The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-19 00:00:00

sPiaIT O THE PTTBLIO 3.O"ORNALS.

TntEs.—We are reluctant to give up all hope of
settling the question of Parliamentary Reform this
getsion, but we are constrained to warnthe Govern-
Went that this hope ditcl their oWn existence depend
upon their readiness to modify the bill the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer last night unfolded to the
House of Commons. As it was explained by hini
making a profession of
it cannot be accepted. With a great show of libe-
r a
adoptingi ty it a
t isrzointg.lpiteere hich ally shall be Conserva-
tive,;
it introduces a provision which would make
the electoral system of the country thoroughly un-
stable; meddling with the redistribution of seats,
it would unsettle all things and settle none. All
sections of the House concur in condemning, if not
the whole scheme, parts which are declared to be
essential to it nor do we see any hope of escape
from a peremptory rejection of the bill, except a
resolute endeavour on the part of the Ministry to
retrace their steps, and, happily, their previous con-
duct gives US no reason to despair that they will
make anyattiount of OOtieeesion to the clearly ex-
, pressed opinion of the Mouse,
IJAiLt Ntlifo.--=A serious difficulty is raised by
the Reform Bill which the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer introduced yesterday evening. Is it a piece of
honest blundering ; or of skilful trickery ? It is
not calculated to answer the purposes which its
framers profess to contemplate. It is admirably
suited to ageoinplish others Which they do not avow.
Not a word was said In its fatour, It is clear that
it must be withdrawn,_ if the measure is to be pro-
Seeded with. This done, it will be for the Govern-
inent Grid the now* to consider whether, by the
substitution *of a lodger franchise for the more ob-
jectionable of the secondary qualifications, and by
some protilsict for enfranchisement of compound
honseholders as such, a reasonably satisfactory act-
tleitisnt Might not be arrived at.
the Liberals will blindly follow Mr.
Gladstone's lead nothing Cite be done now ; and if
they get into power they will find that nothing can
be done next year. The self-denial required of them
is not great. The inevitable consequence of the
passage of a measure like the Government bill will
be to preserve them their present majority, if not
to increase it. They must now see plainly enough
the Government does not bring forward this bill
from any interested motive. Lord Derby and his
colleagues have felt it their duty to settle this
question if possitle, although the settlement will
probably- have for its consequence their -own life:
long banishment from power. Are the Liberal
leaders so impatient for office that they will not even

Pos-r. —1711.3 Government have so freq ue, fly
changed their gronnd, that even now, although the
bill is actually printed, we should not he surpr: red
at hearing, on the motion for the second reading
that its most distinctive clauses will be abandonej
in committee. The Ministry were entitled to have
their measure brought in and read, but it would
certainly have proved a saving of nrieh valuable
time if it had received last night the quietus which
awaits it at its next stage.
ADVERTISER.—The bill is based on household
suffrage. It is a measure for enfranchising all who
are rated for houses, no matter how small the rent.
The country, therefore, must insist on the bill being
made the law of the land. Modifications may be
made,
_as we have already remarked, in its secondary
provisions, but we must have household suffrage.
No Government, whether Whig or Tory, ever before
proposed a bill based on household suffrage, and no
Government, whether Whig or Tory, may bring
forward in our day another measure, if this be lost,
so liberal as the present. The nation must, there-
fore, if they have any regard for the electoral rights
of the myriads now excluded from the fraachise,
rally round the Government of Lord Derby.

TITE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE ON " IRELAND'S
DIFFICIILTY."-The regeneration Of Ireland, po-
litical and social, is a task worthy of the highest
ambition of a great statesman, as well as a para-
mount duty. None are fit to govern in England
who are incapable of honestly recognizing the
causes of Ireland's discontent, and of applying
remedies to the, ills of that unfortunate country.
The first necessity is to uphold the law, to protect
society, to punish criminals ; but this is an easy
task compared with the duty of reconciling the
Irish people to English rule. Men do not live
by bread alone ; and even were the economic laws
of Ireland regulated more in accordance with
the country's needs, the relations between land-
lord and tenant put on a better footing, still the
great evil of Ireland would remain in the ali-
enation of classes produced by the unhappy reli-
gious divisions. Ireland's greatest difficulty after
all is a social difficulty. The land, the rank, the
wealth, are on one side—that of Protestant
ascendancy—and on the other are the masses of
the nation belonging to a Church which, for
three hundred years, had been persecuted in almost
every conceivable fashion of cruelty. Unfortun-
ately, in the heart of a sensitive people, Protes-
tant and Orange ascendancy is inseparably asso-
ciated with English rule. If we wish to win
the Irish people over from a widespread disaffec-
tion to the side of loyalty, we must remove
from their memory, and even from their imagina-
tion, all traces of this hateful association. We
must never forget that we are in a great degree
responsible for all the misery and mischief en-
tailed upon Ireland by this latest and worst form
which Irish discontent has taken. For Feni-
anism is essentially irreligious in,its principles and
anti-social in its aims ; for this reason is it anathe-
matized from the pulpit and excommunicated
like Freemasonry. " The Irish insurrection," says
the Debats, in a remarkable article on Fenian-
ism, "is essentially American. The money, the
arms, the leaders come from America; it is a
return of the emigrants for offensive purposes.
This transplantation has completely changed the
character of the Irish insurrection. We are accus-
tomed to see in history the antagonism of Catholic
Ireland and Protestant England. Now, the reli-
gious question counts for nothing: Were O'Con-
nell resuscitated he would be hooted. The Irish
revolutionists are not only republicans but ration-
alists ; they will submit to the domination of the
Catholic clergy no more than to that of the Protes-
tant clergy. They have inscribed on their banner
the emancipation of thought, the secularization
of instruction, the separation of Church and
State." -Were such un-Catholic principles, insk,sad
of being confined to a small but turbulentminorify,
really to take root in Ireland, it would, indeed,
be a calamity for both England and Ireland. Eng-
land has missed many a favourable opportunity
of recasting her whole policy towards Catholicism
in Ireland r but if,it be idle to regret spilt water, it
is worse than idle now to look back to past mis-
takes; the future alone is in our hands. The Irish
people must be delivered from the guidance of its
Irish-American leaders, and from those godless
principles which are alien to the Catholic soil
of Ireland. But how is the deliverance to be
effected ? First, by the sword of England
b , by the
vindication of the law ; and, secondly, y taking
the Catholic Church into her friendly counsels,
and governing Ireland by the means of her religion
instead of, as heretofore, more or less by the instru-
mentality of an unjust and of a hated Orange as-
cendancy. The plan is simple, but it is worth try-
ing, because it has never yet been attempted. In
the days of persecution Ireland was simply goaded
into disaffection ; when persecution ceased, she was
irritated and wounded in her keenest sensibilities
by an arrogant and domineering Orangism ; and,
lastly, when England tried to benefit and con-
ciliate Ireland, for instance, by extending to her
the advantages both of popular and of univer-
rsity education, the English Government went
the wrong way to work, and by introducing, in
obedience to a spirit of false Liberalism, an
un-Catholic system of education into a Catholic
country drew down upon themselves the con-
demnation of the Catholic episcopate, and drove
the most steadfast Catholics into a persistent
opposition. Now is the time to repent of such
folly. The Catholic Church has done signal
service to the cause of order in Ireland, and
by opposing and preventing the spread of the
revolutionary spirit she has saved the country
from a merciless war of classes and of races, which
would have been quenched only in blood. Let
England now generously and ungrudgingly do
her part, and, after putting down an insurrec-
tion as foolish as it is wicked, set to work to
govern Ireland as she ought to be governed, as a
Catholic country, and on principles which will
meet with the support and sympathy of the Ca-
tholic Church. Such a system of consideration and
of fair dealing, which is in general so consonant
to the temper of the English people, cannot fail in
time to heal the wounds of Ireland which have
been too long kept open by an unjust and mis-
taken policy of Orange ascendancy.

Miscellaneous American News.

The telegraph news from 'Mexico is more than
ever contradictory. From Sail Francisco it was
feported that the Liberals had occupied the city of
Mexico, although in the battle fought at San Lula
de Potosi, on the 4th February, they wore said to
have been utterly routed, with the loss of all their
artillery. The rumour of the occupation of the
capital by the Liberals is now contradicted by the
latest intelligence received in New York up to the
13th inst. Escobedo is said to have shot 190 foreign
Imperial prisoners, and ordered all foreign volun-
teers captured from Miramon to be shot for their
depredations at Zacatecas. A force of 800 Impe-
rialists, on their way to reinforce the capital, were
routed, and 500 captured. Sixteen thousand French
troops embarked for France, from Vera Cruz, on
March 2.
Professor Redwood proposes, by the following
simple method, to overcome the difficulties which
have hitherto existed in preierving meat in a fresh
state. The meat is simply placed in a bath of
melted paraffin at a temperature of 240 deg. Fah-
renheit ; the juices are hereby boiled, so that the
moisture is driven off in amount in direct ratio to
the length of the time of immersion. The meat is
removed and remains covered over with a layer of
solid paraffin. Now the action of the latter is en-
tirely mechanical ; paraffin when pure is like white
wax, has no smell or taste, and, what is prime
importance, it is cheap, harmless,, used with the
se, and the quantity
greatest facility for the purpo
necessary to secure the object in view is very small.
Chops and steaks preserved by this method are con-
sidered to possess all the qualities of fresh meat, and
are cooked in the ordinary way. By this means
the overabundance of meat in far-off countries can
be utilised, and no crew and no army need be fed
on salt provisions. The simplicity of the process is
its greatest recommendation. Seeing that so much
disease is ascribed to the want of fresh meat, Pro-
fessor Redwood's process ought to supply a most
important deficiency in the economy of diet.
The Hamburgh and American Company's steamer
Teutonia arrived at New York on the 7th instant.
The North German steamship America arrived on
the 10th, and the Inman steamer, City of Boston,
on the 11th. On the evening of the 14th of March
it wati reperted from NQyf Fork that the City of

Messrs. Neill Brothers in their Cotton Circu'ar,
received per Africa, dated New York, February 12th,
state as follows :—For many weeks past our report
of the weekly receipts has been considerably larger
than certain others which have been published. On
the 22d ult. we gave details of the receipts for the
two weeks ending 11th ult. We now submit details
for the succeeding three weeks, and also particulars
of the nett receipts at all ports from Ist September
to the latest mail dates, all which can easily be
fled by reforence to the various southern prices clic-
reht of the dates referred to.

• • • Tot&I to
Week en ding Jan. 18. Jan. 25. Fob. 1. date.
Now Orleans 29,664 30,755 41,636 472,000
Mobile 8,303 12,097 6,563 176,000
Texas ports
Florida ports
Savannah 11,263 10,754 10,400 146,000
Charleston
New York 9,8.35 5,039 8,463 109,000
Other ports 2,300 859 10,000

75,587

73,405 83,050 1,118,000

The French Ministry of War has just announced
that an adjudication will be made of 105,000 metres
of gaze-de-soie, to be manufactured at Lyons. The
stuff is to serve in making the cartridges for the
new Chassepot gun.
The first ship with the German colours was
launched at Lubeck on the day of the opening of
the North German Parliament. It has been chris-
tened the Germania.

The " model school-house," the bantling for the
Paris Expo.,ition, whose responsibility the Legisla-
ture shunned, has been completed at the Wamesit
Steam Mills at Lowell, and will be paid for and
forwarded by a prominent Boston business firm.
The building is 30ft. by 60ft., and finished with all
the latest improvements.
The Ways and Means Committee of the House
on the Tariff Bill have extensively amended the
Senate "amendments," bringing the rates back in
many instances to the figures fixed by the original
House bill. The committee reduce the duty on salt
from 24 and 30 cents, as fixed by the Senate, to 16
and 22 cents a bushel ; aul on linseed to 20 cents a
bushel, and advance the duty on steel 11 cents over
the Senate•ratcs, with corresponding advances on
many articles of hardware. Wool and woollens are
advanced to correspond to the house bill. The
prohibition of the importation of fire crackers is
stricken out, as is also the section relating to the
drawbacks on shipbuilding, and agricultural 8 nd other
implements. The clause with regard to dam Ted
goods and under valuation is also stricken out.
The ninth section adding freight and commissions
to invoice values is repealed. The duty is advanced
on sal soda, caustic, and carbonate of soda, while
those on spelter and silk goods are greatly beyond
the Senate rates. 'l'lle rates of duties are mainly
retained on iron, but advanced on some articles and
reduced on others. The Senate proposes to levy a
duty of 8, 11, and 12 cents on scrap iron. The
committee recommend .5 and 10 cents. Cotton rates
are somewhat advanced over those of the Senate.
Ivory is stricken out of the free list, and the pri-
vilege that the Pacific Railroad Company may use
foreign iron, instead of American, as now pro-
vided by law, is denied.
The directors of the First National Bank have
elected W. K. Baker acting president during the
absence of Mr. Kirkham, on a trip to California.
The Shawmut Church, at Boston, has given its
pastor, the Rev. Dr. E. B. Webb, a vacation of
eight months, continuing his salary, and supplying
his pulpit during that time. He will go to Europe,
and as far cast as the Holy Land.

A splendid rifle, worth $BO9, has just been com-
pleted at Mansfield, Massachusetts, at the order of
several citizens of Rhode Island, as a present to
General Grant.
G. H. Bolenious, a rich tobacco merchant, of
Baltimore, became insane at Hartford, on Tuesday,
Feb. 19, where he had been for several days pur-
chasing tobacco. He had to be placed in confine-
ment, but was finally taken home by his brother.
Mr. Nelson S. Cobleigh, of Boston, left London
on Tuesday for Paris, where he will remain during
the Exposition as correspondent for the American
press.
Mr. S. P. Avery, of New York, has arrived in
Paris as agent for American artists, and will super-
intend the placing of the paintings in the United
States Fine Arts Department.
Tha wife of Professor George P. Fisher, of Yale
College, died suddenly on Tuesday morning, Feb-
ruary 18.
Edmund Kimball, who died suddenly of heart
disease on Monday, Feb. 18, at his residence in
Bradford, was a graduate of llarvard College in
1814, and a class mate of the late Judge Pliny
Merrick. Mr. Kimball is the fourth of seventeen
survivors of the class who died since the Ist of

January.
Paschal P. Pope, one of the oldest citizms and mer-
chants of Boston, died on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at the
age of 87. Ile was formerly a member of the firm
of Boardman and Pope, who were engaged in the
East India trade, but retired from business forty
years ago.
The Rev. A. D. Bullock, late editor of the Spring-
field evening paper, is about to commence the prac-
tice of medicine at Providence, Rhode Island.
press club has been formed in New York, and
has elected Eorace Greeley for president.
The Troy and i3oston Railroad have just com-
pleted a new and commodious depot at the Wil-
liamstown station.
The Montpelier and St. Johnsbury Railroad Com-
pany has been organised, with the following blerk
oard
of officers :—President, Horace Fairbanks ; c,
Jonathan Ross, both of St. Johnsbury ;
directors,
Horace Fairbanks and Calvin Merrill, of St. Johns-
bHuartyoh; Ps.oPvitykoinr,k o; fanl‘dlonct.pievhe. H. llwinell,
Bof.
, of propose to build a rail-
Marshfield. The company
road from Montpelier to St. Johnsbury, 38 mila,
whence it will be continued 20 miles eastward to
Dalton, N.H., by the Essex County Railroad Com-
pany, which has the same board of officers except
that John W. Hartshorn, of Lunenburgh, takes
Mr. Dwinell's place in the board of directors.
The stockholders of the Naugatuck Railroad, at
their annual meeting at Bridgeport on Tuesday,
Feb. 19, elected as a board of directors William D.
Bishop, Green Kendrick, Russell Tomlinson, A. L.
Dennis, N. A. Baldwin, Nathaniel W heel sr, John B.
Robinson and J. G. Wetmore. The earnings of
the road last year were 20 per cent. greater than
those of the year before, and the receipts from
freight alone amounted to $303,525.

Pursuant to notice a meet* of the Commis-
sioners of the Queen Anne's ank Kent Railroad has
been held in Centreville. In the absence of the
President of the Board, Colonel Richard C. John-
son was called to the chair. On motion, it was re-
solved that in consequence of many defects in the
charter of the company, which, being passed in 1856,
was found not to be adapted to the changed cir-
cumstances of the times, it is inexpedient to open
the subscription books of the company until an
amended charter can be obtained from the Legisla-
ture.—Crampton Gazette.
The steamboat lines between New Haven and
New York are doing a heavy business. ',lle old

The commissioners to re-stock the rivers of
Maine with fish, recently appointed by Governor
Chamberlain, are Nathan Foster of East Machias
and Charles G. Atkins of Augusta.
HARD ON WILD GAME.—The ground for six
weeks this winter was completely covered with
snow, and in consequence there has been much suf-
fering amongst the wild game. Deer throughout
the country are more plentiful than for many years,
and fall easy victims to those wbo are disposed to
kill them. They are poor and thin for want of
:foal, and often come up to the doors of the farmers
to procure something to cat. It is mere wanton-
ness to destroy them, as they are unfit for food, and
if unmolested, by next fall there will be plenty of
sport in deer hunting.—Gunzb. Civilian.

MARYLAND STATE BASE BALL ASSOCIATION.
The above-named association, comprising two
delegates from each club throughout the State;
assembled February 20, at Sanderson's Opera
House for the first time. There were 33 clubs re-
presented. A committee of five, consisting of
Messrs. W. It. Griffith, of the Pastime, Franklin.
Owings, of the Chesapeake, J. H. Perkins, of the
Patapsco, Charles Young, of the Marylani, and
Jesse F. Walton, of the Associate, was appointed
to prepare a constitution and bye-laws. The
committee retired, and in a short time returned
and reported a constitution and bye-laws for the
regulation of the " Maryland State Base Ball Con-
vention," in strict accordance with those regulating
the National Convention of Base Ball Clubs. The
constitution and bye-laws were adopted by the
Convention, and if literally adhered to, will tend
greatly to elevate the standard of the health-invi.
gorating exercise of base ball, both morally and
physically.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From E. F. Satterthtoaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular,
March 13.)

We aro so frequently asked to point out some different
descriptions of sound investments, with the rate of interest
per annum, which, at present market price, they will
yield, that wo think the following list may prove useful.
We have selected a few of the prior obligations of railways
at home and abroad, as affording probably some of the
safest mass for employment of capital with the greatest
certainty of regular payment of interest. The securities
enumerated below are, we consider, perfectly good, and
at the same time are generally to be had in the market.
There are also some Metropolitan Railway Debentures to
be had jest now, having three years to run, and bearing
5 per cent. interest. . .

It will be seen that an annual interest of from 61 to 4}
per cent. may be obtained, and by taking some of one class
and some of another, an average rate of income of five par
cent. may be secured on the capital invested.
English Railway Preference Stock.—Midland (Leicester
and llit4:hin), 4 per cent., 87, Xi lls. ; North-Eastern
(Stockton and Darlingtou), 5 per cent., 106, XI 14s. 4d. ;
South-Elstern (Reading Annuities), (Z 1 Os. 6d. per an,
num) 221, .£1 Its.

English Railway Debenture Stock.—Great Northern,
4 per cent., 93, £4 4s. 2d.; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
per cent., 95, XI 4s. 2d. ; North-Eastern, 4 per' cent.,
XI Is. 2,1.

Foreign Railway Preference Stock. —Great Luxembourg
Obligations, 5 per cent., 18 ea. or 90 per cent., £sllx. ld.;
Namur and Liege Preferred (guaranteed by the Belgian
Government), 6 per cent., 95, £6 tis. 3d. ; Sambre and
Meuse, 5} per cent., 921 per cent., .£5 188. 11d. ; West
Flanders, 5/ per cent., 95, £5 15s. 9d.
East India Railways.—East India Railway guaranteed,
5 per cont., 107, £4 13s. sd. ; Great Indian Peninsula
Railway, 5 per cent., 106, £4 14s. sd.
American Railway Bonds.—Pennsylvania Railroad Ster-
ling Bonds, 6 per cent., 93, 95.; Panama Sterling Bonds,
7 per cent., 103, £6l6s. ld. ; Illinois Sterling Bonds, 6 per
cent., 85, £7 ls. 2d.
We have to report a fair amount of business in the
London market for American Securities since our last.
United States 5.20 Bonds of both issues have improved on
the decline in the premium on gold reported by telegraph
from New York. The earlier issue close 741 tot, and the
1865 Bonds 721 to 731. The chief feature in the market
for Railroad Shares has been the improvement in Eries on
higher quotations, accompanied by buying orders from
New York, the price has advanced nearly $4, the latest
quotations being 391 to 40. Illinois Central have been
steady, with a limited amount of business, ranging between
771 and 78.
For Virginia Sixes there has been a renewed inquiry,
on the proposed resumption at payment of interest. In
Atlantic and Great Western securities there have been
numerous transactions, the Certificates of Debenture and
Consolidated Bonds both show slight improvement, while
for the First and Second Divisional Mortgage Bonds there
has been more inquiry, and an advance of three per cent.
has been established.
The trustees for the Certificates of Debentures have been
notified that a dividend of twenty-five per cent. in
There
s
is $50,000 of this stock lodged at the Bank of
CEenng
awseplloarstiosn3Aolf,OseocOttorltFyifrsort Mthoert
for work
all the stock and bonds delivered to the contractor
I done in building the road. rebegentSuereves7 pTerhis comprises
as

y durin theme past fort-
The principal drain upon mone (From Gilead A. Smith's liteckly Circular,a 15.)
night has been caused by the requirements of railway
companies to meet their dividends; but that has subsided,
and the demand now is very light. There is a daily
increasing plethora of money, and unless some outlet is
found before long, it will bo a complete drug upon the
hase
Gbreeeant
western
considerablyesternlast
shaken
market.
fact utht.i et
week was unable to find the moans to pay its declared
Confidence
of
izite, in
and railwayth ie se
dividend of 1 per cent. increased the general distrust.
Dividends generally have ruled low, but it must bo borne
in mind that the year gone past has been exceptionally
severe to all undertakings requiring financial arrange-
ments, and the expenses incurred by all railways in these
negotiations has been very great.
The dealings in the Stock Exchange have been limited
in a great measure to speculators for a fact ; but bona fide
investors are beginning to appear, and making a conlpa-
rison of the present prices with those ruling on January
Ist, the lowest prices much be reached before long, and I
a ould look
for a very considerable reaction on the whole
market.

Consols have advanced to 907-16ths to 9-16ths for ac-
count upon the Government broker appearing as a pur-
chaser for the reduction of the National Debt; they close
90 5-16ths to 7-16ths.

American Securities have not shared in the general de-
pression, end 5-20 Bonds show a considerable advance
from last week's prices. The cause of this has been the
steady fall in gold since the sitting of the new Congress,
and the general feeling that there is to be a cessation of
political troubles for tho present.

(From Messrs. Bowles,Drevet, and Co.'s Circular.)
Paris, March 14.
Since Friday last, there has been little doing to interest
Americans. The heavy purchases of Five-twenties then
made caused the day to be especially memorable, the quo-
tation rising as high as 84 3-16, the highest since these
bonds have been placed upon the Bourse.
During the week the general situation has remained un-
changed—continued ease of money, little business, and
high prices, tolerably well snstained,
for almost
of securities. To-day, however, the tendencyall in the
classes
general market is slightly downward. Austrian stocks
especially appear to be losing favour. Various reasons
are aesig,nable, mostly political, for the check which the
upward movement of the past six weeks has at length
met ; among them the more unfavourable reports which
have been received from the German financial centres.
Exchange on London has continued at about the same
quotation for some time past, viz., for bills, at short sight,
from 25 12 to 25 16.
United States Bonds have remained unaffected at about
84. The more confidence is shaken in European invest-
ments, the more it becomes established in American
securities. The Five-twenty Bonds of 1862 (the only ones
quoted here) are each day more and more sought for by
capitalists as a permanent investment, while mere specu-
lators are not so much attracted by them as formerly,
when violent fluctuations were the order of the day.

APOPULAR _HISTORY of LONDON from
the Invasion of Julius Ca)sar to the Present time
Part the Second—Front 1066 to 1867.

E. Moses and Son, corner of Minories and Aldgato ;
Oxford-street, and Tottenham-court-road, London;
And Bradford, Yorkshire.

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