The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-19

vernon Reeder has been murdered at st. Josephs,
Kansas. 1t il undoubtedly . fabrication. There
was, however, on Saturday last, report current in
st. Louis that Gov Reeder had had rencontre, and
it was also reported that he was not injured.
There was very lively demonstration last even
ing at the hall Of the socaed free love association
lists, in Broadway. Those eccentric philosophers
and their disciples were rather unceremoniously in
troduced to the members of the police force. Mr..
Albert Brisbane made the acquaintance Of Captain
Turnbull, of the Eighth ward, and was by him, in
company with several Others escorted to the station
house. There they remained at a late hour last
night. Graphic accounts of the affair are given in
another column. Further Developments may shortly
be looked for.
There was considerable excitement yesterday
around the City Hail. the courts, and at the Offices
ofthe heads Of the departments relative to the pro-
c1edings of the Grand Jury now in session. Wit
esses subpeenaed before it tel curious stories
after they come out of the jury room and mix IN
the world again Some refuse to answer imperti-
nent questions put to them byilqustiye jurors, and
others relate their extraordinary experience In city
life. Tie jury seems to be composed OF first rate
men, and we therefore suppose that some interesting
Meanwhile, let all concerned be prepared.
numerous and respectable audience assembled
last evening in the lecture room of the Mercantile
Library, to hear the first Of series of lectures on
Turkey and its people, by Mr.. OscanyaH. The lec-
turer, after speaking of the past, and tie rise and
fall of empires, proceeded to give history Of the
origin and progress Of the Turkish people. He then
dwet at considerable length their social life, their
ho1 Hu
with number of interesting incidents and anec.
dotes. In passing, he took occasion 10 pay comFi-
ment to our institutions which stood out in strong
contrast to those Of Turkey. At ire conclusion Of
his lecture, which Was interrupted by repeated ap
plause, he announced that the subject of his next
lecture would be " The Harem," into which he said
he would I" conduct" his hearers.
The Episcopal BoarG of Missions terminated u cir
anniversary exercises yesterday. service was
held at o'clock, at ST. Bartho,cnew's Church, in
Lafayette place. The most important thing done
was the appointment of a committee to prepare an
address to the church with q view to increase their
! means for carrying on the work Of missions. A
subscription taken at the time realized 81 Goo The
concluding meeting was held in the evening.at the
Church of the Ascension in Fifth avenue. Addresses
were delivered by Rev. Mr.. Cummings, of Washing
ton; Bishop Lee, of Iowa; Bishop Clark, Of Rhode
Island, and Bishop McIlvaine, of Ohio.
The News BY 4he acknowledgements
Tro1lAe In England.
The expected battle on the Belbek has not
taken place, and in the absence of startling
news from the seat Of war, public attention is
directed to the commercial intelligence from
Great Britain which is most alarming. The
IN off hoI Do, -
England finding it's stock of bullion approach
the low figure at which it stood in January
last, decided to raise the rate of interest to
5 IL per cent The announcement naturally
created much alarm. According to the san
guine money writer Of the London Times, the
bears were chiefly to be found among the
Greek merchants who arc friends of Russia
of Austria. But there seems no very good
ground for narrowing the circle within such
email limits. 1t is notorious that large por-
ton of the mercantile community has looked
forward for some time to the prospect of the
fall of Sebastopol, in the hope that it would
relieve the market. Now, Sebastopol has
faEen, and instead of helping the merchants
the event has steadily depressed all public
securities and close on its heels, the Bank has
raised the rate Of interest to a figure which
practically puts stop to one-half the CONNER
cal operations III England. 1t is not necessary
to be q RussOphite, one would fancy, to re-
gard such state of things as this with un-
easiness and alarm.
To American readers, this news will not ap-
No one in this country believed that England
and France could maintain the enormous ey-
penditures of the past year without feeling
them severely; especially as in the former
country, at least, the government has very pro-
perly declined 10 pursue the old plan OF mort
gaging the futuge to raise money. When the
dmiculty would-arise no one saw very clearly.
II seems to have been precipitated at the pre-
sent moment by two causes. The first of these
is the partial failure of the crop. In Paris we
learn that corn has already reached the maxi
mum price-that is to say the highest figure at
which a foolish imperial law allows it to be
sold and great dissatisfaction is expressed
because the Emperor refuses to apply the same
absurd system to butchers meat and forbids its
sale over fixed price. In England, the ap-
prehensions Of a scarcity of grain are so great
that immense SUMS of money have been sent
into Austria to buy mp all the surplus of the
Austrian provinces there being sort Of inn
preston among the British corn factors that
partly from the large quantities of breadstulfs
required for home consumption, and partly
from the man9uvres of the scaboard specua-
tors to sustain the price, very little reliance
can be placed upon the supply from America.
These circumstances certainly had much to do
with Fastening the crisis.
But second cause was equally influential