The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-08 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION RELIEF FUND. The following is the first report of the committee " On Friday, the 13th of December, 1867, occurred in derkenwell that terrific and fatal explosion which has become appallingly historic in the annals of England. " Seven persons dead in consequence of the explosion ; 41 persons badly wounded, involving loss of limbs and eye sight, maiming, and general disfigurement ; 56 persons, for the most part representing families, unhoused, with loss of furniture, tools, working materials, &c.; as many as 600 families in the vicinity suffering in health, person, and property from the violence of the shock. " The committee would at the outset of their report thankfully acknowledge the prompt liberality of the public. The public subscription to this date amounts to £6,691 is. 9d. as received by the bankers. There arc various sums in the hands of other bankers, amounting, as advised, to £452 17s. ld. " The plan proposed by the committee for the relief of the sufferers was as follows :—The district affected by the explosion was subdivided into nine section:; ; to each of these a sub-committee was appointed, consisting of mem bers of the general committee and honorary visitors. These sub-committees were appointed to visit personally every house and every family. The principle on which relief has been distributed has been as follows :—Returns of losses are made to the committee ; these Jae investi gated by the sub-committees of the districts respectively ; orders are given, to a certain amount, upon the neighbour ing tradesmen for the supply of the furniture, b?dding, &c.; the accounts are sent in to the honorary secretary, and are paid from the fund. In the case of the more immediate sufferers who had resided in the now ruined houses, the committee have acted in a liberal manner, completely refitting them in their new apartments. As a general rule, a very small portion of furniture has been recovered from the ruins, and that in a very damaged and broken condition. " The committee have to report as follows respecting the deceased : " 1. William Clutton, aged 47, killed on the spot ; has left a widow and a son who is imbecile and to be pro vided for. 2. Sarah Hodgkinson, aged 30, wife of a tailor, who is badly wounded in hospital. 3. Martha Thompson, aged 11 years (mother and three sisters in hospital) ; father undergoing much mental affliction since. 4. Minnie Abbott, aged 7 (mother and four brothers and sisters in hospital). 5 and 6. Humphrey Evans, 61, and Ma: tha Evans, 65, husband and wife (daughter Hannah in hospital, badly wounded) ; by the death of Humphrey Evans an annuity, which has been the support of the family, ceases ; provision to be made, especially for the wounded daughter. 7. Harriet Balzani, aged 34, residing at the time of the explosion in St. James's-walk ; was obliged to remove to other lodgings, and, owing to the shock and exposure to cold, bronchitis supervened ; died in King's College Hospital ; medical certificate connects the cause of death with the explosion. All these have been decently and becomingly buried at the expense of the committee. The first six are interred together in Finchley Cemetery, in one grave, which may be called the ' Victims' Grave,' and over which the committee purpose to erect a suitable memorial. . . " The returns made to the committee from the hospitals are detailed in the following schedule : Caleb Beckett, 28, carpenter, disabled ; head, left arm, and hand bruised. William Thickthener, 55, watch escapement maker, cut in face ; concussion. John Harvey, 48, scalp wounds. Thomas Wheeler, 10, cut in neck and head ; thumb and index finger (left) amputated ; concusJiun. John Hockey, 14, fall from van through horses taking fright by explo sion ; cut and bruised. Mary Moseley, 48, severe cuts of face, wound of temporal artery ; great prostration. Charles Moseley, 11, left side of face bruised. Maria Giles, 33, deep cut in forehead. Mary Ann Chittleburgh, 30, large wound on forehead, eyelids and face scorched. Edith Chittleburg,h, 2, child of last-named ; con cussion. Elizabeth Thompson, 47, concussiou —bruised; four children taken to hospital ; one (Martha) died. Lizzie 'Thompson, 17, left eye destroyed ; face much bruised ; severe cut on forehead. Har riet Thompson, 14, severe wound of head and face ; arm lacerated ; sight of left eye gone. Martha Thomp. son, 11, died in hospital, after much suffering. Emma Thompson, 8, lacerated wounds of neck and hand ; very prostrate. Elizabeth Holder, 56, cuts on face and fore- head. Elizabeth Hodgkinson, 61, left eye destroyed ; temporal artery cut ; face and forehead severely cut. Henry Hodgkinson, 33, son of the last-named, tailor ; right hand and arm disabled, and badly wounded. Sarah Hodgkinson, 30, wife of last-named ; brought dead to hospital. Maria Abbott, 34, right eye destroyed ; severe cuts on head and face ; five children brought to hospital ; one (Minnie) died. John Abbott, 13, numerous contu sions of face. Arthur Abbott, 5, incised wound of face and neck. Frederick William Abbott, 11, la :crated cuts on hand, neck, and face, portion of nose cit off ; con cussion. Minnie Abbott, 7, died a few ni mtes after being taken to the hospital. Annie Abbott, 2, slight concussion. Sarah Hartley, 41, deep and severe wcund of left ear, which was nearly cut off ; badly wounded in neck and head ; three children in hospital. Thomas Hartley, 8, cut all over the face ; severe shock. Alfred Hartley, 3, cut about head and face. Henry Hartley, 15 months, cut on forehead. Mary Young, 36, badly cut about face, forehead, and eyes ; nearly dead when brought to hospital. Elizabeth Williams, 30, sister in-law of last-named, severe cuts on head, face, and eye lids ; arm lacerated. Anne Bennett, 67, deep wound in right cheek ; much shaken. Mary Ann 46, deep wound in face, forehead, and eyelids ; very prostrate. Martha Evans, 65, dead. Humphrey Evans, 67, dead. Hannah Evans (Roberts), daughter of the above, incised wounds of neck, chest, and arms. William Thomas Parry, 6, cuts in hand and face ; severe shock. Charles Perry, 3, concussion. Martha Perry, 2, hand cut ; shock. Anne Cross, 8, severe compound fracture of left leg ; con cussion. Anne Challis, 41, incised wounds of head, face, neck, and arms.. " Besides the cases in hospital, the committee have received returns of personal injury to as many as 11.1 per sons, who have suffered more or leas severely from the shock. A careful perusal of these unhappy consequences of the Fenian outrage will best illustrate the difficulty which the committee has all along felt as to the adequate compensation to be made to the innocent sufferers. Most of the female sufferers have been accustomed to contribute their own proportion to the `bread-winning'—industrious and thrifty housewives of skilled mechanics. The com mittee only wish that all England could look up n that ghastly sight of wounded men, women, and children, and then fix the measure of what ought to be done for those afflicted people. £5O each would be £2,000, and this seems to be but a cold mockery of their pain and loss. If the public bounty would double this, or increase it to even a larger amount, the committee can only say, as witnesses of this deep sorrow, that all that would thus be clone for the victims would be well deserved and well bestowed. " Not the least painful element in this catalogue of suffering is that which has come under the care of the lady visitor, whose detailed report shews the following results. Speaking only of the district affected by the shock of the explosion, Mrs. Bailey writes :—"rhe number of mater_ nity cases placed under my care from December 16 to December 28 have been twenty-six. Of these three have been delivered of still-born children, three have had very serious miscarriages, three have given birth to living children, one has been very ill, and still is, with a wound in the breast caused by the explosion ; the remaining six teen cases, at different stages, the issue of which is very doubtful.' " _ _ _ The report appends some particulars of these ca,es, which are extremely painful : " The results the committee have arrived at, as to the estimate of liability and loss, as gathered from the above details, from the reports of the sub-committees, and from the claims sent in by the inhabitants, stand thus : For furniture, tools, and working materials 1:3,035 12 10 For loss of time (inadequate return) For claims for immediate relief attended to 1,042 7 0 For estimated expenditure since returns made 111 personal injury eases not in hospital 280 0 0 40 personal injury cases in hospital, maimed, blinded, or otherwise disfigured or incapacitated, including annuities to those permanently injured " This estimate does not include the claims made for the buildings, or the interest in the buildings that have been injured or destroyed. For the present the committee are contented if they are enabled by the exercise of public sympathy to compensate, as far as money can compensate, for sorrow, suffering, bereavement, mainiiiig, disfigure ment, and losses that cannot be told up for their intensity and severity.—By order of the committee, " RoBERT MAGUIRE, M.A., Incumbent of Clerkenwell, Chairman. " ROBERT PAGET, Vestry Clerk, Hon. Sec. " Office of the Committee, Vestry Hall, Clerkenwell, Jan. 7, 1868." A GOOD STORY. —The Duke of Argyll tells a good story. He was travelling with the Duke of North umberland in a first-class carriage on the North-Eastern Railway. At one of the stations a little commercial traveller got in. The three chatted familiarly until the train stopped at Alnwick Junction. Here the Duke of Northumberland got out, and was met by a train of flun keys and servants. The commercial traveller said to his remaining companion, " That must be some great swell." " Yes," said the Duke of Argyll, " lie is the Duke of Northumberland." " Bless me," exclaimed the bagman, " and to think that he should have been so affable to two little isilobe like us."—Northern Daily Express, THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The Registrar-General's weekly return reports that in the week that ended on Saturday, January 4, 4,722 births and 3,468 deaths were registered in London and in thir teen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. The an nual rate of mortality last week was 27 per 1,000 in London, 23 in Edinburgh, and 32 in Dublin, 23 in Bristol, 30 in Birmingham, 32 in Liverpool, 40 in Man chester, 33 in Salford, 22 in Sheffield, 32 in Bradford, 27 in Leeds, 27 in Hull, 29 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 27 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 30 per 1,000 during the week ending the 28th ult., when the mean temperature was 10.6 deg. Tahrenheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 24. In London the births of 1,190 boys and 1,128 girls, in all 2,318 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years, 1858-67, the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,187. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,624. It was the first week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,648. The deaths in the present return are less by 24 than the estimated amount, but exceed the number recorded in the preceding week by 191. The deaths from zymotic diseases wore 300, the corrected average number being 354. 22 deaths occurred from small-pox, 55 from measles, 43 from scarlatina, 52 from whooping-coy- , h, and 40 from typhus. 157 deaths from phthisis, 232 from bronchitis, 104 from pneumonia, and 84 from diseases of the heart, were recorded last week. The deaths of 3 per sons who were killed by horses or vehicles in the streets, of 6 children and 2 adults who were burnt, and of 12 chil dren and 2 adults who were suffocated, were registered. Six persons died from intemperance. LAW AND POLICE. THE STErNEY MURDER.—Mr. Church, e:def clerk to the Master of the Rolls has had before him a matter rela tive to the disposition of the property of Mary Ehnsley, who, it will be remembered was murdered nearly eight years ago ; a man name 1 Mullins having been executed for the murder. It was a rather complicated dispute as to who is the heir-at-law, and the case will have to be dis cussed before the Master of the Rolls in due course, there being several claimants to the property. A SAD CASE.—William Knight was indicted before Mr. E. W. Cox, at the Middlesex Sessions, charged with as saulting one Burdett with a hammer. The evidence of the prosecution was to the effect that prisoner knocked at Burdett's door, and on his coming into the street knocked him down with a blow from a hammer, dealt on the right side of the head. The defence, however, put the matter in a very different light. It appeared that prosecutor had seduced defendant's wife, and the latter went to bring her home. Prosecutor told her she should have a home with him as long as she chose to stay. The wife had sold defendant's things, some of them being disposed of to prosecutor. This exasperated the defendant, and he struck the blow. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy. He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. THE ALLEGED SIIADWELL MURDER.—Duggan and Donovan, the two men charged with the murder of Francis Brown by throwing him from the Gravel-lane drawbridge into the London Dock Basin, were again brought before Mr. Benson, the Thames police magistrate. The mother of deceased was called for the defence, to prove that forty-five minutes before the affair on the bridge, her son (who had been quarrelling with his father respecting some money the latter had lent him) left them in ill temper, threatening to commit suicide; and that the bridge was not on his way home, but led directly to the river. Mr. Benson said there were circumstances in the case not at all satisfactory -or intelligible ; the de ceased, who had received his wages a few hours previously, had no money when found, and one of his pockets was turned inside out. After the evidence of Mrs. Brown, how ever, he should not be justified in committing the pri soners. They were, therefore, at once discharged from custody. STEALING WooL.—Two brothers, William and George Willan, have been brought up on remand at the Bradford Borough Court, on the charge of stealing four sacks of wool, weighing about lcwt. 361 b., worth ls. 3d. per lb. A quantity of wool had been stolen from the Great Northern Railway Station of that town, and recently it had been found in a stable occupied by George Willan. It was now stated that there was no reason to suppose that George knew anything about the wool, and he was conse quently discharged. Evidence was given to shew that Willan had been offering the wool in the stable for sale, and he was committed for trial. CONVICTION FOR DEFRAUDING A RAILWAY COMFANT.— At Salford, a traveller named Moore, has been charged with riding en the Lancashire and Yorks Lire Railway without a ticket. The offence was committed about a fortnight since. The defendant had taken a ticket to Ramsbottom, and from Ramsbottom he went on to Ac crington, taking a ticket at the intermediate station, Has lingden. The charge was, that he had evaded payment between Ramsbottom and na,slingden. The defendant admitted the facts, but said that the train was ten minutes late, which would not afford him sufficient time to do his business. lie was ordered to pay Gd., the amount of the fare, and a fine of 20s. and costs. INHUMANITY TO A WIFE AND CHILDREN.—At John Simpkin, a stirrup-filer and bit-maker, Las been charged with having left his wife and six children charge able to the parish. So inhuman had the prisoner been that when food or clothing was given to his wife or children, he went home, took it away from them, and sold it for drink. Some of the poor woman's friends, on her husband deserting her, had set her up in a small haber dashery shop, but the prisoner hea••d what had been done, and, returning, sold all the stock, and appropriated the proceeds to his own purposes. The relieving officer on one occasion found one of the prisoner's children in a dying state, the prisoner himself being away drinking at the time. On different occasions the parish had found clothes for the children, but the prisoner had taken them away and pawned them for drink. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. POLITICAL RIOTING AT NORTHAMPTON.-At the North ampton Quarter Sessions four men were charged with rioting at the local election in that town. It appeared that a rumour got abroad that one Bob Brettle, a prize-fighter, had been hired by the Conservatives in one of the wards of the town to prevent the Liberals from gaining the contest. When he appeared on the polling-day he was assailed by the crowd, and had to take refuge in a public-house. That, however, was also assailed, and all the windows were broken, but Brettle managed to get away. When the crowd were told this, they desisted. At the suggestion of the Recorder, the prisoners pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to pay a nominal fine of ls. A SCHOOLMASTER CHARGED WITH FORGERY.— At Ilford Julius 'Winter Cane, lately the schoolmaster of the West H a m Union House, was charged with forging and utter ing a cheque for the sum of £45 15s. 10d., with intent to defraud the guardians of the West Ham Union. On the evening of the 7th of December a labouring man, of whom the prisoner had previous knowledge, pre sented the cheque for the above amount to a draper in Stratford, with a note, purporting to be written by Mr. Meeson, the deputy-chairman of the board, asking her to cash the cheque. The cheque was cashed, tie man left, and handed the money to the pri soner, who gave the man 103. for his trouble. It was then discovered that the cheque was a forgery, and the prisoner was apprehended. There was another charge against the prisoner for forging a cheque for £l5 155., purporting to be drawn by the Rev. Thomas Parry, and payable at the London Joint-Stock Bank. The magistrates re manded him. THE MURDER or LORD WHARNCLIFFE'S GA3IEKEEPER. —At the Barnsley Court-house, English, Cutts, and Beardshaw, the three men charged with the murder of Lord Wharncliffe's head gamekeeper, have again been be fore the magistrates. The most important evidence was given by Superintendent Ball, of the Bradford constabu lary, with respect to a confession made by Beardshaw, the prisoner he had apprehended. This man acknow ledged that he was with three others—one of whom is not yet in custody- on the night of the murder. They had caught several hares, when they were attacked by the de ceased. He and Gregory—the man not yet apprehended —were beaten by the gamekeeper. When he recovered his senses he ran away, heard the gun fired, but was not near enough to see who was shot. The prisoners were again remanded. the Princess Mary of Cambridge and Prince Teck are expected to visit Stockton next Monday, on their way to Wynward Park, the seat of Earl Vane. The town council will receive their Royal Highnesses on their arrival. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. - Prince Frederick of Augustenburg is stated by the Cologne Gazette to have formally expressed a desire to he reconciled with the King of Prussia. and to be ready to renounce his pretensions to the sovereignty of Schleswig-Holstein, in consideration of receding a suitable appanage. Any such concession on the part of Prussia is exceedingly improbable. GOLD MINING IN IRELAND.-At the half -yearly meeting of the Carysfort Mining Company several dis. satisfied shareholders complained that, although the com• pany had been several years in existence, they had neve/ received a penny of dividend. It was stated by a share holder that they received £3178. fid. for every ounce gold, and paid £7 for finding it. He had no doubt that gold existed in Ballintemple, but appealed to the meeting to alloy it W remain there. fIIE suN, LONuON, WEDNESDAY EVENiNG, JANUARY 8, 1868 MINING INTELLIGENCE. QUARTERLY RETURNS.—We give below a table of the returns of mines in Lander county for the quarter ending September 30th. The table is a fair exhibit of the books of the County Assessor, excepting those mines that produced less than one ton, of which there are fourteen. Name of Mine or Co. Ts. Lbs. Av pr T. Adriatic Argentoro Argent South America 1... 1,749... 138 48 Bud North Star „ (13. and W.) 21... 1,351... 157 56 1... 1,111... 196 97 3... 1,275... 288 34 1... 811... 150 45 2... 1,666... 393 49 15... 57... 226 28 Blue Jacket Beard and Seaver... Brandow (Santa Fe) Cheshire Chase Cole, J. Coyugn, Childers 1... 531... 76 77 Doe. Thompson 3... 1,311... 200 19 Diann Excelsior (Cortez) 24... 575._ 208 78 Empire State Esther 2... 440... 45 06 Farrell and llixon 13... 1,766_ 83 62 Fuller and Lobbett Florida (N. Y. and Austin Co.) Gen. Corcoran Glassier...-. Galvin 1,728: 138 28 Glassor Helm, J. B 14... 47... 165 81 Idora ... 6... 485... 132 15 Liggett Langton 4... 492._ 206 50 Manhattan, S. M. Co. Co. (chloride ore) Magnolia Marshall Mpunt Tenabo Co. (Cortez) N'tiad Queen Neighbors Niagara 3... 261... 144 19 North River Navarette Plymouth Patriarch. . Perkins Quintero 2... 54... 66 8 4 Roanoke Romeo 1... 1,868... 159 33 Roberts 2... 821... 333 79 Shoshone S. M. Co 9... 138... 320 40 Savage S. M. Co 30... 1,218... 183 39 Savannah 9... 745... 201 72 Sam. Brannan Scott . South American always found in the most barren and desert-like re gions—one of the first signs of tl• Lek presence is the dead appearance of the tale or M arch grass. When the Pacific Railroad is finished, a. little to the south of this region, the vast deposits: of fuel will come into play most effectually, both int the operation of the road and in the development of the Nevada mining interest. The Denver News says :—Our city was cheered this morning by the sight of M ore than a ton of bullion bricks from the reduc Lion works of Mr. Cullom, on Bear Creek, a branch of Snake River, about a mile and a half from ..Montezuma, in Sum mit County. We spoke, not long since of the for m ardness of Mr. Cullom's - works. Since then he has made a run of one hearth with the above re sult. In 12 hours 1,475 pounds of ore were smelted down, giving 825 pounds of metal—lead and silver. This has not yet been assay ad, but is supposed to contain from poo to $6OO to the ton in silver. The bars were deposited in the Branch Mint in this city. They number 83, and the total weight is about 2,200 pounds. The ore produced was from the Common Stock Lode. RUBY SILVER.—At the last meeting of the Ly ceum of Natural History, in New York City, Pro fessor Eggleston exhibited some remarkable speci mens of ruby silver from Chili, and made some remarks upon this rare mineral, which is only found in a few places, and has recently been discovered in Nevada in deposits of large extent. One specimen, weighing one hundred and sixty pounds, was sent to the Paris Exhibition. The president of the Lyceum remarked upon the interest which was manifested in Paris in reference to the enormous masses of ruby silver sent from the United States. Nothing of the kind has ever been seen before, and a majority of the visitors were unable to decide upon the true name of the mineral. As soon as the character of the red blocks became known, they were visited and examined by persons interested in such matters from all parts of the world. The Wall-street Journal gives the following as the latest prices from San Francisco, received by telegram from that city on the 7th December : Gould & Curry Savage 2,200 " Chollar-Fotosi Ophir Hale Sc Norcross 825 " Crown Point Yellow Jacket Belcher Alpha Kentucky Overman Empire Imperial Confidence The value of the silver exported from Austin, Nevada, for the month of November last was $300,000. RAILWAY AND 07HER COMPANIES. COCKERMOUTII AND WORKINGTON. A general meeting of this company was held at Cockermouth on Saturday ; Mr. Steel, M.P., in the chair. The CIIAIR3IAN moved the following resolution : "It appeared by the statement submitted to this meet ing that, after payment of all liabilities up to the 30th diAy of June, 1865, there is a balance of £1,250 at the disposal of the shareholders, resolved that the sum of £750 be divided among the original shareholders, being at the rate of 3s. per share, and that £5OO be disposed of by the direc tors in such manner as they may deem it expedient." The directors proposed to hand over to the officials who had served them so well £250 of the £5OO, and the other £250 would be retained either for their own remuneration, or to meet any claim which might be made upon them of which they had not yet been apprised. The money to be paid over to the shareholders in the shape of dividend would be equal to £9 ss. per cent., with which, he thought, they should be well satisfied. Their railway now stood pre-eminent on the share-list. Mr. J. FLETCHER seconded the motion, which was agreed to. On the motion of Mr. FLETCHER a vote of thanks to the chairman for the valuable services he had rendered the company for many years was passed unanimously, and the proceedir.gs terminated. interest, to purchase the subsidiary canals, and com plete the main canal as determined by the award, which was given in favour of the bondholders. It bad been agreed on the part of the company that a further sum of £250,000 should be paid in discharge of the floating debt, amount ing to about £500,000. As a contribution to this fund the bond and obligation holders were re quired to forego the payment of interest for another year ; but by virtue of the arrangements proposed payment of - interest on the bonds and obligations would be resumed in July, 1869, if possible, but at latest in January, 1870.. To insure the regular payment of the interest and the gradual redemption of the capital, the bondholders, at the price of £ll5 per £lOO bond, a sum of not less than £90,000 ster ling iu London would be specially applied out of the guaranteed railways of the company, and as the bonds were gradually redeemed tho amount of the annual sinking fund would be proportionally in creased. In the first year there would be applicable £60,000 for interest, and £30,000 for amortisation, which latter amount would annually increase as the charge for interest diminished. Assuming that the 50,000 obligations now retained in the hands of the Government could be re-issued to the public, it was expected that the redemption of the bonds would be effected in a very few years ; the bonds would be redeemed at £ll5, the bonus being paid by way of compensation for arrears of interest, and the further surrender of coupons now recommended. One of the most important credi tors in London had agreed to take 103. in the pound, and the others would do the same. There were other bondholders who would consent to defer the payment of coupons till January, 1870. In reply to Dr. Solly and others, it was stated that the committee were confident of success. If all parties would agree, the Italian Government were prepared to assist them in carrying out the proposed arrangement. They would have a fixed sum of £90,000 to deal with. The whole capital under.the original concession was £2,200,000, of which the Government held 50,000 obligations of £2O each— equal to £1,000,000, with a view to provide that the debentures should never exceed 'a certain sum. The revenue of the company at present was about £70,000 a year. The Government guarantee was £192,000 a year, which, with £ll,OOO from another source, would make together when the canal works were completed £203,000 a year. The resolution was then carried unanimously. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a cordial vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Mr. Creswell for his valuable services in Italy, and also to Mr. Young for his able assistance in drawing up those arrangements. Mr. W. DENT said they were deeply indebted to Sir T. Batcson for introducing the committee to the General Agency Company, who had rendered them considerable service abroad, and were to be paid out of the first dividend available. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. On the 11th Dec. the officers of the New York Central Railroad were elected at Albany. All the old directors were discarded, except General H. H. Baxter, of Rutland, Vermont. Cornelius Vander bilt, controlling 187,948 shares, was elected Presi dent, with Daniel Torrance as Vice-President. Th e new directors are all men of experience and repute in railroad matters :—Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York, Chester W. Chapin of Springfield, and Daniel Torrance, William H. Vanderbilt, Horace F. Clark, Augustus Schell, Samuel F. Barger, H. Henry Baxter, Joseph Harker, William A. Kis3atn of New Yord, Amasa Stone, jun., of Cleveland, and James F. Joy, of Detroit. The consolidation of this line with the Haarlem and Hudson River Railroads will be effected, and the result will, it is believed, even tually be attained of a practically unbroken through line from New York to Chicago. The Boston And Albany Railroad will be included in the new con solidation, giving a connected system with the Eastern termini of New York and Boston and the Western terminus of Chicago. The annualreport of the Central Railroad shows that its total earnings for the past year were $13,979,514, of which $1,032,023 was from passengers and $9,151,750 from freight. The transportation ex penses were $10,653,692 ; interest, sinking fund, rents and taxes, $1,271,083, and dividends $1,734,831, leaving for the net earnings $2,054,738, or 707 per cent. of the capital. The company purchased during the year the " Athens cut off," from Athens to Schenectady, 38 miles, for $2,000,000, and now owns 1,046 miles of equiva lent single track, and leases 140 miles more. All the road from Albany to Buffalo, except about 10 miles, has now double track, and during the year 220 miles of iron rails were renewed. The whole cost of the road and equipments to the present time is estimated at 136,594,405, and during the last year 3,618,642 passengers, and 1,667,926 tons of freight, were transported by the corporation. The directors of the Western and Boston and Worcester Railroads have also effected a consolida tion on just and honourable terms, and without the expense of employing a commissioner. The Wor cester gives in $5,000,000, the Western $8,800,000, making nearly 14 millions of dollars. From that. stock half a million is to be rteurned to the proprie tors of the Worcester Road, who paid out of its earn ings that sum on its construction account. The funds and properties of both become common, as well as the debts and obligations of each. The directors were unanimous in accepting this arrange ment, and the Boston and Albany Railroad may be considered an accomplished fact, ready to take its part in the grand consolidation scheme represented by Commodore Vanderbilt. _ _ _ The report of the committee of the Debenture Holders' Association of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway has just been issued. Counsel's opinion is given on the priority of the Debenture Debt over the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds; the former amounting to £2,800,000, and the latter to nearly £4,000,000. Sir Roundell Palmer advised the com mittee that the question in dispute must be go verned by American law, and the case was therefore submitted to two eminent counsel of the American bar temporarily residing in England. This was prefaced by the opinion of the Hon.. J. S. Black, late Attorney-General of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl vania :—" I have examined the laws of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio which define and limit the powers of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company of New York, the Atlantic and . Great Western Railroad Company of Pennsylvania, and the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company of Ohio—together with the statutes regulating such companies in general, as well as the special acts incorporating the companies named. These corpo rations have a right to borrow money and secure the payment thereof as proposed in the prospectus of the certificates of debentures submitted to me. The pledge of the securities there mentioned is a legal execution of their corporate power. The holder of a certificate of debenture in the form given will be entitled to the full benefit of all the collateral securities pledged for its redemption. lie may recover principal and interest, and, if payment should be withheld, no court in the country- —State or Federal—having jurisdiction of the parties and the subject, would refuse him the proper remedy. Nor can the obligation of the contract be impaired by any future legislation without violating the Con stitutions of the several States, and that of the United States." Both the lion. Louis T. \Vigfall and Judge J. S. Thompson gave a clear and un qualified opinion that the Debenture Debt takes precedence, and that the holders have an equitable lien for any balance remaining ,due after realising and distributing the collateral securities deposited in the Bank of England on the property of the three old companies which now form the Atlantic and Great Western, subject only to the prior liens of the three old companies. The committee con sider it necessary to sell these collaterals, so as to establish the exact amount of the claim, and they recommend the debenture holders, or their accre dited agents, to buy them in, after which they might divide amongst them the realisable assets, amounting to £3 lls. per debenture. The railroad may be supposed to commence paying its divisional coupons at the period announced by the committee administration, April, 1809, which then will amount to £261,354, being about £9 6s. Bd. per £lOO Debentures. Thenceforward the collateral divisional bonds alone will produce an annual inte rest of £66,706, equivalent to £2 7s. 7d. per cent. on the whole gross debt of £2,800,000. The com mitree expect a considerable retur❑ from assets at present unrealisable. Should the railroad be sold under foreclosure the debenture holders, although losing a large amount of share capital, would be placed in an infinitely better financial position than now. The following are from the TVall-street Journal: The Dunkirk, Warren, and Pittsburgh Railroad is now in process of construction under favourable auspices. The grading, bridging, and masonry for the whole route has, upon a basis consisting partly of municipal subscriptions, made along the line of the road, amounting to $400,000 in all, been let to Messrs. Simpson and Smith, wealthy and enterprising contractors, who are pushing the con structio❑ rapidly forward. It is expected that the road will be completed and ready to run by the Ist October, 1868. The surveyors of the proposed route for a rail road from Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Hud son River, report that it will cost only $20,000 a milt: to construct the railroad to the New York State line by the Winsted route, while it will cost $55,000 a mile to build it by way of Danbury, and $32,000 by the way of Litchfield. OPENING OF THE BUFFALO AND WASHINGTON RAILuoAD.--The first passenger train over this road left Buffalo, New York, Dec. 7. The city officials, officers, &c., accompanied the inspection tour. This is acknowledged to be the smoothest road in the United - States. It is the first road built on pure cash principles, is completed in the shortest time, and will pay from the start. A charter was granted by theLegielature of Penn sylvania last winter incorporating a company to build a railroad from Reading along the valley of the Eulpehoccon, via Bernville, Rehrersburg, and Mil lersburg, Berks County, crossing the Blue Mountain near the latter place, to Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and thence via Gratztown, to Port 'Ereverton, on the Susquehanna, thera to connect with other railroads passing through the oil and lumber regions of Western Pennsylvania. The capital of the company is fixed at $1,000,000, $700,000, of which is guaranteed by wealthy cor porations interested, and $95,000 is already sub scribed, only $200,000 remaining to be subscribed. A meeting to organise the company will be held in a few weeks. The length of the road will be 65 miles, and its estimated cost for grading, &c., is $15,000 per mile. TILE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The Govern ment Commissioners having reported the Fifteenth Section of the road and telegraph line of the•Uuioc, Pacific Railroad Company as ready for present service, and completed and equipped, as required by law, the President of the United States has accepted the same, and ordered the issue of bonds and patents for lands on account of said section of road. The report of the large earnings of the Central Pacific Railroad for the quarter ending Oct. 31st, is exceedingly satisfactory, not only to the bond and stockholders, but to every American citi zen, inasmuch as it shows that the great na- tional highway from New York to San Francisco will prove to be one of the most profitable rail road investments on this continent. The gross earnings for the quarter were, in gold, $593,847, and the operating expenses were $102,088, leav ing the net profits $491,750. The receipts of this company are in gold coin, and their first mortgage bonds, bearing six per cent. interest, principal and interest payable in gold coin, are secured by grants of land and Government bonds, which make them among the safest of investments. Messrs. Fisk and Hatch are the financial agents of the Central Paci fic Railroad Company, and offer them for the present at $95 in currency. The interest is an nounced to be paid ou Januaryi n full, in gold. A full meeting of the bondholders and stock holders of the South-west Pacific and the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Companies was held at their office, 51, William-street, New York, on December 11th, and Messrs. Benjamin E. Bates, President of the Bank of Commerce, Boston ; Charles H. Dabney, of Dabney, Morgan, and Co., and Win. A. Stephens, of Ward and Co., were appointed a committee to arrange with the State of Missouri for the surrender to the Atlantic and Pacific Rail road Company of that part of the road recently seized by her authorities, and to complete arrange ments for immediate and energetic work on the construction of the Missouri division of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. AIADB AS. This company, with the sanction of her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, have issued additional capital to the extent of £1,000,000 ster ling in shares of £2O each, bearing a guaranteed interest of 5 per cent. per annum. ITALIAN IRRIGATION (CANAL CAvouß). _. .. _ A meeting of bondholders in this company was held yesterday, at the City Terminus Hotel, Can non-street, for the purpose of considering a propo sition and obtaining the consent of the bondholders thereto ; Mr. J. P. Gassiot in the chair. Sir T. BATESON, M.P., said he perceived there were persons present who were not bondholders, and as it was to be an open meeting, he begged to retire from it, and also from the committee of bond holde rs. The CHAIRMAN said the members of the bond holders' committee were present, and he trusted that if there was any person in the room who was not a bondholder he would have the kindness to retire. Sir T. BATF:SON said he would not remain in the room, as it was not strictly a meeting of the bond holders' association. Mr. DENT implored Sir T. Bateson and two other gentlemen to remain, as the undertaking was in bankruptcy, and the endeavour of all parties was to get it out of bankruptcy, and to save the property if possible. Mr. CRESWELL explained that the whole of the work of the committee during the past six months would be thrown away if those who were deeply in terested did not act together with unanimity to get a concordat, and thus release the undertaking from bankruptcy. lie begged of the meeting to enable the committee to carry out what they had been so long and earnestly endeavouring to accomplish. The CHAIRMAN said he regretted that Sir T. Bateson and the two other gentlemen had left the room, as it was necessary that bondholders, creditors, and others should unite for their mutual advantage. The judgment creditors, bondholders, and deben ture-holders were equally interested in the result. Those who rented the canal wanted to get the whole of it into their hands. The shareholders were debtors, but they could not obtain the con cordat without them ; they were, in fact, a sort of negative power, and Mr. Creswell had done what he could to induce the shareholders to wait for ten years, but they would not agree to the proposition ; at length two members of each of the committees representing various classes met together, discussed the matter as men of husiness, and arrived at a conclusion, which would be submitted to the meet ing for approval. They must still have confidence in their committee, and the only resolution he wanted to propose to the meeting was the fol- lowing : "That the bondholders now present do ratify and con firm in principle the preliminary agreement of the 20th of December, 1867, as the basis of a concordat, and that a final agreement with such modifications as the committees shall approve be prepared embodying these terms." Mr. COLBORNE seconded the motion. Some objections were made by twv or three bond holders to the proposition, on the ground that they did not know the scope of it, or understand what wro intended to be done. Mr. CRESWELL said the circular sent to the bond holde 7s stating the terms was clear enough. The 13( ndh)lders were scattered over Europe, and some w( re in India, others were in America. Unless the bcndinlders, shareholders, and creditors concurred in the proposed arrangement, no satisfactory conclu sion could be arrived at. They must place confidence in thegentlemen on the committee of bondholders, and unless other gentlemen were appointed to repre sent the other parties interested it would be utterly impossible to bring all the heads together to com plete the business in hand. There were parties now waiting in Turin, Novaro, and other places in Italy, to take advantage of any disruption of the com mittee that might occur. They had a valuable property in Italy. He had visited the canal and walked over a great part of the works. They were not asked to sign a final agreement ; they were merely asked to affirm the principle on which the final agreement would be based. It was proposed, after Betting add') a Bllflicient amount of guaranteed 48... 109 00 3... 392... 96 96 926... 196 68 „ (Cortez) 25... 80... 141. 18 St. Louis (Cortez) 107... 1,467... 182 14 Tom Jones 5... 1,076... 492 40 Troy Timoke Thomas Cox Tuscarora Taylor and Passmore (Cortez) ... 4... 300... 227 98 Troy Colonel Buel has arrived in London, and is now fitting up his offices in Palmerston -buildings. The extensive knowledge he possesses of the mining districts, the heavy stake he holds, his high cha racter and standing, combine to make him a pecu liarly fit representative of these interesting and wealthy regions on the Pacific side of the Rocky Mountains. The prospects are described of Eastern Nevada as each day growing more brilliant. The ore is raised in larger quantities than it can be re duced, and better and more extensive means aro only required to increase enormously the yield. The Mining and Scientific Press gives an account of the Morning Star Ledge, situated in Placer County, California, and which we presume to be of a similar character to the Lincoln Company's mine, lately brought out in London. It says :—" We have before us the report of seventeen different assays, made by Mr. M. A. Hunter, of Sacra mento, which vary in their results all the way from $3 to $537 per ton. Mr. Varney, of this city, re cently worked 20 pounds of rock from this mine, which yielded at the rate of $51.22 per ton of 2,0001b5. There appears to be a notable quantity of silver in the bullion from this mine. Mr. Hunter, in his Sacramento assays, returns an average of about $lO in silver to $lOO in gold. Mr. J. J. Reed, the principal owner of the mine, informs us that he is about shipping 20 tons of the rock to the Golden Rule Mill to be worked ; 20 tons more will be shipped to Grass Valley, and 10 to Mr. Hunter's works at Sacramento." The correspondent of the Wall-street Journal, writing from Austin, Nevada, Nov. 15, rays, the " Manhattan" Company since they repaired their main shaft have supplied their mill, some of the ore being taken out by parties from their own mines, who received three-fourths of the net proceeds. The " Buel North Star" Company are doing a splendid thing in this way. C. C. Wallace last week brought out bis partner, they having leased the upper part of the mine for six months or a year. Wallace has a splendid body of ore in sight, and is even now taking out sufficient for current expenses. " Timoke" has a large body of rich ruby in sight, and the mine yields so much that the agent, W. F. Leon, has been forced to employ a second ore-house, the mill and first ore-house both being full. The new shaft of the Manhattan Company is 100 feet down, and the Ethan Allen Mine has been purchased by the company. The Reese River Re veille gave a brief account of the working shaft of the company designed permanently to develope its mines. Enough is known to ascertain the actual character of the property, and if experience and skill be brought to bear from the beginning, no doubt is:entertained of a grand success, provided the company upholds the manager. The New York and Florida Company, among others, have adopted the same system, aiming at a depth in its two great shafts of 1,000 feet. The Plymouth company broke ground last summer in the project of a general working shaft, and its position justifies the belief that many ledges will be cut, long before it reaches the depth of 500 feet. "It forms one of a valuable group, to which the Florida, Magnolia, and Troy be long, and is separated from the works of the Fuller, Alanhattan Company, South American, and Savan nah, by a shallow ravine. The small area covered by the works of those companies is now the busiest and the most productive on Lander Hill, and from all appearances not one of them has prospects of suc cess and remuneration superior to those possessed by the Plymouth. The shaft was undertaken with the determination of developing the property in a thorough and systematic manner, and if the plan is carried out patiently it must result in great success and profit. Hitherto the owners of mining pro perty have been too impatient, and looked for the fruit before the seed had time to germinate. In silver mining it is admirable policy to hope and wait. No great plan of mining, at all likely to be successful, can be carried out without intelligence, skill, patience, time, and ample capital. The best plan for working assured mines, in the hands of the most energetic and skilful superintendent, will prove abortive without money. Cash is the sinews of mining, and of every great branch of industry, as well as of war. Suppose the owners of produc tive mines upon the great Comstock had been nig gardly instead of lavish with their means their mines would be lying idle to-day instead of yielding tons of silver. It is to be hoped that the compa nies possessing interests on Lander Hill will pursue a generous and wise policy, that will lead certainly to a consummation of their plans and the achieve ment of substantial and lasting reward." ANOTHER GREAT 111INE.—One of the early dis coveries in the district of Silver Bend was the El Dorado, which is now claimed and partially traced for the distance of 6,4oofeet. Among the first claim ant s was Col. Buel, who prized the ledge highly, both on account of its great size and the fine appearance of its outcropping ore. The first location on the southern end of the great ledge belongs to W.F.Leon and Co., who have been working it for some time, and they were lately rewarded by the development of superb ore. At the depth of 104 feet in the iri cline, about 60 feet perpendicular, a stratum 15 inches wide was uncovered, selected specimens of - ,vhich gave by assay 2,8,03 32 of silver per ton. The ledge has not been cut through in the incline, but it is known to be very wide. The El Dorado is likely to justify the expectations of its owners, and to prove one of the great mines of t he district. The Lander and Miller shaft broke g round on the 14th November with excellent prospects. The Florida shipped $106,500 in bullion for the year ending Nov. 12. th. The reports from the outside districts are bright as in Austin, and the mines generally give promise of rich returns. A disco very has been made on the Humbolt river of vast solid beds of peat which in a country so destitute of fuel will prove of enormous value. There . is one bed covering 15,000 acres. Theo depoats are MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. lFrom the Anglo-American Times.) Where there is much smoke there must be fire, and in spite of the denial from Madrid, SJILIC nego tiations have passed between Spain and the United States relative to Cuba and Porto Rico. In New York the report now is that the Spanish Govern ment proposed the sale of these islands to the Ame rican Minister at Madrid for $150,000,00 0 in gold. The first fifty millions to be paid on delivery, fifty at the end of a year, and the remaining fifty at the end of six years. Cuba was eagerly sought by the Southern States as a means of extend ing slavery. if now purchased by the United States the chief object would be to destroy one of its last strongholds. But in view of the opposition to Mr. Seward's annexation policy in the house of Repre sentatives, we imagine the probabilities are against such a negotiation being completed. The telegraph announces from Havannah that the public heart is beating with anxiety at the intelligence ; and well it might, as it would mean the extinction of slavery, and citizenship with the freest and most powerful of nations instead of subjection to the most de crepid. The Nation considers that the money would be better spent in educating the freedmen now in the States instead of acquiring more, as it is of greater importance to the race that those now free should be so elevated and enlightened as to turn out well, than that others in slavery should at once be liberated. Some speculators have already purchased the Guajaba islands near Mevitas, which they intend to colonise, and to cultivate :80,000 acres. Touching the extension of territory, the Nation says—" Our great trouble is the abundance and variety of our rascals ; and we do not see that we shall either ' confound their politics or frustrate their knavish tricks' by giving them more territory to operate over. We do not hesitate to say that every inch of ground added to our domain over which we cannot enforce law and order is not a blessing, but a curse ; not a help to civilisation, but to barbarism." The Prince of Wales left, in a diamond pin, an apple of discord in the United States. Mr. George Ward Nicholls was the most active gentleman in procuring a picture by the artist, G. L. Brown, for presentation to his Royal Highness ; and the Prince, on receiving the gift, handed to Mr. Nicholls the diamond pin. In reviewing the position, Mr. Nicholls said that one gentleman only could be the possessor—that there were none more worthy than himself—that the pin was handed to him, and pos session was nine points of the law, so he did what most persons would do under the circumstances--- he kept it. The artist, however, saw things in quite another light. It was in recognition of th,3 picture that the Prince had bestowed the gift. The picture represented the painter, and Mr. Nicholls was little more than the carrier, therefore the pin was intended by the Prince for him. General Kuollys was appealed to, and exerted the little rea soning powers which a service in the army left him to arrive at a right decision, which was favourable to Mr. Brown. On this Mr. Henry Ward Beecher interposed, and the powerful logic of that gentle man swung the equerry round the circle, and the general, after taking more than the time of a Chan cery judge for consideration, has now, after nine years' wrangling, adjudged the pin to Mr. Nicholls. Perhaps the Prince will take compassion on the disappointment the artist must naturally feel, and forward to that gentleman the soothing syrup of a little gift. Advices from Mexico state that Juarez has sent a message to the Mexican Congress, in which he praises the United States for aiding the defeat of the European intervention ; and declares that Mexico never solicited the renewal of European relations. Father Fisher has been realeased. The British Minister was preparing to leave. An unsuccessful attempt had been made at Jalapa to create a revolution in favour of Diaz. There was a rumour that Juarez had ordered the publi catio❑ of all treaties made by European nations with Governments pretending to represent Mexico. Don Juan Bustamente appears to have secured his election as Governor of San Luis Potosi by means so discreditable as to have shocked eve❑ the Mexi cans. Romero will succeed L2rda de Tejerda in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as complications have arisen with the Southra Republics under the present Ministry. Porfirio Diaz was on the road to the capital with the trophies captured at gae retaro. A barrister writing to the Times, dated Te:nple, Dec. 31, expresses his strong opinion of the illega lity of the seditious and intlanunatory publications of the Fenian pr.ms. After quo!:ing the gre It la authorities, he says : " These dicta and decisions have been illustrated by so many cases that the law resp3cting sedition may b 3 said to be clear, well defined, tolerant, and politic. Gan there be a doubt that the time has now c 3113.3 for its stern.vindica- tion ? Is this foreign conspiracy t) be carried on in the midst of us under the pretext that there are Irish griev ances to redress? Have we n) duty to perform to wards the loyal people of Ireland ? May not their affections bo be estranged when they see and hear the Government abused, calumniated, despised, and menaced every morn ing of their lives? When murder is "openly paraded as Patriotism, the martyr's crown held forth as the reward of convicted assassins, and the prayers of the, whole Catholic population solemnly implored for the souls of those who have subverted the Monarchy and plunged their country in anarchy and bloodshed, do we not offer a most pitiable spectacle to the rest of the world in allowing this mischief to go on and prosper with impunity." Scievola does not see the gain to Toryism from Fe nian proceedings. Anything tending to associate liberty with license in the mind of the British public is, in the opinion of the Government, cheaply pur chased by the lives of a few labouring families and of some stray policemen, even throwing in a Judge or a Cabinet Minister and a company or two of soldiers. It would be folly in a partisan Govern ment to interrupt proceedings which directly attain the end they have in view. Those who read an article " On Protection of Naturalised Citizens Abroad" we reprint from the Springfield Republican, will see that this lead ing organ of Republican opinion in New Eng land takes the same view as that expressed by us, and gives the same reason. It is almatter for negociation, for, to use the words of our contemporary, " European Governments cannot safely recognise our naturalisation in an unqualified way. We might change our laws so as to permit naturalisation the day a foreigner touches the soil, and then all that able-bodied subjects of any other Government would need to do in order to escape military service for life would be to take a trip to this country, and carry back naturalised papers." This was the first objection that presented itself to our mind, but it is one easily to be removed by negociation. A steamer has left Dubuque, lowa, with barges in tow, on which are 800,000 bushels of wheat, for shipment at New Orleans to Liverpool. Dubuque is high up the Mississippi, fully three-quarters of a degree North of Chicago, and this experiment is to test whether wheat cannot be carried to Europe cheaper by this route, when grown near the river, than by rail to the seaboard. Mr. Getz, Representative of Pennsylvania, moved in the House on the 12th Dec.—" 'Whereas it is re ported that the cities, Boston and Pittsburg, have recently elected Democratic Mayors, and this being an indication on the part of the people of those cities of a spirit of disloyalty, therefore, Resolved— ' That the select committee on Reconstruction be directed to inquire whether the States in which these cities are located have Republican forms of Govern ment, and whether they do not need reconstruc tion.' " We think the state of mind of this Con gressman would form a much fitter subject of in quiry, even if he moved this in joke. Any per son who has the misfortune to differ in opinion from Mr. Getz indicates a spirit of disloyalty, and requires reconstruction. If this is not the idea on which despotism is grounded, we do not know what is. If such be Mr. Getz's spirit of legis lation, the sooner he is reconstructed himself the better. On Wednesday, the 11th December, the National Republican Committee met at Washington, and called the next Presidential Nomination Convention at Chicago, the 20th of next May. The decision was controlled by the friends of General Grant, of whose success there can be little doubt. Captain Long, of the American whale ship Nile, has fired the imagination of Arctic explorers by his discovery of the Polar continent. It appears that the tempests of last spring and summer broke up the circle of ice around the central sea from which rises this land. Two vessels penetrated into these waters—the one from Dundee, the other from Bos ton. Though the Scot stopped, after getting fur ther north, as he asserts, than any other vessel, the Bostonian sailed on till he came in sight of land, which he traced and measured, without landing, " up to the 73d degree north latitude, and it still reached away to the northward in all the magni ficence of snow cliffs and mountain peaks." Capt. Sherard Osborn, who names the continent Kellett's Land after the Admiral, by whom it was sighted in 1850, recommends an Arctic expedition, in which, we fear, he. will receive but little support. A very singular case of disappearance occurred at Washington, Dec. 17. Colonel Eli Parker, of Genera( Grant's Staff, was on that day to have been married to Miss Minnie Sackett, of Washington, whose mother, with General Grant and Staff, and a large circle of friends of bride and bridegroom, were assembled at the Church of the Epiphany, at half-past 10 a.m. All was ready but the bride groom. Messengers were despatched in every direc tion, and to all his usual resorts, but in vain—and the wedding party was compelled to disperse. No tidings of the Colonel has been received, and the mysterious disappearance is as yet wholly unex plained. There is a rumour that his body had been found under the ice in the Potomac—another that he had been seen in Baltimore—a third that he had married somebody else in Buffalo. Colonel Parker had issued reception cards for his friends in New York, at the Metropolitan Hotel, and at his residence in Washington after the return from his bridal tour. He had borrowed from Mrs. Grant one of the General's military sashes, to wear at the wedding, and his wedding suit was ready. General Grant has been nominated for the Pre sidency by the Union League of Philadelphia after a strong opposition, o❑ the ground that he should first de fine his position before the League took this step. This was the view of William B. Thomas and Thomas Webster, jun. The resolution was —" That having confidence in the ability, integrity, and patriotism of General U. S. Grant, and believing that his political principles are in consonance with those of the Republican party ; and grate ful for the services he has rendered to the country in every post of duty to which he has been called, we do hereby nominate him as tho candidate of this league for the office of President of the United States." Births. PHaLIPS—On the Gth inst., at Weymouth, the wife o Captain It. Iloskyns Phelips, Madras Staff Corps, of a son. STUART—On the 6th inst., at 25, Wilton-crescent, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Crichton-Stuart, 31. P., of a son. Marriages. Coop:—CoTToN— On the 7th inst., at St. George's, Han over-square, Frederick Lucas, eldest sou of Francis Cook, Esq., of Doughty House, Richmond, and Mont serrat, Ciutra, to Bessie, eldest daughter of Dr. Cotton of 46, Clarges-street, Piccadilly. LEWIS—JERvors --On the 6th inst., at Chalton, John D. Lewis, Esq., of Westbury House, Hants, and Membland. Devonshire, to Teresa, eldest daughter of Sir Jervois C. 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