The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-14 00:00:00

siiitnOF THE PUBLIC JOTTENALS. The Government had two courses before them in the matter of Ireland which would have been tolerably credi table to them. They might have considered the question too vast to be dealt with by this moribund Parliament ; that it must be dealt with by a future one, for whose f :uidance the Government would collect information. This course would, in the opinion of the Saturday Review, have commended itself to the House and to the country. On the other hand, they might have defended the existing state of things. But this would have been Conservatism, and pf all things that the present Ministry most dreads, there is nothing so bad in its eyes as to be thought Conserva tive. On every point it talks a sort of set Conservative jargon in order to please its own party, and then gives up finally, by a sort of side wind, all the principles on which Conservatism rests. The policy of the Government about Ireland is really this :—As to the land, every thing is right as it stands, and the law of land• lord and tenant, which is the same as that of England on the subject, is perfectly just, and works perfectly well; but as we confess our general igno rance on this and other subjects, we propose to make considerable changes in it, and establish considerable dif ferences between the English and the Irish lass ; and we hope we shall very soon think out what these changes shall be. As to the Church, we do not know whether it is a good thing or a bad, or whether it has got too much money or too little ; but we believe it to be an institution so beneficial, and one which England is so deeply pledged in honour to maintain, that we will maintain it at all hazards until some one can shew us a convenient, practi cable, and popular mode of abolishing it. This is what the Government calls its Irish policy, and although the sentiments are not such as to call for any particular blame or criticism, being the sentiments which truly liberal Conservatives are most likely to entertain, yet it is not only absurd, but most damaging to the Government, to parade them as a policy. The policy of the Government, says the Spectator, is mischievous, illasory, and dishonest. What it gives is bad. The baits it dangles before Irish eyes are false. What it withholds is not honestly and boldly stated. The only thing definitely given is the separate Catholic Univer sity. The Government are going to give the power to confer degrees to a new body, over which they profess and anxiously declare that they shall keep no kind of control. The scheme is carefully contrived to exclude any Govern ment regulation after the university is once started. The State offers a new power of granting degrees to a learned body for whose learning it takes absolutely no security. The Tories do indeed strain at gnats and swallow camels. They raised no end of uproar two years ago because the Liberals were willing to give degrees to Catholic youths who had not been trained in company with Protestants, but whose education was to be tested in company with Protestants, and by common tests the efficiency of which the State kept full power of securing. Now they volun tarily offer the Catholics the right not only to educate their young men separately, but to examine them abso lutely on their own principles, without reserving the slightest power to condition for the efficiency of those examinations. It is all very well, the Imperial Review remarks, for such useful politicians as Mr. Horsman to denounce the Church policy of the Government as inaction, their land policy as procrastination, and their university policy as retrogression ; but such pretty little epigrams serve in no .degree to elucidate what is the real policy to pursue in order to pacify Ireland. Without for a moment accepting the stigma which the member for Stroud thus sought to affix to the Ministerial programme, nobody who has read the three speeches delivered in the course of the same evening by Mr. Horsman, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Mill can fail to recognise in the wide diversity of opinion prevailing among the most prominent and original thinkers in the Liberal party an ample justification of any amount of inac tion or procrastination on the part of a Government which cannot command a parliamentary majority. The Opposition cannot agree upon what is to be done—that is clear. But it by no means follows that they may nct find it very easy .to agree upon what is not to be done. Their wonderful unanimity in decrying the proposed charter for the Catholic University affords a sufficient sample of their agreement in a merely negative combination. It may, in deed, he said that they were all united in demanding the confiscation of the endowments of the Church in Ireland. But although it may appear that these three particular politicians find no difficulty in recommending common action on this subject, it cannot he maintained that in this they would be followed by the whole, or even by a majority of her Majesty's Opposition. According to the John Bull, Wednesday, the 11th of March, will be a day that generations yet unborn will took back upon with anything but feelings of pride or satisfac tion. On that day, under a false notion that something must be done, and mainly owing to the apathy of Church. men (manifested as in other ways so by the untenanted galleries), the House of Commons passed a bill for the abolition of compulsory church rates. All honour to the thirty who voted against it. That the Liberal party were united on this matter, and our own not so, male it doubtless wise not to risk a party division ; but are Churchmen going quietly to see this mockery of a coral promise become law? Mr. Gladstone and Sir Roundel- Palmer were very eloquent on the necessity of not mixing up with this Abolition Bill other gin stions connected with the subject, the importance of which they did not deny; but we are not so credulous as to the House taking up the matter so easily when this bill is passed. Members probably will be so sick of the subject, and so convinced that they have done an injustice, that they not have anything more to do with the business. The House of Lords will do well to refer the bill to a select committee, which shall consider the various questions alluded to by Mr. Gladstone. But the question is, whether Churchmen will arouse th4n wives and petition the Lords. The scandalous unfair ness of preventing the vast mass of parishes from rating themselves will, it cannot be doubted, be taken into serious and unprejudiced consideration in the House of Lords, if the Church party in aggrieved parishes shew themselves in earnest. We do not any longer, the London _Review remarks, con sider a man wise because he maintains an impervious silence all the day, and proceeds to snore immediately after dinner. We have arrived at the discovery that a woman may talk much, and be neither a nuisance nor a born idiot. Indeed, we are beginning to believe that one of the compensating graces of life—one of those accidental ornaments which smooth down so mnch that is ungainly and savage in our present civilisation—is this very faculty of talking which is possessed, in various quality, by most ?women. A house that would be absolutely unbearable by !reason of the boorish sulkiness of the master, may be ren dered bright and attractive by the vivacious talk of the mistress, A picnic which is being overshadowed by a cloud of that inscrutable masculine dulness, of which an explanation has never, we believe, been offered, may sue• denly wake up into liveliness when a little hock provokes the cheerful chatter of the girls. A conversation between two young persons, of opposite sexes, at an open window, in moonlight, would, at the most trying period, die down, and leave not an atom of matrimonial result behind, were it not that the dexterous nimbleness of the young lady's brain and tongue generally comes in to help her com panion over the pons asinorum of a proposal. There is no situation in life which may not be brightened and rendered bearable by this very faculty which mankind ,has been depreciating for ages. There are few things, for instance, of a more melancholy cast than walking to church on a Sunday morning—particularly a Sunday morning in the country. One's hastily-swallowed breakfast is uncomfortably present to the mind ; the odour 'of musk and the rustle of silk which mark the goodly corn i.anyhave a depressingly decorous effect ; and the godless 'imagination wanders into innumerable adjacent valleys and woods, in which it would be so ()Teat a relief to throw off one's Sunday garnient3 of respectability and precision, and lie down under the alders, careless of mankind and the damp grass. If it were not for the chance maid Cr matron here and there whose audacious cheerfulness keeps her party from falling to sleep—whose little pleasantries. moderated by a subdued Sunday tone, disperse that melancholy silence which otherwise would attend the measured churchward walk—it is to he conceived that anybody would ever get to church at all ? The English girl of the period, once so "generous, capable, modest," is thus described by the Saiurdop Review: —She is a creature who dyes her hair and paints her face, as the first articles of her personal religion ; whose sole idea of life is plenty of fun and luxury ; and whose dress is the object of such thought and intellect as she P°Pesses- Her main endeavour in this is to outvie her neighbours in the extravagance of fashion. No matter whether, as in the time of crinolines, 'she sacrificed decency, or, as now, in the time of trains, she sacrifices cleanliness ; no matter either, whether she makes herself a nuisance and an inconvenience to everyone she meets. The girl of the period has done away with such moral muffishness as consideration for others, or regard for counsel and rebuke. It was all very well in old-fashioned times, when fathers and mothers had some authority and were treated with respect, to be tutored and made to obey , but she is far too fast and flourishing to be stoppe d in mid career by these slow old morals ; and as she dres ses to please herself, she does not care if she displeases everyone else. Nothing is too extraordinary and nothin g too exagge rated for her vitiated taste ; and things which in them selves would be useful reforms if let alone become m on . strosities worse than those which they have displaced so soon as she begins to manipulate and improve. If a sensible fashion lifts the gown out of the mud, she raises hers midway to the knee. If the absurd structure of wire and buckram, once called a bonnet, is modified to something that shall protect the wearer's face without putting out the eyes of her ccm. ',anion, she cuts hers down to four straws awl a ru,seLud, or a tag of lace awl a bunch of glass beads. _Tf there is a reaction against an excess of Rowland s Alaca: , anr,and hair shiny and sticky with grease i. 4 thought loss nice than if left clean and healthily crisp, she dries and frizzes and sticks hem out on end like eel tiin savages in A Nice., or lets it wander clown her back like Madge Wildfire's, awl thinks herself all the more beautiful the nearer she approaches in look to a maniac or a negress. With purity of taste she has lost alio that far more precious purity and delicacy of perception which sometimes means more than appears on the surface. 'What the demi-monde does in ifs frantic efforts to excite attention, she also does in imita tion: If some fashionable devergondie en evidence is reported to have come out with her dress below her shoulder-blades : and a gold strap for all the sleeve thought necessary, the girl of the period follows suit next day, and then wonders that men sometimes mistake her for her pro totype, or that mother s o f g i r l s not quite so far gone as htr elt T0.14e her as a companion for their daughters, THE GOVERNMENT AND THE TELEGRAPHS. The Herald is in a position to state that the bill already drawn up by the Government embraces the establishment of a telegraphic station at each of the ten district post offices in London, subordinate stations at the sorting offices of each district, and central telegraphic offices at each of the principal towns in the United Kingdom, connected directly with the central district offices of the metropolis. It is proposed to open deposit offices where no telegraphic station exists, to make pillar letter-boxes places of deposit, and to provide for the payment of such messages in stamps. It is believed that the scheme also includes a uniform scale of charge for the transmission of any message of twenty words from any one part to any other part of the United Kingdom. By these and other administrative ar rangements, it is calculated that the telegraphs will be brought closer to the population ; that the hours at which the wires can be used will be considerably extended, and that a great average reduction will take place in the cost of telegrams to the public. For, as to the latterpoint, it appears that the average cost in 1866 of an inland message was ls. 11d., and we may fairly presume that if a uniform tariff of ls. were adopted, the reduction would, as in Belgium, be followed by a considerable increase in the gross number of mess ages sent. It is, indeed, certain that the proportion of increase would, under these circumstances, be far greater in this country than in Belgium ; but, assuming that the same rate of increase resulted as has already obtained in that country, data sufficiently accurate exists to shew that the united telegraphic systems of the kingdom would produce an annual income of more than half a million sterling. The price that must be paid for the acquisition of the tele graphic systems is necessarily a subject for serious consi deration. The market value of these shares at the present time is about three millions, and it is known that the total of their working expenses for the year 1866 amounted to a little more than £.340,000. If arrangements can be satisfactorily made as to the annual sum that must be charged to the Post Office on the score of capital required, it is probable that a sum more than sufficient for all working expenses will be derived for the income above mentioned. For there is no doubt whatever that the working expenses of telegraphs do not rise in proportion to the growth of business ; and it is equally certain that a united is far cheaper than a divided management in all matters where good administration is required. It is probable that the minor details of this scheme will excite considerable discus- sion, and the promoters of the bill must be prepared to answer categorically various objections that will be raised as to the telegraphic abilities of the Post Office authorities. But as we cannot close our eyes to the fact that commercial in terests and public convenience are marred by the present unsatisfactory working of British telegraphs, as we know that Government supervision is succeeding admirably else where, and as, moreover, the officials at St. Martin's-le- Grand have shown themselves capable of work other than the sale of stamps and delivery of letters, the bill will come before the House under very f avourable auspices, and must commend itself to all those members who are in , timately associated with the business transactions of this busy country. LAW AND POLICF RE THE LONDON AND MEDITERRANEAN BANK.— WRIGHT'S CASE.—The Lords Justices have had before them an appeal from an order of Vice-Chancellor Stuart in the matter of the above-mentioned company. The articles of association gave powers to the directors to cancel shares in certain cases. There was a proviso that notice should be given of the objects for which every meeting of the company was convened ; and that no other business than that specified in the notice should be transacted at the meeting. In September 1865 the company agreed to amalgamate with the London and Bombay Bank, and the agreement was confirmed at a meeting of the company held on the 16th of October, 1865, at which meeting a resolution was also passed that all shareholders who had paid £2 10s. per share might have their shares cancelled and their deposits returned. Mr. Wright took advantage of this offer, and received back this deposit money, and his shares were cancelled. It was, however, objected that the transac tion was irregular, inasmuch as the notice convening the meeting contained no reference to the proposed can cellation. The company was subsequently wound up, and the Vice-Chancellor held that the resolution authorising the cancellation of the shares were irregular, and the can cellation invalid. Mr. Wright appealed from this de cision. The Lords Justices were of opinion that the directors had power, under the articles of association, to forfeit the shares of any shareholder who dissented from a sale or amalgamation, and even if the notice given for the meeting was insufficient,the power of the directors still remained. Mr. Wright's shares had been duly forfeited, and his name must be removed from the list of contribu tories. lle would have his costs out of the funds in the hands of the official liquidator. THE RECENT RIOTS IN DEVONSHIRE. -Mr. Justice Blackburn has been engaged at Exeter in hearing cases arising out of the recent riots in Devonshire. Eight persons were charged with felony, and endeavouring to " demolish " the bakers' shops of Torquay. A large number of witnesses proved that there was a riot in the town on November 5. A great mob-1,000 at least— marched through the streets crying, " Down with the bread ! " " Down with the beef ! " " We'll have cheap bread." The mob threw stones at the bakers' shops, at the police, and at the special constables. Mr. Phillips, J. P., read the Riot Act at nine o'clock, but the mob did not disperse till two next morning. There was a lengthy argu ment as to the " intention " of the prisoners, and his lord ship ruled that they were cases of misdemeanour only. On this charge the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against James Potter, IVilliam Bulley, Richard Vanstone, George Shepherd, Thomas Brooklands, Charles Avent, and Thomas Pillar Way. Sentences deferred. There were also similar cases at Exmouth, and several charges of per jury arising from recent trials for the bread riots. THE ALLEGED MURDER OF A WOMAN AT BROMLEY. At the Maidstone Assizes, on Friday, the two men, Part. ridge and Deadman, committed on the charge of throwing a woman, named Jackson, down a well at Bromley, in January last, were indicted for wilful murder. The facts of the case have already been given. The woman Jackson, being tipsy and violent, was turned out of Partridge's house, where she lodged, and Partridge and Deadman were seen quarrelling with her and following her about at a late hour. Cries of murder were heard, and deceased was not again seen alive, but a fortnight afterwards her body was discovered in a well in an advanced state of decomposition. The evidence was very long, and of a purely circumstantial character. The jury found both prisoners not guilty. THE SCALDING OF A CHILD IN A CONVENT.—At the Westminster Police-court on Friday, Margaret Walsh, teacher at the school held at the convent of the Sceurs de Charite, Ashley-place, Pimlico, surrendered to her bail on a charge of having assaulted one Ellen Brown, a child of the tender age of four years. The case for the prosecution was that the prisoner had taken this child and corrected it for crying because it was sent to' school, by placing it on the edge of a copper four feet high, the copper being full of boiling water at the time, and although the serious charge could not be brought home to the prisoner of feloniously assaulting, it was contended that the placing the child in that position was an assault in law, Had the child fallen in and been killed, the offence charged against the prisoner would be manslaughter. In support of this case witnesses were called, and the child was shewn to be in the hospital. For the defence the case vas that the child was put there to be frightened, and accidentally fell in, and the prisoner expressed her deep regret at what Lad happened. Mr. Arnold, in stopping the case, said his presence was required to take the depo sition of a dying man at the Westminster Hospital, and the case was further adjourned till Wednesday next, the same bail being required. A CURIOUS POINT OF CAB LAW.--A point of cab law was in dispute before Mr. Barker at the Clerkenvvell Police court on Friday. A gentleman was summoned by a cabman for a fare. The defendant, an invalid, had bired the cab by the hour at Holloway, and told the cabman to drive him down the Green Lanes. The cabman did so, and when the hour was up the invalid found himself in a very green lane at some distance from home, and was told that if he wanted to return he must take the vehicle by distance. On his return he refused to pay the money (simply for the purpose of having the matter settled by a magistrate). The cabman contended that by the words of the Act the hiring by the hour was good only for one hour, at the expiration of which the driver was competent to insist on a fresh hiring and and fresh terms. Mr. Barker thought so too, and ordered the defendant to pay the fare and the cost of the summons. The Dorsetshire papers record the death of Mr. Mowlem at the age of 80. Ile was one of the principals i the firm of Messrs. Mowlem, Burt, and Freeman, stone merchants, Lorkn. Mr. Mowlem gave away large sums of money to chorales, and he was a munificent benefactor to the town of Swanage, in the Isle of Purbeck, where he worked as a poor quarrier boy. The Rev. William Awdry, M.A., son of Sir John Awdry, has been elected second master of Winchester College by the warden and fellows of the college. There were twelve candidates. Mr. Awdry was a candidate for the second mastership in 1866, when the Rev. J. John Hornby (now head master of Eton College) was aPPoi n t e d, Mr. Awdry has been connected with Winchester College about four months as a tutor. THE SUN, LONDDN, SATURDAY CVEN - ING, MARCH 14, 1868. THE IRISH CHURCH. Once more we must return to the past ; and, loathsome and detestable as the picture is, we must paint it in all its hideousness. Cham pions should know the precise character of the cause they advocate ; and those who battle for the cause of the Church by Law Estab lished in Ireland should have presented to them in all its deformity, in the deepest depths of its wickedness and injustice, the cause for which they are ready to lay down their lives. This is no metaphor—they have declared their willingness to shed their blood, not as martyrs but as soldiers, in defence of the Protestant Establishment. Only a few days ago the matter was brought before Parliament by an Irish member, but, as yet, we have not received the reply of the Government. At a Protestant defence meeting, a Protestant clergyman uttered the most seditious language, and de clared that those who were there assembled would resist, even by rebellion, any act of the British Parliament to disendow the Irish Church. This is not the first specimen we have had in recent times of the loyalty of the Orangemen in Ireland. They are loyal so long as they have their own way in all things, but when they aro threatened in one single thing they are greater rebels than the Fenians. " Sed mi ignosco "—we are all partial and forgiving to ourselves and to those who resemble us ; and the English Government will punish a re bellion that is dictated by national feeling, and condone sedition that is motived only by hatred to Catholicity. We have already given one sketch of the foul creation for which this minister of the Protestant Church militant exhorted his hearers to shed their blood as sol- diers in open rebellion to the Queen of the country, and the recognized head of the Pro testant Church established, without the grace, and in opposition to the will of God, in the kingdom of Ireland. But the tale is but half told ; there is more of the past to be disclosed. We have to draw, too, the picture of the pre sent, and then to speculate on the future. We have given some insight into the admirably Christian and saintly characters of the first four archbishops of Dublin—the founders and first apostles of this " fold of Christ in Ire land," as some would call the Establishment. The last of them, Bulkeley, who was a re gular " priest-hunter " (and he hunted with a pack of musketeers), lived to be deposed by the Puritans, and tasted the sweets of im prisonment for reading the Book of Common Prayer, and died at Tallaght, in 1650, " spent with grief." In a word, the system of spiri tual persecution that has existed in Ireland was formed, founded, organized, and carried into execution, not by the Executive, but by the first Protestant apostles, sent over to evangelize the land. They carried no scrip with them ; but, in order to fill their purses, they wielded the staff without mercy. What was the result alienated the Irish o fr f oni the a ir ny t p yr os a s n i n b y ili ? ty o T f h s e y y mpathy with Eng land, and introduced a reign of terror, suc ceeded by a reign, for a time, of rebellion. Then as now the Church question was the great question of the day. The bishops had their own way, and what was the consequence? In the time of Charles 1., the " No Surrender" of the Ascendancy party and the persistence of the prelates in the demolition of the Catholic altars had in time their natural results. The Catholics of the Pale, resolved no longer to be deprived of liberty of worship, confederated with the Irish chieftains—assembled at Kil kenny—raised an army—held a Parliament— established a mint—levied taxes—and " The Confederation of Kilkenny " declared them selves a free nation, subject to the Crown of England, loyal to their Sovereign, but deter mined to enjoy religious liberty. For a time there was a National Government in Ireland with all the accessories of nationhood, and the Government located at Dublin Castle proceeded to treat with the Government located in Kil kenny, through the then Viceroy , as to the I terms on which complete unity and concord could be restored, and the two nations made one in sympathy, one in loyalty, and one in prosperity. Intrigue and treachery, and divided counsels on the one side, and bigotry on the other, again marred the prospect of forming a strong empire on the basis of equality of rights. The prelatic party fancied they had gained a victory for the King by creating disunion amongst the Irish, and preventing the final adjustment of terms. But the victory they gained lost the King his throne, and cost him his head, and the usurper Cromwell treated them with as little ceremony as they were disposed to treat the " Papists." But there was no relief for the poor Papists. ; 't Although some conformed in Dublin, they were " transplanted "—that is, sent to the West, and in 1656, on the petition of Mr. Hartley, " All Popish shoemakers were ordered to be searched for by the Mayors and Sheriffs of Dublin, and none allowed to inhabit in Dub lin or its suburbs, but to be ordered to with draw and conform to the proclamation." In 1657 " Popish coopers" were discovered and ordered to withdraw from the city. And some of the wealthier Conformists who had good houses, but who declined to give them up to the English imports, were returned on a list to be tried by court-martial if they did not remove within a stipulated number of hours. The relaxation which allowed " forty-three Popish artificers" to continue " to abide in Clonmel," and " necessary labourers and artificers, not exceeding forty," to remain in Kilkenny—the City of the Confederation—that city in which the National Government of Ireland sat for years—did not apply to Dublin ; for in the metropolis the English had abundance of skilled Protestant workmen, and could dispense with " Popish " and unannealed Conformist labour, while the Protestant trade guilds of the Dublin i Co nt r e p r f o e r r a e t d i o hwiunted nt e their exclusivet he m uas t privileges. Need we say more ? Need we paint in fuller detail this picture of the past ? There is much more to be said—much more to be written ; but time presses, and we must, per force, pass on to the present. For now-a-days people are not so much affected by the recital of past injustices as of present evils, and yet the past is but the seed of the present, and the better fruit that has been garnered in Ireland in late years. The harvest which is now giving its corn in abundance to Pro testantism, and its husks to Catholicity, is but the result of the seed-sowing of Anglican divines (?). For the present we will leave them and theix works, and pass on to the results of their nefarious schemes. "By their fruits you shall know them ;" and we confidently assert that, judged by its fruits in Ireland, the Pro testant Church Establishment is a " barren fig tree." " Why cumbereth it the ground ?" First, we must make manifest its barrenness, and then ask every honest man why the sen tence " Cut it down " should not be passed upon it P—Westininster Gazette. The yacht Challenge, owned by Mr. Lorillard, of Now York, on a recent trip, made seventeen and a h alf knots an hour, sailing close upon the wind, two points nearer than a ship could be brought to it, and it is as serted that running two points free should have made twenty knots. LADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 68,000 cures;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413. " Rome, July 21, 1866. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. of which ho consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agopy from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria .loly."—Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 ygotrs' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tin's' at ISllid.; 1 1 1 b., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d,; 5 lbs. 11ST 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77' Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly' and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 298 Oiturtl-atroet; 330, %mud; and till pinta And cheatimts. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) A writer in the Times objects to casual or una: ct thenticated telegrams from America on the cotto tt market. We presume he alludes to the reports of the Messrs. Neill, which, with another American firm, dispatch messages to Europe, which cause the violent fluctuations lately witnessed in Liverpool. If the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce objects to the messages of private firms producing results so great, the simple remedy is in their hands, of procuring returns from an official source. The following message is dated New York, March 7 :--- " According to Messrs. Neill's report the week's re— ceipts of cotton at all ports amount to 83,000 bales,. against 52,000 last year, and the total since the Ist, September to 1,733,000 against 1,425,000 last year.. Exports to Great Britain this week, 53,000 bales,. and since Ist September 773,000 bales. Exports to , France for the week, 10,000 bales, and since Ist of: September, 166,000. To other foreign ports for the week, 12,000 bales ; and since Ist September,, 172,000. Total exports for the week, 75,000 bales.; since lst September 111,000. Stock at all ports, 345,000 bales. Rivers rising. Gulf markets de pressed. The steamers sailing to-day for Europe take out $250,000 in specie. Mr. Adams, we believe, will not leave London nor vacate his appointment so soon as was expected. If our information be correct he has consented, at least for the present, to remain at his post. If the Hon. Ben. Wade succeeds to the Presi dency, vice Andrew Johnson removed, the Union Pacific Railway, in all its branches, will have a good friend in a high place. He takes the greatest interest in everything connected with that grand undertaking, and he will surely use the great power and influence he will possess for its advantage. The following telegram was received last Satur day morning, dated Washington, March 6 :--" Pre sident Johnson has been summoned to appear before the Senate Court on the 13th instant. The Secre tary of the Treasury has issued the usual monthly statement of the public debt of the United States. The total amount of the debt on the Ist March was $2,618,000,000, against $2,651,000,000 on the Ist of February last, being a decrease of $3,000,000. The cash in the Treasury on the Ist instant was $128,000,000, against $124,000,000, being an in crease of $4,000,000." The Message, dated New York, March 11, relating to the New Hampshire elections, is embodied in our first leading article. Last week we had an instance of the enterprise of individual journals in New York, when Colonel Anderson, the agent of the New York Herald gave the latest intelligence to the people of England, of their expedition in the wilds of Abyssinia. This week we have a striking instance of the lavish ex penditure the American Press will incur to obtain the fullest and earliest information. The whole debate on the Alabama Claims was sent to New York by the Cable. What a contrast to the pro ceedings of the London. Press. The dYew, York Herald every morning contains columns 'of close print, every word of which, has arrived by telegraph, no small portion coming from _Europe. .In the Empire City the inhabitants have earlier and fuller news of events in Europe than - the citizens of Lon don—a strange fact, though undeniably true. For a week there existed a not very improbable chance of the United States being plunged into a civil war ; yet the whole enterprise of the London Press was confined to a five or ten pound message, which the liberality of the Times induced it to give. We were obliged to calculate the course of events arising from the impeachment of the President by the price of gold. We hope some day that we will be in a position to obtain " special" telegrams on Friday night for this newspaper. The Committee appointed by the House to pre pare the Impeachment charges had agreed to five, and were consulting as to the sixth. In Lorenzo Thomas's appointment three violations of the Tenure-of-Office Bill are charged. Two are based on a law approved July 31, 1861, to define and punish certain conspiracies— That if two or more persons within any State or terri tory shall conspire together by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States against the will or contrary to the authority of the United States, or by force, or intimidation, or threat to prevent any person from accepting or holding any office or trust or place of confidence under the United States, each and every person so offending shall bo guilty of a high crime, Si c. This is violated by the General's action on the Pre sident's order to take possession of the War De partment. These articles are susceptible of easy proof, and can be quickly decided, and therefore recommend themselves strongly to the House. The other on which the Committee was doubtful accuses the President of attempting to bribe by promoting army officers. This would require time to secure the proof and delay the trial. Mr. Sumner proposed a resolution in the Senate, on the 28th February, forbidding official intercourse between that Chamber and the President, which was re- j ected. A profound sensation has been created at Flo rence by the report that Mr. Seward had included the name of General Garibaldi among the secret agents employed in Europe by the United States. On the list sent by Mr. Seward to Washington, the General was said to be the agent for Italy. The discussion in Congress on the proposal to strike out the appropriation for these agents called forth a strong opposition from Mr. Seward. He defended the system, maintaining its utility, and on occasions its absolute necessity, while distinctly refusing to give up the names of those employed. The report is almost as insulting to the Secretary of State as it is to the Italian patriot, for Mr. Seward is as little likely to betray his agents as Garibaldi is to act the spy. If Royal ceremonials can do anything for pacify ing Ireland, which we believe they can, the Prince of Wales is about to make a good beginning. He proceeds to Ireland, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, to be enrolled among the Knights of the National Order of St. Patrick. This Order consists of twenty Irish noblemen, the Sovereign being its chief, and the Lord-Lieutenant for the time its Grand Master. The Prelate is the Lord Primate, and its Chancellor the Archbishop of Dublin. The last ceremonial took place in 1821 when the Marquis of Drogheda was installed, and George IV. presided. This is to be the great feature of the intended visit, though there will be many grand military displays, the great race of Punchestown, and a series of magnificent entertainments by Lord Abercorn. Pat is very fond of glitter, and if he can thus easily be pleased, it is, to say the least, a pity that such efforts have been delayed so long. The Democratic National Committee, which met at Washington on the 22d February, decided on New York as the place, and July 4 as the time for holding the Democratic National Convention. The Cleveland Johnson Soldiers and Sailors' organization will also meetat the same time and place to strengthen the above Convention. The committee seem to favour Pendleton for President, and young John Quincey Adam s f or Vice-President. Judge John D. Caton, of Ott awa , Illinois, when declining to stand as Democ ra ti c ca ndidate for Governor of the State, declared it to be his opinion that Pendleton's nomination for the Presidency will inevitably secure the defeat of the party. Horatio Seymour and others found supporters amcng the committee. The Kentucky Republican Convention nominated General Grant for President, so also did those of Wisconsin and Missouri. The Kentucky Demo cratic Convention nominated George HF. Pendleton, and that of lowa went for the samecandidate. An attempt has been made to assassinate Presi dent Juarez, in a theatre, and to rob the Treasury. The advices are to the 19th February. Two Mexi cans returned from Havannah had induced the offi cers of the regiment guarding Juarez' palace to take part in the plot, but it was exposed and defeated, the officers being arrested, as well as many foreigners. Romero, the new Secretary of the '1 reasury, esti mates the monthly revenue receipts at $300,000, of which $50,000 is to be set aside for payment of the legitimate foreign debt, in which is included that of Great Britain and Spain. An order has been issued by the Government to sell by auction confiscated property, the proceeds to be used for extinguishing the national debt ; and it is thought by this means $lOO,OOO of the amount can be paid off monthly. Juarez has obtained six months leave of absence to Yisit Wallington, The. Government has granted to the United States the right to establish coal depots on either the island of Pichilinque or at Lopez, a concession repeatedly refused the British Government. A steamship company now run ves sels from San Francisco every 20 days to Mazatlan, thence to Acapalco, carrying the Mexican mails, -under a Government subsidy. A clause in the con tract stipulates for the company to present the :Mexican Government with a steamer armed with four 12 and two 24 pounder guns, and a full convic t rent of men. Heretofore the company was com pelled to place their vessels under Mexican colours, but under the new arrangement steamers are permitted to sail under the American flag. Adjutant-General M'Dougall, of Montreal, pro poses to fortify the frontier of Canada, as a protec tion against the United States in the event of war, by a series of detached forts of wide circumference. Frank Leslie calls this the most stupid suggestion of the year, and we heartily agree with our contempo rary. " Canada," it says, " would be crushed up like an empty egg shell in the event of a war, and as the Canadians flatter themselves if they think the United States would take them as a gift, both sides might spend their money in a more rational man ner." The debates in Parliament on the subject represent so much time thrown away. Money ex pended in the way Adjutant-General M'Dougall proposes is worse than sunk in the Atlantic. When a weak General within the grasp of a strong enemy can deceive his opponent by paper fortifications and wooden guns, as the Chinese do, he may escape under cover of the delusion. But a General who deceives himself by such fortifications most surely comes to grief. Nothing can be more mischievous than a belief in one's own strength where there is only a well-known weakness, and it provokes the very danger that either strength would have pro vided against or a known weakness averted. There is a sympathetic influence between the English and Americans, notwithstanding the breadth of the Atlantic. Even the Clerk enwell explosion can find an echo at Washington. Mr. Kennedy, the superintendent of the New York police, discovered that 1651 b. of nitro-glycerine had been obtained from the United States Blasting Oil Company under a forged order, and as he could not trace it, he informed Major Richards, superin tendent of the Washington police, of the fact, sup posing that it might be intended for blowing up Congress. Major Richards forwarded the despatch to Speaker Colfax, who communicated its contents to the House. As Mr. Kennedy declared the quan tity sufficient to blow up St. Nicholas' Hotel in New York many members became possessed with the idea of a Guy Fawkes' plot, ani the House was quickly and considerably reduced in number. At least that is one statement. The other is, that the Democratic side listened to the letter with shouts of laughter, declaring that they could not believe any rebel would blow them up merely to destroy the Republicans. All idea of violence at Washington arising from impeachment has evaporated. Cyrus•W: Field, at his great dinner in the Palace Hotel, exclaimed, with that energy that shows that the sentiment is from the heart, " Cursed be the man' who breeds strife between these kindred nations." If we are to believe the Washington correspondent of the Standard, the man is Andrew Johnson ; the motive, a low selfish design for diverting public attention from himself and sup porting the rotten political platform on which he stands with a few fresh props. Not only does the correspondent reiterate the truth of the information contained in his letter of 31st January, asserting that President Johnson had determined to bring the Alabama claims to a direct issue, putting Mr. Seward aside, and insisting upon the settlement demanded by America, but he maintains that the President is more than ever bent On this step, that he regrets having delayed it so long, that he thinks the opportunity now to be good, that impeachment has strengthened rather than weakened his purpose, and had he acted earlier, he believes he would have disarmed his Radical enemies. Whatever might have been the effect of earlier action, the time has certainly now gone by. The correspondent writes as if Andrew Johnson was somebody of importance in the Union. It is not unlikely that the next de spatches sent by an European American Minister will be submitted to the Hon. Ben. Wade, and if An drew Johnson be found guilty he will subside into something less than ordinary American citizens, all of whom, except criminals, can at least aspire to office, whereas Andrew Johnson will be incapaci tated by law. We do not think that the intentions of Andrew Johnson are worth considering. The Bill passed by Congress declaring a ma jority of the votes cast to be sufficient does not affect Alabama, as it is not retrospective. Definite returns of the election had not been received. In 55 counties 78,095 votes were cast, of which 77,572 were in favour of the Constitution. Seven counties remained to be heard from, but in three of these there were no elections at all, and General Hayden refuses to order others. The Republicans relied upon the negro vote, yet only two-thirds of those registered came to the polls. Congress is at a loss how to deal with Alabama. At a Congres sional caucus it was proposed to declare the State reconstructed by an Act of Congress, but this was strongly opposed by many leading mem bers of the party. The Florida Convention has adopted its Constitution. Harrison Reid was named for Governor, William H. (;Masson for Lieutenant-Governor, and C. H, Hamilton for member of Congress. The five members who re fused to sign the Constitution had their pay and mileage stopped by the forty who did sign it. North Carolina has nominated ex-Governor Holden for Governor under the new Constitution, and Colonel Heaton for member of Congress. Georgia is discussing the question whether railway companies and other carriers should not be compelled to transport ne groes in equality with whites. Virginia has been discussing suffrage, and two black delegates de fended with vigour and skill the capacity of negroes to use the suffrage for good. A Tennessee Judge recently refused negroes to serve on a jury. The Louisiana Treasury is bankrupt, and in conse quence there is danger of the Government ma chinery stopping —the military aid in the col lection of taxes. Three thousand negroes ask the aid of Congress to emigrate from Alis sissippi to Liberia. In Arkansas the Recon struction election is to commence on the 15th of March, to remain open until more than half the registered members have voted. General Grant has directed General Hancock to countermand his order removing seven members of the New Orleans Com mon Council, and if Hancock acts up to what he threatened he will resign. The Mississippi Con vention passed a resolution thanking Congress for Impeachment. The Supreme Court has had before it several im portant cases, involving the power of a State to tax Government Bonds held by savings banks and corporations, though it has not yet reached a deci sion. Two of these cases are from Massachusetts, Attorney-General Adams appearing for the State. Mr. Dawes acted in one of them for the Corporation. It was the opinion when the mail of 29th Feb ruary left that the Republicans would come off vic torious in the elections in New Hampshire. The recent events at Washington, it was believed, had strengthened the party, and it was thought they would carry the State by a majority of 3,000. Many of those interested in the cause had left for Connecticut, where their services were more needed, considering the result to be certain in New Hamp shire. General Sickles, on the 26th February, addressed a large meeting at New Haven. The election was watched with a keen interest, as indi cative of public opinion on Impeachment, and as the Republicans have carried the State it may be accepted on this side as the best proof of the na tional sentiment. The best point made by Lord Mayo, in his reply to Mr. Maguire on the Irish debate was that if Ireland is crushed beneath a tyranny—that tyranny is administered by Irishmen. The Lord-Lieute nant is an Irish nobleman, the Chief S.!cretary is an Irish country gentleman, with less Saxon blood in his veins than many of the patriots that spout Fe niauism in New York. The Lord Chancellor is an Irish lawyer, the Judges are all Irishmen, nine out of twelve being Roman Catholics. The police; to which Mr. Maguire referred as of a purely military character, intended to act in masses against the people, were entirely Well, and MOfitly Roman Catholics. Even the army, occupying the fortified positions to which Mr. Maguire alluded, are more than half Irishmen, both officers and men. It is now announced that the Rev. 'William O'Neill, of Shane Castle, Antrim, the successor to the estates of the late Lord O'Neill, is to he raised to the Peer age. The clan is perhaps the most numerous, and the name perhaps the most historical in Ire land ; and although we believe that the true head of that great family has been traced to a sergeant in the army, yet failing the moat legitimate candidate for the chief of this house the Government has selected the most eligible, evidently desirous that it should not be without its title. General Lorenzo Thomas, appointed Secretary of War, ad interim, and who will hereafter be remembered in connection with the impeachment of President Johnson, was born at Newcastle, Delaware, on the 20th October, 1804. His father was of Welsh extraction, and on the mother's side ho is descended from the Itandolphs and the famed Princess Pocahontas. He graduated at West Point in 1823, and was from time to time promoted, receiving in 1838 the appointment of Assistant Adjutant-General, with the rank of brevet-major, and lieutenant-colonel by brevet in 1816 for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of Monterey. At the commencement of the late war he held the grade of lieutenant-colonel, and was appointed adju tant general, retaining the arduous position throughout the struggle. He is generally disliked in the regular ser vice, ranking next to Stanton among army officers in un popularity. He has all Stanton's bad points without his clear views, strong will, and great executive energy, and he possesses Andrew Johnson's gift of giving and taking offence without his ability. His main idea is to obey orders. Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, the President's choice for Mr. Stanton's successor as Secretary of War, is a poli tician of the last generation, having been born in Virginia in 1789, and elected to the United States Senate in 1830. He was Harrison's Secretary of the Treasury in 1811, and in 1848 was again in the Cabinet as Secretary of the Inte rior. He has lately resided at Washington, practising oc casionally in the Supreme Court. He takes unceasing pleasure in talking about his son-in-law, Lieut.-General William T. Sherman. It is announced that a majority of the Ecclesias tical Court in New York who are trying the Rev. Mr. Tyng, of the Episcopal Church, for violating its canons by conducting service in a Methodist Church, have found him guilty. The punishment for the offence, as it is Mr. Tyng's first one, is an admonition given by the bishop pub licly in a church of the diocese, and in the presence of at least three other clergymen. The Moniteur of yesterday announces that General de Failly has been nominated a Senator, and Admirals Reynaud and Fleuriot de Langlo grand officer of the Legion of Honour. _ _ The Queen will probably visit Cambridge this " commencement," for the purpose of inaugurating the statue of the late Prince Consort, subscribed for by the members of the senate. The British brand► of the International League of Peace and Liberty have resolved to present an address to Mr. Adams, tha American Minister, beforo he leaves this country. It is expected that Mr. John Bright, M.P., will accompany the deputation, which Mr. Adams has agreed to receive to-day. _ _ Gen. J. B. Steedman has resigned the collector ship of internal revenue in Now Orleans, to take effect May 15. The Canadian volunteers, who arrived at Rome on the 10th, ware received on the same day by the Pope, who expressed his satisfaction at their devotion, and gave them his benediction. Clamor Frederick Hagedorn, Consul-General of Bavaria and Hesse Darmstadt, and Consul of the Grand Duchy of Baden, of Brunswick, of Saxe Coburg, Olden burg, a • nd Saxe Weimar, died at his residence in Phila delphia on Tuesday, February 25. Mr. Robert Brown, the last of the Arctic voyagers, is preparing a work on the " Physical Geography of Green land," from researches undertaken during three different scientific journeys to the Artic Regions, the last of which was in 1867. The Temperance organizations of New York and its vicinity had a grand celebration of the 136th anniver sary of the Birthday of Washington at the Cooper Insti tute, on the evening of the 22d ult. The Seventy-ninth Regiment of Highlanders had their ninth annual ball at Irving Hall, New York, on Friday evening, Feb. 21. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise honoured Mr. J. Bell with a visit to his studio last Wednesday, where her Royal Highness inspected the group of statuary representing America, intended for the National memorial of the Prince Consort in Hyde Park. On the 18th ult. Colonel Elliott F. Shepard was married in the Church of the Incarnation, Madison Avenue, New York, to the daughter of W. H. Vanderbilt, Esq„ and granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt. There were present Governor Fenton and family, Colonel N. W. Thorn, Judge Roosevelt, Mr. Vanderbilt Allen, &c. The bridesmaids were the Misses Sherman, Van Doren, Sand ford, and Corlies. The Rev. Dr. Cook and the Rev. Stephen Tyng performed the ceremony. Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt gave his daughter away, whose residence, 420, Fifth Avenue, was afterwards thronged with guests. Mr. Anson Burlingame, first Ambassador from China to Christian Powers, was dining with Prince Kung, when he announced his intention of resigning his post as Minister of the United States. Several mandarins applauded his services during his visit to Europe and America in 1865, and two days after the dinner a deputa tion waited on him and tendered him the Embassy, which Mr. Burlingame accepted on the condition that it "should be placed in all respects on a footing of the highest respec tability." A week after he received his credentials, written on yellow silk, and bearing the great seal of the empire. The American papers state that a younger and favourite brother of Charles Dickens came to reside at Chicago some fifteen years ago. He entered the office of the Illinois Central Railroad, but he lost his health and died about two years ago, leavings widow and large family unprovided for. It is asserted that one of the principal reasons of Mr. Dickens's present trip to America is to visit tho gravo of his brother, Augustus N. Dickens, and to as sist the widow and the children. The marriage took place on the 9th inst., at All Saints', Kensington, by the Rev. W. Walter Edwards, M.A., of Charles Temple Dix, youngest son of his Excel lency the United States Minister to France, to Camilla Ottilie, widow of Andrew Watson, Esq., of Edinburgh, and niece of the late Mrs. Anna Jameson. Mr. H. W. Lord, United States Consul in Man chester, after some years of service, is about to retire, and this week the Mayor presided at a farewell dinner given to him by a number of 31anchester gentlemen, when an address expressive of cordial sentiments of friendship was presented to Mr. Lord. Government has released Dr. Waters, one of the writers of the Irishman newspaper, who was arrested on the Lord-Lieutenant's warrant. He was one of the leaders of the Dublin funeral procession. Wilkes' Spirit says on the proposed boat race between Oxford and Harvard, after discussing the obstacles still existing to the scheme : —" The Harvards, if they cross, propose to do so in September, the Faculty refusing their consent to their absence at any other time. This is not the most available season for such an excursion, as all England ruralizes at partridge shooting and sea bathing in the soft dawn of the fall ; but the interest excited by the contest would draw crowds from their seclusion to greet their cousins from over the sea. This event successfully inaugurated, no matter who may b 3 the victors, may lure an Oxford crew tc visit us the following summer; and the consequent intercourse may convince our people that all Englishmen are not surly, selfish, and self-conceited, and, per contra, that all Americans do not expectorate in drawing-rooms, and are not lank and sallow from dyspepsia, or braggart vaunters of manifest destiny. This desirable and conservative result alone should inspire a general interest in the bold challenge of the Harvard lads, and we trust that such a pressure may be brought to bear upon the matter on either side of the ocean that a match will inevitably ensue." The Pall Mall Gazette remarks :—The first elec toral battle of a year which must be immensely important to American parties has been won by the Republicans. The State elections for New Hampshire, which took place on Tuesday, have terminated in a victory for the party that has already been so long in power, although the cable does not tell us by what majority the victory has been gained— a very important thing to know. Last year the majority was only about 3,000 on a total vote of 68,000. The importance of the Republican victory is obvious. It is a sort of pre rogative vote. That the first election of the year in which the President is to be voted for should have ended thus will encourage the reigning party and conciliate the support of waverers, who are probably not much less numerous in the United States than in older communities. It is a conclu sive sign, as even Democratic writers have instructed us, that the Republicans are not losing ground, and hence the anxiety with which the result has been anticipated in all parts of America. It furnishes no guidance in repudia tion, as this was not a plank of either platform, to use the phrase of the country ; but it does show, so far as it goes, that Gen. Grant is likely to beat Mr. Pendleton for the Presidency. Under a new arrangement just concluded be tween the Post-office Departments of the United States and Canada, the single rate of postage on letters will be reduced, on and after the Ist day of April next, from ten t o six cents, if prepaid at the office of mailing in either country ; but if posted unpaid, or insufficiently prepaid, they will be subject to a postage charge of ten cents por single rate in the country of destination. The authorized weight of a single letter will be fifteen grammes by the metrical scale, and half an ounce in Canada. Postmasters will levy pcstago accordingly on and after the Ist of April. The hum Empire stato aud 'yahoo mood from Brighton to Worcester, Western Massachusetts, on the 221 February, for $l,OOO, and Empire State won in the remarkable time of 2 hours and 21 minutes, but died at night in consequence of the cruel exertion. The following incident in American trade with Japan will be read with interest. Mr. H. Dunn, of San Francisco, shipped to Yokohama 1,332 trees, 165 bushes, 3,500 plants, and 19,000 grape cuttings. Of these there were 460 apple, comprising the best varieties, 12 necta rine, 20 apricot, 250 pear, 80 cherry, 180 peach, 180 plum, 80 almond, 40 quince, and 40 fig trees. The bushes were 25 currant, 40 gooseberry, 50 raspberry, and 60 blackberry. This amount is sufficient to form three fair sized orchards and vineyards, and if they arrive in Japan in good order,. will ere many years probably be found in all portions of that country. The trees, plants, S:c ,in exchange, are ex pected to arrive by the Great Republic or China, and as they aro to be sent on behalf of the Japanese Government by Matemeto Judiyn, the late Commissioner, who is now Superintendent of Agriculture, they will pro bablyembrace most, if not all, the valuable varieties known i❑ Japan. Their arrival in good order will form an era in fruit cultivation in California, as they will no doabt prove a very valuable addition, which will be of greater import ance when railway communication is established with the Atlantic States. On the 4th May, 1866, the American ship General Grant, 1,092 tons, of Boston, commanded by Cap tain Loughlin, left Melbourne, Australia, for England. A few days after her departure she was wrecked on the Auckland Islands, about 160 miles south of the Snares, which is the southernmost land of New Zealand. The General Grant was a considerable distance out of her course, as most ships bound round The Horn pass not far from the Snares. None of her passengers were saved, and but 11 out of 13 of the crew. Being out of the track of ships, and on an uninhabited island, the survivors re mained for nearly two years unrescued. The vessel was given up, and the insurance effected in London long since paid. It was only by a telegram just received from Mel bourne that her fate became known. Her chief cabin passen gers:were Mr. and Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Oat and family, Rev. Father Sarda, Mr Edel, Mr. Deans, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Woodrow, and Mr. Tebbetts. She also had 33 second and third class passengers. The lnvercauld was lost a few years since on the Aucklands, and it was eighteen months be fore her captain and survivors were rescued. In 1854 these islands were the headquarters of a whaling company, at the head cf which was a gentleman well known in those seas. For many years he maintained an establish ment on the Auckland Islands, where he held a very anomalous position, as a maker, administrator, and exe cutor of laws; of course keeping up a vigorous corres pondence, when the opportunity offered, with the Foreign Office, who are always warding off the attacks of British subjects in possession of outside scraps of territory. Speak ing of such spots, that held by the most singular tenure under the Crown is Ascension, which belongs to the navy and is supposed to be a ship at anchor, or a floating island moored in mid-ocean. It presents a very solid appearance, having a mountain rising several thousands df feet, and at this masthead lives the captain, who exercises au absolute control over all who land, the regulations being precisely the same as on board the man-of-war anchored in the offing ; no other laws than the Navy Regulations hav ing any force in the island. Another curious spot is Christmas Island, of which Captain Ross has taken pos session ; but perhaps the strangest history and the most interesting inhabitants are those of Norfolk Island, noW the home of the Pitcairn islanders, the descendants of the Bounty mutineers. That island, of singular beauty, was made a pandemonium by the transport to it of the worst of the Australian and Van Diemen's Land convicts. Eng land sent her very bad criminals to Van Dieman's Land, and they extracted the concentrated essence of this vice and sent it to Norfolk Island, till the wickedness grouped on the little spot of unequalled beauty shocked the moral sense of England, and the depot was broken up, the isle becoming the home of the Pitcairn people. Although the large arrivals of American wheat, to which we called attention a few days since, are certainly a very encouraging sign of the times, there appears reason to fear that the French crise alimentaire is not yet at an end, and this fact must exercise a certain influence on the wheat trade all over Europe. The east, west, north, and centre of France will still have to seek for supplies on the Marseilles market ; and although the arrivals at Marseilles have been large of late, it is remarkable they have been absorbed as soon as they have come to hand. Thus the stock at Marseilles stood February 21 at 3,851,299 kilo grammes, and the imports in the week ending February 27 were 2,165,195 kilogrammes, making a total of 5,516,49 4 kilogrammes. Of these amounts, however, 2,455,973 kilo grammes were taken off in the week ending February 27, thus reducing the stock at this date to 3,960,521 kilo grammes, or 3,864 tons.—Pall Mall Gazette. Mr. E. G. Squier, late Commissioner of the United States to Peru, has brought some curious infor mation from that country. He asserts that from a va riety of causes the white population of Peru is diminish ing relatively, if not absolutely, and that there is good reason for believing that the day is not far distant when the Indians of the interior will assert their independence, and make an effort to restore in some form the empire of the Incas, the memories of which are cherished among them, under some one of the descendants of those sove reigns. Such a result, Mr. Squier thinks, would not be a misfortune for Peru or the world. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. Amsterdam Short ... 11 18 ~. 11 18i Ditto Rotterdam...* ..... 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THORFE-JONES-On the 12th inst., at St. Peter's lip," 1111 e 1 Pimlico, Thomas Thorpe, Esq., of Rye-common, 0) 0 1 daughtt r of the late John Jones, Esq., of HacknoP Deaths. ALLANBY -On the 11th inst., at Dearham Ilouset r data port, Cumberland, Joseph S. Allanby, Esq. , 111- " of Melbourne House, Hampstead, aged 68. neo. c f ee MAUD -On the ,, 11th inst., at Hasketon Rectory,-„ o Maud, Esq., youngest son of the late T. Maud, Burley Hall, in the county of York. • PICKIVORTII - On the 12th inst., at Sidcup, Sen t / J .-- Pickworth, aged 83. of 141 Ems" RATTON -On the 11th inst., Joseph RatIOD, xasci” Highbury-park, aged 62. h oo d ' SMITH-On the 12th inst., at 9, The Green, Ric" Surrey, Robert Smith, Esq., solicitor, aged 70. s r ,q. Sicu-On the 12th inst., at Chiswick, Henry 6°l' aged 82. 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