The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ale Times observes that the A.dminfstro.tion now filter. ing' , npon its career is a nerfectly new Governmentr—new not only in the sense:that it came into being as late as last week, .but new also because there has never been - anything like it. This assertion may seem strange, and, tried by dome obvious arithmetical tests, may be condemned as erroneous. It is, for instance, perfectly true that out of thesfifteen members of the new Cabinet nine were in the last Liberal Ministry, and it may be stoutly contended that an Administration three-fifths of whose memers have been already Cabinet Ministers cannot be accounted new. The fact, however, is, that the character of an,Administration does not depend upon the majority of the persons in it. Two or three men determine—sometimes one man determines',--;the complexion of a Ministry the rest take their colour from their chief or chiefs. Mr, Gladstone's Ministry is new because it is the first of which he has had the command. It is new because Mr. Lowe holds in it an office only second to the hi g h es t. It is new because Mr. Bright has now, for the first time, been induced to assume official duties and the responsibilities ol: Council. The Times thinks ,the old watchwords—Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform — w ill be carried out. Our contemporary comments upon the difficulty of the distribution of the endowments of the Irish Church. It is possible that three, including the Lord Chancellor, would have produced some sort of plan, and it would be a matter of cusiosity to compare the ideas of the three. The sketches of the rest would doubtless shew more or less proficiency of design, and, it can scarcely be doubted, the widest variety of conception. But the disestablishment and disendowment of the Trish Church form a policy which the Ministry is bound to carry through, and we have no doubt, difficult as we know it must be in execution, they will carry it through. The extreme intricacy and extent of the labour it involves justity us, however, in being content to answer the ques tion as to the achievements of the Ministry in the way of Reform by saying they will abolish the Irish Esta blishment. When that is done they will be ready to do much more, but until that is done their exploits in other fields must be few. The Daily News says : The promptitude with which Mr. GlAdstone has discharged the task committed to him by her. Majesty is proof of his own energy and of the cordial union subsisting between the leading members and various sections of the party. From beginning to end, though there may have been now and then hesitation and demur, there has been no hitch or misunder standing. Claims to high office which might without impropriety have been pressed, have been generously waived in order to secure to the Government the greatest possible amount of administrative and parliamentary strength. The general sentiment is, perhaps not without ground, that Mr. Gladstone might, without disparage ment to any just influence of rank or service, have brought together a Cabinet representing more completely the Liberal party as a whole than that which he has formed. His Administration would have been stronger for an ampler recognition of that popular feeling which, rather than the nomination of the old Whig chiefs, has given him the victory. The people have chosen him, the Whig aristocracy have accepted him ; and the prizes have been awarded rather to those who have known how to yield than to those who have known how to conquer. The appointments to places lying outside the Cabinet have been made with judgment. The chief !objection to some of them is that their occupants might With propriety and advantage have been admitted into the inner chamber. That the Conservatives clung to office in order to work the diggings, or that they employed their patronage to further the interests of the party, is, according to the Hertad, untrue. A contemporary threatens that the ques tion of the distribution of patronage by Mr. Disraeli will be rais'Scl when Parliament meets. The Herald does not think so. The Liberal leaders will never allow a subject so damaging to themselves to be raised, Mr. Disraeli used his patronage for the good of the public service, and not to keep his party alive or to help his personal friends. This is not merely our statement. A remarkable testimony to Mr. Disraeli's merits in this respect has been given in a Liberal news. paper, whose authority the Times will not contest. The Economist of Saturday says : "On the whole, we must recognise in his (Mr. Disraeli's) use of patronage a very dispassionate and in some sense elevated judgment." And again: "In his choice of officials, Mr. Disraeli's Administration was in some sense even a distinguished success." The Economist speaks the opinion of every candid man, to whatever party he may belong, in this recognition of the judgment and fairness with which Mr. Disraeli distributed the patronage that -fell to him ; and the new Government will certainly take .care not to challenge a comparison between the appoint- Ments made by Mr. Disraeli, out of regard to the in. terests of the public service, and the appointments they have already made, and will continue to make, to promote their private and political ends, upon the principle now proclaimed by the Tinto, of keeping up their party at the cost of the public. The Post thinks Mr. Gladstone is to be congratulated on having secured the services of Lord Spencer. Personally affable, a keen sportsman—no mean qualification in the eyes of our Hibernian friends—and possessed of an ample private fortune, he can hardly fail to make a favourable impression upon a high. spirited and impulsive nation. In one respect Lord Spencer will be at a disad vantage in starting. He succeeds a nobleman who has admittedly filled the Viceroyalty of Ireland in a brilliant and effective manner. The Duke of Abercorn fully earned the popularity which intimate knowledge of the country, princely magnificence, and genuine courtesy might be expected to attain ; and perhaps since the time of the late Lord Eglinton no mere admired and popular Lord-Lieutenant has ruled over Ireland. Following such a successful Viceroy, Lord Spencer will be compared with a high standard, which he may equal, but will find it difficult to surpass. A Lord yseutenant of Ireland ought to have peculiar facili ties for ascertaining the true feeling of the people, the grievances— real, imaginary, or sentimental—of which they complain, and the feasibility of the various schemes pro _ posed for their benefit. If Lord Spencer prove equal to elis, the present Ministry should be in a position to grapple as successfully as is possible with Irish questions ; for they have, besides, no less than two ex-Lord-Lieutenants in the persons of Lord Kimberley and Lord Clarendon, who are statesmen of the first rank. But, what is still more, Lord Spencer's appointment is one which, if regarded from a high national point of view, will recommend itself to all parties. The Standard, in noticing the controversy upon the character of the Church, remarks that it is quite clear that, in the great majority of minds, the most complete ignorance and confusion respecting the whole matter pre vails ; that there is a total uncertainty regarding the 'legal position and corporate c h aracter of the church, and an inability to determine wheth er s h e h as any, and, if so, .what existence apart from her status as an Establish ment, which permits those who are united in a common policy to defend it upon the most dis cordant and mutually destructive grounds ; and that this uncertainty is likely to lead to blunders and in - consistencies in the forthcoming scheme of disestablish , went, unparalleled even in the long list of errors and absurdities Which constitutes the history of Liberal legis lation during the last forty years. Is the Church, as Mr. Bonamy Price asserted in a letter published a day or two • ago, a mere department of tile State, which has no exist , ence apart from the dissolved hy dis' and which would be absolutely ;;cablishment? Such certainly is not our ` opinion. Inc Crown is the head of the Church as well as of vile State. But this no more necessarily makes A . .• .e(3 rchbisbop of Canterbury a servant of the State than it makes the President of the Board of Trade a servant of the Church. It is true that Parliament has; step by step, sometimes by its direct action, sometimes by the influence it has exercised over the Crown, gradually • deprived the Church of all powers of self-government, of . independent legislation, and of practical jurisdiction. - But it does not follow that Parliament has deprived the Church of its corporate existence. It is true that Parlia- Ment has the power to deprive the Church of her endow ments, but Parliament has equally the power to con , fiscate the endowments of Roman Catholic institutions or Dissenting colleges. It has the same power tc do both ; it has no sort of right to do either. In .brief,the Church i s no t a St a t e deptirtment ; it has • a life, a reality, a body wholly independent of the State • • but the State has paralysed it, has severed its nerves of • motion and sensation, and deprived it of all powers of separate and independent life, undertaking to perform all necessary functions for it. And therefore, while Mr. ' Gladstone's view of the de jure character of the Church, and (we presume) of the consequent status of her clergy, is the true one, Mr. Price and the Pall Mall Gazette are much more nearly right as to the practical consequences of disestablishment. If Mr. Gladstone dis • establishes the Church he will have to recorganise it; and - it is simply astonishing that he should not yet have realised a fact which any lawyer could have told him. The Telegraph has a leader upon the wonders of legis lative changes. To back the triple event of household suffrage as the electoral law, Mr. Bright _as a ocon the _ wool- Cabinet Minister, and Sir William Page W sack, all to come off in the sam e y ear, would beenhanve_v an offer against which the sporti n g squires _ would t have laid their estates to sixpence , and thel 'n their brains in for a bonus. Yet the threefold event has occurred, and many a vaticination equally audacious now—equally certain of accomplishment in • principle, if not so curiously exact as to phraseology and • detail—might be named to-day. As a rule, only the nn wise prophesy; but we may at least, in all honest exulta-. tion at the recent triumph of Liberal progress, haz ird liaria:es3 joke, and say that another seventeen years will probably make Uluirchnien ardent advocates of (ti,!eatabliBlinient, Tories fervent supporters Of female ~,Tr a g e , squires intense opponents of game laws, tliu " :-.stupid party " frantic advocates of cone:llion hy local rates, Mr. I )arby Griffith amusing and - instructive, and Mr. Whalley tolerant and witty. In a dozen , points, the futile and innocent " Party of Hindrance' is now bankin g back the rivulets of change— chuckling over a s t ream l e t stopped here, or a mountain torrent diverted there. In our English p tLere aro no such things as impassable barriers ; there is no "finality," no declaration of "Thus far and no farther." The point of arrival from antiquated measures is always , the point of departure for new reforms. Nor can the process be resisted. The " silent forces of the time" strike down the obstructives, and build the banks of the channel • of Chanerkot Skeyupy qqlwed pe , ',Dry willsand dom. UVIDRIST ON THE MAMES EMBANK- 'MENT. A:seiionS — adefileitt happened about twelve G'CIOCFC on Friday night at the portion of the works of the Thames Embankment between the Temple-gardens and Black friars-bridge. Huge piles had been driven into the bed of the river, for the purpose of excavating the foundations. One hundred men were at work within the wooden wall. In order to complete the work within the given time it was necessary to employ two sets of labourers, and the night men were just resuming when the accident hap pened. The first alarm was given by a man whose barge was lying moored off the Whitefriars-wharf. He was very much alarmed by the troubled state of the water. A very strong wind had brought up an immense tide, such as to shake the stout piles and bend them like reeds. He at once gave an alarm. The other men were at work. Hearing the piles cracking, and knowing the great height of the tide, they rushed to the sluices in the hope that by letting in the water that way they might lessen the danger that threatened the works. Unfortunately, they were not able to effect their purpose. Those who remained in the trench hastily scrambled out, and at the same moment the water broke through the piles, which snapped with a loud report. In an instant the whole trench was filled throughout its entire length, and a good deal of damage was done to the works. The large timber piles floated about the river, and caused consider. able alarm amongst the boatmen. All the floating stag ings were destroyed, and also a wooden bridge used for the purpose of filling the large barges of the scavengering contractors. One of the engines used in the driving of the piles was thrown down and sank. As soon as the accident occurred, a rumour was spread that all the workmen were in the river ; but beyond a good wetting, in a few instances, it is believed that no man has received any injury. THE BOILER EXPLOSION ON THE TYNE. The Northern Daily Express gives us details of the explosion on the Tyne, which we have already announced. As we have stated, it has caused the death of three men, besides severely injuring other three. The steam wherry Eleanor, belonging to Mr. W. Cocblane Carr, fire-brick manufacturer, South Benwell, Newcastle, was discharging bricks at the Friars' Goose Works, about a quarter-past three o'clock, and as the boat was leaving, having discharged a cargo of fire bricks, and when about two or three yards from the quay, the boiler explockd. At the time, a number of workmen and others were on the quay, and when the explosion took place it was feared that some of these men had been struck with the shattered fragments of the boiler and killed. It was found, however, that with the exception of three men, all of those on the quay had escaped. Immediately on the steam clearing away, a portion of the wherry was seen still afloat, but none of the crew were left on board. A search was then made for the bodies, and one of them was found on the top of a house on the quay. Portions of the bodies of other two men were found on different parts of the quay, in a frightfully mutilated state. On the three shattered bodies being placed together, they were found to be the three men who formed the crew of the wherry, and the men injured, it was found, were workmen employed at the Friars' Goose Chemical Works. THE GALE. At Portsmouth another terrific gale from tlic soma blew on Friday. The tide was higher, and the sea in the harbour and channel one of the heaviest noticed for many years. The passage between the shores of Ports mouth and Gosport were considered dangerous, and the signal flag prohibiting boat communication with the shore was hoisted on board the Victory at an early hour. The sea broke in great violence over the shore buildings at Portsmouth, and all along the esplanade at Southsea heavy waves rolled in and broke over the beautiful walk in one continued roar. The traffic at Southsea and Victoria piers was stopped, and the passage steamboats had to touch at Portsea. No casualties, however, had been reported up to sunset. At Great Yarmouth, on Friday, seven men were landed from the brig Esther, of Jersey, which was lost on the Newcome Sand on Thursday night ; the crew were picked up by a French schooner. The General Steam Navigation Company's paddle-steamer, City of Hamburg, which left the Thames on Wednesday afternoon, struck on the dangerous " north " sand, near Great Yarmouth Pier, on Thursday. The steamer being close to the north side of the pier, the passengers and crew escaped by passing'on to the pier; the master, Capt. Bishop, declined to leave the steamer, which was warped off on Fri day morning,and brought into the harbour, havingsustained some damage and shipped a good deal of water. The extra ordinarily low state of the tide seems to have been the cause of the accident. It is feared the schooner William, of Great Yarmouth, Captain Rushmer, which left Great Yarmouth for the North some three weeks back, and Las not since been heard of, is lost with all hands. A fishing lugger ran into the brigantine lon, of Shields, on Thurs day afternoon. She lay at anchor in Great Yarmouth Roads. The crew of the logger got on board the lon ; the latter, however, unfortunately parted from her anchors and drove ashore. Both crews were rescued by the Yar mouth surf lifeboat. At Plymouth, too, the gale has been very boisterous. Very few additional particulars are to hand of the loss of the ship Gossamer, which went ashore on Thursday. The following is the telegram respecting the wreck which appears in the London papers :—" The ship Gossamer, of Liverpool, yesterday, at 2 p.m., missed stays near shore, let go two anchors, parted both cables in twenty minutes, and drove on rocks near Prawle Point. Was total wreck by 4.30. Captain and wife, two passengers, a nine crew drowned. Two mates, two passengers, thirteen crew saved. General cargo washing ashore ; coastguards in charge. Names of persons saved : Chief mate, Peter Merrifield ;second mate, William Qualtrock. Passengers: Mr. Date, Dr. Dale, James Bone, C. Tallace Montron, C. Tanscont, F. E. Welby, H. E. Carling, F. H. Dimlock, L. W. Patterson, Homar Gall, C. Smith, J Jameiston, and Mi. Grant. LAW AND POLICE. STREET ACCIDENT.—A case has ben neara in the Court of Queen's Bench in which the plaintiff sued the defendant for damages for personal injuries. These were caused by the fall of a bale of paper which was being lifted to an upper floor of a warehouse. The fall caused the death cf one man and injured the plaintiff so much that he had not been able to attend to his business since the accident, and he had incurred expenses out of pocket to the extent of £2OO. His medical men were of opinion that bis spine was injured, and that it would take twelve months longer before he would recover. The defence was that the plaintiff bad contributed to the injury, and that he had exaggerated his sufferings. There was no spinal injury. Ultimately the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff I damages, £560. POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—TWO cases of letter-stealing have been tried at Taunton, and have resulted in convic tions. BAD MEAT. — Notwithstanding the known vigilance of the City officers, the offence of sending diseased meat to the London markets appears to be on the increase, and that, too, in the face of very severe punishments,.both by fine and imprisonment, inflicted upon offenders when convicted. A remarkable case of this kind has come before Mr. Alderman Causton. A wealthy Wiltshire farmer, the owner of 3,000 acres, was charged with send ing the carcases of ten sheep to Newgate market, which were proved to be in a putrid state, and totally unfit for human food. lie pleaded . guilty, and the magistrate said that, considering the great age of defendant, he would not send him to prison, but inflicted the full penalty of £2O for each carcase, and £lolox. for expenses. The amount, £2lO, was at once paid. A FORTUNATE ACCIDENT. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Paul bad a very narrow escape of losing the vain. able jewels they use in their entertainment a night or two back. They had played at the Music Hall, Worcester, in the evening, and early the next morning it was found the hall had been broken into ; but the thieves took little by their pains, as the jewels, fortunately, had all been sent to Mr. Howard Paul's hotel, through the accident of the lock on a trunk being broken. Costumes and wigs were not to the taste of burglars, for they remained unharmed. THE COVENTRY ELECTION PETITION. —On Saturday night an enthusiastic meeting of the friends and supporters of Messrs Eaton and Hill, who were returned at the last election as members for the city, but against whose return a petition has been lodged by the Liberal party, took place at the Corn Exchange. Between 5,000 and 6,000 persons were present. The greatest excitement prevailed, and the reporters connected with the local Liberal press were forcibly expelled from the room before the commencement of the proceedings. The two members, Messrs. Eaton and Hill, addressed the meeting at considerable length, and the following resolution was carried unatilin.usly :—" That in the Opinion of a public meeting of the inhabitants of the city of Coventry the charges which have been preferred in the petition which is being presented against the return of Messrs. Eaton and Hill are false and gross calumnies upon our respected members, and that this meeting believes that the last election was the purest and most peaceable election that has ever taken place in Coventry, and that the petitioners, by the unjustifiable course that they have taken, have prolonged political strife in a manner injurious to the best interests of this city, and ought te9 be deprecated _by evert_well-wj§her, for it§ pratiaithl • MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican of Nor. 28.) The money market at New York is improved in tone and condition, but from various causes business is light and without excitement. Money is plentiful at from 6to 7 per cent. on call, and without commission, and at Boston the rates are a little higher. The uncertainty and want of confidence in the stock market, the Thanksgiving holi days, and the near approttch of Congress, have all produced a quiet and general inaction among the money lenders, which has not occurred for some weeks. Sufficient de mane,s aro, however, still made for moving the crops from the West and the cotton from the South, in order, we pre sume, to keep the rates of loans up to a steady and rather rigid price, and there is no probability money will become a drug in the market at least until the Christmas holidays and the quarterly bank statements for January 1 are over. There are no further rumours of a lock-up in currency, and the unscrupulous speculators who have been at that busi ness are likely to have something more important, if not quite as pleasant, to occupy their time for the next few weeks. Secretary M•Culloch has informed Treasurer Van Dycke at New York the'. be shall sell no more bonds dur ing his administration, and it is to be hoped that ho will stick to his resolution, and to his principles, which are better than his actions. At the West matters are not much improved, and at Chicago and Cincinnati the money market is still stringent., 12 to 18 per cent. being the ruling rates. Several failures of largo houses have been reported in Cincinnati, but the stories do not appear t 9 have beer. well-founded, although a number of small concerns are known to have collapsed. The business in Government Securities has improved in consequence of the troubled condition of the Stock Market, and capitalists turn to the public funds as the safest and most satisfactory investments of their money. The trans actions during the week have been large, and prices of all issues have held up firmly, with a slight advance all along the line. A " corner" on the Five-twenties of 1862 is sus pected in Wall-street, but the experiment has been too well concealed, thus far, to cause any general attention or ex citement. Large orders for Government Bonds are daily being received at New York from Havana capitalists, who aro fearful for the safety of their gold, while the rebellion at the eastern end of the island is prospering so well, and are taking this prompt and sensible way their treasures out of harm's way. The German bankers aro also investing largely in our Five-twenties. The financial action of Con gress already begins to attract much attention, and will continue to create wider and general discussion. The schemes for tinkering our finances multiply rapidly, and there will be no lack of earnest advocates of every known remedy for all our difficulties of revenue, expense, debt, and tariff. The contractionists will have advantages on their side, at the assembling of the session, which they did not enjoy at the meeting of the last Congress, and General Grant's known conservative opinions on financial matters must give them greater unity and strength in the contest. The election of Grant was a national verdict ft. r retrench ment, economy, contraction, and the most sure and direct return to specie payments, and the leaders of the party will do well to organise and make practical and tangible the results of the victory. The December debt statement will probably show a slight increase, the receipts being about the same as last month, while $23,000,000 in coin interest has been disbursed. The grain markets of Chicago and the West have been more active this week in consequence of the near approach of winter, and the impending danger that many dealers would be caught with large stocks on their hands. The ease of money at New York has also lubricated business, and during the week filo aggregate stock of wheat in storo diminished 600,000 bushels. One million bushels are still on hand, or nearly twice as much as last year at this time, and the most active efforts will be made to move it East before the closing of navigation. Boats on the New York canals will stop running December 7, and the navigation of the lakes will not keep open at the latest much longer. Cotton is more active, both in the home and the foreign markets, and prices are advancing, while the supply on hand is growing less and the receipts aro falling off. (From. the Wall-street Journal) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, Nov. 27. A correspondent requests us to state the difference made in favour of new Virginia State Bonds, as compared with the old, at the Stock Exchange. The actual differ ence in the cost of the Bonds is really the other way. Most of the new bonds aro dated a yearafter the rule of the Exchange as to the number of over- due coupons they should boar, and the sellers havo to abate six per cent. in cash to make them a regulardelivery. Thus the new bonds, quoted at 561, if lacking - the coupons of 186 G, cost the buyer only 501 per cent Foreign Exchange is dull, but strong. in Border State Bonds there is little change, and the business is generally small. Mining Stocks continue quiet, with little doing, except in Consolidated Gregory, Grass Valley, Montania, and Smith and Parmelee. Petroleum Stocks, in consequence of the rise in oil, are in increased demand. Bennehoff Run is active at GO cents bid, but no stock is offered. National at $3.40, Rynd Farm at 18 cents, Union at $8.50, Northern Light at 30 cents, and Buchanan Farm at 42 cents. Express Stocks are quoted as follows :- Adams ... 49 to 491 American ... 441 to 45 Merchants' Union 191 to 191 United States ... ... 47 to 48 Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... 263- to 27 NEW OIU R .ITES OF EXCHANGE, Sixty Days. Three Days. Londcn Bankers n, Prime Commercial lOB4-1093 Ptris, Batik , ts 5 9 0 -5.1 C 5.161,-5.133 Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 3si-361 Frankfort, O.:M 4oi-41 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.20-5.16} Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss The following are the quotations for coin :- Amer. silver... 96 to 97 I Eng. sous 486 to 490 Mex. d011ar5...104 „ 104; 20 francs 381 „ 3881- Eng. silver 480 , 485 I Thalers - „ 71 Five francs 96 „ 97 CLOSING PRICES. PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon - . . _ Sixes, 1881, coupon ll5l to 114 U.S. 6s. Pacific Rail, oad — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon • lO7/ to 1071 Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 18d5, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon lO6l to 1061 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lll to 1111 RAILROAD AND MISVELLANEOUS STOCKS. N. Y. Central 1271 Fort Wayne Erie 3Bl Pacific Mail ll7l Hudson Reading Mich. South. &N. 1.... 901 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pit tshrg BBl Ohio and Mississippi... 311 North-West North-West Preferred 871 Cumberland Canton.. Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 99/ M & St. Paul Preferred 88 CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 88 Chi. &N. W. Ist M 9O N. Y. Central Cs, 1887... Tol. & Wab. Ist MEx N. Y. Central Cs, R Est.. 85 Gt. Western 2d M '93 77 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 85 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist AL — N. Y. Central 7s, 1876...120 Gal. & Chic. Eat 100 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76,... Gal. & Chic. 2d M - 95 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76... Chi. &R. I. Ist M — Erie Ist Mort, Ex Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7'5... 9-11 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879._ Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund... Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 93 N. 3. Central Ist M — Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880... N. J. Central 2d M 100 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888... 85 Pitts. Ft, W., & Ch. lst M 102 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M, '77 9ll Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M. 9 2 Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69 1041 Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M 771 Had. R. 7s, 3d M, '75... Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc — Harlem Ist M, '6B '72... 991 Chic. &Alton, 5.F.1801 1021 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 113 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M... 94 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 114 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M... Mich. So., 7p.c.2d M 90 Marietta & Cin. Ist M... N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Morris & Essex Ist M... 95 Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. Morris & Essex 2d M ... 91 111. Cen. 7p. e, '7O 1141 Joliet & Chic. Ist M... Alton &T. IL Ist XI 9 - Chi. & Gt. East'n 15a1... 741 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd Bl N. Y. &N.H. 6s 94 Alton &T.H.2d M. Inc. 80 Dubuque &S. City,lst M — Ilan.& St.J.LandWarts.lo9 Peninsula Ist M Han. & St. J. Con — Ohio & Miss. Ist M — Chi. B. & Q., Ist M Ohio & Miss. Con — Chi. &N. West, S. F.... 95 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D — Chi. &N. W. Con Cony. 93 Atlantic &G. W. Ist M — Chi. & N. W. Ex'n 8.... Auction sales of Stocks an by Muller, Williams, and Co d Bonds, New York, Nov. 21, Per Cont. $3,800 New York City 6 per Cent. Water Loan 99i 2,200 New York Central Park 6 per Cent 991 19,760 New York Central Park 6 per Cent 99 .. 10,000 State of Ohio 6 per Cent. , lO2l 8,000 State of Ohio 6 per Cent. 10,000 City of Memphis 10 per Ct. Coupon Bonds 51 10,000 City of Memphis 10 per Ct. Coupon Bonds 03i. 10,000 Wilmington and Manchester RR. 2d mt.— 15 5,000 Manhattan Gas Light, 7 per Cent. 20 shares New York and New Naven RR. l4ll 100 shares New York and New Haven RR. 50 shares Bank of Commerce, N.Y. 100 shares Ohio Life Insurance and Trust 90 shares Merchants' Nat. Bank of Memphis 26 25 shares New York Life Ins. and Trust 9 shares National Bank of Commerce 123 (From Messrs. Satterthwaite's Circular.) London, Dec. 9. In the London market for American Securities, United States 5-20 Bonds remain steady at the quotations of our last; the transactions have been on a comparatively limited scale, and the fluctuations during the week unimportant. Little business is recorded in Illinois Central Shares, but they close firm at 961 to 1. Erie, after receding to 24i, leave off 264 to 271. There has been a rise to-day from yesterday of three per cent. in A tiantie and Great Western Consolidated bonds and Debentures; the former close 40 to 41, and the latter 39 to 40. Central Pacific Bonds, on increased demand, are last quoted 70f to 71k. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, 'are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon W.C.--EA.d 2 Yortiseruent.l THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,, DECEMBER 14, 1. 68. FOREIGN NOTES. GERMANY. The commission appointed to consider the confiscation of the property of the ex-Elector of Hesse, has held a sit ting, at which Count Bismarck made an important speech. He said that the Elector had taken no notice of the warnings that had been given him to discontinue his intrigues, because he counted upon the speedy outbreak of war. Nor were his anticipations without founda tion. The danger of a European conflict during the preceding summer had been averted only by an accidental and unlooked-for circumstance. Hes sians, Hanoverians, Dane; and Republicans were continually intriguing against the integrity of Prussia and the maintenance of peace. Count Bismarck inciden tally mentioned that be knew nothing of the famous despatch sent by Count Usedom to the Italian Govern ment in 1866 until it was published in the newspapers during the present year. He did not, however, state what was the unexpected circumstance which had saved Europe from war. SPAIN. The Republican Committee of Madrid has published a manifesto to the army and the country, in which it traces out the scheme of army organisation which will be adopted " when the republic has been proclaimed." The principal stipulations of this programme are the suppression of the Ministry of War, of all captain-generalsbips and military governorships, and the abolition of conscription. The republic has not yet been proclaimed, and even if it were, this plan of military reform does not find much approval; but it is interesting as a protest against exces sive permanent armies, and as a testimony in favour •f the citizen soldier system, which is one of its fundamental principles. EASTERN EUROPE., The danger, such as it is, of a war between Turkey and Greece, arises principally from the support given to the former nation by Austria. It is very generally believed that Baron Beust advocates a settle ment of all difficulties in the neighbourhood of the Danube, and is intriguing with the view of bringing about a rupture. The designs of the Roumanians and the Greeks are scarcely less hostile to Austria than to Turkey, and they are specially directed against Hungarian supremacy north of the Danube. As the end must come sometime, Baron Beust thinks it might as well come now. The domestic difficulties of the empire would be partly forgotten during a campaign which would be specially popular with the Hungarians. Austria, with the Poles and the Turks, would be quite a match, says the Independance Beige, for Russia with the Greeks and the Roumanians. The establishment of a Polish State, enjoying an autonomy like Hungary, but still allied to Austria, and the final disposal of the Danubian Principalities would com pensate for the disasters of 186 G. There may be nothing in this programme ; but it has at least had the effect of greatly alarming the Russians. The Muscovite papers, official and independent, are uniting against Austria with extraordinary rancour. The Invalide Busse accuses Baron Beust of openly pursuing a warlike policy. The Gazette de l'Academie of St. Peters. burg says that the army of 800,000 men is designed to act against Russia. The Gazette de Moscow says the Poles are enchanted with the increasing armaments of Austria. The fortifications of Galicia indicate the quarter to which the ambition of Baron Beust is directed. These papers have overlooked one thing in their zeal on behalf of the Czar. The army of 800,000 men, of which they make so much, exists only in the draft of a bill which has but just got through the Austrian and Hungarian Legisla tures. The work of reorganisation has yet to be done. On the other hand, however, it should be mentioned that when Baron Beust urged the passing of this measure as an immediate necessity he openly expressed his belief in a speedy war on the Danube. RUSSIA. The Army and Navy Gazette is " glad to be able to state" that the Russian army is at present very badly prepared for a European war. The " sinews " seem to be deficient, notwithstanding the recent applications to the money market, and in consequence the infantry are still carrying the old rifle. Even of the Imperial Guard only a portion is armed with breech-loaders. The Government is very busy making the most careful and extensive experiments in artillery. There is not much matter for congratulation in this state of affairs. Russia is chronically behind the rest of Europe, but she has not on that account failed to fight when occasion required, and fight well too- CHINA. According to the American papers, there is much ground for the hope that we may be spared the disagreeable necessity of a Chinese war. The affair of the missionaries has been referred to Pekin, and upon the representation of the British Minister a strong despatch has been sent to the Chinese Governor-General, instructing him to accede to the terms proposed by the British Consul. AMERICA. The people of Massachusetts have had good reason for returning to the Assembly an overwhelming majority in favour of a prohibitory liquor law. A recent license law has resulted in an increase of 600 . in the number of public houses in Boston alone. In the State the number has gone up in a similar proportion. Massachusetts has reconsidered Ater prohibitory policy, and has reaffirmed it. The license law will be repealed, and another prohibitory measure passed. (From the Anylo-Amerkan Times.) PARIS, Dec. 9. The aristocracy of Europe seem determined to carry off the American belles. Each week we find in the columns of the Continental journals an nouncements to the following effect:—" Married at Mi s s Mary Petroleumsc r ip, of Ne w York, to Baron or Count, or Duke, and sometimes Prince So-and-So of Paris, Turin, Rome, Vienna, Dresden," or some other equally popular resort of Americans. Strangely enough the bridegroom is never less than a Baron, the American belles being evidently determined to assume rank among the elite on this side of. the ocean. It is also quite as remarkable that in every instance where the New and the Old World become thus united, on the female side there must be money. 'We have at times been startled by the most b r illi an t an nouncements as to the immediate u gheiress New York, Boston, Phila delphia,nionof orsumo Chicago leadin with some European nobleman whose ancestors were among the followers of the crazy monk who originated the crusades, or, still more noble and blue blooded, a rejeton of those wonderful Roman chiefs who, 8.C., ruled in glory and splendour. It too often happens, however, that after we have thrilled over the glaring details of the fetes to be given on the auspicious occasion— after we have admired the jewels to be presented to' the bride—after we have crowded before the show windows of Intrepot des Indes, and exclaimed over the beauty of the Cachmere shawl ordered for the fortunate future Princess or Countess, there comes a gloomy pause between the promise and the ac complishment, and it finally leaks out that the noble bridegroom elect has withdrawn his preten sions —in other words, that the marriage is not to take place. In some instances it is because the mercenary motives which actuated the nobleman become so evident as to arouse the pride of the young republicaine, and cause her to refuse an alli ance where 'tis her money and not herself which is the inducement. In too many cases, however, the refusal originates with the nobleman, who finds that his future papa-in-law cannot settle upon the beloved such a sum as he, the nobleman, may pay his debts with, and still keep up his state. This thing has happened so often that it- might be sup posed the lesson would profit. I am sorry to say this is not the case, and that at the present time there are a number of such marriages on the tapis. It must not be supposed that it is merely the Ame rican belles who ,become ambitious on reaching Europe. The heads of the families in too many instances betray a still more ridiculous and anti republican desire to briller here. They make a grand display of huge coats of arms, of ponderous crests, which seem sadly out of place, painted upon the panels of their coaches, or woven conspicuously upon their damask and linen. Having, as is so often the case, suddenly risen to affluence, with no antecedents save those of honest labour or com merce, it seems absurd the ardour with which they search for genealogies, and the determination with which they cling to the possibility of a remote parentage with some noble house. Of course I do not wish to carry out the impression that this is the case with the majority of Americans who come abroad, but simply, en passant, to speak out that which has so often annoyed the more sensible of our countrymen, who appreciate the ridiculous conduct referred to. However, as it is the fashion now for Americans to make the European tone, it must be expected that among the numbers who cross the ocean for that purpose some queer people will be found. In Paris the Grand Hotel has become head quarters for Americans—too much so, permit me to add, while in the grumbling mood. I see young men there who, during their entire stay in the capital, seem to be unaware that there is anything else to do save play billiards amd zit in the splendid court yard of the biota. They walk around the corner into the Rue F3cribe, to drop in at the different bankers, see if there are letters for them; glance at the American journals on file in the reading-rooms, and then back a Ley go to the Grand Hotel. They do not seek to become acquainted with the people or the place—l mean the Parisians and Paris—and after a few weeks or months spent thus, vote the capital a bore; include the entire nation in one sweeping and most uncomplimentary decision ; and go away with about as much idea of Paris as they have of Timbuctoo. There are, it is true, Americans who take a more serious and pleasant view of a visit to the place— they study the language, associate with the people, visit; the many attractions which Paris contains, and to these it becomes indeed a charming residence. These with families are very likely to settle in Paris, because of the ease with which Americans obtain the entrée into society here. To be invited to Court or Ministerial balls and fetes they need no former presentations, no recognised position at home as do Europeans vi,:iting Paris. Ame ricans come here as Republicans—the sovereign people; and if in too many cases they derogate from this position by niesquin and quite unneces sary ambition, tent pis for them, they in no wise bettering their condition thereby . . That the season is nearly at hand in Paris may be judged from the show windows. of the leading establishments, wherein the fashions take their rise. These show windows seem irresistibly attractive to the passers by. The dresses displayed are so elegant, the com binations of silks, satins, and laces so tasteful, so exquisite, that even the most indifferent can but pause to admire the effect produced by the etalage. At " L'llermite," 19, Rue Boissy D'Anglas, this may be particularly noticed. Paris possesses a rival to even the most celebrated beautifier of the fair sex. M. Legrand, the person in question, has invented a creme Oriza, which he styles " de Ninon Lenclos," and which, duly examined by physicians, is pronounced free of all deleterious mixtures. It is recommended to the ladies. A rather singu lar decision rendered here a short time since by the French Courts is puzzling Americans some what. A very beautiful and well-known Ame rican lady was pleading here for separation from her husband, a member of a leading New York family. The court has decided that a divorce be pronounced, that the husband be made to pay an annual revenue of 72 thousand francs to the former wife, and that she have the control of the children. By what power a French court thus decides is a mystery to many here, and how it may enforce in America the payment of the annuity seems still more uncertain and strange. The mar riage took place in the United States, both the parties are Americans. How can a French court take action in this case is the somewhat universal inquiry. In a week or so the fetes at Compiegne are to cease, and the Imperial party return to Paris. The palace of the Tuileries is being now prepared for the winter residence of their Majesties, and of course the moment they shall have been installed the season will commence. I understand that a number of American families here will give some splendid entertainments this season. Being the recipients of much courtesy and attention from the higher circles they will thus make a return there for. I should have noticed, while speaking of the unnecessary display made here by some over-am bitious Americans, that, in great contrast to this, is the excellent taste evinced by others resid ing here ; such as Mr. Lorillard Spencer, of New York, whose equipages are universally admired. He drives splendid horses and his carriages are neat, but in the best style. His four-in-hand would attract attention and entire ap proval in Hyde Park. The same may be said of the fine turn-out of M. Elisha Riggs, a townsman of Mr. Spencer. Mr. Lewis Cass also drives some fine horses here, while a number of American gentle me❑ attract attentio❑ at the Bois with their light waggons and fast trotters. Mr. S. P. Dewey, of San Francisco, has one of the neatest and best ap pointed equipages in the place. Its elegant sim plicity, being in contrast with those more showy attelages referred to above. It is understood here that on the night the Emperor reaches Paris the Place du Caroussel will be most gorgeously illumi nated by a new process—a strongly brilliant gas, which is to be so brilliant and so cheap as to super cede coal gas. I hear wonders of this new inven tion, in whizh a number of leading Americans arc concerned, and shall doubtless have the opportunity of furnishing some more definite information con cerning it, as I am to assist at the illuminations to take place next week. I believe that some of the theatres here are to be lighted with this portable gas. In addition to a company here, the parties interested in this discovery have also formed a company in New York. At the Grand Opera we are soon to have Mlle. Nilsson as Marguerite in " Faust." The manage ment are making great preparations to produce the opera with unparalleled splendour. It was expected at first that the Opera Comique tenor, Capoul, would sing with Mlle. Nilsson as Faust, but since then Collin, a late addition to the troupe of the Grand Opera, has revealed so much talent that he will sing with the favourite artiste. This will be all the more acceptable to the public, as Offenbach needs Capoul for his new work " Vert-Vert," which is now in rehearsal. At the Italiens, la Patti will give one or two more representations, and then she will go to Brussels, where she is to sing two or three nights. Thence she will disappear amid the snow and ice of Muscovy. It is said that the Czar is so pleased to have the Diva in his capital, he has per sonally revised the list of subscribers for seats at the opera, and that at no single representation are there any places left. Of course the tour will be one of triumph for Patti, who will return to us all the more popular and attractive. In the mean while Miss Hauck will endeavour to assume a pro minent position at the Italiens here, and I may add that there can be little doubt she will succeed. Grade Duchesse Schneider leaves the Varietes this month, and will make her debut in Janu ary at the Bouffes, in a new Offenbachism, "La Diva." Messrs. Meilhue and Halery are the coadjutors of the Maestriuo in this fresh attempt. At the Gaiete, M. Victor Sejour's new drama, "La Madonne des Roses," is having an immense success, owing to the wonderfully well-executed last scene in the play. It represents the burning of a palace, and anything more real to nature it were impossible to see on the stage. The fl ►mes leap and encircle the walls and beams, the latter fall to the ground all ablaze, the smoke and sparks rising in clouds. In short, so very natural is the scene, the audience on the first night were fright ened, and the next morning the authorities sent the officers of the Fire Department to assist at a day rehearsal of the fire scene ere they would permit the second performance of the play to take place. The result was satisfactory. The inspectors concluded there was no danger, and now all Paris must witness the incendie. Each night the scenic painters and the machinists are called out to receive their share of the public ap plause. As for the drama, no description of the plot is needed, it being filled with the usual inci dents, terminating in the same way—the triumph of virtue and the downfall of the heavy villain. " Straws show which way the wind blows." At the Folies Mariguy, a little box of a thea tre on the Champs Elysees, the first repre sentation of a " Revue de l'Annee," took place last evening. All Paris was present, and the per formance passed off amid much laughter. Two in cidents were significant. In one an actor, made up to resemble Henri Rochefort of Lanterne notoriety, produces what he calls a " spoken journal" for his subscribers. While his editors are commenting upon the events of the clay, lie watches,:and the moment a policeman appears the whole party cease abruptly all discussion, and dance a child's round. The hit told, the audience cheering in the most uproarious manner. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR.—Mns. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful _colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth ; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers Depot, 266, High SHERMAN ON THE INDIAN WAR. General SHERMAN'S Report, dated St. Louis, Nov. 1, 1868, tells the story of the Indian War. It is a plain, unvarnished document, evidently within the truth, relating only facts officially ascertained, and the General's opinion thereon. SHERMAN not only commands the military department embracing the country west of the Mississippi River extending from the northernmost boundary of Dacotah to the south of New Mexico, but he is President of the Peace Commission, to the counsels and determina tions of which he was directed to subordinate all military measures. Two great routes run west from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains— the one through Kansas, the other through Nebraska. Over both roads, broadly speaking, railways have been constructed, for we are far from asserting they follow the identical paths ; but between them is the finest buffalo country in America, the Southern or Smoky Hill route, penetrating right through it. The Commission held to the necessity of removing the Indians from this loc ility if peace was to be preserved, or indeed if the Red men were to be saved from extermination. Accordingly treaties were concluded with the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, Comanches, Navajoes, and Crows, the vital part being two reservations for these tribes, the one north of the State of Nebraska and west of the Missouri River, and the other south of the State of Kansas and west of Arkansas. To get the tribes from the country of the railways running up to the Rocky Mountains was, as might be expected, the great object of the Commission, the General recog nizing that justice dictated compensation for depriv ing the savages of lands whose wild game had hitherto fed, clothed, and sheltered them, as well as the necessity, if possible, of procuring their con sent to the transfer. During the period of discus sion, the tribes urged on the Commissioners the advisablity of withdrawing the military posts on the Powder River road, which had been built in violation of an old treaty guaranteeing that country to them for ever, as the construction of the Union Pacific Railway had rendered this road compa ratively valueless, the Commissioners made the concession, and by order of General GRANT, Forts Reno, Philip Kearney, and C. F. Smith being dis mantled, their stores were withdrawn. Congress adjourned without taking action on the treaty which guaranteed the reserves to the Indians, who, construing the withdrawal from the Powder River route as a sign of fear, became excited, being stimulated by emissaries who from Fort Larned to the line of thePaci fie Road agitated for the abandon mentas well of the Smoky Hill route, the essential point, as the surrender of that country was tanta mount to the interruption of the Union Pacific Railway. It is dangerous to concede to savages— a fact never appreciated by the philanthropists of 'Exeter-hall and Boston, who mean well, but with great good often do much harm. We in possession of the broad facts, who know Uncle SAM'S power, his desire to be just and generous, the necessity of holding free from interruption the country in dispute, may find some difficulty in believing the ignorance on those points of the Cheyennes and other hostile tribes. '1 hey see a few strag gling settlements invading their country, they see teams and waggons here and there passing over their plains, and they are often engaged in raids on the settlers or in defending themselves from scout ing parties. Their notion of the white man's strength is derived from this experience, and they neither know nor believe in the immense power away towards the rising sun, of which, it is true, they may have heard dim rumours, which they receive as fairy tales. The tribes count their white scalps and laugh derisively, while here in England people are lost in amazement that there should be men who have lived all their lives in the United States of America who know no more of a might which over shadows the world, than any African on the banks of Lake Nyanza knows of the military power of NAPOLEON. The reason is, that few Britishers who haye been little beyond their island can form a con ception without an effort of imagination (which they will not make) of what the North American Conti nent is. It is easy to generalize, but it is not easy to create in the mind of another the features of a country differing altogether from that in which he had been born and bred. Ten thousand men might be located on a tract, build towns, cultivate land in the Territory for generations, without any one in the United States outside their community knowing of the fact. Where the villages are of these tribes only the best-infortned scouts can learn; the Red men doubtless thought that looking for them was like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay. Impressed, then, with the idea that the earnest desire of the pale faces for peace was dic tated by fear, and that the withdrawal from the Powder River road would be followed, on more decided measures being taken, by the abandon ment also of the Smoky Hill route, they threw their treaties to the wind, and on the 3d or 4th August a party of 224 took the war-path nominally against the Pawnees, who, as we described some time ago, were trespassing on their hunting grounds, but in reality against the Kansas settlers. On the 10th of August they appeared on the Saline River north of Fort Harker, and, as usual, entered the houses, insolently demanding what the settlers could give in the way of food, with which they found fault. Professing to be offended that the coffee was offered in tin cups they threw it in the faces of the women—a sure sign to those well acquainted with them that they had come on an errand of murder and outrage. They burnt the houses, slaughtered the men, and conducted themselves with the greatest brutality, till troops arrived from Fort Harker, who drove them away, although being mounted on fast ponies, and knowing the country well, they retreated with little loss from the scene of their devastations. The General declares it to be proved beyond dispute that up to that moment, so far from having given cause for offence, the Peace Commissioners and all their agents had treated them with the greatest kindness, as also had the soldiers and frontier people. The •military dislike an Indian war, which involves terrible hardships, the danger of death by tor ture, without glory, distinction, promotion, or plunder, and they desired the success of the Com mission, which would end trouble by withdraw ing the savages. Complying with the terms of the treaty the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes had thus grossly violated, General SIIERIDAN de manded, through Colonel WYNCOOP, agent of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, the surrender of the perpetrators of these outrages. In this he utterly failed ; indeed the Cheyennes commenced a general war along the Smoky Hill and Arkansas roads, at tacking every party unprepared for this sudden out break, and therefore unprovided fully with the means of defence. In August and September 79 persons were Murdered. Denver was surrounded by hostile Indians, who occupied the country to within 12 miles of the city, and in one day killed nine whites. A train was attacked and captured at Pawnee Fork, and 16 men slain, scalped, and burned. Another was captured at Cimarron Crossing, the drivers escaping after a severe fight on some of the cattle, and similar attacks were reported almost daily. Un til winter set in the Indians had the best of it, as all will readily believe who know anything of military matters, for they then offered no objective points, while the settlers had trains and teams to guard, farms and villages, flocks and herds. The warriors therefore at first had rather a fine time, and doubt less greatly enjoyed the licence of rapine and mur der, while they rested in the fancied security which their profound ignorance of their enemy gave. Winter drew on, and snow began to cover the plains; the reports weeks back announced it to be two or three feet deep, and before that white mantle, the Indians withdrew to their villages, where, whatever supplies the squaws had provided, were stored. It did not occur to them that this was the time for which SHERIDAN was preparing, as it enabled him exactly to turn the tables on them, for they then gave what civilized war demands, points of attack, when left them the alter native to fight for their supplies or starve. Hence the late actions reported, and the terrible punish ment which has overtaken the wretched Indians. The war will probably teach them how powerless they in truth are to stand in the way of a United States object, and doubtless their crippled tribes next Bummer will be grouped on the reserves al lotted to them by Congress, where they will be fed, while learning how to cultivate the earth and to rear tame stock. Finding all war outside the re serve—not war bythem against the scattered settlers, but against their own villages, which wonderftilly changes the aspect, whether they view it with horror or as a pastime—and all peace within, the tendency will, it is thought, be towards those reserves as the only means of escape from utter annihilation. General SHERIDAN fears that the Indians will even tually fall on the hands of the Government, a mere mass of helpless paupers. He states, that at its Chicago session the Peace Commission was forced to the conclusion that the management of Indian affairs should be transferred to the War Depart ment, as the only one enabled to use force promptly, and to act with sufficient vigour to give hopes that the plans and purposes of the Com mission will be carried out. The Indians and the settlers cannot occupy this country together, which differs from lowa and Missouri, being only fit for grazing, and not susceptible as they are of close settlement. Therefore the scattered whites will always offer tempting opportunities of attack to starving Indians, who, when hungry, will not be restrained by any consideration front stealing flocks and murdering if necessary. In such case Indian wars would never cease ; hence the neces sity of the removal of the tribes. General SHER MAN has fully proves his case, and we doubt not that the Government will act on his recommendations. —Anglo-American Times. RUSSIAN OPPOSITION TO UNCLE SAM• A book now exciting much interest maintains that the Union Pacific Railway will not prove the true route to Europe for the more valuable articles of Chinese commerce, asserting that they would go by rail direct through Central Asia. This opinion of one who has travelled to San Francisco, and afterwards made a tour through Asia, seems to have been arrived at also by the Emperor of RUSSIA, as he has sent two civil engineers to examine the ope rations of the Union Pacific and other great rail ways in the United States, in contemplation of lay ing down an iron road from China across Asia to Moscow. The EMPEROR evidently fears the trans fer East instead of West of this trade. Against the long sea route open to the world there was no use contending, but the case differs widely as agains t the United States, who desire to form an especia l route, which will divert trade from Russian chan nels, and once established would act injuriously on the future Russia hopes and expects. Americana have always supposed they could never come int o contact with the colossus of the East, but they may find themselves in Japan and China face to fac e with the Moscovite, and here is the first sign of the great opposition. It matters little to Western Europe who the carriers are, beyond the fact that, if limited to one line, the English would infinitely prefer the road to be in the hands of their kindred. The policy of an EMPEROR must be uncertain, for if it does not change in himself it changes with himself, involving the double insecurity of personal instability of character, and instability of tenure ; whereas a Democratic Republic may be relied on not to run counter to the interests of the mass, and therefore not to permit the interruption of the road for 01 purpose short of some great national object. Th e security then is with the Republic as against the EMPEROR, and on purely selfish grounds England should desire the firm establishment of the lin ° through the States. The point favourable to th e EMPEROR'S road is the non-shipment of goods If the line reached a central point iu China silk and tea would be hurried to Europe without break ing bulk, whereas by the other way they would hal e to be shipped at a China seaport, transferred to ran at San Francisco, and reshipped at New York. This is the disadvantage, but the Asiatic road has yet to be built! and there is some curious country, between Peking and Moscow. Before the firs t sou is turned of the Moscovite line, the American channel will have worn off obstructions to the smooth flow of the traffic, and every one know s how persistently produce will follow the accus tomed course unless diverted by overwhelming advantages. We do not think, therefore, that the EmeEnon will be able to pull up lee-way, an d the fact of the Union Pacific line being already in operation will tell heavily against him in the money market, when funds are asked for to carry out the scheme, so we doubt if it will assure° another form than that of a paper project during tb ° existence of the present generation. The fi .3.1 " rEnoit's agents are to spend a couple of w inter months in New England, to learn how railway tracks are there kept clear of snow, and they may learn enough to show that a railway through Cen tral Asia, where the cold is more severe and e n ' . during than in any part of. the United States, is f °c the present at least, impracticable. It is amusing to see Russia going to the United Stites to learn how she may be best able to run an o ppositi° : against Uncle SAM, but JONATHAN is SO lvippl the conceit that he can beat creation that he receiv e her emissaries hospitably, and furnishes all the formation asked.—Anglo- American Times. An American Philological Society is nov7 the course of formation by the professors of languages of t different colleges of the country. Letters from enl izie s linguists approving of the movement have been recei`le,i and a convention of literary men has been called to rnteil, next summer. 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MILT,' .1 10 ' Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47, 14 " - iier lo " Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, . nir ito , of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low 8 . 1 ;01 and nervous fancies Important Caution.—Beware of a., e it hoo unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, " h ot authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously atta c i2ll?„," In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb. 2s. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs, 11 5 .; 0 00 cu,, 225. ;24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTA ARADIC A , for': LATE Pownza is packed in tin canisters; for 12 cups at 1i 6 e01 , : cups at 3s. 65., for 48 cups at tis., for 288 cups at 305., for 80' at 55s.—being about one penny per cup. The 30s. and 5 5 o olog are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of PO: 1.,0 1 Y Order.—BAßßY nu BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-st et ' don; and all Grocers and Chemists. Births. dor BOODLE—On the 12th inst., at Mayfield,labl° of common, the wife of Henry Trelawuey B o odle, BS c i" a daughter. t 1 3 ' 16 ' WYATT—On the 10th inst., a t 4, T orr i ng ton-stree' sell-square, the wife of Thomas Henry Wyatt, of a son. Marriages. tbOli ? GEAILY —PALMER—On the 3d inst., at St. Mary's Co Church, Chelsea Xaverius, second son of the 1 9 '1 job - Henry Geary, IL., to Martha eldest daughter W. Palmer, Esq., J.P., of Hanham, Gloucestershltseuror MERRICK —JOHNSTONE—On the Bth inst., atWestottiy Mare, Major T. C. Merrick, Bengal S.C., to Enr us ioll ° youngest daughter of the late Spearman Jon Esq., of Dringliouses, Yorkshire. Deaths. lar° I3AILLIE —On the eth mat., at Hastings, Ja OS Baillie, Esq., late of the 78th Highlanders. Coe d ' PETRE—On the 11th inst., at Oscott, Birmingb 3l ' l l ' CO' Francis, second son of the Hon. Arthur and L3'l therino Petro. d'v l ' l, l l' Ph Pmurs On the Bth inst., at Hollow Combo, SS on o f - suddenly, Henry Wyndham Phillips, second 5011 Phillips, Esq., RA., aged 48. I . ‘ • A i 0' MANSELL—On the 12th inst , at Upper Norwooo7 -- ward Mansell, aged 69. _------ • London : Printed and Piblished by WELLIAN ,Dl o o "' ,/ of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN 010, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the CI Middlesex.—Monday, December 14, 1868.