The Sun. — London, England, 1868-02-04 00:00:00

EPIRIT OF THE rUIILIC .Jo'ol,ll'3lB. The Titri6"7ix sing that the Queen intends him. Ineseveral drawing-rooms; &c., this next season, z This may immediately concern very few. Even igposing theie drawing-roonni as numerously attended 'll _they used to De in the brighter years of this reign, and, indeed, to be restricted by nothing but the accommoda- Vsnii of Buckifighiin*Palaee, hap Pill larger than those - of st. James's, if isalYllie'Court circle that is directly in terested, aid' that circle , in its largest sense, does' not muster _many What are these, it may be , askid, to thirty Millions t But even these thirtY millions hEve a good deal to say to it. We presume there is sOme thing in all the talk about absentee; about non-resident clergy or squires; about eniptYilinsilini;ind the carriage drive that knows not the ttack7of wheels. There ) is-some thing more, too, than the material interests affected. This British Constitution, Societ y, and State becomes a heavy, unintelligible thing when it ceases to be well represented and visibly enacted. Of course there are persons happily far above the necessity of an appeal tc their vulgar senses. They know all about it, and don't want to know more. But, as a simple matter of fact, tht greater part of mankind only apprehend what they see or what they hear of second-hand, in the common talk of the day and through the newspapers. When they hear of a sovereign performing a succession of important or interest ing public acts, assisting at ceremonials, taking a part pageants, presiding over the highest ranks of her subject, and otherw is e appearing as the bright and attractiv centre of our political system, they realise what is calls '_ Royalty, which else they have to understand by the dim and uncertain twilight of their reasoning faculties. it is not uncommon (continues the Times) to hear the remark often made, as if a singular proof of shrewd ness, common sense, and close observation, that the sovereign is cult' a pageant, and has no real power. If anybody could tell us what person has power, what class has power, what institutions ;have power, be yond that of just holding their own, he would be better able to inform us in what respect Royalty has declined in this country. One complaint is universal, and it is that everybody finds himself confronted i baffled, overruled, and reduced to just what he is by everybody else. It is not only the holders of ancient and privileged positions, but even still more the spoilt children of fortune, who fret aL...inst the bars and fetters they find all around them. It is at least very difficult to prove that the Crown has lost anything on a fair comparison with any former age. Om sovereigns have often appeared as the heads of great causes and the leaders of popular movements, but it does not follow thatthey had much choice in the matter. This summer, says tne Telegraph, we shall have one or the old-fashioned seasons, and the consequent harvest will be a " good thing " for the people who share it, and also for the countless crowd of respectable vocations and trades which live upon the business of pleasure. But no raistak could be more extravagant than to imagine that the altered aspect of the season will affect only the fashionable quarters : it will extend to the entire round of this urban province. The magnificence of the Court, the radiant enjoyment of Belgravia and Tyburnia; will awaken the life of every quarter within the postal frontiers. The public :entertainments will borrow light and animation from the sunshine above ; the usual attractions of the metropolis will be at their brightest ; every order of society will have its share of visitors from the country, from abroad ; every suburb will be thronged, and the hired carriages of the middle and humbler classes will contend with the luxurious vehicles of wealth and rank fur the right of way in all our leading thoroughfares. The Post announced a few days back that a noble lord, who had entered the turf under the assumed name of Mr. Jay, was about to close his career, at barely 22, having got largely in debt by borrowing money. Even the worst of the discounting brethren, the Christian section, have hitherto refrained from eating the bird before it has chipped the shell, and have let the corn catch just a sun colour before attempting to pass it, through the mill, but the child of the turf, rumour says, was "planted" while he was yet a boy-earl, and one at least of the money-lending fraternity contrived to get at him while he was at Eton. This man alone, it is reported, has managed to build up a claim amounting to not less than between £30,000 and 240,000, and the ante age liabilities of the victim are 'sup posed to reach in the gross nearly £lOO,OOO. When a man of mature age, with his eyes opened as a few years in London or regimental life opens them, elects to borrow of a-professional discounter, because he either has nothing but personal security to offer, or because it would not answer to submit his difficulties to the " governor," it is a matter between his present and his future, or betiveen himself and his family ; but when a boy who has succeeded to an earldom in his boyhood, having been detected through the aid of the peerage and tracked by the bloodhounds of marauding capital to his school, is stalked and bagged with well-devised strategy, and his estates drained of their life-blood, it becomes an affair between society at large and the money-wolf. It becomes both the duty and the interest of society to drive the wolf out of the sheepfold and hunt him down. Yet it is rarely done. The family of the victim shrink from exposure and keep the matter quiet, which means that it is not known and talked of except in every club and at every dinner table in London. Speaking of the tale just told in the Queen's Bench L.Oncerning the Lord Great Chamberlain, the Daily Ncws remarks : Lord Willoughby d'Eresby is a man in high lace. He is a candle set on a bushel, and his light can• not be hid. He is a hereditary legislator, and has to vote on laws affecting the morality of the public and the sanc tity of wedded life. He is an officer of the Court, and has to usher the nobility of the land into the presence of a pure and virtuous sovereign. He is a landlord, and among all his neighbours, in every farmhouse, in every cottage home on his wide estates, his conduct eiists as a living example of what men may do and yet retain honour in England. What sort of influence is this to exercise ? What sup port are womanly innocence and manly honesty to draw from such a conspicuous instance ? And all for what ? All this scandal —bad enough in its commission, tenfold worse in its publication —is flung into the face of the world to save a peer with an illimitable rent-roll from restoring a few hundred pounds' worth of goods he had withheld. All is incurred rather than resort at first to the means which the strong language of the judge compelled to be adopted on the second day—a refereace of the facts to some gentleman of character who could have arranged them privately. We do not say the sin would have been made less by such a course, but surely its evil influence would. Though hypocrisy be but the homage vice pays to virtue, yet it is a homage which virtue has a right to demand. Lord Willoughby d'Eresby refuses, however, to confess that public decency has any claim upon him. That claim is founded on the position which the institutions of the land give to him, and when duties are denied, rights are forfeited. In telling the tale of the progress of the British troops In Abyssinia, the Herald observes : We have no enemy as yet, nothing having been heard of Theodore for some time past, except a vague and unreliable rumour that he and his army are stuck fast in one of the ravines between Debra Tabor and Magdala. We have no further mention of the Waagshum Gobazye. Prince Kassai, who appears to be high in authority in the country of Tigrd, is esta blishing the most friendly relation.s with the British army. Natural obstacles to our advarice are all that we have had to contend with at yet. We havebeaten the roeki-;•our machines have sucked water out of the waste. We cannot tell how far the rains may perplex us, or cause unhealthi ness among the troops. It will be a great disappointment if we cannot meet with an enemy in human shape. " The , 4 shell batteries will be moved to the front. One shell battery will accompany the advance troops." What if it should happen that we have no fortresses to shell, no enemy to resist ua—only a set of complacent black fe"ows to open the gates wherever we may wish to enter ? Sup posing Theodore really hors de combat, who else is there in Abyssinia so foolish as to wish to quarrel with us or dis pute our advance ? The Standard asks whether the comity courts really nave done th e i r wor k. F or ver y sma ll causes , i nvo l v i n g only a few shillings, it is admitted that the more modern tribunals may do ' very well • but when the facts are com plex, or the sums in dispute large, most suitors would prefer a mode of investigation more nearly resembling that of the superior courts, if obtainable without any dis proportionably heavy increase of expense. This is shewn by the fact that only 19 per cent. of 6ounty-court cases have hitherto related to questions involving more than £5. Where heavier amounts are at issue, the suitor is almost of necessity, compelled to obtai n Professional assistance; but the county-court allowances under this head are so meagre, as practically to punish the pl a i nt i ff for hav i ng taken legal steps to obtain payment of a lust debt. The court fees for 1866 were at the rate of ge , 6d. per pl a i n t_ over 14 per cent. on the tota l. M akin all r easona bl e allowance for cases in which the p lainti ff fails, it follow's that on the average the county-court system fines a creditor 4s. for trusting a claim of £2 75., and this without allow in anything for the expense of reasonably legal assistance, 'There is, therefore, every inducement for a dishonest debtor to resist to the utmost, because he knows that at the worst he will only have to discharge the debt by easy im4talments, while his creditor must pay in advance four or five times as much, in the shape of court fees, as he will be able to recover. Some of the Liberal members of the Prussian Patha n, ark: complaining that the Government are paying too ru. , :it to the dethroned German princes. Bismarck makes • iv• " We admit we are paying the fellows a good deal tban they are worth, or than they ought ever to have ; Lot is it not well to stop their mouths once and ever, and not have them whimpering . and snivelling p•!:,ait Europe, as if they were reduced to beggary by us?" This is, indeed, a humane way of dealing , with the con• cuered, but the Star doubts if it adds much to the dignity Of royalty. Caractacus may have seemed a forlorn spec. tacle when he graced a conqueror's triumph ; but we question whether Caractacus wrangling for another pound or two as the annual stipend of his surrender would not have been a yet more humiliating sight. TameTlana exhibited his royal captive like a wild beast; Bismarck shews off his vanquished .as if they were a set; of 111. eonditi9ed Qrgan-gr - hadera - wholefused to maiS§lfirf-h - - putrcktivingcm eisutuckintecc.i 271 E LATE GALE. The - fittest :ateounts which have reached us from - the 'carious districts in and around the metropolis, as well as from all ports of the country, confirm previous reports as to the extraordinary violence of the gale of Friday and balairday, and the great injury it has done everywhere both to person and property. There is a general concur renoe.Of testimony to the effect that the tempest reached its height between eleven a.m, and three p.m. on Satur day, when it raged with the fitful fury of a hurricane. We have now to supply a few additional particulars of the mischief done by this storm in the vicinity of London, and also in the provinces, where it appears to have been as general as it was violent. In the metropolis it was occasionally accompanied by very heavy showers, but the rain entirely ceased about noon on Saturday. In the north the quantity of rain which fell appears to have been far greater, causing floods in various counties, more especially in Yorkshire and Cumberland. Even in the suburbs of London, however, considerable tracts were inundated. At Richmond Hill the weather. cock and a large miss of stonework were blown from the spire of the new church of St. Matthias, and fell through the roof with a tremendous crash. Great havoc was made of telegraph wires, and railway trains were frequently delayed in consequence of the storm. Turning to the provinces, we find that at Sheffield, besides many minor casualties, a druggist, named Bing ham, and his wife, living in Arundel-street, were both killed, the former instantaneously, by the falling of their dwelling, a very ricketty old structure, ill-adapted to battle with the fury of the gale. Churches, chapels, and other public and private buildings in the same town and its surrounding districts have been considerably damaged. By the heavy rain and consequent flooding of the Yorkshire and other rivers large quantities of farm stock and agricultural produce have been destroyed. On Satur day a little boy, named Benjamin Storey, who lived at Armley, near Leeds, was blown into the River Aire, at Green-bridge, near the woollen-mills of Messrs. Gott, and was d row ned. At Scarborough, a working plasterer, named Henry Moor, was killed by the fall of a stack of chimneys upon a house, and three or four of his fellow workmen were severely injured. The most serious destruction of property at Hull was at the works of the British Gaslight Company. About half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon, No. 1 gasometer, a very large structure, was blown bodily over by the force of the wind, the surrounding pillars and stonework being also very much broken. The gasometer at the time containedabout 250;000 feet of gas, stored for Saturday night's consumption. Ilite huge holder fell over upon a pile of iron pipes, and was instantly broken to pieces. Scarcely had the gas begun to escape when the whole took fire, and the flames raged for about half an hour with great intensity. In another part of the town of Hull a ropery was blown down, and three of the workmen slightly injured. The Humber...gas very turbulent, and the vessels in the roads )ad to rlile with two anchors down to prevent their driving. From Shields we learn that there has not been such'a flood in the Tyne as that of Saturday for ten years. From various other points along the coast we have news that the gale was terrific. Happily, however, it does nut seem to have done anything like the amount of damaie 4 :o shipping which might have been apprehended. At Manchester the storm, beyond blowing down chimneys and unroofing a few hotises, has done no very serious mischief. There has, happily, been no loss of life. Perhaps the worst of all the casualties occasioned by the storm was that which we reported yesterday as having occurred on the Cambrian Railway ; but in other parts of Wales it did not pass over without producing lamentable effects. One accident caused by it, at a place called Llwycliart, was almost unique in character. A postboy from the Wynnstay Hotel, at Llanfyllin, was returning with his empty chaise, when he came to a part of the road where a tiny rivulet crosses. This had suddenly swollen into a river, and the man and horse were swept away by the tide and perished. At a farm called the Main, near Llansaintffraid, the floods carried away two men who were crossing a field, and their bodies have not yet been traced. In Merionethshire the tempest was extremely violent. The valley of the Dee from Corwen to Llangollen pre sented the appearance of one vast lake on Saturday, and on some of the farms almost the whole of the sheep have been destroyed. The valley of Edernion, through which the Great Western line from Corwen to Bala runs, was flooded. The Cambrian Railway Company have notified that in consequence of the breaking down of the bridges at Caersws and Pontgoldooh passengers will be conveyed by omnibuses from Carno Station to Llanidloes-road crossing adjacent. SCOTLAND. The protracted storm appears to have been felt with great severity in Scotland, and great destruction of property, caused by heavy floods, is reported ; and these disasters, added to those occasioned by the hurricane of Friday week, involve serious losses. The Tay was on Satur dfty in higher tl ..04,1 than it has been since the autumn of 1847 ; and t' e Earn has overflowed its banks in destructive force. At Stirling, the Forth has risen to such a height that the land dividing many of the links is entirely unde water. From Inverness it is reported that the waters of the Ness, which the wind had raised to an enor mous he'ght, begat to subside on Saturday afternoon• 'There is still, of course, a great flood, and much destruc tion of property is the result ; but there has, fortunately, been no further loss of life. So much damage has been done to the Highland Railway that traffic has been stopped. In Fifeshire, the Lochty and the Orr have risen into high flood. The Dunfermline Railway was at one period of the clay flooded to a depth of about a foot ; and at Coupar-Angus a flock of a hundred sheep has been drowned. The Tweed, like the other rivers, has been greatly flooded, but no serious destruction of property seems to have resulted on its banks. In Edin burgh the storm raged with great severity. In the northern part of the city the experience of it was even more alarming than that of the pre vious Friday's hurricane. The rainfall was very heavy, and the wind blew . strong and almost continuously from the north-west. The storm was at its height probably between the hours of midnight and four on Saturday morning. During that period the wind was terrific ; it dashed the rain upon the street in such heavy sweeps as to give it the appearance of thick sleet. At break ' lay the morning was still very wild. Daylight had returned when, about eight o'clock, a great dark. , td de.nly set in, and thunder and lightning followed. the wind and the rain prevailed with great force, al, with very little intermission, until about one o'clock ia the afternoon. Then the rain ceased, the sun came out and by and by the wind went down. For an hour or two there was an almost total calm ; but in the evening a high wind again got up, and the night was very un pleasant, snow falling thickly between ten and eleven o'clock, just as the places of amusement were being' emptied. The snow melted as it fell, and the streets were soon disagreeably encumbered with slush. There was a heavy flood on the Water of Leith, but not so great as to cause any damage, as the river iu the vicinity of Edin burgh did not overflow its banks—a result largely attri butable to the water company's reservoirs at the sources of both branches of the river retaining a large portion of surplus water. The Esic, at Musselburgh, gave evident proofs of the heavy rains in the south-west, the stream being much swollen both on Saturday and Sunday. At an early hour on Saturday morning two men, while travelling from Comrie to Crieff, distinctly felt, during a lull of the storm, two slight shocks of earthquake. Their attention was suddenly directed to a loud rumbling noise coming from the south-west, which passed by and proceeded to the north-east. The tremor rf the earth was slight, but quite perceptible. The violent gusts of wind which swept across the Firth of Forth on Saturday morning compelled the fishermen belonging to Newhaven and Fisherrow to betake themselves to their respective harbours eat-ly in tho day. THE IRISH CHURCH AND ITS ANOMALI E S. — The Freeman publishes the fourteenth report from " Our Church Commissioners." It deals with the united dioceses of Limerick and Ardfert and Aghadoe. The report, says caw contemporary, developer some peculiar features con nected with the " conversion " to Anglicanism of the population of these dioceses. The " conversion" was not effected by bishops, by parsons, by curates, by cate chists, or by readers, but by a general officer at the head of a large army, who adopted the rapid and simple process of calling before him those whom he desired to " convert," and ordering them to take the oath of conversion, or the consequence of " high treason." The quaint matter-of-fact manner in which this military chief reports to the new Head of the Church the off-hand mode in which he thus converted "mayors," aldermen, common councillors, and through them thecora monalty, is characteristic of the man and of the times, and throws instructive light on the history of Anglicanism In Ireland. The results of `'su h " an evangelising Process are told in the fearful struggles that followed, and filled to the brim the bitter cup this country had to drain to its very dregs. They are told in the utter failure of the An , dican Church in the whole district re ported on. In the United Diocesan District there arc twenty-two parishes in which there is not one Anglican. There are sixty-eight parishes in which the gross Anglican population, if equally distributed, would give an average of one family to each parish. The twenty-two parishes in which there is not one Anglican are so large as to their area that they contai n a Catholic population greater than the whale Anglican population of the united dioceses of Limerick and Ardfert and Aghadoe. Th e s i x ty- e i g ht par i s h es' which contain an average of one An g li can f am ily p er parish, 'contain a Catholic population fiv e tim es larger than the entire Anglican population of the united dioceses. A. group of benefices which represent one-third o f th e paro chial revenue of the united dioceses present, as the cost of the spiritual instruction ;of the Anglican populatio n , an annual expenditure ranging from £2O per Anglican family in the least costly to £163 in the most costly, and repre sent an average of £46 per family in the group of parishes, which represent one-third of the whole parochial tithes of the united dioceses. - - - THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1868. ROMAN AFFAIRS. (From the Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) ROME, January 25. The octave of St. Anthony and. its popular custom of blessing the animals has been well kept up this year. The custom of providing against loss from the straying of sheep and cattle by attaching a bell to their necks, is common to all countries and times. It was a natural Christian adaptation of this custom that the bells should be blessed like other bells, and that the churches of St. Anthony should be selected for the performance of the ceremony. I do not know whether this is still continued, but it is very probable. At all events yon sel dom see a carefully harnessed donkey or mule, but shining from under the tassels and feathers adorning his top-knot yon may discern a brass medal of St. Anthony, with his " tan-cross ;" and all kinds of animals, from the dainty lupin°, decked for the occasion with a new collar and often streaming ribbons to boot, to the shaggy sheep-dog of the Campagna, with his unmis takeable look of sagacity for his only orna- meat ; from the shining team of the Pope's ponderous black carriage -horses, to the rough donkeys employed to draw the neat little carts of the streetsweepers, are brought to receive a blessing and. a medal at the Church of St. Antonio this week. This week also takes place the ceremony of blessing the lambs, from whose wool the pal liums of archbishops and patriarchs are made. They are brought in on a cushion and laid on the altar during Mass, at the Church of St. Agnese, outside the walls, on her feast, the 21st of January. The church always attracts a large concourse both in carriages and on foot, not only for this function, but during the whole day, for it is one of the most popular drives round Rome ; and on this occasion the festa at the old church, and the catacombs of St. Agnese being thrown open, afford great addi tional attractions. I met the Holy Father driving in the same direction through the midst of the throng. The telegraph has already doubtless g iven you the text c ' of the Brief, dated 14th January, and published here on the 18th, by which the Pope restores Cardinal d'Andrea to the hon ours, privileges, and use of the insignia of the Cardinalitial dignity, but decrees that for the present the diocese of Sabina and the abbey of Subiaco should continue'to be in the hands of the administrators appointed by the Brief of the 12th of June, 1866. They are, for the diocese of Sabina, Mgr. Gandolfi, who resides at Monte Rotondo, because Magliano, the pro per seat of the diocese, is situated in the ter ritory at present usurped by the Kingdom of Italy—for the Abbey of Subiaco, Mgr. Manetti, who resides at Subiaco itself. The See of Sabina (Magliano) is one of six immediately surrounding the city of Rome (called Suburbicari), which are the dioceses of the Cardinal-bishops. The first of them is Ostia e Velletri, always the diocese of the Dean of the Sacred College, to whom apper tains the exclusive right of consecrating the Sovereign Pontiff. The other four are Porto e St. Rufina, Albano, Frascati, and Pales trina. Sabina is counted the last in order, and it is the only one that was absorbed by the Kingdom of Italy. Magliano is a poor little town of only about 3,000 inhabitants, but its elevated situation and ruined castle make it very picturesque. The canons of its cathedral are privileged to wear the violet stock and cappa with ermine, and to use the prelate's taper and ewer at Mass. The Abbey of Subiaco is one of those called also dioceseos nullius (dioceseos), because they are independent of the jurisdiction of any bishop, without being themselves actual dio ceses ; but it is likely this will now be made one. Its territory is of small extent, but en shrined in it lies the first monastery of St. Benedict, and the sacro speco—the holy grot —where his earliest aspirations after the re ligious life were offered to God. It is thought likely that Cardinal d'Andrea t b t t p r a o u p u s l l a a t r e ; d a t n o d on in e t o h f a t t h ca a o s t e h h er e will will resign his See of Sabina, where, it is said , e probably six. I have not heard any new names mentioned this week, as thought of by the Pope for the forthcoming creation of cardinals. Mgr. Berardi, one of those I mentioned before, is at present Under-Secretary of State. He was born in a little town of the P • Province of Frosi none, and has raised himself to his present high position by his singular virtues and talents. He speaks several modern languages, including our own. He has travelled in England, and expresses an appreciative ad miration of our national character. In 1862 he was designated to go to St. Petersbur gthe quality of Nuncio,post a he would have filled with great success but for Russia failingin her promise to receive an envoy o f the Holy See. He has been cardinal in petto since 1858. Another in the list sent—Mgr. F e rrari— hesitates to accept the dignity to which the Holy Father would raise him. Some ministerial changes are talked of here, but I shall be able to k spea more freely of them later. The trial of the persons apprehended for complicity in the Serristori explosion is pro gressing, and brings out the worst revelations of the plot by which Rome was threatened on the night of that affair. We have looked at it too much from th e s id e o f its defeat, and that piecemeal, because the b • earmg of one outburst on another was not known all at once. I endeavoured, in my l e tt er in your impres sion of the 21st ult., to gi •ve you, though in of them mer e outline, a more en ti re v i ew I have seen put together as yet. But some day, when the story of the scheme is written by a hand that knows how to keep the reader well rea er well in suspense long enou g h t o take away his breath with the contemplatio n ofits possible success and the consequent horrors, we shall then, perhaps, gain some appreciation of the redemption we have had—not only we, dwel lers in Rome, but all the civili ze d world, and the whole history of the 19th century—and which—so cleverly (not to use a hard word) was the plot laid—could never have been com passed but through the vigilance of Govern ment, and the cordial co-operation of the people, police, and military. Only imagine—but no ! one cannot—our own dear old Rome, whose glowing sun gilds the memory of so many winters passed, always brighter than those to come ; whose titles are household words with us, and whose classic outlines interweave themselves with remem bered dreams and meditations as we walked a long, with the landmarks of our serious friend ships and even of our lighter ties with society ; I or Rome, as we knew her from the words of others, from sketches, and prints, and " sun pictures," as we traced her form for ourselves from the lives of the great and holy ones who worked at her building up, or those we counted bl e ssed because they had visited her before we had ; or Rome even as we guessed at her in our days of study, when we pondered over the credulous, yet free-thinking, old lauthors, who mystified us so as to her ori gin, that they made us half believe she was without beginning of days, as her undisputed title makes her to be without end of life ; when we learnt feebly to follow her majestic development, and to recognize and watch for the grand periods of her alternate shining and eclipse, like those of some great coast light set on a beacon-height, to be a token to all nations ; or any other brain-picture you like of Rome—with Castel Sant' Angelo, the Vati can, the Capitol, all the most remarkable palaces and public buildings in ruins ! Why, if St. Michael had forgotten to unsheathe his sword, one might almost have expected to see— Swift, 'swift the Great Twin Brethren Come spurring from the East. Or try to imagine Rome unpeopled of all her sculptured ideals, and the children created by her intelligent imagination, as well as the almost willing captives testifying to her unsur passed, albeit undisciplined, prowess, dis persed as pledges to money-lenders and specu lators; beyond the power of all Europe to com bine and restore them to their only meet abid- ing-place, as' once before when carried off, though then with more pretence to artistic sanction by barbarous revolutionists who polute the word " liberal " by attempting to make it cover their mad excesses. If an empty Rome such as they would have made of it would have suited their purpose, they might have made one for themselves and left ours undisturbed. But their game is pretty well played out now ; they have lost their credit before the face of Europe. Every day brings more clearly to light the vanity of their schemes, and the emptiness of their promises, though they contrived so well to take in once a large portion of cultivated Europe, and, perhaps, a small part of the more ignorant Italian populations, too. They lost their pres tige at Mentana, and in the revelations that have succeeded it in the Florence Chamber ; and the latest rhapsodies of their former ory pheus awake no notice from the journals which once affected his cause, but the exclamation re-echoed in varying tones from one to another —" Poor old dotard, he little knows how he is exposing us." During the suspense of more regular tactics, that no time may be lost the enemy is hard at work at their under-hand proceedings. With out living in the neighbourhood of it you can hardly believe the arts which are pat in prac tice for tempting to desertion. That it does not succeed is evident from the rapid increase of, the army ; but it is sad to think of the vast amount of public money, so hardly and nefari ously scraped together in Italy, which is being squandered in this nefarious work; sadder still to reflect on the injury she is doing herself in regard to public morals by engendering a dis graceful traffic. The pay must be high to induce the assumption of the office of tempter; for as often as not the soldier he tampers with denounces instead of listening to him, as soon as he makes out the point he is making for. Of course I do not mean that every soldier here is a model of chivalry—far from it. In a large, mixed body of men there must be as great variety of character as of height, or tone of voice ; but the concrete spirit of the whole army is excellent, no less in regard to fidelity than courage. Nor am I speaking of the Zouaves now; they form a noble regiment, and will always be reck oned among th Pope's best troops. . But just because they have done so much we are apt to reckon all the merit as theirs. I fell into this error when I said the other day there was only one Englishman killed at Mentana ; I ought to have specified I meant only one Zouave. There was another, of a lower class, indeed, but second to none, from what I hear, in bravery and devotion to the cause. He was of Liverpool, William Rowley by name; he had served in the first campaign, and came back at the opening of the late one. — On the day of Mentana, as his . company was marching along the road, he was suddenly seen to fall, pierced by two balls, serving as a first and a salutary warning to hiq comrades that the Garibaldians lay in ambush behind the trees on the bank they were passing. He was in the Carbinieriesteri, which used to be commonly called the regiment of Swiss, because there was at one time a preponderance of Swiss in it ; now it is entered by men of all nations -as much as that of Zouaves, and contains numbers of men who would do them no discredit. I saw a letter from a Swiss in it lately to a relation, and I could not forbear taking note of so m e lines, which I think will interest your readers as a random specimen. After giving a succinct account of the cam paign, he goes on :—"You will readily believe all these engagements have committed some havoc on the P o p e ' s little army ; but , by the grace of God, all h ave shown a spirit of de a voted courage. E v e r y one thinks new cam paign will open i n th e s pring. I don't know in what words to ex p re ss the i m patience with which we are all on the look out to see Italy get a good licking from France in alliance with the small but noble army of the Pope. • • He then goes on to correct some native pre judices against the military career, which he ascribes to Switzerland having no permanent army. His experience of life, which has now brought him in contact w ith men from all p arts of Europe, has taught him that this feeling is shared by no other people, and, to clench the matter, observes—" Have we not serving in the ranks of t he Roman arm y p rinces, an d gentlemen of all nations ?" examples he has heard of, of parents b H a e ro ci n t s e , a couts, of wealth and position esteeming it a happiness that their sons should serve the cause of the Vicar of Jesus Ch rist, and adds— " This hap peslasCel think,of sp mu st be no less for u s who, in ring from ingopulent homes, never earn more than a bare maintenance (ne sommes maitres de la misere) by all our labour and frugality. • • F— has just signed for two years mo re, and I have decid ed to do My two years are just ou t ; an d wht same. ae two years to offer to the noblest, the ar holiest, most just cause ?" The works at the fortifications continue, and new works on the Janiculum are being planned. Those at Castel St.A_ngelo, it is said, put it in a position to hold out a considerable time, if even the defences of the walls were to fail. Measures of security against dearth of provi sions are likewise not forgotten. As the spring approaches, the time long spoken of as likely to witness the breaking out of fresh hostilities, recruits, far from all the faster. from all parts of the world. beiEnvgeryfrighhetae'tnhedrinogffa, a l :se convoyaarrving gathered in This abundance o f zealous men enables Government to be ande xactteinerai g lin as to the those who are unable quality of those it to face the hard realities of th e so ldi er ' s lif e , or who are undesirable on any account. This happily selects, is of great advantage to the peace and secu rity of the others, particularly of the many men of superior position who form part of each battalion, apart from all other considera tions. It is to be regretted, however, that the various committees do not exercise greater discrimination as to those they send out ; and, if they cannot judge of the disposition and strength of will of each individual, they can at least be on the watch against the efforts the revolutionists are sure to make to sow tares among the wheat, and much money is spent in a w ay which only does harm at last. Thus a considerable number will have, from one cause or another, to return this week, some to Spain, who were said to be • P rogresistas, but the greater number bound for our own shores. On the other hand the British empire again fur nishes a good batch, With the right leaven in it. There is again talk •nof a band of High landers to co me out this time under Captain Chisholm. I do not know if the report is better founded than before. • A similar offer, and of a whole battalion from Canada, is also men tioned in reliable quarters. The Bishop of Groswardeen, in Hungary,.sends an undertak ing to provide for the maintenance of twenty Zouaves, and Canon Mislin, of the same diocese, si x t een. Th e Spanish Government is not backward in giving every testimony of willingness to be useful to the Holy See. It was, indeed, by means of information con veyed by Seiler de Castro that the character of the Spaniards, whose return I have mentioned, was discovered. As a minor instance of the devotion to the Pope of her Catholic Majesty's representative, it may be mentioned that he has given his little son, born on the very night of his reception at the Vatican, the name of Pius. • I must not, however, quit the subject of the army without recording two sad accidents by which we have lost an officer and a subaltern, both useful public servants, sacrificed to mere carelessness. The first was a major (Italian) of Geudarmi, who, coming home hurriedly for his cup of coffee, called to his servant to add the usual petit verre of rum. A bottle of poison had been left on the same shelf which held the liqueur bottles, and the orderly taking a bottle, without particular scrutiny, from the accus tomed spot, happened unfortunately. to fall upon the wrong one. The major survived the taking the poison but a very short time. The funeral dace took place On Thursday at St. Lorenzo, in Damaso, a great many officers of the other regiments attending it. The splendid band of the Gendarmi of course performed as the mournful procession passed along. The other was a Belgian sergeant of Zouaves. He had already passed through the hospital once, and been cured of a wound received at Mentana. A few days since he was brought back again, suffering from the effects of a fall through a long window opening to the ground, and left without any proper defence of a balcony or otherwise, which, in the dark, he had mistaken for a door. He was precipi tated from a height of about twenty feet, and broke his arm so close to the shoulder that no amputation could save him. He was a.very zealous young man, and had travelled all across Europe on foot to joiii the Zouaves. By his way he made the pilgrimage of La Salette, where he spent three days. Subsequently he crossed Mount Cenis, still on foot, though the road was deep in snow at the time. So he went on as far as La Spezzia, where, having let out the object of his journey, he was arrested and imprisoned, and only obtained his release through the intervention of the Belgian con sul, who gave him the means to continue his I journey. The Queen of Naples had taken par- I ticular notice of his case, and watched him with solicitude. When he at last succumbed, in spite of every effort, it was observed that she could not restrain her tears, as she watched his parting hour. Her gentle assiduity in at tending the hospitals endears her more than ever to the people here, but this little trait of genuine interest in the fate of a poor young fellow, placed so far from a mother or a sister's care through his religious zeal, has been im mensely appreciated, and more than one of the inmates of the ward have cited it to me. Her visits, I do not know if I have made it plain before, are no mere ceremonial walking through with a great train of attendants, once in a way. It is a daily work of many hours, coming in very often quite alone, and not only the per formance of such acts of attention as are called for at the time, but a patient inquiry into the status, wants, and wishes of each ; and though the means at her disposal are not very extensive, the needy are never passed by, and no one on earth can know how many gnawing cares have been solaced, how many petty wrongs redressed, how many cherished wishes fulfilled by her thoughtfulness. It is not sur prising that she is popular, nor, just now, when brighter days seem opening for her house, that the Palazzo Farnese should be filled with visi tors full of good wishes ; members of the corps diplomatique, from Senor de Castro to Mr. Odo Russell, cardinals and nobility. Neapo litans, of course, first, but other nations also ; travellers from all countries passing through Rome ; and, perhaps, most significant symptom of all, Baron Rothschild, spending two days in Rome, had three long conferences with Francis 11., who seems surrounded by more of a Court than many reigning sovereigns. In all times and countries it is too much the custom to take for granted that whatever is done is well done. The French fait accompli, and the Italian cosa fatta capo ha, testify to how readily mankind in its indolence ac quiesces in any result once attained. But where a wrong has been committed there can be no real peace till it is set right. That the restoration of the territory of the Pope and the King of Naples is not impossible is clear, since Italy lives in daily and hourly fear of It ; and since there are millions in the usurped territory who live in daily and hourly hOpes df it. The hand of the stranger has seized, so to speak, the bodies of the people, but heart and soul they are with their rightful rulers, otherwise the overwhelming force which now garrisons the length and breadth of the coun try would not be wanted. Let but this pres sure be removed, and a very short space of time would show what are the wishes of the population. If Italy understood her own in terests she would make with a good grace the sacrifice which must sooner or later be forced from her. Her present hold on the conquered territory is but a source of discord and weak ness. If she had the courage to renounce it, she might then, however late in the day, set about reducing her people to some sort of order, and developing her abundant resources. The visit of the Duke and Duchess d'Aosta to Naples does not seem to have effected its object in attaching the people to the new dynasty, in spite of the accounts the Florence papers print of the welcome they received. The following is the account of an eye-witness, communicated to a Roman paper, under date of the 20th : His Royal Highness and his bride " were received here with a death-like apathy. Not a hat was raised. The Royal pair were looked at askance, for the carriage was sur rounded with guards, in number alone 200, and preceded by numbers of gendarmi on horse back. The son of the elect of the people dis played his suspicions of the sovereign people, and received only imprecations and contumely in return. Those who remember the days when the Bourbon Sovereign used to take his drive through the city unattended by any guard, and amid unbought acclamations, could not but be struck by the dense escort of hireling police (poliziotti) which accompanied the Prince of the House of Savoy. On the night of his arrival every house was dark ; not one of the most violent partizans of the present Govern ment even ventured to set up a single light, and the very , purveyors of such s o -c a ll e d " demon strations • on other occasions, refused to attempt it this time, and the few who went to see the fireworks only did so to have the op portunity of hissing them. " The change of ideas which has come about is most observable. It is a complete disenchantment. Things are openly spoken of, and written about, and published, which men dared not allow themselves to think of in their dreams a little while ago, for the distress of the country has made them courageous through very necessity, and wherever you go you hear nothing discussed but the Con federation and the return of Francis 11. The pamphlet of Marchese Ulloa, promoting the federation in place of the unification of Italy, is having a great success here, reflecting, as it does, the opinions of the great majority of the people." The removal of a large part of the French troops from Civita Vecchia to Viterbo, has given the division there a considerable amount of relief. Viterbo is a fine old mine of minor art-treasures, of picturesque bits of street sketching, and still more, of historic associa tions, but it is not a lively place for the soldier; and though Popes and Cardinals and foreign monarchs have lived there in the times gone by, it is not replete with modern appliances and luxuries. Both Viterbo and Civita Vecchia must be as anti-Parisian in tone as any place that could well be conceived, and their num bers overtax all the attractions and amenities either can produce. Moreover, a large propor tion of these men have been used to living in large cities, and it is not astonishing if they pine for an order to return to the capital. As long, however, as they can be kept out of it without absolute danger to security, it is well that the Pope should be surrounded only by his own little army. Not but that there are very many of the French troops who burn to serve him quite as faithfully, but all oppor tunity for misrepresentations as to pretended clashings of interests and autlidrities, such as have floated about before, may as well be avoided. Our new issue of notes came out on the first of the year, and is now in full run. Unlike the English business-like black and white " flimsies," they partake of the elaborate cha racter affected by most continental bank issues. The paper is of a very good and durable qua lity, without being inconveniently thick, and has a diapered linen-like surface. The water mark is very beautifully executed, and is similar in all. It represents a head of Roma, shaded as in an engraved crystal, and the amount of the note in corresponding figures. The lowest in amount is for five lire, and has no ornament, and that for ten lire is bordered by a trellis of vine leaves. Those for higher 'values are all adorned with mythological re presentations connected with the history of Rome—allegorical figures and emblematical designs of considerable artistic merit. The 500 lire and 200 lire are, perhaps, the most successful. They are all printed in pale blue, on a white ground, which is not so convenient as when each denomination had its own color, which designated its value at first sight. The extent to which prisoners are suffered to escape from the Italian prisons is rousing the indignation of the local prints. From lately published statistics, it would seem that in the course of the five last years, upwards of 1,100 prisoners and nearly 300 galeotti have been released. From a careful observation of the numbers detailed for each month, it has been observed that by far the largest proportion occurs in March, in the month in which Italy requires all those who have reason to be satis fied with the present regime, to give vent to their satisfaction on the anniversary celebrating Italian independence and liberation. It is not a case, however, which can be judged entirely by numbers. There are some prisoners whose enlargement is more prejudi cial to society than a hundred others. That of Garibaldihas been canvassed enough already, and public opinion now acknowledges how it was managed ; the opening of the year 1868, however, has been signalized by another in stance f great notoriety. On the Ist May, 1862, at two o'clock in the day, six mis creants, armed to the teeth, entered the bank of Signor Parodi, situated in the most fre quented street of the city. Having over powered and bound all whom they found there, they made off with all the money on which they could lay their hands, amounting to about 800,000 lire. Signor Parodi, conscious of the means necessary to . stimulate the tardy exertions of the police, offered a reward of 60,000 lire on the conviction of the malefactors. The police knew where to find the men they " wanted " the moment it was made worth their while. On the Bth May they were all taken, on board a paranzella (the name given to the Mediter ranean boats used in the fishing and coasting trade which use' the picturesque Latin sails), starting to bring wheat from the Black Sea. The head of this gang of robbers was one Pietro Ceneri. At the trial it came out as his defence that he had committed no felony ; the act complained of was to be reckoned a raid, a seizure of the necessary means for carrying out the independence of Italy. There were many further disclosures into which it would be too' long to enter here ; the upshot was, however, that Ceneri was sentenced to the galleys for life, and his companions to various sentences of imprisonment. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa affords us a minute account of what followed. It seems' that in the early days of this year Ceneri was to have been removed to the penal station to whichle was condemned. He was embarked at Cagliari in the steamship suggestivelynamed the Caprera, under charge of two instead of the usual four Carbineers. His handcuffs were removed, and he enjoyed the most complete liberty, which he took advantage of to walk about all over the vessel, and to treat his com panions and guards to wine and rum. Arrived in the port of Leghorn he remained as free as during the transit. Shortly afterwards a man dressed as a civilian came on board to speak to a friend, who turned out to be no other than Ceneri. One of the Carbineers was mean while gone below to take a nap; the other was too discreet to Otter the conversation of the twofriends. S u dd en ly, a propitious moment having arrived, the friend took his leave. Ceneri walked rapidly after him, and nothing more has bee n h ear d o f hi m s i nce ex cept that it is believed he is gone to America. The Gazetta del Popolo of Turin, commenting on this, isnot afraid to say openly that he owes his flight to his relations with a certain politi cal party. And, after all, perhaps, it is but just it should be so, so long as such men as Acerbi and Nicotera are at large, it would be hardly fair that Ceneri should be locked up, especi ally as he has clearly the merit of being the most successful schemer. He took 800,000 lire with a force of only five men under his com mand, and in doing so only injured one family. Acerbi required a force of four hundred times as many men to rob Montefiascone, Viterbo, Ind the neighbouring towns of 100,000, and n doing so has, on his own showing, made he name of the Italian Government to stink n the nostrils of the people he was sent to sub ect to her. NEW YORK MARKETS. (From the Correspondent of Anglo-American Times. Money is accumulating in our market owing to the de pression of business, and rates are growing easier. Six per cent. on Stocks; five per cont. on Governments; and bills are discounted from six to seven. Pending the de mand of the spring trade the superabundance is only readily loaned on short dates. The supply at Boston is greater than known for many years. At Cincinnati the rates grow easier in spite of the failures that have occur red ; but at Chicago loans continua at 10 per cont., only first-class paper finding accommodation. On the Western sea-board the - story is the same as on our side ; money being unusually plentiful at San Francisco. There is no State of the Union so prosperous as California. The failures of the wheat crop of previous yearsin the Atlantic and prairie States have told favourably for the farm products of Cali fornia, where the yield had been unusually large. The high price obtained and the enormous amount of the wheat crop of the last two years have made farming more remunerative than mining, and the export of cereals is far in excess of the value of the gold product. The specula tors in gold have had quite a nice time. Never since the war have the fluctuations been so great, or the transac tions in the Gold-room so enormous. Up to Wednesday the tendency was to higher prices. On the opening of the year the quotation was 1331, and on Tuesday it touched 1421. Sometimes the fluctuations have equalled 3 and 4 per cent. a day, and business has been done averaging more than $100,000,000. The tendency is terribly demoraliz ing, large sums being lost within a few hours. It turns the Gold-room into a " hell," filled with shouting gam blers, and the excitement spreads from Wall-Street, to S tate- S treet, Boston, Third-Street, Philadelphia, to wherever large monetary transactions are carried on. The accounts lately given of the scene on the Paris Bourse during the panic of war has been enacted at these centres for a week. While General Grant is quietly smoking his cigar his movements and his intentions are eagerly discussed, and all sorts of absurd rumours circulated. So, with the Pre sident ; and all thie, unsettles values which are influenced by the price of gold, disturbs the small balance of trade that remains, and turns transactions in foreign goods into gambling. The last steamer from Aspinwall brought $991,264. In the early part of the week the markets ad vanced •in stocks and shares ; but on Wednesday and Thursday there was a change, on rumours, that the rail roads of New York would be affected unfavourably by some measures in the Legislature. This brought them down, but it is allowed that Mr. Vanderbilt is managing with great skill and effect, and cutting down the New tork Central expenditure. More combinations are discussed, among which are the New York and New Haven Railway, which the committee de sires to get into his hands, and an arrangement between the New York Central and the Erie and the Pennsylvania Central, by which the stockholders will benefit materially at the expense of the public. All baggage on the New York Central above 1001bs. should be paid for as first-class freight, and passes will henceforth be refused to persons sending freight over the lines. Government Securities have advanced steadily with the rise in the price of gold. The Associated Express Companies have elected as their Board of Control—C. Spooner, of Ihe Adams Company ; James C. Fargo, of the American ; A. H. Barney, of the United States; and W. H. Seward, jun., Merchants' Union with A. Gaither, of Cincinnati, as the president of the board. Mr. Gaither has been for many years superinten dent of the western division of the Adams Express, and is admitted to be at the head of his business, and an able railroad manager. The stocks of these companies were yesterday quoted as follows :—Adams, 771 to 78 ; Ameri can, 74} to 75; United States, 771 to 78; Wells, Fargo, and Co., 461 to 461 ; Merchants' Unfon ($ 35 paid) 371; o 374. It is officially announced that the Bonds of the United States, issued under act of Congress for the Union Pacific, are as follow : Union Pacific Railroad 53,160,000 Union Pacific, Eastern division 4,880,000 Atchison and Pike's Pike branch 640,000 Western Pacific 320,000 Central branch, Union Pacific Central Pacific Aggregate $20,714,000 American silver sells at 51- to 6i cents below gold, and Mexican dollars are quoted at 1021 to 103 in gold. Petro leum stocks have been active, but United States and Buchanan Farm have lately declined in price. Mini ng stooks are dull. The lion, York Alining Stock Board have rescinded the rule requiring $5OO to be paid on a new stock placed on List. The intention was to check !‘ bogus mines, but the effect has been the reverse, as none so readily pay to fee as the greatest swindler of the lot. The exports, exclusive of specie, from New York during the week and year were $3,912,546 and $6,412,780 against $4,256,658 and $7,973,282—t0ta since July 1, $93,642,619 against $98,308,261. The foreign imports for the week and year at the same port were $3,456,063 and $6,551,705 against $7,062 192 and $11,202,266 ; total since July 1, $120,873,454 against $146,041,548. The internal revenue receipts of Saturday were $b90,632, of the week $7,744,307, and the aggregate for the fiscal year, since July 1, $107,579,775. The amount of national bank notes issued during the week was $150,15C, making - the total issue $305,711,081, of which there is now in circulation $299,488,916. During the week, $590,500 was issued in fractional currency, and the total shipments to the various United States depositories and sub-treasuries were $1,294,514. There is no change to report in the geceralmarkets. Dry goods, cottons, and wool lens, remain much the same. Foreign goods continue flat. Flour grain and provision's went up, but are now going down. Uold closed yesterday at 138-i, having touched 1391. (From the Wall-Street Journal.) The following were tire closing quotations this evening for the various Public Funds of the United States: - Sixes, 1868, registered, 138 to 3.3 E ; Sixes, 1868, coupon, 1344 to 1341; Sixes, 1881, coupon, 109/ to 109 k ; Five-twenties, 1862, eon, on, 1091 to 1091 ; Five-twenties, 1861, coupon, 107 to 107/ ; Five-twentiithi, 1865, coupon, 108 to 108/ ; Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new, 1051 to 1051 ; Five twenties, 1867, coupon, 1051. to 1051; Ten-forties, coupon, 102/ to 102 k ; Seven -thirties, 2d series, 105 k to 1051 ; Seven-thirties, 3d series 105 to 1051. The following are the Railroad Mortgages :-N. Y. Central 6s, 1883, 92 ; do. 1887, 91; do. R. Est, 87 ; do, Sub'n, 87 ; do. 6s, 1876, 1024 ; do. con. 76, 122 ; do. '65-76, 1171; Erie Ist mort., 1867., 1021; do. 7s, 2d mort., 1879, 1021; do. 3d mort., 1883, 98 ; do. 4th mort., 1880, 90 ; do. sth mort., 1888, 89 ; Long Dock Bond, 97 ; Buff. N . Y. and E. Ist M. '77, 91; Ilud. R. 7s, Ist M., 1869, 1021; do. cony., 1867 ; Harlem 3d mort., '6B, 100 ; Mich C. 8 per cent., '69 '72, 107 k ; do. new Ist M. Bs, 'B2, 110 ; do. So. 7 p. ct., 2d M., 92 ; N. Ind. Goshen Line, '6B, 90 ; Mich. S. and N.I.S. F'd, 7 p. ct., 98* ; 111. Cen., 7 p. ct. 1870, 118; Alton and T. H. Ist M., 93; do. 2d pfd, 85; do. M. Inc., 751 ; Chi. and N. West, S. F, 98 ; do. In't B, 88 ; do. Ex'n B, 85 ; do. Ist M, 86 ; Del. Lack. and West'n Bds, 97 ; Tol. and Wab. Ist M, 901; Gt.. Western 2d M. '93, 69 ; Mil. and Pr. du Ch. Ist M, 95 ; Gad. and Chic. Ext., 100 ; do. and 2d M, 97 ; Chi. and R. I. Ist M, 103 ; Cleve. and Tol. S. Fund, 100 ; N. J. Central 2d mort., 101; Pitts., Ft. W., and Ch. Ist M, 102 ; do. do. 2d M, 984 ; do. do. 3d M, 88 ; Cleve. and Pitts. 2d M, 97 ; Chic. and Alton, S. F. Inc., 924; do. do. S. F. Ist M, 1021; Mil. and St. Paul 2d M, 83; Marietta and Cin. Ist M, 85 ; Joilet and Chic. let M, 1001 ; Chi. and Gt. East'n Ist M, 67 ; N. Y. and N. H. 6s, 96 ; and Dubuque and S. City, Ist M, 821. The following for the Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks : -N. Y. Central, 1231 ; Erie, 75 ; Hudson, 139 ; Reading, 924 ; Mich. Southern and N. I. 871 ; Illinois Central, 1311;; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 944 ; North west, at ; North-west Preferred, 72k ; Canton, 521 ; Rock Island, 961; Cleveland and Toledo, 1034; Fort Wayne, 1001; Pacific Mail, 1081; Atlantic Mail, 103 ; Quicksilver, 24/ ; W. U. Telegraph, 374 ; Mariposa Pre ferred, 141; Ohio and Miss. Certificates, 298 ; Boston Water Power, 19 ; Cumberland, 351. New York City Bank Stocks : -Merchants, 113 ; Ame rica, 135 ; City,.l9o ; New York, 1311; Manhattan, 130 ; Mechanics', 115 ; Union, 113 ; Phenix, 101 ; Tradesmen's 127 ; National, 108 ; Merchants' Exchange, 115 ; Seventh , Ward, 110; State of New York, 1061; Commerce, 1161; Ocean, 100 ; American Exchange, 114 ; Bank of the Re public, 112 ; Bank of North America, 101 ; Eleventh Ward, 110 ; Mercantile, 118 ; Fulton, 156 ; Mecha nics' Association, 110 ; Broadway, 239 ; Hanover, 108 ; Irving, 1051; Metropolitan, 126 ; People's, 135 ; Market 110 ; Nassau, 105 ; Shoe and Leather, 109 ; Corn Ex change, 122; Continental, 1001; St. Nicholas, 1061 ; Com monwealth, 104 ; Importers and Traders', 115 ; Central National, 103; Fourth National, 104; Ninth National, 102 ; Park, 141; Leather Manufacturers, -; Oriental Bank, 135. NEW YORK RATES OF EXOHANGE, Corrected by W. Aufermann, 68, Exchange-place, N.Y. Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lO4-100f Paris, Bankers - 5.131 Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 3s- 36i Frankfort, O.M. 4OI-41k Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.224-5. t3i Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss LATEST PRICES OF SILVER MINING STOCKS AT SAN FRANCISCO. By telegram from. San Francisco, dated Jan. 15, 1868, we have the following quotations:—Gould and Curry, $385 per foot; Savage, 2,300 do.; Chollar-Potosi, 225 do. ; Ophir, 70 do.; Hale and Norcross, 2,850 do.; Crown Point, 915 do.; Yellow Jacket, 750 do. ; Belcher, 175 do.; Alpha, 750 do. ; Kentucky, 275 do. ; Imperial, 175 per share. (Prom Messrs. Belding, Keith, and Co.'s Circular.) FRIDAY, Jan. 31. American Securities.—Our market for U.S. 5-20 Bonds has been very steady during the week, having varied only i per cont., but the business done was of moderate extent. The 5-20 Bonds of 1882 open firm this morning at 718 to 728 ; those of 1885, 708 718. 1040 Bonds, 1904, are quoted 678 68i, or the same as last Thursday, having re mained steady at this price, except on Monday, when they were i better. Illinois shares have also been very steady, and open at 868 861, or an advance of 4 per cent. Erie Shares, after touching 508 on Tuesday morning, are quoted 488 49, or the same as last, Thursday. The At lantic and Great Western Debentures and Consolidated Mortgage Bonds are still in demand, the former opening at 25 26, and the latter at 248 251, or an advance of 1 per cent. and 8 cent. respectively. The New York and Penn sylvacia Divisional Mortgage Bonds are also inquired for, the Ist Mortgage Bonds of each section being quoted 58 62, and the 2d, 55 60, or an advance of about five per cent. (From Messrs. Bowles, Brevet, and Co.'s Circular.) PARIS, Jan. 31, 1868. Transactions upon our Bourse continue very limited, with but trifling variation in values. United States Securities are . unchanged, and holders appear little inclined to press sales. We quote : The issue of 1862 The issue of 1864 The issue of 1865 ~ Our advices from New York aro to the 28st inst.:— Gold United States Bonds, 1862 (currency) llli The Rente closes at 6Bf. 471 e. The Italian closes at Exchange on London ' 25f. 150. (ADVERTlSEMENT.J—Dyspepsia(lndigestion), Constipation, De bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and :Iva complaints in every stage, are only aggravated and accelerated by chugs of every description, but perfectly curable by DU Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such as—cough, asthma, also diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver com plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitaticn, heartburn, head ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofulai tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July 12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excel_mt, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has ccuilned himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which be consumes a plateful at every mew. It has produced a sur prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette du 5 ;cli, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timbal merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased largo, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness; Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervonsnes l / Asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness an vomiting.—MariaJoly.' Important Caution.—Beware of the man,. unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins at ls. licl.; 1 lb., 2s 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d, ; 5 lbs. 11s. 12 lbs., 228.; 24 lbs., 408.— BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 7 7 Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and 289 Oxford-street; 330 Strand; and all grocers and chemists. Births. AUFIN—On the Ist inst., at Bickley, Kent, Mrs. Austin, of a son. NORTH-0n the 23 inst., at 1, Earl's-court-road, sensing" ton, Mrs. C. A. North, of a daughter. WAY —On the 2d inst., at Gloucester-terrace, Blackheath , Mrs. E. Way, of a daughter. Marriages. MORRISON—SHEPHERD—On the let inst., at Kennington , Pearse Morrison, Esq., of 15, The Terrace, Kennington" park, to Fanny Susan Shepherd, adopted daughter of o• Shepherd, Esq., The Terrace, Kennington-park. THORNTON—GEORGE —On the Ist inst., at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Henry C. S. Thornton, only son of N. S. Thorntcn, Battersea-rise, to Julia Mimosa, only daugh ter of Colonel Thorne George, late 4th Hussars. Deaths. BERGER —0 n the let inst., a Frier n House, FinchloP George Berger, aged 72. BEAmisu—On the Ist inst., at Beaumont Lodge, 'Totnegi Devon, Francis Bernard Boamish, D.L., and late NI•r• for Cork, aged 65. BENTON—On the 2d inst., Mr. George Benton, of cross-road, and Clerkenwell-close. FYDELL--Samuel Richard Fydell, Esq., of Morcott 11:114 Rutland, and Boston, Lincolnshire, aged 96 ye ar., months, and 25 days. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDIMV7.' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Taa SUN 013100, No ii‘ °t Strand, in the ( Precinct of the Savoy, in the CO urtl liliddlesex.—Tuisclay, February 4, 1868.