The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-31 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(Front CorreTonfleats of theng/o-American Times.)
29
Pail's, August .
I'll put a girdle round about the earth in fou Aitrty minuters.
SsrEAn.
Had friend Puck lived in the present day his
boast would have been rendered comparatively easy
of execution by a simple visit to the Universal
Exposition, where he would have found all the
countries of the earth brought together to his hand,
as in like manner the seven-leagued boots, which
another friend of our early years found so
efficacious, would be now comparatively valueless.
I commence my resume this week with a somewhat
hazardous undertaking, viz.—by taking the reader
out frota under the shelter and shadow of the
American flag where I left him last week, and that,
too, on one of the very hottest days I have yet
experienced at Paris, the domes of the Egyptian and
Turkish kiosks glowing in the sun's rays like cover-
ings of molten lava, and the universal locomotion
going on on every side giving one the vertigo. A.
little way down a division of the dragoons of the
guard are bathing their horses in the Seine, and it
is curious to behold the discipline preserved alike by
the human automaton as well as by the quadrupeds,
as drawn up in square they deploy into line, and
wind round the Abrevoir, a watering-place, falling
again into square or column as they issue from the
water, whilst moored in mid-stream lies an English
merchant schooner, with the inscription Old
English Ale painted on the side of the cool-
looking awning stretched out between decks,
but she lies out in the middle of the river
with no soul apparently moving on board, so that
the success of any attempt on the aforesaid ale ap-
pears more than problematical. But I must not
linger—pass we along the enceinte, encountering
the exquisitely-fitted pavilion of the Emperor,
around which the motley throng are permitted to
pass with full power of peeping in at the windows,
the Kiosks of the Bible Society, where those un-
wearied labourers in the -vineyard are distributing
gratuitously in every known language the Word in
little miniature books. I got myself a diamond
edition of St. Luke's Gospel in French, as I was
curious to see the character of the work distributed,
which I shall take care to preserve as one of the
most pleasing souvenirs of the Exposition. The
distributors themselves were worthy of remark, the
one especially who handed me the little cadeau in
question, dressed entirely in black, and under the
middle height. Though wiry, one could trace
easily in the sharp, attenuated face, and quick, restless
dark eye, the features of one performing a duty
which was at the same time a passion and enthu-
siasm—one of such men as always do their work
well, from the days of the Puritans of old even down
to our time. Passing the plain and unassuming
Kiosk of the Cross we come upon the gorgeous
palace of the Crescent, belonging to his Highness
the Bey of Tunis, and a fac-s imile, it is said, of the
original so far away. Next comes a gigantic erec-
tion, purporting to be an ancient Mexican Temple
of sacrifice, guarded by three slender-looking
greasers in full Mexican costume, two clad in the
rich velvet jacket and calzoneros, or short full
trousers and legging of velvet, ornamented with
myriads of shining buttons ; the third wearing the
costume in buff leather of a vaquero, who demand,
however, the sum of 25 centimes for entrance. We
pass on, for the sight of a stone of sacrifice merely,
is not worth 25 centimes, and the remembrance of
the recent cold-blooded one with which all Europe
rings, induces us to pass the treacherous-looking
brigand with disgust, though not without casting
one glance of commiseration at the wretched-looking
little army tent, which an inscription informs the
passer-by to have been the refuge of the unfortunate
Empress Charlotte, amidst the ruins of Xochitlan,
on the night of the memorable sth of February.
But the heat is intolerable. Let us turn this angle
of shrubbery, where a ruined tower, spouting forth
sheets of water from the moss eesnveloped roots
embedded in its green base, giv one a picture
of some similar castellated ruin in Germany,
a sketch which Bulwer might introduce with effect
in the " Pilgrims of the Rhine," the whole being
completed. by a little miniature Like, which receives
the v krious streams of water, and conveys them
underground to another part of the park, and reach
that long, low, neatly-thatched building, with
wings and dependencies to match. That is one of
the most complete, as well as the unst interesting
of the various buildings which fill up in much ad-
mired confusion the interior of the park. That is
a zuivelbcerderig (I am thankful that I have only
to write the word), or model of a Dutch dairy farm
sent over by the Agricultural Society of Holland.
It wits intended that the requisite complement of
cows should accompany the building, but in conse-
quence of the bovine peste, which was then prevalent,
their importation was interdicted by the French
Government. This proves a sad loss tc the visitor,
who would otherwise have had an opportunity of
seeing the farm house in full activity, whereas at
present—

No one now
Dwells in tho Halls of Ivor.
The next cow house, with its various appendages
for milking and drainage, even down to the minute
arrangetnent of a cord fastened by each rack to tie
up the hind leg of any refractory milky wether is
alas empty, whilst in the. dairy itself the quaintly-
dressed brazen mill;-carmen, burnished to the hue
of gold ; the new buckets, hooped with bright
copper ; the cheese presses ; the various apparatus
too numerous to mention, even down to the
huge, old-fashioned Dutch dishes of blue delf,
were on the chimney piece, are all inactive,
and the visitor may only guess at the scene
that would have presented itself had the whole been
in full operation, when it would have required no
great additional stretch of the imaginatbn to have
figured the massive table, covered with a snow-
white cloth, and the various rural delicacies of eggs,
butter, ham, bawl* dough-nuts, &c., &c., which a
Dutch pastoral menage affords. Mynheer Wyde-
breeken, himself smoking his huge pipe in a corner,
and dictating his orders to the various stalwart
boers in his employ ; his good-looking Frouw,
adorned with her immense gold earrings, here,
there, and everywhere, keeping the maids in order ;
and, in short, producing in its full perfection that
managing industry of which one at present only
sees the implements. There is nothing remarkable
in the summer parlour, but in the winter one the
bcdplaces are built in the wall, with sliding wooden
shutters, and resemble the berths on shipboard. In
all points, however, the Metairie Hollandaise is most
complete and perfect, and is an exhibition a visit to
which will well reward the voyageur. But we have
come a long way to-day. We have brought our
worthy reader from America to Mexico, from
Mexico to Tunis, and thence to Holland, where we
will leave him for the present, beneath the shadow
of the thatched Dutch roof, to recruit his energies
after the fatigues of his excursion.
Considering the immense number of persona of
all countries finding their way iu Paris without
possessing the slightest knowledge whatever either
of the French language or customs, it is a wonder
to me that instances of imposture are not of far
more frequent occurrence, and nothing but the ex-
traordinary activity of the police and detectives
averts this. I happened myself to be passing a few
days since through the Rue St. Lazare, when, find-
ing myself in need of some refreshment, I entered
the lir3t restaurant at hand. Scarcely had I com-
mcncod my repast when my attention was at-
tracted by the singtilar conduct of a respect-
able-looking elderly gentleman, having the ap-
pe trance of a retired traiesman, or captain of
a merchant vessel, who, with his wife, was
seated at the next table, and who was en-
deavouring to convey by signs and gesti-
culations the most emphatic his wants
attendant garcim, the 1 itter not only gesticu to the
lating
as furiously, but raising his voice in the manner one
would address a deaf person, and evidently drawing
out his customer for the amusement of the other
guests. My friend had succeeded in obtaining a
ragout, a salad, and some tea, and there was an addi-
tional requirement which it was utterly beyond his
poNv
er to make the waiter comprehend. At this
point I interfered, offering my services as interpreter,
which were gladly accepted, when I found my new
friend was ar, American, that the article he required
was milk, of which only he drank, but which he had

been hitherto unable to procure owing to his entire
ignorance of the French language. He had been
three weeks in Paris, having seen little or nothing,
would I kindly give him the French for milk and
dairy ; could I recommend him an agent of change ;
madame would be obliged by informing her the
name of the street in which Napoleon lived, &c., &c.
I gratified him at once by writing down the various
information in his pocket-book, but, as I found his
continued questions likely to occupy more time than
I could conveniently spare, I " levanted," leaving
him as a general panacea for all his ills and wants
the address of the Franco in Paris, and pondering
as I went, upon the sententious remark of Mr. Wel-
ler, iu reference to the charity-boy and the alphabet,
Was it worth while to come so far, and go through
so much, to so little advantage.

PAr.is, Aug. 29.

The present fashions are all packed in large
arches hermetically locked by nimble dressmakers'
fingers, and are now being safely conveyed to the
seaside chateaux or the most fashionable watering-
places. Not one glimpse of the treasures thus de-
spatched is to be obtained in Paris by any but the
initiated—the glories of attire are not to strike
friends " all of a heap" until they expand either at
the brilliantly illuminated Casino or by the green
glittering waves under moonlight. The only fact
positively known is, that our supreme elegantes
have voted for the abolition of Empire styles in
favour of Eastern splendour, and that those who
possess more of the piquant beauty attributed to
Madame de Pompadour than of the Hebrew type,
contend for Louis XV. and the style adopted by
his favourites. We are, therefore, in a period of
transition, the top of our heads is all chignon that
is imperial, the end of our attire is all sweeping, a
neutral conclusion. This is a very unsatisfactory
state to ladies who wish to know positively what they
are to wear, and who look to me for reliable infor-
mation. I will therefore give those items which
will be useful all this autumn and next winter, re-
serving those uncertain attempts for a later com-
munication. In the first place, ladies will continue
to show their feet by day and their necks by night,
each thus coming in for a full share of admiration

in turn.
Let no one believe in bonnets called caleches by
our ancestors until they are universally adopted. I
think our wreaths and veils, answering the purpose
of bonnets, will prevail against what in English is
called the coal-scuttle shape. A wreath can cer-
tainly not be called warm head gear, but there are
ways and means of turning leaves so as to make
them comfortable, a fact I noticed yesterday at the
Champ de Mars, where a painted old lady, the image
of Jezabel, wore her's bound round her forehead.
Princess Matbilde and the Queen of Portugal
have purchased several of the newest chine silks.
These chines are to be worn until winter, when bro-
cades will be all in full vogue. A white ground with
chine wall-flowers or nasturiums creeping up the
centre of each width, or a pyramid of large carna-
tions decreasing in size towards the waist, on a
grey ground, are the most elegant of the kind.
Applications on silk of velvet flowers will be the
richest toilette for winter receptions. heart's-ease,
for instance, in the natural tints on green, sheaves
of variegated velvet on black, fuschias on brown,
black velvet moss roses on black poult, and others
no less costly. Meanwhile, Sultanes made with
Marie Antoinette, fichus instead of mantles, co-
loured silks under muslins, striped Chamberys, light
goat's hair, much trimmed with coloured cross cuts
or rouleaux of satin, are the order of the day.
Our new sashes are now gathered in as plaited at
the lower ends and terminated by a bow. I can-
not call it graceful, but it is the novel idea. Natnral
flowers are laid flat round loose muslin, alpaca, or
white Sultane jackets, the same ornaments in the hair,
ears, and on the neck. Violets or vine are much
worn thus. Jet will prevail a long time yet, but
the higher kind of trimming will be rich gimp and
lace. Jet is getting too common for either vel-
vet or satin. Browns, nut, maize, and toad
colour are the favourite shades, and the orna-
ments most envied are opals. A prevailing
mania his given a story connected with it. Opal
have their tale, or rather, if the new fashionable
theory is to be credited, they are tell-tales, for-
tune-tellers, or omens themselves. They are sup-
posed to possess a wonderful influence, whether
magnetic, electric, or mesmeric, is not explained ;
but is sornethitg mysterious, ending in ie, which,
of course, women do not understand. This new
discovery was made a few weeks ago, a little before
Madame Frigard's trial, when ladies were so much
absorbed by the Fontainebleau murder, so assi-
duous at the sittings of the Court, that the strange
incident was not commented on more than a month.
The facts are as follows :—A Russian princess
had been presented with a set of opals by a dear
absent one, a fervent admirer, and a gentle-
man consequently. He suddenly ceased to be a
regular correspondent, and on one melancholy morn
the opals were drawn from their box for private
contemplation. Oh, anguish I the gems were colour-
lesi—they had no more brilliancy in them than
fishes' eyes, and were just as expressive of tender
feeling. A few hours later a letter was delivered
from the admirer :he was dangerously ill. " The
opals !" exclaimed the princess, and again consulted
them ; they were fainter still than before, and con-
tinued to whiten every hour. In the evening a
second letter announced that the beloved was dead,
and one glance at the opals before a long swoon
showed all the opals fallen into calcinated ashes.
From that day no one will disbelieve that pearls and
opals can die as well as turquoises, that they catch
cold, and even shrink into dust if touched by vinegar
or acid, or damp of any description. All gems are
being exchanged for opals, and thus the feelings of
the absent will soon be known as easily as the time
of day.

A correspondent of the New York 7ribune tells
the story of the recent disaster on the Union Pacific Rail-
road, six miles from Plum Creek station, where the Indians
succeeded in throwing a train from the line, and murder-
ing seven of the emp/oyis. Conductor Kinney saw the-
dark forms rising from the ground, and conjectured that
the accident was the work of Indians. Another train was
but 10 minutes behind, so, securing a red flag, he ran with
all speed to meet the train, whose reflector shone in the
dark like a star above the horizon. The Indians pursued,
but Kinney succeeded in placing himself in front of the
rushing train, so that the light fell full on him and his
flag, which the engineers seeing, whistled doe'n breaks,
and, after a short consultation, returned at full speed to
Plum Creek. As they left they saw the Indians dancing
around the cars in flames, and he.►rd their voices as they
chanted the war saga of the tribe.
If you have a screw rusted into wood, or a nut or
bolt that will not readily turn, pour on a little kerosene
and let it remain. In a little while it will penetrate the
interstices, so that the screw may be easily started.—

Builder.
The conversion of bone dust, ivory filings, &c.,
into solid ivory is a sew businees soon to be started at
Florence, Western Massachusetts. The process by which
the change is made is the invention of the Baldwin Brothers
of that. place.
The old Pennsylvania Bank building at Phila-
delphia is to be removed piecemeal to Portland. The
marble has been marked, lettered and numbered, stone by
stone, and will reappear at the latter city as a custom-
house.
The Superintendent of Education in the
Southern States estimates that 25,00 negroes have

within five miles of the fort, a band of savages, supposed to
number at least 250, rode up and immediately made an
attack. The whites made a desperate resistance, but the
Indians, after killing Lieut. Jump and others, and wound-
ing two privates, succeeded in stampeding the cattle from
the train coned. The whites then took position behind a
breastwork formed of waggons, boxes, ox yokes, &c., and
the savages encircled them with wild yells, contin-
uing the fight with fiendish desperation. The whites
fought the Indians for three hours, killing and
wounding a great many, who were immediately carried
off the field by their comrades. The battle continued
with unabated vigour until Major Smith, with two com-
panies of United States regulars and two howitzers came
to the rescue from Fort Phil Kearney, when the Red Men
retreated, going north-east, leaving five dead bodies on
the field. Major Powell reports the total loss of the
savages at sixty killed outright, and a large number
wounded.
The suspension bridge to connect New York with
Brooklyn has been commenced. Its total length is to be
5,862 feet, and it will stretch front the City Hall Park to
the intersection of Fulton and Sands Streets, in Brooklyn.
The width for the first five hundred feet on either side
will be one hundred feet, and the middle section of the
bridge will have a uniform width of ninety feet. It is to
have two roadways, each fifteen feet wide, for carriages
and carts ; two additional roadways, each thirty feet in
width, for railway trains, and an elevated promenade for
foot passengers. Trains of cars, drawn by a stationary
engine at the end of the line, will cross the bridge at in-
tervals of every five minutes, and one thousand passengers
will find room in each train. The estimated cost of this
great work is six millions of dollars, and it is to be com-
pleted in five or six years.
On the 16th the famous yacht Henrietta, victor
in the recent ocean race to the Isle of Wight, was sold by
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, jun., for the sum of $50,000.
It is understood that her new owners have not purchased
her for private use, but hope to make a large speculative
profit from the celebrity of her maritime name and deeds.
AMERICAN DESERTERS IN MALTA.—We are sorry
to hear that American ships of war coming into this har-
bour are much exposed to desertions from the crew, and that
the American authorities here have no power to arrest them.
This is evidently a drawback to American ships of war
visiting this port, where much good feeling exists between
the two countries, and where the expenditure would cer-
tainly be of some importance to the people, especially in
times like these of drought and scarcity. When deser-
tions from the crews of ships of war take place in large
commercial ports there is never any difficulty in filling the
vacancies; but hero, in this small place, such desertions
are a serious loss, there being no sailors to ship in their
place. It appears to us if an international treaty existed
between Great Britain and the United States the evil
would be remedied, and any soroness arising from these
occurrences would be altogether prevented.—Malta Times.
The " easy divorce " business is being brought
every day nearer and nearer perfection in the West. In
Cincinnati, the other day, a man got a divorce without his
wife's knowledge, upon a simple statement in his petition
that she represented herself to be thirty-two years of age
at the time of her marriage, when she was in reality over
forty, and that she was " a common scold." No papers
were ever served upon her, and the necessary legal notice
was published in a "Price Current," or other paper of
that class which no woman ever sees. Her character, too,
was faultless, and she h mot a child fourteen months old,
and the solo apparent ve of the husband was a
desire to marry another woman. In this case the
attorney, in person, supplied whatever proof was
needed to make out the case, and appears to belong
to a class of " divorce lawyers," who absolutely live by
perjury and fraud. We have not as yet begun to see the
effect on society of our present divorce laws, or of the
moral condition of the legal profession in some of our large
cities ; but if something be not speedily done by way of
reform, the next generation will both see them and feel
them. It may not be expedient to make men live with
women they do not like, but no society can with impunity
suffer men to change their wives as often as they please,
and leave their children unprovided for in the arms of
those whom they abandon. Any community which, by
its legislation, offers scoundrels facilities of this kind
for their scoundrelism, deserves to suffer, and all
friends of pure manners have the consolation of
knowing that it will suffer. No good breed of men or
women ever yet grew up in a country in which marriage
was lightly dissolved. Men who shine in either war or
Face have to be produced in homes, and homes rapidly
disappear in regions where husbands can get rid of their
wives by paying fifty dollars to a knavish attorney. First
the scamps do it, and then the honest men, being used to
seeing it done by the scamps, lose their horror of it, and
laugh over it, and finally they do it themselves, and the
public ceases to look on it as a wrong, and then the chil-
dren grow up to regard marriage as a simple mode of
gratifying a temporary passion, and their mothers as
simply the instruments of their physical procreation, or--
to speak plainly—their dams.— The Nation.
The American Watch Company, of Waltham,
losed their shops the week before last for a month's

vacation.
Bierstaa's great painting, the Domes of the
Yo Semite, which has been exhibited at Boston, has been
visited and admired by 3,000 people. It will soon be re-
moved to the gallery of its owner, Le Grand Lockwood,
Norwalk, the New York banker.
General Grant being pretty universally conceded
the Presidency, two things are settled : First, that the
Vice-President must be taken from civil life; and, second,
that some son of the State of New York is to be the man.
We further hear it said, upon pretty good authority, that
an understanding has been arrived at between the friends
of Governor Fenton and ex-Governor Morgan, by which
the latter will be made Vice-President—Governor Fenton
succeeding to Morgan's place in the Senate. Senator
Roscoe Conkling is said to be strongly in favour of
Morgan for the Vico-Presidency, and to have been active
in bringing about this harmonious result. Funny,
wouldn't it be, if the two candidates for the Vice-Presidency
should be taken from New York City? Mayor John T.
Hoffman on the Democratic side, and Elwin D. Morgan
as the Republican.—New York Citizen.
The arrivals and departures by sea from San
Francisco for the six months ending July Ist were as
follows :—Arrived, 16,488 ; departed, 8,300-. showing an
increase of 8,188 ; nearly one-half of the arrivals lying a
permanent addition to the population. Of this increase
about 2,000 wet e from China.
Immigration from the United States into the
West Indies continues to occupy attention.
A case of poisoning occurred in Martin township,
M‘Lean county, Illinois, on Friday, the 9th instant, re•
suiting in the death of three children of Mr. Hurt, and
probably the death of four other children who were living
at the last accounts. Suspicion rests upon a married
daughter of Mr. Hurt and the brother of her husband, who
are under arrest.
Mr. Paul F. Nicholson, of the World, is about
to start a new programme
journal, called the Season. The
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items :
"Ildme. Octavia Le Vert, the accomplished Southern
authoress, is now at Niagara Falls preparing
a work for
the press, which is likely to command much attention both
North and South.—Colonel James F. Moline (now in
Georgia with General Pope), in a volume entitled " Two
Thousand Miles on Horseback," which is to be published by
Messrs. Hurd and Houghton, describes a tour by way of the
Western States and territories to Santa Fe and back.—
Mr. John P. Brown, Secretary of the United States Lega-
tion at Constantinople, has written a volume on "The
Dervishes; or, Oriental Spiritualism." The Bei% Dr. M.
L. Scudder, of Hartford, has wriiten a history of Method-
ism, forming one large volume, which is soon to be pub-
lished by a Hartford house. Mr. Walt Whitman has
written a lOng and characteristic "Carol of the Harvest of
1867," which is to appear in the next issue of the Galaxy.
Mr. E. M. Tullidge, a Mormon elder of some literary ex-
perience, has written for the same magazine a paper on
" Brigham Young and Mormonism."l
insley's Magazine for September continues the
two admirable tales of the "Adventures of Dr. Brady"
by Russell, and " The Rock Ahead" by Edmund Yates.
We think the publishers right in their notice to the public
contained in this number, that they will issue their maga-
zine henceforth on the 16th instead of at the end of each
month, when the country is deluged by the simultaneous
publication of all the monthlies. We feel confident a
magazine of such sterling merit will meet with the success
it deserves. As an aid toe its literary erit, it is beauti-
fully illustrated, and altogther well got mup.
Professor Faraday died last Sunday, near
Hampton Court.
The Express remarks " that it is in con-
nection with electricity, and its relations with almost all
physical, chemical, and physiological phenomena, that his
fame will principally- depend. His investigations on this
subject led him to the presumption that electricity, mag-
netism, and light are but one and the same force, varying
in effect according to circumstances, but obedient to laws
which will one day be discovered."
A correspondent of the New Fork Times has col-
toctost some curious extracts from early numbers of the
New lurk Gazette, tic first newspaper ever publ i shed in
that city. It b-gau its career on Monday, October
16, 1725, a weekly paper, presenting on one side of the
title a rude cut representing the city arras, and on the
other a picture of a postboy on horseback. The paper,
though dingy, and the print, though coarse, are described
as good for the time. It was printed and published by
William Bradford, an English Quaker, who emigrated to
the New World in 1682, and who was appointed " Royal
printer" for New York in 1693. One of the early numbers
of his paper shows us Irish emigration to New York nearly
a century and a half ago, for the following advertisement
may be seen in the Gazette of Midsummer-day in the year
1728 :—" On Wednesday last arrived hero the ship George
John,. Anthony Adamson commander, from Ireland, who
has on board several Irishmen, women, and boys, servants,
among whom there aro several tradesmen, as carpenters,
weavers, tailors, blacldmiths, &c. Whoever inclines to pur-
chase the times of any of them may apply to the captain
on board of said ship, or to Samuel Moore, supercargo, at
ILL John Daub', at the sign of the Jamaica Pilot, upon

the dock. N.B. They will take either dot tr or wheat as
pay." The two following paragraphs tell eof peril in tra-
velling by sea and by land in those days:— "Philadelphia,
March 13, 1726.—A sloop arrived here on 8- unday last from
Rhode Island, who saw the pirate Snow in :n calm off Block
Island, at a great distance, who sent out th eir boat full of
hands, with a black flag. They came witl tin pistol shot
of the sloop, but the sloop bringing some quarter-deck
guns to fire upon, they made off again." f./ondon, May
14, 1726.—The stage coaches near Bath were stopped
last Thursday by one highwayman, who took what
little money they gave him, which was about
£lO. He said it was too little, but ho put it up, saying
that he had a wife and five children, and th ought it better
to collect charity for them than to lie in pi .son for debt."
Bradford's paper was chiefly filled with new s brought over
by the English packets, and rather heavy me ral essays. We
take two or three specimens of the former ;lass —" Lon-
don, M.trelt 18, 1727.—Yesterday morteng died, aged
85, Sir Isaac Newton, Kt., Master of his Majesty's Mint
at the Tower, to which place is an ae:.ed a salary of
£5OO per annum, and President of this Royal Society."
" London, November 10, 1729.—(Fashtam Item.)—T hey
write from Tunbridge Wells that ladies have of late ap-
peared on the walls with shoulder-keots, a fashion led up
by a certain great duchess." " London, November 2, 1727,
—Yesterday morning between 70 and 80 felons were
brought from Newgate to go onboard quo of the merchant
ships, in order to be transported to America." Bradford
was a Leicestershire man. He was taught his profession
in the printing-office of Andrew Bowie, in London. He
closed a long and active life in 1752, in his 90th year. On
the morning of the day of his deathhe walked over a great
part of New York. His Gazette continued to be issued
under his direction until 1742, and on its then expiring
there rose from its ashes the New York Gazette and Weekly
Post Boy, which lived until the revolution, under the ma-
nagement of Parker, a former apprentice .of Bradford's.
• Right Rev. Dr. Young was consecrated Bishop
of Florida, at New York, on Thursday, the 15th instant
Bishop Hopkins of Vermont officiating. The ceremony
was performed at Trinity Church, where Bishop Williams
of Louisiana preached a sermon appropriate to the occa-
sion. Six bishops and fifty clergymen were present, and
an audience which crowded the church to overflowing.
The Quaker City, with 70 American excursionists,
arrived at Odessa on the 22d inst., and proceeded on the
24th to the Crimea.
Lady Franklin took passage from Plymouth to
Cherbourg in the United States steam frigate Minnesota,
Commodore Older.
It is expected that about 80 bishops will be pre-
sent at the Pan-Anglican synod which is to be held at
Lambeth in September. At the request of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the inauguration sermon will be
preached by a bishop of the United States, and Dr.
Whitehouse, Bishop of Illinois, has been selected for the

purpose.
• Mr. Bancroft had an audience with the King of
Prussia in'prosence of Count Bismarck at Babelsberg on
the 28th ultimo, after which ho dined with his Majesty on
Wednesday last. Mr. Bancroft, accompanied by Count
Bismarck, went to Potsdam, and presented his credentials
to the King.
Miss Dolan, of New York, was killed, and Miss
Murphy fatally injured,
on Monday, the 12th instant, at
Long Branch, New Jet'sey, by being thrown from a car-
riage in which they were driving with a party of plea-
sure.
The Independent Union Committee of California
have nominated Caleb L. Fay, a San Francisco merchant,
for Governor, in place of Mr. Bidwell, who has declined the

nomination.
Mr. Edmund Stanton, son of the late Secretary,
retains his clerkship.
Thnrlow Weed has been made an LL.D., by
Madison University.
The steamship Ilammonia, from Southampton,
arrived at New York on Thursday, the 15th instant,
having on board the remains of tho late Governor Joseph
A. Wright, United States Minister at Berlin. Mrs. Wright
and her two children also were passengers on board the
Ilammonia.

CO)ISIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Four men, whose names are unknown, were car-
ried over Niagara Falls, on Tuesday evening, the 13th
of August. They were two ferrymen and two passengers,
and their bodies have not been recovered.
Postmaster-General Randall has appointed John
H. Kinkead as Postmaster at 'Sitio, in Russian-America,
between which port and San Francisco a weekly mail has
been ordered.
The Springfield Republican gives a long account
of which the following is an extract, of an inquest held
on the body of a child, which resulted in the arrest of
a physician, who, failing to obtain bail for $B,OOO, went
to gaol tc await his trial in December :—" Dr. William
H. White, of Springfield, was arrested on
abortion Monday
evening, the 12th instant, for procuring an
upon the person of a young woman with fatal resudied
lt.
His victim was Miss Elizabeth Mothven, who
about midnight, Auguct 10, at the house, No. 11, Willow-
street, kept by Mrs. Susan Chilson. The matter first
came to the ears of the authorities in consequence of the
unseemly and almost barbarous haste used in disposing of
the body."
General Pope, who commands the third military
district of the Soutb, has ordered his subordinates not to
patronise either by subscription or advertisement news-
papers opposing and obstructing reconstruction. He has
also removed all the civil officers of Macon ccunty
(Alabama) from the probate judge downwards.
General Scholefield, commanding in Virginia,
has ordered his officers to be governed by the laws of the
and to be careful how they supersede civil
State where thoy do not conflict with those of the United
The three brothers named Jones, of whom we
lately wrote as having murdered a Mr. Stauffer in Louisiana,
authorities.
have met with a severe punishment, two having died in
gaol, and the third fled to Texas.
Genera' Hayes, the Republican candidate for
Governor of Ohio, has resigned his seat in Congress,
feeling secure of his election, though it is thought it will
be closely contested by the Democrats.
Mr. Bonner, of the Ledger, purchased Dexter at
price was $30,000. One report makes the sum
the Buffalo horse fair, whore Dexter made his fastest time,
2.171. The
$50,000.
A requiem mass was said at the church of St.
Francis Xavier for the late General Francis Meagher, on
Wednesday, the 14th inst., at New York, when the flags
of the public buildings were hoisted half-mast high, and
some of the public offices were closed. Richard O'Gorman
delivered an oration after the service.
Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister to the United
States, arrived in New York on the 14th inst. He is the
first accredited representative of the Sultan to the United
States. Crowds assembled to see one they imagined was
a genuine Turk; but he is a Frenchman and a Roman
Catholic. He has been twice married ; his first wife was
the daughter of a well-known New Yorker, the late Dr.
Valentine Mott.
The North China Daily News says :—" We have
had a visit from the Rev. Mr. Hart, of Foochow, who pro-
poses establishing a branch of the Methodist Episcopal
Church of the United States at Kiukiang next fall, and
probably here. Some lady missionaries will enter the
field."
Admiral Farragut, on board the American frigate
Franklin, cast anchor at Cronstadt on the evening of
August 10. He was received with the customary honours.
The Franklin was accompanied by the corvette Kanedelina,
and followed at two days' interval by the Ticonderog and
the Fro/ick. This last brought the Admiral's wife and
those of several of the officers of the American squadron.
The correspondent of the Standard adds, "The Transat-
lantic visitors have already met with a hearty welcome,
and are sure to bo hospitably entertained by Admiral Les-
sovsky, in whose mansion, under the auspices of Madame
Lessovsky, apartments have been prepared for the ladies
of the party." _ -
Republican nominations for Franklin county :
Seu :tors—William Sandford, of reacham, and Dr. Gates
B. Bullard, of St. Johnsbury; States Attorney—Henry
C. Belden, of Lyndon ; Sheriff—David Trull, of Burke.
President Angell, of the -University of Vermont,
at Burlington, is to have a $13,000 residence by vote of
the corporation. Peter Collyer, a graduate of Yale in 1861,
and for the past five years a Professor in the Sheffield
Scientific School, succeeds Professor Blake, resigned, as
Professor of Chemistry, and Henry
W. Haynes, of Boston,
a Harvard graduate, is Professor Thompson's successor as
Professor of Latin.
General 0. 0. Howard will deliver the address
before the New England Agricultural Society, during the
fair at Providence, commencing Sept. 6.
The French Government has received a telegram
from M. Dano, the French Minister in Mexico, dated Key
West, Florida, August 22, announcing that be would ar-
rive at Now York in the latter part of this week.
The sole survivor of the Mount Desert calamity,
Miss Blake, of FramlingbanOlass., was first informed oi
the fate of her companions on Saturday, 100. •
last thing she remembers was the exclamation, " lsti
glorious !" by one of the Lentleinen standing at the mass
just at the instant the boat went over.
The richest man in New liampshire is said
to be Isaac Spaulding of Concord, whose weekly income
is $l,OOO.
Professor Agassiz, accompanied by the senior
class of Harvard University, will spend a considerable
portion of the- present vacation in exploring the various
Indian remains and tumuli of Ohio.
It is believed that the ex-Governor of Massa-
chusetts, Mr. Andrew, was offered the War Department,
but declined it. It is probable that the office will
be given to Mr. Welernand, of Illinois, though the friends
of General MacMahon, of New York, are anxious to secure
the appointment for him.

ist. Tho

NEW YOltli, FraDAY, August 16.
Gold continues about 140, the fluctuations Whig
generally over that figure, and yesterday the closing price)

was 1404. The bulls are confident of a rise, as they con-
sider they may be able to extract some capital from the
Cabinet differences before they are arranged. The
Government sells about $500,000 a day. The export of
specie has greatly fallen off, the steamers on Saturday last
taking $360,847, and on Wednesday under $200,000.
Exchange on London continues at 1091 to 110 in gold for
60 days. There has been more activity in the Money
Market during the past week. This is to be expected to
satisfy the demand for the harvest, and it is surprising,
considering former experience, that the movement should
be so slight. Indeed, people do not now look for any
stringency, and there is more prospect of a difficulty in
investing money than of obtaining to those who
have good securities. The best commercial paper is
readily discounted at 6 per cent., and call loans on
Governments aro done at 4. People hold back for invest-
ment, in hopes of higher rates. Even Government Secu-
rities would at the present figure yield a better return.
This miscelleanous Stock Market is heavy, for want of
business; scarcely anything doing. Prices, however,
have rather tended upwards, and generally a rise is looked
for. As might confidently have been predicted the railway
earnings show a largo rise to the beginning.f August ;
the passenger traffic, while all aro on the road, must neces-
sarily increase the receipts, and no doubt the month will
give gratifying returns. There is, however, a decrease in
the receipts of the Erie, though the stock sells at 71 to 72
and is in demand. Express Stocks are well sustained.
Business and trade is healthy, though still inactive, with
hopes of improvement. The dry goods market is better,
though no large purchases are made or can be expected at
his season. The quality of the wheat harvest is univer-
sally good and the quantity large, and the receipts at
Chicago and other large entrepots considerable. Cotton
is coming in, and the price declining at New Orleans.
Altogether the long inactivity has had the effect of placing
trade on a sounder basis; and if Mr. M'Culloch would re-
sume his re lemption of four millions of the currency
monthly, as authorised by Congress, we might fairly ex-
pect soon to get back to a more healthy state. As the
Secretary of the Treasury seems, from the opinions he has
expressed, to bold this opinion, I cannot understand why
he does not now act on it. The Treasury has extended,
by a special order from the Secretary last Tuesday, the
period for the exchange of the 7-30's and 5-20's for a
month. After that time interest on the 7-30's will cease,
and on the exchange being effected the holders will have
to pay interest on the 5 20's at the rate of 6 per cent. The
rate of exchange proceeds at aboUt a million a day. The
following are the latest quotations :-
Gold 1401, United States Five-Twenties (1862) 1024,
(1864) 110, (1865) 1101, (1865, New Issue) 1084, United
States Ten-Forties 1024, United States 7-30 Loan 1071,
Missouri Sixes 1031, Tennessee Sixes 66, New York
Central Railroad 1054, Erie 701, Erie Preferred 79,1 Hud-
son River 124, Reading 1044, Michigan Central 110, Mi-
chigan Southern and Northern Indiana 814, Illinois Central
1191, Cleveland and Pittsburgh 931, Cleveland and Toledo
124, Chicago and North-Western 464, Chicago and North-
Western Preferred 701, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chi-
cago 106, Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific 1021, Ohio and
Mississippi Certificates 271, Adams Express Company 74,
American 731, United States 76, Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s
674, Merchants' Union 184, Western Union Telegraph Com-
pany 451, Pacific Mail Steamship Company 1464, Cumber-
land Coal Company Preferred 354, Canton Company 494,
Quicksilver Mining Company 32, Mariposa Mining Com-
pany 101.

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(From 3fessrs. Bowles, Dreret, and Co.'s Circular.)
Paris, August 30, 1867.

The market continues dull and stagnant, and in spite of
the great abundance of money transactions in all securities
are very limited, with almost daily decline in quotations.
To the existing fear of political complications is added
in the case of American Bonds the news of advance in
gold reported from New York, from which point our dates
are to the 27th inst. :
Gold
1411
U.S. Bonds (1862) 1131
In United States 5-20 (1862) prices have receded from
83 7-16ths, reported in our last, to 83, the closing rate on
the 29th.

The Rent() closes at 69 28
The Italian closes at
Exchange on London

(From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular Aug.2B.)
The advices from New York by the China, to the 13th
inst., report a steady market on the Stock Exchange for
all kinds of securities. Government bonds were in steady
demand, and full rates were maintained. The Secretary
of the Treasury had issued a notice that the time for con-
version of 7.30 notes (falling due on the 15th of August)
into 5-20 Bonds would bo extended to the 15th of Sep-
tember, after which date they would be paid off in cur-
rency. Railroad stocks were scarcely so well supported,
but the alterations in quotations were trifling. Railroad
bonds and State stocks were well taken, at former rates.
Gold during the wank bad remained very steady, the
extreme fluctuations being less than 1 per cent.
The same dulness which has characterised business on
the Stock Exchange generally since our last has been felt
in the market for American securities; the tendency of
5.20 Bonds (1862) has been rather downwards, while the
Bonds of 1865 have been somewhat firmer. At the close
Illinois shares are more offered, at a decline of half per
cent. In Atlantic and Great Western Debentures and
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds transactions have been
light, but the market for both closes slightly firmer.