The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-26 00:00:00

71$1111 - 11VAL NAMES. 9FIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. _ The researches of modern scholars, gilded by a know• nrothing, says the Saturday Review, could better illus ledge of Sanskrit, have placed us in possession of the trate the total uselessness of the constitutional rule which original meaning of most mythical names. Fox requires Ministers of the Crown to be re-elected than the example, they have found that Adonis, Apollo, Her elections which have taken place t his week. No opposi cules, (Edipus, Orpheus; Perseus, and Theseus are so many . ion has anywhere been offered. Most of the Min ister: names for the sun ; that Aphrodite, Athens, Danae, hold seats too secure to b e attacked, but even where a Daphne, Eurydice, Erinnys, are designations of the dawn ; contest might have promised a possibility of success, it has the P aris and Helen meant originally nothing but light and not been attempted. As to explaining the general policy darkness and that Zeus, the supreme deity, is simply a of the Ministry on the occ asion of a re-election; that is name for the bright shining sky. Take any myth as re impossible. Either the whole Government is new, as or fated by a poet or historian, reduce it to its simplest form, the present occasion, and then each member of the translate the proper words which occur in it, and you Government tells his constituents that as nothing has beer arrive at a representation of some ordinary fact of nature. decided there can be nothing to reveal, or the particular To understand how, out of phrases expressive of such member isnew, and then he says that he cannot commit hie simple phenomena as sunrise, or night, a mythical story colleagues, whose circle he has only just joined. sould have been constructed, it is only necessary to recur and with whose views he is necessarily but very to the peculiarities which mark the speech of any little imperfectly acquainted. It is not, however, to be supposed that all the speeches that have been child, for mythology was formed in an age when the suppo speech of the framers was infantile. The language of made this week by different Ministers have beer children is eminently sensuous; their whole style of thought totally devoid of all interest and meaning. Nothing and expression is anthropomorphic ; every word svhi h in them was, or could have been, worth the trouble of a expresses passion rather than action, states of being rather re-election; but naturally there were things said which. than visible deeds and motions, is applied to and used for in one way or another, were not mere platitudes. In the the former onlyby obvious and ill-concealed metaphor from first place, it was especially observable that all the the latter. Every inanimate object is invested by them, Ministers chiefly concerned spoke their minds freely about both in thought and in speech, with the emotions and the retrenchment. They said that the little — and it certainly powers which belong to humanity. Just so it was with was very little—of what they had seen of office only con. the early Indo-Europeans. Instead of saying " Night firmed their previous impressions, and convinced them is succeeded by the sun," they would say, " Night that retrenchment was possible. They are now committed , fives birth to (or begets) the sun ;" and the two to a reduction of the estimates for the army and navy; stood to them in the relation of parent and child. So while and it must be said, to their credit, that they have not we might say "Night ceases when the sun rises," our sheltered themselves behind the usual official platitudes. sicestors would have said " The sun kills the night ; and They have not talked darkly about the troubled state of n this short sentence we may read the origin of that Eastern Europe, and endeavoured to raise the impression that, but for events which no one could have fore s een, they ',errific feature, common to so many Greek legends , o f the would infallibly have reduced the estimates to the satis- son being compelled, by blind and irresistible dest in y , to him to whom ho owed his birth. Again , w e faction of the most sanguine. They have bol dl y promised lestroy night say " The dawn precedes the sun, and passes away that the estimates shall be reduced. when the sun rises ; " but a Greek would have said " The The Spectator thinks that the importance of the judg- suu pursues the dawn, who dies when he reaches her;" meat of the Privy Council, which , having been delivered and this sentence, we know, is the foundation of the Joy a Conservative en-Lord Chancellor (Lord Cairns), and story of Apollo and Daphne.— Corraill Magazine. agreed to by the Archbishop of York, Lord Chelmsford (another Conservative ex-Chancellor), Sir W. Erle, and Sir J. Colvile, is not at all likely to be called in question by any party in the Church, can scarcely be exaggerated. Taken in connection with the decisions of the same court pn questions of doctrine, its tendency will be this—to cut I off all those escape-valves for the transubstantiationist • vein of thought in the Church, which—what we should call—superstitious gestures, rites, and attitudes, have hitherto afforded. The celebrant of the Eucharist in the English Church is now forbidden to kneel, except as all the communicants kneel, when he himself receives the elements ; be is forbidden to prostrate himself before the bread and wine ; he is forbidden to raise the chalice and the paten to his head in token of adoration ; he is for bidden to light candles on the altar by way of symbolising that the " light of the world " is present on the altar ; he is forbidden to mingle water with the wine in token of the mingling of the water and blood which flowed from the side of Christ; he is forbidden to " cense " the vessels used for the consecration ; he would he, we imagine, forbidden to change his vestments during the service, with special reference to any view of the character of the acts in progress ; in a word, he is forbidden to express his feelings about the " real presence" by any act or word not prescribed in the Rubric ; and as no act or word is prescribed in the Rubric which ordinary Pro testants think inconsistent with the purely spiritual inter pretation of the service, this is, in fact, equivalent to saying that the celebrant of the Eucharist in the Church of England is forbidden to mark any strong divergence of belief on this head, of which he maybe conscious, fiom the ordinary Protestant belief, by any sort of outward sign. We for our parts shall regret that, so far as the great towns are concerned where churches of all sorts are open to believers of all sorts, it will now be illegal for some excellent persons who have hitherto sincerely believed themselves Anglicans to gratify their religious tastes and devotional feelings as they liked best ; and we shall still more regret this if it compels them to submit themselves to a still more rigid, a much more despotic, and, as we hold, a much more dangerous system of ecclesiastical government, by joining the Roman Catholics. But it is very difficult to devise any system of comprehension ; which shall include extremes of faith so wide, and yet shall not be a great practical injury to the average Eng lish congregations in rural parishes, which have no choice except either to submit to the vagaries of a clergyman by whom they are revolted as by a Papist in disguise, or to be driven out of their church altogether. This, as we have often maintained, is a mischief so grave and threatening as to menace the very existence of our Church. As to the first point, the prostration before the sacred elements, the majority of Churchmen, says the John Bull, will probably be disposed to accept with equanimity, if not with satisfaction, the decision of the court (although we do not think Sir R. Phillimore's view, that it is a subject for the bishop's discretion, the least shaken) ; but the pro hibition of the use of lights will be received with sorrow by many who have never used them. We shall hear, no doubt, a good deal of tall talk about not obeying the judgment ; some few very weak brethren may go over to Rome ; but, insignificant as: is the party which will thus talk and act, there is a very large body of devout Churchmen who will view with feelings of profound regret the prohibition of a use which is Primitive and Evangeli cal, as well as Catholic. And they will feel this the more acutely because they know that this cruel blow is the handiwork of those calling themselves High Churchmen. We unfeignedly deplore the judgment as to lighted candles, though we are not surprised at it. But it may be productive of much benefit if it opens the eyes of Churchmen to the very unsatisfactory nature of the tribunal itself. In deciding matters of fact, such as those involved in the case of Rugg v. the Bishop of Winchester, it would be impossible to devise or conceive a more admirable tribunal ;but when doctrine is really, though not technically concerned, no one will contend that a court composed like the present is or can be a satisactory one. We should be sorry to see a purely spiritual tribunal but the court should have some spiritual persons to whom it should refer on matters other than those of simple law— end the expediency or otherwise of allowing lighted candles was surely oue of these—so that Churchmen might have confidence in the tribunal. In its last number the Imperial Review reviews the question of the Ballot. In the first place the system of canvassing before an election will go on under the Ballot regime just the same as before. In constituencies of a moderate size every elector will be personally solicited, and nine-tenths of them will give an answer, affirmatively or negatively. Even where the constituencies are too large to be individually canvassed, they will be addressed collectively, as now, at various district meetings, and each meeting will pledge itself, as now, to support or oppose the particular candidate; and each elector present,unless express ing his dissent in the usual manner, will regardthat pledge as binding him individually. Now what we maintain is, that because Englishmen may possibly in the future record their votes at the poll in a novel manner, their natures will not on that account be changed. The habit of an Englishman is, as a general rule, to keep his promise. Especially among the working classes is it happily true that an Englishman's word is his bond. Ordi nary Englishmen are hardly, as yet, advanced enough in sophistry to appropriate to themselves the maxim of Euripides about the tongue swearing while the heart remains unpledged. They may promise reluctantly, and in some cases their promises may be obtained by the exercise of undue influence ; but they prefer keeping their word, albeit, with some grumbling and dissatisfac tion, to breaking it. They fully understand that two wrongs do not make one right. If their superiors have improperly coerced them, and extorted from them an unwilling pledge, the more shame for their superiors ; but a deliberate act of falsehood on their own part is not the method by which such unjustifiable interference should be counteracted. Again, it is said that as soon as the Ballot is introduces' a large number of electors will decline to make any promises at all ; that they will give their votes secretly on the day of election ; and that it will never be known for whom they have voted. People who build their hopes on any theory such as this, entertain, we con ceive, a radically wrong idea of the English character. Is it likely that the working man, who always says what ever is on the tip of his tongue, in the plainest language and without the slightest ceremony, will suddenly become so reserved on the subject of the exercise of Isis political trust, that lie will sit in the taproom on the night after an election, without letting out what part he took in it him self, or that he will go home in a state of hilarity, and yet never open his lips to his wife and family about the great cv nt of the day ? And is it likely that he will all at once acquire such astuteness as to be able to parry all the questions, and remain indifferent to all the hints, allusions, and inuendoes of his boon companions, of his cicrgyman, of his employer, of his landlord ? People who Lelieve that all these results will follr,w from the adoption of the Ballot must have faiths in it as the mnst astonishing iu~lrilneut ever yet devised for revolutionising the lnunan PROFESSOR EWALD'S TRIAL. - -.2 .-- A correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Got tingen by date Dec. 19, says :—" The case of Professor Ewald came on for trial this morning, before the Presi dent, Herr Etienne, and the judges, Herren Twell and Wedekind. Herr Advocate Shaer appeared for the Crown, and Herr Advocate Dr. Benfey for Professor Ewald. The court was crowded to excess, stair cases and doors were packed. The charge is that of high treason. The ground of the charge is certain expressions in Professor Ewald's pamphlet 'Lob des Konigs and des Volkes,' that is, ' Praise of the King (of Hanover) and his People." What is high treason, and when is the crime committed against the King ? The crime is intentional violation of the reverence due to the King. The crime is committed against a King when his acts, as declaration of war, con clusion of treaties, are represented in an irreverent man ner. Professor Ewald has said Prussia broke up wickedly the German Confederation, began an infamous war, sated the hatred of two centuries against Austria, robbed, plun dered, and caused untold misery. Further, Professor Ewald has spoken ironically, it . is said, in reference to some words which the King of Prussia uttered at arious times to different d- putations received by him. For these alleged violations of the reverence due to the King, the Crown-Advocate of Prussia asks that the pro lessor be punished with six months' imprisonment and the ' 9ayment of the costs of his prosecution. Dr. Benfey, Professor Ewald's advocate, objected to the Crown- A.dvocate's definition of high treason. He (Dr. Benfey) iefined the crime as injuria, in the legal sense, and Wjuria against the person of the King only. He could not admit that by criticism of the acts of the Government the crime could be committed. I'russia, he said, is a constitutional monarchy, and the King can do nothing without the counsel and consent of iris Ministers. The Ministers are responsible, and not ;lie King. The expressions of the pamphlet, therefore, do at touch the King, but at most his Government. He len pointed out the terrible consequences to liberty if the acts of a Government should be raised above criticism. He kirther shewed that no expression in the pamphlet could be taken as defamatory of any organ of the Government. ife finally called the attention of the bench to the fact hat no proof had been brought of the intention `.O defame. Herr Schaer reiterated his former arg,u rents, and refused to acknowledge the force of Dr. g,:enfey's references to England, since the Prussian Consti ution is different from the English. Professor Ewald was ;hen permitted to speak. Ile said that his advocate - had maid all that was needful, and he would only add that he :ertainly had no design to malign the King, as he certainly ad not done, but only to express his mind as to the facts. Ire further denied that he had spoken ironically of the King's words, as had been said in the charge. 'The :ourt adjourned, judgment being deferred until the ?.'.)th of the month. The accused . will be no doubt .ccinitted.” Mexican bandits now not only rob stage passen ,,ers of valuables, but strip all the clothes off them. An intoxicated reveller lay down by the side of hedge in Ohio, and was shot by a sportsman for a A person who was recently called into court for .40 purpose of proving the correctness of a doctor's bill, was asked by the lawyer whether the doctor did not make several visits after the patient was out of danger. " No," replied the witness ; " I considered the patient in danger is long as the doctor continued his visits." JURY TRlAL.—Governor Wells, of Virginia, nas ecently pardoned a prisoner who was convizted by the .nryunder the plan of arriving at a verdict by drawing lots. qallots were placed in a hat, and seven papers containing ;he word " guilty " having been drawn, the defendant was convicted. The jury originally stood eight for acquittal, ;wo for conviction, and two for a compromise verdict, and aad been deliberating for two days when the lottery method was adopted. THE DANGER OF SMOKING IN BED. A nelancholy case of death by burning was reported to the authorities at Hamilton a few days ago. An old man, lamed Robert Crosbie, a weaver, resided alone in a small r arret. Ho had thrown himself down on the bed with his clothes on, and it is supposed he had afterwards struck a natch, lit his pipe, and fallen asleep, when his clothes somehow caught fire. A neighbour named Wilson was aroused by Crosbie's cries, and went to his assistance, but ;he poor man was so severely burnt that he died the next norning. He was 68 years of age. LECTURES TO LADIES BY PROFESSORS OF T.INI ;ERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. We understand that !everal Professors of University College have expressed .heir willingness to gives courses of lectures to ladies, on .he plan which has been carried out with such success at Edinburgh, Manchester, Clifton, and other towns. The ectures will be given under the auspices of an association, ncluding many influential names, which is at present 3eing formed. It is proposed to commence in February vith two courses, a literary and a scientific ; but the scheme may be greatly extended next winter. As soon as ;he arrangements are completed they will be publicly announced. Ile Government of Indiahas sanctioned an annual ;rant of £2,400 for the cataloguing of Sanskrit manu• scripts in India, under such competent editors as Dr. Buhler, of Bombay; Mr. Burnell, of Madras; and Baloo Rajondra Lal Nutta, of Bengal. The catalogues are to )e submitted to scholars in Europe for their suggestions is to the manuscripts which should be purchased or Tanscribed. All scholars, whether in Europe or India, ire invited to send lists of desiderata to the Government )f India—the former through the Secretary of State. competent scholars are to be sent on tours annually throughout India to examine manuscripts and seek new )nes. A PIANO KEY WARMER. Some ingenious person has invented and patented a piano and organ key warmer, the design of which is to keep the keys of the 'nstrument from chilling the fingers of the player. I can :ell him of a piano and organ key warmer which is very simple and effective, though I am not aware that it has ever been patented.. It consists in a roasted potato. For aaany winters past I have known it to be used by many '.tidies 'in divers places. The roasted potato, wrapped to a bit of flannel, iataken to church in a small bag, from whence it is brought out when needed to be held in the hands of the fair lady who acts as the unpaid organist harmonium player. Fingering the icy keys of an )rgan in a cold church on a winter's :day is certainly 9, chilling performance : and there are some who read this who may thank me for the hint of the roasted potato. It wil retain its heat during• the service. One trial will prove the fact. a 3 the advertising graters say.—Once a Week. chances of a CoLf,rence on the Eastern The earthquakes of last year in the West India seas were followed by a change in the Gulf streams of the Atlantic, which regulate the distribution of heat. Seamen found the warm current from the Gulf of Mexico'loo miles farther east than formerly, and a corresponding change must have occurred in the course of the cold strea ns re turning from the Polar seas. LUXUP.IANT AND BEAUTIFUL TIAIR. Rg. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S Hap; RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the flrat application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; t causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and serf tuners Depot, 288, High Rolinrn Question, the SataY.:l(v _Review says tir3t effort of all concernA will naturally be to stop the impending war without compromising the indepencknce of either c,on bataut. li this prove to be impossible, the English Government can hardly go far wrong in assenting to such action as can be jointly undertaken by the Great Powers. Both sides of the dispute may be said to be represented, the one by Russia, and the other by Austria, and an exercise of authority which commends itself to both these Governments is not likely to press with undue weight upon either Turkey or Greece. If no such general agreement can ho arrived at, the difficulty of the situation will be greatly. increased ; and it will thew become a question whether the efforts of the Western Powers ought not to be strictly limited to the exclusion of any third Power from the field 9f battle, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1868 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Senate passed a resolution last Monday sym pathising with the Spaniards in the efforts they are making to establish a more liberal Government, and urging them to abolish slavery in the Spanish possessions as soon as possible. It is evident that the United States intend to use the opportunity to suppress slavery in its last great stronghold, if we except Brazil ; and it will not surprise us, we are bound to admit, if the great Republic applied a gentle pressure to the new Republic in Spain, if it can be called a Republic, for the cession of that island for a consideration. The Hon. Caleb Cushing left America on the 25th November on a special mission from the De partment of State to Spain. The President iu his message alludes to the annexation of Cuba, and Mr. Seward openly announces the earnestness of his desire to acquire that island cre he gives up his Department. It is no 4 stated on gool authority that he has full power to negotiate the purchase, if Spain is willing to scll. It is, however, also rumoured that Mr. Cushing is charged with in structions to the American Minister to London. The telegram from Washingt.m last Monday said that the Cheyenne Indians were suing for peace, a favourite dodge of theirs in winter, as they eniploy that period in palavering with the Peace Commissioners smoking the calumet, the tobacco being Uncle Sam's as well as the food and whisky; and when spring arrives they go forth, like giants refreshed, to slay and scalp, thus using the ammu nition and weapons the Commissioners gave them. Custer's report of his attack on the Indian village, Nov. 27th, is published. The lodges were on the right bank of a high bend of the Washita, in ast rip of heavy timber. The General had to cross and divide his force into four columns, which during the night made a circuit of several miles so as to attack simultaneously at daybreak from all sides. One column charging down the left bank over the river came up, so beautifully was the operation managed, just as the heads of the others dashed on the vil lage. The Indians, though surprised, fought despe rately for several hours, none of them escaping. It was not till noon that the Kiowas and Arapahoes made their attack, which they did with vigour and boldness, from all sides, engaging the United States troops till three o'clock, when they were beaten off and dispersed. On the Ist January $27,000,000 in gold will be paid from the Treasury for interest on the Bonds of 1881, and Five-Twenties then due. The coin in hand is estimated at $91,000,000, to which will be added before the month expires a sum sufficient to make up a total of $100,000,000, $23,000,000 of this being iu gold certificates. The actual coin in the Treasury vaults, after deducting these sums, will be $50,000,000. The following is the summary of the Treasury statement of the debt on the Ist of December last : Nov. 1, 1868. Dec. 1, 1868. Debt bearing coin interest. $2,107,577,950 82,107,836,100 Debt bearing currency iute- rest Unpaid matured debt boar- 72,325,000 72,140,000 ing currency interest Debt bearing no interest Bonds issued to Pacific Railway 9,733,723 8,215,883 409,151,898 413,152,181 42,194,000 44,337,000 $2,641,002,572 $2,645,711,164 Coin in Treasury 5103,407,986 $88,425,324. Currency i❑ Treasury 10,465,033 18,253,916 Cash in Treasury 5113,873,019 $106,679,320 Total debt, less cash in Treasury..., 52,257,129,552 $2,539,031,8.14. Increase of debt since Nov $11,902,292 One of those horrible accidents, too frequent 1 on American rivers, occurred on the 0:1io, about 1 two miles above Warsaw, on the Indiana side, Dac. 4. The steamer United States descending, and the America ascending, came into collision, the latter striking the former forward of the steps, and sink ing her in two minutes. As the water was shallow the maindeck remained above the stream, but, un fortunately, a quantity of petroleum was there in casks, which took fire, and in the excitement and rush over 70 persons were lost. In the America none perished, but the United States was in flames from stem to ster❑ in half a minute, and very few were saved. A Mr. luksop and a lady jumpei from the burning ship to the America, and thu3 escaped. Ole Bull and his concert troupe were in the America, on the pilot of which vessel the blame is cast. The United States Mail Company own both boats, but the loss of half a million of dollars is covered by the insurulce. The United States steamship Guard storeship of the American squadron in the European waters was to sail from New York about the 12th inst. for Lisbon direct. The following is a correct list of her officers :—Officers of the Line—Commander 11. A. Adams, Lieut.-Commanders E. N. Kellogg, ii. C. Taylor, Lieutenant H. C. White ; Ensigns H. W. Lyon, M. It. S. Mackenzie, W. H. Parker ; Midshipmen R. C. Derby, F. E. Upton, E. K. Moore, J. B. R )binson, A. B. Speyers. Officers of the Staff—Paymaster H. P. Tuttle, Passed As sistant-Surgeon David Mack, Paymaster's Clerk C. W. Gorringe, Captain's Clerk A. J. Kirkland. Warrant Officers—Boatswain W. S. Bond. Car penter—G. E. Burcham. Passengers for United States steam ship Swatara, Surgeon N. L. Bates, Assistant-Surgeon Alfred Griffith. The President having got through his Message to his own satisfaction, if to that of no one else, and having succeeded in sticking a daub of mud on the State chariot as it was rolling out of his reach, went for recreation to the theatre to see the play of Blue Beard. His imagination might have connected him self with Blue Beard's last wife when on impeachment days he sat in the White House, and called " Sis ter Ann ! Sister Ann is there anybody coming ?" It was then that the independent Senators came to the rescue ; and when they heard Andrew John son's late Message they perhaps doubted whether they had done right in keeping him in his place. The President is indignant at the Message being printed and distributed through the country before it was delivered to Congress, but the World and the Democrat of New York, and the Chicago Times, organs which favour him, first received and pub lished it—the Associated Press being long behind. Although it has been taken for grante I that the Senate would follow the example of the House, and at once pass a bill transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department, further information has shown that they will not deal with the measure in that off-hand way. Ultimately it is not likely they will resist Sherman and Sheridan's recommendation, endorsed by Grant; but it is known that last year the Senate in the Indian Committee opposed the transfer, notwithstanding the well-known corrup tion of the Indian ring, and have not modified their views, and will oppose it now. I The yacht Cimbria is not likely to fail in distin ' guishing itself for want of competitors. Mr. J. G. Bennett, jun., willrun his vessel against the Cimbria in an ocean race, and Commodore Stevens pits the Phantom against the Cimbria anywhere in the Ame rican waters. Our correspondent touches on this subject. Mr. Sargent, Commissioner of Customs, has re commended the repeal of a rule interesting to tra vellers in Europe about to return to America. He asserts that, under pretence of making a tour, the traveller goes with little, and comes back with a great deal ; not for the family only, but for the relatives of every degree, supplying wearing ap parel for several years, saving more at the expense of the revenue than would cover many times the cost of the trip. At present passengers arriving at the ports of the United States may bring, free of duty, what the officer considers appropriate to their social position, by which arrangement the offi3er is elevated into a judge of the social position of his fellow-citizens on their return to the United States. The Oregon Legislature has been running a tilt against Congress. Little boys are often naughty in the United Sta'es, very forward and imperti nent, and Oregon is a very impudent little boy. After passing its own resolution about Chinamen, on which we lately commented, it sent to Congress a series of resolutions asking the Senators of the State to resign, as they had betrayed the people in voting for Impeachment, for Reconstruction, the Tenure-of-Office Act, and other measures ; in short, because they are Republicans. Very pro perly the paper was returned to the Oregon Legifi. latura marked " scandalous" and " indecorous." But if Senator Williams does not give satisfaction to his fellow-citizens of Oregon the people of Idaho literally " treasure" him, for they sent him a silver brick weighing 60 lbs., worth over #l,OOO, highly polished and suitably inscribed. It was presented to him for his efforts in behalf of the territory and his course in Congress on national affairs. The case of George W. Cole, tried for the murder of L. H. Hiscock, is a singular one. He was acquitted on the 7th instant, and in the very hotel where he shot his victim he received the congratu lations of his friends. The jury said they consi dered the prisoner sane the moment before and the moment after the killing, but they were in doubt as to his sanity at the instant of the homicide. The judge instructed them that they must give the pri soner the benefit of the doubt, and the result was his instant acquittal. If ever there was a &ear case of murder, the killing of Hiscock by General Cole was one, and the plea of insanity was a mere farce. On some- occasions it may suit to accuse oneself of insanity, and again to allege the insanity of others. Commodore Meade has just been produced in the Supreme Court Chambers before Judge Sutherland from Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. The Commodore was given a seat by the judge, who talked with him to at-certain his mental condi tion. The Commodore told him be had been in pri son for 26 days, but the cause was not shown, ex cept that Meade was dangerous when arousel ; but the Judge, not considering this sufficient, ordered his release against, we suppose, some one. Governor Boutwell, there seems strong concur rent testimony to believe, will succeed M'Culloch as Secretary to the Treasury, and will be the New England representative in the Cabinet. He has studied Finance and Political Economy, and his election will gratify Massachusetts, while he is well fitted for the post. Collector Smythe, of the New York Custom -house, is talked of as Minister to Russia, and Mr. Johnson, it is thought, would no minate him could the Senate be induced to sanction the appointment. Senator Morgan might bring his influence to bear if he can see his way, through the vacant Custom-house appointment to his re-election as Senator. Cassius M. Clay, the present Minister to Russia, although he did resign, withdrew the rest nation, and we are not aware that the point of law thus raised has yet been settled. If General Banks is to go next summer, we cannot see what could take Mr. Smythe out of his warm, snug berth in the New York Customs into the chilly atmosphere of a Muscovite winter. The law business the Erie directors now have on hand is something considerable, almost equalling their stock-jobbing transactions. Three suits have been commenced to recover in all $7,300,000 from Drew and his coadjutors on the board, of which Jay Gould asserts the company to have been defrauded by those directors. Judge Cardozo's injunction re straining receiver Davies from assuming control was dissolved on the 9th instant by Judge Boardman at Ithaca. Betides these suits James Fisk, junior, has commenced two suits, the one for $lOO,OOO against the New York Tribune, and the other for half that sum against the Republican for commenting on his life and adventures. The Tribune is facetious on the subject, recommending Mr. Fisk to employ the money, when he gets it, in building an asylum for decayed and indigent Erie stockholders. - POLITICAL SHIFTS AND DODGES. " The Americans are so fickle," said an English man to us, referring to events directly contradicting the predictions of American correspondents of the London papers. " You take it for granted," we replied, "that the correspondents give the facts, and then blame the nation when the prediction is falsi fied. But may they not be wrong ; either misunder standing the national feeling or misrepresenting it?" Some suppose when what the Times says does not come true that the nation of whom the Times wrote has blundered, never dreaming that their in fallible organ is wrong. If we glance back at the contending interests, at the stakes played for, and at the time each move was made, we may compre hend the late political shifts and dodges in the United States. No sooner does one grand Presidential election close than preparations dim and remote, it is true, are commenced for the next. Even in the election itself, in the platform, and in the com promises of a party, provision is made for the effect on that to follow. ANDREW JOHNSON has played his cards to b. 3 re-elected to his post. From the date of the Philadelphia Convention this was his grand idea, and the moving spring of all he did. He held that the Radicals were used up, and that if he could combine in his favour the Southern ele ment with the Copperheads of the North, he would lead the strongest party in the United States and secure his re-election. Congress, of course, saw through his little game, and, being Republican, opposed schemes so fatal to itself. Hence the bitter ness of the quarrel intensified by the fact that the party he desired to destroy had elevated him to power, and therefore regarded him as a traitor, while he, no man of half measures nor easily daunted, fought in Washington as he did in Nashville to the bitter end. There is little doubt that such was the key of Mr. JOHNSON'S policy, and it was so well conceived that had he been more moderate and less obstinate he might have been successful. His stump tour shocked the respectability of the nation, and gave a terrible blow to his cherished project. But at times he handled his weapons so well, more especially his reverence for the Constitution, that there was danger of his carrying his point. Congress often weakened itself in the protracted struggle by exceeding the bounds of moderation in its opposition, when it stretched its law-making power beyond law, to fight a Ten nessee stump orator, and when it infringed the Constitution merely to forward its party purposes. The history of ANDREwJousrsox's term will be the his . - tory of this struggle which is its key. On this side the Atlantic people have little notion of the interests involved, for they suppose that Congress personally hated a President who lost no opportunity of in sulting them and counteracting their measures ; while, in truth, the PRESIDENT represented a policy which would have annihilated the party supreme in Congress, and changed the whole aspect of affairs in the United States. Though this was the main battle there were all sorts of minor affairs progress ing throughout the field. Each leading politician endeavoured to increase his own following and to place himself prominently before the country; and as the period drew nigh for the Presidential election activity increased. Some took headers—boldly bidding for public support by the measure they thought the crowd would most eagerly accept. PENDLETON first thus jumped into the ring with his flag of greenback expansion and redemption. BUTLER and STEVENS were not slow in trying to take the wind out of the Democratio leader's sails ; and although many other issues besides the broad one of reconstruction were broached, the financial question was that most played on, and attracted greatest attention here, as it affected Europeans ma terially. It was these shifts aud dodges working on the National Debt that led to the Englishman's remark with which we opened this article ; and, we are bound to say, that it presented on our side, as handled by these politicians, a curious tangle, and one not easy to unravel. First, we bad the Demo cratic leader PENDLETON, whose party favoured greenback redemption, rejected in favour of SEY MOUR, who had openly announced that policy and honesty necessitated the redemption of the Five- Twenties in Gold. Thus the Democrats laid down a platform of repudiation, and gave the first place on their ticket to a gold-redemption man, while little less contradictory was the action of the Republicans. At Chicago they meant alai said in their platform that their policy was to pay in gold, yet throughout the campaign they avoided the issue, and never permitted it to become a square fight. The Party presented the most extraordinary jum ble, and Congress added to the confusion by pass ing contradictory resolutions, now showing a dis position to evade the national obligations, then honestly to meet them, till Englishmen gave it up in despair, ceasing to attach importance to what was said. So at least with one section, for another lost no opportunity of holding up the great Re public as a warning of folly and dishonesty to those who favoured Democracy. Now the ex planation, Qt thig is that the • leaden of both parties were groping in the dark to find a clue to the wish of the majority. What they had to do was to avoid being caught in an eddy and whirled out of the stream. They were at the head of the flood, and sailing pleasantly down to the ocean, but a mistake might draw them into a whirl pool; round and round, narrower and deeper, till they reached the bottom. Congress had to strengthen its party in the great fight, and they were ignorant whether the majority would take up repudiation and make it a main issue or not. They knew it to be a very ticklish question, having a dangerous fascination for the dishonest,lfor debtors, whose grand object is to throw off their liabilities, and for men who could not understand that credit is a pre cious inheritance, to be sleeplessly guarded by a na• tion. On one side then was a BUTLER explaining away his financial heresies ; on another was a SEY MOUR, advocating greenback redemption. Again we have MORTON asserting that his plain statements in the Senate were misunderstood, an I that he did not hold the greenback theories attributed to him. The same man stumped Illinois with one set of speeches and Massachusetts with another ; and the Republican party, after laying down their gold redemption plank in the Chicago platform, refused the challenge, and managed successfully to evade the strategy of the Democrats, which was to bring the party to a square fight on that issue Hence the endless contradictions, and hence the little value attached in the United States to the mere electioneering tactics. Although this explains the apparent contradiction, or what the Englishman called the fickleness of the people, the interesting question is the real intention of the nation. We believe that on this point the bondholders may make their minds easy. From the beginning to the end our impression is that neither party really intended to injure the creditors. Universal suf frage, (at least for all practical purposes manhood suffrage does exist in the United States), with many good points, has some bad, and never can work except with an educated and honest people. An American politician would sacrifice anything to for ward his political interest, and if all his fortune were invested in Five-Twenties it would not check him in advocating their repudiation if he thougl, it would bring him into the Cabinet, and give him the place and power his heart yearns for. Many Englishmen suppose that Americans have a sordid lore of money; but there never was a greater mis take. Of all nations perhaps they care least for it for its o wn sake— and spend it most lavishly, and risk it most recklessly when they get it. 'They strive for it and fight for it, because it is the first thing for which to struggle. But can any one explain why an American will abandon a good business and rush to Washington, and hang about lobbies and demean himself to politicians to get a' precarious appoint ment which cannot be made to yield him enough to live on? First, there is the excitement of the lottery, and then, however Democratic and impressed with the opinion that all men should be equal, each desires to make an exception in favour of himself. In this strife for power a great portion of the ap peal is to the dregs of the population, and the party that desires to maintain its ascendancy cannot ig nore that section. It may among the wire-pullers be a settled fact that the policy of the party, when in power, will not be what the stump orators assert; but the assertion is nevertheless made, and it cannot be helped if foreigners are deceived into the impression that the speakers mean what they say. 'They throw a tub to a whale at the risk of mislead ing another ship into an idea that it is a buoy, and when remonstrated with for the deception, they call it the fault of the other ship for not being ac quainted with the nature of whales. The necessity is paramount of thus attracting the attention of the 1 masses, and that was the object the leaders of party had in view when they thus dealt with the financial question. It is much to be deplored that so delicate a subject as the national credit should thus rudely have been handled ; for a nation's credit is a foreign as much as a home matter ; indeed with most countries a great deal more. . Yet the discussion has not been without its good; and it is that good we desire more prominently to bring to the notice of foreign bondholders. When first mooted PENDLETON'S proposal was eagerly argued, as well as those which followed. Every reason for, and against, was dwelt on at length ; false theories were exposed ; erroneous impressions rectified, the weakness of what appeared strong was shown, and the strength of what appeared weak was tested. Thus the American people came to understand a subject they had not before under stood, and the more light thrown on it, the more satisfied were far seeing men that honesty was the best policy. It was first demonstrated that in the end it was cheapest ; that credit was strength alike in war and peace ; that repudiation was dishonour, a taint on the national lams, and preparing for chil dren yet unborn the scornful taunt and the blush of shame; finally, that it would be a great wrong done to a large class to whom the nation owed most —we do not mean this as a pun, but morally as well as materially, for after those who crossed bayonets for the cause on the field, the men who supplied the means for carrying on the war were those who best supported the nation. All this came out very distinctly in the discussion, and impressed the people with these truths. Thus then the P.gita tion raised by politicians to forward their own ends, ' while damaging, the national . credit abroad, strengthened it at home, and really averted future danger. Emphatically this question has been dis cussed in the United States, and Americans are satisfied that the bonds should be paid on the most generous interpretation of the contract. But here we are met by a President recommending open and undisguised repudiation—an awful thing for a man in such a position to have done, though the explana tion is easy. There is a bitterness of hate in the nature of ANDREW JOHNSON which leads him to any extreme, while his training allows him to play for popular support at any hazard, and he believes this to be a trump card in the fnture. He has been beaten by Congress—he has been whipped by the nation. Till the nomination of SEYMOUR opened his eyes to the light in which he was regarded by the party to whom he had sold himself; andthe triumphant election of GRANT opened his eyes to the opinion of the people, they were closed to the fact that he was simply detested, and had sacrificed all in his vain strife for another term. They can know little of ANDREW JOHNSON who think that the shaft did not sink deep, and he has used his last weapon in retaliation, kicking against a Congress he would, had he CROMWELL'S power, annihilate in CROMWELL'S way, and in deal ing a blow at those who had so bitterly disap pointed his ambition, taking his chance of the future, knowing that his appeal might tell in certain quarters, and rather rejoicing at the in jury it did in others. Even Europeans are not so deluded as to suppose that the PRESIDENT repre sents more than a Tennessee politician named AN DREW JOHNSON, or that his advocacy of repudiation will do more than strengthen the side of honesty Indeed it has been' even said that this audacious scheme of repudiation was a bid for a Senatorship of his State, Tennessee, which will soon became vacant. We now know why the Representatives passed the resolution declaring all forms of repudia tion to be abhorrent to the American people, which last week, without the text of the PRESIDENT'S Mes sage, so surprised Enrope.—Anglo-American limes. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short ... 11 191 ... 11 19 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 1 ... 12 11 Antwerp — ... 25 371- ... 25 421 Brussels Haniburgn ......... Paris Ditto - Mraseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 1201 ... 1 . 201 Vienna — ... 12 20 -... 12 30 Trieste — ... 12 20 ... 12 321 Petersburg 00p3tibtigen.- ....... 2 21 Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 48 ... 481 Leghorn Milan 27 10 ... 27 20 ••• Genoa — ... 27 10 ... 27 20 Naples Palermo — ... 27 10 ... 27 20 Messina Lisbon — ... 521 ... 521 Oporto - — ••• 52 ... 521- Rio Janeiro — ••• Nut , Xyric M s .... MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican of Dec. 12.) The money market is without noteworthy change. The order to revenue collectors, to cease depositing in the national banks, has begun to produce a perceptible effect, in increasing the currency balances in the sub-treasuries. At New York, money is in good demand at 6 to 7 per cent. on governments. The banks appear to be moving steadily, but with few exceptions are not disposed to lend, even on call, below legal rates. At Boston, the market continues to work close, even for customers ; and outside paper moves - very sluggishly. At Cincinnati and Chicago money is very stringent. The demand for pork packing is largely in excess of the supply, and is producing something of a drain upon the East. Currency is also going South in considerable amounts. The approach of general settle ment, at the close of the year, is having its effect on the market; and merchants are disposed to increase the amount at their command. Sterlin; exchange is firmer, with active inquiry, owing to the scarcity of cotton bills. atut day's • canards of the death of the Emperor and outbreaks in France, had the effect to send gold up a point or two ; and it has not yet fully made up its mind to come down, though closing for the week at 136. The metropolitan press is busily engaged in discuss'ng two questions, suggested by this episode : 1. What means can be devised to discover and punish the authors of such false reports? '2. Why, when it only takes au hour to send gold up 2 per cent., d es it take three or four days to get it back? We are not concerned to find an answer to the first in luiry, for if persons will buy and sell stocks on the rumours of the street the public does not much care how badly they get bitten. The answer to the second ought to be easy, and oven familiar. It requires some force to start a body in any direction. There may have been reasons accumulating for some time why an advance in price should take place, and yet that advance be delayed for want of a definite impulse. Any accident, a false, even an absurd, report may supply that impulse, particularly in the stock market ; and when it comes, the movement of the _ _ stock will neither ba determined as to its extent by the strength of the particular impulsion, nor will the simple withdrawal of that force return it to its former figures. The debt statement for the month show the coin in treasury to be $88,000,000, including the $23,000,000 of certificates. Public bOnds have not been affected by the shameful sug- gestions of the President's Message ; and the fact that tho bonds of all classes were quoted a little higher the day after the chief magistrate of the nation had, in his annual Message, recommended the confiscation of their entire in terest for the term of sixteen years and eight months shows what the country thinks of him, and is perhaps the best indication of the exact degree 3f influence which ho exerts. If it were worth while to punish, or even to notice, such a man, his recommendation would constitute ample ground for his impeachment and removal. There is no higher _ _ misdemeanour or grave crimp than' for an officer of the Government to strike at its credit in such a way ; and if Andrew Johnson was not what he is, and had not been what he has, the effect of such a recommendation would have been most disastrous. Such an intimation from the Throne in England would ruin every bank in the king dom within 24 hours. Hero it rather improves stocks than otherwise. There is a strong demand for tho thirty. year currency sixes (on Pacific Railroad account) at 99} and accrued interest. The banks are buying them iti to serve as a basis of their circulation, and taking up their gold interest bearing bonds deposited at Washing ton. The President's Message being of no account any way, it is a fair inquiry what effect the accompany ing reports aro calculated to have and may be observed to have on the public funds. The general feeling seems to be that of increased confidence ; and a review of the re sults of the year, and of the present situation, fully justifies the feeling. Notwithstanding all the drawbracks of the last fiscal year, the Government comes out of it with a credit of $35,000,000'; and the prospects for the coming year are better than our fears three months ago. Perhaps the report of Commissioner Wells, which has not been published, has had a greater share in producing this con dition of public sentiment than any and all of the reports which...have been published. It is generally known that Mr. Wells takes strong views of the practicability of meet ing all tho expenses of the Government out of the pro ceeds of existing taxes, and leaving a liberal margin for the reduction of the debt, or the relief of industry. Border state bonds have been dull and inactive during the week, especially North Carolinas, in consequence of some uncer tainty in regard to the legality of the new bonds. In Teunes sees dealings are restricted by the prospect of a further issue. South Carolina Securities form an exception, under the ex cellent administration of Governor Scott; and the bonds of that state are in strong demand. In the railway mar ket speculation is very unsettled, and more trouble in stocks is evidently preparing. The miserable fiasco, in re gard to dividends by the management of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Road has pretty thoroughly disgusted a too confiding public ; and the stock is probably kept at its present figure only by reason of the efforts of the cliques and the attention of the market being chiefly engrossed by the movement in New York Central. Cleveland and Pittsburg has had the misfortune to attract the notice and excite the evil passions of the big rogues ; and there is a combination to control the choice of directors at the January election forming, with a view of treating it with the same indignities as Erie, Central, and St. Paul. The interest of the market, however, centres in Central— and that pretty piece of property has taken it with a vengeance the past week. Saturday was the field day, the stock selling all the way from 133 - down to 126 f. The same pressure upon it has been continued through the week, and it closes at 12ii. The promise of a scrip dividend proves for the fiftieth time already falla cious. Injunctions and counter-injunctions has e been re sorted to, though not without suspicion of collisions, as recently in the Erie case. There was no quorum at the stockholders' meeting at Albany yesterday ; but the old board of directors will undoubtedly be chosen. The great anxiety of stockholders is to get at the large cash reserve, which the road is carrying, and which the directors do not seem inclined to divide. Judge Boardman of the Supreme Court has dissolved the injunction of Judge Cardozo, which restrained Judge Davis from taking possession of the Erie Railroad as receiver. Meanwhile the stock con tinues the football of the market. T here is no doubt, however, that the character of the road and the quality of its service is bein g improved in a marked degree. Mr. J. Fisk's punning despatch that all the stealing he had been accused of doing consisted in laying down steel rails may not have been a happy statement of the truth ; but there is some thing in it. Twenty-three millions is a large sum, and ought to afford quite a little margin for improvements and repairs even after supporting a dozen families in style and feeing half the bar and all the bench of New York. An irreparable and inexcusable wrong has been done the stockholders of the road ; but the public generally reaps some advantage in the better order and service of that great and vital line of communication. Mr. Jay Gould seems fairly to have taken up the work of renovat ing the road, and increasing and quickening its de liveries, and though his administration has been at an awful cost to his "constituents," the country is generally beginning to enjoy some of the fruits of it. The exports for the week from New York have been $4,020,901, against 84,628,013 for the same week of 1867, and $3,101,416 in 1866. This makes the aggre gate since January 1 $156,892,265, against $179,678,834 for the same period in 1867, and $178,485,338 in 1866 The exports of cotton are on the increase. We have already (since September 1) sent to Europe 100,000 bales. more than last year, and there is a correspondingly large amount in process of shipment. For future delivery mid dling cotton is sold at 231 for January, February, and March. .In wool the market for fleeces is more active, and prices are firm, but not quotably higher. The inquiry is chiefly for the better grades, such as are used for light goods. Offerings are fair, but are not pressed, as holders are fully assured that the sale of their stocks at full prices is merely a question of time. Navigation may now be re garded as closed ; and the prices of rail freights will soon be materially advanced. The receipts of lumber at Chi cago up to the Ist inst. had been 982,580,100 feet, and by this time must have fully reached the figures 1,000,000,000, which were predicted at the opening of the season. This would show an increase over the receipts of last year of nearly 150,000,000 feet. Considerable specula tive feeling has been developed in breadstuffs ; and the demand is good both for consumption and for export. Prices consequently have taken an upward turn, and the market is strong, with the feeling that so large a portion of the crop has been kept back that Easters holders will reap a handsome profit. In oats there is almost a panic at New York, and prices have advanced, in sympathy, at Chicago, though in a less marked degree, on account of the anticipated rise in freights. Pork packing at the West is not going forward quite as briskly as usual at this season. The hog product proves as largo as anti cipated, but corn is so very cheap that owners are inclined to feed it out and put off killing. This tendency has checked the down ward movement in pork. The market for lard is a shade firmer. Butter is only in moderate re quirement, and prices are not firm, with a good. demand, however, for shipment to California- Cheese is in ae . tive demand, and the sales largely exceed those of any previous years, but without much demand f or export. (From the Albion.) The chief feature of the new management of the Albion is its exhaustive financial summary. We give the follow ing extract : "NEW YORK, Friday Evening., Doc. 1 "Business prospects in the South are improving. i n New Orleans there aro signs of activity in nearly every branch of trade, and Southern merchants and planters will soon have at their control the proceeds of a very Laze crop of both sugar and cotton. At Savannah and Charles ton similar improvement is reported by the local journals, owing mainly doubtless to the restoration of confidence consequent upon the subsidence of political agitation throughout the country, and the renewed efforts to revive industrial enterprise in the South. it is fortunate for this action of the United States that the crops have been much larger than at any time since 1861, and that the labour system is becoming better organized than it was dining the interval. The South is financially poor, but agricul turally rich; and it only requires capital to develope its resources. Capital is proverbially timid, but with peace, South as Will as North, it will pt Pe lOW w and !to way to the cotton, the sugar, and the rice lands, which sinc e 1860 have been more or less neglected." (From the Wall-street Journal) NEW Yoitx, Friday Evening, Dec. 11. Trade continues dull, and we notice many failures among the dry goods men. Money on call continue, more in demand, and 7 per cent. is easily obtained. Discounts are more active, and rates are firmer, first-class accept antes from 60 to 90 days being quoted :at 8 to 8} per cent. Government Bonds are lower, and to-day have generally declined Ito 1 per can'. Gold is well held, but closes to-day at 1351, having opened at 1361. The following are the quotations for specii:— Amer. silver.... 96 to 961 1 Eng. sovs 489 to 493 Mex. dollars...lo3f „ 1041 j2O francs 385 „ 388 Eng. silver 480 , 485 I Thalers Five francs .... 96 „ 97 Foreign Exchanges are quoted as follows : Sixty Days. Three Days- Lon d c n Bankers 1.J.,Le.. n, Prime Commercial lOBl-109t Paris, Bankers Bremen, Bankers • 7-79 flamburgli, Bankers 351 361 Frankfurt, 0.51. 4Ol-41 Berlin and Cologne 7 l} —72 Antwerp 5.20-5.161 Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss Express Stocks are quoted as follows : Adams ... ... ... ... ... ... 481 to 481 American ... ... ... ... ... ... 4.31 to 41 Merchants' Union ... ... 16 to 1t) United States ... ... .. .., ... 45 to 4.4 Wells, Fargo, and Co. ~. ..„ „, „, 251 to 26 Railroad stocks are better to-day, and piices, especially of Erie, aro higher. The Erie Railway Company has leased the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad for * term of twelve years, upon condition of the Erie com pany paying 30 par cent. of the gross earnings of the leased road, or a minimum of 81,800,000 yearly in the event of the 30 per cent. of earnings falling below that amount. The Erie Company engages to keep the track, stations, and rolling stuck of the Atlantic and Great Western road in repair, and gives to that company the option of renew ing the lease at its expiration. The arrangement will give the Atlantic and Great Western Company an amount more than sufficient to cover the interest upon its bend* due under the recent arrangements with the bondholders . The Erie Company by this arrangement have secured s broad gauge road to St. Louis, in addition to their arrange' meat for a narrow gauge connection with Chicago. CLOSING QUOTATIONS FOR RAILROAD MORTGAGES. Chi. & N. W. Ist M...... 9 1 Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex. 9 2 Gt. Western 2d M '93... 7 7 Md. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M.. Gal. & Chic. Ext 9B Gal. & Chic. 2d M 9O Chi. &R. I. Ist M „, Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 9'l Clove. & Tol. S. Fund --- N. J. Central Ist M N, J. Central 2d M 10,4 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. Isol ---:, Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 2 d M. 9 , Pitts. Ft. W.. & Ch. 3d 51. 80 Chic. Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc- 9 . 1 Chic. & Alton, 5.F.14131.10-t Mil. & St. Paul Ist M... 9o: Mil. & St. Paul 2d 11... c i Marietta & Cin. Ist M... ,„ Morris & Essex Ist M... „74 ' Morris & Essex.2d 51... i'" , toilet & Chic. let 51... Z i. Chi. & Gt. East'n Ist 31... ' `,.' N Du . Peninsula bY u.(I &ue N. S l H ;t e i 3 6t I s .; .... s .. .. - - 99'da 1 Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. ..... Ohio Ohio && Miss. Alisis. C ls o t n ..... ........... 9865 Atlantic & G. W. Ist Di. N. Y. Central 6s, 1883 90i N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 91 N. Y. Central 6s, 14 Est 86 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n 86 N. Y. Central 78, 1876 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76, N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-'76 Erie Ist Mort, Ex 101 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 911 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 864 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 83 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 — Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69_1014 Hod. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 — Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 100 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 1141 Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 9Ol N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c. 97 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 1144 Alton St T H. let M 931 Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 841 Alton &T. H. 2d M. Inc. Han.& St.J . Land Warts. - Han. & St. J. Con Chi. B. & Q„, Ist M Chi. & N. West, S. F 96 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony — Chi. & N. W. Ex'n B - PUBLIC FUNDS OF Sixes, 1868, registered Sixes, 1868, coupon to 1141 Sixes, 1881, coupon 1144 U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon , Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new tt t t 0 0 0 0 1° 1 170 9 0 1 1104 to 1 1 Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 Seven-thirties, 2d series Seven-thirties, 3d series .... Oregon War Loan, Sixes, 1 11_10501 1.tto:o ME UNITED STATE. .881 RAILROAD AND MISC ' N. Y. Central l2s} Erie Hudson Reading Mich. South. & N. L 851 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg B3} North-West North-West Preferred 77-1- Canton.. Rock Island Jleveland and Toledo 101 Mining stocks continue q Consolidated Gregory, Grass and Smith and Parmelee, all before them, are looked on as ELLANEOUS STOCKS. i Fort Wayne ....... . .... !;".1 Pacific Mail. Atlantic Mail ............ 21 Quicksilver .... . ........ 361 W. U. Telegraph ...... 21 Mariposa Preferred 29 Ohio and MississiPPi••• Boston Water Power... 0 6 Cumberland ............. .„6 Bankers and Brokers... M & St. Paul ............ 1° ma, St. Paul Preferred 1 plot, with the exceptioa; 3 Valley, Mariposa, 3tlonta :to of which, with the proSP e I cheap. The Union Pacific Railroad bridga across th e o Missouri River at Omaha was completed, and to tt crossed on the 10th instant. The track of the Vt` l° ,, Pacific is clear of snow. A valuable discovery of coal PI A 133 en made on the Central Pacific R a il ro ad in Ne i '. s , near the dividing line of Humboldt and Lander countleto Coal in such a locality is of vital importance, not Olio, the railroad, but for a country where mines otherwise Prig, able are idle for want of firewood for smelting P r , t he The Select Committee ou Railroads have authorize" jia report of a railroad from Washington to Cincinnati; I'm it is likely that the powers by Congress of granting the right of way through Stales will be contested bye pi States over which their line is projected. This is W I the most interesting questions of the future. f g Among the recent accessions to the Cent ral are one Mexican lion, captured near Lavado, on the TJPirj.i. Rio Grande, and presented by Brevet Brigadier- 001°11 0 e B. N.PLaughlen, Captain 44th United States Cavalry; the grizzly bear, a rare and valuable animal, brought franot Rocky Mountains, and presented by Mr. T . 0. Plf. 0' 52 packages of rare seeds, presented by the Hon.ooo Hall, United States Consul at Sydney, Australia;. If purple gallinule, presented by Henry Balser, M.D-; t tiei r cimen of granite used by the Mormons in building„.lo, temple at Utah, presented by the Rev. Vincent xf',o9 U.S.A. ; one pair Sebright bantams, present ed by J a ye Tucker, Esq. ; one duck, presented by Colonel C. ll -,.'„„dg ° son; one teetee monkey, presented by Master Tu.,--nto Gilman ; one white-lipped peccary, presented bY.,, C thallt G. B. Slocum; one rattlesnake, presented by Jas. 2 01 Esq. [ADVERTISBMENT.I—HoIIowsy's Pills.—The dis a g r it e k able knowledge forces itself upon all, that, with th c ! be, ening days and changing temperatures, the digestl eo e h , comes impaired, the liver disordered, and the mind cl e d t r ot° dent, unless the came of the irregularity be expell6 9:114 the blood and body by an alterative like these pills• go directly to the source of the evil, thrust out all 1 „ 5 to rifles from the circulation, reduce distempered org3t:oi, their natural state, and correct all defective or 0 0 , 0 0 , ' 10 1 9 . nated secretions. Such easy means of instituting 'OOl strength, and cheerfulness should be instantly al r . f '„ d iilg to check if possible the first symptoms of approaclu"cle ness, or at all events to break its fierceness a nd to its progress ere it obtains a firm footing. ati° ll :l (ADVERTISEMENT.J— Dyspepsia (Indigestion), Cons.'lol,, Debility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stoel oce e ,o liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated able bS rated by drugs of every description, but perfectly curabwod ;, Barry's health-restoring Ravi:dents, Arabic& Food, as Pr to thousands of cases which had bean considered hopeles plsi e y —cough, asthma, also diarrhma, haemorrhoids, liver colti,.„ut , flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, es4:rli,ety'l ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and a s It fl be, matism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgae bility, aleeplessners, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, D'efeeeo debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickneee , ,igliteo , pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula , ;es, v i of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and betore' shoulders, &c. We quote a Yew: — The Pope's health re ' 6 6.--, r f oi r Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68 , 413— " dome , July 12, I„,"pseepil health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since , ly to 0 - ing all other remedies, he has confined himself entire plo i o Barry's Revalenta Arabic°, Food, of which he consuraloollieeot ful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly " sat e ~id effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this C e food too highly.—From the " Gazette du Midi," July, 2 ivir e ,, l f et No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of bSt or derangement, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,771--1,Av;e130,3, de Decies, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' '',„;opePo No. 49,832—" Fifty yers' indescribable agony front 4, 00 nervousness, asthma, a cough, constipation, fiatuleucY, u - ,: t ie? sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Impo rtant Beware of the many unsavoury and m ore than sloppy o to which, without authority, Baron Lieb i g' s n a me is 02 l l* ciously attached. In tins, at ls. lid.; 1 lb. 2 s. 9 d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d .; 5 lbs, ix!" 0 P ° O. 225. ;24 lbs., 40s.—Also Du BARRY'S REYALENTA.ARASOIB . f 0 0 4 LATE POIVDER is packed in tin c anister s ; for 12 c u p s al, 57 60 0 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 cups at ts., for 288 cups at 305., f e ; 00 R ico at 55s.—being about one pe nn y p er cup. The 30s. an. st L i r are sent free of carr i ag e in En g la nd on rece i p t of F ° e s, Y . Order.—BßßY DU BARRY and C., No. 77, Regent don A ll Grocers and Chemist o s. ; and a 0 0e vbiolle Births. ICTL K p il A d u a E re -- , oOfnathsoen23wdhino ostn.,iyat s urvi v ed Carto n a th f e ew Ma b i o 'c li Ai saa , RussELL--On the 22d inst., at The Mount, Northi l "" 0 1 wife of John Russell, Esq., of a daughter. SENIOR— On the 24th inst., at Thornton-heath, the Wife Joseph Senior, Esq., of a son. Marriages. WESTETL—INNES —On the 17th inst., at Claine s Worcester, John Westell, Esq., of Maidenhel e os Sylvenia Elizabeth, widow of the l a te John B ose f. of the same place. -0 11 d WARWICK— CARTER —On the 22 d inst, at St 0 e I A tor 1 , A. Warwick, to Florence Marion, 'youngest utore ' the late W. Francis Carter, En., M.D., R.N., o' clet Northamptonshire. ,( Deaths. „ s acs 0 ' COATES —On the 22d inst., F.W. Coates , of 1, L a- .1 road, Clapham-road, aged 68 . 0 11;* ',WELL —On the 23d inst., at Northampton, ix-I.* Hazell of Berkhampstoad, aged 50. jao o o JAcomim , —On the 23d inst., at Notting-hill, T ll ° - ' 0. 1 aged 73. M OR LAND—On the 23d inst • , at Bedford, Lieti'Lr, Henry Morland, aged 65. WOODS—On the 21st inst., at Chilgrove, ChicheS- L. Woods, Esq., aged 66. 1 1 ,1 London :,Printed and Pablished by WILLIAM' • of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tam SUN 0; 31° '020 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in . the Xid4 l 666z:—Saturday , DOCODUcr 26 1666. Advan the N o full na at all I or,ler3 trade Roaae Co, D SE, NaticT Th( £879 SIT wiuia the S( street. Quc Gover F S' J The fessim Week] biped establ Thi nised and Lady Carol i All ten or Sul Treas NA tnder Wherel Girls o the kin The lish eel and lat Wise p suitabl The eutirel: REAM DIJ Hen( Du Ba Rnd In: has ah been (1( nese th bY it al We qu Italy F Other r s ßarry's "lateful lisnofici !Praise t Cure Years' neuu, it dizAstic 113rvou6 Cure kuart tom Waterfc are fron t d y atlden f L ynt Cure tr'rVon@ ola fa' Clare Years di The I 2 4s. t tester t' 4ll-5 ' canii "034 heout at fre e of c TI ARRN also at Ne w mew N.( OfMee the / half, ADI hold able Fora addE and till t char D. E ring and Jam will Roca and en a Dan; J' PAT hvi SON And 1 , 15, GU ~~ Turn T' For 'l' every CA _AIRE ind ( street Fleet ntent, with w 105, F 5, Thi hr