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

SPIRIT OP THE PI7BLIO :OURNALS, An address to the Archbishop of Canterbury is now in process of signature at Oxford, imploring his Grace to use his influence against the bill now before the Legislature abolishing university tests. The Times, speaking of this, asks : What is the value of an utterance which challenges no reply, which evades discussion, and which shuns the political arena ? Could these matters be arranged between Oxford and Lambeth, we all know how it would be— even as it was in the days of Laud, not to go back to Chichele. But neither Oxford nor Lambeth, nor any other power in this realm can take these matters out of the hands of the Legislature. The utmost that can be hoped is that the House of Commons to be returned by the next general elec tion will be a fair representation of the national character; and this national character we are forced to collect and conceive from some variety of material. England, Scotland, and Ireland, two Established Churches, five million Roman Catholics, a still greater number of Nonconformists, be sides various other elements alluded to even in the short document before us, have all to find their common repre sntation in Parliament. Of necessity there must be something in the nature of a compromise, and no reason able person can expect that any one communion or creed will have all its own way. In such a state of things they who have something to defend, inasmuch as they overtop and shut out others, will have a harder task than they who only ask for equality or mere toleration. The question is not what the Church of England would do for itself, or what the clergy and gentry would do, but what the thirty millions of various races and creeds in these isles will do through a Parliament carefully devised to represent them. In . that Legislature even the popular distinction between England and Ireland has no rightful or practical existence. While all claims are represented and advo cated, the result is that which is best and fairest for the whole. In this spirit our old universities have been, and will continue to be, legislated for. The Oxford graduates entreat that their university and colleges may remain, as much as they are, institutions of the National Church. The very term they employ suggests while it slurs over the real difficulty of their case. The United Kingdom has not a " National Church," and it is the United Kingdom those have to deal with who deprecate the apprehended action of the Legislature. Can (the Times concludes) the the gentlemen at Oxford under existing circumstances, under the state of things they so fervently desire to main tain, prevent their own men, their own tutors, their own chiefs of opinion, from streaming off on the one side towards Rome, on the other to Dissent and still more popular Latitudinarianism? Can they prevent any- Oxford man, even with an M.A. attached to his name and material inducements to orthodoxy, from forming his own opinions? If they cannot do this now, and if Oxford, in consequence, is that free arena of religious controversy which they earnestly pray it may not be, how can Parlia ment save or help them ? The Star marvels at the appointment to the Chancellor. ship of the Exchequer, an office which is only second in importance to that of the First Lord of the Treasury, of a gentleman utterly unknown to the nation at large, and only known by name to the members of the House of Commons from his having recently held a subordinate place. Mr. Ward Hunt has never shewn that he had any peculiar mastery over the science of finance, unless, in deed, it were by his boisterous efforts to compensate land owners and farmers for the effects of the cattle plague out of the public purse. What he has done, therefore, only increases the suspicions of his utter incompe tency for the office to which he has been suddenly elevated. He has been, it seems, a devoted political adherent of Mr. Disraeli, sitting at the feet of the political teacher with perfect docility—willing to extend the fran chise or withhold it, to abolish anything or to conserve everything, precisely as Mr. Disraeli may determine. Such a Chancellor of the Exchequer may be a valuable addition to the Cabinet, of which it is said some of the members are already disposed to be fractious ; but the nation may reasonably doubt whether England was made for Mr. Disraeli, and whether the most important interests of the English people are to be entrusted to every suc cessful political adventurer who by suppleness and docility has ingratiated himself into the friendship of a political leader. By the Treason-felony Act, English subjects can be made amenable in Great Britain for offences against that statute, though committed in foreign States. Foreigners can, however, alone be made amenable for similar offences if committed within the British dominions, though acts done by them elsewhere can be given in evidence against them, not on account of any inherent turpitude they may possess, but as tending to explain the nature, whether innocent or otherwise, of the specific acts alleged against them. In order, therefore, rays the Post, to bring Nagle, who is an American citizen by birth, within the operation of the statute, it is incumbent on the counsel for the Crown to shew that he has committed some act of treason-felony within her Majesty's dominions, although they are at liberty to prove acts done in America if they are of opinion that by force of connection they will tend to establish the criminality of the act or acts alleged in the indictment. If Nagle effected a landing in Ireland with the object of subverting the established Government, then the proof of such an act would be sufficient to render him amenable to British jurisdiction, but as no such act is relied upon by the prosecution, it becomes. material to determine whether acts which would amount to treason felony if committed on British ground constitute the same offence if committed on board an American private ship when sailing or anchored in British waters. This is the sole point of any importance which is raised on the present trial, and it certainly is not one which is so utterly im material as some persons are inclined to imagine. The riots of 1866 in favour of Reform seem to the Daily T r ews likely to be followed by outbreaks this year against the Reform Act. The destruction of the railings of Hyde Park hi assertion of the supposed constitutional right to meet in that enclosure, and with no stronger motive of personal feel ing than the attraction of Mr. Beales's eloquence and of Reform League oratory in general, was but a slight affair in comparison with the trouble which seems brewing in Bethnal Green, Hackney, Shoreditch, and other parts of East London. Since the Excise Act of Walpole no measure so unpopular has been passed as the clause of the Reform Act of 1867 which abolishes the practice of compounding in parlia mentary boroughs. Already threatening demonstrations against it have been made at Norwich, at Salisbury, and in other parts of the country. The excitement has now spread to London. The number in the several borough and parishes of London who took advantage of the Small Tenements Act may be counted by tens of thousands and twenty thousands. The abolition of the practice of com pounding has had its inevitable consecence. Instead of the reduced rate the full rate has been levied. The tax has been increased ; and this change has taken place at a time of wide-spread distress. The affair has become serious. Mr. Disraeli will do well to yield gracefully, to be beforehand with agitation and violence, and to con cede, as if voluntarily, what he cannot withhold and has not even a pretext for refusing. According to the Standard the brciad issue, in the case of Langton v. Waite, recently before Vice-Chancellor Malins, was, whether a person who takes stock in pledge is allowed by the rules or customs of the Stock Exchange to deal with it as he likes, without regard to the interests of the pledgor. In common life, and between ordinary people, we know that this contention could , not be sup ported for an instant. Were it otherwise, no one could mortgage a house or pawn a watch with Out incurring the risk of losing it altogether, though the advance he obtained was far below its value, and the purpose for which he pledged it • was - to meet a merely temporary difficulty which he had been able to tide over. But the defendant set up a Stock Exchange rule and a Stock Exchange cus tom, in virtue of which he claimed to do what he liked with what was only apparently and not actually his own. his attempt, however, was unsuccessful. The rule relied upon seems rather to condemn than to support the prac tice, and the evidence of custom, though conflicting, was deemed by the Vice-Chancellor to preponderate in favour of the plaintiff. At the Dorsetshire markets last week the price of beef ruled high, while the price of mutton was lower. The weather was stated to be unfavourable to the turnip c r op. In that part of the country nitrate of soda was be coming a favourite manure. The use of nitrate of soda was increased 30 per cent. last year. NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION. - The address of Mr. G. Ward Hunt to the electors of North Northamptonshire, on his presenting himself for re-election, " is the briefest possible. Mr. Hunt says Her Maj e sty having been graciously pleased to Confer upon me the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, my seat in Parliament is now vacant, and I once more seek re-election at your hands. I trust that I retain, as a Miniiter of the Crown, the confidence which you have reposed in me as an inde pendent representative." There is at present no opposition to Mr. Hunt's return. L01:D CHANCELLORS' PENSIONS. —There seems to b 2 it general belief that not more than four ex-Chancellors can at the same time be in receipt of £5,000 a year. The Act of the 2nd and : - hxl of William IV., cap. 111, enacts iw limitation to the number of these pensions. It simply provides that, in consideration of the abolition of certain offices, " the patronage and gift of which belonged of right to the Lord High Chancellor," it should be lawful for her Majesty to grant to any person holding the office of Lord High' Chancellor, or Keeper of the Great Seal, on his retirement from the same, a pension for the term of his natural life, not exceeding £5,000 per annum, Therefore, by the appointment of Lord Cairns, no difference will be made in respect of the pensions of the other ex-Chancellors, namely, Lords Brougham, St. Leonards, eranwortb: Westbury, and Chelmsford. LAW AND POLICE. AN DIPOBTANT QUESTION IN t 1 WINDING-UP " MATTERS. —Vice-Chancellor Manus has had before him the case of the Xeres Wine Company. This company was ordered to be wound up in December 1864, and in 1865 the Alliance Bank, being creditors for over £15,000, and holding wine warrants, sold the warrants for over £l2,ooo,leaving about £3,000 due to them as s creditors. This was an application by the bank to be allowed to stand as creditors for, and to re ceive a dividend upon the f ull amount of their debt of £15,000 odd. ThqVice-Chancellor said the rule applicable in bank ruptcy must prevail here, viz., that the bank must prove for the balance due and no more. his Honour characterised the application as most unjustifiable, and said the case, which occupied nearly the whole day, ought to have taken up only five minutes of the time of the court. He further laid that the question had not been raised before, because everybody knew and admitted that there was no shadow id ground either under the Act of 1862, or upon principles of justice, for raising it. The claims was a monstrous one, :aid must be dismissed with costs. A MASTER CONVICTED FOR KILLING HIS APPRENTICE. —At the Durham Assizes, before Mr. Justice Mellor, Timothy Stephenson was indicted for the manslaughter of William llarrison Bambridge, at Stockton, on the 9th of December. The deceased was the prisoner's apprentice, and on the day in question his master, being annoyed at something he had done, in a moment of passion threw a pair of pincers at the boy, which struck him on the head, The boy died some days afterwards from the effects of the blow. The prisoner was found guilty and sent to prison for three months. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO BRIBE A POLICEMAN.— -At Derby, Richard Bunting, miners' agent, Ilkeston, has been charged with endeavouring to induce James Newton, a police-officer, of Church Gresley, to neglect his duty by promising to give him money. The complainant stated that the defendant, on the 13th January, gave him and another constable each 6d. and a cigar. On the 15th ult. defendant gave Newton 10s., and promised him a sum of money if he would not be so hard on the union men, stating that they had a job to pull off at Hull and Board man's colliery when the constable was on duty, and that. they could succeed if he was "right." The defendant was committed for trial at the assizes, bail being accepted for his appearance, himself in £lOO and two sureties in £5O each. A WEALTHY COSTERMONGER.—A costermonger, named Patrick Toohcy, was brought before Sir R. Carden, at the Guildhall, on Monday, and remanded, on a charge of having in his possession several old guineas and shillings, supposed to have been stolen. The prisoner had offered them to a pawnbroker for sale, and he had become suspi . ems. An :.-oplication was made by his daughter for bail. She rroduced a receipt for the purchase of £263 New Three per Cents., and two bank books, in one of which was an entry for £l5, and in the other were numerous entries, the gross amount of which did not transpire. She said that her father had got the guineas from a labouring man, who had found them in an old house that was being pulled down, that he was a hardworking and saving man, and would produce the man if let out on bail. Ifer application was immediately acceded to. MR. 13RIGHT'S ADVICE TO THE PUBLICANS.— Mr. Thomas Rigby and Mr. A. B. Walker, the two largest public-house proprietors in Liverpool, have commenced closing their houses on Sundays. Among the debutantes of the present season will be Lady Mary Cecil, daughter of the Marquis and Mar chioness of Sal:simry ; Lady Alexina Duff, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Fife ; and Miss Van de Weyer, daughter of M. and Madame Van de Weyer. The mortal remains of the late venerable and learned Lord Wensleydale were interred on Saturday in Ampthill Church, Bedfordshire. The funeral was strictly private. The chief mourners who attended were Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., M.P., the Hon. Charles W. G. Howard, M.P., and his son, Mr. George Howard, the sons-in-Law and grandsons of the lamented deceased, and Mr. W. Lowther. WOMEN'S SU FFRAGE. —The National Society for Women's Suffrage numbers among its members several of the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. One of these wrote to Mr. Beresford Hope's committee declining to vote for that gentleman, on the ground of his vote against Mr. Mill's motion in the House of Commons last May in favour of extending the franchise to widows and single women possessing the property or other qualification neces sary for admission to the suffrage. MARIO AT ST. PETERSBURG. —Signor Mario has been exceedingly successful at St. Petersburg, and it would appear from the glowing accounts received, that so far from his brilliant voice deserting him, as has been feared, it now possesses all his former voice and feeling. On the occasion of hia benefit the opera was " Les Huguenots," and the renowned singer received a perfect ovation. A crown of massive gold was presented to him, as well as a profusion of rings and diamonds. The scene the house presented will long be remembered by the crowded audience present, and the great triumph achieved by Signor Mario was alma st unparalleled by any of the previous occasions on which the delight of thtt public has been shewn towards him. ABYSSINIA AND TILE VICEROY OF EGYPT. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, dating from Alexandria on the 16th February, • says : " There is a strong impression here, which I find to be shared in official circles, that the Viceroy is in a great measure prompted by the French in his Abyssinian projects. Three days ago we were startled by a telegram from Reuter's office, dated Senafe, February 2, and ending with ' the Egyptian troops are pushing on with out sanction.' I thought, if true, this could not be the Viceroy's doing only. There are other indications of the quarter from which the wind is blowing besides the prone ness to originate reports adverse to us. There is still an impenetrable secrecy connected with the question of a new loan. All I can learn is, that Nubar Pasha has sent an agent from Paris, who has conclu lei, absolutely or conditionally—l think more probably the latter— terms with his Highness, for a loan of 25,000,000 sterling, and that the Emperor has lent his interest to the transaction." TRADE AND NAVIGATION RETURNS FOR JANUARY. —The Board of Trade returns for the first.month of the present year have been published. The declared value is fully 4 per cent. under the corresponding month o f , 1867, and more than 14 per cent. below January 186 G. The figures stand thus —214,354,748 for January 1866 ; £ 1 2,786,842 for January 1867, and £12,252,688 for January 1868. We have to repeat the caution we lately gave when commenting on the exports of the year 1867 against the running to the conclusion that the extent of our trade is seriously decreasing because the declared values are smaller. The profits on the trade may for the time be smaller, but if the amount of our principal exportations, so far as quantity is concerned, continues to rise, the industry of the country cannot be regarded as on an unsound foundation. The exports of cotton yarn, for instance, have risen in qt antity from 10,190,7021 b in January, 1866, to 15,694,2031 b. in January 1868, and cotton manufactures of all kinds from 172,119,828 yards in January 1866, to 217,666,029 yards in January 1868. In woollen manufactures there has been a decline both in value and quantity. The tables just pub ished give us also the completion of the records of im ports for 1867. They have fallen 8 per cent. below those of 1866, . the figuies for the three years standing thus :- 2219,393,987 for 1865, £238,773,192 for 18643, and £220,862,585 for 1867. NARROW ESCAPE OF A FAMILY FROM FIRE.— ohortly before six o'clock, a few mornings ago, it was reported at the police-office at Belfast that a fire had broke nowt in the hay and straw store of Mr. J. Forsythe, Shankhill-road. It appears that Mr. Forsythe kept ,tabling for horses in the rear of the straw store, and that early in the morning a person came to the stable and took away his horse. By some misadventure on the part of Mr. Forsythe or the owner of the horse, a lighted candle was afterwards allowed to remain in.the store, and, coming m contact with the straw, in less than ten minutes the place was in flames. The family, consisting of Mr. For sythe, his wife, and three children, were all on the pre mises at the time—the mother and her children being in bed in the upper storey. The appearance of the fire attracted to the place several residents of the neigh bourhood and a number of the police. When it be came known that the family were on the premises, and that there was every proba'oility of their being quffocated, the consternation of those assembled outside was very great. A cart was procured, which was placed underneath the window, and Sub-constable Andrew Miller succeeded in reaching the window of the upper storey, when he made his way through the smoke, which at the tune was very dunce, to the place where the aril Ireo were, lie then carried one of the children to the window, and lowered it down into the street. Aided by the other policeman and a number of civi lians, the whole of the children were rescued from • their peril ous pos i tion, and placed in safety. Mrs. Forsythe, by th e exert i oni of her husband, aid e d by Mr. George Larmour, was also rescued from the burning premises. Mr. Larmour, during the course of his exem plary exertions, received a severe wound in the head by a falling brick. Mr. Forsythe was burned severely on the head, legs, and breast, and remains in a somewhat pre carious condition. A horse which was in the stable at the time, and which belongs to a resident in the vicinity, was burned to death. The premises were uninsured, and Mr. Forsythe and his family have by the occurrence been left in a destitute condition.—Northern Whia. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1868 . A FEW FACTS ABOUT IRELAND. In writing on this subject recently, we re ferred to certain tables of figures published by the Pall Mall Gazelle, showing an increase, since 1841, in the number of first and second class houses built in the sister island ; and, whilst admitting the correctness of these figures, demonstrated that the conclusion our contemporary drew from this increase—namely, the growing prosperity of Ireland—was not at all justified by the 'fact which, as we showed, is to be traced to other causes. We shall now examine other figures ad duced . by the Pall Mall, showing that the number of third-class houses—that is, those occupied by the more substantial farmers — increased by the number of 14,054 between the years 1841 and 1851. But so far from this fact establishing the present prosperity of Ireland, it proves the very reverse. Let us divide that memorable decade into two parts, and examine each half of it. During the first five years, from 1841 to 1846, the population of Ireland was greater than at any period of which we have record—being then between eight and nine millions ; and, in 1845, the commission presided over bylhe Earl of Devon pronounced them to be the worst fed, clothed, and housed, of any people in Europe. Yet, during these years, the Irish agriculturists, although so numerous and so poor, increased the third class houses for themselves—for all men know that they did not get houses built within the last five years of that decade, during which period the entire kingdom was afflicted and ravaged by famine, fever, and their concomi tants. Let us now contrast the ten years from 1841 to 1851, during which Ireland suffered so much, with the ten years from 1851 to 1861, during which latter decade Irish landlords and some superficial politicians would wish it to be believed that Ireland has become prosperous, and ask if this be true. Nothing shows im provement in the material condition of a people more than the fact of large numbers among them surrounding themselves with domestic comforts—and have we this evidence of in creasing wealth in Ireland within these late years ? Far from it, indeed ; for, within the ten years of which we have the last official returns, the third-class houses, which increased by upwards of fourteen thousand in the pre ceding decade, have decreased by 34,944 during the latter period. How, then, can it be alleged, with any semblance of truth, that the prosperity. of Irish agriculturists has increased by the thin ning of the Irish population ? We have now shown the reverse to be the fact, and proved that the substantial or comfortable farmers in that country have declined commensurately with the sweeping away of its general popu lation. Nothing can be more silly and even crimi nal than for public writers to attempt to mys tify the British public as to the true condition of Ireland. It is easy to throw together a num ber of figures in a confused manner, and then to assert that they prove the general prosperity of a kingdom ; but it requires time and space to expose the inconclusiveness of such figures, and to clearly show that they do not afford any foundation for the bold allegations re s t e d on them.. This is the jaunting-car mode of disposing of the case of Ireland, with which we imagined we had done for ever, when wisdom directed that Sir Robert Peel should I l be relieved of his official duties in Ireland. In 1861, and afterwards, he persisted in alleg ing, as a fact, that Ireland was increasing in prosperity, while tens of thousands of its people were for want of food, and the cattle dying throughout a great portion of the king dom for the want of fodder. His official mis representations were, unfortunately, believed in England at the time, and, owing to the pub lic having been thus misled by the Chief Sec retary for Ireland, the wail of Irish distress was unheeded by us; but, wafted over the Atlantic, it struck on the attentive ears of American citizens. They quickly subscribed and for warded large sums of money to the Mansion House Committee then formed in Dublin, and also sent other sums to bishops and priests in the most distressed localities, in order to miti gate the sufferings of the people which it was our duty to have at once relieved, instead of allowing her Majesty's subjects to be kept alive by those who were comparative strangers to them. In '6l, '62, and '63 the Government did not listen to the complaints of Ireland, but let America act the part of the Good ! Samaritan ; and already we are reaping the bitter fruit s o f our ca ll ous neg l ect i n the shape of " Fenianism," poured in upon us by the Americans, who are received with partial favour by the poorer portion of our Irish fellow subjects, who experienced their solid kindness when we, acting on the advice of Sir Robert Peel, neglected our duty and our interests, .by closing our ears and hands against them. The Irish bishops and priests then told the Whig Government of the grievous sufferings of their flocks ; but the Government of that day re fused to believe their testimony ; and some of our press stooped to calumny, by reply ing that the Catholic bishops and priests of Ireland only sought to get money for their flocks in order that their flocks might have some of it to give to themselves ! Had the Government then discharged its obvious duty by providin g re p ro d uc ti ve em pl oymen t f or th e Irish poor, we should have laid them under an obligation, without any ultimate loss to England, and thereby establishing a claim upon the gratitude of a generous and sensitive people, could now appeal, as friends, to their loyalty against the aims of ill-designing Ameri cans, who glory in doing us mischief by disturb ing our domestic peace. The other figures cited by the Pall Mall Gazette, as evidence of Ireland's prosperity, are equally unreliable for that purpose as those whose fallacy we have already exposed. For, all enlightened men, not only in these coun tries, but throughout the civilized world, know that in the year 1847 the Irish famine was at its height--that for three years after 1860 a great part of Ireland was on the verge of famine—that in 1867 there was no famine in Ireland—and yet our contemporary has allowed himself to be imposed on by figures which show that Ireland was better off in 1867 than she was in the years of her wide-spread misery and maddening hunger ! We admit it ; but this proves nothing for the purposes of his argument. Our contemporary quotes figures to show that the live stock in Ireland has considerably increased of late years. This, surely, was a work of supererogation on his part, for all people of ordinary sense know that as famine and its effects disappeared from any land, the people of the country, as a matter of course, begin to replace the stock which the want of provisions obliged them to part with in the time of their wretched distress. He shows that the largest increase has taken place in sheep, pigs, and poultry, which should neces sarily follow on the disappearance of famine, and so soon as the people had an increase of milk and potatoes. But in his zeal to prove the prosperity of the sister kingdom, he has allowed himself to fall into error respecting the measure of this increase ; for, when comparing the value of live stock in 1865 with what it was in 1861 (which was a year verging on famine), he sets down the live stock of the latter year at £41,278,000, whereas the Re gistrar-General, whom we regard as the best authority on the subject, sets it down at only £32,772,609, being £8,505,391 less than our contemporary puts clown to the credit of Irish prosperity. In his report for 1865, the Reoistrar-General, instead of asserting the de cided prosperity of that year, sighs for the arrival of the day when the value of live stock in Ireland will equal what it had been many years before ; for he says :—" We may con fidently hope that with a recurrence of such favourable seasons as the present, the value of live stock will soon reach the large amount it had attained in 1859 (£35,868,259) prior to the half-famine,: by which, and the ex cessive rains of the three following years, the number of stock and the agricultural prosperity 1 / 4 of Ireland in general were so injuriously affected." It - will be readily admitted by all impartial men that, in order to prove the pre sent prosperity of Ireland, our contemporaries ought not to contrast the amount of live stock in 1865 with what it was at a period of " half famine ;" and it will also be admitted that facts and figures ought not to be mis-stated. What we have said of our contemporary's figures for 1865, equally applies to those quoted by the Pall Mall respecting the value of live stock in Ireland in the year 1864. For our bontemporary sets down the amount at £38,270,000, whereas the Irish Registrar- General, who is the real authority on the subject, states that it amounted only to £30,728,910. Here is an error of about eight millions of pounds sterling made each year, in attempting to prove the paradox of a country increasing in its aggregate wealth whilst de creasing in population ; but, as we observed in a previous article on this subject, " it would require very clear figures and solid proofs to convince enlightened and impartial " men of this. We shall not go through any more of the figures produced by our contemporaries, as we have already demonstrated that they are not to be relied on as proving Irish prosperity, and that they do not disturb in the least the position of his Eminence Cardinal Cullen, who speaks of the miserable condition of the Irish at present from evidence supplied by his own eyes, with which he daily beholds that " squalid poverty" unknown in the Catholic kingdoms of Europe. We appeal to our fellow-country men not to allow this state of things to con tinue--not to allow Ireland to be pointed at by France, America, or even Russia, as being for ever dressed in rags while occupying her position at the right side of wealthy England, who has undertaken the guardianship of her sister for the last sixty-eight years. Above all, we ask the present Government not to fall into the like error as their predecessors in office did. In depicting the " squalid poverty" of Ireland, Cardinal Cullen speaks the mind of the Catholic bishops, priests, and people of that country. , Let him not be now answered in the language of arrogance and insult as fie was in 1861, when Sir Robert Peel, that most unfortunate of Secretaries for Ireland told him, through the medium of an Orange meeting at Belfast, that he did " not care three rows of pins for a Catholic Bishop." England is paying dearly at present for the neglect with which she then treated the remon strances and appeals of the Irish people and their clergy, and let us not again fall into the like error by despising the warning voice that has lately reached us from the same quarter.— Westminster Gazette. INTERNATIONAL ERRORS OF OPINION. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Last Monday the Times in an article on Mr. Adams remarked—" We have only to read the speeches constantly delivered in the Senate of the United States to appreciate the mischief which some prominent advisers of the American people would have produced in the place of the American Minis ter." There are two rooted and mischievous errors, the one in England, the other in America, which many who ought to try to dig up prefer to cultivate and cherish. So long as they do this the English will never learn that all speeches in the United States are not to be taken as matters of fact or expressions of real opinion. It is as well known in England as in America that an Opposi tion in attacking a Government party may denounce action's, may stigmatize both ends and means, may promise brilliant reforms and measures almost re volutionary in character, but when those who thus talk are placed in office they have a wonderful facility of forgetting these pledges. Make Mr. MILL Prime Minister, and see if he introduces a bill to confiscate the property of landlords in Ireland. He may really think it might end well, but official responsi bility has so powerful an influence that Utopias dissolve into thin air, the wild and the impractic able that looked to the heated imagination so easy and inviting, disappear—leaving nothing but the bare reality. If the United States desired to give a red-hot Fenian Senator a cold bath let him be appointed Minister to St. James's. RORERT J. W ALKER has been enlightening America on the advantages to the country of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John. With these two islands, the United States in the next war with England, will flank the British fleet in the West Indies, destroy all her carrying trade, amounting to two billions cf dollars a year, annex the Dominion of Canada, which PAL3IERSTON got up to be a rival power on the Continent, secure the independence of sufficient force with arms be fo Ireland bri thesenng who therm people. " From our Pa c ific possessions," went on the Hon. ROBERT, " we must assail her East India ditlhe lerish a possessions, and finally destroy her commerce upon the ocean ; and when in want of food, or of the raw materials for manufacture, or of markets for them, the fires in all her workshops will be extinguished, revolu tion would be inevitable, and a Republic would arise on the ruins of crowns and coronets." The Hon. ROBERT J. WALKER in good English, him self the descendant of an English family, thus sketched the ruin of England. But this scion of the celebrated HooKEY never dreamt of these san guinary schemes, ending i n the ruin of his ancestral home being carried into effect. He was merely in dulging in a facon de parler, which, we regret to say, delights the American mind. He is aware that England is the only free State in Europe, and that the cause of freedom, in whose interests he uttered these threats, would be deeply injured instead of advanced by their consummation. In England the words of HooKEY's descendant, and of such others, are accepted as proof of an undying hostility. They are quoted in British papers as clear evidence of the impossibility of winning even by the extreme of conciliation not merely the affection, but common justice, from the. United States. The British Lion turns angrily away with a sense of unfair dealing strong upon him, with the dislike intensified, of those for ever threatening him with annihilation, and a determi nation when the time comes, to show how vigorous are his old muscles, how strong his teeth. Mr. CONNESS, Senator from - California, desired that England should be informed that if she did not make reparation, the American flag would be ear ned from the Pacific to Nova Scotia while the Cross was engaged in trampling on the Crescent. Although this warlike Senator, whoa() term we are thankful will soon expire, and whose Irish blood may excuse his hatred of England, talks thus, he would be slow to act, and such declamation means less than nothing. The rooted error in America is that they think such speeches harmless, and are pleased if they succeed in annoying the British lion. Yet, we assert unhe sitatingly, that indulgence in this practice has most injuriously affected the interests of the United States. Englishmen are persuaded that Americans hatethem, and, having been reared in this belief, a social prejudice has been engendered. They love power, they worship success—the United States is the most powerful and successful of nations ; therefore, Englishmen would, if per mitted, esteem the one and bow down to the other. Of all admirers and well-wishers, Americans might, if they liked find the warmest in England. This they repel by the prominence they give to these stupid speeches, and the latitude they allow them selves in Congress in discussing their foreign kindred. " I may say what I think proper," exclaimed Mr. HOWARD in the Senate, when robukel for abusing the Emperor NAPOLEON; " he should say wh tt he pleased, he did not care whether the ESIPEROR liked it or not." If Americans indulged generally in the same language towards foreign nations, England would have accepted it as a playful habit of the people, and allowed them the widest latitude ; but, unfortunately, the old country bas been singled out as an exception, and to make this the more marked, others have been lavishly praised that the contrast might be the stronger. The lan guage being the same, and the exception made very pointed, we cannot wonder that England has grown into the belief of a national antipathy in America against her, and that a social prejudice is widely entertained in England against Americans. This being so, nothing so much surprises Englishmen as the hearty reception and warm hospitality they meet on visiting America. Here is a contratiction they can not understand. They are welcomed with genuine kindness ; they hear the old country spoken of with love and esteem; everywhere they are in the society of men and women who know the nooks and corners of England far better than they do themselves ; who have wandered through her monasteries, and strayed over her battle-fields, who have travelled to the haunts and graves of her celebrated poets, and sketched the ruins of her renowned castles. " Why," they exclaim, amazed, "we thought you hated us ; that we were your hereditary enemies, and that you were always planning our annihilation." They then see the two lives in America, the political life, and the social life,—all that is bad in the former, all that is good in the latter; the former parading dislike in words that spread everywhere ; the latter extending an hospitality, of which indivi duals only are the recipients. Therefore, while the ono is widely known, the other is scarcely heard of. All this is as unwise as it is curious. Americans complain of the animus in England during the Civil War, and assert that the South was greatly strengthened by the open sympathy expressed. They believe that the war which injured them so deeply woull never have assumed its gigantic proportions had it not been for the hostility of England towards them. Doubtless in this there is much truth, but to what was that hostility due? Why, to the ceaseless abuse which had fixed in the English mind the idea that the American was his born enemy. Here, again, we arrive at a curious fact. The American asserts that England always had his sympathies alike when struggling on the heights before Sebastopol, or toil ing in her almost hopeless contest beneath the walls of Delhi. "We sympathised with you—we es teemed and loved you," he asserts to the English man's surprise, " but yet, in our great trouble, in our national agony, we found in you nothing but a bitter foe." This the Englishman regards as a mere figure of speech, an assertion without a sha dow of truth ; yet, it is literally true. And why ? Because the Englishman pins his faith upon the political expression of opinion which reaches him from America, while the American is discussing the social feelings of his family circle. If ever the devil was engaged in making mischief—a senseless, idotic mischief—it Las been between these kindred leaders in the cause of freedom. We are happy to say there are influences at work to counteract the evil. Travel and knowledge are opening the eyes to this unspeakable folly. The United States is destined soon to be crossed by the greatest highway of nations, and Englishmen, as they become acquainted with the country and its institutions, will learn the true value of stump speeches and political harangues, as well as the real affection for the old land that underlies the frothy bluster, which must be, blown away, before it is seen. AME lIICAN MARKE7 S. (Front Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.) LONDON, Feb. 28. The market for the United States Bonds has been so. flat, owing to the want of any settled policy on the part of the Paancial Committee in Congress and the political movements, that the best report of it would be to say "nothing doing." Investors will not buy, and holders as yet do not press, so the business is inn, state quo for the moment. In Erie Railway Shares there has been quite a large business as per our table. We purchase these or any other American Railway or State Bonds for 1 per cent. delivery here, free of all expense. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.—First Mortgage Bonds, in terest and principal payable in gold, are now to be had at par in currency in the United States, with interest, since January 1; also the Central Pacific on same terms. W e recommend these bonds as a perfectly safe investment, paying some 81 per cont. on amount invested, and some £6O increase in 30 years, but in other shares the markets have been quiet. In want of anything of interest hero we quote the following as to the "situation" financially from Thomson's Bank-note Reporter, which shows not only that many are tinkering at a solution, but that it has come to that pass that it is made ludicrous; after which we hope soon to see a wise, progressive policy, in which the whole country can unlit., believing they will ere long see it is for the country's good ; in fact, its only salvation for years, that men and party issues give way to principles of justice in the matter of finances. MARKETS. (By Telegraph to the Journal of Commerce.) (iificioo, Feb. 14.—Flour unchanged. Wheat inactive ; No. 2 advanced L to lie and firm at $2 to $2 01. ; No 1 $2 05 to $2 OG. Corn dull at 801 to 80c for No 2, and 81c for No 1. Oats declined 11-c, closing steady at 561, to 7c. Rye dull and unsettled at $1 50 to $1 53: ; barley dull at $2 03 to $2 05 for N•) 2 ; sample lots $1 70 to $2 22. Pro visions quiet ; standard mess $22 ; straight brands hold $22 50; prime mess quiet at $lB. Short rib middles steady at 10± to lOic. Dry salt shoulders steady at Bkc, loose, cash, and B±c, buyers March. Sweet pickled hams quiet at 13c. Lard quiet at 14c. Dressed hogs moderately active; light advanced 10 to 20e; sales at $8 75 to $9 ; heavy $9 50 to $9 75. Livo hogs active and excited at an advance of 15 to 25c, ranging from $6 37± to $8 30. Beef cattle quiet at $7 25 to $7 50 for fair to good shipping steers. Receipts to-day-4,550 bbls flour ; 20,000 bush wheat ; 47,000 ditto corn ; 16,000 oats; 2,600 dressed hogs; 3,800 live hogs. Shipments-4,200 bbls flour; 18,000 bush corn; 3,000 dressed hogs; 3,000 live hogs. gp. Lours, Feb. 1 4.—Tobacco —moro offering and easier, but not quotably lower. Cotton—Only one lot in the market, which is held above the views of buyers. Flour very dull, with only a small business at unchanged prices. Wheat—a very small business and unchanged prices ; choice spring $2 15; prime to choice rod winter at $2 50 to $2 GO. Corn advancing ; sales at 83c to 85c ; one lot of fancy white at 90c; ear at 76c to 78c. Rye dull mad un changed. Provisions firm and in good demand. Sales of moss pork at $22 50, now held at $22 75 to $23. Bulk rib sides 101 c loose. Bacon—clear sides, 124 c to 13c. ; shoulders, 10c. Lard dull ; sales of inferior kettle at 131 c. Receipts to-day-1,000 bbls flour; 400 sacks wheat ; 2,800 do corn, 1,200 bush oats. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 14.—Tobacco firm at 55 25 to $l5 20 for lugs to medium leaf ; $32 for manufacturing leaf. Flour—Superfine $8 to $8 25; fancy $l2 50. Corn de clining; shelled in bulk 74c. Oats 66 to 67c. Wheat $2 50 to $2 55. Lard 14c. Mess pork $23. Bacon—shoul ders 10f to 1013; clear sides 111 to life. Bulk shoulders 91c ; clear sides 121 c. Cotton 18 to 181 c. Whisky no minal. MEMPHIS, Feb. 14.—Cotton quiet; receipts of the week 14,825 bales ; exports, 9,290 do.; stock 25,343 bales. Su perfine flour $9 to $9 50. Pork $24 25 to $24 50. Bulk shoulders 10c; clear sides 13c. Lard 14 to loc. Corn 83 to 85c. Oats 93 to 95c. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 14.—Cotton easier ; sales, 2,700 bales ; middling, Die. ; receipts, 6,437 bales ; no exports reported ; sales of the week, 34,500 bales ; receipts, 33,181 do.; exports, coastwise, 2,553 bales ; foreign, 9,720 bales ; stock, 121,814 bales. Sugar and mol4sses active and un changed. Flour easy and unchanged. Corn unchanged. Oats unchanged. Bacon scarce; shoulders nic ; clear sides 143 c ; mess pork, $25 25 to $25 50. Lard scarce, tierco 15c; keg, 161 c. Sterling exchange, 152 to 154; New York sight exchange per cent discount. Gold, 1391 to 140. MOBILE, Feb. 14.-Cotton-sales 200 bales ; market closed flat and nominal at 181 to 19c. Receipts 2,070 bales, sales of the week 11,900 bales ; receipts 12,466 bales; re ceipts of the season to date 279,764 bales ; receipts same time last year 183,509. Exports-foreign 3,262 bales; coastwise, 3,587 bales. Stock, 78,830 bales. AUGUSTA, GA, Feb. 14.-The cotton market is active but easier ; sales 1,140 bales ; receipts 700 bales ; mid dlings quoted at 181 to 181 c. SAVANNAH, GA., Feb. 14.-Cotton dull and nominal ; sales, 1,507 bales; receipts 3,271 do.; middlings 191, to to 191 c. CHARLESTON, S.C., Fob. 14.- Cotton declined ; sales 600 bales; middlings 191 to 20c ; receipts, 1,020 bales. WIL➢LINGTON, N.C., Feb. 14.-Spirits of turpentine firm. at 59c. Resins active ; strained $2 20 to $2 25. No. 2, $2 30 ; No. 1, $3 25. Cotton firm ; middling 18-Ic. Tar firm, at $2 35. BALTIMORE, Feb. 14.- Cotton dull and nominal at 201 c. for middlings. Flour more active ; sales, low grades city mills shipping extra at $lO 75 to $ll. Wheat quiet and steady ; prime to choice ;Pennsylvania at $2 50 to $2 60. Corn firm ; prime white and yellow $1 20. Oats active at 78c to 80c. Rye firm at $1 65. Seeds dull: Pennsylvania clover seed $8 121 to $8 50 ; Western, $8 871 to $9. Provisions quiet and steady. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14.-Cotton steady ; middling up land 201 c to 21c ; middling Orleans 22c. Petroleum in better de:nand ; crude 151 e ; refined in bond 22c. Clover seed, $8 to $8 50 ; flaxseed, $2 75 to $2 80. Flo ur steady and quiet. Sales 1,000 bbls. ; extra family $lO 50 to $ll 50; Pennsylvania and Ohio do., $lO 75 to $l2 25. Wheat -little demand ; red, $2 50 ; amber, $2 55. Rye -Sales 1,000 bush.; State at $1 65. Corn in fair demand; sales 4,000 bush. ; new yellow at $1 23. Oats steady at 75c to 78e. Provisions looking up ; sales mess pork at $23 50 ; hams in pickle, 11e ; shoulders in salt, 10 to 101 e. ; lard, 15c. • TILE MARKET.—Friday Evening-, Feb. 14. Ashes—The market remains without change. Pots are selling in small parcels at $8 . 25 to $8 371. Pearls are nominal. Beeswax is quiet at 40 to 41c. Breadstuffs—The market for State and Western flour is not so active, but prices remain without essential change• The sales are 7,100 bbls at $8 40 to $9 30 for superfine State; $9 80 to $lO 20 for common extra State; 810 30 to $lO 80 for good to choice do; $8 40 to 69 30 for super fine Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, lowa, &e., and $0 GO to $lO 25 for extra do ; $lO 35 to $ll 80 for choice extra do, in cluding shipping brands of round hoop Ohio at $9 80 to $lO 35, and trade brands of do at $lO 45 to $l4 ; good to choice white wheat extras at $l2 75 to $l5 ; St. Louis at $lO 50 to $l2 for common to good, and $l2 to $l5 50 for good to choice, closing quietly. We quote:— Superfine State $8.40 to $9.30 Extra State ... 9.00 to 10.80 Super Western._ ... 8.40 to 9.30 Extra Western... ... 9.60 to 10.25 Extra Ohio round hoop 9.80 to 10.35 Ditto (trade) ... 10.45 to 14.00 Extra Genesee... to ... Extra St. Louis ... 10.50 to 15.50 Southern Flour—ls in fair request at former rates. Sales were made at 550 bbls at $lO to $ll 40 for common to fair extra, and $ll 50 to $l5 fur good to choice do. California Flour—The market is not so active, but a shade bettor prices are realized. The sales are 1,400 sacks at $l2 50 to $l3 75 if by way of Capa Horn, and $ll 25 if via the Isthmus. Rye Flour—There is a fair business doing and full prices aro prevailing. Sales were made of 400 bbls at $7 50 to $9 30. Corn Meal—ls inactive. We do not learn of any sales of moment. Wheat—The market generally is unchanged, though for California an advance of one to two cents is obtained. The sales are 39,000 bush, at $2 40 to $2 42 for No. 2 spring in store and delivered; $2 53 for Amber Green Bay delivered; $3 17 for white California and white Southern on private terms. Rye—There is not much doing, but full prices aro pre vailing. Sales were made of 1,500 bush, state at $1 78 in store. Barley—The supply is still less than the wants of the trade. Prices are firmly held. Barley 3lalt-3,500 bush sold at $1 90 to $2. Beans—Are vory firmly held at irregular prices. Corn—The market opened steadily, but closed heavily at a decline of one to two cents. The sales are 57,000 bush at $1 26 $1 28 for new Western mixed afloat ; $1 29 for choice lots of ditto ; $1 24 to $1 28 for white South ern, $1 30 for handsome Wostorn yellow ; $1 15 to $1 27 for Now Orleans, and $1 25 to $1 2G for new yellow Jersey. Oats—Are inactive and prices aro in the buyer's favour. Sales were made of 32,000 bush Western at 8410 in store, and 86 to 861 c afloat. Candles— Are steadily held at 20 to 23c for adamantine ; 45c for sperm ; 55c for patent. Coffee—There is a moderato inquiry, but no transac tions of moment are reported. Rice.—We do not learn of ;nuch doing to-day, but as the stock is quite reduced holders are demanding a slight advance. We quote Carolina at 10;e to 111 c. Salt.—The market for English is quiet. There have been large arrivals of Ashton's within the past few days, but we do not learn of any forced sales. Of the other brands there is a good supply, which is being jobbed of at former prices. We quote as jobbing prices—s 3 90 to $4 for Ashtou's ; $2 90 to $3 for Marshall's and Worthing ton's; $3 to $3 10 for Higgins's ; and $2 to $2 10 for Liverpool ground. Prussian salt is quoted at $3 to $3 25 ; bulk salt is dull at 50e. to 55c for job lots of Turk's Island. Domestic salt remaius without change. There is a fair stock hero, for which former prices are being obtained for small lots. Wo quote 50c. for solar fine ; 50c for solar coarse; 45c for common fine; $1 80 for Syracuse ground; and $2 65 for factory filled. Seeds—ln grass seeds there is no change. Clover is selling in a small way at 12 to 13c, and timothy at $2 75 to $3. For flax there is but little inquiry. A few parcels are selling at $2 60 to $2 70. Linseed—We note further sales of $5,000 bags, March shipment, at $2 15, gold, in bond, and 2,000 bags to arrive per the Santee, a resale, on private terms. Soap—Castile is quoted at 16 to Mc. Speltor—Silesian is firmly held at 61 to Gle gold, with sales of 125 tons on private terms. Spices—The market generally is very quiet, but prices are steadily held. With the exception of 500 bales cloves, which have been sold in bond for export, we do not learn of anything worthy of mention. Sugar—The market for raw is not so active, but prices are steadily held. We quote fair to good refining at 121 c to 121 c., and No. 12 Box at 121 c. The sales are 65 hhds. Cuba at 121 c to 131 c; 50 boxes Havanas at 131 c; and at auction 212 boxes Havana at 11;c to 141 c. The demand for refined is good at former rates. We quote soft yellow at 141 c to 151 e ; soft white at 151 c to 161 c, and crushed, powdered, and granulated at 17-Ic. Teas—There is a little more demand at full prices. The sales from first hands aro 2 ; 700 hf ch green; 2,700 do. Oolong, and 2,500 do. Japan. Tallow—The market is in the buyers' favour. Sales were made at 110,000 lbs at 11c to 111 c, the latter price an extreme. Stearine—There is but little doing. We notice sales of 42,000 lbs at 131 c to 141. Grease—The sales are 29,000 lbs at 9c to 11c. Butter—The market is unchanged. The demand for the prime qualities is active, and as the offerings are light, prices are firmly held. The common ;and medium grades aro plenty, and sell slowly at about former rates. The re ceipts of Canada are liberal, but are mainly of the poorer qualities, which are in but little request. Wo quoto State in - Welsh tubs at 40 to 46c; do in firkins at 47 to 49c, and do in half firkins at 50 to 52c. Canada at 27 to 35c as in quality. Cheese—There is no new feature in the market. The exporters are buying choice in very small quantities at steady prices, but no considerable lot could be moved unless the sellers would submit to a material decline. The home trade is light. Wo quote dairies at 11 to 14c, and factory at 12 to 15c. Tin—Pig is inactive at 21e, gold, for Straits; 251 to 26c do for Bence; 23 to 231 c do, for English. Plates aro in small demand ; wo quote I. C. charcoal at $8 25 ; 500 boxes were sold on private terms. Tobacco—There is little doing, but prices are firm. We notice sales of 132 hhds Kentucky at 8 to 18c. Whalebone is moderately active; 5,0001bs Arctic were sold at 69c, gold. Whisky The market is quiet and prices are nominal. Lard—The market is dull and prices are declining. Sales were made of 650 tcs and bbls at 11 to 141 c for No 1 to kettle rendered city ; 14 to 141 c for Western ; 141 to 141 c for steam rendered and kettle dried do, and 14k to 15c for kettle rendered do, the latter price an extreme. _Gunny Bags—There is a small demand; 50 bales in Boston were sold at 19c. Gunny Cloth—ls slow of sale at 19c. Hay—ls offered at $1 to $1 05 for shipping, and $1 20 to $1 40 for retail qualities. Hemp—Manilla is steadily held ; 500 bales were sold at Ile, gold. Hides—Are rather quiet to-day. We have only to note sales of 1,500 Texas, 25 to 261bs, on private terms. Hops —We do not learn of any change in the market. Small lots are selling to the brewers at 15c to 60c for Ame rican, and 30c to 45c for Bavarian. Iron—Scoth Pig—The market is a little more active; 100 tons Glengarnock, from yard, were sold at $lO ; 150 tons Gartsherrie, from yard, at $4l, and 125 tons Eglinton do. at $4O. American—There continues a fair business at unchanged prices ; the sales are 2,900 tons Crane and Thomas, for general delivery, monthly, within 90 days, at $33 to $35. We have to quote sales of 400 tons old rails on private terms. Lath—There is nothing doing from first hands in con sequence of the lack of stock. Eastern are quoted at $3. Lead—Foreign is steadily held at 6k to 61c., gold, for ordinary. Leather—hemlock is held at full prices, although no de cided change is noted. The business has been mostly to meet orders from the South and West, the demand from the East being very light. The shipments abroad have been very fair. The receipts here are very moderate, and the market is quite poorly supplied with light weight com mon and damaged qualities which meet with the most de mand. Oak is not sought after to any extent ; our last quotations are, however, sustained. Rough meets with a very fair inquiry, more particularly light qualities. Naval Stores—Spirits of Turpentine—There is a better receipt noted, and prices are more in the buyers' favour ; we quote at 65c for merchantable lots, with no sales of moment noted. Rosins—The market for the low grades is at a stand; no decided change in prices is noted; No. 1 and pale aro moderately active, at very full figures; the sales are 275 bbls No. 2 on private terms; 300 bbls do. at 371 ; 100 bbls low No. 1 at $3 871 to $4 ; 412 bbls fine No. 1 at $1 75, and 750 bbls at $5 50 to . $5 75, with a small lot do. rumoured sold at $6 75. Oils—Linseed is firmly held at $1 15 to $1 18 ; 5,000 galls were sold for the balance of the month at $1 15. In fish oils the business is very slow; we quc to at $2 to $2 05 for crude sperm ; $2 25 to $2 30 for refined do ; 62c to 65c for crude whale ; 76c to 78c for refined do. Lard is a little easier at $l. 23 to $1 30, the latter price for strictly prime lots. We notice sales of 25,000 lbs tallow oil on pri vate terms. Petroleum—Crude—ls firmly held at 111 c in bulk ; 1,500 bbls do wore sold on private terms, and 400 bbls in ship ping order, at 17jc. Bonded—There is a very irregular market ; we quote standard white at 24c to 211 c ; 600 bbls were sold at the latter price. For Philadelphia delivery we have to note the sale of 2,000 bbls bonded, standard white, for March delivery at 23._!. Provisions—Pork—The market is very quiet. We no tice sales of 1,150 bbls, at $23 50 for new Western mess, :ash regular way, closing at $23 50, $22 12 for '66 to '67 mess ; $lB to $l9 for "mime and extra prime, and $2O to $2O 75 for prime moss. The afternoon market is quiet but steady, We quote new moss at $23 37 to $23 50. Drugs, &e.—The trade, which is very light, is princi pally in chemicals ; the sales are 100 tons soda ash, at 21e to 21e gold ; 25 tons sal soda at 11c do, 500 kegs bicarb soda at 41e to 41c, 100 casks bleaching powders at 41c to tic currency, and 50 tons do, to arrive, at 3 3-16 to 3ic gold. Wool.—There is a fair inquiry from the manufacturers for the low and medium grades, but at low prices. The offerings of this description aro light. For the fine quali ties there is but little demand. Foreign wool is inactive. The sales are 330,0001b5. fleeces at 42 to 51c, including low and medium state at 41 to 44c ; western at 42 to 45c ; medium Ohio at 41 to 48c ; and fino State and Ohio at 48 to 51c ; scoured at 55c ; 270 bales pulled at 38 to 121 c for super.; 85,0001bs Texas at 23 to 30c for inferior to fine ; 150,0001bs California at 261- to 34c for good to A. P. spring clip; 100 bales East India, 100 bales lialmuc, 85 bales Donskoi and 30 bales Cape on private terms. Dye Woods—The market is inactive. There have been arrivals of several cargoes of logwood, but no sales are re ported. We quote St. Domingo at Sl6 currency. Freights—To Liverpool-1,500 bbls flour at 3s ; 130 bales cotton at 2-,1, and per steamer, 575 bales cotton at 4 to t-d. To London,-per steamer, 1,000 boxes cheese at 608. Cotton—The market is quiet to-day and priees are a shade lower. Sellers are not anxious, at the close it would be difficult to find straight lines at less than the outside prices. The sales are 3.195 bales, including 555 to spin ners, 900 to speculators, and 1,740 to shippers, of which 300 are in transit. We quote : Upland Lkz Florida. Mobile. N. O. Texas. Ordinary, Good Ordinary 184 19 19 194 194 191 191 20 Low Middling 194 191 194 20 204 204 2011 201 Middling ... 204 204 204 204 21 211 211 214 The market during the early part of this week was very active, favored by an advance in gold and considerable spec ulative orders from parties outside of the regular trade, and as high as 214 e was paid for Middling Uplands. Bat the advance culminated on Wednesday; yesterday in the absence of advices from Europe and lower gold the market became compartively dull, and to-day, with gold still lower, was quite weak. The demand from spinners has teen liberal under a brisk market and higher prices for goods, and ship pus have been active. The later accounts from the South report heavy rains (the winter having previously been un usually dry) and the rise of the lateral streams will pro bably increase the deliveries at New Orleans and Texas. The sales of the week foot up 38,807 bales, of which 8,387 bales were taken by spinners, 11,465 bales for export, 3,573 bales in transit, and 15,382 bales on speculation. The fol lowing are the closing quotations : _ _ N. Orleans Upland. Florida. Mobile. and Texas. Per lb. Per lb. Per lb. Per lb. Ordinary lB 18; 184 18} 181 186 18± Good Ordinary 18-f 19 19 19* 19± 19± 19} Low Middling 19} 194 194 20 20 204 204_ _ Imports of Foreign Dry Goods at New York. For tho Week. 1864. 1867. 1868. Entered at the Port ... $4,792;474 $1,699,087 $1,278,902 Thrown on Market ... 4,280,668 3,516,738 1,616,960 , . . . Since Jan. 1. 1866. 1867. 1858. Entered at the Port... $25,303,4e5 $16,042,438 $8,996,559 Thrown on Market... 23,065,797 15,169,909 8,615,739 NEW YORK.—There is no change in the general condi tion of the money market, from the prevailing easo noted during several days past. Capital is abundant at 5 por cent. for call loans on stock collaterals, and at 4 per cent. upon Go7ernment securities. Tho best mercantile paper at short date is readily placed at 6 to 7 per cent. per annum discount. UNITED STATES SECURITIES.—The market for Govern ments has been unsettled, and, on the whole, weak. The price of gold has steadily declined, and until within a day or two prices of Five-Twenties in Europe have been lower, which in the absence of any decided demand from home investors or any speculative movement of importance has caused a decline of to I per cent. Ten-forties, however, have been exceptional, being in demand f rom foreign houses, and close I, higher. The Senate funding bill has produced some misgivings among home investors, and there is a disposition to defer purchases of Five-Twenties until it is more apparent what is likely to be the result of the dis cussion of the measure in Congress. The predominant feeling in the matter is one of distrust that Congress can be brought to the adoption of a bill tending so directly to the degradation of the public credit. Judging from the present temper of holders and of dealers, any indications showing 5 strong probability of the passage of the bill would be followed bran extensive realizing upon securities. Although a draft of the bill has been telegraphed to Europe the effect upon bondholders there is not yet apparent. To-day bonds halt'' , ruled higher hero than at London, and orders have been sent out for Sixty-Twos. The Five-Twenties of 1867 and new Sixty-Fives are scarce, and efforts have been made to adjust the price of Sixty-Sevens and Seven-Thirties so as to admit of the Treasury selling the former and buying the latter, which it cannot do without loss except with a difference of I to per cent. in the price ; the attempt, however, has been unsuccessful, and the difference between the two securities is now only per cent. The Treasury has announced that the Sixes of 1847 must be all presented for payment and that no interest will be allowed after the date of maturity, January 1. PUBLIC DEBT. By comparing this with the statement of January 1, it ig shown that the debt bearing coin interest has increased $22,360,950 ; the debt bearing currency interest has de creased $19,782,600 ; the mutual debt not presented for payment has decreased $3,583,471 64; and the debt bear' ing no interest has increased $10,163,554 66—making the increase in the total debt since January 1, 1868, $9,058,4 33 02. The amount of coin in the Treasury during the same period has decreased $9,939,090 97, and the amount of currency has decreased $192,199 10—leaving the amount of debt less cash in Treasury February 1, $19,189,723 0 9 more than on January 1. Tennessee State Sixes continue to be pressed on the market at 60 per cent. for account of the Railroads which were recently granted State aid to the extent of $4,500,0 00. As some of the roads thus aided were obliged to borroA r their quota of interest by pledging their bonds, it is pro" bable that some of the pledges have been sold. There 1 0 no reasonable doubt of the ability of the State to meet the interest promptly. Regarded as a railroad security alone , and throwing out of the account. the fact that the State of Tennessee stands behind them, they are the cheapest stock on the list. The total receipts at the sub-Treasury NW ° $1,075,566.10—t0tal payments, $565,236.17, leaving ("' °, balance on hand in specie aad paper money $102,746,909.27. Amount of gold certificates issued' $73,000. The receipts for duties to-day at tho Custom' house were $434,923.81, of which $19,000 were in gel d ' and the balance in gold certificates. EXCHANGE. Molder.) ,1 the Week end , 1868. ,ng 31011- NEW YORK STOCK (From the Stock Reported officially on each day o: day, Febuary 1, H ...: 0 4 SECURITIES. 0 a> = * L ., c a ,cl E-4 t;> 4 P=4 ca 0" r• Ei ..../ ........ American Gold 1411 1413 . 142 1421 1422 143 U.S. STOCKS. ss, 10-40 yrs reg. 1011 1011 ... ... ... ". 6s, '67 6s, '6B 6s, '6B ss, 10-40 yrs. coup. 104.1 1041 1041 ... 1041 ••ii, 6s, 'Bl coup. ... 1114 111/ 112 1121 111 Os, 81 l ll reg. ... ... 111/ ... ... . 1 6s, '62, 5-20 years ...coup 111/ 1101. 1111 ... 1111 11 Os, '62, 5-20 years reg. 108 i ... 1081 108* ..• 10 Gs, '64, 5-20 years ... cou p. 1091 109 109 109 104 1 09 Os, '64, 5-20 years reg. ••• ••• •'• 1 ic; 6s, '65, 5-20 years -.coup. ... 1091 ... 110 10 9 i . Gs, '65, 5-20 years new issue 6s, '67, 5-20 years now 1101 1071 104 107/ 1071 161 issue lOBl 1071 ~. 108 ... 7-30 Tr. Notes, Ist Series ... ... ... ... ••• ... 7-30 Tr. Notch', 2d Series ~,.. 107-1 ::: 1074 (From Messrs. Bowles, Brevet, and Co.'s Circular.) PARIS, Fob. 28, 186 8. Considerable business (mainly speculative) has be a , done upon our Bourse during the past week, but the vane() thus created is generally looked upon by cap italislA, as artificial, and not warranted by the state of affairs el° ing upon either side of the Atlantic. United States Securities have suffered from the uns r ' factory political and financial reports, as well as the fil ther advance in gold advised from New York, but Cll with more firmness than the general market, which adversely affected by the news from the East. We quote the issue of 1862 at 808; no business ill t ye other issues. Dates from Now York are to tho 25th instant. The Rento closes at 69 The Italian closes at Exchange on London 251. 15c* Births. h . CATIICART+OII the Ist inst., at Bolton Hall, York5 ref the Hon. Mrs. A. Cathcart, of a daughter. • 14.atoll' Fox—On the Ist inst., at BecifileHouse, Stoke Ne wl the wife of E. H. J. Fox, Esq., of a daughter. ° „ h GOODE—On the 24th ult , at 1 8, South Au dle y -s,- Mrs. Wm. James Goode, of a daughter. Marriages. tr;111 41111 LEWIS-11A-TutisoN—On the 29th ult., at Malpastl„" D ' o e ' younger son of the late John Lewis, Esq., of "-I-I ;v ia Monmouthshire, to Eru:ly Gwynne, secod stirv'' daughter of George Harrison, Esq., of ' Malpas. rie ° E'roALF—WlLxs—Cn the 29th ult., at Reigate, ul e tlif T. P. Metcalf, Esq., Canningten, Somers et, to Ell M 'I the third surviving daughter of the late Joseph '"ttoe f Wilks, Esc., 11.E.L Co.'iS. Deaths. bif et CALA - ELLE - sr—. On the 28th ult., at Oulton H all, A or- John Calverley, Esq., aged 79 . N o r CHAMBERS -"On the 29th ult., at Fern dale, Seutb wood, Fwd. A. Chambers, Esq., aged 39. ,I 31 1.°. CHANDLER —Uri the 28th ult. , at 308, Fulham -NIL -9 Alfred Chandler, aged 60. MARTIN :-.-At The Susan's, Eastbourne , suddenlY,ll* is° ft. F. Martin, -aged 60. rr icet PRICE—On the Ist inst., at Brlghtoa, Ralph C l ' 96. V Esq., of Hint House, Carshalton, age d 59. A 0 1 ' c ROBERTSON---0n tho 28th ult., at Cheltenham, 4' l° , H. Robertson, Esq., aged 43 . 0 11 I)" ROXBY —On the 29 , h ult., at St. Leonard's -on-SO, Roxby, Esq., aged 58. _O4 SS'6' London : Printed and Published b y WiLLIA.3I AN -- so of No. 112, S.trand, Printer , at V i e SUN Ni ce ' cot aitY ° Strand, in the Precinct of t he SaToY, in tile Blitidloox.—Tue4asy, March 3, 1863.