The Sun. — London, England, 1868-11-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOU'RNALS, The Times approves of the appointment of the Bishop o. London to the Primacy. With regard to Church politics Dr. Tait has always maintained an even and liberal course. It is creditable to the Ministry to have selected a man who, on ordinary subjects, has, from the days when he was a tutor at Oxford, been a staunch Liberal ; but he is a strong supporter of the union of Church and State, and the Ministry may be sure of his support on the question of the hour, If a fault is to be found with his episcopal career, it is that, from good-nature and too much readiness to trust everyone, he has not only tolerated, but occasionally favoured the representatives of extreme opinions in the directions both of Rationalism and Ritualism within his diocese. No one ever suspected him of any sympathy with such extremes himself, and he has, perhaps, confided too much to the reports of others. This, however, is the only thing which has occa sioned any dissatisfaction with his administration of his late diocese, and on his commencing a new career, it is, perhaps, the best service to speak frankly on such a subject. As to his own opinions he has expressed a decided condemnation of the Ritualists, and by his writings he has materially contributed to defend a sober theology against rationalising encroachments. In one thing he has been honourably conspicuous among the rest of the bench. He has frankly and firmly, though cour teously, resisted the efforts of certain partisans to entangle the Church of England in colonial squabbles, and to develope a supposed ecclesiastical authority in this country. His appointment is a material guarantee against our being disturbed by new ecclesiastical expe riments. There is every reason to believe that the new archbishop will hold the scales fairly between contending parties, and will direct the energies of the Church to practical work. Let him only do himself justice, and we may look forward with confidence to his administration. We trust he may enjoy many years of improved health, and we cannot offer a better wish than that, when he is removed from Canterbury, he may be ae much regretted as he will be now in London. The Morning Summary is very angry at the appoint. went of the Bishop of London, and -says that Lord Pal merston would have made a better appointment. The step is attributed to her Majesty's influence, and our con temporary adjures the Premier to prevent the Queen from making another mistake. The advancement of the Dean of Westminster would cause a religious revolution The Queen has strong religious sympathies. No one cat doubt her right to them. It would be impertinent to a degree to pry into them ; but we hold that it is the bounden duty of the First Minister to persuade her Majesty to exercise her prerogative so as not to endanger the Church and lose the confidence of some of her most loyal subjects. The Standard makes a strong appeal to the electors to record their votes against the Liberals. As seen in the works and acts of their most able and influential thinker; the esoteric creed of the dominant school of Radicalism is hostility to property, antagonism to marriage, hatred to religion, active unbelief, and universal negation. Female suffrage ; liberty of divorce ; license of plunder; free thought, free love, free confiscation : such are the precious fruits of progress and enlightenment in their purest and most perfect form. In the meantime, Mr. Gladstone will com mence the good work by confiscating the property and closing the churches of the Irish Protestants ; and Mr. Bright will inaugurate the reign of equality and fraternity by breaking up the navy and disbanding one half the army, trusting in the generosity of foreign Powers, and in hie own capacity of concession and submission, to ensure that no advantage shall be taken of the voluntary defence lessness of England. Is it really conceivable that either the immediate or the ultimate prospect—either the pre sent or the future promises of Liberalism—can have any charm for Englishmen? Or have they been careless and incredulous, as well they might be, of the intentions of their would-be rulers? If so, even at this last moment, a glance at the speeches of Mr. Bright and the writings of Mr. Mill should suffice to convince them, and to secure their votes for anyone, whatever his views on minor political questions, who can be trusted to offer a firm and unswerving opposition to the great Liberal party. The Star, in the coming elections, looks for a result very different to any mere advantage over the Tory party hear Liberals sometimes saying that a Conservative party is necessary and beneficial. However this may be, we may be quite sure that the existence of a Conservative party is inevitable. But the existence of such a Conservative party as we now have is not inevitable. If th& Liberals win this week an overwhelming victory, we shall not indeed, see the Tories extinguished, but we shall see them take up new ground. Certain axioms of progress will be accepted which have never been accepted before, and future struggles will be at least on gpound remote from certain old-world ideas, which obsti- Mtely survive to trouble us in this hour of crisis. Let us remember, then, that if this hour is one of crisis, it is because Mr. Gladstone has summoned the Liberal hosts to war upon these mischievous and obstinate delusions. And let us advance to the contest intent alike upon the most minute advantages that can tend to aggrandise ana secure our triumph and upon all those great considerations of future progress and beneficial change which will make that triumph memorable 'for centuries in our history. Commenting on the Foreign Minister's speech at King's Lynn, the Herald observes that just as in all questions of domestic policy Lord Stanley is one with his colleagues, so do his colleagues share with him the glory of a foreign policy which has been successful beyond any recent pre cedent. Lord Stanley's individual credit is that he has devoted himself with singular zeal and judg ment to the carrying out of principles which, when thus expressed, appear to every man of sense to be the true principles. The fact that they are declared to be principles not the exclusive property of the Conservative party only proves them to be intrinsically sound and irrefragable. The merit of adopting them practically belongs to Lord Stanley ; the merit of sanction ing them is shared by the whole Ministry. By one side we are told that this is only Mr. Bright's policy ; but how comes it that the party with which Mr. Bright is con nected never thought of such a policy? How came Lord Stanley to succeed where Lord Russell failed in the Alabama difficulty? Was it in accordance with Mr. Bright's Ideas that the Government took the step of rescuing the A.byssinian prisoners, and of avenging our insulted honour apon Theodore ? Was not the Abyssinian expedition denounced as fiercely as any other Government measure, by Mr. Bright's organs and by Mr. Bright himself, so long as it appeared to be dangerous and costly? Was the active interference of England in the Luxembourg affair in accordance with Mr. Bright's principles ? According to the true Radical theory, shouldwe not rather have said " Perish Luxembourg ; let France and Prussia manage their own quarrels?" To preserve peace at all cost used indeed to be Mr. Bright's maxim; but to preserve it, and at the same time to maintain the honour and to extend the influence of England—suffering no one to presume upon our pacific dis position, requiring that others should obey the rule which we have imposed upon ourselves, shewing ourselves ready at all times to assert the right at any cost—this nas been the policy of the Conservative Government. and this policy it carried out in a manner which compels his oppo nents to clamour for a share in his success. The Post considers that Lord Stanley went somewhat out of his way in speculating on the completion of the unity of Germany at no remote period. There is nothing so likely to offend French susceptibilities, and, while we may agree in the opinion which Lord Stanley expressed, it is quite another thing whether the Foreign Secretary should proclaim it from the hustings. We are, too, at a loss to conceive how a Minister so cautious and usually well informed came to speak as he did of the internal dangers which, as he fancies, threaten the Ottoman Empire. Trouble may be gathering in the East, and there is no _Qoubt that Powers which dream of aggrandisement are fostering disturbances in that sense • but Lord Stanley has made another mistake in describing Turkey as a house divided against itself. For the rest, as to the foreign policy of this country as a whole, he holds that " our rule ought to be goodwill towards all nations, and, as far as we can help, entangling alliances with none." We are satisfied that under any Government such a policy will have to be observed, and, let us hope, with the judg ment and discretion which Lord Stanley has generally displayed. The Daily News thinks the proceedings on nomination day are now little better than a farce. Of old, when free holders or burgesses met every fortnight or month in their shire-motes or borough-courts, the choice of members to represent them in the House of Commons was but the special business of an ordinary assembly. The presence of men in these courts was proof of their right to be there, and of their possession of the electoral qualification. The shew of hands truly indicated the choice of the majority ; for the burgesses and freeholders who were absent were in the position of the electors of the present day who will not come to the polling-booth. The modern nomination, with the fictitious election by shew of bands, has no affinity with the old procedure. The casual crowds who gather together resemble in nothing the bur gesses assembled in their borough-courts and the shire motes. Idle lookers-on, hired ruffians, heated partisans, meet to stare at the candidates, to prevent their being heard, and to excite angry passions, personal and political, in preparation for the performance of duties which require a collected mind and a calm judgment. The Worshipful Company of Salters, who, through their large estates in the North of Ireland, are specially connected with the Protestants of Ulster, have just unanimously elected the Bishop of Oxford a member of their company; an honour which he alone of the Bench a lar ea thg vneral* Irish Primates—J9/14 PO, MR. BRIGHT ON EDUCATIOI7. Mr. Bright, in his speech at Birmingham on Saturday, went over a great deal of old ground. Some interesting remarks, however, were made about education. The hon. gentleman said : " I recollect two or three years ago meeting the late American Minister at dinner at the house of the late and, I believe, future Speaker of the House of Commons. He was asked by a gen. tleman present concerned in the late Education Commission for particulars about the nature and quality of the schools in New England, particularly in the State of Massachusetts, from which the Minister came. The Minister said the common schools in the State were so good that they were better on the whole—much better, he believed—than the private schools of this country. He himself, and the son and grandson of the President of the United States, had received education in one of their common schools. The furniture of their schools, all the material by which their education is con veyed to the children, is very much superior to anything we have here. I saw not long ago in the office of the United States Consul at Liverpool a great pile of books in one of the windows. I asked what they were; he fetched some of them for me to look at. I believe that the best school-books we have in the United Kingdom are those which have been prepared by the National Board of Education in Ireland ; but I am forced to believe that the educational school-books which I examined, and which had come from New England, are, on the whole, superior to anything that has been provided for schools in this country. Now, let any one who thinks there is a difficulty in this—and do not suppose that I underrate the difficulty ; there is always a difficulty in great achievements—let him consider, if there be a diffi culty, is it one that we cannot surmount? If you look for ward for a generation, and behold all the sons and daughters of the hard-working class.of the United King dom, brought up two, or three, or for years in good schools of this kind, let me ask you, fathers of families, and if your wives were here I would ask them, mothers of your families, whether the better instruction of your children would not be of untold and incalculable advan tage to them, and even to yourselves. I may be told that the great difficulty is what is called the religious itfficulty. Perhaps it is ; but it is a difficulty which every day is lessening, and the difficulty has never been great in the minds of the great body of the people. It is a difficulty which has been mainly created by minis ters of religion ; not with any wrong intention, but because their eyes were so much directed to one question—to one great object of human endeavour—that they seemed to feel it necessary to be blind to everything else. Their conscientious objections—for there are conscientious objections which are very mistaken and very ignorant—their conscientious objection have created this great difficulty; but I believe, and I say it with intense satisfaction, that, judging from all that I have observed, from the sayings of clergymen of the Established Church, and from the sayings of ministers of other sects, from day to day the difficulty is diminishing, and may become extinct. Probably some persons may think there are rates enough already, and to add a school rate to the other rates would only be to add burden to burden. But let me remind you that as the school rate would rise if it were well employed, the poor rate would fall. We know, all of us—it is not a matter that wants discussing from this platform—every man in the kingdom knows perfectly well that the want of instruction for our children is the cause of a very large amount of the intemperance, the profligacy, the idleness, the poverty, and the crime with which our country is disfigured. Besides, we all know, too, that those who have property would always feel, not only that their property was more secure, but that it was more valuable in the midst of an instructed population. We are a great people now; but how much greater should we be then? We are a people of great wealth now, but how much greater would be our wealth then ? For every instructed man is twice the instrument for the production of wealth that an uninstructed man is. The enormous waste which is caused in this country by recklessness and idleness and the intemperance of the uninstructed is beyond the power of figures to calculate or 'escribe." ROSSINL Giovechino Rossini is dead, and among modern musi cians there is none who has the slightest pretence to take his place. At the ripe age of seventy-six he has passed away from us, leaving behind him a number of works as to whose merits musical critics are almost unanimous. Half the glory of the Italian Opera would be gone were it shorn of the works of this great master. He was born in 1792 at Pisan°, of poor parents ; his father was an indifferent performer on the French horn in a strolling company of musicians that played about at fairs and merry-makings in the towns and villages of Italy, and on the termination of their season lived on the savings reserved from their precarious earnings. The young Rossini made one of the party when only 10 or 12 years old ; and picked up, in a desultory and crude manner, the elements of an art in which he was desCned to become g master of world-wide and lasting celebrity. The only portion which he received from his father was,. i we are told, "a little music, a little religion, and a, volumes of Ariosto." At the age of fifteen, after being employed as choir-boy in the Bologna Church, he entered the Lyceum of that city and became the pupil of Matta Like most other great musicians, Rossini composed at an early age, and became famous before he was twenty ; unlike most other musicians, the greater part of his life has been spent in comparative idleness, and he has contributed very little to the music of the present day. Many reasons have been given for this one of them was a jealously of his only rossible rival, Meyerbeer, since whose death his hand has again occasionally taken to its cunning. At the great Exhibition of 1862, Rossini refused to write an overture, and it was then understood that the old man had not sufficient confidence to compete with the gigantic Meyerbeer. There is too much matter of immediate importance just now to' fill the columns of a newspaper for us to note the numerous works of this master, and their relative value. Suffice it to mention his "Tancredi," brought out at Venice in 1812 ; his " Mosi in Egitto," and " Otello," &c., soon after produced ; and his chef d'oeuvre "Il Barbiere di Seviglia," in 1816. " Semiramide " ap peared in 1823, and was his last work for the Italian theatres. He has at different periods been musical director at the theatre of San Carlo, Naples, has made his appear ance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, and has been director of the Italian Opera in Paris. This latter appoint ment he retained till 1830. He then retired from professional life to live at Passy. Since that time the only composition of great importance which he has written is the familiar " Stabat Mater," in which he depicts so dramatically the seven sorrows of the Blessed Virgin. This composition has ever been a leading feature in the services of the Roman Catholic Church, but, in spite of its extraordinary beauty, has not gained for Rossini the celebrity as a composer of sacred music which his similar compositions have done as a composer of opera. We must not omit to mention his great work "William Tell," which takesrank with "Il Barbiere" as ama,sterpie ee. The apathetic audiences of the opera houses invariably are in their seats before the performance of the overture, a compliment which they seldom pay to any other but Beethoven's "Fidelio." The conductors always prepare for an encore as a matter of course. The following is the por tion of a letter written by Mendelssohn describing a visit to Ferdinand Hiller, and is an interesting personal description. " Early yesterday I went to see him, and whom should I find sitting there but Rossini, as large as life, in his best and most amiable mood. I really know few men who can be so amusing and witty as he, when he chooses ; he kept us laughing incessantly the whole time. I promised that the St. Cecilia Association should sing for him the B minor Mass and some other things of Sebastian Bach's. It will be quite too charming to see Rossini obliged to admire Sebastian Bach ; ho thinks, however, `different countries, different customs,' and is resolved to howl with the wolves. He says he is enchanted with Germany, and when he once gets the list of wines at the Rhine Hotel in the evening the waiter is obliged to shew him his room, or he could never manage to find it. He relates the most laughable and amusing things about Paris and the musicians there, as well as of himself and his compositions, and enter tains the most profound respect for all the men of the present day, so that you might really believe him, if you had no eyes to see his sarcastic face Intellect and animation and wit sparkle in all his fea-, tures and in every word, and those who do not consider him a genius ought to hear him expatiating in this way,. and they would change their opinion." Rossini in his' retirement has bee n p e tt e d, fl a tt ere d , an d surroun d e d b y artists wealth was andrn enormous,e n o flet t letters tslo hisci e t c y on wh e icctlilohn o e d f e a r ordersl yIo ve d ed . a His s and ribands is su pp ose d to b e nearly the largest in the world.' No one has don e so muc h f or the opera since Mozart The plan of . the old styl e o f fl or id opera has been much. criti cised these modern times, hut Rossini has made that style immortal. A more perfect dramatic form may be adopted by modern musicians, but the skill of the maestro will be wanting. A sculptor can no more knock a breath ing living man out of marble than musical training can make a true musician. Pe r h a p s it was time for Rossini to depart when the vulgar Offenbach became the rage. Let us hope for a revival of a better feeling, when Haydn shall not be pronounced frivolous and Schumann divine. Rossini has won a deathless fame; humanity is the better for his life ; his victory has cost no suffering, arid his triumphs no woes. The st r if es o f th e clay prevent us from pausing long over the great man's grave ; let us console ourselves that when the noise of poli tical contests shall have passed away, and th e a b sor bi ng topics of the time shall find but a corner in the pages of history, the melodies of Rossini will pre serve his fame for ever. Art lives longer than all else. Creeds and political systems may pass away, the mythology of the Greek may become an idle fable : but the art of the Greek is alwaylo beautiful reality. Such men as Rossini are links binding one gene. ration to another by means of rt golden chain of that harmony which is of heavenly origin, and wl;;;;11 fi tc l q responsu among all peopl i gg 8/1(1 IA sib times. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1868. SIR JOHN HAY ON TEE NAVY. Sir John Hay, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, I who is a candidate for re-election at Stamford, ad dressed a large meeting at the George Hotel on Friday evening. The hon. baronet first referred to the salient points of our foreign policy when the Conservatives took office in the spring of 1866, and these he thus summarised. Denmark betrayed and bleeding ; Prussia arrogant and victorious ; Austria humbled and distrustful ; the United States irritated and threatening; an envoy in chains in Abyssinia; Spain insolent and revengeful; Brazil justly aggrieved. He contrasted this description with the manner in which Lord Stanley had conducted our foreign affairs, and said that two years of Conservative administration had helped to restore credit and the public revenue, which had been deprived of its elasticity by Mr. Gladstone's finance and Lord Westbury's legisla tion. After glancing at the Irish Church question, Sir John made a statement relating to the extra expenditure for the navy. On this point he said : We found, on coming into office, that our great ally, France, had six ironclads more than we had. We decided at once to redress the balance, and commenced forthwith to complete our navy. But ironclads are not the sole necessity for a navy, and especially for us. They are costly, draw much water. and require numerous crews. We require, for the protec tion of our commerce, small gun-vessels, which, with light draught and few men, shall maintain inexpensively a police in all those seas in which our interest OT our tre,aty engagements oblige us to do so. We decided to build eighteen. These duties are performed by a small class of gunboat, and gunboat's had been stationed by or prede cessors to perform those duties. In China and Japan there are twenity-three treaty ports. Our predecessors determined to place there thirty-eight vessels. Of &le, when we came into office, many were rotten, and there was not one at home to relieve them. On the West Coast of Africa a squadron is maintained for the suppression of the slave trade, hut it is a deadly service. It has been shewn that for one or two years a European constitution suffers little permanently by being in that clihate. We found ships and men who had been there for four years, and not a ship to relieve them. All over the world we found rotten ships, and in the home ports no reliefs. Since that we have reduced the squadrons considerably, and on the West Coast have arranged that no English seaman shall be exposed to that pestilential climate for more than eighteen months. We also found that the United States were building very fast unarmourd frigates of a class of which we had not one. We determined to build one, the Volage, as an experiment and a type for our frigate navy. In these items you have the whole of the so-called extravagant expenditure :—Hulls of armour-plated ships, contract : 1867-68, £269,380 ;1866-7, £60,000. For engines : 1867-68, £62,400 ; 1866-67, £34,000. Engines of dockyard-built armour-plated ships : 1867-68, £109,125 ; 1866-67, £60,000. Volage : 1867-68, £45,000. Eight composite gunboats : 1867-68, £120,800. Ten ditto building in dockyards : 1867-68, £150,000. Total : 1867-68, £756,705 ; 1866-67, £154,00 . 0 ; difference, £602,705. Here you have, gentlemen, the half-million of extravagance with which we are charged, and I venture to say we should have deserved impeach. ment if we had not incurred it. Now you see that the whole of this expenditure, to which no considerable section of Parliament attempted to object, was rendered absolutely necessary by the culpable neglect of our predecessors. Much has been said about the extravagance of selling a ship for a small sum and buying back the copper. But you must remember that in this there is no loss. If your ddckyards have space and hands to spare, by all means break them up in the dockyals. But we were obliged to get rid of these encumbrances. The ships were not seaworthy, many of them. Thy were sold to ship-breakers, who obtained the old timber for themselves and some of the useless stores, but resold the old copper to the country at the price of old copper, sthich, being rolled in the metal mills at Chatham, wal scld for £172,144 for the benefit of the country. 01 old ships our predecessors sold in 1865-66, £13,254, In 1866-67, we sold £61,380 ; and in 1867-68. L 72,830. Instead, therefore, of devoting the labour of our dockyards to the useless repair of wooden vessels of au old type, it was devoted to completing such wooden ships as were necessary in time of peace, whilst at the same time continuing with increased activity the completion of our ironclad fleet in onr dockyards, building, fitting, and repairing, for no greater expense, in our dockyard' than had been incurred by our predecessors'. And now, gentlemen, our hostile critics, who have had the audacity to charge us with extravagance, must surely blush when they know that not only is the navy more efficient than it has ever been, but that in every other particular but the building of necessary iron ships, now nearly completed, have we paved the way for great economy. Deptford Dockyard is about to be closed. We have reduced the marines ; we hake reduced the entry of officers into the navy. In one class alone —the paymasters, which is confided to my care—l found my predecessors entering 64 a year. I have only entered 16 a year, and find it enough for the requirements of the service. Nor have we, at the same tinie, with a due regard to economy, neglected the claims of old officersi, though I, for my part, would gladly have wished that the finances of the country would have enabled us to be even more liberal. But we must remember the taxpayer, and be just before we are generous. One class alone — whose claim I have frequently advocated—the reserved captains—had their case scrutinised with the most careful eye. We found that one-half of them—nearly forty—had been unjustly kept from their proper rank and pay. We at once restored them to their proper position ; and though I much regret that a few of my old friends have failed to establish a like claim, yet everything in our power is done to ameliorate their position. And now as regards our fleet abroad. When we came into office the flag of Spain had passed round the world in an ironclad, the Numancia ; on none of our distant stations had one of ours been seen. Now, the Zealous in the Pacific, the Royal Alfred in North America, the Ocean in China, attest the might and majesty of England. In the- Mediterranean the wooden three-decker has been recalled which was there as a flagship, and the flag of the admiral flies on an ironclad, whilst the heavy ships of his squadron are all of that type. At home an ironclad fleet guards your shores, and will do more to defend them than all the boasted fortifications of Mr. Gladstone. And now, having obtained what you wish—efficiency in men and guns and ships—you may look forward to no further increase, but rather to a gradual reduction. Indeed, were it not for the dockyard extension, for which our predecessors are liable, we might at least save £1,000,000 a year, and you may be sure that the reductions we have so carefully commenced will lead to permanent saving. UTILITARIANISM IN CIIINA.—The Chinese aro utilitarians to the utmost degree. Before the death of patients their friends dress them ready for burial, cover their faces with white paper—often an excuse for starving them—remonstrate with them for being so long a time in dying, and impress upon the seriously ill the fact that a hired cart is at the door awaiting their speedy dis solution. Practices so revolting must sooner or later give way before the good work of the mission.—The Lancet. THE NEW COURTS POR THE TRIAL OF ELECTION PETITIONS.--It was announced in the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, by Mr. Justice Keating, that in con• sequence orMr. Justice WilYes being now occupied in the important duty of drawing up and framing rules for the guidance of the courts before which the trials of election petitions is to take place, in accordance with the terms of the Act of Parliament passed during the last session on the subject, that learned judge would not resume his duties in that (the Common Pleas) court during the present term, nor, indeed, was he likely to do so during the ensuing term. The Bishop elect of Peterborough, in his reply to the farewell address presented to him in Cork, said that the time of his parting from his brethren was a grave and criti cal ono in the history of the Church. "It was a time to test the love and the courage of all her children—a time when Rich one of her sons was bound to devote to her service a lefenco whatever of wisdom and of power he possessed," Should the hour of trial and peril for his "spiritual mother, the Church in Ireland," grow darker, ho would rejoice to re member that "she had in her ministers a band of faithful soldiers and servants whom danger and trial were daily drawing into closer brotherhood." THE LATE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS.—The Sport ing Gazette states that the Marquis of Hastings's illneso culminated in " Bright's disease," which accelerated the death of his father and his aunt, and from which he himself had been a sufferer more or less since he was 14 years of age. The Prince of Wales personally called to inquire after the marquis, who had previously received a parti cularly kind note from his Royal Highness, containing a letter of introduction to the Viceroy of Egypt on visiting his dominions. Without wishing to intrude upon the sacred privacy of the chamber of death (observes the journal already quoted) we may state that never was woman's attention more zealous and devotional than that of the Marchioness of Hastings to her husband throughout his illness, during which she scarcely left him for a moment day or night, except to snatch occasional rest and food; and it is a remarkable fact that long after he ceased to take notice of other members of his family and old friends. the stricken invalid did not fail to recognise his wife under most gratifying and touching circumstances. The same Affectionate hands placed a bouquet of scarlet and white camellias in his coffin. Bell's Life understands that the marquis has left a will by which he has bequeathed the whole of his remaining property to his wife, to which Instrument Admiral Yelverton and Mr. raclwick are pppoillted executor's. FOREIGN NOTES. LORD STANLEY'S RIJ3IOCRED PROJECT. The Spectator thinks Mr. Disraeli's vague hint at the Lord Mayor's dinner, that Lord Stanley might success fully act as mediator between France and Prussia, had , really something in it. The announcement has been received with great satisfaction both at Berlin and Paris. If the attempt has really been made, it is certainly most creditable to Lord Stanley's moral courage. The misery produced by the protracted suspense of Europe is incalculable. "We do not exaggerate when we say that the direct loss definable in cash would be scarcely covered by a sixpenny income tax—no slight additional burden to men already taxed ad misericordiam." But the difficulties are all but insuper• able. Besides the fact that a nation of drilled soldiers like Prussia cannot disarm, and that the project is in the nature of things all but an impossibility, there are many other considerations. King William cannot bind himself to reject the adhesion of the Southern States. Napoleon cannot consent to allow these annexations without destroy ing the last remnant of his popularity. The only means of reconciling these radical differences would be by a grant of neutral territory to France such as Lord Stanley would hardly venture to propose or the Prussian Govern ment to sanction. The Spectator cannot believe in the possibility of any arrangement, but if Lord Stanley, who receives direct information from so many Courts, can, by all means let him try. LORD STANLEY ON FOREIGN MATTERS. Lord Stanley's speech at King's Lynn leaves us in some doubt as to the object of Mr. Reverdy Johnson in publish ing a revised edition of his speech, unless it were to modify its tone for American readers. Our Foreign Minister is ex plicit enough. " Now that the American difficulties are dis posed of—as they will be, provided only (which I don't the least doubt) the United States Government and Senate ratify the act of their Minister—we have not a single con troversy or serious dispute with any nation or Government in the world." This puts the nature of the Alabama set tlement beyond dispute, and it appears therefore certain that Mr. Johnson's repentance was suggested chiefly by his confident observations respecting the future impossibility of war between the two countries. Lord Stanley said very little of importance respecting the disarmament question, and that little can hardly be considered encouraging. He had no doubt that the storm which has been hovering over Europe would blow over, that weariness and exhaustion would of themselves bring about disarmament. " We, of course, shall do what we can to bring about that result ; but we shall only do it— we ought only to do it—within certain well-defined limits. The affair of Luxembourg was an exceptional case. We had then an opportunity of gaining a great advantage and of avoiding a great evil to the world with little or no risk to ourselves. But intervention of that kind is cer tainly not a policy which I at least should like habitually to practise." As the intervention which could bring about a disarmament must be far more extensive and difficult than the intervention which settled the Luxembourg affair, this declaration leaves Mr. Disraeli's speech more enigmatical than ever. Lord Stanley's remarks on the state of affairs in the East leave room for no other conclusion than that a catastrophe there is imminent, and may occur any day. SPAIN. Another candidate has at length made his appearance in print. This is Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern, a rela tive of the King•of Prussia, and the son-in-law of Dom Ferdinand of Portugal. The Daats says Prim is opposed to this selection, but Serrano is in favour of it. It adds that the candidature is making more progress than has been hitherto supposed. The gracious words spoken by King William at the opening of the Prussian Parliament must be attributed to his desire to strengthen Prussia in that quarter of Europe. It would certainly be a grand coup to seat a Prussian prince on the throne of Spain, if it could be done without a war with France. Prince Leopold is 33 years of age. The Liberte says that Protestant churches and Jewish synagogues are being constructed in all parts of the king dom. At Amposta two of these edifices are nearly finished. Lord Mayor was happy in his allusion to the Atlantic Cable, hoping that " the vibrations of the needle at either end of that cable would prove a faithful index of the beating in unison of American and English hearts on all questions where liberty and the rights of conscience were concerned." Then his lordship continued :—" Desiring to cultivate the most intimate and cordial relations with America, they were glad to welcome among them on the pre sent occasion the representative of the United States. He trusted that the union between the two countries would be firm and lasting, and that this would be regarded not as a menace to other Powers, but as an example of the relations which ought to subsist in the family of nations." In response, Mr. Johnson spoke with his usual boldness, and with that disregard to the strength of the position he assumed which gentlemen often take who occupy a platform where they cannot be answered. He stated, with great truth and force, that when the two nations became separated, it was because the men of America believed, as the mea of England at the present day acknowledge, that the principles of English freedom not only justified but demanded the separation. But is it true " that so far from injuring, the separation has served only to increase the power and prosperity of England?" That thirty millions of a very energetic people, favourably situated on the globe, and with the wealth accumulated during centuries, should have advanced, notwithstanding the separation, cannot surprise ; but we very much doubt whether the sepa ration can be said to have increased the prosperity. Certainly not in the first instance, for the tendency of the greater country is to absorb the lesser, but the seat of Anglo-Saxon Government would eventually have been placed had the countries remained com bined in America. Yet up to that time England would have gained materially at the expense of her colony, for we know that the drain of the wealth acquired in the province is towards the mother country—the most successful colonists returning to England, while their places are supplied by the broken down and used up of the fatherland. No laws could do this so effectually as the customs of so ciety, although as America grew in wealth and popu lation, those born on the soil being attached to their own place of nativity, the eventual result must have been to turn England into the colony, and Amerida i ento,th seat of Empire ; yet, during the many generations before this could be effected, England would have vastly benefited at the expense of Ame-. rica. People assert that because a great tide of prosperity set in for the Anglo-Saxon family not many years after the separation therefore the sepa ration must be the cause, and as ruin had been predicted to the empire Englishmen were agree ablfastonished at such a result, while the material prosperity of both branches was simply owing to their own industry, and the great breadth of the earth's:surface open to their enterprise. The sepa ration, .instead of increasing, has in a measure neutralised the strength of each, for they have never been allies, while in great wars they have been enemies. Mr. Johnson said without hesitation that not only was England one with the United States, but that the North and South having settled their differences were one with each other ! We are very happy to receive such an assurance from so high an authority, and we hopo that General Grant will be able to repeat it with sincerity ere his first Presidential term expiies. But the boldest of Mr. Johnson's assertions, and that we most wish was really true, is contained in the following remarks : " And if, in the future, diplomatic negotiations should be conducted in the same spirit with which the noble lord and myself have carried on our nego tiations, I say, in presence of you all, and in pre sence Of the world, that in the future, wars will be impossible. And what we have done will demon strate this. From 1846 to the present time, from one cause or another, there were in all that inter mediate time clouds which alarmed the people of both countries. ` We have managed, as you will soon discover, to remove those clouds and to leave nothing upon either nation but the undimmed sun shine of peace. And Without meaning to disparage the achievements of armies or of navies—achieve ments which we, in common with yourselves, have honoured, whether they be those in which your own arms or ours were concerned—l make bold to say that if diplomacy in the future be so conducted that war cannot occur, the rank of diplomacy will be as high, perhaps higher, than it has ever been. And, what is still more important, that which we, my brothers and colleagues, may achieve will be un dimmed by the horrors of the battle-field, and will receive the grateful thanks of our compeers, of all the human race who are alive to the duty which men and nations owe to each other."* What Mr. John son has overlooked is, that diplomacy has got little or nothing to do in general with the cause of wars. It is easy now to negotiate on the subjects left in dispute by the war, but had Mr. Johnson tried it at the time of the war, or immediately on its close, he would have found but little of the honey he can now extract from a Lord Mayor's Banquet or a Cutlers' Feast. Take a great Constitutional lai yer like Reverdy Johnson, long trained to the discusSion of politics in Congress, and States man bred like Lord Stanley, equally trained to political discussion, place both wholly be yond outside influence, and they will soon arrive at a fair adjustment, and this is what his Excellency means. But are these gentlemen or other diplomatists often likely to be so placed ? There are such things as national prejudice, na tional irritation, folly, and injustice, when a John son or a Stanley might as well talk to the winds as to their people, when sober and wise counsels are trodden under the feet of an excited multitude. This makes war ; and the easier the longer the peace; when the people remember less of its war's horrors, which otherwise act as a strov sedative. When England last year was beginning tb feel bit ' terly the support given in the United States to Fe nianism, after the civilized world had been horrified by the outrage at ClerkenWell and the attempt to invade a friendly colony during a time of peace, Mr. Johnson himself in the Senate, on a petition being presented by Senator Sherman from the City Council of Cincinnati asking for protection for American citizens abroad, said, that war could only be avoided by negotiation, when the demand of the Fenian prisoners to be tried by a mixed jury had been denied. It was then that Mr. Seward undertook to lecture England on her mode of treating these " patriots ;" and we have little doubt that at that moment the nations were on a volcano which an article in the London Times only was required to explode. The humour since then, however, has changed, and no opportunity could be bet ter for the settlement of the irritating questions in dispute. To this Mr. Adams paved the way, and Mr. Reverdy Johnson has taken the position by storm. He is singularly well qualified for the mission on which he is sent, with his bold, outspoken declarations, though they will not stand a close in vestigation. Mr. Disraeli was, as usual, happy in his remarks. He has always managed to discuss American questions with judgment and discretion, and presents in this a favourable contrast to his great rival, Mr. Gladstone. He spoke of the rela tions last year as being supposed to be full not only of anxiety, but even of peril ; but still he was able to reassure them, grounding his confidence in the good sense and good humourof the citizens of the United States, who were, in truth, then for the first time examining the questions. In remarking on their " good humour," he really selected the distin guishing trait of the American character, yet sin gularly enough that least understood in Eng land. However tall an American may talk when he gets into his high faluten strain, he is in re ality the best tempered and most easily mollified of men ; and it is this fact which is little taken into account in diplomacy, though it will make the United States an easy country to deal with when its power, as is anticipated, overshadows the world. Even the Red Indians, who lately perpetrated so many atrocities, have a strong party to protect their interests, and to guard them from retaliation in the Northern .States. Mr. Disraeli, with his usual penetration, seized on the right point, and, that Americans really have no sympathy with Fenianism, is best shown in the late elections, where they dropped into an insignificance, which has naturally excited the wrath of George Francis Train, who in * Since the above was written another version of this f3pcocli has Don Given. GERMANY. Lord Loftus, the British Ambassador at Berlin, has left that city for London. Some political importance is attached to this journey, undertaken as it is at such a season, and at the moment when the Prussian Ambassador in London has just returned to his post. THE AUSTRIAN ARMY BILL. This measure has not only passed through the Lower House of the Reichsrath, but has encountered none of the opposition that was expected. No modification of any importance has been made. It was attempted to change the war total of the army from 800,000 to 600,000, but this proposition failed. The clause by which the Reichsrath surrenders its right to alter the figure of the annual contingent for ten years, was passed by more than three to one. Yet it was at this stage of the measurt that the greatest opposition was expected ; the Hungarians are said to be favourable to it. At least the measure is secure now. THE NINTH NOVEMBER IN LONDON. ... , From the Anglo-American Times.) The Lord Mayor's Show is a great sight, and the Lord Mayor's Banquet is better still. Both were instituted by the of polloi exclusively for their own ;inastitdances the victims benefit—the Show for the " common people," the the dinner for their riff b - o r t a t ff ers. o " f I L n on b d o o th n immo lated are those who have attained to distinction and high posts. The servant girl who gets a holiday, and dresses herself to see the procession, extracts from it an enjoyment denied to Mr. Sheriff Cotton in his State c hariot, preceded by four trumpeters, and attended by his chaplain. In the days when men in real armour adorned the procession, when the challenger rode proudly with his lance erect, no- one derived such enjoyment as the "Arabs," as the vagrant boys are called, over The bodies of these, gallant knights strewn in the street, which had resounded when the impostor Jenks, better fitted to show his.calves behind the State Coach, fell heavily to the ground. The accidents to the people in armour caused them, we presume, to be discontinued ; and the " Arabs" ceased to rejoice at the discomfiture of the men-at-arms. But, although efforts have been made to discontinue the pageant, it lives as too good a city custom to be easily set aside, while the Banquet not only lives, but flourishes. Formerly when the Show was not art old institution it was more necessary than now to amuse the " common people," and their tastes were consulted. At present the necessity is to con sult the tastes of the upper portions of the middle classes, and therefore the banquet thrives. The Dukes of Cambridge and Wellington, and their other lordships ; the Ministers and Ambassadors who had to speak, are little likely to enjoy the Lord Mayor's feast, notwithstanding its turtle soup and sparkling wines, as such a preparation is not that best calculated to clear ideas, and to speak with caution, is inculcated by theknowledge that the world is the audience, and not the decanters around the table. The case, however, is very different with the decanters—we mean the gentlemen—who have merely to eat, to drink, and to listen. They may indulge t, their hearts' content in unaccus tomed luxury, satisfying themselves that they are in the height of good society, dining with a Royal Duke, with a Prime Minister as actor, and a Lord Mayor as showman. It is for this reason that these public dinners flourish. To the " honoured guest" they must . be a trial, however enjoyable to the "un distinguished," and the more nonsense the former talk the better pleased are the latter, who have not in their sober moments the next morning to face the daily papers. If report has not belied Disraeli he can first discuss a magnum and then a Bill ; but few are thus gifted, and the turtle soup and claret atmosphere is too exhilarating to be the arena of common sense. In dealing, then, with speeches made at banquets, this fact should always be borne in mind. The Lord Mayor, after asserting that the health of the Queen else where than in the City of London was regarded as a formal toast, went on to propose the Army, with whom he associated the name of his Royal High ness the Commander-in-Chief, believing every sol dier to be nerved to greater exertion by the know ledge that a Prince of the Royal family took an interest in his welfare, and was desirous of improv ing his condition. Reasoning from analogy, we would scarcely conclude that the health of her Majesty was a formal toast if the British soldier thus glowed with ardent patriotism on the know ledge that a Prince of the Royal family condescended to preside at the Horse Guards, and take an inte rest in his welfare, associating that interest with large drafts on the Treasury. His lordship may have expressed the general feeling of the British Army, though individuals of that service have the presumption to utter opinions the reverse. We are, however, more concerned with what his lordship had to say about America, and the response of his Excellency the American Minister. Mr. Johnson was selected to respond ter the Ambassadors. The ra demand, but at full prices. I n woo ll ens t h ere i s no t muc his last Saturday's Extra, writing of his own defeat and alluding to the next Presidential term, says the one million of Irish Americans who hold the balance of power "will elect in 1872, President of America, one native American who never joined his country men in calling ten millions of the Celtic race there, Damned Irishmen!" MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Repnblican, Oct. 31.) As we predicted last week, the clique which has been engaged in locking up greenbacks at New York has not let the business community off so quickly or so easily aslit did a month ago. Not only have the greenbacks not come back again, but there have been further large withdrawals, and certain banks remain in the unenviable, and one would think uncomfortable position of having palpably abused their franchise, and joined in a criminal conspiracy to plunder the business community, for which it is their duty impartially to provide a currency, for the benefit of a greedy and corrupt clique. The New York papers men tion eleven banks which are notoriously connected with stock operations. Those which have been the largest creditors at the clearing house the last week, and hence presumably in complicity with the bear clique, are four— the Union, Republic,Commonwealth, and Fourth National. Of these the Bank of the Commonwealth, which has for a week been a daily creditor at the Clearing-house to the extent of from one and a half to two and a half millions of dollars, on a capital of half a million, receives the greatest share of the blame. There is a great and in creasing indignation of this abuse of banking privileges, which, in connection with the settled hostility of the West, is seriously imperilling the national system, and is not un likely to arouse practical opposition of the gravest kind at the next session of Congress. Many of the banks, however, have shown great alacrity in accommodating the public during the present strin gency. The Bank of Commerce came forward on Wed nesday and surrendered a million and a half of Three per Cent. Certificates, in order to increase its facilities for loans. Altogether on Tuesday and Wednesday the Trea surer crushed three millions and a half of these certifi cates, the greenbacks received being at once let out for the relief of the community. The banks have naturally been very reluctant to take this step, as they receive interest on the certificates, while counting them as a part of their reserve. The Secretary of the Treasury, moreover, un derstands the law to require him to cancel them whenever they have been received for greenbacks in thie way, so that, every time the banks consent to make this sacrifice for the purpose of public accommodation, they are per manently reducing the amount of these certificates, while it is for their interest to keep that amount good. It also amounts ultimately to a contraction of the currency, for the sake of a temporary relief. There is in consequence a call for some arrangement by which the Three per Cents. shall be received in settlements at the Clearing-house, as the loan certificates were during the rebellion, superseding the necessity of sending them in to the Treasury. During the week call loans have remained at 7 per cent. as the minimum; and from that up to 7 per cent. in gold, with a heavy commission, in addition, on miscel laneous securities. The demand-is urgent, and paper of all kinds is seen on the street. At Boston, the stringency continues in full force. Few of the banks can supply all their customers ; and outside paper is not looked at. There is no regularity in rates, everything depending on the ne cessities and character of the applicant. Call loans on Governments are still made at 7 per cent. in currency. At Philadelphia, legal tenders and deposits, together, show a decrease of a million from last week. At Cincinnati, the pressure for loans continues. Depositors are generally ac commodated at 9 to 10 per cent. First class paper in the open market has to pay 12 per cent.; and prime to good names are readily obtained at 15 to 18 per cent. The same condition exists at Chicago, and at the other money centres at the West. Generally, it may said that money is tight, all over the country ; but, except for the clique operations at Now York, no more so than belongs to this season of the year. The Chicago Tribune, we think, very justly attributes the pressure in that city solely to the unwise and hopeless attempt to keep grain back from the market, and so escape the in evitable fall in prices. It says :—" At those banks which have the largest lines of grain accounts, money is reported as being very tight, while at the bank which has the largest line of mercantile accounts in this city, we are told that they have not yet turned away a dollar of first-class paper offered for discount, whether by one of their regu lar depositors or not, and all of the banks say that they have been able, thus far, to accommodate all of their regu lar customers to the full limit to which they are entitled to credit. Aside from the increased demand for money to hold grain here just at this time, and the increase of real estate paper, there is no more demand for money than is usual at this season of the year." This is what the cry of " More currency" from the West has always meant; and this is the way in which it has been used to "move the crops." 'Gold has tended downward during the week, closing, however, higher. The secretary, haying completed his ten days' sales, according to announcement, is now going through with a programme for five days more, the daily amount offered being the same. This is progress in the wrong direction. If, after getting through the ten days, he had published his intentions for twenty days instead of five, it would have been going the right way towards a definite scheme for the disposal of the surplus. The m porters generally disown the memorial forwarded last week to the secretary, asking a discontinuance of the public sales ; and profess themselves satisfied with the present plan. Governments are off from three-eighths to seven-eighths per cent., except ten-forties, which stand at the figures of a week ago. The firmness with which these bonds have maintained their position in the general catastrophe is the bast tribute to their intrinsic value, and a sure indication of their speedy advance. In the stock market the movement has been pretty much one way. There has been a general knocking off at almost every point, owing to the continued pressure for money. Compared with the closing figures of last week, New York Central is off 41, Erie 8-1, Preferred 5, Reading Milwaukie and St. Paul sk, Preferred sk, Toledo and Wabash 21, Michigan Southern 21, Clevelan d and Pittsburg 11, Chicago and North Western If, Fort Wagne 21. Ex press stocks are all off except American, as are State bonds, except Tennessee. The feature of the week has been the fall in Erie, owing to tge scandalous conspiracy, of its own officers to destroy its credit and ruin the stockholders, This they have effected both through the fashionable device of locking up greenbacks per favour of the Bank of the Commonwealth, and by threatening a new issue of convertible bonds, under the wretched old pretence of improving their track. It a pp e ars that, since the conclusion of the Vanderbilt litigations, ten millions of convertible bonds have been issued, of which five millions }Ave already been converted into common stock, raising the amount to $39,500,000, and the remaining five millions are " coming." In addi tion to this, $3,000,000 will be needed to lay the third rail." The President, also, still further keeps up the spirit of the shareholders, by expressing fears that the com pany will not be able to meet its acceptances on the Ist of January, and will have to go into the hands of a receiver. No wonder the stock went down like lead, and orders to sell on English account became so numerous that bankers have refused to receive it as a collateral at any price. The management of the Erie road for years has been an un speakable disgrace to the country, and ought to be cor rected by legislative interference, since the judiciary have failed so signally at applying a remedy. The West continues to keep back its grain, and the re sources of the banks are strained to enable operators to carry their stocks. The same expectation of bringing up prices at the sea-board is inducing the farmers to hold on. They have already seen wheat go down thirty to forty per cent on their hands, and they are still labouring under the delusion that they shall recover it all from "that rise." It would take a great deal more than the difference between the prices to-day and those of six weeks ago to make any live farmer good. As for the operators in grain, they have, as it was evident they would, found their load quite too heavy to carry. Raving made themselves and the whole business community dreadfully uncomfortable for a fort night, and checked all the natural movements of trade, they now find themselves obliged to drop their loads vary unceremoniously. The idea of carrying such a crop was absurd to start with. The particular reason for the fall this week was that the Western banks, having been "ac commodating" long enough, have not only refused fur ther assistance, but have begun to call in money borrowed by holders of grain. This has caused large quantitieS to be thrown on the market. The price reached this week, for wheat—sl.ls for No. 2 spring at Chicago—is believed to be somewhere near bottom, and shipments are taking place more freely. The close of navigation is so near that holders must be content with what they can get. The hog crop will soon be coming in at Chicago and Cincin nati ; and those cities will need all the funds they can command to carry on their operations in pork. The crop for the year is estimated at . 3,000,000 head, which, at pre sent values, will yield $60,000,000; but indications e that there will be a considerable reduction in prices. The market for pork and lard is equally unsettled West and East, and nothing is certain except a loss. The receipts of cotton in the week have been largely in advance of those for the same week of 1866 or 1867. The total receipts since September 1, the opening of the cotton year, are fully 70 per cent. above those of last year, and 60 per cent. above those of 1866. The increase is chiefly at Galveston and Now Orleans. The export con tinues light, though better than for last year. The ship ments to France show a great increase, chiefly from New Orleans to Havre. The late reports from crop continue favourable. The weather is clear and warm, and the ten dency is to higher figures for the aggregate. The latest reports from England place the final result of the harvest there as more favourable than expected, yet with a most unprecedented deficiency in all kinds of fodder. .Large amounts should go for ward from this country. It is quite time that the restrictions on American baled hay should be taken off at British ports, and the increasing scarcity of feed must soon bring it about. The market for dry goods remains quiet, without much doing, but with no material change in prices. Prints generally are off half a cent a yard. Ohirtinge and ateetinga are in very limited doing. Foreign fab r i cs rema i n depressed. y.v Money was less active. Early in the day loans were made at 7 per cent. and / per cent. commission, but at noon borrowers wore fully supplied at currency interest with large balances offered at that rate at the close. The Treasury Department paid large checks for coin interest interest, due November 1, and to-morrow will pay all appli cants. The sudden ease in money is due partially from the face that Mr. M'Culloch has stated that the banks who under the present lock may have felt called upon to trench upon their reserve in order to assist their cus tomers will not be molested. The banks also, have been lenders to-day, knowing they can replace all they lent with gold from the Sub-Treasury. Sterling Exchange is quite active at quotations :—London, 60 days, 1091 to 1091; London, sight, 110/ to 1101 ; Paris, long, 5.15 to 5.14 ; Paris, short, 5.12/ to 5.111; Antwerp, 5.161 to 5.15 ; Swiss, 5.161 to 5.15 ; Hamburg, 36 to 361; Amsterdam, 41 to 41i ; Frankfort, 41 to 41/ ; Bremen, 791 to 79/ ; Berlin; 711 to 711. The transactions at the office of the Assistant Treasurer were :—Receipts for Customs, $397,000 ; Re ceipts for Gold Notes, $135,000; Total Receipts $1,370,114 14; Total Payments, $2,079,10145; Balance $92,041,90002. (From the Aew York Tribune.) , NEW YORK, Friday Evening, Oct. 31. Government Bonds were active throughout the day with heavy transactions in all classes. The 67's w ere in sharp demand to cover shorts by sellers at low prices as well as by investors. At the close prices were firm. CLOSING PRICES. PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon .. to Sixes, 1881, coupon ll4 to 1141 . U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series — to Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 — to U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 — to - CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 95 Chi. &N. W. Ist M N. Y. Central Os, 1887... Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex. N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 90 Gt. Western 2d M '93 Bo+ N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 90 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M 100 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876... Gal. & Chic. Ext 100 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 ...124 Gal. & Chic. 2d 31 N. Y. Can. 7s, '65-'76 ...121 Chi. &R. I. Ist M 100 Erie Ist Mort, Ex — Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 — Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund...loo+ Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 B9 N. J. Central Ist M — Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880... 87 NJ. Central 2d M. — Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888... 81 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M.lOO Long Dock. Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist 31, '77 92 Pitts. Ft. W. &Ch. 3d M. Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 100/ Cleve. & Pitts. '2d M 92 Hud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75...101 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc 92 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72...103 Chic. & Alton, S.F.lstM 100 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 114+ Mil. & St. Paul Ist M... 9 3 1 Mich. new Ist 3/I Bs, 'B2 114+ Mil. & St. Paul 2d ff... -- Mich. So., 7p.c. 2d Marietta & Cin. Ist M... N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B 98+ Morris & Essex Ist M... 100 Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c.lol Morris & Essex 2d M... 8 9 111. Cen. 7p. c, '7O 116+ Joilet & Chic. Ist H... &T. H. Ist 31 94 Chi. & GLEast'nlstM... Alton &T.H. 2d pfd N. Y. &N. H. 65......... Alton &T.IL2d M. Inc. Dubuque &S. Han.& S t.J . Land War t 5.105 Peninsula Ist 3I Han. & St. J. Con 100 Ohio & Miss. Ist 31 — Chi. B. Sr Q., Ist M 112 Ohio & Miss. Con Chi. & N. West, S. F.... 9 ,1 f Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D — Chi. &N. W. Con Cony. 95 Atlantic &G. W. Ist M Chi. & N. W. Ex'n (From Messrs. Satterthumite's Circular.) LONDON, Nov. 11, 1868. The course of the markot in London for • American securities during the past week has been marked by some fluctuations. The United States 5-20 Bonds of 186 9 , which closed this day week at 74i to 1, gave way, on the stringency of money in New York to 73i; from this point there has been a rally to 74, chiefly on'the pacific, character of the American Minister's recent speeches-- they close a shade easier at 73i to 4, and the 5-20's of 1865 —721 to I. Illinois Shares have been niore freely offered titan for some time past, sellers having accepted 964, and even 9 6 ; being a decline of 11 per cent. on the week. In Erie shares the transactions have been on a large scale, the public here having absorbed the importations from New York as fast as received. The result shows a considerable bull account in them on the settlement to day, which, however, has been readily adjusted, the con tango ruling from 3d. to 6d. per share ' • they close 26i to it being a decline of per cent. during the week. The lower quotations of Atlantic and Great Western Divisional Bonds have brought in some buyers of Firs t Mortgages; the Seconds, however, are neglected. Coast'', lidated Bonds remain firm at 38k to 39. For Income Bona Scrip 25 has been bid without inducing sales. The bonds of the Pacific Central Railroad, bearing per cent. interest, payable in gold, are offering here al about 70, and those of the Union Pacific, bearing similar rate of interest, are to be had at about 69. These securities have been freely taken in America, and to some extent on the continent, but up to the present time only a - few hays been taken in this market. Besides the security of a First Mortgage on the railroad, there is this advantage, dial the United States furnish, in Government Bonds, one the estimated cost, taking Second Mortgage Bonds of the companies in exchange. A citizen of St. Louis bas made a gift of 20 0 acres of land to that city for a public park, the only COn" dition being that the city shall expend a certain sum in improving it. Cincinnati is crowing over Chicago because she is able to poll 9,000 more votes than that city. Chicago retaliates by charging that the 9,000 votes are "fraucin lent." - The United States Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco shipped on October 23 half a million of gold to the Secretary of the Treasury at Washington, making total of $8,000,000 of gold sent to the Treasury of the United States since the lst of January, 1868. M'Donald, Anti-Union, has been elected to the Parliament from the Inverness District of Nova Scotia. The Secretaries of the Dominion Provinces are to confe r with the Privy Council, at Ottowa, on the subject of colo nization and immigration. A citizen of Pittsburg has given $50,000 to build a home for shoeblacks and newsboys in that city. A lady in Baltimore has sent the Secretary of th e Treasury two cents, telling him that the compound iritl 3 i rest on it in a thousand years will pay the national de and save the country from the crime of repudiation. THE IRISHMAN AND THE NEGRO.—Ex-Goyern or Briggs, of Massachusetts, used to relate the follovidl which a correspondent avers has no t b een i n p r i n t : —" .the old stage-coach days an Irishmaun was travelling is New England. Arriving late at the town where they w°.: to spend the night, P a t di scovere d, t o hi s di sma y, that WI only chance for sleep was t o s h are th e couc h o f a colour brother. The natural repugnance of his race made hi l l loth to accept the sit ua ti on , b u t, ver y ti re d, h e s ubtnitte. o with as good a grace as possible. In the night 8 0111 „ mischievous boys blackened his face. In the morn fifteen miles were to be travelled before breakfast. °, ll , Celtic friend was awakened just in time to spring into carriage as it was moving off. At their stopping. place 1 1 fouud no convenience for washing. Stepping up t° glass to arrange his hair, he started back in borr o o exclaiming, Be jabers, you've woke that dirty nagur, left me 15 miles behint !' "—Harper's Monthly. [ADVERTISEMENT.] -Holloway's Pills.—With the dark" ening days and changing temperature the digestion boor: impaired, the bowels disordered, and the mind despondent , less the causes of the irregularity be expelled from the blood body by an alterative like these Pills. They go direetly to tiw , F ource of the evil, thrust out all impurities from the c irculatil reduce distempered organs to their natural state, a n d correct defective or contaminated secretions. Such easy means of stituting health, strength, and cheerfulness should be in the P ° l session of all whose stomachs are weak, whose minds are re .. °; harassed, or whose brains are overworked. Holloway's is e s ! . . tially a blood-tempering medicine, whereby its influence, re ing the remotest fibre of the frame, effects a universal good. vale [A.DVRRYISENENT.]—Henceorth no one will doubt the Ya. b ob properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Ara ia s Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bless so it has already received from Invalids whose position hitd, b r ,pe, deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Yo of whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty 9°7 m — do unsuccessful medical treatment. 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" I ": c eiP' and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on ,"'"' / I o Post Office Order.—BAßßY DU BARRY and CO., Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists. • scrs, London : Printed and Published by WiLLIAS A:, ll r 11 2 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tao SU N 03133, 0' " a Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, S I " ( KiC 141000 ;""ZOnanYI NoTerabor 16, _lB6O. Births. HOOD—On the 13th inst., at 40, South- street, Par k-Isll6 I !the Viscountess Hood, of a son. y f f g SOAMES—On the 10th inst., at Hawkshead, Herts, Soames, of a son. Or e ' THURSDY—Oa the 11th inst., at Leighton Hall, Shr ° r s the wife of Major T. Legh Thursby, of a daughter. Marriages. FORBES —HALLEN—On the 12th inst., at St. John'B copal Church, Alloa, N. 8., Rear-Admiral T 01;nc)r e o toll to Anne Leonora, daughter of the late Rev. Wt Hallen. ObV KNIGHT —WILDEN—On the 11th inst., at St. Pan„ 2 ; frtv . pel, Samuel Knight, of 16, Maitland-park Iri110"0. 0. verstock-hill, to Helen, eldest daughter of the la city. Wilden, Esq., of Leighton-road,: and Mark -lane, Deaths. kgh iret BLAND—On the 12th inst., at Houghton Hall, "P r „, i o l -'• the Hon. Apollonia Nary, widow of the late T 11° " - Bland, Esq., of R 4 pax -park, Yorkshire, aged 8 3 . or & FURNELL—On the 12th inst. ; Charles Furnell, 3 1 (.) market, aged 42. nigh t " KNIGHT—On the 9th inst., at Tamworth, William Esq., solicitor. h P 3ritt Mansx—On the Bth inst., at Sutton, near Sandwi°- Richard Marsh, aged 86. 5 - c Tic di hr),