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but he could not see how that suffering could b 6
tlleviated by sending them where they would not
be received with favour. It was not in the least degree
wise to attempt to force emigrants where they were not
required. Most certainly was it undesirable to do so
when it was a pauper class of emigrants that had to be dealt
with. Canada objected to take any but the very best class
of emigrants, and it was not willing to take the very
poorest. Australia was also indisposed to take
any but the best emigrants, for whom they stated
they were willing to pay, but they did not
want to be flooded with those whose presence would be
thought very undesirable. Australia had a right to
choose the class of emigrants she would receive,
and certainly that country would never con-
sent to have a pauper population forced upon
it. It was most unwise to attempt such a thing, and unless
they wished to sever the bonds that now bound that
great colony to the mother country they would not attempt
to do so. The greatest scale of emigration that
ever took place was effected by voluntary means. The
opinions of Lord Elgin and Mr. Charles Buller, both
great authorities, were against a State system of emigra-
tion ; and, taking the most enlarged view of the question
it was possible to do, he could not agree to the propositions
of the hon gentleman.
Lord GEORGE HAMILTON viewed the answer of Mr.
Mansell as very unsatisfactory. What gave the ques-
tion its importance was not so much the
large number already paupers as the million
of persons who were hovering on the verge of
pauperism. It was the strongest argument possible
why the Government should assist emigration,
that the Irish emigrants had been able
to send back to their relations millions of
money to enable their friends to follow them. Any
assistance should not come from local rates, but
from the Consolidated Fund. He admitted
there were practical difficulties in the way of
any public scheme, but he could not forget that at
home we had surplus capital, and surplus labour, and in
the colonies there was abundant land to cultivate. The
ties that would be created between the colonies and this
country by carrying out any scheme of State emigration
would greatly strengthen our position.
Mr. S. AYTOUN said he could not see the force of many
of the arguments that had been urged against State
assistance being given to emigration. It was objected
to as it would tend to send the good workmen out
of the country, and only leave the worst at home. (Hear,
hear.) But such a system was going on now ; the
young and able workman who could raise a few pounds
left the country, whilst those who were older, and could
not raise the necessary amount had to remain at home. He
could not agree that for the State to give assistance
to emigration would, in effect, be to drain the country of
the elements of prosperity; on the contrary, he thought
that under proper regulations State aid would to a great
extent mitigate the existing and widespread distress. In
his opinion, it would be advantageous, therefore, to adopt
a portion, if not the whole, of the proposal of the hon.
gentleman who had brought the motion before the House.
Mr. J. G. TALBOT was apprehensive, from the tone of the
discussion, lest the working classes might conclude that the
governing classes had no sympathy with their misfortunes.
Mr. MELLY opposed the motion, treating the prevalent
distress as temporary and arising partly from over trading
speculations and partly from the improvidence of the work-
ing classes.
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Mr. MuNTZ took the same side.
Mr. T. CHAMIMRS replied that a system of State emigra-
tion was not pointed at by the resolution, but merely that
the Government should take measures for facilitating emi-
gration. The motion was also supported by Mr. A. Kinnaird
nd Sir J. C. Lawrence.

Sir H. VERNEY supported the motion as a means of bind-
ing the colonies to this country ; and Mr. NEWDEGATE Com-
mented on our commercial policy and the condition of the
labour market to which it had led, and blamed the indiffer-
ence of the Government.

Sir C. DlLxa discussed the resolution from a practical
point of view, showing that it was vague and unworkable.

Mr. M'CuLLaGn Tonn-Ass insisted that the distress among
the working classes demanded the immediate application of
this remedy of emigration.
Mr. GLADSTONE remarked on the vague language of the
resolution and the discordant interpretation put on it by its
supporters. To so indefinite a proposal, shirking every
attempt at a practical solution, it would not be for the
dignity of the House to commit itself. Describing his
objections to a system of State emigration, Mr. Glad-
stone maintained that if Parliament did by chance
entertain it it would soon retrace its steps. Such
a scheme would paralyse the natural operations by
which the labour market was relieved, and would stop the
supply of voluntary aid for emigration. Beplyin,g to the
complaint that the Government would do nothing, ho
Feinted out that though they would not lay down any
great scheme, Mr. Childers had recently offered the use
of tin transports going to Canada for emigration pur-
poses. Lord Granville had been inquiring from the Co-
lonial authorities whether they were willing to under-
take the repayment of adsiances to emigrants, and Mr
Goschen had been in communication with the colonial agents
here, to say nothing of the operations of the Emigration
Commissioners. Moreover, they were ready to entertain any:
practical proposal likely to be beneficial. But nothing like
a wholesale scheme of emigration had ever yet been found
practicable—even in times of more severe distress, such as the
Irish Famine and the Lancashire Famine, though the sub-
ject had exercised the minds of most experienced statesmen.
Mr. ToßnEss briefly replied, and on a division the resolu-
tion was rejected by 153 to 48.
Bills were brought in by Mr. Dorms to amend the law re-
lating to the registrotion of county voters, and by Mr.
RTLANDS to extend to the whole of Sunday the restrictions
on the sale of beer and spirits.
The House adjourned at twenty-five minutes to one
o'clock.

Bank of Engla.d Returns.

An Account, pursuant to t]
cap. 32, for the week ending
IssuE DET

he Act 7th and Bth Victoria
Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1870.
'4.ItTMENT.

Notes issued .£33,926,050

Govornint. Debt C.1,015,10e
Other Securities 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

£33,926,950
BANKING 1)

£33,926,950
LPARTMENT.
Governmt. Secu-
rities(including
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... £14,831,314
Other Securities 18,503,247
Notes 11,643,465
Gold and Silver
Coin

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including E-
xchequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div.
Accounts 9.274,118
Other Deposits 17,293,689
Sevon Days and
other Bills 450,489

.£41,911,072

£44,941,072

The half-yearly change of quarters of the Bri-
gade of Guards commenced yesterday and will con-
tinue till Friday next, which is the day fixed for
the embarkation of the Ist Battalion of the Grena-
dier Guards for London. The latter have been
quartered in Dublin 12 months, and they will be
relieved by the Ist Battalion of the Scots Fusilier
Guards from Chelsea Barracks. Tha wives and
children of the soldiers will precede the troops.
This morning the 3d Battalion of the Grenadier
Guards will leave Windsor for the Tower, and the
2d Battalion of the Scots Fusiliers will vacate their
quarters and occupy those in Sheet-streetßarracks.

A telegram has been received from Malta report-
ing the arrival of her Majesty's Indian troopship
Serapis at that island on the 26th of February, at 3
p.m., and that she would sail again at noon on the
28th of February.

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AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.

A report was circulated, two of our evening news-
papers sirnultaneonslypublishing the "sensation,"of a
plot to assassinate Prince Arthur. The story was that
the Prince was to have been shot at the residence of
Judge Stoughton, Fifth Avenue, on Friday evening.
It appears that a suspicious character presented a
revolver at the head of a detective, who had been
detailed to watch his movements immediately after
the Royal party had left the Brevoort House, tell-
ing him to be off. On the summons of the detective
other officers came up to his aid, but seven or eight
roughs appeared on the scene to help their comrade.
A fight ensued, which ceded in the capture of all
the roughs, who were found to be armed, and the
story got into circulation that it was their intention
to shoot the Prince, and that he had to leave Mr.
Stoughton's premises through the back door. Super-
intendent Kennedy, on the appearance of the para-
graph in the evening papers, took steps to ascertain
how this ridiculous and untruthful report could have
originated, and written statements were made by the
journals reporters that they had obtained their infor-
matim through Captain Henry Burden, who denies
that he gave any such information. '1 he affair is to
be investigated,and the truth probably will then tran-
spire. An event of some interest is the marriage of
Miss Webster to Mr James Geddes Day. The bride
is a grand-daughter of Daniel Webster, and although
the ceremony was as quiet and unostentatious as it
could be, this relationship imparted an interest. At
No. 44, Broad-street, another interesting ceremony
has been going on. There two ladies have opened
a business office, under the title of Woodhull, Cla-
flin, and Co. Both are married, Mrs. Victoria
Woodhull and Mrs. T. C. C. Claflin, and as brokers
they are about to apply to have the bye-laws of the
Stock Exchange anidnded so that as brokers they
can take their seats. Their office was besieged by
hundreds, and the ladies had to undergo a trying
ordeal. One is said to have been a spiritualist, and
if she can bring clairvoyancy to her aid in buying
and selling stocks, the other brokers will have no
chance, considering that her patrons will be guided
in their speculations by raps, though it may be that
some of them may end by getting the rap very hard
over the knuckles. Messrs. Banks and Gould, the
law book publishers, printed a second edition of
Page's Law Reports, and an action was brought
against them, though dismissed by the Court, for
infringing the copyright. They proved that they had
paid a high price for the right to publish a first edi-
tion, and the Court ruled that they had the right to
publish the second. As Judge Bedford bas refused
the District Attorney's application to have the trial
of Daniel M'Farland for the murder of Richardson
removed to the Court of Oyer and Terminer, it will
commence in the Court of General Sessions, on the
7th of March. The application was made on ac-
count of the pressure of business in the other Court,
but it was opposed by the prisoner's counsel, who
said that the indictment had been found in the Ses-
sions, and had there been pleaded to by the accused.
Mr. Graham, at the same time, announced that a
commission had issued for the examination of wit-
nesses in Ireland touching facts likely to be de-
veloped during the trial, and the transfer was
calculated to injure the prisoner's cause. Mr.
Rogers, a Philadelphia merchant, after an in-
terview with M'Farland, offered $5OO to a fund
towards defraying the expenses of his trial. 0. N.
Bostwick, of the Broadway firm of Bostwick and
Co., dealers in hats and straw goads, committed
suicide at his house, 14, Fort Green-place, Brook-
lyn, last week through strychnine. He had written
to his brother-in-law thanking him and his wife for
their kindness to the writer and his children, asking
for its continuance to them, and that he should be
forgotten. He was distracted and bewildered by the
recent death of his wife, and his only remaining desire
was to be placed by his dear Carry. That inte-
resting creature, Reddy, the blacksmith, has nearly
been done to death. If I was a novel writer my
hero would be a regular New York rowdy, because
I would have the plot and the incidents furnished to
my hand, having only to tell what actually hap-
, pened to make a thrilling work replete with horrors.
Reddy's life would answer my purpose, and I re-
commend the idea to any of the sensational novelists
on your side. The report at first was that Reddy
had been killed, but it afterwards transpired that
his head, Leing as hard as his hammer, the black-
smith not only survived, but is recovering from the
severe injuries he received in his fight last week in a
Broadway saloon. Reddy gets as much newspaper
attention as if he were the Governor of this State,
and bulletins of his health are regularly published.
The " rough " who laid him thus low is Jemmy
Haggerty, from the city of Brotherly Love, and he
was carried to the City Hospital, where the interest-
ing creature is being tenderly nursed. I wonder if
he was visited by theghost of Smedick, the policeman
he murdered, for which he ought to be under sen-
tence of death ? We have had great changes in the
weather ; before bright and balmy, it-hes been sud-
denly followed by a cold snap, which has frozen up
the Hudson, and is brieging in a good ice crop.
Many were in despair as to the supply of that neces-
sity, but their minds have been made easy, al-
though t be case is viewed differently on the Hudson,
where the steamers have been frozen in. This was
followed by a storm and more thaw, till the streets
were knee-deep with snow and slush. The City
has, however, become more healthy, the death-rate
last week having decreased 54. The struggle be-
tween capital and labour continues. I recollect an
article in your paper that well expressed what is ac-
tually happening. The struggle before, because of
the inflation of the currency, was on the part of the
workmen io equalize wages with the expense of
living resisted by the employers, but unsuccessfully,
all the way upwards. For sonic time, however, the
reverse of this has been going on, the struggle now
being by the " bosses," to bring the wages down
with the fall in gold, and the cheaper cost of liv-
ing, resisted all the way downwards by the men.
As you then observed, this is one of the evils of
a currency which violently fluctuates in value, la-
bour and capital being placed in a constant state
of antagonism, the justice of to-day being the in-
justice of to-morrow. The stonemasons and brick-
layers are now contending against a reduction to
$4 per diem, labourers, $2 25 for the full ten hours,
none to be employed except on those conditions.
If a general strike ensues, this city will be put to
no slight inconvenience. General M. T: M'Mahon
is to lecture on Paraguay at Cooper Institute, on
Monday, for the benefit of the 69th Regiment.
Ex Minister Washburn has had the best of the Pa-
raguayan quarrel as yet, in Congress, but that is not
soon the platform. The work of the Brooklyn bridge
is getting on rapidly, the dredging being completed
last Saturday blast; ng ie now in progress, by which the
ground is first shaken by explosions, the debris being
removed by dredges. After the surface is smoothed,
the caissons, now making at Webb's shipyard, will be
sunk. Thompson's collectioa of pictures has been
sold during the week, the prices being good on
the whole, though unequal, the few really fine things
being sacrificed, while rubbish was readily bought.
Other sales have taken place; one onThursdayeven-
ing at Barker's Gallery of pictures, by French, Bel-
gian, and American artists, the sale being continued
last evening. The sums given for the works of
masters in the sale of the Thompson collection
show how little faith the public place in the genuine-
ness of the pictures. A " Sleeping Venus," by Sir
Joshua Reynolds, brought $BO ; a portrait of Miss
Foote, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, $165 ; a landscape,
by Turner, $125 ; and several of Bierstadts for
sums ranging from $l5O. It has transpired that the
Plymouth Church congregation are divided on a
matter of faith. Mr, Beecher addressed a selected
meeting, asserting the necessity for a platform on
which the church could stand and hold together;
and in consequence five members are to be chosen
as a committee by Mr. Beecher, to whom the ques-
tion is to be referred. The Monarch is to be
here next week, and Mayor Hall recommends
the City Council to make the officers our guests
during their stay, which will no doubt be done.
The rumour here is, that on her return the Mo-
narch will convey Prince Arthur home. A report,
whitewashing the Methodist concern, has been
issued, which appears, however, to satisfy the
Church, and therefore we have no right to
cavil. It is s iid that the heirs of Anneke
Jans will renew their attempt to obtain, through
the courts, the Trinity Church estate, and emi-
nent counsel have been engaged. John Rey-
nolds has been indicted by the grand jury
for the murder of Townsend, and Mr. F. Howe
was assigned as his counsel. The District Attor-
ney said he would be ready to proceed next Wed-
nesday, against which Mr. llowe protested, as he
wanted to get up the prisoner's defence. Judging
from appearances' he considered he might be in-
sane, when it would be necessary to procure medical
testimony ; the public excitement, too, ought to be
allowed time to subside , but he only succeeded in
getting one day, Thursday being named fur the
trial. There was a large meeting on Thursday of
the officers of New York insurance companies at
156, Broadway, to secure a reply from the Legisla-
ture to the effort of the companies to have the
usual investigation into the affairs of the companies
made with open doors. The following gentlemen
were finally appointed :—E. E. Ludlow, of the 'lon
tine ; A. P. Morgan, of the North American ; W.
11. Peckham, of the Guardian ; W. H. Beers, of
the New York Life ; and IV. M. llardenburg, of
the Globe. Mr. lingo Wcsendonck, President of
the German Fire Insurance Company, presided, and
Mr. Charles 11. Raymond, of the Widows' and
Orphans' acted as secretary. Another sudden death
of a stockbroker has been announced. F. A. Bur-
rell appeared to be in perfect health but the evening

before, so his death caused surprise; he was respected.
The Democrats propose to cut our City Govern-
ment from the State Government, excepting power
to tax as well as appropriate money without autho-
rity of the Legislature. The Mayor is to le elected
for four years, City Council for two, the board
of fifteen Aldermen to be chosen on a general
ticket, and the assistants to comprise one mem-
ber from each Ward. The Mayor is to be
assisted by eleven departments—Finance, Law,
Police, Public Works, Charities and Correc-
tion, Fire, Health, Excise, Public Parks, Buildings,
and Education—the heads of the two first to be
elected, the others to be appointed by the mayor
and alderman ; the former being the real as well as
executive head of the city, and with the mayor and
aldermen, will rest the whole power and patronage.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.
It is said that General Badeau will publish an
article in one of our periodicals on the relations be-
tween the United States and Great Britain, and he
is the better qualified for the work as he has but
lately returned from a short residence in London,
where he had been attached to the Legation, having
accompanied Mr. Motley, at his request, to ingland.
This gave him the entree of London society, and with
it, the opportunity, of which such a keen observer
avail° I himself, of picking up information, while,
as one of the President's most trusted friends, be is
well acquainted with the policy of the United States.
The article therefore is likely to be of interest, and
ought to be read with attention in England. Mrs.
Grant is described as being a stickler for eti-
quette, always insisting on the greatest deference
being shown the President. The correspondent of
the Sun says that that lady is determined that the
family circle shall on every occasion observe the same
formalities as Gen. Grant receives in public. " Thus
he is always addressed as Mr. President, and re-
ferred to as the President, and the servants are
strictly enjoined to observe this mark of distinction.
On State occasions, the President, of course, with
the most distinguished lady guest, leads the way
into the dining-room. But this usual etiquette is
by no means confined to such solemn occasions.
Should a friend of the President, however intimate
he might be, accept an invitation to dine socially,
and venturing upon his intimacy, presume to forget
the preference to which the President is entitled,
he would be reminded of it. Thus when dinner is
announced, the guest will offer his arm to Mrs.
Grant, and move forward. Mrs. Grant checks him
with a polite bow toward her husband, and the re-
mark, "The President goes first.' So at the table
the President is first served, and then those who
sit at meat with him. And this rule admits of no
variation under any circumstances." A Western
admirer of his sent him a dog by " express," for-
getting to defray the carriage, but the President
sent the brute back at the cost of the unlucky donor,
a sum which may be guessed, when it is known
that the rate to Washington would have been $l5.
The President received a deputation of leading
Republicans from Georgia on Monday. He asked
who were to be returned as Senators, and was an-
swered that whoever the party regularly nominated ;
that although many names had been mentioned, none
had been finally decided on. The President ob-
served that he as well as General Sherman bad full
confidence in General Terry, and the delegation
expressed a similar confidence, asserting also that it
was generally held by the loyal men of the State.
The Senate Committee on the District of Columbia
favours abrogating the charter of the Medical So-
ciety, because it refuses to extend the privileges of
the association to coloured doctors. Of course
Senator Sumner is at the bottom of this movement,
which appears to me to be scarcely worth the
attention of a Legislature fully occupied with
important business. These social subjects must
be left to settle themselves, as they cannot
be moved into their proper places by enactment.
Talking of the Senate, additional seats have to be
provided in the Chamber. Three States have been
added since the outbreak of the war, Nevada and
Nebraska, as well as West Virginia, but there was
plenty of room, in the absence of the Southern
Senators. Now, however, that Virginia and Mis-
sissippi have been readmitted, Texas alone remains,
not inaptly termed the " Lone Star" State, and 74
is a number our Senate has never before reached.
It is not often that that dignified body imitates the
other House, but the attack on the franking privi-
lege, that darling abuse, seems to have aroused its
stormy spirit. Senator Ramsay brought the bill up
last Friday, moving that it be taken up, but he was
defeated by 34 to 22. The discussion excited the
Chamber, which culminated when the Census Bill
came up, the confusion being such that it could not
be read. Many were on the floor at once, moving to
go into Executive session, to adjourn, to take up the
bill, and not to take it up; and the tumult only
ceased by an adjournment of the Howe. The Sena-
tors do not like either the Census Bill or the Aboli-
tion of the Franking Privilege. When the former
was brought up last Tuesday, Senator Sumner could
scarcely be heard, so persistently was he interrupted
by the few who remained, for the majority got up
and left their seats. The Postmaster-General will,
perhaps, have to pay for printing blank memorials
in favour of abolishing the Franking Privilege. The
Senators ask from what fund the expenses were de-
frayed, and by whose authority the money was ob-
tained. In fact,they are " ugly" over this bill. Some
extraordinary propositions have been brought for-
ward in favour of the press, as if to include news-
papers in the privilege. Mr. Schofield would except
from the operation of the law abolishing the Frank-
ing Privilege the circulation of weekly newspapers
within the counties where they are published, and
Mr. Getz would allow all newspapers and periodi-
cals published within the United States to be trans-
mitted through the mails, free of postage when sent
from the office of publication to actual and regular
subscribers." This is but laying the foundation for
a fresh superstructure of abuse. Newspapers have
no more right to be sent free of charge to those who
want them than has tea or sugar, and it is in vain
to pretend anything else under the pretence of edu-
cating the people. One newspaper asserts another
to be a " pernicious sheet," and why should these
pernicious sheets be circulated at the public expense?
Female suffrage does not carry all the sex, as Mary
Walker, Susan B. Anthony, and its other advocates
have found to their cost. The greatest currying
down Mary Walker ever got was from a lady in
this city, whom she met in one of her invasions of
a Government department, when the demon of office-
seeking had laid hold of her with a firm grasp.
What a nuisance Mary was in those days ! and, I
may add, that a dozen such women would have
driven the whole Cabinet out of office ; and even
the narcotic influence of a cigar might not have
saved the President. Last Friday two ladies pre-
sented a inesaorial to the Senate Committee, in the
District of Columbia, against female suffrage. But
the women have received an accession of strength
from the fact that even the Mormons have extended
the suffrage to their women, who are in excess of
the men, the patriarchs being diligent in the collec-
tion of lambs. Considering this circumstance, the
elders must have greater confidence in their away
over.themany than the Gentile has in his wife, though
but one. It may be that the skilful elder can play
one against the other, and, weakening each indi-
vidually, can thus rule all. One of our excitements is
the investigation into an alleged sale of cadetships to
West Point and Annapolis by Congressmen. The
House Committee on Military Affairs, at a meeting
to discuss their plan of investigation, decided to
call on the Secretary of War for the appointments
lately made, the persons who recommended the
cadets; and one of the leading business men of
Washington, who is said to have bought an an-
pointment for his son, will be closely examined.
There are individuals here who make a living
through this style of brokerage, but the Committee
are not green enough to expect them to tell the
truth. . Generals Sheridan and Terry have arrived
in Washington, and bad interviews with the Presi-
dent yesterday. Terry goes back to Georgia in a
few days, having received his instructions from the
War Department. W. A. Groesbeck and Judge
Usher are here, as is Governor Alcorn. It is now
said that General Tate, the late Haytian Minister,
goes to Europe to place his son at school before
taking up his final residence in the United States.
Mr. Cumback of Indiana has declined the nomina-
tion to Portugal ; so Lisbon does not appear to be
in favour, as our Minister there throws up the ap-
pointment, and the next gentleman to whom it is
offered positively declines. Among the interesting
specimens hero are Capt. Hall and his Esquimaux.
He offers to penetrate to the North Pole, exploring
the region between the 80th and 90th degrees of
north latitude, if he gets any assistance from the
Government. I need scarcely remind your readers
that 90 is the Pole.

PARIS, Feb. 24.

Washington's birth-day was kept as usual io
Paris, the stars and stripes displayed in various
quarters, giving rise to midi discussion among the
sergens de ville, as to the reason therefor. Thorpe's
was well attended all day, and an extra number of
cocktails drank to the immortal memnry of the
illustrious Father of his country. 1)r. Ilorner pre-
pared an appropriate ode fur the occasion, which
was liberally distributed among Americans, and
read with enthusiasm. In the evening the spacious
hotel of our Minister was thrown open, and filled
to overflowing by more than one thousand of our
fellow-citizens, and their wives and daughters. All
passed off well, and there was but one wish in leav-
ing, viz., that our Government would purchase
and sustain such an establishment as the Represen-
tative of the United States requires to be able to
receive the crowd of friends that press upon him.
Dancing was kept up till a late hour, and the day

and evening will long be remembered. Last even-
ing took place the first presentation and ball at the
Tuileries. Mr. Washburne can look back with
pride to the line of beauty and grace which, greeted
the eyes of the Emperor and Empress on their en-
trance into the saloon. The effect was so striking
that both commented upon it to Mr. Washburne.
The folio wing is the list of the names presented:—
Governor Bullock of Massachusetts, Mrs Bullock,
and Miss Bullock ; Miss Smith, Silas C. Herring,
Miss Herring, Misses Cruzer, Mrs and Miss Fru-
nard, Miss Norman, and Mrs Williamson, New
Ycrk ; Mrs Gibson, Massachusetts ; Mr and Mrs
Goodell, Illinois ; Mr Johnson and Miss Parks,
New York ; Mr Cary, Cincinnati -; Mr Gardner,
New York ; Mrs Kreirman, Chicago ; Miss Bice,
New York ; Miss Lebrot, Cincinnati ; Miss Tudor,
Boston ; Mr Walker and Mrs Smith, New York ;
and Miss Clearwater, Cincinnati. The sudden de-
cease of Mr. Burlingame has cast a gloom over
American society. 'Some steps will be taken to
recognize the event in a public manner, of which
you will be advised in due course.
BEN. lIAMET.

The following is a circular just issued by the
North German Lloyd Steamship Company, 16 and
17, King William-street, London, 221 February,
1870, E.C. _ _

" Dear Sir—ln consequence of the support re-
ceived last autum❑ from the importers of American
produce, our directors have now decided to establish
a regular fortnightly service from New York to
London via Southampton in conjunction with the
London and South Western Rail Way Company, to
commence with the steamer Bremen, appointed to
leave New York on the 23d March next. Arrange-
ments have been made to discharge the steamers
immediately on their arrival at Southampton,
whether by day or night, and their cargoes will be
forwarded to destination with the least possible
delay, special trains being employed for this pur-
pose, where possible, as occasion may require.
Every facility will be afforded for the speedy deli-
very of goods from Niue Elms to the merchants'
warehouses as on former occasions, on presentation
of bills of lading with instructions at our offices.
The company's agents in New York are Messrs.
Oelrichs and Co., 68, Broad-street, which will fur-
nish your correspondents with every information on
that side. Hoping to be favoured with your con-
signments, we remain, your obedient servants,
KELLER, WALLIS, AND POSTLETHWAITE."