The Sun. — London, England, 1868-06-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC SOURSAM. The Times expresses the opinion that irthis countlg had been ruled by a strong Government, capable of defending its own measures, there can be no doubt, that the recom ynendations of the Boundary Commissiotitwould have been tstained and definitively adopted by arliament. But a jjinistry living in continual fear for ?its existence, one d a y.supp7:ant to, another day defiant of, the House of Coro: awns, but always ready to avoid .a, conflict by sacri ficing 'anything to which it is not futly committed, has requiesced in the temporary setting aside of the com reissionerFe report. They were hard pressed by the Opro• k ition, their Scotch Reform Bill was not out of danger, S A 'ie temper or the House of Commons was disagreeable, .63 threats of the independent Liberals were many and doe:), and no expedient for making the session smooth and sher,` , was more obvious than to postpone the consideration of tl ‘e se changes in the boundaries of boroughs. If the control.: sioners' report had been discussed and voted upon, there vtc, uld have been debates by the night and divisions without number ; and in some of these the Government would lie—•e been sure to receive ugly treatment. Hence an eas y assen i: \ 7as given to the device of a select committee, and when thet,committee was appointed it musthave known by a natural i mtinet what was expected of it. It was to sit de die in dim.% It was to report at the earliest pos sible time ;it r; to agree to something which should calm all disputes, wocl allow the Boundary Bill to become law before the end Of a very short session. Under these conditions what was tt. , be expected? The committee knew well that it was inapo:lsible to inquire thoroughly within the space o f a f ew d a y s into matters which had employed ti,eir predecessors all the Autumn, and they also knew that if they agreed with the more important of the former recommendations the battle '.Fould be fought over again in the house of Commons, and their own labours would be ,looked upon as fruitless. They were appointed less to review critically the limits of English constituencies than to pro mire for the Government and the Souse a quiet session, They knew that the only way to conciliate was to assist legislation on the subject, and to get of controversy, at least for the present. This work being easy, they have done it with a speed which is somewhat startling to the Uninitiated. Thirty-three boroughs were submitted to thorn, some of these being the largest and most important in England. Yet all was over in eleven days. On Tuesday, the 19th of May, the committee sat for the first time ; oa Friday, the 29th, they agreed to their report. The result is, that in the•cases of fifteen boroughs the recommenda tions of the commissioners are set aside, and it is denlared wiadvisable• to .make any alteration in the existing boundaries. The Post thinks the grand jury in the case of Mr. Eyre acted as every rational being thought they would act. Our contemporary hopes that the self-constituted prose cutors, and, we may acrd, persecutors, of this gentleman, it not satisfied with the result of their proceedings, will at least permit him now to rest in peace. Never, perhaps, were criminal proceedings more causelessly instituted; never, most . assuredly, were there any which have been more universally condemned. The difficulties which beset the path of a man who, like Mr. Eyre, is called upon to adopt extraordinary measures for the suppression of disturbances And the preservation of the peace, were well illustrated by Mr. Justice Blackburn, in referring to the prosecution of the mayor of Bristol for not having acted sufficiently energetically in endeavouring. to suppress the famous riots which took place in that town some,five-and-thirty years ago. If a man neglects the duty imposed on him of doing everything necessary to preserve the peace, he becomes criminally responsible for such neglect just as much as if he exceeds his duty and acts oppressively. The difficulty is to strike the happy mean, and in the presence of this obvious difficulty the practical question for decision becomes whether a man placed in so embarrassing a Mg tion'acts with ordinary firmness, or with good faith. M.v. Justice Blackburn admitted that it was impos sible to draw the line where criminal responsibility began, and said that the question of criminality in each particular case necessarily rested with a jury. If Mr. Eyre had acted with less firmness the massacre of St. Domingo might have been repeated, and if the governor had escaped from the colony he would most assuredly have been put upon his trial in this country for neglect of hie duty. No one, we believe, ever deserved better of his country than Mr. Eyre; none have ever met with worse treatment. Dismissed from office by the Home Govern ment and forced into retirement, he has been made tax object of um elenting persecution by men Whtlse conduct is condemned by the entire mass of their fellow-country men. Let us hope in the nam , ; , , of humaniV that tli unfortunate gentleman will now be left in peace. The Daily News deplores to some extent the result of the prosecution, but refrains from impugning the conduct of the jury. After recapitulating the more prominent facts in connection with the Jamaica Committee, it gives credence to the general idea that the case has ended as far en that committee is concerned. It is difficult to say what 'useful purpose can be answered by persisting in prosecu tions which are not likely to have any practical issue. committee have scattered the seeds of a sound public 0 - es - diluent—seeds which, though they may seem now to have fallen on barren ground, are sure to ,germi rate and to bring forth fruit. They have kept the public mind active and the public conscience awake. The disposition to favour arbitrary doc trines and violent practices of which Mr. Carlyle's writings are in a small de-eree the cause, and in a great degree the effect ; and the stimulus given to the latent antipathies of race by the association of negro emancipation in the United States with Northern triumph and Southern defeat, have created feelings among certain classes of Englishmen which have insured Mr. Eyre impunity and even admiration. These timings exhibit, however, only a passing mood of mind in the English nation, or in certain busy portions of it. The brutality of the new faith is an all but inevitable reaction from a humanitarianism which occasionally threatened to become maudlin, and its despotic theories are a protest against doctrines of liberty Which now and then seemed to skirt the verge of anarchy. Against the Latter Day frenzy, in its attempt to pass from literature into action, the Jamaica Committee has made a protest which, though it may not have told on Sir Baldwin Leighton or the grand jury at Westminster, will prove in the cud to have been effectual. The Telegraph criticises the charge of Mr. Justice Blackburn, and complains that there is as yet no final, Clear, or authoritative declaration of the powers vested in Colonial governors, or of the rights and liberties possessed by colonial subjects. If Mr. Eyre be a man who nobly saved a colong, he—dismissed without pension, harassed and worried at law—is the worst-used man in Eng land. On the other hand, if Gordon and others were murdered, if panic drove the Jamaica autho rities into cruelty and wrong, the injuries have not as yet been redressed : nobody has been adequately punished ; and we only learn from a distinguished judge that " somebody has blundered." This is' a bad ending to a very painful story. It may be attended with most mischievous results. We may by our want of decision terrify weak governors into dangerous inaction in some future colonial crisis, and we may encourage othef governors and subordinates like Ramsay to be brut without fear of the consequences. The Star indignantly declares that the charge of Mt. Justice Blackburn was in the teeth of i'iat delivered by the Chief Justice. But as to the law given, there is the splendid address of Sir Alexander Cockburn to answer it. Mr. Justice Blackburn, however, did wrong (our contem porary thinks) in designating Mr. Gordon as a " pesti' ent firebrand." But in that history will reverse his lordship's judgment. The Herald speaks very warmly of the conduct of the prosecution in the case of the Attorney General v. Edmund; just decided by Vice-Chancellor Giffard. It would be im possible for a private gentleman to act as the Crown has thus acted towards its servant. When a gentleman dis misses his bailiff, or a merchant his confidential clerk, every one likes to see the parties shake hands and settle amicably all outstanding matters. At such times it is felt to be but right that the employer should treat the em ployed with perfect fairness ' and even with some little liberality ; nor is there anything more fatal to the reputa tion of the former than that he should rake up all manner of stale disputes, question long-settled balances, and for the first time in his life impugn the footing on which their mutual dealings have all along been conducted. It has been said that corporations and departments are impervious to such considerations ; that they have neither bodies to be kicked nor souls to be saved, and that there fore they will, without scruple, commit offences on which no private person could venture for fear of suffering social ostracism. In some such theory we must find the solution of the course taken with respect to Mr. Edmunds. For two cr three years he has laboured under a weight of obloquy an d reproach almost overwhelming. He has been accused of unfaithfulness to his trust and of misapplication of trust funds. He has been dismissed with disgrace from an office to which he was appointed by one Whig Chancellor and in which lie was succeeded by the son of another. He has • been oppressed with chancery proceedings, and threatened with a criminal prosecution ; has been cut at his club, and peinted at as if he were the most prominent sinner of the clay. Aud t when the case against him is brought to the test , in a ye doral sense, .it breaks . down entirely. Every charge fails, every accesation is . disproved. The honour of the object of so much calumny is declared to be effectually vindicated, and though technically. the decision is adverse, the judge who pronounces it twice expresses his deep reeeet that the words of an Act of Parliament compel him e`his to do violence to what are evidently his feelings and Convictions. The Standard sneers at the announcement of a new Congress to he held at Berne for the promotion of Inter national Peace. It recalls the scenes of last year, and esks whether we are going to have a repitition at Berne (4, the row which took place at Geneva.. Last year tilt G.,nevese had positivcly . to turn the " delegates " (as they call themselves) out et tWeir city. Geneva has put ut `l,ith visits from all the political, literary, and religious iniisa.nces- in Enropc.. But our, friends and the Interna tional Leagueeace were too martial for anything; and Accordingly last September they were finally drummed out the town they had well-nigh turned into a bedlam. Will Berne be able to be more tolerant ? These workers k)f - the telegraphic wires, as unfit as they are few, are only a little knot of exiles from the " France, Germany, llnssia, and Italy" of which they speak, with whose ostracism from home we could sympathise if it were not in !a ~ s t cases dese rve d an d •i n • a grea t many se lf-i mpose d . , 'hey have peace on their lips, but war to the knife in their hearts. Wherever they go they recklessly abuse the hospitality extended to them, and would be only too delighted f they cou ld to - morrow i nvolve the Swiss Con federation in war with France forthe mere chance of some. i ; i rni .g tl;i m tl ug, IT _thp course eof A uropean co Sa, A COAL-PIT ON FIRE. Not a little commotion was occasioned in Alloa about mid-day on Sunday by the report that a coal-pit in the neighbourhood of Alloa, on the estate of the Earl of Zetland, aid leased by the Clackmannan Coal Company, was on fire. An engine, kindly despatched from Carse bridge Distillery, was promptly on the spot, and did useful service. The fire began in what is known as No. 12 pit, situated near the eastern extremity of Gartmorn Lake, from which Alloa is supplied with water, and is distant from the town about two miles. The pit is about thirty fathoms in depth, and has two seams—thd lower being splint and the upper cherry coal—and has communication with another pit, known as No. 13, at a short distance. Down through the centre of the shaft there is a mid-wall, constructed of wood, and the shaft on either side is lined with traces. About five fathoms from the bottom of the ventilating shaft there is a fire cube strongly built of fire-brick, and in this cube a fire is con tinuously kept for the put-pose of securing the proper ven tilation of the pit and for carrying off the foul sir. It is in connection with this fire-cube that the present disaster is supposed to have originated. Late on the previous Saturday evening the cube is believed to have been greatly overcharged with coal, and the heat therefrom arising is supposed to have ignited the foul coal only a few inches from the top of the cube. This foul coal once on fir; the flames must have readily caught the ropes in the centre, the mid-wall of the shaft, and side-traces. It was not, however, till about 11 o'clock on Sunday morning that a neighbouring farmer (Mr. M`Leish, of Gartmorn) perceived the columns of black smoke ascending from the pit, and gave the alarm. By the time assistance was obtained the pit-cradling on the top of the rock was not only completely destroyed, but the flames had reached the mouth of the pit, had seized hold of the head-gearing, framework, shear-legs, and other machinery at the pit-mouth, and no engine having yet arrived, the mass of coal on the hill was momentarily threatened by the rapid progress of the fire. A crowd of workmen soon collected, and an attempt was at once made to ascertain the extent of the conflagration by approaching the bottom of the shaft through the commu nication leading from pit No. 13. But the density of the smoke running along the passages rendered this impos sible, and the men had to retreat. On the arrival of the Carsebridge fire-engine the water was directed upon the machinery, frame-work, and other gearing at the pit-head, but the conflagration had already been so thorough that little could be saved. Part of the wreck fell down the pit shaft, and it was found that pouring down water by means of the engine hose was of little avail in checking the fire so long as a continuous current of air was admitted. The idea of flooding the mine with water was entertained, but was not carried out. It was at length resolved to attempt to extinguish the fire by smothering it. With this view the current of air passing along from pit No. 13 was effectually checked by covering the pit mouth with boards and fire-clay. Blac, or shale, and other refuse were accordingly for a considerable time freely thrown down the shaft, the pit-mouth of No. 12 board up, then closely covered with fire clay and masses of turf. Smoke, nevertheless, still continued to ascend, but it is thought that the co'nflagration has been checked, and that the fire must shortly be quite smothered out. Meanwhile about 100 miners will be thrown out of employment by the workings in both pits being for the present abandoned. From noon till about seven o'clock in the evening of Sunday, when the pit-heads were battened down, a con tinuous stream of people visited the scene of an occurrence so unusual. Though the disaster is one which all lament, there is a feeling of thankfulness that the discovery was made during the day, and that it has been attended with no injury whatever to life or limb ; happily very different in this respect from a conflagration which broke out in another mine near Alloa in 1830, when seven lives were sacrificed, five men and two women. LAW AND POLICE. - 4 ---- • DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO STAB.—At Marylebone Police court, Lawrence Welsh, a labourer, was charged with attempting to stab a man named Henry Collins. It seemed that the prosecutor and some friends were in the Kentish-town-road, when a woman came and threw her self on their protection, stating that she had fallen down in a fit ; and the prisoner, after picking her up, stated that he wanted some money from her. The witness told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself, when the prisoner made a stab at Collins which fortunately, missed. Mr. D'Eyncourt sent the accused to prison for two months. THE EXTENSIVE FORGERY Or RUSSIAN NOTES.-At the Thames Police-court, Oscar Runam, Samuel Frankel, Barnard Harris, Elias Solowyczki, and Moses Cohen, were charged with having in their possession, offering, and uttering 1,512 forged five-rotble notes, four 25-rouble notes, and one 100-rouble note, representing the current notes of Russia. Ychel Zwaski, a Russian .Tew, who came over to England for the purpose of making inquiries with regard to the forgeries, was the principal witness. Many letters that had been sent from Frankel to him, and vier rcrsyr , were put in, and it was proved that frequent meetings had taken place in Liverpool and other places on the subject of forged notes, and, finally, that a Kieeting was held at the lodging of Zwaski in London, when, according to a prior arrangement, Inspector Thomson, of the detective force, surprised the prisoners, and a bundle of forged notes, brought by Frankel from Liverpool, was found on him ; and the papers seized belonging to the same person shewed that he was deeply implicated with some of the other prisoners. Solowyczki was first seen in Manchester by Zwaski,and subsequently at Newcastle, and he told the witness that he could make " water marks" on as many notes as he liked. This was the only evidence against the last-named prisoner, and he was discharged. The other prisoners, after a five hours' examination, were remanded. GAROTTE ROBBERY.-At Greenwich, Thomas Figg, a man well-known to the police, and Maurice Herne, were charged with attacking Edgar I'. Steed, and stealing from him a purse containing Is. 3d., and other articles. soon after midnight the prosecutor was returning )home through Mill-lane, Deptford, when he was suddenly assaulted by three men who seized him by the throat. He cried for the police, when one of his assailants tried to strangle him, whilst another pushed a handkerchief into his mouth to stifle his cries. Figg was sworn to by a boy who was near the scene of the outrage; but the evidence against his co-prisoner was by no means conclusive. Figg was committed w for trial, and Herne was discharged IMPORTANT. JUDGMENT WITH REGARD TO MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS.—In the full court of Probate and Divorce the case of Corrance v. Corrance and Lowe (Moore inter vening), which raised an important question with regard to marriage settlements, was decided. The point at issue was whether the court had power to interfere with settle ments where there was no child or children surviving. The Judge-Ordinary decided that the court had not the power, and in this opinion Mr. Justice Smith coincided. The intention of the Legislature, without doubt, was to make a provision for children, and he did not think that the words of the statute gave any other power to the court. Baron Pigott did not agree with this decision, as he believed that the Divorce Acts gave power to deal with settlements where there had been chil dren. The appeal was, therefore, dismissed without coats. A CATHOLIC PRIEST CHARGED WITH SHOOTING A MAN.---At the Stalybridge Borough Court, the Rev. Mr. Daley, of the Roman Catholic Chapel, Stalybridge, sur rendered to a charge of having shot • a young man named Beeley, during one of the late riots. Mr. Daley was brought up at the time before the Stalybridge magistrates, and the charge was dismissed ; but a true bill was recently found against the defendant at the Knutsford quarter sessions. The rev. gentleman was committed for trial at the next Knutsford sessions. Bail was accepted. A GUARD CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.—At the Edinburgh High Court of Justiciary, James Bone, lately a guard on the North British Railway, was placed at the bar, charged with culpable homicide. He bad permitted a mineral train, of which he was in charge, to leave Fala hill-station for Edinburgh fifty minutes before the appointed time, and had failed to place a fog-signal on the line. In consequence of this neglect of duty, the New castle train came violently into collision with the one under his charge at Arniston, whereby three men —an engine-driver, a stoker, and an under-guard —were killed on the spot. The accused pleaded not guilty, and after hearing, the evidence such was the verdict of the majority of the jury. TILE CRUELTIES ON BOARD THE LYDIA. This long and painful investigation, which has occupied the stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool for several days, was brought to a close on Tuesday. A number of witnesses were examined, whose evidence clearly substantiated that given at the former hearings as to the horrid bar barities and revolting cruelty exercised towards the black men on board the vessel. The second mate cross examined the witnesses at some length, and elicited that the white men of the crew were in the habit of thrashing and ill-treating the coloured men. Mr. Bradley, senior house-surgeon at the Northern Hospital, who had examined. the complainants, spoke to their having upon their heads; and bodies many marks of recent wounds. Upon the feet and ankles of Williams were several ulcers, which would be accounted for by his being hung up by the heels in the rigging, as described by tho witnesses. The prisoners were all committed for trial at the aliSiZe B for inflicting grievous bodily harm. _ THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1868. REROBTED CONSPIRACY AGAINST TES LIFE OF NAPOLEON. The Paya of Monday night contained the following alarming statement : " PROJET VATTENTAT. " An alarming rumour has been circulating in Paris since psterday evening ; it is requisite to reduce it to its real proportions. " Three individuals, more than suspected for some time past of harbouring a design against the Emperor's life, were traced to Rouen and arrested there. We do not hesitate in giving these details if it were only to put the public on their guard against the exaggerations which may be circulated. The Emperor once said, under circum- stances of a far graver character, that he had nothing to fear from an assassin so long as he had not accomplished the mission which Providence had entrusted to him. We we of that opinion, too. The destiny of a people is not at ihe mercy of a few wretches." The Paris correspondent of the Evening Standard, writing on Monday night, says : "It is probable that tl:e Pays has derived these details from an ofr.cal source, but it is to be regretted that they are not more complete, and that the names of the individuals, and the circumstances under which they were arrested, should not be made known. The silence of the O 1 mit,;(i. ou nt of such im portance seems quite naccountable." The Paris correspondent of the Ulobe writes : "Rumours a - ere spread last evening shortly after the return of the Emperor and Empress to Paris, and they have been repeated to-day, that some persons were arrested at Rouen on suspicion of designing an attack on the Empe'• roc's life. The report, it seems, was true." The report from the Pays is then quoted. The Paris correspondent of the Star gives the substance of the same statement. The Constitutionnd of Tuesday morning gives an official denial to the statement. THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORT. The committee state that a variety of objections have been urged against the extension of the boundaries as re• commended by the commissioners, and they summarise their objections as follows :- 1. The apprehension that if the outlying districts should be brought within the limits of the parliamentary borough, the municipal boundary would be altered so as to make it co-extemive with the parliamentary boundary ; such an alteration subjec - ,ing the inhabitants in that district to a new jurisdiction, and probably to increased taxation. 2. The change made in the law which has abolished the power to compound for the poor rates in parliamentary boroughs. This has been urged as causing peculiar hard ship in those cases where one part of the parish would be incinded in the parliamentary borough while another part is still left out of it without the advantages of compounding lny longer. 3. That the boroughs are already so large as to be almost unmanageable for the purposes of election, and the objectors urge that such boroughs, if considerable additions were made to them, would require division. . . 4. That the wishe; of the inhabitants of the borough, or of time districts proposed to be added, riee opposed to annexation. 5. That the supposed community of interests within the borough and the districts proposed to be added is not greater than between the borough and other districts contignons thereto. 6. Where a large number of county voters exist, and the outlying districts are not immediately connected in interest with the urban population of the contiguous borough, it would be contrary to the wishes and feelings of the inhabitants to deprive them by annexation of the county franchise, or to change that franchise into a frame chise for the borough. 7. Where the inhabitants of the outlying districts hafe their own local board, their own local burdens, their own markets, their own shops, and their own business connec tion, they cannot be said to have such a community of interest with the town as to justify their annexation to it against their will. 8. Where the municipal and parliamentary boundaries are conterminous, it is not advisable to disturb existing communities by, bringing within them a new class of in terests, seldom identical, and sometimes antagonistic. 9. Where outlying districts are not connected with a borough either by social or fiscal relations, it would be unjust to admit the inhabitants of such districts to its parliamentary privileges unless they participated in the burdens and duties of a common citizenship. 10. Where pertions of counties are to be annexed to boroughs, regard should be had to the maintenance of a reasonable number of electors in those counties, especially where counties or divisions of counties have been divided by the Act of 1867. 11. Where two towns are distinct or only slightly con. nected, they should not be joined together as a par liamentary borough, unless the principle of grouping be further extended by Parliament. _ _ All these circumstances, so far as they were brought under the notice of the commissioners, appear to have been examined by them with the greatest care. But much additional information has, in many cases, been communicated to your committee in petitions and memo. rials, called forth by the report of the commissioners, and also 1.37 conference with the members representing the counties and boroughs affected by the report. This infor. elation, and the larger powers conferred on your committee, have led them to conclusions differing in some cases from those of the commissioners. The ccintlittee do not attempt to answer the objections which they have enumerated, but content themselves with giving their decision upon the various cases which were referred to them. The cases in which the report of the commissioners wns recommended for adoption were—Bolton, Chester, Greenwich, Newport (Mon.), -Northampton, Preston, Staleyhridge, and Windsor. Cases for which modifi cations had bee❑ suggested, but most of them only slight—Chelsea, Darlington, Middlesborough, New port (Isle of Wight), Salisbury, Wilton, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Hastings, and Oldham. Cases in which the present bouudaries are retained—Birkenhead, Birming ham, Bristol, Gateshead, Lambeth, Liverpool, Maryle bone, Manehest. r, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Reading, South Shields, Plymouth, Warwick, and Wigan. The prompt action of the committee appears to have given satisfaction to the House of Commons, and it is to he hoped that their decision will be equally satisfactory to the country. Yesterday was the first shilling day at the Leeds Exhibi tion. There were 3,413 admissions—namely, by season tickets, 620; by payment of Is. each, 2,788. The Earl of Shaftesbury yesterday laid the foundation stone of a new church at Bournemouth, which is to be erected with the avowed object of counteracting the Ritualist practices which are carried out at the parish church of St. Peter's in that town, ouo of the finest churches in England. The new church will be dedicated to the Holy Trinity. The committee on Mr. John Abel Smith's bill has sat, since its formation, with Sir James Fergusson as chairman, for the purpose of taking evidence, twelve times ; it has examined thirty-nine witnesses, who have for the most part been in favour of increased restrictions on the present Sunday drinking. The evidence in favour of the bill is now closed, and on Monday next witnesses are to be heard against the proposed measure. Hitherto the witnesses have been entirely unanimous as to the beneficial operations of the Act of 1831), which closed public-houses on Sunday mornings; as well as to the advantageous working of Wilson Patten's Act of 1854, and Sir George Grey's Act of 1864. The claim to have women placed upon the list of Parlia mentary voters has not been dealt with iu Manchester as in Salford. The overseers asked for the opinion of Mr. Mel lish, Q.C., who, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, replied— " I am of opinion that under tlie Reprepresentation of the People Act, 1867, women aro not entitled to be registered as voters. It is plain that if it had been the in tention of Parliament to give votes to women, the word ' man' would not have been used in the 3d, 4th, sth, and 6th sections, and no statute ought to be construed contrary to the manifest intention of the Legislature." Mr. Mellish adds that he sees no objection to the names of women being placed on the list of claimants. The Globe, in an an article headed " Which shall be Loader—Gladstone or Bright ?"—says of the latter gentle.. man—" As a rule he has displayed a propensity towards fairness and temperance which has offered an agreeable contrast to Mr. Gladstone. He has been conciliatory; he has been even courteous. More than once he has shown a power of right perception in questions of political nicety ; in a word, he possesses some measure of that power of compro mise without which be is not a political leader. While Mr. Gladstone either knows not or ignores all those little social amenities which go no inconsiderable way towards success even in political life, John Bright, Quaker though he be, and steadily as he objects to appear in State dress, can condescend to make himself pleasant. If we come to the esteem in which each is held outside the walls of St. Stephen's, we shall find the difference even wider still. For one person who trusts Mr. Gladstone ten will place their confidence in Mr. Bright. This is a very significant fact, that even at those meetings, held throughout the country, at which Mr. Gladstone's resolutions have been approved of, the approval has almost invariably been coupled csith a distrust of the motives of the man. The conviction that they are the result only of a desire to replace himself upon the Treasury Bench has scarcely once been disguised. Who, then, is to be the Liberal Leader of the future? We have, at any rate, said enough to show that it will not be Mr. Gladstone." Of the 228 private bills originally deposited for the present session only 187 came before Parliament. • On the motion for the secend reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, on Tuesday neat, Mr. Schreiber will move that it be read a second time that day six months. The annual procession of the Manchester and Salford Church of England Sunday Schools took place on Monday. The children numbered 14,563, against 14,100 last year. A fire of a very serious character broke out in Liverpoo on Monday, by which a large cotton warehouse was destroyed. The Annual Movable Delegation of the Order of Druids met at Derby on Monday, when the Grand Master delivered an address Showing that during the past year the organiza tion had made satisfactory progress. It is rumoured that on a dissolution of Parliament Lord Henry Percy will retire from the representation of North Northumberland, and that Earl Percy, the eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland, will come forward as a candidate in his place. The Eastern Morning News states that the poor fellow who was shot by the accidental discharge of a carbine at Hull died on Monday evening. The circumstances are of an un usually melancholy character. The deceased was engaged to be married shortly ; he supported his mother, with whom be resided in Grosvenor street, and he was much respected II a large circle of naiaiteucte• * IS THE PRESIDENT TO BE A DESPO7? (From the Anglo-American Times.) The English daily papers, in discussing the posi tion at Washington, generally overlook the grave difficulty that the decision of the Senate Court on Impeachment not only 'caves untouched, but tends to complicate. Is the President of the United States to be erected into a despot? —which must be the case if he has the power of dismissing the Cabinet and other officers, and nominating persons selected by himself as their successors without the sanction of the Senate. No English Sovereign pretends to such a power, nor would the English people for a moment allow it, knowing as they do that its exer cise would speedily be fatal to their liberties. It was shown by the Impeachment Managers that the number of officers subject to the control of the PRESIDENT, if his will alone is to rule in this matter, would be 42,000, drawing salaries amounting in the aggregate to $32,000,000. A patronage so enor mous could never in a constitutional Government be safely entrusted to any one man. Nor, even if the public liberty were not endangered, should such a temptation be given. There is no subject on which English people are more jealous than on the control of the Executive by Parliament. No Ministry can stand in the face of a hostile majority, and the only power the Sovereign and the Executive have is to dissolve the House of Com mons and appeal to the people. If the result of the Impeachment Trial is to be taken as a decision on the PRESIDENT'S right to dismiss and appoint, it will be absolutely necessary for Congress to in troduce an Amendment to the Constitution, if by other means the PRESIDENT cannot be deprived of so dangerous a prerogative. ANDREW JOHNSON possessed many qualities which, had they not been neutralized by others, would have rendered him a dangerous man when backed by so enormous an influence. Who can tell what the next President may be? If popular, ambitious, skilful in intrigue, unscrupulous, and courageous, short work might be made iu such hands of Republican institutions, If there be danger in democratic license, there is still greater danger in the one-man power ; and the Re publican institutions handed down to the present generation of Americans are too sacred a trust not to be guarded at every point. When Englishmen harshly criticise the 35 Senators who voted for the Impeachment charges, they lose sight of the great point of Constitutional government involved,d welling only on the guilt or innocence of ANDREW JOIINSON'S intentions. They overlook the fact that were their own liberties thus threatened no measures would be consi dered objectionable by them that removed the danger. Any other course would perhaps have been prefer able that gave a chance by legal means of attaining the object aimed at ; but we hold it to be the bounden duty of • those who desire to transmit to posterity the free institutions they have inherited to prevent a President of the United States from securing the unqualified power of removals and ap pointments. <lf no other way was open,,Congre3s .was justifieditt inapeachinehe PRESIDENT for s in fringing law passed to restrain his' action,_ and for exercising that objectionable authority in de fiance of the Senate. It was not these motives that brought Impeachment into discredit, but the underhand intrigues of those who supported the Hon. BEN WADE, and desired through him to seize the spoils of office. Had the Managers con fined themselves to a simple statement of the facts, and of the danger of allowing a President to exer cise the power claimed by ANDREW JOHNSON, the trial might have terminated differently. But they overloaded their case with other issues, and sank it with the discredit of objects other than the defence of Republican institutions. We have before this urged the one fact, which appears to us unanswer able against the ad interim appointments of the Chief Magistrate. What is to prevent a President from dismissing a Cabinet Minister, who opposes his schemes against the liberties of the people, and re placing him with a tool of his own ? Congress may or may not be sitting ; he merely announces that he has dismissed such a Secretary ; and that he appointed such a person to perform the duties pending his selection of a successor. What can the Senate do to restrain him ? No time is named in which to submit the nomination, ncr is the PRESI DENT compelled to consult the Senate regarding the appointment. Ile may therefore first de!ay it, and afterwards select a person notoriously objectionable, and thus dismiss and replace all the great officers of State. This may be far-fetched, but so are coups d'etat, and the other measures by which usurpers are in the habit of gaining their ends. There can be no queztion about the fact, that in so far as the Legislature cannot exercise an immediate and general control over the Executive, such as is exercised by the British Parliament, the Constitution of the United States is defective. If the result of Itn peachment be a victory for the PRESIDENT Otl this point, then it increases the necessity for an altera tion. That the PRESIDENT is an elected officer but increases the danger; for his popularity, and the confidence the people place in the individual they choose, disarm watchfulness and opposition, while the patronage gives him an army of tools oc cupying all the places of strength. From the tre mendous battery brought to bear by the mere sec tional organization of a party against the Republi can Senators who would not vote as certain men dictated, the strength of the battery a popular PRE SIDENT might bring to bear thus armed against honest, patriotic men who opposed his ambitious de signs, may be imagined. It is impossible to ignore the danger, one indeed sufficiently great, whatever may be the influence of Congress over the Chief Magistrate, without increasing it by placing wea pons in the PRESIDENT'S hand which convey to hie mind the ceaseless temptation to use them. duced annually 17,291 kilogs. of gold and 795,581 kilogs. of silver, valued at $43,500,000, equal, at 4s. 6d. per dollar, to £9,666,000. The annual pro duce of European mines, coupled with those of Northern Asia, at the same period, was about a million sterling, giving in America a gold produce in the ratio to silver as one is to forty-six, and in Europe as one is to forty ; while the value of equal quantities of gold to silver were in the proportion of 15 or 15f to 1. The American mines continued to increase their annual yield till they reached their then maximum in 1809, that year's yield amounting to £12,500,000. The revolt of the Spanish colonies wrought a change ; the average from 1809 to 1829 being less than half at the commencement of the century, or £4,036,838, according to JA cons, a calculation many suppose to be an exag gerated decrease. During this period the scarcity tended to raise the value, which must always depend upon the demand for currency and the fine arts, and while the yield for so long a time thus de creased the population and the commercial trans tions of the world were rapidly on the increase. The fine gold and silver produced in 1846, two years before the discovery of the Californian mines, is calculated to have been for Europe, Africa, and Asia, exclusive of China and Japan, gold, £ 1,545,192 ; silver, £1,254,306 ; total, £5,790,491 ; and for North and South America, gold, £1,301,560 ; silver, £5,261,619 ; total, £6,563,179. Two years after these discoveries, that is in 1850, the yield ou the former continents was gold, £5,312,533 ; silver, £1,528,592; total, £6,810,975, and for the latter, gold, £13,311,989 ; silver, £7,259,824 ; total, £20,601,813. From these figures it will be seen that the vast increase was almost entirely from the gold of California, which represents more than twelve of the fifteen millions increase contained in the totals. Putting the gold-fields of Australia and California aside, the production of the precious metals, in each of the years 1855-6-7, did not ex ceed £14,050,000, the increase only being about £1,550,000 on estimated annual produce of 1809. Had it not been for the discovery of, the auriferous wealth of Australia and California,these sources would not have sufficed to meet the additional demand for coin and the bullion used in the arts, consequent on the increase in population, commerce, and wealth in Europe and America. This is best illus trated by showing the mere wear and tear and loss of coins in circulation, which is calculated to be one and a half per cent., while the value of the coined money of America, Africa, and a large por tion of Asia, was estimated at £500,000,000 an nually, the yearly waste according to this estimate being £7,500,000. During 1858 the amount used in the arts was valued at £12,000,000, so that it is clear that the supply, independent of California and Australia, would have been wholly insufficient to meet, the requirements of the , world. The value of the coinage of England in 1858 was estimated at £7,5,000,000, but some of the best authorities con sider £9O, 000 f 000 nearer the truth,. while the coin- age of Frarre - was very nearly double, , being 4140,000,000. The largest sum ever accumUlated in a buildirig now rests in the vaults of the Bank of France, which was last week announced to be £46,000,000. In 1858 the estimated produce of ' the world was £39,000,000, and the increase of coinage was put down at £10,000,000, leaving a balance in favour of produce, when the wear and tear and the quantity used in the arts is added to that coined, of over £10,000,000. In France the coinage of gold increased in a remarkable de gree over that of silver, and the tendency of Christendom has been to substitute gold for silver currency. This was strikingly the case in the United States, especially before greenbacks took the place of metals. In 1849 the gold coinage was $9,007,761 ; in 1851, $62,614,492 ; and in 1856, $59,343,465. The Bank of England estimate laid before the House of Commons in 1857-8 of addi tions of bullion of Europe for 1851 were—lmports, gold, £8,654,000 ; silver, £4,076,000 ; while there were exported, gold, £102,000 ; silver, R 1,716,000 ; leaving little short of the entire import in the continent. In 1857 the imports were—gold, £21,366,000 silver, £4,050,000 ; and the exports —gold, £529,000, and silver, £20,000 ; the latter figures showing distinctly the change in the circu lating medium introduced into France. The Hon. SAMUEL B. BOGGLES, who acted for the United States at the Commission lately held in Paris for promoting international coinage, states in his re port that the total coinage of gold in England, France, and the United States from 1793 to 1851 was $981,000,000, being $180,000,000 by the United States, $180,000,000 by Great Britain, and $424,000,000 by France. For the 15 years from 1851 to 1866 the United States coined $665,000,000; England, $355,000,000; and France, $987,000,000; making a total of $2,108,000,000. The amount of gold in circulation in France, Belgium, and Italy he calculates at $1,400,000,000, which, added to the re mainder of the gold coinage of Europe, would carry the total to $1,800,000,000. In the British Mint for the ten years ending 1866 inclusive the silver coined was £3,677,182, or $18,385,910. During NAPOLEON lll.'s reign, from 1851 co 1866, the silver coined in France was, francs 215,561,101, or $13,112,180. The silver coinage of France, Great Britain, and the United States from 1851 to 1866 was $ 1 17,000,000, against the gold coinage as above given for the same period of $2,108,000,000. Tke reason of this was the decision by the French Government to substitute a gold for a silver legal tender ; the sil ver being in demand for the East Indies in exchange for cotton and other products ; and from France alone the supply diverted to India during that 15 years amounted to $750,000,000. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1866, there were coined in the Mint and branches of the United States 1,532,996 gold pieces, valued at $37,429,430. Of these 141 we re fine bars, being in value $9,115,485. For the same period there were coined 1,704,027 silver P ieces , valued at $1,596,646, of which 527 were bars of the value of $916,382. The entire deposits in the Mint of gold produced in the United States up to June 30th, 1866, were $652,146,656. The amount of silver from January, 1841, to the 30th J un e, 1862, deposited in the Mint was $8,286,536 ; for the year ending June 30, 1866, the gold pro duction of the United States deposited in the Mint was $28,970,762, and the silver $893,262. During the year 1866, $41,411,726 in treasure were received at New York from California, and from foreign I parts $9,578,029, while the exports amounted to $62,553,700, being in excess of the imports of $11,563,945. An official statement of the precious metals of the United States Pacific coast for 1867 has been recently presented to Congress. Accord ing to this document the produce of California amounted to $25,000,000, Nevada to $20,000,000,. Montana to $ 1 2,000,000, Colorado to $2,500,000, and Oregon to $2,000,000. The total value raised during the twenty years, 1848 to 1867, was $1,165,000,000, of which California contributed $900,000,000. We fear that these figures will not prove attractive to our readers ; but it is necessary to give them, however imperfectly, as the calcula tions on which we base our remarks.—Ang/o-Ame rican Tinzes. A race on the Charles river for the championship cf the Union Boat Club, of Boston, inaugurated the season on Wednesday afternoon, May 13. The result of the race demonstrated the superior advantages of paper boats, the winner, J. Fay, not thought to be a champion oarsman, using one of that material, which weighs only 281 b. PISCICULTURE IN MIERICA.—The House Com mittee of Massachusetts on Fisheries went to Holyoke, May 15, and spent the. afternoon prospecting for the pro posed fishway at the dam, returned highly pleased with die scheme, and passed the night at the Massaott House. Next day they visited Turner's Falls. The fishway at Holyoke, to to built next fall, will be 300 feet long, and will cost The catch of shad on Haddam island, Connecti cut, in a recent week, was between 700 and 800, only 200 being taken on the largest haul. In 1802 one draught brought 2,300, a:pl a second but ti - to seining and pound nets at the mouth of the river are very destruc tive to the fisheries alone. In Virginia the Supreme Court has decided that in debts contracted in Confederate money the amount shall be commuted into Federal money, at the value of the Con federate money when thi debt matured, and not whoa it was contracted. It has also decided, with reference to the distribution of the assets of the old Virginia State Banks, that the noteholders shall not have preference, but that they, the depositors and all other creditors, shall share Y TILE RECENT CONVULSIONS OF NA7 URE. Fuller accounts have come to hand through the American papers of the volcanic eruption at the Sandwich Islands, and of the extraordinary tornado which destroyed Shanghai, near Galesburg, Illinois ; as well as that in Tennessee, another of so unusual a character as to deserve a more lengthened record than we gave in our last. On the 27th of March Mauna Loa began its demonstrations, and on the next day 100 earthquake shocks were felt, and during the two weeks following, to April 13, 2,000 earthquake shocks occurred. At Waischina, the earth opened in many places, and a tidal wave, 60 feet high, rose over the tops of the cocoa trees for a quarter of a mile inland, sweeping human beings, houses, and everything movable be fore it. A terrible shock prostrated the churches and houses and killed many persons. In all 109 lives were lost, besides thousands of hors s and cattle. The craters vomited fire, rocks, and lava, and a river of red-hot lava, five or six miles long, flowed to the sea at the rate of ten miles per hour, burn ing everything before it, and forming an island in the sea, and a new crater two miles wide opened and threw rocks and streams of lava five thousand feet high. At one time the illumination extended 50 miles at night. The lava has pushed out from shore one mile. At Waischina, three miles from the shore, a conical island rose suddenly, emitting a column of steam and smoke, while the Keno packet was passing, spattering mud on the vessel. The greatest shock occurred April 2. Prior to the eruption there was a great shower of ashes and pumic During the great shock the swinging motion of the earth was dreadful, so that no person could stand. In the midst of this tremendous shock, red earth poured down the mountain, rushing across the plain three miles in three minutes, and then ceased. Then came a great tidal wave, and then streams of lava ; the villages on the shore were all destroyed by this wave. The earth opened under the sea and reddened the water. The earth eruption swallowed thirty per sons, and the sea many more. Great suffering and terror prevailed in the district, and the whole region was affected. The sloop Live Yankee has been despatched with provisions, &C., to rescue and relieve. Further accounts say that a stream of water has burst from the mountain where the earth eruption occurred. The base of the volcano is about thirty miles in circumference, and is deso lated. At least half a million dollars' worth of property has been destroyed. The King of the Sandwich Islands has issued a proclamation for the relief of the sufferers. Many visitors to the . scene of the eruption have gone from Honolulu, and many will go from San Francisco. The worst is thought to be over, but the flow of lava continues. It is a grand spectacle. The Honolulu correspon dence of the San Francisco Bulletin gives the details Of the eruption, showing that the earthquake shocks extended to all the islands of the Hawaiian group, - but no'daniage is known to have occurred, except around Mauna Loa. Numerous extensive laud slides accompanied the other phenomena, destroy ing life and property. The summit and side hill, 1,500 feet in height, were thrown a thousand feet over the top of trees and landed in the valley below. The gases that issued afterward destroyed both vegetable and animal life. Bottomless fissures opened in the mountain side. The lava stream flowed under ground, breaking out in four jets, six miles from the sea, and throwing lava and stones 1,000 to 1,500 feet high, and was afterwards joined to the main land by a stream of lava a mile wide. Touching the tornado at Shanghai, the Chicago Republican says :—" The first that was observed by the people who were watching the clouds was what looked to them to be a circular cloud or volume of wind and rain about two and a half miles due west of the village of Shanghai, which seemed to rise and sink in the air. It came on, gathering new strength, straight east, levelling to the ground fences, gates, and everything that came iu its way, to Mr. John Calder's farm, where several window lights were knocked out and a large cherry tree, eight inches through at the butt, was twisted round and torn up by the roots. A remarkable in cident at Calder's farm was that a tub full of water standing in the yard, which was not moved in its position, had every drop of water in it carried up in the air. In Calder's grove, near his house, many large trees were twisted round and torn up by the roots, and a person on standing in the village can distinctly see the track of the whirwind by the opening through the grove. There were 15 dwelling houses totally destroyed. Many of them were picked up by the whirlwind, lifted into the air, and car ried quite a distance, and then, seemingly with demoniacal fury, dashed to the ground and shivered into a million of fragments. Besides those dwellings that were destroyed, seven were blown off their foundations. It will seem incredible that two good-sized, well-built churches, the only ones in the place, both new—one completed a year ago and the other less than six months ago—were both scat tered in fragments over the prairie for nearly half a mile. Services commenced in the Second Advent Church, a new building completed last fall, at four o'clock p.m. As the people were wending their way from their farms and cottages to church, the sun was brightly shining, although clouds were seen in the heavens. The pastor of the church, the Rev. G. W. Hurd, ascended the pulpit and commenced his discourse, which was not interrupted until it was nearly through, when the evidences of the coming disaster began to be apparent. First it was perfectly still, and then a noise was heard in the distance as of the roaring of a mighty cataract. The windows began to shake, and some one called out from his seat, Mr. Hurd, a bad storm is coming up.' fhe minister answered, ' Never mind the storm; there is a day coming when there will be a storm compared with which this will be nothing. I will be through soon.' Just then the hail and wind commenced breaking in the win dow lights, and in almost an instant the windows of the church, sash and all, were torn out. The only two persons who succeeded in getting out were George Wern and Harrison \Vixen, who were in • stantly killed. The building reeled like a drunken man, but none could get out. Wives clung to their husbands, children to their parents, brothers and sisters to each other, and despair was depicted on every countenance. Suddenly the crash came, and with a deafening sound, mingled with the shrieks of the pent-up people, timbers, scantling, and all came down with a sudden crash upon the devoted heads of the congregation, men, women, and children. Some had skulls broken, other arms, others received internal injuries from which they can never recover. There are several who did not receive a scratch, but nearly all were more or less injured. The killed were George Wern, H. \Vixen, Alonzo Page, and Mrs. J. Wood. Twenty-five persons were seriously wounded." In Tennessee, about six o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th, a tornado swept over the country, blow ing down houses, uproating trees, carrying away roofs, and destroying fences, for a distance of twenty miles. The path of the hurricane seemed to be about half a mile in width, and it swept over the country in a zigzag course, carrying death and destruction wherever its resistless whirl could reach a movable object. Deep, rolling thunder and blinding flashes of lightning, accompanied by tor rents of rain, followed upon the tornado, and the scene along its route is described to have been as grand as it was terribly destructive. The groaning of the great trees clinging to their strong roots, the crash of falling buildings, the whirring and clattering of flying boards and shingles, mingled with the roar of the tempest, as it swept along over hill and hollow, and whistled spitefully about the corners of the houses and barns its limited scope barely permitted it to touch, made up a confusion of sounds that would have drowned a moving pande monium. It was first observed at Hillsborough Pike, thence it approached the Franklin Pike, two miles beyond Brentwood. Passing eastward it reached the WilSon Pike, and after passing over Mill Creek it seemed gradually to lose its force. At Chattanooga and in the Cumberland mountains torrents of rain and hail fell, leaving on the summit of the Racoon hailstones nearly as large as hens' eggs. Numbers of people.were killed and wounded, and a large portion of Fayetteville laid in mills. Births. BARNARIJISTON—On tke 30th ult., at the Byes, Suffolk, the Lady Florence Barnarditton, of a son. y LANCE—On the let inst., at 1, Albion-street, Ilyde-P3t _ _ the wife of J. D. Lanc'e, Esq., of a daughter. M‘MAttes—Ou the 31st ult., at 15, Connaught -E g IL L .() ; Hyde-park, the wife of Major M'MaLion, of Genl i "' Park, Ilunton, Kent, of a son. Marriages. WALMSLEY—WALMSLEY— On the 2d inSt., at St. Saviollr,,% Paddington, Edward, eldest son of E. B. Wrabro l° J, e Esq., of Kew, to Annie, daughter of the late ( - 4°l.° Walmsley, Esq., of Hampton Court. WlLnitAnam—BnowE—On the 2d inst., at All o° - ,, 0 Langham-place, Hugh Wilbraham, Esq., of Boatb" co t Lodge, county Mayo, to Lady Marian Browne, Youl3g daughter of the late Marquis of Sligo. Deaths. CAHILL —On Whit-Sunday morning, at Richmond/ Stir rey, Richard S. Cahill, q., aged 82. cARR—Ou the Ist lust . , Es Mr. John Carr, of igh_streeti Putney, S.W., aged 70. f GLOVER- On the Ist inst , Thomas Glover, Esq., Gothic, llighgate-road. tr LEETE—On the Ist inst., at 1, Westbourne - pla ce, Eyre 4 square, lir. John Ilurstwaite Leete, late of Sloa ne Waged 58. v roocl BANDOLPH-At 76, Chester-square, the Boy. J. rf 0 ' 1 - o f Randolph, prebend of St. Paul's, and late re,ctor o f Sauderstead, Surrey, second sou of the late ieb°P London, aged 77. __---..--'"-_--- , 1 10 London : Printed and Published by WI LLIAM: ijl of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TRH SUN 03lee, ii btr Ind, in the Precinct of tho 681oy, intit(' C° l/ ALicicUovx.—Wednesday June 3 lass., MONEL—No. I. When we read that in ATHELSTAN'S reign an ox sold for 30 pence and a sheep for one shilling, and later far, though the citizens of London still trusted for defence to their wall—that ducks, geese, fowls, were offered in Cheapside for half pence, the ques tion is suggested—what these pence were compared with those now circulated. Doubtless money has materially fallen in value, but has the fall been so great as represented by the price of the ox in the time of ATHELSTAN, and its price in the time of VICTORIA ? It cannot be said that money was scarce and oxen plentiful, when the first Sovereign of all England sat on the Throne from A.D. 924 to 940, as contrasted with the time of the reigning Monarch, for if money has prodigiously increased so have oxen. The 30 pence were not the pence of to-day, and we know that the . old Roman penny was equal to sevenpence halfpenny of our money. The Anglo-Saxons coined inferior brass pieces called stycas, of which two were equal to a farthing, but we confess that we know nothing of ancient British money, nor does it enter into our subject. The English pound is of French origin, being " CHARLEMAGNE'S" livre or pound weight of silver, decreed by him A.D. 800 to be the standard of his Empire. It was imposed on the English by WILLIAM the CONQUEROR, the Tower pound taken and stamped as the measure, bearing the date of the Conquest, 1066. Twenty shillings which now form our silver pound do not contain one-quarter of that weight. In 1792 in decimalitizing the coin of France, the livre of CHARLEMAGNE, dwarfed and shrank in its career of ten centuries, disappeared from the world. Gold was introduced into the coinage of England by HENRY 111., who manu tured the pieces of almost pure metal, half a grain only being alloy. HENRY VIII. debased their purity, fabricating crowns, five shilling gold pieces, 22 carats, which has since continued to be the titan. dard, pure gold being 24 carats. We are told that this word carat came to us from Abyssinia, a weight of that country, said to be a bean, the fruit of an Abyssinian tree, which varies little in weight after being gathered, and is issued in Africa to weigh gold, and in India diamonds. Salt is said to he the circulating medium in Abyssinia. Both stan dards continued to be used till 1633, when the pure standard was discarded. Some of the silver pieces during the time of HENRY 111. were depreciated till they contained only a third part of fine metal, but they were restored by ELIZABETH, and the English silver standard has since remained un- . touched. At the beginning of the present century, according to lici/LBQLDT, tho Alavricau mines prow MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Mr. Bateman is about to leavo America for Paris to collect fresh attractions for which to open at Niblo's on the 11th July. Philadelphia is about to &tido judicially whether an actor who is to play the part of a drunken mania justified iu qualifying himsjlf therefor by actually becoming in toxicated. " Othello" was lately performed at Hayti, and the part of Othello was taken by a black man, who painted his face white. The lowa Republicans have nominated General E. Wright for Secretary of State, and put up a full ticket for other State officers and presidents. Generals Kilpa trick and M'Alister and Cornelius Walsh are the most prominobt candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor in New Jersey, at the next election. South Bend, Indiana, the home of Speaker Colfax, has gone 113- publican at its municipal election, gaining heavily in vote 400 larger than last year ; and Providence. Rhode Island, at its election on Wednesday, May 13, elected the whole Republican ticket, Thomas A. Doyle having four majority fur mayor in a light vote. At the election for Congressional Delegate ih Arazona, June 3, Governor M'Cormick is the Republican candidate and John A. Rush the Democratic. General John A. Logan, Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, has issued an order to all the posts in the country, designating Monday, May 31, as the day for strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of their fallen comrades in the various churchyards of the country. Liberty BillingB, of New Hampshire, who norni uatcd himself for Governor, and afterwards for member of Congress, only suec3eded in getting himself arrested, and a free passage, under guard, to St. Augustine, after two days in the guard-house at Tallahassee. " Governor Hatnikon, of Texas," is again in Washington, and is again "sensationalizing." lie affirms, so the newspapers report, that "two hundred and fifty Union men have been murdered in Texas since General Hancock was appointed to command there ; that the Con vention there is the ablest body ever assembled in the State; that there are fifty Radical members of it fit to sit in Congress; and, finally, that unless President Johnson is removed no Union man can stay in Texas and live ! As President Johnson is not removed, we fear there will be another slaughter of the innocents. General Buchanan has suspended the collection of tixes in the inundated districts of Louisiana. lutelligence from Hayti via llavannah announces that the Cacos rebels hold the north part of the Republic, and it is rumoured that they have captured Gonaives. President Salnave was surrounded at Gonaives, and a deputation had gone to Jamaica to invite ex-Prest' dent Geffrard to return. Speaker Colfax made $lO,OOO from his lecture, "Across the Continent." Governor Patton, of Alabama, had been in Bos ton for several days, examining the public institutions is that city, with a view of improving upon them la Alabama. It is stated that General M'Clellan will return to America in September next, and take an active part in the Presidential canvass in behalf of the Democratic car didate. The racehorse Kentucky has been sold for 635,000. The transfer was effected on the 14th May, and the horse was given into the charge of Charles Littlefield at Jerome Park. George 'l'. Shorn, Esq., a membet: of the Penw sylvania Legislature, died at his residence, in Philadel phia, on Sunday night, the 10th of May. He was a prac tical printer, and was serving his fourth term in the Legislature. Mr. George F. N. Davis, brother of Mrs. George Francis Train, was recently kill3d in a quarrel on the Western border. The murderer has been arrested. A new reason has been discovered why Grant can't b 3 elected President, nor anybody else either. At meeting of Adventists in New York, on a Sunday, it W announced that the world would surely come to an end lo October. The Hancock Committee, appointed to wait 00 Horatio Seymour at his residence at Utica, report that he is not and will not under any circumstances be a candidate fur the Presidency. Mr. Seymour said as much some time ago. The Democrats of Mississippi have nominate General Humphreys for Governor and a full State ticket. The portrait of Queen Victoria given to George Peabody was received at the Peabody Institute, in th e newly named town of Peabody, Massachusetts, on Tues' day, May 12. E. P. Weston, the pedestrian, par eminence, de livered a lecture and walked a mile in eight minutes and twenty-five seconds in Boston Music Hall, on Tuesdai evening, May 12. His advice to walkers is to swing the arms by the side, keep the mouth shut, not run down hill, wear laced shoes and linen stockings, and pour whidkl now and then in the shoes. Colonel John W. Forney's resignation as clerk of the Senate has been accepted, which, it is said, has been a .4 sell' , for him, as he never intended it, designing only to make political capital, and to give himself free scope 111 pouring out vials of wrath on the heads of the traitor 1 10 " publican Senators unsound on Impeachment "in my tw ° papers, both daily." The Springfield Republican says—" ll is too bad that he should have intended it only as a joke, as by the little stratagem ho has secured a nag': ber of first-class notices, which he never merited and never would have received but for his opportune takia off. No one supposed that he would leave his fat Oa'?" till he had made up for the recent defalcations of 111° clerk - , and it is remarked as singular that the Impeac h ; ment trial had at that time only resulted in his removal' The following returns of income for 1867 ar e made by leading citizens of New York:—William Astor, $977,452 ; Moses Taylor, $293,780; William Dodge, $133,618; William E. Dodge, jun., $95,24/ James Gordon Bennett, of the New York 'Jerald $167,000; Robert Bonner, of the New fork Ledger, $238,411 ; Augus t Belmont, $94,617 ; Lorenzo Delmonico, 868,478 ; Arnold, $152,752; Loring Andrew; $110,805; &ova" Brown, 8100,889 ; David Dows, $127,595 ; Ara„ 6 B. Eno, $196,790; Robert Goelet, $117A6 ; Goelet, $210,517; Benjamin Hutton, $161,656 ; George Kemp, 8100,042 ; Theodore Roosvelt, $101,569; John I ) * Woolfe, $111,241 ; James Gallatin, $28,336 ; Francis 13 ' Cutting, $55,329 ; Richard M. Hoe, the printing-Pre ° , maker, $100,951; John R. Cornell, $217,832; W.W. Corne ll ' fi $215,394 ; G. Godfrey Gunther, 668,135 ; C. V. S. those' velt, $93,066; John Hecker, $123,832 ; William 1 : Rhinelander, $104,747 ; John J. Cisco, $61,9 21 James M. Constable, $61,310; Peter Cooper, $18,3 10 ' Jackson S. Schultze, $88,182; Henry C. Fahuestoe lA $71,399; William H. Webb, $153,806; James li. Berl e ' diet, $132,451 ; A. Oakley Hall, $7,000 ; Charle4 O'Conor, $48,225 ; Henry Keep, $53,013 ; Rufus 1 "" Lord, $97,609 ; Ogden Haggerty, $82,261; Abiel 14- * Low, $111,131 ; and the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher' $38,218. In Cincinnati the Hon. George H. Pendleton returns $9,316, while the largest i ncome i n th e c ity is that of B. Metz, $120,800. Nicholas Longworth's estate re ; turns $89,008. In Chicago the two largest returns or made by the manufactur ers o f " M'C o r m i c k' s rea pers, H. M'Cormick returning $202,306 and J. L. M.Corro', $lOO,OOO, while G eorge W. P u ll man , th e ma k er o f "811 n ing, cars" for railways, reports $72,000. William B. og9- 4, '. a Western railway king, reports $82,998; and W 9 p Medill, of the Chicago Tribune, $27,690 ; J. P. Bross, .1 0r , of that newspap e r, $26,391, a nd Horace White, its edl $16,493. Governor Ogelsby, of Illinois, returns $9,084. 1, a ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. Healt,... Vigour.— To the most regular livers occasional dist ur t ances of digestion will occur, which may be corrected once by these famous pills—the alterative and Loose of which cannot be too highly extolled. .E 1 now and thou will prove salutary to every one, but a C ' it tinned course must be taken by the confirmed invalid. ~0 is wonderful how the appetite and digestion improve er proportion as the pills exert their wholesome influence w i t j i the animal economy. They augment muscular stroll, and mental vigour. 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