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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENINU, JANUARY 19, 1867.

calculated to deter them? He was informed that
several of the lectures which bad been delivered
were very popular, and had attracted some consider-
wlle notice. They should take encouragement, then,
and perhaps they would feel justified in following
-precedents which had been set them in many other
.cases—viz., to create a demand. He believed that
in education this was very often the case, and fre-
quently it was desirable. 'They must not wait until
-the were asked for a certain class of students for a
-certain work. They much teach and make progress,
And merit would declare itself ; it would create a
want, and there would soon be a demand for it.
"When excellence was observed it was speedily ac-
knowledged ; it then became attractive, and was
next desired. (Applause.) This was how they
must proceed ; but they must take heed, and they
must never despair. At present, however, happily
there was no ground for entertaining anything 'ap-
proaching the feeling to which he had referred.
(Hear, hear.) Now, they had before them motions
and resolutions enough on the agenda to occupy a
Parliament. (Laughter.) He hoped there would
not be so many divisions as there were likely to be
i❑ the forthcoming Parliament. (Laughter.) There
were certain points upon which they would exercise
vote by ballot. The Legislature had not got quite
so far, but he believed they would exercise the vote
in kindness, and as it was exercised in many pri-
vate societies. There were as many books to dis-
tribute as would occupy them some time ; and there
were so many prizes to distribute that he should
only be warranted in speaking of the time that
would be required in awarding them by experience.
(Laughter.) When he was in Birmingham a few
months ago he took the liberty of suggesting a few
topics, which had caused some discussion in the
public journals. He was still of the same opinion
as then, and he believed the result of the adoption
of his suggestions would have been the promotion
of greater interest, and at the same time to elicit
the display of a greater amount of talent. The
things which most interested men were politics and
religion, and under proper control he believed their
discussion would be free from all inconvenience, and
would highly benefit the classes. He could not but
think it was highly important that they all should
be brought round to a state in which they could
meet together calmly, and quietly discuss the things
upon which they differed. (Hear, hear.) Let
them learn to listen a little, let them learn to
reason a little, and then they would hear pa-
tiently what had to be said against their
own convictions. He had an illustration in
his mind's eye at that moment. There was a case
in point only a few days ago at Stafford, where, at
a lecture by an eminent Professor, the representa-
tives of labour and capital were present. They all
knew that there were sometimes disputes between
the two, and that when employed and employer
were brought together the meeting was likely to
partake of a lively character. Well, the Professor
was very able and well qualified to deal with the
subject ; and it was rather amusing to observe the
members of one class, when he gave a little turn of
the scale, give a little murmur ; then, when he gave
a little turn the other way, there was another mur-
mur from the other class. Ile thought that discus-
sions of these questions and discussions of other
matters not relating to trade might be conducted
calmly and philosophically. If this could be done
it would be a great advantage to all parties, and
would improve them in many ways, of which they
could not gain a view from their present position.
He believed they had all a great deal to learn in
this respect, and they should all try to discuss mat-
ters on which they differed without animosity, with-
out angry feeling, and without reference to party.
He next referred to the accommodation for the
students of the Institute, and expressed the hope
that as the members increased they would have ac-
commodation for all who presented themselves for
participation in the advantages it offered. (Cheers.)
A vote of thanks was awarded to Lord Harrowby
for his services during his presidency, and Mr. Com-
missioner Hill, Q.C., was elected president for the
ensuing year.

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The Atlantic and Great Western Railway.

The following, taken from the Railway News, Of
the 12th inst., with Messrs. Glenn and Co.'s reply
thereto, may be of interest to our readers :
Some correspondence has been forwarded to us
for publication, relative to the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway, and which may serve to illustrate
some of the means by which the securities of this
railway have recently been so unduly depreciated
and affected. We are informed that daily, for
several months past, large amounts of money have
been offered to be advanced upon the securities of
the Atlantic and Great 'Western Railway Company.
Coincidently most of the leading bankers and
finance companies have been importuned for loans,
the object being to make it appear, on the one
hand, that the company is in need of such loans,
and, on the other, that its securities are in excessive
supply. This singularly original method of " bear-
ing the market " has been conducted by about
twenty persons and firms, who are clever at invent-
ing new combinations after each successive ex-
posure of their plans.

We are informed upon reliable authority that it
is not possible for any one to have control of the
important amount of securities offered so freely.
'The following is the correspondence referred to :-
16, Water-lane, E.C., Dec. 10, 1866.
"James Mllenry, Esq.
" Sir,—Not having heard from you since the 7th
inst., when writer left with you all our papers,
relating to the loan on the security of Atlantic
and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage Bonds,
which Messrs. Glenn and Co. had asserted they
were instructed to negotiate on direct behalf of the
bondholder, for which purpose appointment had
been made to meet the bondholder at two o'clock at
Messrs. Glenn and Co.'s, to, bring him and Mr.
Curtis to the moneyed party, when, after waiting
some time, no bondholder was coming forward, so
that on that day the first loan of £50,000 could
not be settled as arranged, owing to the default of
Messrs. Glenn and Co., on account of which we
claim our commission of £250 on this first loan, and
refuse to go into the matter again until paid. Will
you kindly let us know what result the interview
had, for which you send a clerk of yours to Mr.
Curtis? We also shall thank you to inform us
whether you think our claim is strong enough on
Messrs. Glenn and Co., so that we undoubtedly get
the verdict, and also whether you believe in that
case the firm would be able to pay the amount and
costs. We add that, should you or your friends
at any time wish to negotiate a loan on security of
marketable commodities, which you want to have
arranged quietly, wrt shall be very glad to receive
your instructions, having no doubt that we could
satisfy you and yours in every respect.—Sir, yours
respectfully, (Signed)

" FELDHOFF AND CO."

" 10th December, 1866.
" Messrs. Feldhoff and Co., 16, Water-lane, E.C.
" Dear Sirs,—l have your favour of this date,
and, on reflection, I cannot think that the affair of
Messrs. Glen and Co. is worthy of further notice
from me. In reference to your offer of as3istance
in any further business, I beg most emphatically to
state that I have not been a borrower of money
during this last year, and am not likely to be for
a year to come. But I thoroughly appreciate the
kindness with which you have brought this matter
before me, and shall be glad at any time to put any
business in your way.—l am, dear Sir, yours
faithfully,

(Signed)

" JAMES M'IIENRY."

" 1G Water-lane, E.C., Dee. 15, 180 G.
" James M'lTenry, Esq.,

" Dear Sir,-,-Your kind note of the 10th inst.
has duly come to hand, and we are obliged for the
expression of goodwill towards us it contains. As
you did not answer our question in the matter of
Messrs. Glenn and Co., we had to follow our own
opinion iu it ; and we beg to acquaint you that we
have resolved to put them in court, which we in-
tend to do to-day. As your evidence relating to
the interview, ordered in writer's presence, with
Mr. Curtis, will be of importance, we beg to ask
you whether we can count upon you as a willing

witness without any legal formality. We further
beg to tell you that we are once more engaged to
advance £200,000, on £600,000 Atlantic and Great
Western Consolidated Bonds, which bonds a house
of standing in the city assures us will be forthcom-
ing. We intend to investigate this affair and to
follow it up. Should the transaction be carried
through we shall inform you of the fact. Should
the bonds not be forthcoming we shall have no ob-
jection to give you the name of the City house above
referred to.—Waiting your answer, we are, dear
Sir, yours truly,
(S►gned) " FELDHOFF AND CO."

" 5, Westminster Chambers, S.W.,
Dec. 15, 1866.

" Dear Sirs,—ln reply to yours of this date, I
shall be most happy to confirm, as a witness or
otherwise, what I have stated to you so emphatically,
that no one is in a position to ask for such a loan
as Mr. Curtis mentioned to you. As to the pro-
posed loan of £200,000, either directly or in-
directly, it is a swindle. This company has not
borrowed any money during the year 1866, and it
is not likely to want any for a year to come.—l am,
dear Sirs, yours faithfully,

JA.MES MMEIsTRY,
" To Messrs. FeldhofT and Co.,
16, Water-lane, E.C."

is 16, Water-lane, E.C., January 2, 1867.
" James APHeury, Esq.

"Dear Sir,—Your favour of the 15th ult. reached
us in due course, and according to our promise we
now beg to inform you that the £600,000 Atlantic
and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage Bonds
referred to in our respects of the 15th ult. have not
been produced ; that Messrs. Trevit6 and Grei,g,
77, Cornhill, were the parties with whom we had
been negotiating, that the statement in writing put
forward by them was :—, Wanted to raise
£200,000 on £600,000 Atlantic and Great Western
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds. There is nomistake
about the bonds being forthcoming, &c.' That
since we put the matter in our solicitor's hands they
have written to the latter, that Mr. William Abbott,
sharebroker, 10, Tokenhouse-yard, had been their
principal, and had handed them the statement re-
ferred to ; that Mr. Abbott had got the business
from Mr. James Madden, 3, Leadenhall-street, who
had written it. Our solicitors have since issued
writs against T. and G. for 1f per cent. commission
on the whole amount in two actions, one as for
commission, the other as for damages. The writs
have been served, and the defendants' solicitor has
entered into an engagement to defend the actions.
Messrs. Glenn and Co have also been served with
writ for commission, per cent. on £50,000, and
their solicitor has entered his appearance. We
have further opened proceedings against Messrs.
Morgan and Carter, accountants, 21, New
Bridge-street, Blackfriars, E.C., for com-
mission, £3BO, for a loan of £50,000
on £150,000 Atlantic and Great Western Consoli-
dated Bonds, for which no bonds were produced.
All these actions are pending in the Queen's Bench,
and will, unless settled to our satisfaction, proceed
to trial. These measures of ours have had the
effect that since the 17th ult., the day we placed the
matters in the hands of our solicitors, we have not
again heard of any loan being wanted, and we are
informed that since that time this loan fever has
altogether ceased.--Wishing you the compliments of
the season, we remain, dear Sir, yours truly,
(Signed) 6, FELDHOFF AND CO."

" 5, Westminster Chambers, S.W., Jan. 3, 1867.
" Messrs. Feldhoff and Co., 16, Water-lane, E.C.
" Dear Sirs,--I have your favour of the 2nd inst.,
and approve very much of your energetic measures.
May I be allowed to print your correspondence ?
I am, dear Sirs, very faithfully yours,
(Signed) " JANIES AMENRY."

" 16, Water-lane, E.C., Jan. 4, 1867.
" James I\l'llenry,Esq.
" Dear Sir,—ln answer to your yesterday's
favour, we beg to say we have no objection what-
ever against your publishing the correspondence
which has taken place between us.—We remain,
dear Sir, yours truly,

(Signed)

" FELDITOFF AND CO."

Miscellaucous American News.

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At the banquet given to the Congressional excur-
sionists at Memphis several political speeches were
made. Senator Wade spoke at length, declaring
that Congress would take no steps backwards.
The President on the 19th December, through
the War Department, directed General Sickles to
issue an order, suspending in his department until
further instructions articles five and six of his
General Order, declaring that corporeal punishment
should not be inflicted upon any person other than
a minor, and also interfering with the State law on
the subject of vagrancy. In compliance with the
request made in the same letter, a copy of the order
directed to be issued has been received from
General Sickles' head-quarters.

Through the Atlantic Cable we have the informa-
tion that the Radical members of Congress are per-
sistent in their efforts for the impeachment of the
President.

The call for a Congressional National Tempe-
rance Society has been very generally assigned. The
wholelllinois
delegation have their names upon it,
and the mittee have invited Andrew Johnson to
com
affix his autograph to the call, and then preside at
their meetings. If he declines General Grant will
be invited. It is the intention of the members im-
mediately upon organisation to issue circular let-
ters to all the Governors inviting them to agitate
the subject with the Legislatures.

Darling's Committee have developed extensive
frauds in the manufacture of 'whisky in New York
city. They find nearly every revenue officer there
in complicity with illegal stills, while many very
prominent citizens are seriously compromised. One
inspector, who bas only been serving a few months,
and who was absolutely destitute when appointed,
now keeps his carriage and liveried servants, and
lives in an elegant mansion, for which he paid
promptly on its purchase. They will continue their
investigations after the holidays.
The Post-office at Port Deposit, Maryland, was
entered on Monday night, 24th Dec., by burglars,
and all the letters in the office rifled, including the
mail matter of the Southern and the Eastern mails,
and also for Lancaster and Washington, to be mailed
next morning. From 600 to 700 letters were taken
away. An officer of the Post-office Department
has left Washington to investigate the matter.
Work on the Pacific Railroad has been suspended
for the winter. It is open for 268 miles west of
Omaha, or about half way to Denver. The faro
through to Denver is $lOO or $25 for 300 miles of
railway, and $75 for 300 miles of staging. Express
freight is 85 cents a pound.
The Commissioner of Crown Lands has received
from the inspector of the Medoc gold region rich
specimens of gold in quartz and sand. The inspec-
tor reports mining operations carried on- in five
concessions in Medoc, and 14th concession of Hun-
tingdon. From one lot between $l,OOO and $1,500
have been taken out. Gold was first struck at a
depth of 20 feet. From specimens of quartz seen
the inspector is of the opinion that gold exists
through the townships of Rawdon, Medoc, and
Eliziver, and portions of Marmora an 1 Tudor.
Three thousand persons visited the mining regions
last month.

The Philadelphia Inquirer remarks that " the
proclamation of the President, showing that by
'recent regulations made in France, vessels of the
United States are to be admitted to enter the ports
of that country upon the same terms as French
vessels, as far as regards tonnage duties, is an
agreeable commercial fact. The favour being
granted, it is ours to reciprocate, and so we have
the official announcement, that, in consequence,
French vessels, hereafter in our ports, or so long as
the said French regulations are in force, shall pay
no greater tonnage duties than our own vessels.
Reciprocity in these matters leads to better feeling
in others,
and amity is strengthened and enforced
by the mutual obligations and duties which ari6e.
between nations."

The National •lntelligencer gives the following
estimate of the production of gold in the United
States during the year 1866 ;--" The value of the

bullion in lumps, bars, ingots, or otherwise,'
assessed during the fiscal year 1866, is given by the
internal revenue returns at $81,389,451. Of this
amount $70,032,805 was assessed in the Pacific and
Rocky Mountain States asd territories, and the re-
mainder chiefly in the Atlantic seaboard cities. It
is estimated that in the gold-producing regions of
the country at least 25 per cent. of the product
escaped assessment, and that of the gold assessed in
the Atlantic seaboard cities one-half is of domestic
production. In view of these facts, and taking the
internal revenue returns as a basis of estimate, the
production of gold in the fiscal year 1866 is calcu-
lated at $93,219,374. The production of gold in
1865 is estimated at $73,541,358, an increase in
1866 of $19,675,015."
From Harrisburgh we hear that a very exciting
contest for the Speakership of the House closed on
the evening of December 31. The successful can-
didate was Colonel Glass, of Allegheny. Colonel
Glass was opposed by Mr. Qaay, of thaver, but
after a hard contest Mr. Quay withdrew before
entering the caucus, and the result was the unani-
mous choice of Colonel Glass. No other nomina-
tions were made by the caucus, except one for the
Clerk of the House. It was understood that a State
Treasurer was to have been nominated that night,
but owing to the excitement attending the Speaker-
ship question, it was postponed. The election of
Senator does not take place on January Bth, as has
been stated, but on January 15th, the same day on
which the Governor is inaugurated. Another
correspondent mites :—Dec. 31—At a caucus h-ld
this afternoon by the Republican members of the
Senate, the following were chosen officers of the
Senate :—Speaker, Louis W. Hall, of Blair ; Clerk,
George W. Hammersley, of Philadelphia; Assistant
Clerks, Lucius Rogers, of M'Kean, and Colonel Fred.
Hitchcock, of Luzerne ; Sergeant-at-Arms, Major
William Hinkson, of Chester; Doorkeeper, Edgar
King, of Fulton ; Messenger, Robert Sharp, of Phi-
ladephia ; Librarian, Jacob Styers.

Commissioner Wells announces his intention of
defeating the House Tariff Bill, and has said to a
distinguished North-Western senator I intend
to kill it, if not at this session, then at the next."
The wool-growers charge boldly that he has gone
over to the interests of the Free-traders.

Ground will be broken on the European and
North American Railway, Bangor (Maine), on the
Ist of January. The mayor, city councilmen, and
other prominent citizens will be present. The
bridges are being built, and the work of grading
will be commenced early in the spring. There is no
doubt that this great national enterprise will be
rapidly pushed to completion.
The number of fires recorded in late American
papers are unusually numerous. From Chicago we
hear that on the 31st December a destructive fire
occurred at Minneapolis, burning down the Chro-
nicle office, and nine buildings on Washington-
avenue, between Helen and Minnetonka streets.
The loss is $lOO,OOO, with an insurance of $50,000.
On the previous evening a fire at Sterling (Illinois)
destroyed four wooden buildings, including the stores
of Allen Green, grocer, and M. D. Lewis, gun-
smith. The loss is $lO,OOO, with a small insurance.
Also, on the 31st December, the Park House at New-
port was destroyed. Loss about $6,000. Insured.
At New Haven the same day, an explosion took
place at the oil refinery of Cowles and Leete, on
Long Wharf, instantly killing the foreman, Fred.
Thompson. The building immediately took fire
and was consumed. The loss is about $15,000. On
the same day at Cleveland a fire broke out in the
crockery and glassware importing house of W. 0.
Fowler, on River-street, and burned for five hours.
The loss on stock and building will reach from
$50,000 to $60,000, which is well insured in eastern
companies. At one time a terrible conflagration
was threatened, as there are several oil works and
liquor stores in the vicinity. Many other instances
are recorded from over-heated stove-pipes, careless-
ness, or explosions old oil. The destruction to pro-
perty, and the risks to life, imperatively demand
the greatest caution to be exercised, and stringent
regulations to be enforced with regard to safe cus-
tody of inflammable and explosive materials.
The Royal Engineers have been surveying the
south side of the river St. Lawrence, for the last
six months, for fortifications to protect the city in
that quarter. It is understood that the Kingston,
Ottawa, and Toronto districts will shortly be sur-
veyed for over 200 miles.

The internal Revenue receipts of the United
States, Jan. 1, were larger than they had been for
several weeks, amounting to one million and a
quarter dollars.
General Ashley, Chairman of the House Com-
mittee on Territories, has remained in Washington
during the present recess, attending to committee
business. He has prepared a bill to be reported on
the reassembling of Congress, having in view the
reorganisation of the Southern States, not, however,
remanding them to a territorial condition, but re-
cognising the present arrangements until conven-
tions can be called to remodel the respective State
Governments.

Grounds and buildings for a coloured university
have been purchased in Washington by General
Howard, one of the trustees. At this institution
preachers, doctors, and teachers will be fitted, the
first two professions, it is said, being united. The
college will be opened about the Ist of February.

The American Social Science Association has de-
cided to hold during the year special meetings cf
the several sections into which the society is divided.
The section on education is to meet in Boston on
the first Wednesday of March, President Sears, of
Providence, being the sectional chairman, and Hon.
John D. Philbrick, of Boston, secretary .

A party of miners who were recently coming
down the Missouri river in a mackinaw were at-
tacked by Indians near the mouth of the Yellow-
stone, and the entire party murdered.
We make the following extract from the Nation:
—"President Roberts has characteristically enough
written to Lynch, one of the condemned prisoners
in Canada, expressing his (Roberts's) regret that he
is not to be hanged, and exhorting him, if he is
hanged, to die bravely. The Fenian farce would
hardly have been complete without this little touch.
Artemus Ward's willingness to have the blood of
his wife's uncle shed on the altar of his country is
very like Mr. Roberts's devotion to the cause of
Ireland. It seems so easy in the Bowery, New
York, for another man not to be afraid of being
hanged in Toronto."
It is said that a new oil has recently been dis-
covered in some of the shales of Central Mis-
souri. It is non-explosive, and reported to be
superior to ordinary petroleum. About sixty gal-
lons are obtained from a ton of the rock.

The Legislature of North Carolina has passed a
bill granting a general pardon and amnesty to
officers and soldiers of the United States and of the
Confederate States, for offences committed against
the criminal laws of the State, in the discharge of
their duties.

The New Bowery Theatre, New York, belonging
to Mr. Lingard, was totally destroyed by fire on the
afternoon of Tuesday, the 18th of December.
Whether truthfully or not, it is officially an-
nounced, through the Mississippi Clarion, that in
that State, freedmen may, and dopurchase and hold
legally, real estate, and bear arms without a license.
There is coloured emigration from South Caro-
lina to Liberia and Florida ; and white and coloured
to Louisiana and Texas.

In Frank Leslie's illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 3,
page 233, there is a picture of an admirable colum-
nar fountain, one of the projected erections of the
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. These fountains will be so constructed
as at once to supply water to thirsty passers from
the faucets, to horses from the broad circul4r
trough, and to dogs and other smaller animals pecu-
liarly subject to suffering from thirst and conse-
quent hydrophobia, from the small square trough
at the base. They will at the same time form hand-
some architectural ornaments to the streets, and we
trust that so humane and useful a design will be
very generally imitated.
There are at this time in South Carolina 11 cot-
ton factories in successful operation, running 27,200
spindles and 996 looms, the largest one, the Kalmia
Mills, having 10,000 spindles and 600 looms, and
the smallest one, the Valley Falls Factory, having
500 spindles.

Mr: Stevens ,true to his convictions o the import-

ance of education now, as when he struggled for a pub-
lic school system in Pennsylvania, has obtained in the
house the appointment of a committee of seven " to
report a bill to establish a system of free common
schools for the district of Columbia, from which
no child six years old or more, residing in the said
district, shall be excluded, except for improper con-
duct ; the schools to be supported by taxes impar-
tially levied on the assessable property of the dis-
trict, together with such fixed annual appropriation
as Congress may grant." The committee appointed
is a strong one, and very properly embraces but a
single Democrat.

The Nation remarks—" We see it is proposed, in
order to prevent a certain class of frauds upon the
Department of Internal Revenue, that the United
States should go into the business of whisky -
making. People who habitually drink spirits
would no doubt be very glad to know that the faith
of the nation was pledged for the goodness of the
national beverage, and even the man who has got
no further on his 'road from the caster to the
gutter' than the drinking of tea and coffee might
properly enough rejoice philanthropically that some
at least of the spirits drunk were innocent of vitriol
and turpentine. And the injury to the Treasury
now daily inflicted is certainly immense and calls
loudly for a cure. It is notorious that a
detective in search of an offender has
before him a task of hardly more difficulty
than this—to find a distiller. Then if he
waits long enough his pains are pretty sure to be
rewardol. But it would be a singular way of
remedying the evil of fraudulent returns and the
bribing of officials to encourage universal illicit
distilling, and this would surely ensue. What is
certain about distilling is, that whenever the tax on
distilling is high enough to make illicit distilling
profitable, illicit distilling there will be ; and if the
tax be very high, there will be a great deal. This
plan of putting down dram-drinking has been
tried in Great Britain and failed. Drunkenness
does not diminish under it, while the quality of
the liquor is lowered, and fraud and perjury
greatly increased. Government distilling in this
country, managed by a system of rotation in office,
would probably combine every known form of
rascality and vice, exclusive of crimes of violence."
A son of General Robert E. Lee has been chosen
Professor of Mathematics in the Maryland Agricul-
tural College at Bladensburg. He is a graduate of
West Point, and an ex-officer of the late Southern
Confederacy.

Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, has introduced
into Congress a bill for the establishment in Wash-
ington of a library and reading-room for the free
use of Government employes.

Since Mr. Campbell, the new Mexican Minister to
Juarez, has been in Mexico some thieves have
visited his residence in Ohio, and stolen all his
horses, carriages, and harnesses.

Hepworth Dixon has announced that his work
on New America will be published early in
January.
" St. Elmo," Miss Augusta Evans' new story,
will be published simultaneously in New York and
London.

Alderman Lowe has written a letter to a New
York daily, in which he announces that the aerial
bridge to span Broadway, corner of Fulton, is to
be erected without delay.
Mr. A. T. Stewart is about to retire from active
business.

Mr. Hamilton Murray, president of the City
Bank, died at Oswego, Dec. 31.
A private in the Rifle Brigade was accidentally
killed on Christmas-day at the Victoria Barracks,
Montreal, by falling down stairs.
Secretaries Seward and Welles did not receive
visitors on New Year's-day, on account of recent
domestic affliction in their respective families.
Mrs. Senator Patterson and Mrs. Stover were to
receive, with the President. The opening of the
New Year was to be observed as a holiday.
It is stated that Sir Moses Montefiore has de-
termined, since his return last spring from the Holy
Land, to erect another hospice at Jerusalem for the
residence of several poor Israelitish families. This
building will be on a large scale, anl is to be near
to that which was erected in the year 1859.
At Albany recently a little boy named Hogan
was playing among some empty potato barrels with
three or four children. He got into one of them
feet foremost, and his innocent companions play-
fully raised the barrel upon its end, thus placing the
boy upon his head. In this position lie was left
until the blood rushed to his head and his face had
become black from the came. When removed he
Was taken to his home, but died in a few hours
afterwards.

Samuel B. Ruggles, one of the United States
Commissioners to the Paris Exposition, is now in
Washington for the purpose of conferring with the
Government and Congress on the present condition
and prospects of that affair. Ile reports a very
large amount of cereals, mineral products, agricul-
tural machinery, &c., as having arrived at the
agency in New York, and that everything looks
most favourable.

EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.—The number of emi-
grants which have arrived at New York during the
year will closely approach, if it does not exceed,
230,000 ; probably a quarter of that number has
arrived at other ports in the same time ; so that the
year's emigration may be roughly estimated at about
300,000. The increase over last year is very con-
siderable, and yet, looking to the causes tending
thereto, it is not marvellously large. The produc-
ing power of the country is largely increased by
emigration, and the tax-bearing strength of the
people considerably advanced. It is estimated that
every emigrant—man, woman, and child—is good
for an import of specie to the amount of at
least $6O. Many, it is true, bring very
little or nothing, except their readiness and
capacity for labour; but others have their hundreds,
and even thousands, and thus make up the average.
Taking this average as correct, the immigration of
this year has added to our supply of hard money, the
handsome sum of about $18,000,000. There should
be some more efficient provisions than are now
existing, to transfer this great flood of people at
once to the interior from the-seaport cities. In the
central, western, north-western, and south-western
States, their means and labour can be employed to
more use and profit to themselves and the country
at large than in the great cities on the Atlantic or
on the Gulf. The labour market in this city is
already overstocked, while_the -farming districts of
the West and the rising country towns of the
interior afford opportunities unparalleled anywhere
for every one not only to gain a living, but soon to
rise to comparative independence. Even for pro-
fessional men, such as physicians, civil engineers,
&c., the advice is best, "Tarry not a moment
longer than absolutely- necessary in the city where
you landed--bend your steps at once to the West."
—New York Times, Dec. 29.

A report of the superintendent of the Mint in
the United- States shows that the coinage in
that country of gold, silver, and copper between
the years 1793 and 1867 amounted to 987,500,000
dollars, of which 845,500,000 dollars was gold. The
coinage in Calfornia for eight months of last year
was 9,642,000 dollars in gold, and 500,000 dol-
lars in silver.
WEALTH OF AMERICAN MINES AND MANUFAC-
TURES.—The figures of the Report of the Commis-
sioner of internal Revenue present the strongest
possible proof of the ability of the country to sustain
and pay its present debt. The total amount raised
from this source of taxation is $3111,906,984.17,
an amount within 22 millions of the total revenue
of the British Empire, and far in excess of the
amount raised from similar taxes in that country.
This is an increase over the proceeds of the last
official year of nearly ninety millions. The tax on
iron and steel, notwithstanding its reduction, has
produced $13,728,133.36, an increase of four and a
half millions over last year. Petroleum pays
$5,317,396, an increase of nearly two and a quarter
millions ; tobacco and cigars nearly sixteen millions,
an increase of over four millions ; while spirits,
notwithstanding the evasions of the law, of which
the Commissioner complains and almost despairs,
unless a self-registering still be invented, produce
$29,198,578.15, an increase of over 13 millions ;
and the three mouths that have elapsed, since the
close of the fiscal year, show a more than corre-

sponding increase in the tax arising from this article.
A yet more remarkable increase is seen in the
growth of the returns of income tax, from
$20,567,350.26 to $60,894,135.85. The Commis'
sioner, among his recommendations, suggests the
increase of the amount exempted from this tax to
sl,ooo.—Pittsburgh Mining Journal.