The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING!, MARCH 2 1867.

A young man, aged 19, named Lemaire, has been
tried at the Palais de Justice, and sentenced to
death for the murder of his stepmother. It appears
he objected to his father's marriage with the widow,
and determined to prevent it. lle provided a rope,
arranged a noose, fixed it to the wall, and armed
himself with a knife and razor. On the widow
entering the room he slipped the noose over her
head and stabbed her with the knife, while she
struggled to release herself, inflicting no fewer than
twenty wounds. He boldly avowed the murder in
court, and regretted that she had struggled so much
as to alarm the neighbours, which led to the failure
of his plan to kill her daughter and his own father.
" It is clearly your duty," he sail, addressing the
Court, "to avenge society,' and have me guillo-
tined ; and if you shrink frc on that duty, gentlemen
of the Court and gentlemen of the jury, a heavy
responsibility will lie at your•donr."

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In obstructions and congestions a the liver, lungs, bowels,
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and eminently successful. They should be kept in readi-
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for young persons and those of fe bilk) constitutions. They
never cause pain or irritate the frost sensitive nerves or
tender bowels. Holloway's pills ire the best known puri-
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of absorption and
secretion, which remeye-all poises ;pus and obnoxious par-
ticles from both solids and fluids.

Society of Ancient Britons.

The 152 d anniversary festival of this society was
celebrated last evening at Willis's-rooms, King-
street, St. James's. The origin of the society dates
from the year 1715, shortly after the accession of
George 1., and may be attributed to two incidents
—first, to the fact of the birthday of Caroline,
Princess of Wales, being on the same day as that
of the tutelar Saint of the Principality, St. David,
Ist of March, and next to the circumstance that
there prevailed on the part of many influential
Welshmen at that time a desire to manifest their
attachment to the House of Hanover during the
troubles which then threatened the security of that
dynasty. Very soon after the formation of the so-
ciety a school was attached to it to provide a suit-
able education for poor children born in the metro-
polis of Welsh parents, and,. according to the pre-
sent statistics of the society, the number of boys
that have been admitted upon that establishment
and wholly maintained by it is 2,331. Of these it is
stated that 1,133 have been apprenticed, 5 have been
made pupil-teachers, 200 have been sent to sea, 900
to service, and upwards of 80 are now on the esta-
blishment. Then, of girls, 731 have been ad-
mitted, of whom 632 are gone to service, 60 have
been apprenticed, 3 have been made pupil-teachers,
and 36 are remaining in the establishment. The
auditor's report stated that the receipts, including
a balance of 1570 19s. 4d., during the year amount
to £3,412 3s. 11d., and the payments to £3,024
19s. Bd., leaving a balance of £387 4s. 3d. The ex-
penditure has. therefore exceeded the income by
£lB3 15s. ld., notwithstanding the number of chil-
dren in the establishment having been consideiably
reduced. On the present occasion hii Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales was president of the day,
and was supported by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, Earl Powis, Earl Vane, Viscount
Hamilton, the Bishop of St. David's, Earl of Brad-
ford, Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, the Bishop of
Ely, Lieut.-Gen. Hood, Sir W. W. Wynn, M.P.,
Gen. Knollys, Col. the Hon. Percy Herbert, M.P.,
Lord Richard Grosvenor, Right lion. M. A. Bruce,
M.P., Sir T. Phillips, Q.C., Mr. T. Mainwaring,
M.P., Mr. R. Hanbury, M.P., Lieut.-Col. Williams,
M.P., Mr. R. Wynne, M.P., Mr. C. W. W. Wynn,
Lieut.-Col. C. Stuart, M.P., the Hon. H. Tracy,
M.P., Mr. 11. Gwyn, M.P., Mr. Fildes, M.P., &c.,
and the company numbered upwards of 140 friends
of the institution.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS, on rising to propose the
first toast, was received with great cheering. He
said—Your Royal Highness, my lords, ladies, and
gentlemen, the first toast which, in the capacity of
chairman, I have to propose to you is one which I
feel certain you will driuk with enthusiasm. It will
require little praise from me, as it is a toast which
at all meetings of Englishmen is never omitted. I
propose to you " The Health of her Majesty the
Queen." (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm.
His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE,
who was also most cordially received, in proposing
" The Health of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
and the rest of the Royal Family," observed that it
was unnecessary he should say much respecting his
illustrious relative who presided over that festival.
The mention of his name would insure its reception
with the greatest cordiality and goodwill. It was al-
ways difficult to refer to the merits of an individual in
his presence, but the illustrious Prince would for-
give him for expressing the high sense which every-
body entertained of the admirable way in which his
Royal Highness had supported not only the general
interests of the country, but also those of individual
societies. (Cheers.) This, they would all agree,
greatly redounded to the credit of his Royal High-
ness, and could not fail. to.add to the loyalty, affec-
tion, and devotion which were felt by the people
towards his house. (Cheers.) They had lately ex-
perienced great anxiety respecting the state of the
health of the illustrious consort of his Royal High-
ness, and he was sure the toast he was about to pro-
pose would not be the less heartily received when
he stated the fact that all anxiety on her Royal
Highness's account might now be considered as at
an end. (Loud cheers.) They all desired to see
her restored to her usual health. (Cheers.) The
toast was drunk with great cheering.
The Prince of WALES, again rising, said—l
thank your Royal Highness most heartily for the
terms in which you have been pleased to propose
the toast, and I also thank the company for the
great cordiality with which they have received it.
His Royal Highness has been pleased to say that
I have always been ready, whenever it lay in my
power, to assist any charitable meeting of this kind.
I can assure you that it does afford me great plea-
sure and satisfaction to be present, either as a
looker on or as a participator in these assemblies,
and I derive great encouragement from the kind
manner in which I am invariably supported on these
occasions. (Cheers.) There being many other
toasts to go through, I will confine myself to the ex-
pression of my thanks for the very kind manner in
which you have drunk the health of her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales. (Cheers.) lam
truly happy to be able to corroborate the statement
of my illustrious relative, and to say that her Royal
Highness is rapidly recovering from her late illness.
(Loud cheers.) His Royal Highness then proposed
" The Army and Navy, Militia and Volunteer Ser-
vice," which was responded to by his Royal High-
ness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE and the Earl of
SHREWSBURY and TALBOT.
" The Church" was then proposed by Earl Powis,
tos Royal Highnessthe toast the
of
and acknowledged by the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S.
ili
proposee the Prince
even
evening,
aAnLdESsatihde_n
rose
I beg to propose to you " Prosperity to the Welsh
Charity School, and Perpetuity to the Honourable
and Loyal Society of Ancient Britons." (Cheers.)
I feel sure, gentlemen, I shall not have to call upon
you twice to respond most heartily to this toast.
You all of you must know, perhaps far better than I
can tell you, the history of this society ; but at the
same time it may be well that I should go back and
give you a brief sketch of the society from its com-
mencement. In 1714 it was founded on St. David's
day, which was the birthday of Caroline, Princess
of Wales. My ancestor, George 11., then Prince of
Wales, became the first patron of the Society. The
Princess took great interest in the well-being of the
society, independent of the fact of its having been
founded in commemoration of her natal day. The
school in those times was nothing more than a day
school. It was found to be too small, and was re-
moved to Clerkenwell, and there it flourished for
some time. In 1771 it was removed to Gray's-inn-
lane, and in 1818, at the death of the much lamenteed
Princess Charlotte of Wales, whose loss the whole
country most deeply felt, 50 additional children
were, by means of a public subscription, sent to the
school in remembrance of her name. (Cheers.) The
school continued to flourish; but it was thought ad-
visable, if it could be effected, that the institution
should be removed into the country, in order, among
other advantages, that the children might derive the
benefit of fresh air. Accordingly, in 1854, the school
was removed to Ashford, and on the 13th of July,
1857, my lamented father inaugurated and opened
the school on its present site. lam happy to say
that I accompanied him on that occasion, and from
that time to this you will believe me when I assure
you that I have felt the deepest interest in the pros-
perity of the school. (Loud cheers.) It has frequently
occurred on my journey from Windsor to London
by the South-Western line for me to notice the
school as I have passed by it, but that circumstance
alone would not be required to remind me of its
claims. (Cheers.) When the school was removed
from London to the country considerable expense was
incurred ; so much so that it was rendered neces-
sary to reduce the number of children from 200 to
150, but I am happy to be able to inform you that
in the course of the last century and a half as many
as 3,000 Welsh children have been by means of this
institution clothed, fed and educated, and afterwards
sent forth into the world, provided, to a certain
extent, for their future career. (Cheers.) This
must be a gratifying announcement, and brief
and imperfect as the sketch may have been
which I have now given you, still I trust I have
said enough to call upon you most heartily to
continue that support which in past yeart you
have given on the occasion of those annual festi-
vals. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I thank you for the
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kind manner in which you have been pleased to re-
ceive these remarks, and I beg to propose to you, in
a bumper, the toast of the evening. (Cheers.)
The toast was drunk with great applause.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the
principal guests retired about half-past 10 o'clock.

Miscellaneous American News.
One of the most serious charges against- Presi-
dent Johnson—that of garbling the despatches of
General Sheridan concerning the New Orleans
massacre—has been investigated by a Congressional
Committee. The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times, in which paper the mutilated de-
spatches first appeared, was examined, and deposed
that in calling upon the President to know if he had
received any news from New Orleans, Mr. Johnson
told him he had received some telegrams, and that
if he would go into the next room his private secre-
tary would give him copies of them. The cor-
respondent wrote the despatches as they were dic-
tated b 3 the private secretary, and the publication
by General Sheridan of his telegrams showed that
in the copies thus obtained and printed in the New
York 2 imes some sentences of importance had been

suppressed.
New York is about to organise a new association,
to be designated the " American Society of Painters
in Water-colours ;" and it is proposed that the

works of its members shall be exhibited next

As Congress has passed the bill admitting Ne-
braska as a State, over the President's veto, by the
two-thirds majority, the number of States is now 37.
The telegrams from America this week have been
more than ever contradictory. It was stated that

the House of Representatives had passed a resolu

tion abolishing the tax on cotton in September next.
On the evening of the 26th February a message was
despatched from New York, to the effect that the
House of Representatives had passed a resolution
restoring the tax upon cotton. News arrived from
Mexico of a great success of Miramon's, and of the
capture and even of the death of Juarez ; but it
turns out that Miramon has been defeated, and
Juarez is at large. Again it is stated that Mira-

mon routed Escobedo on the 4th February, near
San Luis Potosi. It was announced that the House
of Representatives had adopted a bill for the issue
of 100,000,000 greenbacks for the redemption of
the compound interest notes. This sent up the
price of gold in the New York market, and had an
adverse influence on the 5-20's in the exchanges of

tained.

Europe. Now we learn that the Finance Com
mittee of the Senate has reported against this bill,
and in consequence that body has rejected the bill.
The Senate has passed a resolution for the disband-
ment of the Southern Militia. Saratt has been
arraigned in the Civil Court. The Tripoli reached
New York on the 22d, the City of New York on
the 26th, and the Peruvian, Periere, and United
Kingdom on the 27th.
It is said that within the last six months two at-
tempts have been made to get architects of America
to send in plans for two important buildings—one
the State Capitol at Albany, and the other the new
buildings of the War Department in Washington.
A fixed sum has been offered, but the architects
desired that the successful competitor should after-
wards be employed to superintend the work. In
the case of the Albany Capitol the remuneration
would amount to about $30,000 ; the " Empire
State" offers, through its agents, $2,500 for the
service. For the proposed War-office the amount
would be about $25,000 ; the United States, through
a board of officers charged with the duty, offer from
$l,OOO to $3,000 as premiums for the three best
plans.
RENTS IN NEW York.—A very remarkable in-
stance of the increase of rents is shown in the
Trinity Building, its New York. It is a plain
structure of brick, about 40 feet high and 160
feet deep, standing on Broadway, next Trinity
Churchyard. It is principally occupied by coal
mining companies, and the rent of a second-class
office is now one thousand dollars. The building
was erected in,1852 at a cost not exceeding $200,000,
and was then let for abont $30,000 a year. Since
then therents have been gradually raised, until the
rent rol is now $lBO,OOO, or 90 per cent. on the
cost in a single year. An article in the Cononer-
cial Advertiser, from which we derive these facts,
gives the opinion that rents in New York cannot
go higher, because people would be ruined if they
paid them ; but on the other hand, from the dispo-
sition shown by landlords, there seems to be not
much chance that rents will be lower.
TILE IPCRACKEN LETTER.—The M'Cracken who
wrote the/ letter to Mr. Seward, which the latter
impertinently sent to Mr. Motley, is said to be but
twenty-four years old—young, green, and self-
sufficient. Of the letter itself this account is
given :—" He states in his letter that he has been
travelling in Europe for many months, and made it
his special business to visit our Ministers and
Consuls abroad, for the purpose of • seeing the
manner in which our Government was repre-
sented. After having visited them all, he came
to the conclusion that our Government was
being greatly misrepresented by our present
Foreign Ministers ; and, as a patriot, he thought it
a duty he owed his country to inform the Secretary
of State of matters as he saw them. Speaking of
Mr. Motley, he calls him a ' a Sumner man,' and
says Motley is continually stating in public that he
owes his appointment to Charles Sumner, and not
to Andrew Johnson ; and further that he agrees
with Sumner in politics, and fully indorses him and
his party. Minister Hale, he says, takes every
opportunity to state that Congress is right and
President Johnson is wrong. Towards the
Hon. W. W. Murphy, our Consul-General at
Frankfort, he seems to have a special hatred,
and terms him blatant Radical,' and a ' tool
of Senator Zach Chandler's.' He gives in detail
conversations he has overheard from our Ministers,
and terms them all hostile to the Government. Ile
states that a majority of our foreign missions are
held by Massachusetts Puritans, and are controlled
by such men as Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips,
Ben Butler, and Zach Chandler. This he thinks a
great calamity, and should be ended."

States Ten-Forties 1011, United States 7 340 Loan 106,
Missouri Sixes 92, Virginia Sixes 55, New Ycrk Central
Railroad 1001, Erie 56k, Erie (preferred) 72, Hudson River
1281, Reading 104, Michigan Central 1071, Michigan South-
ern and Northern Indiana 731, Illinois Central 1151, Chicago
and Alton 1151, Cleveland and Pittsburg 831, Cleveland
and Toledo 119, Chicago and North-Western 36k, Chicago
and North-Western Proton-ea 67, Pittsburg, Fort Wayne,
and Chicago 971, Okio and Mississippi Certificates 25A
Western Union Telegraph Company 431, Pacific Mail
Steamship Company 1521, Atlantic Mail Steamship Com-
pany 1021, Cumberland Coal Company Preferred 36, Can-
ton Company 46+, Quicksilver Mining Company 411,
Mariposa Mining Company 101, Mariposa Mining Com-
' pany Preferred 211, Boston Water Power Company 261.
Tho following remarks are from the Baltimore Weekly
Commercial, of Feb. 16 :—" The continued inactivity of the
Now York Stock Market has at last tired the patience of
many recent holders, who have for a long time past been
oßpecting an opportunity to get rid of their stocks at a
profit, and realisations have been sought generally during
the day without reference to first cost. Outsiders have in a
great measure become timid, and, as we anticipated some few
days since, the whole market has declined under the pressure
of sales, and it is very probable that even lower prices will
rule before any increased activity takes place among usual
operators. It will be out of the question for another panic
to overtake Wall-street such as it has recently passed
through ; the condition of the money market is such as to
preclude the possibility of such a contingency, and prices
have not yet sufficiently recovered toward their former
status to admit of a much further deterioration. There can
be little doubt that after the market once becomes settled
we shall witness the opening of the spring campaign, and
that the bull side will be the favourite. As matters at
Washington wear a more distinct and feasible aspect, the
public mind will become more settled, business must re-
vive in every branch, and the New York Stock Market
will certainly bo favoured with a renewal of its former
activity.

(From Bowles, Dreset, and Co.'s Circular.)
Business has become much more animated towards the
end of the week, and a nearly universal advance has been
established. _

Tho purchases announced of about 260,000 frs. of 3 per
Cent. Rentes (say about_ 6,066,000 frs. capital) for the sink-
ing fund, in March, has occasioned a rise in this security,
which is now selling in the neighbourhood of 70, and the
" shorts" show much diScOuragqment. _ _

American 5-20 s. alone continue unaffJcted by the
various influences which agitate the Bourse. The course
of gold and the news, favourable or otherwise, which the
telegraph brings from New York, produce slight move-
ments of advance or decline, with, however, no consi-
derable variation.

Sellers speculating on apprehensions they believe well'
founded are very numerous and active, but purchasers for
investment establish the equilibrium and prices are main-

On the report (which las been but little credited) that
200 million 5-20 s. of 1862, (the only issue freely negotiable
at the Paris Bourse) has been disdovered to be counterfeit,
a slight decline has taken place. The news that President
Johnson will not be impeached has had no influence on
this security, which was quoted in our last circular, 83
9-16, and close to-day at B.n.
Short exchange on London rules at 25 12 to 25 15.
Money is very abundant, and a good commercial paper is
negotiated at 14- per cent. per annum.
In a word the general aspect of the market is better
than for a long time past.

(Front E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular,
Feb. 27, 1867.) _

The Africa brought us advices from New York up to
the 12th inst. The stock market generally exhibited a
fair average amount of business, Government Securities
being well supported, and in good demand. In railroad
shares the fluctuations had been comparatively small, the
tendency being to a slight improvement, on the hope of
speculators that the bill for an enlargement of the cur-
rency to the extent of a hundred million dollars would be
carried. This project, however, we learn by telegraph,
has been rejected by the Senate, so that thO policy of a
gradual return to specie payments will most probably be
persevered in. In railroad mortgages there was very
little business recorded, but State stocks were a little more
in demand. Money remained at former rates.
London, Feb. 21, 1867.

To E. F. Satterthwaite, Esq.
Dear Sirreel take pleasure in complying with your re
quest, to repeat, iu writing, what I said in conversation
with you a few days since, in regard to the manner in
which the Atlantic and Great Western Railway has been
constructed, and of its future prospects for traffic. During
the construction of the road, and as each section was
opened, I had occasion to pass over and to examine many
portions of it, and feel justified in stating from personal
observation that it has been built and equipped as a first-
class Western American railway. Tho cross sleepers are
generally of oak, of good size and quality, and of the usual
and proper number for the rails used. The iron rails are
of the usual and suitable weight (about 561bs. per lineal
yard). The cuttings and embankments are of the usual
dimensions and slopes, and the road-bed reasonably well
ballasted. The bridges and other structures seem to have
been well built, and 1 think a large portion of the line is
fenced. The engines and cars aro of the most
modern and best workmanship, and will com-
pare favourably with those upon this side of the Atlantic.
The equipment seemed to be sufficiently largo for the
traffic at the opening of the road, but will probably require
considerable additions to meet the future increase of the
traffic. This railway, especially that portion in the States
of Pennsylvania and Ohio, passes through a rapidly im-
proving country, the local business of which will continue
to increase for many years. The Western connections of
this road, with several of the lame interior commercial
centres (ouch as Cincinnati, Cleveland, &c.,) will secure to
this lino a share of the vast trade of the greatest cereal
producing regions of the United States. The future in-
crease of the traffic of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway must, therefore, be as certain as the growth and
prosperity of that region of the country. All American
railways are now suffering from a temporary decline of
traffic due to the same general causes. Tho war, and for
some period after its close, gave an increased direct and
indirect traffic, which is not now received. The reaction
following the stimulating effect_of the war upon trade and
commerce has temporarily deprived the railways of that
average amount of traffic, but the recuperating power of
the young, healthy, vigorous West, will in a short time
change this condition of things, and show an increasing
traffic over all the leading trunk lines between the interior
and the Atlantic.—Respectfully yours, W. J 141‘ALPINE.
We have had to note a limited business in American
securities in the Loudon market during the past week.
Telegraphic advices from New York, reporting an advance
in the premium on gold, has had a depressing effect on
the market, and at. the close 5-20's at 73 to 1- for the 1852
Bonds, and 711 to I for those of 1865, showing a decline of
1 per cent. There was but little demand for either Illinois
Central or Erie shares; the former are last quoted 761 to
771, and the latter 361 to 37, or $1 lower.
Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Bonds and
Certificates of Debentures have fluctuated considerably
during the week ; the Consolidated Bonds, after having
advanced from 211 to 26, leave off at 211 to 221, and the
debentures, which were at one time taken at 33, have re-
sod to 28 30.