The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-28 00:00:00

Miscel'aneous American News,

Governor Bullock, in his address to the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, said :—" Complying with a
resolve of the Legislature, I have appointed a com-
missioner and agents, who have in charge the inte-
rests of Massachusetts contributors to the exhibition
of industry, art, and science, which is shortly to be
open at Paris. The preparation for our own part
in this rivalry of the genius and skill of all coun-
tries has derived an added importance and dignity
from the sanction of national legislation. We are
not apt to over-estimate the influence of such in-
stitutions, aided and patronised by nations. They
are universal educators. They become instru-
ments of international pacification more potential
and more benevolent than the cunning of diplomacy.
The action of Congress for the promotion of this
object was consummated so late, and the general
business of the country has been so active for the
local demand, as to warrant the apprehension of
some deficiency in the variety and quality of our
part in the contribution. I am assured, however,
that the interests of the commonwealth will be cre-
ditably represented. By the American representa-
tive at Paris, and by men of public spirit in our own
and other States, my attention has been called to
the eminent propriety of presenting in some repre-
sentative form our system of public schools. A
strong desire has been expressed that we should con-
tribute a Massachusetts school-house, with teachers
and pupils. The whole of this has been thought to
be impracticable. But at least a form of model
school-houses, sufficiently large and well constructed
to illustrate the general arrangement,with furniture
and appliances, for the purpose of representing some
of the visible parts of our mode of free education, is
awaited by many of our friends on the continent.
To accomplish this end an appeal has recently been
made-by the agent to liberal citizens in this vicinity
and has met with cordial response. But I think it
is the better opinion that the honour of the State
will be best promoted, and that the object of the
exhibition will be best secured, if the Legislature
shall make an appropriation for this expenditure.
I take pleasure in recommending an early appro-
priation of $3,500, which shall enable the governor
and council to cancel private subscriptions and at
once to give effect to the object."
In view of the repeated thefts of United States
Securities, the Treasury Department desires atten-
tion called to the fact that, although all the coupon
bonds of the Government are issued payable to
bearer, so that they will pass by delivery, and are
good although lost or stolen, when in the hands of
a bona fide holder, the case is different with the
7-30's which are issued in blank, but with the
words "or order" instead of " or bearer" imprinted on
the face. SI long as a 7-30 note remains thus in
blank, it passes by delivery like a coupon bond,
and a bona fide purchaser for value can collect the
same notwithstanding it bas been lost or stolen.
But in case the hilder of the 7.30 fills the blank
space with his name, the note then becomes payable
to him or his order, and he cannot thereafter be de-
prived of his title by any loss or larceny of the
note, any more than the holder of a check or draft
payable to his order, and this is the law, notwith-
standing his name may have been so skilfully ex-
tracted by acid or otherwise, as to leave no trace of
the name. If the original holder of the note can
prove clearly that his name was once written upon
the face of th 3 7-30 his title is good, notwithstand-
ing the erasure, and even against a bona fide holder
for value, and will be recognised by the Treasury
Department, and upon proof of the facts will be
paid to him. All persons dealing in Government
securities ought carefully to bear in mind the fore-
going peculiarity of the 7-30 notes, which may, as
stated become converted into negotiable securities,
payable only to order, which cannot be the case with
any of the coupon bonds of the Government.
Colonel Frank Jordan has accepted the position
of Secretary of State. The Republican members of
the Legislature held a caucus meeting, Jan 2, to
nominate a State Treasurer, and William 11.
Kemble was unanimously nominated. William
Duffy, of Philadelphia, and William Hamilton, of
Lancaster, were nominated, but withdrew before
the election. The caucus decided to nominate a
candidate for United States Senator on the even-
ing of January 10th, and this decision, of course,
settles the question now being considered by com-
mittees of the two Houses as to the legal day on
which the election will be held. It will be held
on January 15th, the same day as the Governor's
inauguration.
Died, in Philadelphia, Eliza, wife of Dr. William
Keating, and daughter of the late John J. BoHe,
merchant, of that city.
The Supreme Court consists of the following
named jurists, with the date of their appointment:--
1863—5. P. Chase, Ohio, Chief Justice. 1835
James M. Wayne, Georgia. 1845-- Samuel Nel-
son, New York. 1846—Robert C. Grier, Pennsyl-
vania. 1858—Nathan Clifford, Maine. 1862
Noah M. S wayne, Ohio. 1862—David Davis,
Illinois. 1862—Samuel F. Miller, lowa. 1863
Stephen J. Field, California.
Judge M'Cunn, at New York, has decided sub-
stantially that a person losing money in gaming is
not entitled to recover by law.

J. 'W. Ingersoll, of Detroit, has received news
that a fortune of $16,000,000 awaits him in Hol-
land.

E. C. Scranton, Esq., president of the New
York and New Haven Railroad, was recently run
over and killed at South Norwalk. Mr. Scranton
has many friends in Europe who will deplore his
loss.

Mademoiselle Adelina Patti gave a dinner party
last week, at which were present Mr. J. Gordon
Bennett, Mustapha Pacha, M. Emile de Girardin,
M. de Jasperini, M. and Madame de Thal, le Vis-
comte Daru, &c.
A son of Mr. Watt Clark, of Albany, was choked
to death in New York on Sunday, December 30,
from laughing heartily while eating nuts and candy.
Oxford University has conferred a Doctorate in
Divinity upon Bishop NlThitehouse, of Illinois.
Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, accompanied by his son, arrived in Galves-
ton, Texas, the last week of the y,:ar.
At a Christmas gathering, near Boston, a school-
master had a long rod and an editor a mammoth
pair of shears for presents.
The Rev. Charles A. Smith, D.D., of Philadel-
phia, ba9 accepted th.: charge of the Third Presby-
terian Church at East Orange, New Jersey.
The American Foreign Mission Board will send
to the Paris Exposition a collection of 1,000 volumes
of its missionary publications, in over thirty diffe-
rent languages.

Colonel Thomas, United States Military Store-
keeper in Washington, who has been for some days
lying at the point of death, is now recovering,
At a Christmas dinner given by General R. S.
Foster to his children in Indianopolis, when the
father turned up his plate he found under it a deed
for the land on which his house stood, the gift of
his sons, and valued at $3,000.
Mr. Joseph Jefferson has made a wonderful hit

iin his great speciality, " Rip Van Winkle," at the
National, Washington. Max Maretzek's Opera
Troupe appear on the 3d for a season of eight nights,
and they are to be succeeded by Miss Maggie
Mib 3hell.

r.r. John Brougham has closed his very success-
ful -engagement at the Boston Theatre, and this week
Mr- J. B. Roberts will appear in " Faust." The
Maceum has shelved " Griffith Gaunt," and this
week produces " Peep o' Day." A piece called
" Captain Lascar," is the attraction at the Howard;
and " Cinderella" has been revived for the holidays
at the Continental.

We are informed by a New York correspondent
that a unique dramatic performance took place
in the -White Garden 'Theatre lately. " Othello"
was the play, with Edwin Booth as lago, and
Bogumil Dawison as the Moor. The pecu-
liarity of the performance consisted in the
fact that lago talked English, while Othello
mouthed in high Dutch. This sort of per-
formance has been permitted at Versailles ; the play
also was the same, the negro tragedian Aldridge
appearing as Othello. But the novelty was merci-
lessly ridiculed. Instead of making it a subject for
satire, however, the flaizeurs have, with one excep-
tion, spoken of the duplex playing as if it were a
triumph of artistic excellence. "The ancient" was
just as he should have been, but the Moor was at
best but a very scurvy cousin German of Shak-
spere's Othello. Bogumil Dawison is a ranter, a
raver, and a stamper, and his explosions, following
the subtle whisperings of Booth, produced an
effect startlingly,ludicrous.-1, rom the Lir erpool Star.
James Wentworth, late consular clerk at Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine, has been appointed U. S.
Consul to Moscow, with a salary of 2,000 dols.
per year. He had much trouble in ousting a
Dutchman, by the name of Hooterscheidt, from
the office, even after the granting of the exequatur,
and Mr. Wentworth' had to call in the aid of the
authorities to put the fellow out and give him
possession.

Professor F. C. Welsch, a distinguished Ameri-
can artist, of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, is spending
some days at Paris, visiting the various noted
studios there.

On Sunday last a heavy fall of snow fell in
various parts of the Continent. It froze in the
streets and afforded the boys good skating for a
day only, as on the next a rain melted it.
Governor Wright still continues seriously ill,
and some of his friends are somewhat alarmed,
fearing his sickness may become fatal.
REVENUE SPlES.—Every shipper to America is
alarmed on account of the appointment of revenue
agents on the Continent, to look into fraudulent
invoices of goods to America, i.e., where goods are
greatly undervalued in price to defraud the United
States revenue. This is perhaps not done to any
great extent, but seizure of silks at Lyons and
Zurich, and wines from the Eperney, &c., has
caused a general fright. The Continental papers
have editorial notices calling the attention of
the people to Farnell, one of the agents, warning
them against him. If these merchants have de-
frauded the revenue they ought to be punished ; at
any rate it will cause shippers to be careful here-
after in giving honest prices.
Lieut. Hobart Miller, of Detroit, hai received
the appointment of consular clerk, and has been
assigned to the U. S. Consulate-General at Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine. This appointment is in part a
reward for meritorious services in the late
rebellion.

The Queen has approved the appointment of
Colonel Chapman, C. 8., of the Royal Engineers,
to the Governorship of Bermuda.]

Gen. Logan is in Chicago.
Hon. W. M. Evarts is in Washington.
Col. Badeau, of Gen. Giant's staff, is writing a
life of his chief.

W. H. Milburn, the blind preacher, is going to
Paris to consult an occulist.

Commander Winslow, of Kcarsage memory, is
at New Orleans.
General James Watson Webb, United States
Minister to Brazil, was seriously ill at Petropolis,
near Rio Janeiro, on the 25th ult.
Wart, the barn-burner in Niagara county, N.Y.,
has been sentenced to nine years and six months in
the Auburn Prison.

Jeannie Burns, aged only thirteen years, has been
lecturing on intemperance, in Washington county,
New York, with remarkable success.
Jacob Loucks, the largest man in York county,
Pennsylvania, died in Manchester, in that county,
on the 12th ultimo of apoplexy. He was fifty-seven
years old, and weighed about five hundred pounds.
His coffin was thirty-five inches broad and thirty-
three deep.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(Front Bowles, Dread, and Co.'s Circular.)
Paris, Jan. 18.

Business has been more dull this week than last, with a
prevalent feeling of uneasiness, though money is still
abundant. The French Three per Cents. are gradually
declining.
Exchange on London is very easy, being offered as low
as 23.13.
United States Securities have not much fluctuated: 5-
20's of 1862 close to-day at 82k, a little higher than on the
10th. Prices have ranged from 81 15-16 on the 11th) to
821, which latter figure has been touched on several dif-
ferent days. This improvement is explained by the calmer
temper with which the report of the impeachment of Presi-
dent Johnson has been discussed on the Bourse, the best-
informed operators being of course aware of its ver-
slender foundation. Nevertheless, speculation remains
comparatively dull, awaiting events, and the consequence
is that the course of the market for United States securi-
ties is for the present to a great extent dependent upon
the cperations of dealers in other European capitals, espe-
cially those of Frankfort, who have since our last alter-
nately sold and bought on our market. Jan. 24.
The general situation of our market has scarcely changed
since our last advices, in spite of the political changes of
the week, the news of which has doubtless been trans-
mitted to you by the cable.

The measures taken by tho Government have been re-
cognised as comparatively valueless, and their only effect
upon the Bourse has been a slight fall in tho principal
securities, including the French 3 per Cents.

There is still considerable hesitation, and little business
doing. Since the dismissal of M. Fould there is much talk
of a new loan; and under present circumstances this idea
is not well received, in spite of the abundance of money.
Exchange on London is still freely offered to-day at
25.14.

There has been scarcely any variation during the week
in United States 5-20 Bonds, the difference between the
highest and lowest quotations being about I per cent.
(82 5-16 81k). They close to-day at 82k.
The political uneasiness caused by the changes of Minis-
try at home, and by the attention given to the Eastern
question, produces a favourable effect upon American secu-
rities, investors turning to them in their anxiety, and busi-
ness is comparatively active.
In addition to these bona fide investments there is a con-
siderable demand from Frankfort, which aids in absorbing
the remittances of bonds from New York, as well as those
sold by speculative operations.
These speculative sales, which still continue, are based on
the uncertain appearance of American politics, and on the
belief that the price of gold at New York is likely to rise
still further.
In respect to the financial situation of the American
Government there is but ono opinion, it being universally
regarded as satisfactory.

(From E. F. iatterthtcaile and Co.'s Weekly Circular,

• January 23.)
Wo have our usual advicos from New York by the Aus-
tralasian. They aro to tho 9th instant, and report an
active investing demand for all Government socuritias, at
an improvement of quite one por cent. In the Railway
Share Market there had been an active business at gene-
rally enhanced quotations, but the advance was not main-
tained,
and on the 9th dulness, with a declining tendency,
prevailed. State Stocks were in request, but Ralroacl
Mortgages were neglected. The payment of the January
coupons on Government Stocks had released a large
amount of money, but without having any effect on the
rate of interest. Tim premium on gold had increased two
per cent., owing to the unsettled feeling prevailing in
politics.

By a telegram dated New York, January 21st, per the
Atlantic Telegraph, the following prices have boon re-
ceived :

Gold, 137; United States 5-20's, 108; Illinois, 116 ex
div. ; Erie (Common), 65 ; Exchange (GO days), 1491.
The following is the return of the New York Banks :
Discounts. Specie. Circulation. Deposits.
6
Dec. 29... 259,354,761 13,185222 32,664,526 200,811,290
Jan. 5... 237,852,460 12,794,892 32,762,779 202,533,564

Du•ing the past week there has been a fair amount of
business transacted in the London market for American
securities. There have been some considerable importa-
tions advised by telegraph of United States 5.20's of both
issues ; the 1862 bonds have been well taken for Con-