The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-30 00:00:00

ifSPIEI ' T OP TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. Is the Irish Church Establishment an injustice, or is IS not ? asks the Timm. If it be an injustice, what reason can be adduced why it should not be abated ? Lastly, is there any other practical mode of abating it than that proposed by Mr. Gladstone ? These are the only ques tions which can be eliminated from the mass of verbiage under which every one has suffered._ Did the debate on Tuesday shed light upon any of them ? Will further dis cussion help to elucidate them ? The prospect is as hope less as the retrospect is barren. It is conceded by every one that the Irish Establishment, as it is, is an injustice. It is a great anomaly, Lord Royston admits ; but he excuses it on, the plea that everything is an anomaly. Mr. Mowbray, the other representative of the Ministry on Tuesday, like Lord John Manners on Monday, avoided altogether the question of justice. They addressed them selves, as Mr. Newdega.te did, to reasons why the Esta blishment, however unjust as an institution, should not. be swept away. Mr. Newdegate is afraid that its removal would be a blow to the Protestant faith, appa rently believing that it is an advantage rather than a prejudice to the truth to propagate it, or rather to attempt to propagate it, by a machinery outraging the feelings of those to whom it is offered. Mr. Mowbray cannot venture to think of an Episcopal Church- separated from the State under which it flourishes, although the examples of Scotland and the United States are before us. Lord John Manners is alarmed for what may happen to the Church of England should the Irish Church be disendowed and disestablished. The answer is easy. So long as the English Church shall remain in harmony with the will of the English people its position is secure ; if ever the evil day came that the public sentiment of England repudiated its teaching and deserted its offices, as the public sentiment of Ireland disavows the Irish Establishment, its destruction erould be imminent. Those who desire most heartily J keep the English Establishment unscathed ought, if they are wise, to free it from its alliance with such an indefensible institution as the Irish Church. Men are becoming impatient of this deadlock, and are asking themselves to what it is due. The cause of it is plain. There is no understanding between the Ministry and the Opposition. They are moving in parallel lines. The opportunity afforded when Parliament met after Easter was lost, and business has been left to drift ever since. It is hence that we have had unseemly wrangles and cross purposes, an immense waste of time incurred, and more threatened. The remedy is, however, as plain as the cause of the mischief. At the termination of the present debate the leader of the Opposition and the First Minister must come to some agreement about the future. Then or never the determination must be taken as to what legislation shall be perfected this session as a preliminary to the dis solution all profess to desire next January. The Post wants to know what Mr. Mowbray, speaking for the Government, meant when he said "Legislation more in consonance with our past traditions, and more in harmony with our Constitution than that now proposed." It may be a mere platitude, or it may shadow forth a scheme for the realisation of the idea which Mr. Adderley put out of the question. The less that is said about " past tra ditions " in matters relating to Ireland the better. But our contemporary is firmly persuaded that while, on the one hand, the country will be no party to any transaction Ivith the Vatican, on the other it will not shrink from the just development of the principles of toleration which con stitute the solid foundation of the imperial throne and the national character. The Daily News notes that the Liberals of Bristol have sustained a temporary defeat, Mr. Miles having been re turned by a majority of more than two hundred. The result is to be regretted, but with moderation. When the circumstances attending the election are well understood, there will remain no excuse for pretending that Bristol has shewn a desire to put off the intelligent Liberalism of past years, in order to accept blindly the next political doctrine that it may be contenient for Mr. Disraeli to propound. It was foreseen that the struggle at this election would be a very close one. Political feeling ran high, but the contest has not been decided by political forces. The Liberals had for their candi date an eminently representative public man ; the Conservatives relied, as they are fond of doing, on local influence and business connections, and in recent times some of the most eminent men who ever sat in the House of Commons have been defeated by an opponent strong in nothing but local associations. Mr. Miles, in politics a very cypher, is an excellent neighbour, and an important banker—a gentleman whom very many middle-class voters would naturally wish to oblige. This fact would of itself probably be sufficient to account for a number of votes equivalent to Mr. Miles's majority. But there was another cause of equal, or perhaps greater efficiency at work to diminish the Liberal and increase the Conser vative votes. The publicans who, needlessly alarmed about Mr. Abel Smith's bill and. similar measures, art acquiring the habit of acting together, suffered themselves to be prejudiced against Mr. Samuel Morley as soon as his candidature became probable, and were already too far committed to a course when, as soon as he appeared, be stated that, in perfect consistency with his advocacy of temperance, his votes on subjects of social legislation would be given with constant respect for the rights and liberties of all classes. By such a c,)mb;nation as this the Conservative candidate-has been returned, and the result• may possibly encourage Mr. Disraeli to mix a phrase about the " poor man's beer " with his " No Popery " cry at the next election. But the Bristol election cannot be quoted, except in utter ignorance, as a manifestation in his favour. He gets one vote by it during the next month or two, and that is all. The Standard is in ecstacies over the Conservative triumph at Bristol. Of course, it says, attempts will be made to explain away the meaning of Mr. Miles's return, but no one will be deceived by them, and they will give but scant comfort to the Duke of Argyll and the other Radical leaders who are hungering to handle again the loaves and fishes. It cannot be denied that Bristol is a large town, and consequently especially entitled, according to the Radical creed, to speak for the country. The Radicals cannot attribute their defeat to any want oi organisation. They have had Bristol in their own hands for twenty years, and returned whomsoever they pleased. They had a candidate after their own heart, rich, with that most attractive repute for a certain class of voters, of a very liberal expenditure at Nottingham, a Dissenter like Sir Morton Peto, recommended as Mr. Bright's especial friend. At the announcement of his candidature a:1 the divisions in the party were healed. Supporters of both the previous pretemlants rallied enthu siastically round Mr. Morley, and yet, although the country is, as we are every clay told by Radical journals ] becoming decisively Radical, and submits with the utmost reluctance to the continuance in office of the present Ministry, Mr. Miles, the Conservative and Church can didate, was returned by a decisive majority. It may be said, indeed, that the Bristol election cannot count for anything, because it represents only the opinion of an unreformed constituency. But if the existing cons stituency of Bristol does not represent Bristol, then certainly the present House of Commons, returned by the same constituencies, does not represent the nation, and is usurping a power, to which it morally has not the slightest right, in attempting now to determine the gum tion of the Irish Church. If the Bristol election counts for nothing as an expression of public feeling, then the present House of Commons has no business whatever tc meddle with the matter. But there can be no doubt that Bristol has spceen the feelings of the country. spiracy The Star guards its readers against certain misrepre• sentations which may be made concerning the Bristo7 election. It may, for instance, be said that Mr. Miles'e return is a proof that the policy, or no policy, of the Government on the Trish Church meets with the approva , of the electors of Bristol. If such a statemant be pni forward, so monstrous a fallacy will deserve universa' derision. Mr. Morley was defeated because the public-house interest was unanimously arrayee against him. The moral sense of the Bristol pub licans was shocked at Mr. Morley's support o! the temperance movement, and at the opini+m be expressed in favour of closing public-houses or the Sunday. Issues were raised which have nothing whatever to do with any of those great questions which are now agitating Parliament and the country. The Sunday Closing Bill was dexterously used as a stalking. horse. It has served its purpose, and may nosy be decently laid on the shelf until it is again wanted for a similar object. We do not know whether yet baser acts were resorted to, but the introduction into the town of an organised body of roughs is a disagreeable fact which Pis tifies a suspicion that victory was more thought of that any nice scruples as to the means by which it should be gained. The New South Wales papers announce the death in that colr,ny, in January last, of John haw Strange, the last of the convictl concerned in the Cato-street con. Thistle wood, the chief conspira•:or, was buns aLout Eity years ago. The wives of two Cornish miners, named respcc tively Mary Dadtls and Jane Tremewen, anxious to jolt their husbands in Nova Scotia, but unable to provide the portion of money necessary to secure an emigration grant from the Cornwall Central Relief Committee, wrote to he, Majesty and acquainted her with their poverty and their great desire. Inquiries were at once made as to the accu racy of their statements, the result being that her Majesty commanded £ lO , the sum needed, to be forwarded to the Rev. J. G. Wulff, rector of Mogan, for the use of the twr humble appli cants, - • -- •- THE SPIRITUALIST CASE. On the hearing of this case being resumed before Vice- Chancellor Gifford, Mr. Matthews commented on the case for the defendant. He said that the court had had the ' advantage of seeing Mrs. Lyon herself, and her mental and moral qualities had been brought before them. He thought Mrs. Lyon exhibited the greatest strength of mind; throughout the long ordeal to which she was subjected that strengith had never failed her. He showed that title had a keen sense of the ridiculous, which was most opposed to the idea of her being influenced by superstition ; that she was a good woman of business, and that she had such influence ever her husband in his life as to induce him to transfer the whole of his property on mortgage to her. The defendant's romantic book induced Mrs. Lyon to find him out. The statement that she sought Home for the purpose of being placed in communication with her hus band's spirit was a pure fabrication, as was shewn by the fact that she was already acquainted with spiritual mediums. He spoke of the glaring improbability of the defendant having at her first interview with the plaintiff, which lasted only a quarter of an hour, exhausted all the resources of his art. When she was casting about for corroborations, she introduced for the first time the subject of the handkerchief, stating that at the first interview it was tied into knots. In one of the books of memoranda she states that an accordion was on the table at the first interview, and that it played a tune without being touched by anybody. Now, that cir cumstance was not introduced into any affidavit. He contended that those memoranda were compiled between the 27th of June, 1867—the time when the first affidavit was sworn—and the 31st of March, 1868, when the third affidakit was sworn ; but the plaintiff and her advisers shrunk from introducing that additional circumstance into the first interview of a quarter of an hour. With regard to the statement of the plaintiff about her visiori of the golden-haired boy, he said she had in her crow-wramination admitted that it was all nonsense, and treated it as a joke. He thought it was clear that she, an ostentatious woman, who had nothing to recommend her, and who was slighted by her relations, took that peculiar means, by talking about her remarkable visions, of givitg herself a position, and making herself the subject of remark. Mrs. Lyon, with a keen sense of the grotevue ness of the raps, and so forth, was the last person to be influenced by them. The lea rned counsel laid particular stre.ss on the letter sent to Mr. Home, which ran as follows " My dear Mr. Home, I have a desire to render you inde pendent of the world, and, having ample means for .the purpose without abstracting from any needs or comfort of my own, I have the greatest satisfaction in now pre senting you with, and as an entirel fre gift from me, the sum of £24,000, and am, my dear sir, yours very truly and respectfully, JANE LYON." Mr. Matthews then referred to the transactions with her brokers and bankers when she sold out her stock for the benefit of the defendant, the learned counsel proceeding to give some explanation of the circumstances which, he said, had led her to make so extraordinary a disposition of her property as she had clone, pointing out that she had a fortune of £6,000 a year, living at a second-floor lodging at 30s. a week, with no expenses of any kind ; that her wealth was, therefore, useless to her, that her only asso ciates were Mrs. Sims, Mrs. Prior, and Mrs. Pepper, that she was leading a dull life, and that she had always been anxious to adopt a eon. When she met with Mr. Home she found in him everything she could desire, and enter tained, as he alleged, from the first, the most natural and unblameable affection. Many witnesses had spoken of the plaintiff having expressed the greatest dislike of her relatives, and in one of her letters she had called Mrs. James Fellows "a devil out-and•.,ut," and this he thought was sufficient to account for her having given her money to the defendant. With regard to the gift of £6,000, she had said to several witnesses that she was going to give it to him by way of a little surprise as a birthday present, and that, he contended, was not at all con sistent with the theory that she had given the money simply in obedience to the commands of her husband's spirit.—The case had not concluded when the enurt adjourned. LAW AND POLICE. IgroBTANT To INSURERS. —ln the same court the case of Hinch and anoti,r v. the Norwich Provident Assur• ance Company was heard. This case was an action by the executors of a schoolmistress, who had effected an assurance for £lOO with the defendants, and which they contended they were not bound to pay, as the assured had induced the defendants to enter into the policy by concealing certain facts which she was bound to have disclosed. One of the questions proposed was, "'Who is your regular medical attendant?" and the assured an• swered it by stating, " Never bad any." It turned out that the assured had had an attack of small-pox and also a bilious attack accompanied by relaxed sore throat, and for both attacks she bad called in medical assistance. The jury found for the defendants, and Mr. Gray, Q.C., moved for and obtained a rule te set aside the verdict and for a new trial, on the ground that there hal been no con cealment, as the answer ;jven by the assured was in accordance with truth. A medical man called in to attend a person labourin:; under a sudden fit of illness could not be said to be the " regular medical attendant " of the persnn so calling him in.—The court took time to consider judgment, but suggested t) the parties the propriety of effecting an arrangement of the case, if possible, without judg.aent being given. REFI:giNG TO PERFORM DIVINE SERVICE.—In the Dean of Arches Court, the case of the Bishop of Win chester v. the Rev. Tucker Lewis Rug:, , came on for hearing. It was a suit instituted by the Bishop of Win chester, under the Church Discipline Act, against the Rev. Mr. Rugg, incumbent of Eeclinswell-with-Sydmon ton, for not performing divine service at the latter church. His Lordship, at the conclusion of a protracted hearing, said there was really only one question in the case, and that was whether a clergyman with two churches in his benefice could select the one in which be would perform the services, or whether it was not in the discretion of the Ordinary to distribute the services. There was no prece- dent on the point, and he would take a little time to Con sider his judgment. The judgeship of County Courts Circuit No. 32, vacant by the death of Mr. T. J. Birch, has been conferred on Mr. William Henry Co)ke, Q.C. Mr. Cooke, who is Recorder of Oxford, was called to the bar by the lion. Society of the Inner Temple in 1837. Rewards amounting in all to nearly £2,000 are ()tiered for the apprehension of the murderer of Mr. Fetherstonehaugh, of Westmeath. The landed proprie tors of the county have contributed a large portion of the gam. Three men arrested on suspicion are now in Mul- Ungar Gaol, two of them being tenants on the estate, and one a servant•boy of a farmer. CO-OPERATION IN TUE BUILDING TRADER.--A public meeting of operatives in the various branches of the building trades and others has been held at the Drill Hall, Chelsea, in furtherance of the company now being esta blished for building purposes on the co-operative principle. Sir Henry Hoare occupied the chair. The chairman, in opening the business of the evening, said the present was one of five meetings to be held during the present week in support of the Co-operative Building Company, which he was happy to say was already making considerable pro gress. He was informed that there were at least 2,000 shareholders, and that the list was daily increasing. THE CASE uF SIR CRARIES DARLING.—Sir Charles H. Darling, K.C.8., late governor of the colony of Victoria, has presented to Parliament a petition ex pressing his desire that his whole conduct in the administra tion of the government of Victoria, and all his proceedings in respect to the proposed grant of £20,003 to Lady Darling, should be subjected to the fu` lest investigation. lie submits that the whole question of the grant, the very principles npon which it proceeds, and the motives in which it ori ginated, are so intimately connected with his con duct in the administration of the government cf - Victoria, and with the circnmstances which led to and arc consequent upon his recall therefrom, that it would be at 'ariance with that spirit of justice in which the House of Commons is accustomed to act, to arrive at a decision upon the motion of which notice has been given, without much more full and accurate information upon his con. duct. Sir Charles Darling submits : fl) That in all his conduct in the administration of the government of the colony of Victoria, he, in conformity with the princi- ples of the political constitution of the colony, acted with the advice of responsible MiniAe,rs possessing the confi dence of a majority of the Legislative Assembly, and of the constituencies of that body. (2) That the acts so taken with the advice of his responsible Ministers, and the legality of which was questioned, were declared by the law officers of the Crown in Victoria to be, consistent with statute law or constitutional practice, and to be within the legal competency of your petitioner to a !opt. (3) That it the case complained of, in which public revenue was issued in order that the just claims of the public creditors might be satisfied, and in reliance upon the subsequent complete legislation of such issue by an Act of the Legislature, that Act was passed before the petitioner's recall was made known in the colony. rAnvEturisEmErrd—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— A frequent cause of gout and rheumatism is the inflam matory state of the blood, attended with bad digestion and general debility. A few doses of these pills taken in time are an effectual preventive against gout and rheumatism, but any one who has an attack of either should use Hol loway's ointment also, the powerful properties of which, combined with the effects of the pills, must infallibly effect a cure. These pills act directly on the blood, which they purify and improve ; they also regulate the secretions and give tone to the stomach, and thus the whole system is in vigorated and put into a condition which enable it to throw off disease or check its approach. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1868. 7HE " PALL MALL GAZETTE" ON AMERI CA.; (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Pall Mull Gazette is taking a more than ordinary interest in American affairs. It is seldom that some of its " Occasional Notes" are not on American matters. The " organ for gentlemen," and the Standard, the high Tory newspaper, give more space to intelligence from the United States than any of their London contemporaries ; judging from this, we presume that the higher classes in England are taking a more lively interest in Trans atlantic questions. But it does not follow that this interest is a kindly one. Indeed, thin-skinned Americans have often, as one of their papers said, grown hot and cold with annoyance at what they have seen about themselves in the Standard. What would be said of an Australian who danced in anger on hearing a laughing jackass ? The poor bird but utters its natural cry, and although it might scream at the Australian he must be very sensitive and with au overwhelming idea of the ridiculous in himself if he thinks these notes have any effect beyond that given to them by his own imagination. The Pall Mull Gazelle, however, is no laughing jackass, but a paper that writes with more than ordinary point, and it is worth while to give instances of its mannerof treating American subjects. In last Monday's issue the first allusion was a letter from Mr. Moncure D. Conway, who wrote to cor- rect an " Occasional Note" in a former number on Mr. Wendell Phillips. The Pall Mall had taken the first and the last sentences of a letter from Mr. Phillips to the Anti-Slavery Standard, con necting them so as to pervert the writer's mean ing. " Between the two sentences," says Mr. Conway, " thus quoted together there are four others," and it is amusing to see how totally the meaning of what Mr. Phillips said had been changed. The way in which the man's words are first distorted and then pounced upon to give point to a hostile argument is seen in the Standard of Tuesday, vrherein this perversion is used to prove how shamefully Mr. Johnson is being treated :—" Mr. Wendell Phillips, for instance, avows that the Pre sident must be deposed, guilty or not guilty, in order that the Radical party may have the use of the Presidential patronage and Executive power during the coming elections." Now Mr. Phillips, instead of saying this, was censuring with extreme bitterness the motives of many Republican Sena tors. However, Americans are accustomed to this, and are therefore better able to bear it. The next item of American intelligence is in the " Occasional Notes :"—" The impression among people of a cer tain class that the law permits a man to sell his wife prevails also in certain parts of America. A man in Buffalo, New York, Thomas Doyle, has publicly advertised his wife as a prize to be raffled for. Tickets have been printed, on which it is said :s— -' This woman is a good housekeeper, and is willing to stay with any one who may draw her. Tickets, 25 cents.' What action the authorities have taken has not yet been reported." But this would not be complete without giving some idea of what style of woman the American husband has to sell. Therefore the Pall Mall follows with an extract from the Tablet complaining "bitterly of the behaviour of some of the Protestant ladies present at the ceremonies of the Holy Week in Rome. A rough and tumble struggle for seats occurred in the Sistine Chapel between two American females, whom the Tablet ungallantly denounces as disgraceful scum, and the mother of a Zouave who was amongst the noblest dead at Mentana, the descendant of one of the most ancient crusading families of Belgium. The American scum got the best of the affray, the chamberlain on guard looking coolly on the while, which leads time Tablet to conclude that he was a friend of the culprits. The English ladies present are said to have behaved much more decorously than the Americans." The stand made by American women for their rights is further illustrated by the following " Note," which shows at least that if they break heads at Rome, they know how to heal them at home :—"Female physicians and surgeons are becoming the fashion in the United States. The Revolution, a New York journal, states that in Philadelphia six women-doctors return to the income tax revenues ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 dollars a year ; that in Orange, New .Jersey, i a woman-surgeon returns her income at 15,000 I dollars ; and that there is in New York another who returns hers at 20,000 dollars." Having dis posed of " the sex," the Pall Mall turns its atten tion to the diplomatic service, with which it thus i n o f t thehthe _ t, ka i it i vi n c ehe i i d orissif e cr i at i lo t iinl a sket l eGlfuyon r tervltsieaoturellnbdtosmensogewtfhati Government timeihsoi time u past only c:cenatlid: e — ad " lo O ek ne accreditedtAh d e a C n i o s u h r a t B o r re f ep S mr t e . i si i James's ennetda only to accommodate Mr. Seward, as no one whom the President might nominate as his successor would be likely to receive the approval of the Senate. Mr. Adams, it is understood, will not postpone his re turn to America beyond the time he has already fixed, and unless Mr. Wade supersedes Mr. John ssoantisaflametoosrty im to me t d h i e ately ma , j a o n ri d ty, no t m h i e na po tes st a Mmayinister lie vacant for months. The American diplomatic ser vice has been in a state of great confusion ever since Mr. Johnson has sat in the White House. The 11Iinister at Portugal, happening to write a le Mr. Seward, in which he condemned the proceed ings of Congress, at once had his salary stopped by the offended Legislature, and has been kept with out any allowance whatever for more than two years. The Minister at Vienna was said, most un justly, to have abused Mr. S ewar d, an d as Mr. him this c so ss in e e t w h h e a s t en b a i t t e te r r e ly ta , ain i ed r. S e Motleyrd r e r s e i p g r n o e a d c . h ed ., LI true to the Minister, and s till re f uses t o acknow ledge any vacancy at Vienna. F or Berlin a gen tleman was happily found who had contrived to distribute his compliments between the White House and the Capitol with so equal a hand that neither power could refuse to reward his dexterity. After Mr. Bigelow's retirement the choice of his successor at Paris commended itself to universal approval, but a public man so popular with all parties as General Dix is not easily found in any country. It is absurd to suppose that a Republican Congress would send General M'Clellan to Great Britain ; there is more probability that General Butler would be their chosen man, especially in the event of the President being deposed. The appointment has been discussed in anticipation by one or two of the American papers, and should it ever be made, our Foreign Secretary for the time being will find abun dant employment prepared for him by the hero of New Orleans." The Gazette then proceeds to give the sequel to Mr. Glenn's accusation of bribery against the members of the New York Legislature, which it had introduced on the preceding Friday : "As we anticipated, the Mr. Glenn who made the disclosures of bribery in the New York Legislature has not promoted his own comfort or profit by turning against his colleagues. It appears that Mr. Glenn is an old man, and after his statements were made public he was (a New York paper tells us) 'so set upon, badgered, taunted, scolded, upbraided, sneered at, and argued with, that he was completely broken down, begged to be allowed to depart in peace, and was finally let go in sheer pity by the hornets be had unwittingly aroused." So ends the " investigation." The " Occasional Notes" are closed by the inquiry who is Sir Henry de Houghton? Sir Henry has been held up ever since Mr. Seward published the list of the Confederate Loan sub scribers palmed off upon and transmitted by Mr. Bigelow from Paris to Washington. The other public men enumerated denied having'had any in terest in the Loan except Sir Henry, whose silence was taken in America as a proof of guilt, and the American papers have consequently been busy with him ever since, exhibiting him at intervals to the people as their greatest enemy now living :—" It is not without a due regard to the fitness of things that they have singled out from a fictitious list a person who has no existence, and so rendered the imposition practised upon them even more ridicu lous than it was before." Is there no American editor, asks the Pall-Mall, who has a Burke or a Dod in his office ? and concludes by asserting that " Mr. Seward has not often made such a bad bargain as this, and it is understood that he hasrefrained from buying Confederate ' paper' for a considerable time past." Then comes this item of religious in telligence :—" Dr. Nathans, an eloquent German Jewish Rabbi, i 8 exciting considerable attention in America by his discourses. He spiritualizes the idea of the Messiah, and does not expect his coming in the flesh. The Jews do not consider him ortho dox, and he is not permitted to preach in the syna gogues." The matters relating to America are closed with the following useful information : "The price of wheat remains pretty nearly station ary, March closing with an average of 725. 10d. per quarter, as compared with 60s. 11d. per quarter at the end of March, 1867 ; 445. 11d. at the end of March, 1866 ; and 38s. 11d. per quarter at the end of March, 1865 ; wheat having thus been gradually hardening for the last four years. Those farmers who may still hold a respectable quantity of wheat would probably do well to clear out during the next month or two, as there does not appear to be much chance of prices going any higher, while it is not at all impossible that they may t►ke a swoop downwards. For the United States have come to the rescue, and while they sent us a monthly average of only 349,001 cwt. of wheat in 1867, the corresponding monthly aver age this year, so far as the returns have been made up, has been 713,823 cwt. A delivery (to Great Britain alone) of 713,823 cwt. of American wheat can scarcely fail to have its effect upon the markets of 1868 ; but even this quantity will probably be surpassed in a few months should prices exceed 60s. per quarter, for wo find that in 1862 the United States sent to this country an average for the year of 1,345,066 cwt. per month. Every year the pro ductibility of the United States in the matter of cereals tends more and more towards its old level, which will, doubtless, be soon surpassed, with the march of American civilisation towards the western seaboard; and when we have once entered upon the enjoyment of the harvest of 1861, we shall proba bly enter also upon a period of cheap cereals. At present it is a race between Russian, Hungarian, and American surpluses, and Western European (and especially French) deficits. This race will continue for four months more. Meanwhile, every day which passes over without an advance being registered in prices, obviously increases not only the probability of their remaining during the four months at their present level, but also of their re ceding to some extent from it." This is pretty well for one evening ; and as the Pall Mall is the most advanced indication of the taste of the day among the upper classes, Americans may perceive that their doings, both at home and abroad, are becoming fashionable topics of conversation. music of the cataracts, which becomes familiar to the ear of the tourist in the Yosemite, for wher- ever he goes in this wonderful Valley the air rever berates with the sound of falling water. The Nevada Cascade is broken midway by a projecting ,edge, against which it strikes, and is dashed into spray and mist ; and the remaining portion of the Fall, thus interrupted, conveys the impression of anything but water. Indeed, this is characteristic of all the Falls of the Yosemite. A lady, who has described a recent visit, likens the great Fall to a long white garment of snowy descended drapery, as if an angel bad dropped its mantle in its upward flight—myriads of water rockets (if one can ima gine such a thing), bursting into foam, waving and fluttering in the wind. There are few spots on earth where nature, in its wildest waste and in its most fertile luxuriance, is so simultaneously pre sented. The Sierra Nevada is bleak beyond other ranges, when fairly penetrated; yet no richer coun try smiles in the sunlight than from its base to the Pacific. The Yosemite valley is one of the offshoots of the rich land penetrating by some mlrvellous convulsion into the fastuesies of the mountains. It is situated in MAriposa County, and the Merced flown due West, till it reaches the river San Joaquin, which carries it north till it m eets the Sacramento flowing south, when both enter the tidal cs'.uary above the Bay of San Francisco. These rivers run through valleys of unequalled fertility between the coast rauge and the Sierra Nevada. Along its coarse the San Joaquin receives numerous streams similar to the Merced, winding through vales formed by the great chain. About twenty miles from the entrance of the Yosemite Valley—though even there the eleva tion is 4,500 feet above the sea level—is a grove of 427 of the mammoth trees of California, called by the English officers who discovered them the TVel lingtonia Gigantea. The largest rise to 300 feet, with a diameter of 30 feet. This is the biggest collection of the biggest trees known to the world. The grove is three-quarters of a mile long by half a mile wide, and the smallest of the giants stands 250 feet, with a diameter of 15 feet, while the largest is 325 feet high, and 31 feet in diameter: A. monster has fallen, and a considerable portion of it was burned, hut enough remains to show that it once stood nearly 40 feet in a straight line through, and over 400 feet in height. The first of these mammoth groves discovered was the Calaveras, and though much smaller iu number than that near the Yosemite, the remains are there of a tree which could not have been less than 450 feet high and 120 in circumference. Through one of the hollow trees of the group a man can ride on horse-back. Many of the very old trees are hollow, and one called " Uncle Tom's Cabin" has an open space under it of more than twelve feet square. Various estimates of their ages have been made, ranging up to 3,000 years ; and an idea can be formed of the antiquity of these giants when it is said that two or three are sometimes united on the ground, though in their infancy they grew 20 feet apart. Nor till the late disastrous fire at the Crystal Palace was the Englishman left to mere description for an idea of the IVellingtonia Gigantea, for in 1831 one 92 feet in circumference and 300 feat high was cut down, and a portion of its bark to the height of 116 feet set up in the Palace at Sydenhain. For twenty-two days five men worked at felling that tree, and its stump was smoothed off for dancing parties and theatrical performances, and even a newspaper, called the Big Tree Bulletin, made it its platform. Apropos of these trees, the Princess of WALES planted one last Monday afternoon in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, at the root of which a tablet was placed, with the inscription : " lVellingtonia Gigantea, native of California, planted by her Royal llighneas the Princess of WALES, April, 1868," and on the other side the words, " The first seeds of this tree came to this country in 1853 ;" and the Prince planted another at a further part of the lawn. The days are draw ng nigh when this land of natural wonders will be as open to the tourist as Egypt now is, and those who gaze with admiration at the " Domes of the Yosemite," may themselves view that matchless valley of cliffs and waterfalls ; they may bathe in the clear cold waters of the Merced, dance on the platform of the Big Tree Bulletin, and canter through the " Horse-back Ride." We are weary of European impostures --"e arc sick of the dull muddy Nile--we want something fresh and new, to see Nature iu its magnificent desolation and in its moot luxuriant growth —then, let those who can afford the time and the money turn their steps towards the Greet West till they reach the slopes of the Sierra Nevada, and the State of California Rpreads before them. In -leaa than three years the Union Pacific Railway will be open, connecting by steam every foot of the road from New. York to San Francisco. Then we can do for ourselves What it took all the wit of ARTEMUS WARD to desCribe in the Salt Lake City. Then, indeed, Yo Semite, a na me they have now no idea how to pro nounce , w ill become as familiar as a household word. A l rea dy this valley has given rise to the legislation of Congress, and to contention among the ru l ers of California. Such a scene was considered at Wash ington desirable to be set apart for the nation, and Congress enacted that the land be made over to the California Legislature iu trust for the people.— Angb-Anierican Times. PLAY BILLS OF THE PAST. -40.- A theme of this nature is inexhaustible, and it is, therefore, with no need for apology that we write a s econd disquisition cn th e cas t i n a Drury lane bill (No. VII.), published in this paper's, s i n ce our last commentary appeared. At the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane ---what pleasing re collections the name of the old house brings up !_on the 23rd of July, forty-seven years ago, Edmund Kean played " King Richard the Third," being his first appearance on his return from America. Richmond, John Cooper ; Sir William Catesby, Mr. Vining ; and Lady Anne, Miss Smith son :—these seem to be the only other performers of note who appeared in the play, and rendered it by no means an inferior cast. A little episode before we go further. It is perhaps not known to the present generation of play-goers that Kean's model had been George Frederick Cooke,—nor was he ashamed to own it. He had a perfect reverence and adoration for his prototype, who had shown i so brightly in the great charactors that I Kean was then nightly electrifying his audience by I depicting, viz. : " Richard the Third," " Shylock" and " Sir Giles Over reach," and who—to prove , what we say —played in two voices, which Kean, it will be better remembered, did also. Well, Kean had made a pilgrimage to the great tragedian's tomb in America, and actually exhumed a bone of 1 George Frederick Coo' ke's foot, which be brought j over with him, and before he would appear on the i stage, on the evening above-named, called the whole of the Drury-lane company together in the green , room, and actually insisted on their going down on their knees, one by one, and kissing this j sacred relic ! Absurd as it may appear, the tri bute to this great genius was paid exactly as Kean prescribed, with all seriousness and reverence on his part, whatever might have been the feelings of his fellow actors and actresses. But to the play. "The play'sthe thing." Kean, on this eventful Mon ' day evening, elated with his successes and flattered by the welcome he received not only from the public but from his brother professionals, outdid, if 'twere 1 possible, alt his former out-doings ; in the highest I I spirits, in the possession of his matured;powers and tin the prime of manhood, he went through " Richard" with a vigour and fire never surpassed by any actor, if ever appro wiled. The scenes, with Le.cly Aune in the Ist act, were portrayed with that subtlety which Ke tn's severer 'critics were wont to say " was too apparent to have succeeded with any woman;" however that might be,they suco!eded with the audience. The tent scene WM —what it ever was—terrible, filled with the most startling attitudes in quick transition. The last act, a masterpiece of tragic power, culminating iu a fight, • the reality of which could scarcely be doubted, roused the audience to a pitch of excitement never perhaps witnessed in old Drury before—and some rather exciting displays have been -seen there k by the writer that do not take place in i these polite, unimpressive, wa had almost said I ti degenerate days." .lien fell covered with glory 1 GHOSTLY UTILIiES. Shakespeare frequently informs us that we are but actors upon a -worldly stage and, if this be true, our daily experience shows us that there is no style of acting so lucrative as the assumption of direct communication with a superior authority, divine or imperial. Such actors are ever found to be well housed, well clothed, well fed ; for bold and impudent knaves pray upon the weakness of humanity, and find numerous dupes to support them. It matters not whether they be Jesuits or Ranters, pretended magicians as of yore, manufacturers of gold as Cagliostro in the last century or the medium of ;spirits in our own days, money is the ever-ruling object of their pre tensions, and success generally attends their exec. tions. In touching on these master humbugs, let us not overlook the ghostly utilities so intimately con nected with them. Our bard has, with much impropriety, assigned to Hamlet the celebrated monologue, " To be or not to be," after the spirit of his father had assured bim that it was doomed— " To walk the night, And for the day confin'd to fast iu fires." According to spi r it ua li s t s , n either of these is our future destiny, bei ng fated to gambol, not always invisible to mortal eyes, upon this busy stage. As ghosts, we now have to ring bells, play guitars, pull down blinds, upset tables, and bear our gifted and potent masters, like floating deities, over the heads of credulous audiences. These now, indeed, form the exceptional labours of spiritual utilities, their common vocation being table rapping, but the time will probably come when some mightier medium will endow them with a gift of the gab, and then indeed " they will astonish the Browns !" Sleep is perfectly out of the question to them when gifted mortality is so wide awake to its own interest, as a cause caebre now so abundantly proves. Look at the position of the poor spirit of the late Mr. Lyon. During its occupation of the flesh, it never knew, and therefore never troubled itself, about the interest of Mr. Home, but having unfortunately left the whole of its mortal assets to solace its widow, it became, after decease, singu larly interested in the welfare of that gentleman ; so much so, indeed, that, through the usual mode of communication—the production of audible sounds from a table by its immaterial knuckles—it com manded its fascinated widow to convey the modest sum of £60,000, absolutely by deed of gift, to him —to the man who had invented or perfected the rapping system, and which, therefore, he could readily interpret. We wonder much, when Mr. Home was so solici tous to avoid a public ovation, on his exit frotnf court the other day, that he did not avail himse 1 of the aid of a score of disembodied spirits, and soar homeward above the heads of an excited crowd. Probably there was no convenient chair at hand on which he might elegantly repose or no broom-stick to majestically ride, as a witch of old.-I?acing Times. 711 E VALLEY OF 7HE YOSEMITE. Reader, do you wish to get a glance at the Sierra Nevada ? You can do so in the heart of London. We put faith in the truth of the artist's representation, and sitting back in a chair with all shut out but the view before us, it needs no powerful effort of the imagination to fancy oneself on a rock with the domes of the Yos2mite rising around. Above, towers the large preeirice over which the water leaps ; close by rushes the stream, strangely changed in hue from the feathery white it had assumed in the fall, on its headlong course into the valley 1,000 feet beneath you. Through the midst of the vale flows the Merced, moander ing peaceably along the level ground over soft white sand. Here and there rise clumps of trees of huge dimensions, appearing small from the height at which you look, and diminishing in perspective till a turn in the hill closes up the valley in the distance. But the Domes are the wonder of the sight, the huge bluffs that rise perpendicularly 4,500 feet from the level ground cleft from out this mountain range. There are the white walls of Tutochanoola with its sentinel rock like a watch-tower on its summit. There are the Three Brothers and El Capital, a succession of stupendous cliffs, the like of which are not seen in any coast line of the world. At the foot of some are gathered huge piles cf boulders as if the rock had here and there split, precipitating masses of its desolate bare side into the green valley. From the spot we look over the mountain summits that wall in the Yosemite, a scene of desolation, of wild, bare, weather-beaten heights, of which no hill top of Scotland could convey even a fain t idea. Far be yond, mingling with the clouds, rise some of th e snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada, aiding the imagination in conveying to the mind the illimitable distance of desolation above, in strange contrast with the luxuriant growth of the valley below. But those who see the Domes of the Yosemite, must not imagine that the picture embraces all, this marvellous Valley has to show. Some miles up lie two lakes, in a little nook surrounded by giant cliffs, with pine trees and a shrub bery hanging over the banks. The deep, clear, and dark blue waters are alive with trout speckled fellows of all sizes, from a tiny minnow to those pounds is weight. Further up the tra veller comes upon the Bridal Veil, of 350 feet; the verge is gained by a steep, narrow pathway, and beyond this is the Nevada Cascade, 700 feet high, the first, over which the river precipitates itself, when it foams in its rocky bed through a table-land of the mast dreary and wild description, till it leaps, in its hurry to roach a more genial region, over the Bridal Veil. There the mountain sides are alike bare of verdure and of life. Scarcely a representa tive of the vegetable kingdom is to be found—not a bird or beast breaks the stillness of nature, which would bo that of tho grave l but for the ceaseless and bathed in perspiration to be called on again In their books, without exception almost, they never tak e and again before the curtain,—the pit rising to him. any women with them, and invariably refuse the hospit able and generous:present of female slaves, which are made After the play, most of the audience left, a compli on an average about four times a week. Vau Arnburgh went to the actor which we cannot do better than can subdue anything but conundrums, and so gave it up. follow by leaving out any details regarding Tippoo has no respect for the African elephant, which he " The Spectre Bridegroom," a by no means bad predicts will eventually kill all its keep :rs, besides dis - farce, and very well acted, though no t ov er gracing 'the professions.' Is now travelling in the West, strongly cast. It will be seen by the end and, wrapped in the rich stuffs of Ind and Orient, proudly of the bill that our old clever and conceited friend lea , d , l i al An l E itteri stream of gold a mile long. , BUCKIANA: is the oldest dramatic functionary Elliston had got up a spectacle at this time called on th e stage, with a few trifling exceptions. To hire the (4 The Coronation," in which, with all the airs of a discovery of the marvellous properties of soap-lather for perfect mimic, he impersonated George the Fourth, expressing rage is to bo attributed. Ho lit upon the idea and he was not really unlike that great man in per- by rehearsing Richard in his bedroom, while cleansing his son as well as in many traits of character. We do not teeth with the dentifrice advertised in our columns. Such mean this as a compliment but doubtless in those results l, can only be achieved by a pure devotion to art. , the lather on at once, but was at first laughed at. d days it would have been taken as one by this Pro - Persevered, however, until the soap was more regarded tean artiste. The procession hal a considerable sue- than the quality of the play. Mr. Buchanan is supported cess, but Kean, as he called to Richmond—" Come by his daughter Virginia mostly, but would doubtless con forth and singly face me," singly and signally out- sent to play Othello to Risturi'S Deedemona if he was pressed by a large number of respectable and paying faced it ; and fit he should, for it was intellect, genius and talent versus pageant.—Racing Times popio. Is worth forty thousand dollars, principally made out of forfeits and fines of the little people iu his coin and Amateur Dramatic Chronicle. pany. If he gets down on an actor he inveigles hire into playing Richmond, and then in the fire and fervour of hichard he gluts the vengeance of the ro-norsoless Buchanan. This is a very shifty dodge, as there are no legal consequences to be feared. Great artists must not be held responsible by the law, or their landladies, or their washerwomen, for anything they do. If they . are, what becomes of Art? Why, it is crushed to earth, of course, and, unlike Truth, it can't get up again. That is the reason there are so many crushed actors in the profession ?' There aro to-day hundreds of gifted young men and women in 'the profession' who are announcing, My lord, the carriage waits,' and My lady, tea is ready,' who should be declaiming the rounded periods and glowing lines of Hamlet, Coriolanua, Claude Melnote, hichelieu, and Mrs. Haller. Mr. Bu chanan is truly devoted to art. He nev©r makes any money by his engagements, but works hard at draw-poker that he may support the dignity and expense of manage rial eclat and responsibility. Is very fine-looking, digni fied in demeanour, Roman countenance, irascible in tem per, slightly gouty, eats nails, believes in himself and Virginia, writes a tolerably good newspaper card (as Lieutenant Hill will probably learn to his cost), and is a. finer fencer than Lord George_Benticuk. [We would not be surprised if the Lieutenant discovrs that Mr. Buchanan possesses a thorough knowledge of single-stick exercise. —ED.] IS MR. WADE IN 711 E PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION? (From the Anglo-American noes.) The question raised by the National I fitelligencer, whether Mr. Wade is in the succession, in the event of the President being deposed, has been much dis cussed. The argument given in that journal is attributed to no less a person than the Chief Jus tice himself, though the main point is a merequibble. Last week we quoted the article of the Constitu tion providing for such vacancies. The word used is "officer," and on that the point hinges. Tech nically it is said that neither the President of the Senate nor the Speaker of the House is an officer, and if this holds, neither Mr. Wade nor Mr. Colfax are eligible. By a law of Congress it is provided that when the elected President and Vice-President ate removed or disqualified, the officer presiding in the Senate shall assume the office, and failing him the Speaker of the house of Representatives. But it is alleged that this law is unconstitutional. The fact is, that the President's example has been contagious, and every culprit con demned, and every law that militates against the freedom and property, no matter how acquired, of the citizen is declared by the injured in dividual to be unconstitutional. Indeed the Supreme Court will have to be set up as masons set up a sieve for sifting, into which the Acts passed by the Legislature must be thrown and shaken, and the big unpalatable lumps jerked back into the Capitol. It is alleged that both Wade and Colfax are Congressmen, and the Constitution pro vides that no officer of the United States shall serve as a Congressman while in office, therefore neither Wade nor. Colfax are officers, and consequently are ineligible. Even were they officers, as Congress men they cannot serve as Pr esident or Vice-Presi dent yet, as Congressmen only, are they in the suc cession. A Congressman may be expelled, but can not be impeached, and any Congressman selected to act as President could not be impeached, while the Constitution provides that the President can be impeached, and thus the question is argued. The Vice-President elected by the people is, ex officio, President of the Senate, and therefore he is a Con gressman, as he sits in the Senate, and gives a casting vote when numbers are even. He is clearly au officer, and Andrew Johnson, in virtue of being such an officer, succeeded to the Presidency ; nor can we see why Mr. Wade, who succeeded Mr. Johnson, should be barred from the higher post if it became vacant. Mr. Johnson ceased to sit in the Senate when he became Presi dent, and Mr. Wade would also cease to be a Con gressman if he succeeded. A man is not rendered ineligible for any office by being a Congressman : he simply vacates the one position and takes up the other, losing the privileges he before enjoyed and assuming the responsibilities of his office. The Constitution lays down who are ineligible for the Presidency—a man under thirty-five years of age, or not a native of the United States, or being born in the county, and over 35 if he has not resided in the United States for the pre ceding 14 years ; but it does not say that a Con gressman is ineligible, and if it did, it is a barrier easily removed by resigning his Representative functions. On looking over Dr. Evans's work we find that an appeal can be male to the country for the election of a President, iu case of the removal by death or other causes of both the President and Vice-President, for which election the day fixed is the first Wednesday of the December following, or if this is too close a date, the same d ty of the follow ing year. This certainly does not ail in the pre sent emergency, considering that the regular ilec don must come off on the first Wednesday of next December, whether Andrew Johnson is deposed or not. The question is, who is to act in the mean time ; and the attempt is made to show that it must be one of the two great functionaries—the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or the mili tary officer Commanding-in-chief. There is nothing in the Constitution indicating either of these officers, while it is clear that Con gress is authorised to designate the person, and that it has designated that person by enacting that the President of the Senate shall succeed ; and if he be ineligible, by reason of age, place of birth, or the required length of residence within the States, then the Speaker of the House shall discharge the functions till the next Presiden tial election. If there be no Constitutional prece dent, in any emergency such questions are sure to suggest themselves to some minds, and to assume an importance they do not possess; but Congress will give little heed to them, and we would like to know who is going to dispute the right of Ben Wade to the chair, if it becomes vacant. MERCANTILE SHIP NEWS. LIVERPOOL, April 17.—Arrived, the Denmark, screw steamer, from Now York; the Nile, from Mobile; the China, screw steamer, from New York. Sailed, the Sevo rige, for New York. April 18.—Arrived, the Cremorne, from Galveston ; the Chancellor, from Mobile. Sailed, the Java, screw steamer, for new York. OFF THE NEEDLES, Aprill6.—Arrived, Borussia, screw steamer, from New York. BrusToL,Aprill7.—Arrived, J. H. Epping, from New York. SHIELDS, Aprill7. —Sailed, Edwin and Lizzie, for New York CARDIFF, April 17.—Sailed, the F. A. Sander, for New York. BROOMIELAW, April 17.—Sailed, the United King dom, for New York. CLYDE, April 17.—Arrived, the Ca ledonian, screw steamer, from New York. QUEENSTOWN, April 18.—The Annie, from New Orleans to Liverpool, re ported as having put in here with damage, had carried away foremast head and mizen topmast, sails, &c., and had thrown part of cargo overboard. She has been towed to a dockyard off Cora. Arrived, the Aim, from Bahia ; the Florence, from Matanzas ; the China, steamer, from NOW York, and left for Liverpool. NEW YORK, April B.—The Edwin and Eva, British schooner, from Turk's Island to this port, which put into Kingston, Jamaica, March 8 , leaky, has since been condemned and ordered to be sold. April 7.—The Stamboul, British ship, from Mobile to Liverpool, which ran ashore March 4 near the Memory Rock, discharged 23 bales, which were taken as salvage by the• wreckers previous to getting off (see above vessel arrived at Liverpool April 9). April B.—The Fleetwing, British brig, from Matanzas to Boston, put into Nassau, N.P., in March, leaking, and had discharged on the 30th of April for repairs. The Halicore, of New castle, from Blyth to Sagua, la Grande, struck near Morant Bay March 5, and went to pieces: crew saved. DEAL, April 19.—Arrived, the Solent, from New York. LivERTooL, April 18—Arrived, the Mexican, from New Orleans, the Chancellor from Mobile, and the Ronochan from Mobile. Sailed, the Java for New York, the North ampton for Bath, U. S. April 20.—Arrived, the Berkeley Castle for New Orleans, the Hampden from Savannah, the Curlew, tho Baden, and the Beausito from New Orleans, the City of Washington (steamer) from Now York, the Sea from Mobile, the Pleiades and the Zatland from NeW Orleans. BRISTOL, April 19.—Arrived, the Jesse from Savannah. FALMOUTH, April 20.—Arrived, the Apollo from New York. CLYDE, April 20.—Arrived, the Mobile, the Curlew, the Baden, the Beausite, and the Pleiades from New Orleans, and the Sea from Philadelphia . QUEENSTOWN April 18.—Arrived, the Victor, from New York, fur Dublin, with loss of rudder, bulwarks, &T. OFF CROOKISAVEN, April 29.—Arrived, the City of Washing' ton, steamer, from Ratifax, N.B. Naw Yonx, April 18. -- Th. , Albert Gallatin, fur Liverpool, has been burnt, and sunk in Mobile Bair. CUSTOM HOUSE, April 20.—Entered outwards,. the C 11s, for New York. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The screw steamer, London to New York, April 13, lat. 4J N. long. 29 W. ; the Carrie E . Wright, Liverpool to Baltimore, March 20, lat. 41 N. long' 37 W ; tha Joseph Fisk, Mobile to Liverpool, April 1, lat. 37 N. longl7 W. DEAL, April 20—Arrived, the Blida, trout Baltimore. LIVERPOJL, April 20—Arrived, the Sea and the Philadelphiaa, from Mobile, not the Sea from Philade l p hia, nor the Motile from Now Orleans, as reported before. April 21 —Arrived, the Mary Ann from Now Orleans, the Caravan and the Flying Foam from Mobile, the Palmyra (steamer) from New York, the Breeze from Galveston• bailed, the Colorado (screw steamer) and the Tariffs (screw steamer) for New York. CowEs, April 20—Arrived, the Hansa, screw steamer, from New York, with 5 10,506 for Eugland, and $11,352 for France, and left for Bremen. Off CROOKRAVEN, April 20—Arrived, the City of Antwerp , screw steamer, from New York; left on the 11th. SO FRANCISCO, March 13.—The Viscata, hence to Li ve rpool,. which went ashore off this port en the Bth March, bad when sold some wheat on board, supposed to be shoat 400 tons, which was sold at the same time for $4,70. HONOLULU, Feb. 26.—The Flying Dart, arrived here Feb. 9 : from Tahiti, reports the arrival there of an English vessel which bad been wrecked two or three months previously „ on Starbucks Island. The master of the Flying Dart ha d omitted to write down the name of the wrecked vow'" , and all that can be learned is that she was chartered In San Francisco, loaded timber at Puget Sound, and. left he r loading port about August for Sydney, She had long an d peculiar name, and wassail to be of 800 or 900 tons burden . NEW YORK, April 9.—The Ida C., British brig, which loaded at Cienfugos with molasses, for Portland, has been detained by the authorities, who will probably be ordered to discharge owing to a robbery by the crew. The Este; lana, British brig, from Matanzas, &c., for Boston, wen ashore on the 7th of April at Long Point, near Provinc e : town, and bilged; the tide ebbing and flowing into her the cargo will be saved in a damaged state- The Seagul l ' steamer, has been burnt on Lake Michigan ; 50 lives w O " 9 lost. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—TIiO WyerniUg, delphia to Liverpool, April 4, lat.. 58 N., long. 72 W. ;,: steamer of the Anchor liue. bound': west, April 1 6 , lat. v.. N., long. 33 W. ; the Heimann, 'Southampton to Isle" York, April 17. 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Buck, M.A., of Blundell's School, Tiverton. LEEmixo—MASON-- On the 28th inst., at St. Joh n the Baptist Catholic Church, Brighton, Charles 1,0 0 , 1 ur,„: Esq., of the Middle Temple, barrister-at - law, to Isnt° fourth daughter of Mathew Mason, En., of PorL h ' place, Brighton. Deaths, BEALE —On the 26th inst., Mr. John B a Beale. of Larkll3ll: _. rise, Clapham, and 68, Union-street, Southwark, sge ConBETT—On the 28th inst., at Addlestane, Stirre;" Pitt Cobbett, Esq., aged 64. HEALEY --On tho 26th inst., at Seal borough, Ifealoir Esq., of Ashby Decoy Cottage, Lincolnshire, agod . 41 , 0 RA I . NSFORD —On the 28th inst., Hanburc, sixth son o f 1 ;i 3 0 late Richard Itaynsford, Brevet-Major-General of ' H.E.1.C.5., and of Henlow Grange, Bedfordshire. y 00 , SAssom —On the 29th inst., at 3 4 , Alwyne-road, - bury, Joseph Sansom, clerk to Mr. Justice 1;-°`iti - agea . s7. - TOWNEND --On the 27th inst., at, Hulme, Manchester, Wl3l. Townend, Esq., aged 84 . of WILLTA.ms—On the 27th inst., John H. Williamf, S'" 18, Cumberland-terrace, Ragent's-park, agod 57L............. - _ London : Printed and Published by WILLI3M. AND? 1 12. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Sus Oedoe, 0° ti of Strand, in the Product of tha Savoy, in thO APril 30, Is6B. SECRET HISTORY 01 , THE STAGE. (From Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.) TIPPOO SAM, the celebrated leading performer of Van Amburgh's . Caravan, is 200 years old, and large in propor tion. He 13 a nativ e o f Ceylon, and is the largest o f his race in America. • The elephant is not native to Ame rica, although McKean Buchanan, whose biography will be found below, saw him in California in the fall of 1849 . or the spring of Itsso. Tippoo ' s dignity and colossal stature have made him quite popular in the West, especially in the Western Reserve of Ohio, where many children have been nam ed after him. Tippoo once fell through a bridge crossing a small tributary of the Mississippi, twelve hundred miles from its mouth, and dropped ou a small boat in which a lady was fishing for perch. Of course the boat was crushed, but the laly was not immediately killed; she was, however, carried away by the current, and drowned before she rea ched the mouth of the Father of Waters. Tippoo Saib is in many respects an elephant of a de voted and self-sacrificing disposition. During the war, having espoused the cause of the South, he was besieged by an invading army in the fortfied to wn of Petersburg, Va. Provisions were scarce, mint was dear, old julep was unknown, and amusements were at a dis count—profound gloom pervaded the city. In this emer gency an old Virginian gentleman bethought himself of ye ancient game of Pharaoh. Cards and a lay out wore speedily obtained, but chops were not to be had. On the impulse of the moment Tippoo strode into the Town Council and magnanimously offered one of his ivory tusks to be sawed off and turned into whites, reds, and blues. The offer was gratefully accepted, the tusk skilfully extracted by an eminent dentist now pulling in this city, and turned into reds and blues, as the true Virginian never plays whites; besides, the combination of colours would have been Yankeeish, and Pete, sburgh was again indifferent to the horrors of war. It was on a lofty stack of these same chips that Toni Eans, the Mobile poet, placed a copper, and turned to read the pedigrees of 'Fly-by -Night,' when the concus sion of Butler's bombarding guns knocked the copper off, unseen by the abstracted poet, and the pile was scooped in by the bank on the next turn. It is calcu lated that but for this unfortunate event Tom Eans would have been the richest literary man in America. As it is, he has never received his full mood of praise, although he handles the papers with rutarable ability. Tippo Saib is a canvas-backed elephant in the summer and a dweller in cities during the winter is tolerably we ll-di s p os ed towards the large circle of acquaint ances, having killed only eiven keepers in the course of his placid and ',astersl existence—swain the Mississippi once at St. Louis, add dammed up the river so that the levee was completely submerged, and Charley Eller,' was entirely ruined by the consequent damage to his cotton, which lay on the bank. Tippoo lives princi pally on hay, but is not averse to apples, ginger bread, tin horns, Stewart's gum-drops, sandwiches, jujube past', or saleratus biscuit. Knocked a boy's head off once in Crestline by throwing his trunk at him, for tempting him with a red apple and ringing in a. slug of 'Solace tobacco on him. Beans malice a long time. Got down on George Holland when that gentleman was aide-de-campto Warren Hastings in India, and, a century later, when Mr. Barnum imported Tippoo to this country, the ship touched at Amsterdam for shore re freshments, but the implacable monster refused to go on shore, because he ,was told the country was named after the gay and thoughtless young dragoon on Hastings' staff. He is said to have a. very low opinion of Gordon Cummings, Speke, Burton, and other travellers, and asked Van Anaburgh once, why it was that African explorers are so 11901933 9t the requirorhouts and dalighte of female society.