The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, --41.- The Times takes up the subject of the dwellings of on' poor, and laments the huddling together, the dirt, the starving, crushing, and the concomitant evils of disease and unhealthiness. And the course taken by the House of Lords on the Labourers' Dwellings Bill lead one to the conclusion that Parliament cannot deal with the evil. But who can ? What can ? Does this confession of incompe- tency send us with hope to the new British constituency, and the rulers, institutions, and functionaries likely to come out of it? On the contrary, the very hopelessness of the case consists in the indifference, the incompetence, the selfishness, or the jealousy of the people themselves. What is described is not a legislative but a popular fact. Pursue the evil round its course. Railway companies, public bodies, or corporations make a clearance. It accords with the national spirit of enterprise that they should have every facility for their task, and that it should not be encumbered with needless aggtavations. They declare emphatically, and no doubt truly, that they cannot undertake to build houses for the poor, still less keep the houses and their inmates in order. A few gentlemen and ladies of heroic courage and kindness are found to make the attempt, but they are as a drop in this large ocean of life. The remedy, if any can be found, devolves on the sufferers themselves. In spite of all that has been said, we must say that it is hard to believe it so utterly impossible for these people to find decent habitations a little further off. It is alleged _ _ that they must be near their work, or with their fellow workmen, or in known localities, where their employers may know where to find them ; but, as it happens, the very origin of the evil, and the very fact that sets these people adrift, is the continual displacement of the indus tries and operations on which they depend. The necessity for huddling together at Clerkenwell must be diminished by the fact of half Clerkenwellbeing destroyed; nor can we now see any necessity for many thousand people wallowing in filth and disease in what remains of the old Rookery, in Seven Dials, or in Soho. The sufferers do not take proper care of themselves, or avail themselves of the opportunities in their reach ; and, what is worse, they do not like the coldly clean and well-regulated model lodging- houses—conducted, too, as they are, with some sort of moral discipline. They settle accordingly into that dirt and slovenliness which invariably increases upon those who indulge in it, till there is neither power to resist nor even taste to be revolted at it. Then come in the reme- dial laws, administered as they must be by insti tutions and public functionaries. This brings us to a g eneral admis&on still more important and more deplorable than the incompetency of Legislatures — the powerlessness of public bodies and the helplessness of the people. It is the fact of a difficulty to be every where surmounted, at every step, and in every person con cerned. It is not easy to find an "authority ;" the authority changes or cannot be compelled to act, and a new one into be found. English liberty compels many cautions and notices, and allows long delays. If costly alterations are ordered in the public interest, who is to make them ? The resident householder? The sub-tenant ? The lessee ? The owner ? The ground landlord ? The authorities must find him, or the law must 'throw itself into the grasp of another and a stronger authority. If the authorities themselves undertake the expense, and even go so far as to supply houses for the poor, they must do it out of the rates, tlle4by taxing many landlords and householders in order to enter into competition with them. Already there are numerous Acts for the mitiga tion of these evils, for the proper inspection of lodging houses, for the removal of nuisances, and the restraint of overerowdizg ; but they are found insufficient or ineffec tive, either because they are thought too great an inter ference with British liberty, or simply because the autho rities have often to choose between turning poor creatures out of doors altogether and letting them remain in the pesthouses which scorn to the people themselves better than no houses at all. The Post, dealing with the acquittal of President Johnson, denounces the policy of the Republicans in bringing pressure to bear on the members of their party who refused to say that President Johnson was guilty. How ever, that pressure has failed to have any effect, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Johnson's opponents will now allow him to serve the brief remaining period of his term unmo lested. They have fought their fight and have been van quished, and they ought honestly to abide by the result. And indeed we think that it is matter for congratulation to the Republican party rather than otherwise that they have been worsted in this encounter. It certainly ought to be matter for unmixed satisfaction to the American People. If Mr. Johnson had been deposed by what would have been a purely party vote for purely party con siderations, the executive power in the Republic would have received a blow from the effects of which it would never have recovered. The weapon of impeachment was placed in the State armoury by the founders of the American Constitution rather for the purpose of sheaving the world that in the model Republic which was then being formed no man would be beyond the reach of the law, than for actual use. Whether the office of President be one which it is expedient to retain or to abolish is a matter of which the American people are the best judges ; but, if it is to be retained, it should be placed beyond the reach of assaults directed merely to serve the interests of a palitical faction. _ . The Daily News finds it easy to account for the acquittal of the President. The Republican majority in the Senate has been distinguished through all the crises of the last three years for the strong and even controlling element of moderation it contained. A considerable number of the Republican senators care more for the victory of .the Repub lican policy than for the welfare of the Republican party, and when Mr. Johnson has put that policy in peril they have gone with their party against him ; but when that policy has not been endangered, and their party has been the assailant, they have refused to move. Now, while the impeachment trial has been going on, reconstruction has also been going on, and it has become abundantly evident that the policy of Congress has already succeeded beyond Mr. Johnson's power to hinder it. His removal is, there fore, no longer needful to the success of the Congressional policy. There was room for moderation, even for leniency, and some of the Republican senators determined to exercise it. The Standard rejoices at the acquittal which has taken place (it says) in spite of a most unscrupulous use of every form of political terrorism and coercion, in spite of threats, abuse, summonses to resign, newspaper vituperations, and anonymous letters threatening them with assassination. It is a sad and shameful thing, and inexpr-essibly deplor able, that thirty-five senators could he found to pronounce the President guilty. By what they have done they have lowered the tone of the Senate. The Times congratulates the people on their fine Derby Day, cracks a joke about all their prophecies being wrong, and concludes by moralising on the event. It says : If on the off day we may be allowed to moralise, we would ask whether it be worth while to go so far in speculating on these chances as to stake great fortunes, and fine estates, and even good reputations on the issue? It is one thing to amuse oneself and others with such an ticipations as we have been discussing, but they assume a different aspect when they are regarded as part of a busi ness, and that business a gigantic gambling. If this misuse of the turf increases, the sport may lose a great part of its attraction. The time, however, is doubtless far distant when the harmless pleasures of the Derby will be lost to the mass of the public. Among the contributors to these pleasures we count the prophets who have shewn them selves superior to such repeated discouragements. Let us continue to haye the satisfaction of deciding the race beforehand, and then the additional satisfaction of a sur prise. We are all children for this occasion, and the more purposeless our enjoyment the better. Daii~ l; ears The complainS that it is not really a love for horse-raci ng that takes so man y E ng li sh people of the lower orders to Epsom on Derby Day. It is the passion fo . r,. gambling' that takes them to th turf. It is the vicious industry that .surrounl and its the sport of horse-racing, and degrades it from . original national purpose to the basest uses, that and d sed it to its present height of passionate popular favour c 7mversal interest. 'rh e Telegraph (which ever since the 0 1 uetrrekei2s7tceaelrlt systemexp lboy sion has been complaining bitterly o e f and advocating its thorough reform) a provision in a Government bill for givin more P annum to each of the Assistant Commissioncr ° olice. What for? asks our contemporary. F or their incapability in the Clerkenwell explosion? Locking the stable-door after the steed is stolen is proverbial ; but what can we call rewarding the stable-boy on such an occasion by way iragcment to future neglect? Fancy the feelings veil ratepaying artisan when the tax-collector s to him and virtually says, " Your children were ac ; you have lost the sight of 'or permitting this, which they might u:ied, the three AsAstant-Comml.4sioncrs £3OO a year each, and Myna- Cerice ; Sail 701.1 r ri to ext.ro, A yc are I o !enr tie expenses. Of conrse file taxpayer will p y; ab:e; but there • are few things Le may grt to e lure mid pay for. CAUTION TO S 111. 01,1 .—A fire broke out a few day 3 back in a cella , : forming part of the celebrated Palazzr, Vecchio at Florence. At about two in the after noon smoke was seen issuing through an air -hole, and a (rlantlty of waste paper was found to be burning. The authorities and the fire brigade were speedily on the spot, and succeeded in preventing any serious damage. Rumours were current amongst the crowd that the fire NV:t3 the act of an incendiary, but there seems no doubt tl,at it was attributable to the careless throwing of a burning match by some pissing smoker. LAW AND POLICE. CAN A SECRETARY VOTE AS A DIRECTOR ?—This point , was settled in a case that was before the Court of Common 3 Pleas, called the Iron Ship-coating Company (Limited) v. Blunt. This was an action by the company against a shareholder to recover £2OB for amount of calls unpaid. 1 It was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, when a verdict ' was given for the plaintiff, but subsequently a rule nisi ' was obtained. When the case came on for argument, the objection raised by the defendant was that by the articles of association three directors were to be a quorum, and they had power to make calls. By the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 25 and 26 Victoria, cap. 89, sec. 72, any director elected to an office other than manager was dis qualified from acting as such director. In the present case one of the three directors had been elected and acted as. secretary, and it was contended that his holding of this office disqualified him from acting as a director under the statute ; the call had, therefore, been made by two direc- t ..s Only, and was not duly made, as a quorum of three directors only could make a call. To this it was answered that a resolution had been passed by the quorum that two of their body might manage the business of the company; to which it was replied that a quorum, as delegates of the whole body of directors, had no power to alter their delegated authority and delegate it to two directors or to one, and that the call, therefore, was not properly made. In giving judgment the Lord Chief Justice said a resolution had been passed appointing two directors to act as managers, and Mr. Grabham had been appointed one of them, with a salary. It seemed to him that on the passing of that resolution Mr. Grabham ceased to be the secretary, and became on its passing a director, and one of two appointed to manage the affairs of the company, and as such competent to act as secretary. Under these circumstances the objection failed. He was a director, and the "call was regularly made. The rule must, therefore, be discharged. Cunious ACTION FOR DAMAGES.—In the Nisi Prius Court of Common Pleas an action was brought by a gardener, named , . Denyer, for damages against a brickmaker named Burchett. It was an action for damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the fumes and vapours proceeding from the defendant's brick-kiln having injured his crop of fruit and trees in 1864. The defendant said that his brick clams had nothing to do with the state of the plaintiff's trees and fruit. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £lOO. THE HERNE BAY OYSTER COMPANY.—In Vice Chan cellor Stuart's court the case of Downs v. the Herne Bay, Hampton, and.Reculver Oyster Fishery Company was disposed of. The plaintiff is a fisherman, inhabiting a cottage near Hampton Point, on the north coast of Kent: of this cottage as well as that of a weir and of the adjoin ing foreshore (or the land between high and low water mark), in the estuary of the River Thames, he claimed the absolute ownership, subject to a quit rent of ss. a year to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Herne Bay Fishery Company were incorporated in 1864 by an Act of Parliament, the 31st section of which expressly provided that the company should not take or use otherwise than by agreement any weir, land, or fishery belonging to Joseph Downs, the plaintiff ; this clause being inserted in consequence of the plaintiff's opposition to the bill in Parliament. Soon after the passing of the Act the defendants commenced their works by the erection of a pier within a few yards of the plaintiff's property, and in so doing they removed a quantity of shingle that was of great value to him, forming as it did a natural barrier to his house and land from the sea. The shingle, notwith standing his complaints, continued to be removed, and the plaintiff brought a suit to restrain the defendants from so doing. The Vice-Chancellor, in giving judgment, said that the defendants had no right to take away the shingle, and the plaintiff was entitled to compensation. A public park has been formally presented to the people of Paisley by Mr. T. Coats, of Ferguslie, at a cost of £20,600. An idiot young woman has been burnt to death near Stafford. She had been left alone but a few minutes, when her clothes caught fire, and she died in a few hours. A young gentleman, 19 years of age, the son of Sir Richard Gethen, Bait., has been committed for trial by the Birkenhead magistrates on a charge of arson, According to the Wiltshire papers, the Earl of Cavan has been preaching to large congregations in the Congregational chapels in Warminster. The pearl fishery grounds recently discovered at Western Australia extend along the coast for 1,000 miles. Upwards of sixty tons of pearl oysters were fished up in December last, and sold for £lOO per ton. As the Scotch express train was within half a mile of Usworth station, on the North-Eastern line, a day or two ago, an old woman, named Maria Hand, who bw pened to be walking on the line, was knocked down ..,nd killed. Up to the 22nd instant 5,297 petitions, contain ing 5:37,385 signatures, had been presented to the House of Commons against the disendowment of the Irish Church, while 2,132 petitions, signed by 558,138 persons, had been deposited in favour of Mr. Gladstone's mea• sure. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—Professor Plumptri h as resigned the chaplaincy of King's College , w hit b he has held during the long period of twenty-two years. It was generally thought that he would have been elected to the principalship of the college in succession to Dr. Jelf. On the 25th of next month Lord Elcho will move that a humble address be presented to her Majesty, pray ing that she will he graciously pleased to appoint a royal commission to inquire into and report upon our military organisation, in so far as it relates to the establish ment of a sufficient and economical army of reserve, and the means it offers of speedy and efficient expansion to meet the requirements of war, more especially for home defence. THE CHARTERHOUSE.—It is known that the old Charterhouse School is to find a new home near Godalming, in Surrey, where a large and commodious edifice is build ing for the accommodation of the scholars of the famous Sutton's foundation. It is now stated that another asylum is also contemplated for the " poor brotherhood " of the Charterhouse ; but whether the site will be that of the new school or be selected elsewhere is not known. The poor brothers now number about eighty. THE MI C .lANI CS' INSTITUTE AT LEEDS. A bazaar of more than usual interest has been opened in the Leeds Town Hall by the Mayor. It has for its object the liquidation of the debt—about £6,000 —remaining on the new local Mechanics' Institute, and has the Queen, the E m press of the French, the Princess of Wales, and the Crown Princess of Prussia, as well as the promi nent ladies of the West Riding, amongst its patronesses, the Empress of the French and the Crown Princess of Prussia being also contributors. Leeds Mercury. The Queen has received an address from the parishioners of Crathie in reference to the attempt upon the life of Prince Alfred. The following was the reply : " I thank you for your loyal and affectionate congratulation on the providential escape of my dear son from the hand of the assassin. The expression of sympathy and of loyal attachment to myself and to my family which this outrage has called forth from every part of my dominions has been most gratifying to me ; but nowhere has it been more grateful to my feelings than when coming thus cor- dially and spontaneously from you, the friends and neigh bours amongst whom it is always a source of happiness to me to reside." THE REFORM LEAGUE.—On Wednesday night a meeting of the Reform League was held at the offices of the association, under the presidency of Mr. Edmond Reales. In opening the proceedings, the chairman said that though there was great difficulty in convening a numerous meeting on the evening of the Derby Day, he wished to address a few words to those present on a subject of considerable importance. The question had been submitted to a committee of the League as to whether the present Lord Mayor of London had on several recent occasions properly represented the feelings of the citizens of London concern. ing the present attitude of the Irish Church.. In other words, he wished to know whether or not the Lord Mayor of London bad represented the opinions of the English people as re gar d e d re li g i ous f ree d om — or, as h e wou ld say, religions e l qnal a it 3 y .or ii ( l iil t r h in e g s l is i t s ;e ea c r ot o m f t o r fr y i . ce l o i l e lg c h o t n t s o id h e f r tN ed e that a Lord no politics, and that the chief magistrate of the City for j the time being ought to hold the balance of power between all political parties. It was important to know whether the Lord Mayor bad adequately represented the feelings of the citizens of London by the part lie had taken in the meeting at St. James's Hall and also at the meeting at the City Terminus . Hotel. He believed that the Lord Mayor had rendered himself liable to a charge of great indecency in submitting his own individual opinions on a great national question to an assembly in which her Majesty's judges were comprised, and in the presence o• f several gentlemen of high position in the State—many of whom were known to be opposed to the policy advocated by the present Government. He believed that it behove 1 the I e , gue to take such steps as would c induce to the proper understanding of the opinions of the citizens of London as regarded the all-absorbing subject of the Irish Church. A long discussion then ensued on the subject of the lodger franchise, after which the meeting adjourned. THE SUN, LOND )1‘. 3 THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1868. ARGUING. We are told that every man has implanted in him a craving after truth, and that the food of the intellect, after which men are ever hun- gering, is that which keeps the mind in a sound and healthy state. We are by no means thinking of combating this generally received view of man's mentafappetite. We fully be lieve that the good, the beautiful, and the true form a triplex fanus quod non, facile rum- Titan and that in Proportion as he earnestly, seriously, and conscientiously perseveres in making these his own, man will become more and more mentally good, beautiful, and true himself. The image of his Maker will be brought out into fuller and brighter relief, and the likeness to God will daily become more striking to those who come into contact with the intelligence thus illuminated. But this, like every other case of the mani festation of the human and highest element in the complex being man, presents its difficulties. There is a question, which is not so easy of solution, as to whether some more powerful love than the love for the good, beautiful, and true, may not take the place of those three, and take control of the human mind, using them as agents or slaves. At all events, it cannot be denied that the various habits, likings, and dislikings in a man act and react upon each other, and produce a result by their joint ac tion which is very curious to contemplate. For instance, granted men love truth and have within them a propelling power moving them ever on to grasp and make truth their own, it cannot be denied that they have another abiding craving, which is certainly seldom sleeping, and acts in the affairs of men with enormous - power—we mean that self-love, as it is called, or that intense individuality , which is ever asserting itself, and endeavour ing to make self domineer and take the first place in everything. The fact of human life, of being able to say " Ego," and the intensity of the feeling a man experiences when he shuts his eyes and contemplates the soul's centre, with the faculties it possesses, in part, at least, may open our eyes to the secret of that self assertion which is ever claiming an intense life, and an intense individuality, which is ever separating itself from others, and from things, and living in the consciousness of its own per sonality. Anything that would seem to aspire, to surmount, or surpass that personality, is looked upon, or rather felt, as an attack upon it. Each is ever striving upwards, struggling to the top, with the hope of breathing more freely, and looking down from an eminence of its own individuality, upon the multitude below. A certain living vis, or force, seems, like a spiritual spark, to push the human spirit to high things, and to bear it up by a natural law into heights above itself, where it seems to hold out a repose to itself, which is never realized. The striving after fame, the aspirations of authors, of statesmen, of soldiers, even the unhealthy and diseased craving in the felon's breast to get his name printed in the papers, seem to flow from a kindred source. And so if the human " Ego" is ever swimming to the top, ever swimming faster and further, if it could do so, than its fellows, it stands to reason that there, where its interests are most concernecl, it would strive the hardest and the longest to hold its own. Now this is the point that dwells in our minds. If goodness, beauty, truth, as we fully hold, are three attractions which, in proportion as the mind is healthy hold sway over it and give it cause to hunger for further and further possession of them selves, in that very same proportion will the human "Ego," assert either possession of them, or at all events when others make a claim of possessing them, which implies an exclusion of its possession, will violently strive for the mastery, and will be most stubborn in main taining that it possesses them as most precious treasures. If the " Ego " once admit that it does not hold that which is the thing which it feels to be most specially its own, and which is as the air it breathes, it is the same almost as self annihilation. We are far from say ing or thinking that the human consciousness knows, when it thus acts, the reasons of its operations. They are instinctive. The lion defends her young, the bird decoys away the decoyer with not more unconsciousness—but all act in the way we say. So that the crav ing for truth, and the craving of individuality, are two opposing and,, powerful forces, which in their concussion giVe men a different appear ance when they are searching after truth than they would have were they influenced by the simple desire—without any opposing passion— after what was good, or beautiful, or true. What is more muddy than the generality of minds which argue, if one may judge by their method in conversation ? The "Ego" seems generally uppermost, the love of individual eminence is the stronger passion. Veritas loves the truth, and argues violently for the truth, but it is his truth, and as he sees it. His mind is warm with the glow of his own thought, with the child of his own birth, and it matters little .to him what fallacy he makes use of, or what trick (very often), so that he can silence his adversary, and push his child forward, as the pink of perfection. Bonitas, on the other hand, is no less brimful of his side of the question. He meets his opponent, but meets him with a thrust or a blow, his truth is truth, Veritas's truth is falsehood. The two " Ego's" are merely playing a broad sword or single stick with each other, and are making use of the good, the beautiful, and the true, as the occasion for their quarrelling. Each still professes but one thing, each loves truth, and only truth, and each protests the proof of that affection lies in the earnestness and even violence with which he pushes his own falsehood or half truth into the mind of his neighbour. The " Ego" hates to be beaten, especially in argument, for the intelligence is the stronghold of the " Ego," its centre-point. The " Ego," even when it is very glaringly wrong, feels a great effort in acknowledging it, for it thus is establishing a kind of prece dent against itself: The " Ego " requires much discipline, moral discipline and train ing, before it can be subdued into that calm ness and that inprejudice which will allow the form of truth clearly to reflect itself in it as in a mirror. This is done by religion, with some philosophers it has been partially achieved by truth itself and a moral life, but religion alone can calm the human individuality into a patient listener, into a hearty receiver, into a servant of truth. The subjection of the " Ego," as the servant of truth, as being swayed by truth, as being attracted by it—this seems like a form of true humility. The man whose mind really loved truth in very deed best, and the " Ego " merely as the precious vase in which it is to be received—only beautiful and good in proportion as it is filled with it—he would never argue to defend the wrong, however much it would be to his seeming monetary in terests to do so. To him to get rid of the false would be the most glorious achievement ; he would thank, as a kindest friend, any man, the humblest, the poorest, who would remove his darkness, and let into his mind the tiniest ray of light. He would prize everything in relation to truth, and would exhibit a splendid nature, even in his common intercourse with his kind. If the true, the beautiful, the good, were really loved and not made stalking-horses of, the world would not have so many broad shadows across it as at present—so many dark spots one hardly likes to think of, which are broadening and becoming desolate tracts. Man would honour man more, and the intercom ould bring forth largeness are e s e s ss to a im n o n d es b oof e f a t u ht t he y ea , td b tar r yi e b a ,u, d t t ie h ns andna f nn t tci h e e nnp da t oec r fri u tn e ye : sIT minds: w o religion, politics, morality, even finance, would then find an easier solution, and we should not be stunned so by the blatant babble of clapping tongues, which are prostituting truth to the service of overweening imlividu ality.—Westminster Gazette. LONGEVITY.—A woman named Elizabeth Sin clair died at Crieff last week at the remarkable age of 102 years PISCICULTURE IN AMERICA. In continuation of the remarks in our last, we give the following from the Agriculturist of the exact results determined by I.lst year's experiments with reference to shad culture :—" First. Ti►e eggs need river water to hatch in. Seth Green first tried his experiment in a brook, where the water was 13 deg. too cold, and failed. Second. In the river, where the temperature was about 70 deg., the eggs hatched in 60 hours. Eggs have been hatched in a bottle, in a warmer temperature, in 48 hours. Third. By tilting his boxes, so as to expose only the wire gauze bottom to the current, he hatched almost every egg, only seven failing to hatch in one lot of 10,000. Fourth. With the utmost care, he could batch on the natural river bed only two per cent, of the eggs—a fact most significant of the enormous loss in the natural method. Fifth. The young fry make directly for the main current of the river. Young trout, much more hardy than shad in after life, skulk under rocks and banks, helpless and almost too weak to move for 40 days. Sixth. Young shad are armed with teeth and devour one another, although the adults have smooth jaws. This fact has been relied upon to prove that ' sea shad', a fish caught with the hook along the mouths of creeks and coves of L. I. Sound, in the fall, are a distinct variety. They weigh from one to three pounds, and, to the careless observer, look like the river fish. Are they the yearling shad ? Who can tell us ? The brief period of incu bation required fcr the eggs of this fish would indicate its rapid development and early decay. It is disputed at what age the shad matures its spawn, and returns to the rivers to breed. If the ' sea shad,' that take the hook, are identical with the river species, they are probably the fish in their second year, about half grown. At two years old they reach maturity, and begin to breed. With the interest that is awakened by these experiments, it cannot be long before these ques tions are settled. These facts, established in the operations of last year, demonstrate the entire suc cess and economy of the efforts made in New Eng land to restock their rivers with fish. Fish of any variety can be artificially bred in any desirable quantity, and turned into the streams where they are to grow. Man has in a measure control of these migratory flab, and with suitable legislation can make their enormous fecundity tributary to his support. The economy of the artificial over the natural method is much greater than we had sup posed. It is nearly as fifty to one. Every river can be stocked with fish, at a small cost, to the ex treme limit of its capacity to nourish them. It will not cost so much to hatch a million of salmon in the upper waters of the Connecticut as it does to raise a single calf upon its banks. The finest varieties of fish ought to be the cheapest food in the market, and cannot fail to be, if all the States will follow the example of the New England States, and en courage artificial breeding." It is now confidently stated that Seth Green will at once resume his ex periments in artificial propagation at South Hadley Falls.—Anglo-American Times. 111 E POSI7ION AT WASHINGTON. - (From the Anglo-American Times) It is passing strange to compare the action of the English Legislature with that of the United States ; the Executive in each country being in opposition to the majority. At Washington Mr. JOHNSON is opposed by four-fifths of both Houses of Congress, / maintaining a policy directly in va riance. Not onl y does he set aside, but he infringes the laws passed by the Legislature. Not only does he dismiss a Minister Congress earnestly desires to retain, but he replaces him with one Congress indignantly refuses to recognize. Yet when the Legislature takes the only constitutional means of putting a stop to this dead-lock byremoving the obstruction it had borne for three years most of the English papers decry the action as revolutionary, as subversive of the Consti tution, and as destructive of rightful authority. But how does Parliament act when it tastes of a similar cup? Mr. DISRAELI, defeated by a narrow majority on a great question which many think infringes on the rights of the Crown, desires that the subject should temporarily be dropped till the urgent business of the nation has been transacted, the Reform Bill for Scotland and Ireland passed, when the appeal could be made to the enlarged constituen cies, and the nation be called on to decide the dis establishment of the Irish Church. Every rea son is in Mr. DISRAELI'S favour, but Constitu tionally a Ministry has no right to retain office in the face of a hostile majority. So jealous is Parliament of this privilege, that, notwithstanding the reasonable programme proposed by the Pre mier, he has been subjected to the most bitter at tacks, and combined efforts have been made to drive him out. The extreme measure was even threatened to stop the supplies ; and Mr. REARDEN, representative of Athlone borough, has placed a notice on the table to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether it would not be for every one's interest to advise her MAJESTY to abdicate in favour of his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, or to introduce a bill for the purpose of establishing a Re gency, that the duties incumbent on the Sovereign might be performed during her absence. This is the ac tion of those, under small provocation, who condemn the proceedings at Washington under great provoca tion. The Congressional majority, too, contends for interests far more important than those espoused by the Parliamentary majority. From the strong action of the Opposition benches, when Mr. GLAD STONE'S followers found they could defeat the Tory party, it is apparent to what lengths they are pre. pared to go in crushing opposition. What a spec tacle would be presented if Mr. DlSRAELldenounce d both Houses as a Rump Parliament hanging on to the verge of Government, which he would take an early opportunity of kicking out, and follow this up by setting aside a law passed by an overwhelming majority, and despatching the most subservient soldier at hand with an order to the War-office for the Minister sanctioned by Parliament immediately to turn out, handing over possession to the bearer. When such intelligence is announced in the Eng lish House of Commons, may we be there to see what happens! But it is only, though the cir cumstances are dissimilar, by bringing them home that the English people can compare, and in their mind's eye see the position at Washington. Taking all the circumstances into consideration, however intemperate the Representatives may have been in speech, their action has been marked by modera tion, while that of the Senate has been bminently characterized by dignity and equity. After a careful reading of American papers of the 9th instant, both Republican and Democratic, we see no reason to modify the opinion given in the preceding article, which was written on the receipt of the vote on the eleventh charge. The general belief is, that a verdict of Guilty will be returned ou some of the counts, though none looked for a conviction on all. Mr. JOHNSON by every account is the one man in Washington who appears to care least what happens. For so many months he has been the centre round which the war has raged that it would be a relief to him to be out of the crush and able again to breathe freely in the open air. He sees his enemy, Mr. WADE, rapidly becom ing the centre, and the shafts of malice flying thickly at " glorious old BEN.'S " head, who is the sabject of all sorts of stories. Some say that he has consented to resign his Presidency of the Senate in favour of Speaker COLFAX, and in con sideration of a written promise from Messrs. COL FAX and WILSON to decline the Vice-Presidential nomination, Mr. WADE being placed on the ticket with GRANT. Rumours have been circulated through the New England States that Senator WILSON is doubtful on the Impeachment question; that he cannot make up his mind to give a vote which will aid in placing his rival, BEN. WADE, in a position to use against him so vast a patronage. BUT LER, who is in turn put down for all the chief posts, is now named for Secretary of State, and THOU AS J. DURANT, of Louisiana, for Attorney- General. But if the Tenure-of-Office Act is to stand and be effective, the Cabinet Ministers may refuse to resign, and hold their places under its provisions for a month after the expiration of the present Presidential term, setting " Glorious BEN " at defiance. In case of ANDREW JOHNSON'S acquittal, a rumour is abroad that many changes will be effected, at least two of the PRESIDENT' Counsel being brought into the Cabinet ; EVA RTS as Secretary of State and GROESBECK to the Trea sury; General Cox, of Ohio, is named as Secretary of War; Admiral PORTER for the Navy ; Mr. CLAYTON, of Illinois, for the Interior ; REVERDY JOHNSON, of Maryland, Attorney-General. On the 7th instant, in a secret Session of the Senate Court, which lasted six hours, it was decided to adjourn till Monday, the 11th. The rules of impeachment were to be debated. The S‘mators who desire to record their opinions were to file them within two days after the vote, to be printed with the proceedings. The discussion mainly turned upon the form of question to be put to each Senator in his final vote ; and Mr. SUMNER'S proposal, made on the 10th of April, came up for discussion, that— "On taking the votes of the Senate on the Articles of Impeachment, the presiding officer shall call each Senator by his name, and upon each Article propose the following question in the manner following : ' Mr. —, how say you ? Is this respondent, —, guilty or not guilty, as charged in the— Article of Impeachment ?'—whereupon each Senator shall rise in his place and answer Guilty or not Guilty." Mr. WADE's friends give him the credit of having determined not to make up Lis Cabinet till after the Chicago Convention, but the Senate has effec tually settled that matter by leaving Mr. WADE out in the cold---at least for the present. If the vote for next Tuesday acquits ANDREW JOIINSON great will be the disappointment in some quarters at Washington. But we doubt whether the coun try on the whole will not rejoice at the result. To throw the power into the hands of the extreme Radicals is opposed to the general wish of the nation, and it will be one of the strongest charges made against ANDREW JOHNSON by moderate men if the end of his policy be the domination of an extreme and an unpopular faction. MONEY MARKETS AND BUSINESS. (From the Correspondent of the Anglo-American Times.) At Boston the rates of discount still hold up to 7 to 7i to 8 per cent. There is not much to lend, nor many who want to borrow. At Chicago there is a light demand, and money rules easy at 10 per cent. At San Francisco increased activity is re ported, and 12 to 15 per cent. is paid for accommo dation. At New York money is easy, with a lower tendency. Call loans range from 6 to 7 per cent., according to character; discount 7 to 8, with, in each ease, a preference for the under figure. There is a tendency to hold money out of investment, ex cept the necessarily limited amount required for real estate operators. The aggregate of deposits in the city banks has increased fifteen millions iu as many days. The stock market at New York has been quiet, but firm. The New York roads have risen, and are strong at the advance. The western shares are active at better quotations, particularly Michigan Southern, and North-western Preferred. Pacific Mail is still being assailed by anonymous pamphle teers, but the decline has been arrested, and shares have risen to 931, where they stand firm. Hartford and Erie is 1 better at Boston. Governments are not so active as early in the week, but the prices are well maintained. There has been a consider able investment in them from the proceeds of the May dividends, and they may he expected to hold firm. It is believed that the effect of the re- pudiation outcry is exhausted, and that the gold interest bearing bondi of the Government will as sume their proper place in the public estimation. The New York Journal of Commerce indicates a new clement in the demand for Five-Twenties, particu larly those of 1562, as follows—" The advance in the price of small Government Bonds has brought out the fact that these securities are now used largely in place of letters of credit. This is espe cially true of German and continental travellers visiting Europe. They carry small United States Bonds with them, and find them much cheaper and easier of negotiation than the old-fashioned Bankers' letters." The analysis of the public debt statement for the Ist of May shows that the coin interest debt has increased from last report $18,937,450 by the con version of Seven-Thirties. The currency interest debt has decreased $21,390,700, partly by conver sion and the rest by purchase at New York. The matured debt not presented for payment has de creased $1,311,100. The debt not bearing interest has increased $1,477,640. Total decrease for the month, $2,106,700. The amount of coin and cur rency in the Treasury has increased $16,574,189, leaving the Government better off by $18,680,859 than the month before. This exhibit will pro bably be sufficient to satisfy the croakers of the integrity of our finances, and must have a decided influence upon the reception of the bill revising the revenue, which is to bs introduced into the House next week. The import entries at New York have been 5,395,813 against $4,292,967 of last year. The increase iu customs duties is going far to ba lance the falling off in internal revenue receipts. The export clearances of domestic produce amount to $4,170,473 against $3,314,702. The total value (in gold) of import duties of foreign merchandise since July 1, 1867, of $201,055,836 against $229,688,516, a decrease of $28,688,516, while the decrease in the currency value in domestic produce and miscellaneous goode exported for the same time is only $2,057,617, the figures being $153,199,158 against $155,256,775. There has been less activity during the week in breadstuffs, and in many articles a marked depres sion. Western and State flour have made a con siderable decline under unfavourable advices from Europe and the fall in wheat. Rye flour and corn meal are firm, at better quotations. The price of wheat was borne down by unexpectedly large re ceipts, but the decline seems at this time to be checked. Provisions of all kinds are firm at the advance of last week ; pork has risen 75 cents a barrel upon a previous rise of $2 to $2.25. At the present figures, however, holders think it wise to realise, and the market supply is increasing so fast that a decline is not improbable. Cotton rose early in the week, reaching 332 for Texas and New Orleans, and at the same time the anomaly was presented of cotton goods falling. The high price of cotton had for some time held up the price of the manufactured article against a strong downward tendency and the influence of a large supply. It was evident that its power to do this could not go beyond a certain point or last long. The two are now getting to gether again, cotton having declined heavily from Wednesday to Thursday. In wool and woollens there has been a quiet market, with a steady de mand. Seasonable goods are looking up, and something is being done to make up for the tardi ness of the April trade. At New York, 7th May, money closed buoyant at 6 per cent. on call, with exceptions at 7. Ster ling exchange steady at 100 to 110.1, with more demand. Gold firm, opened at 1391, advanced to 1392, and closed at 1391. The assistant treasurer sold $150,000, and paid out as interest $495,000. Export to-day $1,090,340. Governments a shade better for Sixes of 1881, and Five twenties of 1862 and 1867, closing strong with demand, mainly on the 67's, old 65's, and Seven- Thirties. The assistant-treasurer bought no Seven- Thirties, being unprepared to pay 1071. The Stock Exchange and Open Board have united to organize a stock clearing house. Stocks are more active, with a general advance of T 3 3; to 2 per oeut. New York Central, Rock Island, and Missouri 6's were in especial demand. Late in the afternoon there was some yielding in the market, apparently from sales to realize, and it closed dull, but steady. At New York, American gold 1391, United States Coupon Sixes (1881) 1131 to 1132, United States Five-Twenties (1862) 1081 to 108$, (1864) 1061 to 1062, (1865) 107 to 107*, (1865, new) 109 to 109*, (1867) 109$ to 109/, United States Ten- Forties 103 to 103*, United States Seven-Thirties 1071 to 1071, Missouri Sixes 91, Tennessee Sixes (new) 661, New York Central Railroad 1281 to 1282, Erie 692 to 695, Preferred 72 to 74, Hud son River 1361 to 1365, Reading 901 to 902 Michigan Central 110 to 120, Michigan South ern and Northern Indiana 84 to 84*, Illinois Central 146, Cleveland and Pittsburg 84/ to 841, Cleveland and Toledo 1051 to 106, Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific 943. to 942, Chicago and North western 652 to 66, Chicago and North-western Pre ferred 762 to 761, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago 1061 to 1061, Ohio and Mississippi certifi cates 31 1 to 311, Toledo and Wabash 511 to 511 ; Milwaukee and St. Paul 632 to 64, Adams Express Company 61/ to 612, Merchants' Union 31 to 311, Pacific Mail Steamship Company 931 to 935, At lantic Mail Steamship Company 32 to 35, Cumber land Coal Company Preferred 32 to 33, Canton 511- to 52, Quicksilver 311 to 312, Boston Water Power Company 20 to 21. At Hartford, Adams Express Company 622, American 60/, United States 62, Merchants' Union 31-t, Wells, Fargo, and Co. 26 ; Hartford Accident Insurance Company 75 ; General Life 99 ; National Exchange Bank 57 ; Connecticut Sixes 100 ; New York and New Haven, Railroad 151. (From the (Vall-street Journal.) NEW YORK, May 9. The Money Market is easy, and at Six per Cent. on call borrowers are readily supplied. Discounts are restricted from the want of first class paper, which passes readily at 6 to 7i per cent., but anything below No. 1, especially, if long dated, c a n with difficulty be passed at any price. Among the failures this week we notice that of 11. J. Messenger, banker and broker, 23, Nassau street, but his stoppage created very little atten tion. He was the proprietor of several small State banks, and also had considerate private deposits from out-of-town parties. Mr. Messenger is now settling his affairs by composition at the rate of 75 cent. to the dollar (prompt cash or short paper), on his liabilities. Gold is firm, and opened to-day at 139 a, thence falling to 139 k, with a quick rise to 139,1, and closes at that price. _ _ American silver is in moderate demand at 6 to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are still quoted at 1031 to 1034 in gold. For Foreign Exchange the demand is limited, and good bankers' sight bills have been offered to day at 1101. Railroad Stocks show more activity, especially in some of the clique stocks, prominent among which is New York Central, on which it is reported that a stock and cash dividend will be declared to morrow. In miscellaneous sthcks the principal business has been in Quicksilver, Pacific Mail, and Canton, an of which are higher. Mining stocks continue very dull, and the few transactions show lower prices. Petroleum stocks are not pressed for sale, and the principal business has been in United States and Sherman and Barnsdall at the quotations. (From Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular.) . LONDON, May 20, 1868. . _ We have had a very inactive market in American securities ou the London Stock Exchange during the past week. The unsettled aspect of political affairs in New York with regard to the impeach ment has induced shipments of United States 5-20's to this side, but they have again been bought on continental account, and the closing price, 711 to, shows an advance of per cent. The 1865 Bonds have also improved to 701 to Erie Shares are lower in sympathy with the New York market, but Illinois Central Shares have improved per cent., leaving off 951 to 4. Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds and Debentures have been more offered, but the Divisional Bonds are steady at for mer quotations. (From Messrs. L. P. Morton and Co.'s Circular.) NEW YORK, May 9, 1868. _ . Since our last advices monetary affairs have assumed an easier aspect; funds have returned freely from the in terior to the City banks, and, notwithstanding that the Treasury increased its currency 69,000,000 during April, call loans are easy at 6 to 7 per cent., with a tendency to ward lower rates. In the general aspect of business there is no change. Trade is conducted with a ;conservative spirit, and while lacking buoyancy is perhaps less than usual exposed to risks. Thus far, the reports respecting the growing crops are almost universally favourable, the amount of land under grain having been increased and the condition being promising. United States Securities are unusually firm, quotations being higher than at this date of any previous year. The .purchase of Seven-Thirty Treasury Notes by the Govern ment, without a proportionate issue of new obligations, has perhaps contributed materially to this condition of the market; and the buying on foreign account, in return for May coupons, has also had its influence. It will be seen from the accompanying statement, that the net total of the public debt was reduced during April $18,680,859. It is to be .anticipated, however, that owing to the large inte rest disbursements of May the next return will show an increase in the total. The Stock Market lacks interest alike for investors and speculators. At present most of the railroad stocks are under the control of combinations; and the shares being thus prevented from finding their natural value, there is at present a disposition to postpone operations. With the prospect of protracted ease in money, it is not improbable, however, .that this condition of things may be prolonged. The Gold Premium continues comparatively steady. As usual, at this period, there is an suave export of specie, and the demand for that purpose counteract§ the effect of the large coin disbursements of the Treasury due on the Ist inst. The impeachment trial has, at present, little effect upon the premium; for, in the first place, the issue is involved in much uncertainty ; and next, there is much diversity of opinion as to what may l the effect of either conviction or acquittal. There is an active demand for Foreign Bills in connec tion with remittances against coupons; otherwise, trans actions are limited. Rates rule at figures admitting of shipments of specie. We quote—BanKers' 60 days' ster ling, 1101. to 110+ ; do., sight, 110+ to 1101,; bills on Paris, GO days, 5.12; ; do. sight, 5.10. LATEST PRICES OF SILVER MINING STOCKS AT SAN FRANCISCO. • By telegram from San Francisco, datel May 4, 1868, we have the following quotations:— Gould and Curry ... Savage Cnollar-Potosr Ophir Hale and Narcross Crown Point Yellow Jacket Belcher Alpha Kentucky ... Bullion ~. Overman ... Empire Mill Imperial Confidence ... Amader Exchequer Quartz Hill Lady Byron ... $550 per foo ... 3,183 „ ... '248 ▪ 185 „ ... 2,000 „ ... 2050 „ • 1,420 „ • 335 „ ... 247 pr share. THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNITED STATES. (Secretary M'Culloch's Monthly Statements.) The following is the official statement of the public debt of the United States on the Ist of May, 1858 : - DEBT BEARING COIN INTEREST. 5 per Cent. Bonds 5215,974,400 00 6 per Cent. Bonds of 1867 and 1868 6 per Cent. Bonds of 1881 283,677,200 00 6 per Cent. 5-20 Bonds 1,442,00,450 00 Navy pension fund 13,000,000 00 Total 51,963,378,291 00 DEB r BEARING CURRENCY INTEREST. Six por Cent Bonds Three-year Compound Interest Notes Three-year 7-30 Notes 163,490,250 00 Three per Cent Certificates 28,330,000 00 Total 5260,375,930 00 MATURED DEBT NOT PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT. Three-year Seven-thirty Notes, due Aug. 15, 1867 Compound Interest Notes matured June 10, July 15, Aug. 15, and Oct. 15, and Dec. 15, 1867 Bonds of Texas Indemnity Treasury Notes, Acts July 17, 1861, and prior thereto Bonds of April 15, 1842 Treasury Notes, March 3, 1867 Temporary Loau Certificates of Indebtedness lB,OOO 00 $1,075,950 01 4,745,280 00 256,000 00 Total 57,905,283 00 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. United States Notes 5356,144,727 00 Fractional Currency 32,450,489 00 Gold Certificates of Deposit Total Total debt 52,639,612,622 00 AMOUNT IN TREASUItY $106,909,658 00 32,174,136 00 Coin Currency Total Amount of debt, less cash in Treasury $2,500,528,827 00 The foregoing is a correct statement of the Public Debt, as appears from the books and Treasurer's returns in the department on the Ist of May, 1868. Hum APOuLLocli, Secretary of the Treasury. THE FOREIGN TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. The director of the Bureau of Statistics has published, with unusual punctuality, the tables of the foreign trade of the United States, for the month of February, being the eighth month of the current fiscal year. We are thus enabled to bring forward our general analysis from July 1, 1867, to February 29, 1868 : FOREIGN TRADE OF UNITED STATES -EIGHT MONTHS. Imported. Paying duty. Free of duty. Total. July August 31,905,788 2,595,507 34,501,295 September October November December 19,022,530 , 2,161,636 21,184,166 January Total 7 months $183,965,313 $16,124,541. $200,089,884 February Total 8 months $208,853,536 $17,616,741 $226,472,277 Less foreign sold and silver $7,308,787 Less dutiable goods re-ex exported Less free gold re-exported 8,205,903 554 ) 386 16,069,076 Leavirg for U.S. markets ... In bond, June 30, 1867......... In bond, February 29, 18.)8... $210,403,200 45,170,180 39,224,973 5,845,207 Total taken for home markets 5216,218,407 SPECIE MOVEMENT -JULY 1 TO FEBRUARY 29. Exported from New York $38,759,936. Pacific and other outports ... 14,371,747 *553,131,683 Less foreign specie importe d 7,308,787 Net out of specie, e ight months * Of which $5,960,165 foreign specie. DOMESTIC PRODUCE MOVEMENT-EIGHT MONTHS. July August September October • 28,119,989 February 30,720,903 Total values, chiefly currency $229,249,977 Reduced to Gull, Atlantic ports, at 140 $155,536,000 Gold values from Pacific ports, estimated Total gold value Add net outgo of specie, as above 45,822,896 Total Domestic produce and specie outw'd $212,851,896 Against foreign goods for home market Apparent balance against United States ... $3,389,5 UNITED STATES' END:MTS.—During the month January in the current year the total value of gold and silver exported from the United States amounted to $7,287,767, or an increase of $3,436,235 as compared with the corresponding month of last year. There were exported of provisions -2,663, 8181 b. of beef, 97,8211 b. of butter, 1,447,9361 b. of cheese, 10,730,2031 b. of barns and bacon, 7,619,2291 b. of ' lard, and 2,906,2291 b. of pork. Tobacco of all kinds was Exported, amounting in value to $1,030,342, and breadstuffs amounting in value to $4,131,445. The quantity of raw cotton exported amounted in weight to 109,164,4921 b., and the cotton manufactures were valued at $3,56,920. Of mis ellaneous articles ex ported during the same month were 22,947 barrels of resin and 1,012 of turpentine, 172,976 gallons of spirits of tur pentine, 1,303 barrels of tar and Vitch, 4,911,285 gallons of oils, coal and petroleum, 4,416,579 gallons of refined petroleum, 2,604 sewing machines, 297,545 gallons of spiri a, 708,5311 h. of soap of all kinds, and 2,538,2151 b. of tallow. There is a very large increase in all articles ex ported, as compared with last year, except as to butter and cheese. PROGRESS OF RECONS7 UCTION. (From the An3lo-Anzei•ican Tinus.) The high character of the leading Northern Generals, which stands in such conspicuous con trast to the corruption and jobbery of even the most successful politicians, has lately done much to elevate the status of military men in the estimation of their fellow-citizens. Not in a single instance has there been a failure, as far as motive and real honesty of purpose are concerned. To understand the position in which the Northern Generals in command of dis tricts are placed it must be borne in mind that their power is almost absolute, that theyrule by the sword, and that therefore their means of enriching them selves at the expense of the vast territories over which they reign is only limited by the poverty of the inhabitants. Though a man may scorn to benefit himself at the expense of those placed so absolutely under his control, yet many are worked by other in fluences scarcely less injurious to the governed. When a ruler wields an over-riding power he is courted, flattered, and tempted. Pride, arrogance, and the love of exercising his sway are likely to have their effect. Beneath him are two contending races, the one the dispossessed proprietors, the other the emancipated slaves, and it is his 13usi ness to reconcile elements lately in almost hope less conflict. Above him are two masters-- the Congress legislating so as to favour the one race, and the PRESIDENT, whose policy it has been to thwart that of Congress, and to favour the other. Around him is a country desolated by war. On the fields still lie the bones of animals slain in battle ; in the towns are the blackened walls of burnt streets, and in every family a tale of losses, of bereavement, suffering, and ruin ; in one word, society was in a state of chaos, and the land paralyzed by the destroyer. When we compare the action of the Northern Generals in com mand of Military Districts, with the BUTLERS and the STEVENSES, with their loud cry of patriot ism, and their Alta Vela jobs, the DONNELLYS and the BROOKSES, with their foul slanders, the PENDLE TONS, with their Repudiation schemes—in a sentence, the corruption that prevails at Washington—then we rejoice and are glad that, away from the in fluence of those legislative hot-beds of intrigue, these simple, single-minded, firm, intelligent , patriotic soldiers should thits in peace, as in war, in Reconstruction as in conquest, uphold the honour of the Republic. Seldom has a more difficult task been imposed on men, and very seldom, indeed , with so excellent a result. The bill passed by Con gress reducing the number to a majority of those voting instead of those registered to thcide the questions sabinitted has checkmated the Southern ‘vhites and the policy of conciliation, while firco l 9 maintaining the Congressional principle of Recon struction has enabled the district commanders gradually to break down both the active and pas` sive resistance offered. The voica of the Generals has almost invariably been given for the removal of political proscription and punishment, and to foster and encourage the formation and expression of opinion. The consequences are becoming apparent, and it furnishes moderate Republicans with the greatest pleasure to see a Conservative elemen t aroused in a large section of the negroes' Nothing was more to be dreaded than the sac' cess of the extreme Radicals in forming a Blac k Party to establish an African ascendancy, Whic ii , could only have resulted in a war of races, no '. t in the annihilation of the inferior. The negroe s, is now evident, will bring a considerable reinforce' ment to the Democratic ranks, and probably here' after he mainly influenced by their former masters. But it does not at all follow that the Southern planters will henceforth form a unit as they did le the days of slavery, for the basis on which belt political edifice was then erected has gone for ever, and other influences will split them into sections, as in the North. Of all things to be desired in the South, the most so was the party separation, 11 c 4 between races, but of races, the whites bele; divided, and the blacks divided, which will knit the children of JAPHET and of Hill in party bonds , with political objects for which to contend. 11be indications are that such a result is not far distant, and to such men as bCIIOFIELD, CANBY, MEADS' and others is this due. The bill reported by l‘l r : STEVENS for the admission of Arkansas was as fce lows : ct Whereas the people of Arkansas have adopted a coo t i stitution of a State Government republican in form tin duly ratified the fourteenth amendment of the constitution' It is hereby enacted that the State of Arkansas is ell , - titled and admitted to the representation in Congreks one of the States of the Union upon the following fund i 1 mental condition, that the constitution of Arkansas 013' not ba so amended or changed so as to deprive any citizell or class of citizens of the United States of the right to Vte, who are entitled to vote by the constitution heroin r ec t nizAl, except as a punishment for such crimes as area " ," felonies at common law, whereof he shall have bee n d convicted." We presume that the Acts to bring in North and SO 0 Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, 'g e l similar, and it is almostcertain that these bills , a d o mitting these Six States, will be passed i n t Senate by a majority as large as in the 1 1 1 Florida, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia 'co alone be left out, and we may fairly congra tni'l the United States in having effected so largo measure of Reconstruction. What is required a nother good harvest, which will do more than a l l: thing to bring relief and smooth away the diffie ll ' o , ties yet remaining in these sorely-stricken St 3te o They have gone through the fiery ordeal of 11., and subjugation—through famine and plag ue ,„l 3 through a total disorganization of society—Wog:a the annihilation of material wealth, commerce, ft eo agriculture—and surely the time approaches 1/13.00, they who have borne so much may, in all j osti no matter how great their sin, look forward to peace, rest, and reviving prosperity. 10 . 11 5 .1 [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and -I,bee- Important to Everybody.—For more than 30 yettre: for remedies have been ranked before all correctiv e agel34l:l the all-sufficient reason that they never can be wr°' • c , '4 used in either external or internal diseases. liolloq"eit ointment should be well rubbed on the throat and L e r in sore throat, enlarged glands, chronic cough , and bee ings. In common catarrh and influenza the ointleif well rubbed upon the walls of the chest, aide d by t'oleet doses of the pills, soon effects a cure. The same treet,roe• judiciously followed up removes diphtheria, asthma , re clads, pleurisy, and prevents the deep inflammatiovireoi suiting in abscess or ulceration, so apt to ensue throat and chest complaints are neglected. Births. se , KELLY-On the 26th inst., at 34, Fitzwilliarn-g ° f 0 Dublin, the wife of Charles Kelly, EA., a•°- daughter. tU° KELLER-On the 26th inst., at Elm House, Iforoßei' wife of Leopold Keller, Esq., of a son. fat her'., O'CONNELL -At Longfield, Cashel , th e seat of her,,olol C. 13ianconi, Ksq., the wife of Morgan John Ov°- Esq., of a daughter. Mafriages. i leg d n M E AKIN-HAVERSON -On the 23d just, at " i ; 9 , Parish Church, T. Rowland Meakin, of Sorithlorer Amerloy, to Adelaide, second daughter of J. T . son, Esq., of Manor House, Harlesden. o° l4' WINTER -Aains-On the 26th inst. at St. John',s..tyror ney, L. M. Winter, Esq., of 18, F itzroy-s t re et, g l ivi ao o / square, to Selina, only aughter of the late Job ° Esq., of 12, Chatham-place, Hackney. Deaths. 1 4 DUGDALE -On the 26th inst., James Dugdale, V' F ' , '' Bank, Burnley, Staffordshire, agi d 77. „. SV I. HOBSON -0 n the 2 Eth inst., at Bigby-street, Br A igi. t E. Hobson, Esq., late of Kettieby Thorpe, ag", stre" HESKETH -On the 24th inst., at 30,. WreYin °ll `&ri t° Portland-ilace, Robert Hesketh, Esq., of 22 7,4 a t $ 1 crescent, Southampton, and late 11.13.hL . de Janeiro, aged 78 . I,oo4°°' MAP",- On the 2311 inst., at 41 , Amp thill-squar°, •e 4 George Kapp, Esq. , 0 311 , PERKINS—On the 23d last at Chethole goll'-' lifl .1 , Jo 1 Perkins, Esq., aged 48. of PAYNE-On the 21st iust , at Totham-hill, -66se"' P•tyne late of Maldon aged 81 ----- - .‘, A.DTD I/ ' 11 1 ' London : Printed and Published by ViriLLIA.AL -, so o f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tun Suil 01!e00,11ii Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in th° Middlesex. -Thursday, May 28, 1868. an R`x L 8 ba4 Au a r ceE DE %ce rai DA Mit to o'el co hr; str Ti h o for Z7'e 4 0 tli, ti