The Sun. — London, England, 1868-10-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOITENALS, According to the Herald the functions which Oxford at present performs it is impossible to dispute. Socially, politically, and ecclesiastically, she is essentially Conser vative. '., This has been her traditional character. She has done nothing to forfeit that reputation. Nor is Oxford merely a convenient school for the acquisition of polished manners, of highly-developed culture, and of social exclusiveness. She is vitally connected with a far loftier and holier branch of our modern polity. The English Church is the fountain at which English religion is fed, and the English Church looks to Oxford as one of the main sources for its supply. This is the traditional charac ter which Oxford has for years borne. To Oxford England has looked, and rightly, as towards the citadel of her national faith— the theological arsenal from which, at an emergency, the cause of our English Church might always confidently expect efficient and immediate relief. In canvassing the respective claims of the two candidates, the herald remarks that Sir Roundel' Palmer, hazarding the consistency of his principles, has repeatedly assured his hearers, both in and out of Parliament, that though adverse to the disendowment, he was in favour of the dis establishment of the Irish Church. Equally unfortu nately it happens to be a logical fact that these two terms are absolutely indissoluble. It is a merely vain and idle hope to believe that because Sir Roundell Palmer could not make up his mind last session to go into the lobby with Mr. Gladstone, he will therefore refrain from lifting up his hand against the fabric of Anglicanism. Even allowing that he honestly intends to stand by what he said a few months ago, and that he does not now mean to pass from the championship of disestablishment to disendow ment, is he entirely the master of his own movements ? Sir Roundell Palmer must act with his party, or he will not act at all. The Times says, if our leading men will persist in the now very favourite practice of publishing their private corre spondence, they really ought to write with some view to possible publicity. The consequent sense of restraint might, perhaps, injure their epistolary style, but it would be a very desirable safeguard to their reputation. Indeed, we should be disposed to doubt whether Mr. Mill would have indulged in such strangely extravagant eulogy of his friend and follower, Mr. Chadwick, if he had known that his letters to Mr. Bouverie were to be given to the world. At least we infer as much from the fact, that in the letter to Mr. Chadwick, specially intended for public use, and also in the other, he dwells upon Mr. Bouverie's shortcomings rather than upon Mr. Chadwick's merits. But a far more awful example is furnished by Lord West bury. The sort of fussiness of which he has been guilty is intelligible, and perhaps pardonable, in an old maid or a country squire. One can almost sympathise with the agonies of the parson's lady at being led into dinner after the doctor's. But that an ex-Chancellor and a lawyer of Lord Westbury's genius and attainments should not only harbour this feeling, but allow it to prevent his doing the country useful work, is strange indeed. The Daily .News thinks it is a pity Mr. Roebuck cannot he present at the Liverpool banquet. In the unavoidable absence of Captain Semmes, Mr. Laird could have no more suitablo mate. 'We all know so well how ardently he sought by every possible means to bring about the dis solution of the Great Republic and the establishment of the Slave Empire, that it was unnecessary for him to remind us of his exertions ; nor can we imagine why now, when that strife is over, and just as Lord Stanley has settled one important dispute be tween the two countries, and hopes to settle others, Mr. Roebuck should again proclaim on the house tops his wish that somehow or other the power of the United States could be destroyed. The world would readily have given him credit for such a desire without these extravagant manifestations. But if he chose to insist unseasonably on his own opinion, he might have had some regard for the memory of Lord Palmerston. It was unnecessary to relate at Sheffield the anecdote about the late statesman if it were merely to shew Lord Palmerston's per sonal leanings. Those leanings were at all times known to Lord Palmerston's colleagues, to the House of Commons, and to the American Government. In fact, it was impos sible to live in England and not be aware of them. But Lord Palmerston was a statesman, not such an egotist as to imagine that in a high position his first notions were to determine his action, but accustomed to take a broad survey of facts, and rise to the height of his public respon sibilities. It is easy to perceive why Mr. Roebuck cannot understand the conduct which Lord Palmerston pursued during the American war, and that he should insinuate that that statesman was guilty of political immorality when in fact he was displaying the highest morality by substituting his public and official judgment for his private personal predilections. Mr. Roebuck never did so in his life; he could not do so. He has tio conception of the process. In order to bolster up his own position Mr. Roebuck described an interview he had with Lord Palmerston immediately after delivering a pro-Southern speech at Sheffield, in which that statesman is asserted to have declared that those were his own opinions, but that he dared not officially say so. In the absence of corro borative evidence the Star declines to accept the story as true. It will be recollected how completely Mr. Roebuck misunderstood and misstated the result of his interview with the Emperor Napoleon, when he went to beg him for a message to the British Par liament. And perhaps it may be as well to remind Mr. Roebuck that it was Lord Palmerston's painful duty to give him a severe rebuke for lowering the character of the Parliament of England, and for taking upon himself functions which belonged by the Constitution to her Majesty the Queen. It is quite possible that Lord Palmerston may have shared the opinions of a large class of England as to the probable result of the American war. It is impossible to believe, however, that he would ostentatiously boast of these opinions, although at variance with the actions of his own Cabinet, before the most indiscreet member of the House of Commons. If Lord Palmerston's opinions were us Mr. Roebuck represents them, he had the wisdom and experience to keep them to himself, land not to attempt to force his country into a dangerous position to gratify his own likes and dislikes. Mr. Roebuck, on the contrary, having clutched his firebrand, threw it about as the foolish never fail to do, whose want of political perception renders them blind to all consequences. The Standard says Mr. Gladstone's remarks upon the Irish Church question demand very brief notice at its hands. The right honourable gentleman has Persistently refused to address himself to the argnments with which be has been confronted from the very first. Ile has never attempted to answer any one of the points in the masterly • - - _ _ address of the Premier. If prudential considerations induce him to retreat from the field of argument, and to take refuge in empty generalities and dogmas which cannot be sustained ,by any process of ratiocination, his opponents may well afford to decline an inglorious contest in which empty assertions must take the place of logic and reaeon ing. No one, fur instance, will expect us to refute the contention that becaus e a quarterly contemporary, the upholder of the plan of concurrent endowment, which was last year the assailant of the Government, is now pleased to stand up in their defence, it is therefore established that her Majesty's Ministers have become converts to the plan of concurrent endowment. Yet Mr. Gladstone evident]: regards this as a fact established beyond dispute. The new church of St. Mary Magdalene, Pad• dington, was openod by license on Wednesday, only a portiox of the beautiful design by Mr. street being completed. The iililC3 remarks that a university election has not generally been regarded as a mere political struggle betwen the party in and the party out of office, though of late years it has more and more tended to become so. But ever, as such it would be a contest of peculiar significance ; at all times, and especially at a period like the present, of general movement, the public would watch with interest a trial of strength between the Liberal and Conservative forces in a constituency which contains within itself, as it were, the primary elements of the two antagonistic policies —a constituency, on the one hand, by its connec tion with Church and State and all its cherished tradi tions, committed to the ancient order of things ; and on the other, by virtue of being a central seat of the highest form of public education, naturally aspiring to be a chief organ of national progress. But deeper than the political conside rations of the day lie the permanent objects of the members who compose this peculiar constituency. In other consti tuencies the clergy are but a few units in the midst of a multitude, and ordinarily they deem it their duty to abstain from political polemics ; in the university they are gathered together, they make up the bulk of the electors, and are capable of uttering the opinions of their order in a collective voice audible to the entire nation. The potency of this utterance is limited only by the amount of discordance between the various sections of the Church, and the extent to which the clerical influence is modified by the contrary tendencies of the lay members of Convocation. The Oxford election is also a battle-ground for the control of the education of the university. This struggle is of public importance, though it originates in the first instance among the resi dents. On the one side are placed the majority of those who are actively engaged in the work of education—men bent upon rendering the university of the utmost possible ' service to the State, and therefore, if for no other reason, , Liberals committed to such reforms as are necessary for this main object—for instance, the relaxation of tests, the extension of the university, and the development of new schools. On the other side are ranged those who stand on the ancient ways, and would maintain the university as a stronghold of social rank, ecclesiastical privilege, and a jealous system of classical lore. Each side can command great resources from without ; the one can summon laymen from the metropolis, the other the clergy from their coun try parsonages. RITUALISM AT BRIGHTON. A correspondent of the Times writes :—" The good people of Brighton having had their attention once drawn to the subject of ritualistic practices, seem determined not to let it drop. On Tuesday afternoon, and again on Wednesday afternoon, two large and important " Protestant " meetings were held in the great room 01 the new grand concert-hall in West-street,nominally to heal. lectures or addresses from the Rev. Dr. Blakeney and th 4 Rev. Dr. Cumming, upon the Romish and Ritualistic controversies, but in reality to make a strong public demonstration against the return to those obsolete cere monies and practices to which we have recently adverted in these columns. The chair was taken each day by the Rev. E. Clay, incumbent of St. Margaret's Chapel, who was supported by a few of the local clergy and Dissenting ministers, and by one or two laymen of standing and position. The subjects, as publicly announced, were " Romauism identical with Popery, and unscriptural ;" " The Roman Catholic Mass subversive of the Corn. munion Service ;" and " Romanism : its personal, social, and national influence for good." THE CROWN PRINCESS OP PRUSSIA. Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Prussia and two of her family arrived in Dover on Wednesday, and proceeded ,thence to St. Leonards, where the Princess will stay some time. The royal party was brought from Calais in her Majesty's steam yacht the Enchantress, and arrived at the Admiralty Pier in Dover about a quarter past four, after a very quick and easy passage across the Channel. A vast crowd.had assembled on the pier to witness the royal debarkation. Captain Bruce, R.N., the Admiralty Superintendent, first went on board and received her Royal Highness, who appeared to be in excellent health and spirits. A guard of honour of the 94th Regiment was present, and the band of that regiment played the National Anthem, while at the same moment a royal salute was fired from the Castle. The Princess was much cheered, and acknowledged these demonstrations of welcome by frequently bowing and waving her handkerchief. Her Royal Highness and suite immediately entered a saloon carriage, attached to the train, of the South-Eastern Railway, and was conveyed to the Lord Warden Hotel, where refreshments were partaken of. At 4.55 the royal train, consisting of seven vehicles, fitted with Walker's commu nication between passengers, guard, and engine-driver, left Dover; with the royal party,!and proceeded to St. Leonards, in charge of Mr. J. P. Knight, the out door superintendent of the South-Eastern Railway, and accompanied by Mr. Eborall. The guns of the Castle again fired a salute when the train left Dover. A telegram from St. Leonards•on-Sea is to the effect that her Royal Highness, family, and suite arrived then in the evening at 6.30, having travelled over the South- Eastern line. Her Royal Highness was received by the mayor and corporation of Hastings, and a guard of honour of the Ist Cinque Ports Volunteer Artillery and the 4th Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers. A large gathering of the inhabitants gave the Princess a most enthusiastic welcome at the railway station, which was very satisfactorily decorated by Mr. Deacon, the stationmaster. MR. MILL AND MR. BOUVERIE Mr. Mill has sent a long letter to the papers answer to Mr. Bouverie's last letter, which ap peared in some of the daily journals before Mr. Mill received it. He tells Mr. Bouverie that, though a great deal surprised, he is far from being dissatisfied at seeing the correspondence published. He says : " Your observation that choosing the best men to be had ' would be fatal to the mutual confidence between represented and representative' is a misanthropical sentiment which I should scarcely have expected to hear from you, since I can see no meaning in it, unless it be that the constituencies so seldom get good men that they can scarcely ever be expected to be faithful to the men they have got." He reminds him that five•and•twenty years and a new Reform Act make a great change in men and politics. If the constituency of Kilmarnock makes as judicious a choice now as it did when it last changed its representa tive, he sincerely hopes it will be five•and•twenty years before it changes again. Mr. Mill continues : "To the public or the constituency I have no hesitation in saying that no untried man can be looked upon as less a member of the Liberal party than the man who at the beginning of the present year called the Liberal par} a rabble, and declared that their leader was incapab of leading." He thinks that the old members should not monopolise the representation to the exclusion of new men of advanced opinions. He condemns the tactics of the Liberal party in the last House of Com mons, where they were first rallied under the cry of supporting Palmerston, and then under the cry of disestablishing the Irish Church. He says t "Now, I am not one of those who think that the politic' progress of England has but one step more to make bef9:l reaching the summit, where it may rest and be thankful , and that if a man is ready to vote for the disesta blishment of the Irish Church he is ready to do all that the staunchest Liberalism can demand of him." men are required who will follow their leaders through all the parliamentary tactics which may be required by tll 4 policy of their skilful opponents. He thinks it was not the Tories, but the Adullamites, who weakened the Liberal party in the last Parliament ; and if a similar result should befal it in the next, there will be cause for bitter regret that the Liberal party did not fight out its battles at the polling-booths, rather than in the lobby of the House of Commons. There does not appear to be any danger that Mr. Gladstone's nominal majority will not be greater than in the last Parliament. What the country has to look to is that his majority shall be more steadfast to genuine Liberal principles. We do not want men who cast reluctant looks back to the old order of things, nor men whose Liberalism consists chiefly in a warm adherence to all the Liberal measures already passed ; but men whose heart and soul are in the cause of progress, and who are animated by that ardour which, in politics as in war, kindles t& commander to his highest achievements, and makes the army at his command worth twice its numbers—men whose zeal will encourage their leader to attempt what their fidelity will give him strength to do. It would be poor statesmanship to gain a seeming victory at the poll by returning a majority numerically larger, but com posed of the same incompatible elements as the last, even if we put political principle aside, and look at nothing but the exigencies of the fight we are going to sustain against a politician renowned for his skill in availing himself of the disunion of his opponents." The ex-manager of a Liverpool bank, whose flight .we recently noticed, is said by the Liverpool Courier to be Mr. Thomas Goodie, formerly of Barned's Bank, and latterly of the North and South Wales Bank. Intelligence from Longborough states that Lord John Manners is very ill, and will remain some time longer in Scotland by medical advice. Ile will therefore be unable to canvass the electors of North Leicestershire at present. The Moniteur of Tuesday says that Lopez evacu ated Tebicuary on discovering a conspiracy amongst his intimate friends. He has fallen back on Villeta for the purpose of protecting the arsenal of Villa Pica and the capital. If he does not make a stand there the allies can march straight into Asuncion. The river is open for the passage of the Brazilian ironclad; and it is probable they are now before Asuncion. Under hese circumstances the war appears to be nearly at an end. THE DISASTER TO THE I RISH MAIL.— The coroner's jury, in the case of Arthur Thompson, the driver of the Irish mail on the day of the Abergele accident, have returned the following verdict :—" That the deceased, Arthur Thompson, died from ulceration of the bowels, and that his death was greatly accelerated by injuries received and shock sustained by his system, by the acci dent which occurred to the Irish mail at Abergele, on August 20, 1868." THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AN ORNITHOLOGIST.--'' For some time past his Royal Highness the Duke of Edin burgh has devoted a considerable portion of his leisure to ornithological science, and, with a view of procuring s► large collection of different species of birds, one of his principal attendants is now receiving lessons to qualify him in the art of preserving such speci mens as the duke may wish to be included in a col-, lection (already a large one) that may be increased during his visits to India, China, and other countries.— Morn lug Post. THE BISHOP OF CHESTER AND THE VICAR OE HAYDocK.—In many quarters surprise and regret hay.: been expressed at the apparent apathy of the Bishop o, Chester in connection with the Vicar of Haydock and the Harvest Home held there, now become so notorious. We ventured to hint last week that the bishop was moving in the matter but slowly. We are now enabled to state a:. once, on the best authority, that the bishop moved on learning the facts as they appeared in the Guardian, and that his letter of monition to Mr. Greenwell, should it find its way into print legitimately, would prove that probably he had taken a better method of managing the Haydock matter than the more public way of another bishop. The effect of the correspondence is that Mr. Greenwell retires from Haydock, and we believe he has no present intention of resuming clerical duties, and certainly Church Qf 1i9P.3e.---ivi, ardnatost not in connegam with Vac Getfardian. THE SUN, LONDON, TB URSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1868 , LOYALTY VERSUS PATRIOTISM. A Dublin correspondent describes an entertainment in honour of Mr. Pigott, of the Irishman, given in the round room of the Rotundo. About 400 persons assembled to do honour to the " martyr " of the press. The gallery, as well as the body of the room, was crowded, and a number of ladies took part in the demonstration. Around the gallery were suspended white banners with the names of Butt, Grattan, Lord Edward Fitz gerald, John Martin, Meagher, O'Connell, and others, inscribed upon them in black letters. Mr. Thomas Ryan occupied the chair. A ttriking peculiarity of the entertainment was that the part of Hamlet was unavoidably omitted, Mr. Pigott having been unable to be present, owing to the death of a near relative. The company was addressed by the chairman, the Rev. Mr. Vaughan, and others, who denounced the treatment of Mr. Pigott by the British Government for acts which they thought were worthy of praise. Mr. John Martin declared that they had met—firstly, to do honour to Mr. Pigott, and, secondly, to declare that they would never be content to remain the subjects of England —a sentiment in which the assembly expressed their full con currence. He said they would never cease to demand the national rights of their country, and they would persist in the use of all proper means to obtain the restoration of self-government. He observed that eminent English statesmen had avowed their desire to govern Ireland according to Irish ideas. They would be glad to receive proofs of such a desire, and there was a very simple way for attaining the end in view—" let the English take away their power from this country." A voice responded that " they must." The speaker went on to offer some further suggestions in the same spirit :—" Let the English people cease to employ the revenues and official patronage of this country which they had usurped ; let them cease to employ them as means of falsifying the public opinion of this country ; let the Queen come over to Ireland." (Cries of "We don't want her !" "No Queen !" and great confusion.) After the chairman had interfered and order had been restored, the speaker pro ceeded to say that he wished the Queen would come over to Ireland—(cries of " No Queen !" &c.)—that she should have herself crowned Queen in Ireland—(cries of "No* no " )—that she should take oath to stand by the laws and Constitution of Ireland, and that she should call a free Irish Parliament. (Hear, hear.) When a free Parliament was called, then might Ireland, England, and all the world know what were the real wishes of the people of Ireland. (Applause.) MR. GOLDWIN SMITH ON CHATHAM AND HIS TIMES. Mr. Goldwin Smith's lecture on " Chatham and his Times" was delivered on Wednesday. It did not merely refer to Chatham. But of him Mr. Smith said that he was one of the meteors of history; nowhere was he more meteoric than in Macaulay's famous article. Historians hardly dared to criticise him fully, but contented them selves with tracking his splendid path across the heavens. Yet, perhaps, there was no statesman who required more to be studied in connection with the circum stances of his age in order to do him justice. Chatham came at a time when the country stood in the greatest need of reform—ecclesiastical, social, legal, and political ; but instead of reform he gave us nothing but war. He came in an age of scepticism, but it was a scepticism unlike that of the present day. Modern scep ticism was at least an earnest seeking after truth, while fundamentally it was religious, and allied with and even producing the highest purity of character. The Church in England, although not so scandalously corrupt as that of France, was terribly worldly. Horace Walpole had shewn us that the bishops cut but a poor figure, while the only active religion was Methodism, which became o fashionable that women in high circles grew as fond of it as of a game of cards. In those days real power was still supposed to reside iu the King. The American Constitution was evidently framed upon a model of ours at that time, substituting the President for the King, the Senate for the House of Lords, Congress for the House of Commons. The framers of that constitution were not aware that no real power was to reside in the King. They placed real power in the President, and the consequence has been the recent collision between the President and ;he Representative Assembly. Thus once more is it proved hat in framing constitutions we cannot divide power. Chatham entered public life with the idea that the best thing to be done for the nation was to make it glorious in war. He opposed Sir Robert Walpole, who, though cor rupt, was by no means so corrupt as he has been represented. Joining the opposition to Walpole, Chatham commenced those invectives for which he was afterwards so famous. Walpole ultimately fell ;he forgot that the first duty of a statesman was to preserve his own honour ; and that if a statesman has no honour he cannot serve the public weal. "In English history we have (Mr. Smith continued) had four great orators. Pym was the first, and perhaps he still remains greatest of all. The second, if we may credit tradition, was Bolingbroke ; but not a frag ment of his speeches remains, and his admirers confine their descriptions to his style rather than matter. Then comes Chatham, whose eloquence was rather of a peculiar kind, and characterise , l by much rhe toric. The day is now approaching when rhetoric in statesmen will grow weak, when we shall see political ques tions dealt with as questions of science, and the rhetoric even of a Chatham will he powerless. The fourth Eng lish orater I venture to think is John Bright. Bright's friend Cobden once told me that he had been read ing the orations of Demosthenes from a translation, and he was evidently surprised at their character. He had expected something more brilliant and declamatory. I told him, of course, that the beauty of the language was lost in a translation ; but in the second place I said he was mistaken in supposing that Demosthenes was a declaimer. The political speeches of Demosthenes were not declamation, but counsel. I would say the same of the speeches of John Bright. Therefore the speeches of John Bright will live ; they will live not only for their force of language and beauty of form, but because they contain the counsels given by a great public man to the nation of his time." Chatham's wars were next criticised by the lecturer, who thought it was.a mistake to suppose that Chatham made commerce flourish through war. Com merce never flourished through war ; only a few great merchants reaped wealth, while smaller traders suffered depression. Incidentally mentioning Frederick the Great, the lecturer thought it was high time the character of that monarch should be spoken of reasonably. We have just had, he remarked, a life of Frederick the Great from a man of genius, whose philosophy, it seems to me, is reduced ad abaurdum in that book. No doubt Frederick was a great captain. It was fortunate for him that he was a king, else once or twice his failures would have been his ruin. He was a great ruler and a great civiliser, though rather in a shallow way. Frederick was, in plain truth, a robber, in excuse of which we may no doubt plead that the powers of Europe at that time generally partook of the same character. Resuming the general subject of the Chatham wars, the lecturer said it was from them we derived our imperial notions —our passion for " an empire upon which the sun never sets." He also said that the only effectual check on war was to make every age pay for its own wars, and that the same fallacious arguments were used in Chatham's time as now for robbing posterity. The attention of the audience was then called to Chatham's fall, to the American war, and to the general character of the man whose life had been the subject of the address. The application of Mr. Bright's charge of "pompousness and servility " against the present Prime Minister, to Chat ham in his intercourse with his sovereign, was loudly cheered. Chatham's life, the lecturer said, was theatric, but really splendid. The lecture closed with the following words :—" Cobden sleeps in a country churchyard, and a country churchyard is the best grave for one whose life was devoted to real beneficence. It was meet that such a worker as he should, in death, mingle his dust with the dust of the people. Chatham proper place is where he lies, in Westminster Abbey. He was the real hero of his own age— an age of war and glory ; and we may look back upon his name with veneration and love, though we may way that his age may return no more. Mr. C. Evans, chancellor of the diocese of Nor wich, and one of the oldest barristers on the Norfolk circuit, was thrown from his horse on Wednesday, and was so severely injured that he died shortly afterwards. THE " COUNTESS OF DERIVENTWATER."—Th e Highway Board of Hexham held a special meeting on Tuesday to consider what action should be taken in the matter of the Countess of Derwentwater. A resolution was moved to the effect that the clerk be instructed to lay information and take out summonses against the occupant of the obstruction, and against any person who may place, or has placed, any part of the obstruction on the road. An amendment was brought up in favour of inaction. Only :three waywardens voted for it, however, and the original resolution was carried by a decisive majority. ARCHDEACON DENISON. —The Church Associa- tion have just addressed the followircr challenge to Arch deacon Denison :—" Sir, lam dir tte by the Council of the Church Association to inform y‘ u that if you are :so satisfied with the orthodoxy of your doctrines as to re publish the three sermons upon which the Rev. James Ditcher founded his proceedings against you, and which we are informed by the publisher are withdrawn from cir culation, admit their circtOation and authorship, and join in an application to the bisl top to send the case by lett, rs of request to the Court of At . .ches, the Church Association will undertake to adopt the n( c .ssary steps for obtainicg a judicial decision on the suL f i ect.—l am, sir, yours very taig4tilly, FREDERICK DITIJi&S, Secretary.", THE EXHIBI7'ION IN THE PACIFIC STATES. Saturday week we gave an account in a general way of the building in San Francisco, which con tains the Industrial Exhibition of the Pacific States. We propose now to notice its contents, as reported in the Mining and Scientific Press and the Me chanics' Fair Daily Press. But first, before briefly enumerating the classes of manufacture exhibited, we may glance at the visitors. During the day the mass of the people are engaged in their occupations, and those who then give their time to the Exhibition are for the most part men of science who go there to study. This is clearly seen when the attendance is watched. Their movements and countenances, together with the quiet, earnest attention bestowed, show the careful, thoughtful study of the object, and an immense amount of information is acquired by those citizens who can most profitably use it. In the evening the scene changes, when thousands hurry to the build ing to gratify their curiosity, and to pass their time n recreation as well as in instruction. Probably there is no other community so well qualified to appreciate such an exhibition. The separation of the Pacific States from the manufacturing centres of the world, and the necessity forced on the people of making their brains utilize the bountiful gifts of nature, and atone for the want of labour, have developed the inventive faculties, and this the Fair illustrates in a marked manner. As a proof we may instance the model for hoisting rock, earth, &c., from mines or excavations, which works on a purely scientific principle, though the inventor, Mr. Pierce, a simple miner, never read a line of Euclid. The contrivance consists of an or dinary dumping car, such as is in almost uni versal use in the mines, the hind wheels of which are six inches further apart than the fore ones. The fore pa'r run on a tramway 18 inches lower than that on which the hind ones work. By this simple arrangement the cars always go up or down on a level, thus avoiding the danger of any thing falling out of them. When the car reaches the:platform, which is set at a slight incline towards the dump, the hind wheels run up an incline as the lower ones run down, till the load upsets itself by gravitation, when the weight of the empty car, being on the hind wheels, draws it down the incline to the platform. We cannot do better than use the words of the Hon. Newton Booth in opening the Exhibition, to show the importance of its object : " Consider what the world consumes every year. 200,000,000 pounds of flour, and 13,000,000 pounds of meat go down the throat of New York city yearly. Multiply by 1,000,000, and if you can conceive the result you will have some idea of what it takes to feed the world with bare necessities. California consumes annually 365,000 barrels of f10ur,700,000 bushels of potatoes, 70,000,000 pounds of meat, 1,000 tons of codfish, 38,000,000 pounds of sugar, 5,000,000 pounds of coffee, 1,500,000 pounds of tea, 5,000,000 pounds of butter, 20,000,000 pounds of rice; wears out $15,000,000 worth of dry goods and shoe leather, and burns up, besides houses and mountain towns, 250,000 tons of coal, 4,000,000 pounds of powder, 4,000,000 of candles, 1,000,000 gallons of coal oil, and 50,000.000 of cigars ; not to mention the 1,500,000 gallons of whisky that annually assist to consume us. If all this had to be raised, mined, and manufactured, or paid for by the labour of our hands, unassisted by art, we would have few holidays, and no pageants like this. If the world had to be housed, fed, aad clothed with only such crude tools as actual neces sity would suggest, the many, would be slaves to the few, and worn out in their service, or all would be the slaves of toil." When steam, when elec tricity, when wind and water, are made to do man's work, a burden of care is lifted from the heart of humanity, and we then learn where the leisure comes from after actual wants are supplied, part of which goes into luxuries, ornaments, books, newspapers, paintings, music, houses, schools, churches, cities, culture ; part into idleness, ennui, whisky, tobacco, fast life, folly, vice, crime ; and all of what is called civilization. After tracing the history of invention from the days when the hero of Alexandria described a steam toy as a mere plaything, to the present time, Mr. Booth thus concluded With grateful reverence to the past, whose inheritance we enjoy; looking hopefully to the future, to whose glories our exertions will contribute; in the name of free and intelligent labour, we dedicate this Hall to Industrial Art, conscious that year by year succeeding structures will here arise, dedicated to the same purpose, in ever-increasing magnificence of display and com pleteness of design and execution, evidencing the pro gress of our State, our country, and the whole race of man." Class 1, of the 30 classes, is devoted to Steam Engines, of which there are uce large and three miniature, worthy of special notice, each re presentative in character, presenting points of no velty and jutere,a. Outside, in a small shed, by the Post-Areet entrance, the steam is generated which sets the thousani wheels in motion through out this department of the Exhibition. There are but three steam boilers on exhibition, two of which are employed to make steam for driving the ma chinery, both built at the Miners' Foundry. These boilers are tubular in construction, 16 feet long, 48 inches diameter, and contain fifty 31 inch tubes each. They are both fitted up with Harris's Steam Superheater. These boilers are of very supe rior workmanship, and are capable of making steam for about 80-horse power. Chief among the large engines is Wright's variable "cut-off" steam engine, a Californian invention, novel in principle and con struction, which we regret our space is too limited to describe. The American Engineering thus writes of it The simplicity of this cut-off', the faci lity with which it can be adjusted—the parts being but few and always in sight and accessible —its action so quick and perfect, and no throttling of the steam, but permitting it to enter the cylinder at boiler pres sure, all combine to make it a most perfect cut-off." 1867, by Irvi ng M . Scott and William June n Eckart,e The second is Messrs. Scott and Eckart' s auto matic governor and slide valve c u t- o ff, pa t ente d San Francisc o . Thi s i nvention forms a very beautiful and simple contrivance for 25th of sa con trolling the speed of an engine under all conditions, whether loaded or suddenly relieved from the en tire work or gradually unloaded. There are nine teen of these engines in California and adjacent States, namely, at Crescent Mill, Plunas County ; Rawhide Ranch Mill, Calaveras ; Keystone Mill, , Reese River; Twin Vulture Mine, Arizona; French's Mill, Silve r City ; Angels Camp, Cala veras ; Genesee Flou r Mill, San Francisco ; Sacra- R A i ni ve a r d° 1Nr1i;ll, Manhattaniier n Sacra mento Water Works ; Hunter's Valley Mill, Mari posa , • Quail Hill Mill, Calaveras ; Kimball's Car riage Factory, San Francisc •o , Venus Flour Mill, Oakland; Rising Star Mine, and one now at the Mechanics' Institute Pavilion. These engines vary in size from 14-inch cylinder with 30-inch stroke to a 20-inch cylinder with 42-inch stroke. The third is the Hick steam engine, for which the inventor claims the entire principle and action of the best reciprocating engines, while its details are so far simplified that the pistons connected directly with the crank form the only moving parts ; and these, with the cylinders and bearing parts, compose the whole engine. Class 2 contains agricultura implements, and is placed as a sub-division o manufacturing machinery, attracting more gene. ral attention than any other branch of the Exhi. bition ; nor is this surprising in this agricultural community. Still more interesting in a land of c g o o m ld es un ands d il e v r er must be 3 :—" A small Hepburn'sbe mining machinery, w hi c h grinder and amalgamator i 3 at work on some ore, where the visitor first enters the department. _ _ Hinkle and Capp's grinder and concentrator next, are fitted up in connection with each other, but have not yet been put in operation. Everything seems to be in readiness, however, and some bags of ore are staeding in waiting. Varney is bringing in his pans and rock-breakers. Hendy's and Hungerford's concentrators are at work alongside of each other, and have been going since the opening of the fair, but on account of the in convenience of getting the pulp and water to and away from the pans in the exhibition building, they have not been actually engaged in the concentra tion of any ore. Pumps are on hand in great variety, and they are still arriving, Cameron being the principal exhibitor thus far. A little wooden stamp mill is shown, - with a lever arrangement to raise the stamps, so that the power which is requi site can be supplied by hand, though the number of strokes per minute is necessarily reduced. Form: hall's hydraulic blower comes next, but the belt has not been attached. A device for running cars con taining water and ore up an incline shaft of vary ing inclinations, without altering the level of the car, is on exhibition by an " honest miner" who has neglected to attach his name to that article. That globe hydraulic nozzle, and globe-pipe coupling of R. It. and J. Craig, of Nevada, is looked at by practical miners with a good deal of interest. M'Auley's rope-knotted hydraulic hose covering is seen depending from the rafters. Another con centrator, by J. C. Kernan, is new in principle. It looks like a little iron cupola furnace, on its four legs, and consists of a large upright iron pipe four feet in height, w i t h ano th er simil a r one inside of it. The water and pulp fall into the inner pipe at the top, and rise again between the two, leaving the gold and sulphurets at the bottom, while the light and e irthy ingredients are carried along and flooded over the rim of the outer pipe. Another concentrator is also to be brought in by Dr. Cox, the foundation for it having been put in readiness. A quartz crusher will be put in operation at the door of the side entrance to the Exhibition." THE PROPHECIES OF THE t , TIMES" CORRESPONDENT. ( From the Anglo-American Times.) "A more careful survey" of the animal the Times calls its Philadelphia correspondent shows the creature to be only a " bear," and not the mastodon we at first supposed. Its extraordinary vagaries deceived us, but now we see that the thing is after nuts. The correspondent's object has been lately to depreciate United States Securities, and it really amuses when leading articles of the Times are written on texts furnished by this bear as if they were positive and undeniable facts. From him we learn the composition of the next Congress, and their intentions regarding Five-Twenties. It does not appear that we are reading of a future no human being could foresee, but of events known to the writer. Supposing, in money questions of such vital interest to Europe, men felt inclined to form and act on conjecture, they must, indeed, be singularly ignorant of passing events if they took as a guide the Philadelphia correspondent. We would urge on their attention to make themselves ac quainted with occurrences a few weeks old before attempting to launch into the future. Then they will be able to estimate the value of the Philadelphia correspondent as a prophet, and we write what follows to help them. A few weeks ago we showed that the actual state of feeling in the United States at the time the correspondent wrote, was wholly opposed to what he wrote. It was not the predic tion of " A Yankee," grounded on a broad principle, but a correspondent informing Europe, through its leading paper, of the drift of opinion which would shortly be called upon to settle for years the Government of America. What was his " careful survey ?" Why, " that the field as it exists just now shows that the Democrats hold the vantage ground, and indicates that they will secure the majority of the Presidential electors; hence the chances at present and also the popular drift seem to favour the election of Seymour over Grant in spite of the latter's military services." This was written early in September at a time when the in dications were so clear as to be to others unmis takeable, and to us his remarks appeared so prepos terous that we exposed their falsity in a leading article. Yet this was the information on this mo mentous subject, though diametrically opposed to fact, which went the rounds of Europe, in the face of a telegram which, to editors at least, ought to have shown the worthlessness of the prediction. The careful survey and the news of the election in Maine were published on the same day in the limes, the one really falsifying the other. More striking still is the contradiction between the correspon dent's assertion and the actual fact in the Times of Thursday, whenthe bear, after stating that " there is nothing more dismal in the present aspect of our affairs than the unfortunate financial condition of the United States," goes on to predict—" This dis mal prospect is one of the hardest things for our politicians to face, and the country has spent this week chiefly in studying figures. As the Republi cans are responsible for the heavy appropriations their party is suffering the consequences. The Maine election and the Georgia riot sent the tide of neutral voters surging towards Grant. The threatened bankruptcy of the Treasury and the extravagance that caused it have checked this tide, and may cause it again to run in favour of Sey mour. Thus easily are our people affected by pass ing events, and we have another swing this week of our almost evenly-balanced political pendulum." In that paper were the telegrams announcing the result of the elections on the 13th instant, and, ridi culous as it may appear, one was from " the bear" himself, stating that the Republicans had swept the very State from which he wrote, electing 18 Pennyslvanian Congressional members out of 24, and giving a majority of over 10,000 to the State ticket. If he wanted really to enlighten Europe as to coming events and did his best, then be has failed so signally as to prove himself wholly devoid of the qualities which the correspondent of such a paper should possess. If he wanted merely to bene fit his play by creating a favourable feeling towards it i❑ Europe that is to use the Times as a Democratic organ, then he ran the risk of placing as he has now twice done—his own predictions by the side of the actual event, his letter being over taken by the news through the wire. With such glaring instances, we may well wonder at the Times grounding leading articles on his prophecies. Nor need the holders of United States Bonds view with alarm the " dismal prospect" as regards the financial position of the country. His " careful surveys" and " his dismal prospects" are on a par as to value. Indeed we may say that the latter is more worthless than the former, as " the bear" has associated himself with another animal but with long ears to produce this picture. We do not wish to be disrespectful to Mr. Alexander Delmar, but we strongly objected to erroneous statements being disseminated throughout Europe, which are merely designed for electioneering purposes in America. Were it not that the correspondent is slow almost beyond belief he would have succeeded in aiding the Democrats in their object ; but, as usual, he is weeks behind hand. The war left heavy burdens unliquidated ; which the ruling party, new to taxation, found a difficulty in adjusting. Discontent followed, which the opposition used, and did all they could to aggravate, to damage the Republicans. They injured the credit of the Go vernment by agitating for thepayment of the bonds in greenbacks and for the taxation of the interest to embarass their opponents and strengthen them selves by the discontent of the masses ; the pre vailing corruption, as well as the blunders of the Re __ publicans, were brought forward to stigmatize their rule. These, the alleged failure of Reconstruction and the danger of State Rights, were the trump cards by which they hoped to win the game, and they played the financial card with great skill. Edward Atkinson endeavoured to neutralise the effect by his speech at the Massachusetts Convention, un dertaking to prove, by official figures, that the finances of the nation had been managed by the Republicans with a skill and success of which they might well be proud. His able address was circu lated as a campaign document, and produced such an effect that the Democrats found it necessary to get the Director of the Bureau of Statistics to pile up some figures in reply. These are the correspon dent's words, and, alas, they are but too true : "Mr. Delmar, heretofore, has not been fortunate in his statistics, and has made mistakes; but in this case it was too plain sailing for error." That is, Mr. Delmar is known as a notorious blunderer ; and while the correspondent says that this case is too plain sailing for error, the statiscian starts by omitting a sum of over a hundred millions of dol lars, the balance on hand last June. Even the Treasury Department, under its Democrat Secre tary, is compelled to deny the accuracy of his figures, and the chairman of the Committee of Ap propriations makes the receipts fully fifty millions of dollars higher, and the expenditure sixty-seven millions of dollars less. Plain sailing, then, as the " bear" regards it when men deal with figures de scriptive of events still future, Mr. Delmar has run aground. The radical difference between Atkinson's and Delmar's figures is that the former had reference to events passed, and the latter to those still future. Unfortu nately for this blundering correspondent, with the following sentence is published one of these telegrams so fatal to all his assertions : " The successive statements of the public debt have, month after month, shown that the expen ditures of the Government were greater than the receipts, and that when the year's business was aggregated an alarming deficit would appear." From Washington, 10th Oct., the monthly state ment of the Treasury on the Public Debt and the cash in the Treasury of the United States is thus given :--" The former amounted on the Ist inst. to $ 2 ,645,000,000, being an increase of $1,750,000 as compared with last month, and the latter to $ 1 10,000,000, showing an increase of $2,500,000." While he wrote the figures being compiled in the Treasury showed the incorrectness of his statement, the gain on the month being three-quarters of a million. We would like to know why the corre- spondent Iris taken so much trouble,to misrepresent ,he financial position of the United States. ls he really a bear of these securities ? Able as is Edward Atkinson, intimate as his knowledge of the finan- cial affairs of the United States, we all know that his speech was a campaign document, intended to gild with a handsome covering the economic blun ders of his party, and so we treat it. As an an swer, acknowledged blunderer as Mr. Delmar is, his figures can at best but be regarded in the same light, almost bearing this in mind that the latter is speculative as being in the future, and the former is actual as being in the past. If bondholders and persons interested in the finances of the United States take our advice they would receive with caution the remarks of the Philadelphia correspon dent, and seek from more reliable sources informa- tion on this important subject. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Oct. 3.) The Money Market continues easy, and presents a faci lity of loans that is quite remarkable for the Ist of Octo ber. The greenbacks in the New York banks have been pretty well drawn down, it is true, but not nearly so much as it was expected they would be at this time, while the western demand has almost entirely ceased (as, indeed, the western balances are pretty much exhausted), and the banks still hold fifty millions of three per cent. certifi cates, which they can at any time exchange for currency at the Treasury. It is therefore a proved thing that money is not going to be scarce this fall from any legitimate employment of it in trade, whether moving grain and lumber from the West, bringing forward the cotton crop of the South, or paying for the heavier importa tions of the earlier autumn months. Not even the ap proach of quarter-day has been sufficient to bring loans up to average rates for the season in the principal com mercial centres of the country. Evan if the market should suddenly develope a stringency, no candid man, seeing what has bean the course of loans thus far, and how largely the legitimate exchanges of the country have already proceeded without making money scarce, could claim that it was the result of causes proper to the season, as has so generally and strenuously been assorted. We have thus far spoken of the money market as if its continued ease had not been interrupted at all, nor has it in such a sense as to discredit any of the foregoing re marks. Loans were freely made at New York as late as Tuesday at former rates, currency being readily lent on Government Securities as low as 4 per cent. upon call, with exceptions at 3 per cent., and 6 to 7 per cent. on good 30 to GO days' paper. Wednesday, however, witnessed the springing of the mine (rumours of which and underground rumblings have for some time been heard) preliminary to the great charge of the boars. We have before alluded to the preparations being made for such an explosion. It has been known that many of the prominent bank officials were lending themselves to this scheme, and the result sur prises no one. It is the easiest thing in the world to lock up greenbacks. It only requires the connivance and as sistance of the banks, and the loss of a few days' interest, to make money scarce and break the market for stocks ; and this was very handsomely done on Wednesday and Thursday. Call loans went up to 6to 7 per cent. with out much notice, many millions having been placed under ward. The movement was too transparently the result of a trick to influence the rates for discount appreciably. The whole effect of this combination will be exhausted in pro ducing a temporary difficulty in obtaining money for daily use, and consequently breaking down the stock market, when the bears will rush in and devour the spoils. To this extent the movement has been a success. Almost every class of shares have suffered. The profits to the brokers will be immense from the amount of business done, and the bank officers wno are in the league will reap the benefit of extra interest and of their own private specula tions in stocks upon the strength of their acluaintance with the plot. The whole affair is in its nature tem7o rary. This kind of operation necessarily encounters an increasing resistance the further it is carried. It will not affect the general market of the country, or even the per manent rates for commercial paper in New York. At Boston the banks charge 7 per cent. for 3 to 4 months' paper, and promise to do all that is required at th it ra' e after quarter-day (Monday next). Outsile lenders are firm at 71 to 8 per cant. ; call loans at 5 cents are being called in, and 6 charged for now. At Now York good signatures at short data find ready currency at 6 to 7 per cent. At Cincinnati the money market continues close, quarter-day interfering, as elsewhere, with the natural course of tra le. Rates are firm for first-class piper in bank at Bto 9, with 10 to 12 in open market. Exchange, under small receipts, firm at par buying, with exceptions at 50c premium. At Chicago all first-class paper is taken at the banks, with a moderato demand for currency from the country. Exchange is unusually firm for the season, on account of the shipment of grain holding up. At San Francisco money is in active demand for commercial pur poses, at Ito 11-. Out of the commercial channels the supply available for investment increases steadily. The export of treasure on mercantile account is under that of last year. The general exports of merchandise, however, are improving; owing to the increased shipment of grain. Gold bars continue to be shipped by Chinese merchants, instead of Mexican dollars, which are scarce hero and there. This innovation is likely to become a custom. Cur rency bills on Atlantic cities are quotable at 41 to 42 per cent. premium on gold. Gold has declined during the week, and at the close re sisted a strong attempt to advance the price by locking it up. The movement was successful only to the extent of making cash gold very sure°, and of obtaining large rates for its use. The price refused to follow. The New York City Bank statement for the week shows a decrease of two millions in specie deposits, which is to be sot over against an increase of three and a half millions in the gold bal ances of the Treasury. The amount now held by the Department is not less than eighty millions, with another month's customs before the November interest is to be paid. Governments are also lower, which is to be attri buted not to the decline in gold, immediately or recently, but to the locking up of money and the necessary calling in of loans. The decline is not attributed to the recent exposition of himself by that illustrious sage, Alexander Delmar. Such an attack upon the public credit by a public officer ought to have seriously impaired the value of Government Securities ; but Mr. Delmar's previous re putation protected the Stocks. We have heard of no one who has heard of any one who was influenced by the pre dictions or predilections of the director of the National Bureau of Mathematical Blunders. The New York Sun, by the way, estimates " the loss occasioned by this decline of Governments at not less than twenty millions of dol lars." This is putting it rather strong. The amount actually disposed of, on which alone a loss to any one will be realized, will be very small compared with the entire issue. The Bonds are worth to any man all they ever brought, and in a few months they will be worth more than they ever sold at. In order that Mr. Delmar and his Democratic friends might not be unduly puffed up by supposing that it was any malicious nonsense of his which brought Governments down, the premium in gold actually declined in the face of an irrefragable de monstration that the deficit of the year was sure to be in the neighbourhood of two hundred millions ! Poor Delmar ! when a man gets to that pass, pity ought to take the place of contempt, and even bad statistics and false subtraction be treated with tenderness if not respect. Of the public funds, Sixty-twos and Sixty-eights aro strongest. The import entries at New York for the week have been $4,098,501 against $4,114,806 same week last year ; the export clearances of domestic produce $2,599,006 against $3,425,523 ; the,oxports of spec:e to $104,468 (the smallest for 15 years) against $657,317 last week ; the customs for the week $3,460,537. The gold values of the import en tries of foreign merchandise at New York since January 1 have been $189,183,920 against $200,625,299, a decrease of $11,441,379; the currency value of the exports of do mestic produce and miscellaneous goods $118,208,695 against $133,725,063, a decrease of $15,516,368; the ex ports of specie $66,092,900 against $42,177,117, an in- . . crease of $26,91.5,793 ; the deliveries of California gold and silver have been $31,239,632 against $22,605,470, an increase of $8,634,102. " Things"in the stock markot have been pretty much ono way this week. The predominating influences were bearish until near the close, and the views of holdors were corre- spondingly subdued. On Thursday a general recovery took place, though not in all cases reaching the high figures of a week ago. Fort Wayne has been firm from first to last. It stood at 111 on Wednesday. On Thurs day the transfer books for the October quarterly dividend being closed, it sold, ex-dividend, at 1081. Illinois Cen tral also stands strong, closing at 145 i. Reading, which had steadily mproved for two weeks, fell off slightly at the close. Pacific Mail went back to 108 and a fraction, but recovered to 1101. Mariposa preferred has been irrt- proving steadily for three weeks, and now stands at 13i. Mining stocks generally show a botter feeling. The New York railways have been the subjects of great interest, and the fluctuations in them have been unusually frequent. They suffered more than any other from the sudden strin gency in the money market, produced by locking-up greea- backs, and have manifestel no vigour in recovering from . . _ it. Central, which sold at 130 on Tuesday, with the periodi cal canard of a stock divideni, was at 1261 on Thursday, ex-dividend, probably. Erie, which sold above 50 on Tues day, closed for the week at 463.. There aro rumuors that the election for directors for this road will be contested by the English -stockholders, who hold nearly 150,000 shares, and who will appeal to the court against early closing of tho transfer books. St. Paul stocks are lower, and the effort to get them above 100 must be regarded as a failure for the present. The western stocks generally are lower, and it is in part attributable to the fact that their earnings in September have not been up to expectation. Express stocks have attracted considerable attenLion, closing for the week strong and higher. This is the week for the October dividends, and the announcements show that thus far the banks and insurance companies have done a good business, while the railroads and manufac turing corporations divide considerably less. Of the 16 banks of Boston, ono pays 7 par cent, ten pay 6 par cent., twenty-six pay 5 per cent., one pays 4i por cent., six pay 4 por cent., and one, the unhappy Shoe and Leather, passes, out of compliment to its cashier. The other banks of Massachusetts generally pay 5 per cent., though with numerous exceptions at 6, among them the First Nations/ of Chicopee. The fall trade in dry goods still hangs back, unac countably, ono would say—only that it is very easy to ac count for it. It is becoming more and more evident every day that the Presidential election is creating a far greater influence this year than usual, disturbing the calculations of business and postponing, even, the natural demand for consumption. The ph rase " a f ter e l ect i on " i s b ec oming almost a universal expression, and is a tribute to the con viction of the people that the gravest consequence s ° the peace and prosperity of the country are likely to fol low the political choices of the people in November, an d oven at the preliminary elections in October. T he general attitude is th a t o f expectat i on, and i t i s one tba", is likely to be ma i n t a i ne d for the present. The e ntire uncertainty in regard to the price of cotton, and the actual product in that crop for the year, is contribut: ing largely to delay purchases, and creates a disposi. tion to wait for developments. Of printing cloths th e Providence Journal says At the present price of cotton and print cloth the manufacturers are losing money. Some of the manufacturers of print cloths have stopped then. mills; others are running two-thirds time." Just at th , e close, however, cott on i s hi g h er an d strong at the ad. Vance. This will stiffen th e pr i ce o f t h e manu facture d goods, which have heretofore manifested a tendency to keep above the raw material. As a decline in prices Las failed to increase sales, it may be well enough to try th e effect of an advance. It is alleged by some that the der cline in gold is helping to disturb the market for domest ic , fabrics, but this is so contrary to the recent course e' things that, in the abse nce o f any man if est conn ectlea, between the two, we should p re f er t o a tt r ib u t e the resul t to other and more apparent causes. It has, however, quickened the trade in foreign goods of the higher classes, these being directly affected by the premium on gold. Breadstuffs tend i rres i s tibl y d ownward, the fall bell most marked in new sp r i ng w h ea t extras, wh i c h a re nearly a dollar a bar re l. Thi s movement has been again st strong opposition, Western holders, who, early in the season, took every decli ne w ith surpr i s i ng p l ac idity and meekness, being more strongly set in preventing I ° l further fall, and doing their best to keep the grain W et going forward. Provisions are dull and lower, as almos t every article, mess pork particularly, has been sold at e heavy concession, even from the lower prices of the Wel; Coal made a sharp an d d ec id e d a d vance dur i ng t h e Wee of from 75 cents to $1.50 a ton at wholesale, which at re tail will soon become $2 to $3. Those are fortunate vit y° bought last week. (From the Wall-street Journal) FRIDAY EVENING, Oct. 2' Au artificial stringency h as b een create d i n t h e Mone t Market by the locking up of greenbacks, and as a sous e ' quence, the full legal rate is being exacted, and in $OlO instances a commission is added. American silver is selling at 61 to 7 cents below' the a price of gold. Mexica n d o ll ars are quote d at 1021 to I °' in gold. Foreign exchango is quiet, with b u t a sma lly aupPly °f bills. The Border State B on d s are genera ll y strong, an d a fair business is doing, Mining stocks continue very dull, which is not to 1543 wondered at, when we see the fate of some of the 1 1 0 fancies—Rocky M ounta i n, Walkill Lead, &c., &c. most active stocks now are Consolidated Gregory, Gras: Valley, Quartz Hill, an d S m i t h and Parmelee. MariP°A is, however, brisk, th e grant h av i ng passed into the hand : of new parties, with prom i se o f successful term i na tion ° the difficulties of the old company. Petroleum stocks are steady, and a fair business doing. In Express Stocks a moderate amount of busines S doing. We quote : Adams ..„ 51i to 51 American ... :18' to tB3 Merchants' Union, 35 por cent._ 2 31 to 49 United States 49 f to 3l! Wells, Faigo, and Co. 31 to (From the New York Tribune, Oct. 2.) / 600 The engagements t o Li verpoo l , b y steamer, a re bushels wheat at 9d for to-morrow, and 14,000 bushels wheat for next week (Tuesday) at 101 To Lotid °ll ' 7,600 bushel s wh ea t a t Bd , an d 3,000 b ushels cm n at Sid.t and by steamer, 2,000 b arre l s fl our an d 35 , 000 bushe'; wheat on steamer's account. The chartering business h 3 been a little more active. and the rates obtained are eon; sidered satisfactory. W e no t e t h e f ol l ow i ng engagements —A vessel to the Mediterranean, with 2,000 barrels Pc' tr°; leum, on private terms; a vessel with 12,000 I :' °° r naphtha, to Cork, p er or d er , a t i s 3d per b ox, a nd 5 p et cent. primage ; a vessel f rom Phil a d e l p hi a t o a direct P" a on the Continent, with 4,000 barrels petroleum, at 65., ' l° 4 a vessel from Norfolk to the is indward, with stave s, $l4. Metals—There has been a steady, f a i r dolman- fer American (Ingot) copper for consump ti on , an d, Wi t ' u re much reduced stock holders are firm, but quotation s : 0 j unchanged ; sales of 215,0001 b. Pig lead has been in The request from manufacturers, and prices are firm• importations for September amounted to 2,400 tons, l" j , deliveries for consumption to 3,000 tons. The W t . is 1,900 t ons , aga i nst 2 ,700 tons on the 30th of Septerabej 1867 ; 1,700 tons on the 30th of September, 1866 ; tons on the 30th September, 1865 ; 2,400 tons on the 3v a September, 1864. Pig tin has been moderately active 3° , 0 firm. The import a ti ons f or S ep t em b er amoun t e d to 99 0 slabs Banca, 400 sl a b s St ra it s , an d 30 t ons E ng li s h. F r°l the Straits 10,000 slabs are o n th e way . Th e stocks g estimated at 8,500 slabs Straits, 3,000 slabs Banca Billiton, and 30 tons English, equal t o 750 s l a bs. V t ‘ , 3 o o in New York and Boston, 12,250 s l a b s, aga i ns t 18, ", - 6 . slabs on 30th Sept., 1867 ; 27,600 s l a b s on 3 0th S e pt., 1 8 " 3,800 slabs on 30th Sept., 1865 ; 13 , 900 s l a b ls on 30th Sep t ' 1864. (Prom Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) , London, Oct. re' The continued d ec li ne i n the premiumon gold, as ported daily fro m N ew York, has had a favourable ( o ' 3- 5 on the quotatio ns f or U n i te d S tates Government se curitl e a on the London market; this has been further strength eP v e e to-day by the intelligence that the Republican party h s . o carried the elections in th e St a t es o f P ennsy l van ia, ° 4l 1 : and Indiana, th us ren d er i ng th e P res id ent i a l e l ec tion I favour of General Grant almost a foregone conclusion. , The original issue of 5-20 Bonds close firm at 741 t ° the 1865's 73 to 4 f and the 10-40 Five per Cents. 601 t° . o The high price of Illinois Central shares has brough t l d some sellers to realize profits, and they close slightly I°li i ; than this day we e k, b e i ng 95 to Eries, on the wi tc)l have been bteady, and at 32 to they exhibit .a slight ~. provement. We have to note a continued demand for all first- 01 °1 American Railroad Sterli ng B on d s , a ll com i ng to xatl rj ‘ c are freely taken at full rates. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1869. FEBRUARY. Nottingham Spring 23 1 Derby Spring ............ MARCH . . - Liverpool Spring 2 Northampton ......... I ... Shrewsburs spring 5 APRIL. Newmarket Craven l2 I Newmarket First Spring 25 MAY. Chester Bath Ascot ......... Liver i 1 S' JUNE. 1 1 8 I Hampton ...............• 2g v - erpoo. summer Wi ndsor l5 Stockbridge ............... '' JULY. Nowmarket July Nottingham Huntingdon AUG Brighton Brighton Club Egliam 'UST. 12 IWindsor August ......... 31 Derby S ummer .......... ou r [ADyFRTISEMENT.] -Holloway's Pills.—Look to 1- et , Health.-Any abrupt change in the weather always causes O l d disordered action in the human body. It is a matter of Pr. it importance to rectify every irregularity without delay, vil i t p c j itg, is in the power of every one to do by taking HollowaY's t he These Pills are the best preventatives of i n di ges ti o n, and 0 0 mildest aperient ever prescribed. They purify and cool 0 blood, and equalise the circulation through the system, ev e the the minutest vessels of the skin. They act admirably On o f 6 liver and kidneys; by these salutary effects many ailments to averted, and more serious illness prevented. Persons subje ct •0 billions attacks, flatulency, gout, rheumatism, and rh0 036 gout, will be benefited by this treatment. Births, BLAKE—On the 19th i ns t ., at Ovington-terrace, S. ~vv. •1 th wife of Captain W. Hans Blake, R.N., of a son. a l e CURTOIS —On the 19th inst., at Maidenhead, Berk% wife of Captain Curtois, of a son. 4 INNES —On th e 3d i nst.. at Ayton House, Toronto, io O fi x-• the wife of Willi am M . Lanes, yr. of Ayton, for W shire, of a daughter. Marriages. ROLLS — MACLEAN—On the 20th inst., at St. JameS'e7 4 ., cadilly, Joh n All an, only son of John E. W Rolls, P of the Hendre, Monmouthshire, to Georgians 3131 ,: c youngest daughter of Sir Charles Maclea n , Bo,rooe'l Morvaren, Argyloshiro. „ o 'o, WALKER —WOOD —On the 20th inst., at St. Step jp Westbourne-park, L es li e J o h n, thi r d s of CaPt3"late C. F. Walk er , R.N ., to H e l en, second daughter o f t he Wm. Chas. Wood, Esq. Deaths. vala t GRAHAM— On the 18th inst., William Graham, Esq., Villa, Willisden Green, aged 66. .. HAKES —On the 19th in s t., Willi am H a k es , Esq., of rr -- 4 nell-park, W., aged 49. e . WHITELOCK—On the 19th inst., at 22, Upper Philialo'ea place, Kensington, William E. Whitelock, Esq., g 6 68. WILLIS —On the 19th inst., at H 100 1 P Hinton Charterhouse, - Willis, Esq., aged 79. WILSON—On the 20th inst., suddenly, at 90, Bishopsg` tte street without, Robert Arbery Wilson, aged 43. 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