The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

OMIT OP THE PUBLIC lotrants, The TiniC undertakes somewhat a defence of the action o f the Boundary Commission against the aspersions that have been cast upon it. The Boundary• Commission had no instructions except to find out by inquiry and to de clare what were the actual boundaries of our boroughs, a-nd how far, if at all, they required to be extended. Of c o t irse, a boundary must have political bearings, general as well as local, remote as well as immediate. It is a poli ticalquestion whether a large borough shall be madelarger, even though the enlargement be not likely to affect the character of the representation for the next hundred years. But the very idea of the Boundary Commission sup posed enlargement by the recognition of natural growth. The time to protest against extending parliamentary boundaries so as to include population was last year ; but Parliament was then pervaded by the simple idea of ascertaining the present actual boundaries of the cities and boroughs, and recognising them, whatever the con sequences. The commission had only to make the parlia mentary boroughs correspond as closely as possible with the mass of population, habitations, and employments commonly intended by the name, we will say, of Liverpool or Manchester. It wasi precluded from considering whether it'< was expedient to in.crease a constituency of five thou sand electors by one thousand more, or a constituency of twenty thousand electors by ten thousand more. This VMS a political matter, belonging to the very large and, hideed, boundless question of distribution. Had it ever bean intended that the commission should deal with this, tho commission—if, indeed, we can imagine it charged with such a matter—would have been very differently constituted and instructed. The severe and singularly im partivl labours of the commission have now been revised by a committee ; the results are before the House, and are of a nature, we will not say to provoke discussion, but to reopen the whole question of Reform. In every lase where the extension of the borough boun daries happens to have a political value, the committee proposes ,to abandon the recommendations of the commission, .'srd to leave the boundaries as they are that is, purely artificial lines, cutting a mass of houses in two, and includi'nr, it may be, one side of a street, but not the other. A borcugh is to be a surface enclosed in an arbitrary line—" a lard and fast line," we should say— which shall not be altered till the coming day when not only every line, but a g.-eat deal more, is to be rectified on more symmetrical principles than can at present be applied. The committee which has just made its report does pro pose to gratify the electors who resent, upon any ground whatever, a serious accession to their existing numbers, and who, possessing a certain share of the franchise, will not see it diluted. The wish is no novelty in our history. It has been urged time out of mind by greater or less electoral bodies, with greater or less force and greater or less success. But it was not a matter referred to the Boundary, Commission, and to recognise it now is simply to re-open the whole question. The Post admits that if the proposals of the Royal Com • mission on Neutrality are adopted, there can be no doubt that any repetition of the evasions of the law so success fully pr."-ctised during the late American war will become impossible. The only doubt that arises will be whether wc are not: going a little too far. If the Government be empowered to interpose on every occasion when there is reason to suspect that a ship in the stocks may be intended for the use of a belligerent, the shipbuilding trade of this country will be very seriously interfered with. This, how ever, will be matter for the consideration of the Legislature when the measure based on this report is submitted for its sanction. 'Then, again, it is unnecessary to add that a law of this kind should be accepted in a spirit of reciprocity by other nmritime Powers. There would be no considera tion for our imposing such restrictions on the shipbuilding trade f)f this country if similar restrictions were not im posed on others. It is a matter which, although imme diately dependent on municipal law, also involves inter national considerations. Nothing can be done during the present parliamentary session, and before next spring we shall have an opportunity of ascertaining if other mari time Powers are prepared to pass laws to the same effect. The Daily 11'ews declares that if the recommendations be adopted England will be cleared of the reproach of leaving open the gate of opportunity to offenders. The higher praise of foresight into the abuses to which the insufficiency of our municipal law was likely to lead, or of instantaneous perception of their real character, and promptitude to repair them when they occurred, cannot be granted to our jurists and statesmen. The report bears the signature of the chief law adviser of Lord Palmerston's Government, and of the ablest legal and political advocate of the claims of the Southern Confederacy. If Sir Roundell Palmer and Lord Cairns had joined half a dozen years ago in recommending the changes in the Foreign Enlistment Act which they now unite with authorities scarcely less eminent in pro posing, a source of bitterness between England and the tn'ted States, which has not yet been drained to the last drop, might possibly not have been opene]. No party can claim any triumph or advantage over the other, as the author of this tardy concession to a just and prudent international policy. The Star expresses its dissatisfaction with Mr. Harcourt for his appendix to the report. In the shape of a letter to the Times, at the period of the Alexandra trial, the observations of the learned counsel would have greatly delighted all those shipbuilders who were trying what they could to plunge us into war, but they seem sadly out of place at present, when the whole nation is satisfied of the propriety of stopping the outfit of privateers, and only wishes to be informed of the manner in which the result can be achieved. The Standard calls attention to a telegram, dated from Athens, announcing that " the reserve of the Greek army has been called to arms." What this measure imports, and why it has been taken, the despatch does not tell us, and we may be permitted, therefore, to express the opinion that it has no meaning whatever outside the Hellenic kingdom. There is a fine warlike twang in these words, " calling out the reserve," and it may be indulged in by a Greek Minister with perfect impunity and at little or no cost. Greece is safe under the protection of the Great Powers, who have allowed her for a couple of years to commit the most flagrant breaches of neutrality against Turkey; and as for the reserve, it will most probably not respond to the call, and if it does it will cost the Greek Treasury nothing, for this most sufficient reason—that the Treasury is not in the position to pay anything. The Turkish Government must wish most heartily that Greece would honestly declare war against it. In the interest of the peace of the East one could almost wish that the Greek Government would take a bold step and declare war against Turkey. The whole struggle would then be very soon ended. So long as Greece maintains her present comparatively cautious atti tude, and there is no falling-off in the funds, from what ever source they come—a question which it would not be well to examine too narrowly—available for the support of the insurrection, the complete pacificatior of Crete is alto gether impossible. The Turkish army may defeat every force the insurgents can bring against it, but the Turkish Government cannot, in a country like Crete, effectually re-establish order so long as fresh bands of assailants and fresh supplies of arms are landed every week, and the chance of escape from the island is always open to the adventurers. The Telegraph comments en the decision by Lord Cairrns awarding copyright to aliens dwelling in the United King. dom. It may be thought at first sight, that if this award of English protection to aliens were reciprocated by the American courts of law, it would settle the question of international copyright without any treaty. But, though the judgment of Lord Cairns would give a copyright in England to any English writer who first published his book in London, yet that very fact, as it were, dena tionalises the work, and when it recrosses the Atlantic it may be treated simply as an English hook— that is, it may be pirated and sold without the least pecuniary advantage to the writer. In the same way, if the American courts of law follow Lord Cairns, and give American rights to English authors who have first published in the United States, Mr. Dickens and others can enjoy their rights only by surrendering their English privilege; for an English pirate might, without let or hindrance, reprint Mr. Dickens's wort?Trom the first origi nal American edition. To make the new decision really operative for great good, therefore, it would b e necessary to ,extend our copyright law, so that not only all alien s publishing in this country, but all Englishmen publishing abrOad, should be entitled to English copyright. THE G °VERN - 7111:NT TEL EG RA PH SCHEME. A spcCial meeting of the Liverpool Chamb2r of Commerce V.^ held on Monday, for the purpose of considering the present bill before Parliament, which has for its object the purchase by Government of the pr,7ent tele:;raphic systems. Mr. Paterson, who pre c7mtencled that the telegraphic system might be made almost as general as the penny post, provided a clv , ap rate were adopted, and instanced the success of continental system in support of his view. Mr. - 2 , lusprat read a petition to Parliament in support of the present bill ; whereupon the chairman moved and Mr. David Mclver, of the Cunard Company, seconded, a definite resolution in support of the bill. Several members spoke on the question, the general opinion being in favour of the adoption by the post office department of the tele graphic system, or some general and comprehensive plan which would meet the fullest requirements of the com munity.the A petition in favour of the bill was p laced in Exchange News-room and extensively and influen tially INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS The Annual Moveable Committee, the supreme govern ing body of . the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows, com menced its deliberations at Cheltenham, on Monday. Thy, rand master of the order, Mr. George Walker, sof Durham, presided, and upwards of two hundred delegates have been returned to the A.M.C. as the representatives A the various districts. In the course of the grand master's inaugural address, he said there had been an increase A 12,290 members during the year ; £200,000 had been distributed in sick pay, and £68,000 in funeral bomefits; the revenue of the society had exceeded half a million sterling ; and £200,000 had been added to the accumulated capital, which now amounted to £2,400,0004 He strongly urged adherence to the present increased scale of contributions, which were essential for the stability and future prosperity of the Unity ; and, alluding to the bill introduced into the House of Lords by the Earl of Lichfield, he said the directors had an interview with his lordship, and regretted they could not support the measure, as they were not prepared to sacrifice the present position of the Manchester Unity, with its manifold advantages, in order to assist his lord ship in effecting some amount of good for other societies' Now the bill was withdrawn, a royal, commission would 1 robably be appointed. The expenses of the Unity for the year had been £l,lBl 17s. 81d., and as there was a loss of £316 17s. Bd. on the business in the goods department, they were reluctantly compelled to recommend that a levy of a halfpenny per member should be made through the Unity, to defray these management expenses. The board of directors for the past year also submitted a report. They stated that the number of members on the Ist January, 1868, was 417,422, being an increase of 12,290 during the fear, and 35 per cent. of the number were young men ander 21 years of age. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. A dreadful accident occuxred at the Leamside station of the North Eastern Railway Company on Sunday, result ing in the death of two children and the marvellous escape of two others. Four children were playing on the down line, near the water tank, but unseen by anyone in the vicinity of the place at the time. Just then an engine and tender from York rounded the curve, when both driver and stoker observed the fourchildren. The brakes were at once put on, but it was too late to bring the engine up. The noise of the whistle, however, alarmed the poor children, who attempted to escape. A little boy, about four years old, ran off at once, followed by a girl somewhat older. The two others made also an attempt to get out of danger, but both were very young, and they seemed " dazed " by the position they were in. The oldest girl, getting near the end of the platform, looked back, and then, seeing the danger the little ones were in, turned back and endeavoured to protect them. Just then the engine came up. The connecting rod struck her first, and all three were thrown in one mass to the ground. immediately after the engine caught the little fellow who had been the first to see the danger. Before he could, however, reach the end of the platform, the con necting-rod struck him a fearful blow on the head, knock ing him to the ground. A little further on, and the engine was brought up. On the little boy being taken up it was found that his head had been almost cut in two. He had been killed outright. Ten yards further, and there lay in a confused mass the three other companions. The elder girl had her head cut open. She died in about two hours, thus losing her life in the brave attempt to rescue her two companions, whom she had effectually protected, as they escaped almost unhurt. MURDER OF A POACHER. At the Leicester County Police-office, on Monday, George Keane, 41 years of age, of the firm of Keane and Walker,millers, Crow Mill, Coombsthorpe, Leicestershire. was charged with the wilful murder of John Gilham, at the above place, early on Sunday morning. Mr. Onslow ap peared to watch the case on behalf of the prisoner, who seemed much distressed at his serious position. It seems that the prisoner, who is an unmarried man, resided with his partner (Mr. Walker) in a house adjoining the corn mill at Crow Mill, and that about two o'clock on Sunday morning they were disturbed from their slumbers 1y the barking of the dog in the yard. They both got up, and armed them selves with loaded guns. Walker on getting outside placed his gun on the ground and proceeded alongside the milldam. The prisoner took the other side, which adjoins what is termed the " One-acre Field," and had not pro ceeded far when he noticed three men stooping down at the side of the water (four others being on the opposite side, but some distance from Mr. Walker), and that he at once said to them, " If you stir, I'll fire," and in another moment fired one of the barrels of the gun in the face of the deceased, who was foremost, wounding him severely in the face and the left hand, which he was at the time holding up to avoid the full effect of the disAarge. Prisoner at once returned home, followed by the deceased's com panions, who demanded his surrender, and threatened to throw him into the water if he came out. They, however, did not stop many minutes, but went and carried their wounded friend home on agate. On their arri val at Coombs thorpe, Gilliam was attended by Mr. Burke, a retired surgeon, and, by his recommendation, at once removed to the Leicester Infirmary. Mr. Jacques, the house surgeon, immediately communicated with the chief constable (Mr. Goodyer), who went with Dr. Shaw, a county magistrate, to the infirmary, for the purpose of taking the depositions of Gilham ; but on their arrival he was in an unconscious and dying state, and expired about two o'clock in the day. In the meantime the prisoner was apprehended on the charge of shooting at the deceased. The inquest was opened the same evening before the coroner, Mr. J. Gregory, when, after evidence had been taken as to the identification of the body, it was adjourned. The defence will be justifiable homicide —that the deceased and his party, on being challenged by the prisoner with " Hallo you are caught at last," threatened to " down " him, upon which he retreated, exclaiming " Hold off, or I'll fire ;" upon which deceased was about to rush forward, when the prisoner fired the fatal shot. The shocking affair has caused a profound sensation throughout both town and county. LAW AND FOLICE. A CURIOUS POINT OF LAW WITH REGARD TO SEDUC TION.—In the case of Terry v. Hutchinson, which came before the Queen's Bench on Monday, a curious point of law was raised. It was an action for seduction tried by Mr. Justice Hannen a few days back, when a verdict was returned for plaintiff for £l5O damages. A motion was now made to enter a nonsuit, and the question for the court was whether the father was entitled to the girl's ser vices, seeing that she was not at the time of the seduction living under her father's roof. The girl (who was under 20), being in the service of a milliner, was dismissed, on account of her being seen in company with the defendant (a military officer), and on her way home— according to her story —was seduced by him. If she had reached her father's house there would (the learned judge said) have been no difficulty, and the action would have been maintainable. Was it so in the present case ? The court thought that the father had a sufficient interest in the girl's services to sustain his right of action, and the evidence on the merits was sufficient to support the verdict. The girl's service to the milliner was terminated, and the girl was on her return to her father, who had a right to her services, The motion for a nonsuit, there fore, fell to the ground. CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST " ECHOES FROM THE CLUBS."--Echoes from the Clubs, a few weeks back, pub lished an " ecbo" in which certain "officers and gentlemen," whose names were withheld, were severely censured for getting hold of the private letters of a brother officer deceased, and for using the information contained in the correspondence to the prejudice of a captain, who was compelled through their persecution to retire from the service. An application has now been made to the Queen's Bench, on behalf of Colonel Shute, Captain Macdonald, and Lieutenant Harran, for a rule nisi for a criminal information against the printer of the Echoes for pub lishing the said article, which was said to be altogether false and scurriloui. The application was granted. Is THE OWNER OF LAND LIABLE FOR DAMAGE DONE BY RABBITS?—This was the question raised in the Common Pleas by an appeal from the Shropshire County Court. The judge of the county court adjudged the defendant liable for damage done by rabbits breeding on his land. Their lordships, however, reversed the judgment, on the ground that rabbits wcre fcrce naturce, and therefore the defendant could not be held liable. There is 1 Jew to 7 inhabitants in Poland ;'to 03 in Austria ; to 42 in Russia ; to 52 in nolland ; to 01 in Turkey ; to 105 in Germany ; to 333 in Belgium ; to 11° in Italy ; to 410 in England ; to 403 in Franco ; to 595 in Switzerland ; and to 664 in Scandinavia. FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER THAMES,—OR Whit -Sunday the river between Putney and Kew Wal covered with small boats, loaded with holiday makers, and several accidents took place, terminating in more than one case, we regret to say, fatally. In one instance a party 91 ten were upset by the swell of a steamboat passing near Chiswick Eyot, at low tide, Five of the party were saved by the steamer, but it is reported that three were drowned, Only one of the bodies has been picked up, The etttq Accident occurred a little h i g il ei " tine ri`m.‘ On liaturday a lire occurred at Banks' Mill, Honley, near nuddersfleld, the property of Mr. W. Haigh. Damage was done to the amount of .E 2,000, which is fortunately covered by insurance. Mr. Marcus Keane, a gentleman of property in the covey of Clare, is spoken of as a Conservative candidate in that quarter; and an "ex-Indian judge, Mr. Johl Dunbar," has also had his name put forward. The son of the Viceroy, and heir to the throne of Egypt, was decorated on Saturday, amid great ceremony, with the order of the Iron Crown. The Bristol election petiton is appointed to be heard on the 15th of June. The lists of witnesses, &c., are_ to be delicvered in on June the 9th (Tuesday next). A great demonstration was made in London yesterday. The Temperance Societies of the metropolis, meeting in Lincoln's-inn-fields, marched off to the 7th Snrrey Rifle grounds, in the south of London, where open air meetings, were hell. It is und-rstoxl that the Prince and Princess of Wales will visit Killarney ❑ext August, and not Septomber, and will bo the guests of Lard and Lady Castlerosse, at Killarney H ous e. Tie royal couple on landing in Dublin will proceed direct Killarney, and after remaining there some tim e will leave for Belfast, a here they have been invited to opon the new docks. Mr. A. M. Sullivan, of the Weekly Nelms, was liberated yes terday, on entering into special recognizances required by the Court, to be of good behaviour for two years. The term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced would not ex pire until the 10th of August. A young man has met with his death at the Ilighbury S'ation of the North London Railway, under singular cir cumstances. It appears that the deceased was standing on the platform waiting for the train to stop, when suddenly the door of one of the compartments was thrown open, knocking him down between the carriages and the platform. The rumour that Lieutenant-General the lion. Sir James Yorke Searl tt, G.C.8., will contest the borough of Ports mouth at the next general election has been contradicted. The Sheffield Indpendent says that the Trades Unionists on strike in South Staffordshire are being gradually defeated. They have never (it says) had the remotest prospect of suc— cess, and after seven weeks' idleness and privation, their only alt'rnative is to submit unconditionally to the terms of th• rrasters. This Om men in the Wolverhampton district are doing, and there is every probability that the men in the otivr districts will follow their example. Sir rd win Land-cer has alone, perhaps of living artists, erj ,, yed the satisfaction of seeing one of his works fetch, at a public auction, the groat sum of £1,160. This was the pr7co given for Sir Edwin's " Braerna" at a sale in Lon don on Saturday. In the same collection was a Stanfield, which was knocked down for £2,164. As preparatory to Reform, in the matter of endowed schools, a bill has passed the Lords, and has been brought into the Cemmons, which seeks to enact that any person appointed to any position or emolument, in the schools which possess endowments, shall be appointed, subject to such provisions and enactments as may hereafter be enacted. This will prevent the plea of private property being set up by masters, who, appointed to the position of s licolmasters, refuse either to teach or to resign, still taking the moneys provided by the endowments on their school. John Shea, farmer, of Inveregh, county Kerry, who pleaded guilty nt the late assizes for that county to the charge of endeavouring to seduce soldiers from their alle giance, and was then sentenced to twelve n.onths' imprison ment, has been discharged from custody. Shoitly after his ti ial be was transferred to the county of Dublin jail, Kil mainham, where he remained until Friday, when, on a memorial to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, the re mainder of his sentence was commuted, and he was ordered to he discharged from custody, on entering into security for his future conduct. Tho Eastern Morning News reports' a melancholy occur rence which took g lace at Hull on Saturday. A private named Renton, belonging to the lith brigade of the Royal Artillery, was in the act of showing a clerk called Hudson the principle of his carbine, when the weapon went off, and the bullet entered Hudson's abdomen. The poor fellow lies in a dangerous state. Henton was taken into custody, but was afterwards discharged. A telegram from Oxford states that a requisition to Mr. W. Vernon Harcourt, soliciting him to stand as a candi date for the reprosontation of the City of Oxford, in the place of Mr. Neste, was being signed yesterday morning. Mr. Neste has not yet notified his intention to retire, but his agents have intimated that he will do so on the dissolution of Parliament. On Saturday, Jacob Wolf and Napthali Blasebuck, jewel lers and cloth merchants, at Leeds, were charged before the magistrates with a conspiracy to defraud, and with perjury. On the Bth of January last the prisoners executed a deed of composition, their debts amounting to £3,040 15s. sd. They then made an affidavit, representing two-thirds of their creditors had signed the deed and consented to take ls. Gd. in the pound. In the deed they put down certain merchants as bein;., , indebted to them, who, as it, turned out, had done no business with them whatever. The accused were com mitted to the assizes, bail being allowed to the amount of £l,OOO each. An inquiry has been held at Gravesend, touching the &nth of 'William Hewett, aged 28, and Charles Thomas, aged 23, who were killed by the explosion of one of the boilers on board the Pilot steam-tug. It is stated there was no appearance of danger, and all went on apparently well until the steamer had reached near Cliffe, some three or four miles below Gravesend, when, without any warning, the port boiler exploded with terrific force. The deceased fire men were found shockingly mutilated. Hewett bad his legs nearly blown off, and was killed on the spot_ Thomas was dreadfully scalded, and his sufferings were most in tense. He was taken to the Gravesend Infirmary, but he died shortly after he was admitted. The jury agreed to communicate with the Board of Trade, to ask that depart ment to send down some officer to survey the boiler, and to give them the result of his examination, and the inquiry was accordingly adjourned. The Chancellorship of the University of Edinburgh is, it appears, little likely to fall to Mr. Gladstone, who has been nominated to the vacancy. Promises of support to the Lord Justice-Ceneral of Scotland, it is stated, are being received from all quarters, and there is said to be good reason to hope that the canvass will eventuate in the election of the Lord Justice-General. The election does not take place till the next half-yearly meeting of the General Council of the University, which will be held on the 30th October.— Globe. Among other robberies committed at " the Oaks" the fol lowing are reported, having come before the magistrate at the Epsom Police Court :—Martha Grey and Mary Ann Smith were charged with robbing Mr. Archibald Nagle of xto, a diamond ring, and a cheque. Both prisoners were sentenced to six months' hard labour. John Cooper and Thomas Bowman were charged with being on the Downs with intent to commit a felony. It appeared that just when the Oaks was being run for the prisoners went to a carriage then occupied only by ladies, the gentlemen of the party being absent, and seized a hamper and a coat, notwithstanding the resist ance of tho ladies. The gentlemen, returning just as the thieves were making off, attacked them, and made them sur render the booty. The Bench gave both prisoners a month's hard labour. In an article on the recommendation of the Neutrality Commissioners, the Express says :—" If the spirit of these recommendations had inspired the conduct of her Mar jesty's Government some years ago, wo should have been spared the Alabama claims. They concede all that the United States demanded. There can be little doubt that the English Legislature will give proof of fair and friendly feeling by adopting them. In recom mending these changes the Commissioners practi cally admit that during the American struggle Lord Russell acted in harmony with the law as it then was. Nothing more can be required of any nation than that it should change its policy as soon as events and calm deliberation have shown that such a change is desirable. This England is ready to do." Mr. M , Carty %owning, a Liter 1, is mentioned in con rec ion with tho representation of the cou•rty of Cork, and in IVoxfurl an n'tempt is to to made to " rescuo the repreA scu'ation altogether from the Coaservatiros." The official declaration of the poll in East Worcester shire was made yesterday at Droitwitch by the high sheriff. The numbers were dechred to be—Lyttelton, 2,683 ; Laslett, 2,429 ; majority for Lyttelton, 259. Arthur Forrester Smith, and Hector Augustus Smith, brothers, were again yesterday before the Lord Mayor charged with murderously assiad ting Mrs. Mary Ann Nunn, the housekeeper at 2, Catherine-court, Seething-lane, on the night of Friday, the Ist of May last, with intent to Lill her ; and of stealing a portemonnaie, containing £2 and some silver, from a bedroom on the third floor of the same house. The injured woman is still unable to attend, but the evidence of the house-s•:rgeon and some other wit• I - losses having been taken, and the prisoners making no answer to the charge, the Lord Mayor committed them for tri:.l. The India mail Ltings the news that the Viceroy had kit Calcutta, iur Simla, probably his last summer excur sion to the hills. Sir John Lawrence's term expires nex t January, and already Anglo-Indians are busy with specu lations concerning his successor. They would haveliked Lord Cranborne, but they dare not hope for the Marquis of Salisbury. The native press thinks it so hard to let any portion of the expense of the Abyssinian war fall on India, that it nurses its resentment against Sir Stafford Northcote, whom it takes to be the jyin• cipal wrongdoer. oth erw:se , the name of Indian Secretary has been favourably mentioned in and it is now generally allowed that the training of the India Odle° will always be a good preparatiog paiAiou .474 d onerous clutica of yicerop THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1868. ; TIE SENATE COURT'S SECOND VOTE ON IMPEACHMENT. The votes on the Second and Third Articles of Impeachment have, we believe, decided the PRE SIDENT'S Acquittal—although an underhand game is open, which, unscrupulous as are the Managers, they scarcely dare to play. Our intelligence, although not complete, throws a light on the dark places into which conjecture could not correctly guide us, and we will endeavour briefly to trace the events as they occurred. On Monday, the 11th M ty, after finally agreeing to the rules, a few of the Senators availed themselves of the fifteen minutes allowed to each to deliver their opinions. Although the ses sion was secret, what the doubtful said was eagerly awaited and quickly conveyed to the news-devour ing throng outside, whence it spread abroad to the extremities of the United States. Senators THUM BULL, FESSENDEN, G etmEs, and limn asoN delivered strong opinions against Impeachment. TRUMBULL and FESSENDEN arc two of the leading 1 twyers of the United States, the former standing almost un rivalled in the opinion of his fellow-citizens. The intelligence produced a revulsion, which extended over the entire country. On - Monday WADE was all, and ANDREW JOHNSON naught ; on Tuesday WADE was naught, and ANDREW JOHNSON all. Then began that storm with which party pressure in America, like the pressure of a relentless hurri cane, bends or breaks beneath it all opposition that is not founded on a rock. The next day, on the plea of Senator 110 WARD'S sickness, the Court adjourned till Saturday, the 16th instant, when, in evident fear and trembling, the eleventh Article was selected by the Impeachers, after carefully scrutinizing every indication of divergence in opinion, as the one on which to risk the test. BEN. WADE, with that total disregard to equity, to all the rules that propriety, judicial wisdom, and com mon sense have laid down, not only gave his vote, but declared that if he had twenty votes he would give them all. As the direct effect was to make himself Acting President, he might have added to this candid statement the assurance that he would as freely give the national posts, when in his power, to make himself the incoming Vice-Presi dent. The vote, however, acquitted the PRESI DENT, and Senator GEOR/E W. WILLIAMS, of Oregon, moved the adjournment until the 26th inst. The Chief Justice, considering the motion to be out of order, interfered, but Senator CHARLES B. DRAKE, of Missouri, appealed to the Court, and the Senate overruled the Chief Justice, carrying the motion by 32 to 21. On no other count could the Senate then expect a different result, and to the majority, unda the circumstances, it appeared advisable to bring the influence of the Chicago Convention to bear on the Republican Senators who had voted for acquit tal. The necessity, also, at that time, was urgent for certain Senators to be released to forward their in terests at Chicago, which furnished another reason for the recess. The Convention met, named GRANT for President, and COLFAX for Vice-President, and approved the Impeachment of ANDREW JOHNSON. Again the Senate assembled as an Impeachment Court last Tuesd a y. Every disturbing influence had been rem o ve d. J ea l ous y of WADE, and the dread of his using the Presidential patronage to forward his nomination at Chicago had ceased. The Republican party had approved, through the National delegates, the Impeachment, a powerful condemnation of the course of the independent Re publican Senators. Zhe Second and Third Articles were selected, because, as in the case of the Eleventh, they were the most promising of the remaining ten, and the facts on which they were based were un deniable. Again came the solid, unchanged vote on each, 35 to 19. No other vote was allowed, for it would but have increased the nineteen ; the the Court, therefore, adjourned sine die, leaving the remaining eight yet open. What has led the Senate to adopt this course ? Every indication shows that the Impeachment party have been totally discomfited. On Wednesday, the day following the PRESIDENT'S acquittal on the Second and Third Charges, STANTON resigned, and Adjutant-General LORENZO THOMAS took possession of the War-office ad interim. This is the fruit of victory ; these are the enemy's artillery left on the field of battle. While the war raged no one heard of STANTON, though he was in truth a principal, and his official head has been whipped off, as the executioner of an Eastern Potentate would decapitate by a skilful stroke of his sabre, the head of an offender. Although the Impeachers in the Senate were not sufficiently strong to convict and depose the PRESIDENT, they were strong enough to carry any measure which re quired only a majority, and using this power they have successively postponed the verdict to bring every strain upon the Republican Senators who have strayed from the fold. Bat why, when these tactics have failed, further delay the decision ? It is just possible that some of the most unscrupulous may consider it worth trying whether the na tion would permit the introduction into the Court, of the Senators from the reconstructed Southern States, as openly advocated by Co lonel FORNEY in the columns of the Philadel phia Press. Judging from the tone of the leading and most respectable journals—knowing the senti ments of t►he moderate men, and even of those who hold extreme party views, but who hold higher still truth, justice, and honour, we believe that if the War-Horse section dared to try this, they would bring down on their heads the wrath of the nation. It is not easy really to rouse Uncle SAM. He is beyond comparison a more indulgent and equitably tempered person than JoHN BuLr,, but when he is roused he hits very hard. There are crowds of po liticians who profess to speak for Uncle SAM. Sometimes they get up so loud a cry that people are deceived into the belief that it is his voice, though it's a voice scarcely ever heard. There are indications that Uncle SAM is annoyed, ashamed, and disgusted with a section of his greedy, unscru pulous, and uncontrolled children. If they do this thing they may get a slap in the face that will send them flying into the Potomac. The iniquitous pressure brought to bear on the Senators who dared to form opinions independent of those dic tated to them by their party has excited a deep and lasting disgust, which has been freely expressed by perhaps the most influential portion of the national Press. The very fury of the attack tended to defeat its object. It strength ened the resolution of the weak, for men who see martyrdom before them, brace themselves with a re solve which sometimes turns a poor thing into a hero. Senator GRIMES, who is described in revolt ing terms in the New York Tribune, truly expressed the opinion of the country, " that if JOHNSON, WADE, and STANTON were in a bag and well shaken, he would not flip d a copper' for a choice be tween them." High as the excitement rose at the focus of intrigue, Washington, where the crowd of players awaited the result of their moves, the na tion cared not a straw for any of them. Glorious BEN was regarded as an unscrupulous, unsafe man, in the highest degree dangerous as the leader of the War-Horse section ; JOHNSON has never been liked, being repudiated by both parties ; but if anything could have elevated him in the opinion of his fellow citizens, it is the calm and dignified way in which he has met the Impeachment persecution. lie has established the truth of a fact he proved in Tennes see, that he is bett er q ualified to take a good and conspicuous place in the midst of enemies than in the midst of friends ; in a stro n g tide of misfortune than when floating on the stream of prosperity. STANTON till Wednesday, when be was decapitated, had totally sunk out of notice, no body caring a rush about him. Ile was put forward as the instrument by the enemies of the PRESIDENT, and having failed he is thrown aside, and certainly the army will consider him a good riddance. That this end has been as unexpected by those most in timately concerned as by the world is shown by their action. President JOHNSON ordered his old homestead at Greenville, Tennessee, to be tho roughly repaired and refitted, and for some tune past workmen have been diligently employed, being hurried in their labours by repeated orders from Washington, and a few weeks ago he sent a portion of his baggage to New York. Secretary SEWARD also sent off his trunks to Auburn, and WELLES and M.‘Ccuoca took similar steps; but the event may yet justify the Secretaries, as we elsewhere show. The New York World published a letter of President JEFFERSON'S, wherein he thus refers to the sedition law I affirm that Act to be no law, because it is in opposition to the Constitution, and I shall treat it as a nullity whenever it comes in the way of my functions," a statement which would have bad its effect on the Court had it been earlier brought to light. Impeachment is likely to be at tended with momentous results even in the acquittal of ANDREW JOHNSON, though it might have been more important in conviction, but it is difficult to predict. As the Articles on which the finding has been given were expressly selected out of the eleven by those who desired the deposition of the PRESIDENT, and as they have failed under every circumstance which the majority could devise to secure a dif ferent result, it may be concluded that we have seen the direct, though not the indirect, end of Impeach ment. But it would have been more satisfactory to those who only wish for fair play, and for all to meet the award of their acts, that the vote had been taken on Tuesday on the other eight Artic!ei, and the subject finally settled. Such a course would have better become the United States Senate, a❑ assembly which has earned a high character, and in the acquittal of ANDREW JOHNSON has recorded the greatest political act of virtue ever decreed by a Legislative Assembly. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Mr. G. R. CATHCART has become the editor and sole proprietor of The American Publisher and Bookseller. Mr. Andrew Boyd has added to his various col lection of memorials of Mr. Lincoln a sumptuous pamphlet, of which but seventy-five copies are printed. It consists of a fac-simile, reproduced apparently by photo-litho graphy, of the cartoon by Tenniel, which appeared at the time in Punch then, after a few pages of introductory eulogy of Lincoln, the famous poem which then accom panied it. The workmanship is as fine a specimen as has been produced from Mr. Mubsell's press, and the execution is, in general, worthy of such a memorial of the most tragic event in the national history of America. In the July number of Broadway a poem is to appear by the late D'Arcy M'Gee. We learn that Mrs. J. Sadlier is to edit his poems. Ex-Confederate General S. 13. Buckner is to be connected editorially with the Louisvil!e Courier. Mr. H. J. Hastings, of the Albany Knickerbocker, is reported to have purchased a controlling interest in the New York Commercial Advertiser. The Boston Commonwealth says :—The Newport Historical Society has unearthed a treasure in an old chest, which it describes as an autograph volume, written in 1675 by Obadiah Holmes, who was minister of the First Baptist Church, but went to Massachusetts to preach, where, having no linens-, he was arrested by the Puritan magistrate, confined in gaol, and finally sentenced to be publicly whipped at the tail of a cart. An American paper cpmments on Mr. E. G. Squier's tart note from New York to the Athemvutn, in vindication of his book on Nicaragua, which a Mr. Pym has assailed, and says, "it adds an interesting chapter to a somewhat protracted controversy in the same journal on the geography of the isthmus." The " Mr. Pyrn" is Cap tain Bedford Pim, R.N., who has deeply interested himself with the country. Professor James Orton and othors made an ex pedition last year, under the auspices of the Smithsonian institute, to the Andes and Valley of the Amazon. As a portion of its results there were valuable collections, in cluding many specimens previously unknown, and abund ant meteorological observations—all very valuable con tributions to the physical geography of South America— so it is a matter of gratification to learn that their early publication is determined upon.—Round Table. An English paper says an eminent journalist of New York has offered a reward of $l,OOO for a tale that will make his hair stand on end. Before ambitious authors enter the field of competition, it may be well for them to understand that the generous journalist is per fectly bald. Elizabeth Kickley's book " Behind the Scenes," to which we before alluded, gives the following account of President Lincoln's courtship and marriage. It appears that the political opponent he defeated later in life he de •' fleeted also as a suitor. Both Abraham Lincoln and the late Stephen Douglas were rivals for the same lady's hand. Douglas first proposed, and notwithstanding a refusal per sisted. "Mary, you do not know what you are refusing- You have always had an ambition to become the wife of a President of the United States. Pardon the egotism, but I fear that, in refusing my hand to-night, you have thrown away your best chance to ever rule in the White House." " I do not underst and you, Mr. Douglas." "Then I will speak more plainly. You know, Mary, that I am ambi tious like yourself, and something seems to whisper in my ear, You will be President some day.' Depend upon it, I shall make a stubborn fight to win the proud position." " You have my best wishes, Mr. Douglas ; still I cannot con sent to be your wife. I shall become Mes. President, or I am the victim of false prophets, but it will not be as Mrs. Dou glas." Mr. Lincoln proposed in his turn, but was also re jected. This broke his heart. He told a friend that he was sick of the deceitful world, and wished himself out of it. He loved, and had been encouraged, but only to be .ref used ; ho believed she was going to marry Douglas, and if she did he would blow his own brains out. He actually fell into a brain fever, and the doctor then wont to see the young lady, to tell her that she was the cause of his ill ness. "She frankly acknowledged her folly, saying that she only intended to test the sincerity of Mr. Lincoln's love; that he was the idol of her heart, and that eke would become his wife." This produced a cure, and in duo time the parties were married. The people of Williamstown, Western Massa chusetts, have formed an esthetic society, the chief purpose of which is to improve and ornament the streets and sur roundings of that already beautiful village. The president of the association is Professor Albert Hopkins, and the women as well as the men have a voice in its management. The annual meeting will be held some time in the summer in Mission Park, when an address and poem from some distinguished men will be delivered. I The Springfield Republican says—" At the recent Illinois State Republican Convention there was every in dication that General Smith, the present treasurer of Illi nois, would be re-nominated by the Republicans, but when the roll of the counties had bean one-third called, the chairman of a delegation, rising to vote for his county, de clared I cast the five votes of my county for the gallant General Bates, the starved prisoner of Andersouville ' This appeal to the convention was irresistible, and ho was nominated on the first call. Generaleßates, is a native of Plainfield, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Williams' College." Mr. Lemuel S. Levering, a well-known business man of Philadelphia, was thrown from his carriage on Monday, 11th May, and so badly injured that he died a few hours afterwards. A. gentleman of New York has recently patented an a ppliance for preserving life in the water. It consists s imply of a cork jacket and a loose rubber snit, the latter being in a single piece, and covering the en tire person, with the exception of the face and hands. The whole weighs eight and a half pounds, and is put on fn two or three minutes. There also iron-soled shoes for ballast. At Battery Place, some weeks ago, the in ventor made a practical exhibition, which, though unan nounced, and intended to be strictly private, attracted a largo number of persons, and excited a good deal of in- I terest. After being dressed in his suit, the inventor waded in the river and sank at once to his armpits. Re maining in an erect position, he paddled off amid the plaudits of the lookers-on. After a while, from a tin case attached to his waist by a string, and which floated behind him, ho remoeed a small roll, which he pro ceeded leisurely to unfold, and which proved to be a staff about eight feet long. This he fastened to the can, and from its top the breeze unfurled a flag, bearing the word "Eureka." He also extracted apples and other provisions from the can, and after refreshing himself with these, be turned over on his back, and was borne seaward by the outgoing tide. At the end of forty minutes or thereabouts he worked his way to the shore, where he was received by thecrowd with complimentary remarks. The Times' American correspondent says "Upon the financial policy of the United States, and in order to bring about an early resumption of specie pay ments, the Board of Trade of the city of Boston has re cently been taking important action. A series of re solutions have been prepared and sent to every Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce in the country, with the request that those bodies shall express their opinion upon them in order to discover the wishes of the commercial class upon the questions of a re turn to specie payments and the best mode of paying the debt. These resolutions declare that " the money of the people and of the bondholders should be the same, and should all be good money ;" that " the only good money known is specie, or its equivalent ; " that "every Act of Congress passed in relation to fiscal ques tions should be such as would tend towards a resumption of specie payment ;" that "no solvent borrower, public or private, has any right to leave obligations which are payable on demand temporarily uadredeemed without offering to their holders the option of extending the term of payment at a reasonable rate of interest, and that, therefore, the Government of the United States is bound in honour to offer every holder of legal-tender notes the privilege of funding them on demand ;" that " by offering to all holders of greenbacks their equivalent at par in United States Five per Cent. Bonds, payable principal and interest in coin, and by prohibiting the banks from selling their gold received from the Government, a gradual but steady withdrawal of debased currency and an accumulation of specie reserve would be effected, by which in due time, and without seri ous disturbance, the currency and prices of commodities may be brought to gold values;" and finally the declaration is made that "a law should at once be passed under which li contracts made upon arid or specie basis may be °abroad according to the tenour of the contract." If some such plan as this be adopted, and specie payments restored, the question whether to pay the debt in gold or greenbacks will be set at rest. The trouble is, however, that opinions on finance in the United States differ too much for any one to hope for the adoption of a fixed policy, and the present uncertainty about the currency and' debt will continue for an indefinite period. A letter to the Times states that practical expe riments made by Professor T. Allen, of Providence, Rhode Island, at the request of the Rhode Island Mutual Fire Insurance Company, have proved that petroleum in lamps with glass reservoirs, as almost universally used at present, will not attain a higher temperature than six degrees above that of the apartment, and if used in me tallic lamps the difference will not be more than 12 degrees. These remarks were written in answer to a letter in the Times of the preceding day, which stated that petroleum within the reservoir of a lamp is exposed to a temperature of 1094 degrees. The United Stites' war steamer Swatara, 10 guns, Commander Jeffers, one of the vessels attached to Admiral Farragut's squadron, arrived in Soutliampton river on Monday evening, about 9 o'clock, from Lisbon, and will, it is expected, remain there a fortnight. The following is an abstract of three Articles of Impeachment on which the Senate Court has recorded a vote of Not Guilty. The second article charges that the President did "on the 18th day of Aug., 1866, at the city of Washington and District of Columbia, by public speech, de clare and affirm in substance that the Thirty-ninth Ccn gross of the United States was not a Congress of the United States authorised by the Constitution to exercise Legislative power under the same ; but, on the contrary, was a Congress of only part of the States, thereby deny ing, and intending to deny, that the legislation of said Congress was valid or obligatory upon him, the said Andrew Johnson, except in so far as he saw fit to approve the same, and also thereby denying, and intending to deny the power of the said 39th Congress to propose amendments to the constitution of the United States;" and in 'pursuance of the declaration the President at tempted to disobey the laws constitutionlly passed by Congress by the removal of Ed w i n M. St an t on , from the position of Secretary of War, and that he is hereby guilty of a high misdemeanour in office. The third Article charges the President with a high misdemea nour in the appointment of "one Lorenzo Thomas to be Secretary of War ad interim." The eleventh Article charges that the President, on the 22d day of February, "in disregard of the Constitution and of the laws of Congress duly enacted, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the United StateQ, did bring before him self, then and there, William IL Emory, a Ma jor General by brevet in the Army of the United States, actually in command of the Department of Wash ington, and the military forces thereof, and did then and there, as such Commander in -Chief, declare to and instruct said Emory that part of a law of the United States, passed on March 2d. 1867, entitled 'An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1868, and for other purposes, especially the second section thereof, which provides, among other things, that 'all order and instructions relating to military operations issued by the President or the Secrretary of War shall be issued through the General of the Army, and, in case of his inability, through the next in rank, was unconstitutional, and in contravention of commission of said Emory, and, therefore, not binding on him as an officer of the Army of the United States," with intent " thereby to induce said Emory, in his official capacity as Commander of the De partment of Washington, to violate the provisions of said act, and to take and receive, act upon and obey such orders as he, the said Andrew Johnson, might make and give, and which should not be issued through the general of the army of the United States, according to the provisions of said act." MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From theSpringaeld Republican.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, May 15. The money market has been without essential change during the past week, and well supplied with funds, which were readily loaned at low rates. The flow of money to New York from the country hes been steadily and steadily Increasing, and the remittances are made in legal tenders much more largely than in national currency notes, and of the latter class of securities the New York banks now hold t. smaller supply than usual. Loans are offered at New York at 6 per cent., and on good security the banks and capitalists are ready to lend at 5. Good business paper is in demand at 6} to 7 per cent., but few loans are negoti ated above the latter figure. The stormy weather of the last few days, added to the uncertainty of the result of the Impeachment trial at Washington, has produced a partial stagnation of business, and the money market has been in active under an accumulation of funds greater than could be disposed of. At Boston the condition is similar, though on the whole rather more favourable. The supply of funds is not as large, and the market is more elastic, some of the banks being unable to meet all the calls upon them. The heavy defalcations at the Hide and Leather Bank, always accounted one of the firmest and soundest institutions of the "hub," has not produced a panic or any symptoms of it, and State-street holds on the even tenour of its way un disturbed by the slightest irregularity. Cemmercial paper is abundant at Boston, and commands from seven par cent. all the way up, according to quality. At the West, for a rare circumstance, the money market is also easy a ad well supplied with funds to let on reasonable term. The Chi cago banks are sending off large amounts of currency to the North-west for the movement of the remaining portions of the last year's crop of grain, but it dies not come for ward rapidly. The private banks and insurance compa nies at Chicago make their loans at 10 to 12 per cent., and find good demand for all they have to spare. The gold market has almost ceased to be of interest, and its fluctuations for the past week have been slight and of little effect on the general financial situation. The news of the certain acquittal of the President caused a depres sion on Monday, but the sales of Tuesday and Wednesday were at high rates, and Thursday the market closed steady at 1391. The disbursements of specie from the United States sub-Treasury vaults, in payment of the May interest on the national debt, continue quite large, and about two-thirds of the $24,000,000 due has now been paid. The gold which is thus throwu upon the market is not readily disposed of, particularly as the demand for ex port is comparatively light. The export on Wednesday was $450,000, and for the whole week it will not be much over one million and a half. The amount of gold required to pay the duties on foreign imports, during the month of April, has, however, been quite large, and the specie imported at New York has been fully employed. Tho value of the foreign imports at New York for the month just closed was $22,268,889, against $25,633,293 in 1867, and for the four months ending April 30, $85,118,726, against $93,756,135 for the corresponding months in 1867. On these imports, gold duties have been paid of $38,049,071 for the first four :nonths in 1368, and of $11,288,787. The returns of the exports, on the other hand, show a decided falling off in value from those of the previous year, and as they are estimated iu paper currency make a still more unfavour able exhibit, in comparison with the gold value, in which the imports are computed. The shipments for April were three millions less in produce and merchandise, and four millions less in specie, than those for the corresponding month of last year, and the total exports from New York for the last four months, exclusive of specie, have been but fifty-six millions, against sixty-seven millions for the same period of last year, and eighty-four millions for the first four months of 1866. The decline of our foreign exports is as unpleasant as it is perceptible, and an added feature of unpleasantness is the fact that nearly three-fourths were carried under a foreign flag. The industry of the country is depressed, and the relief of the manufacturing and productive interests still await the attention of Congress, but the day of their deliverance seems as dis tant as ever. The traffic in Government Securities is not checked at home or abroad by the prospects of Impeachment, and purchases and sales are made in about the usual quantities and at about the same rates. The older issues of Five twenties find especial favour among the foreign customers, and several German bankers are now in New York making large purchases. The holders of all kinds of Go vernment promises to pay are, however, not disposed to chaff with their customers, but prefer to await the action of the Senate and its disposal of the President. The con version of Seven-thirties into Five-twenties continues slowly, and the business of that kind now done at the Sub-Treasurer's comes principally from the country. The assistant treasurer at New York, besides selling gold quite freely of late, has been buying up Seven-thirties, and on Wednesday redeemed about $700,000, which, added to the amount of conversions, make nearly $3,000,000 taken out of the market by the Government on Wednesday and Tuesday. All idea of financial legislation, at this Session of Congress, seems to have been abandoned long ago, and the question of expansion or contraction causes no more public interest than one of the dead languages. The New Tax Bill has been reported by Mr. Schenck, but it will not re ceive much debate, and will be disposed of in tho easiest possible manner. The Manufacturer's Tax Bill, which was passed earlier in the session, afforded relief where it was most needed, and the real problem left far the now bill to solve is how to collect the tax on whisky and a few other luxuries. If we can collect the tax which the pre sent bill levies the national revenue will be greatly in creased, and sufficient to meet all demands. No immediate change is probable in the financial policy of the Govern ment. Should Mr. Johnson stay in the White 11011.40, it is not likely that Mr. M'Culloch will leave the Treasury De partment, and should A. J. be compelled to retire Mr. M'Oulloch has strong friends in the Senate who will urge his retention in the Wade Cabinet. And if merit is the requisite for the appointment, Mr. M'Culloch's chances are quite as good as those of any of the numerous gentle men who have been named as his successors. The stock market is flat, stale, and extremely unprofi`- able to those who depend on it for their daily living. The prices of all kinds of stocks are 19w, and seem to have settled into a sort of dull stagnation, with little prospect of revival. Pending the decision of Impeachment, both bulls and bears have declared a sort of truce, and speculation is at reat for the next few days. The Ede quarrel is in its last stages of dissolution, and now has hardly coherence enough to be recognized. The lawyers and judges are en gaged in arguing and hearing motions, which result prin cipally in postponement or reserved decisions, and the last degree of interest in the affair is rapidly passing away. The general aspect of the railroad business of the country this spring is encouraging, and most of the roads show a decided increase in their earnings. The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad earned $774,103 during April, and expended $426,554, and the Cleveland and Toledo earned $473,353, against $144,033 in April, 1867. Tho improving traffic of the road stimulates tie holders of their stock, and the bulls expect to realize largely when the season fairly opens. The Chicago and North-Western Railroad had, on the Ist of April, a sur plus of earnings since the last dividend on the preferred stock of $3,250,000, and a dividend will soon made both on the common and preferred stock. It is also said that the New York Central Road can make a balance-sheet showing its ability to pay 8 per cent. on a share capital, 30 per cent. above its pres.nt amount. The market fur steam ship and express shares has been depressed, like all the others, and marked chiefly by a total absence of all speculation. The dry goods market has been inactive, and cotton experienced quite a rapid and decisive fall during the first part of the week, which it has partially recovered in the last day or two. The manufacturers are st►ll crying hard times, and production at a loss, and the m•enufactured goods show no disposition to rise with the raw article, In unbleache I co tons the transactions of the last week have been light, and prices have bean unsettled, but there is not likely to be any great accumulation of the goods, as the manufacturers are running more on lighter goods, or not running at all. The extreme backwardness of the season has had an unfavourable effect upon printed lawns and summer goods, but a few days of sunny, shining weather will greatly improve the demand and the market. Woollens are quiet, and with no change in rates, cassimeres and fancy satinets being in better demand than other varieties. The tone of the breadstuffs has been improved, and flour has been in more active demand at irregular prices. The low grades are decidedly lower, and the exports to Europe have been moderate. In the Cambridge and Brighton cattle markets there was a marked falling off in the receipts of cattle, and prices advanced SI per hundred. Sheep were more numer ous, but last week's prices were fully sustained. BREADSTUFF'S AND PROVISION& At Bost3n, flour dull, but prices quite firm, sales of wes tern superfine at $9 25 to 9 75, common extras $lO 25 to 11, medium $ll to 12, good and choice $l3 to 14 75, Illi nois and southern Ohio $l3 50 to $l5 50, choice St. Louis $l5 to 16 75, corn meal $5 75.t0 6, rye flour $9 75, corn western and southern yellow $1 20 to 1 28, western mixed $1 20 to 1 24, white $1 15 to 1 20, oats 95e to $l, rye 1 20, shorts $l3, flue fend $l3 to 44, middling $44 to 46, hay $l7 to 21, pork dull and prices easy, prime $23 to $24, mess $2B 50 to 29, clear $3O to 32, beef mess $2l to 23, extra $24 to 25, family $26 to 27 50 ; lard 191 to 201 c ; hams 191 to 20c ; butter tending downwards, old 25 to 30c, New York and Vermont dairies 40 to 44c, cheese 10 to 17c, white beans $5 25 to 5 75, Canada $1 60 to 1 90, potatoes $1 . 50 to 1 65, eggs 23 to 25e. At New York flour, state and Western, irregular and unsettled with rather more doing for export, superfine $4O to 9 25, extra $9 6 to 10 50, round hoop Ohio $9 80 to 13 GO, extra western $9 50 to 10 50, white wheat extra $ll 75 to 13 25, southern without change, California $l l 80 to 23 75, wheat firm, with sales of Chicago spring No. 2 at $2 27 to 2 38, No. 1 82 46 to 2 48, corn heavy and a shade easier, with sales of mixed western at $1 16k to 1 18, oats opened firmer, but closed dull and drooping, with sales of western at 87/ to 881 c, beef steady, pork dull, with sales new mess at $2B 87 to 28 50, lard a shade firmer with sales at 18/ 19c, butter quiet, Ohio 30 to 37c, state 36 to 40c, whisky quiet, cotton moderatively active, with sales k to lc better, middling uplands 30k to 31c, rice steady at 101 to 114 c for Carolina, sugar firm, with sales of musco do at 11/ to 13c, coffee steady, molasses firmer, navalstores quiet, oils quiet, petroleum firm, crude 13k to 14c, refined bonded 30c4 NEW YORK RA.TES OF EXCHANGE, May Isth, 1868. Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lO9l-1101 Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 361-36-1 Frankfort, 0 M 4q-41.* Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.161 5.121 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss 5.161 —5J2f (From the Wall-street Journal) NEW You; Friday Evening, May 15. The following were the closing quotations this evening for the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks : Cleveland and Toledo 105} Fort Wayne Pacific Mail 9l Atlantic Mail 3O Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 291 Boston Water Po wer 2Ol. Cumberland N. Y. Central 127 Erie 684 Hudson Reading Mich. South. &N. I B5l Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B3f North-West North-West Preferred 77 Canton so+ Rock I-land The following for the New York City Bank Stocks :--• Merchants America Butchers and Drovers 125 Broadway , City Now York Manhattan _ _ Mechanics' 127 People's Union Phenix lO6l Nassau lO7 Tradesmen's Gallatin Na.ional Merchants' Exchange 114 Continental lO3 Seventh Ward State of New York ... 112 Commonwealth ll2 Commerce Ocean lO5l Central National American Exchange... 118 E Fourth National .. 106 Bank of the Republic... 117 Ninth National lO9 Bank of North America 109 Park 145 Eleventh Ward ........ 105 Leather Manufacturers' ••• Mercantile Fulton 153 Tenth National First National 2031 East River New York County 145 Pacific l 6O Marine 145 Chatham 147 ----------------- Railroad Stocks are far from active, the leadiug stock 6 being under the control of cliques, of whom the Street hag a wholesome dread. Miscellaneous Stocks are weak, and the business is most 4.9 confined to Pacific Mail, Canton, and Quicksilver. _ Mining Stocks continue very slow, and the variations in price aro unworthy of notice. Petroleum Stocks are steady, and a fair business is doing, with special inquiry for low-priced stocks. _ Empress Stocks are heavy, and are offered in large blocl• We quote : Adams American Uuited Sta'es Wells, Fargo, and Co 22 to 221 Merchants' Union, 35 per cent. 2B/ to 28j The following notice, in regard to the conversion of Compound Interest Notes, will be read with interest :-- WASHINGTON, May 11, 1868. Notice is hereby given that all compound interest note° intended for conversion into three per cent. temporal, loan certificates must e ith er b e presen t e d t o th e A ss istant Treasurer at New York, who has the full charge and cow trol of the issue of such certificates, or to the Treasurer of the United States at Waehington, who will issue coil" ficates, which, on presentation at the office of the Assistant Treasurer at New York, will entitle the holder to receiv e such certificates in exchange. Compound interest note intended for redemption in lawful money must be for: warded to the Treasurer of the United States for that purpose. M'CuLtocir, Secretary of the Treasury The following are the quotations for Compound Interest Notes : May, 1865 119; to 1191 August, 1865.... llBl to 118} September, 1865 ll7l to 118 October, 1863 ll7l to .1171 Gold is firm, and has scarcely varied to-day, havil opened at 1391, thence falling to 1391, and closing at 13' American silver is selling at 51 to 61 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are still quoted at 1031 t 4 1031 in gold. Births. BIDDULPH—On the 31st ult., the wife of Michael BiddulPl4 Esq., ALP., of a daughter. • CAVENDISH—On the 31st ult., at Devonshire House, 1 1° ' cadilly, Lady Edward Cavendish, of a son. t he CANE - On the 30th ult., at Exeter House, Roshamptuo, wife of Richard Du Cane, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. HUDSWELL—LLOYD —On the 30th ult., at St. Westminster, Wm. Shillito, only son of W. Iludsiv e l i Esq., of Springfield Lodge, Leeds, to Eleanor, daughter of the late John Lloyd, of Poland-street , ford-street. PAIGE —RORISSON—On the 28th ult., at KingslandCo n s gational Church, Kingsland, William Paige, of s° l „te lioltou, Devon, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the - W. G. Robinson; of Stoke Newingtcn. Deaths. L• O. BIDWELL— On the 30th ult., at Thetford, Norfolk, •-• Bidwell, Esq., aged 86. BURGESS—On the Ist inst., Mr. J. Burgess, of A r al li°l43' Surrey, aged 85. COVEY—On the 30th ult., at East Grinstead, Geo. c° l4' aged 60. OA PENNINGTON—On the 30th ult.. at 19, Green-par', Ba Edward Pennington, Esq., aged 74. r NOW SPEED—On the 31st ult., Mr. James B. Speed, street, Covent-garden, aged 77. ; lafor d ' VIDLER—On the • 30th ult., at M erro w, near Gil - Finch Vidler, Esq., aged 82. .. soe London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AND S' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tim SUN OX ~ Ce, r ol Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COO' Xiddleso..—Twaday, Juno 2 3 1868. 1 AU 07,];