The Sun. — London, England, 1868-07-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, If anyone entertains a doubt as to the propriety of letting post-office, inland revenue, and custom-house officials vote like other Englishmen who possess a qualifi cation for the franchise, the Times advises him to read the Lord Chancellor's speech, and his hesitation will be dis pelied. There are nearly 40,000 persons employed in the revenue departments of the public service, and the burden rests with those who object to prove why they should not be enfranchised. The Board of Customs de clared that if custom -house officers had votes they must have leave of absence to vote ; but it is plain that this reason applies to the subordinates of all offices, whether of revenue or not, and whether national or commercial. There is evidently no ground for maintaining a special disability affecting revenue officers only to be found in this reason. Next, the board declares that officers would be promoted according to their political opinions ; but, al Lord Cairns pointed out that the power of promotion rested with the board itself, this is a pica of self•deprecia- Vion very honourable to their sensitiveness, but as unsatis factory with respect to the point in issue as the first., Thirdly, the board fear that if their officers had votes they would be exposed to solicitations which might place them in difficult positions. The Lord Chancellor professed himself unable to see the force of this objection, and the Times echoes his confession. Laatiy, the Customs Board declared that if their clerks were en franchised they might combine to vote for no one who would not support proposals to increase their salaries. There is an impression afloat that the Customs depart' snent is underpaid compared with the other branches of the public service, which may, perhaps, have lent force to this apprehension of the board, but it is not other wise apparent how this danger arises with respect to the Custom HOUS3 more than with the Admiralty. The conclusive answer, however, appears to be that there ill really no reason why custom-house officers, if enfran chised, should not use their political privileges as a means to redress any inequality under which they may believe they labour. If any other class be affected, as they thi injuriously, by the operation of law or the organisation of the public service, they lay their case before the Legisla ture through their representatives, and the officers of ,tlab Custom House ought to be at liberty to do the same. The Post congratulates the promoters of the bill upon taring carried their measure so far, but it is to.. be !remarked that t!:e bi I only half does the work after 411 'lt repeals the prohibition from voting at elections, but it leaves the prohibition from " interfering" where it was. Now, it is evident that it would be most indecent for public officers to become active political partisans, or to take a great part in electioneering battles, hut the regula tion of their conduct in this respect is a matter not for legislation and penal laws, but for departmental rifles. In the departments already possessing the right to vote it is so treated, and there is no sort of reason why the revenue officers should have a different measure dealt out to them. hpow, tub, that interference as read by revenue corn pissibners is a very large word indeed, and those who Lave Any doubts on the subject would do well to peruse acme general orders of the Board of Inland ilevenue which have rtc titly been laid upon the :able of the House of Commons. It will be seen from these that it is cons:dered to be interfering in an election to " express an opinion as to its probable Nsult," or to be " seen in an election crowd ;" and unlew the statutory prohibition is removed the revenue officer will be in the anomalous position of having a vote, and' yet not hav:ng the power to :nfo:m himself by tl-e usual in :aus bow to exercise it. It is to be hoped that an amendment to cover this case w:libe introduced into corn ttce, and that the bill, when pa-i_e - 3, wal be found to 1) - ace the revenue officers upon the same footing in this tespect as other public seryanfs. The HeraN condemns most strenuously the manner in _ _ which the Bribery Bill has been treated by the Liberal party. It is true that the l reteusions they were once fond of advancing to the exclusive possession of electoral virtue have long since been too rudely blown 'upon, to make it possible for them to claim the chara:'er of apostles of purity in town or country, county or borough. Tc revive the memory of the days when such boasting was pabsible, we must go back to those far-off times when Sudbury sent its two members, when St. Albans was equally fortunate in having shambles where votes could be . - sold in market overt, when Wakefield and Glonces:er had not paid the penalties of e:ecti nee:.:ng l ec adilloes by the prolonged suspension of their right to return members, and when Yarmouth, Totnes, Lancaster, and Reigate were all places where money could be lavished at an election, as the price of sending advanced Liberals to vote in a division. For it should not be forgotten that nearly all these venal boroughs were corrupted by Liberal gold, and represented by Liberal politicians—that in them Conservatives had vainly struggled to secure a fair fight, while their opponents had vauntingly proclaimed their &termination "to make the money fly." Still, we were assured that these were but the acts of individuals 'burning with desire to get into Parliament at any coat stud by any means. The wish, the aspiration, of mostiof those who now sit on the Speaker's left band was, is, and always has been, to purge the true electoral metal from all trace of sordid dross, and to make the conAituencies " free and independent " in fact at well as in name. The curse lately taken by the party has, however, furnished but a curious commentary uptm these inflated pretensions. Early in the session the Government introduced a bill for the repression of corrupt practices. It was hoped that the passap of a measure •whose object everybody professed to approve would be smooth and speedy. But this was too much to expect Avhen the Liberals were in opposition. Clause after clause leas been assailed as rudely as if electoral purity were the thing most dreaded by political purists, and not a few of those who used to pride themselves on their anxiety for An extended suffrage have acted as if the one conviction of their lives was the importance of defeating, at all hazards, a bill intended to render impossible a renewal of the scandals with which the names of some half•dozen disfranchised boroughs are inseparably associated. Had the Government desired an excuse for dropping the bill, they had more than abundant opportunity for doing so, and for casting the blame of its defeat upon their adver- saries. But they had so set their hearts on accomplishing this much-needed reform that they communicated their kwn earnestness to the House, and made their opponents feel that it would be unsafe for them to temporise too far, even for the sake of securing the venal allies of whose aid they rave so often availed themselves. Hence it was that, a ll opposition notwithstanding, the Ministerial measure made good its way, so that its ultimate success is nor tolerably well assured. The Dai'y Tars, dealing with the proposals for the reform of the army, says that though cur army might be materially reduced, we want an elasticity of organisation, which will adm:t of its rapid expansion, and a general diffusion of its knowledge of drill, such as shall supply the .material for enlargement when required. The first is to be obtained by insisting ou thorough knowledge of duties on the part of all who are in the regular forces—a know 'edge which we cannot secure while purchase continues the rule of promotion. But when we have secured an army in which there are thousands who are competent to take on the instant a higher command than they hold, ire have the nucleus of any requisite enlargement. .As to the men, we begin to recognise that a soldier 5s perfect after three years' service, and generally com mences to deteriorate after twelve. Our object, then, must In not to retain the old men, but to encourage a rapid succession of young men, who, after serving a moderate time, will find their training has brought them into re- quest for civilian employme its, but who in time of war would find their own knowledge needed little brushing up. A gain, we want a more general drilling of men for still shorter periods, for we know also now that but a few weeks' drill, under perfectly trained instructors, will make men perfect for all fighting purposes, though still imperfect for the other work of a long campaign. Here, then, we have to depend on the militia and volunteers. We must make them more truly military, by more efficient education of their officers. We must make them more available as reserves, Li bringing them into closer alliance with the re;u'ar army— 'whether by connection of regiments with localities, or by subordinance to one general c )mmand. Lastly, we must find out and adopt the modes and periods of drill best calculated to attract the youth of each particular district to these local and temporary cervices. All this is work . fora skilful organiser. I3ut it is work that should not be postponed. The Sta,Nlarcl calls attention to the fact that a com mittee has Llen formed to promote the erect'on—for whkh the necessar: sanct'on has already been obtained—in Westminster A.4bey of a me numnit in honour of the late Rajah of SarawaL, Sir James Brooke. Its apps_ to the public is made on mount of the single-minded devotion with which during a 3T S course of years thi s E ng li s h man applied himself to br.,ig within the bounds of civi,. ligation the long-neglecult island territories of the further East. The respons - :., no doubt, will be imme diate and ample. For, in the general opinion, Rajah Brooke aimed at high old cto • and accompl:shments, brillant results. He had his a .tractors, as Governor Eyre and even Sir Robert Napier 1,...ye them ; but had ho sought applause he might have won is on many a me:no r:o,k! occasion. Instead of this he rigke4l an anc'ent in heritance, and even sacrificed a cousidcraii , fortune, in order to plant a society governed by humane on the shore: a a barb:.: °us island whose centre has never even yet Leen explored. Crowned with distinction in an o:kn tal war, a career of 111110115 s r4iCO Inight have been open to a Llan of his courage, firmuev,, clearno.se of view, and commanding a.bil'ty ; but h e p re fers - 0d a lonely and dair geroui venture among savage races, on an uninviting coast, with a hope of redeeming them from their social and tell wrctcicdaess. PASQUETTO SIR B. NAPIER. The East India United Service Club entertained Sir Robert Napier at dinner on Monday evening. A large crowd waited in front of the house in St. James's-square, and cheered the.gallant guest on his arrival. The com pany, numbering 100, included the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Bartle Frere, Colonel French, M.P., Sir Stafford Northcote, Field-Marshal Sir John Burcovne, air C. Staveley, &c., &c. _ In proposing the special toast of the evening, Sir BARTLE FRERE, who presided, alluded in complimentary terms ',43 the services rendered by Sir Robert Napier for the . oenefit of. his native country, and warmly eulogised his whole character. He would ask them to drink his health as men who had known him as only Indians knell each other— as a man who for forty years had never for gotten a friend, who never knew what it was to do a as 3ourteous or unkind thing—as a man who, in this age of Mammon, amidst every temptation, had led a Wszneless and pure life, such as a cynical misanthrope could.hardly think of in the poems of the knights of old. As his fellow soldiers and fellow-werkers, he asked them to drink his tong life and long enjoyment of those honours which her Majesty, with the united voice of the people, had con- Eerred upon him. The toast was drunk with the greatest honours. Sir R. NA/um said : I can hardly hope to express ht' fitting words how deeply I feel the honour which you are doing me this evening. If anyone had told me forty years ago, when I arrived in Calcutta, a second-lieutenant of Engineers, without a connection in the country, and without a friend except my contemporaries who went out with me, that I should receive from the Indian services the welcome which has been accorded to me to-night, I should have thought it a dream indeed. I value highly the too flattering expressions which my friend Sir Bartle Frere has used towards me. I value still more the approbation which is %hewn of my services by men who have known me during the Whole of my Indian career. (Cheers.) I have always felt t a high honour to be a member of the Indian service. It a service which from small beginnings raised and pre ferved for England an empire which has been governed as !lo other empire or colony he v s ever yet been governed. (Cheers.) I speak of the civil as well as of the military service ; indeed, it is often hard to say which is which, for in India soldiers have been civilians, and civilians have been soldiers. Both services are full of honoured names. I will not go over the list which has been so often set before you, but we need net look far even in she present day for honoured and distinguished names belonging to men who are capable of doing all that the history of England skews to have been done heretofore. (Cheers.) I will not now recount or fight over again the recent campaign; but I may say that it has exhibited most completely the amalgamation of the Indian and the English services. During the entire expedition no ono 311.9 thought for a moment to which service he belonged. Et was said happily in the House of Lords the other evening that the cheers given to the Beloochee regiments by the Europeans were the knell of the Indian mutiny ; and there is no doubt that the Abyssinian campaign has 'given another assurance of the amalgamation of the Cndian and English services. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall always remember with the greatest pride and gratitude that I have won your friendship and have received the welcome you have given me this evening. I may add that it is one more proof of the amalgamation of which I have spoken that I have been called upon to com mand a mixed force of English and Indian soldieks sent 'rem the shores of I n di a , an d th a t I a m perhaps the first Indian soldier who from a simple lieutenant, having nothing hut his name and his sword to begin with, has won the high honour for which her Majesty has been pleased to designate me. (Loud cheers.) I have thought seriously whether I should be wise in accepting the honour xhich I am informed is to be conferred upon me, and one great motive for my acceptance of it is that it is conferred upon me as a member of the Indian service. (Loud cheers.) Mr. GLADSTONE returned thanks for the House of Commons. The two Houses had never been more unani mous and harmonious, not only in appearance but in spirit, than when they attempted to acknowledge—he would not say repay—the debt they owed to the distinguished army that had so successfully carried out the Abyssinian expe dition. Burke had said that the age of chivalry had ptlased away, but even he, had he lived to contemplate the noble and unselfish career of their distinguished guest, doubtless would have thought that there was yet one man in which .t still survived, and he hoped it still lived in many others. 'Cheers.) The CHAD: MAN then proposed " The Secretary of State cor Sir S. NORTHCOTE returned thanks for himself and for the Secretary of State in Council. (Laughter.) The whole of the details of the late expedition had been cast upon his department, and for those who had co well performed their work he claimed all the praise that aad been lavished upon them. They bad all worked ;heir hardest, and it was highly pleasing to know ;hat their exertions had ensured the success of the expo• iition. (Cheers.) LAW AND POLICE. TIIE LIABILITY OF INFANTS.—In the winding up of the Commere'al Bank of India in the Rolls Chambers, in one nstance the pnvon was an " infant " when the winding ip order was made. having attained his majority he had taken no steps to free himself from his liability, but had Arend a compromise of 10s. in the pound, and the point was whether the offer should be accepted, or the question tried. It vas agreed that the matter should be referred to the Master of the Rolls. Ct7RIOUS CHARGE OF MURDER.—At the Leicester Assizes, George Keene, a miller, was indicted for the wilful murder of John Gilliam, at Great Wigton. The ieceased, in company with some other men, started for the village of Cunnesthorpe, for the purpose of net ting fish. The prisoner's dog was aroused, and Keene dressed himself and went out in pursuit of the men, and, according to the evidence, without any provocation, fired at Gilliam, and killed him. For the defence it was contended that the accused was surrounded by the poachers, and only used his gun in self-defence. The jury :ook this view of the case, and acquitted the prisoner. ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A SON.-At the same assizes Thomas W. S. Frisby was indicted for shooting at his father, Thomas Frisby, with intent to murder him. Mr. Frisby had quarrelled with his son about some love affair, and the latter left home and went straightway to a gun maker's shop, and purchased some very large shot. At night ie returned to his father's house, and was met at the dour by his parent. The accused levelled his pistol and shot father in the cheek, but fortunately the injuries were not 5f a serious nature, The jury found him guilty of shoot ing with intent to do grievous bodily harm, and the Lord Chief Justice sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude. ACTION FOR SLANDER-2200 DAMAGES.-At the War wick Assizes, the case of Howell and wife v. Thomas came on for trial. The plaintiff, an accountant, stated that the defendant, a needle-maker, said that Mrs. Howell was a bigamist, and that he had a letter from her own brother that would prove it. At the conclusion of the case, the jury gave £2OO damages. THE VELOCIPEDE AND THE HOESE.—A novel race was run last week between a horse and car and a velocipede. M. CarKTe in a one-horse car, and M. Car canade in a velocipide, started from Castres at twelve, and the victory was to be decided in favour of the person who first arrived at Toulouse. The race was a very keen one, M. Carrere having arrived in Toulouse at 6 and M. Car canade at 6.25. THE HARVEST. —The harvest will, it i s ex pected, become general in the neighbourhood of Newmar ket at the end of this week or the beginning of next. The drought still continued in the eastern district up to Monday, scarcely a drop of rain having fallen sine: Saturday week, n hen there was a good shower in the fens. A letter from Chippenharn, Cambridgeshire, says: " The effects of this most extraordinary season are most fieverely felt in this neighbourhood. The wheats are, perhaps, better than could be expected, but the barley in most places has long been irrecoverably gone," RESCUE BY A Doa.—A few days ago, a young lad, a son of Mr. Dunlop, of Aughanloo, near Newtown limavady, went to the River Roe to bathe. He got carried beyond his depth, and, being unable to swim, he sank to the bottom. There were only a number of little boys present, who were unable to render him any assistance. He would have been drowned but for a Newfoundland dog, who, seeing the little fellow sink, jumped into the water, dived, and, catching him by the hair of the head, succeeded in bringing him to the bank, and thus saved him from drowning.—. Northern. Whig. SOMNAMBULISM. —The Rene de Saint-Pons (H6rault) states that a few nights back a pupil in the training-8110 0 1 for young priests in that town rose from his bed while all his comrades in the dormitory were asleep, and in a state of scmnambulism made an attack on the guardian of the apartment. The latter was awakened by feeling a hand on his shoulder and the noise of blows on the bed. The assailant had made three stabs with a knife, but happily only penetrated the mattress and sheets. Ho was seized and :00'.01 13:3 in a room by him and the next morning was utterly pnr..lnseious of vlat had transpired. He expressed his great regret and kis desire to be seat to' his parents. This was the first ens ho had oter sliowu any s i paitema of thia strap itiopPlitY4 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1868. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSI7 Y OF IRELAND. The Pliblicati6l; of torr IShy - 's letter, answer to the letter of the Archbishop of Cashel and Bishop Derry requesting to be informed whether all further negotiations in respect to the Catholic University were broken off, has completely pat an end to the Govern ment scheme.. Whether under more favour able circumstances the Government and the Bislrops might have come to an agreement, it ;,s difficult to say. For it was not a question of giving a charter and of partially endowing the existing university, established by the Pope with a definite constitution, but of estab lishing a Government University as much as possible, indeed in conformity with, the views of the Bishops, and of those for whose use it was intended. But the Government as well as the Irish Bishops and the Pope had certain views as to what a Catholic University should be in the 19th century. Now are these views reconcilable ? The Government insisted that the control of the university should be more or less in the hands of laymen, and declared that the recommendations of the Bishops struck at the root of the principles on which they had based their scheme. Bat what the Bishops demanded was simply the free exercise of a right belonging to thei r o ffice of bi s h o p s , o f cr judgin what in the University might b e dan gerous°to faith and morals. This right could not be subject to the decision of ecclesiastics of the second order or of laymen. There fore, if Bishops were in the Senate, their judg ment must be supreme ; to them, and not to, perhaps, a lay majority in the Senate apper tained the right of declaring what books might be used, of exerci s i ng a ve t o on the nomination of Professors, or of dismissing them in case they should err against faith and morals. The guardianship of faith and morals necessi tated, therefore, for the Bishops in the Senate a supreme controlling power over the univer sity. In a Catholic university of the present day, however, such a controlling power is infinitely more necessary than in days when the great universities of Europe were founded. When the teaching of the Church was every where accepted, when her theology was undis puted, and her influence imperceptibly pene trated into every avenue of the mind, and filled the atmosphere of universities, Bishops might very safely intrust the supreme control of a university to a lay body or to the mem bers of the university itself. There was no need then of the extreme caution, which is now a painful necessity, when intellectual rebelliousness and open rationalism and infi delity assail the student of modern literature on every side. We can readily conceive from these circumstances that the constitution of a Catholic university in the present day would materially differ from that which was salutary in the middle ages. A university ought not in the nineteenth century to be less under the immediate control of the bishops than in the thirteenth, but far more. The idea that the student of modern days should be freer from what modern Liberalism calls the " clerical yoke" than in any other age is just the reverse of true. The necessity, in the interests of faith and morals, for the exercise by the bishops of an exclusive control over the government of the university, is what constitutes the difference between the Government Plan and the pro posals contained in the letter of the Archbishop of Cashel and the Bishop of Clonfert. Unless the Government were prepared considerably to modify their scheme, we do not regret that the negotiations have come to an end. The University established by the Pope with a con stitution adapted to our time and country, is more likely to attain the great end in view than a Government university based on a compromise. We have confidence in the work of the Pope and in the Catholic zeal of the Irish people to support a Catholic university, until the not distant day arrives when England will have learnt to govern Ireland—not on Eng lish and Protestant views or prejudices, but in such a manner as best to satisfy the wants and wishes, the interests and rights of Catholic Ireland.—Westminster Gazette. against the despotism which their doctrine sanctifies... Witness their conspiracies, tumults, revolutions, regicides. According to them, as_ every man is sovereign judge of what he should believe, say, and do, these weapons are at the disposal of all, and any one may use them when it seems good to himself at his own risk and peril. In a word, if there is not a law of truth and justice above peoples and kings which obliges all, there would be no question of right and duty for any—everything would turn on strength. Human society must oscillate con tinually between despotism and anarchy, and anarchy and despotism, and as order is abso lutely necessary for every society, as the dis tinct strength of individuals can do little against a Government armed with all the power of the State, as the occasion in which indi viduals can combine and form a powerful fac tion are rare, it is clear that, in the long run, despotism will always gain the day. If, then, there is no authority established by God on earth to teach, interpret, and apply to divine law, it would be as though no such law existed for the control of human affairs, since every one would be at liberty to interpret and apply it according to his own interest and passion. Apostate powers would be unchecked, for there would be no organised force of this world to oppose them, and no spiritual power superior to them. If, however, on the contrary, God has, in His goodwill to men, established an authority in the world, bound to maintain His law, and make it respected, the nations that acknowledge this authority are preserved alike from the scourge of anarchy and de spotism: from anarchy, for subjects obey " not only for fear, but also for conscience sake ;" from despotism, because the leaders of the people know that they have mutual responsi bilities, and that they cannot violate them with impunity, being to be judged here below by . the Church, and at the last day by God him self, who " punishes the mighty mightily." Kings may doubtless forget these truths, but if the nation continue Catholic their abuses of power will always be restrained in certain limits, for they will encounter in the Church a power with which they must make terms. We are on earth, not in heaven : therefore perfect order is attainable, but the duty of nations is to come as near to it as possible. We have seen how far opinions prevalent in these days have strayed, and how they hand over molern nations to the two great scourges which deso late society—anarchy and tyranny. We have seen also what guarantees Catholic doctrine offers to Governments and people by lawful authority and true liberty. The whole question between the Presse of Vienna and ourselves is whether this doctrine be true or false. If it is false, we can only bow our heads and acknowledge that God has aban doned social order to human contentions, with out any efficient means for its preservation. But if it is true, we must always declare it in season and out of season, without troubling ourselves whether at, the moment we speak its application be possible or no. The apostles did not wait for seasons to preach—as they, we have time before us, and if we follow their ex ample, what is impracticable to day will be practicable to-morro w. The Vicar of Jesus Christ fulfilled this duty when, using the power intrusted to him by our Lord, he branded, com. demned, and annulled the laws which Govern ments, in the infatuation of their pride, choos ing no longer to acknowledge the law of God, enacted against truth, against justice, against the Church. Either there is no God, or this law exists : if it exists it is binding upon all men, emperors and kings, ministers and parliaments, as well as on the lowest subject, and it is the duty of the authority established by God to bring it home to all, especially to those in power, and firmly and fearlessly to condemn all acts con trary to it.—Univers. BRIGHAM YOUNG A CONTRACTOR. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Coming events cast their shadows before them— the coming event now casting a broad shadow be fore it is the annihilation of Mormonism. The Prophet BRIGHAM YOUNG has taken the contract for grading the Union Pacific Railroad from Echo Canon to Salt Lake ! and the " saints" are to commence work immediately. Most of our readers know the significance of this intelligence, but for the benefit of those who do not, we may glance at the man and his career. After JOSEPH SMITH, the founder of the sect, had been shot, by a band of rowdies, like a dog in the prison of Carthage, his mantle fell on ent which er had dmed culminatedß RIGli YOUNG. p o e f rse a cut ca io r n p the shoul , d r e h rs e in making a martyr of an impostor made fanatics of the " saints," and strengthened by a high religious resolve a course was determined on, which, though with some parallels, we believe to be without equal. Nauvoo at the time was one of the most flourishing cities of Illinois. The laud around was a garden ; the country smiled in abundance, with roads, plea sant trees, and pastures green. Everywhere the farms and cottages of the Mormons were dotted about, till the houses became grouped and massed in the town around a temple, acknowledged to be among the finest religious edifices in the West. Per secution bad driven the sect from Kirtland (Ohio), from Independence (Missouri), and now it was about to drive them from Nauvoo, in Illinois. YOUNG recognized the fact, that so long as they dwelt among the Gentiles, Mormon labour not only en riched their enemies, but became a spur to persecu tion. The resolve was to effect a total separation, and for this purpose it was necessary to select a home wholly apart from the civilized world. In settling at Nauvoo, when driven from Indepen dence, they were quickly beaten by the rapid ad vance of the West, And the, G en til es , like wolves, were howling around them in increasing packs. It was necessary that their new land should be fenced by a way almost insurmountable, an I should pos sess no attractions to draw towards it the people between whom and themsates they desired to place an impenetrable barrier. At that time almost nothing was known of the country between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. The Great Main now so rapidly rising into importance was then described as a howling wilderness of salt and stones, and it was stated that in one of its chief valleys lay a Great Lake, one-fourth made up of pure slit, wherein no living thing could exist, The wells around were bitter ; the creeks so putrid as to be offensive in the highest degree, and the soil on all sides crusted white with saleratus. Scarcely a green herb was to be seen, and it was as bare of animal life as of vegetable.. A few Utes, Pawnees, and Shoshones alone roved in the American desert, the most degraded of the Red Indians, and occa sionally the country was covered by a flight of locusts, which stripped the wretched vegetation of every semblance of life. This was the land selected by BRIGHAM YOUNG and the " saints" in which to erect their tabernacle. The contrast between the tract sur rendered and that selected is sufficiently startling, but the marvel lay in the pilgrimage. They aban doned a settled home in a pleasant and fertile coun try in a high stage of cultivation; for, as HEPWORTH DIXON says, " the shore of a Dead Sea, a land wa tered with brine and pastures sown with salt," lying 1,500 miles away over a country as new to them as Abyssinia was to the British Field Force, four times the distance between nola and Alagdala, and as difficult. This expedition was not undertaken by men in their prime nor backed by a mighty empire with all its resources. The "saints" quitted Nauvoo in mid-winter, crossing the Mississippi on the ice, and leaving almost all their possessions behind. They were a band of women and children as well as of men ; the old, infirm, and the sick. It must in deed have been a powerful motive which led to such action, and that motive was—isolation. What they achieved was worthy of the energy displayed in their unconquerable resolution. They made the desert to blossom like a garden. " In the midst of a free people they founded a despotic power; in a land which repudiates State religions they placed their Church above human laws," and they erected their leaderinto more than a Pope in Ro ne and a Sultan in Constantinople. What the end might have been had the nature of the country been other tile& it ill NUc i e4 be conjectured, aid would have perhaps depended on the successor to BRIGHAM YOUNG. But what is about to happen can scarcely be doubted, and the item of railway news with which we commenced our article is a strong sign of the change. A pilgrimage such as had never yet been niade, with the single exception of , the Exodus from Egypt had been undertaken solely to separate the sect from the Gentile world. Yet the "saints" are now working on a railway which in a year will bring them into communication both with the Atlantic and with the Pacific by steam. For the sake of their faith they forsook Mammon and fled into the wilderness --for the sake of Mammon they are now labouring to bring the wilderness into the world. What the result must be BRIGHAM YOUNG knows better than we can do. He is a man of keen shrewd sense, of decision, and quick action, exercis ing a boundless control over the strict Mormon community. He sees that he has been beaten by the tide of civilization. 11-3 left the restless, surg ing masses accumulating in the country then called the West for the land of the " setting sun," and ere many years had elapsed he finds these restless masses closing around him on all sides; his own settlement far to the east of a great city, and the track he had strewn with the bones of the pilgrims, now laid with iron, the road of the locomotive. What was he to do? He could not avert his fate —he could not fend off the march of civilization—he could not prevent the junction of New York City and San Francisco, so he has taken the best course open—a contract to help in the work. BRIGHAM YOUNG has always had an eye to the main chance. He has grown cotton, he has ground wheat—why should he not share in the profit of the railroad which could neither be checked nor diverted?-- thereby securing the best means to influence the herds of Gentiles by whom he foresees the Salt Lake City will be inundated. BRIGHAM YOUNG has been a god in Utah, and BRIGHAM YOUNG may remain a god even among the heathen, if he can but assume to their eyes the shape of the Golden Calf. His emissaries in Europe are still hard at work, and it was but the end of last month that 700 Mormons embarked at Liver pool, on board the Emerald Isle, for the Salt Lake. Several other vessels have been chartered, and the emigrants are composed of a well-to-do class of small farmers and artisans, chiefly from Wales and Scotland, with a good sprinkling of Germans. If BRIGHA3I YOUNG can occupy the country with his followers ere the Gentile tide has rolled in upon him, he will secure his position for many a long year to come ; but what he has most to dread is not the persons of the Gentiles, but their opinions and arguments. Every train be tween the two great cities forming the termini of the road will carry an unseen but not the less subtle and destructive element, and although the Prophet may rule under all circumstances, it will be by a Government wholly changed from the principles upon which the Great Salt Lake Settle ment was founded. Among the marvellous biographies of the period, few will rank in interest with that of the Mormon who succeeded the founder of the sect. He has been the chief central figure ig the rise of a settlement founded in a way never before known. Races have often in part or in whole branched off into other countries, and by the slaughter of the former inhabitants possessed them selves of their lands and goods. 'Nations have spread into the wilderness but by degrees, and colonies have been created, but always in inviting tracks, and with an easy means of communication. Com pare the best and most successful of these with the Mormons in Utah, and a conception dawns on our mind of what BRIGHAM YOUNG has achieved. H e has shown himself to be well fitted to govern men, and those who are must be moulded by circum stances. Knowing the change coming over the face of the country he will endeavour to keep peace, and Mormonism will either gradually die out or remain a sect in a State of the Union, shorn of its objectionable features and of its unlawful tenets. AMERICAN MARKE7S. (From the Springfield Republican.) FRIDAY EVENING, June 26. Money not only continues easy at the East, but at Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati it is reported largely in excess of the demand. This fact stands in rather ludicrous juxtaposition with the completints of the western politi cians, and their claims for a removal of a share of the banking capital, in order to secure a fair proportion of currency to that section. The difference between this time and three months ago is vary striking. Then the banks were taking in everything in preparation for the April quarterly statement; the best of pacer was being refused, and interest was going up almost daily. Now, while the July statement (6th pros.) is close at hand, it i 3 almost unnoticed ; the banks all stand as wall as they care to neither their large dividends, ranging from five to eight per cent., nor the fear of public or official inspection, dis turbs their serenity. Tho only difficulty is to find cus tomers for discount. This condition of the money market is of course favourable to investment, and a great deal is being quietly laid out in favourite stocks. The Pacific Railroad bonds, particularly, are going off rapidly and freely, notwithstanding the advance in the price. Indeed, the advance rather seems to stimulate investment, as showing the general appreciation of this stock. There is a great deal of fashion in these things, jest as there is in shop ping; and an article which would not go off at one price is sometimes eagerly taken at a higher figure. The simple announcement of an advance in price, owing to an increased demand in these securi ties, would go further, with the majority of investors, than all the pamphlets that could be issued. The upward movement of gold begun last week has ap parently failed, and gold stands at its familiar figure of 140 sad a fraction. Cash gold is rather scarce, as the Treasury has not, according to expectation, anticipated the payment of the July interest, and will do so, if at all, but by a day or two. Government Bands aro advancing, and promise to rise still higher in favour. The Exportable Bonds, both large and small, continue in request. The Treasury office is paying off the principal of• the loan of 1313, due 30th inst., as the bonds and certificates are presented, and the Secretary has notified all holders of this loan, and also of the loan of 1817, hell over since last January, that the interest will cease altogether after 30th June last. This is a change from the original decision, which allowed holders to retain them for another six months and receive interest. At Boston there has been a feeble imitation of metro politan " airs" in the Stock Market during the weak. Water Power was unloaded with unusual facility for a time under a smart assault upon its good name, and an ex tensive decline was predicted, in connection with which Cary Improvement Company was to rise to 15. But the Boston people soon got tired of such wickedness, and Water Power has soon returned to 19, while Cary sticks at under 12. It was a very pretty thing, however, although, like the Common, not large; and the next time State street tries to be naughty something better may be looked for. The following New England dividends have been declared: The First National Bank of Amesbury b per cent.; the National New Haven Bank, 5 per cent., an .1 an extra dividend of 1 per cent., both free of Government tax, payable July 1; the Second National Bank and the Mechanics', 5 per cent. each ; the Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company, 10 per cent; the Massachusetts Cotton Mills, $7O per share, payable July 1; the American Shoe Tip Company, 21 per cent. quarterly; the Pacific Mills, $l2O per share, payable 23th inst. ; the Contoocook Manufac turing, $25 per share ; the Salisbury Mills, 5 per cent. ; the Ophir Mining Company, 10 per cent., payable on July 7. At New York speculation in the Stock Market is active and increasing. Oa Saturday Pacific Mail sold up to 991, and on Monday it rose to 1031, though it has since fallen off 2 per cent. No particular change is known to explain the advance, unless it is a general faith in the stock any how. No more pamphlets have been issued; the Webb flag is still flying, and the finances of the company remain unaltered. Reading also has advanced during the week, and the exhibit of the road is unexpectedly good. Nothing but ill-management and speculation can prevent this road from doing a grand and increasing business. The fa vourite of the railway market, however, is the Chicago and North-Western. Both common and preceded stock have advanced and hold firm. The indications are strong that they will soon be quoted as high after the 10 per cent. scrip dividend as before. The little "Chicago Con vention" it had all to itself, has set the road up very high in its own estimation and that of the public ; its capa bilities are known to be immense ; its great quarrel has been amicably settled ; its management is believed to be improving, and is something like a five per cent. cash dividend, sir, is spoken of, for this fell, with par in the dim distance. But with all these blooming prospects, the uncomfortable fact remains that its earnings have to be spread over a frightfully large capital stock. Mismanage ment in the past has left a load which may be more easily borne, but cannot well be thrown off. However, it is a good stock to bay at the price. Southern Michigan is up and promises a five per cent. dividend in July. Cleveland and Pittsburg is strong and advancing. The New York roads are neglected. Central has been crowded a little, but without giving way at all or showing any indications of Tieakness —Erie is absolutely nowhere, and its existence seems to be utterly forgotten. Nothing but a new elec tion or another smash-up will be sufficient to attract the . . Ot4iiths the pilau. 1# it Reetehlittliet thio Who same road which filled the whole country with clamour only a few weeks ago? The import entries for the week at New York amount to $4,466,008 - aiiirist 85,366,112 the same Week lase - year: The export clearances of domestic produce amount to $2,359,561 against $3,083,801. Export of specie $1,850,432 against $542,390. The gold value of import en tries since July 1, 1867, amount to $232,028,838 against $263,949,889 for the same period last year, a decrease of $31,921,031. The exports of gold and silver since July 1, 1867, have amounted to $72,879,605 against $40,231,834, showing an increase over the sa:ne time last year of 80 per cent., while the deliveries of California gold and silver have fallen off from $37,300,517 to $31,742,562. In the dry goods market there is almost literally no thing being done. The natural dullness of the season is help ad by a degree of uncertainty regarding the future of the currency and the finances. It is felt to be possible that something will be done, one way or the other, before fall, but even speculators have not courage to anticipate what it will be. Cotton has picked fp a little, under an impression that the crops do not sustain the promise of the spring, which may or may not be true, for all anybody knows; but the foreign markets do not share the confidence, and export is pra_dically stopped. The home demand is pretty equally divided between spinners and speculators In the manufactured goods very little is being done. Wool is rather more in request, and woollens are fairly active, especially in the lower grades. The sales of fine cloths are vary slow. Cassimeres and satinets are coming in steadily from the manufacturers, but aro not, much called for by the trade. The importations of foreign dry goods are very light, and the stocks on hand go off slowly. Silks are most in request and promise to be higher. Extreme lethargy has characterized th© market for flour and grain during the past week, and a further re duction in price has taken place. India-a corn alone holds firm. The receipts have been very large at all the Western ports, and everything is re-shipped with great alacrity to the East. Producers seem to have no heart for holding on, and a still further decline is not improbable. The receipts of flour, wheat, and oats at the lake ports the past week have been 80 per cent. greater than for the corresponding week of 1867 ; while the receipts of flour and grain of all kinds, since the Ist of January, have been 30 per cont. above the corres ponding period of 1867. Notwithstanding bitter com plaints of injury to the crops from some parts of the coun try the totals of pro luction will probably be found not much below the estimates at the opening of the spring, if spring can be said to have opened at all this year, and much in excess of that of 1867. Advices from Europe ex plain the limited demand for shipment by the promise not only of an early, but of an abundant harvest in England and on the continent. Far more than an average yield is anticipated. It is not likely, however, that with the best the soil can do, the crops abroad will fully replenish the supply, which has been drawn down to the lowest point by the short crops for two years past ; and as soon as the prospects of the harvest become reduced a little more to certainty the demand at home for shipment must be con siderably quickened, though prices are likely to rule even lower. At present even . the liiiiited inquiry for exports is checked by the high freights. - 7 - In provisions not much is doing. There is some speculation demand for pork, and prices are well sustained. The actual demand is of course small, considering the season, and for future delivery prices rule higher. Prime beef is in good demand, but the lower quarters are neglected. Cut meats of all kinds are exceedingly dull. Lard has varied somewhat in price, but without exciting much interest, closing quietly at for mer rates. The Circular of Henry Clews and Co., the well-known banking firm, gives the following analysis of the causes which have produced the present stagnation in the stock market. It bears out the allegations contained in our article of last week, based on a series from the New York Nation. It is by such skilful dissection and open and un shrinking treatment of the subject that the remedy is to be found. The railways of the United States constitute, perhaps, the finest property in the world, and it will be a crying shame if the railway progress of the nation were seriously checked by a mischievous system. If the prices of shares have to come down, the sooner the better as far as the public are concerned : This disfavour towards stocks may be partially owing to the recent extensive "watering," the capital of the leading roads by stock dividends, and to the constant re currence of embarrassing law suits against directors; but it appears to be more due to a growing impression that the condition of our railroad companies has not been im proved during the last five or six years to an extent pro portionate to the riso in their stocks within that period. With a view of ascertaining what just ground there is for this idea, we have collated, from the official reports of the leading companies, statistics showing the resources, lia bilities, earnings, expenses, and mileage of the roads in the fiscal years ending 1862 or 1863, and also in 1867 or 1868, the details of which we give in an accompanying statement, while the results are shown in the following comparison : Assets, Liabilities, Earnings, and Expenses of Twenty one Leading Railroads in 1862.63 and 1867-68 :- 1862-63. 1867-68. Roadowned aud} Miles, 6,017 8,080 leased. Property Value of Road... $272,223,807 $367,522,117 and V Stock alue of Rolling} 20,223,022 39,931,297 Assets. Other Assets ..... 29,132,526 51,224,500 Accountsand Cash 18,922,153 28,329,703 Liabilities. Bonds Stock 157,371,481 265.828,149 156,187,281 164,375,392 Other Liabilities 12,458,030 23,905,351 Surplus Insurance 13,145,976 24,871,894 Gross Earnings 61,951,268 123,315,389 Earnings * Operating. Ex- 1 and 33,188,566 86,095,613 Expenses, pa Net Earnings ns a e r s nings 28,765,702 33,219,776 Net Earnings) 4,757 4,600 per mile * including Rents, Taxes, Renewals, Improvements, &c., charged to income. The following table will show the enormous extent to which the capital stacks have been " watered," 69 per cent., and the " other liabilities" have been increased 109 per cent. daring the last five years, while the net earnings are increased only 30 per cent., and the net earnings per mile show actually a decrease of 3 per cent. : _ Increase in 1867-8. Road owned and leased, miles 2,043 34 per cent. Value of road $95 298 310 35 Value of rolling stock -10,708,375 53 1) Other assets • Accounts and cash Capital stock Bonds 8,188,111 5 Other liabilities 13:517,321 109 Surplus income 11,655,913 89 Gross earnings 99 ;; Operating expenses Net earnings 8 151 074 30 _ _ _ Dec., Net earnings per mile It will be seen from this comparison that the gross earn ings of the roads have increased 99 per cent. within the five years, and the expenses, inclusive of taxes, rents, im provements, &c., 160 per cent., whilst the net earnings are only 30 per can'. higher. The average earnings per mile of road owned and leased have declined three per cent. The bonded debts have increased five per cent., and the capital stock 69 per cent. In 1862-3 the outstanding bonds of these roads aggregated $156,187,281, which, at an average rate of seven per cent., would require $10,932,109 for the payment of interest ; taking that amount from the $28,765,702 of not earnings, a balance of $16,833,501, or 111 per cent. of the then outstanding stock remained for the purpose of dividends and construction. In 1867-8 the bonded debt of the same companies was $164,375,392, which, at the foregoing rate, would require $11,506,276 for interest; leaving, out of $37,219,776 of net earnings, $25,713,500 for stock dividends and construc tion outlays, which is about 9i percent. of the $265,828,149 of capital stock then outstanding. It thus appears thatin 1867-8 the net earnings, less the interest on bonds, were two per cent. less, in proportion to the stock, than in. 1862-3. This result we find upon a selection of the best managed and most prosperous roads of the country. The public h•tve noted the large gain in the gross earnings of the roads, without duly taking into account the increase of working expenses, the extension of mileage, and the im mense issues of new stock (which have been much further augmented since the latter of the above dates); and from this. imperfect view of the condition of the roads stocks are now held at very much higher prices than in 1862-3. For the purpose of illustrating this change in the prices of stock, without any corresponding improvement in the finances of the roads, we present the following comparative quotations of such of the stocks of the above instanced companies as were current on the New York Stock Ex change at both periods : June 2, June 1, Increase 1862. 1868. in 1868. Now York Central BB 136 47;/ Hudson River 44.t 14n- New York and Harlem - 126 - 112 Erie Pitts. Ft. Wayne and Chicago Cleveland and Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Reading Cleveland, Columbus, and Cin. Mich. South and North Indiana 2s} 90 611 Michigan Central Chic., Burlington, and Quincy 72}- 150 78 Chic., Rock Island and Pacific 63 964 331 Illinois Central Cleveland and Toledo 65 1 New Jersey 132 131 decline + Total prices, 15 stocks 872 1723 It appears that while the percentage of earnings avail able for dividends was less in 1867 than in 1862-3, yet the prices of stocks average 100 per cent. higher now than then. Nor does the fact of the earnings of the roads having this year largely increased upon those of 1867 (on which year our comparison is based) materially affect this conclusion, for within the last twelve mouths ten of th) companies above instanced have increased their stack in the aggregate $10,000,000. Facts thus bear out the in stincts of investors, and account for the stagnation in the dealings in railway shares en the New York Stock Ex ohange. (From the Wall-street Journal.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, June 26. No statement of the Pubic Debt will ba published on the Ist of July, as the month will terminat9 the fiscal year, and the condition of the national debt will, be included in the annual report of the Se3retwy to Congress. The re wilt tilo taliactica ol Sto pleat it OP P.- London c Printed and Published by WILLIAM rjo g of No. 112, Stkand, Printer, at Tali SUN 01 10 % 00 60 Strand, in the precinct of the Bay* In al e 4 1 40 041 if i f11ititdeii J.. 417 fir.Gat AUSTRIAN LIBERALISM' AND THE PAPAL ALLOCUTION. The Presse of Vienna asserts that " Rome assumes rights over Austria, as if it were some State belonging to the Patrimony of St. Peter." A glance at the Pontifical Allocution is enough to show that Rome does not claim any special right over Austria, and that the Pope does not speak as temporal Sovereign, but as Sovereign Pontiff. The language ,held by Pius IX. is the same his predecessors held when they had no temporal sovereignty, and it is the same that his successors will, hold to the end of time, even should triumphant revo lution succeed in their complete spoliation, and reduce them to the state of the early Popes under the Emperors. Whatever may be the state of the world—whatever the circum stances of the Papacy, owing to the a,postacy and malice of men, he will always be the Head of the Church, and in that capacity the guardian of her rights, the interpreter of the law of God, the infallible oracle of truth and justice,. the supreme judge of error and its conclusions, whether uttered by the mean and weak, or by the great and powerful. The Presse is indignant, because the Pope declares the new Austrian laws null and void. If these laws are wicked, are they not null, and void of force in conscience ? Will the Presse assert that wicked laws do bind or will it say that a Government never makes or can make such laws ; that every Government must be accepted as an infallible interpreter of the law of God—a sovereign arbitrator of truth and justice ? This is the theory of the most abso lute despotism, and we doubt whether the Presse itself would dare to profess it. It would then be in contradiction with itself, for every day it assumes the right to judge and condemn —to declare the most just and holy laws null and void in conscience. The Presse ranks with free-thinkers, and free-thinkers claim for every man this right. How, then, can it be refused to. the Church and to the Pope ? The fact is that the Pope possesses authority, and men in millions obey his decisions. The decisions have therefore an importance absolutely diffe rent from those of certain journalists and cer tain philosophers, and it is but natural that Governments should attend to them. We are far from denying—on the contrary, we hold —that Governments which pay such attention to free-thinkers should give much more to the Catholic Church and its head : that instead of wronging and persecuting her, their interest and duty is to live in peace with her. But the Governments of Europe, like the free-thinkers, no more admit the Divine right of the Church to teach than they accept justice and truth; in other words, modern Governments are no longer Catholic. The fact is indisputable, and what follows from it ? It follows that for free-thinkers and for such. Governments there is no spiritual authority on earth=-no authority established by God to teach truth and jus tice, for if such an authority did exist, it is evident that its decisions would be binding upon every one, on the heads. of Government as well as on other men, unless th 3y pretend that they have been privileged with a special exemption from the law of God—that they are dispensed from knowing truth and practising justice—that the only law for them is their good pleasure. In such terms, who would dare to sustain this monstrous doctrine ? But whilst our free-thinkers reject it in word, they admit it in reality. They reject all authority in the spiritual order; they claim a complete independence for every man, the right to be his own ruler and lawgiver—then how can they refuse this supreme independence, this essential and inalienable, right, to emperors, kings, heads of republics, and their ministers ? On their own showing, governors have autho.; rity to do whate*er seems right to themselves, and their power has no other limits than such as their own wisdom sees good to impose upon tliciaulyes. DIA free-tliauLeo axial is thought, will show a small reduction of the debt. On the Ist of July, however, about $33,000,000 in coin Will have to be paid out of the Treasury, $28,000,000 of which is interest on therMszT wentilli and Six pi- Cent. Bonds of 1881, and $7,000,000 principal on the loan of 1848. These expenditures will cause the next fiscal year to begin with another large addition to the national indebt edness. The conversion of 7-30 Treasury Notes into 5-20 Bonds in June thus far amount to about $20,000,000 at the officn of the Assistant -Treasurer hero. These conversionst added to some $70,000,000 converted and purchased in Hay, reduce the actual amount outstanding-, matured and maturing, to about $73,000,000 balance, which will be substantially disposed of this month or soon after, in terest on the last issue ceasing July 15. On the 31st day of August, 1835, there were outstand ing short-time obligations of the United States as follows: Temporary Loans 8107,148, 173 Certificates of Indebtedness Five per Cant. Legal Tender. Notes 33,954,230 Compoqnd Into - ,,st Notes Seven-Thirty Treasury Notes -- .............. $1,273,219, 563 This va;t amount of early maturing paper of the United States lass than three years since confronted those in charge of the public finances. It has b3en reduced, though purchases from the monies received from taxes, sales of gold, and by conversions into fended debt, until it stands to-day substantially at the amount: 7-30's (now in process of conversion) Bel $73,000,000; 3 par Cent. Certificates, $50,000,000 ; com pound Interest Notes about $25,000,000; Certificates of Indebtedness, eza., $1,001,000, making in all less than $350,000,000 short-tine obligations —a reduction in less than three years of eleven hundred and twenty-three millions of dollars ($1,123,219,563) of this class of paper. Gold is quiet, and has varied but slightly to-day, open" ing and closing at 110-1. The Gold Revenue of the United States derived from Customs has been as below for the fiscal year ending June 30th:— 1861 9102,316,153 1865 84,921,261 1866 179,046,652 1867 ... 176,427,811 1868 (estimated) ... 165,000,000 American silver is in moderato request at 61. to 74 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are nominal A 103+ to 1031 in gold. Foreign Exchange is more active, although the business continues small. In State Stocks the transactions are heavy, and mall of the better class are growing scarce. The Bonds of the State of Kentucky, due July 6th, 1868, with coupons, will be paid on and after that date 11 t the Bank of America. No i n te res t w ill b e p a id o n s a id bonds after the 6th day of July aforesaid. NEW YORK R A.TE June 21 iS OF EXCHANGE, , 6, 1868. Sixty Days. Three DAV' London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lO9l-109 4- Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 36 -361 .... Frankfort, 0.M.40+-418 ...... Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.161-5.12/ ...... Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss The following for the New York City Bank Stocks :•-** Merchants' America Butchers and Drovers 135 Broadway , 25 0 City New York Manhattan Mechanics' 126 People's Union Phenix lO B/ Nassau l O5 114 Tradesmen's Gallatin National Merchants' Exchange 116 Conti nen t a l Seventh Ward State of New York ... 116 Commo nwea lth Commerce Ocean i American Exchange l2l Fourth Nati ona l . • 10 5 1 Bank of the Republic... 120 Ninth National Bank of North America 111 Park 1 55 Eleventh Ward ........ 105 Leather Manufacturers ' 17006 Mercantile 98 Fulton • 160 Tenth National 102 First National 207 East River New York County l4O Pacific lOO Marine l5O Chatham 149 Grocers' The following were the closing quotations for the various Public Funds of the United States in New York • ' Sixes, 1868, registered - to -- ; Sixes, 1868, coupon - to --- Sixes, 1881, coupon ll7l to 118 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railload lO2l to 1 03 Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1885, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1881 The following, i n re f erence t o th e convers i on of t h e ‘. Seven-Thirties, has been issued by th e S ecre t a ry of t' Treasury, under date of June 22, 1868 :- Holders of Seven-Thirty Notes who desire to avail the selves of their rights to convert the same into F ;a' D 6 Twenty Bands are hereby notified that the notes must or presented at the Treasury Department at Washingtoot ig t at the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the Ifn i State, at New York, as follows : The notes that matured on the 15th June must be p 5, sented on or before the 15th o f J u ly. Th e no t es that .. come due on the 15th of July must be presented on ar o fore the Ist day of August. The bonds to be issuea id exchange for the notes will b ear i n t eres t f rom t h e Ist , u u , of July, 1868, and the interest on th e notes w ill be ca,167 lated accordingly. The b on d s w ill b e o f the i ssue of t 0 or 1868, as may be preferred, • and they will be issued the order in which the notes are presented. H. M‘CuLLoctr, Secretary of the TreasurY6 9 By telegram from San Francisco, dated June 25, 18 we have the following quotations :- Gould and Curry ... ... ••• Savage ••• ••• ••• ••• Chollar - Potosi ••• .6" "'Ophir ••• ••• ••• ••• Hale and Narcross ... ... ••• Crown Point ... ". ". Yellow Jacket ... ... •-• Belcher ••• ••• ••• •• Alpha ... ... ... ... - Kentucky ... ... ... Bullion ••• ••• ••• Overman ••• ••• ••• Empire Mill ... ... ... Imperial . ". ••• Confidence ... ... ... Amader ••• ••• ••• Exchequer ... ... ... Quartz Hill ... ... .. Lady Byron ... .. . The following were the c/ for the Railroad and Miscellf N. Y. Central l34j Erie Hudson Reading Mich. South. & N. Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg 9O; North-West North-West Preferred 79 j Canton.. Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 103 ... 5405 per 0 3,155 ... .230 n ,„ 2,065 II 2,096 It ~ 1,090 ,7 47 71 377 If ... ... 7/ ~. ~. ,1 ..• o h ,roo . 122 i)r ••• ••• ••• 1, ... ... ..• 77 ... •11 • ... l. sing quotations this even Loons Stocks : 1 0 1 I Fort Wayne ............ 0 1 Pacific Mail ....... ....... ; 31 Atlantic Mail ............ 04.1 Quicksilver ............. W. U. Telegraph ...... Mariposa Preferred 30i Ohio and Mississippi... 13 Boston Water Power... 0 Cumberland .............. Bankers and Brokers... 64' St. Paul .................. 7/ St. Paul Preferred „,r1 0 1" - % (ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always De,rio chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-re' ,10; Reva.enta Arabica Food, which yi e ld s th ree t i mes the 12 °:ojel ment of the nest meat, saves 50 times its cost in other retil o ol and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves , lungs, healthy liver, pure bl oo d , re f res hi ng sleep, N l T ti° S S regularity, ami energy to th e most di sordered or en f ee bleu• ko reJ extract a few out of 68,000 cures; —” Th e P ope ' s hea lth ros`o6 6 ' by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, since —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, ospeciallj abandoning all other remedi es , h e has confined himself eli'oje to Du Barry's Revalenta A ra bi ca F oo d, o f w hi c h he c° , 1i s a plateful at every meal. It h as pro d uce d a snr p r i s ingq o oo., tidal effect on his health, and hi s H o li ness canno t praise Co r r, lent food too highly." From the " Gazette da July 2 5 No. 58,216, o: the Ma - rchiongss de Brehan, o' seven yea 4 7 4 .led complaint, wa.stin3 away, debility, nervou s ness, with palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant aleepless o , s l",;; the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,77 1 ' e a rs Stuart do Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agol.,.?10000, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flo P e I' l 4 spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria ,1 46,270: M:. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of „t, diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver deranged 000 partial deafness. 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Classics _Privat e Box l l'_l:otne undo 1: Mitchell's, 83'D The whol( CANT thln itne nse atti !.! Invisible introdt .Atntlee.aiEsther F E the gre 1,11 1 ‘ l .. D 4 NtoN c or : L e_ . sys. Toy de Ballet Mr Assist Stalls and Doors ory IitADAMi tri/ N ,„A POR 41- la ten years lt of agE the ARGYLL S. h•; 1118 Magiline( 3 , 4 1 4 3 4 C been R( tor th " r B . RAIN SOlo (7 Rub rnet, DI WONDEI This in c " eurspreparatic Loremovin r GO ehestamp raists. s. 1-IAIR-CU „ London. • Ladies' or Sold at 3s. 6d., 411 (1141 stamps Advil r RAY HA ALEX. Wour • • %enlists. by 11Alit Di London Z 17,08 suoerftu ip uo ut effect t ; sent for 51 pImpLE VEr, 'kin are i a zET ABLE Sta"" B , all is E. Oh o rai sts. In[AIR c( Just publish, 11" GLI N E S. descript ing the appeal born, London. HEALTH REST lIC r BARR and Infa Births. 4 Vri f : LENNOX—On the 9th July, at 8, Chester-square, t he of Colonel Wilbraham Lennox, C. 8., V.C., 10 Y 3 neers, of a son. VERRALL—On the 12th July, Mrs. J. F. Verrall, 4/f Mulberries, Denmark-ha', of a daughter. 0 3°1' VIVIAN -- On the 12th July, at Perry House, x ores the wife of J. Edwards Vivian, of a son. Marriages. lia DEPRIEZ-IVEBB —On the 11th i ns t., at South 60 0 1 , Church, Wm. Hy. Defriez, Esq., of Albert-terra ce, Hackney, to Emma, youngest daughter of Josep h ' Esq., of Derby-road, South H ac k ney . de co HEATHER—TOMS —On the Bth inst. at New Co lle t pal, Mr. P. Heather, of Hanley, Staffordshir e. l t o ° 3, line Sarah, third daughter of J. Tom Esq. ° I '7 Bond-street. Deaths. llett di CAMPBELL—On 'he 11th inst., at Blythswoo( boroa Renfrewshire, Archibald Campbell, Esq., of 1 3157 t fop aged 59. , n al Dif CORMICK—On the 10th inst., at Aldershot, Coi,„,°—,o3° Cormick, commanding Ist Battalion 20th Pd'' „74., aged 45. Jonxsox—On the 10th inst., C. M. Johnson, Lie u H.M.S. St. Vincent, Portsmouth, aged 24. ___</x5,