The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-14 00:00:00

BPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOI7IINAM The Times considers the question raised by Sir litiasey Lopes on Tuesday night, whether, at present andlupon the whole, land is taxed more or less heavily than it otight to be. Nothing can be more difficult than to strike-the balance ; but perhaps we shall not be far wrong if `we conclude that it is over-taxed for local, and under-tamed for imperial purposes. Such a conclusion is not altogether unsatisfactory. It may not be very scientific to set otl the severer pressure , of poor rates and county rates against the reduced scale of duty on succession td Jand, or the questionable advantages of landowners over professional men and tenant farmers over shop• keepers in the assessment of the income tax, but this solution of the problem is not without a rational foundation. It was acknowledged on all hands, in the debate of Tuesday night, that local taxation is vitally con nected with local management, and local management is highly valued—not to say jealously guarded—by the very class whose interests Sir Massey Lopes advo cates. Almost the only mode hitherto suggested of emtending local taxation, in effect, to other classes, is by :tacking grants from the national exchequer, and these grants would involve a proportionate extension of central supervision. The reasonable inference is, that whatever relief may be fairly claimed by the landowners should be given by Parliament, in respect of those expenses over ;which central supervision is necessary or desirable ; and this is the inference which the House of Commons, with out dividing, had the good sense to draw. Taking up the same subject, the Daily News admits that oo..tsiderable taxes and great charges are laid on the con vey -arce of land. But proportionate taxes are levied on the %milder of railway shares. The sale of land is not alone visit Id with stamp duties; nor can the Legislature be blame d for the cost of v s coneyance. The processes by w h i ch land is tied up under a ettlement are devices which conveyancers have invented in order to defeat the law, not hardships which the law has imposed. Primd facie, it is nobody's concern that this nobleman or baronet or esquire thinks proper to take precautions for "founding a family," mad appropriating, as far as possible, a landed estate to his .eldest male representative. It is inevitable that such`unity should be a costly enjoyment; that parchment sl.wald multiply upon the hands of these country gentle.nen, and that settlements should become more and more expensive. But the nation does not put this impost on the la accumulate the ndowner ; he has immetata to thank ugera, for his own pride, his longing to' these incidents of his ostentation. The Post, in dealing with the riots at Ashton, wants to know what on earth the authorities could have been doing or thinking of to allow the fight to go to such a head, and, in fact, to be actually concluded before they were ready to play their appropriate share in the matter. They had had ample warning on the Saturday and Sunday ; they ought certainly to have been prepared by Monday night to deal with any fresh outbreak, and they ought to be called to a strict account for their failure to prevent the scenes we have described. The Mayor appears to be very active now that the mis chief is done, in devising remedies for the effects of it, and so far deserves - praise ; but prevention is proverbially getter than cure, arid it is difficult to see how it could have been that the better means of dealing with the matter was not adopted. As for the rioters themselves, it would be hopeless to expect their brutal and stupid natures to be affected by anything like reason, or it might be of service to point out to them that they will neither advance their own cause nor injure that of their adversaries by fighting with them, even if they are allowed, as they have been on this occasion, to have their fght out to the end without interfence. It is useless to make any appeal to such creatures ; but as we still have Laws and power to enforce them, if only used, we must pro teat against the feebleness which results in handing over to ru in and plunder any town which savage factions choose to select for the scene of a fight. Discassing the well-worn subject of casual relief, the Herald :suggests an expedient for suppressing professional vagrancy- The person starting, say for London, should be furnish ed with a recommendation from the authorities of the place he leaves, stating his object and destination, which should on presentation at once entitle him to relief, while its non-production by those who had not procured it would at once denote their characters and diseutitle them to consideration. Lord Kimberley's apprehension that the poor law may be but too laxly administered seems to us, basing our conviction on past experience of the new l aw, to be perfectly unfounded. It would evidently be a far greater hardship to cast the entire support of his aged parents on a struggling child than to divide it on the shoulders of the community for whose benefit they may have before honestly laboured. Such a course would in truth be a total perversion of charity, aucl tend rather to increase than to diminish the extent of pauperism. Neither do we think that the Duke of ClevelEnd's dread of workhouses becoming " what the French called hospices" should :influence legislation on the subject. None are admitted into the French este,- blishmerts, whose comforts he seems disposed to grudge, until they have attained their seventieth year, after which they are charitably considered to be entitled to repose. Awl surely ro examples can be quoted in which undue consideration has been extended in our workhouses to their occupants, although, unfortunately, but too many instances have been brought to light in which their heart less treatment has excited public indignation. The Telegraph declares that no one can deny that the House of Commons has given its sanction to the introduc tion of the metric system into this country. Why, then, hesitate any longer ? The sooner we put our hands to work and enter in good earnest to make the change the better. The experience of France and other countries is, that a very short time is sufficient for diffusing the neces sary information on the subject. So long as there is any uncertainty as to its becoming the law of the country, few;comparatively, will use the plan, and even teachers will abstain from introducing it into the schools. But let it be known that in a few years the rule will become compulsory, and it will at once be taken up and learnt in every nook and corner of the land. There is no need of any further inquiry on the subject. What is wanted is the passing of a simple measure, enacting that in five or ten years the metric system shall be obligatory; and the bill before the House wisely leaves the number of years a blank to be filled up in committee. In a matter of this kind the Chambers of Commerce have a right to be heard, and they have pro nounced strongly in favour of the measure. The Metric Committee of the British Association for the Advance ment of Science has also expressed itself in favour of the system, and public opinion has been manifested in every way in the same direction. A little more boldness, and a desire for thoroughness in our legislation, would save us a world of time and much useless disputation. The Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Com merce have agreed to a petition in favour of the Govern ment management of the electric telegraph system of tll6 United Kingdom. The council suggest that the telegraph lines he managed on the Post-office system, and that in ea-1 village consisting of 500 or more inhabitants, there be a station. REFUSING TO ACCEPT A FINE-ART COLLECTION. The Liverpool Town Council has refused to accept a col lection of pictures and works of art, left, on certain con ditions, to the town by Mr. Gower, an English merchant, who recently died in Marseilles. A deputation of the council, who had inspected the collection, reported that not one out of about 400 pictures was worth more than £5 ; while the bronzes—described as old classic works—were of the coarsest modem manufacture, and not even " aged" artificially to imitate long•buried works of Roman and Greek art. Those to whom it is a satisfaction when the representative of an ancient and distinguished family is placed in the enjoyment of " his own again," will have observed with pleasure that the noble Secretary for the Colonies has for some time past occupied Chandos House, and has resumed his residence at Stowe, which for many years, after being stripped of its unrivalled contents, was deserted. His Grace is, moreover, we are informed, gradually re-collecting many of the dispersed treasures, of whose fate a careful account had been kept ; and he intends that, as opportunities occur, many more shall again find a resting-place in their old home. Buckingham House, the residence of the family in the last generation, and the scene of such splendid hospitality in the days of the Regency, has, like its neighbour, Schomberg House, been absorbed by that greedy encroache r on " the sweet shady side of Pall-mall "—the War Office. The arms and supporters of the family still adorn their family mansion. —Tdegraph. Reviewing the state of Ireland and the prospects of the harvest, the Irish Times says that if the season con tinues as favourable as at present, there is every reason to believe the crops will not only be abundant, but early, "The high prices obtained for their produce last year have encouraged the agriculturists to place a larger extent of land in tillage. A slovenly farm is now the ex- " The 1v rater and spring-sown wheat A like account is given of the oat crop. The same paper adds that the Irish in America continue to send over money to pay the cost of passage for relatives, and the prospect of high wages, with the hope of ultimate possemion of land at a cheap rate, prove irresistible temptations. Yet wages in Ireland are in creased, and will probably become still higher. The peasantry are better clothed and fed and lodged than they I ave ever been, and there is a complete absence of crime throughout Ireland, cei tion, not the rule is thriving well. LAW AND POLICE ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY 001fPiiNY. —ln the Court of Common Pleas the case of Winterbotham v. the East Gloucestershire Railway Company was heard. It was an action to recover £3,500, the balance of money to be paid to the plaintiff for lands required by the railway. There were two agreements, one in 1864 and the other in 1866, by which the defendants agreed to pay to the plain tiff £4,300 for land and buildings required for the railway works, and also to pay interest and legal expenses. A de posit of 2800 was paid, and the defendants agreed to pay the residue on or before the 24th of June, 1867, "at which time, under any circumstances, the remainder of the purchase-money was to be paid." That time had elapsed, but nothing further had been done ; the land had not been conveyed or taken, nor had the defendants asked the plaintiff to convey or shew title to it. For the plaintiff it was argued that, the time having elapsed for payment of the remainder of the purchase-money, the plaintiff was entitled to maintain the action on the general averment of his readiness to do all that was required on his part. For the defendants it was said that the remainder of the purchase-money was not to be paid until the completion of the purchase. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. ROBBERY IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—At Southwark Police-court, James Kay was charged with stealing a £5O Bank of England note from Nicholas Mattowich, a native of Hamburg, while travelling by the Crystal Palace Rail way between New-cross and London Bridge. It seems that the prosecutor was on the platform at Sydenham, and was about to get into a second-class carriage that was going to London Bridge, when the prisoner came up and told him to get into a first-class and it would be " all right." The complainant did so, and the train had not proceeded many yards when cards were introduced, and the prisoner with a third person began to ploy. Mattowich was induced to bet, and ultimately the prisoner asked him to back him for £5O, and if he (the prosecutor) lost he would receive the money back, as the prisoner only wanted encouraging. The complainant foolishly complied with the request, and the prisoner got out at London Bridge and went away. The case was remanded. DRUNKENNESS IN A WORKHOUSE.— 2t the Lambeth Police-court, James Rearden, a pauper in the Lambeth Workhouse, was charged with disorderly conduct. The priioner, a young man, 81:ffered from scrofula, and accord ing to the evidence of Mr. Bullen, surgeon at the house, he required liberal diet and beer when admitted. Davis, the taskmaster, who was the first witness, described the con duct of the prisoner on Wednesday morning, when he made a noise in the sick ward, and the master was sent for. The prisoner was excited from drink, and the witness wat ordered to put him out of the ward by Mr. Catch. The prisoner threatened to give him the knife whenever he had the opportunity. His conduct was most violent. Mr. Catch, the master, gave similar evidence. The prisoner put himself in a fighting attitude, and appeared to be ex cited from drink. Mr. Elliott asked how a person could get drink in a workhouse. He thought such a thing was not allowed. Mr. Catch said there was a quantity of beer allowed to those on the sick list and those who laboured. Those who received beer bartered it, and intoxication was the result. Mr. Elliott said he thought the beer ought to be stopped. The master said that was his opinion, and that was what he wA wanting to bring about. There was a great quantity of beer allowed in Lambeth Workhouse, and two-thirds were given for labour. He did not apply his remarks to those under medical treatment, but he hoped that a different system would be adopted to that allowed to other inmates. It was now bartered away, and some obtained more than they needed, and lk came excited by drink. Mr. Elliott was reluctant to send the defendant to prison, and on extract ing a promise from him that he would behave better.in future he allowed him to return to the workhouse. ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A SON.-At the Leicester Police-court, Thomas W. S. Frisby WRB charged _ . with attempting to murder his father, Thomas Frisby. From the evidence of the prisoner's mother, it appeared that an unpleasantness had arisen between hin► and his father, in consequence of the latter disapproving of a con- nection his son had formed with a young woman. This led to the son leaving home about seven weeks ago, since which time be had had no communication with his father. On Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, he went to his father's house in a state of intoxication, and asked to see his father. Mrs. Frisby tried to persuade prisoner to come another time ; but he rushed past her and entered the kitchen, where his father was partaking of supper, and deliberately shot him with a pistol. The charge, which consisted of small shot, lolged in the right cheek of Mr. Frisby, and the prisonei decamped by a side door. The prisoner, who was apprehended in bed, when charged with the offence, simply said, " Oh! is the old man dead ?" The prisoner was remanded. CHARGE OF FORTUNE TELLING. At the Leamington Petty Sessions, an extraordinary charge of fortune-telling lately came before the bench. Elizabeth Hawkins, alias Lee, who resides in Comyn-street. Leamington, and has been previously convicted of fortune-telling, was b: othsht up on a warrant, charged with having, on the 12th April last, 1 r -t ended to tell fortunes, and using certain means to deceive Miss Alice Shelly, a young lady of independent means, residing at Lansdowne House, Hollywalk, Lea mington. Mr. Overell appeared for Hawkins ; Mr. Passman watched the case on behalf of Miss Shelly. The information was laid by Susannah Ball, a young girl who had been in the service of Miss Shelly, and she deposed that about four months ago the defendant came to her mistress's house. She told Miss Shelly she could tell fortunes, cut the cards, and read every pip on them the same as she could the alphabet. The same night the defendant came again to Miss Shelly's, cut a pack of cards, and told her there was a dark gentleman and a light gentleman very fond of her, and she advised her to have the dark one. Defendant had with her a bottle, the contents of which she said cost a sovereign. She touched Miss Shelly on the head, and threw the stuff in the bottle into the fire, and when it sparkled she told her that the dark gentleman was very fond of her. No money passed on that occasion, but she subse quently took the defendant R 3 from Miss Shelly. On the 12th April the defendant mine to Miss Shelly, who went down into the kitchen, when the defendant again cut the cards, and toll her about a light and a dark gentleman being very fond of her, and again advised her to have the dark one. Defendant then told Miss Shelly she could show her the gentleman in a glass at het own house. Witness went with Miss Shelly to the defen dant's house to see the gentleman in the glass, and the day after she took the defendant ss. to make him ill, and defendant afterwards told Miss Shelly she had done so. In cross-examination Ball said Miss Shelly did not dismiss her for having behaved rudely to her, but before she laid the present information she had received a letter from Miss Shelly's solicitor threatening to prosecute her for dishonesty. She denied ever having been at defendant's house with young men. The defendant came to Miss Shelly's house every day to cut the cards, and would sometimes stay for an hour. On these occasions Miss Shelly always went into the kitchen, where the defendant cut the cards and told her her fortune. She had not taken the defendant any money since the 12th April, nor on that date, the last money sent by Miss Shelly being the ss. for seeing the dark gentleman in the glass. The complainant had summoned Miss Shelly as a witness, and she was present in court, but was not called, as the bench held her evidence to he immaterial, as that of the com plainaut did not support the information, which charged the defendant with committing the offence on the 12th of April. The complainant having no other evidence to support the charge, the bench dismissed the case, and Miss Shelly and her friends left the court, which was densely crowded during the proceedings. The permission of the Government to allow the importation of cattle into Southampton will increase the revenue of the Southampton Dock Company about £5,000 a year. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —The Leicesto Committee has decided to invite the Prince of Wales tc the forthcoming show of the Royal Agricultural Society to be held in that town in July next. PROPOSED TESTIMONIAL TO EARL FITZWILLIAM. —A movement is now on foot in the neighbourhood of Rotherham, having for its object the raising of a testimo nial to Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G., in token of the universal esteem in which that nobleman is held, not only by the gentlemen of the Fitzwilliam hunt, but also by those of the district generally. THREE CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH. --An in quest has been lied at the Whita Horse, East Bergholt, before Mr. 13. L. Gross, corner, on the bodies of three children, aged two. four, and nine years, named Henry, Elizabeth Ann, and A If .e I Wright, the children of labour• lag parents, who had 1 een left at home, and in the absence of their pf.rents, i t is supposed, they set fire to some straw in the yard adjoining the In mse. They had access to match es,and must have gone into Mr. Green's strawyard and lighted tome straw, the flames of which soon spread, and the pool children were burnt to cinders. Two stacks of straw were burnt, the barn was damaged, and Wright's house caught, lAA the fire was prevented from extending. The bodit I wire found, one near a gateway and the others in a shed. rhe jury returned a verdict of accidental death, and said that Lucifer matches cuglit to be Letter protected fro= :hildren. The eldest child was a bright boy, quite capable ~f being left in charge. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1868. into the straight ; Here Helen was beaten and her place was then taken by Donato, who challenged the leader hall way down, and won a good race by a neck ; a bad third. Carlton broke down and did not pass the post. LATEST BETTING. DERBY. 3to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (taken) 7to 1 agst Blue Gown—with a start (taken) 100 to 15 agst Rosicrucian (taken) 9to 1 agst Speculum (taken) 100 to 7 agst Orion (taken) 15 to 1 agst Paul Jones (taken) 26 to 1 agst Uncas (taken) 40 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (taken) WINCHESTER RACES.-WEDNESDAY. The Stewards' Stakes of 5 sous each, 3 ft to the fund, with 30 added. One mile. Duke of Hamilton's Muezzin, by Newminster—lnfi delity, aged, Est 111 b (F. Webb) 1 Lord Viviau's Dick Turpin, 4 yrs, Bst ilb (inc. 51b ex.) (Cannon) 2 Mr. Tilbury's Chilbolton, 5 yrs, Est 71b (Elton) 3 Mr. C. Jones's Lizard, 6 yrs, Ist 131 b (Scor , y) 0 Mr. Samuel's. Amour Propre, 4 yrs, Is 61b (Peppier) 0 Mr. Trimmer's Virginia Creeper, 4 yrs, 7st lib (Jas. Clark) 0 Mr. H. Goatees Secrecy, 4 yrs, 7st (liibbord) 0 Mr. Richard's Rally, 5 yrs, Est 71b (Milne) 0 Mr. Saxon's Diadem, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Vinell) 0 Wyatt weighed for Lady Ward, 3 yrs, 6st, but the filly did not arrive on the course in time to start. Betting-5 to 2 agst Dick Turpin, 3to 1 agst Chilbolton. 100 to 30 agst Secrecy, 6 to 1 ugst Muezzin, and 10 to 1 agst any other. Chilbolton made the running with a clear lead of Amour Propro, Muezzin, and Rally, the favourite and Secrecy following in their track, Virginia Creeper bringing up the rear. No change occurred till making the bend into the straight., when Secrecy, after looking mo mentarily formidable, dropped away, and the three placed came on, Muezzin taking the lead a quarter of a mile from home, and winning in a canter by eight lengths. Three quarters of a length only divided the second and third; Rally was fourth, Amour Propro fifth, Diadem sixth, Se crecy seventh, Lizard eight, and Virginia Creeper last throughout. The Grange Park Stakes of 10 sovs each, 10 ft, with 50 added, for two-yr-olds. T.Y.C. (abaut 5 fur.) Mr J. Day's Miss Foote, by Orlando—Gossamer, Bst 101 b (inc 41b ex) (Cannon) 1 Mr J. Wood's Iron Duke, Bst 101 b (J. Goater) 2 Mr J Dixon's Lady Roseberry, Bst 61b (S. Adams) 3 Mr Stephenson's c by Neville—Madame Stanley, list ,01b (J. Adams) 4 Mr Flight's c by Rouge Dragon—Patience, Bst 101 b (A. Sadler) 5 S,Betting-100 to 15 on Miss Foote, and 100 to 8 agst Lady Roseberry. Miss Foote held a slight lead of Lady Rose berry and Iron Duke for half the journey, when Iron Duke ran into second place, but never reached the favou rite, who won easily by three-quarters of a length ;Cady Roseberry was a bad third, Madame Stanley colt fourth, and Patience colt last. The City Members' Plate of 50 sous. T.Y.C. (about 5 fur.) Mr H. Goater's Henry the First, by Camerino—New Year's Eve, 3 yrs, Get (X3O) (Wyatt) 1 Mr Crevy's Lady Ward, 3 yrs, 6.t (.£3O) (James Clark) 2 Mr J. Dixon's Excitement, 4 yrs, ist Iflb (.£3O) (S. Adams) 3 Captain Berners's Bow Bells, aged, Bst 61b (.£3O) (Storey) 4 Betting-6 to 4on Henry the First, 3to 1 agst Lady Ward, and 7to 1 (at first even on) agst Excitement. The quartette ran in close company to the distance, where the favourite and Lady Ward drew away, and finished a close and exciting race, the former winning cleverly by a head; Bow Bells was fourth. The winner was sold to Mr. T. Percival for 46 guineas. The Crawley Stakes of 50 sous. T.Y.C. (about 5 fur.) Mr C. Snewiug's Seamew, by Orlando— Ossifrage, 4 yrs, ist 81b (Peppier) 1 Mr Trimmer's Magnolia, 3 yrs, Est 41b (car 6st 91b) (Killick) 2 Mr R. Dick's Defiance, 4 yrs; Bst 21b (Storey) 3 Mr W. Edgar's Duchess, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b (13rittan) 4 Duke of Hamilton's Aquilla, 3 yrs, 7st (F. Webb)' S Mr Flight's Sour Grapes, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (Weston) dis. Betting-6 to 4on Magnolia, 2to 1 agst Seamew, and 20 to 1 agst Sour Grapes. Seamew made running for a quarter of a mile, when she was passed by Sour Grapes, the favourite closely attending, however, on the latter till nearing the distance, ,when Sour Grapes " cannoned '9 against them both, knocking them completely out of their stride. Sour Grapes then came on with a long lead, and won in a canter by ten lengths. Three lengths separated second and third. Defiance was fourth, Duchess fifth, and Aquilla last. On returning to scale Peppier, the rider of Seamew, lodged an objection against the winner on the ground of the "cannon" mentioned above. The case was at once entertained by Admiral Rous and Mr. Chamber layne, and they disqualified Sour Grapes, and awarded the race to Seamew. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 ga. Two miles. Mr Stortford's Purveyor, by Caterer—Cygnet, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b. (S. Adams) 1 Mr E. Brayley's Mariner, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (Cannon) 2 Mr Lapidi s t' s V amp i re (h b), yrs, 10st (t'eppler) 3 Mr Rickard's Harlington, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Lava) 4 Mr Jones's Zeloo (h b), aged, lOst 21b (Mr A. Yates) 5 Mr H. Goatees Secrecy, 4 yts, 9st 71b (J. Goater) 6 Betting-5 to 4on Mariner, and 6to 5 agat Purveyor. The race throughout was a match between the two favourities, Mariner making the running at a fair pace until a distance from home, when Purveyor got in fruut, and won after a good race by half a length. Vampire finished a bad third, Harlington fourth, Zeloo fifth, and Secrecy last, beaten a long way. The Foal Stakes.—Mr. Thomas Day's c by Dundee — Blackbird, Bst 71b (Cannon), walked over, and divided the stakes with Mr. Willmer's Bainbridge. The Derby Trial Stakes of 10 soya each, 3 ft, to the fund, with 50 added. One mile and a half. Mr E. C. Clayton's Lymington, by Wild Dayrell— Media, 3 yrs, 7st 31b..... (S. Adams) 1 Mr H. Goater's Venomous, 3 yra, 7st 31b (llibberd) 2 Betting-4 to lon Lymington. The non-favourite made running till the distance, where Lymington came away, and won easily by a length and a half. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. YORK SPRING MEETING—WEDNESDAY. There was a general exodus last night from here of the sporting visitors for the meetings of the south, where the promise of sport in the matter of speculation isgreater than here. Consequently there was a considerable diminution in the attendance to-day both within the inclosuro and on the course. The sport commenced an hour earlier, and the first event was a match arranged last night between Chel- sea, a horse once backed for the Two Thousand and Derby, and the mare Russia❑ Bear. Odds were laid on the latter, but she wasbeaten a head by Chelsea, after a fine race from the distance. The Eglinton Stakes only produced a field cf four, and Fitzwilliam, in spite of his defeat yesterday, was again warmly supported ; to-day his running was even worse, and he was last throughout, the race being easily won by Donaldbain, who ran in blinkers. Thirteen started for the Consolation Scramble, which was principally re markable for the long delay at the post and a dead-heat run by Dutch Admiral, who was not backed for a shilling, with the favourite, Affection. Out of the six runners who started for the Flying Dutchman's Handicap Python was backed against the field, and won with consummate ease. Curiosity, who was backed at 5 to 4, was another reward for backers, but so little time elapsed since the appearance of the numbers and the start that the betting on the race was very trifling. sine went to the post for the City Purse, and the favourite finished fourth, the winner being Thermometer, who was heavily backed at 3 to 1. The Londesborough Cup produced a field of nine, and Lady Zetland was much fancied, but Sawyer, a comparative out sider in the betting, won. Match, 200 says, h ft, both three-year-olds, Bst 101 b each. One mile. Mr T. V. Morga*'s Chelsea, by King of Trumps (J. Snowden) 1 Mr O. Percy's Russian Bear COustance) 2 Betting-11 to 8 on Russian Bear, who took a clear lead at starting, which she retained to the half distance, where the non-favourite got up, the pair running locked to the stand, where Chelsea obtained a slight advantage, which he retained to the end, and won a slashing race by a short head. The Eglinton Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 50 added, T.Y.C. (5 fur. 44 yds.) Mr Jobnstone's eh c Donaldbain, by Malcolm, 3 yrs, 9.t 31b (inc. 51b extra) Mr Johnstone's b c Lord Hawthorn, 2 yrs, 7st (Cameron) 2 Mr Gregory's c by Camerino, 2 yrs, 7st (M'Ewen) 3 Mr Jackson's br c k'itzwilliam, 2 yrs, 7st 51b inc. 51b ex) (Kenyon) 4 Betting-11 to 8 agst Fitzwilliam, 2to 1 agst Lord Haw• thorn, 3 to 1 agst Donaldbain, and 10 to 1 agst the Came. rino colt. The letter on the inside made all the running, and won in a canter br three lengths ; a length separated the second and third. Fitzwilliam was beaten off. The Consolation Scramble of 30 sous, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 soya each, for all ages. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr J. P. Craven's Dutch Admiral, by Van-Galen, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b (Mordan) f Mr Hampton's Affection, 3 yrs, Est (Jeffery) t Mr J. Stephenson's Festival, 3 yrs, Est 91b (Hammond) 3 Mr Mastermau's Honesty, 5 yrs, 9st (Merchant) 0 Mr T. Dawson's King of the Fairies, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Dooley) 0 Mr Johnstone's Harrogate, 4 yrs, ist 111 b (Cameron) 0 Mr Hawke's Palisade, 4 yrs, ist 91b (Kenyon) 0 Mr I'Anson's Bab at the Bowater gelding, 5 yrs, (T. , sty)Pa 0 Mr Gilby's Skysail, 4 yrs, Est 111 b (G. Walker) 0 Mr Bowes's Booty, 3 yrs, fist 51b (J. Parket) 0 Mr Bowes's Thankful, 3 yrs, Est 21b (Butler) 0 Mr Hunter's Atreus, 3 yrs, sst 131 b (Ball) 0 Mr Mackenzie's Buckenham's dam filly, 3 yrs, (Wilson) 111 b 5s 0 Betting-2 to 1 agst Affection, 6to 1 agst The Becken ham dam filly, 7 to 1 agst Skysail, 8 to 1 agst 'Festival, 10 to 1 agst Palisade, 100 to 8 each agst Thankful and Honesty, and '2O to 1 agst Harrogate. Half an hour was consumed before they could be got together, repeated breaks away following each other, in the first of which Festival, Palisade, Dutch Admiral, and Booty ran to the distance before they could be stopped. When in order the signal was lowered, and they left the post to a straggling start, in which Thankful, iu the centre, got away in front, followed by the favourite in the inside, the pair having Palisade, Skysail, Dutch Admiral, Festival, and the Buck enham's dam filly in a body promiscuously in their rear. They ran thus to the road, where Thankful dropped back, leaving Affection wits a slight lead to the distance, when Dutch Admiral, having run through his horses, took his place on the right of the favourite, followed by Festival, the Buckeubam's darn filly, and Skysail, who ran in a body to half-way down, when the two leaders singled them selves out and finished a long and punishing race home with a dead heat. Festival was third, five lengths in their rear, and two lengths in advance of the Bucking ham's dam filly ; Skysail was fifth, Harrogate sixth, and Honesty next ; Booty and King of the Fairies were the two last. Deciding Heat.—Betting-11 to 8 on Affection, who made play into the straight, where she swerved, and let up Dutch Admiral, who won very cleverly by a length. The Flying Dutchman's Handicap of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft. Ono mile and a quarter. Mr G. Angell's Python, by Young Melbourne, 4 yrs. ist 2lb (Butler) 1 Mr. Pryor's Miss Harriette, 5 yrs, Est 101 b (Kenyon) 2 Mr F. Gordon's Frolicsome, 3 yrs, Est (Jeffery) 3 'Sir Johnstone's Min s t er B e ll, 4 yrs, Est 121b...(Cameron) 4 Mr J. Parker's Fair Wind, 4 yrs, Est 121 b ...(Renshaw) 5 Mr Palmer's Beanstalk, 4 yrs, Est 31b 6 1 a t l o 1 gisists a F g na s ai t ra F liv r e o titn i e i d es . on le , (Hammond) 0 Betting—Even on P yt h on, 7 to 2 agst Mi ss H arr i et t e , 8 to 1 agst Minster Bell, and 10 to and Minster Bell wore the first off, but after running a quarter of a mile the latter dropped back and his place was taken by Frolicsome, followed by Python and Fair Wind, Minster Bell and Beanstalk acting as whippers in. In these positions they ran to the distance, where Python, pulling double, came through, and head ing Miss Harriette at the commencement of the enclo sure, won, hard held, by half a length. There were four lengths between the second and third. Beanstalk was pulled up some distance from home, and did not pass the post. The Tyro Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added, for two- yr-olds. Half a mile. Mr R. Porter's Curiosity, by Marquis (£3O), 7st 61b (Mordan) Hon. E. Laseslles' Vermicelli (£3O), 7st 10Ib (Cradock) 2 Mr J. Osborne's Ilion (£4O), Bst (Walker) 3 Mr G. Hodgman's f Woodbine (£3O), 7st 61b ...(Quince) 4 Betting-11 to 10 agst Curiosity, and 2to 1 agst any other. The favourite, next the rails, made the most use of her favourable start, and came on with a clear lead; and was never after fairly reached, and won very easily by half b. length ; two lengths separated the second and third; Wood bine was beaten off. The winner was sold to Capt. Ma ellen for 68 guineas, and Woodbine was disposed of for 15 guineas. City Purse of 50 nova, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sous each. T.Y.C. (5 fur. 44 yds.) Mr Thermometer, by Wetherbit, 4 yrs, 7st. 21b Mr Andrews's Landlord, 5 y rs , 7 s t 5:13 (£3O) (Kenyon) 2 Mr Andrews's Malta, aged , aged, 7st 21b (.£3O) (Cradock) 3 Mr Brewer's Meliora, 3 yrs, sst 111 b (£.30) (Wilson) 4 Mr Harrison's Paleface, 3 yre, sst 11Ih (car sst 131 b) (£3O) (M 'Ewen) 0 Mr Johnstone's Harrogate, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (.£3O) (Cameron) 0 Mr G. J. Archer's Pero, 3 yrs, Est 111 b (car 6st) (£3O) effrey) 0 Mr T. Cranston's Albatros ' 3 yrs, sst 111 b (k3O) Bissel) 0 Mr Pilgrim's Dr Wilson, 3 yrs, Gst (.£.30) (Butler) 0 Betting-2 to 1 agst Meliora, 3to 1 agst Thermometer, 100 to 11 agst Landlord, 7 to 1 agst Paleface, and 8 to 1 agst Dr Wilson. They ran in company for some dozen strides, when the favourite, with Landlord on the inside, came on in advance to the distance. Here Thermometer came up, and, split ing the two, took a clear lead, which ha retained to the end, and won very cleverly by a neck. Landlord was second, a length and a half in advance of Malta, Meliora finishing a couple of lengths in the rear. Pero was fifth, and Harrogate sixth. Paleface and Albatros, side by side, were the next two. Dr Wilson was last, beaten off a long w i nne r was sold to Mr J. Wood for 150 guineas, The Londesboroug h Cu p , value 80 toys in s p ecie, added to a w n a d y . M The h Andrewse vi c laimed Mellon. a Handicap Stakes of 5 soya each. T.Y.C. (5 fur. 4 1 yds.) Mr H. Eastvvood's Sawyer, by Kettledrum, 3 yrs, 7st ck6lb (Crado) Mr W. Feaster's Lady Zetland, 3 yrs, Est 81b (K en y on ) r 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Quince) Mr Mackenzie's Th e Priest, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (inc 71b extra ) M M; 011uPneterreenYa'!FAeisntsilvlYti, 3 yrs, Est 61b (11• Ewe n) (Cameron) Mr Green na. Vulcan , 4 y rs, 7st 51b (ktordan) Mr C. Peck's Black lock, 3 y rs, 7st llb (H. Cove y) Mr W. Smith's Cor net, 3 y rs, Est 101 b ( Hammo n d ) Mr Johnstone's Tab ouret, 3 y re, Est 51b ........ ( Bu tler) 8 to 1 agst Sawyer, a n d 10 t o 1 B et ti ng -7 to 4 agst Lady Zetland, 3 to 1 agst Cornet, The favourite, on the inside, was the firs t to show in a l g th3 st tlo'hiesPraigesstt. Ainsley, advance, with Ainsley and Sawyer lying up ; to these suc ceeded Festivity and Cornet for a quarter of a mile, when Sawyer headed Ainsley, and, overhauling the favourite half-way in the distance, won a good race by half a length. There were three lengths between the second and third, and a neck between the latter and Festivity, close up with whom were The Priest, Edinburgh, and Blacklock abreast, followed by Vulcan and Cornet, Tabourec being last. The Tally-ho Stakes of 3 "sous each, with 50 folded. T miles. Mr Milbank's Donato, by Fandango (11 b), 5 yrs, 13st 71b (r. G. Thompson) 1 Mr. W. 11. Broadley's Cannon Ball, aged, 12st 71b (Mr. Boynton) 2 Mr J. Simpson's Helen (h b), 6 yrs, 13st 71b (inc. 141 b extra) (Mr B. Walker) 3 Mr T. Acklam's Wild Huntsman (h b), aged, 13st llb (inc. 141 b extra) (Captain Inge) 4 Mr J. Greaves'e Carlton, 5 yrs Betting-5 to 4 agst Donato, and 65 to 40 agst Cannon Ball. After the first quarter of a mile the running was taken .up by Helen, who, in company with Cannon Ball, came on a couple of lengths in advance Of the favourite to the bend COURT OF ALDERLTIEN. Yesterday the magistrates of the City of London held a Court at Guildhall for the transaction of business—the Lord Mayor presiding. There was a large attendance of members, and it being an oc casion on which a new member of their body was to be introduced, most of them wore their scarlet robes, according to custom at such times. Pre vious to entering upon the business of the day, Alderman Sir William Rose called attention to the circumstance, which was an unusual one, that all the officers of the Court were absent except the Town Clerk. It was a circumstance, he said, which should not be passed over without notice• The Lord Mayor said he saw the Recorder in his place a few minutes before, and the Town Clerk explained that many of the officers were then en gaged with the Special Gas Committee of the Cor poration. Alderman Sidney said he had reason to know that the Recorder had been engaged in the Mayor's Court since SaturJay on a compensation case, which was still undecided. Alderman Law rence, M.P., said this being a special occasion on which a new member of their court was to be in troduced, points of law might arise on this introduc tion, as they had done before on such occasions, and it was inconvenient that not a single legal officer of the Corporation should be present. Mr. Alderman Gibbons said the duties of the Recorder in that Court were only second to those of the Recorder of London, and the most proper and dignified course for the Court to pursue was to request the attend ance of the right hon. gentleman on an important occasion like that. Eventually, on the motion of Mr. Alderman Wilson, the senior member, who re marked that noofficer should be absent from his place without the consent of the Lord Mayor, the Town Clerk was instructed to writeto each of the absentees , 4 for an explanation, and the ma tter was allowed to had devolved drop. Mr. Orton, attorney o f the Lord Mayor's a Court, officially reported that Mr. Thos. Scambler 1 r O e w pr d e e s n en , tcittihze ward of i 13 Inh is o i l i d op er sgt , haed in been the elected Court of t o 3 2 4 0 CAldermen,opelaCopeland, in deceased.the a N t V itllhiaem recently 'faylo r o elected Alderman appeared a t the bar, escorted b y o g y j‘j o e f t t c h a e i f e p r H i n o c i p p g a o 0 1 ida, a Common Councilman, h a bitan ts n oof member, and ittrieward,and Mr. , upon addressing hm o t f h e Court, introducings i d theahe: u r might not be out of place for him to say he believed the Court of Aldermen was held in the highest respect by the thinking part of the community of that great city. The citizens re garded with very high esteem the privilege they had long enjoyed of electing their own magistrates, and were proud of the way in which justice as a rule was administered in the city of London. It had been often a source of satisfac tion to many of them to hear judges of the land hear testimony to the discretion and impartiality with which the magistrates of the City discharged the duties devolving oa them, and he had reason to believe that the inhabitants of the various wards were fully impressed with the responsibility at taching to the privilege of electing members to represent them in that ancient Court. He had the honour of introducing to them Mr. Owden, a gentleman who had been unanimously chosen by the ward of Bishopsgate, which was one of the most important in the City, numbering as it did 1,200 electors. His friend had passed alinost the whole of its life in the ward, had represented it in the Common Council, and had served all the principal parochial offices with credit to himself and advan tage to the inhabitants. He considered it a great honour to have been elected a member of that Court, and he (Mr. Hopgood) had much satisfac tion in presenting a man for whom be entertained such sincere respect. Mr. Owden then took and subscribed the customary oaths, including the oath of allegiance, which were administered by the Town Clerk, and that done he exchanged the robe of Com mon Councilman for that of an Alderman, and was presented to the Lord Mayor and the rest of the members of the Court, who offered him their con gratulations. A communication was lead from Mr. Weather head, the Governor of the City Prison at Holloway, pointing out the desirability of a certain number of the officers employed there residing in the immediate vicinity of the prison, in order to be within cr.ll, when off duty, and to their services being eariily available at any moment in case of necessity. On the motion of Mr. Alderman Wilson the subject was referred to a committee for consideration and report. Several new brokers were sworn in and enrolled. On the motion of Alderman Wilson, seconded by Alderman Sir Sydney Waterlow, Alderman Finnis was unanimously ap pointed chairman of Emmanuel Hospital Committee, in the place of the late Alderman Copeland, and at the instance of Alderman Finnis Alderman Wilson was elected a trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum, Library, and Works of Art, in the room of the deceased alderman. A report of the Gaol Com mittee was unanimously adopted, recommending a substantial addition to the salary of the Ordinary of Newgate. The Court afterwards transacted some business with closed doors, and then adjourned. LITERARY. (Front the Anglo-American Times) THE AMERICAN LECTURE SYSTEM. Thamas Wentworth Iligginson, of Newport, Rhode I-land, has written a good article in Mac millan's Magazine for May, on the American Lec ture System. The Lecture System is a product of New England, but it has attained to its best orga nization and most characteristic form in the West. In the East it has to compete with other intellec tual attractions; nor does it there need the thorough organization of less densely peopled districts where the audiences are brought together from great distances. An effort is being made by Mr. James K. Medbery, Superintendent of the American Lite rary Bureau, to introduce the Western system into the Eastern States, and during the past winter he made engagements for thirty lectures in eight diffe rent States of the Union. The system originated in Massachusetts with Horace Mann, some 40 years ago, whence it spread through the New England States,and obtained a favourable hold in the Western States, but not much either in the city of New York or in the middle States, while in the Southern States it gained no footing at all. At first the work was done by the lawyers, physicians, and clergymen of the neigh bourhood, but as lecturers became popular, and more and more devoted to lecturing, it grew into a profession. Fifteen dollars was then a large fee, but it crept up to twenty-five and fifty. Now such men as Henry Ward Beecher can command two hundred, and prove to the associations engaging them more profitable far than cheap local lecturers. As a town grows up in the West a lecture commit tee is one of the earliest appointments. They select the speakers, choose a secretary to invite them, a treasurer to pay them, a president to introduce them to the audience. A winter course may vary from a half• dozen to a score. These local committees are united into widely-extending organizations, such as the Western Literary Societies, whose range extends from Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, to I I Laurence in Kansas, and whose agent Mr. G. L. Lor i Bert, of Dubuque, lowa, last winter negotiated be tween thirty-five lecturers and one hundred and ten societies, arranging for each society a tolerably regular course of lectures, and for each orator a continuous series of engagements. In the fall he issues his list of speakers, subjects, and prices, leaving each society to select from the bill of fare. The lecturer has nothing to do with it except to receive his printed circular with his dozen or hun dred engagements, and to proceed to the different towns, many of which he may then have heard of for the first time. On arrival he is met by his committee man, and the lecturer is coached along through the proceedings in that locality by him. All moves as smoothly as clock-work, unless some railway breaks down or a snow storm interrupts the programme, when that evening's business is thrown off the list, for the lost engagement cannot be picked up, and the lecturer has to hurry on to the next stage. The introduction of professional lecturers has tended to change the old system which ignored politics—now politics threaten to banish all other subjects. Mr. Iligginson says, " even party questions can by lecture be handled down without the trammels of party. The poplar lecture is the antidote to the Caucus. On its free platform the statesman speaks for himself alone and commits nobody, he rises as if in committee of the whole, and proceeds without reference to a pro spective division. Moreover, an outlet is thus afforded to men who keep aloof from all party ties. I have seen Wendell Phillips received with admi ration and delight by audiences of whom not one in a hundred would admit the truth of his asser tions until twelve months after they were uttered." But the evil is that the more sober topics are banished—" the scholar recedes from sight, and the impassioned orator takes his place. There is no time for Longfellow to analyze " Dante," nor for Lowell to 'explain Hamlet, while Sumner thunders the terrors of the Lord against a delin quent President, or Anna Dickinson pleads for the e nfranchisement of one-half the human race. Acras siz is now the only popular " lecturer on science who can be said to have a hearing; and Emerson is the only prominent literary man who now keeps the field. Holmes has almost ceased lecturing by his own choice, since his great success as a maga zinist ; and George Curtis seems to have withdrawn himself from all permanent literary work since win ning such easy fame on the platform." it furnishes a good test, however, of public men who must thus face the people, and it helps to train the speaker— "it saves the philosopher from becoming a pedant, the student from being an intellectual voluptuary" —placing all in broad healthy contrast with their fellow-citizens. The finer points will, as a rule, fail ; the cheaper effects tell ; the subtile and evanes cent, the profound, find no room ; but broad com mon sense, hearty sympathy, manly courage, will be appreciated. " You have to do with people who do not ask to be flattered, and will not bear to be patronised ;. who insist on hearing something to interest them, and are ready and eager to be taught. The author goes on thus to describe the leaders in this field :—Among the most popular lecturers are Henry Ward Beecher, John B. Gough, and Anna Dickenson. Gough was an importation from the platform of the temperance agitation, and at once found the new field equally favourable and far more profitable. A sort of evangelical comedian, he is the idol of many worthy people who never saw good acting on any other stage ; and he is a favourite with many others who can tolerate his contortions for the sake of his drollery. He does not offer much to the intellect, true, but he often touches the heart; and something is du; to a man who makes laughter au ally of good morals. Miss Dickenson deals rather in tears than in smiles. She owed her first celebrity perhaps to the unwonted combination of twenty years of womanhood with a remarkably clear head for political questions. She has good looks, perfect self-possession, an effective voice, readiness of illustration, fidelity to principle, and great magnetic power; and yet with all these she seems to me a far less attractive speaker than her chef pre lecsor, Lucy Stone, who never called forth one half as much enthusiasm. Her present theme is the enfranchisement of her sex. This she treats under the piquant title of " Idiots and Women," borrowiilg the sarcastic juxtaposition from the statute-books. Next in popularity comes - Wendell Phillips, and next to him probably George William Curtis. Wendell Phillips has won public fa vour while always keeping in advance of public opinion—the highest test of power. Recognised by all as :the _foremost of 'American ()raters, he has never by it paused one moment to enjoy the fruits of past successes, and will die in the harness as a Radical. Curtis cannot be compared with Phillips either in intellectual power, nor in extent of service ; he, perhaps, gives his hearers as much thought as they demand, but that is not much, whereas Phillips gives them more—forces it upon them. Nor is Curtis so prophetic in insight, nor so free from party ties. But he has all the qualities for a popular favourite, combined with singular rectitude of the moral nature ; nothing can be more charming than his rhetoric, more agreeable than his voice, more graceful than his elocution ; and he has before him a distinguished and use ful career, though widely unlike that literary life for which he at first seemed destined. A more recent favourite is Theodore Tilton, editor of the New York independent. He shows in the lecture room the same ability which has built up the Inde pendent, while he is so free from bigotry as to be constantly charged with latitu linarianistn. He has, moreover, a very sympathetic nature and ready wit, and that sunny disposition which is such a priceless gift to a reformer. The only other speakers who habitually venture to exceed the hundred dollar limit for even their Western lectures are Sumuer and Agassiz. Henry Vincent., the English visitor, has received one hundred and fifty dollars for each of his sixty Western lectures, and is said to have won popularity. There still remain a few acknowledged leaders who should especially be mentioned. Emerson, for instance, still retains his hold upon his countrymen, after some thirty years of lecturing, and is heard with respect and attention. Edwin Whipple aids Emer son in keeping a place upon the lecture-platform for the literary class. Bayard Taylor represents the indefatigable travellers. The Rev. Dr. Chaplin, of New York, is almost the only clergyman, save Beecher, who stands high as a lecturer also, and the effects he produces are due rather to a natural heartiness and vigour than to any depth of thought or culture. He has the trait, which Emerson thinks essential to the orator, " of giving out vast quantities of animal heat." Frederick Douglas represents the coloured race with a natural eloquence that twenty years of public speaking have only matured. His glow and fervour are extraor dinary, and so is his dramatic power ; there is, too, a sort of massiveness about him, which is contri buted partly by his grand physique, and he sur passes in his perception of the finer felicities of the language all other " self-made men." Mr. Mg ginson sees no reason why Gough should not annually earn thirty thousand dollars in this profession, so long as his strength and popu larity hold out. The remuneration is out of all proportion to that paid even for first-class literary work, and Hawthorne could hardly have earned from a magazine by a month's labour what a lead ing lecturer may harvest every night. It may be said in summing up, that the American Jecture system is constantly expanding and becoming better organized as to its methods, as well as more liberal in its rewards ; but that as to themes and treatment it has not yet taken its final form. Public affairs now engross all attention, but this will not always be so, and there will come a time of peace when literature and art, the children of peace ; will resume their sway. BEHIND THE SCENES. Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley has, we will not say written, but published, a book, " Behind the Scenes," which professes to give conversations and events which took place at the White House, when the Presidential mansion was occupied by Abraham Lincoln. The re puted author states that she was " 30 years a slave and five years modiste, and friend of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln." That lady considered her modiste's presence no barrier to the freest intercourse with her husband, and it is by the narration of such conversation and scenes that this eman cipated slave endeavours to scrape up a few vile dollars. But even a Keckley can vaguely perceive that she violates the sanctity of life in thus availing herself of her intimacy to publish incidents of a strictly private character, and she feebly attempts in her preface to justify the outrage. Had Mrs. Lincoln not made herself notorious, such a work would not have obtained circulation, but through that lady's imprudence her- modiste has had the oppor- tunity of selling a considerable amount of trash, and interspersed many curious scenes which are described. It was customary for the President to select a lady for a promenade, and his wife chose her escort from among the gentlemen that surrounded her, a habit which Mrs. Lin coln, who is a rigid stickler for etiquette, broke through, as Mrs. Keckley thus describes: —" Lizabeth !"—I was sewing in her room, and she was seated in a comfortable arm chair—" Lizabeth, I have been thinking over a little matter. As you are well aware, the President, at every reception, selects a lady to lead the promenade with him. Now it occurs to me that this custom is an absurd one. On such occasions our guests recognize the position of the President as first of all ; consequently, he takes the lead in everything. Well, now, if they recognize his posi tion they should also recognize mine. I am his wife, and should lead with him. And yet he offers his arm to any other lady in the room, making her first with him and placing me second. The custom is an absurd one, and I mean to abolish it. The dignity that I owe to my position, as Mrs. President, demands that I should not hesitate any longer to act." Mrs. Lincoln kept her word. Ever after this she either led the promenade with the President, or the President walked alone or with a gentleman. The change was much remarked, but the reason why it was made, I believe, was never generally known. The following throws some light on the strange conduct of Mrs. Lincoln, which not long ago so annoyed and surprised the people. " She bought the most expensive goods on credit, and in the summer of 1861 enormous unpaid bills stared her in the face." She grew very anxious about the election, and had frequent consultations with "Lizabeth," as she familiarly called her dressmaker, in regard to political prospects. "Lizabeth" cheered her with good words, for which Mrs. Lincoln was very grateful :—" Your view is a plausible one, Lizabeth, and your confidence gives me new hope. If he should ` , O defeated, I do not know what would become of us all. To me, to him, there is mom at stake in this election than he dreams of." " What can you mean, Mrs. Lincoln ? I do not comprehend." " Simply this. I have contracted largo debts, of which he knows nothing, and which he will be unable to pay if he is de feated." " What aro your debts, Mrs. Lincoln ?" They consist chiefly of store bills. I owe altogether about s27,ooo—the principal portion at Stewart's, in New York. You understand, Lizabeth, that Mr. Lincoln has but little idea of the expense of a woman's wardrobe. He glances at my rich dresses, anti is happy in the belief that the few hundred dollars I obtain from him supply all my wants. I must dress in costly materials. The people scrutinize every article that I wear with critical curiosity. The very fact of having grown up in the West subjects me to more searching observation. To keep up appear ances I must have money—more than Mr. Lincoln can spare for me. He is too honest to make a penny outside his salary; consequently I had, and still have, no alternative but to run in debt." "And Mr. Lincoln does not even suspect how much you owe ?" " God, no !"—this was a favourite expression of hers, "and I would not. have him suspect. If he knew that his wife was involved to the extent that she is the knowledge would drive him mad. He is so sincere and straightforward himself that he is shocked by the duplicity of others. Ile does not know a thing about any debts, and I value his happiness, not to speak of my own, too much to allow him to know any thing. This is what troubles me so much. If ho is re elected, I can keep him in ignorance of my affairs; but if he is defeated, then the bills will bo sent in, and he will •know all ;" and something like a hysterical sob escaped her. Mrs. Lincoln sometimes feared that the politicians would get hold of the particulars of her debts, and use them in the Presidential campaign against her husband ; and when this thought occurred to her, she was almost crazy with anxiety and fear. When in one of these ex cited moods she would fiercely exclaim :—" Tle Republi can politicians must pay my debts. Hundreds of them are getting immensely rich off the patronage of my husband, and it is but fair that they should help the out of my embarrassment. I will make a demand of them, and when I tell them the facts they cannot refuse to advance whatever money I require." The descrip tion of prominent men is amusing, and sometimes true. Mrs. Lincoln hated Chase ; selfish was the word she always used with reference to that great lawyer, whom Mrs. Stanton says is as " cold as a clam ;" but not withstanding, the President continued to confide in Mr. Chase till the time of his tragic death. Mrs. Lincoln was especially severe on Seward, always having an unkind word to say of him. " He cannot ha trusted ; It 3 has no principle." When the President answered, "You say the same of Chase ; I would seem be witlyiut a Cabinet if 1 listened to you." " He is worse that Chase," she replied ; "you will generally find it a safe rule to distrust a disap pointed, ambitious politician. It makes me mad to see you sit still and let that hypocrite, Seward, twine you around his finger as if you were a skein of thread." The lady prided herself on her reading of character, and she had no patience with the frank, confiding nature of the President. When Andrew Johnson was urged for Military Governor of Tennessee, Mrs. Lincoln bitterly opposed the appoint ment. "Ho is a demagogue," she said, almost fiercely; "and if you place hint in power, Mr. Lincoln, mark my words, you will rue it souse day." Mrs. Lincoln could not tolerate General Grant. e lle ie 'a; bother," one would often esF, " and is not fit to be at the head of an army." "But he has been very successful in the field," argued the President. " Yes, he generally ma nips to claim a victory, but such a victory ! He loses two men to thn enemy's one. He has no management, no regard for life. If the war should continue four years longer, and he should remain in power, he would depopulate the North. 1 could fight an army as well my self. According to his tactics, there is nothing under the heavens to do but to march a new line of men up in front of the rebel breastworks to be shot down as fast as they can take their position, and keep marching until the enemy grows tired of the slaughter. Grant, I repeat, is an obstinate fool and a butcher." "Well, mother, supposing that we give you command of the army. No doubt you would do much better than any general that has been tried." There was a twinkle in the eye, and a ring of irony in the voice. I have often heard Mrs. Lincoln say that if Grant should ever be elected President of the Unit.•d States she would desire to leave the country and remain absent during his term of office. The book is ad vertised by G. W. Carleton and Co. as a tremendous sen sation, "Astounding Book of Fact Revelations!" one volume, 12ino cloth, Illustrated, and Portrait of the Author, price two dollars. Professor L'ngfellow is writing another poem. The new library given by Mr. Peabody to the town of Georgetown has just been finished. Mrs. Julia_ Ward Howe read the essay at the last meeting of the Itad:eal Club i❑ Boston. DE,4711 OF MR. JORN CRADTURD. This distinguished Oriental scholar and ethnolo gist died on Monday night at his residence, i 3l Elvaston-place, South Kensington. He was borU on the 13th of Angust, 1783, in the island of Islay- Ws father, Mr. Samuel Crawford, a man of sew ~0 and prudence, was of an Ayrshire family. lle had. been brought up to the medical profession, andl visiting Islay, married Margaret Campbell, daught of James Campbell, of Ballinaley, the proprietor of a small estate which had been for several genera tions in the family. Their son John was educated in the village school of Bowmore, and to the instruc tion derived from the master, Daniel Taylor, Mr- Crawford used to say he was chiefly indebted for his advancement in life. In 1799, the profession of medicine, for which he never had much taste, having been chosen for him, Mr. Crawford re paired for his studies to Edinburgh, where be' remained three years. In 1803 he obtained a. medical appointment in the Indian Service, ern' barked for India in April, and landed in Cal" cutta in September of the same year. For the first five years of his residence in India h e was employed in his professional duties with the army, chiefly in the North-West Provinces, in the neighbourhood of Delhi and Agra. In 1808 th e same duties took him to Penang in the Straits of Malacca, where he began to devote himself to that study of the languages and manners of the Malay race which was destined to make him w ideli known. In 1811, having been brought under th e , notice of Lord pinto, then Governor- General 01 ' India, Mr. Crawfurd was invited to accompa U l him on the expedition which effected the cut li quest of Java. After that event, in consequence of his acquaintance with the Malay languages, hell appointed to represent the British Government 3 the court of one of the native princes, and for n early six years he filled some of the principal diplomat ° , offices of th e i s l an d. It was th en th a t h e co llecte a the materials for the work which he afterwards pub _ _ fished , 4 , The History of the Indian Archipelago . Jova and their other Indian possessiogs having bee t! restored to the D u t c h, M r . C raw f ur d r eturno to England in 1817, and in 1820 published th e work just mentioned. In 1821 he went back t ° India, and shortly a ft er hi s re t urn was a ppointe d by the first Marquis of Hastings, at that time G °- vernor-General, to the Diplomatic Mission to Siai n d and Cochin China. In 1823 Mr. John Adams, .61 interinz Gavernor-General, apyointed him to a dmit' ister the new settlement of Singapore, on the re signation of its founder, Sir Stamford Raffl es i . In that position he remained three years, a nd concluded with the native chiefs to whom the settl e ' went belonged the convention by which we h ala , its sovereignty. In 1826 he returned to Beng al ' and was forthwith appointed by the Governor" General, Lord Amherst, Commissioner in feg ° ' and eventually, on the conclusion of peace, Envoy to the Burmese Court. In 1827 Mr. Crawfar' , finally returned to England, and in the f o llowing year published an account of his mission to SW : 1 : 11 and Cochin China, and in 1829 ano ther of ' mission to Burivah. After this period, W g : leisure, good health, and an inclination to st udy and capacity for work er.abled him to keep and perfect his stores of Indian and Eastern infer 'nation. Ile was an indefatigable contributor t° the Press on matters relating to the East, and i f . dee 1 on many other subjects. In 1892 he V P/ lisped a grammar and dictionary of the Malay 1314 ; gu iges, and in 1856 a descriptive dictionary of Ma l3 o ' and the languages of the Philippine Arehip elag n i works which secured for their author the respec t philological world. But this barren list of his services and public:: lions gives but a faint conception of the variee itse quirements and genial character of the man w h° o loss is now deplored by a wide circle of friends. P•, members of the Geographical and Ethnological ‘l , O cities will miss the tall form of the ever-grelin vete r ` who scarcely ever failed to take part in their disell"; sions, and who, while stoutly maintainieg his a li o , views, showed a forbearance and courtesy in lis te ing to others which might well be imitated by le members of learned societies. Of singularly sil e , and unostentatious bearing, few were more aLi t sy and certainly none more ready, to impart so und , o formation to those who sought his advice an d ~A 0 sistance. A self-made man, he showed none of t'ep jealousy which sometimes makes self-made he y believe that kind of creation ended when t ip were made. In society, ever hale and hearty e j body, ever fresh and vigorous in mind, he se era or o to be of no age in particular, but in some s o , to belong to all, and thus men of a younger g r i fe lD ration both loved and respected him ; for the)' oo that near him they would find warm shelter, Tito cold shade, that any merit they might have v l° eLi vi be fully appreciated, and that they l i t i j i receive from the mellow octogenarian a synW o f and consideration for all shades and phas e . ° opinion and thought, too often wanting in eiro iati v where men of science seem to meet rathe r as °'''" n an d gonists pitted against each other in an are na, as fellow-soldiers bound to combat ignorance d error to the death. Mr. Crawfurd leave s a sou two daughters to lament his loss.—Tinzes. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at faris is about at Pa r ' f lipg' tle short exchange on London is 25 f. 170. per £1 s te la a comparing these rates with the English Mint P i : 0 8 104(L per ounce for standard gold, it appear gold is at abput the same price in Paris and Load° . r mi t e qourre of exchange at New York on Lond on I , ° , t lif er at 60 days' sight is about 110,i per cent. At this rt'"„"ta to a trifling profit on the importation of g-old ir" United States. ths. r o- Bir BASTING— On the 13th inst., at 22 , Camp den-D11,. .: '(;1° Kensington, the wife of Mr. William Banting, J - te r ' SOIL v..co Vil' NICOL--On the 12th inst., at 24, Dawson place, "'"'' ,„° the wife of Mr. Erskine Nicol, A.R.A., o f a 0 11 ' 4 , w WEBB—On the 9th inst., at 4, Woolwich-comet wife of Capt. J. W. Webb, R.N., of a sou. a ti Marriages. b -fteVof S T MLING—RENTOS—On the 12th inst., at the Pc ° ll.47,tef Church, Westbourne-grove, James Stirling' daag" l cet Lincoln's inn, barrister-at-law, _to Aby, eldestwo too of John T. Renton, Esq., of 5, U pper Lansdo e- •gt Notting-hill. Cli ai rl a , SUMMERHATES CAPPS—On the 12th inst., at f 0 1 ',:of Church, Ealing, William Summerhayes, Esq; 9 1 ,511' sor-road, Ealing, to Henrietta Louisa., only 3 . J. F. Capps, Esq., of Sandringham Villa, Ealieg Deaths. . 10. 0 1111 BUNTING -. On the 12th inst. at at Heaton Norrlsls cc, Bunting, manager to Pickford and Co., age d 9 ~, Iff' l' NEWMAN—On the 10th inst., at Hayes Court , 'ta l ''' 0 , ~ 0 I Middlesex, Charles Newman, Esq., aged &'' WA tel o pe , PITY - On the Blh inst., at 24, Regent-streel.o- Col place, Gen. Sir George W. Paty, K.C.8., l' - ' " Il olPs' ,of of the 70th Regiment, aged SO. RonsoN —On the 11th iust , tit Pontefract, JO ic- 01 . rcle' Esq., J.P., aged 80. • I vi -0 STOPFORD -On the 12th inst., at a ge d s,° i th Vice-Admiral James John Stopford, 5.1..,..,,ete` TOLLEIt— On the 10th inst., at West-heath, 11' S. Bash Toiler, Esq., Q.C., aged 64. . SO ---- - , 10 10 0 1, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM . 4 _ `, go , it of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN 0 ll' e 0 ,01 4 in the Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss troy, Ilidilosox.—Thul4ay, Mayl4, 1865.