The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS. The Times says : When Dr. Pusey appeals for sympathy and help to the Wesleyan Conference his case must be in extremis. We may think, indeed, that the sincerity and earnestness which are apparent in Dr. Pusey's letter encountered rather a harsh rebuff from the Conference; yet it is impossible to be surprised at such a recep tion. It is the first fruits, in fact, of that change in the attitude of the Wesleyans towards the Church of England on which we have lately commented. But even the strange spectacle of Dr. Pusey appealing to Wesleyans is not so expressive of extremity as the sub stance of his letter. He despairs of maintaining the existing state of things, and proposes " to substitute for subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles an acknowledg ment of the faith according to the Nicene Creed." This, he adds, would admit to all the privileges and fellow ships of the University "any members of Dissenting bodies who hold the common creed of Christendom, such as you hold, and such as, at least, the Particular Baptists and the Independents hold ; all Dissenters, in fact, who have not lapsed into Socinianism." And what is one of the great dangers which this proposal is to avert? It is "to prevent our future clergy seeking their education elsewhere, as in France ;" and the example of the roman Catholic bishops, who Law.) withdrawn their candidates for orders from the University of Paris, is held up as a warning in point. Are we to understand, then, that Dr. Pusey would have comparatively little objection to seeing the clergy brought up under Wesleyan, Independent, Baptist, or Presbyterian influences ? Dr. Pusey, in short, has done his best to bring the matter to this issue—that, as a matter of fact, all religions and all irreligions must be allowed a place within the University, and the only question is whether they shall all be invested with the authority and support of the State, or left to find their own level. We are not now pronouncing a judgment on this alternative, nor arguing for or against Mr. Cole ridge's bill. But, if this be the last card in Dr. Pusey's hand, it is difficult not to conclude that the game is " played out." The Post comments on the relations between the War Office and the Commander-in Chief. With the rapid march of democratic ideas, and the sanction and support they have received from the last Reform Bill, it is more than probable that before long a feeling will make itself felt that the national army should be placed even more completely than it is at present under the absolute control of the national rulers chosen by the Legislature, and that the Commander-in-Chief should be declared distinctly to be no more than a lieutenant of the Secretary at War as com pletely as the commander-in•chief of the police is a lieu tenant of the Home Secretary. The Post alludes to the dis pute between Lord Palmerston and Sir David Dundas on the question of authority in the matter of finance, and con siders that the question remains in an unsatisfactory condi tion. The Daily Koes believes the well-known line of Juvenat will recur to the memory of many Englishmen to-day when they hear of the great Conservative demonstration which is to take place in the people's palace at Sydenham. But Juvenal only imagined the Gracchi complaining of sedition, while we have actually before us a political party, which has denounced " demonstrations " as unconstitutional, resorting to a demonstration in pre tended defence of the Constitution itself. The noblemen, gentlemen, and reverend divines who are trying to gather a mob to-day are probably inspired with the belief that there is, after all, a certain value in that parade of force and numbers which they have hitherto affected to despise. There has probably been some little misgiving among them as to their success in this particular direction ; for the " pulpit drum eccle siastic" has been beaten in a thousand parishes ; the fiery cross has been sent over the length and breadth of the land, the quiet of ducal residences has been disturbed, the slumber of country parsonages has been broken, the repose of academic shades has been invaded, that all the lovers of the Church, the Throne, and the Constitution may be rallied to a new Thermopylae beneath the crystal roof at Sydenham. This attempt to make political capital for a faction out of English loyalty is impudent enough, but the attempt to turn English Protestant feeling to party account is the last impertinence of passion or despair. The supporters of a Government which would have endowed Popery raising the "No Popery" cry ; the pretended friends of Protes tantism keeping the heavy load of Irish injustice bound upon its back ; the noisy defenders of Throne, Church, and Constitution agitating to keep half the kingdom in a state of chronic discontent and subdued insurrection ; the thing would seem to be impossible had not Mr. Disraeli's appearance as the defender of the faith rendered all things likely. According to the Herald, the cry of " Measures, no men," will hardly be heard in the coming election. The Badicals, who have so much need to use it, have already renounced its employment under pain of repudia tion and excommunication by Mr. Glyn. Every Radical candidate must protest, in the first place, his unqualified, unquestioning submission to Mr. Gladstone. Acceptance of Mr. Gladstone's leadership, of course, assumes a readi ness—nay, a burning desire to disestablish and disendow the Irish Church ; but a candidate who would carefully avoid any allusion to the Irish Church in his address would be cordially accepted by the local party leaders, who take their cue from Mr. Glyn, and by the party organs if he only protested with sufficient vehemence his admiration of the member for South Lancashire, whilst no thoroughness and emphasis of declaration upon the subject of the Irish Church, or upon other questions in which the party is supposed to take a lively interest, would compensate for the confession of doubts as to Mr. Gladstone's fitness to lead the party. The Herald is prepared to fight the battle on personal merit, and drop ping the question of the Irish Church, investigates the claims of Mr. Gladstone's party. As a Chancellor of tho Exchequer, for his exploits in which capacity Mr. Glad stone's admirers principally reverence him, he is notorious for most outrageous bungling, which has cost the country large sums of money ; and it may 1)3 asserted of him, without hesitation, that he never made a plain, straightforward, and workable proposal. There will be the old and used-up nonentities, Lord Clarendon and Mr. Villiers, Mr. Cardwell and the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Milner Gibson and Lord Stanley of Alder. ley. Perhaps, Lord Halifax. Lord Russell will meddle and muddle again as Foreign Secretary or as a Minister without portfolio, and the only change will be that the ising " young men " of the party, of whom, without any disrespect it may be said that the barrenness of the party is their opportunity, Mr. Forster and Mr. Stans feld, may get places in the Cabinet. The Times thinks the revelations recently made respect. ing the disastrous condition of the Cr&lit Foncier may possibly have taken some of the innocent outside public by surprise, but there could not have been a business man in the City who had not long ago discovered that, weighed in the proper commercial balances, the company would be found lamentably wanting. Indeed, it requires no special knowledge of commercial matters or genius for finance to see that the undertaking was radically unsound. A very ordi nary acquaintance with the principles of human nature might have shewn that it contained at least one vital flaw, in itself sufficient to sap the whole concern. The company was constantly engaged in speculation which was on the fate of it peculiarly precarious. It was its special business to mix itself up in the concerns of just those very companies which any ordinary capitalist would studiously avoid—companies usually in a dangerous, sometimes in a desperate, condition—sinking them selves, and ready to clutch at any straw, or drag down with them under water the first hand held out to support them. He must indeed be a clever man of business who can tell what a company in this drowning condition is really worth—how much life there is left in it to speculate upon, or what may be the exact marketable value of any fragment of the miscel laneons mass of shares, bills, loans, debentures which it is ready to barter for immediate relief. One thing, at any rate, would seem perfectly clear. Whoever goes to the rescue should have, as far as possible, an unbiassed judg ment and a cool head ; or whatever bias he has should be on the side of caution. He ghoul' feel that he has far snore to lose than to gain by being over-adventurous. It is amusing to see with what curious completeness the fili:trd:hiders of the Cr&lit Foncier contrived to reverse very obvious tactics. Could even Socrates dispas sionately weigh the value of "stuff" if he got several thousands in hard money for merely looking at it frorr another point of view—a many-sided, versatile intellect can always do this—and regarding it as " profits?" Yet the shareholders of the Cr6dit Foncier did this in sober earnest; they staked, in some instances, their own bread and that of their wives and children, while the managing director, whose virtue they thus tempted, was not r:3tides, or Socrates, but Mr. Albert Grant. The Daily theirs criticises the action for libel in the case of Cie National Bank of Dublin and London, and the c vidence broulit up. No institution that lives by credit can afford to take a speculative position, and nothing can be more fatal to the name and prosperity of any banking catablislarent than the biief that its funds are used for market jol,bing, or that those who preside over it cecnpy the (10:11,1e poiition of banker and promoter. Tile of a bank holding the deposits of the public with the ilisreouttße " financing; " of the last few ‘,.ears is utterly in , 'eftns:ble. Imagine s , a:h houses as Couits's or Glyn s uniting with "the Cr:.:dit Foricier and Mobilier of Eng land" to float bubble companies. More dillicult is it to imagine that such an establishment as the National Bank Elsaild be allied even in name to such doubtful schemes as the Imperial Land Company of Marseilles, the Lundy Granite Company and the Peruvian Railways Company, &c. By some mysterious ledgerdemain, these schemes were made for a very brief period to appear successful but where are they now? The answer is very easy • they never had any re a l ex i stence ; the market was " rigged " by somebody, anti from these facts, whoever or what eve r the cause, follows the depreciated value of the National Bank as a property, and this unfortunate suit at law. , 1111111111■1 11111111 THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER. The Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the newly-accredited Minister to England from the United States, with his wife and family, arrived at Southampton on Saturday morning in the North German Lloyd steamship Balti more, Captain W. Voeckler, which vessel left Baltimore on the afternoon of the Ist inst. On landing, the distin guished party proceeded to the Dolphin Hotel, in the High-street, where Mr. Johnson determined to remain for a day or two to enjoy a little repose and rest, Mrs. Johnson being somewhat fatigued by the voyage. The hon. gentleman, on leav ing Baltimore, was escorted down the river by a large number of personal friends on the steamer Chesa peake, and about a dozen steamers and tugboats crowded with passengers. The Baltimore was decorated from deck to topgallantmast with flags and signals, and her railings fore and aft with evergreens, and the entrance to the ship from the gangway was arched with flowers and evergreens. On passing Fort M`llenry a salute of thirteen guns was fired, and flags were dipped on board ship. Mayor Bank, of Baltimore, toasted Mr. Johnson in behalf of the people of the city whom he claimed to represent, and wished him a pleasant voyage. Mr. Johnson responded, and in the course of his remarks said ;" I go to England as a minister of peace. My instructions look to peace, and if I am able to carry them out in the spirit in which they are given to me, peace will be the result. So obviously is this the interest of the two nations, that the good men of both will strive to make more firm and enduring than ever the peace now existing. We arc the same people, descended from the same stock ; and no matter how much we may have differed in the past and have met on sea or land, we are now satisfied that it does not pay us to be at enmity. We ought to stand together and maintain the principles of political liberty. There is another Government which has stood . by us in the past, and whose interests and ours are the same, and I ask you to join me in a toast to the King of Prussia and the able representative of that monarch, who is always a consistent friend of the United States, and endeared to us all who have known him during the many years he has represented his Government in this country." Baron von Gerolt expressed gratitude for the kind recognition by Mr. Johnson, and reiterated a firm and devoted friendship to the Government and people of America on behalf of himself and his Government, LLW AND POLICE. DAMAGES FOR SHOOTING A MAN.—At the Gloucester Assizes a labourer, named Yelland, brought an action against Mr. Stringer, a solicitor at Orsett, for the loss of his eye. On the 2nd September last the plaintiff met the defendant, and the latter, who had a gun with him, asked Yelland about some birds. The plaintiff agreed to accompany the . defeneant, and after three or four hours' shooting they came to a field where there was a gap. Mr. Stringer told plaintiff and another man not to go through the gap, but he went himself into the field. In a short time a partridge rose, and Mr. Stringer fired in the direction where Yelland was standing. He inissed the bird, but hit the plaintiff in the left eye, and that eye had been removed since at the Leeds Infirmary by Mr. Wheelhouse and Mr. T. P. Teule. After the accident Mr. Stringer gave plaintiff a sovereign, but as a man who carries a dangerous weapon like a gun is respon• Bible, carelessness in the use of it is no excuse. The p'aintiff claimed damages for the loss of his eye. The jury awarded £l5O damages. DA3IAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY.—In the Nisi Prins Court an action was brought against the Midland Railway Company by Mr. Hawkes, a cattle dealer residing at Wakefield, for injuries sustained by him. The plaintiff had some cattle at Uttometer which he wished to have conveyed to York, and took them to Derby by the North Staffordshire line. When there he found that one of his cattle had got down in the truck, and he regtested that they might be taken to the cattle docks, so that he might take them out and raise the prostrate animal. When that was done he was going towards the booking-office to get a ticket for his cattle to York, when some trucks were put in motion without a signal, and the door of one of them, which was open, struck him on the shoulder, and for two months he was unable to attend to his business. The jury gave £lOO damages. ALLEGED FRAUDULENT PREFERENCE BY A BANKRUPT —At the Liverpool Assizes a case in which the assignees of Couvelas, a bankrupt, brought an action against Messrs. Papayanni Brothers for alleged fraudulent prefe rence by the said bankrupt. It seemed that Couvelas, during the cotton famine, made a post-nuptial settlement, and just prior to becoming insolvent paid the defendants a large sum of money that he was indebted to them. The case for the assignees was, that at the time of the payment Couvelas must have been aware that he would become a bankrupt. It was proved that the insolvent had often been applied to for the money by Messrs. Papayanni. The judge stated - that the mere fact of the money having been applied for did not necessarily prevent the conclusion that it was a fraudulent preference, if the application had no influence on the plaintiffs' mind. The jury found for the plaintiffs. THE CONVICTION OF A SHEFFIELD SOLICITOR.—At the Leeds Assizes, William Unwin, a solicitor, at Sheffield, who had previously been convicted of offences under the Bankruptcy Act, was called up for judgment. Mr. Justice Lush, after lamenting that a person in the prisoner's profession should occupy such a position, sen tenced him to nine months' imprisonment. SUNDAY TRAFFIC IN LIQUORS.— At the Marylebone Police-court, William Elliott, a coffee-house keeper, was summoned for selling excisable liquors on Sunday morn ing. He had not a license. An inspector of police visited the house in question, and saw persons pay 7d. for articles that were really not worth more than a third of that sum. After a man had partaken of a cup of coffee, the policeman examined the cup and found some gin at the. bottom. He also saw stout drawn, and money put on the table, as he supposed in payment fur it. For the defence it was alleged that the persons drinking were the defendant's employes, and the latter was treating them. The magistrate did not believe this to be the case, and inflicted a fine of £l5 and costs. FIREPROOF FLOOE.ING.—We read in the Bulletin de la Socitia Industrielle, of Mulhouse, of a very simple way of making a fireproof flooring applicable to ware houses and granaries. It consists in first sprea-ling upon the planks a layer of clay about an inch in thickness, and running upon this a.layer of asphalte about half an inch thick. Numerous experiments, we are told, have proved the efficacy of this as a protection against the spread of fire, and it has been adopted in all the corn stores of the General Omnibus Company of Paris. Mechanics' Magazine. THE NEW VOTING POWER OF GREENWICH. — The overseers of the several parishes in the borough of Greenwich have published the new lists of electors by placing them on the church doors, as is usual, and an approximate calculation of the probable increase in the constituency may now be made. The total number placed on the lista by the overseers is 14,054 ; the number at the last revision of the lists was 9,789, thus shewing an increase of 4,265 in the number of electors as com pared with 1865. The largest portion of the increase has been made by adding Plumstead to the old con stituency, only a very small portion of that parish being previously within the borough bounds. The lodgers, it is calculated, will bring up the number of electors to about 16,000. CARICATURING THE EUROPEAN POWERS IN TURIN.—The French (or at least the Emperor) do not appear to be so popular at present, writes a Turin corre spondent. As a proof, I may mention three caricatures that enrich the windows. In one Louis Napoleon appears as Van Ambnrgh in a den, with the Powers of Europe as the beasts. Prussia is a grinning tiger, Italy a crowned iamb, and England a giraffe. In another France is repre sented as a sick beauty, who is impressed by Dr. Time that she will never feel well till a severe Prussophobia and in cipient clerical reaction are eradicated. In a third Prussia appears as a lady shaded by a parasol, on which is writt2n " Sadowa," whilst she reminds a French poodle that is barking as she passes, th the dog that barks does not bite. THE STIECHLEY MunDEß.—lt will be remem bered that during the trial of Harris at Shrewsbury Assizes upon the charge of murdering the jeweller's salesmen, Zusman, a profound sensation was created in the court by the relation of a conversation the prisoner had with his old schoolmaster while awaiting his trial in the cells beneath the court. In that conversation Harris admitted that, while he was not the actual murderer, he was acquainted with him, and he circumstantially described how the murderer "dodged him about," threatening to "split his skull" and " tear out his heart" if he betrayed him. It has now transpired that this was not the first time since his committal upon the capital charge that Ilan is Lad avowed his knowledge of the real murderer, and to Captain Fenwick, the governor of the gaol, he confided the name of the man. It was generally expected that immediately upon the acquittal of Harris the person whom he had thus pointed out would be arrested, and that Harris, assured of the protection of the law, would come forward and give evidence. Such, however, will not be the case, for the police have reason to know that the man thus strangely accused (and who is at the present time in Shrewsbury Gaol upon a charge of poaching) had nothing to do with the murder. Harris has by his own state ments laid himself open to an indictment for misprision of felony, but it is not probable that the police authorities will take any steps towards prosecuting him, as they do not believe such a course would throw any fresh light up 9 p, the cppmaigion of this extraozcligarY crime. 11.0J1AN AFFAIRS. (From the Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) ROME, August 8. On the Feast of S. Mary of the Angels, it is the Holy Father's custom to visit some church of the Franciscan order, where the " Pardon of Assissi " is to be gained. This year he selected the humble convent of the Capuchin nuns on the Quirinal. After hear ing Mass in the chapel, ho admitted the nuns to kiss his feet. On the Superioress asking his benediction for two sick nuns, he answered, " I will myself be the bearer of it." The con solation such a visit was calculated to afford may well be imagined. One of them was very near her last, and had already been ertr•ernaia ; her suffering countenance was lighted up with joy at the sound of his ap proach, which she said seemed to her a sort of foretaste of the more solemn and august Presence into which she was so soon to enter, and she besought his assistance in preparing her for it. He will visit the camp and say Mass for the brigade now quartered there on Monday. Mgr. Borromeo goes there on Sunday to take pos session as patron of the Church of Rocca di Papa, which is dedicated to the illustrious ornament of his family, S. Charles, and he will remain there to receive his Holiness. The Consistory which was to have been held yesterday is adjourned till September, one reason being that Mgr. Ferrieri is not re turned fro:Lisbon, and he was one of the new cardinals to confer the hat on whom the Consistory was to have been held. It is ex pected that the Pope will deliver an allocution on indifferentism in education, being moved thereto by the Lycee opened at Constantinople under the auspices of the French Government in general, and M. Duruy in particular, in which it would seem that M. Duruy's favourite views on secularizing education prevail. It is probable that at the same time five cardinals will be created. Those spoken of are Mgr. Chi g i, Nuncio at Paris ; Mgr. Falcinelli, Nuncio at ienna ; Mgr. Ferrari, Minister of Finance ; Mgr. de Merode, formerly Minister of War, and who did so much in organizing the Pontifical army. He is at present chaplain to the Pope, in which office he may probably be succeeded by Mgr. Talbot. I have heard it again asserted that the Schismatic bishops will be invited to come to Rome at the time of the Council, when they will be admitted to propose their doubts and listen to arguments in refutation of them. Assisting at this solemn assembly, they would have the opportunity afforded them of learn ing something of the true spirit of the Catholic Church, which could not but edify them and incline them for unity. I see some English papers have been amusing their readers with stories of exciting events here, which have had no existence, except in the imagination of their writers. They have told of discoveries of mines under the fortifi cations of the Aventine ; of depots of red shirts and arms, and clandestine meetings of revolutionists ; but the Aventine earthworks are not to be blown up quite as easily as a wall or a building ; and the police are pretty well informed of the whereabouts of the various Garibaldian plotters, and know how to bide their time for routing them, but there has been no seizures of late. It is, I believe, true, however, that it has been sought to set up, like last year, revolutionary centres in some of the little border towns of the State, and it is a significant fact that this time they are almost exclusively Mazzinian. The Pope, in his desire for the promotion of science and art, has lately addressed a letter of congratulation to P. Vercellone (Barna bite), and P. Cozza (Basilian), on their repro duction of the Codex Sinaiticus, of the Vatican library. This codex is one of the most com plete as well as most ancient manuscripts of the Bible in existence. It is written on antelope-skin, and all in capital letters of - very clear and beautiful character. The Tipographia of the Propaganda, of which Cava liere Marietti is the able director, has succeeded in reproducing the whole of the New Testament from this MS., within the space of a year, and that as perfectly as if he had been assisted by photography. A page of this reproduction was sent to the Paris Exhibition, where it ex cited a great deal of attention. It is far more correct, more complete, and better brought out than the celebrated Mount Athos Codex, pub lished by Tischendorf. I also hear that Cardi nal Bonaparte has lately written to Pere Lion, of the Dominican Mission at Messoul, request ing him to undertake the supervision of a popular edition of the Bible, in Arabic, for the use of certain Oriental Christians, to be brought out entirely at his expense. I am glad to learn, from an authentic source, that the greater part of the five thousand rifles promised by the Belgian Committee, made at Liege, on the Remington model, are already 'I on their way hither, and that a consignment of rifled cannon will shortly follow them. The whole are to be delivered by the end of Sep tember. We hope Birmingham will not show less alacrity. An attempt has been made in certain journals to show that the committees in various countries, for raising funds for the Pontifical army, have been acting in a manner calculated to derogate from the dignity of the Roman Government ; it is not easy, however, to see anything of the kind. Of course, it may be possible that there mayhave been individual instances in - which zeal may have outstripped perfect subordination. But no act, done in a spirit of calculated or intentional indepen dence of the Government, can be pointed out. Some desire was certainly shown to inquire into the disposition of the funds subscribed, and the labours of the commission appointed by the Pope for this purpose have resulted in establishing that the whole army department has been most satisfactorily managed. Besides, all who have subscribed in a truly Catholic spirit must feel that they have made their offering to the Holy See, and for the Holy See, and that the Government of the Holy See must be able to judge better of the mode of applying them than any national committee. Discussions on this matter have led to another discussion akin to it in nature, though far higher in import—the question of whether the Holy See might not gain advantage from the genius, zeal, and devotion of its non- Roman members in the various departments of its administrative as well as in its military service. The narrowing the territory under its temporal jurisdiction certainly seems to weaken the force of the principle that the ad ministration ought to be kept in the hands of Romans. And there are people—generally Frenchmen perhaps—who like to fancy they foresee a time when the tiara itself may again be given to one from" beyond the Alps. You have seen in the Moniteur that M. de Malaret has signed, with Signor Cambray- Digny, the final protocol of the division of the Pontifical debt. It is not very easy to see what is meant. Is the Pope's Government expected to believe that it may look for the regular payment by Italy of the amount due ? Italy must earn a different character for her appreciation of the value of promises from that she now bears, before the Pope can afford to dismiss one man from his army on faith of her undertakings. The Zouaves are now settled down in their trial of the camp. They seem to enjoy the life very much, and find the air very healthy, almost too fresh even at night. I went down the day after the troops ; they had got through the march very well. One or two stragglers were still on the way. One poor Dutchman was lying is the shade of a dry ditch by the road side, and implored assistance in broken French. I had only a light carriage, already somewhat heavily laden, but I took his knap sack and all he had to carry for him, and he walked on cheerily behind. I saw him again in the evening in Rocca di Papa, much relieved. Colonel Allet has the command of the bri gade, in the absence of General de Courten. There are four battalions, composed some of six and some of seven, companies, with 140 aismigaiaml men in each, consequently between three and four thousand men. There is also a battalion of dragoons and of cacciatori, and a battery of artillery. A Jesuit Father, de Gerlach, is one of the chaplains. There are also two Dutch and one English (F. Gurdon), without count ing the ordinary Italian army chaplains. The office of chaplain is no sinecure, for the majority of the men attend the Sacraments very fre quently. A tent has been erected for the King of Naples, who is a frequent visitor from the Villa Botti, at Rocca di Papa, where he is stay ing with his brother Count di Bari. He may also often be seen kneeling, without any state or distinction, on the lowly wooden benches of the little Trinitarian Church, near the gate of the town. I am sorry to have to record the death of an English Zouave this week, Mitchell by name, of gastric fever, in the hospital of S. Spirit°. He was very much liked in his company for his quiet amiable manners, but he never looked strong enough for the life to which he had generously committed himself, and I had found him in the hospital on one or two occasions before his last illness. General Alfan di Privera, formerly director of the royal arsenal of Petrarsa (Naples), is engaged in superintending the conversion of the smooth-bore cannon we have, as well as the making of some new rifled guns, in the Pontifical ironworks near the Vatican. Two hundred guns, however, are required to mount all the recent fortifications. St. Peter's chains have been exposed for an octave since last Saturday at S. Pietro in Vincoli; great numbers apply to venerate them daily. lam informed that the number of fac similes of these chains made in steel, silver and gold, and commonly used as watchguards, which have been sold by the confraternity lately established for this purpose, amounts to 47,000, showing how widespread the devotion is. A considerable proportion have gone to America. The profits arising from the sale go towards the decoration of this most interesting church, the receptacle of Michael Angelo's greatest work of sculpture. THE BUSH CHURCH. On Monday last Mr. W. E. Foster, M.P. for Bradford, appeared before his constituents in St. George's Hall in that town. Having ad verted at some length to local electioneering topics, the hon. gentleman proceeded to con sider the question of the Irish Church. He wanted a few words with those who are op posed to Mr. Gladstone—not merely followers of Mr. Disraeli, but with the men who agree with Lord Salisbury, or, if they don't like that name, those who agree with Mr. Hardy :—" I want a few words with them. We have strong arguments on our side. They think they have on theirs. Now, what is our motive ? Our motive is that we believe unless we carry out this measure that we cannot preserve the union of England and Ireland without—l don't know there is use in mincing matters—without, first or last, civil war. That is our motive. Now, what are their fears ?—fears which I don't wonder at their feeling if they have re ason for them—first, the fear that the interests of Protestantism will be damaged, and secondly, the fear that the English Church will be en dangered. Now, first a word or two upon our motive. Our motive is that we don't believe that the union with Ireland can be preserved while the Episcopal Church remains the Estab lished Church by law, unless we continue to govern Ireland by force ; and what does that mean ? By terror. The Irish are a high-spirited people, and among them civil war may break out at any moment. Only the other day, Mr. Disraeli congratulated the Lord Mayor and his guests on the state of Ireland. I don't congra tulate you on the state of Ireland. Mr. Disraeli and his colleagues did all they could in the House of Commons to alarm us about the state of Ireland. But why do I say this will be the case ? I come to that opinion because, in con sidering this question, I have had to look deep into the real meaning of the union between England and Ireland. That union is not, in the minds of the Irish people, and ought not to be, the conquest of one people by another. It ought not to mean the absorption of one nationality in another, but the union of those two nationalities upon common grounds—upon terms of political equality. Can any one say that while we keep up by force the Episcopal Church, the Church of the minority in Ireland, a Church which would be instantly swept away if Ireland was an independent country, that the union with Ireland is preserved upon terms of political equality ? All that Ireland asks in the matter is, that in questions which specially affect Irish interests Irish feelings shall be considered, and if Irish feelings are considered in any matter, or upon any ques tion, then most of all upon that question which lies deepest, and ought to lie deepest in men's minds—that of religion. If we are to carry out the principle upon which alone Irish patriots can accept the union—that England and Ireland be united together as England and Scotland are, and be one imperial country for imperial purposes, but that with regard to specialspecial feelings of each of fthe three purP kingdoms osesthe shall be consulted, then we shall feel that Irishmen have a right to a fair union, or that it so long as we impose tushapyeoy will ntltihaetni not tli n this consent n Church which they dislike. That was their motive—the oreservation of the Union by peaceable means, and not by terror, and not by the necessity of using force. Now for the fears of the opponents. The first fear was, that the interests of Protestantism are in danger,—" Well, now, I care for Pro testantism—hope none of my Roman Catholic constituents will object to me if I say that I am as much opposed to their form of Christianity as they can possibly be opposed to mine—but I don't believe that the interests of Protestantism have been advanced by the Protestant ascendany. I believe they have been immensely injured. I believe that of all the schemes you could have set to work to spread Protestantism in the country you could not have adopted one less likely to effect that object than that. The advocates of Protestant ascendancy have succeeded in damaging the interests of Protestantism, and the result is, that whereas in almost every other Roman Catholic country in the world there is a very strong party of Roman Catholics against the Ultramontane views which, I am sorry to say, are now held at Rome—such has been the effect of our policy in Ireland that there are few Catholics in Ireland. who don't belong to the Ultramontane party. I am told, " Oh, you don't know what will happen ; read the letter of Dr. M'Neile, and it will show you that disestablish the Irish Church and you will have the canon law, with all its per secutions and horrors immediately." Does Dr. M`Neile suppose that we men of the House of Commons have no power ? Does he think that because we are going to make the law just in Ireland we are going to make it subser vient to any religions denomination ? Depend upon it he will find it will be even more impos sible that the canon law should come in force in Ireland after the disestablishment than it was before. I will tell you what it is that does endanger Protestantism—at least some people think it does ; I am not so alarmed as many of my friends, but the danger to Protestantism, if there be any, is not the attack upon the Irish Church Establishment. It is what hap pens within the bounds of the English Church Establishment. What is the great principle of Protestantism? The principle that the priest is to have no power—no spiritual power; that the relation between man and his Maker is not to be interfered with by another man; that although man may forgive crime,, man cannot forgive sin. This is the principle of Protestantism. That principle has been attacked within the English Church—l am not now talking of ritualism, or vestments, or incense ; they are but tho signs—but that great principle of Protestantism has been attacked within the English Church, and, if there be a danger at all, that is the danger. I will at once admit that I don't believe that is a danger to Pro testantlem, because I believe that the heart of the English people is true to Protestantism. But now for the other fear—danger to the Church of England. Who are the enemies of the Church of England ? Not Mr. Miall. Well, lam speaking comparatively—l would not attempt to mislead you by saying he is a friend of the Church of England—but he is not an enemy compared with those bishops and clergy who are making the men through out the country who are friends of the Church of England ask this question—Are we sure that the State Church will remain a Protestant Church, because, if there be any danger of its not remaining the Protestant Church, we, as members of the State, can have nothing to do with a Church that is not the Protestant Church. That is the question which many friends of the Church—for instance, the Me thodists—have been asking in a way which I would advise all friends of the Church to heed, and to consider that as their danger, and not what Mr. Miall or the Liberation Society may be doing. I will say here what I said in the House of Commons—l said it in the House of Commons where the majority agreed with me ; I will say it here where probably the ma jority do not agree with me—that I should be sorry if by any action of those within the Church or without the Church the English Church came to an end. And I will tell you why ; not because I think there is any very great advantage in the bishops being in the House of Lords—not because I conceive that in the present state of society and civiliz ition an Establishment is necessary. If I were a colonist, I should probably do as other colo nists do, be they Whigs, Conservatives, or Radicals—have perfect equality in religion ; but as England is now constituted and cir cumstanced, I believe the clergy of the Eng lish Church do great good. I should feel that if the Church were disestablished and dis connected from the State, a great engine of good would be removed. I consider that engine of good to be the parochial system. I believe the fact of having a man in each parish—it does not apply so much to you as to the country parishes, though it applies to you, for look what Dr. Hook did at Leeds—but I believe that the fact that there is a man whose business it is to look after the welfare of his pari shioners is an enormous advantage, and, in the present state of society, I should be most loth to do without it ; but compare. the paro chial system in England as it is, and as it might be if the Church still more did its duty, with what it is in Ireland, and I wonder from the bottom of my heart why the friends of the English Church wis'a to tack upon it the Irish Church. There is the parochial system in England, which does good ; in Ireland it iq impossible, in most parts of Ireland it is an in sult. How could a man look after the spiri tual interests of his parishioners when an enor mous majority of them are taught week by week to believe that he is a heretic? It is a glaring anomaly, and I say, who are the real friends of the Church of England—those who wish to separate the Church of Ireland from her, or those who wish to make her indissolubly united with the Church of Ireland ? I have heard men say in the House of Commons it is the Established Church of England and Ire land, and no power ought to dissolve that union. If it was right that no power could dissolve that union, then a question would come before many of us which, as friends of the English Church, we don't wish to be asked ; we should have this question then to solve—we should be told hatt the two Churches must be united, that the English Church could not be separated from the Irish Church, and believing, as I do believe, idhat it cannot be maintained in Ireland, except first or last at the point of the bayonet. We should then be obliged to ask ourselves this question—" Is the English Church, with all its blessings, worth preserving at that cost ?' I say the friends of the Church ought to be very careful before they put that question before us, and I believe they are feeling that at this moment, and it is because they so feel that we find so little response to that appeal of the Bishop of London to the 20,000 clergymen—which he must regret he ever made—and therefore 1 say I am not the less a friend of the English Church because T argue with all my might for the disestablishment of the Irish Church." THE FUTILI7Y OF INVADIIVG CANADA. (From the Anglo American 2 hne,s.) The correspondent of the Standard, writing from New York on the Ist instant, describes an inter view with the Fenian President, General O'NEILL. There is something supremely ridiculous in such an interview, considering that O'NEILL is supposed to be at the head of a secret conspiracy to carry illegal designs into effect which may involve great losses of life and property, and be attended with unfore seen political consequences. The correspondent asks for an interview, proceeds to the headquarters, and sits down with the chief conspirator to discuss the plans, making notes, at least in his memory, for one of the most widely circulated journals in the world. The correspondent, who is evidently a shrewd observer, left the "President" impressed with the conviction, not from what he said but his manner, that he means mischief, and that the inva sion will soon take place. A question put was very pertinent, and one we would like to have clearly answered. " Finally, I ask him plumply, what he hopes to gain by attacking the people of the pro vinces. S:r,' says he my principle is that every Englishman is an enemy to Ireland ; that when an Englishman is assaulted anywhere the whole na tion must feel it; and I think that England will never be brought to her senses but by this con:- tinual attack. England understands force, but she does not care for discussion. Socially, I think that the Canadians are very respectable people, and I have no personal grudge against them." O'NEILL is in such ta'k fencing, for there can be, ac cording to our light, but the one object, to involve the United States in a war with England. In this we believe the Fenians would eventually be suc cessful, if they could but keep the game up, and America would learn what Irish emigration had done for the United States, after years of the most devastating and bloody contest. If a split in the States, led to the frightful loss of life and treasure entailed—a split in the Anglo-Saxon family must cause worse results ; each section possessing enor mous resources, great endurance, and much pride. Perhaps no war was ever fought for a greater and better object than that of the North, for it meant the unity of a continent and the freedom of a race. It was this that gave to the invaders the energy and perseverance which eventually brought it to a suc cessful close, overcoming the determined opposition of the invaded, whose spirit and dash were naturally aroused to defend their country. If the Feniane gained their end, the war that would ensue would enjoy the distinction of being the most causeless and aimles3, and it is in this that we might look for the best chance of its speedy end. Mr. MAGurttE, Mr. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, and others, have spoken of a sharp, quick, and wicked war, ending with the downfall of England. The downfall of England ! Why, if the whole world com bined, and gave all their energies to it, such a result could only be produced by time —a time that would wring the very hearts of the nations en gaged in the attempt. If a comparatively poor, scattered people, without mechanical resources, without credit, and without a marine, could for years withstand the efforts of a population three times as numerous, with good credit, with vast fleets, and immense mechanical resources on their borders, how can these writers imagine for a moment that the concentrated energy, population, and wealth of England could be crushed by any means known to the world? The folly of a war intended to effect anything in Ireland would be quickly shown to be as absurd as if England undertook to give a civil government to the State of Nis sissipi i. No doubt hundreds of vessels would be sunk, hundreds captured, towns would be bom barded, Canada perhaps overrun—but %%hat effect would all this have on Ireland ? We venture to assert that there would not even be a repetition of the late contemptible rising in that island, and that Irishmen would form a very large portion of the regiments and crows with which England prose cuted the war. Then, to sink and destroy ships, to bombard cities, and to desolate Canada would be the end for which Irishmen in thousands would fall on each side. When the nations took stock it would be found that they were insolvent, for so great would be the addition to their already burdensome debts that they could not bear the increase, the more so as the addition would be ex pended in destroying their resources. The corre spondent says that if this unspeakable calamity occurs " the English people will certainly have no reason to enumerate among the causes of the catas trophe a want of patience on their own part. I take it that few nations would submit with equal equa nimity to the irritations perpetually put by Ame rican citizens upon England ;" and he goes on to show what would be the case if the provocation came from Englan 1. Although this is forcibly put, a main element is omitted. England does not, and cannot, forget that the provocation is not American —it is Irish—that the theatre is the United States, but the actors are men reared under her own flag. It may be unfortunate, but it is true that English acts have caused the discontent ; and though these acts were of a bygone generation, a nation has no more right to immunity from the bad dee Is of their forefathers than they have to profit by their virtue, valour, and success. Knowing that England was in fault, Englishmen feel they must bear with the waywardness of a race so deeply wronged. To drive these people to America which. has been the final effect of their legislation, and to com plain of Americans because the emigrants con spire in the land to which they have been driven against those they consider their oppressors would be unreasonable. Doubtless there is some cause of complaint in the countenance the conspiracy re ceives from the authorities in the United States; but this is precisely what occurred in England dur ing the American civil war, and mare than aught else does that recollection shut the mouth of com plaint. Had it been deliberately planned by the United States, although a bitter revenge, it would still be unworthy. They were United States citi zens who made England the theatre of hostile ope rations against the United States. They are Bri tish citizens who make the United States the theatre of hostile operations against England. The British Government excused their delay in sup pressing these operations by the thelaration that their free laws did not permit them to interfere until these laws had been openly infringed. The same excuse is made by the Government at Washington. A bad feeling was engendered in the United States by the course England pursued during the war. The American paper the Standard so often quotes says, in its number of July 25 —" The seeds then sown have borne evil fruit. The hatred' against England is deep seated in the nation. A war with her would no doubt bepopular, and many Americans look with complacency to such a day of reckoning." On the other hand, Englishmen, if that were the universal feeling in America, would respond by instantly throwing down the gauntlet, for they argue if they have to fight, the sooner the better. But this is rubbish, for what have they to fight about ?or what could either expect to gain ? We daresay the railway thieves, the horse robbers, and the gangs of brigands whom the citizens of some States are now lynching unmercifully, would rather enjoy a war, as well as the mass of the naturalized Irish, and a number of young men who have a taste for adventure, but none for honest labour. People in conversation speak loosely and express opinions and intentions, which they dismiss at once in prac tice. Even in Congress the greatest absurdity in this way is often talked ; but, however numerous may be the firebrands, there are plenty of sober citizens ready with buckets of water to extinguish them when they show signs of bursting into flame. We have to pull through this year, and things, we feel confident, will then settle down into a more peaceful and prosperous state, with a new President in the White House, and a new Parliament in St. Stephen's Halls. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican, Aug. 1.) The glut in the money market continues. At Now York call loans on Governments are made freely at 3 per cent., and during the course of the week even as low as 2 per cont. There is a disinclination to take long paper ; prime discounts on short time are made at 6 to 7 per cent. At Boston money can be had on call at 4 per cent. In discounts the banks give the praferonco to paper which matures before next quarter day —that absurd and mischiev ous bugbear to our finance. The general range of prime piper is for 6to 7 per cent. At Chicago, tho banks report a light business doing, aid a constant accumulation of country balances. The lumber trade continuos to call for money, but not, as .vas expected, enough to produce even ordinary tension in the market. Call loans on Govern ments are negotiated at 7 to 8 per cent., and prime produce paper is taken readily at 10 per cent. At Cincinnati the supply of currency is ample, and the market continues easy at unchanged rates. Paper having 60 or 90 days to run is•preferred to short-dated. Between bankers and de positors 8 to 9 per cent. are the leading figures, but in open market 10 to 12 is charged. Some loans were made on call at 6to 7 per cent. At New Oileans the demand for discounts is still very small, and good city paper is readily taken. Country paper is almost invariably re fused, owing to the social and political condition of the dis trict. Call or short loans on solid security are made easily. There is plenty of money, but great caution in its use. Gold has risen steadily during the week, closing at its highest figure, 141 k. We had expected it would be at 145 by this time. , That it will reach this point, we have no doubt; and should not bo surprised to see it working up still higher. Gold for cash delivery is easy. The New York Times, which has steadily fought against the advance in the premium, says : " The importing merchants generally are quite con fident that the present high premium on gold cannot be maintained through the fall months, and they aro harrowing both gold and exchange in preferenee to buying for their present wants, on the basis of 143 to 1131 per cent." The grounds of this confidence we fail to apprehend. Gold unfortunately does not at present mea sure our products, and so does not rise with them ; but it has some uses yet, and a certain amount of it is required to accomplish them. The stock is being constantly and rapidly drawn down; why should not the price rise ?' The following aro the quotations of exchange :—London, 60 day. ,, , 1101 ; London, sight, 110 1 1 ; Paris, long, 5.13 to 5.121 ; Paris, short, 5.101; Antwerp, 5.16 to 5.15; Swiss, 5.1 G to 5.15 ; Hamburg, 361 to 361 ; Amsterdam, 411 to 41-1 ; Frankfort, 41 to 411 ; Bremen, 791 to 80; Berlin, 718 to 72. Governments have risen slightly during the week, following gold up slowly. The demand for export con tinues, and Five-twenties are shipped largely for exchange. Secretary 31'Culloch has notified holders of Seven-thirty Treasury Notes falling duo July 15, 1868, that the time for the conversion of these notes into Five-twenty Bonds will cease August 1. The railway market has not been of decided interest this week. Toledo and Wabash made a strong upward movement, reaching 51 ; but has declined to 511, under a pressure to realize. Erie has been more active, and a large amount of stock has been purchased during the week by parties supposed to be in the interest of the new "direction." North-Western touched 85 this week, but has gone down to 82. Border States have shown rather more activity. North Carolinas aro lower. Missouris higher and firm. Virginias are du and depressed under the failure to reconstruct. Tonnessees were advancing well at the close at the week, but the proposition to fund the coupons caused a decline, on Thursday, as has already been indicated in our telegraphic columns. The Legislature unanimously passed resolu tions admitting the inability of the State to pay the in terest accrued and accruing, and proposing to fund the debt with all interest coming due within three years, into thirty years six per cent. bonds. This is certainly bettor than nothing, better than to have matters drag along as they are. Funding debt and interest are sometimes the only resource of corporation, or States in difficu:ties, and it has iu rare cases resulted fortunately. It is an extreme mea sure, but the holderg of Tennessoes will reasonably prefer it to the present condition of things—no pay and no apo logy. Express stocks have been more active during he week, though without improvement in price, except Wells Fargo, which has advanced to 271. The import entries at New York for the pest week amount to $5,888,083, against $5,220,852 same week last year. Export clearances of do mestic produce, $2,633,195 against $3,892,321. Export of specie, $1,463,249 against 3,491,960. The gold values of im port entries of foreign m ,rcliandise at N ow York since Jan. 1, 1868, amount to $141,441,165 against $152,863,873 ; de crease, $11,419,703. Tile currency value of the exports of dorneetic produce and miscellaneous goods from New York since January 1, 1868, $93,922,911 against $109,441,535; decrease, $18,618,591. The exports of specie of all de scriptions from New York since January 1, 1868, 858,981,539 ag tiait $18,543, 386 ; increase, $20,439,153. The d 'liveries of California gold and silver at New York since January 1, $14,282,4 02 against $15,955,870 ; increase $3,326,532. Cotton has further declined to 291 for middling up lands, against 321 a few weeks ago. Three million bales is now quite generally given as the total of the coming crop. If so, the decline is sufficiently accounted for, and cotton may stay at or near 00. But we do not believe the crop will be three million bales, or anything like it. In 1867 it was inside of two millions. The breadth planted this year in the majority of States was even less. The yield per acre will undoubtedly be better, but not enough so to account for the difference between two millions and three. We believe 2,700,000 bales to be the outside figures, and that in fact 2,500,000 will be as much as can be realized. The dry goods market, the past week, has been mode-. rately active for the season. In no department is the de mand as yet sufficient to make quotations interesting or valuable. It is clear that there is to be a good fall trade, and that dealers will have an opportunity to revenge themselves for the scanty sales of the spring. Business is likely to be active enough to give the retailer his profits on goods which he can turn quickly, but the condition of the great staples is such as to make manufacturing more uncertain than over, and prices are so precarious as to make it extremely undesirable to hold large stocks of goods. Wool still rules low, but the indications aro rather towards a rise. On its own merits alone it has .probably touched the bottom, and present prices en courage buying. There is an increased activity among the manufacturers, and woollen goods generally are a trifle higher. Boston reports the boot and slice trade very active and large, shipments being made west and south. In provisions the market has boon steady, with little doing. In breadstuffs there is little to note.- Choice brands of ,flour have bettered themselves a little during the week; but the lower guides aro dull and depressed. Bye flour and corn meal have made a slight advance. Oats are higher, with unfavourable advices from the coming crops ; barley dull under the promise of a large (From the Wall-street Journal) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, July 31. Money continues very easy, and borrowers, en call, aro steadily supplied at 3 to 4 per cent. on railroad collaterals, and at 3 per cent. on Governments. Discounts are active for first-class names, at 6 per cent. for 60 to 90 days' paper ; at 6f per cent. for four months, and at 61 to 7 per cent. for six months. Government Stocks are heavy, principally in conse quence of the weakness of the London market, and have declined to-day } per cent. Gold is very excited, and opened this morning at 145}, thence falling to 1441, rising to 1151, and finally closing at 1448. American silver is selling moderately at 6} to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are mostly nominal, at 1031 to 104 in gold. Foreign Exchange is vary dull, and there is little doing. The failure of the old-established Exchange firm of Abraham Bell's Sons has not excited the slightest surprise, those knowing the outside opera tions of the house calculating to a certainty their down- This failure should be a warning, and we trust that it will so prove. The Border State Bonds aro being pressed on the market in heavy amounts, and there is almost a panic to. sell. Mining Stocks are very flat, and there is little doing, except in New York (of Colorado), the price of which, after having advanced to $1 20, has receded to $1 10. Petroleum Stocks are in good demand, and many stocks aro daily inquired for, which have not been mentioned during the past three years. NEW YORK RATES OF EXOIIA.NGE, Aug. 1, 1868. Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lo9t —lO9l Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers • 791--80 Hamburgh, Bankers 36 —361 Frankfort, 0.M.401-411 •••• Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.171-5.1.31 Amsterdam, Bankers 5.131 5.14 Swiss _ __ _ , . By telegram from San Francisco, dated July 30, 1868, we have the following quotations of Silver Mining Stocks: Gould and Curry slos per foot Savage ... 3,131 „ Ohollar-Potosi ... 136 Ophir ••• ••• ••• Hale and Narcross Crown Point - ••• Yellow Jacket Belcher Alpha ... Kentucky Bullion ••• •.• ••• Overman Empire Mill Imperial Confidence ... Amader ••• •.• ••• ••• Exchequer Quartz Hill ... Lady Byron Express Stocks are quoted as follows : Adams ... to 53 American ... 45f to 46 Merchants' Union, 35 per cent.... ~. 244 to 25 United States ... ... 464 to 461 Wells, Fatgo, and Co. ... ... 27 to 27 The following were-the closing quotations this evening for the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks : N. Y. Central 1351 Fort Wayne Erie lludson Reading Mich. South. &N. 924 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Clevelan 1 & Pittsbrg B9l Ohio and Mississippi... 801 North-West North-West Preferred 82,t, Cumberland Canton.., 471 Bankers and Brokers... 98 1 Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 1024 I St. Paul Preferred The following were the closing quotations for 0 0 various Public Funds of the United States in New York : Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon — to Sixes, 1881, coupon 1154 to 1154 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865 coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, now Five-tiventies, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon lOB4 to 1081 Seven-thirties, 2d series — to Seven-thirties, 3d series 1 Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lO9 to 1094 m 2,075 ;; ... 2,088 „' ... 1;185 ;; .. 117 ~ ... 380 ;, ID" ••• ,1 ••• ••• 71 ... 107 pr share• ... 265 ... ... )11 ... ... , • .• 71 (from Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) London, Aug. 12.. On the London market the daily quotations forAtneri" can Government Securities has been almost entirely rcgry lated by the fluctuations in the premium on gold, as re ported by telegraph from New York ; the extreme find° . ation has been about one per cent., the lowest offlAe l quotation being 70/ and the highest 72 ; the closing prie ° of 5-20's of 1862 issue is 711 to 72, and of 1865's 701 t o 701, and for 10-40's 681 to 681. Illinois Central Shares have remained steady at 92 fe 93, but Eries, on lower prices from New York, have aga in receded, and leave off at the lowest point of the Ivo o9 viz., 361 to /. To-:lay has been occupied chiefly in tb ° arrangement of the account—from 2 to 4 per cent. W n ' s paid for carrying over 5-20's, and 5 per cent. for Illinoie Central and Erie Shares was the average rate. The Con' tango on Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bones. and Debentures was rather heavy, being fully / Pe r . cent., at 381 to 39 ; they both show a decline since (A last. The market for Virginia Bonds, both sterling aLd urrency, has become very nominal. A destructive fire has been raging in the pin/ forests of the Ottawa Valley, destroying millions of dole lars' worth of timber and lumber. The smoke was go thick on the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers that naviga tion at times was entirely suspended. The Scottish Reformation Society has issued a ° invitation to united and special prayer in prospect of the t approaching general election. The proposal is to . 0 0 . apart the 15th and 30th days of this and the five follovon.'_ months for special humiliation, intercession, and praY e :; It is earnestly desired that. where it may be practi cabw meetings should be hold. [A DVERTISE Af ENT. 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