The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-04 00:00:00

$•PIIIIT Op THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, ..-------- The Times sincerely trusts that the present anomalous relations between the Government and the House of Commons will soon terminate, never to reappear. It is a consummation devoutly to be deprecated that we should ever recognise a similar state of affairs as a normal inci dent of political life ; and the bare possibility of such a result may not unreasonably make many doubt whether a Ministry condemned by the House of Commons on one of the highest questions of national policy should ever be maintained in office. The absolute novelty of the circumstances demands the utmost caution and sobriety on the part of all who can influence their course. It is evident that a false step may be followed by the most dangerous consequences. Mr. Disraeli has waited on the Queen at Osborne, and has no doubt informed her Majesty that the House of Commons has proved its want of confidence in its administration by the hostile votes on Mr. Gladstone's resolution. We may safely assume him to have expressed his belief that the policy approved by the House of Commons would not be con. frrmed by the country if submitted to the constituencies, whether reformed or unreformed, but that he could not venture to advise her Majesty to dissolve Parliament unless there should appear urgent and imperative neces sity for such a course. Whether that necessity exists must depend very much on the disposition of the victo rious majority of the House of Commons. If, for example, they should determine upon and carry a direct vote expressing their want of confidence, dissolution or resignation must follow. If, on the other hand, they should be content, as some of them have shewn them selves to be, with what has been already done, reserving further action for a new Parliament, the Ministry might continue to direct the business of the country, so as to expedite as much as possible the summoning of the new Parliament. It cannot be assumed that either of these extreme courses will be adopted. The Liberal majority are indisposed to vote a want of confidence, and, flushed with their present triumph, are as little disposed to be satis fied with the acceptance of Mr. Gladstone's first resolution. But there maybe a middle line tolerable both to the Govern ment and the Opposition. The withdrawal of further opposition to Mr. Gladstone's resolutions, and a pledge to push on the Reform measures before Parliament, may be sufficient to content both. The Queen may constitu tionally decline to accept the resignation of her Ministers or to permit a dissolution until it has been made apparent that the House of Commons would not sanction such a compromise. If Mr. Disraeli signifies to the House of Commons her Majesty's pleasure to be further informed of the will of the House, what may be expected as a reply to such an intimation ? What course should the House of Commons take if the statement of Mr. Disraeli involves the continuance in office of the pre sent Ministers until after a dissolution next January or February ? The question is, of course, mainly addressed to the Opposition. It is sometimes said that victors can easily be magnanimous, but that their magnanimity does not often lead them to abstain from seizing the fruits of victory'. There can, however, be no question that, as a party, the Liberal majority in the House of Commons will find their advantage in maintaining the present Ministry in office if suitable conditions can be defined. The Ministry can do nothing, and the succession of the Opposition to power immediately after a general election is certain. In the meantime the Opposition itself is in course of development. Their policy has ripened, but it is doubtful if even yet it be quite ripe ; and a new election would greatly assist the solution of that most difficult of practical problems, the reconciliation of different claims to high place in the councils and leader ship of the party. The number of persons designated as members of the next Cabinet is already considerably over a score, and it is more than doubtful whether the selection made from these candidates now would correspond to the selection that might be made next spring. If the Oppo. sition can secure through the present Ministry the com pletion of the work of Reform in the sense they desire, they may be satisfied to wait until they can enter naturally upon possession of their inheritance. The Daily News discusses Sir William Hutt's bill for regulating joint-stock companies. The importance of the end sought by the bill is admitted. The first point of ird' portance in the bill is the positive obligation for every company to furnish full and precise accounts, to be open to public inspection. This regulation is of the highest im portance, only it has been unfortunately proved that as regards correctness it can be too easily evaded. However, leaving that question aside, and admitting for the moment that the rule is rigidly enforced, it is difficult to see of what material good it will prove. The accounts may be unsatisfactory, and an official investigation required. There is little doubt that the first mode of request would prove nugatory. Two directors might, under peculiar cir cumstances, be found to sign this self-condemnatory appli cation, but the secretary is certain to be prohibited by the majority of the board from doing so. A requisition from holders of one-twentieth of the share capital is more feasible. Still, if preference proprietors got their divi dends, and a decent show could be made of a return, how ever small, to the ordinary proprietors, it would be no easy matter to obtain the necessary signatures. For the same reason the debenture holders would not be - induced to move ; without reckoning whether, according to the Act, the words " loan capital" may not legally mean holders of Lloyd's Bonds, who would certainly prefer the more summary proceedings, in case of default, of law. But supposing the inspection is granted. A vast quan tity of documentary evidence is put in, oral evidence taken on oath, and the inspectors send their report to the Board of Trade after an unknown but certainly a very long interval. What is the ultimate result of this quasi judicial investigation? Nothing. The report once pre sented, the matter ends there, as far as the Board of Trade is concerned. If shareholders or debenture-holders wish to act upon the merits of the case, they must do as they do now—go to the Court of Chancery. It may be said that at least the Board of Trade inspectors would give excellent grounds to proceed upon. In other words, their report would serve as a brief. But, on the other hand, it is almost certain that if a company came to such a pass that this inspection was likely to be demanded, the proprietors would take the affair into their own hands at once without incurring the delay of the pre liminary intervention. There is nothing gained in doing the same work twice over. Before leaving this question it is just to add that Sir W. Hutt has intro duced the serviceable proviso that the expenses of an inspection shall be borne by the applicants, or the company, as the Board of Trade may direct. Another good clause is that of snaking directors and officers ame nable for conscious misrepresentation. It would have been better, perhaps, to have simply declared that offences of this sort came under the provisions of the Fraudulent Trustees Act. The inevitable fault of all measures to enforce commercial morality is that they are operative only as against the good companies, and useless against the bad. Take, for example, the question of signing the accounts. A consci9ptious director or secretary would not consent for a moment to put his name to an incorrect balance-sheet, even if it were never to pass beyond the hands of his own shareholders. Unconscieutious officials, on the other hand, will comply with the regulations of the Board of Trade in the strictest manner, and yet con trive to misrepresent the truth. The Standard remarks that the member for Gateshead has shewn a tolerably correct appreciation of the require ments of the situation. What he aims at is the establish ment of a system which will afford something like a guarantee to the shareholders that the balance-sheets put before them are correct, and which will enable them, if that guarantee be broken, to come down upon the guilty parties with sharp and severe punishment. Of course this is exceedingly desirable, and Mr. Cave, speaking for the Government, offered no objection to an endeavour towards effecting it by the agency of a private member, though a somewhat similar bill, pre pared by the. Crown's advisers, has been introduced into, and is now in progress throng' li, the House of Lords. But Ministers have, wisely as we think, limited their action to railway companies exclusively, deeming it unatl visable in a tentative measure to deal with the thousands of companies now in existence for all kinds of objects and in it l parts of the country. Apropos of a, Government audit, Mr. Cave stated the singular fact that after all the disclosures of the last few years only one set of share holders has availed themselves of the power they already possess of having an official investigation into their affairs —a circumstance which seems to shew that there is, after all, no very great anxiety for official interference. In an article apropos of the case of Lyon v. Home, the lleruid asks, who was Mrs. Lyon? She had been for seven years the widow of a successful merchant, who had bequeathed her ample wealth, but whose death had left her lonely. At variance with her husband's relations, with few acquaintances, and no friends, addicted to reading eccentric books, highly superstitious, anticipating her own speedy departure from this life, yet yearning for an oppor tunity to see it in its fashionable shape, with a blot upon her birth, but a peer among her ancestors, she had scarcely any enjoyment of her wealth, but occupied shabby lodgings cheap n eighbourhood, and gossiped 3 away her time with a few inferior persons who humoured her fancies. And who was Mr. Home ? An American, of tolerable education, but no independent means and no regular calling. When he came to England, heralded by puffs, he was called a charlatan. At any rate he was, in the proper—which need not be the offensive—sense of the terni, an adventurer, who lived upon the gift he affected to possess, who had published the most incredible stories about himself, who made out his existence to have 'been one long and almost angelic romance, who in sonic qnarters was denounced as a quack, and is others believed in as a seer ; flattered, cherished, lionised, and, what is more germane to the matter, sup 'meted in luxury. lie was a topic of the day; the novelty of his pretensions procured him admission into fashion aide circles ; lie even lodged in the palaces of the Conti nent ; and we can well imagine that when his fame reached the clil lady, immersed in her chimeras, she would he immediately attracted by it ; while it is hard to credit the assertion that spiritualism bad nothing to do with her sudden and overwhelming preference. She was opulent, he was needy ; she wanted society, he could supply it • she liked mystical conversation, he had a whole Lexicon of it on the tip of his tongue. An intimacy grew up with surprising swiftness, which she attributes to his persuading her that he could interpret her dead hus band's spiritual voice calling to her from Heaven ; whereas he swears that, after nominally adopting him as her son, she really wanted him to make ber his wife, and, as an inducement—though this he did ilot suspect at the time— loaded him, of her own free act, with benefits until he be came A man of fortune. ME ROYAL 4CAD,EMY OF MUSIC. Lovers of music are threatened with a great calamity. The Royal Academy of Music is likely to be dissolved, to judge from the proceedings at a meeting of its mem bers, held on Saturday, under the chairmanship of Sir J. Pakington. The little support the institution has ever re ceived from Government is about to be withdrawn. The Lords of the Treasury refuse any longer to recog nise its national character by recommending it to Parliament for the annual grant of £5OO. They give two reasons for this determination ; they have a plan of their own for cheap musical education, and they are afraid that if they continue the grant they will be obliged to give some money to the Royal Irish Academy of Music, which has made repeated claims for assistance. Why not pay some thing to both academies? The utmost the Royal Eng lish Academy has ever demanded (22,000) would not, if doubled, very much lighten the national purse. The institution has really done great good, and its course of instruction is most comprehensive. It is very well to talk of making it self-supporting, but it is rot easy to make it so while it fulfils its true mission—that of placing the very highest musical education within reach of the poorest that have capacity to receive it. The Academy began its existence with this design, but it has been obliged to abandon the design for want of the means to carry it out. It is not and never has been intended to make the Government grant the sole means of support ; of the £174,000 spent during the forty-five years the Academy has been in existence, £109,000 have been received from students' fees ; and of the remaining £65,000, part has been raised by private subscription. The meagre sum received from Govern ment has never been given without conditions ; and with these the Academy has always shown itself most willing to comply. Professor Bennett and Mr. Otto Goldschmidt were put on the committee of direction in order to make it more thoroughly worthy of the Government support. The result of Saturday's meeting was the appointment of a committee to consider in what way the case of the academy could be brought more prominently before the public. ARTISANS AND THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. It will be remembered that, owing to the exertions of the Council of the Society of Arts, and notably of its chairman, Mr. W. Hawes, assistance was given to a num ber of English artisans to enable them to visit the Inter national Exhibition at Paris last year. The object of the council was that those artisans should do more than make a mere casual inspection of the arts and manufactures dis played in the great show. They were expected to institute a comparative examination, and to state the result of their observations in reports. They fulfilled their mission, and their reports have been published to the world. It would appear that they regard the efforts of Mr. Hawes and the council as beneficial to the skilled working men of this country ; and in order to mark their sense of his services in the matter they entertained him at a complimentary dinner in the Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday evening, and took that occasion of presenting him with an address. Lord Granville had been asked to fill the chair, and had readily consented to do so, but to the regret of the company an attack of gout obliged him to send an apology at almost the last moment. In his absence Mr. Coningsby, chairman of the Artisans' Committee, presided. Mr. Russell Gurney, M.P., Mr. Samuda, M.P., Sir C. W. Dilke, M.P., Colonel Dixon, R.A., of the Enfield Small Arms Factory, Sir D. Cooper, Mr. C. Critchett, Mr. E. Beales, Colonel Dickson, and other gentlemen were present as guests. The loyal toasts were drunk with enthusiasm, and in giving that of the Prince of Wales, the chairman mentioned that the first sub scriber to the fund for sending the artisans to Paris was his Royal Highness. Special mention was made of the Duke of Edinburgh also, Mr. Coningsby observing that the attempt to assassinate him had been made because he was an Englishman. In returning thanks for the address which was read by Mr. Elliott and for the toast of his own health, Mr. Hawes spoke in laudatory terms of the reports drawn up by the artisans. He said it had been alleged that those documents were not the composition of the men whose names they bore ; but, having seen the reports in manu script, he could deny this, and assert that no sentiment or idea in any one of them had been altered. There had been some grammatical corrections, but only very few. Mr. Critchett, the editor of the reports, stated at a subsequent period of the evening that from time to time he had had much more trouble with papers contributed to the Society of Arts by persons holding high positions than with those of the artisans who had reported on the Exhibition. In referring to the merits of the manufactures of England as compared with those of other parts of Europe, Mr. Hawes took a view which, if well founded, will be very grateful to the national sensibility.. He does not agree with those who think the foreigner is getting ahead of us. The continental manufacturers, he said, compete with and rival us in imitation, but we far surpass them in invention and execution. At ne Paris Exhibition he had shewn an ex-Cabinet Ministee the superiority of the work of Eng lish engineers. Mr. Hawes admits, however, that we me y have something to learn from our own flesh and blood in America. Their agricultural machinery, ho has observed, is light and efficient, and from America Europe has received the sewing machine and other very important inventions which have come into general use within the last few years. He is organising a movement to scud out certain selected citizens to make their observations and reports in the United States. Sir C. W. Dilke, in proposing the Vice-Presidents and Council of the Society of Arts, told the company that it is not from the inventive faculty of the Americans he apprehends- a dangerous competition with the English manufacturers in distant markets, but as a conseque nce of the abundance of coal and iron in districts bordering at the Pacific. Mr. Samuda, who asked the compaby to , isink to "the good understanding between employers and le em ployed," took occasion to say that, though in the rein he agreed with Mr. Hawes, he felt bound to express I: opinion that, to say the least, the continental manufa' 'arers are treading very close upon the heels of those of England. As a large employer of labour, he is convinced that what really tends to the permanent advantage of the ertisans is for the benefit of the manufacturers themselves ; but he thought it important the employed should bear in mind that it is out of profits the wages of labour must be derived. Mr. Couolly, Mr. G. Howell, and other artisans made speeches indicating much intelligence on their part ; and the entire company seemed to much enjoy an evening the proceedings of which certainly were instructive as well i as agreeable. A vacancy has occurred in the representation of the eastern division of Worcestershire by the succession of the Hon. Frederick H. W. Calthorpe, M.P., t.) the peerage by the death of his father, Frederick, fourth Lord Calthorpe, who died on Saturday last. It has been determined to erect a church in London for the deaf and dumb. The site is intended, if possible, to be in the western central district, as the friends of the scheme deem a church in that part more convenient for those specially to be benefited than one in South London. The Marquis Townshend, say the Hertford. Mer cury, has rebuilt the nave of East Raynham Church, Norfolk, at a cost of £l,OOO. The reopening of the church has just been suitably celebrated on the Raynham estate of the marquis, who went down specially from London on the occasion with the marchioness. The tenantry on the estate were entertained by the noble marquis at an elegant luncheon ; and 300 school children and aged people were entertained at tea. ELhe-rioli EXPEN S Es.—A return has just appeared of the expenses incurred at the late Cambridge University election by Mr. Beresford-Hope, M.P., and his unsuccess ful opponent, Mr. Cleasby, Q. C. It appears that Mr. Beresford-Hope expended £2,237, viz.: 2,074 in London, and £133 in Cambridge. The charge for advertising, print ing, and stationery, and clerks in the metropolis was no less than £l,BBB, and the corresponding total at Cambridge £99. Mr. Cleasby expended £1,250-2 1 , 021 in London, and £229 in Cambridge. Mr. Cleasby's metro' olitan expendi ture for advertising, printing, and stationery, was £894 . DEATH OF LORD FORBES. —The death is recorded of Lord Forbes, which occurred on Friday last at Rich mond. The late Right Hon. Walter Forbes, Baron Forbes in the peerage of Scotland, Premier Baron of Scotland, and a Baronet of Nova Scotia, was the second son of James Ochonar, 18th Baron Forbes, by his wife Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co-heir of Mr. Walter Hunter, of Polwood and Crailing. He was born May 29, 1798—con sequently he was in his 'Toth year—and married January 31, 1825, Horatio, seventh daughter of Sir John Gregory Shaw, Bart., by the Hon. Theodosia Margaret Monson, by whom, who survives her husband, he leaves issue five sons and a daughter. The ancient family honours devolve upon his eldest son, the lion. Horace Courtcnay, Master of Forbes, born in February 1829. TER MCRDER AT BRISTOL.—An inquest was held On Saturday on the body of the private soldier of the 3rd Buffs, Robert Sy non, who was shot by a sergeant of the same regiment, named Robert Maskell, on the night' of Thursday last. It appeared that the sergeant was seized with an ungovernable fit of rage, and was heard threaten. ing revenge, stating that "it was all over twopence," but without saying on whom he would be revenged. He fired his rifle four times at parties of men indistinctly seen in the barrack-square at the time, but fortunately missed them all. He then went to the sergeants' mess-room, and fired at the deceased with fatal effect. It did not aprear from the evidence that there was any reason for the ser geant's singling out the, deceased as his victim, A yerdict of wilful murder was returned, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN64_ ,. MAY 4, 1868, ROMAN AFFAIRS. (From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette) ROME, April 25. Umbrage has been taken, it seems, in a cer tain elevated quarter, at some expressions in the Pope's speech, which I quoted in my last. The declaration that there are still in the world characters of the same type as Caiphas, Pilate and Judas, struggling against righteousness and truth, has been thought to have a special meaning. Of course, however, the fact of see ing the application, is in some sort a self accusation, and a clear conscience would see in the Pope's speech nahing but general con demnations of various forms of evil. The illuminations of Saturday evening were brilliant beyond all precedent. Those of the Municipality and public bodies, churches, and palaces, were a great success, and after you were wearied with their splendour and variety it was pleasant to turn and rest the eye on the graceful and artistic ensemble which the habit of suspending paper lanterns from every win dow produces. There is a unity about their long floating lines of sobered colours subservient to, and throwing into strong relief, the archi tectural contour of the buildings, eminently characteristic of the spirit of spontaniety and harmony which ought to preside on such an occasion. The designs briefly described in my last were among the chief points of attraction. I am sorry to have to record a sad accident, which occurred at one of them (the Piazza SS. Apos toli), two workmen amployed in lighting being seriously injured by the breaking of a ladder. Other accidents there were none, not withstanding the vast crowds occupying the streets. A Roman crowd is always good humoured and well-conducted. " Not a male purse was stolen, not a delinquency was heard of, not a single act of disorder occurred all through the evening," writes the correspondent of a contemporary. " The city presented the aspect of one united f mily, commemorating with gladsome hearts their Father's escape from danger." A very pretty effect was got up at the end of the Ripetta, by the little squad of the Pontifical marine. In the Piazza of S. Lorenzo, in Lucina, was a transparency of the co-patroness of Rome, S. Catherine of Siena. The Piazza di Venezia displayed a Gothic chapel of our Lady. The device on the arch of the San Spirito was very felicitous in its application to Pius IX., setting forth in its letters of fire, orietur in, diebus ejus justitia et dominabitur. To describe all, however, would be endless. It is enough to say that every street and every vicolo almost i contributed its quota of bright ness to the general fête. It was impossible but that the Holy Father should be touched by this public exhibition of his people's affection ; nor did he make any effort to conceal his appreciation of it from any who approached him. Though it would have been against all precedent to have remained out after the evening Ave, yet just towards that hour as crowds were assembling to wit ness the lighting up, his cortege drove through their midst along the Ripetta, turning back up the Corso ; when near the end it turned into the Piazza SS. Apostoli, where the lime light, glaring round his statue, made the grandest display of all ; then it visited the Piazza di Venezia, made a circuit to the Roman College, and then back to the Minerva, next passing the Pantheon, and so on across the Piazza Navona, the Campo de' Fiori, the Ponte S. Angelo, and the Borgo S. Spirito. As a farther token of the goodwill stimulated by the demonstration, he was pleased on Tues day to get out of his carriage at the Porta del Popolo, and walk up the Corso among the people all the way to the Piazza Sciarro, a dis tance little short of a mile. He walked with his • usual brisk, energetic step, affording another tacit but emphatic denial to the ab surd reports of certain journals as the a tf uil tire n e e g c t e i do himnfsa il loef u rof s s Hnoly owlll heaeneka when hh. and en The Easter fatiguing wasset eNretwenty tto y years younger. _ _ _ The review, which, like the illuminations ; had to be put off on account of the weather ; has likewise been held. There were about 8,000 men present. In detail, it was very like the last I described, with this difference, that it was held in the open space called the Farnesina, under Monte Mario. General Kanz ler, General de Courten, and Lieutenant- Colonel de Charette were, of course, present, but the kind face of Colonel Allet was much missed. He was confined to the house by in disposition. lam glad to be able to report that he is much better at the present time. The coming Council continues to be a sub ject of much discussion, and of a great deal of silly surmise, particularly in Germany. All that can be said with certainty is, that the commissions which suspended their labours during the Easter vacation have now re sumed their work. There are, I understand, six commissions charged to prepare the matter for the consideration of the Council, under their several categories. The chief commission, which has certain powers of supervision over the others, is composed of six cardinals, and is assisted by a certain number of "consultors" from the various countries in communion with the Church. Mgr. Talbot has been appointed one of those for England. Such reports as that the Curia .Romans is hostile to the proposal of holding a Council are simply false; the Curia is quite at one with the Pope. On the other hand, it is prema ture to talk with certainty of the period of its meeting. It is, indeed, expected that the Bth of December will be publicly announced for it on S. Peter's day, but what complications m ay not arise before the end. of the year ? I cannot say I share all the gloomy apprehensions I hear fully expressed, but neither can I pass them over in silence. Sometimes it is an European war with which we are threatened, sometimes a gigantic revolution, sometimes both together. At the present moment, it is Turin which is pointed at as the source of trouble. Prince Napoleon, who is said to be at the present moment the chief agent of the secret societies, is suspected of having some scheme in hand for attempting a desperate movement throughout France and Italy. His project may fall through, but, at the present moment I know that there are many, who ought to be well informed, who are not free from anxiety as to a coming struggle—anxiety, not for the final issue, which can afford no cause for alarm for the safety of the Church, whose destiny it is ever to be ever at war with, and ever triumphing over,, the world, but by reason of the trials through which the faith ful in France and Italy may be called upon to pass. The Pope himself, however, appears free enough from preoccupation. The other day, passing in the midst of a driving shower by S. Agostino, which has just been sumptu ously restored, he stopped his carriage and entered the Church. Sansovino's beautiful image of the Madonna del parto was surrounded by a crowd of suppliants, such as its fame and the vast number of its ex-votos ever attracts. The Pope knelt on the ground in the midst of the people, and intoned the Litany of the Blessed Virgin, the people singing out the responses, their usual rather noisy entrain subdued by the evident emotion of the moment, which, when he recited in due course the peti tion Defende, Dwane, quaesurius eivitalent istam, became uncontrollable. Before leaving, he visited Raffael's cele brated Isaias on one of the pillars of the Church, as well as the new frescoes, and ad-, mitted Gagliardi, the artist who has been en gaged on them, as welt as the Prince and Princesq Lancelotti, and some others who were in the church, to kiss his hand in the Sacristy. While this was going on a dense crowd had assembled, and when he came to leave. the scene was indescribable ; guards and attendant prelates were carried away by the press, and ► the people closed in round him, bent on kiss ing his hand, his foot, the hem of his garment, or even catching a near glimpse of his face or a sound from his voice. And he, patient and calm, not as forgetting that there were those who might seek his life to take it away, but as having long ago made the sacrifice of it to Him who gave it, and desirous now only to be all things to His people, let them surge on, bidding them only in gentle accents not to do themselves a harm, and extending his hand to the furthest off over the shoulders of the nearest to spare their exertions. The church was formally opened by a triduo on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week. It is memorable, among other things, for having the first dome that was ever erected in Rome. On the 20th, being the birthday of the Em peror Napoleon, the Chapter of St. John La teran, of which he is, as Soverei g n of France, honorary canon—as the Kings of England used to be of St. Paolo juor le mura—accordin g to annual custom celebrated a Mass for th e e prosperity of his Majesty and of his Catholic empire. The title of canonicus ad honorem, sacrosanctae Lateranensis ecclesiae, and a stall in the choir, was, as is pretty well known, con ferred by the Chapter on Henri IV. and his successors, in recognition of the benefit be stowed in the Abbey of Clairac, with which he endowed them. The abbey was confiscated at - the Revolution, but Louis XVIII. and Charles X., desirous to compensate the Chapter, founded eight canonries, with an endowment of about £6O a year each. Napoleon I. and Louis Philippe were at no pains to maintain their claim to the title of Canon of the Lateran Basilica, but Napoleon 111. reclaimed it in 1863. M. de Sartiges attended in state at the Mass of the 20th of April this year, as well as several members of the Napoleon family staying in Rome. General Dumont and several officers came up for it from Civita Vecchia, and many French officers of the Papal army were also present ; and Cardinals Antonelli, - di Pietro, Sacconi, and Pitra were there, and Car dinal Bonaparte, of course. Ile, by the way, took possession on the 21st of his titular church, ' Sta. Pudenziana. The same day is that which goes hore by the title of Natale di Roma, being the day assigned by the tradition of those antiquarians who are content to date from Romulus only as that of the foundation of the city, which would thus have just completed its 2,6215 t year. The Archaeological Academia celebrates the anniversary by a general meeting of its members, at which scientific papers are read, and a banquet is afterwards held. This year Mgr. de Ilerode, who is one of the members, invited his colleagues to meet at the Villa Altoviti. Mgr. de Merode has also arranged a pious undertaking for exhuming and bringing back to Rome the bodies of the eleven Zouaves buried along with the Garibaldians after the engagement of the 13th of October at Monte Libretti. The twelfth was Lieutenant Guille min, the translation of whose remains I men tioned in my last. On Thursday, being the feast of St. George, his little church, built in the sixth century, it is supposed, on the ruins of the Basilica Lemproniana, of which, at all events, it still retains the name, was open to expose the lance and vexilla of the saint, together with the relics of the other soldier-martyr, St. Sebas tian, who is also venerated here. Of the frescoes, with which Giotto's pencil once adorned the tribune, small traces remain, but the church is very rich in marble columns. Speaking of marble columns reminds me that the late excavations in the Marmorata have been laid under water by the rising of the Tiber, owing, doubtless, to the breaking up of the snow. Cavalier de Rossi, the distinguished anti varian, had the honour of an audience of the Pope to-day to present the second volume of his work on the Catacombs. We have had two firearm accidents this week—one to a gendarme on duty in the country ; his rifle went off as he was getting through a hedge, and killed him on the spot. The other was to a young sub-lieutenant named Leduc, stationed at Ceccano, who managed to let off his revolver while handling it carelessly ; the ball reached him in the breast, but, strange to say, did not injure him; he says it struck against his scapular. A large instalment of the Remington rifles has been received here. This and the question of completing the equipment of the various companies of Zonaves occasioned a meeting of superior officers at Civita Vecchia one day lately. This simple circumstance has given rise to the most absurd reports in various journals of the proximate departure of the French, apprehended invasion, &c., &c., all with no shadow of foundation. The tribunal of the Consulta has nearly completed the trials of all cited for criminal procedure, for participation in the invasion of October ast. The results arrived at bear the usual character of the decisions of the Pon tifical Government, and only err on the side of leniency, to yield to which too far is dangerous, at least, if one may not say culpable. There have been several conversions here within a short time past, including one or two distinguished names. Lord Northesk has most generously given £lOO towards the Church of S. Thomas del Collegio Inglese. not ave the good fortune to do so on the occasion of q midnight mass on Christmas-eve, he may visit the equally noted one of Saint Denis, with its wondrous coloured glass windows ' and marvellously delicate architecture; he will stroll in at the theatres, and form his own opinion how far the Hamlet of Shakspeare is travestied by being wrought up into an opera ; he will walk along the line of the Grand Boulevards and admire the splen did shop-fronts, and the ever-ebbing and flowing crowd made up from all quarters of the globe, until he reaches the Column of July, from whose lofty summit, or from that in the Place. Vendome, he will behold all Paris and its environs stretched before him like a map; he will wander along the Seine, flowing merrily on between the broad boule vards and brilliant streets, studded ever and anon with magnificent public buildings and immense bathing establishments, and gaze with delight upon the ever-changing panorama pre sented on the river. Ile will, perhaps, be sad dened by the contemplation of that mournful asylum of death, the Morgue, so rarely empty at Paris, or enlivened by a stroll through the flower market, giving perhaps a look in at the office of the Franco-American; but it will scarcely enter into his head to get up at half-past one in the morning and pass along the now comparatively silent boule vards (for the mighty city never sleeps entirely), turn off at the corner of the Rue Montmartre, and after another quarter of an hour find him self in the centre of such a scene of life, and the necessaries thereof, that he will have considerable difficulty in making his way through the surging crowd, and vast piles of everything which encumber the pavement, for he has arrived at the central halls and markets of Paris, and it is at that early hour that the hydra receives her food. Long lines of carts arrive every instant laden with fish, flesh, fowl, fruit, and vegetables, which are either sold off at once to the retailers of every calibre by auction or otherwise from the merchant commissionaire seated in his bureau, down to the street hawker, for the space surrounding the ladles has to be cleared in a given time, and as the clock sounds the pointed hour the produce of the lingering fac tor is pounced upon by the Sergens de Ville, con fiscated for the benefit of the various hospitals, and the immense open space through which but an instant before you could barely make your way is cleared as by enchantment. In the hallos them selves, which consist of ten vast pavilions built of iron, of a light yet strong construction, extending in two lines of rectangular parallelograms, and fur nished with immense underground vaults, the scene is yet more animated, for the sale by auction has commenced in some dozen or more quarters, by means of movable bureaus, each provided with its suite of auctioneers, clerks, cashiers, &c. The din is astounding, whilst merchandise disappears as if by magic. Eggs are sold generally by the thousand in queer oval-shaped wicker hampers ; game (the larger sorts) by the head, for the railways are also in play, and Germany and Rassia send vast quantities, without which competition, the price would be enormous. Fish, as taken from the carts, are placed upon shield-shaped osier platters, and sold in dozens according to the size. Meat; beef in quarters, other varieties whole ; butter, by the hamper, and as the various merchandise dis appears in all directions, amidst the dissonant cries of the hawkers, the whole scene presents au ensemble that may be better imagined than described. But I have trespassed long enough for one subject, and unless I turn to other matters shall again incur the responsibility of havin g for gotten • something. Gbiernment here, I understand, means to do something handsome for the rail way companies ; and public improvements in the way of street -making and altering are being pushed forward to a considerable extent. The King of Prussia has opened with a speech the Par lement Douanier of Germany, 210 Deputies (70 being from the South) attending on the occasion. The speech of his Majesty does not bear any very iniportant features ; it compliments the Zollverein upon its progress, justifies the annexation of Meck lenburg and Lubeck, and winds up with a flattering picture of united Germany, when the South shalt have thoroughly allied itself with the North, which at present it does not s e.n inclined to do. I no ticed with regret an age but mischievous article in Galignani of Tuesday last, whiCh had been copied from the Saturday Review, and in which the writer attempts to show that the ambition of France to possess the military lead in Europe, couple I with the mistaken action both of the Government and the Opposition, would be the most likely method that could be taken to bring about a European war. Nothing can be more unjust or sophistical than such an hypothesis, looking at the position of France on the Continent, and at the same time envisaging the present position of Italy, vis-a-vis to Rome, of Prussia in regard to Denmark, look ing at the as yet unsettled state of affairs in the East, and remembering that every other nation is arming to the teeth. Is it, under all these circum stances, just to assert that France arms from a pretended fear, and that a pretended war will bring about one? Surely this is going too far after all the material guarantees given by the actual policy of the Emperor and his Govern ment, which I have now no time to dilate upon. The base attack upon his Royal Highness the D uke of Edinburgh has excited great indignation in France, where Fenianism has never been very popular. Thi s outrage will be another inducement to make Mr. Gladstone consider well the measures he proposes, and the bearing of Fenian agitation thereon. Of this at least he may be certain, that the union be tween Church and State in Catholic countries will never be dissolved. If it is likely to be in Ireland it may possibly take place in England. Whether the effect will or will not increase the prestige of England in comparison with the na ti ons of the Continent, forms a question which a statesman may find it well worth his while to study. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Wall-street Journal, April 18.) THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.--By despatches just received we learn that the track of the Union Pacific Railroad has been extended across the highest point of the Rocky Mountains which is to be passed by the iron horse in the journey to the Pacific, the head light of the locomotive car now shining over, toward the:Great Salt Lake Basin. Five hundred miles of this railroad have been built and equipped in two years, and we are assured that the result of this year's labours will be even greater proportionately than that of former ones. A great deal of grading, rock cutting, &c., has been done during the winter, when track laying was necessa rily suspended, and it is said that the grading is done for a distance of 100 miies beyond the end of the complete road. Iron sufficient to lay 200 miles of track has been accumulated, and probably not less than 300 more miles will be added to that now in operation before the beginning of 1869. Helping to make up the industrial army which will accomplish this result will be more than 8,000 ad ditional labourers, 1,000 mechanics, bridge-builders, &c., 2,000 teams, and 1,500 waggons and carts. From Omaha to San Francisco is 1,815 miles. 'the Union Pacific Company expect to have from 800 to 900 miles of road in operation this year, while the Central Pacific building the western end of the through line will have completed almost 400 miles. The gap of from 500 to 600 miles which will then remain between the ends of the two roads will, by the end of one more year, be nearly or entirely closed. That done,jthe Pacific Railroad becomes the highway of trade for foreign nations as well as our own, aud New York will be the distributing point at whicti, the agents of mandarins and damios will sort their silks and teas to suit the varying demands of the European markets. We learn of an important railroad project which is being considered by the board of directors of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad Company, including the New York members, who have been in consultation at Pittsburg. As far as we can ascertain unofficially it is the prospective connection of the Fort Wayne and Allegheny Valley with the New Jersey Central Railroads, forming a close and direct line across Pennsylvania by a route of the lowest grade, including other ad vantages, which would at once entitle the route to be regarded as one of the main trunk lines connect ing the cast with the west, and rendering the con solidated road a formidable rival of the Pennsylvania Central. It would seem that Pittsburgh has her railroad kings as well as New York, with this dif ference, however, Vanderbilt anti Drew are manag ing their roads in the interests of stock-jobbing cliques, while our Cass and Phillips are cudgeling their brains to subserve the interests of the great industrial communities of which they are honoured and trustworthy members. If the arrangement which we have suggested is consummated, there is a bright future for the Fort Wayne and Allegheny Valley. The project is entirely feasible, and we have reason to believe that it will be carried out. THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The Grind Continental Pacific Railroad is fast hastening to ward completion, anti in 1870 we are promised a through line from New York to San Francisco— time six days. From present indications a double track will soon be necessary. and thenceforward the business of the road will fully tax its capacity. The company, in order to make all possible pro gress, are offering their First Mortgage Bonds at par and back interest. These bonds are the first lien upon this valuable property, and are backed by an equal amount of Government money invested in the enterprise, and are becoming very prominent among standard investments. The Dexter and Newport Railway (Maine) will be opened for travel July 4. The Lebanon Springs, New York, railroad con tractors expect to have the road in running order from Bennington, Vermont, to Petersburg, New York, in June, and through to Chatham in Sep tember. At a - meeting of the directors of the Union Pacific Company, held March 26th, at their office in New York, the location of the great Suspension Bridge across the Missouri River was definitely made and established. The point selected is where the line of the old Missouri and Mississippi Rail road, as surveyed by General G. M. Dodge, strikes the river, and directly between the cities of Council Bluffs and Omaha. The machine shop, it is under stood, will remain at Omaha, while the transfer grounds will be at Council Bluffs, for which the company has purchased eight hundred acres of land. The estimated cost of the bridge is over $2,500,000. Its construction makes Council Bluffs the great railroad centre of the West. The New Orleans correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes as follows regarding the proposed railroad from New Orleans to New York, whose route we lately described :—"I learn that the Willis Valley Railroad, forming a part of the line of the projected New Orleans, Mobile and Chatta nooga Railroad, will be pushed forward into Ala bama, between this and the Ist of July next. New York as well as New Orleans capital is embarked in the enterprise. Another railroad project is an air line railroad from New York to New Orleans. The gap between Selma, Alabama, and Dalton, Georgia, is nearly finished, and looking to this end the president of the New Orleans and Selino road, Colonel R. M. Robertson is having a survey pushed through to this point, and is here just now from a canvass of the route for donations of land. lie re ports a lively interest, and thinks a million or eleven hundred thousand acres will be obtained to form a basis of operations. This line will bring us 170 miles nearer New York than any other, and is looked upon by sore of the most prominent New York capitalists as the line to force its way at an early day to Mazitlan, on the Gulf of Cali fornia. This line is strongly backed by, those in terested in all the roads from Selma, Alabama, to New York." The Wall Street Journal stys :—" Artiel.•s of Association of the American Central Railroad Com pany of Indiana have been filed with the Secretary of State. The road will run from Fort Wayne to Lacon, Illinois, and will connect there with the American Central Railroad of Illinois. The dis tance is 123 miles, and the capital stuck $3,000,000." TIIE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.— The reported snow slide on the line of this road, which was described as being six miles in extent, proves to have been a trifling affair. Mail advices represeht that an avalanche of snow blockaded the roun 1 house in Which six locomotives were standing. The damage was estimated at $60,000 only. The directors of the Michigan Southern and North ern Indiana Railroad Company will meet on April Ai, when the dividend question will be settled. It is stated, " unofficially," that a stock dividend will be made, and a semi-annual cash dividend be an nounced. The expectations of the company for the current fiscal year were $2,000,000 net, or 10 per cent. upon its entire cost. General Case has just completed the location of the Denver and Pacific Railroad, fixing the shortest route from Denver to Cheyenne at 101 miles. Work will be commenced soon. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad Company, held at Louisville on March 31st, it was decided to accept the amended charter by the Kentucky Legislature, authorising the company to issue $8,000,000 of bonds, to acquire an interest in or to buy up roads in other States which connect with the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad. At a meeting of the directors of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific R.tilro id Company, held at Davenport, lowa, on March 2Zth, several resig nations were accepted and the vacancies filled. The majority of the members are compos.-d of Illinois and lowa men. The act of the lowa Legislature in regard to the road was filed in the office of the Secretary of State in this city this afternoon. The new members of the Board are not parties to any pending snits, and a majority being competent to transact the business of the company, without re ference to the suits in New York or elsewhere, it is believed that its affairs can go on smoothly again. TIIE MARIETTA AND CINCINNATI RAILROAD. NEW TRACK TO BE LAlD.—Such is the increase of business on this road, in both freight and pas sengers, that it will be compelled to build at an early day its independent track down and through Mill Creek Valley. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail road now having a deep interest in this road's welfare has commenced the re-ironing of the en tire track. The proposed track through Mill Creek Valley will have its line west of and parallel with the present bed of the Creek, thus proving a valu able nucleus to the filling up of Mill Creek Valley. Refreshment cars on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Road are to run in the middle of the train, with facility for free ingress or egress at either end ; a dining counter extends along one side of the car, and passengers are served from a bill of fare, as they may order. In another portion of the apartment is the ladies' dining saloon, which is private and exclusive, while the car is so arranged that passengers passing in and out will not inter- fere with those dining. The Times correspondent at Philadelphia writes in anything but an encouraging strain about the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. The holders of one class of its securities the correspondent terms " English victims," and another class " the unfor tunate debenture-holders who in the autumn of 1864 were inveigled into what seems like ruin." It would be well for the London, Chatham, and Dover debenture-holders if they had anything like so good a chance of eventually getting out of the mess. A road in America must indeed be tnis- managed and plunder carried to an extreme if all hope of ultimate "recovery is lost. With this ex ample before them people should be cautious how they take up loans in American railways, which the citizens of the United States wholly reject on their own behalf. Although we are far from saying that it must be good because it is freely taken in Wall-street, yet it is a good sign, and in London a loan for an American railway may well be regarded with sus picion when it is introduced only on this side, and not conjointly with America. The correspondent remarks :—" Speaking of these counsel, I learn that one of them, at least, has been retained on behalf of a class of the English victims of the Atlantis and Great Western Railroad, the unfortunate debenture holders who in the autumn of 1864 were inveigled into what seems like ruin. This, however, is said to be a question between them and another class of victims, creditors under the consolidated mortgage deeded in 186' . 6". elaborate opinions averse to the consolidated mortgage I learn have been sent to England, and suits are about to be brought against the Atlantic and Great Western Company and the original companies which formed it to determine these questions. As the debenture certificates are held entirely in England, it is of interest to know' what is transpiring here." MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ' (From the Anglo-American Timq.) PARIS, April 30. I never conclude mY weekly letter but, like the farmex of Melun, I fancy that I have forgotten something. As the agriculturist in question may not be familiar to the reader, I will briefly mention that the aforesaid individual drove his horse and cart one day to the neighbouring market town for the purpose of disposing of his produce in exchange for the various requisites of his household : he was not alone, for the good dame his wife accompaniel him. After accomplishing .the object of his journey he entered the establishment of a marchand du via, and gave himself up to the allurements of a social glass, and an interminablepartie at Piquet (the French national game par excellence). Time p a ssed on, glass fol lowed glass, and partie succeeded partie, until o ur hero found that, like Tam O'Shanter, he had con siderably overstayed his time. The reckoning was called, the old horse put to in the greatest possible hurry, and after giving a brief glance at his nume rous packages the farmer set off on his homeward route. All along the road, however, an idea seemed to strike him that he had forgotten something ; it was in vain that in his mind's eye he again ran over the various commissions with which he had been en trusted. " I have got the oil," said he, " and the seeds, and the rice, and the brandy, and the tobacco, but still I can't help thinking that I have left something , behind." Nothing, however, occurred to him in expl anation of his idea. In course of time he arrived in the farm yard, and descending handed the reins to the manservant in attendance. "Et la bour geoise" (in rustic and vernacular, Where's the missis?) said the latter, with open mouth and eyes. " Sacre tounerre !" exclaimed his worthy master. " I thought I had forgotten something." He had left his wife behind at Mclun. And in like manner I have often entertained, and as often forgotten to express the idea, that there are many little varieties of everyday life in Paris which, though ordinarily passed over by newspaper correspondents, and possibly escaping the observation of a visitor, may nevertheless prove greatly interesting to the foreign reader. An American or Englishman coming to Paris will, of course, visit all places of public inte rest and amusement ; he will find his way to the Palaces of the Tuileries and tha Louvre, Ver sailles, St Cloud, &c. ; he will visit the Celebrated manufactory of Gobelin tapestry, the fabrication of which has been brought to such perfection as to render it difficult to decide whether you are regard ing a product of the loom, an inimitable painting by Watteau, or the equally celebrated one of porcelain at Sevres, whose works rival, if not surpass, those of far Cathay. He will look in upon the ancient and celebrated Cathedral of Notre Dame, now under going the process of restoration ; though he may RAILROAD EARNINGS. The following official statement shows the earn ings and expenses of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, from May 1, 1867, to December 31, 1867, being a period of eight months : From passengers From freight From express Mails Miscellaneous Total.. $326,779 23 1,912,028 49 17,886 49 32,173 28 7,223 29 $2,496,190 34 EXPENSES. Conducting transportati on_ 5282,022 23 Motive power, engines, Scc... 567,'-‘255 45 Maintenance of way Iklaintenance of c a rs General expenses - 55,827 10 $1,427,054 26 Not earnings to balance 1,069,136 08 • Total. 52,496,190 34 , Earnings of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company from April 1 to April 7 :- 1868 $104,318 1867 97,749 In creaso • • $6,569 Earning and expenses of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad Company for 60 month of March : From freight 5450,108 $400,190 From passengers From express matter From mails.. From rent of railroad From miscellaneous Total .... Expenses $684,189 $627,959 407,682 419,800 Net earnings 5276,506 $208,159 January to March 31 Expenses Net earnings for 3 months $588,242 $466,730 Earnings of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company, for the first week is April :- 18C8 578,900 18G7 Earnings of the Marietta and Cincinnati Rail' road Company for the first week in April :- 1868 1867 Earnings of the Michigan Contra Railroad Cora' pany for the first week in April :- 1868 824,286 1867 20,080 _ From January 1 :- 1868 $296,800 1867 27 7 7853 Eunings of the Michigan Southern and North ern Indiana Railroad Company for the first week in April :- 1868 $107,19 0 1867 81,451 Increase E ►rnings of the Western Union Railroad Cool' pany for the week ending April 7 :- 1868 59,603 1867 8,249 ' Increase From January 1 to April 7 :- 1868 1867 - $1,331 ~. $135,919 111,387 Increase The Chicago and North-western Railt 2 a 4 f l 0 0113 ‘ pan earned for the second week in April :- 1868 5258,73 20 1867 178,296 90 Increase.. • $80,437 30 The Nation and the Irishman mention an inci dent of which we may possibly by-and-by hear so thing more. It is alleged that a few days ago two gentle' men belonging to the Conserv:.tive party, waited on M r ' Sullivan, one of the Irish press prisoners, and intimated ta t , him that if he gave a guarantee that the tone of his p a p a —the Nation —would be " moderated "' th e Goverutne" " there was no doubt," would be prepared to giY a ! favourable consideration to the application for his relefT• Mr. Pigott, 01 the Irishman, was, it is stated, included is this proffered amnesty, the condition in each case being the same. The Nation tells us that Mr. Sullivan " nantly rejected the proposal," and adds that "threats we t " used" (this is given in capitals), upon which the prisoner "scornfully defied th e G overnmen t t o d o their worst." It is admitted that Mr. Sullivan's visitors declared that 0(1 were not authorised by the Government to make the Pr i) ; posal ; but the Nation regards this as a mere quibble, o ld assumes that neither of the two gentlemen " ever Nu have suggested what they did if they were not per fectly assured that they had the sanction of the Castle." The largest income returned in Chicago fo r Lot t year is $202,306, by C. H. M'Cormick. The next la r g e9 e is his brother's, J. L. M'Cormick, $lOO,OOO. There aoro, nine others exceeding $50,000, sixty exceeding $ 25,° ninety-seven exceeding $20,000, and 486 exotteditio $lO,OOO. The Springfield Republican says The ReP ti b b ; lican papers of Connecticut are actively discussing to Senatorial succession to James Dixon, and the Ate' rici o Recorder presents the name of 0. H. Platt of that ci t io a candidate, in addition to . Governors Hawley. The election will be hold on the 19th of :o ' o and will be the first under the new law, which regal viva voce voting." ' The only mistake that the American journa list 1 4 have made is in their spelling of Sir Henry de Ilog name. They added a " u," which it appears has no r t bo there. Sir Henry acknowledges his investment he ir Confederate Loan, maintains th a t m a ny who wrote t 00 , denials to the papers w e re n o t qu ite c lear about the tr 6 be action, and that he did not desert what he held t o just cause because it was the losing one. The Autl i ca a a papers, therefore, were more correct than the Pall Gazette. ee kif il LADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pills.—All our ,F ties.—Almost all disorders of the human body are dist; that to be traced to impure blood. The purification fluid is the first step towards health. 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Martha Sarah, second daughter °', roP r John Dodrnan, of Talfourd-road, Catuberw e ll, ,° of Norwich, to Chalks Smith, o Windsor.oll' Clll° , 7 e 7t MURRAY—SCOTT—On the 2d inst., at St. 31109„,, iffl 's ° l c e& ham, the lion. Montolieu Fox Murray, Lieut. - 1 -`,' bo " Al' of son of the Right Hon. Lord Elibank, to 1 3 I' n j P 4" eldest daughter of the late Edwin d John o c°-t ' Portland Lodge, Sonthsea, Hants. O ef Deaths. ICO BURNET—On the 29th ult ,in Victoria-rond9wr° rge ington, John Burnet, Esq., engraver, age d v- ,;: t O e°- - BEATTIE —On the Ist inst., at Albernarin"str-e 9 • ' Beattie, aged 74. • I,e l o J MUNSON —On the 28th ult., Mr. J nkinsrlo9°f 17' es u on-road, Kentish-town, aged 83. o 13 " Of pawrson-Pfol'rtc,J;erly LEISH MAN —On the Ist inst, at 5, water, James Robertson Leishman, Esq" s iPtfit Halifax, Nova Scotia, and of 31auritius. I, .$9 OSBOHN—On the 28th ult., at Dunstable, Joseli sen., aged 76. gs B4l-4' London : Printed and Published by WIL L " r ta° -a °I of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun SUN sw — e 'OO 2 - Strmad, in the Precinct of the Sa Yoh i n th Middlesex.—Monday, May 4, 1868. ~\ EARNINGS.