. The invitation is a joint one from the county of Sussex and borough of Brighton. The county invitation was decided upon at a meeting held on Saturday, convened and presided over by the Earl of Chichester, lcrd-lieutenant of the county. The town meeting of Monday was presided over by the Mayor, and was influentially attended. Both members for the borough were present, and spoke in favour of inviting the Associa• Von. A. resolution to that effect was paalod, and A dopu. tAtbnltitT And 000r0t10 1 4 igilto4l THE S BARON VON BEUS7. We published last week Baron von BMA's I despatch in answer to the Papal Allocution on the violation by Austria of the Concordat, and ' on the introduction of laws in direct contra vention to the inherent rights of the Church. This despatch bears every characteristic which distinguishes the worst class of modern states ' men. It ventures to reprimand the Pope for protesting against laws on which the new insti -1 tutions of the Empire repose, and to regret that the Court of Rome did not take into account the warnings which it had received from the Austrian Government. It is evident that Baron von Beust thinks that Rome ought only to be too grateful that the new laws guarantee to the Church the possession of her property in Austria ; and only interfere with such insignificant matters as the spiritual ri g hts of the Church and her guardianship of the souls entrusted to her charge by Christ. The Aus ' trian Chancellor, after the fashion of his kind, thinks it a matter of no concern that anti- Christian laws are imposed upon a Catholic people, that civil marriage is introduced, that Catholic education is jeopardized. But be cause the Pope has a different idea of his duties, and of the rights of the Church, Baron von ' Beust is indignant. He tells the Pope that if 1 he had maintained silence on the new laws, or ' only made a formal protest, the hostility of the Austrian Liberals would have been restrained within its narrowest limits, and have been easily appeased ; but now, on the contrary, 1 the attacks directed against the Church, the clergy, and the Pope are redoubled in their rage. The Minister of Catholic Austria says that the Government might have done worse, might have been as bad as those other Govern ments of whose conduct the Papal Govern ment has had to complain. Have we, asks i the Prime Minister of Austria, laid hands upon the territory or possessions of the Church ? Have we oppressed the Catholic religion and I its ministers ? He does not say, indeed, that he has introduced principles such as cut to the root the Christian character of the country, and completely alter its relations to the Church. Baron vonßeust sets little store bythese things. So long as the property of the Church is not laid hold of, he thinks there is no real ground for anything beyond a mere make-show of reprobation. He is consequently startled out of his self-satisfaction when he finds that the Pope is in earnest about things spiritual, and visits the Austrian Government with severe censures, such as the Austrian Chancellor deems meet only for spoliators of Church pro perty. I Austrian Liberalism has been singularly fortunate in securing the services of Baron I von Beast. He is just suited for the purpose to which they put him. He has none of the violent hatred of the Church characteristic of bond, fide Austrian Liberals. He would like to preserve it as an instrument of Government in his own hands. To make it subservient to his views he would like to eliminate from it its spiritual notions and its subordination to the Holy See. Of course, its property would not be touched, but only such, to Baron Beast, insignificant things as its spiritual rights. The ' Austrian Liberals are confident also that the Prime Minister is just the man to humour the Emperor, and to make him believe that a reconciliation is possible between Catholicism modified by the diplomacy of Baron von Beast and the Liberalism which is now in possession of supreme power. But this dream, this hope, partly affected and partly due to the natural self-sufficiency of Baron von Beast, has been rudely disturbed by the Papal Allocution which, in spite . of every effort of diplomacy, has publicly condemned the Austrian Government in terms which cannot be explained away. Hence the ill-concealed vexation of the Austrian Minister and the threat in which he indulges if a "storm break out in Hungary against the legitimate influence of the Court of Rome, which will be as strong," he hints, "as that which has broken out on this side of the Leitha." Regardless of threats, looking only to the great Christian truths which it is his duty to uphold, the Vicar of Christ breaks through the meshes of diplomacy, sets Liberalism, even though under the shelter of a minister such as Baron von Beast, at defiance, and calls upon the Catholics of Austria and Hungary to be true to the great principles of religion, and to obey the laws of God rather than those of men.— TVestminster Gazette. S. THOMAS A BECKET. (From the Westminster Gazette.) At the present moment, when the merits of the great saint whose life is here faithfully recorded, are being variously canvassed by the Protestant and infidel press, such a volume as that which Mrs. Hope has given us, is exceed ingly welcome. It is compiled, as the author tells us, from the "Life and Letters of S. Thomas," by the Rev. Dr. Giles; the "Remains of the Rev. R. H. Fronde ;" and the " Life and Martyrdom of S. Thomas," by the Rev. John Morris. The work is admirably got up, and the interest of the narrative never flags from beginning to end. But it is to the well chosen remarks of the Rev. Father Dalgairns in the preface to which we would now specially direct attention. "It ought not to be hard," he says, "to read the character of S. Thomas of Canterbury, nor to understand for what cause he shed his blood. Ranke, with simply honest endeavour, has comprehended both. Speaking of Henry, he says : He did not choose to allow the Church freedom of election to high ecclesiastical dignities; he would not permit her excommunications to proceed with out the supervision of the State. Not only did he insist on the right of the civil tribunals to judge ecclesiastics for great crimes, which often would otherwise have been left unpun ished, but in the sphere of spiritual jurisdiction he claimed for the State the right of being the highest court of appeal, instead of the Pope.' " Of S. Thomas himself; the same historian says : ' Becket was not actuated by the same unbending obstinacy which characterizes most of the champions of the hierarchy.' All this is quite clear and simple, and ought to be seen by any one who takes the trouble to study the question. S. Thomas died for the liberty , of the Church. It was only after great strug gles with himself, with early prejudices and affections, that the Saint saw that nothing was left for him but to lay down his life for the cause of Christ and His Church. History alone ought to enable even a Protestant to under stand at least the momentousness of the issue. Henry wished practically to sever England from the Holy See, and to cripple the spiritual power of the Church—the only power on earth, besides material force, which the King and his wicked barons respected. Now, wherever the Church of a country is enslaved by the State, and separated from Rome, one of two things follows. In a country like ours at this day, which believes in no Church, the State allows the widest and most ridiculous licence of opinion. In a believing nation, on the contrary, as England was then, the State wields the authority of the Church for her own purposes, and enslaves the intellect and the soul of its subjects, as Russia does now. It was to avert the latter degradation from England that S. Thomas died. " Now, really it is not too much to ask of MOD who write on the subject to see that this was something worth dying for, even though they may prefer the present supremacy of the Queen, and its consequences. Above all, men who profess to write history ought at least to state that for which lie did die, and not some thing totally different, or ludicrously short of it. What he shed his blood for was to pre vent England, Ireland, and half France from becoming in the twelfth century what Mos cow is now : this was a cause worth dying for. Most writers, on the contrary, and even some Catholics, represent as contending only for clerical immunity from secular tribu nals ; which was only the occasion, and a very small, though not unimportant, part of the contest. The worst offender, however—who is most offensive, precisely because, from his LuiNING, A LTG UST 11, 1868. c 1 'and heart, he ou g ht t o k now can Stanley. Any one reading his latun on the murder o f B ec k e t i n hi s qualities of of howl . b4 7 e v t l t e lie morials of Canterbury ' might suppose that the Saint died because of a squabble be tween the sees of Canterbury and York, and because he excommunicated the Brocs for poaching on his manors and docking the tails of his horses and mules. The Dean's con ception of S. Thomas of Canterbury is worthy of being placed side by side with the Becket of the Ingoldsby Legend of the Prior of Birchington.' It might seem invidious to no tice what, after all, is only a lecture ad pop lunt, if it were not a type of a whole class of compositions which tend perhaps more than any other to falsify the truth of history. The fact is worth dwelling upon. "It is said that all languages in their infancy are sensuous. To barbarians all abstractions are concrete, and all ideas a re images. In their High Dutch,' says Gustav Freytag of the Germans in uncivilized times, as it rolled sonorously, with varied, harsh inflexions of voice, from their lips, there still clung to nearly all the words the primitive sensuousness of the expression, just as when it was first educed from the soul. Abstractions, words for con ceptions, unclothed of all sensible image were almost wholly wanting.' It seems as if lite rature in its decrepitude returns to primitive infancy. Images take the place of thought. History becomes picturesque, and nothi ng more. When the weary soul has given up the search after the truth, which is the right key to the understanding of the great world-drama, it takes to vivid painting of the outside of facts. Very beautiful are Dean Stanley's pictures, for instance, of the Council of Niewa. The Ches nut woods, the sloping hills, the tranquil lake, the snowclad. Olympus looking over the scene, —the whole landscape is before us. Then we have Arius, tall and thin, in his long coat with short sleeves, and his hair in a tangled mass,' confronted with Athanasius, the small insignificant young man, of lively manners and speech, and of bright serene countenance.' We take in all these details, and are thankful. The reader is bewitched with the diorama un rolled before his view ; but if he recovers from his intoxication, and asks for the inner mean ing of it all—if he begs for the truth wrapped up in all these images, Dean Stanley's answer is, that there was absolutely none. When we perceive the abstract questions on which it turned—when we reflect that they related not to any dealings of the Deity with man, not even, properly speaking, to the Divinity or the Humanity of Christ, nor to the doctrine (for all these points were acknowledged by both parties), but to the ineffable relations of the Godhead before the remotest be g innings of time, it is difficult to co nce ive thatby, inquiries such as these the passions of mankind shotbld be roused to fury." According to Dead St i alt ley, the question was one of words. Nov, I maintain that this is simply untrue. The question was whether Christ was eternal God. if before the first beg,inning of time' (I am using the Dean's words) the Son was not, then He was not God.' Surely this is not so very unintelligible a question. Is God an ab straction ? What the Arians denied was no less than the Christian conception of God. Surely it is perfectly conceivable that indig nation should be roused when a party of men calling themselves Catholics not only denied the first elements of the faith, but did their best to force their views upon the Church. Furthermore, the honor of Christ surely justi fies a little enthusiasm. It is only when the sad infirmity of the dreamy latitudinarianism, which has not the courage to believe, has seized upon the mind, that the heart ceases to burn about a Christ, who is too shadowy to be worth fighting for. To represent the question as unimportant is simply to speak what is un true. For Heaven's sake, let us have a little solid truth, instead of all this lively untruth. Chesnut groves and vivid photographs are but poor substitutes for a real knowledge of the, bearings of the great contest. S. Thomas has fared like the champions of the Christian idea of God. Here also the grand inner motives of the combatants are ignored and concealed; and we have in their stead a picture of the event. In this case, however, the offence is greater. The picture is so cleverly managed, that a strong light, falls precisely on those parts which make it vulgar. Now I submit that this is to falsify history. If the relative position of events is altered — if what in the acting of the very deed was thoroughly in the background, is, on the con trary, put into the front, then I maintain that the picture is false. There is an old German painting of the Virgin. in which the artist has put two dogs into the foreground. Now, even granting the fact of the presence of the dogs, we should hardly call the picture a real repre sentation of the event, if the animals were t p h a e int y ed ir : i - it n the life, and th e grace f u l f orm o f was only di m l y seen i n t h e dis &ince. Thus, to make history true, little things must keep to their pla ce , an d great t hi ngs must not be slurred over. By a wilful neglect of this rule, the narrative becomes positively false. It is a cheap and easy artifice; for in all events, however great there are many things common-place and out of keeping with our notions of dignity. The reality aims at neither the romantic nor the picturesque. All death beds, for instance, have degrading details, though death is the grandest, event of life, Much more is this true of a murder, an ken of a martyrdom : and it is an unworiliAick 'of writing to attempt to take away the sym pathy of the world from heroism, because the victim does not wrap his robes about him with the dignity of the Virgin in the Greek tragedy. It was an artificewhich we might have expected from Mr. Fronde, but which pains us in Dean Stanloy. Even if the old Adam had come out . in S. Thomas during that terrible scene, it would not have been wonderful. That the martyrdom was well-nigh "an unseemly brawl" we utterly deny. Dean Stanley has managed to make it appear so by the shabbiest ingenuity. He has laid stress upon and thrown into prominence things which formed so small a part of the event that they are hardly noticed by the spec tators. Even these he has distorted. S. Thomas knew that death was inevitable, and he came to meet his murderers, offering himself as a victim for God's Church. His only wish, how ever, was to die in his own cathedral, before God's altar and at the foot of the crucifix. Ac cordingly, when his murderers tried to drag him out and despatch him in secret, he resisted. At this moment occurred the circumstance of which 'the Dean has made so much. Herbert of Bosham says : Taking hold of the other knight by his coat of mail, he shook him off so strongly that he almost threw him on the pave ment.' This our author converts into the fol lowing words In the scuffle Becket fastened upon Tracy, shook him by his coat of mail, and, exerting his great strength, flung him down upon the pavement. So insignificant a part of the deed was this circumstance, that not a single spectator mentions it; it was known long afterwards by Tracy's own con fession. It is this which the Dean of West minster exaggerates, and on which he makes the event so turn as to give him a right to call it a scuffle and a brawl. Again, he makes the Archbishop, heated to anger by the fray,' use a coarse epithet.' But does Dr. Stanley know what word S. Thomas used ? We sus pect not ; for he does not cite Garnier,,,thesonly French contemporary author, for the circum stance ; and the Archbishop did not speak Latin. This, however, is of little consequence. The crime itself of Reginald was not such as would admit of being spoken of in the society of ladies in a drawing-room. S. Thomas, how ever, was being murdered, and was not in a drawingroom. This was precisely a point in which the great struggle came forth in all its nakedness, unclothed of conventionalities. The Church and her excommunications were the only barrier interposed between defenceless virtue and lawless power. S. Thomas was the guardian of Christian morals, and. it was in defence of that very power which enabled him to protect the weak and to punish the vio lent that he was dying. ' Are you going to excommunicate us all?' was the cry of Fitzurse at their last interview. Now that the great champion of virtue stood unarmed face to face with the licentious nobles, who were the repre sentatives of brute force and coarse lust, it was no time for mincing words. Dean Stanley's aim is evident. He has wished to - vulgarize S. Thomas. So far his success has been perfect. His conception of the Saint is thoroughly vul gar. " Unfortunately for himself, he has conde scended to argue in a note. He has pleaded for his client, Henry VIII., in the following terms : It is this part of the narrative, that was—not altogether without justice—selected by Henry VIII., representing him (Becket) as having fallen in a scuffle with the knights, in which he and they were equally aggressors.' For the sake of one so worthy of respect as the Dean of Westminster, we wish that these words had never been written. A more dastardly and cowardly murder than that of the Archbishop of Canterbury was never per petrated. To make it cease to be a murder, it would have been necessary to show that it was not premeditated, and that it arose out of the expressiou cited by the document. Never, however, was murder so deliberately planned. The four knights cross the sea to kill the Arch bishop. They put on their armor for the purpose. Ruffians and victim alike know that he is to die. The only difference between them was as to where it was to be done. Hence, and hence alone, arose what Dean Stanley and Henry VIII. call a scuffle. I deny the justice of the disgraceful plea in every possible sense." THE PRESIDENT'S CONS 7 ITCI7IONAL AMENDMEN7S. (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) ANDREW JOHNSON, after a good deal of expe rience and reflection, has pronounced himself dis satisfied with the Constitution. That ANDREW JOHNSON should think that the Constitution could be amended may surprise those who, for years past, have heard him quote it as others quote the Bible. After the Tammany nomination the PRE SIDENT fell into a trance, and the four following suggestions presented themselves :—The A bolition of the Election of the President by the Electoral College, substituting a direct election by the popu lar vote, for which the States should be divided into as many districts as for the Congressional elections, the majority of the votes in each, counting one for the candidate for whom they were thrown, Con gress to meet for the purpose of counting the votes, and to declare that person President who had re ceived most; for a term of six years, but to be in eligible for re-election. His second amendment provides for the succession; in the event of removal, death, or disability of both the President and Vice- President, the Secretary of State should succeed ; of the Treasury, failing him ; of War; of the Navy and of the Interior; the Postmaster-General; and, finally, the Attorney-General ; which, he con siders, might secure the succession for the term of six years without giving Congress a chance of interfering, as he holds it to be wrong that any member of the Legislature or of the Judi ciary should as now have any interest in creating a vacancy in the Executive Chair. The third pro posal is to abolish the present system of electing Senators, taking the selection from the State Legis latures and giving it directly to the people. The fourth is that the Federal judges be appointed for twelve years only, instead of as now for life. That a change is desirable we have already de clared to be our opinion, but there are grave objec tions to the changes which Mr. JOHNSON proposes. We consider that the original design regarding the Electoral College to be good if it could be carried into practice, but time has defeated the intention of the framers. However beautiful in theory, there is no use in.adhering to rules which experience has shown will not work ; but whether Mr. JOHNSON'S system of election would work better has to be tried. A longer term is an improvement, for reasons we have before given ; while rendering the incumbent ineligible for a second term would prevent much abuse, and make the PRESIDENT more efficient to the end of his period. At present the nation is not likely to regard a lengthened term with satisfaction, for in its mind the office is associated with ANDREW JOHNSON—the first idea being "what would have been our position had these amendments been effected during the present term. We have Wen supported and restrained by the knowledge that there was a speedy end to our endurance, and that time would recompense us by soon bringing to the Chair a Representative worthy of the nation, and enable us to see the last of the Tennesseean as he dis appeared for ever into the wilds of his State." The succession is not a matter of real consequence, although it should be well defined, either having the Executive subject to Congress or else wholly unconnected, the successor following the Vice- President not having a seat in either House. The other two suggestions are after ANDREW JOHN SON'S peculiar turn of mind, and both are as bad as can well be conceived. Mr. JOHNSON holds the true Democratic notion, that the voice of the people is the voice of GOD, though we be lieve history shows it to be at least as often the voice of the Devil. In proposing the election of Senators directly by the) people, he forces a comparison between the Houses. Hav ing the most complete means of judging what the men are sent up by the people, and what they are sent up by the State Legislatures, we naturally turn to the test. Few will differ from us when we state that the House of Representatives is an assembly of which the United States has no particular cause to be proud ; while the Senate is perhaps the most dignified and able legislative body in the world. No comparison could be more damaging . to Mr. JOHNSON'S suggestion, and that he could have made it in the face of facts patent to all may surprise the people in England, but creates no astonishment in the United States, where he is so well known. The Senate and the Supreme Court are the two finest developments of the United States Constitution. Whatever it has done, this much is conceded, that it produced a noble House of Assembly in the Up per Chamber, and that it seated on the Federal bench a learned, incorruptible, and able judiciary. Wherever else we turn, there may be so much room for improvement that a change is well worth hazard ing; but it is a singular fact, and one to which we desire to draw the attention of our readers, as illustrative of ANDREW Jourisox's character, that he has attacked and marked out for reform the two bodies not only the most perfect of which the United States can boast, but which we believe to be unequalled Else where. We pointedly remark on this, for we have more than once alluded to what Americans call the " cussedness" of his nature, and here it is illus trated. He has exactly hit the very nail on the head which would destroy the virtue of both these bodies if his proposals were adopted. What makes the Senate so good is that the members are in truth the cream of the people carefully skim med. They have gone through the testing process, and not only have they been elected by the people, but have been selected from among the elected. Mr. JOHNSON would destroy this, leaving the people to shovel up the Senators themselves. Now we can understand why a man like ANDREW JOHNSON should prefer such a mode of election. To him, and to such as he is, it means a career. As a dema gogue, and as a bold partisan leader, he is a power; but in no other way could he have a chance. his courage, his obstinacy, and his extreme views carry a mob; but cull the intellect of that mob, and put ANDREW JOHNSON among them, hnd he is nowhere. But although this applies to his proposal of electing both the President and the Se nate, he required another way in which to destroy the Federal Bench. On it the judges sit for life or good behaviour, and he would limit the tenure to twelve years. If we desired a compari son we have it at baud. rile judiciary of some of the States is notoriously corrupt. That of New York, for instance, presented a marvellous scene during the Erie and Vanderbilt war ; but this is the attraction, we presume, to ANDREW JOHNSON, who knows that the chief reason of the superiority of the Federal bench is the independence ac quired by the security of tenure, We presume, too, that Mr. JOHNSON would like to see all the judges named by the people, so as fully t 9 carry out the Reform in which his soul delights, though it is not a kindness to give any one a privi lege he is incompetent to exercise. What is most curious about this message is the time chosen for its delivery. If there be one thing for which ANDREW JOHNSON is chiefly noted, it is the opportunities he selects, even more than the nature of the plans he proposes. Doubtless he " lay awake at nights" thinking over his amendments, as he says, " for a long time;" but he waits till the candidates are fairly started for the White House before he brings for ward the result of his cogitations, as if the proper time for calm deliberation on a change of the con ditions of the race was after the " start." Did we want an instance of the way in which Mr. JOHN SON defeats his own ends, we have it here. Of course at such a time no one pays the slightest attention to him or his message. We only write about it as the subject is of interest, and ANDREW JOIINSON is an historical personage, whose character, inexplicable in this country, is not inaptly illus trated by these proposals. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, July2s.) The money market continues easy all over the country. Indeed the process of relaxing may be said to be still going on. The banks exhibit a marked anxiety to dispose of balances at any rate. The causes which we were threat ened with a month ago, as certain to send up the price of money, have not been found operative. The rates are even lower than belong to the season, and indicate a decided excess of currency. ,Call loans on Government securities aro made at New York at 3 per cent. At Boston a little higher rates prevail witb considerable discrimination as to borrowers. Foreign exchange is dull, and rates are steady at about the figures for last steamer. London, 60 days, commercial, 1091 to 110; London, GO days, bankers, 110 to 1101 ; London, short sight, bankers, 1101 to 1101 ; Paris, GO days, 5.15 to 5.121 ; Paris, short sight, 5.114 to 5.10 ; Antwerp, 5.15 to 5.124; Swiss, 5.15 to 5.121 ; Ham urg, 364 to 361 ; Amsterdam, 404 to 411; Frankfort, 404 o 414 ; Bremen, 791 to 80 ; Berlin, 714 to 72. The course of gold has been of unusual interest dur ng the week. On Saturday last it ran from 142 to 114. On Monday it opened at 1431, reached 1431, and held at 1431 to 1434. On Tuesday it opened at 1431, and closed at 1421. On Wednesday it opened at 1324, and closed at 1431. Oa Thursday it was the same: This rise is the more noticeable, as occurring in the face of the large disbursements of the Treasury for the July interest, which so far are nearly thirteen millions above the customs receipts, and also for the payment of the principal of the Mexican loans of 1847-8. It will be remembered that the Treasury first announced that these bonds might be hold over till January next, drawing interest, but afterwards announced that the interest would cease July Ist of this year. This action has brought the bonds in rapidly, and they are sub stantially redeemed. On the first of Juno they amounted to $3,532,000, and on the first of July to $6,500,000, of which ' amount the New York Times estimates that at least $5,500,000 will have been presented and paid by the clos. of this month. The total gold payments out of the Treasury in June and July will be about $37,500,000, while the Customs receipts will probably have amounted to $27,000,000. That gold should rise at such a time would have been inexplicable but for the heavy and constant demand for export. From the close of May to the present time, the excess of gold ship ments over receipts has been nearly fifteen millions. Gold has no longer any general uses in this country, and being demonetized it ceases to control or bo controlled by the fluctuations of prices. But it still has special uses, in the arts, in the payment of customs, &c. Its export, therefore, below a certain point must bring its price sharply up. It is a question whether the present advance indicates that such a condition has been reached, or is due solely to the manipulations of large holders. We have been inclined to believe that the rise was owing to excessive export, and that it might continuo till much higher figures were reached. That such a consummation is desirable wo have often endeavoured to show. The import entries for the week amount to $4,616,842, against $3,229,456 same week last year. The export clearances of domestic produce $2,317,411, against $3,325,599. The export of specie $2,094,138, against $4,076,857. The customs of the week are $2,250,000. The gold values of the import entries of foreign mer chandise at New York, since the Ist of January, 1868, amount to $135,606,082, against $147,643,021, decrease $12,036,989. Tho curl ency value of the exports of domestic produce and miscellaneous goods from New York since January 1, 1868, $91,114,749, against $104,679,711, decrease $13,491,962. The exports of specie from New York since Jan. 1, 1868, $57,519,290, against $35,041,426 increase $22,477,864. The deliveries of Californian gold and silver at New York since Jan. 1, 1868, $23,818,475, against $14,793,540, increase $9,021,935. Governments have risen handsomely-during the week, averaging fully ono per cent. advance. Of late operations in the Bands have been restricted by the apprehension that Congress might do something to disparage the public credit. Largo amounts- of available funds have been kept idle awaiting such possible action, and ready to tape advantage of it. The banks, even, have been sellers of Governments to a certain extent. So that, while the fear of repudiation or of an endless issue of greenbacks has not been strong enough to beat down the price of the Bonds, it has checked the dealing in them to a con siderable extent. Within the present week, however, greater confidence has been manifested ; the banks have entered the market as buyers; very heavy foreign orders have been received, and a good demand for investment has sprung up. Those who havebeen holdingoff in anticipation of possible legislation have got well tired of it, and Govern ments seem now to bo rather the best thing to buy. The New York Stockholder gives the following explanation of the difference in ruling between the different issues Of Five-twenty Bonds. Of course, in addition to this is the fact that the interest on some falls due January and July, and on others April and November, so that the price varies as, the time of drawing the semi-annual three per cent. approaches or recedes :—" The Five-Twenties of 1862 and those of 1864 and the old issue of 1865 are dealt in the markets of London and the continent of Europe. Presently, however, it is soon expected that the loans of 1865 (now) and of 1867 will be upon the foreign markets, as they become a closed loan, July 1, 1868. The amount of these is about 900 millions. The latter issues of Five-Twenties, to wit—the 64's, 65's and the 67's are more appreciated from the fact that they have a longer tune to run absolutely, no Five-Twenty Bonds being payable till five years after their issue, with interest in gold by law stipulated to be paid . as long as the bonds are outstanding." At the present time there is a heavy uncovered short interest at New York in 1862's and old 1865'5, of the bonds available for shipment, as also of the " domestics" in 1867'5. A letter from Secretary M'Culloch to Henry Clews and Co., of New York, shows that the amounts of the several issues of gold-bearing bonds outstanding July 1, 1868, were as follows : Five per Cent. Bonds due 1871, outstanding $7,022,000 Five per Cent. Bonds due 1874, outstanding 20,000,000 Five per Cont. Ten-forties, outstanding ... 198,449,800 Six per Cent. Bonds of 1847-48, outstanding 6,878,442 Six per Cent. Bonds of 1831, outstanding ... 265,262,200 Six per Cent. Five-twenties, Feb. 25,. 1862, outstanding 514,771,600 Six per Cent. Five-twenties, June 30, 1864, outstanding ... ... 125,561,300 Six per Cent. Fire-twenties, 1865, May and November, outstanding ... 197,777,250 Six per Cent. Five-twenties, 1865, Consols, outstanding ... 331,972,950 Six per Cent. Five-twenties, 1867, outstand ing 364,123,900 Six per Cent. Five-twenties„ 1868, outstand ing 17,648,950 Total $2,060,833,392 The Consols of 1865 and the Five-twenties of 1867-8 are being constantly increased by the conversion of Seven thirties. In the railways the most marked feature has been the rapid appreciation of Wabash and of North West ern. That in Wabash is attributed to an effort, by parties already interested in the road, to get command of it, for the purpose of carrying out negotiations already begun, for extending and completing its con nections, without involving any outlay of money or involving any liability on the part of the company. Tho advance of North-Western is merely a continua tion of the movement which has boon in progress for seve ral weeks and which has raised the common stock from 65, June 22, to not to mention the little matter of a ten per cent. dividend in scrip. It is the result of a larger and juster sense of the intrinsic advantages of the road, notwithstanding all mismanagement and wastefulness in the past. Indeed, this is not merely the most marked feature of the stock market this weak ; it is ono of the most marked features of the national industry at the present time. The country is just beginning to realize how much there is iu the Western railways, and what a career, with honest and capa Ida allt,agement, they have before them. Time is all on their sido and the future is for them. Every change betters their condition, and the national growth only imbeds them more deeply in the wealth and industry of the country. There is at the present time—at least iu railways—a reaction in favour of Western investments; and while it is very likely to 1 etd to disap pointments, there is yet enough in it to justify sanguine expectations. The recent splendid success of the Illinois Central, after its long depression, has done a great deal to add to the feeling; yet it is doubtful whether it would pay any ono to go through with the whole experience of an original shareholder, even in view of the present high character of the stock. It seems tolerably certain, how ever, that the excess of Eastern capital will tend increas ingly in that directing, awl the prese_it advance in Chicago aLd North Western is more the result of general than of special causes. Speaking of the Iliinois Central, we find in the New York Tribune the statement that of the 215,000 shares all but 10,000 are owned and hold abroad. The six per cent. gold interest bonds of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railway companies are in good demand' at 102 for the Union and 103 per cent. for the Central, and interest. The following are the comparative earnings of the Michigan Central Railroad for the second week in July : —1863, $62,280 ; 1867, $64,853 ; decrease, $2,573 ; of the Marietta and Cincinnati-1868, 920,053 ; 1867, $21,563; increase, $2,490; of the Western Union -1868, $15,131 ; 1867, $14,438 ; increase, $593 ; of the Chicago and Alton-1868, $97,503; 1867, $91,000 ; in crease, $6,508. New 7 per Cent. Gold Interest Bonds are offered in the markets, this time by the Rockford, Rock Island, and St. Louis Railway, for 95 per cent. in currency. The Miscellaneous Share list has been greatly neglected, Western Union Telegraph is better, and promises well ; Pacific Mail is off half a cent. Express Stocks are lower through the list, and dull. Border State Bonds are dull and drooping. The holders of Tennessees particularly are tired of waiting, and anxious to realise. The prospects of a satisfactory adjustment of the interest claims d o not improve with time ; and, strange as it may seem, there is a largo party in Tennessee who are rejoiced to see the credit of the State so low - , and its bonds at an increasing discount. They flatter themselves that after a few more such shocks they will be able to buy up the bonds of the State for a song. Such is the idea some men have of na tional honour and of ne value of character! Tennessee is a great deal more likely to borrow ten millions in the next generation than she is to buy up one million of her past obli gations; and whenever she does go into the market to borrow' she will have to pay dearly for this act of partial repudiation. ft will cost her a great deal more than honesty ever did, or rather ever would. What would these astute Tonnes seeans do if their State unfortunately had the credit of Massachusetts, and could borrow at five per cent. at premium sufficient to sink the whole principal when due ? They never would be able to buy up their own obligations at a discount—that's flat, but perhaps on the whole, it might be a groat deal more comfortable and quite as pro fitable. (From the Wall-street Journal) NEW Yonx, Friday Evening, July 24. Money continues in abundant supply, and is readily ob tained on call at 3 to 4 For cent on Governments, and at 4 to 5 par cent. on railroad and miscellaneous col laterals.—ln discounts there is a continued demand for first class, sixty to ninety days, at five and a-half to six per cent., and four months, same class, at 6 to GI per cent. — American silver is in moderate request at G to 7 cents below the price of gold.—Moxican dollars are quoted at 1634 to 104 in gold.—Foreign Exchange is weak, the German Bankers continuing to be free sellers. —Mining Stocks are very much neglected, the only excitement being in New York (of Colorado), the price of which has been advanced to 93 cents.—Petroleum Stocks show a fair business, particularly in Buchanan Farm, which had ad vanced to 65 cents, closing a shade lower. The following were the cloy for the Railroad and Miscellan N. Y. Central 1331 Erie Hudson Reading Mich. South. & N. I 9ll Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B7l North-West North-West Preferred 82 Canton.. Rock Island - Cleveland 'and Toledo 103 - The following were the various Public Funds of the 1 Sixes,.lB6B, registered , Sixes, 1868, coupoa , Sixes, 1881, coupon U.S. Gs. Pacific ltaihoad )sing quotations this evening aeons Stocks : Fort Wayne Pacific Mail 991 Atlantic Mail 2B Quicksilver W. 11. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred 9 Ohio and Mississippi BO Boston Water Power -- Cumberland Bankers and Brokers 9l St. Paul I St. Paul Preferred 791 Closing quotations for the United States in New York : -7- - to to 113 to 1151 to --- , Fivo-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties; coupon lO4 to 108 k Seven-thirties, 2d series — to -7 - .. . - _ Seven-thirties, 3d series Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 Express Stocks are quoted as follows : Adams 521 to 52 0 1 American 45} to 4' Merchants' Union, 35 percent... 231 to 24 United States .„ 46 t o 46} Wells, Faigo, and Co. 251 to 26 The circular of Messrs. Dupee, Beck, and Sayles, of Boston, gives the following as the operating expenses 0 1 leading railroads in 1867 : Per cent- Now York Central ... 76 Pennsylvania Central Michigan Central... Michigan Southern ... Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis... Lake Shore (C. P. and A. R. R.) Ohio and Mississippi Indiana and Terre Haute ... Indiana and St. Louis (1866) ... Evansville and Crawfordsville Jeffersonville Illinois Central Chicago and Alton Little Miami (1866) ... 74 ... 65 ... 60 ... 67 ... 93 7G ~ 7L, (From Messrs. Scaterthwaite's Cireu'ar.) We have to note a decline of ouo per cent. in the quote Lions for United States 5-20 Bonds in the London market since this day week, owing to the advance of the premium on gold, as reported by telegraph, which has been as much as 21 per cent. Illinois Central Shares have been affected by the same cause, and at 92 to 93, the closing price, they show a depreciation of 2 per cent. Erie Shares on a continued heavy decline in New York have been pressed for sale; at on e time to-day they wore freely offered at 37; but they leave off buyers at 374, with an appearance of firmness. Atlan tic and Great Western securities at one time improved and looked strong at the higher quotations, but they have relapsed, and are about the same price as this del week, Consolidated Mortgage Bonds being last quota 40-1 to 411, and the Debentures 391 to 4q. The transaC tions in the Divisional Bonds are very limited. H. H. • Bush, R. E. Noble, and W. 0. Fletcher , of Westfield, Massachusetts, and the Hon. L. Hull, of Charlestown, members of the American Whip Comply at Westfield, owning six-tenths of the capital, have put' chased of the other stockholders, at 35 per cent.. premium , the remaining SIO,COO ; and with the Van Deusen Bro thers, also whip manufacturers, are taking measures to unite in one firm with the combined capital of $200,000 • The latter have employed 80 hands hitherto, and the mer GO, besides 75 convicts in the Charlestown State Pri son. The contract for prison labour expires October lf and they do not propose to renew it, but will add 100 hands to their present force, and in preparation for them a shop 45 feet wide and 125 feet long in the basement of their building on Main-street, is being fitted up. The following bill has been prepared by the lion. William D. Kelley, chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, in the United States :—Wheree ° certain nations of Europe have adopted and hav, e proposed to the rest of the world a coinage wide ( ' was originally based upon that system of weights known as the metrical, but which under the in"; ence of circumstances has departed from its intende d character ; and whereas there is an assured expectatio n that this character ofsimple relationship to metrical weight s will be ultimately returned to ; and, whereas the coinag e of the United States can be brought into exact conformity with metrical weights by a change in its value amounting to less than one-third of one per cent. in the case of ge ld coins: Therefore, be it enacted, that the gold hen?' after coined by the United States shall contall for each dollar of denominational value one an d one-half grammes of pure gold, and shall weigh f or each dollar one and two-thirds grammes, the proper" tion of alloy being thus kept as one. And be it further enacted, that such coins shall be legal tenders in paymen t ! arising from contracts made at any time after the first do/ of January, 1869, and that in the case of all other psY: meats, including those from the United States to its credi tors, one thousand and three dollars of this new coinag e shall be the equal equivalent of one thousand dollars of the .. old coinage of the United States, such being their actual Niel tivevalues. And be it further enacted, that such coins s hat have stamped upon them, in addition to other devie. their weight in grammes, and the inscription " 15 _,. tenths fine." And be it further enacted, That the On half dollars, and all small silver pieces hereafter to coined, shall consist of standard silver 9-10 fine, and 0 111 7 be of the weight of 25 grammes for each dollar of denool.. 0 national value, and shall have their weight and fine nes s legibly stamped upon them, and shall be legal tenders " the payment of all sums not exceeding $lO. Births. DUFFETUN—On the Gth inst., Lady Dufferin, prenu'll rOlf of a son. Wif e GRENFELL—On the 9th inst., at 8, Prince's-gate, th e of Charles Seymour Gronfell, Esq., of a daughter. SAVAGE—On the 7th inst., at Rochester, the wife a v Savage (late 91st Highlanders), of a son. Marriages. in ity DERVILLE—ROBINSON— On tho 10th inst ab beA Church, Euston-road, Pcu-t Lieut.-General A. Dorvi" e ' o .ost Majesty's Indian Forces, to Augusta Letitia, ,orelc daughter of Richard and Mary Robinson, late of - - port. SCOTT—Bunn—On the 6th inst., at Hove, Benjamin d 11130: son of Benjamin Sc o tt, Esq., of Heath House, WeYbILS4., to Mary Florence, only daughter of Charles Burt, of hossmoro Lodgo, Cliftonville, Brighton. 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