The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-22

N'so~V iVA INC puICudSe OI BIUuOQ ouu Sue COu-
structiou of Protestant church; O. that the State
shall ALLOW each Protestant minister $40 q year 90
long as the Protestant church shall not have sufh-
Gent resources; 8, that the ministers shall receive
iees Tor oaptsms, marriages and deaths; and t. that
the Protestants shall have separate burial place.
The London Herald has an article on the repeal
OF the navigation laws in which the government or
gan contends that its own predictions and those of
Lord Derby With respect to the calamtous results Of
that most hasty. most unjust and most unpatrotic
measure" have been quite fulfilled. It SAYS
rbe 'sot may be roandly stated thai since tue repeal Of
at the ports Of London Lvsrp,o Tor forere o,rs has
fallen from 1859 $50 tons to 1877 e72 tons and the t,n
from 200 the ssapendoas am pun, Of lSo
tons At the same time the gu nber OF British vessels
clearing 81 The same Two ports hes decreased from sbSv
The total receipts of the home treasury of the
East India Company in the year ended 30th April.
1858, amounted to fl2,399077, plus a balance in
favor ut the end of the old account Of f3 04I 944.
The disbursements amounted to ELL ,0S942O, and
there was balance in favor of ca 35 900 on the
30h of April 1858. The cost of bullion RENTED to
India was FL OBI 032 the engineering expenses and
establishment charges lin Eaglsndl on account of
Indian railway companies, FL ,324 ,S73
Lieut.. Glover, one of the English officers under the
command of Capt. Baikie, has stumbled upon vala
able relic of MuDgo Park, and has secured il. Pass
ing through native village near the of Parks
ant, and showed him a book which had for years
been in his possession. II was volume of loga-
rthms, with Mungo Parks name, and photographic
notes and memoranda. The possessor offered il to
Mr.. Glover for 900 cowries. Inestmabe as the
prize was, the price demanded was enormous and
it was IMPOSSIBLE to pay it. After some considera-
tion the lieutenant took from his pocket CLASP
knife and asked the native what he thought of that
This was too tempting bait to be refused; the ma
tive oyfuly took the knife, and the lieutenant still
more joyfuly secured his valuable memento of the
distinguished African traveller.
The Liverpool Times of 18th instant says:-A let
III a mn fha tot NJ a
caravan Of one hundred and fifty Americans from
Boston, direct to Jaffa by special steamer. They
come armed with revovers instead of scolop Shells
and it is well for them, as a certain Abougosh is
giving trouble southwest Of the Holy City, and also
a certain Faqur, against whom the Governor of Je-
rusalem has lately marched with two field pieces
and 400 Bashi Bazouks.
A letter from Damascus of the sth of Nav. in the
Journal de COnst0ntinopis, giving account of the
Sacred Caravan (HadO to Mecca, says that among
the pilgrims were several Russians. After the ar
rival of the caravan here the streets presented q
most curious aspect from the different costumes
which were seen; all the languages of Asia and the
east of Europe might also be heard. Cherkesses
and Daghestanles, members of the tribes of Asia
Minor and Of Persia; T1Tkomans from Khiva, Tar
tars from the Great Wall of China, Dervishes from
Buckhara, &c, were seen parading the streets.
News from Ragusa reached Paris on 18th of July
that, in defiance OF the French governments re-
quest, through envoy Thouvene, at Constantinople,
the Turkish troops were gathering in great force at
the foot Of Montenegro, and a circular is about to
issue to the Corps Diplomatique Of Europe ustfyng
this measure asa State necessity. Russian official
had reached the Mountaineer's camp with subsidy
Of q 900 ducas (ths coin is Neapolitan. and some-
what under a d0llar). He also boIe Russian de-
coration for the Filibuster Mirko, who cut of the
two Pashas heads, and filled basket with Saracen
ears and noses.
"A Disappointed Shareholder" writes to the Lon
Il is about year aud quarter since the European
and American Steam Contrary commenced their services
and thnu ha hanN NRolx shn Gs.kl
poyes In the government transport SERVICE whereby the
hopes Ct shareholders lily ouoyed up
prices, but Notwithstanding the large fregh eArued In
s way And the spt Lido prospscts set forth n the dec
nearly s same value as hat Of III: North Of Europe "a
other damaged and mismanaged Companies
The Prince Of Wales Assurance Company, Eng
land, has, after long efforts, got order from the
Master OF the Rolls for the delivery up aud cancel
ling of the policy of assurance obtained by William
Palmer the murderer, upon the life of his brother
Walter for fl3,0O0.
On the 10th of July was issued an account of the
public income and expenditure OF England for the year
ending the 30th June, 1858. The gross income was
fG6,s79,000, the expenditure f67 ,226 .OO0 leaving
an excess Of the latter the former of f346 0O0
Among the extraordinary items Of expenditure were
the Princess Royals dowry, the cost of the Persian
war, (f900 ,000,) and the expenses Of the late war
with China, (f590 000) The balance in the exche-
quer on the 30th OF June. 1867, amounted to
f6,6ll 600, and on the same day in 1853 to
Is ,Se2, 900.
The Paris Monifer publishes receipts of the reye-
nue. d France for the first six months of the present
year. The total is n O40 6s0f being an increase of
000f over the corresponding period of last year.
The State railway of Bavaria in 1866 pro-
duced gross receipts Of 3l 645 orns. the expenses
beng 4430,336f. The net profits were conse-
quently 400l ,309f being equal TO nearly four and
half per cent on the capital.
The traffic return on railways in the United King
dom, published for the week ending July 10, amount
ed TO f46l $50, and for the corresponding week of
last year to f4s3 AGO. showing decrease Of els $40.
A further dividend Of Is, making l3s Sd. in the
pound, is announced by the official manager of the
Royal British Bank, London.
Two sugar plantations at Surinam have recently
been sold by auction at Rotterdam for very low
prices. These sales have been caused BY the an.
preaching emancipation Of the negroes In conteni-
pation by government
The Melbourne, Australia, Herald says:-A return
recently issued from the government printing Office
shows that in 1857 the number Of animals slaughter
ed for sale and private in the colony l76747
horned cattle 99s 1924 sheep ind rs 2l9 pigs repre-
senting a pretty formidable quantity Of meat to be
consumed by $4,000 people, our average population
in 1851. In addition 10 these. there were exported
4,747 horned cattle, principally from Gipps Land TO
TASMANIA, and ~ ISL sheep. On the other hand, the
number OF stock imported from South Wales and
South Australia were Of horned cattle, log $50; and
OF sheep, Az 1885, that only IS 3ls horned CATTLE
and 5I5 $3.50 sheep, of the whole number that came
TO market were bred by squatters in Victoria. Ano.
ther portion of the return shows that the amount of
money borrowed by thes quattng interest on the We
curty Of liens upon their stock was co ISL $3.50 S.
3D., and that the weight Of WOOL the produce Of Vic
toria, exported In 1857, was IL 1892 pounds.
correspondent Of the Melbourne Herald writ
ing from the Lower Murrumbidgce district, says:-
The aborigbes are dying away extremely fAst-veH-
log clothes one day and the next themselves
with nesh meat week and starving the succeeding
week losing the greater part Of their natural food and
living TO great extent IN state foreign 10 their fore
fathers habu have had the effect OF rendering their al
ways abort lives still shorter Some Of them DIE Of
sumption, curious 10 rotate, and have The short,
husky cough 10 noticeable In consumptivc persons n
home
A letter from Hamburg TO the London Post, dated
on 9Th Of July, has the following:--f the number
Of ships which arrive at port were the only critic
ron by which an estimate could be formed Of It's
prosperity, that Of this city would now be reckoned
at low ebb when the arrivals for the first half of