The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OPPTES PITIMIC :mums, The Times, which has been day after day declaring that the debate on the Irish question is mere talk, and can end in nothing practical, now " the talk " is over, tells its readers that the discussion has been unexpectedly justified by the manifest influence it has had on Mr. Gladstone's mind, and the declaration it has elicited from him. The sudden ripening of his /opinion must plainly carry with it the support of a large number, if not the whole, of those who have been connected with him by party ties. It is not too much to say that the sound has accordingly gone forth for the destruction of the Irish Establishment, how ever its disendowment may be delayed. "The last relic of evil days " is not merely doomed ;it is marked to fall. The badge of sufferance, which the inhabitants of Ireland bore as long as the revenues of the Church were devoted to the support of a creed rejected by an overwhelming majority of the people, must soon be removed. It is in vain to pretend with Mr. Disraeli that the question of all endowments is at issue because it is decided that the devotion of public property to the use of a small section of a people is condemned. We do not, how ever, wish to conceal the truth that there are difficulties to be encountered in disendowment. The Irish Church is strong with the strength of three hundred years, and though it has utterly failed to take root throughout the land, the most vigorous and energetic section of the Irish population is sincerly devoted to it. The mere financial and, so to speak, mechanical difficulties of disendowment are not to be despised, and even if these stood alone it would be too much to expect that the present Parliament would surmount them. But the attitude of the Liberal party is henceforth clear. The mind and conscience of England have been aroused. Among the first acts of that new assembly to which the destinies of the nation are to be soon committed must be the removal of the fruitful spring of hereditary resentment which has existed in the maintenance, through English supremacy and the force of English will, of an " alien Church " in the sister island. One of the advantages derivable from this debate was, the Post declares, the opportunity it afforded to the Government of correcting the fatal error they committed in supposing that the settlement of the Irish question might be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Gladstone (whose clear and unequivocal declaration of policy with regard to the Irish Church was received with acclamation by his followers) in express terms challenged the Prime Minister to do so, but, unfortunately as we believe for his Adminis tration, his hands were tied, and he refused to raise them against the Irish Church. Mr. Disraeli formally declared himself pledged to the system of endowment, and on the issue thus raised we may expect that at an early date the opinion of the House of Commons will be demanded by some member of the Liberal party. Mr. Disraeli's philosophy of religious endowments is, observes the Daily News, a curiosity of speculation, which may excite wonder, but will scarcely repay examination. Those may smile who are not revolted at hearing the statesman who has divorced politics from morality solemnly talking about the necessity of associating politics with religion. The peculiarity of Ireland is, that even if the principle of a State Church be sound, the conditions of its legitimacy do not exist there. A Protestant esta blishment in a Roman Catholic countryrevolts the common sense of justice and morality. A Roman Catholic establishment in the United Kingdom is incompatible at once with the feelings of the majority of the British people, and with that spiritual independence of secular Protestant authority of which the Roman Catholic hierarchy and laity are honourably jealous. The situation of Ireland is, therefore, unique. The Government have practically put the issue of endowment or disestablishment in Irelancl, before the present Parliament, and Mr. Gladstone has wisely taken provision that the question shall be explicitly, put and openly decided. Mr. Gladstone's speech, the Herald declares, displayed the same spirit which has pervaded his entire course since the change of Government placed him at the head of the Opposition ; the same policy or absence of policy which has marked the dealings of his party, whether in or out of office, with Irish affairs. A considerable part of it was vague, declamatory, and devoid of point to a degree unex ampled even in this incoherent and wide-ranging debate. He said much that will not bear close examination, much that was more worthy of a demagogue than of a states. man ; but his sense of responsibility, though it did not prevent his exciting hopes that he knew could never be gratified, and speaking almost with approval of so wild and wicked a project as Mr. Mill's, did restrain him from uttering pledges that he might l e called upon to redeem. Mr. Disraeli's speech, on the other hand, was worthy of e t great occasion and a great position, and commanded the respect of the House and the entire sympathy of the Con. servative party. It was a fitting reply to Mr. Gladstone's challenge, and a becoming conclusion to a debate which, for importance, for eloquence, for the great interests involved, and the great consequences which may follow it, has seldom been surpassed and not often equalled in the annals of the British Parliament. The Irish policy of the Government, exclaims the Standard, finds its conclusive vindication in the speeches of its critics. Although nearly every member of the Oppo sition who has spoken has professed to believe that nothing would be easier than to satisfy the Irish people and get rid of the Irish difficulty, and much disappointment has been expressed that the Government did not deal boldly with the subject, there is such a hopeless contradiction between the remedies which the different doctors suggest as the right ones and blame the Government for not applying, that no sensible man will doubt that the proposal to deal cautiously and tentatively with these vexed questions, pending further inquiry, is the proper policy for the time, and indeed the only one to which Parliament would give its sanction. The whole Opposition can unite in com plaining of the inadequacy of the Government proposals, but it is utterly unable to present itself, as a body, any programme. Neither religious equality nor the amendment of the land tenure would, say the Tories, destroy Fenianism, since the Fenians are utterly indifferent to religion of every kind, and aim, not at fixity of tenure, but at the confiscation of all the landed property, and the creation of a Socialistic Republic. True, replies the Telegraph ; and if Ireland were peopled with Fenians, if every priest were a preacher of Fenianism, if every cottier were ready to become a Fenian soldier, it might not be worth our while to agitate for religious equality. But, as Mr. Monsell, Mr. Gregory, and every other speaker who knows the country has testified, the mass of the people are not Fenians. They aim at no such revolutionary measures as those proposed by Stephens and Mitchell, and they would b 3 contented with the reforms which may actually be carried in the House of Commons. Cease to insult them with the spectacle of an alien Church Establishment, give them security of tenure, and before many years have g.)ne by Ireland will be A contented country. Mr. GlaOstone's speech on the Irish question meets, in the opinion of the Star, the expectations of this country, and will raise the deeply-sunk hopes of that sister-land for whose happiness England has made herself responsible. Severely condemning the Government for altogether fail ing to perceive the grave crisis which impends, he has carried to the arbitration of the world the spirit and the details of our government of Ireland, and provoked that early and provident fear, which Burke declared to be the mother of security, to save us from the disgrace and peril of continued Irish insubordination. It was impossible to hear, and it will be impossible to read, Mr. Gladstone's able speech without perceiving in it the necessity that " the great contention in which we seem to be engaged" should be promptly carried to an issue. And we believe it will be generally felt that the fight can be well fought, and may be well won, under the command of a statesman more thoroughly possessed than any Minister has been since Sir Robert Peel destroyed the corn laws with the high moral obligations cast by a great national exigency on those responsible for its destinies. The four baronets about to be elevated to the Uppe House are doubtless, says the Times, unexceptionable nominees for the peerage ; but the same might be said of two or three score Commoners who are to be found on the Conservative benches. Without, however, questioning any individual elevation, it may not be out of place to ast what limit the chiefs of parties propose to set to the number of new creations. It is rumoured, and probably not without truth, that these peerages will be followed in a short time by another batch. Such peer-making as we have had of late has probably never been witnessed, except at the Irish Union, when there was an obvious reason for it. It will be seen by reference to the " Peerage" that since the beginning of 1866 not less than twenty new British peers have been made—a - viscount and nineteen barons. The rate of increase is extraordinary, and, if it continues, must very much modify the character of the House. And yet, strange to say, with all this increase of numbers there is little increase of attendance. If we saw in new creations a reinforcement of ability and diligence to the House rather than a reward of past services we should look upon them with greater satisfaction, even though they might seem to cheapen the honours of the State. EARL CATHCART.—The state of health of this noble lord during the past year has been so unsatisfactory that he has been most unwillingly compelled to resign the office of chairman of the Quarter Sessions of the North Riding, which he has so ably filled for ten years past. THE MURDER IN SOMERSETSHIRE.—An inquest on the boy named Wilkins, who was murdered at Wins. combe, has been held, when the prisoner's confession was amply substantiated. Medical evidence showed that, .although the prisoner was of weak intellect, he was a re• eponsible being and accountable for his actions. A verdict Of wilful xlaWSler against Holmes we roturneds SUICIDE AT BRIGHTON. An inquest has been held at Preston, near Brighton, respecting the death of Mr. Hew Calabron Dalrymple, who was reported to have committed suicide by shooting himself on Saturday evening. The first witness was Mr. Francis Barchard, of Horsted-place, Sussex. He said that deceased was nearly 20 years of age, and that he last saw him alive at hishouse at about a quarter-past eleven o'clock on Saturday evening.. The deceas e was then in a very excited state. He had had a quarrelwith a lady, and she refused to "make it up." This quarrel happened on Thursday, and from that time to Saturday deceased was very excited ; he gave way:to paroxysms of grief, and sobbed as if he was in very great distress. This witness also stated that the deceased had suffered from water on the brain, and also from an attack of paralysis. The physicians had told him that the paralytic attacks would recur, and the wit ness believed that the knowledge of this preyed on the mind of the deceased. When he arrived at the house of witness on Saturday, the deceased expected to find that the quarrel with the lady had been " made up." He was, however, disappointed. Witness was not aware that the deceased had a revolver with him. The Rev. H. H. Wyatt, at whose educational establishment the deceased had been staying, said that he bad appeared to be In a very depressed state of late. When he returned to school, about a year ago, the deceased had a revolver with him, and his mother wrote to witness asking him to look after it. On Friday witness went into deceased's bedroom, and found him on his knees, with his head on the bed. He was sobbing violently. Witness mentioned the lady's name, and asked if the grief was about her. The deceased intimated that it was. Evidence was given of the finding of the body. It was lying on a bank, with an overcoat folded and placed under the head. The collar had been taken off the neck, which was bared. Evidence was also given of the nature of the wounds. A verdict was returned to the effect that the deceased had committed suicide whilst he was temporarily insane. THE ASSIZES IN IRELAND. The Irish assizes are rapidly drawing to a close. One circuit, the North-east, has been concluded, and the judges have reached the last towns on the other circuits. All the interest of the assizes is now centred in Cork, where some Fenian charges which appear in the calendar are still to be disposed of. Daniel Dineen, a young man about 26 years of age, who is described as rather prepossessing and intelligent-looking, was indicted for having on the 11th of February discharged a loaded revolver at James Flanagan, a constable. The facts have been recently recorded. The prosecutor, in company with another constable, met the prisoner, and, suspecting that he had arms in his possession, proceeded to search him. While they were so engaged he pulled a revolver out of his breast pocket, and when pressed to deliver it up under the threat of being fired upon if he did not, he exclaimed " There it is for you," and discharged it at Flanagan, who, with his comrade, fired in return. One of the bullets struck the prisoner on the nose, which it was at first supposed was blown off, but on subsequent exami nation it was found that the wound was not dan gerous. It was sufficient, however, to furnish unim peachable evidence of his identity. Yielding to the impulse of humanity and good nature which succeeded the excitement of the brief encounter, the constables hurried off to the nearest infirmary to procure medical assistance, but on coming back to the spot where they had left their fallen foe they could find no trace of him. He had been carried mysteriously off the field, and it was only after a long and patient search that he was found secreted in a house in the neighbourhood. The pri soner's counsel took an adventurous course, tontend ing that the story of the constables as to the prisoner's firing at them wa.s - mythical, and that they had acted rashly and recklessly in firing at him. Counsel for the Crown was proceeding to reply, when in the course of his address one of the jury began bleeding at his nose; not, however, from any sympathy with the prisoner, but, as appeared from the evidence of a medical gentleman, from the excitement of the case, the juror being of full habit. Judge O'Hagan, having consulted counsel on both sides, discharged the jury. " Captain" Mackay has been put forward to answer the indictment for treason-felony, but his attorney applied for a postponement of the case, basing the application upon an affidavit which stated that, in order to refute the evidence of Corydon the in former, who had made informations against him, it would be necessary to examine the governors of Mountjoy and Kilmainham prisons, as well as Godfrey Massey and Mul. vany, who is now awaiting his trial in London. He added that he foresaw his fate, and was fully prepared to meet it, but he wished the whole truth to be known, and to dis prove the intimate relation which Corydon in his last information claimed to have with him. The court allowed the motion to stand over. LAW AND POLICE. THE EXPRESSION OF THE WILL 05' THE SHAREHOLDERS. li —ln the matter of the London Flour Company the Lords Justices have reversed the decision of Vice-Chancellor 1 Stuart. The point involved is of some importance. At one of the meetings of the company a resolution was passed for voluntary winding up, with only one dissentient creditor. This resolution was confirmed by a meet ing held in October 1866. Notwithstanding this, a canvass was made of the shareholders, and a petition pre sented for compulsory winding up. This petition was granted by Vice-Chancellor Stuart, and the liquidator, supported by half at least of the shareholders, appealed. The Lords Justices thought that the expression of opinion of the shareholders ought to have been made at the meet ing ; not having succeeded at the meeting, they ought never to have presented the petition. It must be dis rsissed with costs. THE WILL OF THE SISTER OF THE LATE JUDGE OF THE PROBATE COURT.—A case is before Vice-Chancellor Giffard which raises various questions of construction upon the will and testamentary papers executed by the late Miss Cresswell (sister of Sir Cresswell Cresswell). The will, dated the 6th December, 1859, contained various pecu niary legacies, and also a bequest of £l,OOO Consols to be expended in building a parsonage in connection with the church of Holy Trinity, Brompton, one question being whether the consecrated burial-ground of this church, now closed by Act of Parliament, could be used as a site for building the parsonage without violating the provisions of the Burial Acts and those of the Statute of Mortmain. On the 30th of December, 1865, Miss Cresswell, who was then on her deathbed, executed. what purported to be a testamentary instrument contained in two sheets and a half of note-paper, marked A, B, and C. These papers, which were referred to in the executing clause as "a true codicil to my will," contained various legacies to the per sons named as legatees in the original will, in some instances of the same amount. There was also a gift of the residue, which was wanting in the original will, and a gift of £2OO "to Brompton Church, to be disposed of as Dr. Irons wishes," and of £2OO to the Rev. Dr. Irons, whose wife was one of the attesting witnesses. Miss Cresswell had not allowed the intervention of a solicitor in the prepara tion of her will. The result is this suit. The case is not yet concluded. THE MURDER NEAR LUTON.—Of the three men charged with the Luton murder, and committed for trial on the in dictment, the grand jury at the Bedford Assizes ignored the bill against James Day, and no evidence being offend against Levi Welch, he was acquitted by the ordinary jury. William Worsley, however, was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. The murder was committed about twelve o'clock, and Worsley appears to have de prived the deceased of his life while Welch abstracted the money in his pockets. Welch having been acquitted of murder, was found guilty of robbery, and sentenced by Mr. Baron Bramwell to fourteen years' penal servitude. A SINGULAR CASE.—In the Irish Record Court a sin gular case has been tried. A shoemaker, named Howe, who resides in Mallow, went to Queenstown with his wife to see off his brother, mother, and three sisters, who were emigrating to New York, in the City of Antwerp, one of the Inman steamers, in November last. He lingered so long on board taking farewell of his relatives that the tender which should have brought him ashore went off without him, and he found the vessel irrevocably under way, and himself and wife in voluntary emigrants, with the prospect of a month's voyage for which he had made no provision. He ap pealed in vain, when too late, to the captain and crew to put him ashore, and was obliged to complete the voyage, with the additional mortification of being charged as a " stowaway " by the tars on board, who, in answer to his appeals, as he alleged, committed him to very uncomfortable quarters. After some difficulty at New York he got back, and on his return found his business, as he stated, considerably injured, and then brought the action for false imprison ment and detention. For the defence evidence was given that repeated signals were given to warn the persons on board that the steamer was about to start, but that they were disregarded by the plaintiff. Baron Deasy, in charging the jury, said he thought no blame was attribu table to the officers of the company. The jury found for the defendant on all the issues. Gross OUTRAGE ON A DIRECTOR.—A Mr. John Hill, a bcoemenmiesshiaornged at agent, and le G‘ llussirdhall asAl t i v p i o th rt, a h s i s s au c l l t e i r n k g , lr have i. Edward Yelland, the director of the Penryn Granite and the Provincial Union Assurance Companies. The prose cutor having brought an action against Mr. Hill, that gen tleman proceeded to his (prosecutor's) offices, and, in com pany with his clerk, said they had come "to punch Mr. Yelland's head." Raving obtained audience, they locked Mr. Yelland's door, and assaulted him with such severity that he was now unable to leave his house.—Mr. Alderman 1 Lawrence remanded the prisoner for medical evidence and the attendance of the prosecutor. He refused bail. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1868. THE OXFORD ADDRESS TO THE ARCH BISHOP OF CANTERBURY. (From the Pall-Mall Gazette.) There is something very remarkable in the extraordinary earnestness with which the heads of the Conservative party at Oxford pour out their lamentations before the Archbishop of Canterbury, and we cannot say that from their point of view they are wrong in feeling as they do, though we think it of the utmost import ance that the public should precisely under stand the nature and origin of their feelings, in order that they may be able to judge how far legislation is to be guided by them. The substance of their complaint may be stated very shortly. As matters stand at present, Dissenters can take a bachelor's degree, but the M.A. degree is reserved for those who will sign a " declaration of assent to the Thirty-nine Articles," and all heads of houses, fellows, tutors, and chaplains are bound by the Act of Uniformity to be members of the Church of England. There is a bill before Parliament by which it is proposed to allow persons to become members of Convocation and fellows of colleges without complying with any test at all as to their religious belief. This the persons who sign the address denounce as an attack upon all that they hold most sacred. "We can not represent too strongly to your Grace that this is no common contest—no party question; it is not even a question between the Church and Dissent. The battle is for Christian faith and morals ; it is for our very life. On be half of our Church and our country, on behalf of the souls of the youth of this hitherto Chris tian nation, we solemnly, as in the presence of Almighty God, implore your Grace and our Christian brethren everywhere to strive with us to maintain in our university and our col leges the principle of Christian education which has been handed down to us through so many centuries, and which, if once destroyed, it will be impossible to restore." This is accompa nied by the assertion that the proposed mea sure will produce " the overthrow of a de finite creed and of a common form of prayer," whereby " the very basis of a Christian edu cation will disappear from among us. While the intellect at the most critical period of life, and in an age of great and increasing excite ment, will be highly stimulated, the conscience will be injured by the exhibition in the very home of education either of a bitter conflict on first principles or of a lax and careless indiffe rentism." These passionate appeals are drawn forth by a proposal which simply removes a dis qualifying,- test, and leaves all their existing power in the hands of the persons who sign the address, and of others whom they not unfairly represent. It is not proposed to take away a single endowment of any Professor of theology, or to interfere in the smallest degree with the education given in the university or in any one of its colleges, or to vary in the most trifling particular the powers under which the elections of fellows take place, or to lay a finger upon the course of instruction given and the forms of worship used at Oxford. All that is proposed is to remove an artificial test, and what is to be the consequence ? Either " a bitter conflict on first principles," or a " lax and careless indifferentism." The Chris tian education of Oxford, the " definite creed" which is taught by Dr. Pusey and Mr. Jowett, and which was taught by Mr. Mansel and Mr. Goldwin Smith, and by many other persons of equally harmonious views, is not, it appears, the expression of the mature general consent of the thinking part of the nation, but is an artificial accidental unity created and preserved entirely by tests which alone prevent us from witnessing in the very home of education an internecine conflict of first principles. Be it so ; let us accept the statement of those who certainly ought to know best, and let us calmly consider the consequences. In the first place there is no doubt at all as to what the memorialists fear. It is "a bitter conflict on first principles." In plainer words, in the absence of " legal obligation" to " pro fess" some " Christian doctrine" many of the persons who would be likely to become fellows of colleges or professors and members of Con vocation would cease to profess any, and would openly avow their doubts about Chris tianity. If the address does not mean this, it means nothing. Suppose, however, that it does mean this, what will follow ? It will follow that a bond fide doubt as to the truth of the fundamental doctrines of natural and revealed religion is so common and is held by men of so much intellectual eminence that the intru sion of such discussions into the University of Oxford, and the avowal of such views, un popular as they unquestionably are, are pre vented only by artificial means ; and this leads to the further questions whether it is wise to employ such means for such a purpose, and whether if such doubts do exist they may not very probably be well founded, and ought not at all events to be recognized ? These appear to us to be the most serious questions, and to deserve the earnest attention of the whole com munity. The proposal made by the persons signing the address comes in .a few words to this : Whereas the truth of Christianity is greatly doubted by many persons and would be fully discussed if the university were thrown open, let us by all manner of means keep it closed. Though the question has been asked a thousand times, we cannot help asking once more whether it is possible to found such a proposal upon any other principle than that it is not only desirable that Christianity should be believed whether it is true or false, but that the educa tion given to the young should be so contrived as,r,if :'possible, to prevent them from knowing that anybody doubts it? To us it appears very difficult to imagine anything so petty and so immoral as these propositions. The education received by the young ought to be a prepara tion for life. They should be made acquainted in general with the nature of the world in which they are to live, and of the society to which they are to belong. It is the boast—not a very well-founded boast to be sure—but still it is the boast of our public schools and univer sities, that they are so many microcosms, so many small editions of the great world upon which their pupils are in due time to play their respective parts. Surely they ought to repre sent the world fairly, or at the very least not altogether unfairly and untruly. They ought not to cause them to believe that things are universally accepted, which, in fact, are denied in good faith by many persons, doubted by many more, and acquiesced in with hardly any intelligence at all by a large majority. It may be a very sad thing that the truth of the Chris tian religion should be doubted or denied by many persons of the class from which fellows of colleges and professors are taken, but as the fact is notoriously true, what is the use of con cealing it from students at the universities, or rather of supposing that you conceal it by taking measures for securing that the teachers shall all belong to the established creed? The attempt is sure to be a failure as to the students who have any sort of curiosity upon such sub jects, and in such cases the failure produces a sense of injury, distrust, and violent and per manent dissatisfaction with the existing state of things which often determines the course of a man's feelings through life. Oxford has been a mother of heresies as well as of orthodoxy for a great length of time, and Oxford Liberalism has been far more violent and revolutionary than that of Cambridge, principally because the general tone and management of the sys tem has been more severely and decisively orthodox. Almost all the most revolutionary and startling speculations, religious and poli tical, of the present day have proceeded from Oxford men. Oxlord, indeed, has done much More towards the corruption (if so it is to be called) of the University of London than the University of London towards the corruption of Oxford. Let us, however, suppose that the attempt is successful, as no doubt it is in many cases. Is the success thus obtained matter of exultation ? It consists simply in giving a set of youths at the only period of their lives in which they are open to intellectual impressions an incurable and perfectly irrational prejudice in favour of their own religious opinions, a pre judice which it is extremely difficult to cor rect at any later pericid of their lives, and which can be produced only by keeping concealed from them an undoubted and most important fact—the fact, namely, that the creed which their teachers honestly believe to be true is honestly believed to be false by many other people of the same class and equally well in formed. If it were possible to carry out this system to the full extent of persecution, it would be intelligible ; but as matters actually stand, all that can be done and all that is done is to have a number of small bigoted and mutually exclusive systems of education, each repelling all the rest and founded on its own narrow theory, instead of one large national system recognizing the broad fact that men do in point of fact differ endlessly on theological questions, whilst theyhave never theless so very much in common that they form communities which do as a fact discharge the highest moral functions with very consider able success. Why devise tests which can have no other object than that of concealing from young men just entering upon life two of the very most important lessons which life has to teach them, the lesson, namely, that it is possible for people who differ upon all sorts of religious subjects to act together upon moral, social, and political subjects, and the further lesson that there are bona fide differences on religious quektions arising from the natural difficulties of the subject ? of the seventeen Reports of Sir John Gray's Irish Church Commission. We hope that when publishing them in a collected form, the honourable member for Kilkenny will sup plement them bya, Report of the sums spent by the Kildare-street Society and all subse quent Protestant Societies, in silly and mis chievous efforts to rob poor Irish Catholics of their only treasure here, and hope of happi ness hereafter—their old, pure, heart-treasured faith.—Westminster Gazette THE IMPEACHMENT QUESTION. -e=-- For many hours after the PRESIDENT'S attempt to eject STANTON the danger of a civil war hung over the United States. The step involved a fear ful responsibility, one that nothing could justify but the necessity, in ANDREW JOHNSON'S OWII words, of " saving the life of the nation." Hap pily he refrained from forcibly removing the War Office Incumbent, which might have led to blood shed, and precipitated an event which all mode rate men have strained every nerve to avert. Time has been given to the nation deliberately to weigh the merits of the case, and the result is an emphatic condemnation of the PRESIDENT'S infraction of the law, and the hasty and inconsiderate act which momentarily threatened consequences so awful. We were deceived by the Cable news into the im pression that Mr. JOHNSON had only nominated THOMAS EWING, an old statesman of the highest character, as Secretary of War, but we had not been told that, pending the sanction of the Senate, he had ordered Adjutant-General LORENZO THOMAS to act ad interim and to seize the office. The crime of the PRESIDENT iS not the nomination of THOMAS EWING, but the attempt to eject a Cabinet Minister, filling the place by a creature of his own while the Senate was in session, regardless of the Tenure-of-Office Act, whose provisions it infringed. His course has been defended by attacking the law he broke. That law has been pronounced to be vicious, aimed at the PRESIDENT, and intended only as a check to AN DREW JOHNSON ; therefore au exceptional piece of legislation, which few men can approve, being passed for special political ends, and to annoy and trammel the head of the Executive—in one word, this bill is generally believed to be unconstitutional. But, presuming it to be so—granting that it was spitefully directed at ANDREW JOHNSON—this does not alter the circumstances. It became the law of the United States when passed over the PRESIDENT'S Veto by the required Congressional majority until declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a bona fide case. ANDREW JOHN SON is not that court, and has no more right to assume to himself its functions than any other United States officer. If Mr. JOHNSON'S defence, that he and those he consulted considered the law to be unconstitutional, stands, it must break down the Government of the United States. Every Executive officer employed to carry into effect the laws, would then be justified in deciding on the legality of those laws, and selecting those only to execute which suited him. The Constitution does not protect the Executive against the legal consequences of en forcing an unconstitutional Act, which it ought to do; but the fact is thoroughly well known, and one of which every candidate is aware before he applies for office. With his post he assumes au ascertained risk, and if he finds he has miscalculated that risk, he has a remedy, for he can resign. Now, this is the clear position of the PRESIDENT, and the law being in force, be had not only no right to infringe it, but no right even to pronounce it to be unconsti tutional, a gross impropriety in an officer bound to execute that very law to the extent of his ability. We are aware that Mr. JOHNSON, in the face of this Act, was placed in great embarrassment. lie knew it was aimed at him ; he believed it to be unconstitu tional, yet he had no means of testing this before the Supreme Court without risk of Impeachment. To get a quo warranto he must remove the Secretary ; this involved Impeachment, and that, the trial of the question before the Court which made the law. The position was unfortunate, but a man who un dertakes to fight a powerful enemy, who will listen to no terms of compromise, who insists on carrying on the battle to the bitter end, must be prepared for hard blows. Mr. JOHNSON'S main defence will rest on the assertion that he did not infringe the Act. A clause provides that the Cabinet officers shall hold their places (except by advice and consent of the Senate), for, and during the term of .the PRESIDENT by whom they may have been appointed. Now, Mr. JOHNSON did not appoint STANTON, and he alleges the fact that the Secretary was appointed by his predecessor, Mr. LINCOLN, as conclusive proof that the rae does not affect him. The question, however, arises, What is Mr. JOHNSON'S position in the eye of the law ? He is the Vice- President of the United States, performing the duties of President, during the second Executive term of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ending March 4,1869. If this be so, the law will regard the act of the Pre sident, whether ABRAHAM LINCOLN Or ANDREW JOHNSON, who took up his duties, as identical, and thus include him within the clause. If BENJAMIN WADE succeeds, he also will be regarded by the law as President of the Senate, performing the duties of President of the United States during the remaining portion of the late Mr. LINCOLN'S second term. Such a defence, therefore, is not likely to stand, and the Message itself is clear proof that ANDREW JOHNSON intended to break the law, and many best able to judge consider that it was very ill advised in him to make such an admission. There was one chance only for ANDREW JOHNSON, and that has gone dead against him. Mr. BROOKS, of New York, declared that there were millions of the people who would never submit to the deposition of the PRESIDENT except by due process of impeachment. He said—" We have the physical power of the country with us ; the labour, the industry, the bone and muscle of the country are ours. The heroism of the country is ours. Four-fifths of the army of the United States is composed of the Democracy of the coun try ; and if you proceed to introduce politics into the army, the Democratic soldier will follow the Democratic instinct, and will stand by the consti tution and laws." Now, it was just possible that ANDREW JOHNSON might have been supported by the country. But what is the case ? On the 10th March the elections in the State of New Hampshire took place, giving ample time to prove the deli berate decision of the public on the merits of the question. It was doubtful which party would carry the State, and it was considered that the result would be the best test of public opinion. Mr. WALTER B. HARRIMAN, the Republican candidate, was on that day elected Governor, and the majority , of the successful candidates for seats in the Legisla ture belonged to the Republican party. It is quite clear that Congress carries the country with it, and that even the steady decline in the price of gold is indicative of the national sanction to the course it has taken. Yesterday ANDREW JOHNSON was to have appeared at the bar of the Senate. The ques tion will be argued by able counsel on both sides ; Mr. CHASE presiding. If the PRESIDENT fails to answer to the summons, or to appear in person, or by counsel, the trial will proceed, the plea being entered " Not Guilty." The Chamber will be open to the public, the final argument being given by two counsel on both sides, and closed by the prosecution. It will require a majority of two thirds to find the PRESIDENT guilty ; and if six Republicans act with the Democratic Senators, im peachment will be defeated. Those who desire to see the names and politics of the Senators should refer to the number of this newspaper issued on the 14th December, 1867, where the full table of the present Congress is given.—Anglo-American 7 imes. NAPOLEON THE GREAT AND GRENOBLE.--There is to be a festival at Grenoble to inaugurate a now eques trian statue of Napoleon tho First. This is to be con ducted by M. Berlioz. his "Harold" Symphony, we per ceive, has made an irruption into the classical boundaries of the Gewaizdhaus Concerts at Leipzig. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--Ifolloway'sPills. — Wheu emerging from the winter and entering on spring it is a wise and wholesome precaution to purify and cool the system by some alterative competent to regulate disordered action and to strengthen while it cleanses. This long-sought medicine exists in Holloway's far-famed purifying and tonic pills, which cost only a trifle, and will ward off seri ous illnesses, which too frequently reduce competency to poverty, enjoyment to misery. This medicine, so innocent in its nature and so searching in its cperation, is Suitable for all ages and for both sexes. It is especially adapted for soldiers and sailors, and is an indispensable requisite for colonists and persons proceeding to foreign countries, where climates harass the constitution. AMERICAAr MARKET S. —o- - (From Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.) NEW YORK, Friday, Feb. 28, 1868, p.m. THE MONEY MARKET.—As the result of somewhat pro tracted shipments of currency to the West and the South, the money market has shown more firmness this week. At the beginning the banks very generally called in their 5 per cent. loans and put up the rate to G per cent. on stocks and 5 per cent. on Governments ; and the advance has been maintained up to the close, although to-day there has been less demand, and the market shows some symptoms of returning ease. The change in the condition of the market is not re markable considering the character of the last bank state ment. The deposits exhibit the very large decrease of $7,666,000. This is accounted for by the paying off $3,429,000 of loans and discounts, a reduction of $1,678,000 in specie, and a loss of $2,602,000 in legal tenders, the latter amount having chiefly gone out of the city, while a certain portion was taken into the Sub-Trea sury. It would appear that this somewhat active drain of the resources of the banks is now partially suspended ; it is to be expected, however, that the commercial demand will steadily increase, and it is therefore not probable that we shall see any early return of the late extreme ease. At present the merchants are wanting but little. There is a very moderate supply of really good paper on the market, although of second class there is more than buyers are dis posed to take. Prime names range at 6to 7 per cent. The following are the quotations for loans of various classes : Per cent. Per cent. Call loans 5 to 6 I Good endorsed bills Loans on bonds and 1 3 and 4 months 61 to 71 mortgages Prime endorsed I Lower grades ... 10 to 20 bills, 2 months 6to 61 UNITED STATES SECURlTlES.—Governments have been dull and weak throughout the week. There has been an unusual lack of buyers, and a large amount of bonds has been thrown upon the market from some source. The advance in the market rate of interest has, of course, checked the demand for securities for the employment of balances, and has to some extent induced the banks to sell while prices remained comparatively good. In the Euro pean markets, bonds have steadily followed the course of gold and the fluctuations in the New York market, until to-day, when the price fell to ?- per cent., said to be in consequence of news from the United States (we presume relative to yesterday's speech of Senator Sherman). Mail advices from Europe represent holders of Five-Twenties as very sensitive upon the question of paying the Five-Twenties in greenbacks, and it is to be ex pected that the strong stand taken by Mr. Sherman in favour of that course, together with the predominant sentiment in Congress on the question, will in crease that feeling. To-day there has been a somewhat unsettled feeling among home holders of Five-Twenties, in consequence of the position taken by Mr. Sherman, which fully confirms what before was merely inferred as to the purport of the Senate Funding Bill. There is, however, a very general misgiving as to whether Congress will ultimately pass any measure which virtually reduces the value of the bonds one-fifth; and perhaps the effect upon the market may be rather in the way of checking purchases than in frightening holders to sell. The bonds pay handsome interest, and the majority of bondholders will be likely to cling to them until it be comes more apparent what course Congress will take re specting them. _ The following table shows the aggregate transactions at the Treasury since Dec. i : Weeks Custom ,----Sub-Treasury---, Ending House. Payments. Receipts. Balances. Dec. 7 1,513,528 38.446,544 36,629,049 104,628,488 „14 1,077,723 7,618,195 8,612,314 105,652,607 „ 21 1,195,245 21,656,778 18,237,767 102,233,596 „28 1,057,759 8,301,206 10,317,156 101,249,546 Jan. 4 1,158,795 19,267,464 12,582,646 97,564,728 „11 1,633,802. 41,181,472 41,441,122 97,825,078 „ 18 1,532,133 11,094,740 18,437,114 105,167,453 Feb. 1 2.075,842 24,826,878 15,990,553 _93,698.120 8 .....• 2:65 . S C :911: 10:176:336 12,917,063 101,436,845 ~ 15 2,315,665 6,566,483 9,483.311 104,353,673 „22 An action has been raised against the Erie Com pany for 3,000,000 dollars of borrowed money. The effect of the suit was the opposite of what was anticipated ; and the parties who had expected to profit by an advance consequently became sellers. An enormous amount of stock was thus thrown upon the market, and the price fell from 78} to 64k, since which it has reached 681, and to-day closed at 68. Undar this con dition of affairs, a large " short" interest in the stock has been created, in behalf of which the market is systemati cally depressed. Under this unsettled condition of a stock which always leads the market nearly the entire list is sluggish. New York Central, Hudson River, and Cleve land and Toledo, however, are quite active and strong, apparently in consequence of movements of Mr Vander bilt's friends. The Commercial Advertiser makes the fol lowing statements relative to Erie affairs : "Upon inquiry at official sources, we learn that the Erie Company has found it necessary to borrow money for the payment of its March interest on the second and third Mortgage Bonds and the Sterling Convertible Bonds, and also for the purchase of rails, which it is said have suffered more than usual from the severity of the winter ; the total amount borrowed for these purposes exceed $1,000,000 ; the loan, however, is understood to be of only a temporary character. The project for building the new road connect ing Akron, on the Atlantic and Great Western, with the Michigan Southern Road, has been derided upon in good faith, and steps have been taken for pushing the work through with all expedition ; it is not certain, however, that it will bo found necessary for the Erie Company to guarantee the bonds of the road, an offer having been made to contract for the road without any such guarantee. "Neither of the pending suits against the treasurer of the company have as yet been withdrawn ; although, as it is generally supposed that they were inaugurated for speculative purposes, and have affected the stock in the reverse of the-direction expected, the prevailing opinion is that they will not be persevered in. Negotiations are pending between the Erie Company and Mr. Vanderbilt for effecting a permanent uniformity of freights and fares upon the Erie and New York Central routes ; and as matters now look there is some prospect of an arrange ment to that effect being consummated." The following were the closing quotations at the regu lar board, compared with those of the three preceding weeks : Feb. 7, '6B. Feb. 14. Feb. 21. Feb. 28. Cumberland Coal 361 •.• •.• Quicksilver Canton Co 6l 61 601 631 Mariposa Pref. New York Central l2Bl 1331 1291 124 Erie Hudson River Reading 941 94/ 92 1 - 931 Mich. Southern Michigan Central ... 114 ... ... Clev. and Pittsb. Clev. and Toledo ll2 1124 1081 1071 North Western ••• 601 59 60 7 , P re f e rred 741 741 7 9 _ 4 . 721 Rock island 9 i 1 961 Fort Wayne lO2l 102 1001 100/ Illinois Central 1 3 61 137 13 7 1- Ohio and Miss. 3 21 ... 321 31/ 30i COMMERCIAL EPITOME. NEW YORK, Friday Night, Feb. 28. The political events at Washington have had the effect to check, in a measure, tho demand for merchandise for consumption ; nevertheless, the past week has been fairly active in mercantile circles. Cotton has declined lie. during the week, and closed quiet at 22c. for Middling Uplands. Breadstuffs have been very irregular, and close unsettled. Tobacco quiet for the want of assortments, if we except a movement in manu factured. Groceries have been quiet, except coffee, in which the sales to-day were 30,000 bags Rio, closing at advance, to 13 to 171 c, gold, duty paid. Provisions have been active, and prices have generally advanced, but at the close hog products wore dull, and the buoyancy and firm tone of the past week or ten days less decided. This, however, is considered but a natural re action, after the rapid improvement which nearly all hog products have undergone ; and though the production may have been somewhat stimulated, hogs are coming forward too slowly to give hopes of any material addition to the supply, and but few hold to the opinion that the country contains more than enough stock to carry us through until the autumn packing commences. A few holders are willing to realize at about ruling rates, but the majority seem disposed to carry their stocks —on which money can be raised without difficulty—with a view to a further advance. The closing prices were $2l 62 for new mess pork, 16-1- to 16:: for prime lard, and 12c for Cumber land bacon. Beef has been firm, and butter and cheese have advanced with more activity. Naval stores have declined latterly, and spirits turpen tine closed at 69i to 70c., free, and common rosin $3 25 per bbl. Oils have generally improved ; prime northern crude whale selling to-day at 70c. Petroleum has reacted, and closed dull at 25 to 251 c for standard white iu bond. Crude sold at 16c in bbls for April. In wool the movement has been exceedingly active, and prices have improved. The sales in the three principal markets the past week or ten days are estimated at be tween five and six million pounds of fleece and pulled, and three or four million pounds of California and Texas. Manufacturers and dealers have bought freely, and prices at the close are two or three cents higher. Freights are dull and unsettled. Owners ask full rates, and shippers hold off. BREADSTUFF'S. The market has been inactive, and prices unsettled, but closes generally firm, with more export demand. Flour has arrived very sparingly from the West, in fact the receipts have seldom been smaller, and the demand continuing good for the lower grades, these have ruled firm; but in the medium and bettor grades, in which we must include most of the extra State brands, business has been dull, and prices drooping. Southern flour supplies have been relatively liberal, including lines of llowat d street staples, of which 3,000 bbls. were taken for Liver- pool to-day, at $9 25 to $9 50, but any grades over $lO not easily saleable. Wheat has ruled about steady. The export demand has been fair, taking from seven to twenty-five thousand bushels daily, thus working a considerable reduction of our small stock. As high as $2 58 has boon paid for choice Spring, but the bulk of the business has been at $2 50 to S 2 51 for good No. lin store. The business to-day was at 82 43 for No. 2 Spring. Some French orders appeared in our market to-day, but at prices below our quotations. Corn has arrived less freely, but with a considerable stock, and large quantities accessible by rail, and a decline in Liverpool, prices have given way slightly. Sales have for some days been mostly at S 1 24 to S 1 25 for new Mixed Western, 90. to 10d. freight to Liverpool, and gold 141 to 1411, but under a further decline in Liverpool prices to-day were lc. lower. Oats have been dull and heavy. Rye advanced mate rially, but closed weak and unsettled. Barley and barley malt have become nominal from scarcity. 2HE _IRISH CHURCH COMMISSION. The Irish Church Commission, issued in the month of September last by Sir John Gray, M.P., in the name of the Dublin Freeman's Journal, of which he is the principal proprietor, has this week published its seventeenth and concluding Report ; and, having carefully read these seventeen Reports in the order in which they appeared, a long and wearying previous acquaintance with blue books enables us to say that no Commission of Inquiry issued by the Crown in Ireland during the last sixty years has succeeded in collecting for the legislative guidance of Parliament an equal amount of such valuable information upon any one ques tion as these Reports embody respecting the origin, progress, and present condition of the Established Church in Ireland. Sixteen of these Reports are devoted to most accurately , describing the past and present state of Pro testantism, as by law established, in every diocese and archdiocese in Ireland, and the seventeenth investigates the religious, educa tional, and financial position of the Catholic Church wholly supported by the voluntary contributions of the faithful. The commissioner well and properly observes, in the beginning of his Report, that the voluntary support of religion by Catholics does not mean the same thing when spoken of them as it does in the case of Protestant Dissenters. The law of the land may exempt a Catholic from any civil pro cess compelling him to pay for the support of religion ; but no Parliamentary or State enact ment can relieve him from the duty of yielding obedience to that commandment of Holy Church which requires him to pay tithes to his lawful pastors. And hence in Ireland the payments made to parish priests and the secular clergy are called by the people dues ; while what is contributed towards the support of the seve ral Religious Orders, such as the Dominicans, Franciscans, Redemptorists and Marist Fathers goes by the name of offerings. The long per secution of the priesthood, while it had the effect of engendering in the hearts of the Irish people a hatred of the law of the land, in a cor responding ratio intensified their obedience to the law of the Church. Hence the overflow ing liberality with which, during the darkest days of persecution, they contributed to the support of their beloved clergy. Regarded from a mere wordly point of view, few things are more wonderful than the pro gress made by the Catholic Church in Ireland during the last hundred years. When George 111. ascended the throne Irish Catholics were only emerging from a state of serfdom. From the accession of Elizabeth till the death of the Second George all the power of England, as far as it could be exerted in and over Ire land, was devoted to the otter extirpation of the Catholic religion. There are men now liv ing who remember when Catholic priests in some districts in the north of Ireland travelled from place to place dressed as farmers to escape being insulted or worse, on account of their religion and sacred profession. There was then hardly any edifices in the land worthy of the name of convents, churches, or schools. Now, according to the Report of the Freeman's Journal commissioner, there are in Ireland 1,842 churches, 218 convents, 41 colleges and seminaries, 44 hospitals and asylums, 600 paro chial houses for priests, 2,290 non-vested Catholic schoolhouses, and 70 establishments of Christian Brothers, all erected since the year 1800, at a cost of not less than £5,690,995. What progress to make in sixty-seven years ! In spite of every effort to exterminate them, the Catholics of Ireland are as ten to one com pared with the number of their oppressors. And, though they are the poorest people in Europe, it is estimated that they contribute three-quarters of a million sterling annually for the maintenance of the bishops and clergy, the education of their children, and the repairs and erection of churches, independently of what they give for other religious purposes, and in modes incapable of being estimated, because secretly given to God without the left hand knowing the alms-deeds of the right. And in the case of poor Ireland it has proved to be a more blessed thing to give than to re ceive. The people sacrificed their earthly pos sessions, but they retained the faith—the jewel above all price. And, indeed, in the case of all Catholics in this country it would be well if a spirit went abroad in the land inspiring to greater liberality—to greater self-sacrifices in the interests of religion. There are few English Catholics in easy circumstances, the surplus adornments of whose drawing-rooms would not go a great way towards ilding a school, founding a convent, or providing for the due celebration of the Holy Sacrifice. We have heard of shopkeepers in Ireland devoting the proceeds of the sale of one article to purposes of charity, and it was observed by their neigh bours who knew nothing of their adoption of this pious custom that everything went well with them. Children should be early taught to contribute to the adorning of altars, and to the raising of temples to God. It is a sure mode of elevating their thoughts, and of keep ing their hearts pure and free from the germs of that selfishness which, when indulged, is the bane of childhood. No trait in the Irish cha racter stands out more beautifully than the liberality with which the very poorest contri bute towards the support of the clergy, and none in its essence is more thoroughly Catholic. Unless Irish Protestants be altogether a dif ferent race from their Catholic fellow-country men, there is little danger of Irish parsons suffering from want in the event of even the speediest abolition of the Anglican Church Establishment. • If the Catholics who are taunted with their abject poverty and their non-possession of those broad acres wrested from their ancestors by the persecutors of their creed, so cheerfully and bountifully support 28 bishops, 1,036 parish priests, 1,491 curates, and about 500 regulars, that' neither bishops, priests, nor curates, will consent to exchange such maintenance for a liberal state endow ment, we may surely conclude that rich Irish Protestants will be but too eager to provide abundantly for the wants of their spiritual teachers. Indeed, the whole opposition to what is understood to be the policy of the Premier— namely, the early abolition of the Irish Church Establishment—is based upon the territorial in fluence and great wealth of the Irish Protest ants. This, in itself, is really a powerful, and, in the case of Ireland, an unanswerable justification of the line of policy which is understood to find most favour ,'in the eyes of the Premier, and which has never been more ably and convincingly advocated than in sixteen C. F. & 1. COST. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. Petroleum.—Refined in bond has been in good specula tive demand for forward delivery, but, for spot, oil the market has ruled dull, closing at 251 c for standard white. Naptha continues active and firm. The following are the closing prices to-day :—Petroleum (S.W.) 251 c., or 18.3 d. Naptha, 18c. to 19c., or 11 . -}d. to Hd. Spirits of turpen tine (in AU.), 571 c. to 58c., or 31s. 9d. to 325. per gal. and F. to Cork. Lard oil (Winter), 51.38, or £66 Bs. for London. Lard firm-161-c., or 58s. 7d. for London. Tallow steady—llic. to 11ic.,•or 41s. 2d. to 425. for London. (By Telegraph to the Journal of Commerce.) CINCINNATI, Feb. 27.—Flour quiet. Wheat quiet and unchanged : No. 1 winter red sold at $2 47 to $2 50 . Corn active at 82 to 83c. Oats firm at 67 to 68c. Barley advancing: No. 1 $2 30; extra $2 35. Tobacco in fair demand at full prices; sales 100 hhds. Mess pork quiet, and held at $24 to $25 for old and now; there was no demand. Bulk meats active at 10 to 12c for shoulders and sides ; sales 3,100,000 pounds. Bacon. active at 111 to 14i- -lc for shoulders, clear rib and clear sides. Lard active and higher at 16c. Cotton dull and nominal at 20c for middling. Gold 141. CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Flour quiet: spring extras $8 621 to $lO 75. Wheat quiet at $2 2 to $2 3 for No. 1, and $1 951 to $1 951 for No. 2. Corn quiet ; new is weak at 77 : 1- to 771 c ; No. 1 is in light demand at 82 to 821 c. Oats more active and steady at 551 to 551 c for stored. Rye in fair demand at an advonce of lc ; sales as $1 57 to $1 60. Barley quiet at $2 7tos2 8 for No. 2, and $l. 80 to $1 82 for rejected. Mess pork moderately active and declined 50c ; sales at $23 50 ; prime mess in fair demand at 20 to 22c ; sales of rumps at $lB. Lard moderately active ; country 14:c ; shoulders 10c loose ; short rib middles 121 c loose ; short clear sides 13: to 3c boxed, closing quiet for all, and the outside was barely maintained. Dressed hogs more active at an advance of 10 to 20c ; light $lO 00 to $lO 50 ; heavy $lO 75 to $lO 90. Live hogs active and a shade firmer ; common $7 50 ; good to choice $7 80 to $8 371. Beef, cattle more active, ranging from $6 25 to $8 75. Receipts to-day-- 6,500 bbls flour, 10,000 bush wheat, 31,00 J do. corn, 8,000 do. oats, 400 dressed hogs, 6,600 live hogs. Shipments— -3,500 bbls flour, 3,000 bush wheat, 8,000 do. corn, 3,600 do. oats, 1,000 dressed hogs, 4,500 live hogs. ST. Louis, Feb. 25.—Tobacco steady and unchanged. Cotton nearly exhausted ; sales of St. Louis middling at 19c. Flour firm, with a very small business at unchanged prices. Wheat unchanged ; winter $2 50 to $2 70. Corn quiet at 80 to 84c. Oats firmer at 67 to 71c. Rye firmer ; choice $1 70 to $1 72. Provisions active and stiff. Mess pork $24 50 to 25. Bulk meats— large sales at Keokuk and up the Illinois river at V 1 10c. for loose shoulders; 12 to 121 c for rib sides; 121 c for clear rib, and 13e for clear sides. Bacon stiff, with advancing tendency ; shoulders lle ; rib sides 1310 ; clear rib 141 c ; clear sides 141 to 141 c. Sugar cured hams 161 to 16:c. Lard firm and higher; choice steam kettle up the river, 15 to 1510. Whisky advanced to 19 to 20c. Receipts to-day-1,20 0 bbls flour; 1,100 sacks wheat; 1,300 do. corn; 1,800 do. oats. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 27.—Tobacco steady ; lugs to meditmi leaf, $5 25 to $l5 40. Superfine flour, $8 25 to $8 76 ' Wheat, $2 45 to $2 50. Oats, 67 to 68e. Corn, 78 to 85e. Cotton : middling, 201 c. Whisky : free, $2 30. Lard, 16c. Mess pork, $24 50 to 25c. Bacon : shoulders, 11-fc; clear sides, 15c ; bulk shoulders, 101 c ; clear sides, 14c. MEMPHIS, Feb. 27.- Cotton, quiet at 20 to 21c ; receipts 1,000 bales, exports 3,500 bales. Flour firmer: superfine $8 to $8 25. Pork, $26 to $26 50. Bacon firm : clear sides 151 c, bulk shoulders 111 c, clear sides 144 to VP. Lard, 151 to 161 c. Corn 92 to 95c. Oats, 82 to 90c. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 27.—Cotton quiet and steady; middlings 21 to 211 c, sales 5,600 bales, receipts 5,756 do., exports 4,351 do. Sterling exchange, 1511 to 155. Nevr York sight exchange 1 per cent. discount. Gold 1411. Sugar fairly activa, common 131 c, fair 14 io 14.1 c, prime t° choice 151 to 151 c. Molasses unchanged. Flour firmer; superfine $lO 50, treble extra $l2, choice $l4 to $l4 5 0 . Corn steady at 94 to 98c. Oats easier at 83 to Mc. Bacou none in the market; sales of shoulders to arrive at 1301 clear sides 16c. Pork scarce at $26 75 to $27. Lard ad vanced lc; tierce 16 to 164 c; keg 161 to 161 c. From the Iron Age report we learn that the anticipations of a fair business for tho season gather strength, and We note considerable transactions based thereon. Still, elc perienced business men look upon the season's trade 1 15 very doubtful, and counsel great caution in all transactions based on the future of. the year 1868. Pig Iron—Over 600,000 tons have been sold, and holders generally are rather off the market, even at the advance' We quote $36 to $3B for No. 1 extra, No. 2 extra s 32 ' Holders of forge have advanced their views about $2l ton extra. Copper- -Limited demand at old quotations. Tin—Unchanged. Lead—Some large transactions. Spelter—Demand fair at slightly advanced quotation"! 61 to qc, gold. Tin Plates—Quiet at old prices. Cut Nails—Very depressed at $4l to $5. Scrap Iron—Quiet, $42 to $45. Old Rails—Sold at $44. Bar Iron—Quiet and unchanged. New Rails—Mills well supplied with orders. The operations in American pig, since the larg e transactions already reported, says the Shipping List , have been almost brought to a stand by a prettf general advance of $1 per ton on the asking prices for future delivery. Since Friday about 1,000 tons Nos 1 and 2 have been sold at old prices, say $35 and for Nos. 1 and 2, chiefly because refusal had already been given : but $37 is now asked for No. 1 Allentown , and $36 for No. 1 and $34 for No. 2of other brands. I t is estimated that about one-half the capacity of the Pearl sylvania companies has already been disposed of i hence the firmness and the demand for advalle e prices. In Scotch there is very little doing. Of stocks in yard, are held firmly, but the demand at presort' is small; small lots Eglinton brought $4O from yard. W a t notice, besides, 125 tons wrou g ht sc r ap on t er ms n ot made public, and 40 tons old rails at $l4. There is 13 A ° change to note in bar from store, the market being St very quiet. „e 0 STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—This evening Mr. ja— Caird will read a paper upon the Agricultural Statistics °I the United Kingdom for 1867, with special reference to th e cost and prospects of our food supplies. It is hoped Gladstone will preside. tt% [ADVERTISEMENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, 1N , x° 04 .1 stomach and liver complaints in every stage aro only aggrar,,of and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perl o de curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica ~e„' as proved by thousands of cases which had been co nside o , hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma , c_de sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derel#, ments, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, ne rvou sn 'ily biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, g out, rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sle epless° acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, droll cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy ( " r , r e ot, sea, sinking tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the C'so pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du 1 3 4 of, Food. Cure No 68,413.—” Rome, July 21, 1866.—The hew' ,11 the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, aband oning4o other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to D u 13 s: e fil! Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a P l °oo l at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly be nd ll i i9 effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot prsisloli, excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' dice ased 1 %, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafn e ' t Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Li euteriti Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,8 32. oth years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervoUsPad asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness_o4 vomiting.—MariaJoly." 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