The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times notes that the Bribery Bill has at length been forced through committee. A Saturday afternoon sitting, appointed chiefly to dispose of it, manifested the deter mination of Mr. Disraeli that the bill should become law this session, and on Saturday afternoon the remaining clauses were debated. Some sugges tions remain to be considered on the report next Wednesday, but it may be regarded as certain that nothing further will be added to the bill which can pro voke discussion. The Government will, if they can, pro vide means for extending its operation to Scotland and Ireland, and as the judicial staff in each country is noto riously too numerous for their present work, Par lament need not be asked to sanction the appointment of additional judges at an additional expense. But the Times does not recommend the immediate application of the bill to the sister kingdoms. The measure is an experiment—an experiment, indeed, tried for good and sufficient reasons, and offering the fairest promise of success ; but still it is an experiment, and it is well it should be watched in England, where it will be worked under the most favourable conditions, before it is extended to Scotland, where, happily, bribery is rare, and the reason for a change less pressing, or to Ireland, where party spirit is so unscrupulous that the bench itself might not command implicit confidence in its impartiality. The leading journal cannot regret the failßre of Mr. Clay's suggestion that every member on attending to be sworn should make a declaration on his honour that he had not and never would be party to any bribery in connection with his election. The legislation of Parliament cannot advantageously outstrip the opinion of individual members. and it would have been premature to adopt Mr. Clay's clause. The bill al it stands marks an immense stride, which may be made hereafter the starting point of further pro. gross, but sufficient for the present has been accom plished. An external tribunal has been constructed which promises to be of great efficiency, and we shall not be surprised if the fear of a local inquiry following close upon an election—an inquiry conducted by a trained judge, with power to hear any witnesses whe may present themselves—strikes a salutary terror into the dealers in corrupt practices. Those candidates, moreover, who have hitherto " winked hard" at the doings of their agents, in reliance upon the certainty that no committee would find that bribery had been committed with their knowledge and consent, will tremble lest judges should convict them of connivance at bribery, and inflict on them a seven years' exile "from all that makes life endurable." The bill is, in fact, _ _ emphatically a good bill, and very creditable to the Government. It will be reported on Wednesday, and will at once be sent up to the House of Lords, by whom it will probably be sanctioned without much discussion. It might in at/ case be expected that the Lords would defer to the views of the Lower House on a measure exclu sively affecting itself ; but in the present instance, with the exception of Mr. Fawcett's amendment, and one or two other clauses, which, as taxing provisions, cannot be touched by the Peers, the bill represents the views of the Government, and will therefore command the assent of the House in which their influence is supreme. While the Post protests against the manner in which the opposition to the Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill has been conducted, and deprecates in any case a factious and purposeless exercise of the obstructive power of a minority, it is none the less convinced, in this instance, of the dan gerous character of the measure to which it is applied. The more it is examined the more evident does it become that the proposal "to have two markets, one for English and the other for foreign cattle, would divide the buyers and destroy competition," and would be, in fact, a gigantic system of protection." It is no less a person than Lord Robert Montagu who used these words no later than last year, and we have never yetbeen favoured with any explana tion of the means which have been used to induce him now to give the weight of his authority to a measure of which he has such an opinion." The scheme offers no sort of security against the importation of the cattle plague, indeed it would be more calculated to facilitate than to prevent its importation. But the most fatal objection to it is that, even if it were calculated to defend us against that danger, it would be unnecessarily severe even for that purpose, since it includes within its operations cattle coming from countries where no plague has ever been known to exist, and that, as a permanent measure, this is as if we should enact that no foreigners should ever be allowed to enter London from any country abroad what ever because the plague is known to exist among the Mecca pilgrims ; and, unless we are to be more careful of cattle than of human beings, it is worth consideratior. whether such a restriction should not be placed upoe them. The Herald observes the adoption of a gold currency in India is a measure which has long been discussed, and at length, as we learn by the telegraph, it is to be tried. The beginning will be an experiment, and therefore a new coin will not be struck, nor indeed, is there any occasion for one. The advocates of a gold currency have asked no more than. that the sovereign should be admitted at its full commer• cial value. Their request that it should be declared a legal tender is not acceded to, Put the sovereign will now come into much more general circulation. Down to the present time the coin could only be bought in the bazaars. The partial relief thus afforded may check that excessive drain on silver which has so long been a subject of complaint with financial authorities. It will also be a great conve• nience to the commercial communities, while the natives will very soon hoard gold instead of silver, and so set free much of the metal which has been growing more ana more scarce of recent years. The Standard calls attention to the opposition offered to Mr. Moffatt's Bankruptcy Bill. Our contemporary had thought the oft-expressed desires of mercantile men for some such enactment, coupled with their loud and deep murmurs at the mischiefs of the existing law, would have ensured this instalment of reform a safe conduct through parliamentary perils, and a warm welcome among those for whose benefit it is intended. Advertising may cost some money, and making an affidavit may involve some trouble, but these will be trifling evils in comparison with the perpetuation of a system which enables thou sands of people to get rid of their debts every year, by a process which is believed, in nine cases out of ten, to involve the commission of frauds which aro all the more dangerous because of the impunity with which they have hitherto been practised. We regret that, when within a few days of the prorogation, the noble lords who had charge of the bill so far deferred to their opponents as to consent to an adjournment till next Monday. But we trust that not even the, loss of four days at a critical period of the session will suffice to throw over a measure the need for which becomes more pressing every month during which debtors are allowed to got rid of their debts in that very unsatisfactory fashion which the Act of IS6I first brought into favour with that class of insolvents by whom the payment of what they owe is regarded as a favourite aversion. The Telegraph observes that it would be a great mistake to suppose that all danger of opposition to the Electric Telegraphs Irjill has ceased ; for in some quarters dislike to the project is as great as ever, though it is shewn in an altered mode. Resistance on the ground of policy is abandoned, but we may have a fierce fight over details ; and unfortunately the enemies of the Government can make out a plausible case. In his first calculations of the amount which the Government would have to ray for the purchase of the telegraphs, Mr. Scudamore estimated that the cost throughout would be about two and a half millions sterling. The actual cost, as brought out before the select committee is almost six millions. It is to be borne in mind that the bill does not necessarily commit the Government to the payment of this large sum. The amount may be reduced in the process of arbitration. If it does remain at this total the nation has the satisfac tion of knowing that the amount to be paid represents full value received. The clause which refers to compensa tions for clerks and other servants of the companies appear:. to the Telegraph unnecessarily liberal, and if any honourable ineml cr chooses to take exception to that arrangement, the House would probably support him in revising it. But it is absurd to imagine that the scheme should be allowed to founder on so very small a rock. VISITATION OF MOSVITOES.—WOohviCh is at the Present time suffering from the visitation of thousands of mosquitoes, which have been imported on the rigging of ammunition vessels from Bermuda and other military stations, where the mosquito abounds. Their sting pierces through ladies' dresses, stockings, and other portions of wearing apparel, the swelling and irritation lasting four or five days. In some instances the stings have been so numerous, more especially in the case of children, as to endanger life. The excessive heat being favourable for their development and propagation, the mosquitoes are daily increasing in .nambers, and threaten to become a local calamity, which nothing but a change in the weather is likely to remove. SeECIAL AND COMMON JUEIES.—The inconve nienca of special and common jurymen summoned to attend the law courts at Westminster and Guildhall have been made the subject of inquiry by a parlia mentary committee. The report, which was issued on PAturday, contains a large number of recommendations, the most important of which are that the overseers should be paid for preparing the lists ; that the practice of relieving persons liable to serve as grand jurymen from the duty of acting as special or common jurymen ought to be abolished ; that no person shall be called a second time until the whole list has been exhausted ' • that attendance ought not to exceed m ore th an a week at a time ; and that the rate of remuneration should be a guinea per 4 3 Y f2r:...t. , VeSirlinryrnan, aTia 10s. for steemrorum, EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A GRAVE-. YARD. The Dublin correspondent of the Times states that a scene of extraordinary excitement was witnessed a few lays ago in the ancient graveyard of St. Mary's, Drogheda. A. Mr. Strype, manager of the foundry of Messrs. Grendon, having died a few days ago, his friends desired to have him interred in the cemetery attached to the parish in which he had resided for three or four years. When excavating about four feet below the surface the grave digger came upon a tombstone, which was lifted, and was found to have cut upon it several figures, including a cross, a lamb treading upon a dragon, a key, and other devices, which led some Roman Catholics to suppose that it covered the remains of a dignitary of their church. A rumour quickly spread that the grave of a bishop was about to be desecrated. The people in the vicinity became greatly excited, and assembling in large numbers, pro vided with spades, they soon filled up the grave, replaced the stone, and declared their determination not to allow any one to disturb it again. The Rev. Mr. Duggan, the curate, who was looking on, entreated them to take the stone into the vestry of the church for preservation, but they indignantly refused to do so. The churchwardens were sent for, and endeavoured to convince them of their error, but in vain, They insisted that another grave should be opened, and offered to dig one in the new ground where strangers were buried. At length, after tho funeral had been delayed for some hours, the friends of the deceased offered to have another grave opened if the crowd quietly dispersed. They refused to do so, supposing, no doubt, that it was a stratagem to get them away. The Roman Catholic curate of the parish arrived, and strongly advised them to accept the proposal, but they still refused, and as matters were assuming a very threaten ing aspect it was found necessary to send for 80 men of the 21st Royal Scotch Fusiliers, under the com mand of Lieutenant Allen, who formed a cordon round the gravediggers to protect them while they opened a fresh grave. The Rev. Mr. Duggan, writing to the Dub/in Express, states that it could not have been the grave of an ecclesiastic, as the feet were placed in the direc tion of the oast, as lay people are buried. A LADY POISONED BY ST.RYCHNIA, Dr. Lankester held an inquest on Saturday, at No. 1, Kensington-palace-gardens, on Miss Louisa Jane Bland Campbell, aged 32. Deceased had recently arrived in London on a visit from Scotland, in ill-health, and, according to prescription, was to have taken at regular intervals (meal times) five drops of strychnia in some water, On Thursday, before dinner, she poured the prescribed portion of strychnia from a bottle which contained four grains into another bottle very similar in appearance. Upon going down to dinner she took up the bottle containing the three grains in mistake for the one into which she had put the one grain, and the difference in quantity was not subsequently noticed, as the small dose of strychnia had been mixed with other fluid in the bottle. Upon arriving at the dinner table deceased emptied the bottle she had taken by mistake into some water and drank the mixture. She immediately sprang up in great alarm, exclaiming "My God! my God ! I have taken poison ! I have taken the wrong medicine !" and then rushed into the drawing-room. A medieal man was sent for, but she expired in great agony in half an hour. The coroner remarked that it would be most advisable to put all poisonous medicines in black bottles, which would sufficiently distinguish them. He thought he could have saved the lady if he had been present, as a spoonful of mustard or some common table salt were remedies that might have been applied with success. Verdict—" Death from the accidental taking of a poisonous dose of strychnia." LAW AND POLICE. THE GREAT SPIRITUAL CASE. —ln judges' chambers, an action was brought by Mr. David Home against Mrs. Lyon, for the return of some jewels and articles of wearing apparel which were now in her possession, and had been given to her as presents by the plaintiff. Mrs. Lyon pleaded that the articles in question were gifts, and asked to have the venue of the trial moved from Surrey to Middlesex or London. It was contended for Mrs. Lyon that if the trial took place at Guildford she would be greatly inconvenienced in having to attend with her witnesses at so great a distance. On the other side it was urged that delay was all that was required by th; defendant. After hearing the arguments, Master Bennett acceded to the application of the defendant, and changed the venue of the action from Surrey to Middlesex. MURDER OF A MOTHER.—At the Leeds Assizes, George Backehall, a labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of his mother, Sarah Backshall. It seemed that the prisoner resided with a married brother, and his mother lived a.boLt a mile and a half off. On the morning of the 16th of June a younger brother of the deceased heard his mother screaming, and on going to see the reason, found the prisoner cutting his mother's throat with a razor. The prisoner shook the razor at the witness, and the latter ran away, and soon after the accused was seen coming out of the cottage wiping the blood off his hands. After hearing the evidence of some medical gentlemen, the jury found that the prisoner was of unsound mind, and the usual sentence in such cases was passed. PLACING OBSTRUCTIONS ON RAILWAYS.—At Marylebone James Folkes, a boy, 15 years of age, was finally examined on a charge of placing obstructions on the London and North Western Railway. It seemed from the evidence of a platelayer that the prisoner placed three bolts on the . line near the Kilburn end of Primrose-hill tunnel. The driver of an express train that was nearly due at the time the prisoner placed the obstructions on the line, said that the lifeguard in front of the engine would not have been low enough to have displaced the bolts in question, which, if they had come in contact with the leading wheel, would in all human probability have thrown the train off the line. The accused was committed for trial. DESECRATING A CHURCHYARD.—At Worship-street Abraham Woolfe, a boy aged 15 years, was charged with stealing bones out of Christchurch burying-ground, Spitalfields. On the preceding afternoon the vestry clerk was going into the churchyard when he observed the accused and some other boys with bundles. Witnesspursued them, and the boys ran away, but as the witness was gaining on them the prisoner threw his bundle away, which on being examined was found to contain human bones which had been dug up out of the burial-ground. A portion of the ground had been recently opened, but no bones had been left about, and the opening had been filled in and bricked over. It was subsequently discovered that the bricks had been removed and the bones dug up with an iron meat-hook, which was also found in the bundle. The accused was remanded. THE AFFAIRS OF MR. TRAlN. — Another unsuccesstul attempt to obtain Mr. Train's release was made on Friday last, in the shape of a motion before Mr. Justice Keogh, on the ground of irregularity in the proceedings of the Ebbw Vale Company. The judge held the custody to be legal, and refused to release Mr. Train. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS KITCHEN AND RE FRESHMENT :ROOMS. —The report of the select committee on this subject was published on Saturday morning. The committee dissent from the recommendation of the select committee on House of Commons arrangements, so far as the removal of dining-rooms and kitchens is concerned, and are of opinion that the proposition for converting the conference and adjoining committee-rooms into dining rooms, with new kitchens and offices, is the best that has been devised for the accommodation of both Houses of Parliament. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH AND THE NEW ZEALAND CHIEF.—The following is a translation of a letter written to Prince Alfred by Paul Tub acre, of Orakei, a New Zealand chief : " Auckland, April 6, 1868. To Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.—Salutations to you in your heavy affliction—news of which has reached us—a murder of the many bad people in the world. I and all my people are grieved at hearing of your affliction which hap -)ened whilst you were desirous of coming to see the two iieoples who are so much cared for by your mother, Queen Victoria. Because the Maori tribes of New Zealand were :most anxious to see the white crane [i.e., the Prince], whose flight is once in a lifetime. As it is, because of this calamity, my sympathy and affection for you and your mother will not be kept back. May God bring you safely through your painful illness. It will be for us also to pray to God for you, if you are not allowed to visit us here iu this island, New Zealand. Sufficient. From Paul Tuhaere, Ngatiwhatua tribe, Waitemata and Kaipara." FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT DERBY.—On Satur ,iay afternoon a melancholy boat accident, resulting in the death of two youths and narrow escape of four others, occurred on the River Derwent, at Little Chester, near Derby. John Macklair and another lad were rowing up the river. They were appealed to by John Macloglin, aged 13, John Hayes, the son of a Derby tradesman, in Sadler-gate, aged 3 years, and two others, whom Macklair had previously known, and who asked to go the opposite side of the river in the boat. Macklair at once consented to the request, but, entertaining fears of the boat's capabilities, promised to take them all across, but one at a time only. Hayes was the first to jump into the boat, and scarcely had he taken his seat, and the boat slightly " pushed off," before the other three of his com panions followed him. By their all jumping in together, the boat was forced into the middle of the river, when instantly it capsized, and all the occupants, none of whom could swim, more or less were struggling in the water. Four were rescued, but Blacloglia and Hayes wore &mad, • - THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, J ULY 20, 1868. AUS7RIAN LIBERALISM. The Allocution of the Pope against the " Confessional" laws decreed by the Reichsrath and ratified by the Emperor of Austria, is exciting the fury of the Austrian Liberals. Their rage knows no bounds. The most offen sive epithets which the Jewish journals of Vienna can invent are applied to the Pope. They call the Father of Christendom the " mummy, the dead man of the Vatican." From abuse, according to the fashion of Liberalism, they proceed to threats. They call upon the Government to withdraw from the clergy the registers of births, deaths, and mar riages, so that the priests may be deprived of some of their emoluments. The Neue-Wiener- Tagblatt urges the Government, in answer to the Papal Allocution and to the Pastoral Let ters of the Bishops " to re-establish the Placet, to interdict every communication of the bishops with the Holy See, to take away from the bishops their title of Privy Councillors, their decorations, their offices of dignity and honour, to withdraw from them the fiefs they hold, to deprive them of the money allotted by the State to Catholic worship, to sequestrate their estates, and to put under administration the dioceses of the most obstinate of the bishops, and to forbid the collection of Peter's Pence." The municipal councils, following the lead of the anti-Catholic press, and in obedience to the dictates of the Liberal clubs, pass resolu tions against the Allocution, proclaiming "the necessity of resisting this act of usurpation on the part of an alien Power on the legislation of a free, constitutional, and independent State." The municipal council of Vienna, speaking in the name not only of the city itself but of the entire empire, passes the following resolution, proposed by a publican and twenty six of his friends, against the Papal Allocu tion :—" So hostile an act by a foreign Power against the free and constitutional government of a great State, a government which possesses the entire confidence of the people, cannot and ought not to be tolerated. It is the sacred duty of the representatives of the people publicly to protest against so unworthy a proceeding, provocative of civil war, and to assure the Government that in carrying out the confessional laws, it may count upon the entire support of the people." This resolution was opposed by only two members of the coun cil, who were priests. The democratic societies of Vienna counting, however, not more than 50 or 100 members, each " proclaimed in the name of the people, their indignation ag ainst the encroachment by Rome on the common rights of the people, and of man." The Yolks- Verein of Fiinfhaus, demanded " that rela tions with Rome should be broken off, until it showed itself more inclined to conciliation." " Give his passports to the Papal Nuncio," is the cry raised by the anti-Catholic press, and echoed by the Democratic Unions and the municipal councils of Vienna, and of a few other cities. The question at once suggests itself, what is the value of these declarations, and in what manner do they correspond to the feelings and ideas of the Catholic people of Austria ? In other words, does this anti- Catholic Liberalism of the Viennese press, and of the municipal councils, represent the nation, or a class ?)Last week we argued that Liberal ism, that the modern State, that the power which dictates laws to Europe, was the out growth of one class to the exclusion of every other ; and that the Crown, the Church, the landed interest, and the peoples, were alike sacrificed to the opinions and interests of the moneyed section of the middle and professional classes, and we pointed in illustration of this corrupt and degrading tyranny to Austria and to Italy Towards the corroboration of that general statement, and in answer to the question as to the value of these demonstra tions on the part of Austrian Liberalism, as represented in the Municipal Council of Vienna, we are now able to adduce the testi- . mony of a competent witness. The Vienna correspondent of the Univers, commenting on the demonstrations of Austrian Liberalism against the Papal Allocution, and on the arro gant manner in which it assumes to speak in the name of the entire nation, writes thus : The noise commenced by the papers is pro longed in the Municipal bodies and in the different societies, ycleped Democratic, Ger man, Liberal, of the people, of progress, of Liberal progress, of Democratic progress, of the workmen's societies, all of which, since the commencement of the new era, grow apace like evil weeds. Each of these corporations and of these societies professes to speak in the name of the entire population, whereas, when it is known out of what these societies are formed, how these Municipal Councils are elected, such a pretension is ridiculous in the extreme. To speak only of the Municipal Council of Vienna, all the world here knows that it re presents but a minimum fraction of the popu lation. The members of the Council are chosen for the most part by a very small number of electors. It is a district in which the electors amount to many thousands, but of whom scarcely a hundred vote. Such are the Muni cipal Councils, which profess to s p ea k i n the name of the entire population, and as if there Were not a single true Catholic to be found." It may, with the greatest certainty, be said that the vast majority of the peoples of Austria does not participate in the views of the Vien nese press, nor in the votes of the Municipal They may n b o e r dinullthe and d act le s of the Reich thargic, srath. d m pe in ro d r e , d a , n o d r ov th er e r y lil m ed ay by b t e he w p ea r k e. , like theirwo r 1 dEym s sure, and deafened by the uproar of the Liberals, but, in heart, they are true to their Church and loyal to the Pop e . P ersecu ti on m ay quicken them into life, and open their eyes to the dangers which surround them. The imprisonment of a Bishop, an event not unlikely to happen if the Liberals have their way, would to a certainty revive, as was the case thirty years ago in Prussia, when Clemens August, the noble Archbishop of Cologne, was thrown into prison, the religious feeling of the somewhat unspiritual people of Austria. In the day, however brought about, when this Catholic people arises from its long d eca d ence, and throws off its spiritual lethargy, the small section of the people composed of Liberals and JeWs, which now governs the press and the country, will at once have to return to more congenial pursuits at the Bourses of Europe, or in the dens of the secret societies in mo r e corrupt and revolutionary countries.—West minster Gazette. A correspondent from Florence says Captain Stanley of the United States Navy and his wife are about the only travellers in town. There are 14 resident American families, and some of these talk of migrating for a month or two, although it is so cool that I have only worn summer clothes one or two days, and it has been necessary to shut the windows in the evening. Tho great Italian question is finance. Just enough has been raised by the tobacco loan to tido over a month or two, but there is no spirit of economy in the country, and the employes are more numerous than over. There is no knowing how many servants of the old dynasty are pensioned by the present Government, though all talk and work against it. Italians cannot understand that they would be stranger with an army of 50,000 men then 250,000 men, and do not sec that 200,000 men at pro ductive labour would benefit the country more than in eat ing it up in idleness. Compare Italy's small space inter sected by railroads and at peace with the world, with the Continent occupied by the United States, with Indians and Mexicans, an army of cnly 50,000 men. It is strange to find gold hero at 81 premium, but if something M'Cawber-like does not happen, we expect it to go to 12, 15, or even 20, before the end of the year. The taxes even cannot at present be collected, and every day some one has a tax bill sent in for the last six months of 1866 or tho first half year of 1867. A man who lets his house in the Piazza Pitti informed mo he bad to pay 20 per cent. on the rents; even the servants are taxed, but they cannot collect it, and yet to see tho way Government throws away money right and left you would think it the richest country in the world. The manufacture of shad at Double Ditch, under the authority of the Fish Commissioners, was togun Monday, June 29, greatly to the delight of ie old fisher men and those who love shad. The river is fairly alive with shad, and 118 were captured at three hauls. Messrs. Green and Smith were both present, and gave instructions as to the management of the factory. The prices of Horniman's Teas are greatly reduced; their well-known superiority has attracted a host of spurious imitations; therefore notice all Genuine Packets are signed, Horniman 4. C 0.," London. 300 Confectioners are Eizents n London and 2 3 200.Citoraiiits ja_the Country. - ROMAN AFFAIRS. From the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) ROME, July 11. Notwithstanding the contrary statements in various papers, I am assured the visit to the camp occasioned no signs of weariness in the Holy Father. It was, of course, a tiring day, and it would not be surprising if the exertion and rough weather had fatigued a younger man ; still, as he did not appear at all wearied by it, it is but right to note the fact. He held his usual audiences the next day. The following inscriptions, which the municipality of the little town of Rocca di Papa set up over their gates on the occasion, may interest some of your readers. The first, in Latin, was over the principal entrance ; the others, in Italian, found place on the inside : Parens Optime princeps amantissime qui bellum punico tristius contra iniquissim orum wires et astus cunctator novas sus tines milites qui ad tutenda D. Petri sedem volentes lubenlesque Tibi nomen dederunt Tibi advenienti gratulantur ex animo —ac pro Christo pugnare parati triumphum auspicantur. 0 Eroi della Roma cristiana Sui campi di gloriosa memoria attendati Un inno di gioia d'amore, di fedelta sul vostro labro risuoni L'adorato Padre e sovrano Pio IX Vi bea di sua presenza Vi saluta, vi benedice. APio Angiolo di Pace gloria, delizia, e decoro del genere umano —di sua augusta presenza benignando la terra di Rocca di Papa it magistrato ed it popolo esultanti testimonianza leale, luminosa di affetto, di fedelta, di riconoscenza offrono, umiliano, consacrano. Al successor di Pietro —al maggiore dei monarchi a Pio IX Pontefice Ottimo Mas simo the chiama inutile, perduto it giorno in cui non benefichi un misero o almeno un nuovo benefizio non mediti. The soldiers who happened to be named to make the first experience of camp life, have had a rather rough time, and have learnt more of mountain storms than of military manoeuvres. The forced inaction has been very trying, but the soldier has to learn to adapt himself to all circumstances, - and the trial has had the effect of displaying once more the admirable discipline, as well as the spirit of determination and sacrifice which reigns among the men. The next to be sent to the Campidi Annibale would be the troops at present forming the garrison of Rome. It is probable, however, they will remain on here till the weather be comes settled. It is not only the camp which has suffered ; the agriculturists have come off much worse. The rain, for which you are crying out in Eng land, has all but ruined the crops of the Cam pagna ! I know of one corn-grower who esti mates his loss at twenty-five thousand scudi, and another at eighteen thousand. The hail, too, which has been seen lying on the ground, in some parts to the depth of a foot, has made great havoc with the vines. M. de Sartiges is still unrecalled. He will certainly be replaced before the assembly of the General Council, but will remain to com plete the negotiations respecting the Italian debt. The Florence Government has promised to pay ten million francs on account, but only three have arrived as yet, and there will doubt less be much pressing and haggling before it will part with the remainder. The Garibaldian enlistments continue with out interference, and what is very significant, numbers of notorious and desperate prisoners continue all the time to make their escape from various penal establishments , The French army of observation is not blind to what is going on and has taken due measures of precaution. i'he town and port of Civita Vecchia have been thoroughly for tified, and Colonel Fare, of the Engineers, has been instructed to draw up a report of what is required to protect Rome from a coup d e main. The general purport of the report is to point out the extreme importance of Rome as a strategical basis, in case of hostilities be tween France and Italy. With Rome properly defended, a few advanced posts to command the high road and the defiles would suffice to cut off all communication between northern and southern Italy, while a few ships of war would intercept that between Bologna and Naples. With regard to the defences of Rome, the Colonel is of opinion that the Papal army alone is not of sufficient strength to defend its approaches, but that it may hold out within the city itself for a considerable period—quite long enough to allow time for the arrival of a French army of co-operation. He points out several matters requiring attention for complet ing the defences of the City, such as the erec tion of a battery in the Vatican gardens to command Monte Mario, and another near Monte Testaccio, to command the raliway line ; continuing the communication between the various for ts b y a g ood ro ad following the walls of the city throu g hou t their course, and throwing two more brid g es a cross the Tiber, one at the Rip a g rande, and on e at the Ripetta. A el n f with h ian paper has, I see, been a mus i ng printing an address purporting to " the Romans" (sic) to th e Ki ng o f Prussia, on th e occasion of the anniversary of the battle of S adowa (3d I its be sent by July). "We for get our misery, for "in .a moment," th e R omans are made to say, order to lay our glad congratulations at the feet of your Majesty, and we trust that great Germany will not forget us." This servile and apochryphal docu ment has only excited a smile here. It is of a piece with that other address, which the Sena tor of Rome was said to have presented to the Pope last October, begging . him to give up the city to a Piedmontese garrison ! Don Alfonso de Borbon, whose entrance into the Zouaves I mentioned last week, gives an edifying exam ple of devotion and simplicity of m i n d . He chose SS. Peter and Paul's day for entering the service, and communicated that morning, at an altar near the shrine of the apostles, having spent the vigil like a knight of old in the crypt of the Basilica. He labours as much as possible to ignore etiquette in his dealings with his comrades and superiors, and accepts no exemption from watch or corvee, or even from the more irksome routine duties of the depot. There is another new recruit, the antecedents of whose family are worthy to be noted—M. Anatole du Sartre. His grandfather was one of the body g uards who fell, a noble sacrifice to their loyalty, for Louis XVI., while on his mother's side he is descended from the family of Peter the Hermit, the celebrated preacher of the Crusades. And it is to such men as these that the Garibaldian leaders are preparing to oppose—starved -out brigands and runaway galley-slaves. ---- It is proposed to substitute the word photogrant in lieu of "phot ograp h" no w used, to den ote a photo graphic picture. ~ Teleg ram " is a word tho rou g hl y esta blished in our language •and the man wh o would now , talk of having rece i ve d a " telegraph" —meaning a "tele gram"—would b e l aug h e d a t, and thought a boor. But "photograph" used in s i m il ar manner is equally inaccu rate. Why th en reta i n i t ? Sterogram is another word which might be advantageouslyand correctly substituted for " steroscopic slide." a LADvEarissmENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate lungs, healthy sleep, t h f functional o i o r n a e a l chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Re valenta Arabic" Food, which yields three times the nourish mentextract a few of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, ou l t iv o e f r 6 B P ,OoO ure e b ur io e o s d' ; and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound regularity, am , energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We July 21, 1866. by Du Barry's Food. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely _ refreshing,,,rhepope .shea to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabia" Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly?' From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterfo rd, of man y years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agory from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatule ncy, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria J oly."—Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, o f Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spittin g of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without ~uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at Is. 11d.; Ilb , 2s. 9d ; 2 lbs. , 45 . 6 d. ; 5 lbs , 1 Is . ; 12 lbs., 22s ; 241bs ,40s.—Also Du BA.ltitv'S REVALENTA Au&BICA. CHOCOLATE PoWDEE is packed in tin canisters; For 12 cups at 25., for 24 cups at Is. 6.1. for 48 cups at 6 5. , for 288 cu p s at 305., for 576 cups at .555. Being about one penny per cup. Übe 308 and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.—B.utia DU 8.A.8.UN and CO. No. 77, ite g e " reetl 'MAO i awl all ocitraccr: and Qamipte. 7HE BONDHOLDERS' GREAT DANGER. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Our English readers who associate America in imagination with New York will ba surprised to learn that the only country in the world in which farmers really rule is the United States. There the agriculturist is the landowner ; hence the country is governed by the proprietors and tillers of the soil. This to an Englishman's mind conveys strong Conservatism. He cannot couple farming with Radical notions, and the essence of Radicalism to him is a Republic—a contradiction beyond his com prehension. The influence of such cities as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, and San Francisco he can appreciate; the weight of such a manufacturing town as Pittsburg he can estimate, and he can without surprise learn the progress and the future of America's central city, St. Louis. Ile can understand a structure with one front on the Atlantic and the other on the Pacific, with one door at New York and the other at San Francisco, and she hall between them in the Union Pacific RAH- road. But all these are points; cities which have their counterpart in his Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Birmingham, and they leave no con ception iu bis mind as to the territories he supposes they represent. The Englishman sees France cpi- tomized in Paris, which is not only the heart but the very essence of the Empire. lie sees London exercising little less influence in the dominions of his Sovereign. Rome ruled the world ; and Rome was but a city. Wherever he turns in the older civilizations he finds the country but the adjunct of the town, the agriculturist but the toiling slave of the hand and brain there at work. The soil itself, as a rule, in Europe belongs to great landholders, whose residences are generally in the capitals, whence emanate the thought, literature, and news, which permeate the outlying districts. They are the centres of manufacture and of the more refined handicrafts ; they are the stages on which the aspir ing seek for fame and fortune ; in their council- rooms Governments are formed, laws framed, and treaties made, and when the city is spoken of it takes with it a wide tract as its belongings, just as Rome means the Papal States of the present day, and the civilized world of 1,800 years ago. Bringing this range of knowledge to bear upon America, the Englishman arrives at conclu sions wholly wrong. It is supposed that the•Arneri cans act only in masses, the majority governing. But there are none who more strongly assert their individuality, and this is the reason that the farmers ,here rule. Vast as is the influence of New York in America, it is wholly wanting in that control possessed by Llnion in the United Kingdotn, or by Paris in France. No man in an editor's room can shape beyond New York the opinions of the masses. Erch circle has its own little light, which is more or less able to repel the greater luminaries which attempt to penetrate the circumscribed limit; and were it not for the party caucases and those who prescribe and form opinions for the editors, coupled with a few broad principles, America would quickly drift into a chaos of conflicting thought. Nothing can more clearly show the individuality of the people that however great and powerful is the city it but represents itself. A village five miles off asserts its corporate character ; and GEORGE WASH INGTON JENCKS, seated on his manure heap, guesses that the State is him. This is the initial idea, and although he acknowledges the right of his neigh bour to make the same assertion, he does not ac knowledge. the right of any rule he has not been concerned in creating. Men bred and born in this conviction are not easily controlled or influenced as are bumpkins in Europe. The rustic on the pavement is patronized, guided, and protected by the Cockney or by the Parisian. The words of Louis XIV. would sound something more than ridiculous corn.: ing from such a mouth ; indeed the mouth would be open, as if it were thus only that the glories of the Parliament House could be taken in. An Ame rican enters the Capitol, and says in his heart—in deed very often aloud--this is my building, and the representatives here assembled are my servants ; a notion that would increase the spread of BUGGINS' jaws if conveyed to his bucolic mind. Government being almost regarded as a necessary evil, as it con trols the sovereignty of the individual, the citizen recognizes that the majority of these individuals ought to form it, and as the rural population think themselves as good as the city popul tti )n, an I some thing better, in asserting their right, being the more numerous they in reality rule. Now this gives to the United States Governme . nt a constituency un known in other lands. Generally they arc conser vative in principle, old-fashioned in notion, and behind their city compeers, honest in intention, and kind-hearted. As the prolac3rs of exports, which in all lands have a ready sale, it is their clear inte rest to be Free-traders, yet Protection sways in the councils of their representatives. Thus even the instinct of self-interest is at fault, and their know ledge of political economy is such as to enable other classes to tax them even more injuriously than by a direct levy. How will this class act on the financial questions which must eventually be decided by them? This is a subject of overwhelming im portance in Europe, involving probably one-half the value of the Bonds, held here. As investors following the instinct of their calling they put their savings into the soil. They do not therefore hold the Bonds which as a rule are owned by the people of the cities, and are largely held by the Savings' Banks of the working classes. They therefore have no direct interest, and in legislating on the subject are dealing with other men's pro perty ; yet, as we have seen, they are the eventual arbiters, and this is unfortunate for the national creditor, though but a small part of the question. Being the holders of real estate, the inflation assumes to them the aspect of prosperity, for their prosperity in their eyes seams to rise in the same proportion that the standard falls, the increasing worthlessness of the paper dellar being the real cause of the delusion. If the farm of GEORGE WASHINGTON JENCKS, worth $5,000 before the war, is now worth $lO,OOO, JENCKS' wealth is doubled, and he regards with an eye of ap proval the irredeemable paper dollar. If JENCKS had borrowed on his farm in the days of gold and paid his creditors in the days of paper he has done a fine stroke of business, one by which he profited greatly, and he can see no reason why the State should not derive the same benefit. What he has done himself and his neighbours have done, and rejoiced in doing—he would recommend his repre sentative, the Government, to do. "No pledge was given," argues JENCKS, " to redeem in gold, and if the money in which I am paid for my produce is good enough in the eye of the law for my creditor who lent me gold, it is good enough for the national creditor who availed himself of the nation's neces sities to lend green-backs at enormous discount." The great questions of finance and of credit are unknown to JENCKS. He feels only the influence around, and does not see beyond his country. llis material interests are in his opinion all in the one scale, together with arguments which appear strong, and even conclusive to his mind in favour of his policy. If the National Debt can be obliterated by the inflation of the currency, two birds are killed with one stone, and the country put squarely on the road to prosperity, and it will take considerable writing and talking before that idea is removed from many minds. In calculating the chances for and against the adoption of such a course, this ele ment of the national will ought not to be over looked; and the inducements to the dishonest course appear to them so strong, and the argument in its favour so sound, that there is great danger of their selecting the Repudiation platform. There is one counteracting idea if it can obtain currency, which would at once settle the question, that Repudiation would be a death-blow to the power of the United States. The American gets to the head of creation by this simple argument ;—he is the State—the State is the lord of the Universe —therefore, he is the greatest of creation. Threaten that perch, and you touch the vital point. Repudiation would go out of America like a balloon if the mass of Americans understood the real value of national credit, and how that value would be affected by the act. Do Americans know that whatever may be the moaning of the European bondholders over the lessened value of their property, there would bo great satisfaction in Europe over Repudiation, for those who feared the t Republic must rejoice greatly to see the eagle deli ' • berately and effectually extracting its own talons. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican.) FRIDAY ETENING, July 3. Money still rules low, with every prospect of the con- [nuance of au easy market. At Boston only is anything Ike a firm demand reported. From some cause, not to be 'ally explained simply by a desire to stand well in the quarterly statement (next Monday), call loans cannot be made there at less than 51 to 6 per cent. At New York money has been easy at 3 to 4 per cent during the week. At Cincinnati and Chicago there is an actual surplus at present, though a demand is beginning to spring up in connection with the wool crops and the lumber trade. By tho middle of the present month the early harvests at the West will call for the use of currency ; and by the Ist of next month money will be wautel to move the cotton crop at the South. These causes must prevent the long con tinuance of the present exceedingly low rates ; but there is no reason why they should produce more than an ordinary tension, taken in connection with the fact that the Trea- miry will, for thrac months now, disburse greatly i i ex cess of its receipts. The abundance of m )ney invites investment and affords an admirable opportunity to test the popularity of the now long loan at five per cent. If it was necessary to put the whole country under water to "float" the hems of 1862-64, Government ought not to neglect the cApital advantages of th 3 present mo ment for a better negotiation of its b )nded debt. Gold has Loen k.lpt down to its lowest figures of a week ago by the anticipations of disbursements from the Trea sury, and subsequently by the disbursements themselves. Cash gold continued to boar a premium for a d ay or two at the beginning of the week : but it is now abundant. The Treasury paid out eight millions in the three days from Monday to Wednesday, and a larger amount yester day. No great part of this has yet boon exported, but still further shipments will take place to-day and to-mor row. The indications are that the extraordinary total of specie exports for the year already reached, will be largely increased, and that a very considerable portion of the July disbursements will go abroad. It is doubtful if more than enough is retained to meet the deman Is of the fall impor tations, and without some new legislation, or some action by the secretary beyond the customary sales (and he will have very little which it will be safe for him to sell in the next two months), gold need not be expected to be lower. Governments have felt the influence of the knavish conduct of the House of Representatives in calling, with however little intention of passing it, for a bill to tax coupons. The cowardly villainy which can thus at once break the oath of a sworn Representative, impugn the credit of the Government, and play into the hands of stock speculators, deserves the most indignant and decisive re buke. Of course, no single holder of the bonds really believes that such a bill can pass; otherwise, instead of falling a fraction of one per cent., the whole body of the public stock would have fallen plump to 100 or below But even the possibility of it, the mere mention of it in such a way, becomes an element in the value of the bonds, and cannot but have the effect to retard that most gratify ing advance of the Federal Securities which has taken place within the last two months. The import entries for the week at New York amount to $5,363,829 against $4,370,547 same week last year; ex port clearances of domestic produce, $2,679,177, against $3,928,644 ; export of specie, $2,530,141, against $1,110,098. The gold values of import entries since July 1, 1867, amount to $237,312,667, against $268,392,667 for 1866-67, a decrease of $30,927,769. The currency value of exports of domestic produce and miscellaneous goods for the same period amount to $173,518,752, against $178,406,091. The export of gold and silver for the same period has been $75,409,749, against $41,371,932, an increase of more than 80 per cent. The deliveries of California gold and silver have been $35,923,720, against $38,338,752. The cus toms receipts in gold at the sub-treasury have been $112,789,791, against $122,667,016, and the gold interest paid $73,428,637, against $54,218,392. The Erie war, which had become a faint tradition, has broken out again, though this time there has been no midnight hegira, no paddling across the North river, no ro►nantic disguises and hair-breadth escapes. Judgo Barnard, of the Su- promo Court in Nevv York, on Tuesday closed the ancient contempt cases by mulcting six of the directors in the sum of 10.0 each, which, considering how they have filled their pockets by their rascalities, is dog cheap ; but which again, considering that the contempt was con tempt of Judge Barnard, mnst be pronounced extrava gantly dear, and fairly to be classed with the excessive bail and the cruel and unusual punishments forbidden in the Constitution. Mr. Eldredge has been removed from the presidency of the Erie, it having become odiously plain that he was running it chiefly in the interest of the Boston, Hartford, and Erie, of which he is also president, and which precious swindle has been fairly baulked, so far as the Massachusetts appropriation is concerned, by the vigi lance and fidelity of the State commissioners. Messrs. Fiske and Gould have been removed from the direction of the Erie Road; but an injunction has been issued, restrain- ing the directors from filling the vacancies as it was pro posed to do by voting in Messrs. Banker and Stewart. It is no secret that Drew and Vanderbilt are now operating to the same end, whether in concert or not, and a tumble in Erie is quite probable. The activity of the market, which has been for several weeks increasing, to the entire neglect of Erie, and in vary different directions, is not un likely to bo turned pretty sharply and shortly to this stock. There are thirty-four millions out somewhere; and the inquiry where may be pretty lou fly heard before long. Railways have taken up a goad deal of money within the past week, and if the, favourite stocks are being "jockeyed" up for sale, as is alleged, it is se shrewdly done as to deceive even the very elect. Eight roads have ad vanced within a few weeks an average of 20 per cent., and seve►^al of the companies are selling as high, ex-dividend, as they do with the dividend on. If the rise had been a little more gradual and moderate, it would have been open to less suspicion. The intrinsic value of the stocks cannot have greatly changed ; and if the change is only in the public estimate of them, it is fair to say that an opinion et hich alters so suddenly and to such extremes, does not afford the highest assurance of its - ontia reliability. It must be remembered, however, that all this is with an easy money market, which not only allows the full expres sion of public confidence, but strongly invites invest ment, and that the comparison is made with a mar ket violently agitated by a momoatary convulsion. The New York. World, which changes its stock politics rather frequently indicates the following peculiarity of the rail way market Sound interest-bearing bonds, on which • no default has ever been made, aro constantly offered for sale at 5 and 10 per cent. less than is now bid for stocks which pay no dividend at all, or, in the case of the Cleve land and Pittsburg Company, pay 2 per cent. dividends once in two or three years, which by a special vote of the board of directors are declared to be quarterly. The pre ferred stock of the Toledo and Wabash Company, which never fails to pay 7 per cent. annually, has been steady at 68 for weeks, while 79 has been bid for Milwaukie and St. Paul preferred, which pays dividends once in a way.' Pittsburg sells at 90, although it p vs dividends called quarterly' only once in three years, and 93 is bid for Michigan Southern, which pays on the average 3 per cent every ton years." The Miscellaneous Share List is dull. Pacific Mail shows a good deal of actieity, though lower than last week. Express stocks are weak, and holders are anxious to sell, and they probably know best. Mining shares are dull, and likely to continue so, unless soma remarkable dis coveries are made on the companies' property. The Border State Stocks received quite a shock by the threatened failure of the Ju'y interest on the Tennessee Sixes. This warning, coming on the top of the scare in regard to Vir ginias, has unsettled public confidence a little, while yet the manifest advantages of the investment, even with a temporary failure of interest, have been sufficient to pre vent any considerable decline. The Tennessee difficulty is as follows :—Ths holders of the "past due" State Bonds of 1838, amounting to a million of dollars, obtained an in junction on the Fourth National Bank of New York, re straining it from paying out the funds which it had received for the payment of the July interest on the now bonds. The success of the application for an injunction had the effect to send the old bonds up to 80, while propor-• tionately discouraging the holders of the new. The North Carolinas were the first to rally from the mo mentary depression, and bravely pushed up five per cent.; Virginias soon strengthened, and Tennessees, on Wednesday, were encouraged to make a forward move ment, which succeeded in re-establishing the entire line. The whole difficulty in regard to the Tennessee bonds will, beyond a doubt, be solved on the meeting of the Legisla ture, and it is believed that Governor Brownlow will not wait for the regular session, but convene it promptly for the purpose of vindicating the credit of the State, which has within a few months advanced very rapidly, and which was fairly expected soon to equal that of any of its neigh bours on the border line. General Stoneman, command ing in Virginia, has announced his intention of borrowing whatsver money is necessary for the July interest on the Virgiania Sixes, beyond what the railroads can raise. It will be remembered that two-thirdaof the debt of Virginia is on account of its railways and canals. This step of Gen. Stoneman's is a bit arbitrary, but will probably meet the approbation of the whole country, and secure the sanction of the authorities, whoever the authorities in re gard to Virginia may be. The general, perhaps, feels a little under obligation to help the Virginian railroads out of their difficulties, having done more than any other man to injure them in times past. The decline in breadstuffs has continued through the week, and ovary day has witnessed a further reduction. The harvesting has already begun, and the prospects of a bountiful yield have called out all the reserved stocks. The demand fer consumption is not of course enough to carry off the supply, and speculators are duing absolutely. nothing in the certainty that prices must come still lower. It is pretty plain that the downward movement will con tinue through the summer months, though probably not with the rapidity of the past two weeks. The rise in cotton has stiffened the demand for the manufactured goods, and rather more is being done than usual at this season. The staple domestics have been in good request, and in some cases an advance of a fraction has taken place. Sheetings and shirtings are working-off very well, particularly the unbleached goods. Grey printing cloths are active, but at a slight decline. Ginghams and muslin de WAN are not iu much request. Woollens are rather more called for, but without any perceptible change in price. Heavy cassimeres and satinets are in domand— flannels in more request and at better prices. The arrivals of foreign dry goods have been very moderate thus far, but considerable orders have been sent out in anticipation of the opening of trade. (Front the Wall-street Journal.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, July 3. The default of the State of Tennessee upon the interest due on July 1 has caused a great deal of conversation in Wall-street, not at all to the honour of that State, which has been shamefully sacrificed. Of the interest $200,000 wore on deposit at the Fourth National Bank of this city. An equal sum was in the bands of the agents of the rail roads ready to be transferred to the bank, and this insti tution had agreed to lend the State at par tho amount necessary to meet the July coupons in full. Mining Stocks are much neglected, and prices have taken the backward track. Consolidated Gregory has fallen to $5, and the Colorado Stocks aro, spite of the con tinued good news, mostly heavy. IVe note a few transac tions in Smith and Parmelee at $3 70, Quartz Hill at $1 15c. Grass Valley at 25 cools and Consolidated Colorado at 10 cents. Nevada Silver Stocks are very difficult to sell, C,anbination being largely offered at $3O with no bid above $lO. Petroleum Stocks are steady and a fair business is doing. United States is especially firm, no stock being offered under $2 40 NEW YORK RATES OF EXCHANGE, July '2, 1868. Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lO9l-110 Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 36 361 Frankfort, O.M. 4ok-41k Berlin and Cologne - , 4 Antwerp 5.15 —0.1.21 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss ~ 531 to 54 48 to 481 ~ 49} to 50 ~ 25 to 25} ~ 251 to 25 sing quotations this evening ieous Stocks : J Fort Wayne . 1091 Pacific Mail lOl. Atlantic Mail 3l Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 3O Boston Water Power lB Cumberland Bankers and Brokers lO6-1 St. Paul St. Paul Preferred v York City Bank Stocks : Manufae. and Merchts' 104 Mechanics' Association 120 Broadway Hanover Irving Metropolitan People's Market.. llB Nassau lO5 Shoe and Leather ll4l Corn Exchange l3O Continental lO5 St. Nicholas Commonwealth llO/ Importers and Traders' 132 Central National 11 Fourth National .. 1065 Ninth National Park 155 Leather Manufacturers' 170 Oriental Bank 136 Tenth National 9B East River Pacific l6O Chatham 149 North River closing quotations for the United States in New York :--• Express Stocks are quoted as follows : Adams American ... United States •• ••• Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... Merchants' Union, 35 per cent The following were the do for the Railroad and Miscellai N. Y. Central 1341 Erie Hudson Reading Mich. South. &N. I 9ll Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B7 North-West North-West Preferred 791 Canton 5O Rock I•dand Cleveland and Toledo 103 The following for the Ne Merchants' America Butchers and Drovers 135 City New York Manhattan Mechanics' Union Phenix lOBl Tradesmen's Gallatin National Merchants' Exchange 115 Seventh Ward State of New York 118 Commerce Ocean American Exchange l2l Bank of the Republic ll9 Bank of North America 111 Eleventh Ward Mercantile Fulton l6O First National 2llk New York County l4O Marine l5O Grocers' The following were the variuus Public Funds of the' Sixes, 1868, registered Sixes, 1868, coupon Sixes, 1881, coupon ll3 to 1131- U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad lO2l to 103 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon .. lO6l to 107 Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 (From. Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) LONDON, July 15. The market for American securities in London shows some fluctuations during the past week ; United States Go' vernment Bonds are generally lower on the advance in premium on gold, the 5-20 Bonds of the earlier issue being 72+ to I, the 1865's 71+ to L, and 10-40's 69 to + ; for these latter there has been an increased inquiry, and they con sequently have not depreciated with the other bonds' Illinois Central shares are to-day quoted 91+ to 92, ex eas il and stock dividend, which makes them about the same value as this day week, but Erie shows a decline of more than 2 par cent., the closing price being 43+ to 44. For Illinois Central sterling redemption bonds en d Pennsylvania Railroad second mortgage there have been numerous inquiries, and higher rates offered bring few o r none to market. Atlantic and Great Western Consoli dated Bonds are 1 per cent. lower, while the Debentur es, on the amended proposals issued by; the directors, have im proved nearly 1 per cent. The principal State officers and the Representa tives in Congress of the seven States recently entered to the Union are as follows :—Alabama—Governor, William H. Smith; Lieutenant-Governor, A. J. Applegate; Re presentatives, Ist district, Francis W. Kellogg, of Mobile; 2d, Charles W. Buckley, of Hayneville ; 3d, Benjamin W• Norris, of Montgomery; 4th, Charles W. Pierce, of Dera° - polls ; sth, J. W. Burke, of Huntsville; 6th, T. Haughey', of Decatur. Florida—Governor, Harrison Reed ; Lieet; Governor, William H. Gleason ; S ena t ors , M. 11. P . Welch and T. W. Osborne ; Representative, Charles 3,1 ' Hamilton, formerly of Wisconsin. Georgia.—Govern or, R. B. Bullock; Representative; Ist district, J. W. CU D of Savannah; 2d, Nelson Tift ; 31, William P. Edward s of Butler, Taylor county • 4th, Samuel S. Gave of Gd s. ; woldville, Twi gg s coun ty ; sth, Charles H. Prince ° I Augusta ; 6tb, John H. Christy ; 7th, P. M. B. Young' Louisiana.—Governor, Henry C. Warmouth ; Lieutenant" Governor, Oscar J. Dunn ; Representatives, Ist district, J. Hale Sypher of New Orleans ' • 2d, James Ma u of New O r l eans (election contested b y Colon° Simon Jones, Republican); 3d, Joseph P. Newslial ll of West Feliciano (member of the Convention)i 4tb, Micha e l Vid a l o f S t. L andry (nat i ve b o rn, (7.7 French lineage), sth, W. Jasper Blackburn of Homer , Claborne county. North Carolina—Governer, W. Holden ; Lieutenant-Governor, Tod R. Caldwell ; Representatives, Ist District, John R. French of Charve° ; f 2d, David Heaten of Craven ; 3d, Oliver H. Dockery 0 1 Richmond ; 4th, John T. D ewoes o f R a l e i g h ; sth, ler", G. Lash of Forsyth; 6th Nathaniel Boyden, of Salisburi 7th, Alexander H. Jou e s o f B uncom b e . South C ar olina Governor Robert K. Scott ; Li eu t enan t-G over nor Lem Boozer ; RepresentAtives ; Ist District, Benjamin " C • Whittemore, of Darlington ; 2d C. C. Bowen of Charltle..: ton.; 3d, Simon Corley of Lexington; 4th , James ". Goss of Unionville. At large, two additional °f Re presentatives, elected by order of the Convent ion viz.—J. P. M. Epping ;of Charleston, Elas S. Dickson , f Clarendon, Governors Smith and Holden are nativ es ° their States, and were Union men during the war. (1° ; vernor Bullock is a native of New York, but for eel years resident in Georgia. Governor Reed was former if a Wisconsin editor. Governor Warmouth is a nativ e 0 Illinois, and was an officer of Missouri troops. GO° f... nor Scott is a native of Pennsylvania, and was an officer of Ohio troops. Of the lieutenant-governors, Je"`"d ° sou, Dunn, Caldwell. and Boozer are Southern-born, AIL Lieutenant-Governor Dunn is a coloured man. Applegew went from Indiana, and Gleason f rom Wi scons i n . T wenti ; eight of .the Representatives are Republicans, and fct Democrats, the latter being indicated in the list by italics; The Agawam Canal Company, whose mill is h 3 O Mittineague, are enjoying a run of good fortune. 10 t '"a last six months they have made between $BO,OO O en $90,000, which is about 23 per cent. of their capital. Tli c .7 divided 8 per cent. in January, and will pay 10 per cent. to July. Agawam, a town of modest pretensions, is about se sot up as a " watering place." A sulphur spring, wh o virtues were well known half a century ago, but has fa ll er out of notice since, exists on land of Robert Ely, not from the Agawam River. Dr. E. M. -Perry and 1 3 . ~ "--„ • Willis, of Springfield, leased the land, and are putting bath-houses, to give the water a practical test. The United States squadron sailed on Thursday evening for Cowes, at which port it will remain for a f ° days. Births. of HALSTED —On the 16th inst., at Blackheath, the Rif e Rear-Admiral G. A. Halsted, of a daughter. WALSH—On the 16th inst, at 7, Tilney-street, Park-139`21' Lady Emily Walsh, of a son. MURRAY— On the 17th inst., at No. 10, Tho Teri a c( '' Kensington-gardens-square, Mrs. Charles F. 31110 0 of a daughter. Marriages. LEE—READ—On the 16th inst., at St. Matthew's, Brixtl, James Noah, eldest son of Mr. J. N. Lee, of Peng' , j, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Edward James .ge a of Brixton. ----- SHARPLEY—RusToN—At the parish church, Pidley-e 1 , 11 . 1 ; Fenton, Henry, youngest son of the late C ro ft Sharp Esq., of Althorpe, near Louth, Lincol n shi re , to Allo' i o f youngest daughter of the late Robert Ruston, En , Norden House, Chatteris. Deaths. f HARRIS —On the 16th inst, Ann Deborrah, the w" ° ,,fli Theodore Harris, of Leighton Buzzard, i n her 0— year. WILKINSON—On the 16th inst., at the Rectory Peol ° '? the 58th year o f hi s age, th o R ev . Alfred WilltiV son, M.A. ELLts—On the 17th inst., at A Kensington-square, C lit'°. W. Ellis, Esq., barrister-at-law, aged 73. WILSON—On the 17th inst., at 37, Wigmore-street, 0 0°11 ; dish-square, London, Lestock Peach Wilson, 8 54 " his 81st year. urf RocK—Ou the 17th inst., at his residence, rfiV b Grange, Mr. Henry Rock, in the 63d year of his ag e ' °t .. COYNE—On the 18th inst., at his rosidence, 61, Ta gt o- road, Westbourne-park, in his 65th year, Joseph ling Coyne, Esq. 11111.11••••• London : Printed and Published by WiLLIA.M AN0 145 2. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan Surt Li° of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 00 ,13 ' mi c idi ef aex,..-Kenlay, July 20, 1808. R'N This cl Prize 31e(] Itis Pu Sold in th 3 Agent Obs ban's LL Mu- 1.1 RI ADVAN( hold or I able wee] Forms fr lt°/ The GERAI their fir An ent tras of Q the mos first mas TR Miss I Miss I SMITE Comic ; sons, T Mr. R. 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