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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC jOURNAI3. ThQle3 observes that the Adrainlstration now enter ieg upon its career is a nerfectiy new Government —new not only in the sensef a that it came into being as into as last Week',-but new also because there has never been anything like.it. This assertion may seem strange, and, tried by some obvious arithmetical tests, may be condemned as erroneous. It is, for instance, perfectly true that out of the fifteen members of the new Cabinet nine were in the last Liberal Ministry, and it may be stoutly contended that an Administration three-fifths of whose memers have been already Cabinet Ministers cannot be accounted new. The fact, however, is,' th a t the character of an Administration does not depend upon the majority of the persons in it. Two or three men determine—sometimes one man determines'—(the complexion of a Ministry ; the rest take their colour from their chief or chiefs. Mr. Gladstone's Ministry is new because it is the first of which he has had the command. It is new because Mr. Lowe holds in it an office only second to the highest. It is new because Mr. Bright has now, for the first time, been induced to assume official duties and the responsibilities of Council. The Times thinks the old watchwords—Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform — will be carried out. Our contemporary comments upon the difficulty of the distribution of the endowments of the Irish Church. It is possible that three, including the Lord Chancellor, would have produced some sort of plan, and it would be a matter of cusiosity to compare the ideas of the three. The sketches of the rest would doubtless shew more or less proficiency of design, and, it can scarcely be doubted, the widest variety of conception. But the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church form a policy which the Ministry is bound to carry through, and we have no doubt, difficult as we know it must be in execution, they will carry it through. The extreme intricacy and extent of the labour it involves justity us, however, in being content to answer the ques tion as to the achievements of the Ministry in the way of Reform by saying they will abolish the Irish Esta blishment. When that is done they will be ready to do much more, but until that is done their exploits in other fields must be few. The Daily News says The promptitude with which Mr. Gladstone has discharged the task committed to him by her Majesty is proof of his own energy and of the cordial union subsisting between the leading members and various sections of the party. From beginning to end, though there may have been now and then hesitation and demur, there has been no hitch or misunder standing. Claims to high office which might without impropriety have been pressed, have been generously waived in order to secure to the Government the greatest possible amount of administrative and parliamentary strength. The general sentiment is, perhaps not without ground, that Mr. Gladstone might, without disparage ment to any just influence of rank or service, have brought together a Cabinet representing more completely the Liberal party as a whole than that which he has formed. His Administration would have been stronger for an ampler recognition of that popular feeling which, rather than the nomination of the old Whig chiefs, has given him the victory. The people have chosen him, the Whig aristocracy have accepted him ; and the prizes have been awarded rather to those who have known how to yield than to those who have known how .to conquer. 'She appointments to places lying outside the Cabinet have been made with judgment. The chief toblection to some of them is that their occupants might with propriety and advantage have been admitted into the inner chamber. That the Conservatives clung to office in order to work the diggings, or that they employed their patronage to further the interests of the party, is, according to the Herald, untrue. A contemporary threatens that the ques tion of the distribution of patronage by Mr. Disraeli will be raised when Parliament meets. The Herald does not think so. . The Liberal leaders will never allow a subject so damaging to themselves to be raised, Mr. Disraeli used his patronage for the good of the public service, and not to keep his party alive or to help his personal friends. This is not merely our statement. A remarkable testimony to Mr. Disraeli's merits in this respect has been given in a Liberal news paper, whose authority the Times will not contest. The Economist of Saturday says : "On the whole, we must recognise in his (Mr. Disraeli's) use of patronage a very dispassionate and in some sense elevated judgment." And again : "In his choice of officials, Mr. Disraeli's Administration was in some sense even a distinguished success." The Economist speaks the opinion of every candid man, to whatever party he may belong, in this recognition of the judgment and fairness with which Mr. Disraeli distributed the patronage that fell to him ; and the new Government will certainly take ,care not to challenge a comparison between the appoint rnents made by Mr. Disraeli, out of regard to the in. terests of the public service, and the appointments they have already made, and will continue to make, to promote their private and political ends, upon the principle now proclaimed by the Times, of keeping up their party at the cost of the public. The Post thinks Mr. Gladstone is to he congratnlatea on having secured the services of Lord Spencer. Personally affable, a keen sportsman—no mean qualification in the eyes of our Hibernian friends—and possessed of an ample private fortune, he can hardly fail to make a favourable impression upon a high. spirited and impulsive nation. In one respect Lord Spencer will be at a disad vantage in starting. He succeeds a nobleman who has admittedly filled the Viceroyalty of Ireland in a brilliant and effective manner. The Duke of Abercorn fully earned the popularity which intimate knowledge of the country, princely magnificence, and genuine courtesy might be expected to attain ; and perhaps since the time of the late Lord Eglinton no more admired and popular Lord-Lieutenant has ruled over Ireland. Following such a successful Viceroy, Lord Spencer will be compared with a high standard, which he may equal, but will find it difficult to surpass. A Lord- J‘ientenant of Ireland ought to have peculiar facili ties for ascertaining the true feeling of the people, the grievances— real, imaginary, or sentimental—of which they complain, and the feasibility of the various schemes pro posed for their benefit. If Lord Spencer prove equal to this, the present Ministry should be in a position to grapple as successfully as is possible with Irish questions ; for they have, besides, no less than two ex-Lord-Lieutenants in the persons of Lord Kimberley and Lord Clarendon, who are statesmen of the first rank. But, what is still more, Lord Spencer's appointment is one which, if regarded from a high national point of view, will recommend itself to all . parties. The Standard, in noticing the controversy upon the character of the Church, remarks that it is quite clear that, in the great majority of minds, the most complete ignorance and confusion respecting the whole matter pre. vails ; that there is a total uncertainty regarding the legal position and corporate character of the Church, and an inability to determine whether she has any, and, if so, what existence apart from her status as an Establish ment, which permits those who are united in a common policy to defend it upon the most dis cordant and mutually destructive grounds ; and that this uncertainty is likely to lead to blunders and in. consistencies in the forthcoming scheme of disestablish ment, unparalleled even in the long list of errors and absurdities which constitutes the history of Liberal legis lation during the last forty years. Is the Church, as Mr. Bonamy Price asserted in a letter published a day or two ago, a mere department of the State, which has no exist ence apart from the State, and which would be absolutely dissolved by disestablishment? Such certainly is not our opinion. The Crown is the head of the Church as well of the State. But this no more necessarily makes the Archbishop of Canterbury a servant of the State than it makes the President of the Board of Trade a • servant of the Church. It is true that Parliament has; Step by step, sometimes by its direct action, sometimes by the influence it has exercised over the Crown, gradually deprived the Church of all powers of self-government, of independent legislation, and of practical jurisdiction. But it does not follow that Parliament has deprived the Church of its corporate existence. It is true that Parlia ment has the power to deprive the Church of her endow ments, but larliament has equally the power to con fiscate the endowments of Roman Catholic institutions or Dissenting colleges. It has the same power tc do both ; it has no sort of right to do either. In brief, the Church is not a State department ; it has a life, a reality, a body wholly independent of the State' but the State has paralysed it, has severed its nerves of motion and sensation, and d e pri ve d it of all powers' of separate and independent life, undertaking to perform all necessary functions for it. And therefore, while Mr. Gladstone's view of the de jure character of the Church, and (we presume) of the consequent status of her clergy, is the true one, Mr. Prize and the Pall lllall Gazette are much more nearly right as to the practical consequences of disestablishment. If Alt-. Gladstone dis establishes the Church he will have to recorganise it; and it is simply astonishing that he should not yet have realised a fact which any lawyer could have told him. The Telegraph has a leader upon the wonders of legis lative changes. To back the triple event of household suffrage as the electoral law, Mr. Bright as a d on th conspe wool icuous Cabinet Minister, and Sir William Page Woo sack, all to come off in the same year, would have been an offer against which the sporting squires would have laid their estates to sixpence, and thown their brains in for a bonus. Yet the threefold event has occurred, and ninny a vaticination equally audacious now—equally certain of acco mplishment in principle, if not so curiously exact a s to phraseology and detail—might be named to-day. As a rule only the un wise prophesy; but n.ay !oast, in all honest exulta tioni at the recent triumph t f Liberal progress, hazard a havole33 joke, and sly that another seventeen years will probably make Churchmen ardent advocates of disestabli,liment, 'Tories fervent supporters of female .v.iffrage, squires intense opponents of game laws, the " stupid party frantic advocates of education • by • local rates, Mr. Darby Grath amusing and instructive, and Mr. 'Whalley tolerant anti witty. In a dozen points, the futile and innocent " Party of Hindrance" is now banking back the rivulets of change— chuckling over a strearulet stopped here, or a mountain torrent diverted there. In our English p JUtics there are no such things as impassable barriers ; there is no " finality," no declaration of " Thus far and no farther." The point of arrival from antiquated measures is always the point of departure for new reforms. Nor can tire process be resisted. The " silent forces of the time" strike down the obstructives, and build the banks of the channel of Chao 4 ,2 914 pfoe_pypy 0,4 Altd_2(s Tory . Dati pad IarCZTERIM VN IHE MIMES EMBANK - -.,_ WENT., A." efirfotlltaddent happened about . tweiVe - o•clocz Friday night at the portion of the works of the Thames Embankment between the Temple-gardens and Black friars-loridge. Huge pileatad been driven into the bed of the river, for the purpose of excavating the foundations. One hundred men were at work within the wooden wall. In order to *complete the work within the given time it was necessary to employ two sets of labourers, and the night men were just resuming when the accident hap pened. The first alarm was given by a man whose barge was lying moored off the Whitefriars-wharf. He was very much alarmed by the troubled state of the water. A very strong wind had brought up an immense tide, such as to shake the stout piles and bend them like reeds. He at once gave an alarm. The other men were at work. Hearing the piles cracking, and knowing the great height of the tide, they rushed to the sluices in the hope that by letting in the water that way they might lessen the danger that threatened the works. Unfortunately, they were not able to effect their purpose. Those who remained in the trench hastily scrambled out, and at the same moment the water broke through the piles, which snapped with a loud report. In an instant the whole trench was filled throughout its entire length, awl a good deal of damage was done to the works. The large timber piles floated about the river, and caused consider able alarm amongst the boatmen. All the floating stag ings were destroyed, and also a wooden bridge used for the purpose of filling the large barges of the scavengering contractors. One of the engines used in the driving of the piles was thrown down and sank. As soon as the accident occurred, a rumour was spread that all the workmen were in the river ; but beyond a good wetting, in a few instances, it is believed that no man has received any injury. THE BOILER EXPLOSION ON THE TYNE. ♦--- The Northern Daily Express gives us details of the explosion on the Tyne, which we have already announced. As we have stated, it has caused the death of three men, besides severely injuring other three. The steam wherry Eleanor, belonging to Mr. W. Cochrane Carr, fire-brick manufacturer, South Benwell, Newcastle, was discharging bricks at the Friars' Goose Works, about a quarter-past three o'clock, and as the boat was leaving, having discharged a cargo of fire bricks, and when about two or three yards from the quay, the boiler expload. At the time, a number of workmen and others were on the quay, and when the explosion took place it was feared that some of these men had been struck with the shattered fragments of the boiler and killed. It was found, however, that with the exception of three men, all of those on the quay had escaped. Immediately on the steam clearing away, a portion of the wherry was seen still afloat, but none of the crew were left on board. A search was then made for the bodies, and one of them was found on the top of a house on the quay. Portions of the bodies of other two men were found on different parts of the quay, in a frightfully mutilated state. On the three shattered bodies being placed together, they were found to be the three men who formed the crew of the wherry, and the men injured, it was found, were workmen employed at the Friars' Goose Chemical Wo-fks. THE GALE. At Portsmouth another terrific gale from the soutn blew on Friday. The tide was higher, and the sea in the harbour and channel one of the heaviest noticed for many years. The passage between the shores of Ports mouth and Gosport were considered dangerous, and the signal flag prohibiting boat communication with the shore was hoisted on hoard the Victory at an early hour. The sea broke in great violence over the shore buildings at Portsmouth, and all along the esplanade at Southsea heavy waves rolled in and broke over the beautiful walk in one continued roar. The traffic at Southsea, and Victoria piers was stopped, and the passage steamboats had to touch at Portsea. No casualties, however, had been reported up to sunset. At Great Yarmouth, on Friday, seven men were landed from the brig Esther, of Jersey, which was lost on the Newcome Sand on Thursday night ; the crew were picked up by a French schooner. The General Steam Navigation Company's paddle•steamer, City of Hamburg - , which left the Thames on Wednesday afternoon, struck on the dangerous "north" sand, near G reat Yarmouth Pier, on Thursday. The steamer being close to the north side of the pier, the passengers and crew escaped by passing'on to the pier; the master, Capt. Bishop, declined to leave the steamer, which was warped off on Fri day morning,and brought into the harbour, having sustained some damage and shipped a good deal of water. The extra ordinarily low state of the tide seems to have been the cause of the accident. It is feared the schooner William, of Great Yarmouth, Captain Rushmer, which left Great Yarmouth for the North some three weeks back, and has not since been heard of, is lost with all hands. A fishing bigger ran into the brigantine lon, of Shields, on Thurs day afternoon. She lay at anchor in Great Yarmouth Roads. The crew of the lugger got on board the lon ; the latter, however, unfortunately parted from her anchors and drove ashore. Both crews were rescued by the Yar mouth sitrf lifeboat. At Plymouth, too, the gale has been very boisterous. Very few additional particulars are to band of the loss of the ship Gossamer, which went ashore on Thursday. The following is the telegram respecting the wreck which appears in the London papers :—" The ship Gossamer, of Liverpool, yesterday, at 2 p.m., missed stays near shore, let go two anchors, parted both cables in twenty minutes, and drove on rocks near Prawle Point. Was total wreck by 4.30. Captain and wife, two passengers, a nine crew drowned. Two mates, two passengers, thirteen crew saved. General cargo washing ashore ; coastguards in charge. Names of persons saved : Chief mate, Peter Merrifield ;second mate, William Qualtrock. Passengers: Mr. Date, Dr. Dale, James Bone, C. Tallace Montron, C. Tanscont, F. E. Welby, H. E. Carling, F. H. Dimlock, L. W. Patterson, Homar Gall, C. Smith, J Jameiston, and Mr. Grant. LAW AND POLICE. STREET ACCIDENT.—A case has been nem in the Court of Queen's Bench in which the plaintiff sued the defendant for damages for personal injuries. These were caused by the fall of a bale of paper which was being lifted to an upper floor of a warehouse. The fall caused the death of one man and injured the plaintiff so much that he had not been able to attend to his business since the accident, and ho had incurred expenses out of pocket to the extent of £2OO. His medical men were of opinion that his spine was injured, and that it would take twelve months longer before he would recover. The defence was that the plaintiff had contributed to the injury, and that he had exaggerated his sufferings. There was no spinal injury. Ultimately the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, £560. POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—Two cases of letter-stealing have been tried at Taunton, and have resulted in convic tions. BAD MEAT.—Notwithstanding the known vigilance of the City officers, the offence of sending diseased meat to the London markets appears to be on the increase, and that, too, in the face of very severe punishments, both by fine and imprisonment, inflicted upon offenders when convicted. A remarkable case of this kind has come before Mr. Alderman Causton. A wealthy Wiltshire farmer, the owner of 3,000 acres, was charged with send ing the carcases of ten sheep to Newgate market, which were proved to be in a putrid state, and totally unfit for human food. He pleaded guilty, and the magistrate said that, considering the great age of defendant, he would not send him to prison, but inflicted the full penalty of £2ofor each carcase, and £lO 10s, for expenses. The amount, 4. ..210, was at once paid. A FORTUNATE ACCIDENT. Mr. and Howard Paul had a very narrow escape of losing the valu able jewels they use in their entertainment a night or two back. They had played at the Music Hall, Worcester, in the evening, and early the next morning it was found the ball had been broken into ; but the thieves took little by their pains, as the jewels, fortunately, had all been sent to Mr. Howard Paul's hotel, through the accident of the lock on a trunk being broken. Costumes and wigs were not to the taste of burglars, for they remained unharmed. THE COVENTRY ELECTION PETITION.-011 Saturday night an enthusiastic meeting of the friends and supporters of Messrs Eaton and Hill, who were returned at the last election as members for the city, but against whose return a petition has been lodged by the Liberal party, took place at the Corn Exchange. Between 0,000 and 6,000 persons were present. The greatest excitement prevailed, and the reporters connected with the local Liberal press were forcibly expelled from the room before the commencement of the proceedings. The two members, Messrs. Eaton and Hill, addressed the meeting at considerable length, and the following resolution was carried unanimously That in the opinion of a public meeting of the inhabitants of the city of Coventry the charges which have been preferred in the petition which is being presented against the return of Messrs. Eaton and Hill are false and gross calumnies upon our respected members, and that this meeting believes that the last election was the purest and most peaceable election that has ever taken place in Coventry, and that the petitioners, by the unjustifiable course that they have taken, have prolonged political strife in a manner injurious to the best interests of this city, and ought be deprecated RylrloYalvi§lkvior ita pniAttaY4 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, IE6B. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfield Republican of Nov. 28.) The money market at Now York is improved in tone and condition, but from various causes business is light and without excitement. Money is plentiful at from 6to 7 per cent. on call, and without commission, and at Boston the rates are a little higher. The uncertainty and want of confidence in the stock market., the Thanksgiving holi days, and the near approach of Congress, have all produced a quiet and general inaction among the money lenders, which has not occurred for some weeks. Sufficient de mands are, however, still made for moving the crops from the West and the cotton from the South, in order, we pre sume, to keep the rates of loans up to a ste ad y and rather rigid price, and there is no probability money will become a drug in the market at least until the Christmas holidays and the quarterly bank statements for January 1 are over. There are no further rumours of a lock-up in currency, and the unscrupulous speculators who have been at that busi ness are likely to have something more important, if not quite as pleasant, to occupy their time for the next few weeks. Secretary M'Culloch has informed Treasurer Van Dycke at New York that he shall sell no more bonds dur ing Lis administration, and it is to b 3 hoped that he will stick to his resolution, and to his principles, which are better than his actions. At the West matters are not much improved, and at Chicago and Cincinnati the money market is still stringent, 12 to 18 per cent. being the ruling rates. Several failures of large houses havq • been reported in Cincinnati, but the stories do not appear to have beer. well-founded, although a number of small concerns are known to have collapsed. The business in Government Securities has improved in consequence of the troubled condition of the Stock Market, and capitalists turn to the public funds as the safest and most satisfactory investments of their money. The trans actions during the week have been large, and prices of all issues have held up firmly, with a slight advance all along the line. A "corner" on the Five-twenties of 1862 is sus pected in Wall-street, but the experiment has been too well concealed, thus far, to cause any general attention or ex citement. Large orders for Government Bonds are daily being received at New York from Havana capitalists, who aro fearful for the safety of their gold, while the rebellion at the eastern end of the island is prospering so well, and are taking this prompt and sensible way their treasures out of harm's way. The German bankers are also investing largely in our Five-twenties. The financial action of Con gress already begins to attract much attention, and will continue to create wider and general discussion. The schemes for tinkering our finances multiply rapidly, and there will be no lack of earnest advocates of every known remedy for all our difficulties of revenue, expense, debt, and tariff. The contractionists will have advantages ou their side, at the assembling of the session, which they did not enjoy at the meeting of the last Congress, and General Grant's known conservative opinions on financial matters must give them greater unity and strength in the contest. The election of Grant was a national verdict f_r retrench ment, economy, contraction, and the most sure and direct return to specie payments, and the leaders of the party will do well to organise and make practical and tangible the results of the victory. The December debt statement will probably show a slight increase, the receipts being about the same as last month, while $23,000,000 in coin interest has been disbursed. The grain markets of Chicago and the West have been more active this week in consequence of the near approach of winter, and the impending danger that many dealers would be caught with large stocks on their hands. The ease of money at New York has also lubricated business, and during the week the aggregate stock of wheat in storo diminished 600,000 bushels. One million bushels are still on hand, or nearly twice as much as last year at this time, and the most active efforts will be made to move it East before the closing of navigation. Boats on the New York canals will stop running December 7, and the navigation of the lakes will not keep open at the latest much longer. Cotton is more active, both in the home and the foreign markets, and prices are advancing, while the supply on hand is growing less and the receipts aro falling off. (From the Wall-street Journal) NEW Yoiuc, Friday Evening, Nov. 27. A correspondent requests us to state the difference made in favour of new Virginia State Bonds, as compared with the old, at the Stock Exchange. The actual differ ence in the cost of the Bonds is really the other way. Most of the new bonds are dated a year after the rule of the Exchange as to the number of over- due coupons they should bear, and the sellers have to abate six per cent. in cash to make them a regular delivery. Thusthenew bonds, quoted at 561, if lacking - the coupons of 1860, cost the buyer only 501 per cent Foreign Exchange is dull, but strong. In Border State Bonds there is little change, and the business is generally small. Mining Stocks continue quiet, with little doing, except in Consolidated Gregory, Grass Valley, Montania, and Smith and Parmelee. Petroleum Stocks, in consequence of the rise in oil, are in increased demand. Bennehoff Run is active at 60 cents bid, but no stock is offered. National at $3.40, Rynd Farm at 18 cents, Union at $8.50, Northern Light at 30 cents, and Buchanan Farm at 42 cents. Express Stocks are quoted as follows :- Adams ••• ... 49 to 491 American ... ..• ••• ••• ... 441 to 43 Merchants' Union 194 to 191 United States ... ••• 47 to 48 Wells, Fargo, and Co. ... ... 26+ to 27 NEW YORK RATES OF EXCHANGE, Sixty Days. Thi-ee Days. London Bankers Loud. n, Prime Commercial lOB-1091 Paris, Bankers - 5.161 5.161-5.13; l3remen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 351-361 Frankfort, O.M 4O -41 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.20-5.16f Amsterdam, Bankers Swiss The following are the quotations for coin : Amer. silver... 96 to 97 I Eng. sovs 486 to 490 Mex. d011ar5...104 „ 1041 20 francs 381 „ 3881 Eng. silver 480 , 485 Thalors Five francs 96 „ 97 CLOSING PRICES. PUBLIC FUNDS OF THE UNITED STATES. Sixes, 1868, registered — to Sixes, 1868, coupon ... — to Sixes, 1881, coupon ll5l to 1151 U.S. 6s. Pacific Rail' oad — to Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon Ten-forties, coupon lO6l to 1061 U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 lll to 1111 RAILROAD AND MISCELLANEOUS STOCKS. N. Y. Central 1271 Fort Wayne Erie Hudson Reading Mich. South. &N. 901 W. U. Telegraph Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg BBl Ohio and Mississippi... 311 North-West North-West Preferred 87 3 , Cumberland Canton.. Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo 991 IM & St. Paul Preferred 88 a RAILROAD MORTGAGES. Chi. & N. W. Ist M 9O Tol. & Wab. Ist M Ex Gt. Western 2d M '93 77 Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist 31 — Gal. & Chic. Ext 100 Gal. & Chic. 2d M 95 Chi. & R. I. Ist M Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 941 Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund — N. J. Central Ist M — N. J. Central 2d M 100 Pitts. Ft.W., & Ch. Ist M 102 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch.2dM. 99 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M. 92 Cleve. & Pitts. 2d M 771 Chic. & Alton, S. F. Inc. Chic. & Alton, S.F.lstM.lo2l Mil. & St. Psul Ist M 9l Mil. & St. Paul 2d M — Marietta & Gin. Ist M — Morris & Essex Ist M 95 Morris & Essex 2d 51 9l Joilet & Chic. Ist M... Chi. & GLEa.st'nlstM... 742 N. Y. & N. H. 6s 9l CLOSING QUOTATIONS FO N.Y. Central 6s, 1883 88 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887 N. Y. Central 6s, It Est 85 N. Y. Central Gs, Sub'n 85 N- Y. Central 7s, 1876 120 N. Y. Cen. 7s, con. 76 N. Y. Cen. 7s, '65-76 Erie Ist Mort, Ex.. — Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 93 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 Erie 7s, sth Mort, 1888 85 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E. Ist M,'77 9l; Hud. It. 7s, Ist M, '69 101 i Hod. It. 7s, 3d M, '75 — Harlem let M, '6B '72 991 Mich. C. Ist M, 'B2 113 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 114 Mich. So., 7 p. c. 2d M 9O N. Ind. oshen Line '6B 7p.c. 111. Cen. 7 p. c, '7O 114} Alton & T. H. let M Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 81 Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 80 Han.& St.J . Land Warts.lo9 Ilan. & St. J. Con Chi. B. &Q., Ist M — Chi. & N. West, S. F 95 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony. 93 Chi. & N.W. Ex'n 8.... Dubuque StS.Oity,lst M. Peninsula Ist M Ohio & Miss. Ist 11 — Ohio & Miss. Con Tol. P. W. Ist M. E. D — Atlantic & G. W. Ist M — Auction sales of Stocks ani by Muller, Williams, and Co. Bonds, New York, Nov. 21. _ . Per Cent. $3,800 Now York City 6 per Cent. Water Loan 991 2,200 New York Central Park 6 per Cent 991 19,760 New York Central Park 6 per Cent 99 10,000 State of Ohio 6 per Cent. , lO2l 8,000 State of Ohio 6 per Cent. 10,000 City of Memphis 10 per Ct. Coupon Bonds 51 10,000 City of Memphis 10 per Ct. Coupon Bonds 53} 10,000 Wilmington and Manchester RR. 2 d mt l5 5,000 Manhattan Gas Light, 7 per Cent. 20 shares New York and New Navon RR. 100 shares New York and New Haven RR. 50 shares Bank of Commerce, N.Y 100 shares Ohio Life Insurance and Trust 90 shares Merchants' Nat. Bank of Memphis 26 25 shares Now York Life Ins. and Trust 9 shares National Bank of Commerce 123 (Prom Messrs. Satterthwaitc's Circular.) London, D..c. 9. In the London market for American Securities, United States 5-20 Bonds remai❑ steady at the quotations of our last; the transactions have been on a comparatively limited scale, and the fluctuations during the week unimportant. Little business is recorded iu Illinois Central Shares, but they close firm at 9Gi to Erie, after receding to 211-, leave off 261 to 271. There has been a rise to-day from yesterday of three per cent. in A tlantie and Great Western Consolidated bonds and Debentures; the former close 40 to 41, and the latter 39 to 40. Central Pacific Bonds, on increased demand, are last quoted 70i to 71k. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports. tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, BlaufOrt-httildings, Strand, London W.G.—EA.cI3 yortiumtut.l FOREIGN NOTES.- GERMANY. The commission appointed to consider the confiscation of the property of the ex-Elector of Hesse, has held a sit ting, at which Count Bismarck made an important speech. He said that the Elector had taken no notice of the warnings that had been given him to discontinue his intrigues, because he counted upon the speedy outbreak of war. Nor were his anticipations without founda tion. The danger of a European conflict during the preceding summer had been averted only by an accidental and unlooked-for circumstance. Hes sians, Hanoverians, Danes, and Republicans were continually intriguing against the integrity of Prussia and the maintenance of peace. Count Bismarck inciden tally mentioned that be knew nothing of the famous despatch sent by Count Usedom to the Italian Govern ment in 1866 until it was published in the newspapers during the present year. He did not, however, state what was the unexpected circumstance which had saved Europe from war. and sit fix the splendid court yard of the hotel. I.".hey walk around the corner into the Rue Scribe, to di •op in at the different bankers, see if there are let ters for them ; glance at the American journals oa file in the reading-rooms, and then back they go to the Grand Hotel. They do not seek to become acquainted with the people or the place—l mean the Parisians and Paris—and after a few weeks or nulnths spent thus, vote the capital a bore ; include the e ntire nation in one sweeping and most uncomplimeu tary decision ; and go away with about as much idea. of Paris as they have of Timbuctoo. There are, it is true, Americans who take a more serious and iele:tsant view of a visit to the place— they study the: :language, associate with the people, visit the many a ttractions which Paris contains, and to these it b. !c owes indeed a charming residence. Those with f tstnilies arc very likely to settle in Paris, because, of the ease with which Americans obtain the en tree into society here. To be invited to Court or T ilinisterial balls and fetes they need no former Ares , intations, no recognised position at home as do Europeans visiting Paris. Ame ricans come. here as Republicans—the sovereign people ; awl if in too many cases they derogate from this position by mesquin and quite unneces sary amb',tion, tent pis for them, they in no wise bettering their condition thereby. That the season is nearly at hand in Paris may be judged from the show - w indows of the leading establishments, wherein the fashions take their rise. These show windows seem irresistibly attractive to the passers by. The dresses displayed are so elegant, the com binations of silks, satins, and laces so tasteful, so exquisite, that even the most indifferent can but pause to admire the effect produced by the etalage. At " L'Hermite," 19, Rue Boissy D'Anglas, this may be particularly noticed. Paris possesses a rival to even the most celebrated beautifier of the fair sex. M. Legrand, the person in question, has invented a creme Oriza,.which he styles " de Ninon Lenclos," and which, duly examined by physicians, is pronounced free of all deleterious mixtures. It is recommended to the ladies. A rather singu lar decision rendered here a short time since by the French Courts is puzzling Americans some- I what. A very beautiful and well-known Ame rican lady was pleading here for separation from her husband, a member of a leading New York family. The court has decided that a divorce be pronounced, that the husband be made to pay an annual revenue of 72 thousand francs to the former wife, and that she have the control of the children. By what power a French court thus decides is a mystery to many here, and how it may enforce in America the payment of the annuity seems still more uncertain and strange. The mar riage took place in the United States, both the parties are Americans. How can a French court take action in this case is the somewhat universal inquiry. In a week or so the fetes at Compiegne are to cease, and the Imperial party return to Paris. The palace of the Tuileries is being now prepared for the winter residence of their Majesties, and of course the moment they shall have been installed the season will commence. I understand that a number of American families here will give some splendid entertainments this season. Being the recipients of much courtesy and attention from the higher circles they will thus make a return there for. I should have noticed, while speaking of the unnecessary display made here by some over-am bitious Americans, that, in great contrast to this, is the excellent taste evinced by others resid ing here ; such as Mr. Lorillard Spencer, of New York, whose equipages are universally admired. He drives splendid horses and his carriages are neat, but in the best style. His four-in-band would attract attention and entire ap proval in Hyde Park. The same may be said of the fine turn-out of M. Elisha Riggs, a townsman of Mr. Spencer. Mr. Lewis Cass also drives some fine horses here, while a number of American gentle men attract attention at the Bois with their light waggons and fast trotters. Mr. S. P. Dewey, of San Francisco, has one of the neatest and best ap pointed equipages in the place. Its elegant sim plicity, being in contrast with those more showy attelages referred to above. It is understood here that on the night the Emperor reaches Paris the Place du Caroussel will be most gorgeously illumi nated by a new process—a strongly brilliant gas, which is to be so brilliant and so cheap as to'super cede coal gas. I hear wonders of this new inven tion, in which a number of leading Americans are concerned, and shall doubtless have the opportunity of furnishing some more definite information con cerning it, as I am to assist at the illuminations to take place next week. I believe that some of the theatres here are to be lighted with this portable gas. In addition to a company here, the parties interested in this discovery have also formed a company in New York. At the Grand Opera we are soon to have Mlle. Nilsson as Marguerite in " Faust." The manage ment are making great preparations to produce the opera with unparalleled splendour. It was expected at first that the Opera Comique tenor, Capoul, would sing with Mlle. Nilsson as Faust, but since then Collin, a late addition to the troupe of the Grand Opera, has revealed so much talent that he will sing with the favourite artiste. This will be all the more acceptable to the public, as Offenbach needs Capoul for his new work " Vert-Vert," which is now in rehearsal. At the Italiens, la Patti will give one or two more representations, and then she will go to Brussels, where she is to sing two or three nights. Thence she will disappear amid the snow and ice of Muscovy. It is said that the Czar is so pleased to have the Diva•in his capital, he has per sonally revised the list of subscribers for seats at the opera, and that at no single representation are there any places left. Of course the tour will be one of triumph for Patti, who will return to us all the more popular and attractive. In the mean while Miss Hauck will endeavour to assume a pro minent position at the Italiens here, and I may add that there can be little doubt she will succeed. Graede Duchesse Schneider leaves the Varietes this month, and will make her debut in Janu ary at the Bouffes, in a new Offenbachism, "La Diva." Messrs. Meilhue and Halery are the coadjutors of the Muestrino in this fresh attempt. At the Gaiete, M. Victor Sejour's new drama, "La Madonue des Roses," is having an immense success, owing to the wonderfully well-executed last scene in the play. It represents the burning of a palace, and anything more real to nature it were impossible to see on the stage. The flames leap and encircle the walls and beams, the latter fall to the ground all ablaze, the smoke and sparks rising in clouds. In short, so very natural is the scene, the audience on the first night were fright ened, and the next morning the authorities sent the officers of the Fire Department to assist at a day rehearsal of the fire scene ere they would permit the second performance of the play to take place. The result was satisfactory. The inspectors concluded there was no danger, and now all Paris must witness the incendie. Each night the scenic painters and the machinists are called out to receive their share of the public ap plause. As for the drama, no description of the plot is needed, it being filled with the usual inci dents, terminating iu the same way—the triumph of virtue and the downfall of the heavy villain. " Straws show which way the wind blows." At the Folies Mariguy, a little box of a thea tre on the Champs Elysees, the first repre sentation of a " Revue de I'Annee," took place last evening. All Paris was present, and the per formance passed off amid much laughter. Two in cidents were significant. In oue an actor, made up to resemble Henri Rochefort of Lauterne notoriety, produces what he calls a " spoken journal" for his ' subscribers. While his editors are commenting upon the events of the day, he watches,:and the moment a policeman appears the whole party cease abruptly all discussion, and dance a child's round. The hit told, the audience cheering in the most uproarious manner. 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SIrEriMAN not only commands the military department embracing the country west of the Mississippi River extending from the northernmost boundary of Dacotah to the south of New Mexico, but he is President of the Peace Commission, to the counsels and determina tions of which he was directed to subordinate all military measures. Two great routes run west from the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains— the one through Kansas, the other through Nebraska. Over both roads, broadly speaking, railways have been constructed, for we are far from asserting they follow the identical paths ; but between them is the finest buffalo country in America, the Southern or Smoky Hill route, penetrating right through it. The Commission held to the necessity of removing the Indians from this locality if peace was to be preserved, or indeed if the Red men were to be saved from extermination. Accordingly treaties were concluded with the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, Comanches, Navajoes, and Crows, the vital part being two reservations for these tribes, the one north of the State of Nebraska and west of the Missouri River, and the other south of the State of Kansas and west of Arkansas. To get the tribes from the country of the railways running up to the Rocky Mountains was, as might be expected, the great object of the Commission, the General recog nizing that justice dictated compensation for depriv ing the savages of lands whose wild game had hitherto fed, clothed, and sheltered them, as well as the necessity, if possible, of procuring their eon sent to the transfer. During the period of discus sion, the tribes urged on the Commissioners the advisablity of withdrawing the military posts on the Powder River road, which had been built in violation of an old treaty guaranteeing that country to them for ever, as the construction of the Union Pacific Railway had rendered this road compa ratively valueless, the Commissioners made the concession, and by order of General GRANT, Forts Reno, Philip Kearney, and C. F. Smith being dis mantled, their stores were withdrawn. Congress adjourned without taking action on the treaty which guaranteed the reserves to the Indians, who, construing the withdrawal from the Powder River route as a sign of fear, became excited, being stimulated by emissaries who from Fort Larned to the line of the Pacific Road agitated for the abandon ment as well of the Smoky Hill route, the essential point, as the surrender of that country was tanta mount to the interruption of the Union Pacific Railway. It is dangerous to concede to savages— a fact never appreciated by the philanthropists of Exeter-hall and Boston, who mean well, but with great good often do much harm. We in possession of the broad facts, who know Uncle SAM'S power, his desire to be just and generous, the necessity of holding free from interruption the country in dispute, may find some difficulty in believing the ignorance on those points of the Cheyennes and other hostile tribes. 'I hey .see a few strag gling settlements invading their country, they see teams and waggons here and there passing over their plains, and they are often engaged in raids on the settlers or in defending themselves from scout ing parties. Their notion of the white man's strength is derived from this experience, and they neither know nor believe in the immense power away towards the rising sun, of which, it is true, they may have heard dim rumours, which they receive as fairy tales. The tribes count their white scalps and laugh derisively, while here in England people are lost in amazement that there should be men who have lived all their lives in the United States of America who know no more of a might whicn over shadows the world, than any African on the banks of Lake Nyanza knows of the military power of NAPOLEON. The reason is, that few Britishers who have been little beyond their island can form a con ception without an effort of imagination (which they will not make) of what the North American Conti nent is. It is easy to generalize, but it is not easy to create in the mind of another the features of a country differing altogether from that in which he had been born and bred. Ten thousand men might be located on a tract, build towns, cultivate land in the Territory for generations, without any one in the United States outside their community knowing of the fact. Where the villages are of these tribes only the best-informed scouts can learn; the Red men doubtless thought that looking for them was like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay. Impressed, then, with the idea that the earnest desire of the pale faces for peace was dic tated by fear, and that the withdrawal from the Powder River road would be followed, on more decided measures being taken, by the abandon ment also of the Smoky Hill route, they threw their treaties to the wind, and on the 3d or 4th August a party of 224 took the war-path nominally against the Pawnees, who, as we described some time ago, were trespassing on their hunting grounds, but in reality against the Kansas settlers. On the 10th of August they appeared on the Saline River north of Fort Harker, and, as usual, entered the houses, insolently demanding what the settlers could give in the way of food, with which they found fault. Professing to be offended that the coffee was offered in tin cups they threw it in the faces of the women—a sure sign to those well acquainted with them that they had come on an errand of murder and outrage. They burnt the houses, slaughtered the men, and conducted themselves with the greatest brutality, till troops arrived from. Fort Harker, who drove them away, although being mounted on fast ponies, and knowing the country well, they retreated with little loss from the scene of their devastations. The General declares it to be proved beyond dispute that up to that moment, so far from having given cause for offence, the Peace Commissioners and all their agents had treated them with the greatest kindness, as also had the soldiers and frontier people. The military dislike an Indian war, which involves terrible hardships, the danger of death by tor ture, without glory, distinction, promotion, or plunder, and they desired the success of the Com mission, which would end trouble by withdraw ing the savages. Complying with the terms of the treaty the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes had thus grossly violated, General SHERIDAN de manded, through Colonel WYNCOOP, agent of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, the surrender of the perpetrators of these outrages. In this he utterly failed ; indeed the Cheyennes commenced a general war along the Smoky Hill and Arkansas roads, at tacking every party unprepared for this sudden out break, and therefore unprovided fully with the means of defence. In August and September 79 persons were murdered. Denver was surrounded by hostile Indians, who occupied the country to within 12 miles of the city, and in one day killed nine whites. A train was attacked and captured at Pawnee Fork, and 16 men slain, scalped, and burned. Another was captured at Cimarron Crossing, the drivers escaping after a severe fight on some of the cattle, and similar attacks were reported almost daily. Un til winter set in the Indians had the best of it, as all will readily believe who know anything of military matters, fur they then offered no objective points, while the settlers had trains and teams to guard, farms and villages, flocks and herds. Th e warriors therefore at first had rather a fine time, and doubt less greatly enjoyed the licence of rapine and mur der, while they rested in the fancied security which their profound ignorance of their enemy gave. Winter drew on, and snow began to cover the plains; the reports weeks back announced it to be two or three feet deep, and before that white mantle, the Indians withdrew to their villages, where, whatever supplies the squaws had provided, were stored. It did not occur to them that this was the time for which SHERIDAN was preparing, as it enabled him exactly to turn the tables on them, for they then gave what civilized war demands, points of attack, when left them the alter native to fight for their supplies or starve. Hence the late actions reported, and the terrible punish ment which has overtaken the wretched Indians. The war will probably teach them how powerless they in truth are to stand in the way of a United States object, and doubtless their crippled tribes next summer will be grouped on the reserves al- lotted to them by Congress, where they will be fed, while learning how to cultivate the earth and to rear tame stock. Finding all war outside the re serve—not war bythem against the scattered settlers, but against their own villages, which wonderfully changes the aspect, whether they view it with horror or as a pastime—and all peace within, the tendency will, it is thought, be towards those reserves as the only means of escape from utter annihilation. General SHERIDAN fears that the Indians will even tually fall on the hands of the Government, a mere mass of helpless paupers. He states, that at its Chicago session the Peace Commission was forced to the conclusion that the management of Indian affairs should be transferred to the War Depart ment, as the only one enabled to use force promptly, and to act with sufficient vigour to give hopes that the plans and purposes of the Com mission will be carried out. The Indians and the settlers cannot occupy this country together, which differs from lowa and Missouri, being only fit for grazing, and not susceptible as they are of close settlement. Therefore the scattered whites will always offer tempting opportunities of attack to starving Indians, who, when hungry, will not be restrained by any consideration from stealing flocks and murdering if necessary. In such case Indian wars would never cease ; hence the neces sity of the removal of the tribes. General SHER MAN has fully proves his case, and we doubt not that the Government will act on his recommendations. —Anglo-American Times. RUSSIAN OPPOSITION TO UNCLE SAM• A book now exciting much interest maintains that the Union Pacific Railway will not prove the true route to Europe for the more valuable articles of Chinese commerce, asserting that they would go by rail direct through Central Asia. 'lbis opinion of one who has travelled to San Francisco, and afterwards made a tour through Asia, seems to have been arrived at also by the Emperor of RUSSIA, as he has sent two civil engineers to examine the ope rations of the Union Pacific and other great rail ways in the United States, in contemplation of lay ing down an iron road from China across Asia to Moscow. The EMPEROR evidently fears the trans fer East instead of West of this trade. Against the long sea route open to the world there was no use contending, but the case differs widely as agains t the United States, who desire to form an especial route, which will divert trade from Russian chan nels, and once established would act injuriously' 0 ° the future Russia hopes and expects. Americans have always supposed they could never come In contact with the colossus of the East, but they real find themselves in Japan and China face to fac e with the Moscovite, and here is the first sign of th e great opposition. It matters little to Wester n Europe who the carriers are, beyond the fact that, if limited to one line, the English would infinitely prefer the road to be in the hands of their kindred. The policy of an EMPEROR must be uncertain, for if i t does not change in himself it changes with himse lf, involving the double insecut ity of personal instabilitY of character, and instability of tenure ; whereas ° Democratic Republic may be relied on not to ru e counter to the interests of the mass, and therefore not to permit the interruption of the road for e°l purpose short of some great national object. Th security then is with the Republic as again st the ci EMPEROR, and on purely selfish grounds Eng l3ll should desire the firm establishment of the Jil l° e through the States. The point favourable to dg EMPEROR'S road is the non-shipment of g oou i : If the line reached a central point in China ol* and tea would be hurried to Europe without break; ing bulk, whereas by the other way they would fin i to be shipped at a China seaport, transferred to r a . i at San Francisco, and reshipped at New York. is the disadvantage, but the Asiatic road has Y e to be built ! and there is some curious country between Peking and Moscow. Before the first e°o is turned of the Moscovite line, the Americ a; channel will have worn off obstruction s to the smooth flow of the traffic, and every one knows bow persistently produce will follow the ae°l, theb tomed course unless diverted by overwhelming advantages. We do not think, therefore, that d EMPEROR will be able to pull up lee -way' the fact of the Union Pacific line being alreadithe operation will tell heavily against him in money market, when funds are asked for to carry out the scheme, so we doubt if it will assli el ; another form than that of a paper project during t 41 1.. existence of the present generation. The ter PEROR'S agents are to spend a couple of NO° months in New England, to learn how railvo', tracks are there kept clear of snow, and they 1:7, learn enough to show that a railway through Cell, tral Asia, where the cold is more severe and f or during than in any part of the United States, 19 the present at least, impracticable. It is emus re to see Russia going to the United States to le a . oo how she may be best able to run an oPP° siti against Uncle SAM, but JONATHAN iS SO happy the conceit that he can beat creation that he reee l ,„, her emissaries hospitably, and furnishes all the 'ormation asked.—Anglo- American Times. v/ An American Philological Society is n -o th e course of formation by the professors of languages °wept different colleges of the country. Letters from em iv ecl, linguists approving of the movement have been rece_eet and a convention of literary men has been calle d to the next summer. 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The principal stipulations of this programme are the suppression of the Ministry of War, of all captain•generalships and military governorships, and the abolition of conspription. The republic has not yet been proclaimed, and even if it were, this plan of military reform does not find much approval; but it is interesting as a protest against exces sive permanent armies, and as a testimony in favour of the citizen soldier system, which is one of its fundaments' principles. EASTERN EUROPE. £he danger, such as it is, of a war between Turkey and Greece, arises principally from the support given to the former nation by Austria. It is very generally believed that Baron Beust advocates a settle ment of all difficulties in the neighbourhood of the Danube, and is intriguing with the view of bringing about a rupture. The designs of the Roumanians and the Greeks are scarcely less hostile to Austria than to Turkey, and they are specially directed against Hungarian supremacy north of the Danube. As the end must come sometime, Baron Beust thinks it might as well come now. The domestic difficulties of the empire would be partly forgotten during a campaign which would be specially popular with the Hungarians. Austria, with the Poles and the Turks, would be quite a match, says the Independance Beige, for Russia with the Greeks and the Roumanians. The establishment of a Polish State, enjoying an autonomy like Hungary, but still allied to Austria, and the final disposal of the Danubian Principalities would corn. pensate for the disasters of 186 G. There may be nothing in this programme ; but it has at least had the effect of greatly alarming the Russians. The Muscovite papers, official and independent, are uniting against Austria with extraordinary rancour. The Invalide Russe accuses Baron Beust of openly pursuing a warlike policy. The Gazette de l'Academie of St. Peters burg says that the army of 800,000 men is designed to act against Russia. The Gazette de Moscow says the Poles are enchanted with the increasing armaments of Austria. The fortifications of Galicia indicate the quarter to which the ambition of Baron Beust is directed. These papers have overlooked one thing in their zeal on behalf of the Czar. The army of 800,000 men, of which they make so much, exists only in the draft of a bill which has but just got through the Austrian and Hungarian Legisla tures. The work of reorganisation has yet to be done. On the other hand, however, it should be mentioned that when Baron Beust urged the passing of this measure as an immediate necessity he openly expressed his belief in a speedy war on the Danube. RUSSIA. The Army and Navy Gazette is " glad to be able to state" that the Russian army is at present very badly prepared for a European war. The "sinews" seem to be deficient, notwithstanding the recent applications to the money market, and in consequence the infantry are still carrying the old rifle. Even of the Imperial Guard only aportion is armed withbreech-loaders. The Government is very busy making the most careful and extensive experiments in artillery. There is not much matter for congratulation in this state of affairs. Russia is chronically behind the rest of Europe, but she has not on that account failed to fight when occasion required, and fight well too, CHINA. According to the American papers, there is much ground for the hope that we may be spared the disagreeable necessity of a Chinese war. The affair of the missionaries has been referred to Pekin, and upon the representation of the British Minister a strong despatch has been sent to the Chinese Governor-General, instructing him to accede to the terms proposed by the British Consul. AMERICA. The people of Massachusetts have had good reason for returning to the Assembly an overwhelming majority in favour of a prohibitory liquor law. A recent license law has resulted in an increase of 600 in the number of public houses in Boston alone. In the State the number has gone up in a similar proportion. Massachusetts has reconsidered er prohibitory policy, and has reaffirmed it. The license law will be repealed, and another prohibitory measure passed. (From the Anglo-American Times.) PAras, Dec. 9. The aristocracy of Europe seem determined to carry off the American belles. Each week we find in the columns of the Continental journals an nouncements to the following effect :—" Married at --, Miss Mary Petrolefiniscrip, of New York, to Baron or Count, or Duke, and sometimes Prince So-and-So of Paris, Turin, Rome, Vienna, Dresden," or some other equally popular resort of Americans. Strangely enough the bridegroom is never less than a Baron, the American belles being evidently determined to assume rank among the elite on this side of the ocean. It is also quite as remarkable that in every instance where the New and the Old World become thus united, on the female side there must be money. We have at times been startled by the most brilliant announcements as to the immediate union of some leading New York, Boston, Phila delphia, or Chicago heiress with some European nobleman whose ancestors were among the followers of the crazy monk who originated the crusades, or, still more noble and blue blooded, a rejeton of those wonderful Roman chiefs who, n.e., ruled in glory and splendour. It too often happens, however, that after we have thrilled over the glaring details of the fetes to be given on the auspicious occasion— after we have admired the jewels to be presented to the bride—after we have crowded before the show windows of Intrepot des Indes, and exclaimed over the beauty of the Cachmere shawl ordered for the fortunate future Princess or Countess, there comes a gloomy pause between the promise and the ac complishment, and it finally leaks out that the noble bridegroom elect has withdrawn his preten sions —in other words, that the marriage is not to take place. In some instances it is because the mercenary motives which actuated the nobleman become so evident as to arouse the pride of the young repub/icaine, and cause her to refuse an alli ance where 'tis her money and not herself which is the inducement. In too many cases, however, the refusal originates with the nobleman, who finds that his future papa-in-law cannot settle upon the beloved such a sum as he, the nobleman, may pay his debts with, and still keep up his state. This thing has happened so often that it might be sup posed the lesson would profit. I am sorry to say this is not the case, and that at the present time there are a number of such marriages on the tapis. It must not be supposed that it is merely the Ame rican belles who . become ambitious on reaching Europe. The heads of the families in too many instances betray a still more ridiculous and anti republican desire to kill e r here. They make a grand display of huge coats of arm s, of p onderous crests, which seem sadly out of place, painted upon the panels of their coaches, or woven conspicuously upon their damask and linen. Having, as is so often the case, suddenly risen to affluence, with no antecedents save those of honest labour or com merce, it seems absurd the ardour with which they search for genealogies, and the determination with which they cling to the possibility of a remote parentage with some noble house. Of course Ido not wish to carry out the impression that this is the case with the majority of Americans who come abroad, but simply, en passant, to speak out that which has so often annoyed the more sensible of our countrymen, who appreciate the ridiculous conduct referred to. However, as it is the fashion now for Americans to make the European tone, it must be expected that among the numbers who cross the ocean for that purpose some queer people will be found. In Paris the Grand Hotel has become head quarters for Americans—too much so, permit me to add, while in the grumbling mood. 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