The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

THEYREFORM LEAGUE. On Wednesday evening a meeting of the League was held at the offices of the association, Adelphi-terrace. Mr. Edmond Beales presided, and in opening the proceedings said that he had written to Sir R. Mayne on Monday re garding the suppression of certain local branches of the Reform League. He would read the letter he had for warded to the Chief Commissioner of Police, to which he had not as yet received any reply. The following is a copy of the communication :—" Stone-buildings,lLincoln's Inn, Jan. 20, 1868.—Sir, the council of the Reform League have been informed that on several occasions officers of the police have interfered, by threatening com munications to the landlords and in other ways, t ) prevent branches of the League from holding their usual legal and constitutional meetings at certain licensed houses, and the council have requested me to address you on the subject. I have therefore, on the part of the council, to express their regret at the communication which they have thus received, they not being aware that the meetings referred to have been of a nature to justify their being thus interfered with, and I have further to ask whether this interference has taken place by your authority, or by that of the Government, and what are the grounds for such interference. I have the honour to be, sir, yours, &c., Eumoriu BEALE& To Sir Richard Mayne, K.C.8." He had not, as he had said, as yet received any answer to that communication. Pro ceeding to another subject, he said he was very much pleased to be able to bring before them a programme adopted by the Edinburgh branch of the Scottish National Reform League. It proposed the following as the objects of the association :-1. Assimilation of the parliamentary electoral franchise in the counties with that in the boroughs —that is, registered household suffrage in the boroughs and counties. 2. Protection to the voter from intimi dation and coercion, and prevention of bribery by the ballot. 3. Electoral districts of equal area of population, with one member only to each district. 4. No condition of personal payment of rates as qualification of voter. 5. Increased representation by additional members to Scotland. He cordially approved the programme, and was confident the League would also record its approval of the objects it proposed for consider. ation. Alluding to the recent conference on education at Manchester, he said he hoped that working men would no longer exhibit any apathy as regarded the great question of a grand system of national unsectarian education. A resolution was then proposed that the next meeting of the League should be made special for the consideration of the proceedings of the late Manchester Conference on Educa tion. The proposal having been adopted, a communication from the Liberal Association of Coventry was read, re questing that Mr. Mantle, one of the executive of the League, should allow himself to be put in nomination for that borough at the first election for Parliament under the new Reform Bill. A resolution approving the proposition having been carried, the proceedings terminated. THE BIRMINGHAM MURDER. Some further particulars have been made public with respect to the murder of Miss Mary MiLbourne, of Ileneage-street, Birmingham. Shortly before six o'clock on Tuesday evening, a Mrs. Bullock, residing in a house close to that of the deceased, was in an outhouse, when she heard the sound of men's voices in Miss Millbourne's yard ; she looked through a crevice in the door, and saw three men, two of whom were about the same height, and one a trifle shorter, climbing over the wall. The men became aware of her presence, for one of them said, " There's a - woman, and she will ' blow' on us." Without waiting to look into the outhouse, the men ran up the entry into the street and disappeared: Mrs. Bullock told her husband of the occurrence, and said she hoped they had not been to the old lady next door. After that she and a Mrs. Dickman, another neighbour, went to deceased's house door and called to her. Not receiving any reply, they feared some outrage had been com mitted, and their statements brought other people to the spot. The police having been sent for, they found the front door of the house locked ; they then went ,tho Ugh the gates into the yard and found the back door open. On the kitchen table a bonnet was found, and a shawl lay upon the floor. At first the officers saw no trace of the old lady, but between the kikhen and the front room stone steps led down to the cellar. At the top of these steps Brown, the policeman, discovered Miss Mill bourne lying on her back, her head resting on the second step. She was quite warm, but lifeleEs. There was one mark of a blow on her nose, and finger-marks upon her throat, plainly showing that she had been strangled. Me body was brought into the front room and laid upon a bed. Upon an examination of the house being made it was dis covered that it had been completely ransacked. There were three rooms upstairs, and the contents of the boxes and beds in all of them were turned over and thrown on the floor. The bedroom which the deceased woman occupied had been subjected to a very minute examination ; every place, likely and unlikely, had been searched. Drawers were burst open and boxes rummaged, and a part of a pillow was torn open. The thieves had done their work cleverly and well, though whether it was remunerative cannot be told. Not a trace of them in any form was left behind, sn•l they must have been but a very short time in the house, as the old lady was but just dead when the police-officers arrived. Oo the table in the back kitchen was found a black bag, which, on Mr. Superin tendent Sullivan searching, was found to contain a receipt on Lloyd's Banking Company for the sum of 1:615, de posited in January last. Whether placed there by the thieves or the deceased is not known. It is remarkable that nothing was seen to excite suspicion by the occupants of premises immediately adjoining those of the murdered woman, but at the very time the crime must have been committed a stranger kept the woman occupying the house next door for half an hour in conversation. The murdered woman was not married. The police have a clue which may lead to some discovery. That such a crime should have been perpetrated at such a time in the evening, and under such circumstances, is most extraordinary, to say the least. It may he added that a yard adjoining the murdered woman's house also led to a malt-house, in which three men usually worked, but they were absent at the time the crime is supposed to have been committed. A H.I UNTED HOUSE. Since the middle of last October a very singular system if persecution has been going on in Kensington, which Las hitherto baffled all attempts to discover the author, or the means by which the annoyance complained of is effected. Some years ago it would have been put down to a ghost, or perhaps to his Satanic Majesty himself, but since the great spiritualistic bubble of the Brothers Daven port has burst, there is nothing left but to puzzle on till the trick, clever as it may be, is found out. Unfortunately in the present case, the trick, though clever, is becoming cruel and heartless. In a small house, about twenty yards from the main road, live an old lady, 84 years of age, and her daughter, with one servant. They have lived in the same house for nearly twenty years without any annoyance ; but for the last few months they are being constantly startled by a sharp, loud knocking upon the panel of the street door. Upon opening tie door, however quickly, no sign of any one is to be discovered. No sooner are the ladies quietly settled again than rap-rap-rap ! comes upon the door,. and this is repeated at irregular intervals throughout the evening. For some time it was attributed to some young imps of school-boys, who are always ready for mischief, and but little notice was taken of it ; but the con tinuance of what was only annoying became at last a serious nuisance. The most nimble efforts were made Without success to " catch the offenders, but until a few nights ago the attacks were so arranged as never to take place in the presence of male visitors ; conse quently the ladies received much pity, but little sympathy, from their friends. After a time they became nervous, and at last really frightened. On Thursday evening a gentleman the son of the old lady, called and found them quite ill from nervous excitment and was comforting them as well as h e could, when a quick rap-rap-rap at the front door made him jump up. In two seconds he was at the door, rushed ou t, looking in every direction without dis covering a sound or a trace of a human being in any of the adjacent roads. Then, for the first time, be was able to understand what hi s mother and sister had suffered, and set to work to examine the approaches to the door inside and out, and to solve th sooner had he gone back t o the the mystery, if possible. No a chair in the open doorway withdilling-room and placed a t big stick handy to next " trounce " the perpetrator the time, and begun to discuss what it was, than rap - rap-rap sent him flying out into the street, to the astonishment , of passing cabman, who must have thought a madman hact ‘ just oenreetse;roapmedlhctis, keeper. This happened four or five times more only ceased about a quarter to eleven. He the police-station and had an officer put on special duty opposite the house for the next day, and spent the follow ing) morning in calling upon the neighbours and carefully examining the gardens and walls which abutted upon the " haunted" house. Not a mark of any sort was to be found, and he was quite convinced that by no imaginabl e device could the door have been reached from any point but right in front from the street. There is no cellar or drain under the house. The more carefully the examination was continued, the greater the mystery appeared. In the evening he took a friend down with him, and two more of his friends looked in later. The ladies were found in a painful state of nervous fright, as the nuisance had already been going on, and the maid-servant was crying. Alto gether it was a scene of misery. In the course of conver ration the following facts came out : It began on a Friday, the 13th of October, and has never missed a Friday since then. It has never been heard on Sunday, seldom on Saturday. Never before the gas lamps are lit, never after eleven. Just as all were talking at once, rap-rap-rap ! In an instant all four gentlemen were in the front garden ; the policeman was quietly standing opposite the door ; the lady of the house opposite watching the door from her portico, and another gentleman from the leads. All declared that not a living creature had been near the home for at least a quarter of an hour. The whole thing seems inexplicable, and has created quite a sensation in the neighbourhood. The cruel part of the trick is the effect produced upon the venerable lady,. whose age makes a change of, residence a ser i ous difficulty, and whose nerves are likely to give way altogether if some means are not discovered to put a stop to the annoyance. The Palice are doing their best to discover the plot, but hitherto without success,—Herald. The possibility of Sir Charles Selwyn's elevation to the judicial bench is creating some interest in the University of Cambridge. The friends of Mr. Beresford-Hope, of Trinity College, have already commenced an active can vass on his behalf. Mr. Hope now sits for Stoke-upon- Trent, but looks upon that seat as having become unte nable in consequence of the great extension of the franchise which has been made. As usual, a host of names are " freely mentioned " as possible, or rather as impos sible, candidates. For instance, to say nothing of the abstirdity of the idea of a Liberal being returned for the University, is it probable that either Mr. Childers, M.P. for Pontefract, the Marquis of Hartington, M.P. for North Lancashire, or Mr. E. P. Bouverie, M.P. for Kilmarnock, is likely to resign in order to run the gauntlet of such a hopeless contest ? Or, to take the Conservative side, would Lord John Manners leave his seat in North Leicestershire, or Lord Robert Montagu throw up Hunt ingdonshire, in order to sit for this eminent constituency? Yet all these have been " freely mentioned," in company with Sir Edmund Lacon, now M.P. for Yarmouth. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., has issued an appeal to the Irish residents in the metropolis to sign the loyal address to her 3lajesty, copies of which lie for signature at several places in London. It expresses three sentiments: Indignation at the Clerkenwell outrage ; fidelity to her Majesty's throne and person ; and determination to sup port the Government against any treasonable disturbance of the public peace. From the language of the learned gentleman's appeal it would seem that his countrymen in London have hitherto not been very hearty in signing the address. Having received many complaints relating to burial societies, Mr. Tidd Pratt has issued a caution, warning subscribers and others to look well into the basis of such associations before having anything to do with them. The registrar of friendly societies shews, by tables, the enor mous cost of managing burial societies, and the unsatisfac tory state of the finances of many of them. He takes the ten principal ones, and from the statistics which he adduces it appears that they contain 486,612 members, the gross receipts for the year amounting to £94,323. The expenses of the management cost no less than £36,301, and the payment for death or sick ness to £64,386, making the total of expenditure £100,687, or £6,364 over the receipts. Mr. Pratt also gives us a more detailed account of these societies. The management of the first, the St. Patrick, of Liverpool, costs nearly half the receipts, which latter amounted to £33,270. Yet in management £16,550 was expended, and £20,327 was paid by way of burial fees. But the most extravagant in the way of management appears to have been the Victoria Legal, of Birmingham, which spent out of £1,764 received from subscriptions, the enormous sum of £1,126, while the sick received only £376, or one pound for every three expended for managing the affairs of the society. Yet this society and the United Brothers, of Preston, are the only ones out of the ten in which the receipts exceeded the expenditure. The Royal Liver, of Liverpool, is not included in the ten, but as its members are supposed to number 400,000, the fact may be interesting that for every pound given for the directbenefit of the members 15s. ld. is being expended by way of management. Mr. Pratt suggests that to insure in the Post Office would be much safer than in these associations We believe that the announcement that Bishop Hobhouse will take charge of the diocese of Lichfield during the temporary absence of Bishop Selwyn is pre mature. Bishop Hobhouse will enter early in March on regular residence at his incumbency of Beech-hill, near Reading, and other arrangements are being made for the performance of episcopal functions in Lichfield diocese during Dr. Selwyn's absence, in which more than one bishop will take part.—Heraid. THE BISHOP OF CAPETOWN.—During the last few days the Bishop of Capetown has been engaged in addressing numerously attended meetings in different parts of Berkshire, on the state and prospects of the Church in South Africa. The bishop has in the several towns re ceived promises of annual subscriptions from many per sons, and the collections have been liberal. FLOODS IN BERKSHIRE AND OXFORDSHIRE.— .ihe late heavy rains have caused the rivers to overflow their banks, a very considerable breadth of laud is already under water, and there is every prospect that the flooding will extend. The lowlands in the neighbourhood of Twyford and Wokingham are submerged, the river London having risen rapidly. The Thames meadows are also flooded, and in many parts of the valley through which the Kennet and Avon Canal runs from Reading to Hungerford both arable and grass lands are covered with water. On a number of farms out door labour is at a complete standstill, and much distress would prevail but for the charitable acts of some of the employers, aided by the clergy and others in the different parishes. The meadows round Oxford, and, in fact, the upper valley of the Thames, the banks of the Cherwell, and tributary streams, have been more or less under water for several days, owing to the repeated rains, and a vast expanse of low-lying ground has been completely sub merged. - - ECONO3IY IN GAS. —A new and economical method of manufacturing gas from bitumen has been in course of trial for the past 14 days at the Royal Arsenal Gasworks, Woolwich. The trials and experiments carried out were of a very interesting and useful nature, and the system promises to be of great advantage to the public. The trials were ordered to take place by her Majesty's Secretary of State for War, with a view, as suggested by Captain the ' Hon. Arthur Cochrane, C. 8., of 'increasing the illuminating power of gas. The experiments consisted in extracting gas from bitumen alone, and also with a mixture of Durham coals, at the various rates of from sto 25 per cent. The gas thus produced showed on the disc, from a single burner, an illuminating power equal to 15 standard spermaceti candles, the bitumen giving off its gas with much greater rapidity than the coals. The bitu men was also tested for fuel and heating purposes, and was pronounced to be a safe resource for investment of capital in case of a failure, as anticipated, of the Scotch and Weit of t ngland coal mines. The bitumen was like wise tested in all the various ways most suited to gas purposes with satisfactory results. . A report has been accordingly made to Sir John Pakington, and 200 tons of bitumen. have been ordered by the War Department for the use of the Royal Arsenal Gasworks. The trials were made by Mr. Wallace, supet ; intendent, by order, at the request of Captain the Hon. Arthur Cochrane, of the Steam Reserve at Sheerness. BURGLARY AND MURDER. —A crime, rem - trkable alike for the boldness of its perpetrators and for the rapidity. of its accomplishment, was committed in Bir mingham on Tuesday evening. For some time a maiden lady, named Melbourne, has resided alone in a house in Heneage-street, and was known to be possessed of con siderable property. It was also well known that about this time she receives large amounts of money, as interest upon funds invested in various ways. For merly a brother resided in the house with Miss Melbourne, but he died, and since then she lived alone. About six o'clock a woman, who chanced to be in a shed adjoining Miss Melbourne's residence, saw three men cross a wall and enter the house. The woman, hearing some noise inside the house, hastened to tell her husband of what she had seen, and he communicated directly with the police. A constable went at once to the house, and was startled, on entering, to find Miss Melbourne lying dead on the floor. Her body was still warm. From the marks which were seen about her throat, it was evident that she had been strangled. The furniture was found to have been tossed about, and boxes were broken open, as if money had been the object of search. Three men, who are known to reside in the neighbourhood, are suspected. They answer to the description of the men who were seen crossing the wall. It is not at present possible to say whether any money, or how much, was taken by the murderers. SCENE AT A PARISH CHURCH• On Sunday an extraordinary, and happily very uncommon scene was enacted at the parish church of St. Nicholas. William Bur rage, carpenter, and Esther Smith, spinster, both of Brighton, having been duly " asked in church" on three consecutive Sundays, repaired, accompanied by the " best man" and a bridesmaid, in a cab to the sacred edifice at eight o'clock on the morning named, to be " joined to gether in holymatrimony," several other "happy couples" having previously been " made one." Unfortunately— or, rather, fortunately for the would-be bridegroom—the Rev. J. D. Trigge, the officiating curate on the occasion, had been previously put in possession of some curious par ticulars, and on William and Esther presenting them. selves, the rev. gentleman was induced to ask the former if he was not already a married man. A negative reply being given, William was at once introduced to a female, he mother of four children, and asked if that was not his wife. The factbeing still denied, certain " marriag line" were produced, proving beyond all possibility of doubt, that the mother of four children alluded to was none other thanindulgeMrs, n a W fai ill n ia ti ni ng l3 fi urrag t, bute.thelcThe e i t n e t e r n n a d t e4l i on b e r i f d t e h e d e i e d p n r o e sent, not in the secret, may be imagined. Of course the marriage was prohibited, and the parties left the church ; and Mrs. B urrage having swooned on reaching the open air, h er d evoted husband, who was said to have resided with her until a very recent period, immediately procu re d a g l ass of water with which he proceeded to bathe the face of his " bette; half." In the meanwhile, Miss Esther Smith had regained the cab, and sat admiring the attentions paid by William to his wife from the window of the vehicle. Mrs. Burrage shortly revived, awl left in the company of some f • rienGs, while Mr. Burrage made the best of his way out of the churchyard, amid the hootings of a considerable crowd who had assemble I, and who followed him for some distance.--Brighton Examiner. THE SUN LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,_ JANUARY 23, 1868. RAILWAY AND OTHER COMPANIES CAPITAL OF RAILWAYS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1866. It appears from a return issued by the Board of Trade that the total amount of capital authorised to be raised up to the end of the year 1866 on rail ways in the United Kingdom amounted to £466,151,633 on shares, and to £154,412,773 by loans ; total, £620,564,406 ; showing, as compared with 1865, an increase of capital authorised in the Session of 1866 of £44,272,743. The total amount paid up on ordinaryshares was £228,245,629, being an increase of £8,647,433 in the year 1866. The amount paid up on preferential shares and stock amounted to £134,455,098, being an increase of £10,191,623. The amount raised on debenture stock was £14,105,594, being an increase of £310,219, and on debentures £105,065,863, being an increase of £7,244,766, making the total amount of capital paid up to the 31st of December, 1866, £481,872,184, being an increase of £26,394,041 as compared with the amount paid up on the 31st of December, 1865. The capital authorised to be raised by railway companies in England and %Vales amounted on shares to £388,605,689, and by loans to £129,762,809 ; total, £518,368,498, being an in crease of £41,158,142 during the year 1866. The capital paid up on ordinary shares amounted to £193,674,973, being an increase of £6,735,621 ; on preferential capital to £109,322,844, being an increase of £9,392,492 ; on debenture stock to £12,566,697, being an increase of £251,690 ; and on debentures to £86,659,720, being an increase of £6,239,644, making the total amount paid up to the end of 1866 £402,224,274, being an increase iu the paid-up capital of £22,619,447. The capital authorised for railways in Scotland amounted to £50,104,794 on shares, and on loans to 117,024,623 ; total, £67,129,417, being an in increase of £2,083,601 in the year 1866. The paid-up capital on ordinary shares amounted to £19,797,076, being an increase of £1,489,229 ; on preferen tial shares and stock, £19,460,908, being an in crease of £405,756; on debenture stock, £1,254,732, being an increase of £47,964 ; and on debentures, £12,566,082 being an increase of £920,817, making the total paid-up capital £53,078,798, being an increase of £2,872,766 in the paid-up capital in 1866. _ _ _ The capital authorised to be raised for railways in Ireland to the end of 1866 amounted, on ordi nary shares, to £27,441,150, on loans to £7,625,341; total £35,066,491, being an increase of £1,031,000 in 1866. The paid-up capital on ordinary shares amounted to £11,778,580, being au increase of £422,583 ; on preferential shares to £5,671,306, being an increase of £393,375 ; on debenture stock to p 284,165, being an increase of £10,565; and to £5,840,061 on debentures, being an increase of £75,305, making the total paid-up capital £26,569,112, being an increase of £903,821 in 1866.. - . On the total paid-up capital of £481,872,184 for railways in thrUnited Kingdom the gross traffic re ceipts for the year 1866 amounted to £38,164,351, being 7.92 per cent. on the paid-up capital; the working expenses to £18,811,673 ; and the net receipts to £19,352,681, or 4.04 per cent. on the paid-up capital. On the total paid-up capital of railways in Eng land and Wales, amounting to• £402,224,274, the gross traffic receipts for the year 1866 amounted to £32,274,b69, being 8.02 per cent. on the paid-up capital ; the working expenses to £15,894,526 ; and the net receipts to £16,380,343, or 4.09 per cent. on the paid-up capital. On the total paid-up capital of railways in Sc .A land; amounting to £53,078,798, the gross receipts for the year 1866 amounted to £4,127,131, or 718 per cent. on the paid-up capital ; the working ex penses to £2,013,087 ; and the net receipts to £2,114,044, or 3.97 ler cent. on the paid-up capital. On the total paid-up capital of railways in Ireland, amounting to £26,569,112, the gross traffic receipts for they ear 1866 amounted to £1,762,354, or 6.63 per cent on the paid-up capital ; the work ing expenses to £904,060 ; and the net receipts to 2858,294, or 2.85 per cent on the paid-up capital. affairs, upon the report of Mr. Thompson, their 1 active secretary, who bad exerted himself to the utmost, although unsuccessfully, to bring about a satisfactory termination to the negotiations in India. The Board felt bound to give the earliest intimation to the shareholders that the prospects of carrying out the objects of the company in India had been completely neutralised by causes which would be stated in their report at the adjourned meeting ; but they could not express any opinion until after the secretary's return as to the actual results, beyond stating that they did not anticipate the necessity of making a call for the amount of the shares remaining unpaid. He then moved that, pending the return of the secretary from India with the information called for by the Board, the meeting be adjourned to Tuesday, the 25th of February next. Mr. J. Walker, a director, seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, and the meeting adjourned. the intimate intercourse of that Power with Russia, and heir sympathy with the Cretan insurgents. The writer states that the public confidence in Ame- rican iufluence never stood higher than since Mr. Morris has been United States' resident at this Court. The Lake Shore railway disaster was on the whole the most horrible recorded ; but as usual " nobody" is to blame. Even in a'practical coun- try like the United States the railway gauge is not uniform ; so carriages have often to be constructed adapted to the varying widths. The bridges are generally without parapets ; the stoves without secure fastenings. The Lake Shore catastrophe was caused by a bent axle, which threw the car 'rom the track. Axles do not bend without suffi- cient cause ; yet nobody is to blame. Was the axle bent before the train started, or did it bend on the road? How has the coroner's jury discovered that it was bent before the accident occurred ? The car was thrown down a height of 40 feet, and then burnt; and it would be difficult even for an intelli gent jury to discover what had been the faults of the car befora it had gone through such an ordeal. The coroner's jury, however, attributes the accident to a bent axle, and declares that nobody was to blame. John O'Neil, who has succeeded Roberts a; Pre sident of the Fenian Senate, was born in Ireland, whence he was carried to the United States when very young. In 1853 he enlisted in the United States army, and rose during the civil war to the grade of lieutenant. At one period he commanded a regiment of Tennessee cavalry, and as his princi pal service was in that State he had opportunities _ _ of making the acquaintance of Andrew Johnson, o( whose friendship he • boasts. The Fenian Senate have issued au address to the American people, as is their custom on any change, signed by O'Neil. It is written in the usual " highfaluten" strain, assert ing and denying, but never arguing, appealing to everything but reason. The people of the United States are implored not to believe the accusations against then of England's hired scribes, and the Clerkenwell and all other outrages are declared to be the work of the secret agents of the " English Government, endeavouring to bring odium upon tile national cause by the perpetration of crimes for,•ign both to the genius, the instincts, and religious train ing of the Irish people." O'Neil is a young, hot headed man, who has been elected, it is feared, to head an expedition into Canada. It was he who led the Fenians across the Niagara, and in the ac tion at Limestone Ridge. Roberts, after some de mur, wrote his letter of resignation, but the O'Mahony-Savage party have not given in their adhesion to this arrangement. After the close of the French war all sorts of financial quacks sprang up in England—and at intervals, ever since—to show how the national debt should be dealt with. They proved to their own satisfaction that two and two were ndt four, that £800,000,000 were not £800,000,000, and that any amount of debt might be wiped out alike to the satisfaction of debtors and creditors, without the levy of a tax, or the payment of a bond. Senator Henderson, of Missouri, has come forward with a scheme to consolidate the United States Debt in a Three and a Half per Cent. Stock. He considers that, sufficient interest for the wealthy people of the East. The Secretary of the Treasury states that people will not take the loan at a lower interest than 5 per cent. They will take tlia loan at any interest the United States choose to guaran tee, at a rate that can be worked out by the Rule of Three. If Six per Cent. gol 1-bearing Bands now fetch 109, what is the value of Three, and a Half per Cent.? We know no other mole of calculation, and tinkering will have the effect of lowering, not raising, the value. The question is one of con fidence, and there can be no reason why the United States' debt should be quoted lower than that of Great Britain, except that England has been tried in the same ordeal as that now testing the United States, and has not been found wanting. It is said that the President intends to forward to Congress a Message calling the attention of the Legislature to the poverty and destitution in the South. A delegation has arrived in Washington to urge the policy of lending to the planters of the cotton States $30,000,000 at 6 per cent. on mort gage of crops, by which they will be enabled to re-stock their wasted plantations. The President, it is believed, favours the application ; but Gen. Howard is opposed to it, and suggests instead, a generous distribution of food by the Government, the cost to be repaid by a lien on the crops. The cor respondents of the New York Herald state that in all the cotton districts of Louisiana, Georgia, Mis sissippi, Alabama, North C irolina, and South Ca rolina, the mass of freedmen are not only starving, but naked. In the corn-growing districts famine is not so near. In many counties of these States the forests are filled with armed negroes, who hunt game by day, and at night steal the planter's stock. Nor is the destitution confined to the blacks, for thou sands of the whites have not a month's provisions, nor money to supply them. It is conceded by all that something must be done. The State of Virginia has announced the pay ment of the interest upon all bands issued before the war, up to and including those of January, 1861. No provision has been made for the interest on bonds issued after that date. The payment is to be made at Richmond, and will consist of 2 per cent. in stock and 1 per cent. in scrip. General Rogers, the second auditor of the State, forwarded to Messrs. Baring and C ). $50,000 to pay the inte rest on the sterling 'nte . est of the debt due on the Ist January last. A telegram, dated New York Jan. 12, says that Gen. Meade, who was Pope's successor, has removed Mr. Jenkins from the Government of Georgia. We wonder if the following, told by the New 1 ork Herald' s Washington correspondent, is the cause : " He is in formed that the refusal of the State Treasurer of Georgia to honour the requisition •of the Atlanta Convention for pay and perquisites was but a pre liminary step. Had General Pope been permitted to remove the Governor and Treasurer as was con templated, the Convention would have found but an empty treasury—it being understood that the funds of the State had been removed, in anticipation of this state of affairs, to the city of New York." Mr. Jenkins has appealed to President Johnson for pro tection. There is a case of much interest, now before the United States' Supreme Court. The sheriff of a county in Oregon paid the amount collected by him for taxes in currency, claiming such payment to be valid under the Legal Tender Act. By the laws of Oregon the payment of taxes is made compulsory in coin. If the sheriff collected in coin, and settled in currency, a round balance would remain in his bands. But the question involved is whether any State can enforce pay►nent in other than what the Supreme Government has decreed to be legal tender for all pay ments, which involves the further question whether green-backs are a legal tender. This has been de cided differently by jurists, although the majority of decisions favour the notes, as a legal tender for all payments except such as are exempted by the Act of Congress. The Union Club of Boston has unanimously elected Richard H. Dana, jun., its president. Mr. A. T. Stewart has headed a commercial movement for Grant as President. The great idea is to take the nomination out of the hands of poli ticians, and to induce the different interests and professions of the country to declare so strongly for the General, that the Convention will be left no other course than to nominate him as the national candidate. At a late meeting in the Cooper's In stitute an organization was effected in New York, composed entirely of leading merchants and lawyers. An appeal is to be made by circular to the business men of the country to support Grant in favour of the commerical interest. No statement is embodied of Grant's views, but rumour says that Mr. Stewart is in receipt of a letter, in which Grant accepts the nomination, approves the resolutions adopted, and authorizes his friends to push his claims. At the same time, Grant is attacked by leading Radical journals for allowing himself to be made the cat's paw of the President in removing Generals'Pope and Swayne. They assert that had Grant any true Republican feeling he would not permit himself to be used as an instrument against Republican Gene rals. It is believed that Chief Justice Chase will I receive the nomination of the Republican Conven- CALCUTTA AND SOUTH-EASTERN. The directors of this company state in a eiroulwr to the shareholders that ever si n c e th e year 1863 the railway has been worked at a loss, which has hitherto been provided for by arrangement with the Government, without causing any deduction b be made from the half-yearly payments of interest. In future, however, any deficit will have to be met by payment out of the guaranteed interest. The company was called into existence by a proposition to make a new port at Canning for the accommoda tion of the mercantile interest 'of Calcutta. The proposition, emanating from the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, received the cordial support of Lord Dalhousie, then Governor-General of India. Lord Canning, the successor of Lord Dalhouse, added the weight of his approval to the port, and in an official despatch declared that it was " an experiment which the Government had determined to aid and encou rage to the best of its power." Subsequently Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India, by granting a guarantee of interest on the capital to be expended, established the railway. Colonel Baker, at tha instance of the Government, surveyed the line, and in his report to the Government . of Bengal, assum ing the ultimate transfer of the traffic of the Hooghly to the Mutlah, renkoned on a profit of £55,000 per annum, which on the present capital would give a dividend of more than 9 per cent. Shortly, however, after Lord Canning's retirement from office there came a change. It was observed that many works necessary to the very existence of a commercial town were found wanting. The directors have at length come to the conclusion that the best course for the proprietors to adopt will be to surrender the line to the Government on receiving back their capital intact., and they have accordingly called the promoters together for the purpose of taking their opinion on the subject. Sir Stafford Northcote fully admits that the disappoint ments of the proprietors are not due to any mis management of the -board. The directors believe that bad the same policy which encouraged the in troduction of the scheme been adhered to they would have now been enabled to meet the proprietors with a very different report. MADRAS. Accounts have been received of the Great Southern Railway having effected a junction with this company's south-west line at Errode, the through traffic commencing on thea.st of this month. By this junction the rich and populous districts of Tanjore and Trichinopoly are brought into un broken communication by railway with Malabar, Mysore, and Madras, and also with the northern and central districts by means of .the Madras Nort h line. On this line the completion of the im portant bridge over the Chittravutty river was to be signalised about the same time, his Excellency the Governor having been invited to secure the last rivet and to drive the first engine over the new structure. This bridge is half way to Tandputree, 32 miles in advance of the present terminus, to which station the railway is nearly finished, and will open in time to bring down this season's crop of the cotton districts to which it leads. INDIAN CARRYING (LIMITED). The annual general meeting of this company was appointed to be held yesterday at the, offices, South-street, Finsbury ; Sir Macdonald Stephenson in the chair. Mr. H. N. Gilbank, the acting secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN said that the meeting was con versed in compliance with the Act, but to prevent inconvenience to the shareholders notice had been given that it would be adjourned for a short time, when the secretary would have returned from India, and brought with him the particulars of the arrange ments finally settled with the Government for the return of their stock and for the termination of their contract. The shareholders, however anxious they might be for the fullest information, woubi recognize the advisability of waiting unti , the Btoaerd precise ere state e bled oi to lay laybefore them h company's RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday Messrs. Frere and Palgrave, the ex aminers on standing orders, resumed their duties. Mr. Frere, in room 13, proceeded with the consi deration of the unopposed bills of the Midland Rail way (additional powers) ; the Midland and London and North-Western (Ashby and Nuneaton) ; and the Weedon and Daventry. There was no appear ance entered by the promoters of the opposed Isling ton Railway Bill. The only railway bill which came before Mr. Palgrave was that of the Dublin, Wick low, and Wexford, in respect of which the standing orders were declared to have been complied with. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tho El Dorado (south) this week forwarded 6,600 pounds of ore to Austin for reduction, which certainly will work up to a high figure. A few days, however, have elapsed since the shipment was made, and development has progressed in the meantime. The body of ore in the incline has increased so wonderfully in richness during the past few days as to create astonishment in the minds of those who behold it. Compared to that which is at present taken from the mine, the lot sent to Austin will rank only as medium or second class. The incline has now been driven 12 feet below the point at which the good ore was first struck; it is following the foot wall, arid is about 5 feet iu height. Four feet of the vein imme diately adjoining the foot wall is a mass of mineral, probably the richest body of argenti ferous ore ever disclosed in any mine in the State, while the remainder above will probably mill upwards of $lOO a ton. The total length of the incline is 112 feet, giving a -vertical depth from the surface to this body of ore of about 70 feet. In fact, it is the most extraordinary strike ever made here, and enhances the value of all mining and other property in this section of country. It will detract nothing from the merits of the other magnificent veins if we assert our belief, and the developments of the past week warrant it, that the El Dorado is the great mother vein of Philadelphia District, and to its superiority in many particulars must all other yield the palm.—Silver Bend Re porter, Belmont, Nevada, U.S., Dec. 14, 1867. From present appearances the product this month of the famous Murphy mine of the Twin River Company will exceed that of any month since the mine was opened. Last evening eight bars, valued at $9,000, arrived in the city, making twenty-nine bars received so far this month. The value of these bars is about $30,000. At the expiration of the month we have not the least doubt that the mine will have produced $BO,OOO worth of silver. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. 1 - 'rom the Anglo-American 2'imes.) The Cable news, not elsewhere noticed, is to the effect that the House of Representatives had rejected the bill passed by the Senate abolishing the tax upon the cotton crop of 1868, and the Senate, ac cording to advices from Washington, dated Jan. 16, has passed the bill repealing Mr. M'Culloch's authority to contract the currency. It would have been much wiser ha 1 the Representatives passed the Senate's bill, and the Senate rejected the bill of the Representatives. Au amendment attempted to be introduced was defeated, prohibiting any further issue of legal tender notes. It is possible that the President, acting on Mr. M'Culloch's advice, may veto the bill, and that Congress may not be able to pass it over the veto by the constitutional majority. Tile steamers which left for Europe, Jan. 11, took oat $1,000,000 in specie. Senor Pujol, the Secretary of State for St. Do mingo, is on his way to Washington to effect the transfer of the Bay of Samna. The world has got it into its head that Brother Jonathan is in a mood to barter good gold for bad land, and all sorts of people are hurrying to Washington with tcitotnlesmtoisseioantlehrcsiu who ak came earthquakes, to exchange treaties for, volcanoes, and glaciers. The St. Thomas's have left in disgust, for Secretary Seward, whom they thought all-powerful, was never, at least to them, "at home," and as they were but wasting time ; the one has gone to Europe, the other returned to the West Indies. The Secre tary of State was, however, at home to Baron Wel tustedt, the Swedish Minister, with whom he had an interview on the 2d inst., touching the purchase of St. Bartholomew. Mr. Seward informed the Swede that he bad made no proposition for the purchase of that island, and the Baron said that he had received no instructions or suggestions from his Government to sell it. In Boston a petition is in circulation for the signature of the merchants against further annexation of territory. Letters from Mexico give a deplorable account of the state of the country. The impunity of the brigands, the cowardly way in which Mexicans sub mit to be robbed, and the contempt of the robbers for the soldiers, paralyze the action of the Go vernment. The bands are well armed, and gene rally mounted, varying in size from a few members up to 500. The revolt at Yucatan continues, the rebels holding Merida. The port of Sisal was closely blockaded by gunboats, and General Diaz, with 3,000 men, had been despatched to suppress the outbreak. Juarez had ordered the Imperialists to leave the country, and many were preparing to do so. Two American corvettes belonging to the squad. ron of Admiral Farragut arrive' at Toulon lass Thursday, and after a banquet given to the nava authorities by the Admiral the vessels put to sea. The United States Supreme Court at Washington will soon have to decide some cases, about to be argued before it, calling in question the constitu tionality of the Reconstruction Acts. It is bruited about that the President, if the decision be against them, will take active measures against the further enforcement of these Acts. By a telegram from IVashington, dated Jan. 14, we learn that the House of Representatives, as if to meet the case, had passed a bill declaring that the concurrence of two thirds of the Judges of the Supreme Court is neces sary to decide that any Act of Congress is uncon stitutional. The eases that will come before the Supreme Court cannot well involve the whole of the Acts, and an adverse decision could not pos sibly be in the nature of an injunction against their general enforcement. The President is not there fore likely t, exert his influence in this matter beyond his legitimate powers of appointing depart ment commanders, and encouraging the people, by their votes, to reject the new Constitution. General Meade has succeeded Pope in command of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. Gen. M'Dowell has succeeded General Ord in Mississippi and Ar kansas. Pending M'Dowell's arrival from San Francisco, Gen. Gillen will act. Gen. Wager Swayne returns to the command of his infantry regiment now at Nashville. General T. W. Sherman suc ceeds Meade in command .of the department of the East; with his headquarters at Washington ; and General Ord will relieve M'Dowell in the depart ment of California. General Alexander M'Cook has relieved General R. S. Mackenzie in the sub district of the Rio Grande, with headquarters at Brownsville, Texas. General Pope 'is ordered to report at headquarters, Washington. The Levant Herald comments upon statements :nade in American newspapers and correspondents' letters representing the influence of America with the Forte as having been lowered in consequence of tion, and if the re-constructed Southern States are other; who into back and who is to go on, can o there represented that they will give a solid vote only be decided by the strength and persistency of for the Chief Justice. the combatants. The most curious part of the story, Wilkes's Spirit says: —" The J. F. Booth who is play ing- in England as ah American actor, is a half-brother of our Booth," but• Mr. Booth says that the name is assumed. An other items the sporting journal has the follow ing :—" During an alarm of fire at the Westminster Hotel, Dickens caught up Dolby and four coats, and fled through the corridors. A lady seeing the great novelist thus en veloped surmised that ho was in character for old Peg gotty. General Sickles passed Christmas evening laugh ing at " La Grande Duchesse." Kate Denin is in Australia. So is John Collins. If Mrs. Yelverton, as asserted in London, is attracting " large audiences to her entertainments in New York," the lady has very modestly kept the fact very quiet. Don John Lester Wallack makes his reap pearance on Monday evening, the 6th of January. Ball's statue of Edwin Forrest may now be seen at 812, Broad way. The last steamer carried a large quantity of prairie game ordered by Miss Laura Keene. She intends to give the London critics an American game supper—not such an one as Artem us Ward once invited us to —crackers and chess at the "Morphy Rooms." A great spectacular ballet, intended to amuse the Philadelphians, is called " Sozo ;" perhaps it is a❑ abbreviation of sozodont. J. G. Burnett, the original " Von Puffengruntz" of the Black Crook, is stage manager of Do Bar's, St. Louis. Mark ' Smith plays " The King of the Bells" in the new place at Nibio's, and our faith in his success is strong enough to float an egg. Dan Bryant, has returned from California, his purse and person " swelled wisibly" with gold and good cheer. A drunken peon fired a pistol at Peralta's mother in the city of Mexico, but fortunately missed the old lady. Lieu tenant Hill spends holiday week among the Quakers, and intends to "live off the country," a la Gordon Granger. Lawrence Barrett comes home from England soon, and then to California ; Harry Wall accompanies him. R.l - the great pianist, refused three thousand ouuds to perform to the barbarous Americans. A five-act comedy by Eugene Gadot, one of the editors of the Liberte, has been accepted at the Odeon. The Davenport-lowans aro going wild over their new opera house, which is to seat 1,400 people. The Pittsburg Museum advertises a " genuine Havana gorilla." Miss Irene Worrell, in a card, says she "is not married, and don't intend to do so." Mrne. de Felcourt (Wanda) is a niece of the famous Widow Cliquot. Offenbach's " Lisehea and Intzchen" will be produced at the London Olympic. Carlotta Patti's first month in the French Provinces realised 7,000 f. Big injun Proctor is or was playing in Boston. Mrs. Lander,played iu Pitts burg. Lady Don took a benefit iu Detroit. Mr. Joseph Jefferson, the comedian, was married lately to Miss Mary Warren, of Chicago. No country in the world possesses a better actor, and no lady in the land has a cleverer gentleman for a lord and master." The following were the receipts of the principal places of amusement in Philadelphia, with the internal revenue tax paid on each, up to December 1 : Receipts. Ta x. Walnut-street Theatre 5138,929 $2,770 96 Chestnut-stre t Theatre 105,200 2,121 94 Academy of Music 101,056 2,082 12 Arch-street Theatre Carneross and Dixey's 63,144 1,302 94 American Theatre Seventh-street Opera House, two and a half months 11,111 223 22 A change has come over the New Yorkers, who last year went mad over Ristori ; now she plays to poor houses. Mr. Maretzek has lost $lO,OOO on a season of the Italian Opera. The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein is about to en tertain the Puritan population of Boston. What a scandal to the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers! The following is the order in which the original thirteen States adopted the Constitution of the United States. According to the provision in the Constitution it became binding upon the States ratifying it when adopted by nine States. New Hampshire was the important ninth State:-1. Delaware, December 7, 1787. 2. Pennsylvania, December, 12, 1787. 3. New Jersey, December, 18, 1787. 4. Georgia, January 2, 1788. 5. Connecticut, January 9, 1788. 6. Massachusetts, February 7, 1788. 7. Maryland, April2B, 1788. 8. South Carolina, May 23, 1788. 9. New Hampshire, June .21, 1788. 10. Virginia, June 25, 1788. 11. New York, July 16, 1788. 12. North Carolina, Nov 21, 1789. 13. Rhode Island, 'gay 27, 1790. During 1867 243,141 immigrants arrived at New York, as compared with 233,418 arrivals at that port dur ing 1866, an increase of 9,723. In 1867 there were 116,288 immigrants from Germany, 65,327 from Ireland, and 34,288 from England, being, as compared with the pre ceding year, an increase of 9,572 Germans, but a de crease of 2,720 Irish and 1,898 English. The Germans in 1867 have mostly gone to the States in the Mississippi valley, while the majority of the Irish have settled in New York and Pennsylvania. Very few immigrants have gone to the South, though many landed at New York with the intention of going there ; but the unfortu nate condition of its politics, the slight encouragement offered, and the difficulty of com.nunicating with the planters, have almost entirely checked emigration south ward. WASHINGTON ON NEW-YEAR'S DAY.—The Pre sident's levee commenced at eleven o'clock, when the mem bers of the Cabinet and foreign Ministers, the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kites, Senators and Re presentatives in Congress, the Judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and of the Court of Claims, were received, followed at half-past eleven by army, navy, and marine officers. A quarter of an hour after wards the Soldiers of the War of 1812, and members of the Oldest Inhabitants' Association of the District of Columbia, paid their respects to the President, and at noon the doors were opened for the reception of citizens, from which time until two o'clock p.m. the rooms wore thronged. Secretaries Seward, Wells, M'Culloch, Browning, Grant, Attorney-General Stanbery, and Postmaster General Ran dall were among the first to pay their respects to the President. Secretaries Wells, M'Culloch, and Browning, Postmaster-General Randall, and Attorney-General Stan bery were accompanied by their ladies; Assistant Secre tary-of State F. W. Seward and lady followed. Then came die Diplomatic Corps, who were presented by Secre tary Seward. Of the Senators and Representatives there were present Senators Reverdy Johnson, Sherman, Mor gan, Doolittle, Morton,' Corbett, Cole, Fessenden, Dixon, Morrill of Vermont, and others ; Representatives Banks, Pruyn, Eldridge, Marshall, Trimbel of Kentucky, Nichol son, Kerr, Ferris, and others. Of the Army there were present Generals W. T. .Sherman, Townsend, 0. 0. Howard, Hardie, Balloch, Shiras, Eaton, Ekin, Dent, Ricketts, M‘Ferran, Humphries, Williams, Pelouze, Vin cent, Breck, Surgeon-General Barnes, Quartermaster-Gene ral Bucker, Assistant Quartermaster-General Miller, Pay master• General Brice, Colonel Scott, Colonel M 'Gowan, Major Bradley, and many other officers of lesser rank. Of the Navy there were Admir4ils Ra'iford, Smith, Bailey ; Commodores Jenkins, Sands, M. Smith ; Command.irs Breese, Queen, Davis; Paymasters Bridge, Cushing, Boggs ; Surgeons Dearborn, Williams, Campbell, Horwitz, Tyron; Captains Price, Patteson, Meads, Lieut. Dyer, and many other officers of lower grade, all in full uniform. Of the marine corps there were Gen. Zeilan, Major Cash, Major Slack, and a number of captains and lieutenants. The Judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Claims were all present, and were presented by Chief Justice Chase and Judge Casey ; several of the Judges were accompanied by theirladies. Judge Olin of District Supreme Court, and lady. The officers of the navy were presented by Admiral itad ford ; those of thQ marine corps by Gen. Zeilan ; the offi cers of General Grant's staff by Gen. Grant ; those of the Adjuvant-General's office by Gen. Townsend; those of the Freedmen's Bureau by Gen. Howard; those of the Quartermaster -General's office by Gen. Rucker; those of the Surgeon-General's office by General Barnes, and the others by the senior officers of their department. The association of the soldiers of the war of 1812, headed by Col. J. S. Williams, were presented at a quarter be fore 12 o'clock, and were followed by the Associa tion of the Oldest Inhabitants of the city of Washington. The fresident expressed his gratification to receive these associations, and took the members of each by the hand. The President received in the Blue Parlour, and stood near the entrance leading from the Red Room, with Mar shal Gooding and Deputy Marshal Philipps on his left. Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Stover stood near the centre of the room, with General Michler on their left, who pre sents the guests to these ladies. Colonel Robert John son, Private Secretary; Colonels Long and Rives, and Mr. Cowan, of the President's staff, were also present, and entertained many of the guests who lingered in the parlour. Notwithstanding the unpropitious weather, the day was generally observed, and all the Cabinet officers, many Senators and Representatives, and many of our firs' citizens, kept open houses and received their friends.— Baltimore Commercial. ;hough in keeping with its policy, is the passage of ;he bill through the House of Representatives, requiring a majority of two-thirds of the Supreme Court to pronounce on appeal, an Act of Congress to be unconstitutional. If it be in the power of the Legislature to decree the requisite majority they ought to have insisted on the Judges being unani mous, and as Judges are known to differ only in a less degree than doctors, unless some glaring absur dity was enacted, Congress would be safe from the verdict of the Court. The bald facts, as they come by the cable, create alarm and surprise, as the ob ject is not gradually approached and seen more dis tinctly as it is neared, but is thrown on us with the suddenness of a convulsion or a revolution. The general impression was that Mr. STANTON would be left out in the cold. There were many telling points against him in the PRESIDENT'S Message; and the fact that GRANT managed to effect enormous retrenchments within a few weeks after succeeding the late incumbent, had da maged the prestige of Mr. STANTON'S valved service during the war. The opinion, too, was widely en tertained that Congress was cowed by the condem nation implied in the late Northern elections, but it is not improbable that the determination shown by the PRESIDENT to exert his authority to the ut most in the dismissal from their commands of such officers as POPE and SWAYNE may hive again roused in Congress the full spirit of opposition. ANDREW JOHNSON appears bent upon goading the Legislature into the most extreme measures; and this impulsive body seems to be easily played on. The bill passed through the House requiring a two-thirds mijority of theSunreme Court to pronounce an Act of Congress unconstitutional,looks like an usurpation, and following the reinstatement of Mr. STANTON by the Senate, it has the appearance of a plot. The object is to strip the PRESIDENT of his power, and to saddle him with a Minister wholly opposed to him in politics, and whom he person,dly detests. Mr. SUMNER, who has just seperated from the wife of his bosom on the plea of incompatibility of temper, may have an idea of what poor ANDREW JOHNSON'S feelings must be. The PRESIDENT is responsible for the acts of the Cabinet ; and, to maintain that re sposibility intact, he should have the power of dis missing the heads of Departments. if it is necessary for a President to remain in office for four years, and he is accountable to the nation for the actions of the Executive, those whose offices are less digni fied, and who have smaller trusts, should give way when they come into collision with him. Somebody must, and that man cannot be the PRESIDENT. It is equally clear that the Cabinet must pull together. Therefore the practice .of putting horses into the team expressly to pull in the opposite direction looks very like the sacrifice of the public interest, to gratify spite. In this we fear Congress is following Mr. JOHNSON'S lead, and; if so, it will soon descend to Mr. JOHNSON'S level. General GRANT has been abused for signing the orders for the removal of Generals POPE, ORD, and SINiAYNE. It was said he was lending himself to the nefarious designs of the PRESIDENT, and any one who so acted was unfit to be nominated acaudidate for the Presidency. The colour of Chief-Justice CHASE has too been coming out a shade more distinctly among the jockeys on the Presidential racecourse. GRA.NT is still in the ascendant, and will probably reinit;n the favourite till he is beaten, if he be so, by Borne skilful poli tical riding. But there can be no doubt that cir- cumstances have for the moment rendered him less conspicuous, and he has drifted more out of sight. This may have had something to do with his speedy retirement from the War-office, and the quick ad vent, on the Senatorial decision, of Mr. STANTON. But it does seem unaccountably quick—the vote, the vacancy, and the restoration all in one day ! What was ANDREW JOHNSON'S curse ? Was he asked, or could a Secretary have installed his suc cessor without even a reference to the PRESIDENT of the United States? A few days will unravel the mystery ; but knowing the obstinacy of Mr. JOHN SON, and seeing the clear meaning of the action of Congress, we are constrained to admit that affairs at Washington have come to a dead-lock, and that the crisis is not without its peril. Senator HOWARD had prepared Mr. STANTON'S defence before the last mail left America, and it was - said so strongly to convince of the injustice of the removal that his immediate restoration might be looked for. The Military Committee of the Senate ha l recommeridal this course, but grave doubts existed how General GRANT would act. If Mr. STANTON claimed the office on securing the vote in the Senate, would the General surrender it? He was said to be the personal friend of STANTON, and to believe in the legality of the Senate's conduct; but the most serious question remains :—The Senate has adopted the predicted resolution, GRANT has turned over the War-office to the ex-Secretary, but what will the PRESIDENT do? Will he refuse to recognize the Secretary for War? Will he as Commander-in-Chief direct the officers in charge of districts to take their orders only from him? To a bitter political feud has been added a strong personal animosity. Bith Mr. STANTON and Mr. JOHNSON have succeeded in inflicting on each other humiliations and defeats ; and now, without a keeper, they are in the same cage, where it would be absurd to look for " a happy family." The fight must come off, and who is the stronger ? STANTON is but a member of the PRE SIDENT'S Cabinet, but he has Congress at his back. The servant thus supported is equal to his lord, and it may be that he is master of his master. But there is a great tribunal who may take up these proceed ings, and speak with an authority that will silence all. The Senate in this matter may have sacrificed the national interest to the exigencies of party, and if the people believe this, Mr. JOHNSON may receive an accession of strength which will give him an overwhelming ascendancy.— Anglo-American Times. rAnvEßTlMlENT.)—Dyspepsia(lndigestion), Constipation, De bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and live). complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated by aiugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-Testoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such as—cough asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver corn- plaints, flatulency, nervousness. biliousness, fevers, sore throats diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, in ;lability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the &est, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shout( ers, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restored by Du Parr/ s Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July 12, 1866.—The health of the Ho'y Father is excellent, especially s , tice, abandoning all other remedies, he has cz Mined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every mea,. It ims produced a sur prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of -blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Oure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness. sthma, .cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness and vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caption.—Beware of the man,' _ unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. -- In tins at Is. Lid.; 1 lb.. 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d, ' • 5 lbs. lls. ; 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 7 7, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly; and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and 2b9, Oxford-street; 330, Strand; and all grocers and chemists. Births. CLOWES—On the 18th inst., at Torworth, near Bawdy, the Hon. Mrs. Legh Clowes, of a soo. EIARBoRD —On the Last inst., at Morden College, Black heath, the wife of the Hon. and Rev. John Harbord, of a daughter. M.AuNsELL---On the 19th inst., at 2, Prince's-building s i Clifton, near Bristol, the wife of Lt.-Col. T. Alaunsolli of a daughter. MR. S7ANTON'S REINSTATEMENT. The Cable news trom Washington, January 14-- that on the Senate's adoption of a resolution rein stating Mr. STANTON as Secretary for War, General GRANT had vacated the office, leaving the for mer Secretary to resume possession—corning with its characteristic abruptness took people on this side by surprise, although the intelligence might have been expected. Congress has consistently maintained this course of action ; and although momentarily staggered by the unlooked-for defeats of the autumn elections, yet nothing has occurred to change its relation of antagonism to the PRESI DENT. The Tenure of Office Act when passed, had special reference to Mr. STANTON ; and although the PRESIDENT considers the Act to be unconstitu tional, it was framed and adopted by the Legisla ture, who could not abandon it when the very trial came it was intended to provide against. The dead lock at which the Washington Government is ar riving may show neither executive nor legislative wisdom ; but it is the clear result of steps delibe rately taken on each side, and obstinately adhered to, that have brought the two great branches to a stand-still. Each is now pushing against the Marriages. CAMPBELL—DYCE —On the 21st inst., at St. Peter's C numb , Southampton, Donald A. Campbell, Esq., son of the late John Campbell, Esq., of Glenmore, Argyllshire, to Jane, elder daughter of the late Lieut.-Gen. A. B. Dyco, Cob of the 105th Regiment. WARNER JEFFREYS-- On the 21st inst., at B rham Church Kew, Ashton C. Warner, Brevet-Major H.M.'s 20th Hussars, to Anna Geraldine, only daughter of M. 11 ° Jeffreys, Esq., Broome Park, Kew. Deaths. ARMSTRONG—On the 14th inst., at 2, Hartley-place, Cif!" ton, Bristol, John H. Armstrong, Esq., late Captain ' ll 11.11.'s 98th Regiment of Foot. BERRY— On the 21st inst., at 37, Chester-terrace, Regent's' pack, Titus Berry, Esq., aged 88. HA RDCASTLE - On Saturday last, at Ripon, W. Hardeastle, Esq., formerly of Wormald - green and St a inley Lionel aged 86. WALKER—On the 21st inst., at Kentish-town, St. Panerq, John Walker, Esq., formerly of Axbridge, Somerset, aged 82. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TELB SUN OBlce, No 11 ,: f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, _in the aountY MiddlesOL—Thursday, January 23, 180, Z ha` by for Sol