The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC4JOURNALS. he Times has a leader on Louis,thi, ex-King of Bavaria, whose death is j ust announcedi," It comments upon the story of the ex-sovereign and the dancing girl. ,lipu4 as the revolutionary storms raged over Europe ilk gie early months of 1848, the strange romance of the old Kiig and the dancing girl was heard above all the din; how the adventuress was introduced at Court as the King's "best friend ;" how the rights of Bavarian citizenship, the barony of Rosenthal, the county of Lansfeldt, a newly-built palace, and a pension of 20,000 florins were lavished upon her; how ,the Queen was compelled to confer upon the dancer, with her own hand, the great cordon of a Chanoiness of the Order of Theresa, instituted by her Majesty herself, and bearing her name ; how ministries rose and fell at a nod from the arrogant favourite ; and, finally, how, after coquetting with and betraying now this and now that party, she made herself obnoxious to all, and excited such an out burst of indignation that it was only at the cost of his dignity, and very nearly of his life, the King was able to smuggle her across the border, whither he was soon to follow her. Danced by the fatal charmer out of his Court and his kingdom, King Louis regained in his retirement that public favour which be had forfeited on the throne. He had been an artist before he was a king ; and an artist he was both as a crowned and as a discrovnied king. In the intervals of rest during his early campaigns, in the midst of administrative or par liamentary labours, as a prince hereditary, Louis had always been devoted to art. He went to Italy as to his real home and country; he brought Italy home to his own German country. His talents were appreciative, not creative. He did not attempt to excel or even to rival the works of Italian art ;he merely reproduced them. The Pitti Palace, the Loggia di Lanzi, obelisks, churches, basilicas, all Florence, Rome, and Ravenna, rose to a new life in Munich. Every ward in the city was like one of the courts at the Crystal Palace. The buildings outside were mere copies ; but the treasures within were genuine. Real genius will not rise at a king's bid ding ; Germany had her own type of the beautiful ; she need not have borrowed that of Greece or Italy. Quaint Nuremburg and dingy Augsburg are a hundred times more interesting than classical Munich. But King Louis was a man after his own fashion—a man of his own time. Away from Italy he was out of his own element. He was a placable, amiable man, and soon reconciled himself with his subjects. He had his choice of the royal residences in town and country, but he became a wanderer, and was to be seen at Rome, at Nice, at Paris, wherever the skies were bluest, wherever . men made colours, or forms, or sounds, or dreams the real business of life. A courteous prince, and sociable, sympathetic gentleman ; a poet, too, in a small way, leaving behind three volumes of his juvenile pieces ; taking his diamond collar from his neck at Weimar, and putting it with his own hand round Goetbe's neck ; he had a gracious winning, kingly way of his own, and, many as were his faults and his foibles, neither his son nor his grandson has supplanted him in the affections of the Bavarian people. The Post, in a criticism of the army estimates, takes up the statement that as we only get a force of 136,650 men for £15,450,000, we may calculate that each man costs us about £ll3 per annum, or " about four times the cost of efficient labourers in Dorsetshire." This is hardly a fair way of putting the case, for, setting aside the vast dif ference between the trained soldier and the plain plough boy, the personnel of the regular and reserved forces costs only £10,216,000, and allowing an additional £2,124,900 for pensions, &c., the cost of our effective soldier is something under the normal rate of £lOO per man. We cannot get a man for less, and if wages con tinue to rise and the value of money to depreciate in the same ratio as in the last fifteen years, we shall very soon find that he is not to be got even for that. Indeed, it is very little use dogmatising about what the British soldier should cost. We must have him whatever be costs, and our chief business should rather be to take care of him when we have got him, and give him no reason to feel on his discharge that the years he has spent under his colours have not been the happiest years of his life. His food, his dress, his diet, his exercise, and, above all, his lodging, should be made matters of the first considera tion, and commanding officers should be taught that the sanitary condition of their regiments reflected as high, perhaps higher, credit upon them than the efficienc) of their men in drill, and that ill-selected encampments and unwholesome food have already destroyed too many thousands of stalwart British soldiers whose lives might have been easily saved to their country. Some sharp recriminations have lately been exchanges between the official press at Berlin and at Vienna on the subject of the recent royal Hanoverian banqiiet and de_ monstration at Hietzing, and the more serious fact of the passports delivered to the Hanoverian deserters in Switzer land by the Austrian police. But the Daily NM., cannot for a moment imagine that Count Bismarck would treat that lamentable and ludicrous demonstration of poor King George of Hanover as an offence of the Austrian Govern ment. It is but an incident—an inconvenient and untoward, but not very alarming incident—of the deposed King's sojourn near the Anstrian capital. It must be far more disagreeable to M. de Beust, whose policy it disturbs, than to Count Bismarck, whose policy it assists. To Baron Beust it is what the presentation to the Chamber of a bill granting to King George an enormous pension was to Count Bismarck—an awkward self-assertion of " the monarchical principle," which the Minister of a monarchy must accept with a shrug. The supply of pass ports to the Hanoverian deserters is undoubtedly some thing worse than an irregularity, and Baron Beust cannot affect to be indifferent to the demands of his own dignity and reputation in such a case. But Count Bilmarck, who has his own little difficulties of the same kind, can make allowance for the secrecy with which some obscure subor dinate agents of a few irresponsible conspirators in high places may compromise the discretion of a Government and the peace of a State. The Herald asks plainly of Mr. Mill if he thinks that there ought to be a fixed minimum rate of wages or not. If he does, will he be good enough to shew how he can maintain the doctrine that there is anything peculiar in the possession of land as distinct from all other property ? If he does not, will he be good enough to shew why there should be a fixed maximum rent of land ? As we have seen, capital and land are equally limited, but capital is practically even more limited than land ; whilst, in each case, the demand for occupation—in the one instance in the shape of would-be tenants, and in the other of would-be employed artisans—is unlimited. We can understand that a man, looking at these analogous facts, should insist upon the State fixing both the rent of land and the rate of wages. We have our own ideas, though they are certainly not peculiar, as to where a State, proceeding on such a principle, would ere long find itself ; but its road to ruin would at any rate be a logical one. Perhaps Mr. Mill, in his heart of hearts, means to be logical ; and if he could only once establish a fixed maxi mum rent, it is possible that he would make use of his vic tory to wring from the State a fixed minimum rate of wages. If this be so, it is scarcely honest to pretend that his present limited aim is concerned with an exceptional case. The Recorder, in condemning Mrs. Ann Radcliffe to five years' penal servitude for atrocious cruelty to her ser vant—a child of tender age—has, in the opinion of the Standard, rendered an important service to society. It is long since a sentence so severe for a crime of this cha racter has been passed. There has been exhibited a strange disposition on the part of the judges to regard such offences as no more than aggravated misdemeanours. Light penal ties for wickedness of this kind inspire no terror. The facts from being thus indifferently disposed of, assume no prominence in the sight of the public, and are speedily forgotten. Not so .when a woman of respectable position, herself the mother of three children, is removed from a comfortable home to undergo, during five years, the degra dation of a gaol for inhuman treatment of a miserable little dependant, who, even after some weeks of medical care, could not stand to give 11Pr evidence. The class —more numerous, we fear, than is commonly suposed— of people who play the tyrant over drudges hired g r om the workhouse may see in it a salutary warning, and the example of this woman's fate may induce them slightly to soften their discipline. What the Telegraph calls a most righteous sentence has just been passed on Edward Charles James Shaw, a surgeon, who was tried and convicted at Hertford, on Saturday, fur taking charge of an insane lady without the medical certificates and orders required by the statute. Convicted of two offences, Edward Shaw was condemned to a fine of £2OO, and to imprisonment for periods of two and six months. The case recall the old atrocities brought to light before the Committee for Inquiring into the State of Madhouses, some fifty years ago—in 1816. The parliamentary blue-book of the evidence given before the committee contains stories which make one's blood curdle—instances of male and female lunatics gagged, manacled, scourged, and starved, or locked up half-nak e d , wild b6.sts in cares. The publicity given to these 11,3 ro4, and the legislative action taken in consequence— by no mans too hastily--were supposed to have, even now, extirpated a revolting system of cruelty and oppression ; 3e„, -within twenty miles of London , a sur g eon cooll y s ets a re.3pecta,ble married lady to blacken shoes, clean knives, and bruise oats, while a gentleman is left to lie naked upon straw in a back kitchen, in unutterable neglect. It is stated in a Southampton paper that there is no church living in the city of Winchester worth £2OO a year, and this precludes curates there from getting assist ance from the recently-established Curates' Augmentation Fund, because no assistance is given to a curate unless he receives £lOO a year from his incumbent; and no incumbent can afford to give his curate £lOO a year out of £209, LAW AND POLICE. EXTORTIONATE LOANS.— V ice-Unancellor Stuart has had oefore him the suit of Wyatt v. Cook. The plaintiff, who has just attained his majority, borrowed, in 1866, from the defendant £49 or £5O, upon a security of a reversionary interest under a will. The plaintiff acknowledged himself indebted for £lOO, and agreed to pay interest at the rate of £6O per annum. - In February 1867 plaintiff borrowed a further sum of £B, with £l5 security, and the same interest as before. In May last the plain tiff was desirous of paying off the debt which he really owed to the defendant, and applied to him to sur render the securities on payment of what was justly owing to him on the whole transaction ; but the defendant paid no attention to the plaintiffs request, and the result was that this suit was instituted to have it declared that the securities were fraudulently obtained by the defendant from the plaintiff and were void, and ought to be de livered up to him on his paying the defendant what was properly due for money actually advanced ; and the bill prayed for an injunction to restrain the defendant from suing (as he threatened to do) at law on his securities. The Vice-Chancellor considered that the transactions in question in this suit were such as this court would clearly relieve against. It was evident that the plaintiff had not, in the first instance received the £lOO, but for the whole of which he was made to pay interest at the rate of £6O per cent. per annum. He had really only at that time received £5O, and even that was subject to deductions. The defendant must deliver up the securities to the plaintiff, and must pay the costs of this suit, and the plaintiff must repay him the amount actually advanced, with interest thereon at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum. Loss OF CATTLE THROUGH THE FOULING OF A STREAM. —Mr. Justice Lush has had before him at the Durham Assizes the case of Cams v. Elliott. It was an action for fouling and polluting a stream, and pumping into it the water from an old coal-mine, and thereby causing the death of the plaintiff's cattle, which grazed in fields abut ting on the stream, and which drank of the polluted water. The defendants were the owners of Sacristan Colliery, and previous to 1859 the colliery had been idle, and allowed the water to accumulate. On the working of it being re sumed the water was pumped out into a burn or stream which had been beautifully clear up to that time, .but afterwards assumed a muddy yellow appearance, and the cattle in the fields bounded by the stream began to die. The plaintiff, who had lands bounded by this stream, thus lost seventeen head of cattle from 1860 to 1866. Until 1866 it was not suspected that their deaths arose from drinking this water. In that year seven cattle died, and a post-mortem examination proved that they had died from some irritant poison. An analysis was made of the water, which was found to contain in solution a very large quantity of iron and other poisonous ingredients, which, taken daily, in large quantities, were likely to produce the effect on the cattle which they had shewn.—The defence was that several other farmers through whose lands the stream flowed had experienced no bad results from it.—Verdict for the plaintiff for £57 (the value of the cattle lost in 1866 by the plaintiff). UNLAWFULLY SIGNING A LUNACY CERTIFICATE.— The Lunacy Commissioners were complainants in a prosecuticn against one Joseph Hunter, who, it was alleged, had signed a certificate in lunacy, he not being a qualified medical practitioner. A former master of the defendant was called to prove the signature, but the evidence that it was the prisoner's handwriting not being conclusive, he was acquitted. SLANDER ON A SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE.—A CaSe of slander has been tried at Warwick, in which Mr. Lund, superintendent of the Leamington Police, was the com plainant ; and Mr. Warnsley, a stationer in the same towns was defendant. The plaintiff had been for nine year, superintendent of the force ; and the defendant had repeatedly made use of slanderous observations respecting him, and charged him with drunkenness. After a long trial the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £75. LOANS ON SHARES. On Saturday Vice-Uhanceilor M dins gave judgment in the case of Langton v. Waite, which had been previously argued. In December 1865 the plaintiff, Charles Langton, being the holder of £22,000 of the stock of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, and being desirous of bor rowing £6,000, applied to the defendant for the purpose, and after some negotiation an advance was effected for three months at 7i per cent. per annum, the railway stock being transferred to the defendant as security. About the middle of February 1866 the plaintiff sold the £22,000 stock so pledged at 42 per cent., and to enable him to complete the transaction he applied, through his agents, to the stockbrokers acting for the defendant to be al lowed to pay off the £6,000 with interest for the whole period for which the money had been borrowed. The defendant, however, refused to re-transfer the stock before the expiration of three months, and the plaintiff, in conse quence, was • obliged to pay to the purchaser the differ ence between the pr:ez at which ho agteed to boll And the price at which the same amount of stock was subse quently bought by the purchaser, the amount of the difference being £BBO. In l ursuanee of his contra - .:t Mr. Langton repaid the £6,000 and interest on Vie 28th of March, and thereupon the £22,030 stock was retransferred to his name ; but subsequently, Gn discover ing that defendant had on the 14th and 15th of February sold his stock at 46, and had afterwards replaced it at a much lower rate, making-, as it was alleged, a profit of £3,000, this suit was instituted to enforce the plaintiff's claim to the profit so made. The demand was resisted by the defendant on the grounds—first, that the contract was with Messrs. Price and Putt, the stockbrokers, and not with Mr. Langton ; secondly, that the sale and repurchase of the stock was right in itself and in accordance with the contract ; and thirdly, that it was in accordance with the custom of the Stock Exchange, which enabled the lender of money on the security of stock to deal with such stock in any way he thought fit during the period of the loan, unless there was an express stipulation to the contrary. The Vice-Chancellor said the law was clearly settled that a principal might sue on a contract entered into on his behalf by an agent, though his name was wholly concealed at the time of the transaction, and in this case, the parties on both sides being brokers, the defendant must have known that Messrs. Price were only agents for the borrower. But if there had been any doubt upon the subject it must have been removed by the production of the transfer executed by the plaintiff. The second ground of defence also failed, the law being that in the absence of express contract, the pawnee of property could not sell it till the debt for which it was pledged became payable. Then as to the custom of the Stock Exchange, which was the point mainly relied on, a custom which gave the lender of money on security power to sell the security whenever he thought proper would be manifestly unjust, because it would place the borrower completely at the mercy of the lender, who might convert the security, appropriate the proceeds to his own use, and at the expiration of the loan be unable to hand over to the borrower that which belonged to him. And the evidence, including that of the deputy chairman of the committee of the Stock Exchange, went to shew that there was no rule or custom authorisine• the sale of stock deposited as security. There was no dspute as to the right to transfer the pledge to another person, and it would be very hard upon the lender if he were not per mitted to do so ; but with ,regard to any power of selling the security, the Gth rule of the Stock Exchange was con clusive, the words being, "In all cases of loans on the deposit of securities, the lender is bound to return the iden tical securities deposited, unless it is otherwise stipu lated at the time of making the loan." The defendant had, therefore, no right to sell the stock, and if it had not been for that wrongful sale he would no doubt have been ready in the middle of February to retransfer the security to the plaintiff, Who would hava been saved the loss incurred by him on the sale of the stock. There must be a declaration that the defendant was not entitled to sell the £22,000 stock, and an account taken of the proceeds of the sale, the amount so found to be handed over to the plaintiff. The costs of the suit must be paid by the defendant. THE EDUCATION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES.-• A general meeting of the Shropshire Chamber of Agricul ture has been held at Shrewsbury, for the purpose of dis cussing, and passing resolutions upon, the question of the education of the labouring classes in rural districts. On the motion of Mr. D. F. Atcherley, a landowner in the county, the following resolutions were unani mously adopted :-1. " That such a modification of the system of the Committee of the Council on Education is required as will enable small agricultural parishes, and those remote from towns, to provide elementary education on the spot for the children of small occupiers of land and of agricultural labourers." 2. "That this meeting, whilst cordially approvinj of the extension in rural parishes of the voluntary principle in education, desires to express its disapproval of that which is compulsory:" Mr. R. Jasper Moore, M.P., 0.11,1 president of tha Central Chamber of Agriculture, successfully moved that the alternate day system of education enforced by fae Factory Acts, and re commmdecl by Professor Fawcett in his bill, and by Pro% fessor Leone Levi in his recent report to the House of hata Co umrN m ea. nlnmdlgaomb labourers." proved is stdon. inadequate applicable edA eieqrffu. eaiettee to the condition of agricul trtcola, t t a h e ` p n T u a h r p n e t osfarmer,ea voluntaryofemoved i t o e a n in , e more especially in the agricultural districts, it is desirable that a local rate, based upon income tax and property tax ; be levied for that object." Thi s amendment, however, found no seconder. At the conclusion o f th e di scussion, ' deputies were appointed to attend the council meeting of the Central Chamber, to be held in London this week, for the purpose of discussing the general question of edusa, tional legislation, ROMAN AFFAIRS. :From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) RoME, February 22. The Pope has been going his usual round of the Carnevale santificato. On Tuesday morn ing to the Caravita and Bambin' Jesit, where, I am told, he pronounced a very mo'ing address ; also to the convent of the Sepolte vive, one of the strictest of orders, as may be gathered from its name. On Thursday to San Lorenzo in Damaso ; on Monday he will go to the Jesit, and so on. Nor has he forgone his afternoon drives, as I believe is usual at this season. On Wednesday he again drove up Monte Mario, and came down the hill on foot. Another day I met him walking in the Villa Doria, Gardens —and walking briskly, too. Indeed, as I heard an enthusiastic bystander exclaim as he drove by, over the Ponte Sisto on Monday—" He seems to grow younger, instead of older, like other men !I We are now in full carnival. Thursday, known as Giovedi grasso, is always one of the gayest days. The people are fully in it, and many of the shops all over the town were shut to enable the people belonging to them to attend the festivities of the Corso. The num ber of wheeled pageants was not very great, but there was a large proportion of costumed throwers of confetti among the pedestrians, and most vigorous was the throwing between them and the well-filled balconies all through the day. The masked festini at the theatres were crowded, as well as many others in pri vate houses, the return of the popular orders from which in joyous parties with timbrel and song might be heard all through the night. If any stories reach, you of conflicts between soldiers and bourgeois, do not believe them. It is curious how these things get originated. I have sifted one or two that were brought me, and found them to have arisen from silly misapprehension of details, aided by great ex aggeration. Besides this, I have constantly observed the greatest good humour prevailing between the military and civilians in their joint merry-making. By way of sample, I saw a bourgeois who was apparently paying more at tention to the showers of sugar plums falling from above than to the obstructions impeding the footway, fall flat on his face on the pave, very likely tripped up by some of the mischiev ous urchins who, as may be imagined, swarm in the Corso in these days, ready for any impish trick. Instantly three Frenchmen of the Roman Legion, who were disporting them him up and carried him, w the damage to their uni seiltvheosut near , rega ra rd ise t d; uni forms from the blood streaming from his face, to a pastry-cook's shop, where they bathed his face with cold water, and continued their attentions until they had thoroughly set him to-rights again. Probably an ungrounded fear of collisions has operated to keep some of • our countrymen away from the Corso. They have certainly not appeared there in their usual force. For some reason the file of soldiers who used to keep the line of the race has been omitted from the pro gramme this year ; of course it gives the ap pearance of greater sans One, but it has re moved a very useful restraint on the eagerness of the foolhardy multitude, who, in spite of all remons t ran ce, will press forward to get the nearest stand to the flying scud of riderless horses, or the scarcely less rapid flight of the Mossa of dragoons which precedes them. The consequence has been that one or two people have been knocked down, though I do not think there has been any serious accident. The great event of the week has been the ball at Prince Doria's to celebrate the betrothal of his daughter, Donna Gwendoline, with Marchese Somagia of Milan, which I men tioned some three months ago. The wedding is to take place on the last day of carnival, but weddings are comparatively quiet affairs here; the gaiety of the matter centres in the betrothal ball. Nothing can surpass the splendour of this one, which, in the hospitality of its in vitations, as well as in the sumptuousness of its arrangements and the brilliant display of bridal gifts, was princely indeed. I have not spoken lately of expectations of another invasion, lest one should become weari some by repetition, but you know the spring was long ago fixed as the time to look out of it, and the belief in this continues to exist here. Rumours continue also to reach ns of red-shirts weaving, and their w earers gather ing round our frontier. Another six weeks is the span of breathing time to which they limit us, and many are the words quoted from high authorities, including the Pope himself, which float about in confirmation of them. Meantime the arrivals of recruits for the Zo nave and other regiments continue with un abated activity, and among them this week are some good English names again. The Dutch continue also to keep up the proportion they have attained. It is very remarkable, and I do not think the fact can be too muchpressed on home attention, how nobly and unboastfully this little country is represented in the ranks of the Pope's defenders. Besides not a few in the Swiss Rifles, there must be some 3,000 in the Zouaves, and yet the Catholic population of Holland must be both smaller and less wealthy than that of England. The follow ing st atistics of Dutch Catholicity may not be uninteresting at the present moment : Holland is now divided into five dioceses, each furnished with its own seminaries. Vari ous religious orders for both sexes are repre sented by flourishing houses. A Dutch priest fours ded twenty-six years ago a congregation of Brothers of the Immaculate Conception for the education of children of the middle and poorer classes. It alreadynumbers eight houses. A year earlier four nuns of our Lady of Mercy established themselves at Amsterdam ; and, when they went to nurse one of their sick poor, it had to be by stealth, and by a circuitous route of back streets. Now their numbers are con siderably augmented. They pass through any quarter unmolested, and their services are even sought after by the very Protestants. Sisters of Charity have been established in Holland for 37 years past. There are nearly 1,000 of them in 68 houses, and their schools are attended by 24,000 children. There are 112 in Amsterdam alone. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has 124 conferences fully re cognized by the State. Now that Austria has removed the prohi bition against recruiting for the Papal army, we are promised a strong reinforcement of young nobles from Hungary, with equipments, arms, and horses, and money enough to save them from being any charge to the Papal Ex chequer. Portugal also is shaking off her torpor, and promising some recruits. From Prussia they come too in sufficient numbers to testify to the good feeling of the Catholic population in that country. There, as in other countries, the greatest praise is due to the committees whose zeal is so efficaciously employed in pro viding‘the Pontifical army, not only with men, but also with cloth for uniforms, linen, books, provisions, and even pay, so as to obviate as much as possible breaking in on the Peter's Pence. The popular movement there in favour of the Holy See is leading the Government more and more every day to strengthen its assurances of support to the Holy Father. True, jealousy of France has some part in this also, and " Beware of Napoleon ' is as much Herr von Arnim's advice as " Rely on King William." France, meantime, seeks to hide her projects, which the friends of the Empire let out but too plainly. And Austria continues her fatal down ward path towards the borders of an abyss from which it would seem that nothing—not even the present awakening of her population to the needs of Catholicity—can save her. In the midst of all the Holy See continues to observe the utmost prudence and reserve, committing itself to the policy of no one country in particular, but pursuing its own line steadily, and without suffering itself to be lured aside. The Trappists have entered into possession of their new establishment at the Tre Fontane. Cardinal Milesi-Ferretti, a relation of the Pope, who was commendatory abbot of SS. Vine (311Z0 e Anastasio (one of the three churches) has handed over the spiritual and temporal ad mi nistration of the place in due form and orG 'er to Pere Regis, 'who begins his mission with a colony of fourteen religious. As long ago a:4 1140, Innocent 11. gave it to St. Bernard for a house of his order, and the saint's name sake, Bernard of Pisa, whom he made the first abbot, became not long after Eugenius 111. It was for him St. Bernard wrote his, book of the Considerations. It is quite meet, therefore, that it should now again be in the hands of an off-shoot of the great Cistercian , order. The Trappists' vows have lately been declared solemn by the Holy See, and it has been decided that they shall retain their own breviary—a privilege they were in some danger of losing. Visitors to Rome often make the Tre Fon tane the object of a drive. It is about a mile beyond S. Paolo /Icor le inura. There are three churches in close proximity. First, that above named. Secondly, that of S. Paolo, built over the spot where the Apostle was beheaded, and. containing the three miraculous fountains which marked the spot where the severed head touched. and bounded on the ground. Near the first fours- stain is a short marble column, which served the headsman for a block. The third is called S. Maria scala cceli, because St. Bernard, living at his monastery at SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio, one day when saying Mass for the dead, had a vision, in which he saw a ladder which reached from earth to heaven, by which the liberated souls ascended to their rest, and this interest ing little octagon temple was built in commemo ration of this. The crypt under it communi cates with the cemetery of S. Zeno, where, according to Bede, 10,200 Christian slaves, who had worked at the Baths of Caracalla, and were afterwards left to perish of hunger, found burial. On the left side of the altar, is shown a little room where St. Paul was secured pre vious to his execution. The Pope has furnished Pere Regis with vessels for the altar and vestments, in which the church, which has not been much used, was deficient, and has promised a grant to forward the works of restoration, most im. mediately necessary. A fine mosaic, lately discovered at Ostia, has been promised, it is said, for the pavement of the sanctuary. The excavations of the Marmorata continue to excite great attention. Everybody goes to watch the works. Lord Clarendon was there the other day, and was so delighted with what he saw, that he could not forbear exclaiming aloud, that it was one of the finest works of the present reign. Nearly all the cardinals have been on the spot. Cardinal Mattei, who is very old, and so infirm that he only walks with diffi culty, had himself led along . the path by the bank of the Tiber that he might have a view of it. The value of the blocks already dug out is estimated at 50,000, and the expenses at 15,000 lire. The Pope has presented Commen datore Visconti with a gold snuff box, bearing an inscription in diamonds, on blue enamel. The excavations will be carried on with all their present vigour till May. Besides the exercises of the Carnevale santi. ficato and the always striking procession of the Via Crucis, on the Coliseum, which takes p l ace every day during carneval, I do not remem ber any religious celebration calling for particu lar notice this week, unless it be the commemo ration of the marriage of S. Catherine of Siena, observed in all the Dominican churches here on Thursday. The beautiful church of SS. Dominico e Sisto exposes her hand for veneration, though I believe the finger on which S. Bernardino of Siena tells us she re ceived the nuptial ring from our Lord, is pre served at the little church under her dedication in the Via Giulia. AMERICAN BONHOLDERS. In a late issue of the Owl a letter appeared pur. porting to be written by ANDREW JOHNSON to CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS. The writer makes the PRESIDENT say—" Four-fifths of the bonds are already in Europe, and the balance will be there :shortly. This therofore PPflqP2 to he . a domestic ques tion." This is one of the delusions which the repudia tionists are desirous of spreading throughout the United States. It is much more agreeable to rob outsiders than to rob each other. The community which reduces by a dishonest act a certain portion of its members to destitution, are not likely soon to hear the end of the transaction. The rags of the sufferers will for ever be flaunted in the faces of the authors of their ruin. National repudiation will be made the excuse for all breaches of con tracts, and be quoted as the example by those who evade engagements. It will be the re fuge at whose door every bankruptcy and failure will be laid ; and, however weary the public may become of the incessant howl, it will remain at least for a generation the loudest cry in the Union. Independently of the gain in throwing the loss on foreigners, the United States would free themselves from this unpleasant contact with their victims. But unfortunately for the PENDLETONS, BUTLERS, STEVENS, and JOHNSONS, their action has been so hasty, they have been in such a hurry to repudiate, that they have defeated all chance of accomplishing so desirable a result. The Nation, in a late number, asks " Who are the lenders? Great houses in Boston, New York, and Philadel phia? Great foreign capitalists? No. It was from first to last a constant subject of patriotic re joicing in the newspapers and on platforms that ' popular loans.' They all wereU nthiteedsaSvtiantgses of loans the weremasses freely offered to the nation, not simply as a good investment, but as a proof of their affection. It was then said that France and the United States were the only two countries where the people at large became credi tors of the State, placing even their finances on a Democratic basis." Every day it was proudly re corded that one, two, or three millions of bonds were taken, not by six, twelve, or twenty persons, but by hundreds over the country; and it was said, if the figures in possession of the Government in 1863 could have been used, they would have fur nished the most curious and instructive illustration, by the diffusion of these bonds among all conditions of people, of what was meant by a " People's War." The Registered Bonds, generally issued in large de nominations, represent more nearly than the Coupon Bonds the portion of the Public Debt held by wealthy men, and they amount to $890,874,850, the Coupon Bonds being $1,551,593,700. The latter bonds average $732, the former $1,360. The Nation then goes on to say :—" In fact, the coupon bonds have long formed a favourite investment of all the thriftiest, that is most valuable, portion of the working classes, because they possess over the sav ings-banks the advantage of not being taxed, and of being convertible at any moment. Most pe o ple who know anything of the habits of t h e more care ful and intelligent mechanics, gardeners, farmers, and householdservants, must, in fact, have been sur prised to find how largely they hold Government Securities." These are direct investors, but a larger portion of.the community still, may, in their igno rance, support the howl for repudiation, not know ing that it would sweep out of existence all their savings. The largest investors in these securities are the banks of loan and savings-banks. In 1862 the difficulty experienced by the managers of the savings -banks, in their earnest desire to find Hu most secure investments, induced them eagerly to loan to the Government the money in their hands. In that year the savings institu tions in Massachusetts invested over $6,000,000 in Government securities. They had increased this in 1863 to $15,727,826, holding besides $2,586,267 as collateral security. All this money was the savings of the poorest class, those of the men least able to take care of themselves in the scramble that would follow the indications which showed the time had arrived to sell out. There can be no question that though the payment of the Bonds in greenbacks would fall heavily on the German supporters of the Union during the war. who freely purchased the Securities of the United States, yet the vast mass of loss would be incurred by all classes of citizens of the Union. The BUTLERS and PENDLETONS argue that the currency would be inflated and the bondholders paid by degrees, so as not materially to affect the value of greenbacks, but this is a delusion of the most dangerous kind. The Standard's correspondent, writing from Wash ington, Feb. 11, says:—" If the British holders of our bonds do not in time look out for their interests they certainly cannot plead a want of warning. The struggle against greenback redemption' is .now a very feeble one. In fact the efforts of unen of all parties seem to be directed to the perfect ing of a plan' under which our creditors may be s3windled." That of General BUTLER and Mr. _PENDLETON iS to pay the creditors in irredeemable -paper, but the correspondent asserts that Senator SHERMAN'S bill ingeniously proposes to pay nothing. His argument is that the reduction of interest from six to five per cent. would, in the lengthened date to forty years, if the one per cent. were turned into a sinking fund, liquidate the National Debt. What ; ever may be the value of his figures, there can be little doubt that the SHERMAN plan is in every way preferable to that of BUTLER and PENDLETON. If the bondholders could rely with confidence on no further tampering with the bonds, they would know their exact loss, and the interest would in truth be satisfactory could the security be implicitly relic I on. To what the inflation theory would lead no man can tell. It would be a leap in the dark, it would be a financial " Shooting of Niagara." There is an article in the Nation, Feb. 13, on inflation in rela tion to the Money Market, which, with striking ability, places the facts before the people. The origin as well as the strength of the inflation party is derived from the stagnation of trade. These efforts are the crude, unformed attempts of a section of the community to shake off an incubus pressing heavily upon them. They believe that could they increase the volume of the currency they would lighten taxes, stimulate trade, give an impetus to manufactures, as well as pay off the National Debt. They forget that money is not the motive power in business, but a mere instrument. It does not fol low that business will be active bec vase money is plentiful, of which England for the last year fur nishes the most convincing proof. Money is now comparatively cheap and plentiful in the United States ; yet it has failed to proiuce the results the inflationists anticipate from an increase in the cur rency. It is this fatal delusion that industry can be stimulated by printing greenbacks that is likely to do so much harm. If the question came before the people in its naked truth as the means of the debtor class to wipe out their obligations, which would be the simple effect, the nation would recoil ; but, like the arguments of Protectionists, the real effect is so disguised by sophistry and plausible arguments of every description that none but the best informed can see through them. The Nation closes its article by stating, " It is difficult to see any difference between inflation and insanity ;" and this would be true, if a large mass of the inflationists being debtors would not- be gainers, by the means it would afford to cancel their debts. It is curious to watch the efforts of those who strive in the midst of this deluge to attain more legitimate results. A bill has been introduced into the House which has for its object the resumption of specie payments. By it the Secretary of the Treasury would be authorized to redeem Legal-Tender notes at the rate of one dollar thirty cents. in paper for one dollar in gold during next December ; at one dollar twenty-nine cents in paper for one dollar in gold in January next, and so on to continue the reduc tion one cent a month, until the greenbacks and gold were equalized. We fear, however, that such efforts are vain, as the blow given to the United States' credit by the strength of the inflation agita tion can only be recovered by time honestly em ployed, and nothing but credit or a great tide of commercial prosperity could now enable the United States even to carry out the schemes to which a few months ago Mr. M'CuLLocu would have pledged himself had Congress adopted his sugges tions. The day will surely come when the United States will regret that a portion of its people even momentarily listened to the arguments of Mr. PENDLETON and General BUTLER on Inflation and Repudiation, for it will then find that in its damaged credit the real loss has fallen on itself. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ;From the Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, Feb. 20. The Sunday is par excellence the most brilliant day of the week, and Paris races and regattas, land fetes and water fetes, given in the most picturesque parts of the picturesque scenery which surrounds the great city, put forth their united attractions on behalf of the deity of pleasure ; the steamers pass in rapid succession on the swift river, even as the human bubbles float on the stream of time ; the theatres, cafes, restaurants, &c., are crowded with pleasure seekers, awl the click of the billiard balls may be heard by the passer-by as the entrance of the salon opens or closes upon its devotees ; the public streets arc crowded, no matter in what direction you turn ; the hardworking ouvrier, who has toiled perhaps up to noon on the Sabbath, comes out to enjoy with his family his few brief hours of rest. The grisette, who has lived in her little garret all the week (Heaven knows how) upon the proceeds of the pearl trimming or shirt making, a revenue which a French Hood might well immortalize, emerges like a butterfly from its chrysalis, to form a unit of the various balls, where, thanks to French gallantry, les Dames ont l'entree litre, and the whole scene forms a picture which im presses a foreigner, how ever much it may shock his preconceived opinions. Yet, though the American and English residents may accustom themselves to this state of things, there is, nevertheless, a sanctity of spirit, a sacred corner in the shrine of memory, which forms an amulet against the temptations of the syren. " Wears not your grace a little rustic cross?" said Pierre in the tale of Mantua. Is there not a sou venir of some little rustic church embowered in the woodland, with its silver-haired pastor and its unique churchwarden ?—an unpretending chapel served by a minister as unpretending, though not withstanding selected for his unremitting zeal and high talent? Well I ween the answer will be in the affirmative from many a one. But I am making too long a peroration, the reader will say, when he learns that I have been so long in bringing out the fact that I did last Sunday what I ought to do much oftener, and in fact went to chapel. Nevertheless, I believe that there are many friends who will be pleased to learn some particulars of the beautiful American chapel of the Rue de Berri, and its satisfactory progress under the conduct of its able minister, the Rev. Dr. Eldridge. Situated in one of the most pleasant and healthy quarters of Paris, constructed upon the most improved modern principles of architecture, the principal features of the American chapel are simplicity, neatness, and utility, and the clear and impressive voice of the preacher reaches the ears of his congregation as plainly as his nervous and sincere eloquence reaches their hearts. It is satisfactory to know that the choice of the New York Committee has been so well placed, and that the American chapel is making rapid way in its career of utility at Paris. I must not take leave of this subject with out a tribute of admiration to the exquisite playing of the organist, Dr. Crane, or without bearing tes timony to the excellent general management of the chapel by Mr. George Smith. Passing to the topics of the day, the birthday of Washington has been celebrated this year by the American colony in Paris with unusual splendour. The star spangled banner waved in all directions from the windows of the houses occupied by Atnericans,whilst the saloons of his excellency Gen. I)ix were crowded to overflowing, some idea may be formed of this when it is known that our representative was com pelled to refuse no less than 200 demands for pre sentation on the occasion. As regards the toilette of the ladies present nothing could possibly be more brilliant, whilst a large number of the guests wore at their buttonhole either a diminutive American flag or a small bouquet of flowers arranged so as to represent the American colours. The grand stair case was draped with an immense American banner, whilst the walls of the different saloons of reception were decorated with the flags of all nations, a mag nificent marble bust of Washington, and a statue of Christopher Columbus attracted general admira tion. The concert of Mr. J. Edward Haner took place on Thursday evening last at the Salle d'Erard; the spleuclid salon was well filled, especially with the elite of American rank and fashion, attracted not only by the prospect of a rich musical treat, but by a feeling of patriotic pride in the rapidly in creasing fame of the rising pianist. On this occa sion Mr. Hauer was assisted by Messrs. Darbilly, Des Vachez, Tayau, and Tonsard, of the Opera, the latter taking the place of M. Solon, prevented by indisposition from attending; also by Mdlles. Marie Tayau and Laure Coli nache and De Beau- nay. Plunging at once in medias res, I must first mention the piece, par excellence, of the evening viz., "La Reverie del' Inventeur," composed as well as played by Mr. Hauer, and dedicated, with the greatest possible good taste, to Mr. Singer, one of the celebrated inventors of American sewing machines. It is pleasant to witness a tribute of the right nature involved in such a dedication, not only for the feeling of patriotism displayed therein, but in regard to the homage paid by music to her more humble but probably more useful sister. Mr. Haner's exquisite touch conveyed to his delighted audience the most vivid realization of the idea his composition was intended to portray, the dream-like repose of the mind gradually awakening, and feeling its way, as it were in the dark through the numerous obstacles between it and the perfec tion of the dawning thought, the occasional depres sion, the renewed perseverance, and the final triumph were all depicted in the strains of that worldly melody with the most unerring accuracy, and the hearty and reiterated bursts of applause conveyed most unequivocally to the performer, the satisfaction and delight of his audience. The " Fugue" in " Fa Mineur" was also given in a manner that showed the performer to be a perfect master of this most difficult branch of his profession. The " Dame des Fees" also brought out a good encore; whilst in re spect to the " Don Juan," executed on two pianos by Mr. Haner and Madlle. Laure Colinanche, though inferior to the " Reverie del Moeuleiu" in special beauty of idea, it yet fully equalled it in bril liancy of execution. In fact, I do not remember ever hearing a duo in better unison. It will not be within my limits to give an extended critique on every performance ; suffice it to say that whilst each and all were deserving of the greatest com mendation, the performance of the admirable Tayau (who is apparantly about 16 years of age) evince high promise on the part of the youthful artiste. Returning again, for an instant, to the hero of the evening, who has so deservedly won his laurels, America may fairly lay claim to him as a native artiste, as he commenced his musical career under Gottschalk and S. B. Mills, though at a later period he studied under the celebrated Camille Stamaty, and subsequently at the Conservatory of Vienna, under Professors J. Dulls and Rerfinatcha, his Professor, at present in the art of composition (who has certainly reason to be proud of his pupil) being Damcka. We cordially wish along and prosperous con tinuance to the career commenced so auspiciously. Amidst the friends assembled afterwards in the Salon des Artistes to congratulate the successful debutant, we noticed the well-known faces of Henry Herz, Camille Stamaty, Damcka, &c., &c. A profusion of costly bouquets also, which lay about the apartment in much-admired confusion, attested the interest which the gentle sex take, and which they are always amongst the first to exhibit, on occasions like the present. The Carnival is at an end, though the cortege of the Bo3uf Gras has been more brilliant than ever, being composed of no less than five hundred persons on foot and horseback, comprising heralds, soldiers, musi cians, cavaliers, &c., clad in the various cos tumes appertaining in vanished ages to almost every country on the face of the earth ; whilst eleven triumphal chariots representing France, Africa, America, Asia, and last, not least, Olympus, with as many of its deities as could be conveniently got up for the occasion (the Four Boeufs being dis tributed amongst them), completed the procession ; the din of the fanfares and brass horns (which ap pear to be one of the specialities of the Carnival), the numerous masquers, &c., making up a scene of diablerie which may be better imagined than described. A new feature has been introduced ;his year into the Carnival by the Hippophagists :who are jealous of the reputation of their more legitimate brethren) in the shape of a procession of Chevaux Gras, wound up by an equine dinner, in which every person joining the! procession was entitled to participate. Notwithstanding the un tiring efforts of their backers no money is at pre sent to be laid either on the bobtail or the bay, Taurus being decidedly the favourite for the Selling Steaks. Speaking of racing, by the bye, brings me to the inauguration of the Steeplechases of LaMarche, which took place oa Sunday,Feb. 23. The attendance was not so numerous as is usual on such occasions, the weather being somewhat unfavour able, a cold, biting wind blowing throughout the entire day. The racing was very good, the arrange ments of weighting appearing to wake just the re quisite difference required by the winners. The Prix d'Ouverture, 2,500 f., was won by Anglo-Saxon, beating Avenay and Bon Espoir. The next prize, the Handicap, was won in good style by Piggy.. wiggy ; whilst considerable sums changed hands on the occasion of the third race, in which a very handsome colt named Floreal, the property of the Baron Finot, beat the favourite, Beadle, belonging to the Duke of Hamilton, by a neck ; the latter had given the colt 231bs. The balls are finished at the Tuileries, but three concerts will take place during the month of March. The last ball for the season at the Tuileries was of the most magnificent description. The Emperor wore his usual costume of General of Division, but that of her Majesty the Empress was entirely un approachable, that of the Princess Metternich alone bearing the slightest comparison. Her Imperial Majesty wore a white robe interwoven with gold, the upper part of the corsage being adorned with a paruro composed equally of diamonds, and emeralds, the coiffure being of the same description, and surmounted by a crescent of brilliants that shot forth a thousand rays in the brilliantly illuminated ball-room. The following Americans were presented at the Tuileries on the occasion by the American Minister :—Mr. and Mrs. Aspinwall, Mr. and Mrs. Ray, Mr. Dart, Mr. Bruce, Miss Lyon, of New York ; Mr. and, Aliss Welling, Miss Tapper, Mr. and Mrs. Hall, of Pennsylvania ; Mrs. Leech, Miss Greenough, Mr. and Miss Chickering, Boston ; Dr. Worthing ton, Chicago ; Mrs. Gray and Miss Carthy, of Alabama; Dr. and Mrs. Bucknall, of San Fran cisco ; Mrs. Carr, of Paris ; Mr. Kimball, Mas sachusetts ; and Mr. and Mrs. Day, United States. NAPLES, Feb. 21. No news this week. Vesuvius remains in a chro nic state of eruption, one day more and one day less active, as if for the express purpose of entertaining travellers and interesting the studious. The wea ther is splendid, bright and warm—perhaps too much so for the vegetation, which is sprouting fast, and the almond trees covered with blossom. Such travellers as have not been attracted to Rome by the pomp and vanities of the Carnival are rewarded by seeing this country in its prime, for nothing can exceed in beauty the environs of Naples just now. " Historicus," who has lately been triumphantly engaged in showing up the inconsistencies of Mr. Seward, now appears to have been guilty of as great a contradiction himself. lie has shown that in May, 1861, nine days before the Queen's Proclamation was issued recognizing the Confederate States as bellige rents, Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Dayton, then Minister at Paris, these words :—" The insurgents have in stituted revolution with open, flagrant, deadly war to compel the United States to acquiesce in the dis memberment of the Union. The United States have accepted this civil war as an inevitable neces sity." Yet this same Mr. Seward, in January, 1867, wrote that, "before the Queen's Proclamation, the disturbance in the United States was merely a local insurrection," that "it wanted the name of war to enable it to be a civil war ;" that "this name the President wisely and humanely refused to confer upon it," but that "the Queen did so baptize the slave insurrection within the United States as Civil War." " Ilistoricus" crowed loudly after demolishing the American Secretary of State, as if, as the New York Nation observes, in dealing with Mr. Seward and in haying floored laina the controversy was at an end. That paper, however, brings against the great "Historicus" himself the following as glaring a contradiction. In 1863 "Historicus" was perfectly certain " that there was not a shadow of doubt that the United States had no claim against England for the damage done by the Alabama, not enough even to furnish the smallest ground for referring it to arbitration." lie said in November of that year, according to the Nation, that " the decision of the English Govern ment in the matter ought to be final, for they are the sole judges of it, and that the talk' of claims against Great Britain for compensation for prizes taken by the Alabama is mere nonsense, which has no colour or foundation in reason, history, or law." In one of his late letters to the ?limos, how ever, he says that " in the particular case of the Alabama, and, it may be, of other vessels, I think, and have always thought, that it is one which might be fairly made the subject of arbitration." Will the triumphant " Historicus" deign to explain this con tradiction, and if he cannot, will he be more tole rant of contradiction in others, knowing his own frailty ? General Grant has suspended the order of Gene ral Hancock, removing the City Council of New Orleans. Heneral Hancock has notified General Grant that he will tender his resignation unless allowed to enforce the order. It is reported that General Grant refuses to yield the point, and the matter has been referred to the President. General Meade has arrested ex-Comptroller Burns, of Georgia, for refusing to give up the official re cords. Judge Black has filed a new bill in the Supreme Court, praying for an injunction to restrain Generals Grant, Meade, and others, from seizing funds and property in Georgia, under the Reconstruction Act. General Grant has appointed General Sheridan to the temporary command of ihe department of Missouri, the President having prohibited the appointment of any permanent commander. It is not probable that' the Surratt trial began on the 24th inst., as announced, as neither Judgo Pierpont, counsel for the prosecution, nor Mr. Brady, for the defence could be ready by that time. The first of Secretary Stanton's orders made public since his reinstatement, is one authorizing the dis tribution of tha food which accumulated during the war, for the relief of the destitute inithe South. On Thursday, Mr. Goulty, on the part of the committee, presented to the Princess of Wales a Bible from the teachers and scholars of a large number of Sunday Schools of Great Britain and Ireland. At a late reception of General Grant, General Longstreet divided with Sheridan the honours of the evening, and received a great deal of attention from army officers and politicians. General Grant recommends the removal of political disabilities from Longstreet. Brigham Young will have in his great temple at Salt Lake the largest organ in the United States, of which 400 pipes have already been set. The President has received a petition from Geo. Francis Train, asking the aid, influence, and protection of the United States Government to enforce his claim for £lOO,OOO against the British Government, forillegal arrest, and false imprisonment. The American press encourage Mr. Train to remain abroad until he gets this sum. Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister at Berlin, had a private audience of the King, on Monday, when he presented his credentials as United States Envoy to the North German Confederation. J. Young Brown, who was elected Representative to the House from Kentucky, has been refused the seat on the plea that by various speeches he aided and com forted the rebels. The effects of the late Sir Frederick Bruce were sold by auction at Washington on the 11th of February- Mr. Thornton bought most of the furniture, and many friends of the late Ambassador purchased articles as souvenirs. Mr. F. H. Dudley, the United States Consul at Liverpool, has received instructions to pay to John Wil liams, a pilot at Duffryn, and James APCartney, one of the crew of the Liverpool steam tug Reliance, the sum of $lOO each, as a reward for their noble conduct on the occasion of the wreck of the American ship F. J. Southard, near Duffryn, on the sth of December last, when at great peril to themselves they managed to get the end of a line ashore and establish communication with the vessel, and thus were mainly instrumental in saving the lives of the crew. We gave a full account of the circumstance in a former number. The valuable law library of the late Governor Andrews was sold by auction in Boston on the sth Feb. Tho Boston City Council have chosen James D. Braman, Rev. Dr. George Putnam, and Weston Lewis, trustees of the public library. Senators Nye, lloward, and Wilson have been in Now Hampshire speaking for the Republican party. Fred Douglass had to take his meals iu his own rooms at a Meriden hotel recently, because the boarders wouldn't eat at the same table with a negro. Connecticut needs reconstruction. Admiral Farragut left Milan, for Genoa, on the 26th inst., where the principal inhabitants, with the mayor at their head, have organized a grand demonstration is the Admiral's honour. If Senator Wade succeeds in defeating the nomi nation of " Sun-set" Cox as Minister to Austria, it will be tit-for-tat, as it was mainly through that gentleman's exertions that a Democratic Federal Senator was chosen by Ohio to replace Mr. Wade. A story is told of the latter gentleman, who failing to find his reserved seat in Carroll Ilan to hear Mr. Dickens read, exclaimed in a voice that all heard, " This Dickens is a humbug." The Senate on Tuesday, 11th Feb., rejected the nomination of William D. Bishop, of Bridgeport, Connec ticut, as commissioner of patents, and those of John 3 1 . Johnson as United States Marshal for Virginia; Leslie Combes, United States Marshal for Kentucky ; and Geo. A. Maguire as one of the commissioners to settle the claims of Indiana for equipping troops to aid in suppree sing the rebellion. The nomination of John B. Penning ton as United States district attorney for Delaware was confirmed. The President has nominated Charles A. Robinson of Vermont to be Consul at Quebec; and Henry T.Herrick to be collector of customs at Georgetown, South Caroline. Mr. Wisewell's appointment as Internal Revenue Commissioner makes no progress in the Senate. It has been referred to the Finance Committee, which so far has paid it no attention. Major B. B. French, formerly Commissioner of Public Buildings, has been appointed to a fourth-class clerkship, at a salary of $l,BOO, in the Treasury Depart" ment, in place of Samuel McKean, the disbursing clerk, lately deceased. General Noah L. Jeffries narrowly escaped re jection for the office of register of the Treasury in the Senate, Wednesday, Feb. 12, the vote standing 21 to 187 and only Messrs. Anthony, Dixon, and Ferry of the NeW England senators, voting in his favour. He succeeded the late Stephen B. Colby, and he had discharged the duties, of the position for some time. General Burnside has reconsidered his determi" nation not again to bo a candidate for Governor of Rho& Ibland, and will stand, if nominated, on the Republican Ticket. A monument to the poet Fitz Greene Hallack is to be erected in Guilford, Connecticut, his native place. General J. G. Wilson, of New York, is collecting sub scriptions in that city. Mr. James D. Colt, of Massachusetts, has re covered from his long illness, which a year and a half ag e forced his retirement from the Supreme Court of his State. It is thought likely that Governor Bullock will appor t , t him to fill the vacancy occasioned by Judge Chapman e promotion to Chief - Justice. It is stated that Mr. Hale, American Minister Madrid, has informed Secretary Seward that he will re sign unless the Secretary of Legation, Mr. Perry, is r e ' called. Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes Smith has informed the public that the advocates of Woman's Rights assert one ° I , them to be the power of selecting their husbands, and 001 they intend to stand to this point, and nail their colours t° the mast in defence of woman's right to make matrimonial ,osals. prop , Births. AUSTIN—On the 28th ult., at 51, Norfolk-road Dalstor, t he wife of Edwin Austin, Esq., of a son. Moßms—On the 28th ult., at 2, St. Leonard's Villas, th e wife of Captain Morris, 95th Regiment, of a daughter. I PEEL —On the 27th ult., at 70, Eaton - place, th e Wif° o Arthur W. Peel, Esq., M.P., of a son. Marriages. oh PATTERSON—WINFIELD — On the 27th ult., at the Lai-- of St. Alpliege Greenwich, H. P. Patterson„62l.; Temple, to Charlotte Winfield, niece of the late Wi'"'" Edwards, Esq., of York- gate, Regent's-park. r W ILKI E—TAITE—On the 29th ult., at St. John's Clio-tott Oxford. square, Augustus Wilkie to Frances Una- Taite, niece of Mr. Taite, 13, Porchester-place, 11) park. Deaths. LANE— On the 27th ult., at Elmfield Lodge Sou-Aa Middlesex, Michael Lane, Esq , M.I.C.E , chief 01 1 1; 1 ' 1 — of the Great Western Railway, * aged G 5.. 0 0 LACY—On the 28th ult., Sarah, wife of the late TOP"- Lacy, Esq. LAWRENCE—On the 28th ult., at Hertford, Edward 1-4311" rence, Esq., aged 80. PEACOCK—On the 27th ult., a t Middlesborough, Job:. Shields Peacock, Esq., Town Clerk of Aliddlesborous ' sgoc ... 1 London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A,--_,.- of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TRH SUN 031ce, N ° 0 , o f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CQ 11331 IglicicUegoz ! --lionday, March 2, 1868. ~~ t ~ ~~ ._ ,;~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1868. 4 • I 4:4,1 Whtki