The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 5 1..69.

that such abolition would be most injurious to men
with full heads but empty pockets." The Beehirit
says :—" There are others here and there ready to
follow the example of Mr. Mundella and Mr. Morley,
who, having between them enabled a poor man to
bring out a valuable improvement in machinery, are
equal partners with him in the pecuniary results,
his third share yielding the comfortable income of
£9,000 a year. The excellent member for Notting-
ham is an old hand at this sort of thing.
During the twenty-five years of his busi-
ness life he has been .connected with twenty
patents on the same terms ; and in every instance
his partner was a working man." The Patent Laws
are declared to be " emphatically and above all a
working man's question." Our contemporary believes
that they will not be abolished yet awhile.
The Engineer, which should be an authority on the
sullied, declares against the abolition, and for the
reform, of the Patent Laws. Our contemporary
declares that the present administration of the 1
is most unsatisfactory, wasteful, and disastrous.
" There are people now practising in London and
elsewhere as patent agents who do not even know
the English language, who scarcely 1 now a pump
bolt from a cow's tail, and who have not the slightest
idea of the laws, whether of patents, of mechanics.
or of Common honesty." Neverthelum, the principle
of the Patent Laws is good, and the E whimr recom-
mends the following alterations :

." Let there be a preliminary examination, as i❑ America,
with respect to at least novelty ; let not merely drawings,
but also models, be required from the patentee ; let
additional facilities be given for ascertaining the novelty,
or the amount of novelty, in a patent ; let each patentee
again, as in America, he required strictly to detine his
claims ; let every patent agent be subjected to examina-
tion, and be liable to disbarring, instead of, as now, allow.
ing, ignorant boys or swindlers to practice."

Mild correspondent writing from Philadelphia on
Wednesday evening, " shows its total on the Ist

inst. to have been $2,505,100,000, deducting cash
in Treasury Bonds and the Sinking Fund. This is
a decrease during the last month of $13,500,000."
We give the totals published on the Ist May, that

our readers may compare the figures :—Total debt—
Principal and interest, $2,635,032,88812c. Amount
in Treasury—Coin, belonging to the Government,
$92,031,732 96c. ; coin, represented by gold certifi-
cates of deposit, $16,307,200; currency, $7,896,564
7c. ; total, $116,235,497 3c. Amount of public
debt, less cash in Treasury, $2,518,797,391 9c. We
can only reconcile Reuter's statement of the cash in
the Treasury with this abstract, by supposing that
perhai s some ten million dollars invested in the
Sinking Fund are calculated therein as currency,
for instead of the dash held by the Treasury being,
two millions less, he makes it out to be eig'it mil-
lions more.

A farewell banquet was given to General Dix, at
the Grand Hotel, Paris, on Tunday evening. His
successor Mr. Washburne, as well as Mr. Bur-
lingame were preseut, the unusual spectacle being
afforded of three American Envoys seatLd at the
same table. They all spoke well ; the words of
Mr. Washburne having a peculiar interest, as the
disc friend of the President, and intimately ac-
quainted with his sentiments and aspirations. Of
these he spoke in terms of eulogy, and closed his
speech with a graceful compliment to the guest of
the evening. General Dix leaves with his family
to-day for New York in the Hamburg and Ame-
rican Company's steamship Cimbria.

The Hon. William A. Howard, the American
Minister to China, has had an interview with the
Presbyterian General Assembly in New York with
reference to the best means of protecting American
missionaries in China. Mr. Howard may be ex-
pected immediately in Europe to confer with his
Excellency, Anson Burlingame, before he proceeds
to China. An effort will be made when Congress
meets, in view of its growing importance, to raise
the American mission to China to the first-class
rank, with two additional Secretaries; and it is said
the Executive favours the project. Conste-General
Read was to leave New York on the 29th May in
the French steamer St. Laurent, and his arrival at
Brest may therefore be looked for in a few days.
The President has appointed Samuel W. Harmed to
be United States Consul at La Rochelle. It is re-
ported, incorrectly we believe, by the friends of
ex-Senator Carlile of West Virginia, that the Presi-
dent will appoint him Minister to Stockholm, on
the ground that he was once confirmed by the
Senate, and that upon reconsideration he was not
rejected. It was announced by the Independence
Beige that the United States Minister at Brussels,
Mr. Sanford, had sent his resignation to Washing-
ton in consequence of the action of the Senate on
his nomination for Minister to Spain. Baron WU-
derstedt, the Minister of Sweden, had left Washing-
ton for New York to meet his wife on her return
from Europe, and has provided accommodation at
Annapolis, Maryland, where he proposes to pass
the summer. Mr. Bille, Minister of Denmark, has
reached Washington, accompanied by his bri le. E.
D. Bassett, U.S. Minister to Hayti, received instruc-
tions from the Department of State, May 21, and
took leave of the President. The alleged repug-
nance of the Ilaytian Government to a coloured
Minister is authoritatively denied, the appointment
being received by the Hay tians as a high compli-
ment to the race.

If a special telegram from New York is to be
believed, the most prominent Republicans intend
to make the Alabama claims their leading cry at the
coming elections in the fall of the year, and that it
is expected the issue will be taken on this question.
It is rumoured that Curtin, Sumner, and others
are in favour of this scheme. This is a stupid piece
of sensational news, for the question can be decided
by no party but on its legal merits, and if the Re-
publicans took up such a cry for party purposes
they would place themselves not only in a false,
but in a ridiculous position. Judge Wilson died on
June 3.

The Philadaphia correspondent of the Times, on
Thursday, announced—
" General Dulc,, the Captain-General of Cuba, resigned
his post yesterday. Don Espinar is his successor until the
arrival of GeUeral de Rodas."

The intelligence from Peru is that the Government,
following the example of Mexico, has recognised
the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. The Mahon
ing, a helvy steam cutter, bas been order_ d. to New
York to assist iu enforcing the neutrality laws, and
the Washington Government have taken tnea,:ures to
have their orders obeyed on this subject. La ilevo-
Melon protests against the circulars of the Captain-
General, directing the seizure of the property of
certain Cubans without respect to the previous
rights of foreigners, a robbery it denounces in the
name of charity, morality, and civilization.

The English papers Maintain the tone assumed
on the Alabama question since the intelligence of,
Mr. Sumner's speech. The correspondenc.: which
led to the Convention rejected by the Senate has
been published, and adds fresh fuel to the fire.
There ar; first the negotiations between Mr. John-
son and Lord Stanley, interrupted by the retire-
ment of the Conservative Administration ; then
their continuance with Lord Clarendon till their
final rejection by the Senate. The more fully the his-
tory of the negotiations is understood the clearer it
appears that young Adams, the son of the previous
Minister, was right in his article in the North Ame-
rican Review, that that Convention was one of the
greatest triumphs of American diplomacy ever ob-
tainel, and no small reparation for the injury sus-
tained by the United States during the war. Of
course, rumours are plentiful relating to the Presi-
dent's feelings on the subject, to the tone of the
Cabinet, and to the instructions given to Mr. Mot-
ley. This was the telegram of yesterday : "It is
reported that President Grant has expressed his dis-
approval of the terms of Mr. Sumner's speech on
the Alabama claims." The reporters, however,
complain bitterly of their treatment at the White
Ilousc, and for lack of information have to manu-
facture chess rumours.
Senator Sumner meets the treatment always ex-
perienced by the man who draws on his head the
hostility of a nation. The Boston Journal pub-
lishes a letter which it received from its Washington
correspondent. In an enclosure, addresed to Sena-
tor Sumner, with a leader from the Spectator, was this
letter the cotrespondeut asserts to be one of many
such communications received by the Senator :
"London, May 6.—Sir,—l enclose the opinion of
one of the leading journals of this country as to
your conduct, and have only to add my own, which
is that you are a mischief-making, ill-conditioned
Yankee scoundrel.—Your obedient servant, AN
ENGLISHMAN." The correspondent, by way of show-
ing what his own feelings are, alludes to Professor

Goldwin Smith, as atnimated by a vindictive hcsti
lity towards the Massachusetts Senator, who ha 3
placed the conduct of John Bull in the true light
before the civilised world. We can assure that cor
respondent, however that Jonathan's conduct to-
wards England, in the negotiation for redress, gets
a far wider publication, and is placed much more
fully before the civilized world. In fact, the civi-
lized world is being taught that America is very
unreasonable, and that John Bull is patient, endur-
ing, and forgivini; and instead of having the effect
the correspondent supposes,Senator Sumner's speech
has really given the civilized world an erroneous
impression, that America was not so much in the
right as before supposed. Pushing to extremes is,
as a rule, a mistake, and England appears for the
second time to be getting off the course in the other

direction.
The following abstract of all the National Banks
(more than sixteen hundred) shows an aggregate of
resources and liabilities of $1,516,303,000, including
loans and discounts $659,000,000 ; specie, nearly
$8,500,000; legal-tender notes, $80,500,000 ; Three
per Cent. Certificates, $51,000,000. The capital
stock is over $120,000,000. Numerous bank offi-
cers are in Washington endeavouring to counteract
Mr. lioutwell's policy, and to prevent the withdrawal
of United States deposits from the National Banks,
averaging from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. Four
hundred of these banks are especially favoured,
and they will fight hard before they lose a source
of such profit. •
There is a doable exodus now goiug on over the
Atlantic—of the poor from Earope to America, of

the rich from America to Europe. The names best

known in the United States are now to be seen on

the hotel lists of those most frequented of the great

European cities, and it is difficult to secure a pas-

sage, so great is the rush,notwithstanding the num-
ber of fine steamers plying from New York, Bos-
ton, and Baltimore. If the after part of the ships
come back filled, the crowd in the steerage going
out is beyond comparison denser. The Scandina-
vian people, whose crops have lately failed, have
taken up the running dropped by the Irish, and
from the same cause, and are literally emigrating to
the States en masse. They are going at the rate of 350
per week via Glasgow, and the sort of men may be
gathered from this :—" Among a party of Nor-
wegian emigrants who recently arrived in Toledo,
Ohio, was one big fellow, who stands seven feet
eight inches high, and weighs 322 pounds. He in-
tends to settle in Minnesota." Four hundred Eng-
lish families from the silk-weaving districts are ex-
p-eted in America ; and an Fnglish gentleman has
purchased a block of land in Virginia for the settle-
ment of 800 other Elglish families. The managers
of the E ist London Etnigration Fund are sending
their people to Canada ; and a delegation saw the
Home Secretary on hursday to induce the Goverr.-
ment to aid emigration, and as far as possible to
direct it to British colonies. It is a matter of no
moment where it goes s) long as the condition of
the people.be improved; 80 per cent. of those who
reach Canada cross the border into the United
States, and the dockyard hands sent out in Govern-
ment vessels, if they are not, soon will be working in
the navy yards of the Republic. A notice has al-
ready been posted outside the Town-hall, Woolwich,
that no more would be thus carried to Canada.

The Internal Revenue Department has decided
that the Pullman's sleeping cars when furnishing
meals, liquors, wines, and cigars, to travellers, or
others, are liable each wherein such commodities
are sold to a special tax as keepers of eating-houses,
under the provisions of the Act of June 30, 1861;
also as dealers in liquors, either wholesale or retail,
as provided by section 59, Act of July 20, 1868 ;
and as dealers in tobacco, snuff, and cigars, if sales
exceed $lOO, under the provisions of the last-
named section and Act. This may be news to the
correspondent of the Daily News who wrote from
America about the hardships of the transit across
the Continent, and applied to the wrong place the
story told of a party of diggers on their road to the
White Pine, which by the way he di] not tell cor-
rectly. If he inquires further he may find that
some of these cars are veritable hotels on wheels,
furnished with all the luxuries of an Eastern city.
Consignments of teas have reached St. Louis from
Japan in 30 days. If it be true that tea is injured
by the long voyages for which it now has to he
prepared, we may yet have to go to America as the
nearest country wherein to taste good China tea.
It appears that Mr. Griffin and other sensible
Fenians tried to make the best use they could of
Warren and Costello, an intention only defeated
by the " cussedness" of the martyr patriots. He
put them up to show at the ridiculously small price
per ticket of 25 cents for the two. Here was a
brace of veritable lions fresh from a British mena-
4erie, real, hungry, rampant, furious lions on view,
and the rare opportunity was offered at the low
sum of 25 cents. As Griffin shrewdly suspected
that Warren and Costello would refuse to be ap-
praised at such a price, and further would expect
the lion's share of the plunder if they did exhibit, he
did not consult them, and we are left ignorant
whether he applied to Barnum for substitutes "with
a little drapery," or intended to capture them on the
exhibition night, or after gathering all the quar-
ter dollars to leave the public to discover the hoax.
We have already announced what took place at the
meeting, and we give Mr. Costello's explanation,
one similar in purport, having been published by

Warren :.

" As Colonel Warren and Ihad before refused to identify
ourselves with any party or faction; as we strongly ob-
jected to attend any meeting where an admission fee was
to he charged, without it being specified for whom or for
what the money was collected ; as we thought ourselves
insulted by the attempt made to put us on exhibition for
the cheap sum of 25 cents ; as we do not want to make
martyr capital, and as this self- constituted committee never
consulted our feelings in the matter, but kept studiously
aloof from u., we refused to become the harlequins of any
man or party."
General Butler has been engaged by Mr. John
Russell Young in his libel suit against the New Yorl.•
Suit, and he acts as counsel for Mr. James Fisk,
jun., in bis case against the Springfield Republican.
It will, doubtless, gratify Mr. Butler to have *so
good an opportunity of attacking the latter paper,
which is amongst the most influential in New Eng-
land, circulating, too, among his own constituents,
which did its best to defeat his election. It is as-
serted that Mr. Young prevented the Tribune from
opposing Butler's election, which otherwise Mr.
Greeley would have done. Hence he feels under
obligation to his client. General Butler's boldness
does much to sustain his reputation in America ; he
attacks anything, no matter what its strength, and
does it with a fearlessness nothing 'can daunt. No
man during the elections was more assailed, and in
his own Sta'e. lie presents, too, no small target at
which to fire, yet he triumphantly carried the elec-
tion, and they are now talking of running him as
Governor of Massachusetts. But he proposes to
fly at higher game, for he has entered the lists against
General Wilson, as Senator from Alassachusetts.
The contest. will take place next year, when the
Legislature of 1871 will be chosen.
Senator Wilson and the working men have
triumphed, and the Cabinet has decided that Con-
gress did not mean to reduce the daily wages in
reducing the number of hours for work. So the
Cabinet have overruled on a point of law the opinions
of Attorneys-General Evarts and Hoar ; therefore,
all the mechanics and labourers in the Government
employ will henceforth receive the amount for eight
hours' work they hitherto got for ten, and this has
been proclaimed by the President. No doubt it will
give greater satisfaction to thosb in the service
of Government than to other employers, for an
element of disorder has been introduced, the effect
of which will very soon begin to be felt. ""°r
Wilson addressed the Charleston Navy-Yarli twork-
men, and attributed to the President what
denounced
'called
a sensible interpretation of the law. i
the antagonism fostered between capiltaleanld labour,
ridiculed the prophecies of approaching ruin, and
denied the cry that the rich are growing richer
that
and
asserting, poor poorer, sserting, on the contrary,
never had prosperity been so equally divided as
now and there. The Senator said :
" Poverty sat by my cradle.. Want was often an un-
bidden guest in the home of my childhood. d At ten years
of age I went forth to earn my bread, serve an appren-
ticeship on a farm for eleven years, and received for those
years of hard toil $B4, a sum less than many Massachu-
setts mechanics received for their last month's work. That
was within 80 miles of Charlestown. The people then bad
little money. I was not the possessor, in the aggregate,
of the amount of two dollars till I came of age, and I had
not spent the amount of one dollar from my birth to my
majority. When I came of age I hired myself out for a
month, drove teams, cut and hauled timber and wood,
worked from twelve to fifteen hours a day, and all fo: six
dollars a month. I then worked seven months on a farm
for nine dollars a month. I then walked for days to seve-
ral manufacturing villages to obtain from my fellow-men
leave to toil. Not finding it, I put my pack on my back
and triunp:d from my native town, a distance of 100 miles,
to my present home to learn a mechanical trade. I have
worked in the field iu long summer days hoeing and mow-
ing with some of the best men who ever handled a hoe or
swung a scythe, and they received fifty cents, sometimes
four shillings a day—not money, but corn at a dollar a
bushel and pork at a shilling a pound. I have seen young
women do house work, milk cows, spin and weave, for
fifty cents and four shillings a week."
From Utah it is announced that Brigham Young,
on the morning of the 18th May, broke the first
ground for the Utah Central Railroad, near Weber
River, immediately below Ogden City. It is ex-
pected the road will be completed to the Mormon city
• by October next. Whether the Mormon Chief fully
realizes what the effect will be on the seat of his
dominion and accepts the inevitable, we cannot
tell ; but it is highly probable that so clever a man
who led his people into the wilderness, knowing;that
the only hope of Mormonism maintaining itself as
a separate religious community, lay in isolation,
must be aware that its destruction is involved in
the railway on which he has so vigorously com-
menced work, and in accepting the inevitable de-
sires to make the most of the circumstances.
Mr. Foote, an American missionary, has success-
*idly commenced his 14boure in salt ;Jake City.

He reports, within the last 16 months, "confirma-
tions, 31 ; communicants, 41 ; Sunday school
scholars, 150 ; teachers, 13 ; grammar school scho-
lars, 100 ; teachers, 6 ; contributions for church
purposes, $3,070.
The Harvard University crew will leave New
York on the 10th of July in the Royal mail steamer
City of Paris, so as to have at least five weeks train-
ing over, to them, the novel English course. Mean-
while they are actively preparing under Mr. Loring,
whose ability to train a crew inspires such confi-
dence that it is at least sure that Oxford and Cam-
bridge will have a hard tussle. Alden P. Loring,
of Boston, pulls the bow oar ; he is 25 years of age,
and weighs 1551b5. George Bass, of Chicago, aged
23, weighs 1631b5. Sylvester W. Rice, of Oregon,
is 26, and weighs 1851bs. William Hammatt
Simmons, of Concord, Massachusetts, the "stroke,"
weighs 1701b5., and is considered the most rapid ff
amateur oareman iu America. The four arc now
in daily practice, and are said to he splendid oars-
men. The race with Oxford will take place, the
American papers say, about the mi idle of August
or the beginning of Septemb, r, and perhaps ns'y
be rowed on Bala hike. Arthur Bambara will
probably go as coxswain.
" The Indian war has recommenced. There has
been a battle between the United States troops and
the Indians in Texas, near Fort Griffin, in which
the loss of the latter amounted to 14." These are
the words of a telegram received this week, and it
but confirms the news by mail. An Omaha de-
spatch reports a fight between a cavalri, force under
General Carr and 500 Cheyennes. The Indians
lost 25 killed and a large number of wounded. Three
of the cavalry men were killed and three wounded.
A band of Indians killed four settlers, and drove off
one hundred cattle and horses in Wind River Val-
ley, Colorado, on the 9th May. At Fort Hayes,
where numerous Indians are watched by the troops,
there were signs of a growirig restlessness. The
tendency was to steal away and resume hostilities
with the approaching summer. On the 10th May
this ended in a tragedy, for Chief Cardigan then led
an attack on the guard and was knocked senseless
by the butt-end of a musket, and being disarmed
was carried in this state into the guard-house, but
not before Sallie, a squaw, had been shot dea3, as
well as Big Head, who managed first to stab the
sergeant. Dull Knife, badly wounded with bayonets,
was carried into confinement with Cardigan, and it
is clear that the wretched Indians came but badly
out of that melee. The fight originated from an
order to the chiefs to remove in charge of the guard
from the corral to the guard-room, when they raised
the death whoop, and, drawing knives, went at the
soldiers. It is easy to appoint Quakers as Indian
Commissioners, but we fear the President's efforts
and appeal in behalf of peace meet but sorry en-
couragement in the wild West. Mr. Vincent Colyer,
with his escort, a detachment of company " E,"
under Lieut. Jacobs, was reported to have been cap-
tured, but the following letter shows that this was
not the case :

"Los Vegas, New Mexico, May 20.

" We arrived at Fort Bascom all well, walking across
plains, 435 miles in 31 days, resting on Sundays. Tho
Indians met me with much hospitality. I leave for the
Navaja and Apache country to-morrow
VI
, NCENT COLTER."
In Arizona the savages murdered Milton S. Hadley,
a pioneer citizen of the territory, on the 18th of
April, near Prescott, and also captured and de-
stroyed the mail from California, near Tucson, the
mail rider barely escaping. The latest intelligence
is that the Indians of the West are perpetrating
numerous massacres among the settlers, the out-
break having with the summer, as anticipated, be-
come general.
BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—Mr. A. lt. Corbin,
a retired millionaire of New York, was recently married
to Miss Jennie Grant, sister of the President of the United
States.—Ex-Secretary Welles has just invested a portion
of his earnings at Washington in a $lO,OOO house in Hart-
ford.—General Lee is a delegate to the Virginia Episcopal
Convention.—Major Fry, a leading citizen of Rye Neck,
New York, died on the morning of the 17th May, after a
brief illness.—Andrew Johnson is said to be worth
s7s,ooo.—The Hon. J. L. Thomas, Collector of Customs
at Baltimore, appointed two coloured men to positions in
.the Custom-house, May 19.—A. T. Stewart's income is
sixty thousand dollars per week, or over three millions
per year.— The Hon. Z. Chandler, the Hon. T. W. Osborn
of the United States S. nate, and the Rev. Dr. Oetetru of
St. Louis, arrived in the Itanau steamship CI!, qf Brook-
lyn, on a tour in Europe.—The Hon. Wm. H. Seward, late
S cretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, late Assis-
tant Secretary of State, arrived at New York, on May 21,
from Auburn, aed went to the A: for House. The ex-Se-
cretary proceeded to Philadelphia next day.- Gen. Robert
Anderson, so well known in connection with Fort Sumter,
is about to make a short tour in Europe. His handsome
private library Las just been sold by auction.—Senor Ito-
lerts, the Spanish Minister, and Senator Cragin of New
Hampshire, went to Washington May 21. - It is reported
that the Hon. William MeDougall is to be appointed
Governor of the now Proseiece of Assiniboin, Canada.—
Professor John Bascom has resigned the professorship of
rhetoric in Williams College, Massachusetts, to recruit his•
health.—lt is said that Walter Brown (Massachusetts)
contemplates a visit to England, with the intention of ac-
cepting any challenge of single scull rowing for the cham-
pionship of the world.--Edwin F. Waters, of the Boston
Advertiser, and a party of ladies and gentlemen, left Bos-
ton, May 18, for a trip to Omaha, and over certain
sections of the Pacific Railroad.—Judge John D. Nor-
ton, of Tisbury, died May 15, aged eighty-one years.—
Charles W. Rand of Littleton, Maine, is about to resign
the place of United States District Attorney.—Miss Emma
A. Hamlin of Dover, New Hampshire, has been engaged as
soprano singer at Dr. Bellows's church at New York, with
a salary of $1,200 a year.—Rev. Theodore 11. Barton, a
retired chaplain of the United States Navy. 65 years old,
died suddenly at Concord on Tuesday, May 18.—Vice-
President Colfax and wife will be the guests of Thomas
Coggeshall, Postmaster at Newport, a few days, after
June 25.—The project of taking the Empress Charlotte to
the thermal waters of Bagn6re-de-Lnehon has been aban-
doned for the present, owing to the low mental state of
her Majesty.— Chief Justice Chase, who arrived at Charles-
ton, May 21, presided next day in the United States Cir-
cuit Court; He made a brief speech to the membera of
the Bar, indicating that he would remain there about two
weeks.—The British Minister and the American Secretary
of State had a long interview uu May 17.—General Han-
cock has arrived at St. Paul, where he will establish the
head-quarters of the Department of Dakota.—A family of
the name of Turnbull have filled the position of clerk of
Brunswick county, Virginia, for 133 years. Gen. Stone-
man removed the last of them from office. Daniel Boone
discovered Kentucky, June, 1769, and the Kentuckians
propose a centennial celebration this year.—The new
State librarian of Michigan is a lady (Mrs. Tenney, wife
of Professor Tenney, the former librarian.)--Commodore
Mg:aunty, ore of the oldest naval officers in the service,
died at Washington, May 21. He had been in the navy
more than sixty years.—Sir Stafford Northcote has been
appointed ono of the trusteeseef the Peabody Fund for the
benefit of the London poor, in the room of Sir Emerson
Tennent, deceased.—Second Lieut J. W. Wham, nth In-
fantry, has bean detailed to execute the ditties of Indian.
Agent, and is ordered to report without delay to Commis-
sioner Parker. Commander Bayse N. Westcott is
detached from the Pensacola Navy Yard and placed on
waiting orders. The President has made the followine:
appointments :—Felix Costa, to be Surveyor of Customs
at St. Louis ; James E. M`Lean, Collector of Chicago ;
Edward Giddling, Assessor of Internal Revenue for
Washington Territory ; Alfred Sanford, Supervising
Inspector of Steamboats for the Fourth District ;
Charles H. Boyce, Consul at Prague ; William M. Mor-
rison, Postmaster at Cedar Falls, lowa ; G. M. Sheib-
ley, Postinater at Rome, Georgia.—Miss Bateman is
expected to appear at the Haymarket Theatre, June 21,
to fulfil an engagement for 17 nights, after which she
will return America.—Miss Blanche Ellerman, a pupil of

Signor Arditi, has signed an engagement for ten months
with Mr. Bichings Bernard to sing as prima donna in a
series of operatic performances to be given in the princi-
pal cities of the United states, And to commence in Sep-
tember next.
The Rev. Charles Williamson, an English
clergyman, from the Sandwich Islanc;- arrived at Niagara
Falls, en route for England, May 20. b?Ho C.." one of
the
first through passengers from San Francisco on tri.2 u,
Railroad, and witnessed the ceremony of laying the
rail. He describes the road as in excellent order, and the
route a delightful one.
Mr. Berdan, an officer in the United States army,
has just left Berlin for st. Petersburg, where a breech-
loading rifle of his invention has been adopted for the
equipment of a portion of the army.
The relatives of the late R. M. Evans, formerly
of New York and San Francisco, are requested to com-
mun:cate with his sister (who has valuable papers) at 27,
Sussex-street, Stainsbury-road, Poplar.
It is denied that Mr. Reverily Johnson wa-
mulcted in £2,000 on account of a clause in the lease of
the house he took in London, but it is not denied that it
was taken for a period of five years.
Mr. George Peabody does not intend to remain
in America, but simply went to carry out a philanthropic
object. He was accompanied to Liverpool by Sir Curtis
Lempson, and looked very well.
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, Beaufortrblilliff2P,Stritild,'Lefidon W
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yeationsent.2

IMPERIAL PARLIAT4ENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock,

Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE moved for
capies of any treaty concluded between this country and
the United States relative to the Alabama claims.

The subject led to a short discussion.
The Earl of CLARENDON said he did not know what
were the instructions of Mr. Motley, but he was quite
certain there was every disposition in this country to enter
into the negotiations in the most friendly manner.
Their lord hips then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
THE NAVAL RESERVE.

Mr. CHILDERS, in reply to Mr. Gourlay, said there
was every reason to he satisfied with the conduct and ser-
vice of the naval reserve. The late First Lord of the Ad-
mit alty had substituted three iron-chats for three wooden
line-of-batt'e ships, and he propos,' ti give directions for
the change of four more, so that by the end of the year
the Channel Fleet would Le strengtheled by the addition
of nine powerful ironclads of the Reserve and Coas.gaartt
service.

THE BANK OF BeNGA.L.

Mr. G. DUFF, in reply to Mr. George Gregory, s►id no
actual order had been sent out for tin closing of the
agency established by the Bank of 8.1ng41 within 1113
Presidency, but the Government of India had given direc-
tions for the closing of the agency, whether it had finally
been done ho could nct then say.