The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE .T-OITRN-AL-. The Times declares that it is impossible that any Minis ter could have been accredited to us whom we should re ceive with more confidence as the honoured spokesman of a great nation than Mr. Reverdy Johnson. The unani mous ratification by the Senate of his nomination by the President as envoy to Great Britain is, under the special circumstances of the case, an unexampled testimonial. When Mr. Adams intimated his desire to retire from his post as the representative of the United States at our Court, the question at once arose who could possibly be his successor. One of the conse quences of the struggle between the President and the Congress was that the President could scarcely make a selection for any office which the Senate were ready to approve. Yet Mr. Reverdy Johnson, a consistent Demo crat, the representative in the Upper Chamber of the border State of Maryland, the senator who distinguished himself by his vigorous maintenance of the judicial character of the impeachment trial during the whole of its course, the judge who rebuked General Butler and compelled that unscrupulous partisan to apologise and withdraw his most injurious expressions as a manager of the impeachment, has been unanimously approved by the Senate as the Minister for the United States to the United Kingdom. Mr. Reverdy Johnson comes to us as one of whom all men speak well, and whose career has been not unfitly crowned by this signal mark of confidence paid him by his brother senators. Such a distinction does not, indeed, even in America, argue young years, and'we may be permitted to regret, for the sake of the new Minister as well as for ourselves, that the honour conferred on him comes late ; but Englishmen respect old age, and will not reproach Mr. Reverdy Johnson with the length of his services. This consideration apart, it would not be easy to find a worthier successor to Mr. Adams. It is as a lawyer that Mr. Johnson's reputation was established, and as a lawyer he has always remained distin guished. Mr. Reverdy Johnson has been throughout his life a worthy specimen of the class of jurists for which the United States were at one time celebrated, and the extinction of which, prematurely lamented some time since, has been proved to be not yet realised by the argu ments addressed to the Senate in the recent trial. The appointment of Mr. Reverdy Johnson as Minister at our Court is in itself so satisfactory that it need not be con trasted with what might have been. It is, however, impossible wholly to forget that, if the impeachment had been successful and Mr. Wade had succeeded to the office of President, we might have been called upon to receive a Minister of a very different character. We have much confidence, indeed, that, at the worst, the United States Senate would refuse to approve the nomination of a person unfit to up hold the dignity of the Union, or to conduct with ad vantage the negotiations intrusted to him. But, without dwelling upon any violent supposition, it is evident that serious embarrassments might have been provoked by an unhappy selection. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, be his term short or long, comes to us with the honours of a noble pro fession, and the assurance that in a time of unparalleled animosity he has won the approbation of both the contend ing parties of the Union. His practised intellect will be found trained to discuss the questions now pending or which may arise between the United States and ourselves with judicial precision and impartility; and we do but express the concurrent testimony of all observers in adding that to dignity of character and breadth of learning are allied a peculiar charm of manner. The Post calls attention to the principles laid down by the Internat'onal League of Peace and Liberty. In the first place, it is declared that religion must be abso lady excluded from politics and public education, in order to prevent the future interference of the Church with the free development of society. Secondly, all European States must be united in one gigantic confederation, by means of an organisation based on democratic institutions, with equal rights, both fee individuals and communities. Thirdly, a com rlete alteration must be effected in the present social system by an equal division of wealth, labour, prosperity, and education, with a view to the abolition of proleta rianism and the emancipation of the working classes. Now we all remercber the result of the last conference of the League at Geneva. This year their meeting is to be held at Berne. Nothing, it must be admitted, can in the abstract be more harmless than the topics to be submitted for discussion, and if they should prove equally profitless, that is a matter which exclusively concerns those who take part in them. But when the questions to be submitte3 to the congress are viewed by the light thrown on them by the three fundamental principles which are to govern any discussion to which these questions may give rise, and when the events which marked the meeting of the International Peace League last year are called to mind, it becomes a matter for serious consideration whether the Swiss Federal Council would be justified in permitting the proposed congress to be held. The Swiss are no doubt to be praised for the desire which they manifest to afford in their republic every opportunity to all corners for the free and unrestricted discussion of all poli tical subjects, but still, when a frank intimation is given that such discussion will proceed on a basis subversive of all existing rights, as well as of that sacred bond which holds in communion men scattered over the broad expanse of the globe, it is surely worth while to in quire whether any interest can be served by furnish lug the means of promulgating sentiments which all sane men Must hold in aversion. If there are persons who really believe that it would be for the advantage of man kind that revealed religion should share the fate of the heathen mythology, and that it is possible to found a United States of Europe, let them, if they please, pro mulgate these opinions through the public press. This latitude will 15e allowed to them in many parts of Europe besides Switzerland, and with this they should rest content. Confiscation, says the Daily News, appears to be once more the order of the day. The violence of the highway man levying his contributions by the pistol has long yielded to the gentlemanly swindler, who in the capacity of a banker or financial agent contrives to rob the public of twenty times more than his prototype. He has also the belief that if detection ensue he may receive the sup port and assistance of the most persistent advocates of commercial morality. Modern Governments are not slow to take note of this apparently strange alteration in public feel ing. The inference is inevitably drawn, that if a railway does not pay debts sanctioned by Parliament, foreign Govern ments can hardly err in following so tempting an example. To get the money at any cost, and leave the ultimate reckoning for others, is too often their aim. A worse or less politic course could scarcely be adopted. Two leading- States of Europe—Austria and Italy—have now decided to pursue it, unhappily for them. Whatever the immediate gain, faith in the honour of these Governments is seriously shaken. If a Government security of 5 per cent. can be suddenly reduced by legislative action to 4 and 2-10ths,.why may it not be lowered on a similar plea to 3 per cent.—perhaps pilstponed indefinitely ? The promise that the measure shall be final is about as trustworthy as the pledges of the Emperor Napoleon, who with peace on his own and his Ministers' lips raises a loan of some sixteen millions to increase his military force nearly a third, and hurriedly arms all his soldiers with Chas•epot rifles. Austria and Italy are both making rapid progress, not towards the material prosperity to which their immense though undeveloped resources entitle them, but towards national bankruptcy. Those who have hail experience of their straits and the measures to which they have been driven to pay the dividends on their funded and unfunded debts, can easily attest this assertion. It has not been of late a question of 10 or 12 per cent. to obtain temporary loans, but of getting them at any price, by means of larger commissions, so as to save national credit. If a nation is suicidal enough to sanction a large annual deficit for excessive expenditure, either on military rivalry or unproductive work at home, the end is very clear. It is a mere question of time. The Herald smartly criticises Mr. Vernon Ilarcourt's speeches at Oxford. The would-be member for the univer sity city gives speeches which, it says, are Bright-and, water, with a large preponderance of the latter. instance, he contends that Establishments are a hindrance rather than au assistance to Protestantism, and the grandest achievements of the latter have been accom plished without their aid. " Was it an Establishment," he asks, " which supported Luther at the Diet of Worms ? Was it an Establishment which gave strength to the Huguenots at the massacre of St. Bartholomew ? Vas it an Establishment that conquered the Spanish Armada , " Certainly not ; the Herald cheerfully concedes the point. It goes further still, and registers its frank admission that Establishments are equally guiltless of such cognate achievements as the Thames Tunnel, and the Duke of York's column, and the invention of the needle.gun and the sewing machine, and Crosse and Blackwell's pickles. Mr. Toots, says the Telegraph, had a very happy, harm less way of keeping up his own sense of his own import ance : he was constantly engaged in writing short notes from illustrious personages to himself, so that his desk might generally found covered with scraps commencing " The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. Toots," or other scraps beginning " Dl3 dear T00t,,,', and signed "Yours truly, Devonshire." We coninueld this practice to Mr. Denis Rearden, the irrepressible frislmmu of Piccadilly. It would be a great improvene!nt on his present practice of putting foolish questions in the House, and of pestering statesmen with long letters refer ring to a matter so very small as Mr. Rearden's political character. This very queer member for Athlone was referred to in East Worcestershire as a " follower of Mr. Gladstone's." The leader of the Liberal party at once repudiated the alliance ; and Mr. Rearden takes pains to confirm the repudiation by writing to Mr. Gladstone two long letters, full of in lilt and insinuations. He indicates pretty plainly that if there are Liberals who follow the right honourable gentle man, Mr. Denis Rearden is not amongst them, and that a future Gladstone Administration cannot count on his con fidence and support. This a serious blow to the Liberal party, which must. bear up as best it may. It is only another proof of the diabolical ingenuity with which Mr. Disraeli has woven his web, that while on the one hand he has alienated from Liberalism the furious Protestant Record, he has also seduced the fiery Papist of Piccadilly from his straggling position as a kind of camp follower or Bottler in the Liberal ranks. TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF O'FARRELL. The trial of O'Farrell for the attempted assassination of I the Duke of Edinburgh commenced on Monday, the 30th March, and occupied two days. No attempt was made to dispute the facts of the case, and the defence set up by his counsel was that of insanity. The evidence which they adduced, however, while sliming that the prisoner had at former periods of his life suffered from temporary Iberration— attributed to severe drinking failed to prove that ske was not in his senses at the time of committing the act. The rebutting evidence submitted by the Crown shewed that the crime must have been planned with care and deliberation, and that the prisoner while about it had not shewn any signs of insanity. None of the evidence tended to inculpate any other party, or to spew that the crime was instigated by any organisation. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to death. An address from the prisoner's relatives was presented to his Excellency the Governor of New South Wales, praying that his sentence might be respited, and the case referred to the decision of the Queen. His Excellency, on the advice of the Executive Council, declined to accede to the petition, and the execution of the prisoner was fixed for Tuesday, the 21st April. From the time of his conviction the prisoner maintained a quiet and reserved demeanour. A few days before his execution he was visited by his sister, and daily received the ministrations of a Catholic clergyman. On Tuesday, April 21, at nine o'clock, the extreme penalty of the law was carried into effect in Darlinghurst Gaol. The doomed man passed the night in his usual manner, and did not appear to suffer from any nervous excitability at his approaching fate. He was attended at an early hour by a minister of the religious persuasion to which he belonged. Pre cisely at nine o'clock the sheriff demanded his body, and O'Farrell appeared at the cell door in obedience to the summons. He submitted to the process of pinion ing without a murmur, and walked unconcernedly to the foot of the scaffold. Here he knelt with the priest, and for a few moments was engaged in religious devotion. He then mounted the ladder with a firm step, and before taking his place under the drop looked up, apparently at the rope and the fatal beam overhead. He then took his place directly under it, and looked up again in a very composed manner, but whether vacantly looking up at the dread engine of death, or making a last appeal to Heaven for mercy, can only be conjectured. He, however, appeared thoroughly resigned to his fate. The cap was then ad justed over his face ; he shook hands with the priest ; the drop fell, and the last act of the Clontarf tragedy was over. A single contraction of the leg was the only visible sign of suffering, and death appeared to be instantaneous. After hanging the prescribed time, the body was taken down, and, not being claimed by his friends, was buried at Haslem's Creek. Before his execution O'Farrell sent a letter to Mr. Parkes, the Colonial Secretary, with an injunction that it should not be opened till after his death. On the evening of the day of execution Mr. Parkes was questioned in the Legislative Assembly with regard to the letter, but declined to make public the contents. On the following day the letter was again asked for and refused, whereupon a member of the House rose, and read the fol lowing copy of the letter , declining at the same time to state how he obtained it " Being now about to appear before my Creator, I feel it my duty to give expression to my heartfelt sorrow at the grievous crime I have com mit ted. From the very bottom of my heart do I grieve for what I have done. I have hitherto said that I was one of many who were proposed to do the deed had I not done it. I had not the slightest foundation for such a statement, I was never connected with any man or any body of men who had for their object the taking of the life of the Duke of Edinburgh, neither was I in any other than in an indirect manner connected with any organisa tion in Ireland or elsewhere, which is known by the name of the Fenian organisation. I wish, moreover, distinctly to assert that there was not a single human being in existence who had the slightest ideaof the object I had in view when I meditated on, and through the merciful providence of God failed in carrying into effect, the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. I have written to the printers of two Irish periodicals an address to the people of Ireland. So certain was I of the death of the Duke of Edin burgh that I stated therein that which I believed would be the fact ; and I think I have more than implied that I was but one of an organisation to carry the same into effect. I need but say that the truth of the latter portion rests upon a slighter foundation than the former ; in fact, that, unless from mere hearsay, I had no foundation for stating that there was a Fenian organisation in New South Wales. From continually thinking and talkirig of what I may still be allowed to call the wrongs of Ireland, I became excited and tilled with enthusiasm on the subject, and it was when under the influence of those feelings that I attempted to perpetrate the deed for which I am now called unon to suffer.—H. J. O'FARRELL." LAW AND LOLICE. ACTIONS Yon LIBEL—In the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. Keen, a clerk in the War Office, brought an action against Mr. Ilartnoll, the proprietor .of the Kentish Mercury, for an alleged libel. The plaintiff with others was associated in a co-operative store, and the defendant stated that Mr. Keen and others were receiving £5O per year for managing the con cern, and that the affair had been advertised as a " limited company," when in fact it had never been regis tered under the Limited Liability Act. The case is still proceeding.—ln the Court of Exchequer Mr. ➢Maule, a chemical manufacturer, was sued for libel by Mr. Spill, a waterproof manufacturer. The defendant lent the plaintiff several sums of money, and subsequently, on the latter going into partnership with a Mr. Briggs, lent further amounts. The concern was ultimately a failure, and the defendant said, in a letter to one of the creditors, " The conduct of Mr. Spill has been most disgraceful and dishonest, and the result has been to diminish materially the avail able assets of the estate." This was the libel complained of, and Baron Martin, who presided, ruled that there was no case for the jury, as the missive in question was a privileged communication. ACTION FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED.—In the same court Mr. Paddock, the proprietor of a panorama, brought an action against the North-Eastern Railway Company for damages. It seemed from hig evidence that when at Ripon he visited the station to see after the con veyance of his exhibition to Otley. The first person he saw was a porter, who directed him to cross the line and inquire on the other side of the plat form. Whilst carrying out this suggestion the plaintiff fell into a hole and received such injuries as to necessitate his calling in a medical man, who attended him for eight weeks. The jury found that there had been no negligence on the part of the company, and returned a verdict in their favour. ACTION AGAINST A SHERIFF.—In the Bail Court the case of Wood v. Watt has been tried. It was an action to recover damages from a sheriff for a negligent escape. It appeared that in 1865 the plaintiff had recovered a judgment debt for £264 15s. against a person named W. H. Bainbrigge, and in September 1865 a ca. 44 was issued into Yorkshire to arrest Bainbridge. The sheriff's officer accordingly arrested him at Doncaster during the races, but, instead of taking and lodging him in prison, he took him to his house at Doncaster, and while there Bainbrigge made his escape. On the 4th October follow ing Baiiibrigge was made bankrupt on his own petition, his debts appearing to be £17,000, and his assets £3O, which latter amount was advanced by his friends. On the part of the sheriff, the escape could not be denied, but it was contended that the pecuniary loss of his body by the escape was next to nothing, as he was in a position of such indebtedness. The jury gave a shilling damages. ROBBERY OF A THOUSAND POUNDS' 'WORTH OF JEWELLERY.—At Marylebone Police-court, John Harris, aged 35, of 17, Mead's-row, Westminster-bridge-road, clerk, and William Meads, butler in the service of Mr. Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank of England, residing at No. 6, Sussex-square, Hyde Park, were charged with stealing jewellery, &c., to the value of £l,OOO. It appeared that at four o'clock on the afternoon.of Saturday, the 6th, it was found that Mrs. Freslifi eld's bedroom had been broken into, and that several jewel cases had been broken into and emptied of their contents, the drawers having been forced . open as if by a jemmy." A man had called in in the afternoon, and remained some time with the prisoner Meads. This man was interrogated as to who his companion was, and gave an answer that was subse quently discovered to be untrue. This was found out, and then lie said that Harris had called. Harris was taken into custody, and on his room being searched several articles that may be evidence against the accused were found. The prisoners were remanded for a week. THE Munmn OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLE R IN ._,HROP sIuItE.-7--At the examination on Saturday, at Wellington, the prosecution offered no evidence against Hart, who was consequently- discharged. The case against Harris is entirely circumstantial, but a large number of strongly suspicions c;rt.itunstances have been adduced. The case occupird the whole day. Harris was remanded. He was proved to have been the lwit seen with deceased, and sub. scquently was Been in possession of two gold watches and chains, alleged to be a portion of the stock carried by Zusman. The case for the prosecution is not yet closed, and the further proceedings were adjounied till Thursday. Mr. Sothern had an audience of the Prince of Wales on Monday, when (says the Era) his Royal High• ness presented him with a handsome qiamond ring, reauestinw him to wear it as a sourchire THE IRISH CHURCH. If a man has a good cause, and it is founded on right and truth, the more boldly he speaks out, so much the more impregnable his position becomes. In this case the real . boldness would be in concealing the force of argument and the full figure of the case in hand, mani festing it but partially, covering it up here and there, and toning the light about it so much as at last to do away with its distinct outline alto gether. Many a man has spoiled a strong cause by a nervous and weak method of treat ment. When a man acts as if he is afraid, one generally imagines—and as a rule pretty truly —that he has got something to be afraid of. It appears to us that the question of the disestablishment—and the doing away with altogether, if possible, of the Irish-Anglican Church—is just one of those questions in point. Look the law boldly in the face as it stands, and the enormous proportions which it assumes, the fearful difficulties it presents—like other Spectres when dealt with with determination —all melt away as mist. One of the greatest -and most hideous of these moral spectres— made up of intellectual mist—is, that if we give a hand to the downfall of the Irish-Angli can Church, we are declaring ourselves against our own principles. And while we are crying out to the Italian Government "Sacrilege," for having confiscated the property of the Church in Italy, we, with the very same breath, cheer to the echo any one and every one who will lend a hand or a tool to shovel away the enormous wealth of the Church of Ireland out of the hands of its ecclesiastics. We are told that to blow hot and blow cold won't do —that we are ready enough to show up the contradictions committed by Government in putting down the Fenians, whilst at the same time applauding the followers of Garibaldi ; and a host of other arguments—or rather sentences—are levelled at us as the most dan gerous, offensive instruments of intellectual war. We may—some of us—partly have deserved this. But we do not think for an instant, that a Catholic who speaks out the :whole truth of his position would. thus be attacked, and we are absolutely certain that if he were attacked he would never be defeated. And, first of all, let us understand the meaning of the term we use. If you ask, Can you disestablish or help in the disestablishment of the Church—or of a Church—we answer, No. On which our opponents with astonishment turn round on us and say—" See Ireland! Are you not doing all you can to disestablish the Church there We answer again, No. Our. explanation is simple as the Catechism, and as full of truth and fundamental principles. There is but one Church. If we admit there are more, then we destroy all Churches. The reason is patent. The Church, like all other things, has her essen tial or characteristic notes. Blot out one of those notes, and the others sympathetically vanish—that is, the Church ceases to be. Now, the Catechism, taught to every little child, teaches us that there are four marks or notes of the Church. She is uniVersal is one of them. But if there is more than one Church, she at once loses her prerogative of universality. If wherever there is a Church, she is that Church, how can there be place for another ? If the religions of England, Wales and Scotland, are so Many " Churches," they again must each possess the essential mark of a Church. So that there would. be as many Catholic or uni versal Churches, as there are different forms of religious error in Great Britain—which is simply to enunciate an absurdity. Once more, another essential note of a Church is, that she is one. But the Catholic Roman Church is one. The Churches also, if the argument be true of England, Scotland and Wales, are each also one—so that in reality, unity and multitude are synonymous terms—which not even the most violent supporter of the Irish- Anglican Church would be ready to admit. In fact—as is plain—we cannot without pre varication, pretend for one moment that there is any other Church in the world than that Church which is spread through all the world —that the one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, .is the only Church, and will be the only Church to the end of the world. She is the only true coin. All the rest are counter feit, false coin—no more the real current money of the realm of God, than those battered I and broken half-crown pieces, tin shillings, and leaden attempts, which we are glad to see nailed as warnings to evil doers in public places, on counters, against desks, and elsewhere, are the genuine money of England. We are all most anxious to discover and punish to the extreme limit of the law, the utterers of false coin. We are ready to a man to seize on, and nail to the nearest barn door, all and every false coin that we can, in our own pockets lor in the possession of others. We would thoroughly disestablish, do away altogether with them in every shape and form, and with those who have brought them into the cur rency ; and we would moreover think our selves prevaricators against our love of country and our sense of honesty, were we to connive, help, wink at, support—were we not to dis suade, prevent, hinder and the rest--all and every one who should dare to call upon us, or expect us to be ready to give them the slightest encouragement in their nefarious practices. But, surely no man in his ordinary senses, however dull, would turn round on us and say—" Why you are cutting your own throat. You are doing all you can to de stroy the currency, to stop the bank, to anni hilate pounds, shillings and pence." Are you, he might ask, or are you not, for the discon tinuance of circulating money? The answer suggests itself to every mind—"We are for circulating coin—but we are not for circulating counterfeit. And in proportion as we in courage the former, we are bound to dis courage the latter. If counterfeit were not destructive of coin, then we might let it pass. But we know better. The world knows better. They are not identical, they are antagonistic." So is it with the Church of Rome and the other Churches. They are counterfeits. To deny this would be to assert that ours was false. They are counterfeits, and their originators the utterers of base, false, doctrine. Ours is true, and its Originator was not man, but God. Apply the case to the point in hand. The Irish-Anglican Church is a counterfeit, but with this difference, it is a counterfeit which is a crying shame, a galling yoke, a cruel per secution, and a public and scandalous robbery. Well may' Mr. Lowe have said, " Cut it down —why cumbereth it the ground ?" But it will be said, You are intolerant, you are illiberal, you are persecuting. We answer simply this, which will approve itself to every honest man: —We are intolerant of error, when that error can be blotted out without commit ting or causing error like itself. We are deadly foes to error—were we not, we should not be men. But it is often better to let error bide than try to move it—worse evils may result. Bat for that we are intolerant. We are illiberal. No, we open our arms so wide out to truth, justice, right, that error has no place to stand. We do not admit the rights of wrong. To do so would be insanity, not to do so is simply the action of a sound brain. Perse cuting! No, not in the sense you speak. We believe in punishment, in humiliations, in sins of word and deed and their retribution. If we punish, it is because we are tender, and un derstand the deadliness and poisonous qualities of error. If we see that greater evils come, we do not even punish—we merely are for punishment that men may have reward. Such are the simple thoughts of straight forward Catholic men. We can state our case very plainly, in very few words :—There is one Church, the rest are mockeries, and the sooner they are removed, if no greater evil be the upshot, the quicker will—not our per secutinc, illiberal spirit make its way amongst men, but—our possession of truth, saving truth, truth more precious than home or friends, than political parties or success, than life to the prosperous, or death to the aban doned. Our wish is founded on tenderness and love, which are founded, in turn, on that strong thing---Truth.--Westminster Gazette. ROMAN AFFAIRS. (From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Uazette) ROME, June 6. I see again, in the telegrams of some French papers, and doubtless those of England have had the same, reports of the Pope's ill health. They are again untrue ; he has been remark ably well, notwithstanding the great heat, and the exertion of the Whitsun functions. On Friday last he visited the Deaf and Dumb School, and inspected the various productions of its industry. One little fellow was ad mitted to deliver a sort of address to him, all conveyed in gestures, which he followed with much interest, and replied to in a few words, which were translated in signs to the children by their teachers. He paid another visit one day this week to the excavations of the Mark morata, and spent more than an hour walking about and examining the unearthed blocks of marble, listening to the explanations of Corn. Visconti, and not for getting to inquire whether the heat, which did not seem to inconvenience him, was not too great for the labourers. "Any one can see what an interest he takes in all this !" one of them was overheard to whisper to another. It is expected he will shortly hold a Consistory, at which the Convocation of the General Council for the Bth Dec., 1869, will be announced. Mgr. Haynald, the estimable Archbishop of Kalocska in Hungary, who lately stayed here a few days, is said to have been charged, in a more intimate way, with the same mission as ssenburg—namely, to claim the Baron Mey indulgent ;regard of the Holy Father for the situation of the Emperor of Austria, and the difficulties in which the development of revo lutionary tendencies place him. The Infanta of Spain has made a very favourable impression here. She seems very affable and intelligent, and, among her other accomplishments, speaks English fluently. She has been very diligent in visiting the monu ments of Rome, and has devoted much of her time to the study of its Christian archaeology. The Catacombs and the new excavations have been her special delight, and she has availed herself of the able assistance of Cay. de Rossi in exploring them. Last Sunday she went with him into the newly-opened catacombs five miles outside Porta Portese, where the body of S. Beatrice (now in S ta. Maria Maggiore) , was found. The nuptial contract between the Duke of Caserta and Contessa Antonietta of Trapani was signed on Monday, as announced in my last. The King of Naples and all the notabili ties of the Roman and Neapolitan nobility were present, as well as many foreigners and twelve Cardinals. It was remarked that the French Ambassador's appearance on the occasion was quite a ceremonial matter, while the Prussian Minister stayed the greatbr part of the evening and conversed with the King in the most friendly manner. The marriage will take place on the 13th, the Princess's name-day, in the private chapel of the Pope, who will himself give the nuptial benediction. The Count and Countess Girgenti will only stay for the cere mony; but it does not appear to be yet decided whether they will return straight to Spain or first visit France and England. The Osserva tore estimates the revenue of the Duke of Caserta at 40,000 Austrian forms, and the dowry of the young Princess at 500,000 f., chiefly arising from a legacy of the Countess de Montemolin and her trou:sseau and jewels at 100,000. The Duke has also, of course, his claims to the property, of which he was despoiled in the usurpation of Victor Emma nuel. M. de Sartiges is shortly to visit France, and it is not expected that he will return in his present capacity. M. de Malaret is spoken of as his most probable successor. On the night of the 1-2 of June, the Papal gendarmi, after an exciting chase, succeeded in capturing six brigands, who, they had received notice, had just crossed the Piedmontese fron tier at Viterbo, with the design of pillaging the demesne of a rich proprietor in the neigh bourhood of that town. They have also been kept on the alert by a similar raid threatened on the other, (southern) frontier. This has given rise to an amusing sensational report that Prince Borghesi, in fear of being captured, and a ransom proportioned to his great wealth set on his head, had escaped in all haste and regained the capital by sea. The facts being simply that the Prince has a very pretty little yacht—the Marco Polo—which frequently affords him a delightful trajet between his villa on the sea at Porto d'Anzio and his palace in Rome, to which the fort of the Ripetta forms, as it were, a flight of steps down to the river. The first stone was laid on Wednesday of the monument the Pope is about to erect to the herpes of the Mentana campaign, at S. Lorenzo fuer le mura, by Mgr. Marinelli, Papal Sacris tan. It is to consist of a statue of St. Peter, holding the keys in one hand, and in the other bestowing a sword on a kneeling warrior who bears a banner, on which are inscribed the words Orbis Catholieus. It has a commanding site assigned it on the little eminence over the entrance to the catacomb of S. Cyriacns. The heads of the various corps and a great number of officers, soldiers, and civilians, Roman and foreign, were present. The band of the Caccia , tori played the Dead March in Saul admirably. On Sunday there was a little ceremony at the English College ; a banner, worked by Mrs. Kavanagh, was presented to the English and Dish Zouaves. It bears an effigy of our Lady of Victory—a kneeling Zouave before her. Above are the Papal arms and the arms of England. Mgr. Stonor, in addressing the little assemblage, observed that it was in one sense no new sight to see English volunteers gathered within the walls of the English college; " . . . When persecution against the Catholic religion broke out in our country 300 years ago, numbers of English volunteers left their homes and all that is dear to the human heart that they might preserve their faith alone bright and pure. They cane to Rome, and having learnt all that was necessary for the spiritual warfare in which they were to engage, returned to their own country to fight to the uttermost the good fight of faith. The annals of the English, Irish, and Scotch colleges are full of the deeds of those who died the death of soldiers and martyrs—who suffered every loss and humilia tion, and torture itself, in their devotion to their religion. Although the lapse of time is great and the uniform new, the cause and our spirit are the same. I have before me to-day other volunteers animated by the same ardour, not defending alone the faith of their country, but fighting against a persecution which has been raised up all over the world against its Supreme Head. These recollections invest with a special fitness the English College for the place of this gathering. • • Without boasting, I esteem it a fortunate thing that the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic races are represented in the Papal army ; for among their distinctive qualities is a calm and courageous perseverance which suffers no defeat, and carries them on to success in all their undertakings. The French felt thi s som e fifty years ago ; later on, India ; then, the mighty forces of Russia; and now the well-nigh inaccessible fastnesses of Abyssinia. Nor is this exhibited alone in the arts of warfare ; in the peaceful pursuits of manufactures and commerce the same spirit gives to our remote little island a paramount importance amid the nations of the earth. Nor is its exhibition confined to their corporate or collective capacity; it distinguishes each individual as much as the whole body. To take an instance germane to the locality. Pro fessors of the Roman College have, on more than one occasion, observed to me that when our students here choose to exert themselves, they carry everything before them at the exami nations. This quality will never be wanting to the English Zouave , and from the present position of affairs in Italy, it is more than pro bable that before long it will be severely tested, and triumph i n another and more glorious Montana. . . " Dr. O'Callaghan also addressed the meeting in a very neat speech, and concluded by proposing three cheers for the Papal volunteers, and for Mgr. Stonor who has devoted himself so untiringly to their interests. In confirmation of the opinion expressed as above by Mgr. Stonor, that the secret intrigues of Piedmont are still at work here, I may men tion that five men were taken in a boat in the Tiber last night, provided with all sorts of im plements for mining, which they had hoped to have brought in thus quietly, and in the dark. Admission has been gained for other conspira tors, by detaining at the frontier the passports of visitors to Naples, and using them in their absence. Cardinal Capalti will take possession of his title church, Sta. Maria in Aquiro, on the 14th. Cardinals Ferrieri and Barili will receive their hats at the next Consistory, they could not receive them in that in which they were conferred on the Cardinals created at the same time, because they were then detained abroad by their diplomatic functions. We have this week •been called to lament the loss of a very amiable and distinguished prelate, Mgr. Giraud, Auditor of the Apostolic Camera, Master of the Fabric of St. Peter's, Visitor of the Manicomio of the Fabbrica of Mosaics. His death was caused by indigestion, brought on by having to dine off eels facto de mieux at Fiumicino. His brother died of apo plexy. only three days later. Oddly enough, two of their brothers died in a similar way only a year or two ago. He was buried on Tuesday night. The procession left his palace in the Piazza del' Ara Cceli at 9.30: passed round the Minerva Piazza, then back through the Corso to S. Marco, his parish church. Two or three Confraternities, with which .he was associated, vested in their various habits, and a body of Capuchins and Franciscans bearing torches followed the , bier, on which lay the purple mantelletta of a Monsignore. The next day had been appointed for an audience on his appointment as, uditore della, camera. A fresh detachment of twenty-five Canadian volunteers, as hearty as those who have pre ceded them, arrived on Tuesday. The Cana dians have now a very commodious and well situated library, reading and billiard room of their own. A manual of devotion, proposing to keep June as the month of St. Peter as March is the month of St. Joseph, has become very popular. The devotions of the month of May have been well attended, and by none more regularly than by the soldiers. Most of the companies arranged a little chapel in their quarters, where they daily recited Litanies together. The most • conspicuous was that of the 7th company of the Ist Battalion, now stationed at Tivoli, the soul of it being the Peruvian Sergeant Sevilla, whose gallantry in the late campaign extorted a mention in my letters more than once. He is now happily recovered from all his wounds, and his un bounded devotion to our Lady, which made him accept his sufferings with so much en thusiasm, prOmpted him to lead his fellow soldiers in this devotion. The Bishop Of Tivoli, hearing of their daily gatherings, was pleased to attend on the last evening and give Benediction, which was received with military honours, nearly the whole company having received Communion athis hands in the morn ing. I think I forgot to mention at the time that Rome was also visited in May by a large band of Tirolean peasants, who were often to be met at the various shrines, habited in their pic turesque national costume ; dark green coat with scarlet facings, white stockings and green velvet knee-breeches, confined round the waist with embroidered belts and high pointed hits, ornamented with plumes and feathers and little silver images. They brought 300,000 francs as an offering from their parishes to the support of the Papal army. THE PRESIDENT'S ACQUIT TAIL. (Front the Anglo-American Times.) The Democrats predicted that the acquittal of the PRESIDENT would be fatal to the Republicans, or that his conviction and deposition would be fatal to the Constitution. It is not, as will soon be proved, such proceedings, but the motives from which they spring, that destroy parties or Constitu tions. Had the design been, as some allege, to establish an oligarchy in the supremacy of Congress, then the motives of the leaders being corrupt and selfish, the party, if the peore remain virtuous, must eventually collapse. But if the Impeachers regarded ANDREW JOHNSON as a wilful and obsti nate obstruction in the way of necessary and bene ficial legislation, if they believed his motives to be improper and his action as unrestrained as illegal, then they were justified in treating the question of removal as the Constitution directs. Precisely as in the trial Mr. JOHNSON'S guilt or innocence hinged on his motives, so does that of the party in the prosecution. If they intended well, they are, or will be, justified in the eye of Ole nation ; if not, then the course might be fatal. Supposing, as is in truth the case, that with a full mixture of greedy, selfish intentions in individuals, the party in the main meant well, there are reasons for believing that the effect, instead of being injurious, will be advantageous. It is notorious that the party de sired to remove ANDREW JOHNSON —that four-fifths of the representatives were Republicans, that out of nine Senators seven were Republican—that Mr. JOHNSON, in giving them deadly offence, had failed to draw the opposition to his side, and that he was not only without aback, but unpopular throughout the country. The power of the purse, of the sword, and of the law, were all with Congress, for the PRESIDENT had clearly infringed a statute, and ex posed himself to the penalty his enemies so desired to inflict, and the Senate could, had it bee n gu id e d only by political objects, have deposed him by a breath. The circumstances warranted the world in be lieving that those who had such power would use it to acemnplish this end ; yet, to the honour of Repub lican institutions, to the honour of the party holding the obnoxious PRVIDENT'S fate in their hands, to the honour of the august assembly before whom he w as tried, they refrained from taking advantage of legal quibbles, and honestly decided on the motives which appeared to them to actuate the accused. This was done in the full belief that it involved a great injury to their party, and political ruin to a certain section of their best men. Yet the action was endorsed by many of the most esteemed and influential of the Republican party. As usual in such cases, those best able to judge, and actuated by pure motives, will be seen to have been only in advance of the national sentiment. When the people have time to form a correct opinion, it is more than probable that they will endorse the ap proval of the Senate's Verdict given by numerous good Republicans. If so they will sanction the course of the party, and award to it both credit for checking a President in what was considered an illegal course, and in acquitting that President when on trial his acts were not shown to be dictated by guilty motives. The leaders of the Republican party may appear to the country to have been the zealous guardians of the people's liberty, yet the scrupulous dispenser of law and equity and the up holder of the national honour. Sinking all the paltry intrigue that so debases and sullies political action in America, the verdict of the world and of history may be what we have stated, for the broad facts will stand forth, while the minor details upon which all eyes are now fixed at Washington, and generally throughout the Uuioa, will sink into obli vion. If the trial relmnds to the honour of the Union, as a movement of the Republican party, it may reasoaably be expected in benefiting the na tion to benefit themselves. It is a matter of doubt and discussion in the United States whether a conviction would have been for the national goo I, and on the whole it is believed that the ver lict best proinitee the public weal. The present and all future Presidents have been taught a useful lesson. Previous to his trial Im peachment was a vague threat, a dead letter in the Constitution. It was a power of removal the dread of which never influenced the Chief M i,, , istrate'S actions. It has now been shown to be an effectual means of testing his conduct, and of cutting short, if illegal, his career. Henceforth it cannot be ignored, and will act as an incentive to goql behaviour. Had Mr. JOHNSON'S ,motives really been impure, he would have been hurled from the chair amid the ' execrations of his fellow-citizens. But he believed, as is now clear, that he pursued a constitutional path in pursuit of the public welfare, and although obstinate, unhappy . , and ill-a lvise lin his action, it was in accordance with his judgment. To punish and to stigmatize a man deliberately elected to the post for exercising the qualities that had procural his advancement appeared unjust to a large por tion of the people, and if he were the wrong man, they felt that it was their fault that he was in the post. But, though it is well to show Presidents their danger, it is also well to show Congress how certain they must be of their grounds before they resort to the expedient of Impeachment. There is always sympathy for a ruler in difficulties. How ever he may be abused, when in the full exercise of great power, the moment he is stripped of authority and brought before a tribunal a revulsion takes place in the public mind. TREODORE, murder ing his prisoners with, his o .vn haul, and c tiling in his musketeers to hasten a slaugliter of wliich he was wearying, appears a fiend incarnate that one would like to hang on the nearest tree ; bat THEO DORE, deserted by his troops, holding his fortress in defiance of an overwhelming power, and giving up his authority only with his life, inspires respect and sorrow. This revulsion in national feeling must always be calculated on by Congress in an attempt to Impeach a President, and will curb rash designs to use the power for party purposes. We hold, then, that the trial and verdict will have the double effect of .checking illegal action on the part of the Presidents, and of checking a hasty resort to Im peachment on the part of Congress ; teaching the . one that in guilt there is an effectual mode of stopping his career, and the other that unless the charges be well grounded the Impeachers are not unlikely to be " hoist by their own petard." The immediate effect of the verdict will be to strengthen the PRESIDENT and to weaken Congress. Before the trial his enemies were never weary of circu lating the most infamous libels against his cha racter. These, with every opportunity, the pro secution have failed in the slightest degree to establish ; therefore ANDREW JOIINSON comes out of the trial whitewashed. Before the event not only were . rumours prejudicial to ANDREW JOHNSON'S character current, but Congress, at least to some minds, occupied the position of holding the power to crush, while refraining from using it. Now to those minds the posi tion is reversed, Congress having tried to crush and failed. ANDREW JOHNSON has the further advantage of beginning from the 26th ult., with a clean sheet ; he had then turned a fresh page, and his record, whatever might have been its bright spots and its blots, was so far finished. He bad fairly stood bis trial for his alleged offences, and all parties are bound frankly to accept the re sult. If be recommences a career of " cussedness" the Republicans will rejoice, for he will greatly strengthen the party in the approaching elections. If his proceedings are marked with sense and mode ration, the nation will rejoice, for it only wants an honest administration, and in either ease the Re publican party will claim the credit ; in the former, because such a course will show them to have been right in endeavouring to get rid of an unteachable obstruction to good Government, and in the latter they will affirm that their action had caused the re formation of this high official. The United States have escaped an unknown danger in BEN. WADE. That he was not acceptable to the people at large is shown by the Chicago Convention. If the Repub lican party did not desire him as Vice-President, the nation surely did not desire him as President. BEN. WADE in his short term might have done great harm but little good, while ANDREW JOHNSON can do some good, but little harm. On the whole, then, we believe the decision of the Senate Court to have been fortunate from a political stand point; putting law and justice aside. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, klay 29. The leading feature of the financial situation, this week, has been the steady increase in the previously high prices for the Government Securities, and the immense business which tho transactions have covered. The stimulus un doubtedly comes primarily from the ease in the money market., but other causes—the popularity of the Govern ment Loans, the favourable influence of the Chicago Con- Tention, and the investments of the proceeds of last year's crops— also operate in the same direction. The transac tions of last week were larger than of any since the close of the war, and the dealings of a leading house at New York, from Monday, May 18, to Saturday, 4 33, amounted to nearly 821,000,000. Five-Twenties of 1867 were sell ing at New York, Thursday, at 1111 and the demand was greater than the supply. Predictions are abundant that the securities of this class will readily command larbefore the middle of July. Tho latter issues of Five-Twenties are preferred, from the fact that they have a longer time to run absolutely, as no Five-Twenties can be paid within five years after the date of their issue, and will command gold interest until they are redeemed. Another fact which causes the Government Loans to appreciate in price and public favour, is that they aro nearly exhausted. The Ten-Forty Loan, it is said, is all closed out, and with the conversion of the remaining Seven-Thirties the issue of Five-twenties will cease. This process of exchange is now going on with great rapidity, the transfers amount ing to several millions daily, snit the amount now out standing being not much over $100,000,000. The reduc tion in May will be over $600,000,000, and it is expected that the whole loan will be exchanged by the first of July. When this is done the Government debt, bearing coin in terest, will have reached its maximum under the present legislation, and insteal of selling bonds the Government will become a purchaser. The demand will thus be in creased, and the price also. The Act of February 26 re quires an amount equal to 1 per cont. of the debt, made in or since the year 1862, to be annually set aside in coin, and tho interest of this reserve to be applied to the payment or purchase of the debt. The fund thus provided will accrue at the start at the rate of twenty-one millions. With all these influences working in the same direction to restore and stimulate confidence in the security of the Govern ment loans, it is not strange that the price advances. Be sides the legitimate demand, there are also many specula tors in the market, and the prospect of a steady advance and firmness in the market is almost certain to be realised. The holders of Government bonds are not anxious to part with thorn while the price is rising, and speculators for the same reason are anxious to procure them. Financial legislation lags in Congress, and an early adjournment now seems likely to defeat. entirely what impeachment delayed. Mr. Sherman's bill for the funding of the entire debt into a long five per cent. loan, which he introduced almost at the beginning of the session, was re vived, Thursday, but there is great doubt if it passes the Senate, and greater if it survives the House. The debt can bs liquidated within a reasonable time, and daring the present generation, if it is undertaken in the right way, and there are serious doubts as to the wisdom or expedi ency of the proposition of the Senator from Ohio. The House has now before it Mr. Schenck's Tax Bill, which will occupy it all summer, if it gives it anything like the consideration and discussion'it cenama,nds. The bill will come up in committee of the whole as soon as the Indian Appropriation Bill is disposed of, and Mr Schenck means to keep the members at work on it until it is finished. Even if this is done, there are still the tariff and other im portant measures affecting the revenue which will hardly receive any at'ention at the present session of Congress. The changes in the present tax la ~r aro not very im portant, and Mr. Schenck has left the whole matter of the whisky tax, the most important of All, for the decision of the House itself. If the House, Mr. Schenck, or any body else, could contrive any way in which the whisky tax, as it is now levied, can be collected, the whole tax bill could be deferred and the public interests suffer no loss. The revenue of which the Government is cheated on whisky would pay many of the taxes now wrested from other articles to make up the deficiency. Of course, all the distillers and " whisky ringers" at Washington are anxious for lin early a•ljouruuiant of Congress that they may carry on their frauds and swindles for another year without molestation. There is no change in the money market contrary to is general - easy tendency for the last few weeks. At New York few loAns are made above 5 per cent., and some are effected as low as 3. The market is burdened with more money than can be disposed of, and all loans are made on short time. Where a good, permanent investment for several mouths can be obtained, the rates rule higher, if the security is satisfactory. ,The prospect is generally ad mitted to tend to lower rates as the summer advances, un less a revival of business should create a commercial de mand, of which there is now no indication. should the summer business which the late and cold spring has checked and restrained revive and improve during the few weeks to come the demand for money may also be greater and the rates higher. The western markets are dull and stagnant, and all the money that is required for produce transactions can be obtained on favourable terms. Tho gold market has been steady- and firmer during the week, with a slight upward tendency, closing ou Thurs day at 1391. £ho export demand has been quite large, and will reach nearly $3,000,000. The arrivals from Cali fornia have been over $1,200,000, and the payments at the Now York Custom-house have exceeded the disburse ments for coin interest. It is doubtful, however, if in the ordinary course of events the premium can be maintained at its present high rate during the summer months. The Government and the Pacific Railroad will disburse, on the ISt of July, $35,04,000 in gold, equal at the present difference to $39,000,000 in currency, and the banks, in surance companies, and other corporations will also declare their usual semi-annual dividends, throwing in all pro bably not less than $70,000,000 in currency ou the market, and all to bo reinvested in some form or Other. Bat little of this last amount will go out of the country, and the dis posal of so large an amount will inevitably reduce the rates of money and the premium on gold. Tho Customs at New York for the first two days of this week were $926,601, and those at Boston on We lues lay over $lOO,OOO, all showing a steady activity in the foreign trade. The event of the week in the miscellaneous stock m tr icot has been the sharp and decided rise in the Pacific: Mail Steamship Company's stock, and that almost immediately following the announcement that their dividend would be passed, and all the energies of the coecern devoted to ex tinguishing the opposition line. The rise in the price was started on the report that the dividend would be paid, but the contrary truth rather helped than hindered the ad vance. There is no doubt that the company is pursuing the correct course, and that it will ultimately triumph if it adheres to it. The company has almost unlimited means at its command, and with its lino of China and Japan steamers, already in successful operation, is in a position to reap the full advantage of the current of Asiatic trade which is expected to pour across this continent as soon as the Pacific Railroad is completed. The advance in its stock produces an activity through the market, and the railway and express shares have had an upward tendency. The investments are not large, however, and the specula tion which ran mad at the time the Erie war was at i;s height has entirely subsided. The business in rail road shares will be lighter this season than usual, in consequence of the absorption of funds in the Govern ment securities. The Illinois Central Railroad has just watered its stock by a scrip dividend of eight per cent., and at the high premium at which stock now sells the action may bo justified, though it is questionable as a general rule of practice. Three companies, which cannot pay a cash dividend, have, this spring, added to their stock after this fashion of a stock dividend, when the better policy would have been to put their earn ings into improvement of their roads, and increased tho value of the stock already existing. The dry goods market has been dun and inactive the past week, as all through the spring, in consequence of the cold, backward season, which has delayed the demand for goods for summer wear, and coming at this late day will greatly restrict the sale. The abundance of money stimu lates collections, and cash payments are for the same rea son more frequent, so that there is greater convenience and ease among the merchants and jobbers. The action at Chicago had a favourable influence upon the business men of the country, and they will follow the lead of the great New York house of A. T. Stewart and Co., who hung out on the day of the nomination a great banner, which used to do duty in the days of the war, and inscribed it with the names of. Grant and Colfax. Prices are generally well maintained in spite of the dullness, and there is a feeling of confidence which will produce a strong and active mar ket wherever business really begins in earnest.; Cotton, ' raw and manufactured, is not essentially changed, although the tendency of the market is upward at New York and downward at Liverpool. Foreign goods are firmly held at New York ; and importers are awaiting for better times• The flour and provision markets at New York and Albany have had a decline and a falling off in prices, and the cattle markets at Cambridge and Brighton, being only scantily supplied, have gone the other way. (From the Wall-street Journal) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, May 29. _ On and after June 1, the Treasury Department will be prepared to receive Seven-thirty Treasury Notes falling due June 15 and July 15, 1868, for conversion into b o nds dated either duly 1, 1867, or July 1, 1868, as parties nail desire. The terms of conversion will bo as follows, viz.: the interest on both series of notes will be allowed u p to July 1, and the bonds issued in exchange will bear inte rest from that date. American Silver is in moderate demand at 6 to 7 centS balow the price of gold. Mexican dollars are quoted at 1031 to 1034 in gold. Mining gtocCs show some improvement, particularly Consolidated Gregory, - which has to-day been sold at $5 45, against $3 yesterday, closing, however, at $ 5 ; Little Kanawha Coal has been sold at par ($lOO per share), the company doing well, and expecting to declare a dend of five per cent. in July next. Petroleum Stocks are in good demand, particularly United States, of which there are many buyers, and Union, for which $5 are freely bid. Many stocks which have fo r months not boen spoken of are again inquired for, among' which we note Highgate, which has been sold at .6 cents, and Commonwealth, for which 20 cents aro offered. NEW YORK R ITES OF EXOILINGE, May 29th, 18G8. Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lo9k-1094. Paris, lin kei s - 5.121 5.111-11 0 Bremen, Bankers ILimburgh, Bankers 36 —361 Frankfort O.M. 404.-41-} Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.161-5.121 .Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss The following were the closing quotations this evening for the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks : Cleveland and Toledo 1091 Fort Wayne Pacific Mail 94 Atlantic Mail 32 Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi al Boston Watur Power 2l Cumberland N. Y. Central l33k Erie Eltylson R.lading Mich. South. &N. I BB Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg BBl North-West North-West Preferred 801 Canton... sl+ Rock Island The following for the Nei Merchants' America Butchers and Drovers 135 City New York Manhattan ... ' 148 Mechanics' l29k Union York City Bank Stocks: Manufac. and Merchts' 103' Mechanics' Association 1 18 Broadway Hanover Irving 107; Metropolitan People's Market.. l l4 Nassau l O4 Shoe and Leather ll 7' Corn Exchange l2B Continental lO3 St. Nicholas Commonwealth Importers and Traders' 128 Central National Fourth National .. 103 Ninth National Park l 5l Leather Manufacturers' 1 70 Oriental Bank 1351 Tenth National East River Pacific ''' Chatham 149 North River Phenix 1074 Tradesmen's Gallatin National Merchants' Exchange 115 Seventh Ward State of New York Commerce Ocean American Exchange ll9l Bank of the Republic ll9 Bank of North America 110 Eleventh Ward 105 Mercantile Fulton 153 First National 205 New York County l4O Marine 144 Grocers' Express Stocks are quoted as follows 61 : Adams 56} to 56 American ... 524 to 53 g United States 55} to u" Wells, Yatgo, and Co. 26 to 26 Merchants' Union, 35 per cent.... 28} to 2 By telegram from San Francisco, dated May 20, 1868 ' we have the following quotations:--- Gould and Curry Savage ••• Chollar-Potosi Ophir ••• Rale and Narcross Crown Point Yellow Jacket Botcher Alpha ... Kentucky Bullion $440 per foot 3,145 it 214 ~ ... 165 ... 2,103 rp ... 2,110 ,t ... 1,105 „ „ 300 II ... 410 , f Overman Empire Mill ... Imperial ... Confidence Amader ~. Exchequer Quartz Hill ... Lady Byron ... ere ... ~ .. e . ... 2U5 pr 013' .1,1 ... 7/ •ee I? Births. BENNETT—On the 12th inst., at 20, Palace-gardens-ter race' Mrs. John Bennett, of a son. liAttE—On the 12th inst., at 62, St. George's-square , the lion. Mrs. Hugh Hare, of a son. WIGAN—On the 13th inst., at Eversley, Winchmore' ll the wife of Henry Wigan, Esq., of a son. Marriages. ' 4O ll NELSON—BAYLDON—On the 11th inst., at the Pta. church, Hackney, James Nelson, of Sunderland, 'Weiir only son of R. A. Nelson, Esq., oiGray's-inb, barr i n ` at-law, and of Chester-le-street, in the county of ham, to Frances Emma, eldest daughter of the late I) John Bayldon, M.A., of Peurith. els' STEPHENS—LoY—On the 11th inst., at St. Peter's C llll ' o cl Croydon, Win. R. Stephens, of Throgmorton-street, d, Lee-road, Blackheath, to Mary Loy, of Ding Croydon. Deft ths. m rl4 LOEDER —On the 10th inst., at 5, Northatupton - r - Canonbury, Win. C. Louder, Esq. °"( NELTIIORPE—On the 10th inst., at Nuthurst Lodge,ss, Horsham, Sussex, James T. Neithorpo, Esq., age` l de POULDEN —On the 12th inst., at Stanhope-place , 1-I) J3e park, George Poulden, Esq., of the Inner TetoPi'' , corder of Portsmouth. 13' 4 ' ROBINSON—Oa tho 10th inst., at 9, Chosham-street, grave-s Robinso E., ad 75. 1 , 0 6 STE PHENS - Un quarJ, Henry the 11th inst. n , , atsq aged 10, Alonta,o lll3 :P for Russell-square, the Rev. Wm. W. Stephens, M. ,3 */ merly of Southaeld, Tunbridge Wells, aged 47- . t bet SOUNDY—On the 7th inst., at Lower-road, Rothertl:vg London, Chas. Soundy, late of Hat's Custonis, London : Printed and Published by WiLLLIII AN + l-1; 11 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Taz Sues thlice , B.° / Strand, in the Precinct of the Sr v oy, in the 001. 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