The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-02 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

FAREWELL DINNER TO MR. ANTHONY

TROLLOPE.

The colleagues and friends of Mr. Trollope—and,
as had been aptly remarked in a public announce-

went, the words are in this case synonymous—gave

him a hearty leave-taking on Thursday in the ap-
_.

proved English form of a " farewell dinner." The
scene was the largebanquet-hall of the Albion Tavern,
and the number of gentlemen present was nearly a
hundred. It is pretty generally known, we be-
lieve, that the best part of Mr. Trollope's life, up to
the present time, has been devoted in a great mea-

sure to the public service, and that the sphere of his

labours has been the Post-office. As Charles Lamb

said of the India House, so may the author of
" Barchester Towers," and "The Three Clerks,"
and a goodly row of truthful fiction, say of St.

Martin's-le-Grand, that his principal " works" arc
hid away somewhere behind Sir R. Smirke's lonic
portico. The company who gathered last evening
to speed the parting guest had for president Mr.
Scudamore, to whose energy and faithful service the
public is mainly indebted for the Post-office savings
banks ; and the croupiers were Mr. E. Yates and
Mr. G. Chetwynd. On the left of the chairman—
Mr. Trollope, of course, sitting at his right hand—
was the Secretary of the Post-office, Mr. Tilley ;
and among the most prominent persons at table
were the Accountant-General of the India House,
Mr. Goodliffe ; Dr. Farr, Mr. Partington, Mr.
Synge, Mr. W. Page, Dr. Lewis, Mr. Ashurst, Mr.
Bokenham, Mr. Parkhurst, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Good,
Mr. Du Plat Taylor, and H. Trollope.
Though the least important business of any great
dinner, public or nearly public, or even largely,
social, is dining, it should, in fairness to the esta-
blishment which had been entrusted with the fur-
nishing of yesterday's feast, be said that there was
no fault whatever to find with the material part of
the affair. When that part had been disposed of,
the chairman called upon the company to drink the
loyal toasts, and seized very heartily on the occa-
sion to speak of the much improved relations of
public servants to the State, and therefore to the
Crown. The rime was, he said, when his hearers
were called ‘" Government clerks," when to abuse
Government clerks seemed to be the province of
every witling, when all tongues and pens were
against them, and when the hard words of the news-

papers were made still harder by ingratitude, see-
ing that a very large share of support was said to
be derived by the press from public offices. Gover-
ment clerks groaned long under this treatment,
and at last said, " We won't be Government clerks
any longer ; we'll be the 'civil service,' and have a
good opinion of ourselves." From having a good
opinion of themselves, it very naturally followed in
time that everybody had a good opinion of them,
and came in time to regard them as a great pillar
of the State. In this pleasant way the chair-
man of the evening entertained his listeners,
who, having, in his own quaint words, " begun
to begin this evening" with the enjoyment
of brisk and genial oratory, and of excellent part-
singing by those distinguished amateurs the
" Moray Minstrels," were all the better prepared to
hear Mr. Scudamore's eulogium on their distin-
guished guest. He began by saying that farewell
dinners were no very extraordinary things, but that
the occasion of taking leave was seldom like the
present. They had frequently to bid farewell to
some working brother who could work no more, or
who, at all events, was entitled to take his rest.
But now they were parting from one who relin-
quished a proud position while he bad vigour to
improve it. Mr. Scudamore, having shown that
times had mended for the faithful and able servants
of the public, laughingly referred to olden days,
when, as he told his hearers, a young Scot, raw to
official existence, had asked him whether it was
possible for a Post-office clerk to be Lord Mayor of
London. " I told him," said the chairman, " that
Post-office clerks were by virtue of their duties spe-
cially exempt from having to serve as Lord
Mayor ; but if he had pushed me a little closer,
and had asked whether I thought it possible for a
Post-office clerk to work cheerfully and well in his
station, and at the same time to raise himself into
the first rank of literature, I think I should have

answered that the struggle to become Lord Mayor
would be of the two things the most hopeful. And
if the raw Scotch clerk bad asked the question not
only of Post-office clerks in general, but of Mr.
Anthony Trollope in particular, I must still have
given a despairing reply ; for in my early acquaint-
ance with our honoured guest, though I soon learned
to love and esteem him, I no more discerned the
likelihood of his ever keeping half England breath-
lessly waiting to hear the Yes or No of Lilly Dale
—immense cheering at this point—than, in looking
attentively at the outer shell of an oyster, I could
attain to a just valuation of the pearl inside." Mr.

Scudamore then proceeded to consider the true

causes of Mr. Anthony Trollope's success. They
were not alone, he said, the natural ability and the
vigour of constitution possessed by him, but they
were in a chiefer degree his strong rectitude of pur-
pose, his manly confidence in himself, and the de-
termination to do to his very utmost what his post
of duty required. And here Mr. Scudamore quoted
from a lecture given six years ago by Mr. Trollope,
within the walls of the Post-office, in which lecture,
speaking of the Civil Service, he said, " There is no
profession by which a man can earn his bread in these
realms admitting of a brighter honesty, of a nobler
purpose, or of an action more manly and indepen-
dent." Continuing to quote from a report of the
same lecture, the chairman laid an earnest emphasis
on the following words :—" He who for every half-
a-crown gives service to the full value of half-a-
crown, surely with him need be no servility, no
feeling of favour. In such a case the workman
confers the favour, and may fairly feel within
his own bosom that he does so. It is, however, in
the power of men to reverse the matter altogether,
and to place the balance clearly on the right side.
For every half-a-crown- that they receive let them
be careful to give work to the value of three-and-
sixpence, and then let them not care a straw for any
man. He who so arranges his weights and measures
never does care a straw for any man." In closing
his words of cordial leave-taking, Mr. Scudamore
appealed to his audience to say whether any one
among them, when coming of mornings to his office
work, had not felt a joyful pride for the Civil Ser-
vice, in seeing fellow-passengers by 'bus or rail
intent on reading " Framley Parsonage," or " Orley
Farm," or some one of the many sterling books
written by the comrade and friend at his right hand.
It is not necessary to say that the response made the
room ring, and that it rang louder and longer when
the chairman called upon them all to drink to the
health of one of the staunchest servants the Civil
Service had ever had.

Mr. TROLLOPE'S speech, in reply, was excellent in
every respect; characterised by his strong humour,
but at the same time tinged with sadness. He
said he was giving up a position which he had
held for thirty-three years, and he could not
but feel that he was ending the worthiest part
of his life. He was, he said, compelled to take
the step by the exigencies of another calling,
which, dear as it was to him, was not so dear as
had been the work he had taken up as a boy, and
was now throwing away from him. There was, he
thought, some matter for grave reflection in this.
He had done his Post-office work without fear of
the public or the critics. Would it not have been
better for him to have stayed in the old home and
done the work his hand had found to do ? He pro-
ceeded to answer this question, and to explain his
well-matured reasons for being on with the new and
off with the old love. Incidentally he touched, as
he might have done with his pen, in a manner at
once gay and thoughtful, on little personal themes,
interesting specially to his hearers. He drew a pic-
ture of a large square room looking out on Gold-
smiths' Hall, in which chamber he had begun his
official life, 33 years ago, " as a junior assistant
probationary temporary extra clerk," condemned to
11 years of preliminary service without any pity, the
12th year rewarding him with the sum of £9 2s. 6d.
In this room there were five gentlemen who took
measure of him and his clothes, and who seemed to
find him a foot too short in wisdom, and a foot too
short in stature. He took measure also of them, and
found them wanting. One of those gentlemen, grown
old in office, had gone to that bourn ; whither all old

The New York correspondent of the Daily News admits
the gravity of the Republican defeat in Ohio, where the
party used to have a large majority, and regrets that Mr.
Wade will be succeeded by Mr. Pendleton in the Senate.
But the correspondent maintains that there is noreal change
of feeling in the North with regard to the treatment of
the South. "The ideas on which the Republican party is
based are still held as firmly by the great mass of the people
as they ever were. They are disgusted with the vagaries
of some of the leading men, and with the bad character
of many of the local candidates, and many are not
prepared for negro suffrage in their own States ;
but they are just as determined as ever that the South
shall come into the Union, and be kept in it, in the way
fixed upon by the North ; that slavery shall not only not
be restored, but that the Southern negroes shall be armed
with as much political power as may be necessary to secure
and assert their newly-acquired rights." The correspondent
seems to think it quite natural that while the North is deter.
ruined to enfranchise Southern negroes it should resist negro
enfranchisement in the Northern States. In fact, he goes so
far as to say that one of the great causes of the Republican
defeat at the recent elections was Mr. Sumner's attempt
to make equal suffrage the law of the whole nation.
One result of the elections is that General Grant's chances
for the Presidency are enormously increased. The ultra.
section of the Republican party having been thus over-
whelmingly defeated, they are scarcely likely to put
forward a candidate of their own, as they did when they
nominated General Fremont against Mr. Lincoln. They
will now, in all probability, give their support to General
Grant, though some of them still turn longing eyes
towards Chief Justice Chase. It is possible tl.lat a large
nurabg of the P;.:Acaz•ns also will ettr 1.). ;Pal

gentlemen must go ; and three of the five were
sitting at the table near him. Coming back to his
motives in leaving official life, Mr. Trollope said it
had been necessary for him to choose, and it was
not impossible that his choice had been influenced
by that sort of feeling which possesses a man who
has once earned his bread in spangled tights in the
glare of the gas. For such a man to go back to
decent, honest work was impossible. He must have
the gaslight again, and the clapping nay, the
hisses, if the clapping was not to be won. But his
friend the chairman had made him out to be a more
defunct man, with regard to the Post Office, than
he was. Like the tallow-chandler who had retired
from business, he should often feel grateful to be
let in on " melting lays." The heartiness with
which Mr. Trollope had spoken of his career and
his comrades drew forth a repetition of those
sounds at the end of his speech which had greeted
him on his rising ; and Mr. Soudamore proposed,
as an informal toast, apart from the programme,
the health of the " Three Old Gentlemen," who
turned out to be Mr. Boyd, Mr. Goodliffe, and Mr.
Tilley. Other toasts followed, Mr. Edmund Yates
proposing " The Visitors," in a very neat and
sprightly address, the respondent to which was
Dr. Farr.

Erskine, at Valparaiso. The screw corvette Malacca
13, 200-horse power, arrived at Mazatlan from Van-
couver's Island on Sept. 5, leaving her Majesty's
armour-plated ship Zealous, 20, 800-horse power,
Capt. H. Dawkins, flagship of Rear-Admiral the
Hon. G. F. Hastings, C. 8., at Vancouver at that
date. The screw corvette Reindeer, 7, 200-horse
power, Commander E. Nares, left Mazatlan on Sept.
11 for San Blas, for the purpose of shipping a
large amount of specie for transmission to the Bank
of England. On reaching San Blas, and finding
no freight ready, she was ordered to proceed to
Acapulco, where she arrived on the 20th of Septem-
ber. On the following day she shipped upwards of
$lBO,OOO, with which she proceeded the same evening
to Panama, where she arrived with her freight on
the Ist ult. The Government of Mazatlan had issued
a proclamation, in which he states that the province
of Cinalon is open to the province of Xalisco. The
whole of Mexico was still very unsettled, the troops
becoming more and more demoralised daily, while
the British and other merchants were making every
effort to get their cash out of the country. Mr. B.
W. Vernon, sub-lieut. of the Reindeer, and Mr.
Stewart, warrant officer, bad been invalided, and
were ordered to return to England.
An amended order from the Admiralty relative
to the new regulations for entry into the Royal
Navy having been promulgated at Chatham, a num-
ber of promising lads have been received during the
past week on board the Wellesley, 72, and the
Formidable, 26, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Bald-
win W. Walker, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at
the Nore. The Admiralty order authorising the
entry of the boys directs that they are to be between
the age of 15} and 16} years, and must possess a
good character. Boys accustomed to boats will be
preferred, and it will not be necessary for those
entered to pass through a training ship. Between
20 and 30 smart lads have joined the Royal Navy,
during the last few days, from the Chichester, 50,
training ship in the Thames for destitute boys, and
have been received on board the Formidable, which
will for the present be used as a receiving ship for
boys, a number of whom have been transferred to
her from the training ship St. Vincent, at Ports-
mouth, the latter vessel having more than her pro-
per complement on board.
A detachment of the 109th Regiment (Bombay
Infantry) has been placed under orders to proceed
from the depot at Chatham, for embarcation at
Gravesend, to join the headquarters of that regi-
ment in Bombay.
At the head-quarters of the:Royal Engineer esta-
blishment, Chatham, great activity prevails in pre-
paring the equipment and completing the necessary
arrangements for the departure of the scientific par-
ties of the Royal Engineers, together with the 10th
company of the corps, the whole of whom will,
according to existing arrangements, leave Chatham
on Monday next for embarkation on board
the screw steamer Mendoza for Abyssinia. Yester-
day a large supply of the apparatus for use by the
photographers, telegraphists, and others who will
form the scientific portion of the expedition, was
despatched from the Royal Engineer establishment
to the Director of Stores, at the India Department,
for shipment on board the Mendoza. Upwards of 30
boxes were forwarded from Chatham yesterday, and
the remainder will be deSpatched to-day. Each box
is fitted so that it may be conveniently placed on
pack saddles for being carried either by mules or
camels. A well-boring expedition has been organised,
and will be placed under the orders of Lieut. F. A.
Le Mesurier, for the purpose of boring for water
along the route to be taken by the troops. For
several days past the non-commissioned officers and
sappers forming the well-boring party have been
busily occupied in practising the well boring on the
Royal Engineer depot works, the apparatus em-
ployed being an American invention, which was
very extensively used during the late civil war. The
apparatus consists of nothing more than a series of
iron tubes, almost exactly resembling ordinary gas
pipes, the first pipe which enters the ground being
steel pointed. Each tube is then driven, in various
lengths,into the ground by means of a monkey, which
the pipe supports, and on water being reached a
common suction pipe is attached, and the required
quantity obtained. With this invention au unlimited
supply of water may be obtained in two or three
hours along the district to be traversed, the nume-
rous trials carried out at Chatham having proved
the value of the invention. During yesterday and
previous days trials were also carried out at the
Royal Engineer establishment with the new pack
saddle to be used with the mounted portion of the
Royal Engineer Train, a number of the principal
officers of the garrison, including Major-Gen. Mur-
ray and Col. Simmons, C. 8., being present on the
occasion. The object of the trials was to ascertain
whether the saddles could be adapted for conveying
he instruments and apparatus to be taken out by
he Royal Engineers, and with some slight altera-

tions and improvements in the existing pattern it
was found that the saddles would admit of their being
safely and securely packed. The 10th company of
Royal Engineers, which has been selected for service
in Abyssinia, has been completed to its full strength

from the depot companies at headquarters, and
so great is the anxiety of the non-commissioned
officers and men to join the expedition that,
should that number be required, at least 500 sappers
would at once volunteer for the service. The whole
of the non-commissioned officers and sappers f orm-
g
well as those of the
A
troop e 10th company, have been
in
mounted the
and
n corps, r ptsh, a 8
awarded 50 days' pay in advance. During the time
they are absent from head-quarters they will be placed
on the pay and allowances of the Indian establish-
ment, besides receiving other advantages. A notifi-
cation has been received from the Horse Guards that
those of the officers of the Royal Engineers pro-
ceeding to Abyssinia who may be desirous of doing
so will be allowed to take their horses with them,
and an application has accordingly been made by
Lieut. Le Mesurier to be permitted to do so. The
other officers proceeding with the Royal Engineers
are Major G. D. Pritchard, in command, Lieut. J.
L. Morgan, and Lieut. A. R. Puzey.
The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the War-office since Oct. 1 :
Major-Generals.—George Hildebrand Burgmann,
Royal Engineers, and John Birtwhistle. Col.—Sir
'r. St. V. H. Troubridge, C. 8., 22d Regiment.
Lieut.-Cols.—W. A. L. Maskinnon, C. 8., Royal
Artillery, and It. Handcock, 46th Regiment. Major
—Stephen Blake, paymaster, 18th Hussars (on
passage home from Bombay). Capts.—A. Richmond
Fullen, Royal Artillery (accidentally drowned) ;
Robert Cosens-Weir, 2d Battalion of the Ist Royals;
and John Croome, 96th Regiment. Lieuts.—A.
C. Dobree, 16th Lancers ; William H. Balders,
18th Hussars ; John Minton Maunsell and Conway
R. Reeves, Royal Artillery ; Wm. Tulloch Whish,
Royal Engineers; Andrew Jackson, Ist Batt. of
the 3d Buffs; D. L. Grant, 50th Queen's Own ; C.
1 udor, 23d Dragoons ; R. Valluncey, Ist Regt. ;
and W. Henderson, sth Fusiliers. Ensign.—Thos.
R. Martyn, Ist Battalion of the 19th Regt. Deputy-
Assist. Commissary-Gen. F. Montgomerie ; Deputy
Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals Jas. I%l.4Gregor ; Surg.
H. S. E. Schroeder, ; Assist.-Surg., R. E.
Hogan, Staff (accidentally killed on the Nova
Scotia Railway, Halifax) ; Assist.-Superintendent
of Stores S. Wright.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :
Lieutenants.—A. Anderson, to the Victory; E. L.
Trafford, to the Indus; C. R. Buckle, to be Flag-Lieutenant
to Rear-Admiral Buckle, C. 8.; Joseph S. Vivian (navi-
gating lieutenant), additional to Fisgard, for Royalist.
Assistant Paymaster—Alexander W. Brett, in charge
to Nereus ; J. 11. M. Burney, to the Royal George ; Harry
hongworthy, to the Terror.
Midshipman—James R. Gow (navigating) to the Fox.
Clerks—James Ur. Gordon (additional) to tho Royal
Alfred ; Alfred T. 'l'. Wise to the Cambridge, assistant-
clerk ; Itobrt L. Dymott to the Royal Alfred, engineer ;
Mr. Thomas S. Grico to the Zealous ; Mr. John Lawson
(qualified for charge) to the Doe; Mr. George Griffiths
(qualified for charge) to the Indus, for Carron.
Assistant Engineeers (first class).—Jamos 11. Leech,
Edwin Jackson, and John Stout, to the Zealous; William
T. Poner, to the Asia, for Enchantress.

COMMERCIAL.

OLD SIR DOUGLAS. By the Hon. Mrs Norton.
Second Edition. Three vols.—" 'Old Sir Douglas' is un
questionably Mrs. Norton's greatest prose work. There
can be little doubt that in it she has attained her highest
excellence as a writer of fiction. The talo has the advan-
tage over all her other prose works in vigour of interest,
in profusion of thought and poetry, and more strikingly
still, in variety and singularity of character. It is a work
of the highest order of genius.' "—Dublin University
Nallazine.

TINE SUN, LONDON►. SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1%7.

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Yesterday the telegrams received in London added
as much to the alarm as to the confusion at present
prevailing in the minds of the English public. The
Times, in its Second Edition, announced the arrival
in Rome of two French brigades, who were received
by the people in dead silence. The news came
from Leghorn, dated October 30, 11-5 p.m.,
a date considered to be mistaken, as a de-
spatch from Florence of November Ist said that
the French troops were still at Civita Vecchia.
the General CIALDINI has been placed at the head of
Italian army of occupation, which has taken several
posts in the Papal territory, and is advancing to
occupy Conniarque. These troops are every where re-
ceived by the inhabitants with acclamation ; but it is
ominous that the Pontifical authorities withdraw
from the communes as the Italian army advances,
leaving a Provisional Government to be formed in the
name of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. The Garibaldian
bands were encamped within a short distance of the
walls of Rome—a position which had been recon-
noitred by the Papal troops, and an attack on
GARIBALDI was expected to be made yesterday. The
Italian Government had closed the insurrectional
relief committee at Florence. The Italie denies
that the object of General LA MARMORA'S mission
to Paris was to come to an understanding
relative to a joint intervention in the Papal
States, as reported by a French paper, the
real aim being to hasten the solution of the present
difficulties, which cannot be prolonged without
serious inconvenience and peril. We can only hope
that King VICTOR EMMANUEL is acting in con-
junction with the Emperor of the FRENCH. On
this point the Moniteur has as yet been silent, and
we are left to mere conjecture as to whether
the Italian army has invaded the Papal ter-
ritory as allies or foes of France. There are
now four cocks on the ground, and others are
already crowing. Some ominous notes come from
Berlin, and the Emperor of AUSTRIA is known to
be in close alliance with NAPOLEON. The French,
too, are divided on the expediency of the inter-
vention, and two strong sections appear to be
bitterly opposed on this question. As Rome is, we
suppose, at present garrisoned by French troops,
and the Italian army within a short distance, the
end must be near. If the Papal force fought it
out with the Garibaldians, while the French and
Italian armies of occupation looked on to see fair
play, and all parties agreed to abide the
result, we could see the •sword to cut

this Gordian knot. But alas 1 the days of chi-
valry are gone, flickering only in such hearts
as that of GARIBALDI, who, we doubt not, would
abide the issue, either living to see Rome
free or falling gloriously beneath its walla.
Although the trial by combat has not ceased, yet
it is in these times conducted on so gigantic a scale,
except where a Fenian with pistol assassinates
a policeman with truncheon, and the interest gene-
rally ramides so widely, that GARIBALDI and his
volunteers are a mere match to kindle the fire
where they will be the first victims, and of so

little account as to be wholly lost sight of in the
conflagration. The position is full of danger, but
the Emperor NAPOLEON may be master, and by the
sheer force of his great power cow the unruly ele-
ments into subjection.

been ascertained, but some say it will not exceed $lOO,OOO.
Secretary M'Culloch announces that the Treasury will
give 5-20 Bonds of 1867 for 7-30's; the interest to be
charged on the Bonds, and allowed on the notes up to the
time of conversion ; the risk of forwarding the notes to
Washington as well as the expense to be borne by the sender,
while the department will take the risk and expense of the
return bends. In this the Secretary is pursuing his policy
of funding the National Debt into a uniform gold-bearing
stock, in which he will be aided by the counterfeit 7-30's
just discovered, which makes many holding such bonds
anxious to be relieved of them. The interest duo Ist No-
vember, on the 5-20's, amounts to $24,900,000 in coin,
which will release a largo amount of gold from the Trea-
sury. The payments will be made in the following pro-
portions: —At New York, $17,425,501; Boston, $2,910,351;
Philadelphia, $2,359,591.50 ; Baltimore, $552,016.50 ;
Washington, D. C. ; $258,439.50 ; Cincienati, $194,752 ;
St. Louis, ,$94,772; Chicago, $428,709 ; Pittsburgh,
$10,122 ; New Orleans, $13,937 ; Buff ilo, New York,
$9,865.50 ; Charleston, $3,058 ; San Francisco, $3,585.
In anticipation of this deluge, gold has been falling, and
some predict that after the payment the price will go below
140. Yesterday it closed at 1441 after some fluctuations.
It is worthy of observation that the gold payments of the
Treasury on 5-20's have not yet been followed by a fall,
but, on the contrary, have generally resulted in a rise.
Foreign exchange is very dull and lower. American
silver is in moderate request at 5 to 5i cents below gold.
Mexican dollars 1021 to 103 in gold. There is an improve-
ment in trade, though it does not equal anticipation.
Cotton is low and falling; the decline since June Ist in
the raw materials equals 7 cents a lb, which bears heavily
against Southern trade, and is felt severely by the planters.
The news from Liverpool is not encouraging. Colin Campbell
and Son, who held a first-class credit, have failed. S. and
J. Ralli and Co., also a firm of high credit, has also gone.
The latter house had a branch in New York and another in
New Orleans. Peter Buchanan and Co., of Glasgow, have
been chiefly connected with Canada, and does not affect
us. Flour and wheat keep strong, and are likely to do so
during the winter. The railway and miscellaneous mar-
ket has generally improved, though the fluctuations have
been considerable. Tho improvement is owing to the
greatly increased business which the harvest has given to
the Western railways. The Illinois Central has been very
fully employed, so also has the Chicago, Burlington, and
Quincey. The Boston, Hartford, and Erie has advanced
since the Erie Railroad election 21, being now 161. The
closing prices yesterday were as follows :
New York Central 1121, Erie 721, Hudson 126, Reading
1011, Michigan Southern arid Northern Indiana 811, Illinois
Central 1221, Cleveland and Pittsburg 821, North-Western
461, North-Western Preferred 671, Canton 44f, Rock Island
97, Cleveland and Toledo 1061, Fort Wayne 99f, Pacific
Mail 1461, Quicksilver 21, Western Union Telegraph 341,
Mariposa Preferred 17, Ohio and Mississippi Certificates
261, Boston Water Power 161, Cumberland 30.

The Radicals have carried the Virginia and
Georgia elections.
The court-martial on Colonel Gilbert for sending
a party under Major Pierce to wreck the office of
the Constitutional Eagle, and for upholding and
justifying that act, has announced its verdict ; the
sentence being approved by the President and
General Grant. The colonel has been reduced from
his grade to the rank of captain, and mulcted in a
fine of $l,OOO.
A Correspondent, whose letter is dated Naples,
22d October, and whose information may be relied
on, as it is not setsational, and is written by one
intimately acquainted with Italy, says :—" Cholera
has quite ceased here, and there are no quarantines,
so that communications by sea are free. Trains
arrive from Rome, but on account of the insurrec-
tion are not allowed to run to Rome. In spite of
the flaming accounts of the Italian press, we see no
signs of enthusiasm in the masses." We hope to
receive frequent notes from the writer, particularly
during the present crisis, and that the despatches
will be so timed as to reach us on Friday evening.
The counterfeit 7-30's which have so startled
New York still remain a mystery. Although many
have been advanced, yet no satisfactory clue has
been found either of the origin or extent of the
fraud. The Treasury has circulated the report that
they came from Europe, but there are grounds for
belief that the counterfeits are copied by actual
transfer from the genuine plate. The defects of the
old issues are reproduced in the counterfeits, but not
those of the later issue. It is considered suspicious
the readiness with which the Treasury officers have
rushed into print in their endeavours to fasten the
forgery on Europe. The rumours so long prevalent
of fraudulent practices in the Treasury have now
received confirmation. Of course hints were thrown
out that there were counterfeit 5-20's also, but this
is authoritatively contradicted. The Congressional
Committee on retrenchment is investigating the
subject, and Mr. M'Culloch has prepared a report
for that committee, which it is believed will im-
mediately be published. Persons have been arrested
charged with the offence. The Secretary of the
Treasury intends to recover from the persons who
gave into the Treasury the spurious bonds, and the
brokers will be heavy losers if he succeeds, but they
are united to resist this, and no action has yet
been taken by the Government. The law allows
15 days as the time within which action must be
taken on the discovery of counterfeits, and there
appears to be a difference of opinion as to whether
the Treasury has acted within this limit. The
amount redeemed by the Treasury is $BO,OOO, but
what further issues remain behind no one knows.
We give the official report from the Treasury De-
partment, in relation to these bonds, by L. M.
Clark, chief of the printing bureau, in another
column, which will enable the counterfeits to be
detected.

(From the Wall Street Journal of Oct. 19.)
" Mining Stocks have been very dull until yesterday,
when the market took a spirt upwards, and a good lot of
stock was got off at higher prices. The advance was not
sustained, and the tone to-day is quite changed, the mar-
ket having relapsed into its former apathy.
" Petroleum Stocks sell steadily, and the continued in-
crease of companies paying dividends is encouraging to
speculators.
The following aro the closing prices to-day for Express
Stocks :

Theodore Tilton, while on his journey to Boston,
met at lunch, in Springfield, Senator Wilson, Schuyler
Colfax, and several other Republican politicians. The
Senator humorously remarked that he did not know
whether it would do for himself and the other Conserva-
tive gentleman to be soon lunching with so pronounced a
Radical as the editor of the Independent. No opportunity
then offering for a counter reply, Mr. Tilton quietly
waited his time. As the cars passed Natick, Mr. Wilson,
pointing out his dwelling to the party, and the cemetery,
which is on elevated ground, said, " There is where I live,
gentlemen, and there is where my bones will lie." "I am
glad to see, Senator," quickly replied Mr. Tilton, " that
you will take higher grounds after your death than you
did during your life." A neat thing, was it not 2

Watchman and Reflector.
Boston having added Roxbury's 28,426 inhabi-
tants, now has 220,750 ; and she puts out the following list
of other neighbours that she is ready to swallow :—Dor-
chester 10,729, West Roxbury 6,912, Brookline 5,262,
Brighton 3,859, Cambridge 29,114, Charlestown 26,398,
Somerville 9,336, Chelsea 14,403, North Chelsea 858, Win-
throp 634 ; all of which would make Boston's grand total
326,253.
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.—The practice which Cer-
tain public men havo fallen into of holding private con-
versatiocs with newspaper reporters, with a view to their
publication and circulation as political or personal docu-
ments, is to say the least of it, undignified; and when resorted
to as a moans of backbiting other public men, it becomes a
serious breach of good manners.—Atlanta New Era.

Adams 63i 631
American 63 64

United States 691 65
'' 2
Wells, Fargo, and Co. ss} 56
Merchants Union ($35 paid) 22 23}
The following figures have been published of the rola•
tivo earnings of the different express companies in 186;
and 1866, from January 1 to August 31 :

1867. 1866.
Wells Fargo (7 months)
Adams
United States
American

Merchants' Union
" To show how life insurance stocks pay, the following
report has been compiled, reporting the amount of the paid-
up capital stock of eighteen life insurance companies, and
the amount annually received by stockholders :

- - Aggregate Dividends
Companies. Capital. dividends. per cont.
Brooklyn, N.Y 5125,000 $8,750 00 7
Equitable, N.Y lOO,OOO 12,175 00 124
Germania, N.Y 200,000 28,000 00 14
Globe, N.Y lOO,OOO 7,571 27 74
Guardian, N.Y
Rome, N.Y 125,000 14,062 50 114
Knickerbocker, N.Y lOO,OOO 10,500 00 104
Manhattan, N.Y
North America, N.Y.... 100,000 11,000 00 11
Security, N.Y.
United States Life,N.Y. 100,000 47,000 00 47
Washington, N.Y 125,000 8,750 00 7
Etna, Hartford, Conn 60,000 57,043 40 29
Berkshire, Pittsfield,
Mass.

Charter Oak, Hartford,
Conn.
Mass. Mutual, Spring-
field
Phoenix,Hartford,Conn 10,000 6,000 00 37}
Union Mutual lOO,OOO 3,130 00 all profit.
" Of the above companies the Brooklyn and the Security
give twenty per cent. of net profits to stockholders in ad-
dition to seven per cent. interest upon their stock. The
Globe sets aside twenty per cent. of its surplus as a
guaranty fund,' the interest upon which ' fund' also
goes to stockholders.
" The application to which we referred to last week, for
a mandamus compelling the Pacific Mail Steamship Com-
pany to allow their stockholders to inspect the books
which would or should exhibit the condition of their own
property was duly granted on Tuesday, Oct. 15, by Judge
Sutherland."

After giving a full report of the proceedings the Wall-
street Journal concludes as follows :—" The conduct of the
officials of this Company in connection with this and with
other matters concerned in the company's affairs is the
leading topic in commercial circles, and the general
opinion of monied mon is that a change is absolutely
necessary."

NEW YORK, Saturday, Oct. 19.

The money market is active, the demand continuing
strong, more especially in Chicago, whole the rates are
very high, being from II to 21 per cent.. per month ; this
is, however, only temporary, and in consequence of the
oquiroments for removing the immense qualities of grain
now seeking a market. Lenders prefer to advance on call,
And the supply is plentiful at short dates at 7 per cont.
The discount market, however, is dull, ranging from 7 to
9 for the best quality, and there is little inclination to take
anything else. Until the navigation closes the neces-
sities of the Western trade will press heavily on
the Eastern market. Tho demands, too, for money
are expected to be large for the fall and winter
business, so that high rates aro anticipated for at least two
months to come. Government Securities aro lower, tho
tendency being downwards on a predominance of sellers,
caused probably by fright on the discovery of the coun-
terfeit 7-30 notes. Some brokers will be losers to amounts
varying up to $lO,OOO. What the total loss les has not yet