The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT O TEE PUBLIC JOUI‘.6ALS, The Times observes that there was joy in store for those who delight in the dust of battle. As soon as Mr. Glad stone's resolutions had been passed, and Mr. Laing had withdrawn his untimely rider, Mr. Aytoun brought for ward another supplementary resolution. Mr. Aytoun is a Scotch Liberal, who has voted with Mr. Gladstone throughout the recent discussions, and his motion was seconded by Mr. Lamont, another Liberal Scotch mem. ber. They have supported the disendowment and dis- establishment of the Irish Church ; but they are equally resolute that no part of the secular• iced funds of the Irish Establishment shall be devoted to the endowment or furtherance of the Roman Catholic religion. Mr. Aytouu's resolution was so ill drawn that, not content with declaring the necessity of discontinuing the . 3faynooth Grant and the Regittuillonum when the Irish Church is disestablished, and protesting against the devotion of the secularised funds of the Establishment to the promotion of the Roman Catholic religion, it declared against the application of any State funds in any way to such an object. This last prase gave rise to infinite misconception, if not misrresentation. It was twisted altogether out of its natural import. A scene of confusion ensued, which was long protracted. Amendments and cross amendments were submitted to Mr. Aytoun's resolution. The chairman was again and again appealed to on points of order, and language of un: usual violence was heard. Mr. Disraeli, who described the scene as " a quarrel over the plunder," provoked Mr. Mr. Fright's wrath, and most unseemly recriminations marked the close of the discussion. Liberal members clustered about Mr. Aytoun, beseeching him to withdraw or alter his motion. Mr. Mill was called to order for turning his back upon the chairman in his eagerness to remonstrate with the refractory Scotchman, and it was probably only owing to the abstinence of the Ministry from taking any part in the division that the resolution, after many alterations, was finally rejected. It would have been more for the credit both of the House and of its most eminent members if it had been moved that the chairman should "report progress" after Mr. Glad stone's resolutions had been agreed to. The Post gives currency to the rumour that the present Prime Minister meditates another of those wonderful sur- prises which during his brief tenure of office have so startled the simple-minded. It is believed that on the high authority of Lord Cairns the Cabinet will be told that, without inconsistency or dereliction of duty, it may advise the sovereign to give her consent to the intro duction of a bill of which, nevertheless, every mem ber of that Cabinet totally disapproves. Without stop ping to inquire into the reasons on which this view is based, it is needless to state its object. It is presumed, and probably not without good cause, that the measure will be defeated in the Lords, and the Government be thereby relieved of any embarrassment which it might occasion them. But the Post asks, in the first place, is a Minister of the Crown who sits in one House of Parliament justified in assisting the passing of a bill affecting the royal prerogatives through that House be cause he has good grounds for supposing that it will be rejected in the other House. And, in the second place, it asks what would the Government do if by an odd acci dent the bill should be carried through the upper House. Mr. Hardy has distinctly stated that he will never be a member of any Administration which assents to the pass ing of a bill striking at the existence of the Irish Church. Eut if the bill passed both Houses, what would he and his colleagues do? Advise the Queen to veto the bill? Such a course would be without a precedent since the reign of George 1., and, in the opinion of the late Mr. Hallam, would be grossly unconstitutional. It is perhaps useless to utter warnings, but we would sincerely recom. mend the colleagues of Mr. Disraeli to examine with some little care the very crooked path in which he has for some time been leading them. They pride themselves on being the leaders of the Conservative, and par excellence the con stitutional party. Surely the mere wish to hold office for a few months longer will not induce them to overthrow all ;hose constitutional usages which the country holds most dear, and affix on their own names a stigma which can never be effaced. The Daily News points out that the next step in this business will be the proposal of an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty, with a view to legislation in the pre sent session, to place at the disposal of Parliament her interest in the temporalities of the Irish Church. The course which the Government will take upon this matter has not been indicated. For anything that appears they may renew upon it their suspended opposition to the policy of the House of Commons. The address is certain to be carried in any case. Will it be followed by the dissolution which Mr. Disraeli has obtained her Majesty's permission to have recourse to ? If this penalty on independence is not inflicted will the address be graciously answered by the sovereign, or, as Mr. Disraeli seemed to imply, left without answer ? In the latter event, we may assume that the precedents to which Mr. Gladstone referred fur gielation upon matters affecting the rights of the Crown - - yal Assent will be followed. The House of Commons is not in a mood to be trifled with ; and it will meet the unusual assertion of prerogative by the un usual taut legitirnt.te exercise of its own privileges. The Herald is indignant at the clamour which took place in the House on the passing of the resolutions. It lays the charge of having produced that scene at the door of Mr. Gladstone. No candid and honest man will be in clined to impute to Mr. Disraeli any deficiency in the qualities or the principles which enable the leader of the House to contribute to the preservation of its dignity. For twenty years he has been a leader in that assembly, and whether Lord J. Russell or Lord Palmerston were his opponent—whether in office or out of it—he has never given occasion for the slightest complaint of his personal conduct or of the manner in which he has exercised his influence over his party. While he, together with one or the other of those distinguished men, was responsible for the management of the House, its dignity was maintained, and its debate's characterised by that moderation and sobriety and demeanour, that elevation of tone, which traditionally belong to the Parliament of England. If there has been a falling-off in this respect, it is only since Ale. Gladstone became the leader of the Liberal party, and Mr. Gladstone must be held responsible for it. Even while he was only a subordinate of Lord Palmerston, his chief had more than once to inter pose to calm the storm which he had raised, and to check his vivacity of temper. Since he took the first place on his own side of the house he has not belied the anticipa tions of those who expressed these misgivings. His per sonal rudeness to Mr. Disraeli has always been marked, and sometimes outrageous ; his temper, more than even his policy, shipwrecked the Government of Earl Russell, and in 1867 led to a renewal of the intestine feuds of the Liberals ; and within the present week it has been mani fested in attacks on the Ministry which have transcended all bounds of reason and all restraints of courtesy, and have hardly spared the Crown itself. The Standard, observing that the resolutions are adopted, points out that the Queen will be asked to place her interest in the temporalities of the Irish Church at the disposal of Parliament, and in the event of a favourable answer being returned, Mr s Gladstone will bring in a bill to suspend all appoint ments to dignities and benefices in the Irish Church until the Ist August, 180. Assume the answer to be favour able—that is to say, that her Majesty's Government, upon the careful consideration which Mr. Disraeli assured Mr. Darby Griffith the resolutions should have—deem that the proper advice to give to her Majesty would he to allow Par- R lianicnt to entertain the question, and it is still perfectly clear that no Act suspending the appointment to vacant dignities and benefices, and so prejudging that very ques tion which by mutual consent is to be referred to the new constituencies, would be passed this session. We do not believe that a bill intended to effect this object would pass through the House of Commons ; we are quite sure that no such measure would be read a second time in the House of Lords. The session has been wasted, and for a factious purpose. Mr. Gladstone cannot vindicate his policy in the way which, as he has admitted, it could alone be jus tified. In a leader on the St. James's Hall meeting, the Tele graph notes that there was an Irish Protestant bishop at the meeting on Wednesday—the Bishop of Cork. He is a specimen of the Hibernian bench. He was formerly a very popular preacher in Dublin, and the Protestants of that city, whose sole idea of religion is ribaldry directed against Roman Catholics, bad an idea that Dr. Gregg knew Greek because he could read the New Testament in the original, and to their great delight he thumped his pulpit, bellowed himself hoarse, and preached damnation for all and sundry who did. not follow his specially evangelical, and sometimes ungrammatical, advice. Since he has been made a bishop hii,energy and fine religious feeling have reased, and the other day he publicly called Mr. " the son of a dog." There is a good deal of force in the expression, and, with the last word in in Ma:Zuir nine form, it frequently adoins street rows. Dr. Gregg picked it up casually, and in a natural manner he gave it a masculine turn of thought. We should be sorry to repress the exuberant spirits of a bishop who can thus, as Victor Hugo says, " bark in If we expect an Archbishop of Canterbury to be ethereal, on the other hand, we anticipate real Irish vigour from a Hibernian bishop, and it would be a pity if he restrained the flow of his words. He really knows no other or nobler discourse. A man without dignity, or learning, or decency, who has bellowed his way to the bench, is quite good enough for the " mere Irish." We '-lay, indeed, hint a doubt whether it is the imperative duty of the English Government to pay Dr. Gregg £2,000 a year merely for the pleasure of hearing him call a mem• her of Parliament " the son of a dog." the 1: Doith slang THE CONVICT MICHAEL BAfIRETT. The inquiry into the evidence offered on the tart of .the defence is still proceeding at Glasgow, and ftirteen dis tinct affidavits have been transmitted to the Home Office. Five of these are by persons who saw Barrett at the torchlight procession in Glasgow on the night of the 21st of November—namely, three weeks before the date of the Clerkenwell explosion. These testify to the fact that at that time he had short whiskers, and one of them refers to the accident by which one of his whiskers was singed by a torch. Two of the affidavits are by persons who saw him frequently in Glasgow between that date and the end of December, and corroborate the evidence of his presence at the meeting at the Bell Inn on the night of the explosion. Three are to the effect that on Sunday, the Sth day of December, five days before the explo sion, Barrett was present at a christening in Glasgow — these latter affidavits being sworn by the father and mother of the child who was christened, and one of the guests who was present on the occasion. One is by a man who saw him on the 12th and 13th of December ; on one of these days in company with Mullen, the man who, as will be recollected, was stated on the trial to have taken Barrett to 111`Nulty's (the shoemaker) on the 12th, the clay before the explosion. One is an affidavit by his employers, which testifies to his good character, but is otherwise immaterial, as he was compelled to dis continue work in the month of August, owing to ill health. One is by a man who spent two hours with him on the morning of December 14 (the day after the explosion), and one by a labouring man of his acquaintance, who saw him on the quay at Glasgow on the 12th December. The inquiry is still proceeding, and addi tional evidence will probably be forthcoming ; but in the presence of such a mass of testimony as to Barrett's pre sence in Glasgow during the entire period in which, according to the statements of Mullany, his apprentice, Morris, and his workwoman, Keppel, he was in London, it is thought the Government will not permit the sentence to be immediately carried into effect. The Glasgow Herald says that on Thursday the affidavits of fifteen persons were sworn to in the Justice of Peace Court Hall, in presence of Mr. William M`Leau, justice. Of the eleven persrals whose depositions were taken on Monday by Mr. Lewis, Barrett's solicitor, nine took the oath, two—one of whom, at least, made an important state ment —having failed to put in an appearance. In addi tion to those examined on Monday, six were examined on Tuesday, but a note .of their evidence was not sup plied to the newspapers. We are informed, however, that one of them speaks to having seen Barrett in Glasgow on the day of the explosion at Clerkenwell. Witness was quite positive as to the day of the menth ; but on being asked by Mr. Douglas, J.P. Fiscal, what clay of the month yesterday was, he was unable to tell. The testimony of the other witnesses, we are told, referred principally to the torch-light procession on the Green, at which Barrett was present. The witnesses whose afli :lnvite were sworn to are almost exclusively Irish, and, of :ours_, were not subjected to any cross-examination. LAW AND POLICE, _. _--a THE OXFORD AND CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL COM PANY.—Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. - J. Napier Higgins appr:ared before Vice-Chancellor Giffard upon this peti qo:!, which prayed for a compulsory winding up of this company, and, that it might stand over in order to give ;he shareliold( rs an opportunity of deciding at a meeting summoned for the purpose, whether the winding up should be voluntary or compulsory. The Vice-Chancellor made an order for a compulsory winding up, to which, as he 11)8c:riled, creditors were entitled almost cx debito justitice. HEAvY SENTENCE ON A GmlorrEn.--At the Central Criminal Court, William Brown and Michael Forrest were indicted for a robbery with violence. On the evening of the 11th of March, about half-past ten o'clock, a lad named Owen, living in Tuthill-street, Westminster, was in a yard there feeding some rabbits. He heard a disturbance, and, on looking out, saw three men upon a man who was on the ground. The prisoner Brown had his hand over the man's mouth, while the others were striking him shamefully on the face and head, and kicking him about the legs and body. Brown, while hold ing the man's mouth with one hand, had the other in his pocket. He said at length, " I have got it," and ran away, .as did also the others. The lad Owen followed, until he met two policemen, and told them what he had seen. They followed and arrested the prisoners. Owen knew Brown by sight, but did not see the faces of the two other men. The constables brought the prisoners back to the injured man, who was then being supported by several persons, and having been confronted with them he ecognised them both, and then fell backward insensible. Mr. Justice Willes, in sentencing Brown, remarked on the enormity of his offence, and said that in such a case a ae,avy sentence was necessary. The accused was then ordered to be kept in penal servitude for ten years. The other prisoner was aegnitted. FORGERY BY A CLERK.—At the Mansion House, Jefore the Lord . ..Jayor, Alfred 'fender3on, 20, clerk, was charged on remand with forging and uttering a cheque for £3,1 15s. On the 4th of April Mr. Richard T. W. Cave, C.E., of Liverpool-street, went to the University Boat race; leaving his clerk, the prisoner, in his office. He returned in the afternoon and found that the prisoner had gone for the day, that a drawer in his desk had been forced open, and that his cheque-book was missing. He immedi ately went to the City Bank for the purpose of stopping the cheques, when he ascertained that one for £36155., bearing his signature, dated the 16th of January, and taken from the cheque-book, had been presented and cashed, the per son receiving from Mr. John King, the cashier, four notes, numbered from 82,667 to 82,670, and the rest in cash. The prisoner went to his master's office on the fol lowing Monday morning, and he denied all knowledge of the robbery. However, on the Wednesday after he passed one of the notes to Mr. Edward Lyon, a clothier in the Borough, and another to Mr. Hewett, a dealer in Black man-street, on both of which he wrote the name of a person having rooms in the same house as Mr. Cave. In the opinion of his master the forged cheque was in the prisoner's handwriting. The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner for trial. A NOVEL POINT IN RELATION TO COSTS.— In the full Exchequer Court, the case of Williams and another v. the Neath and Brecon Railway Company and the Swansea Canal Company, involved a novel point in relation to the proceedings to recover costs where they had been awarded by a committee of the House of Lords on a private bill. A bill came before the House of Lords in April 1866, but the promoters not appearing, costs were awarded by the committee to the plaintiffs, who were petitioners against the promoters. In October 1866 the plaintiffs gave notice to the Swansea Canal Company of an application to the taxing master to tax the plaintiffs' costs as against them, alleging they were the real promoters of the bill. On October 10 the plaintiffs delivered their bill of costs to the canal company, and they were taxed on November 16, and on November 30 the taxing master delievered his cer tificate. On April 16, 1868, the plaintiffs filed a declara tion, and signed a judgment against the canal company without issuing any suit of summons. Mr. Henry James now moved on the part of the defendants to set aside the judgment on the ground that the taxing master's certi ficate was given too late, and also that the proceedings were irregular for want of a writ. The question turned upon the construction to be put an the 3rd and 6th sections of the 28th and 29th of Victoria, chap. 27. After hearing Mr. Watkin Williams in support of the judgment, the court held it to be bad, and set it aside, with costs. LORD EDWARD HOWARD AND THE INLAND REVENUE. —ln the same court the above-named case was heard. The facts were, that on the marriage of Lord Foley with Lady Howard in 1819, divers sums, amounting to £278,000, were settled upon trust for investment in the purchase of land, with power of interim investment on mortgage. N early the whole of this amount was invested on mortgage. On the death of three of the trustees new trustees were appointed, and on their appointment divers sums owing on mortgage and forming part of the settle ment fund were transferred by separate deeds. The ques tion before the court was whether the appointment of new trustees having been stamped with a 15s. stamp, the transfers are liable to ad valorem. duty of 6d. per £lOO im posed on transfers of mortgage by the 28th and 29th Victoria, chap. 96, sec. 17. After the arguments the court took time to consider judgment. RELEASE OF FENIAN PRISONERS IN DUBLIN.— We learn that on Wednesday evening " Colonel' N:,gle, one of the principal persons in the " Jacknell" expedition, together with Patrick Nugent, in whose case an abortive trial took place at the last Sligo Assizes, Fre d,_riek Fitzgibbon, Andrew Leonard, and Daniel Lee, other members of the expeditionary force, were released from custody. They intimate their intention of proceeding to America on Saturday. Nagle on Thursday morning visited Mr. G. F. Train in the Marshalsea Prison, and during tl e clay went through the law courts. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH.—Direct communi cations which have been received from the Duke cf E linburgh fully confirm the favourable reports which have been published. His Royal Highness describes him self as well and comfortable, and quite recovered. For tunattly, the bullet, although penetrating to the ninth rib near the spine, and taking then a circuitous course around the body to the position whence it was cut down upon and extracted, seems to have been a small revolver bullet, impelled by a light charge, and to have done the minimum amount of mischief to the tissues.--British Medic( 1 Jo:.:rnal. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDLY EVENING, NAY 8, 1868. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE. Ilis Royal Highness the Field-Ma►shal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Monday, the 11th inst. Her Majesty's screw steam gunvessel Marten put into Portland harbour on Wednesday last, on ac count of the strong east gale then blowing iu the Channel. The depot of the 2d battalion of the 17th Regi ment, under the command of Capt. F. H. Gee, will proceed from Chatham garrison to Ireland, to join the head-quarters and service companies of their regiment, which will shortly arrive from Canada, on the completion of their turn of foreign service. The service companies of the regiment are expected to arrive home about the end of the present month, a notification having been received at Chatham that the head-quarters and right wing will embark in Canada on board the mail steamer on the 16th inst. The 2d battalion of the 17th Regiment has been absent from England nearly seven years, hating embarked for Canada in December, 1861. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals J. Ewing embarked yesterday on board the Brockbank, for Sydney, where he is to be stationed. The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Regiment of Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry arrived in the city of Salisbury yesterday for six days' permanent service, exclusive of marching days, under the command of Colonel the Marquis of Ailesbury. to 13 miles. The 10th Bengal Cavalry take it from Zoolla to Asid!gerat ; the 12th Bengal Cavalry, from Addigerat to Ashangi; and the 3d Bombay Cavalry, from Ashangi to the front. All the riding ponies in the lowland train have been ordered to be distributed along the postal stations, for the purpose of carrying heavier bags containing news papers and parcels along with the sowars on duty. The last post received has taken nine days from Zoolla to this station ; the sowars, en route, are often much delayed, meeting troops and convoys of stores moving up to the front, the road or footpath across the hills being, in many places, so narrow that it is impossible or would be very dangerous for two animals to pass each other. DISTRII3CTION OF THE ABYSSINIAN FORCES ON THIS DAY. "The whole forca in Abyssinia on this date con sists of 18,800 fighting men, and 14,500 followers attached to the Land Transport Train, Commissariat Department, regiments, &c. " The head-quarters of the army, with the Ist Brigade, Ist division, are to-day encamped at Abdikoom, about 35 miles from Magdala, by the route to be traversed, and about 18 miles in a direct line. IST BRIGADE, IST DlVlSlON.—Brigadier-General Schneider, commanding. TROOPS. 3d Regiment, Scinde Horse ... ... 208 Headquarters wing, 12th Bengal Cavalry ... 150 Naval Brigade Rocket Battery 83 A Battery, 21st Brigade, Royal Artillery, steel 7-pounder guns ... ... 122 Head-quarters, 10th Company, Royal En gineers ... ... 32 4th King's Own Regiment ... 530 23d Regiment, Punjab Pioneers 671 Head-quarters wing, 27th Native Infantry, Belooch Regiment... 327 2,123 " The head quarters of the Ist Division, under the command of Major-General Sir Charles Stave lay, K.C.8., with the 2d Brigade, under Brigadier- General Wilby, are at Gahoo, one march in rear of the head-quarters of the army and the Ist Brigade. RAILWAY /17.1, OTHER CONPANIES. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday, in the House of Lords, in Lord Redes dale's Committee, the following bills were passed without amendments :—The Devon and Cornwall Railway, Alexandria (Newport) Dock, Mersey Railway, Ardmore Harbour, the Waterloo and Whitehall Railway, and the Belfast Central Rail way. In the House of Commons, in Mr. Dodson's Comnattee the following bills were passed : —The Barry Railway, the Bristol and Exeter Railway, the Dingwall and Skye Railway (Lords), the Great Marlow Railway, and the Teign Valley Railway. In groups G and H, the Maryport District and Harbour Bill was proceeded with, and adjourned. In Group 3, the London and South-Western Rail way Bill was passed, and the clauses settled. In Group 5, the preamble was proved of the London and North-Western Railway Bill. The Liverpool Tramways was further proceeded with, and ad journed. In Group 7, the North British Railway (General Powers), being unopposed, was referred to the Chairman of Ways and Means. The North British Railway (Fourth River Railway) was passed. The Caledonian Railway and the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Bills were then proceeded with and adjourned. THE ABYSSINIAN WAR. SIR R. NAPIER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA. (Received May 4, 1868.) (No. 986.) Camp, Scindee, April 3, 1868. Sir,—l have the honour to submit the accompa nying reports on the several departments working under the orders of the Quartermaster-General's Department, Abyssinian Field Force, together with a distribution map, showing the disposition, on the Ist instant, of the several corps in Abyssinia. I have, &c , R. NAPIER, Lieutenant-General, commanding Abyssinian Field Force. "Report on the several Departments 'Working under the Orders of the Quartermaster -General's Department, Abyssinian field Force : " Camp, Abdikoom, April 1. " LAND TRANSPORT CORPS. " The last return received from the Director, Transport Train, dated 14th inst., shows 5,322 camels, 10,309 mules, 1,460 ponies, 6,037 pack bullocks, 534 draught bullocks, 15 donkeys, 273 mule carts, 270 bullock carts in the corps, being an increase of 640 camels, 506 mules, 516 ponies, 1,759 pack . bullocks, 15 donkeys, 8 bullock carts, since date of last report. " Of these, 6,505 mules are already on duty with the highland trade, which, since the date of last report, has been ordered to work from Addigerat to the front, the lowland trade being employed for the whole distance from Zoolla to Addigerat. 500 mules of the highland train are reported sick, and the number of sick animals in the lowland train is as follows :-1,556 mules and ponies, 897 bullocks, 264 camels. "Orders have been issued for the highland train to be completed, if possible, to 8,000 mules, to work south of Antalo, and all sick animals in the high land train not likely to be fit for work within a month are being sent down to Zoolla, to avoid the necessity of carrying up the provisions for the mule teers in charge of them. " Conventions for the carriage of Commissariat stores in advance of Antalo have been made with the natives of the country from Antalo to Attala, Attain to Ashangi, Ashangi to Lat, Lat to Dil dee, Dildee to Tacazze, and from Tacazze on to Bet Ilor. " The convention from Attala to Ashangi broke down about the 29th ult., but arrangements are now being made for another convention between these two stations. "The officer sent to Berbera to purchase animals, for the Transport Train has succeeded in obtaining 1,069 bullocks and 15 donkeys ; he is continuing to purchase animals of this description there, but re ports that the resources of the place have been very much over-rated, that mules and ponies are very scarce, and the few he ha e sf u e l e ei n s, h h a e ve b sta e te e s n , o c, f ul t b h e e v p e u r r y ch N as vo e r d st in de la sc r r g i e ptiolt. numbers, but no report of the number L‘.no obtainedther ori f e has er, s sent t t t b o e ieinoreceived.eid has in purchasing about 400 po wer f u l camels, succeeded which b y this time ought to have been landed at Zoolla. " Nearly the whole of the mules of the highland train are employed in moving troops, ammunition, &c., on to the front, and those of the lowland train in conveying Commissariat stores and provisions from Zoolla to Addigerat and the intermediate sta tions. " RAILWAY. The Commanding Engineer reports that on the 21st ult. eight miles and 80 yards of the rail way from Zoolla toKoomaylee bad been completed, leaving three miles 1,680 yard 3 of the line still to be completed, and that the earthwork had been completed for the whole distance. The commissariat were working six trains a day, carrying provisions, &c., in addition to which other trains conveying mi litary plant to to the Koomaylee end of the line were being run daily, " TELEGRAM. g; The last report, dated 22d ult., regarding the telegraph, states that the line had been completed to Agoola, 35 miles from Antalo, on that date, and Lieutenant St. John, R.E., the officer in charge, expected that it would reach Antalo yesterday, the 31st ult. He reports that the line has been work ing fairly during the last week, though two more interruptions have occurred between Senafe and Addigerat. He estimates the traffic on the line roughly at 200 messages per diem. " PHOTOGRAPHERS AND SIGNALLERS. "The photographers have been employed in pho tographing, printing, and mounting plans executed by the Quartermaster-General's Department of the route followed by the army ; these plans are used as distribution maps. Alt the baggage of the army having been left at Lat, the photographic apparatus was left there also, but has since been ordered up. The signallers have lately on several occasions proved very useful in communicating and passi n g orders between - the Ist and 2d Brigades when one march distant from each other. " WELL SINKERS. "As far as Antalo works for the water supply have been executed, and extra works have been car ried out at Rayraguddy and Sooroo, in addition to those previously mentioned, owing to the diminu tion in the supply of the springs usually utilized. Beyond Antalo, with but few exceptions, the supply of water at the various camping grounds is abun dant. Roads for mules have been made to and from the water, and arrangements for a readier access and greater facility of drinking made. "The demand for water at Rayraguddy and Sooroo has been greater than was originally in tended, but the supply is now sufficient to meet these demands. The quantity now obtainable in the Koomaylee Pass is less than it was two months ago, excepting the station of Uncial 'Wells, the supply at this station being as full as ever. "At the encamping grounds where the water was liable to become fouled, owing to the scanty supply, pumps were driven to afford drinking water to the force, and drawn again the r extmorn ing previous to marching. " TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY". "Lieutenant Carter, R.E., the officer in charge of the Trigonometrical Survey, is carrying on a tra verse with the theodolite, and making a rough sketch of the country from Antalo to the front. On the 29th ult. he had reached Lat. Ilis assistants, Lieutenant Datumler and Holdich, were working, the former from Antalo towards Addi . ,gerat, and the latter from Addigerat to Antalo, and_ hoped to com plete a junction by the middle of this month, so that in the event of the early terniitmtion of the campaign, a correct survey will have been com pleted from Zoolla to Antalo. " POSTAL DEPARTMENT. " The post is carried by two sowars from sta tion to station, averaging a distancq of from 10 to VA UXIIALL BRIDGE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Radley's Hotel; Mr. Doland in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that the company had invested £2,136 in the New Three per Cents. The reserve fund amounted to £8,588 ; the tolls from the 25th of October to the 24th of April amounted to £6,401, against £6,053 for the previous half-year, showing An increase of £341. The total receipts for the half-year, including ba lance brought forward of £2,926, rents, &c., were £12,157. The expenditure in connection with the bridge, &c., was £5,027, and the cash in hand or at bankers was £3,440. Out of the net revenue it was proposed to pay a dividend of 18s. per share, free of income tax. The CHAIRMAN said the receipts showed an in crease of nearly £4OO. The current receipts had been invested in the purchase of stock, which if sold now would give them a profit. The dividend to be paid was au increase of ls. per share as com pared with that of the corresponding half of the preceding year, and there was every prospect of a further increase. The report was adopted. The retiring directors, Messrs. Booth, Hedges, and Turner, were re elected, and the meeting separated. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. Attention has been so pointedly turned to the heir of the Imperial Crown of France, by his being sent alone, a boy of twelve years of age, to inspect the fleet at Cherbourg, that you may welcome some few facts about him. The Prince Imperial is very small for his age, with his father's dispro portionately short legs, so that he is seen to the greatest advantage on horseback. He has a gentle, thoughtful face; his forehead is small, and hair dark chestnut. You would not call him particularly hand some, but his eyes have all the exquisite sweetness which have made his mother one of the loveliest women in Europe. He has not a little grace of deport ment added to much boyish frankness, that bespeaks a genial nature. Ile is not deficient in the sense of humour, and of the sweetness of his disposition there can be no doubt. Any one who has seen him at Fon tainebleau playing with his huge dog, will be con vinced that fondness for animals is also one of the Prince's characteristics. The greatest attachment has long existed between the young Napoleon and one of his playmates, and an interesting anecdote is told of them when only six . or seven years old. Some misunderstanding arose in their game, and in the excitement of their juvenile quarrel the Prince received a blow. But here the child be thought himself of the lessons carefully inculcated by his mother, and turning his earnest and thought ful eye on his little companion, he said, " I can not return it you, becJuse, you are a French man, and I am the Prince Imperial of France." The children were duly separated and put in disgrace ; when, next day, his pugnacious friend was brepght by his father lo apologise for having so far forgotten himself, the Prince, on seeing him, threw his arms round his neck, saying, " Ah, how unhappy I have been not to have seen you a whole day." There would seem to be a fair prospect of a kind and generous heart developing itself by the side of an admittedly precocious intelligence, in him for whom Napoleon 111. has chosen no other title than " the child of France."—One a Week. A JAPANESE EXECUTION. Our readers will be interested in reading the following authentic account of an execution in Japan. It may be in the recollection of the public that some time since a French soldier was wounded for insisting on crossing the retinue of the Prince Bizet), contrary to the laws of the Japanese empire. The French having insisted on reparation, the Ja panese colonel in command was executed as is stated below :- 4' We received a detailed account of the execution of Prince Bizen's officer at Iliogo ; the scene appears to have been most impressive. It took place in a temple at 9.30 p.m., the enceinte being magnificently illuminated. The officer was a noble, and leld the rank of a colonel in Bizen's army. According to Japanese etiquette, officers of his own rank alone were allowed to be present, this rule being appli cable to foreigners, who were represented by a member of each Embassy. 'The poor fellow made a long spe ech as he knelt before a small round tabl e upon which lay the family sword. He proclaimed his innocence, and protested that he had acted in strict accordance with Japanese law and custom in firing upon a man who persisted on crossing the cortege under his command. He then turned round towards the temple and prayed fervently, the surrounding Japanese kneeling with their faces to the earth, the foreigners alone standing ; and then uttering an exclamation he seized the sword and plunged it into his body, at the same time stretching out his neck to meet death as it were. Instantaneously his friend, who stood be hind him, severed his head from his body with one blow and it fell rolling in front of him. The officials present placed it in a lacquer salver and handed it round for inspection to the foreigners present, ask ing them if they were satisfied.' Public feeling was much against this execution ; no life had been taken, and there were many extenuating circumstances in the man's favour. He had had no inter course with foreigners, knew little of their laws and customs ; all he saw and resented, unjustifi ably it is true, was a deliberate insult offered him as he passed through the public street, and there can be no doubt that had the insult been offered by a Japanese he would most certainly have been killed on the spot. Great ill-feeling is likely to arise out of this bloodthirsty policy of a life for a limb, or even less, and it certainly seems unjustifi able, and decidedly impolitic. The ends of justice would have been met, and a proper moral effect produced, had the man been disgraced in rank, or reprieved at the last moment."—The Owl. LADvERTISEHENT.]— Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach and liver complaints iu every stage are only aggravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly Curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revs,lenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange ments, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in fhteuza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, Sc We gitoe a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Foot. Cure No 63,413.—"R0me, Jely 21, I.B6.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other lemetlies, he has coati:led himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta, Arabica Food, of which ho consumes a plateful at every meal. It has pro laced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi,' July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.— Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency , sp asms, sickness and von; iting.—Maria,J oly." Important Cantion.—Be ware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; '2 lbs., 4s. 41, ; 5 lbs. Ils. ; 1211e5., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s. — BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly, and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Claeapside; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street; 330, Strand ; and all grocers and chemists. " TROOPS. Head-quarters and four troops 3d Bombay Light Cavalry ... ••• ... ... 171. G Battery, 14th Brigade, Royal Artillery, four 12-pounder Armstrong guns ••• 92 Detachment sth Battery, 25th Brigade, Royal Artillery, with two 8-inch mortars 35 B Battery, 25th Brigade, Royal Artillery, steel 7-pounder guns ••• ••• ••• 109 Head-quarters and K Company, Madras _ _ __ .. Sappers and Miners ••• ••• Head-quarters and 2d, 3d, and 4th Com panies, Bombay, Sippers and Miners ... 33d Regiment ... ••• ~ •• • ••• Head-quarters wing, 10th Regiment Native Infantry ... ••• ... 217 ••• ... 1,749 " The following troops are en route to join the Ist and 2d Brigades, Ist Division, and are believed to be on this date at the stations named below :- Head-quarters and six companies, 45th Regiment, at Wandatch, two marches in rear of the 21 Brigade ••• ••• ••• Head-quarters wing, 31 Regiment, Native Infantry, at Dillee, one march in rear of the 45th Regiment ••• ••• ••• One troop, 3eLight Cavalry, ditto ... Wing, 27th Native Infantry, Belooch Re giment, Marcwar, one march in rear of wing 3d Native Infantry •.. ••• Head-quarters wing, 3 , 1 Dragoon Guards, lqukhan ' three marches in rear of wing Belooch Regiment ••• ... 220 •• Head-quarters and squa d r on, 10th • Bengal Cavalry, have received orders to leave Antalo for the front 140 ••• .•• 385 300 73 286 1,404 " The Ist Division left all their baggage and stores at Lat ; this baggage has since been brought on to Dildee, and the stores at that place are left under the charge of a guard of 50 dismounted men of the 3d Regiment, Scinde Horse. All troops in advance of Dildee are marching with out baggage and with a limited supply of bell tents sufficient to accommodate 12 officers or 20 non commissioned rank and file is each. Each regiment carries with it 15 days' rations ; the loads on the mules have been reduced to 1001 b. each, to enable the mules to move easily ; the troops are carrying their greatcoats, blankets, and waterproof sheets on their backs, in addition to their ann., accoutre ments, and CO rounds of ammunition. Officers who are not mounted hive a greatcoat, blanket, and waterproof sheet carried for each. " A detachment of 130 meu of the 10th Regi ment, N. 1., are at Attala, escorting stores to the front. " Detachments consisting of one Duffadar and 12 meu of the 3d and 12th Cavalry are at each postal station from Antalo to Lit, and parties of a Duffa dar and six men at each station from Lat to the front. "The troops comprising the 2d Division of the force, under the command of Major-General Mal colm, C. 8., are stationed at Antalo, Addigerat, and Senafe, as follows ANTAL°. - Brigadier- General Collings com manding. One troop, 3d Bombay Cavalry 73 Ist Bombay Sappers and Miners 126 Wing, 3d Regiment Native Infantry ••• 375 " The following troops have been ordered to Antalo, and are now en route to join that station :- sth Battery, 25th Brigade, Royal Artillery, with six 7-pounder brass guns ••• 90 Four companies 45th Regiment ••• 280 Three companies 25th Regiment Native In fantry ••• ••• ••• ••• ... 190 1,134 " ADDIGERAT. One troop 12th Bengal Cavalry 70 G Battery, 14th Brigade R oyal Artillery, two 12-pounder guns (Armstrong) ... 60 Headquarters and 5 companies 25th Regi ment Native Infantry 430 " SENAFE. One troop 10th Bengal Cavalry ... ••• 73 No. 1 Company Native Artillery, Mountain Train Battery ... ... ••• ... 60 Wing 10th Regiment Native Infantry ... 337 Three companies 21st Punjab Native In fantry ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 240 One company 21st Bombay Native Infantry, 87 Marine Battalion ... .•• ••• ••• 797 "Detachments of one Duffadar and 12 men of the 10th and 12th Bengal Cavalry are located at each postal station between Senafe and Antalo, and 50 men of the 12th Bengal Cavalry are at Agoola, half way between Antalo and Addigerat, and small detachments of cavalry and native infantry are at such stations between Senafe and Antalo as con sidered advisable by the General Officer command ing the division. The 26th Regiment (Cameronians) embarked at Vingorla for Zoolla on the 17th ult., and on arrival will be sent to garrison Senafe and Addigerat. " The Zoolla Brigade is under the command of Major-Gen. Russel), and consists of the following troops stationed at Zoolla, and the different sta tions in the pass, between Zoolla and Senafe : Zoolla.-18th Regiment, Bombay Native In fantry 6BO Koomaylee.-2d Regiment Bombay Native In fantry 7 02 Sooroo.—lwo companies 21st Punja b Native Infantry Undul Wells.—Headquarters and tw o compa nies 21st Punjab N a tive Infantry Rayraguddy 160 Q(1 . — One company 21st Pun j ab Na- _ tive lufautry ---... ......... 1,782 "The Zoo:la command will be strengthened by the sth and Bth Regiments Bombay Native Infan try, as soon as they arrive in this country from Bombay. "A distribution map showing the disposition of the several curps in Abyssinia is attached. " T. J. HOLLAND, Captain, Assistant Quartermaster-General, Army Headquarters." The prices of Horniinan's Teas are greatly reduced ; their well-known superiority has attracted a host of spurious imitations; therefore notice all Genuine Packets are signed, " Horniman ct C 0.," London. 300 Confectioners are Agents in London and 2,200 Chemists in the Country., 294 700 APPEALS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAT 7. The noble and learned lords present this morning were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth, Lord Chelmsford, Lord Westbury, and Lord Colonsay. SHAW ET AL. V. GOULD ET AL. This was an appeal from the Court of Chancery. The case was heard some time since, when their lordships deferred judgment: Lord Cranworth this morning, in giving judg ment, said that the question to be decided in this case was one of a class which not unfrequently gave rise to great difficulty—the question, namely, how far the status of legitimacy or illegitimacy undoubt edly existing according to the laws of this country might or ought to be modified by the laws of an other country. There was no dispute as to the facts of the case, which were these :—On the 18th of June, 182 S, a marriage was solemnized at Man chester between Elizabeth Hickson, a girl under 17 years of age, and a man named Buxton. The mar- riage was brought about by Buxton by means of a fraudulentcouspiracy, for which he was afterwards prosecuted . and convicted and seutenced to threeyears' imprisonment. The parents and friends of the young lady succeeded in getting possession of her person before the marriage had been consumma ted, and she and her husband never lived together even for a day. Attempts were made to get rid of the marriage by an Act of Parliament, but without success, and in the month of December, 1838, Bux ton and his wife joined in a deed of separation, under which certain pecuniary benefits were secured to Buxton, in consideration of which he covenanted that his wife, who was described by her maiden name of ElizAbeth Dickson, should be at liberty to live separate and apart from him, as if she were sole and unmarried. The parties continued to live separate from each other, and Buxton, from the time of the separation, if not before it, lived in adultery with a woman named Sarah Lant. In or about the year 1845 a gentleman living at Derby, named John Shaw, then studying for the English bar, formed an attachment for Mrs. Buxton, who was always designated by her maiden name, and he proposed to marry her. In order to accomplish this object he seemed to have altered his intention of becoming a member of the English Bar, and he re- solved Co take the necessary steps towards being called to the Scotch Bar. In March, 1845, both Mr. Shaw and Elizabeth Hickson went to Edin- burgh, and for ever afterwards they were resident in Scotland. In the month of September following Buxton also went to Scotland, and when he had been there above 40 days an action of divorce was raised against him by his wife before the Court of Session by a summons dated the 13th of November, 1845, and duly served upon him, which was founded upon the undisputed fact that he was living in adultery with Sarah Lant. The action was duly prosecuted, and the decree of divorce thereon was pronounced by the Court of Session on the 20th of March, 1846. In the following month of June a marriage valid by the laws of Scotland was duly celebrated in Edinburgh between Mr. Shaw and Elizabeth Ilickson, add there were issue of that mar riage three children. Buxton died in January, 1852, and Mr. Shaw in the following September, Elizabeth Hickson, or Shaw, dying in 1863. The question to be decided was whether those three children were entitled to certain money bequeathed by John Wilson, the great uncle of Elizabeth Hickson, whose will was dated in 1832, and who died in 1835. By that he will he left, inter alia, the sum of £2,000 to trustees, upon certain trusts' for the benefit of his great niece, Elizabeth Hick son, for her life and after her death, subject to a power of appointment, which was never exercised, in trust for all and every children of his said great niece, who, being the son or sons, should attain the age of 21, or being a daughter or daughters should attain that age or marry, to be equally divided among them as tenants in common. The trustees, after the death of Elizabeth Hickson, paid the money into the Court of Chancery, under the Trus tees' Relief Act ; and the question to be decided was whether the children of Elizabeth Hickson by John Shaw were entitled to the fund as children of the testator's great niece. Vice-Chan cellor Kiu Ictsley decided that they were not so en titled, and they had appealed against that decision to their lordships' house. If the law of Scotland on the subject of marriage and divorce were the same as that of England, the case would not have admitted of any doubt whatever. According to the law of this country the three children must either be those of Buxton or bastards. The former con clusion is that which, in bye-gone days, would pos sibly have been arrived at, so reluctant were the Courts to receive any evidence of non-access by the husband while he was infra patio- maria. Adopting, however, the more reasonable views on this subject by which the Courts of this country are now guided, the house might safely act upon the hypothesis, adopted by all the parties in the argument of the case, that the children of Elizabeth Hickson were either her lawful issue by Mr. Shaw or were illegitimate. The house had therefore to con sider whether, in order to assist them in decid ing this question, they were warranted in looking at any other law than that of England, and whether they might be guided to any extent by the law of Scotland. Had the parties been Scotch instead of English, and bad it occurred in Scotland and not in England, no question upon the point at issue could have arisen. The children in that case would certainly have been legitimate. The whole ques tion turned upon the validity of the Scotch divorce between Buxton and his wife. The law of Scotland seemed clear that a residence in Scotland for 40 days made that country the domicilium Joni of any person so residing in that country in which for the purposes of litigation he was to be treated as being domiciled. The question for their Lordships was, was that principle of the Scotch law one which the law of this country was bound to recognize? He thought not. The important differences which existed on the subject of the law of marriage and divorce in the different parts of the United Kingdom often gave rise to perplexing difficulties, and exhibited a state of our law which was little creditable to us. These difficulties, however, made it more than usually incumbent upon those who had the adminis tration of the law to take care that whenever a clear line had been drawn by judicial decisions, the course so marked out should be rigidly followed. Now, whatever the difficulties in such cases as the present might be, the doctrine that no divorce in Scotland, merely on a fol urn domicilii had, at all events, before the passing of the English Divorce Act of 1857, any effect in England on the validity of an English marriage, had been established by the highest authority. It was impossible to have a stronger authority upon that point than that furnished by Solley's case, in which it was decided by the twelve judges that by the second marriage he was guilty of bigamy, although on general prin ciples every leaning would be made in favour of the accused. Again in " Conway v. Beazley," 3 Hag. Ecc. Rep., 639, the second marriage was had in Scotland, not as in Solley's case in England, and it was attempted on that ground to distinguish between the two casts, but Dr. Lushington held that the prin ciple was the same wherever the second marriage was solemnized, for there, as neither of the parties to the first marriage were at any time bona fide domiciled in Scotland, the principle of Solley's case must pre vail. The same question was raised in the case of " Dolphin v. Robins," 3 _ll'Queen, 563. The con elusion at which their lordships arrived in that case was that the Scotch Courts had no power to dis solve an English marriage where the parties were not really domiciled in Scotland. Those cases clearly decided that now before the House, for if the first marriage here was not dissolved, there could not have been a second valid marriage. The view he took of this case absolved him from the necessity of considering whether the resort to Scotland for the purposes of the divorce and the arrangements made among the parties for bringing it about were or were not of such a character as to taint the whole of the proceedings with fraud. He did not wish to express any opinieu as to what might have been the effect of the divorce so obtained, considered merely as a Scotch question. In the anomalous state of our laws relating to marriage and divorce it might be that such a proceeding might be valid north of the Tweed, while it was invalid on the south of that river. lie was P ainfully E( Lsible 0 the inconvenience which might result from such a state of the law, but it was for the Legislature to set it right. The authorities appeared to him to show clearly that whatever might be the decision of the Scotch courts upon this subject of divorce ac cording to the Scotch law, the English courts could not admit any right in them to interfere with the inviolability of an English marriage nor with any of its incidents. To do so would be to attain a prejtuEce to English law, to be created by the deci sion of what for this purpose must be called a fo reign law, and would be going beyond what Huber said any country was called upon to do. Upon these grounds he was of opinion that there was no ground for this appeal, and he, therefore, moved to their lordships that the appeal should be dismissed with costs. Lord Westbury, Lord Chelmsford, and Lord Colonsay having concurred, the appeal was dis ;uissed with costs accordingly. MINING INTELLIGENCE. THE HUMBOLDT SILVER MINLVG COMPANY (NEVADA, U.S. OF AMERICA) LIMITED. The prospectus has appeared of the Humboldt Alining Company, and the terms on which the pro perty is offered to the public, show, at least, that there is no " wild-cat" element in the bargain. The vendors receive no portion of the purchase money, the funds supplied by the public being wholly expended in developing the mine. Half the property will belong to the purchasers, the other half to the sellers, with this proviso, that the vendors get nothing for their half till the entire amount paid by the pur chasers be refunded to the purchasers. The point for the public who desire to invest in the mines of the Pacific States is mainly the price paid for the property. They may take it as an axiom that any undeveloped property in Nevada, or in any of the other Pacific States, is not worth much, and if much is asked for it, they may rest assured that the " wild-cat" element enters into the transaction. What they have to consider is the way in which the money is to be appropriated. If wholly on tunnelling, mills, and other machinery, roads and other im provements, and they are satisfied that the mine is worth the expenditure, and the money will be honestly thus expended, then they may be certain that in the purchase they are securing a good thing. But, alas ! how can these essentials be guaranteed? The Tullulah range we know to be good ; the lodes of the Humboldt to be excellent ; the situation admirable ; and the proposal on which the property is offered in the highest degree liberal, therefore it ought to succeed if one other qualification be added, and that is a trustworthy and energetic manager. We be lieve that the company has its hand on the mall most interested, to whom success is fortune, and failure ruin, who knows Nevada well, and has made mining his profession. At the same time that we have great confidence in this company, we re gret to notice that one lately brought out in the London market has been spoken of contemptuously in one or two of the newspapers of the Pacific States. We believe that the public can, if they please, without setting aside as not to be touched such profitable investments, guard themselves from imposition. What is it that gives value to a lode in Nevada ? It is not like a mine in Cornwall or Devonshire, where the right to work it is the great element of value, for we doubt not there are magi undiscovered lodes in the State equal to the Com' stock. In the Pacific States, supposing that the loie be rich, and what is almost of greater consequence , " come-stable," still so extensive is the wealth of ore that the mere right to the claim cannot be of any great value, and unless the property is offered on some such terms as that cf the Humboldt mine, the public should regard it with suspicion. There is, however, another class of Nevada property which, we regret to sat, has not yet been offered in the London market, for a reason we can easily explain. The properties paying a large dividend are those of course in working order, with their tunnelling completed, their mills in operation, their roads formed. Such mines will command prices in proportion to the profit realized, as they cease to be in the nature of speculations, only requiring conscientious ma nageinent. These are the mines that have a right to command high prices, but when people come to London and propose to sell cl dins to undeveloped lodes at the rate asked for properties in workihg order, and to delude the purchasers by discussing their claims as developed properties, then we main' taro that the " wild-cat" element is there. The reason why the mines in working order have not been offered for sale in the London market is, that the owners have accomplished their objects with their own means, and have no need of foreign aid. But the capital of a new country like California, however rapidly increasing, is still comparative l y limited, and those who can command money ha ve such fine opportunities for investment that they part with it only on the most onerous terms. It is natural, under such circumstances, that the owner of a good lode, if he thought he COu lth succeed in getting the necessary capital in London to work it, should endeavour to do so. But• here he is met with the distruAt or" cited by " wild-cat" schemes—swindles, which in jure the mining States even more than the comma" nity cheated. The Humboldt, we believe, to be wel l worth the consideration of those who can afford to risk a small sum in hopes of a very large return."' the risk being small, and the probable retw 73 immense. The mining authority latest from Ne" vada, and the best in London, remarked to ti s that the only mistake about the prospectus IM that it offered the property on terms so ridiculous l y cheap to the public that they would not believe n it. (From the Wall-street Journal.) LATEST PRICES OP SILVER MINING STOCO AT SAN FRANCISCO.—By telegram from San Frauciso/ dated April 15, 1868, we have the following quota' tions : Gould and Curry Savage 3,163 ~ Chollar-Potosi 272 ~ Ophir 2OO ~ Hale and Norcross Crown Point 2,200 Yellow Jacket 1,500 Belcher Alpha 75 ~ 450 Bullion Overman Empire Mill •• . Imperial 237 per share Confidence Atli ador Exchequer Quartz Hill Lady Byron 60 11 Births. • of MANN —On the 7th inst., at Lee, Mrs. C. S . Mall ' daughter. rih - 61 11 4 newtLs-On the 6th inst., at Redhill, the wife a v Nichols, Esq., of a son. v(001 RUSSELL—On the 4th inst., at Sheerness, the wifo of Vernon Russell, .R.N., of a daughter. Marriages. A a_ ,' HILL -Eomosns—On the 7th inst., at St. George ' "' oarP' over-square Thomas Rowland Hill, of HighburYLcle, North, to Matilda , daughter of the late Mr. H. 8c 1133- of Devonshire-place, Paddington. j ra s ? SUMMERS-MORRIS-On the 7th iust , at St• 8 f 1,1 Church, Paddington, George Henry Summerg o f Stanhope-terrace, Bayswater, to Plimbe Matilda, tot. daughter of the late Mr. David Morris , of 3, f3t street, Sussex-square. Deaths. • John cede BUTT - Oa the sth inst , at LittlehamPton , Butt, Esq., aged 69. , 114 61 Cass—Ou the 4th inst., at Fleetwood, Capt. O's-' Artlllery, aged 71. r t 11. ii if. IlmtNE -On the i=th inst., at Bushey Grangf) l' , e - n - 1, e -cl Burchell-Herne, of the Middle Temple, J 21 ., "-• " in 1817 High Sheriff for Hurts, aged 73. ~ V P { Rouses—On the sth inst., at 25 , Brompton-sclu 3 i4or C don, William F. Robson, Esq., many years b"c the Admiralty, aged 61 . r g 6 P r 113- USBORNE —On the 7th inst., at 35, Russel l-sqe, her lisborne, Esq., aged 60. v jive- - WINCH—On the 6th inst., at St. Margaret's Daub' ter, Richard Winch Esq., aged 78. -------- f 4, --- — - -- - ----- - 1 London : Printed and Published by WILLIA:S I A N 1 No 1- s of. 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