The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

13PIRri-OP EIBLIO: JO .±B. But few, in the Opinion of th 6 will Valaiwltt perfect equanimity the inccessive sacrificed made jn order to fi ne education down to tile' national and uniform idea. There go onelittei 4 nnotlier; liko 'dealt carg6 thrOwil over board in a istocil, Latin and Greek history, ancient and modern ; moral philosophy ; grammar, at least as regards its present place in the' teaching bi langtniges ;' theology ; and, last of all, that knowledge of Scripture whichthe last generation fondly hO - Ped even Papiatilind nltia-Piotes; tants ctuld - pod - seta in Common. 471:irthiriP Oars; with Dr. Whately to leid and to assist, We have heen. labouring to " de-denominationalize " education in ]reland, but the result, long denounced by Dr. Cullen and his friends, is now described by Mr. Lowe is a Sort of Biblical Deism. Whatever it is, it it has not made the Irish Protestants loyal subjects, nor good Papists either. The result does not recommend it for English imitation. When all these are taken away, the Latin hexameters and Greek iambics at one end of the school, to the " Parables, Discourses, and Miracles " at the other, what is left for the State to teach? It has to give elementary knowledge, useful powers, and, as far as it can, good habits. It has to educate so as to sharpen the observation, to quicken the attention, to assist the judg ment, to improve the memory, to render its pupils less easily imposed upon, less liable to take up with wrong notions, and in all respects better qualified to make their way in the world. No small part of the influence brought to bear on the rising generation, and certainly no small part of the circumstances into which :it is sure to be thrown, is delusive and dangerous. The world is in one great conspiracy to mislead, cheat, rob, and destroy the continual succession of new-comers brought in by Dame Nature. Sense, wit, reason, and all the faculties ought to be trained for the opening encounter. Nobody can pretend to say that this is even attempted in any existing school, whether for high, low, or middle. If this is to be now attempted, the common residuum left to the State as the subject matter for national education cannot be called too little. But, be It little or great, how is it to be done ? In the present stage of affairs it seems superfluous, and indeed useless, to discuss any machinery proposed for a national system of education. Some of the gentlemen at Liverpool asked curious questions as to the working of such a system. its compulsory character, and where the money was to Come from, but they can hardly have remembered at the time that what we have been calling for thirty-five years the Reformed Parliament is now on its deathbed, and can much more easily bequeath wishes and sentiments to its survivor than pecuniary arrangements. By the time we have arrived at some unity of action in these matters, it is possi ble the finance of the nation may be conducted on very dif ferent principles. There are, indeed, those who tell us that the chief use of parliamentary reform is to inaugu rate a new era of direct taxation. In this case Mr. Lowe's adhesion to the proposed support of schools by union rating will be accepted with thankfulness and utilised to the full. But, to all appearance, we have to arrive at some recognised ideal of national education before we can address ourselves to ways and means. Russia has been at last induced to postpone for a time the active advancement of her traditional policy in the East. This result, says the Post, is mainly due to the firmness and good sense of Lord Stanley. He was the first to make a stand during the recent crisis in favour of Turkey, and had the courage for some months to venture upon a policy which had the temporary effect of isolating Great Britain from the other great Powers, who all corn billed in their diplomatic efforts to persuade the Porte to give up her sovereign rights over Crete. Successive repre• sentations of a very energetic character are alleged to have been lately made in concert, by England, France, Austria, and Prussia, at Belgrade, against the organised attempts which have been so long fomented by Russian influence in Seevia to stir up an insurrection in the frontier lands - of Turkey ; and with this latest expression of European diplomacy we can well afford to rest content. Too much praise can hardly be given to Lord Stanlay for his tact and prudence in the conduct of this complicated business. He has had to deal with some of the ablest diplomatists living, and they have been unable to obtain the smallest advantage over him by any artifice, however specious. The Kingdom of Hungary having re-entered into pos. session of its ancient rights, naturally seeks to realise the advantages of the fine position which it has finally won, thanks to the capacity, patience, and fortitude of its states. men. The peaceful conflict it maintained for sixteen years with the Austrian Government has resulted in a success by which each party gains immensely, for the Em. peror of Austria, not less than the Hungarian people, may bless the constancy of M. Deak. The Daily News observes that one of the first uses to which the Hungarians are turn ing the right of self-government is the development of the -material resources of their country, which has suffered more than can be told from the stagnation to which political uncertainty has condemned it throughout a period in which almost every other country of Europe has made i nmense progress in everything that can contribute to the well-being of its people. The first and, most pressing want of Hungary is railways and canals to place its vast corn-fields in communication with the great con suming populations of Western Europe. It is for this purpose that the public of London and Paris are invited to subscribe to the loan of £8,000,000 which is just announced. This is the first time that the Hungarians have been in a position to present themselves to Europe and ask to be trusted with funds as a definitively constituted nation. Hitherto their financial affairs have been mingled and for all practical purposes confused with those bf Aus tria, and subjected to all the chances of a fluctuating policy, over which they could exercise no effectual supF vision. An end has now been put to this state of things . the Hungarian Diet has now a real control over the tax , tion of the kingdom. The loan now announced is offere4 under the authority of a law passed in the Diet, and no reasonable doubt can be entertained that it will be strictly applied to the purposes for which it is proposed. - - The Herald, referring to the statistics lately adduced in its columns relating to burial societies, says :—lt is as long ago as seventy years that the original Act for the encourage ment of friendly societies was passed ; but its scope was avowedly the regulation and protection of clubs purely local, all whose officers, with the single exception of the secretary, should be unpaid, which should employ no col lectors, and the majority, at least, of whose members should be known to each other. Such a state of things, it is obvious, would guarantee probity, simplicity, and economy. But what is the condition of most friendly societies at the present day ? Mr. Tidd Pratt informs us. They have highly-salaried treasurers and directors, and employ an army of handsomely remunerated agents and collectors in all the principal towns of the kingdom. It 1/ as plain as day that trades unions, still regarded exclu sively as friendly societies, whilst encumbered with all this heavy, costly, and questionable machinery, would be work ing, as Mr. Corrance alleged at Ipswich, on an 'Unsound principle, and that the guarantee that their promised benefits would accrue to their members must be very alight indeed. How can friendly societid, thus conducted, cora. pets for the favour of the working man who is alive to his own interests with the post-office savings banks suggested by Mr. Scudamore and established by Mr. Gladstone? The Saturday Review, with regard to Lorct Stanley's speech at the Bristol banquet,'observes that he oire much on Ireland, and all that he said was sensible and true. But it was nothing more. He simply sees a blank before him when he tries to conceive what ought to be done for Ireland. If th e highest feat iltatisman could perform in our days would be to grapple with the Irish difficulty, and chew us what we cast do and ought to do for Ireland, then to this st a t esmans hip Lord Stanley made no approach and Pretence. He had, however, the' great merit of statingn° simply what cannot be done, and of declaring his. self incapable of saying what cannot be done. He had arrived at the Point which every sensible man in a club, in a train, or any other pl arrives it. R e sees .ac . e of common discussion, easily England fromlr'eita7ll if talking , "sepa rating we talk of rearranging then land Re also sees hat, when system of Ireland, we must either have or not hp, and that we must clearly make u s p ch o em tir e of confis'eation ; have confiscation at all, we m us t talc; confiscation't that, if with e all its serious and far - reaching e., s enueu .* All this very true, and we are glad it should be said distinctly but it is not much to say. It sounds rath er disap pointing when we find Lord Stanley has no other remedy whatever to offer for the woes of Ireland ex cept some sort of modified Tenant Compensation Bill like that which the Government proposed last session. We quite own that if a Minister, or any public man of eminence, has really nothing to say on a great subject, he should not talk vaguely, as if he had a mysterious secret which he forbears to disclose. The leaders of the Liberal party lately fell into the mice of hinting that they had some Secret of the sort, while yet they were not prepared to give the slightest hint of what this secret was. Mr. Bright, indeed, has relieved himself from the imputation of never making a definite proposi tion. He has proposed that the State should buy large estates, and resell them, which is a plan that, as stated, is free from the taint of confiscation, although it might pave the way for something of the sort. But discussion—even the discussion of honest and fair critics, and not of critics who flatter a little foolish vanity by decrying everything Mr. Bright does or says—has not led to a result at all in favour of Mr. Bright's plan. The objection to his plan is the same as to all plans whatever that we hear about for dealing in a large way with Irish land. The Irish want what is bad for them, not what is bad for us Eng lish, or for great Protestant landowners or ®Sy of the people that Irishmen hate, but for the Irish themselve . s. They 'tvkiii small holdings of lands, in a wet climate, with a very poor soil. Supposing we give them yvhat they want, would it sot e ruinous for them to have it? If it would—as Lord Stanley, expressing the opinion of the best judges on the subject, said it would—can it be right to give it to them ? Why should we condemn them to eternal poverty and potatoes? They wish for it, certainly, and sa they wish for unlimited whisky ; but the State is not to be expected to let all Ireland get drunk at the charge of the Consolidgted Fund. The recent Educational Conference at Manchester seems to have declared itself distinctly in favour of two impor tant principles : 1. The frank admission of denominational and other religious schools into perfect equality with all ether primary schools, on condition of their adopting a complete conscience clause, and satisfying the inspectors of their efficiency as teaching institutions ; 2. The repeal of that provision of the Privy Council which refuses aid to purely secular schools—or, in other words, the admission of purely secular schools to perfect equality with the Church, denominational, and other religious schools. The Spectator agrees heartily with both these conclwsions, for it is disposed to consider private schools established by honest secularists as a particular species of sectarian schools—schools in which the sectarian principle takes the form of a vehement prejudice against all religious teaching. And as the most purely secular education is certainly better than none, even on the religious ground, since it undoubtedly opens the minds of those submitted to it to a number of new moral and intellectual influences which are not by any means purely secular—we do not think it would be right in the State to refuse aid to any well conducted private schools ignoring religious teaching, which it would grant to other private schools partly aiming at the inculcation of their own special views. If there be any considerable number of Jews, Deists, Secu larists, or Positivists amongst the working class, it is clear that their children ought not to be debarred by their peculiar views from such general education as they can get, and it would be very unjust to place schools specially established for the children of such persons under any special disadvantages to which the schools of, it may be, almost equally eccentric sectarians are not exposed. Of course, in case secularistic principles were directly incul cated at such schools as subversire of religion, it would be essential that that they, too, should be subjected to the action of the conscience clause, and that the parents of all children attending them should receive due notice of, and be entitled to proper protection for, their children from the inculcation of such controversial negations. But there is a further question of considerable moment as to the general influence which the foundation of new district schools, supported by borough and county rates, will have on the religious character of our primary schools. Under Mr. Bruce and Mr. Forster's bill, the School Committee (elected by town councils in municipal boroughs and elsewhere generally by the ratepayers) has full power to manage a district school itself, or to delegate its manage ment to other qualified persons, under condition, of course, of full compliance with the conscience clause and all other conditions imposed to test efficiency. There is nothing to prevent such a School Committee from itself setting apart a time for the specific religious instruction of all children whose parents do not object to it ; and they are expressly empowered to hand over theil school for certain hours to other denominational managers for this particular purpose. Thus there is practically no limitation at all except the will of the ratepayers, and the views to which the elected members of the School Committee are pledged, to the power of the School Committee to inculcate any particular religious faith they please on those of their scholars whose parents do not object. But the difficulty which we foresee in this matter is that the old church-rate cry may be again raised. Under the proposed bill it is clear enough that compulsory rates might be in part used for remunerating the teachers of religious principles from which some of the ratepayers would conscientiously disagree. It is true that their chil dren would not be compelled to attend such lessons—but neither was it ever compulsory on Dissenters to attend the services of the churches whose rates they paid. The cry was that there was abstract injustice in compelling any man to contribute at all towards the teaching of what he held to be pernicious or false—or even towards the repair of the building in which such teaching went forward. We have never sympathised much with those who raised this cry, and not at all with those who objected to support the fabric of the national Church ; but we are quite sure that it would be a great evil for the educational cause if this cry were raised again, as it certainly will be unless great care is taken, in relation both to the tax laid on a parish to build an edifice the accommodation of which may be made over in certain hours to special religious teachers, and to the rate laid on the borough or union for supplying funds for the remuneration of sectarian masters and mistresses. It will be said, not without plausibility, that it is one thing for the State to aid equally all kinds of sectarian schools, in proportion only to the efficiency of their general teach ing, and quite another for the public rates by which a school-house is built and a school administered to be diverted in any degree, however small, from the common service of all, to the advantage of any one religious body. Hence we should Ifear that the ;elections of school corn mittees will be occasions for very hot sectarian contests, the various candidates either pledging themselves to attempt to abtain the school-house and the aid of the school teachers out of the general lesson-hours, for the Church, or the Wesleyans, or the Baptists, or any other denomina tion strong in the district—or else pledging themselves to resist the attempt of any religious body whatever to profit in any way by rates which come from the pockets of al alike. Now, any opening for contests of this kind would be most disastrous. A POSTER OF SEDITIOUS PLACARDS, At mid-day on Friday a young man was taken in the act of posting a Fenian placard on the front of the Man sion House. He proved to be an Irishman, named Michael Gough, 17 years of age, a bookbinder by trade, and the same person, there is reason to believe, who committed • similar act on Saturday, the 18th instant. Since then the district police have been on the alert, in anticipation of fresh attempts being made to degrade the official residence of the Lord Mayor, and. among other arrangements, they had enlisted the services of a trustworthy commissionaire, named Samuel Neale, wearing the badge 64, who is usually on duty in the immediate neighbourhood. About half past two in the day, Gough, who is a mere stripling, was seen by the commissionaire and James Burn, of 337, Strand, who happened to be passing, to stop abruptly in front of the house and hastily affix a placard upon the lower part of the portico. Before they could arrest him he had taken to his heels and ran along Walbrook, but he was followed and caught by a Mr. Cunningham, of 48, Oxford•street, who had heard a cry of " Stop thief," and who handed him over to the custody of Timothy Carroll, a City police-constable, who joined in the pursuit. The prisoner was forthwith conducted to the Bovt-lane Police station, where he at first refused his address, but at length said he was in the employment of Messrs. Symonds, book binders, in Bouverie-street, Fleet -street. Upon him were found two cheap editions, nearly new, of Moore's " Irish Melodies," and a copy of the Universal Newspaper, on the front page of which, in conspicuous type, was an article headed " Reminiscences of Young Ireland." He had also in his possession a well-used copy of the Roman Catholic manual " The Garden of the Soul," and a pocket diary, which there were copious entries, proving beyond doubt his sympathy with the Fenian Brotherhood, and many of them written in the most extravagant language. One was as follows : " Saturday, Nov. 23, 1867, was a day the remembrance of which should never be effaced from the hearts of Irish men, for on that day, at the hour of eight in the m orning , in front of the New Bailey Prison, Salford, England three additional names were inscribed on the roll of mar_ yrs t t , liberty—the glory-roll of Ireland—as follows :—William o Allen, Michael Larken, Samuel Gould, who were sacrificed in order to appease the thirst for blood and to stay th e stomach of that bugbear of uncivilised States and peoples, the British lion. '1 hey were sacrificed in the vain endea vour to terrify those who might effectually succeed in striking terror into his most magnanimous heart ; and a foolish endeavour it was, for those whom it was in tended to terrify were those on whom it took quite an opposite effect, and men said Ireland shoisid be free, her cause being re - bapt ised and regenerated by the blood' of those heroic men." Another entry in the prisoner's diary was in these terms " Fri." (probably an abbreviation for Friday)—" C. H. F. Diabolical outrage at Clerkenwell, attributed to Fenianism. Went to the scene of the disaster. Met K., and lost each other in the crowd." The placard posted, or attempted to be posted, in the front of the Mansion House by . the prisoner, like that of the previous week, was wholly in manuscript, but in cha racters closely , resembling ordinary type. It began with the letters 1.R." signifying, it is presumed, Irish Republic. Below these was a pen-and-ink sketch of an Irish harp, encircled by representations of the shamrock, and beneath that were the words, " Erin-go-bragh— God save Ireland!" The rest of the document was as fol lows :---. " IRISHMEN ! " Another name is inscribed on the glory-roll of Erin's heroic martyrs. The pure-souled Duffy has been done to death. Irishmen of London, of England, your enemies now publicly appeal to you to aid them in oppressing our unfortunate (as yet) country. Will you silently submit to this insult to your name, to your nation (for we are yet unconquered) ? Will you tamely take the bait laid for you by British craft? Shall the blood which has flowed for centuries have been shed in vain ? Be not deceived ! They would use you to propagate disunion among us, and when you had served them you would be discarded as worthless. You have been told plainly that it is useless begging for your rights any longer. What, then, shall we do? Rise manfully. Unite! Irishmen, let no petty dis cord blight your hopes. Press forward fearlessly in the path to freedom. Let there be no vile truckling with the enemy. Liberate our land I Behold a regenerated Ireland ! ad Strangle the British Lion, the bugbear of savag e poten tates, Irishmen who, th roug h timidity or for their own i n t ereate, for g et their ancestry, that ogorY ! To e ns t i h g Oise proclaim to th e worldatesin hyou is aren w free we Bar 5 " Knaves and traitors stand aside, Cowards, curs, your heads go hide, Slaves and dastards ' fag an bealae.' (sic.) God save the Green." THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 18e8. CFrom the Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, Jan. 23, 1868. One hears so much of the green corn field and the sunny vineyards of fair France that the capri cious variations of temperature experienced in Paris are rather trying. The recent severe weather has been succeeded by thaw and rain ; again probably to be varied by a fresh touch of frost and snow. Under such circumstances the season has been par ticularly trying, and considerable mortality has existed, especially among the very aged, or the very young. All the world has had coughs and c Ads, and even I have not escaped the ills which flesh is heir to, and which the alternate constric tion and relaxation of the respiratory organs from the changeable weather have made so prevalent. Thanks, however, to the good offices of Messrs. Roberts and Co., 23, Place Vendome, iu the shape of an alterative and a most magnificent acid tonic (crede esperto) I am about again with no other existing souvenir of my temporary) derangement than a most ravenous appetite. The Count von der Goltz, Ambassador from the Confederate States of Germany, has undergone an operation at his hotel for some kind of cancerous affection of the mouth, which has been successful, and the Count is rapidly approaching convalescence. The greatest possible anxiety has been manifested on behalf of the Count by his Sovereign the King of Prussia, as well as by Count Bismarck, in the shape of inces sant telegraphic desp Aches. The Emperor also has manifested the greatest solicitude on the occa sion. It would seem from the details given by the lovers of the marvellous that the disease is hereditary, as it is said that the Count's father died of a similar disease, and that, too, in the very hotel in which his son is at present staying. I hope there is a good time coming, for it is said that a similar season has not been experienced since the year 1829, and the spring usually begins early in France. Even during the month of February the produc tions of Algeria may be seen in the warehouses of the Central Halles, or principal markets of Paris, in the shape of green beaus, new potatoes, green peas, &c. ; whilst not only the markets, but even the myriad shops of the city, are filled to overflow ing with every kind of game, flex or feather—to use the old Doric sporting language—from wild boars, whole or dismembered, and venison of every variety down to the smallest teal. Nothing, in fact, comes amiss to the French chasseur or cuisiuier, if one may judge from the fact that last year a gentleman in Paris received from a sporting friend in Algeria the hind quarter of a magnificent lion, whilst on every stall countless tomtits and corn larks cry vengeance upon their slaughterers. There doubtless many a good sportsman in out is for France ; but taken as a whole, and especially in the ic o i i n d i e t u y ts of , the exploits, ludicrous &c., that are constantly occurring give accidents, the mighty city, to an Englishman or American rather an inferior idea of French force in sporting matters. Last week a gentleman, noted as a staunch persecutor of Monsieur Reynard, succeeded in digging out a splen did specimen. By way of placing his prize in safety, the fortunate captor hastened to muzzle him with what ?—guess, gentle reader—why, with nothing less than the chain of his Porte-monnaie, having, however, omitted the important precaution of tying his legs as well. The fox managed to escape in the confusion, carrying with him the impromptu muzzle, as well as the sum of fifteen francs coetained in the porte-monnaie, thus, as it were, setting himself a reward upon his head, to be obtained by some more adventurous sportsman. An expedition of a more important character, however, is on the eve of setting out for Africa, under the auspices of Monsieur Pertniset, the celebrated lion killer, the number being limited to 50 sportimen, each of whom will have to pay, as his contribution to the expedition (board, travelling expenses, &c., included), for a period of from two and a half to three months, the sum of 4,500 francs. The advertisement appears in the windows of the celebrated Devisme gumnaker, the advertiser oblig ingly offering to monopolise all danger that may arise during the affair. I have never been an admirer of battues, but have always preferred a fair day's exercise, with a moderate prospect of sport, giving the game a chance ; neither have I been what is technically termed a pot-hunter (that is to say, a person who goes more for game than for sport), though I have always had an eye to the con tents of the aforesaid pot at the close of the day's work ; but the idea of toiling for weeks over burn ing sands, upon the speculation of occasionally catching a glimpse of the tail of a lion, varied by the agreeable possibility of finding him in the midst of your party when retired for the night, is rather too much for my sporting nerves ; and I am apt to hold opinion with the charity boy when he got through his alphabet, as to the extreme doubtfulness of going through so much work to so little advantage. But I was speaking of the coming spring, so much looked for in Paris, to alleviate the existing distress from the dearness of provisions, and the scarcity of work, of which an incident that has occurred this week will serve to give the reader an idea. Last Thursday four persons entered the establishment of a mar chand de vies, who also occupied himself as a restaurateur, a united business very much in vogue in Paris, and ordered an excellent dfjmaer, which they washed down with sundry bottles of wine. After breakfast came the never-failing gloria, a compound of coffee and brandy, finished up with cards and a bowl of punch. The bill amounted to nineteen francs, which was :oniiirigly iir,?,st,atel by the landlady ; but alas for the mutability of human affairs. "Mon paltvre vicar," said the spokesman of the party ; " we regret to be unable to liquidate your demand ; we are without money, work, or even an asylum, and we have adopted the present as a pleasant method of bringing ourselves to the notice of the civil authorities, and thereby obtaining at least board and lodging for a short period. Call in therefore the Sergens de Ville and place us in their hands." " Go and hang yourselves elsewhere," said the exasperated host, by no means anxious to add further trouble to his pecuniary loss. "Du tout" (by no means), was the reply, " and if you do not at once comply with our request, we shall be compelled to enforce it at the expense of sundry additional breakages." Of course there was no refusing a request so politely persisted in, and the guests obtained their desire, in being marched off accordingly. The Emperor, with that humanity and solicitude which he never ceases to display on behalf of his people, has given orders that all articles of bedding, clothing, &c., which have been pawned at the various establishments of the Mont-de-Piete in Paris shall be restored to those who have pledged them, free of charge, a benefit to the poor of which it is scarcely possible to imagine the extent, whilst the soup kitchens of the gallant little Prince Imperial are in full operation. The price of bread has been taken into considera tion by the authorities, and fixed not to exceed a certain limit ; and, in short, every precaution is taken by the Government to mitigate and alleviate the existing state of affairs until the speedy approach of better times ; whilst the various balls and recep tions which are taking place at the Tuileries, Hotel de Ville, and at the hotels of the various foreign embassies, add an additional stimulus to commerce and labour. The first ball at the Tuileries took place on the 6th instant, at which most of our Ame rhan friends attended who had previously had the honour of presentation, as mentioned in our last week's number. The receptions given by Ge neral and Mrs. Dix on the 4th and 11th were also numerously attended by the elite of the fashionable world in Paris. A grand masked ball is announced for the 15th February at the Ministere des Affaires Etrangers. The Empress, with her usual solicitude for human suffering, has left Paris for Bretagne, in consequence of the receipt of a telegraph despatch conveying the intelligence of an accident which has befallen the Princess Bacciochi, whilst getting into her carriage, and by which her leg was broken. Colonel Heine, Secretary to the United States' Legation, has returned to . Paris, and presented his report upon the Pacific Railroad. He was accom panied by M. Simonin, C.E. The colonel reports an active progress, and the probability that the entire line will be open for traffic within a period of two years. My brief limits are not adapted to an extended theatrical critique ; but an amusing incident occurred lately at the Theatre des Italiens, where Mademoiselle Carlotta Patti has been creating a furore in the role of " Lucia." A marriage had taken place at Audelys, in Normandy. The fair bride, who, it appears, like every pretty woman, has a right to her fancies, had stipulated as a special condition of surrender that on the same evening • as the marriage the bridegroom should bring not only herself but the whole marriage party to Paris to bear Patti. The suitor was rich, gallant, and amorous. He telegraphed at once to Paris for thirty-eight fauteuils; the marriage was celebrated ; the dinner hurried on, and in the evening eight carriages, starting from the station of the Western Railway, deposited their fare, in the full bridal costume of Normandy, in the fauteuils aforesaid. A Paris audience is indulgent ; they are used to strange sights ; and the' bridal party are regarded only with a benevolent curiosity—when the curtain draws up, and Lucia advances. But, alas ! Lucia is not Mademoiselle Patti, but Mademoiselle Harris. On the same day as the arrival of the brave Nor mans the contemplated marriage between the fair songstress and the Marquis de Caux had been broken off, and Mademoiselle Carlotta, an noyed or indisposed, was unable to sing for that evening. But the Normans do not understand trifling ; they had paid to hear Patti, and, as Patti was not present, they rose and left the place in a body, demanding the return of their money. After considerable negociations, however, the matter was arranged, the fair bride being consoled with a pro mise of hearing the celebrated cantatrice the en suing week ; and the marriage party re-entered the , theatre, much to the amusement of the audience, in the same majestic manner in which they had left it. Political news is still at a discount, and moderate men recommend that Italy and the Pope sltould set their heads together to arrange their own affairs without any other intervention ; though it is said that a speech from the Throne in Spain, has given much umbrage to the former, who has intimated that, as Spain does not possess either the puis sance of France or the same claim upon their con sideration, she will permit no Spanish interference in her affairs—a sort of Non omnibus dormio mes sage, exceedingly amusing. Nevertheless, in spite of all the warlike preparations, especially on the part of his Holiness, who appears to have extended his recruiting, even as far Canada, there is every prospect at present of Peace—never more wanted n the interests of mankind at large. The Russian Commissioners who, some months ago went to America to secure arms for the G - vernment, have lately been stopping at the Allyn House, Hartford, Connecticut. They have been examining the manufacturing establishments in the New England States. Colonel Gerloff witnessed experiments undertaken by Colonel Berdan, the patentee of the new rifle, to test the weapon. From two were discharged 10,000 cartridges without a single miss fire. The Commissioners have con cluded a contract with the Colt Patent Firearms Company for the manufacture of 30,000 Berdan rifles, with an agreement providing for further orders at a stated price. The Russian Government also contracts for a number of Gatling rifled can non. Prussia has ordered 100 of the latter arm. The answer of Congress to the President's Mes sage asking for a recognition of Hancock's noble order might have been anticipated from the shouts of derision with which it was received in both Chambers. The House has laid upon the table the vote of thanks to General Hancock, and passed resolutions of thanks to General Sheridan, censur ing President Johnson for removing him, and thanking Gen. Grant for disapproving the remo val of Gen. Sheridan and Mr. Stanton. A great banquet has been given to the British Ministers in the Western Metropolis, as Bristol de lights to call itself. The two chiefs, Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli, were absent, but there was a great gathering of the Cabinet, and Lord Stanley, like a Well-trimmed and well-handled frigate be fore the days of steam, working up to windward got the weather-gauge of his opponents, and took all the wind out of their sails. The Liberals are rubbing their eyes and wondering if they hear aright, or are in a dream—for the Tories have be come advanced Liberals, and the genuine 'party is at a loss to know upon what principles it can base an opposition, unless it occupies the ground va cated by the Tories, when both parties will have " swung round the circle." Lord Stanley's speech has excited much. attention and given general s itis faction. Ireland is to be the battle-field of the coming session, and Lord Stanley sketched his own opinions relating to that country. He scouts a separate national existence, or repeal of the Union, which he thinks comes practically to the same thing. He hints that the Government does not intend to legislate on the Irish Church. He calls the proposal for the settlement of the Tenant question by transferring those holders into pro prietors " confiscation," though he appeArs to fa vour a legislative enactment to compel landlords to reimburse tenants for their improvements. The greatest question is undoubtedly that of the Church, Nlhich his Lordship thinks ought not to be settled by a dying Parliament, but be remitted to the House to be returned by the new constituencies. The news from the City of Mexico is to the 31st December. Diaz opposed the expedition against Yucatan, and it has been abandoned. His reasons were that former expeditions had invariably been defeated; that the people, if left, wolild fight among themselves, but if threatened by the national Go : vernment would combine against it. This is a practical acknowledgment of the independence of the Etate, and no small encouragement to the others who desire to follow the example. The Revolution TILE FENIAN ARRESTS AT DEPT FORD GREENWICH POLICE COURT. The following appeared in our latest edition of yester day : _ James Richardson, Florence M'Carthy, and Maurice Lytlelton, were placed before Mr. Maude for further examination, at the above Police-court, charged with treason-felony. The men, it will be recollected, were charged with attempting to administer the Fenian oath to a young man named James Bendall, an Ameri can, with the view of inducing him to commit trea son-felony. Wontner, jun., appeared on the part of the Crown for the prosecution, and said that being but recently instructed, he should only call confirmatory evidence of that given by the witness Boutell, and then he should ask for a remand. He should also put in a memorandum book which bad been found on the prisoner Lyttleton, which was full of curious entries, most of which were signed Maurice Darcy, and amongst them the following lines of poetry : And shall we bend and bend for ever, And shall no time our bondage sever, And shall we kneel, but battle never For our soil? And shall our tyrants safely reign On thrones built up of slaves and slain, And nought to us and ours remain But chains and toil ? No ! round their graves our oath we plight, To watch, and labour, and unite, Till banded be the nation's might, Its split steeled. And then, collecting all our force, We'll cross oppression in its course, And die ! or all our rights enforce On the field. Like an ebbing sea that will come again, Slowly retired that host of men . Methinks they'll keep, some other day, The oath they swore on the martyr's clay, Its spirit steeled. MACRICE DARCY, T.C.D Deptford, S.E., London, Jan. 14, 1868. Edmond Seale, landlord of the King William the Fourth public-house, Wellington-street, Deptford, said that on Sunday last Littleton, O'Leary, and one of the others came to my house with the witness Boutell. After a short time M'Carthy came in, and then having ordered some beer, began talking about America. One of the men called Boutell a-- Fenian. A very spirited conversation took place, when Lyttleton struck his hand on the table and said, "We've a snake amongst us, which must be dispersed.'" I then interfered, when one of the men challenged me to fight. In the meantime Lyttleton, Boutell, O'Leary, and another one or two,went into my back passage. They were going to my parlour, but they found it locked. Boutell asked me for the key, which I called for, and then gave it to him, and then all except Lyttleton went into it. Lyttleton--I hope you will pay attention to that. Witness continued—Lyttleton was then in the front of the bar. I don't know who it was who said, '6 Let us sit down and talk over some matters we have to settle." I think all the people in the parlour must have heard that remark. I afterwards told them that as it was getting near three o'clock they must settle their conversation, as I was going to close the house. I then went into the bar. O'Leary then came out and advised Lyttleton to go into the parlour, but he said, " I shan't," but he afterwards went in with O'Leary. At two minutes before three o'clock I went to the door and told them to come out, but I found the door locked. I demanded admission, and in two or three minutes the door was opened by O'Leary, and I then said, "As my house is closed in front, you must go out the back way." Richard son did not come to me and make some remarks about what was going on inside. I did not see them come out of the room until I had tried to open the door, or before they all left. About a quarter to five Boutell, the same afternoon, came and told one he had had a conversation with the prisoners. .e h l o i u u s t e e r t f o e g r e e d t e w r h . e u O r iL y t e t a i r e y t ° t u n tried d t e o a strike M'Carthy,O'Leary, Lyttleton, and Richardson came m i ß n o to ute t at me and struck me in the jaw. Lyttleton—That's true. Witness continued—Richardson told him he had no right to strike me, and after that I got them out of the house and I did not see them auy more. Cross-examined by Mr. Pulling for ItiehArdsou and M'Carthy—l have occupied the house two years. I don't recollect ever seeing M'Carthy be fore that occasion, and then he came to Lig wire about a potman. I don't remember to have seen Richardson at my house previous to that day. was about two when M'Carthy came. The con- versation before the bar occupied about a quarter of an hour. I cannot account for the time between that time and three o'clock when I closed the house. I don't know what they did during the other part of the time they were there. They were in the room about a quarter of au hour. They all went into the room, but I can't swear that M'Carthy did not leave the room, neither can I with respect to Richardson. I recollect the door being locked, but I don't remember anybody coming to me after that. I believe that M'Carthy came out of the room first, but I don't recollect exactly how they came out of the room. My impression is that M'Carthy was standing outside the door when I went to knock at it. I had not noticed him there before, so I cannot say how long he had been out side. He was not outside the back door of the house—it was the parlour door I am speaking of. I told him I wanted to turn the men out, but I don't recollect his reply. I don't recollect him saying he was waiting to arrest one of the parties as a Fenian. M'Carthy—Y on don't recollect that ! Witness continued—l will not swear M'Cartby did not use the words. He might have done so, but I did not hear them. I did not see Richardson outside the door before the other men came out. He did not come and say to me, There is some bad business going on inside, and you had better get the men out." Nothing of the sort was said. M'Carthy did not say he was waiting to arrest any one. When I opened the door I let out three men, Lyttleton, O'Leary, and Boutell. Mr. Maude —Then there was nobody left in the room? Witness—No, sir. Cross-examination continued—At half-past five I recollect M'Carthy coming to my house, and I remember the fact from the circumstance that the party were the last to leave and the first to return. I took particular notice of O'Leary, Lyttleton, and Boutell, but Richardson 1 knew took part in the fight, as he tried to defend me. During the whole of the Sunday I never heard one expres sion relative to Fenianism from M'Carthy, neither did I from Richardson. After the afternoon occur rence at two o'clock on the Sunday, in the evening at five o'clock I again saw Boutell ; he came to re port to me what had been done. He went away, and I have not seen him since. I had seen Boatel] come in for the first time about a week before the occurrence of which lam speaking took place. He never asked me whether Irishmen came to my house. My house is supported entirely by Irish people. I cannot say Boutell was there in frequent conversa tion with my customers. I don'tk now what he usually talked about. I don't think I ought to be expected to know what all my customers talk about. I have seen Ling the detective once in my house with Bou tell. I have seen Boutell twice, reckoning the time I have seen him in court. I never heard Boutell swear that he was not a Fenian. I don't know how much drink Boutell had on the Sunday, but I know he did not spend three shillings. He c.nild not h ave done so; he only had beer. I keep a tally, but not against men of principle, and I consider Boutell to be one of that class. I know he would pay me if he owed me anything without my asking him foi it. I will not swear that he does or does not at the present time owe me money. Mr. Maude—You don't run accounts ; yours is a ready-money business. Witness—Yes. Mr. Maude—And if a person whom you knot comes in a hurry and takes refreshment and does not pay, you don't take notice of it on the instant'? Witness—That is so, sir. I don't know an ex policeman named Knight. Inspecter Griffin—That person has nothing at all to do with the case. Lyttleton—l am about to cross-examine the wit ness, and before I do so I wish to know whether there are any Irish detectives present. Inspector Griffin—There are none that I know of. Lyttleton—Very well. NOR, then, Mr. Seale, you know me, don't you ? —Yes. And on the Sunday did not the detective, James Boutell, come in and join our company ?—Yes, he did. Do you recollect Boutell going out of the house and on his return finding Richardson, O'Leary, and M'Cartby closeted together ?—No, I do not. Don't you recollect giving Boutell some change on the Sunday morning as due to him for stand ing treat on the previous Saturday night ? I do. I als3 recollect that there was a person there that night who denounced Boutell as a Fenian, and your putting him out of the house for it. In answer to further questions from Lyttleton, the witness said—l did not see Boutell and O'Leary in a private conversation; they were talking to gether, but not whispering. Ido not recollect your leaving the parlour before Boutell and the others were out ; you all came out together. Lyttleton—You are a flippant perjurer. Mr. Maude—You must not use such expressions. Lyttleton—l can't command my feelings, but I say that man is a flippant perjurer. Will you, sir, swear on your solemn oath, that you did not know what Mr. James Boutell was about ? Witness—That I will swear. lam quite inno cent of what was going on in my house, or I would not have allowed it, I can assure you. I will also swear I did not bear Boutell say to you " Maurice, I know it was the drink that made you denounce me as a detective." Re-examined by Mr. Wontner—l know nothing more about Boutell than I do about any of my other customers. Before I went to the parlour door on the Sunday afternoon I had previously sent the potman, and from what he told m.l I went myself. lam quite sure when the men returned at five o'clock M'Carthy was with them, and I will take my oath I knew nothing about what was going on in my house. At this point the further examination was post poned until Friday next. Lyttleton—l wish your worship would send us to Horsemonger-lane Gaol ; Maidstone is very incon venient to us. Mr. Maude—Phave no power to do that. The prisoners were then removed. MISCELLANEOUS NEII7B. was increasing, more mutinies had occurred, and there was now a probability of a general outbreak against the Government of Juarez, headed by a leading military chieftain. Juarez had been in- augurated at an extraordinary session on Christmas Day, and delivered an address we have before alluded to. The Treasury was empty, and Signor Jose Maria Iglesias, evidently not relishing to pre-, side over empty coffers, had resigned. Brigandage was increasing, ani the robbers, not finding their prey so plentiful on the road as they desire, are acting on the maxim of going to fetch that which will not come. They have taken to kidnapping, and were carrying terror into the hearts of the most peaceful citizens, who at least hoped for safety by remaining at home. Senor Morales was carried off, and compelled to pay a ransom for his life of $6,000. Congress was considering the evil, and had promised a remedy at which the brigands may well laugh. The English Legation had left the capital for Vera Cruz on the 30th December, where the gunboat Jason was awaiting them. She arrived on the 10th inst. at Havannah en route fur London, via New York, with all on board. Susan B. Anthony has taken another long step towards the goal she strives for—Woman's Rights. She has established an organ for the Female Suf- 'rage Society in New York, named The Revolution and gives an amusing account of her interviews with the most prominent citizens when soliciting their support.` The President at first bluntly refused, having more papers than he could read, and receiv ing a thousand such applications every day. Susan replied, "You never had such an application iu your life. By means of The Revolution we will drive the Republican party to logical conclusions, or break it into a thousand pieces unless we get our rights." An drew Johnson immediately" forked out," unabletoye sist the idea of smashing upthe Radicals. Mr. Seward, as usual for those he avoids, was " not at home." Mr. M'Culloch said " No" emphatically, as did Senator Chandler. Senator Sprague did not believe in woman suffrage—" the sex" were difficult enough to manage as it was; Senator Sumner fully sub scribing to this after his own sad experience, posi tively refused to be seen. On the other hand, Senator Wade gladly aided a noble cause, as did Senators Pomeroy, Anthony, Howe, Henderson, Nye, and Drake. Senator Wilson subscribed, although he believed that the leaders had done much to block Reconstruction. On the meeting of the Senate on the 6th inst., Mr. Reverdy Johnson brought up the question of the admission' of Mr. Thomas is SeUutor for Mary land. This led to a debate, in which Senators Ed monds, Howe, Johnson, Howard, and Trumbul took part ; but nothing was done. The charge against the Senator elect for Maryland, of having aided Cobb in putting the Government credit in peril, was successfully rebutted. But the main part of the discussion was in reference to the charge of disloyalty, particularly in having aided the rebel lion by furnishing his son with money to pay his wal in joining the Confederate army. The young man insisted upon enterifig the Confederate service, and his father, unable to control the decision, gave him a hundred dollars to guard him against starva tion on the 'road. The discussion turned on the point of the father's motives in advancing the money—a nice question, and one difficult for such a tribunal to decide. The Danish Government has laid on the table of theßigsrad the result of the plebiscitum at St. Thomas and St. John. 1,244 votes to 22 have been recorded in favour of the cession of the two islands to the United States. We give the following interesting grain receipts, which we have received from an official source, for 1867, from January 1 to Dec. 21, for the ports of Toledo, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukie,and Chicago : —Flour, 3,675,126 barrels ; wheat, 29,256,227 ; corn, 31,388,516; 0at5,14,315,594; bar1ey,2,941,043; rye, 1,698,366. COMMERC [AL. (From Messrs. Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.) FRIDAY, Jan. 24, American Securities have been in greater demand during he past week, with an upward tendency. 5-20 Bonds, 1882, have continued about the same in this market, varying with the cable quotations of gold from New York, and open this morning at 711 72, or the same as last Friday. In New York they have steadily advanced, although the price of gold has with slight variations risen one per cent. ; 5-2U's of 1885 follow those of 1882 at a difference of one per cent. ; IC-40 Bonds, 1904, have continued at 67t 68f, daring nearly the whole week, rising ou Wednesday to 68 681; they open this morning at 671 681, au advance of t per cont. Illinois shares open at 85 86, an advance of one per cent. Erie shares have been steady at 48 49, or about the same as last week. The demand for Atlantic and Great Western Debentures and Consolidated Mortgage Bonds has continued ; the former open this morning at 24 25, the latter, after touch ing 26 on Monday, or one per cent. above the quotations for Debentures on the same day, open at 24 25. The Ne - , York and Peru Ist and 2d Mortgage Bonds of this railway have also been dealt in to a considerable extent, having risen fully five per cent. during the week. Messrs. Belding, Keith, and Co., in their circular of the 21st inst., remark as follows on the national debt of the United States:—" To illustrate, as seen from our view, it looks thus the United States Government owe, say, $2,000,000,000, 500 millions of which is held in Europe. The American holders bought at par—many of them at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent above par. The Europeans bought at a discount, according to the price of gold at the time, believing that gold would go lower, and they would be gainers thereby ; and any material de cline in gold must be allowed by an equivalent fall in bonds ; or, by means of the cable -(by which a mar gin of a half to one per cent difference pays to ship either way), Europe9.n holders will realise—not all, but always enough to run up gold or run down bonds, thus overloading American holders of bonds, and depleting the market of gold before there is enough to resume specie payments. What will put a stop to this? What means is there by which the country can secure a breathing time, and rest sufficiently to carry the burden of all its bonds on a gold basis? To us the means seem plain. We believe a twenty year Six per Cent. Loan for 500 millions of dollars, issued at par in gold, interest and principal payable in gold in London at 4s. or 4s. 2d. (;.e. at the same rate as issued) per dollar, and not payable elsewhere, would be a means of taking up the 5-20's held on this side, and thus placing the coun try in gold to resume specie payments. Being pay able only here, they would not be shipped backwards and forwards, thus reducing the floating bonds to State and railway bonds dealt in, which will be quite enough to work all the changes desired in exchange. To leave it otherwise is to always be over-flooded on a decline of gold, for if a de cline of gold of 5 per cent. takes only $1,000,000 over, it does not follow that a decline of 10 per cent. would only take over s2,ooo,ooo—but probably it is safe to count it in a geometrical proportion of 10 —and to-morrow nine tenths of all the bonds in Europe would go back if the holders could realise 10 per cent. on them more than the present price. This, or anything like one-half of it, all very well know is impossible for us to take, and would, if done, at once put gold to war figures. "Now, is it best, is it wise, to work against such a state of things in this way ? Is it not by far better to say, We owe you, we cannot pay you now, but give us time and a little more gold, and we will pay you gold for gold, and 6 per cent. interest. With bonds thus issued those now out could be redeemed as fast as practicable at market rates, which would be far below par for a long time, thus cancelling them, getting more gold, and five years or less extra time in which to work out and pay off. As to the rate per cent., some may say, Is it not too much ? To this we would say, We believe it is not, and that bonds at any leas than that would not go at par. A 5 per cent. might sell at 85, but a 41 per cent. would not at over 75 to 80 ; and if ever a full round 100 was wanted for bonds, it is and should be now-100 received for 100 to be paid ; and 6 per cant. and nothing less, in our opinion, will com mand it. " Such a plan seems to us the best for the true interests of our country, and we think will be found on careful study to recommend itself to all who wish to see it again on a sure basis advancing in wealth and universal pro- sperity. •' We notice that some parties have objected to such a course because of the great advantage such an arrange ment must give to any house having the sale of the bonds. We do not see that any loss reed be sustained by this, for the Government can sell exchange as well as gold, and have all the advantage thereof." We trust and believe some plan will bo devised by which the holders of bonds in Europe will be freed from any apprehensions as to their payment, whatever may be the political complications arising from time to time iu the States— a matter which we consider of even gr r im portance to the Stat,:E than to the holders of bonds here (From E-F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Jan. 22 ) By the Scotia we have our usual advices from New York to the 7th inst. Government Bonds were all strong and in good demand, especially the 10-40 Five per Cents., which ha( alvolced one per cent. In Railway Stocks we have t, note an improvement in Hudson River and Pennsylvania. Rock Island at one time declined on an injunction granted by the Supreme Court, restraining the directors from trans ferring in the company's books the largo amount of stock they recently sold ; the price, however, had again rallied, and stocks generally were firm in sympathy with it. The market for State Stocks and Railroad Mortgages was quiet, without any noteworthy change. Dealings in gold were on an enlarged scale, and an advance in the premium of four per cent. had been established. ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. We give below the report of the General Superintendent of the Atlantic and Great Western, also the Auditor's figures of the doings of the road for seven months ending 31st October. As these officers are appointed by the Re ceiver and report to him, the returns must be considered as official, and their accuracy cannot be doubted : General Superintendent's Office, Meadville, Pennsylvania, Dec. 20, 1867. To General R. B. Potter, Receiver. Atlantic and Great Great Western Railway, Meadville, Pennsylvania. My dear Sir,—ln considering the true economy of this road and the interests of its investors it was decided, about the last of November, to close our entire construe- ion and renewals for tha winter. This having boen done fully, and our accounts made up, I have taken the liberty of placing before you a full report of our operations for the seven mouths of your receivership, and of my connection with the road. With this you will please find compara tive statement of earnings an 4 expenses from Mr. J. C. Calhoun, auditor; also statement from Mr. D. C. Coolmani resident engineer, showing in detail the work performed on the track roadway, buildings, &c., and its cost ; and from Mr. F. Grinnell, superintendent M.P. and machinery, a stat .ment showing the condition of the rolling stock, and work and improvement made upon it. You are well aware of the condition the road was in on your taking possession of it, and of what was necessary to be done, at once to put it in safe order. This, I think, has been fully done, and, by reference to Mr. Coolman's statement, you will see the amount of material and its cost that was required to do it. You will please bear in mind that to collect the requisite number of men and the material and get all well organized took us some little time ; as the season was well advanced before we could possibly get started it required greater numbers and more expense to accomplish the work that had to be done before the close of the season than would otherwise have done. We have been favoured by the long-continued drought which was so injurious to our receipts, but which helped us materially with our work. We have succeeded in getting the main line well ballasted, ditched, and tied with sleepers. The Mahoning division, from the number of trains upon it and the almost impossibility of getting men to work upon track at any reasonable price in that mineral district, did not get all that I would like to have put upon it, but enough has been done to hold it in good working order for the winter. A few weeks' work in the spring will com plete all that is requisite to make it in good running eon" dition. The Franklin branch is in good working order, but little, if anything, required to bo done to it for the present. The locomotives are in as good order as will average on any road. We have made some improvement in thew, and are running them now cheaper than has been done. We are now down to 30 cents a mile, covering all elc penses ; and 1 am satisfied that we can get down to 2 1 cents per mile as we progress with our economy. 310 11 improvement' has been made in the passenger an d freight cars. 'We aro getting them in better order, and now that we have a good track to run on, our cost of repairs should diminish. In November .we took all the tools out of Corry Shop and closed it np. This we wer ° permitted to do by having the Kent Car Shop completed' By this change we make our shop force more effective, bi the consolidation of the work, and will save some $ B , BOO per month in expenses. We have constructed a good car house at Meadville hi transferring the frame from Leavittsburg. This will keeP our spare cars from the weather. Five new stalls f or engines Lave. been erected at Cleveland by an addition t ° the engine house there ; and, by arrangement made with the Erie Railway, our engines are all provfded with stallo at Talamanca for the winter. I regret much that our receipts are so affected by Or loss in the oil trade, and the general stagnation of bus' ness, caused by the contraction of the national c urrene i and the severity of the drought during the latter part of the summer and autumn. This affects tray.. as well freighting. It is gratifying, however, to know that ne t legitimate business is good, and we are doing our full pre portion with other lines. It has been my especial study to work economy in every department of the road a nd our working expenses down to where they should be. By reference to the enclosed statements of the auditor PI will see the decrease in the salary account each month. call your especial attention to that of "all stores used." In saying that our construction work was entirely stopped for the winter I omitted excepting the filling eo trestles on the second and third divisioas, with the "' i steam shovels now doing the work. They will be k e p t t it during the winter, and, in fact, until the trestles 0"; filled up. They work with great economy, and are a P e ro , feet success in the quantity handled.—Respectfully Y e° L. D. RUCKER, General Superintenden t ' °f Although there has not been a very la ge amou nt o r.. business in American securities on the London market 400 big the past week, prices have improved all round ; Vel„la States 5-20 Bonds have advanced to 711 to 72 7 10 10-40's to 67t to 68f. In Illinois Central Shares there . o f been some good buying, on the belief that th e affairs toff this company are iu an eminently satisfactory corlitlo_o they close 851 to or nearly one par cent. higher ttro, this day week. Lries, also at 481 to 49, exhibit an provement. The demand for Atlantic and Great Western Secu rit l which we noticed in our last, has continued, and froT i o the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds rose to 26, from there has been a slight reaction, to 24 to 25 ; the De,',./0 torus are at the same price, although latterly they „so' commanded some 3 or 4 per cent. more than the 00- 0 , 3 a lidated Bonds. The inquiries for the First and Bec oel, Mortgage Divisional Bonds are also numerous,, and i n 5 ,, have been taken at from 50 to 55 for the first and 4 8 "- I for the second. 14 (From Messrs. .Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Cireular' ) B , PARIS, Jan. 2 4 , 1-° ' The general tone of the Bourse remains unchecgeor inactivity and a disinclination to new enterprises tinning the prevailing feature. In United States Securities transactions have bee° o limited, but at improved rates, though the full iutllle%lo6l the decline of gold is largely counteracted by eon, tl fro o unfavourable political and financial rumours receiv e, ' the United States. We quote : The issue of 1862 The issue of 1864 The issue of 1865 Our advices from New York aro to the 21st inst. • Gold 1 10 1 United States Bonds, 1862 (currency) t ie , The Rente closes at 6Bf. ..°,,", The Italian closes at Exchange on London 2505c" Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. b. 11 , Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... F e „ 13' Ditto, via Marseilles .............. ...........• F e ' id , Ditto, via Panama ....... ....... .. ...PA' 3 , Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video .......... Ye? ). 1 3 Ditto, by French packet Jn. , Caps Verds. by Brazil packet ...... .. .. Feb' 5 ' . ~,.,, Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena. • • -•:, - O D 3 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southamptoll•• r J e 2 1 ' Ditto, via Marseilles. Falkland Islands . Gibraltar, via Southampton . • ..... . . .. India via Southampton ................ Lieu , 0 12 :, 3 ,8 0 J, .. Jail . 0; , Ditto, via Marseil:es • . Ja n. 2/ , Malta, Egypt, kO. Jan" Ditto, Marseilles Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via D. 0' Fe i s Southampton Feb' li DIU), Marseilles ,e ,l/ ' 3 Newfoundland .. . rep . Portugal Ditto, by priv tte ship to Oporto ... ........... Ditto c itto to Lisbon .............. United States, I. anada, California., do., by Britisll 0/. O il ' packet . . Ditto, by L Lited States packet .............. • • Ditto ditto 'New Yorkl .................... Ditto ClittO New York) ........... . ....... • Ditto ditty ( Baltimore) ....... . . ...... •••. m o * 4 Ditto, by Canadian packet ............... c p. " West 'Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerlffe . • •• • West Inuies and Pacific (except Mexico and Ball iv pa , : 3 , mas) Cuba and M exico .............................. .• • fel). 13 ;/, Bahamas, via New . ............ fey Bermuda, via Halifax . • __ __ 0 Births. , re s " 4 BATHURST—On' the 24th inst., at 3, Grosverl°` -c . 0 f; the Hon. Mrs. Allen Bathurst, of a son. ~,„, o f 7- DEWSNAP -On the 24th inst., at B arnes , the viii,. i lie Dewsnap, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, of a daughtelo' SINGH—On the 23d inst., at 39, Onslow-Klu ar° ' Maharanee Duleep Singh, of kson. Marriages. If° co w) 0 MoottE—LYON-On the 23d inst., at St. IVlarY!strift)!, Church, Edinburgh. Robert B. Moore, Fo,,,r re , a o et Y A Izabel, daughter of the late Ambrose v' ll " or Oporto. f ., 1 00, 1 1 b ° 60 . ,r MAcKENzIE—CocK—On the 23d inst., at St• 3 A -1- 7S, Libe l All Angels', Hackney, Alfred Mackenzie, of , go . side, London, to Georgiana, third daughter 01 of King Edward's- road, Hackney. gi Deaths. of, v . 4, ~,, ~,. 1 I d BATEMAN— On the 22d inst., Wm. Bateinalli ,gl). , 69 Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood, and CilPv,iiiilY • GascolGNE—On the 18th inst., at Bath, g i i i s e, is. : fs, O p ° coigne, aged 85. i.for ei ,A I GREY—On the 22d inst., at Lipwood House , ,eil D land, John Grey, Esq., formerly of Dilstoai '17 1 .0 5 , KING—On the 23d inst at Brinkley Hall, ° 4a3 0 0 .1 Robert Win. King, Eq., aged 74. LEONARD -On the 22(1 inst., at Charlton L° A l l,4. fii) on-Thames, Mr. Thomas Leopards, age' . .. r oe , MOSES —On the 24th inst., at 57, Porchester-te 9il, , -0 0 Water, Elias Moses, Esq., aged 87. a rifs , e t MinitLEEs— On the 13th inst., at St. Le ° Wal'ti. William Mirrlees, Esq., of Glasgow. ter - g at e i iig e4 ,s 1 POWELL - On the 21st inst., at 79, Lanc3.cturisi Powell, Esq., formerly of Melbourne, Y A si 1 “.3 4 1; ' li;i London : Printed and Published by WILLIP.m e c , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tull Suzi t;001- Strand, in the Precinct of the Seca , 34liddlesei.—Saturday, January 25, 1888. (~ ttki