The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Irish Government has at last taken a step which no other Government would have so long forborne to adopt. The proprietor of the Irishman appeared yesterday to answer a summons calling upon him to shew caase why a criminal information should not be filed against him for seditious publications, and the application was granted by the police magistrate. A prosecution, says the Times, will therefore be forthwith instituted, and it will be for a court of justice to decide whether articles encouraging the Trish people to rebellion are or are not within the liberty allowed by law to the press. That such was the tendency, not only of the articles selected by the Government as the subject of criminal proceedings, but of many other paragraphs in the same journal, will be doubtelL , by no one who has referred to the numbers which ha; , e appeared during the last six months, or even perused the specimens occasionally furnished by our Irish correspondent. Whether such was the intention of the conductors, in spite of editorial warnings, few and far between, against the danger of open violence, is a question into which it is needless for us to enter. The editors of newspapers, like other persons, must be pre sumed to know the necessary effect of the statements which they circulate, and cannot shelter themselves under the plea that the offensive passages were not formally en dorsed by themselves. In this instance some of the most ,insulting reflections on the British Government are con veyed in letters from the United States or extracts from American organs of Fenianism. An Irish paper exclu sively composed of such materials, and containing not a single original article, would be quite as effective au engine of sedition as if it depended on Irish writers and reporters. The real principle at stake is the moral right of the Go vernment to protect itself, by means equally available to any private individual, against publications designed to bring it into hatred and contempt. With every disposi tion to maintain the legitimate privileges of the press, we cannot understand either how this right can be dis puted, or how any one can doubt that it was high time to exercise it. The Telegraph prays its readers to remember that the prosecution is no attempt to fetter the liberty of journalism in Ireland to discuss any question that the most ardent patriots could raise, from the Repeal of the Union or the fixity of land-tenure to the exclusion of Protestants and he establishment of a Republic. It simply propounds the question whether the opposition can raise the flag of actual revolt. Authority, having been gainsaid, appeals to the tribunal of justice, asking the judicial arbiter to say whether the law has or has not been violated. The right to make that appeal cannot be denied to any Govern. nent. In a case like the present, incentives to bloodshed are only one degree less dangerous than bloodshed itself, and they must be put down with as firma hand. No person recognises this fact more clearly than one of the most ardent living advocates of free speech, Mr. Mill. " Even opinions," he says in his noble p'ea for individual `iberty, " lose their immunity when the circumstances in which they are expressed are such as to constitute their expression a positive instigation to some mischievous act. An opinion that corn-dealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer, or when handed about among the same mob in the form of a placard." That is to say, when words are manifestly a direct incentive to crime, they should be punished as sternly as guilty actions. But the Irish agitators have used the worst of all incentives to crime. They have preached, not only spoliation, but armed conflict ; they have preached violence to an excited people at an excited time ; and the question now to be determined is, whether the law of England permits the defiance of authority to be thus proclaimed with impunity. The Post speaks of the Queen's book as a pleasant sur prise to the whole nation, and gives us a hope and confi dence in our future Kings which probably nothing else could have clone. Amidst many disturbing elements, and some things which have been invested by the timid and the reckless with almost a threatening aspect ; at a moment when our institutions have been menaced by much gloomy prophecy, the Queen has reassured and satisfied us. She has come forth serenely to appease our anxieties and to comfort us by her calmness, courage, and virtue. The ex tracts which will be found in our other columns from this remarkable book are sufficient to prove a hundred times over that these are not idle words only to be read patiently in the atmosphere of a Court. It may be safely predict, d that no English book ever had such a sale as this will have ; and generation after generation of her Majesty's subjects will read it for themselves as the most beautiful memorial of an enduring love and a noble life that ever hallowed a throne. It is a very great and a very good bcok. No such valuable historical record exists in our national archives. It is altogether exceptionally in teresting. It is a book that will live as long as our lan guage, and it will rouse a widely spread and deep sympathy in the minds of millions all over the world wherever the English tongue is spoken. It will infinitely endear our Queen to the hearts of her subjects and their descendants to their remotest posterity as the best example ever given by a sovereign to a people--an example that will teach us for ever how to love, how to live, and how to be happy. The Daily News points out that what has been set down was not set down for the public, and if now printed for the public it has been partly in order to prevent a private circulation from creating mysteries and suggesting false iood. It i 3 essentially a private and domestic record, in which the little incidents of a Highland tour are the most exciting scenes. Hundreds of journals probably -xist in which similar journeys are narrated in language equally unstudied. The fresh impressions which a new people, glorious scenery, a ruder and less constrained life than usual, have made upon the mind of an intel ligent and cultivated lady, are all the claims to literary favour which, had it come from another pen, the volume could have presented. These would have sufficed to make it a cherished memorial of happy days in the author's own family, whosoever she might have been. But they would not have justified its publication. The reason for this, and the cir falmstances which will make this work perused with inte rest in every English home, lie apart from its literary or aesthetic merit. They depend on the social position of the lady who has thus frankly taken the public into her con fidence. The fact that the highest in birth and the supreme in rank, the sovereign of the widest and most powerful empire in theworld, the head of a Court in which all ceremonial has for sole object to do her honour, has thus invited her subjects to see how the woman lives under the trappings of the Queen, how the heart of Royalty beats with all the emotions that agitate the human breast, how the forms and responsibilities of State are burdens which are flung off with the same gladness with which the har,:est workers welcome the holiday of labour—this is the peculiar interest of the book, and in this lies the lesson which, more or less directly, it will teach to all its readers. It appears to the Star that the only thing wanting to these volumes, both that which is now published and the " Early Years of the Prince Consort," is that they should be published in a cheap form for popular circulation. The Queen lives in the heart of the people of this country ; that affection has been true to her from the moment she ascended the throne, and is as strong at this day at it was when, a fair young wife, she made her first visit to Scot land. The rich and noble are not more loyal than the common people. The latter may have no great castles or splendid mansions which her Majesty might visit on her journeys ; they may not have the right to stand near the throne, their ancestors may be unknown, and they them selves may never be heard of in the busy world ; Lut the strength of the kingdom lies in them, and not in the higher born or more fortunate few. If any convulsion were to arise in the State, the noble may lead, but it is the million who make and un make kingdoms. The general population of these realms are at the present day more truly loyal to the throne of Queen Victoria than over the ignorant Highlanders of last century were to the House of Stuart. Each page of the volume of which we now speak bears on its front proofs of the ardent attachment of the people to their sovereign. We should like to see those charming pictures of the Queen's private life distributed by the thousand and the hundred thousand, like Mrs. Stowe's " Uncle Tom's Cabin," or Sir Walter Scott's novels. That can only be done if the price be reduced to meet the ability of the multitude to buy, and in this case no thought requires to be given to the wishes or profits of publishers. 'Air. Helps will do one more service to his sovereign and the nation if he can induce her Majesty to consent to the speedy issue of a cheap edition. The long agony is now at an end. The name of Poland, observes the M ruing Herald, vanishes from the maps and from the language of diplomacy. A short ukase has set the seal to the measures which for four years tt.!e Russian Government has been taking to denationalise Poland, and make it an integral part of Russia. Its separate administration has fallen bit by bit ; month by by month its government has been assimilated to that of the other Russian provinces. The Polish language has been suppressed as an administrative language, and Russian substituted ; the Catholic clergy have been made, as far as Government regulations can go, as dependent upon the Government as the Greek ; the very use of the Polish language in religious services is threatened, and the choice left to the Poles of saying their prayers and being preached to in one of two languages which they do not understand ; and now, finally, the Treaty of Vienna is set aside —the kingdom of Poland exists no more, and the territory of which it was composed is to be known officially as the Province of the Vistula. The Poles will long sur vive as a race, but they have no longer even in name a fey will illustrate the valour and the failing _ - which won Poland so much glory, and caused her such terrible misfortunes in the service of other countries. As Austrian or even as Prussian subjects they may engage their old and triumphant enemy, but they will fight and die for Poland no more. The true finis Polonice has now been pronounced by Russia. and Europe will listen to it and make no protest' The Saturday Review, amid the number of its political articles, devotes a leader to the struggles with which people with fixed incomes have to contend in the in creasing trouble which their dependants give them. The nuisance of unsatisfactory dependants, such as governesses and servants, is certainly a very serious one. Servants, unfortunately, cannot be much improved by education. In some way which we cannot discern they are, we sup pose, made better by going to national schools ; but this supposition is based simply on general principles, and is apparently contradicted by experience. The causes, too, which make them bad are on too large a scale to permit us to hope for any change for the better. The break-down of the old parochial system of religion and morality is one of the chief of these causes, and a system that should re place and excel this old system is not to be built up in a day. Young women in these days no more respect their clergymen because he is their clergyman than they respect Nebuchadnezzar. Both seem remote beings with a sort of Sunday-school sacredness about them, but with whom grown-up people have nothing to do. The other great cause of their shortcomings is the spread of wealth in England, and we can neither wish nor expect that this cause should cease to operate. Not that there is any want of servants. The demand has not exhausted the supply, and a warning from New York, very like the warning from Paris, has recently been sent to the effect that domestic servants have come over in much too great a number from England, and that no one will hire them. But the employers on both sides of the Atlantic say exactly the same thing. They can get a great many bad servants, but very few good ones. The vast number of employers created by the wealth of England tempts persons to become servants, but it makes them much worse servants than they would be in a poorer country, for they can always get places. This facility is unfor tunately much increased by the great laxity that pre vails about characters. In the hurry to get servants which must prevail when a great number of tolerably wealthy people are spending a large portion of their means in receiving and entertaining, and in the indifference which is at last provoked by a long wearisome successionof failures in the attempt to get good servants, the truth about a servant is neither asked nor told. This is an evil which a moderate amount of sense and prudence on the part of employers would go far to remedy ; and if servants ar to be improved, it must be in the first instance by cm_ ployers resolutely going through the inconvenience of being without servants. There is also one other thing which employers could do if they would take the trouble, which, although a slight thing in itself, would, we believe, do more to improve servants than many far more preten tious schemes. They could, while giving good wages, stipulate that a small portion of the wages should he paid quarterly into a savings -bank, to remain there until a cer tain time had elapsed or the hiring came to an end. In the first place, this might make servants less willing to leave, although we own that to some minds the temptation of leaving, for the mere object of throwing away all the money on a very short visit to London, would be irresis tible. But this would not generally be the case, for the possession of a little money is the basis of almost all self respect in every class, and the servants with savings would have a little sense and prudence instilled into them. Maids are so constituted that not only will they give their hearts at once to the first butcher's boy they see in a new place, but they will at once give the second butcher's boy the reversion in their affections, supposing the arrangement with the first comes to nothing. They are not so much willing, as furious, to marry ; but if it were a question of giving, not only their hearts but their savings, they might learn to hesitate. Even a couple of sovereigns might be enough to impart a rudimentary modesty and coyness to their behaviour ; and as they rose in the scale of being, avarice at last might triumph over vanity, and they might learn that they could not at the same time nurse the love of money in the bank and the love of gaudy cotton-velvet bonnets. The Spectator asks if the Irish members were in any considerable degree unanimous, and if they were really supported by a strong section of English Liberals, would there not be enough of hope in their programme, and of utter desperateness about every other outlook, to make England listen attentively to the case on their side ? It is felt that to revise the mcanin.g of "rights of property," even in relation to land in a special locality, is dangerous enough. What is conceded in one place may be demanded in another. A sacrifice extorted from one proprietary class may impend soon over other proprietary classes. But still, Lad as the proposed remedy :nay seem, are not the alternatives worse? Is not chronic rebellion---which does not so much limit as almost extinguish l roprietary interests—worse? Is not that drastic remedy, unflinching, cauterisation, which would probably bring on foreign war in the attempt to stamp out civil war, worse ? Is not separation, which would make Ireland into a hostile neighbour, relying probably on France for protection, worse ? Even the most contemptuous of the critics of a " perpetual settlement" for Ireland cannot but feel that the day is approaching when some great experiment must be tried to render Ireland loyal, unless the game is to be thrown up altogether. And, on the whole, what remedy --of the grand order— could be more moderate than Sir John Gray's ? He says " Give the landlord the choice between granting a fee-farm lease at a fairly revised rent, voidably only by non-payment, or selling at the full valuf of his property : compel him to choose between abandon ing that power of eviction which has created the present terrible crisis, or of selling at the full, or even more than the full value." If this be confiscation, it is so in a wilder sense than that in which the compulsory sale of land to a railway company is confiscation— and it would be enforced on precisely the same plea, the public welfare. But, says the Times, admitting that the remedy, if adequate, is not immoral, it would not be adequate, it would not make the Irish loyal. That is putting the matter un the true issue. That is a question on which it would be well to take a good deal of careful evidence. It is no trifling matter that such a man as Sir John Gray—oue of the inipracticable Irish patriots he has hitherto seemed to be—should gravely believe that it would render Ireland loyal. Primal facie it certainly doe , seem that in a country where the rural population wink a every outrage on the Government, and permit large partiw of rebels to steal hundredweights of gunpowder and bivouac near the scene of the robbery without giving notice of it, the rural population do not feel that they are risking much by the overthrow of the Government. But would not every peasant farmer in the country feel otherwise if he knew that his absolute title to his land was identified with the existence of the Government ? How would a foreign invasion be regarded by men who knew that with the overthrow of the existing regime must come a number of greedy competitors for the homes and lands in which they were secure so long as it was sustained? But we do not ask more at present than that the question shall be fairly discussed, not on the high a priori ground of pro prietary morality and English privilege, but on the more reasonable ground of its adaptation to the end in view the raising up of a loyal peasantry whose hands would be with the Government, instead of against it. It is much — we believe it is almost everything—if we can but shift the issue thus. And we believe that the Irish members have now, if they choose to be rational enough to act in concert, a fair chance of thus shifting it. Never was it seen more clearly by their worst enemies that the Irish question grows more fearfully perilous to the empire with every decade ; that in its new phase, the resource of fire and sword is almost the most hopeless of all, as tending to plunge us into the very war which would be Ireland's grandest opportunity ; and that, short of this, the only alternative is between keeping an Ireland in which all sorts of property are all but nominal, and making some grand concession by which the people would be turned into its national guardians. If every property-owner ie Ireland could (say) by paying 10 per cent. of his present income in direct bribes, uproot every trace of disaffection fur ever, would he nut think his bargain, even in a pecuniary point of view, a glorious one ? And if that be so, it is in the interests of property no less than of peace that some grand experiment such as we have proposed should be made. The John Bull answers the question so frequently askea in Liberal newspapers : What are the Conservative prin ciples of which you talk so much ? First, then, the Con servatives represent the principle of a mixed monarchy, Queen, Lords, and Commons, in which aristocracy and democra7l, should have their fitting share. Secondly, there is the mighty principle of Church and State. Finally, the basis for all Tory reforms is reverence for that which is. We know there are abuses in all systems. We do not arrogate perfection to the State of England. We know that we have to pay a certain price for every benefit, that every object has its attendant shadow. The existence of the hereditary principle, all-important as it is, involves certain practical abuses. That is because man is not an angel. But we do not wish to be reduced to a bare collocation of individual units ; we do not wish to break with our past, and found a new society from generation to generation. That is why we are essentially Conservative, and that is why Tories „Light to rule Great Britain. Some of the principles here laid down would be subscribed to by the best Liberal thinkers ; for instance, by the writers in the Spectator; but they only stink in the nostrils of the great body of the Liberal party, and they are the abomination of desolation to the Manchester faction. We say, then, let wise reforms proceed from above rather than from the earthquake pangs of the nether regions, and let sensible Englishmen rally round 14 Ministry which represents the great principles of many genera tions, and has inscribed, not only on its party banners, but also on its heart, the watchword of Conservative THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1868. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Froin'th,e Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, Jan. 10. The ...weather is at present fearfully severe in Paris. The mails by sea and land are retarded, and even the Seine, notwithstanding the force of its current, bas been frozen. The contrast between its usual ever-changing, ever-moving panorama and the present, is of the most striking description. The little omnibus steamers and other myriad small craft flitting interminably upon its bosom are now moored to the various quays, and covered with snow and hoar frost, resembling rather a flotilla of gunboats shut up in the Arctic regions. Hundreds of the gamins or street boys of Paris disport themselves in every direction upon the ice-bound river, or offer for the low price of ten centimes (a penny) their escort to the timid bourgeois or bourgeoise whom the novelty of walking across the Seine tempts to essay the somewhat perilous feat, inasmuch as here and there deep rifts or crevices in the ice show the dark green water rushing on at a furious rate be low. In fact, the immersions became at last so frequent that a strong force of police was sent out in every direction to prevent persons from going upon the ice, since which a perpetual guerilla war- fare has been going on between the agents and the gamins, a class of which to form anything like an accurate idea it is necessary to read up Les Miser ables of Victor Hugo, who has so graphically por trayed it in the character of Gavroche. It is not, however, the street boys who resent interference in their amusements—the worthy Parisians themselves are excessively inflammable, especially if attacked in their amour propre. On Sunday night last a patrol of the 24th Regiment of the Line was re turning under the command of a sergeant to the Prince Eugene Barracks. They had to pass through a crowd who were amusing themselves with sliding upon the small piece of water in the vicinity of the Chateau d'Eau, when they were insulted by the crowd, through the midst of which they had pro bably passed with too little ceremony. The ser geant seized one of the aggressors, who was imrne diately rescued, whereupon the sergeant drew up his small force, and succeeded in arresting another of the ringleaders. An officer coming up, this man also was released, and the patrol entered their bar racks. King Mob was not, however, so easily satis fied, and a rigorous assault of stones, fragments of ice, &c., was commenced upon thebarracks by about 1,500 to 1,600 persons. Everything prognosticated a serious riot, for the captain-adjutant major was al ready taking measures for the repression of the tumult, when the arrival of a strong detachment of police changed the face of affairs, and after some difficulty the crowd was dispersed, some thirty of the ringleaders remaining in the bands of the offi cers, who were at once transferred to the poste to answer for their share in the evening's amusement. After such displays one ceases to wonder at the history of barricades. On Saturday last the lake situated in the midst of that aristocratic pro menade, the Bois de Boulogne, was the scene of a most brilliantly picturesque fete, given by the members of the Skating Club ; tickets of admission fifty francs each. In the midst of the lake is a small island, upon which were sta tioned two military bands, playing alternately during the fete. The illumination was carried out in the most splendid manner, no less than 10,000 bougies, or wax lights, being fixed in every possible direction, whilst 16 long poles were en wreathed with garlands of gas jets, each supporting, at the same time an electric light. Notwithstand ing the severity of the weather and the lateness of the hour appointed for the commencement of the fete (nine o'clock), probably not less than 40,000 persons were assembled on the borders of the lake, whilst some 2,000 carriages of eve r y description were drawn up in attendance, theinterior presenting a scene recalling to the imagination "The Thousand and One Nights." The elegant and fanciful costumes of the skaters, especially the ladies (for the attend ance at the fete comprised not only the most aristo cratic and noble names of France, but also the elite of foreign visitors), the flitter of the lights, at tached—in the case of the ladies to their waists, in tbose of the cavaliers to their hats—the various quadrilles and evolutions by the more accomplished performers, were varied by the passage en masse of the more timid beauties, who, holding on in a line to a velvet-covered rod, sustained at each end by a gen tleman, felt their more cautious way across the ice. The gilded sledges, covered with tiger and other skins, andimpelled by hands, combined with the perfect and brilliant illumination which rendered the smallest objects most clearly discernible to make up an en semble that can be better imagined than described. The fete lasted until midnight, when the gay scene appeared to pass away into the surrounding dark ness with the suddenness of a vision, leaving to the bulk of the lookers-on the pleasing prospect of a some five miles walk previous to their regaining their domicile. Notwithstanding the prognostications of the alarmists, one of whom lately compared the pre sent appearance with the salient points of political danger to the frozen surface of the Seine, with its crevasses, the foreign intelligence of the past week tends materially to show an improvement in the peace prospects of the present year. The congratulations exchanged between the Emperor and other Sovereigns have been of the must cordial nature, amongst which I may especially mention a letter received from Victor Emmanuel, and the frank welcome accorded by the Emperor on the oc casion of the recent diplomatic reception to Count von der Goltz, Plenipotentiary of the King of Prussia, in the character of Chief of the Confederate States of Northern Germany; thus giving a substan tial confirmation of the sincerity of his Majesty when declaring, at the opening of the Legislative Assembly, the readiness of France to accept the position of German affairs without interfering therein. From telegraphic despatches, too, imme diately received, it appears that England, France, and Austria have counselled the Sublime Porte to extend throughout all its dominions the privileges lately accorded in the case of Candia, advice, which, it is said, has been listened to with great complacency by Fuad Pasha, and anticipates only the contemplated action of Turkey to that effect. Italy will in all probability be sufficiently occupied for the present in arranging her Govern ment and financial affairs, whilst his Holiness the Pope appears to be doing better in Christmas pre sents than a good many ; cash and articles of value appearing to flow into his Treasury in a continuous stream. The latest dodge, which appears greatly to have exasperated the extreme Radical section, is the announcement lately made by a large proprietor in vineyards in the department of the Gironde, who has announced that 15 per cent. upon all purchases made of him will be devoted to the fund called St. Peter's Pence. The theatres, concerts, &c., ap pear to be doing well notwithstanding the inclemency of the season, the representation of " Gulliver" still maintaining its especial attraction, whilst the oc currences constantly taking place at the masked balls exhibit phases of society which it would be difficult to equal in any other capital of the world. On Saturday last a young and rich Brazilian en countered at the ball of the opera a brilliant black domino, who, succeeding in first captivating his attention by her brilliant wit, completed her con quest in unmasking and displaying to her admirer a face of the most ravishing beauty. She informed him that she was married, and had been foolish enough to profit by the absence of her husband to visit the masked ball. The enamoured swain could ;only receive permission to escort her to her domicile, Faubourg St. Germain, leaving her at the entrance. As might naturally be expected our hero wandered for several days like an unquiet spirit around the house, when all at once he received a letter inviting him to a rendezvous at 10 o'clock in the morning of the following day, the Dame un dertaking to prove to him categorically the perfect inutility of attempting to seek any further inter course with her. The Brazilian was punctual, but hardly had he installed himself in the fair one's drawing-room when he was surprised by the sud den entrance of a Monsieur, who cried with an ap pearance of exasperation, " Ah, I knew you were de ceiving me; behold youraccomplicer The astonished lover attempted to stutter forth something in shape of excuse, but he was cut short by the startling ejaculation.." No reply ; hand over ten thousand francs, or you are a dead man," and his interim- tor drew a pistol from his pocket. It is not every one who has, on all occasions, the sum of ten thou sand francs in his portmonnaie, and the enraged husband made no difficulty in taking twelve hun dred on account. One may guess the denouement as soon as he was at liberty. The plucked one laid the matter before the Commissary of Police, and an immediate search took place ; but, alas, in vain ; the mysterious Domino and the jealous husband had alike disappeared, and our disconcerted hero was left sadly to ruminate upon the instability of love affairs in general, as well -as on the propriety of not carrying too much money about him for the future —especially in Paris. NAPLES, Jan. 3. The weather has been cold and rainy this week, but the hotels are full of visitors waiting for favourable opportunities to ascend Mount Vesuvius, which continues most complaisantly in eruption. The American squadron, or at least part of it, is expected here soon, and also some of the Italian Royal Family, so that we are likely to have a gay month of January. The news by the cable, not elsewhere noticed, again largely relates to the shipment of specie for Europe. On January 4 the steamers left with $1,250,000 in specie ; on Jan. 8 with $1,500,000, and on the following day with $500,000 in specie. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued his usual monthly statement of the public debt and the cash in the Treasury of the United States. The total amount of debt on the Ist of Jan. was $2,642,000,000, against $2,639,000,000 on the Ist of December last, showing an increase of $3,000,000. The cash in the Treasury at the same date was $134,000,000, against $138,000,000 at the corre sponding period last month, showing a decrease of $4,000,000. We learn from Washington, under date Jan. 8, that the Senate has passed the bill exempting from tax the cotton crop for 1868, and aholishiug the duty on foreign cotton grown during the year ending April, 1869. The House of Representatives has passed a resolution authorising the sale of 54 surplus iron-clads. The news which yesterday reached London by the cable shows how strongly the Western Stites go in for Repudiation. The Democrats of Ohio, Indiana, and Western Virginia have adopted it as a plank of their platform, having in the State Con ventions passed resolutions in favour of nominating Mr. Pendleton for the Presidency, and the redemp tion of the 5-20 United States Bonds in currency. We suppose that some such movement has aided gold speculators in running lip the premium as rapidly as it lately fell. The quotation on the 9th was 1371, though our latest advices by letter antici- pated a further fall rather than a rise. Mr. Stanton is not a man to be snuffed out without a struggle. He has taken up the President's Mes sage alleging reasons for that Minister's dismissal, and is busily engaged in his defence. A telegram of Jan. 8, from Washington, shows that he has not worked without result, as the Military Committee of the Senate has presented a report recommending that the Senate should not concur in the removal of Mr. Stanton from the Secretaryship of War. In case the Senate adopt the report, Mr. Stanton would, we believe, be compelled to appeal to the Supreme Court, when the decision would be given of the con- stitutionality of the Civil Tenure Act. On Wednesday Mr. Thornton was presented to the Queen by Lord Stanley, on appointment as Minister to the Unitei States. The Times lately wrote an article, condemning the selection as one unsuitable for a post calling for a nobleman both of high rank and good reputation as a statesman. Yesterday a letter appeared in the 'limes from an " Ex-Diplomatist," writing from "Brooks's," contro verting the Thnnderer's opinions, and maintaining the wisdom of Lord Stanley's choice. The writer as serts that diplomacy is next to useless at Washing ton in maintaining peace ; that a British Minister has but little influence with the American Govern ment, and none with the public. He holds that Mr. Thornton's experience among the semi-civilised South Americans will be of use in the United States, as was Sir F. Bruce's among the semi-rAvilisel Chinese ! What he means, we confess, we do not understand. On this letter the Times writes a leader, reiterating its opinions, which the arguments of " Ex-Diploma tist" only tend to confirm. If Great Britain pos sessed many such Diplomatists, we venture to assert they would soon all be Ex-Diplomatists, for many such exhibitions of their uselessness would be fatal to any service. The Hamburg - American Company despatched their steamship Germania, Captain H. F. Schwe men, yesterday (Friday), the 10th i ns t., f rom Southampton, with the British mail, for New York. This is the first departure of this line under the new mail contract with her Majesty's Government. The departures will continue every alternate Fri day up to the end of February, after which the steamers will leave every Friday. General Gillem bears most important testimony .... to the general destitution of the South. He pro ceeded to Washington on business, as the Freed men's Commissioner for Mississippi, acting under orders front General Ord, and therefore what he states is official. Unless immediate measures of relief are adopted, he apprehends famine with its frightful train of evils. The crops will not realise general expectation, and in Mississippi the yield of cotton will be far less than anticipated. Negroes have been engaged in political demonstrations, in choosing delegates, and in organising Conventions, and with their usual thriftlessness have neglected to secure a sufficient supply of food. The planters are unable to employ the freedmen, as in the pre sent state of w utt e e s. r prostrationNety has th onl theyha e means eot ven t o onerep fallen of fpashortying wages. of an average, but all others are as de ficient. If to the causes which tend to set race against race, hunger be added, General Gillem is justified in opposing further reduction of the United States army, as a strong military force may be the only means of preventing the predicted war. The utter recklessness of life, the bitter disap pointment to the African—liberty now in his mind being associated with starvation—may bear evil fruits. Murders are frequent ; thieving is general ; live stock on the estates is recklessly appropriated and sacrificed—mules are driven off to Texas and sold. The ruined planter and disappointed black are at once placed face to face in dangerous cir cumstances in a dangerous frame of mind, and it is no wonder that even the New York Tribune publishes private letters from the South, draw ing as alarming a picture of the state of affairs there as can well be painted. The first necessity a to supply the South with food. A revolution broke out, 10th Dec., at Merida, State of Yucatan, Mexico. The officers of the military force assembled deposed Manuel Cepeda Pereza, elected Marcellino Villafana Provisional Governor, and marched on and captured Sisal. Pereza fled, and on the 18th December Santa Anna was proclaimed Dictator of Mexico, and his speedy arrival announced from Havaunah with troops and money, but this has been contradicted by Santa Anna. Some of Maximilian's officers are said to be associated with the movement, and a war steamer had sailed from Vera Cruz to join two gunboats now off Sisal in the attack of the port. The Mexican Congress was opened by Juarez on the 9th December with a speech, in which he al luded to the executions at Queretaro as urged by imperious exigency; the application of the law against the highest in rank permitting clemency towards the rest ; the Republics of America had supported Mexico during the struggle for indepen dence against Monarchical Europe ; the uninter rupted sympathy of the people of the United States deserved emphatically the friendship and esteem of Mexico; the intervention of the three Euro pean Powers, in which, though France alone had persevered in the prosecution, yet the others having recognised the so-called Government sus tained by France thus abandoned their neutrality al. d s_vered their relations with Mexico; the Go vernment bad taken care to give no cause of offence, and it will raise no difficulties in the way of new treaties under more auspicious circumstances, espe cially relating to its mercantile interests ; the sub jests of those nations in the Republic were now under the protectiOn of its laws. The murder of Sauchez, who was president of the court which con demned Maximilian, has led to the execution of ten ' persons. It is said that the concession granting to English capitalists the right of constructing the Vera Cruz Railway is to be withdrawn. A strong easterly gale blew back the waters of the Niagara River into the lake and produced ex traordinary phenomena at the great cataract. At Buffalo Creek the vessels grounded, and the Nia gara Falls dwindled into a rivulet compared with the ordinary volume. On the American side the stream literally dried up, so that its rocky bed could be traversed. The " Three Sisters" were accessible to foot passengers, and many walked with impunity and dry where no human foot had before been known to tread. Below the cataract the water fell 20 feet, and produced a wonderful transformation. The rock at IVhitmer's mill, which barely projects its head above the water, stood up above the sur face full 20 feet. When the gale ended the cataract was itself again. Some very forcible instances have lately been given of the utter prostration of the Southern States. Daily property falls in value. Money is next to impossible to procure, credit has ceased, and though estates of known value are offered for s,de, in the present political uncertainty and the disorganisation of society there are uo buyers. An auction was lately held in Liberty County, Georgia, on Court-day, when a large concourse was assem bled, yet a handsome residence at Walthourville with 10 acres attached, outhouses, and all the ap pointments of a first-class planter's residence, fetched only $6O, passing inti the hands of the agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. Mr. Fraser bought the plantation, consisting of 450 acres of prime land, for $l5O. Mr. W. D. Bacon gave $3 for 66 acres near Walthourville. These lamentable facts convey an idea of what property in the South has come to. It was thought at Washington that General Rousseau would be re-called from the Pacific coast to take the command of one of the military districts. The four companies of United States troops he had left at Sitka are now said to be in such a state of destitution as to be likely to perish before assistance can reach them. They were ordered there expressly by the President, and General Grant has no autho rity to move in their relief. Authority or no autho rity, General Rousseau will be blamed for station ing this detachment at Sitka without making ample provision to guard them against the knowu severity of the climate. Official blunders, which involve men's lives, cannot be excused or the responsibility shifted from shoulder to shoulder so as to be lost in the confusion. It has been noticed that the most violent pro slavery men before and during the war have on be coming Radicals been even more violent and unscrupulous in the opposite extreme. Parson Brownlow and Mr. Hunnicutt are the most prominent instances. The career of the former is well known, but that of the latter is so obscure that we give these few facts. In a recent speech at Richmond, when closely questioned, Hunnicutt acknowledged that for years before 1861 he was noted as one of the worst negro haters in Virginia. In that year he voted for Secession. At Fredericksburgh, in 1834, he edited the Christian Banner, and this is the lan guage he used in that journal, in opposition to an attempt made to establish an African Church : " We are decidedly opposed to any and all African churches south of Mason and Dixon's line. In the pre sent state of things, and at this particular crisis, we think it exceedingly impolitic in the Southern people to allow such organisations to exist in our midst. The time for such unhallowed assemblies is not yet. Nor is V!rglnia the place of rendezvous for such dangerously miscYevous, ungodly masses of crude mind and matter to congregate, to concoct and execute their nefarious schemes of religious villainies. They are ignorant and superstitious to a pro verb. Depravity, iguoranca, and superstition form a dangerous compound, and such a compound is the black population of Virginia." Col. Parker,the Indian officer of Gen. Grant's Staff, who was the hero of the late wedding adventure in Washington, in which the heroine was 'Miss Sackett, has been married to that romantic and pretty young lady. The ceremony took place on the evening of the 23d December. The story told by the Chief,of the Six Nations is that a Seneca, acting for his tribe, who opposed his marriage to a pale face, adminis tered a drug on the Saturday, from the effects of which he did not recover till Wednesday morning, when he was discovered in a hotel at Washington. The story of the drug is no doubt true, and we sup pose some allowances are to be made on account of the nationality of the gallant Indian, who even when sober was perhaps unconscious of the light in which such conduct would be regarded by his white brethren. The Fenians appear to be gathering strength in the south o•: Ireland, where a " loyalist" writing to the Cork Examiner states they have recommenced drilling. Additional troops have been sent to Ireland. An arrest was made in Dublin of a man named Lennon, who com manded the insurgents at Tullaght, and the Evening Mail states he will be tried for high treason. The Freeman's Journal states that the main guard on the Royal Bar racks had all the cartridges in the pouches of the men, with which they mounted abstracted during the night. It is stated that the girl who was murdered in Columbian County, New York, on whose life there was a policy of $5,000, had been stolen from Dayton, Ohio. Joseph and Josephine Brown remain in custody, charged with the crime. EAS TERN NEVADA. No. 11. Austin is situated in a Pass, by which runs the great overland mail road through the Toiyabe Range. To the east of these mountains is the Smoky Valley ; to the west that of Reese River. Numerous districts map out the mountain sides con tinuously along the Smoky Valley for 70 or 80 miles. The loftiest peaks are clad in eternal snow, and through three canons flow brooks of clear cold water, in some sufficiently large to prove valuable for mill sites. Towards the centre of the valley is a great saline deposit, covering an area of about 2,000 acres. This salt is remarkably pure, containing only two per cent. of soda and sand. It rises as an efflorescence about half an inch above the surface of the ground, and is estimated to yield 1,000 tons. Austin and the surrounding country, both for domestic purposes and for the reduction of the ore, draw salt from this spot, and the cost in the city is po per ton. The brooks flowing into the valley are swallowed up in the loose soil, which prevents them from forming even a salt lake. Near its centre is a remarkable spring of boiling water, which throws out a large and constant stream, heated to the highest degree. The basin is from 20 to 30 feet in diameter, and the fountain of boiling water rises in a column several feet above the surface. Cooking can be conveniently carried on, and the water is excellent for domestic purposes. Much of the soil of this district is of exceeding fertility, and excellent agricultural land is easily obtainable, which in many places is of a most superior order. The climate is pleasant and healthy without extremes of heat or cold ; snow seldom falls, and frosts are never severe, although they have sometimes oc curred as early as September. Slight elevations divide the valley into different basins, and it thus extends into the deserts on the Southern borders of the State. At the southern extremity are the isolated mountains of San Antonia and Silver Peak, singular in formation, and appearing as if thrown into their position by same extraordinary effort of nature. The Smoky district contains certainly one great vein, 50 feet thick, which has been traced on the surface for miles. It is called the Smoky Valley Ledge, and the Everett, Smoky, and Commercial Companies have claims on it. The Smoky Com pany, at a depth of over 200 feet, developed the full proportions of the vein of which . 20 feet yield ore giving from $6O to $l5O per ton. There are other large veins, and although they show ore of low grade, an improved and cheap mode of reduction will render them valuable in a district possessing such good facilities for communication, with a plentiful supply of wood and water. The Reese River, in the valley on the other side the Toyiabe, runs, as we before observed, 150 miles ere it sinks and is lost on its way to the llumbolt. The valley through which it passes ave rages about five miles in width, and contains many thousand acres of good agricultural land. The ranges and the valleys running parallel with each other are so similar that the description of one gives a description of all. The mountains are geologi cally composed of the primitive rocks of which granite or gneis and slat.) are the principal, with 1 quartzite, limestone, porphyry, serpentine, and others, as occasional rocks. In all are found veins of quartz-bearing gold, silver, copper, lead, anti mony, and other metals. Having now given as good an idea as we have the means of conveying of the country, we will confine our remarks in a general way to the laws of mining and to the mines. The statutes and the customs of the State of Nevada permit miners, upon the discovery of metal-bearing lodes in an unoccupied locality, to organise a min ing district, designate its bounds, pass a code of laws regulating the location and tenure of mining property, and choose a recorder of locations. These mining districts are usually from ten to twenty miles square, though governed by the physical features of the country, and the contiguity of other districts. The object of the laws, sanctioned by an Act of Congress, is to make the ground public and open to all the world, where by finding a vein of gold, silver, or other ores, any man can make it his own, and is assured and protected in his title. The law of Congress does not even make it compulsory to procure the Government title, protecting the finder against all persons other than the Government, if he takes the most ordinary precautions for securing his claim. On discovering a vein upon unoccupied ground, he or they may possess it by posting a no tice, by recording it within 10 days, and by per forming one day's work on the ledge every month, or by expending $l,OOO, when the ground belongs in fee to the locators and their assignees, except by an acknowledged abandonment, which consists in leaving it unworked for one year. The finders can claim 200 feet to each name and 200 feet extra for the discovery, provided that in the aggregate the location or claim does not exceed 3,000 feet. Sufficient ground for the erection of buildings and the storage of ores is also secured to the owners of the mine, and their right to it can in no wise be in terfered with. The veins in the granite rock gene rally lie parallel to each other, with a strike north west and south-east, and a dip to the north-east, varying in depth from one to five feet. A movement of the rock has at spots taken place where the ledges are broken or have " faults," and the angle of their dip is not so great. The veins are usually ex plored by means of inclines commencing where the ore appears at the surface, and following down with the dip of the ledge. When, after thus sinking a distance sufficient to render certain the existence and character of the vein, and it is desirable to open it as a mine, a perpendicular shaft is sunk at a point some distance from the outcrop, calculating as the ground permits to pierca the vein at a depth several hundred feet beneath the surface. These shafts are of different dimensions, the least being 15 feet in length by five in breadth, which may be sunk and securely timbered at $65 per. foot. Through the district runs a belt of superior ore from Marshall Canon, in the southern part, nor therly six miles into Amador district. " This superior belt is about half a mile in width. In it are a great number of parallel veins, simi lar in character and generally rich. The different localities through the district are designated, commencing at the south as San Miguel Canon, larshall's Canon, Union Hill, Cen tral Hill, Lander Hill, Emigrant Canon, Telegraph Canon, Yankee Blade and New York Ravine, the northern line of the district separating it from Amador. Each of these localities is celebrated for its certain mines in the more advanced stages of de velopment. Those of the district most systemati cally opened are the Great Eastern, Timoke, Ore gon, North Star, and Florida, situated on Lander Hill in the city of Austin, and within an area of a few hundred yards square. These are veins, the gangue being quartz, of ten inches to two feet in width, of highly concentrated ore that is easily and cheaply mined. The gene ral character of the ore throughout the dis trict is the same, in the same relative positions. At the surface, and to the depth of from fifty to seventy feet, where water is found, the vein matter is quite loose and friable, has a dirty or earth stained colour, and the silver is found in the form of a chloride ore, presenting a purple or straw coloured appearance. When water is reached the vein matter shows the white, clear quartz, and the ore, then usually an antimonial sulphuret, is quite black, and contrasted with the white quartz pre• sents a beautiful appearance, and its value is readily ascertained by one experienced in observ ing it. The ore taken from below where the water has always existed in the earth often contains beautiful crystals of the many different varieties into which silver ores crystalise. From these mines are obtained a great number of beautiful specimens, which adorn the cabinets of the mineralogists, the lovers of the beautiful and unique, and the curio sity hunter. In the district are more than six sand locations of mines, of five hundred to two thousand feet each, and probably one thousand of these have been so far developed as to prove them of value ; but of this great number only a few are, at present, mined to any great extent. A description of a few of the most noted on Lander Hill will give an insight into the character of all, and an idea of the great operations to be undertaken in the 'uture."—Anglo-Americana Times. NEW YORK MARKETS. (From the Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.) NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 1868. Money is in greater demand, as usual, at the close of the year, but the supply is still abundant at six per cent. on call. Large sums are necessary for the banks, railway companies, and other joint stock concerns for the pay ment of dividends, and they will find no difficulty in pro curing accommodation. The Secretary of the Treasury has announced that there will be no further contraction of currency for at least two months, and the fears of a stringent market have been dispelled. At Boston the market is reviving, and New York bills are there more readily taken. Money remains stringent in Chicago and ratos are high. Although business remains lamentably dull, the general belief is that the worst of the crisis is past. A banking house at St. Louis has sus pended with •heavy liabilities—Teeson and Son. The failures within a mouth have been 58, and it is calculated that on the realisation of the estates the loss will exceed three million and a half of dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury addressed the following letter to Senator Sher man : Treasury Department, Doe. 18, 1867. Sir,—Your favour of this instant is received. It is not my intention to retire and cancel any more United States notes this month, nor will the condition of the Treasury and of the country justify me in making the usual contraction in the month of January. It may be proper further to say, that while I entertain the opinion that an early return to specie payments is in dispensable to the national prosperity, and that specie payments cannot be restored without a curtailment of the circulation of the country, I shall not continue to exercise the power of reducing the circulation of United States notes conferred upon me by the Act of April 12, 1866, unless I have reason to suppose that I shall be sustained in doing so by Congress, nor until Congress shall have a full op portunity of determining the future financial policy of the Government. You can, therefore, say Lo your Committee that there will be no contraction of the currency by the Secretary during the present month or the next. HUGH M'CuLLocH, Secretary. Hon. John Sherman, Chairman, &c. The Senator's Financial Bill has been much discussed in Wall-street. Though it does not touch directly on the currency it is opposed by the expansionists, who truly believe it to embody the views of Secretary M'Culloch, on whom they pour numerous letters of advice. The Secretary is supported by our best financiers, and his theo ries are borne out by the experience of other countries. The worst of our position is, that wild and reckless experimen tors make their voices heard, and endeavour to persuade the people that there is something different in the political economy of America from that which rules in the effete nations of the Old World. Although the House favours inflation, the Senate will Pict as a check, and it is believed that in the end the opinion of such financiers as M'Culloch will prevail. On the approach of the payment of the January dividends a larger business is transacted in Go vernment Securities. On the Seven-thirties $700,000 were paid last week in New York, and the Govern ment disbursed in all, green-backs to the amount of $4,200,000. The gold interest payment on the Five twenties will commence next week, a hich with other securities will make up the large sum of $30,000,000, when Government interest disbursements will cease till that on the Ten-Forties becomes due in March. Yesterday gold closed at 1331, there being little change for the last day or two. While the receipts from California increase, the shipments to Europe fall off ; that is, a much larger sum was believed to be required for ex port to meet the large demands than has proves to be the case. The Customs' receipts are small, and as long as busi ness remains so dull they are not likely to increase. 'though the transactions in the railroads and miscellaneous market have lessened during the holidays, the tone has been firm and vigorous. The Western Roads show, in their divi dends, a satisfactory state of affairs. Even the Atlantic and Great Western has increased its receipts by $82,952 for this over last year. The lines controlled by Commo dore Vanderbilt remain in good demand, and are buppurted at advanced prices. The chief event of the week is the consolidation of the four rival Express Companies, which has at last been accomplished as follows :—The net earn ings are to be massed, and the dividends thus apportioned, —Adams, 29 per cent.; American, 261 per cent; United States, 18 per cent.; Merchants' Union, 261 per cent. The territory or lines of the four companies are to be subdivided, so as each shall occupy the same in proportion to their earnings. Except at principal points, as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, and some others, offices of the four companies are to be consolidated, and expenses gene rally reduced. The entire management of business is put in the hands of a board of control, consisting of ono mem ber from each board of directors, which four choose the fifth, who acts as president. The same tariff in operation previous to the time of Merchants' Union Express Co. going into business, will be re-adopted with some few variations. The companies wi►l restore the tariff of prices to the good old rates, before they were brought down by competition The effect has been a steady and rapid rise in the value of their shares. The amalgamation will take effect on Nosy Year's Day, 1868. The Wells Fargo Company is not in cluded, as its business is with the Pacific Coast, but it is not to be loft undisturbed, as an Express will come into operation in connection with the new line, the North American Steamship Company, to San Francisco, via Pana ma. Mining Stocks remain very dull, and Petroleum stocks continue in steady demand, with little change in price. (From the Wall-Street Journal, Dec. 28.) The following were the closing quotations this evening for the various public funds of the United States :—Sixes, 1868, coupon, 130 to 1301; Sixes, 1881, coupon, 1121 to 1121; Five-twenties, 1862, coupon, 1084 to 108; ; Five tw6uties, 1864, coupon, 105 f to 1051 ; Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, 1051 to 1051; Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new, 108; to 1081, Five-twenties, 1867, coupon, 1084 to 1081; Ten-forties, coupon, 1011 to 1011; Seven thirties, 2d series, 1041 to 1041 ; Seven-thirties, 3d series, 1041 to 1041. The following aro the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks :—N. Y. Central 1174; Erie, 731; Hudson, 132; Reading, 961 ; Mich. Southern and N. I. 851 ; Illinois Central, 129 ; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 864 ; North-west, 57/ ; North-west Preferred, 711 ; Canton, 501 ; Rock Island, 994 ; Cleveland and Toledo, 981 ; Fort Wayne, 100 ; Pacific M,,il, 110+; Atlantic Mail, 1194 ; Quick silver, 214; W. U. Telegraph, 371; Ohio and Miss. Cer tificates, 291 ; Cumberland, 29. The following for the Railroad Mortgages :-N. Y. Cen tral, 68, 1883, 911 ; do. do. 6s, 1887, 89 ; do. do. 6s, R Est, 83; do. do. 6s, Sub'n, 85; do. do, 7s, 1876, 102; do. do. 7s, ;,.on 76, 117 ; do. do. 7s, '65-'76, 117 ; Erie Ist mort., 1867, 101; do. 7s, 2d do., 1879, 102 ; do. 7s, 3d do., 1883, 971; do. 7s, 4th do., 1880, 90 1; do. 78, sth do., 188, 891 ; Long Dock Bond, 961 ; Buff. N.Y. and E Ist M, '77 89 ; Rud. R. 7s, Ist M., 1869, 102; ; Bud. R. 7s, cony, 1867, 1011; Harlem 3d mort., '6B, 100 ; Mich. C. 8 p ct. '69-'72, 1074 ; Mich. new Ist M, Bs, 'B2, 109 ; Mich. So., I p ct, 2d M, 91i ; N. Ind. Goshen Line, '6B, 961 ; Mich. S. and N. I. S. pet, 96 ; 111. Cen. 7 p et, 1870, 118 ; Alton and T. H. Ist M, 97; Alton and T. IL 2d pfd, 81; Alton and T. H. 2d M. Inc. 75i; Chi. and N. West, S. F, 98 ; do. In't B, 87 ; do. Ex'n 1 5 , 821 ; do. Ist M, 83 ; Del. Lack. and West'n Bds, 95 ; Tol. and Wab. Ist M, 90 ; Gt. Western 2d M. '93, 69 ; Mil. and Pr. du Ch. Ist M, 95 ; Gal. and Chic. Ext., 100 ; do. and 2d M, 97 ; Chi. and R. I. Ist M, 101 ; Cleve. and Tol. S. Fund, 103 ; N. J. Central 2d mort., 103 ; Pitts., Ft, W., and Ch. Ist M, 1051-; do. do. 2d M, 98k; do. do. M, 88; Cleve. and Pitis. 2d M, 98 ; Chic. and Alton, S. F. Inc., 90; do. do. S. F, Ist M, 102}; Mil. and St. Paul 2d M, 78 ; Marietta and Gin. Ist M, 85; Joi!et and Chic. Ist M, 104; Chi. and Gt. East'n Ist M, C 4 ; N. Y. and N. 11. 65., 96 ; Dubuque and S. City Ist M, 821. And the following for the New Yo;k City Bank Stocks: -Merchants 117, America 140, C . : y 200/, New York 137, Manhattan 133, Mechan'es 112, Union 11J, Phoenix 104, Tradesmen's 135, National 106, Merchants Exchange 110, Seventh Wa d 110, State of New York 1051, Commerce 1171, Ocean 103, American Exchange 1131, Bank of the Republic 110, Bank of No-th America 103, Eleventh Ward 110, Me! cautile 118, Mechanics' Association 110, Broadwai 235, Hanover 106, Irving 106, Metropolitan 131, Peoples 135, Market 110, Nassau 105, Shoe and Leather 107, Corn E change 122, Continental 105, St. Nicholas 105, Cone niouweatth 1071, Importers and Traders 116, Central Na tional 101, Fourth Natfonal 101, Ninth National 104, Pail 144, Oriental Bank 135. NEW YORK ROTES OF EXCHANGE, Corrected by W. Aufermann, 68, Exchange-place, NS- Silty Days. Thr ee Days. London Bankers IO9L-110f 1101-1101 London, Prime Commercial Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers If amburgh, Bankers B6}— 36f Frankfort, 0.31. 4l —4li Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.10 —5.141 Amsterdam, Bankers - 41f Swiss (From Messrs. Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.) LONDON, Jan. 10. The Market for American Securities has been very quiet during the week. United States Bonds have fallen with the rise of gold in New York, the latest quotation of which by cable being the closing price of yesterday, 1371, an ad vance of 3/ per cent. since the 2d inst. 5-20 Bond:, 188 2 , open this morning at 711 711, being a fall of / per cent° since our last, while 5-20's of 1885 open at 701 701, a fall likewise of 1 per cent. 10-40's of 1904 have remained steady at 68 to 681 till this morning; they are quoted 671 68/. Illinois shares are quoted 88 881, a fall of 4 per cent. Erie shares have been quite steady at 48 to 49, but this morning are quoted 49 50, an advance of one per cent., corresponding to an advance of 3i per cent. in New York. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures are quoted 22 to 23, an advance of one per cent., while the Consoh dated Mortgage Bonds remain steady at 18 19. (From Messrs. Bowles, Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.) PARIS, Jan. 10, 1868. There is but little change to report in our market, an d prices, with the exception of Americans, do not sh o( marked variation. United States Bonds have been adversely affected 14 the news of an advance in gold and disquieting comma' cial rumours received from New York. They close : For the issue of 1862 For the issue of 1864 For the issue of 1865 with limited business. Advices from New York are to the 7th inst. : Gold United States Bonds, 1862 (currency) lOBl The Relate closes at... The Italian closes at Exchange on London (From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, Jar . By the City of Antwerp we have advices from N ew yorY to the 27th December. The Stock Markets generally Loa been steady, Government Securities maintaining their price on purchases to cover short sales which had bee n made in witicipation of large remittances of 5-20's from this side. Railroad Stocks had been steady, with the #3% . ' ception of Michigan Central, and Cleveland and Toledo , which had each declined $5. lu Railway Mortgages th e transactions were limited at slightly lower quotation t3 ' Money was easier at former rates, but gold had a decided l y upward tendency on the letter from the Secretary o f the Treasury intimating that no further contractions of O. currency would at present be attempted. The market in London for United States Governme nt Securities has been injuriously affected by the variou 9 propositions which have been made to alter their charac" ter, either by redemption in currency, or by new Bona to supersede those extant, and although the attempt ig pay off in currency has failed, yet the propositions o f 0 1 ° Finance Committee for the substitution of new Bonds l a lieu of those now current has produced an unsettled fee l. ' ing, and led to many sales of Bonds; the inducement to sell has been increased by the recent rapid advance o f the premium in gold, amounting to 3-} per cent. during 0 1 week. The result of these causes has been a fall of per cont. in the 5-20 Bonds. Illinois Shares have given way one per cent., closing 88 to 88k. Erie remain steady at about 48, with f° l/ transactions. The Panama Railway Seven per Cent. Los e ' at par, for £569,800, has all been subscribed for, and COw mands a premium of a half to one per cent. Births. ANTRIM—On the Bth inst., at Glenarm Castle, North off Ireland, Countess of Antrim, of a daughter, stillborn• GREEN—On the 10th inst., at Hendon, the wife of C. an Gieeu, Esq., of a daughter. STOURTON—On the 6th inst., at Newbridge, Ireland, the Hon. Mrs. Drerard Stourton, of a son. Marriages. FLETCHER —CARTER—Oa the 9th inst., at Battle, Jo h n T. Fletcher, of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, Seb' Q , o Fellow of Gonville and °aims College, Cambridge , .;'i Jane, only daughter of Samuel Carter, of Quarry-" Battle, Esq. TIMMINS—HOOPER —On the 9th inst. at Trinity ChuN lj ; 'Pulse-hill, Joseph Taylor, youngest son of J. Timnab 3 , 4 Esq., East Acton, to Catherine Harriet Maisie, young e ,", daughter of Frederick Wm. Hooper, Esq., Lai:waste' road, Norwood. Deaths. BustfiLL—On the 7th inst., at 67, Winchester-street, ro lico, miss Elizabeth Bushel], aged 70. CARNEGIE—On the Bth inst., at Edinburgh, John, youngest son of the late G. F. Carnegie, Esq., of Pittarrow. PRING —On the 7th inst., at 17, Blackmoor-street, Air• Pring, aged 61. RATLIFF —On the 9th inst., at Stoke-green, Coventrif Ann, widow of the late John Ratliff, Esq., of Coveritri' and formerly of Camberwell, Surrey, aged 74. SLOW On the 7th inst., at Ilampton-wick, Miss 3 011 Slow, aged 88. SMITH—On the Bth inst., at New Cross-road, Henry Di° ll Smith, Esq., aged 71. London : Printed and Published by WILLI.A.3I ANDri— .,l* No. 112, itrand, Printer, at TH a SON n e 9. N° of 111, the Precinct of the 6s vuy, in the Cotlu t J Atiddlefox.—Saturday, January 11, 1868. Aran After Drury- After Ihyt - th Ater Adelpt After Oiymi After Strand After New After St. Jat After Prince .adort Singing TILE NOI UNCII.EOI CUTS ke. Privnto r, CP.XT ory TO 01 On a+ , l aftpr P.M. to Ono n.r TriN Prix„ This e,(l e or% t, 8, ungerve the R. ha lf , LL M it Uri/ -1,1, 14. Iti7R~gL' ADVANCES AL hold o r L oase - h Ithle weekly m roans free on MADAM A Life-gin I ABYSSINIA, Engl I n a . Am , of FREDERE norrorg. 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