The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, It is the firm conviction of the Times that the Educa tional Conference at Manchester will be gratifying to the most advanced school of educationnl reformers. It is probable that so large a variety of experience in popular education was never brought together on any similar occa sion, and certainly no discussion of points involving so much practical difficulty ever elicited so little difference of opinion. It is true that of those present a large propor tion were already pledged to a complete system of national education at any price, but it should be added that their preponderance was not due to any partiality in the organisation of the conference. On the contrary, we have reason to believe that every member of Parliament re• ceived an invitation, and that efforts were made to secure the attendance of those Conservative statesmen who laboured earnestly for the cause before the days of its popularity. Whether their absence betokened a fear o: being dragged too far by their Manchester friends, or, as we believe, a knowledge that a comprehensive measure is being prepared by the Government, we do not pre tend to say ; but it inevitably weakens the effects of the counsels which ultimately prevailed. The names of those present, however, show that all parts of England and all denominations were represented, and that Messrs. Bruce and Forster will hence forth speak in the name of a powerful constituency. As to the ( . ..liestion whether the attendance at school should be rendered compulsory, our contemporary says :-- This is not the time or place to enter upon a question which is quite as large as that of Parliamentary Reform itself. But we cannot hesitate to express our conviction that a serious error was committed by the conference in making, not only compulsory school-attendance, but universal compulsory school-attendance, an essential element of their policy. Let it be granted that no insu perable objection of principle can be urged against it. Let it be granted, again, that as one speaker observed, what has been done by the Saxons can be done by the Anglo-Saxons, notwithstanding the existence in England of most formidable obstacles unknown in Saxony. Let it even be granted that, if the law were heartily sanctioned by public opinion, habit would do much to reconcile Eng. lish parents to State interference with their rights and duties. Still, it is self-e‘ ide that without the hearty sanction of public opinit n .P.aliament will never approve so violent a c:iange, and that even if Parliament should approve it, it must remain a dead letter. Believing that it will be decisively rejected upon the first ap peal to public opinion, we cannot but regret that pro posals otherwise deserving at least of consideration should be clogged with the dead weight of a visionary scheme. The Sultan of Turkey has actually gone out to dinner with a subject—a mark of honour and condescension un precedented in the annals of Oriental history. On this the Post observes that there is no doubt that the priesthood, who are still very powerful, will exert their utmost efforts to oppose any change in the ancient legendary usa.;es, which include a religious antipathy to knives and forks, and to a man's dining out who can afford to dine at home. The Moslem faith has a very remarkable vitality still left it. Travellers who prate about its decay are entirely in error. The Turks of the capital and commercial seaports are not fair average specimens of their countrymen ; and they sometimes display a childish vanity in pretending to treat their religion with levity. It is not in great towns, however, that the best specimens of a people are often found, and the true Asiatic Osmanli of the interior is a very different personage indeed to his civic brother. He has a very real feeling of belief in his religion, and would willingly die for it. When he learns that the Sultan has departed in any respect from the old tradi tional observances he will be more apt to think the Sultan wrong than the tradition, so that the new reforms may occasion grave troubles in those parts of the empire where its real strength lies, and where Russian intrigues and diplomatic counsel are alike despised. In the opinion of the Standard, the discussion between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. George Potter upon the principles of trades unions promises to be highly interesting to the general public. It is fortunate, indeed, for the interests of truth that the battle is to be fought out between two such utterly unexceptionable champions. Mr. George Potter must be presumed to be perfectly well acquainteil with the whole case in favour of trades unions. Mr. Gladstone, as the leader of the Liberal party, as well as the foremost representative of the practical school of political economy, is clearly the best man to encounter Mr. Potter. It is impossible, if both the advocates are in earnest, that we should fail to arrive at some useful result out of the discussion, even if it be only a clear and distinct notion of what the working men themselves mean by trade unionism. Hitherto there has been much shyness on the part of the unionists on one side, and the more enlightened Liberals on the other, in joining issue. Each has been too much necessary to the other to come to open conflict, and the political exigencies of both have prevented us from hearing what the Liberals have to say about " the great question of the future," and what the unionists think of their political leaders. It is very much to Mr. Gladstone's credit that he has come forward boldly to take up Mr. Potter's challenge, and to maintain the truth, as it is in commercial science, regardless of political con. siderations. This is that kind of courage of intellect which places Mr. Gladstone so immeasurably above Mr. Bright, who, with all his character for boldness arid for honesty, has never yet dared to utter any public opinions upon the pretensions of the trade unionists. The Saturday Bedew, in discussing the questions arising out of the Alabama correspondence, asks us to consider how an American jurist would argue his case. His general reasoning would probably be something of this sort. The recognition of rebels as belligerents is confessedly, and always must be, an act adverse and unfriendly to the Power against which the rebellion is taking place ; and all nations have shewn this hitherto by the hesitation they have displayed in granting this recognition, or by the dis tinctly hostile attitude they have assumed when granting it. It was a very long time before France recognised the revolted colonies of England, and when she did so she at the same time appeared as their ally in arms. The revo lution in the American colonies of Spain had been going on for years before Canning recognised them in any way, arid when he did so he avowedly wished to annoy and baffle the Government of Spain and the other reactionary Governments by which it was supported. These were cases in which the recognition was a recognition of rebel Powers, as not only belligerent, but established. But the mere recognition of rebels as belligerents is an encourage. ment which friendly Powers are very slow to give. Hun gary not only revolted from Austria, but revolted so suc cessfully that Austria only overcame the rebellion by the aid of a foreign Power, and yet England never recognised Hungary as a belligerent. It may be said that this was because Austria and Hungary were so placed geographi cally that England had nothing to do with them, and that there was no intercourse between England and Hungary the character of which, after the rebellion had broken out, it was necessary to fix, whereas trade and communi cation between England and the ports of the Southern States had been constant. But this argument may he turned exactly the other way, and it may be said that it was precisely because the South had so many intricate relations with England, and because it was so easy and natural for Englishmen, in conjunction with the many Southerners resident in England, to fit out vessels like the Alabama, that the prompt recognition of the belligerent character of the South acted so perniciously, in the South and in England, as regards the interests of the "United States Government. It may be true that the enforcement of a blockade against English vessels imposed on England the necessity of taking the position of a neutral. But the recoenition of the South bad, in point of fact, nothing to do with the blockade. When Lord Russell announced that the Southerners would be treated as belligerents, lie did not know that the blockade was to be instituted, and it is the case of the Americans, not that this recognition was in itself unjustifiable, but that it was made so very promptly, and with such an appearance of anxiety to give the South every possible chance. After it had become known that a blockade had been instituted. England, if she had been a really friendly Power, might have pointed out that a persistence in the blockade must force foreign Governments to declar e th emselves neutral, and then, if the North had chosen t o cont i nue the blockade, it would have have had nothing to complan And this hasty recog nition of the South was practically connected with the fitting out of the Alabama. It instilled the belief into shipbuilders that the English Government would proceed very calmly in interrupting their operation s on behalf of the South. Nine-tenths of the Conservative party and a large section of the adherents of the Ministry were zealou s partisans of the Confederates, and the escape of the Ala bama may be in a great measure attributed to the fact that the majority of Englishmen then saw nothing very much to regret in her escaping. The Spectator, writing on the Irish press prosecutions, says it is impossible to condemn them in the abstract. The expediency of such trials is of course a very different thing from their morality, depending absolutely upon the imminence and the extent of the danger to be faced. As a rule, and a rule with very rare exceptions, it is safer for a State to allow a disaffected minority to talk its tall: out, to trust to diA:ussion and time to upri out or modify ev, the most dangerous ideas. It can very rarely be wise, for instance, for a civilised Government, when unprepared to interfere with the post, to drive its enemies to substitute secret for open correspondence, a change which occurred, for example, in India during the mutiny, to the extreme embarrassment of the Executive. Such rare cases, how ever, do occur, more especially when the publications Involved strengthen the hands of enemies outside the country as no letters could possibly do. When Mr. Seward, for example, suppressed the papers in the North which upheld the Southern cause, he was really putting down forces in strict alliance with men openly hostile to the very existence of the Union, suppressing enemies more dangerous than invading squadrons. The case of the Government in Ireland is, we imagine, apart from tech nical incidents, substantially the same as Mr. Seward's— that papers like the Irishman intend to encourage the people to aid a party which proclaims itself hostile to the State, and to keep up in the minds of the discontented a strong belief that foreign aid will ultimately give them the victory over the State. Do the conductors of the Irishman really mean to deny that this is their intention? and if not, upon what ground, either of principle or practice, or precedent, can they deny the right of a representative Government to frustrate it? They publish as extracts, but with the intention to be deduced from their known and expressed proclivities, proposals for invading Ireland from America and raising civil war. We will put a case to the conductor of the Nation, who complains sobitterly of the pro secution, which he will thoroughly understand. Let him sup pose himself Secretary of an Irish Republic, one and indivi sible, and the Orange writers, as Irish as he is, to set up a journal which day after day impelled Orangemen to rise, which sympathised with every Orange " movement" against the Republic, and which, above all, incessantly promised, under one form or another, armed help from the Calvinists of Scotland. Would be or would he not prose cute that journal ? We can only say he would not long remain Secretary if he did not, and if we understand at all the political ideas underlying his very eloquent diatribes against England,—diatribes which it is sometimes difficult even for Englishmen to read without a feeling of admira tion for their literary skill,—it is a very brief trial that Orange journal would obtain. It would be suppressed in a minute as irreconcileably hostile to a principle very much more sacred in Irish eyes than liberty of political opinion. But the Nation will probably reply, " We should only be preventing an imminent civil war, saving the minority from incitements to dangerous or impossible insurrections. Precisely, and that is the plea of the Irish Government to which, by the public law of Europe and-the practice of all free States, the American Union included, there can be no reply. The State, if freely organised, has a right to put down forces dangerous to its own existence, and the alle gation of the Irish Government—which is to be fairly tried before an Irish jury —is that certain journals are so opposed. The expediency of the proceeding may be ques tionable, though the balance of evidence is in its favour, but its political morality seems to us almost beyond dis cussion. THE ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN, We have advices from the camp at Senafe to the 19th December. The letters are occupied chiefly with descrip tions of the ascent from Raray Guddy to the camp in the highlands. Of this journey the Post's correspondent says :—" As we had been marching at a good pace for nearly three hours, and the distance to Senaft was said to be only nine miles, we concluded that we had pretty nearly got home,' but not so ; distances and surveying officers, one or both, are deceptive. All at once the path narrowed to about two feet, and then began to ascend with an abruptness which is not surpassed, if equalled, by any Alpine pass; the nearest approach to it I have seen is the Mayenwand adjoining the Grimsel, but even that is comparatively easy ; and I should like to ask any one of the numerous tourists who have been there how they would set about marching an army up it. As we toiled along with difficulty in single file we found that a long string of about fifty commissariat mules, heavily laden, occupied the path ahead, and effectually impeded all progress up or down, for it was too narrow to permit any two animals to pass one another. After waiting with more or less patience for half an hour I thought I would get on and ascertain whose mule stopped the way ; this was easier said than done, and, having scrambled up nearly 200 yards of almost per pendicular rock on hands and knees, clinging to bushes and brambles, and from time to time resting flat on my stomach, I struggled to the front, and what think you I saw? A mule lying on his side right across the path, helpless, and unable to rise, whilst four attendant sepoys looked on, reclining, with the apathetic nonchalant air which only a Hindoo can assume, and which is so thoroughly aggravat ing to a European, especially when an Englisman. When I recovered sufficient breath to launch out effec tually, my language was decidedly more forcible than polite, and, as I am master of a few Hindustani epithets, the reverse of complimentary, I succeeded in rousing them to action, or what passes for action in Oriental estimation, but I had to unload and unsaddle the animal myself, whilt these four precious fellows under took the arduous task of holding his head. In ten minutes the mule was on his legs, and the whole train in motion, but had no one interfered we should probably all have been there now. In an hour the summit was attained, and the Abyssinian highlands lay before us. From my descrip tion of the pass, in which I have naught extenuate nor aught set down in malice,' you will perceive that it is one of no ordinary difficulty for an army to surmount. lam sorry that the leaders of the exploring party should have thought fit to view all the difficulties through and all the resources of food and water through magnifying glasses ; it can hardly be advisable that Sir R. Napier, on his arrival, should be so thorougli"y misled, as he must in evitably be, unless they very considerably modify all their hitherto published reports on the condition, extent, and con formation of the 80 or 100 miles which lie between Senafti and our point of debarkation. This modification of diffi culties was doubtless well intentioned, to prevent needless discouragement, but we all know what forms the pave ment of a certain place, and a difficulty once fairly attacked is more than half conquered ; the longer a man looks at a fence the bigger it grows ; therefore I say, with all due deference, I think the reports should have contained a little more of that indecency termed the naked truth.' All the troops up here are in excellent health, and there has not been a single casualty, except among the mule d r ivers, who are frightfully exposed to the enormous varia tions in the temperature. The horses also thrive, and all traces of the epidemic which attacked them at Zulla have disappeared. It would, of course, be advisable to have the whole force here, but the transport would break down if such a thing were yet attempted, and the road must be considerably improved first. Food for man (goats and oxen, not sheep) is plentiful), but `grain' for horses con stantly fails, and the scanty, burnt-up grass collected on the plain is but a poor substitute. Ducks and geese and spur-fowl may he shot within a mile or two, but I have seen no guinea-fowl since Ray ray Guddy. No wild beasts are visible to the naked eye, although a certain ' Old She karry,' who was the astonishment if not the admiration of the whole camp a few weeks ago, and who has bad con siderable experience in America both in loading the rifle and drawing the bow, gave marvellous accounts of the ferocious monsters who had crossed his path. Negretti and Zambra's thermometers, by which Colonel Mere wether goes, generally mark from 62 deg. to 65 deg. by day and from 40 deg. to 46 deg. by night, but the extra ordinarily heavy dew makes it appear much colder, and it is very trying work for the pickets." The John Bull says Yesterday Sir Stafford North cote received a private letter from Colonel Merewether, dated Senafe, Dec. 27, in which he says that he had letters from Magdala to Nov 11, and from King's Camp, Debra Tabor, to October 11. He alludes to the proba bility of Magdala being taken by th e re b e l s, an d cons i ders the position of Theodore very critical. The troops are all well, and the people friendly. He had surveyed the road to Allegerat, 37 miles beyond Scnaf*S, and had found no impediments. More water had been found at Mulkutto since the pumps had arrived from England. He considered this most fortunate, and was going to send the pumps further up the country. They had had 3 heavy fall of rain." The announcement that a marriage is about to 6e contracted between the Earl Fortescue and Lady Drum mond is contradicted, as is also the report of the projected marriage between Colonel To vvneley and the lion. Mrs. Stonor. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of Mr. John near Lyme Regis, Devon, has been provedAimes' of Cv inL ie on e d iailds' cm by his brother, Mr. George Henry Aimes, and his three nephews, Mr. Richard Llewellin, Mr. Lionel Ames, and Mr. Henry Metcalf Ames. .The personal property was sworn under £ 500 , 000 . The will is dated November 26, 1852, and there are two codicils, dated May 9, 1859, and May 30, 1864 ; he died November 16 last, aged 83. He has made liberal bequests to his into fifty and has divided the residue of his property fifty parts among his nephews and nieces. He leaves a sum of £4,000, the interest to be laid out annually in re pairing the boundary wall and keeping in order the plan tation, woods, and paths upon the estate called Pinney. He leaves the furniture and effects belonging to his mansion of Cleveland to the person in the enjoyment of the Cleveland estate. He leaves annuities and legacies to his servants and labourers according to their length of service. The following are the charitable bequests :—To the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol General Hospital each £l,0€0; the Asylum for the Blind at Bristol, the Blind Asylum and Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Exeter, the Devon and Exeter Hospital, and the Royal Free inn -road, each 1::;00.--1he w ill of Mr. Wilba:n Llo~ c 1 Wharton, of Dryburn, Durham, was pr gyred in London under £50,000 personalty by hi s nephew, Mr. Joh n Ll oy d Wharton, the sole executor. The testator was a membei of Lincoln's Inn and a magistrate for the county f Durham, and was high sheriff for that county in 1836. His will is dated February 11, 1867, and he died No vember 15, at the age of 78. He has left legacies to his servants, and directs that 10s. be given to each of 100 poor families of the parishes of St. Margaret and St. Cuthbert, to be selected by the two incumbents.—lllustrated London Nam THE SUN LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1868 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. From the Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, Jan. 16, 1866. The recent distribution of prizes and decora tions by his Imperial Majesty to the agricultu ral and horticultural exposants at the late Exhi bition withdraws again for an instant the veil of oblivicn which, after a time, enwraps all things earthly, and brings again before our contemplation the mighty cause of which the effects will ever be perceptible in the long future of progress, and which will form a noble reward to the noble genius with whom originated not merely the ab stract thought, but the perfect success of its em bodied reality. A visit to the ruins of the Universal Exhibition conveys a touching and instructive lesson of the perishable nature of all earthly things, but, like the contem plation of a cemetery, conveying also the feeling that the spirit of progress like that particle of divine essence, the soul of man, sleeps but to rise again, though no one knows the shape or form which it may assume—and whilst wandering through the ruins of that ex tinct temple one almost expects to find graven upon the fragments the restirgam of the monu ments of the cemetery. Bnt it is more pleasant to dwell upon the phases which yet form the link between the future and the past. The brief re marks contained in the President's Message, in allusion to the Exhibition, would serve to imply that the Commissioners had presented their report to Congress. Neither the report itself, however, nor any great amount of detailed information con nected therewith, has as yet reached Paris, and it is only in the occasional comments and compa risons of the Press that one can perceive again and again the truth of the assertion that what ever may have been the drawbacks and circum stances which prevented the American section from being so fully supplied as those of its neigh bours, that there were to be found in every group and class chefs d'oeuvres unapproachable, and foretelling with unmistakeable certainty a future of unqualified success. In one or two letters I have endeavoured to criticize the group of the fine arts in the American section, and have, I think, clearly proved that although lacking the advan tages of a long past of artistic renown, the native energy has created in the reproduction upon canvass of the glorious landscapes of their country at least one special school of art, whilst in those which de mand labour and initiation, American artists have acquitted themselves most creditably, and bad I time in my present letter to pass categorically through each group, and even class, I should find in each, abundant testimony to the truth of my assertions. Amongst the instruments of precision and apparatus for instruction in the sciences, what in the entire Exhibition could equal the planetarium of Barlow, an instrument which reduces to practical utility the sublime discovery of Galileo, and is un doubtedly one of. the most sublime discoveries of modern science ? What musical instruments can surpass those o! Chickering and Steinway, or of the Schreiber Cornet Manufacturing Company, New York ? But it is in those classes of industry which refer more especially to the wants of every day life that the genius and energy of the American character has displayed its most gigantic propor tions in the various steam engines of Hicks and Co., Corliss, Dart, Pickering, Brown and Sharpe, and Sellers, in the steam-drill of General Haupt, in the various improved sewing -machines which had their origin in the genius of the late lamented inventor, in the locomotive engine of Grant, in the numerous agricultural implements exhibited by Wood, by M'Cormick, Bidwell, and many others; in the safes of Herring and the locks of the Yale and Wain Manufacturing Company, in the Ferris and Gaffing guns, and in the perfect exhibition com prised in Mr. Bacon's bakery, in the soda fountains of Dows and Guild ? But I have said enough for my present limits, and in support of the hypothesis which I have always so steadily maintained, I do not speak of the rich mineral treasures from Ne vada, Colorado, &c., those rich and fertile districts, rich not only in mineral wealth, but in natural ad vantages, which America so lavishly forwarded to the Exposition, inasmuch as though bearing in direct testimony to the energy of American citi zens, its more direct testimony goes to show the present advantages possessed by America, and those still greater once of the future. I postpone further consideration of this most interesting subject, but before I dismiss the American part of my cor respondence, I may incidentally remark that there exists a rumour in America that our respected Mi nister, General John A. Dix, will probably be nominated for the Presidency on his return to America, after the completion of his official career at Paris, which approaches its termination; whilst amongst the Americans recently presented at the Tuileries on the Bth inst. are to be found the names of Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Lippincott (Philadel phia), Mr. Walsh (Japan), Mrs. Cauldwell (New York), Mrs. Bouligny (Washington), Mr. Wells, General Quincy, and Miss Paine (Boston), Miss Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Frazer, Miss Blood, Miss Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. Marop, Mrs. and Miss Clax ton, Mr. B. R. Winthrop, Miss Winthrop, and Miss Gilbert (New York), Mr. and Mrs. Fassett, Miss Wilson, and Mr. M'Cormick (Chicago). Political news is at a discount at present in Paris, whilst in the Legislative Assembly the discussion upon the reorganization of the military service winds its slow length along the debates, rendered interesting from time to time by the clear and all persuasive eloquence of the War Minister, Marshal Neil. There is no doubt of the measure of the Government passing in its entirety and to the satis faction of all friends of order. Within the last few days a thaw has succeeded the recent severe weather, and Paris is, consequently, knee deep in mud. The ice is breaking up on the Seine, which presents at this instant an appearance well calculated to give an idea of primitive chaos. Numbers of men are employed in fencing off from the various vessels, bathing establishments, &c., the immense blocks of debris which the strong current of the river ever and anon dashes against them, whilst countless carts are engaged in withdrawing from the river the same masses, and piling them in huge heaps upon the shore, to be returned to their proper ele ment at a later period when the current shall have again freed itself from its icy prison. The wolves also have been making themselves remarkable of late, and accounts of depredations upon the flocks come in from all parts. The Carnival is approach ing its termination ; and whilst the great mass of theatres, opera-houses, &c., are in full play, one sees constantly advertisements of balls, Pars Masques et Travesties, involving military music, the triumphal entry of the King and Queen of the Bean, with their guard of honour, composed of the first dignitaries of the Court of Charles the Seventh with the banners of the epoch. As the entrance to these balls in Paris varies from 20 francs to 25 centimes, there is accommodation for all classes. The old custom of the King and Queen of the Bean, the same as that observed in Twelfth Night in England, is much kept up in France, and last year it is said an amusing incident happened to one of the employes in one of the public bureaus, which turned out not a little to his advantage. Our hero, who was a good-looking young fellow in the Finances at some 1,200 francs per annum, though by no means intemperate as a rule, was apt on some occasions in the exuberance of his spirits to allow the malt to rise above the meal. On the evening of the Tivelfth Night the Medoc had proved somewhat too powerful for him, and he sallied forth to brace himself by the aid of the sharp breath of the frosty Christmas night. As he descended the Rue Lafitte a long line of aristocratic equipages blocked the streets. An idea came into the confused brain of our hero—be would see what it was all about-'-he would take part in the affair; and opening at hazard the door of one of the most gorgeous-looking equi pages, he shouted to the immovable-looking coach man "To the hotel." The carriage moved off at once. Our hero, falling immediately into a blissful slumber upon the luxurious cushions—not, how ever, before he had had time to see sitting opposite to him a lady of the most ravishing beauty, and covered with lace like a Madonna. When he awoke he was in a splendid saloon, and by his side his fair companion of the carriage. Your are the King of the Bean, said a silvery but arch voice, and it is now for you to choose the Queen of the evening. Our hero had begun to recover his senses and natural shrewdness. His first act was to choose as his royal partner his fair protectress. "It is well," said a grave personage in black, " for the remainder of the evening no one will take any orders except from his Majesty the King of the Bean." I have said that our hero had recovered his shrewdness, and as he looked around the glittering uniforms of the Marshals, the magnificent dresses of the ladies, and last, not least, the presence of his Excellency of the Finances, in person, clad in black, with the simple ornament of the Legion, showed him that he was in no ordinary assembly. Plucking up courage, how ever, and bethinking himself of the Arabian .Nights, he addressed the Minister. "As you happen to be Minister during my reign," said he, " I beg to re commend to your Excellency, for promotion, a young friend of mine, at present engaged on a salary of 1,200 francs a year." " I should be happy to oblige your Majesty," said his Excellency, slyly, " but they say your friend drinks a little." " That will pass," was the reply, " when he is able to afford a better wine." His Excellency laughed, and bowed. The reign of the King of the Bean was, however, rapidly approaching its termination, and yielding to the repeated bumpers of champagne, passed out by the fair hand of the Queen. His Majesty again sank into the regions of forgetful ness. When he awoke again it was:naidday Ihe was again in his little garret, and he rubbed his eyes to assure himself whether or not the events of the first night were not a dream, when the Concierge entered with a letter and packet. The former was from the Bureau des Finances, and announced his promotion. The latter simply contained a diamond ring. Our hero never found out his unknown pro tectress, but it is reported in diplomatic circles that a certain most lovely and spirituelle Ambassadress always laughs at the mention of Christmas festivi ties in Paris. NAPLES, Jan. 10. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is growing daily more interesting. Last night two large streams of lava were flowing down in the directio❑ of Resina, but fortunately the cultivated lands are still untouched. From Naples the sight is magnifi cent at night, the whole of the great cone appearing envelopel in fire and smoke. Signor Rattazzi has left for Florence after gather ing such ovations as a certain class of politicians could offer him. The cafe gossips tell wonderful stories of his negotiations with Lord Clarendon. They are far too sharp to believe that a British statesman can come to Naples merely for a holiday ; and if the two notabilities have not met in public, it was only better to hide their secret game ! The Pennsylvania Convention had its day of im portance, and for its little space made as great a figure as any meeting either before or since. Mr. Raymond, of the New York Times, in publishing the part taken in it by him in answer to the Albany Evening Journal, asserts that it originated with the President and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and that it was nbt intended for the foundation of a new party, but to inaugurate a true Union move ment in the South. At that time Mr. Johnson had not thrown those over by whom he had been placed in power; he did not intend to help the Democrats, but to tone down the extreme Radicals, and to bring into the ranks, the moderate, the doubting, and the wavering. The President had been struck by a speech then lately made by Mr. Raymond in the House, and Mr. Johnson urged him to write an address embodying the same views for the Convention, which Mr. Raymond agreed to do, on the understanding that he would retire if the meeting fell under the control of the Copperheads. The feeling in the North was unknown to the ori ginators of the Convention, and in consequence all the claptraps and stage effects not only added to, but made ridiculous its failure. The celebrated tour followed, and that Presidential escapade be came associated in the minds of the people with the Convention. We regret the failure, and believe that had the North been ripe for the moderate measures then proposed, much of the suffering and difficulty would have been averted. Mr. Raymond says the " Republican party was not ready for it, and the only Republican party we have, or are likely to have in the South, is the Black Republican." On the 27th of December the Legislatures of On tario and Quebec were opened the former at Toronto, by Lieut.-Governor Stisted, and the latter by Sir N. F. Belleau at Quebec. The occasion was observed as a holiday, and the ceremonies were greeted by the people with enthusiasm. Twenty nine delegates were present at Toronto, Mr. John Stevenson being unanimously elected Speaker. The Lieut.-Governor said he hoped that encouragement would be given to immigration by the enactment of making free grants of land resources at the disposal of t a o 1 i a b e e t r u a a l l h s o e m t t l e e s r t s e a . d The resources the Legislature were sufficient for all necessary pur poses, and he recommended a system of strict eco nomy. He ha,' reason to hope that the territory of the dominion might shortly extend across the con tinent. At Quebec, Dr. Blanchet, of Lewis, was elected Speaker. The Consuls of the United States and of the principal nations of Europe were present. Mr. Robert L. Harris has discovered an error in the elevation hitherto given of Sacramento, Cali fornia, above the high-tide level. In running a level for a railroad be found that the true height was but 21 feet, while that on which all calculations had been based was 56 feet. The low tule grounds, just below Sacramento, which have been hitherto considered 36 or 37 feet above the sea, are but one foot and a half ! This fact, now established by Mr. Harris, is very important, and especially valuable to the State geological survey, and the various railroads, all having heretofore accepted the commonly received reports of the elevation of Sacramento as sub stantially correct. The Mining and Scientific Press, remarking on this, adds that the California State surveyhad been supposed to have computing the hei g ht of Mount geographical an error in Davidson, as the figures of the Central Pacific Railroad, based as they were on the idea that Sacramento stood on an elevation 56 feet above the level of the sea, gave a different result. The dis crepancy is thus accounted for, and the accuracy of the measurement of the geographical survey fully established. Mr. Thornton left Liverpool for his post of Minif ter to Washington last Saturday. His presence is required, as the question of naturalization is assum ing important dimensions, and the Alabama claims are again rising into notice. The New York Herald says :--" In view of the serious points for ulterior issue which the Alabama claims question has at tained as between the Governments of the United States _and Great Britain, and in order to correct misapprehensions as to the precise period and exact character of the etecutive course of the Cabinet of England towards the Jeff. Davis's rebel Confederacy, we present our readers with a chronological record." If the paper most extensively read in America de liberately desires to fan existing ill-feeling into the flame of war, we have nothing more to say, for it is free to choose the course it thinks best. But the United States is mad in selling its surplus ironclads, for if the points are so serious, and are to be met in this spirit, all of them will be wanted, and a great number more. The New York Tribune an nounced that Mr. Thornton was to proceed with full authority to re-open the Alabama question. This is contradicted by the Standard, which, in a leading article on Wednesday, declared it to be morally im possible for England, without compromising her dignity and honour, to snake any further proposi tion on the subject. The Standard is persuaded that Mr. Seward's object is to keep open this ques tion as a convenient pretext hereafter for war— which is bosh, for nations who desire to fight are never at a loss for an excuse. INTERNATIONAL. COIN.—In order to try the re sults of the Prouch International Monetary Commission, which sat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for the pur pose of ascertaining if a uniform coinage cculd be adopted by all the civilized nations of the earth, a gold picco has just been struck as a common standard of money in France, England, and the United Status. On the obverse is the effigy of the Emperor Napoleon, crowned with laurels, without any inscription ; and on the reverse the following:—" 5 dollars-25 Trans ;" and beneath—" Or : essai monetaire." This piece is also of the value of an English sovereign. The National Patent-office reports that the whole number of patents iss ue d during the year was 13 , 016 , be ing an increase of 3,515 over the number of patents issued in 1866. EASTERN NEVADA. Throughout Nevada and the other mining States and Territories the veins of ore here and there discovered more or less productive, have had the various works and claims grouped around them. For instance, in the great mining district of Washoe there exists but one ledge, in length 31 miles, and in width from 8 feet to upwards of 100 feet ; but that vein is the Comstock—the most productive in the world. On it a great number of mines have been established, such as the Savage, the Yellow Jacket, the Hale and Norcross, the Cholar Potosi, the Gould and Curry, and many more, some of which give returns almost fabulous in amount, and others, nothing. In the Reese River District the belt is some six miles in length, running in innu merable small veins of highly concentrated ore over a breadth of half a mile. Upon this belt is room and opportunity for many more mining companies than those operating on the Comstock lode. Within an area of 500 yards are the North Star, Oregon, Great Eastern, Magnolia, and Florida, with a few others ; and there is room, it is said, in the district for one hundred times the present mining operations. The few mines upon this belt; last March gave $105,000, and if the vein were fully worked, it is calculated to yield $10,000,000 monthly. Such de velopment awaitsthe opening of the railroad, bring ing capital, labour, and cheap subsistence, a time that will speedily arrive. Professor Sillinaln pre dicts that Austin before 1875 will contain a popu lation of 50,000, supported by the wealth of this vein alone, independent of the rich mining districts around. According to the assessor's returns there are in Lander county, which embraces all the coun try we have endeavoured to describe, upwards of a hundred mines. The term mine has reference more directly to the work done than to the vein or ore ; and is only applied when the shaft has been sunk below water level, or where rich pay ore has been taken out. The average yield per ton, as the fol lowing table shows, is of a high grade. It is taken from the County As-,essor's Report for the last quarter of 1866, as published in the Reese River Re veille. Mr. Myron Angel considers that a table for the quarter ending March 31, 1867, about the date at which he writes, would make a better show, and as we happen to have a report for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1867, as published in our issue of Jan. 4th, we give the following comparison, although we re gret that the names of all the mines in the one are not to be found in the other : Marc' 31, 1866 I Sept. 30, 1867. Aver. Aver. NAME. Tons. Tons. per ton. per ton. Diana Amsterdam 1 168 ... ••• Buel North Star 5 336 68 230 Camargo l2 116 ••• ••• Chase Enterprise (White Pine District) East Oregon Empire State Ensign 1 66 ... ..• Fortune Teller Florida l4 255 63 199 Fenian Star 8 51 ... ••• Fortuna F arre l Great Eastern 287 217 ••• ••• Id ora J. R. Murphy 1 251 ••• ... Joseph Cole Jacob Bradley Keystone 2 191 ••• ••• kihock 1 197 ••• Za!dee Lodi 7 32 .•• ••• The last table of the County Assessor for the quarter ending 30th September, 1867, as our readers can see by a reference, comprises 61 mines, differing materially from that as above given for March, 1866. Some of these mines have been formed into com panies, and have changed their names ; others are among the 14 that produce less than one ton, and therefore were not named ; and some, no doubt, have been abandoned under the difficulties of ob taining the capital necessary for working them. The progress of Austin, however, is better shown by the increase in the silver exported than even by the increase of the number of mines. According to our author, in the month of March, the amount was $105,000 ; while the value for the month of September was $300,000. A correspondent of the TVall-street Journal, writ ing from Austin, December 1, says, in allusion to this result—" When the Combination, Centenary, Eldorado, and other mills, on our large producing mines, shall add their quota, $310,000 will be nearer a day's production, than the pride of the community for a month's time. Tha Manhattan alone turned j ut upwards of $lOO,OOO from their mines on Lander Hill." The mills about Virginia City working the Comstock ores reduce without roast ing, by which a large percentage is lost ; while *hose at Austin save by roasting : the difference )eing for the former 65 per cent. of the metal, and for the latter from 80 to 90. In Belmont they use a cheap and expeditious process, leaving 40 per cent. of the silver in the tailings, which, however, is pre served for future treatment. The great difficulty i a want of capital and a sufficient supply of labour. In the immediate neighbourhood of Austin the system of working shafts has been greatly im proved, and some companies that have had the ad vantage cf Eastern capital have deliberately planned to develope the lodes, expending largely before expecting a return. Cash is the sinews of m i n ing, and although prizes may be secured such as the Florida, which has been opened and brought into working order with little or no capital, yet they are rare, and even where miners combine to take possession and work a lode, unless highly favoured and prepared to surmount great difficul ties, as a general rule, they fail. The Florida has a thousand feet of tunnels and avenues open for use, a steam engine of 50-horse power, excellent graded roads, and all the appliances requisite for profitable mining ; yet this was not wholly accom plished without capital, and Major A. E. Sherman, the manager, is considered to have performed in this achievement a wonderful feat. A correspon dent of the Springfield Republican, writing from San Francisco on the 23d Nov., alludes to the pro gress of the Central Pacific Railroad. Next year, he says, it will be in operation far up the llumbolt river, when a great impetus will be given to the development of the mining interests of Nevada. Among the prohibitory expenses, such as the price of fuel, the charge for freights, which are then to be brought down, he adds, rates of interest for money, too, will be reduced, and borrowers will cease paying from five to ten per cent. per month. If this be the rate of interest at Austin, there is little wonder that miners should sink under the load, and the only surprise is that operations could be successfully carried on in the face of such a charge, whatever may be the wealth of ore of the district. " Following the organization of Reese River District, in the same year were dis covered and organized those of Simpson's Park ad joining it on the south, and farther south that of Big Creek ; north were Mount Hope and Grass Valley ; south east were Smoky Valley and Sante Fd, and northwest was Ravenswood. These nearly surrounded Austin, and were from five to fifteen miles distant. All but Ravenswood were in the Toiyabe mountains, and the fact that large veins of silver-bearing quartz were found outside of this district gave an impetus to prospecting, and the mountains in their entire length were fully ex plored and districts formed throughout before the termination of the year 1863." _ _ Mount Hope, one of the highest peaks of the Toiyabi, Mountains, "attains an altitude of about 10,000 feet above the sea, and from it in its deep canons run a number of streams of water, capable of furnishing an unlimited power for driving machi nery. Its sides are covered with extensive forests of pine, and where its streams deboueh in! o the plains, at its base arc extensive tracts of most excel lent agricultural lands. In the valleys which skirt its foot, are many fine and productive farms ; but its mineral wealth lies entirely neglected. One district haS been noticed by a gentleman of high attainments as an assayer and mining engineer, Mr. J. S. Boalt, who, after as close an examination of the ledges of Indian district as their development would permit, reported that they were true fissure veins of size from four to fifteen feet in width, and of unmistakable value. Several of the veins were cut transversely, and the ore taken for trial, with the intent of great care, aid thus it was proved that they contained silver in large quantities, the assays of the ore showing a value of from one hundred to several hundred dollars per ton." Returning to the immediate neighbourhood of Austin, we select at random one of the mines described by Mr. Angel :—" The Great Eastern is conveniently opened by a perpendicular shaft, and is advan tageously worked. In one month to the labour of thirty men it produced 137 tons of ore, which returned of bullion an average of 346 70 dollars per ton, or an aggregate of 47,506 30 dollars. The vein is from ten to thirty inches in thickness, averaging perhaps eighteen inches. The gangue is a clear white quartz, and the ore, which constitutes a large percentage of the vein, is an antitnonial sul phuret, or as locally termed a ruby silver, from its dark red or ruby colour. The mine was first opened by an incline—as an inclined shaft is termed—fol lowing the inclination of the ledge, which dipped at an angle of about thirty degrees from the horizon, to the depth of 260 feet, developing much good ore, although the vein was narrow. Better to open the mine, a perpendicular shaft was sunk at a dis tance of 500 feet north-east of the croppings, which pierced the ledge at a depth of 220 feet. At this depth it was found of greater size and value than had been developed in the incline, and as the depth increases the value and quantity of the ore is so much greater as to make the mine more remunera tive, although the expense of working is somewhat increased. The shaft being divided into compart ments, a current of air is created, passing down one compartment and up another, perfectly ven tilating the mine. The greatest depth is 350 ft. The altitute of the surface is about six thousand feet above the sea. The mine is easily drained, dis charging 18,000 gallons daily; the water being raised in a bucket, by a steam engine of about 30- horse power, which also does the work of hoisting the ore and waste rock from the mine. The cost of transporting to the mill and reducing the ore is as agreed upon usually ; if the entire amount of bullion produced, or the " clean up" is returned, the charge is 65 dollars per ton, but if the miller agrees to return eighty per centum of the risay value of the ore, the charge is 45 dollars per ton. The rates paid for men employed are—superin tendent, 300 dollars per month ; engineer, 6 dol lars per day ; blacksmith, 5 dollars per day ; car penter, 6 dollars per day ; and miners, 4 dollars per day. In the period in which the mine has been worked there has been taken out an area of the vein equal to 1,000 square feet, producing a total of 183,000 dollars. It is one of the few well-opened mines of this section, and is therefore taken as the representative of what the others might be, if worked according to scientific principles." • The value of Nevada is best judged by the fol lowing fact. During the first ten months of last year the dividends declared on mines on the Com stock lode reached the sum of $3,595,706. The subject is of so much interest that instead of apo logising for dwelling on it at such length, we will busy ourselves in gathering mater ial for a descrip tion of other portions of this wonderful State, and the districts surrounding it—Anglo-American Times NETV YORK MARKETS. (From the Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 1868. The great grain house and wholesale merchants, Brown and Gillespie, of Hamilton, Canada, have failed, and it is ru moured that the liabilities will fall little short of one mil lion dollars. The First National Bank of Bay City, Mi chigan, failed on the 2d January, and it is feared that all the capital is lost. A bad swindle, too, has been effected in Wall-street. A broker borrowed Stocks which he sold, placed the cash in a bank, and [Mowed the ',sum to be seized on judgment to his sister, and failed when the checks he had given for the Stocks were presented forpay ment. Money still remains easy, though it is a little brisker on call at 6 per cent. on Governments and 7 per cent. on mixed collaterals, and first. class bills are discounted at 7 to 9. Gold is slightly stronger, closing yesterday at 1331, the general impression being that a rise will take place. A t Boston money is also easy at G per cont., though short time loans, even on Gover nm ent co llaterals, ma i n t a i n a high rate. At Cincinnati and Chicago the rate is scitecely so stringent as it was, though the best mercantile paver is not cashed under 10 to 12 per cent. Money is plentiful at San Francisco, where unemployed balances have accumu lated. The receipts of treasure from Califce via at this port during 1867 amounted to $29,806,228, against $11,901 1 005 the previous year, a falling off of $12,094,777. It is, however, larger than the receipts of 1865, which summed up $21,444,192. During the year our export to Europe was $49,791,278, of which the sum during the last week was $3,226,677 ; this leaves a balance of exports of nearly $20,000,000. The exports from New York for the week ending December 21 and from the beginning of the year till then were $2,607,233 against $3,234,610, and $185,535,176 against $185,815,620. The corresponding figures for imports were $2,117,077 against $6,224,708, and $332,981,317 against $279,821,758. The weekly Treasul y statement shows that $399,000 in fractionals were plnted, $253,600 destroyed, and $358,628 disbursed, last week ; that $1,072,000 in Treasury notes were forwarded from the department; that the Treasu - erholds $378,815,7 08 in trust as security for bank circulation and deposls of public money; and that the amount of that circulation, adding $55,650 of new issues and deducting $5,625,555 Destroyed, is now $299,838,606. There has been a rise in railway stocks of nearly a half per cont. generally. The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Companies had, how ever, a heavy fall. Forty-nine thousand new shares were issued, raising the capital from $9,100,000 to $14,000,000, which throw the stock down nearly 10 per cent. Satis factory explanations were made, and the shares in a mea sure recovered. It appears that the President was autho rised by the Board to raise money by selling either 7 per Cent. Bonds or stock, and he succeeded on a favourable market in placing upwards of 40,000 shares at fair rates. The money was wanted for the extension from Des Moines to Omaha. The following are some of the con densed returns of some few of the railroads, which may interest our readers : —Boston and Worcester —Total in come $1,912,501, not earnings 5781,421, dividends paid $499,999, passengers carried 2,877,244; Boston and Lowell —Total income $975,041, net earnings $239,763, each a trifle less than last year. Fitchburg • - Total income $1,101,413, net earnings $351,744, passengers carried 1 535,097 ; Worcester a nd Nashua—Total income $ 149,383, net earnings $151,360; Vermont and Massachusetts— Total income $461,428, net earnings $34,114, or $25,500 less than last year; Cheshire —Total income $688,499, net earnings $BB,BOO, an increase of $20,000; Providence and Worcester—Total income $692,916, net earnings $160,429. The following are the returns of some of the great Express Companies : Wells, Fargo, and Co., nine months, $931,732, increase $188,363; Adams, ten months, $3,038,970, de crease $257,918 ; United States, eleven months, $2,173,650, decrease $878,992; American, ton months, $2,120,385, decrease $710,761, and Merchants' Union $3,764855, or more than $700,000 more than any of its rivals. Regard ing the amalgamation of the Adams, American, United States and Merchants' Union, the presidents have issued the following joint card :—" The public are informed that an agreement has been arrived at between the Adams, the American, the United States, and the Merchants' Union ' Express Companies, by which the opposition, as carried on for the past year, will cease. No consolidation has been made, but an arrangement has been entered into for territory, by which duplicate lines will be avoided (except in cases where the occupancy of a trunk line may bo ne cessary to be used by two companies for the purpose of reaching the territory used exclusively by each), and also for general reduction of expenses, a uniform tariff of rates, and mutual exchange of business. This, together with the appointment of a joint committee to supervise the ex penditures, so as to bring about the greatest economy and efficiency, are among the principal features of the agreement, bywhich it is believed the public will be benefited, and the Express Companies again enabled to do business at a profit." Of the semi-annual dividends payable at Boston by manu facturing companies on New Year's-day in a total of $1,123,000, the Chicopee alone has increased its dividend, paying 10 instead of 8 per cent. ; Easthampton Rubber Thread Company, 20 per cont.; Hamilton Woollen Mills at Southbridge, 5; Pacific Mills at Lawrence; Salisbury (quarterly), 5 ; Hill Mills, 6 ; Androscoggin, 5 ; Franklin, 5 —the last three of Lewiston Maine. The total sum, both of railways, interest on bonds, and all other items, was as follows :—Railroad dividends 52,751,158, manufacturing dividends $1,123,000, interest on bonds $5,827,092, miscel laneous $624,590; total, January, 1868, $10,325,810. This contrasts favourably with previous half years, notwith standing the general depression. Most of the national banks pay a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cont., and on an average they show a good business. The receipts of cotton at New York continue to increase, and amounted to 105,617 bales last week, against 87,757 the week before, and 79,176 the secon.l week before. The total receipts since Sept. 1 aro 749,125 bales against 681,613. The total foreign ex ports from the United States in the same time were 358,199 bales against 249,781. Government Bonds remain much as before, if anything a shade lower. The Secretary of the Treasury has written the following letter to the presi dent of a Boston bank : " Treasury Department, Dec. 24, 1867. "My dear Sir,—Your favour of the 21st instant is received. "There is a good deal of difference of opinion among the members of Congress in regard to what shall be here after our financial policy. At the commencement of the session it seemed that the inflationists were in a decided majority; but before the adjournment for the holidays a more conservative spirit was manifested, and 1 am now quite hopeful that then? Will be no legislation by the pre sent Congress favourable to the views of General Butler, or very adverse to those of the Secretary. We shall know better, however, when Congress again conv e n es . "With thanks for the uniform support which I havo received at your hands,—l remain, very truly yours, "11. 111‘CuLLocu." (From the 'frail-Street Journal.) Closing prices, Friday evening, Jan. 3, 1868 : -Sixes, 1868, registered, 131 to 1314 ; Sixes, 1868, coupon, 131 to 1311; Sixes, 1881, coupon, 1081 to 1101 ; Five-twenties, 1862, coupon, 1084 to 1084 ; Five-twenties, 1864, coupon, 1051 to 1051 ; Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, 1051 to 1051 ; Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new, 1041 to 104:; Five twenties, 1867, coupon, 1041 to 1041; Ten-forties, coupon, 1014; Seven -thirties, 24 series, 1011 to 1011 ; Seven thirties, 3d series 1044 to 1041. The following are the Railroad Mortgages:-N. Y. Central 6s, 1883, 91 ; do. 1887, 89 ; do. R. Est, 88 ; do, Sub'n, 83; do. 7s, 1876, 102 ; do. con. 76, 1171 ; do. '65-76, 1171 ; Erie Ist mort., 1867, 101 ; do. 7s, 2d mort., 1879, 102 ; do. 3d Irma., 1883, 974; do. 4th mort., 1880, 911 ; do. sth mort., 1888, 89 ; Long Dock Bond, 961; Buff. N. Y. and E. let M. '77, 90 ; Hud. R. 7s, Ist M., 1869, 1021 ; do. cony., 1867 ; Harlem 3d mort., 'GB, 100 ; Mich G. 8 per cent., '69 '72, 1071 ; do. new Ist M. Bs, 'B2, 109 ; do. So. 7 p. ct., 2d 31., 911 ; N. Ind. Goshen Line, '6B, 961 ; Mich. S. and N.I.S. F'd, 7 p. et., 96 ; 111. Con., 7 p. ct. 1870, 118; Alton and T.H. Ist M., 97; do. 2d pfd, 82; do. 31.1nc., 731; Chi. and N. West, S. F, 98; do. In't B, 87 ; do. Ex'n B, 85 ; do. Ist 31, 861; Del. Lack. and West'n Bds, 96 ; Tol. and Web. Ist M, 901; Gt. Western 24 M. '93, 70 ; bail. and Pr. du Ch. Ist 31, 95 ; Gal. and Chic. Ext., 100 ; do. and Chic. 24 31, 97 ; Chi. and R. I. Ist 34, 102 ; Cleve. and Tol. S. Fund, 103; N. J. Central 24 mort., 103; Pitts., Ft. W., and Ch. Ist 31, 100 ; do. do. 2d 31, 981; do. do. M, 88 ; Cleve. and Pitts. 2d 31, 981 ; Chic. and Alton, S.F. Inc., 90 ; do. do. S. F. Ist AI, 1021; Mil. and St. Paul 24 M, 78 ; Marietta and Cin. Ist M, 85 ; Joilet and Chic. Ist Al, 104 ; Chi. and Gt. East'n Ist 31, G 4; N. Y. and N. H. 6s, and Dubuque and S. City, Ist 31, 821. Railroad and Miscellaneous S ocks: -N. Y. Central, 1171 ; Erie, 721 ; Hudson, 1321; Reading, 911 ; Micb. Southern and N. I. 851 ; Illinois Central, 132 ; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 881; North-west, 574 ; North-west Pre ferred, 701 ; Canton, 50 ; Reck Island. 944; Cleveland and loleuo, 9:1 ; Fe, t Wayne, 971; Pae.fie Mail, 1111; Atlantic Mei., 1131; Qu:cks.lver, 21; W. U. Telerapl-, 361 • Ma - :pose. T'rete__et 4 , 13 ; Ohio and Miss. Certificate:, 301; Boston Wz..',er Powe 20 ; Cumberland, 331. New York City Bank S ocks : -Merchants, 117 ; Ame rica, 140 ; C:ty, `2001; New York, 133 ; 1331; Mechanics', 112 ; Union, 114 ; Phenix, 104; Tradesmen's 135 ; National, 108 ; rderchants' Exclia - 33e, 110; Seventh Ware, 110 ; Sate of New York, 105 ; Commerce, 1171 ; Ocean, 103 ; American Exchange, 1131 ; Bank of the Re public, 111 ; Bank of North America, 109 ; Eleventh Ward, 110 ; Mercantile, 118 ; Fulton, 118 ; Mecha nics' Association, 110 ; Broadway, '235 ; Hanover, 105; Irving, 102 ; Metropolitan, 125 ; People's, 135 ; Market, 110 ; Nassau, 103 ; Shoe and Leather, 107 ; Corn Ex change, 122; Continental, 105; St. Nicholas, 105; Com monwealth, 107 ; Importers and Traders', 116 ; Central National, 101; Fourth National, 102 ; Ninth National, 101 ; Park, 114; Leather Manufacturers, -; Oriental Bank, 135. By telegram from San Francisco, dated Dec. 30, 1867, we have the following quotations of silver mining stock : -Gould and Curry, $315 per foot; Savage, 3,320 do.; Chollar-Potosi, 125 do. ; Ophir, 60 do.; Hale and Nor cross, 1,175 do.; Crown Point, 700 do.; Yellow Jackot, 765 do. ; Seicher, 135 do, ; Alpha, 450 do. ; Kentucky, 215 do. ; Imperial, 165 per share. NEW YORK RATES OF EXCHANGE, Corrected by W. Aufermatm, GB, Exchange-placa, N.Y. Sixty Days. Thrc i De. yr. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lO9 —llO Paris, ankers -5.174 5. 19 1 Bremen, Bankers Ifamburgh, Bankers 34-364 Frankfort, O.M 404-411 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.174 —5.124 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss MERCANTILE SHIP NEIVS. Gravesend, Jan. 11—A.Ir'ved, the Pi 3urtor, Nei* York. Liverpool, Jan. 9-Sailed, the Chanarcillo, for Callao ; the Alhambra. steamer; and the Belle, for New o.•'_eans ; and the Cathed - al, for Mobile. Jan. 11.-Arrived, the Swallow, from San Francisco; the Southampton, from Mobilo ; the Golden Floec-i, from S: n Francisco. the Siberian, sc:ew steamer, fo: New York. Falmouth, Jan. 10-Ari:ved, the Ellzabeth, from New York, for Pillau, with loss of boats. Custom Howe, Jan. 11-Entered inwards, the Precur sor, from New Yolk. Gravesend, Jan. 13.-Sa'led the J. J. Southard, f Mo ble. Liverpool, Jan. 12.-Arrived the Firo Queen, screw steamer; from New Orleans. Cork, Jan. 13.-The Chicago, screw steamer, from New York, Jan. 1, went ashore at Guilem, about two ni"..is from Roche's Point, at s'x p.m. yesterday, dmirg a dense fog ; all lives saved. New York, Dec. 30.-A large disrmsted barque, with signals of distress flying, was ti viag to get in: o Bermuda during a gale on the night of tie 10th Decemb3r, but no thing could be seen of her next morning, and a steamer was despatched to her assistance. She was supposed 7 ,n New York to bo the Bering°, from Shields. Dec. 31.- The vessel repo: 'zed. from St. John's, Newfoundland, ye: terday as lost _tear Mitigate, was the Queen of Swr see St. John's, Newfoundland, o Siel Cove, not as before reported. Oustom House, Jan. 13.- Cleared outwards with cargo, the Rusoer, for Philadeiphia. . QUARANTINE NOIICE. -Lisbon, Jan. 7.-The Board E.3alth has published au older, dated Jan. 3, dec .1 • 1 3' free from eisease New Orleans and Lousiana, Texas beii' the onl • St to of Nu_ .h America &ill suspected of thole. -ti and yellow fever. B ackwal', Jan. 13.-Sailed, the Yorktown, for Now Y k, a' er repairing. Deal, Jau. 14.-- Ai rived, the Daniel Webster, from New' York. Liverpool, Jan. 13.- Arrived, t ..e Zouave, ;min New o:.:ea as; I so Challerge-, from Mobile; the Emerald isle, from New Yolk. Jan. 14.-The Excelsior, fro .13 New York; he Georgiana, fiom Pernambuco; the Arctr^, from New Orlea is ; the John Mavoll, from S, vannali ; the Great Weste,•n, from New Yo7k ; the Lanercost, T:onl Callaci. Sa"ed, the Colo-ado, B.3ainer, for New Y0,* 1 .:- A telegram rere:ved late last night gives the follow • u4 particulars with regard to the Chicago, st3amer, from NeW York, ashore off Queenstown. Compartment 3 2,3, and 4 are full of orate; and the bo'tom of the engine-room ap pears stove in by rocks; he other compartments are nearly full of water; Vie bqs.e pumps and soundirg pipes aro forced up six inches; the ship's sides appear perfe3t ; she was forced o.i the rocks oa the ',op of the sirZugs• When the cargo is discharged she may got off. Cowes, Jan. 13.-Ar...ived, the General Shipley, from Callao. Falmouth, Jan. 14.—Arrived, the Concordia, from E l 7" vanilla for Bremen, NN:,h fore and foretop sails, yards, ezel cat_iad away, and oller damage, having been in collision with a brig, the Selina, for New York. Off Queenstown, Jan. 14. Arrived the City of Lon don, sc,•ew s',eamer, from New York, with $1,182,000 on freight, and left for Liverpool. Dublin, Jan. 13.—At :ived, the Kate Agnes, from Nosy York ; and the J. T. V., f , ..0.n Havanna:l. New York, Dec. 31.—The Consul, for Liverpool, which was burnt on the 18th Dec. in Tvbee roads, lies in about eight feet of water. Ile Northoia Bello, Liverpool to Boston, has foun dered at sea—crew saved. Vessels Spoken With.—The American RepubVe, stor ing west, Dec. 31, lat. 50 N., long. 16 W.; the EC of : New York, steeng west, Jan. 4. lat. 50 N., long. 11 W. the Black Watch, Liverpool to San Francisco, Nov. 8, In.' 1 N., long. 31 W. Gravesend, Jan. 14—Salted, the E. W. Stetson, for New Ycrk. Liverpool, Jan. 14—Arrived, the Lanercost, from Callao ; the Great Western from New York : Seed _the Istria, from N ew Orleans. The Northern Belle, hence to Boston, was abandoned Jan. 1, iu lat. 41 N., long. 57 W., iu a sinking state ; crew landed here by the Great Western. New York. Jan. 4.—A telegram from Havannah of yes terday's date reports that the War Cloud, from Liverpool, which went ashore at the entrance of that harbour Dec. 29, was going to piece: , owing to the heavy weather that was prevailing. The greater part of her cargo has been saved. Custom House, Jan. 15.—Vessels entered inwards. —The A. M. H., the Nieman, the Arracan, and the Naiad, from New York. Entered Outwards. -- The Arracan, for New York. Gt . : vesend, Jan. 16. Arrived, the Constantine, from New York.- - Liverpool, Jan. 15—Arrived, the Electric Spark, from San Francisco, and the Monsoon, from New Orleans. Sailed, the Erin and the Cit.-- of Antwerp, for New York. Jan. 16—Arrived, the Etniii, from San Francisco ; the Charleston and the Maly Ogden, from Charleston ; the Idalia, from Philadelphia; and the Union, for Nev.' Orleans. Cowes, Jan. 15—Arrived, the Loyal, from Gage for Boston, U.S. Falmouth, Jao. 14—Arrived, the Brag° from Newport - for Mobile, with loss of sails and br.lwarV . Custom House, Jan. 14—The Constantine, from New. York. Vesse's Spoken With—rho Energy, Liverpool to N° l( York, Jan. 10, lat. 51 N, long. 9W. The Foyle, Liver pool to New York Nov. 21, lat. 44 N, long. 45 w. ; the Line, British barque, San Francisco to Lynn, Oct. 10, lat. 50 N. long. 88. Births. DUSDAS—On the 16th inst., at Nottingham, the wifo of Lieut. F. G• Dundas, It N., of a son. FIELD—On the 16th inst., at Balham, Surrey, the wife of Joshua Field, Esq., of a son. S IiCIIE —On the 17th inst., at 5, Craven-hill-gardens, Hyde park, the wife of Joseph Suche, Esq., of a son. Marriages. BOLTON—HOWITT— 011 the 16th inst., at St. Andrerl'Of Kingsbury, Thomas John, son of T. J. Bolton, E 6 c l ,:' Grove Park, Kingsbury, to Alice Helena, niece of 1% 1 ° 4 ' Howitt, Esq., Mount Pleasant, Kingsbury, Middlesex. MOORE—LEMON—On the 16th inst., at Holy Trinity Church, Twickenham, Robert Moore, of 47, Mark-lan e, solicitor, to Henrietta Mary, youngest daughter of th e late R. Lemon, of the State Paper Office, and Ovingtoo" square, Brompton. Deaths. Div'Es—On the 15th inst., at Weston-super-Maro, Efenr-r Davies, aged 61. Mac - HELL—On the 15th inst., at 12, Holford-square,, l %% tonville, John P. Mitchell, Eq., 11.11'.,; formerly of •IS' - ' Ordnance Department. • RICHARDSON—On the 12th inst., at Old Kent-road, Surrell William Richardson, Esq., aged 54. ROBERTS—On the 15th inst., at Bath, Mary, the wif e of 1. Roberts, Esq., of Collin House, county Antrim. STARLING—On the 13th inst., Joseph Starling, Esq., of tile Stock Exchange, aged 75. WILSON—On the 15th inst., Mr. E. C. Wilson, of Cannl l : bury Grange, and late of Skinner - street, S now-bi aged 61. st London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM .A.ND 11 . 1 : 1 1 , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tita Sum Oahe, NO 0 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in au) cirAi nti Iliddlesex.—*aturclaT, January 18, le6B. A" Atte: Afte: London LUNG High_ ' 3 (e. 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