The New York Herald Newspaper, June 26, 1856, Page 7

? NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1856. —————$—$—$— oe FINANCIAL AND. CO? merciaL. MONEY MARKET. Wepxeapay, June 28—6 P. M. ‘The etock market continues active amd prices well sus- tained, At the first board to-day Mlingis Central bonds declined & per cent; Nicaragua Transit, };; Cumberland, 4; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 34; Cleveland and Toledo, 14; (Chicago and Rock Island, 3g. Wisconsin Lake Shore sold at 78 per cent, buyer 60 days. This isan advance. Mil- wankie and Missiesippi opened at 8734 and closed at 88 per cent. After paying the five per cent dividend in July, fn cash, this company will have a surplus of about foar per cent out of the net earnings of the past six months. Such a stock should not be selling in this market at 96 per cent, dividend on. Reading was in demand w-day at prices current at the close yesterday, but the sales were enly to a moderate extent. We have noticed within afew @ays an advance in the better class of railroad bonds. Very few ure on the market for sale, and those offered are taken for permanent investment, The supply of this class of securities is comparatively limited, and as eaptal tmcreases in amount and decreases in value, investments with fixed rates of interest: must advance in price. In a few years we shall find money plenty enough at four and five per cent per annum, Then securities of undoubted character, drawing seven per .cent interest, must be worth considerably more than par. The immense annual production of gold tal Australia and California must, before the lapse of many years, have a very important influence upon the vatue of money in all parts of the world. Advices recently ro- eetved from Australia report a product of gold during the fitst quarter of the present year double that of the cor- Tesponding period last year, and at the rate of $10,000,000 per annum. This, added to the annua! product in Califor- nis, and all other parts of the world, will give us an ag- Bregate yearly product of $20,000,000 of gold and silver. ‘The addition of such an immense amour’ annually to our present supply must, at no very distant Jay, bring about a revolution in the value of money greater than ever before known, Itis estimated that the total product of gold and silver from the Christian era up to 1850 amounted % twenty thousand millions of dollars, What portion of that vast sum was in existence in the year 1850 is impos- stble to tell, but we know that comparatively but a sma‘l proportion served as a basis for currency or commercial credits, The present annual product is:probably equal to five per cent of the whole amount of gold used in 1860 in the commerce of the world. At this rate, in twenty years we shall double the quantity of gold possessed in 1850 by the principal commercial nations. No one can for a moment doubt but that the effect of sneh an accumulation of the representative of property must have a wonderful effect upon property itself. The value of property will of course be differently affected. While certain kinds will be enhanced in value, others will be depreciated. While brown stone palaces and brick houses will be reduced in value, land will increase. Everything what can be increased in quantity by the application of Jebor must naturally be reduced in cost by the cheapness ef money, while the soil is likely to be much more yalu- able than under the existing order of finances. Any re- duction in the value of money makes it necessary for all to have more of it, and that necessity will give a great ‘impetus to industry. That industry will result in an tmcrease of all products, and that increase must reduce ‘heir value. The construction of a brown stone house— say on the Fifth avenue—on one lot of ground, twenty- fave by a hundred feet, at an expenditure for the building lone of.$40,000, under the existing order of things in the nancial world, would be poor property ten years hence, ‘with the changes going on in the value of money, for a house could, at that time, be built precisely like it, on an adjoining lot, for about one-half the money, The Jot would, ten years hence, cost more than now, but the building would be put up so much eheaper that the difference would be very great, The enly way to overcome this difficulty and to guard against such depreciations from changes in the value of money, te to put up houses of less cost on more land. Capitalists investing money in real estate should look more to the Jand and lees to brown stone, marble or bricks. Men of means, wiro have an eye ¢o the interests of their chil- @ren, must depend upon the soil and not so much on what covers it in the way of buildings, The man who purchases five lots for say $3,000 each, and puts a build- mg on them for his own use, costing say $30,000 more making a total expenditure of $45,000, will have more real comfort white he lives, and leave his children bette provided for, than the man who puts the same amount in ‘one jot and one expensive house. In the first, the land is eoutinually increasing in value five times, while in the Jast it does once, while in the first, the depreciation in the building % much less than in the other. In the frst in- stance the increase in the value of the land will offze four or five times the depreciatton in the house, while in the other, the depreciation of the house offsets four or five times the increase in the value of the singlp lot ef land. These are important polrts for considera. tion, and owners of property, or those comtem- plating purchasing, would do well to give them proper attention. The emnual production of gold and silver, at the rate named dboye, is a fixed fact. It is @otatemporary matter. Bis likely to be as regular as any other product of the soil, and more likely to increase than decrease. With sugh an addition to our present ac- cumulations, the state of'things-we have here alluded to may be realized in a short time. In England, the average value of money for many years has not been over three to three and a half per cent, and the commercial and ‘Mmancial intercourse between this country and that has now become so intimate that the existing wide difference im the annual rates of interest cannot be much longer maintained. In this country the want of capital is not felt at all. We bave not so much use for money and de- pend less on supplies from abroad. Our railroad system, which has absorbed twelve hundred millions of dollars, ‘enearly completed. ‘We shall not spend that amount | egain on such works within the next hundred years. That enormous demand for capital has nearly ceased, | ‘and the absorption in other things will be more gradual and taga more moderate extent. Weare now more pro- ducers than consumers of capital, and it will, therefore, be more difficulty to sustain its value, At the second’board the market was altogether more | buoyant. The transactions were only to a moderate ex- tent, Erie advanced % per cent; Cleveland and Toledo, 34; CBicago and Rock Island, 34; Missouri 6's, 34. ‘the beard Erie «vas in active demand, and 58% was offer- ed, without finding sellers. The receipts of the Erie road up to tast night. (the 24th inst.) were $517,000, leaving six days to complete the month. The receipts on Monday last amounted to $39,000, The total receipts for the month will pot vary auch from $650,000. The actual gross earnings will net be much below $600,000, against $395,- 000 for the seme month last year. The increase is likely ‘to be darger this month than in any previous month in the history of the road. ‘The steamship Arabia, from this port for Liverpool to- day, carried out: $1,568,300 in specie, on freight. This is smaller than anticipated, but the total exportation for the week will, without doubt exceed two million of dol- Jars. We have a steamer from California nearly due, with anther semimonthly remittance of gold. It will probably be aboutithe usual average, say two millions, which will make ypfor this week’s shipment. ‘The Assistant Treasurer reports to-day as follows:— Paid on Treasury account .. $36,578 55 Received on Treasury account ee 91,350 04 Balance on Treasury account . 125516400167 35 Paid for Aseay office... 5,100 67 a eh 35,311 37 Albert H. Nicolay’s regular semi-weekly auction sale of stocks and bonds will take place to-morrow (Thurs ¥ day), at half.past 12 o’clock at the Merchants’ Exchange, ‘The Metropolitan Bank has declared a semi-annual divi dend of four per cent. The Atlantic Bank of Brooklyn a semi-annual dividend of five per cent. The Delaware, Lackawana and Western Railread Company, has declarod a semi-nunval interest dividend of three per cent, paya- ble in the stock of the Warren Railroad, on the 15th of July. The Mechanics’ and Farmers’ Bank of Albany, a semi-annual dividend of five per cext. The Ontario Bank asemi anual dividend of four per cent. ‘The value of merchandise warehoused in the port of Boston, for the week ending June 20, 1656, was as fol- lows — Dry g00dS......0eceee $13,646 00 Ri cther merchandise, , + 282,116 00—245,758 00 _ Warehoused for Canada: Try fO0d8......s6e se + 22,034 00 Tid other merchandise, sree 12,126 00— 34,159 00 Total value... 279,917 00 Imports of foreign goods at the port of Boston, for the week ending June 20:— ++ $119,997 59,208 93,590 58,983 OP seccvvsoeece 42,768 ‘The July coupons of the bonds of Iowa county, Wiscon Sin, feeuod to the Mineral Point Railroad Company, will @ paid on the 1st proximo, at the Ocoan Bank, of the city Of New York. Alsp, the coupons of thy first and second Copper ore... Linseed. ,. Other articles Total ” After | mortgage bonds of the Mineral Point Railroad Company will be paid at the same tima and place: ‘The number of depositors in the Savings Banks, of the State of New York, on the lst of January, 1855 and 1856, were as follows:— : Jan. 1, 1865, Jan 1, 1856. Jue. 1856, x c 124,222 132,737 omen anid 11/200, 12/362 13162 Remainde’ 27,870 31,022 3)182 Totals... 176,121 12,829 The whole amount of deposits on hand on the Ist of January, being $36,112,764 67, and the number of do- positors 176,121, shows an average amount of $205 08 to. the credit of each depositor, ‘The following table will show the interest received during the year by the banks on their investments :— |. Other seo'tien. ‘Total. sar oi ad 814,308 58 1,606,260 52 New York city. Brooklyn’... 034 50 39,693 39 «137,727 89 Remainder State... 166,883 29 116,517 43 283,400 72 Total,,....++. 01,146,869 73 970,519 40 2,117,379 13 ‘The amount paid for interest by, and the expenses of the Banks, were as follows:— Int. Paid Bxpenses. Total. New York city,.,$1,478,170 90 118,131 98 1,696,302 88 Brooklyn... « 100,694 90 18,826 44 119,521 34 Remainder State. 223,973 78 32,280 54 256,253 32 Total ., $1,802,839 68 169,237 96 1,072,077 54 —Showing a profit on the business of the year as follows:— Receipts, Payments, Profs. New York city... $1, 50 521,596,302 88 99,947 64 Broeklyn as P"'7487; 727 89 |119521 34 18,206 55 Remainder state, 283,400 72 “256,253 32 27,147 40 Total....+.++-82117,079 18 1,072,077 64 146,201 50 ‘The legislative report of the business of the year 1854, included only the statements of the eavings banks in New York etty and Brooklyn. In those cities the deposits and withdrawals for the two years were;— 1864. 1855. Deposits . $13,411,638 93 $13,746,326 32 Withdrawal 15,734,061 68 13,140,916 45 Decrease .,...+++.$2,322,622 75 Increase. .., $605,409 87 Stock Exchange. Wepxrepar, June 25, 1856. 100 ahy Evie RR, .b3 $1000 Tenn St 6’8°90, 974 583% 5000 Va Stat 6’s.d0 W734 075 do.,...b10 68 5000 do....,. 83 9754 100 11600 Ind State 6's. 833g 200 28000 Mo State 6’s.83 8734 100 ‘5000 Cnt 7s70.860 82 100 do......880 58 . 2500 City 6's, 70... 9034 5 Milw& Miss RR. 87 2000 HE RR SMt.b60 67% 25 do. 8735 83000 Ill Cent RR Bds 87% 13 do, 88 10000 d 880 873% 160 WisLShRR..b60 73 5000 #15 4 1000 Ch & Rk Is! Bs. 1000 Nia Istmt Guile 10 shs Comm’th Bk, 10 Ocean Bank 100 Nic Tran 100 do 9% a 30 918g 6 Del & H 123% 800 dow. 83 9135 200 Cumb Coal Cosd 21% 190Mich Cen Rit.b60 923 400 do...,..b30 22°" Z00MichS &NIaRR, 98 100 do. \% 6 do. 9834 100 do. 10 do: 98% 220 Pa Coal Cos... 8 dose 360 9044+ DOO 10! 200 Tl Con RR. 4 0. ~ 101% 10001 & Pitts RH. VON Y Cent RR... 92% 40 do, 700 660 100 do. 6434 105 206 Gal & Chic RR:*, 1135¢ 600 Erie 200 Clev & To RR... 7636 300d 300 1200 do....44,83 5832 800 830 100 200 do... .b60 336 Chic. & Ricid RR BOARD. 100 Erie RR... 58%, 87% 150 Reading RR..... 9134 2000 City 5's, 68... 96 1000 il Cent RR Bis “87% 6000 do..,,..860 8736 27 chs Metrop Bk... 111 200 do .....b45 ‘150 Cley & Pitts RR.. 643; 200 Panama RR..b30 105 100 MchS&NIaRR.b60 9834 10 10...0.444. 9834 500 Cley & Tol RR.b60 7734 100 do. +b10 77 100 do... os IT 200 Chic & Rk IsiIRR. 9254 do......b90 93 50 110 Mi) & Miss RR... 8734 34 100 do......D60 88 400 583g 66Gal & Chic RR... 11334 CITY €OMMERCIAL REPORT. WepsespaY, June 2—6 P. M. Asnes.—Sales of 80 2 50 bbls. pots were seld at 634c.; no pearls were on the market. Breapeturrs.—Flour—There was a good export demand and sales were freely made, the market closing at 10c. advance, especially for all good medium grades. Th transactions footed up about 16,000 20,000 bbis., in cluding all descriptions, the market closing at about th following quotations:— +95 30085 7 5 85a 6008 0 acopan Sssass PRoere @naasaaa SSRSSse5 De. fancy and extra... Canadian superfine aad extra. Choice extra Georgetown, Richmond City Mills and St. Louls......c.0+ sescese coos 6 758 9 75 ‘Among the sales were about 1,500° bbls. Canadian, which closed firmat the above quotations. Southern brands were firm, with sales of 1,000 1,200 bbis. at quotations. Wheat was active, without change of im- portance in prices. The sales embraced about 65,000 a 60,000 bushels, including Chicago spring, at $1 25 a $1 27, Canadian fair to choice white at $1 65 a $1 81; mixed Mil- waukie, $145, and fair to good Southern white, $1 70a $1 76, and white Illinois at $1 61. Corn Swas again inactive, with gales of about 40,000 buehels, including heat Western, at 45c. a 46c.; good to prime sound,’mixed do., at 58c, a 570.; and Southern yellow ‘at 58c. a 60c., no prime white was offering. Rye was firm, with sales of 10,000 a 12.000 bushels, at 82c. for Western, and $3c.; for Pennsylvania, and 86c.’a 86c. for prime Northern. Oals— for State, and 36c. a 37c. for Western. CorrEk-—Sales of 1,600 bags of Rio were made nt 10%c. a 114c.; 500 mats Java were sold at 14%Xc., with small lots of St. Domingo at 103, 75 bags Laguayra ut 11¥c. ‘Corroy.—With continued firmness om ‘the part of holders, the sales were contined to about 600.0 800 bales, without change in prices. Famaurs.—Rates were firmer, with free engagements of breadstuffs to English ports. To Livenpool, 60,000 a 60,000 bushels of wheat, at 7d. a 734d. a 8d. in, bulk and in,vhip’s bags, closing at 73gd. a 8d., and 10,060 a 12,000 bis. of flour at 2s, 44d. a 2s. 6d., chiefly #t the latter figure, 400 a 500 bales of cotton were engaged at 3-161., with some lots at 7-32d., and 100 bales Sea Island at 5-16d. To London, 3,000 bbis. flour were engaged at 2s. 1034d., and at the close 3s. was asked, and some lots of wheat were engaged at 914d. a10d. Rates to Hare were steady, To Bremen 6,000 dry hides were engageé at 3c., and 60 bales of cotton at 178. 6d. per ton. Tron. $32 50. Limy.—The market was quiet, at 80c. for common, and $1123; for lump. Moiass#s.—The market continued firm: eales of 50 hhds. Cuba muscovado were made at 46c., and 200 hhds. Mola- do.on private terms. Navat Storss.—Sales of 1,500 bbls. common rosin were made at $1 6234 per 310 Ibs., delivered. crude turpentine were quiet, without cheuge in prices. Ous.—Lingeed was quiet, while a moderate business was doing in whale and sperm, without change in prices A cargo of palm oil, from coast of Africa, arrived yestor day, which had been previausly at 9340. per Ib.” Olive was unchanged, Lard was held at 90¢, Provisions —Pork—Mess advanced 2be. a 0c. per bbl. with gales of 1,100 a 1,200 bbis., at $20 25 a $20 50, and $17 for prime, and $17 25 for’ prime mess. Beef was tirmer, with sales of 500 a 600 bbis., including country prime, at$7 26a $8, and country mess at $8 a $0 50, and repacked Western at $8\a $12 7. Beef hams $13 a $16; prime mess was dull, at $16 a $18. Tard ‘continued firm, and sal of 250 bbls. were made, afloat and delivered at the doc at 12c, Bacon was scarce and firm. Cut meats were fir with sales of 100 bhds. shoulders, at 8, and 100 di —Small lots Scotch pig were meking at $32 a hams, at 9%c. Butter was in good demand, for goo’ prime Ghio, at 160. a 19¢., aud 18c. a 20c. for State |. Be. a 90, Cheese, of good quality, was selling Rew —Sales of 300 a 400 casks, at 4c. a 43¢c., part for big vGars—The market continued firm, with siles of about 1,200 hiide., chictly Cuba muscovado, at prices rang ing chiefly from Tic. a Sige. ‘Wrisxey.—Sales of 150 a 200 bbls. Ohio and prison were reported, at 80c. a 3lc. NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET. Webyespay, June 25, 1856. There were about 300 more than last week at Allerton’s and prices have declined about Xc. to le, Cattle are not 80 good as last week—some were very inferior—many poor. Nearly all were from Ohio and Illinois, Other stock is without change. Beautiful day over head and under foot. Prices. Beef cattle, extra quality, per 100 Ibs. 10 60 a 11 00 Do. good quality y + 9 60a 10 00 Do, common, + 8508 9 00 To. inferior -——a 8 00 Cows and calves, extra. 11) 60 00 a 70 00 Do. good. + 45 00 a 55 00 Do. COMMON, .6 ++ eee sree ee 26 00 @ 36 00 VAS. ssecrereversees . 4iga 6 DO, OXtr@... 6. eee . 64a 7 Sheep and jambs, + 200a 900 €wine, gross + 6a 6% ‘The following table shows from what part of the coun- try, and by what conveyances, the supplies came: Ohio-—Beeves, +» 950 Erie RR.—Beeves. 1,650 Tndiana , 34 Harlem RR.—Beeves,, — Tilinois ., Cows and o & Kentucky Veal calves. 496 New York, . 68 Sheep and lam! 407 N, R. bonts—Beeves 188 On foot—Beeves . 2 R. R. RR.—Beeves.... 934 ‘There was a good supply of all stock at Browning's, and prices have fallen off abow® one cent per Ib. for beef cat tie, Other stock without change, Sheep and lambs are plenty—mostly from Ohio—and sell freely, as fast as they arrive, 800 were in the peng for sale this moruing. The Fair sales were making at 32c. for Southern, 35c. a 36c. | at 623,c. for flour, 123¢. for grain, and }¢c. for cotton. | Hay.—Sales of about 600 bales were mede at 50c. a 60c. | Spirits and | following are the sales for ‘(ne week:—318 beef. 8 $10 50; 65 cows and ca’ , lambs, average, & 18: One. ss uel ane iy ae ae iF daira, at Browning’s, for the week 71 lambs 30 51 aan 20 — au { 42.75 835 sheep &lambs.3,161 86 Average per head, $3 78, baldwin, at Browning’s, fer the week Sales by Hume & ending June 25:-— 333.25 — oe ietes IBY BO 58Q...6eeene eee + 192,008 68 ‘Average per head, $3. 79. James McCarty sold about 2,000 sheep and lambs, at we corresponding with the sales of other sheep Erokers, There was only a small supply of beef cattle at Cham- berlain’s, scarcely enough to supply the demand; prices without ehange. Other stock was plenty and in good de- mand, The sales were as follows 98. beef cattle, 911; 53 cows and calves, $25 30 a $60; 4,173 sheep and lambs, $2 60 a $5 60; 108 veal calves (live weight), bo. a, ic. The supply was moderate at O’Brien’s, and prices fully up to last week’s quotations. The sales were as follows :—104 beeves, $8 a $1060; 87 cows and calves, 980; 63 veal calves, bc. a 630. RECAPITU wsand ‘Veal Sheep Calves. Calves. Lambe. 21 406 “9% 56 9 4,072 63 103173 a 68 — ry 730 08a News froma the West Indies. CHANGES OF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS—PORTO RICO SUGAR MARKET—RAVAGES OF YELLOW FEVER IN AN ENGLISH WARK SHIP—EIGHT OFFICERS DEAD— ADMIRAL FANSHAW BOUND FOR HALIFAX—AR- RIVAL OF ANOTHER WAR VESSEL FROM ENGLAND— MORE TROOPS—LEGISLATIVE REPORT, By the arrival of the brig T. M. Mayhew, Captain Hall, we have received later news from some of the West India Islands and files from Bermuda dated to the 11th of June. Lieut. Governor Keate had left Grenada on Jeaye, and Mr. Walker, Colonial Secretary of Barbadoes, was sent by Governor General Hincks to administer the government of Grenada. A. W. Perot, Esq., has been returned as a financial re. presentative to the combined Court of British Guiana, Sugar was selling at high rates at Porto Rico. Admiral Elliot has resigned the Governorship of Trini- dad. The Governor of Grenada succeeds him, and the Governor of St. Lucia is appointed Governor of Grenada. The Bermudian, of June 11, says:—Her Majesty’s steam sloop Malacca, Captain Farquhar, arrived on Friday last, from Jamaica, with no fewer than thirty-eight of her crew down with the yellow fever. Of the losses from that dis- ease sustained by the ship’s company of the Malacca in the West Indies, we made brief mention in our last publi- cation, It was intended that this steamer should proceed further north, but the greatly reduced number of work ing hands on board, and the exhausted stock of fuel she had on her arrival, of necessity put a stop to her voy- aging for the pregent. Sho lost eleyen men on thd passage hither. Among the yictitis ‘ord cight officers. Four deaths haye occurred since ste anchored here; but, we rejoice to learn, that no neW cases of fever have occurred, and that there is every prospect that the scourge will soon. pass away from the Malacca’s people. Rear Admirat Arthur Fuushawe, ©. B., Naval Com- mander-in-chtef ‘on this station, embarked yesterday morning’ i tire flagship Boscawen, Capt. Glanville. The flagship dropped down to Murray’s anchorage, where she now lies, awaiting the arrival of the packet trom Eagland. The Admiral will leave for Halifax immediately after re- cofying ‘his despatches by the expected packet. ly Majesty’s steam sloop Buzzard, Commander Dob- ble, ‘ieft Murray’s anchorage this morning for England, ‘The Buzgard towed to sea last evening her Majesty’s ship Vesta), Capt. Thompson, The Vestal is bound tothe West Indies. Arrived this morning, her Maj2sty’s steam frigate Am- phion, 32 guns, Captain Henry Chads, from England. The Ampbion is one of the splendid first-class frigates which have recently been added to the royal steam navy of Great Britain. The bired transport ship St. Michaels, ar- rived yesterday from England, bringing a portion of the depot companies of the 26th regiment, consisting of gbyut 100 men. Capt. Pasco, R, N., (Deputy Superintendent of Con ricts,) and Mrs. Pasco, have left for England in her Majesty’s steamer Buzzard. Lieut. Colling, of the Cameronians, (in charge of invalids) has also gone home in the Buz- ward. The Attorney General’s bill to enable persons indicted of felony to make their defence by counsel or attorney, met with warm support in the Assembly on Monday last. Jt was adopted in committee of the whole House, and stands ready for the third reading. The Rev. R. T. Tucker, rector of the parish of St. &c., came passenger in the St. Michaels from Inthe Bermuda House of Assembly on June 6, Mr. Washington presented a report on expiring laws, a fol- ‘ows:>—The act No. 18 of the session of 3854, entitled an vet to aid in the encouragement of steam communication between British Guiana and New York, or sonre other eli- rible port in the United States of America, by the way of Bermeda, will expire on the 16th September, 1867. Our Albany Correspondence. Atbaxy, June 23, 1856, The Canal Affair—What is to be Done with the State Trea- surer? de., dc. Inotice in this morning’s Heratp an article headod ‘<Attempt to suspend the State Treasurer,” in which your correspondent says, ‘Complaint is made that Mr. Clark* has violated bis duty as State Treasurer, on account of his voting against the State Engineer when the Canal Board was in session,” &c., and goes on with the fifth articles of the constitution, ‘The facts are these. The Canal Board appointed two resident engineers. The State Eugineer, in compliance with ‘the law, assigns them to their respective position on the canal, as he deems proper, according to Revised statutes, article 6th, section 149, in part Ist, chapter 9, viz.:—The Canal Board may appoint so many division engineers, not exceeding three, and s0 many resident en- gineers, not exceeding twelve, and so many first assistant engineers, from time to time, as they shall deem the pub- lic interests to require. The State Engineer and Surveyor shall peotoribe and define the duties of the sald engineers so appointed, and shall assign a division of the canals toeach division engineer corresponding with the division of each Canal Commiseiener, and to each resi- dent engineer such sub-division of the canals, and to the first ‘assistant engineers such location a he may deem proper. The state Engineer, n compliance with the above sec tion of the Revised Statutes, assigned one on the Cham. plain Canal, and one at Albion on the Erie Canal. In the absence of the State Engineer, and outside of the Canal Board, five State officers ordered these two engincers to exchange their residences, for personal matters, by the following order:— Caxat Derantwmnt, May 15, 1866. H. V. B. Banker, Resident Engineer:— DeEAR SR—You will repair to the Champlain canal, the office of which is at Waterford, and continue there to discharge the duties of Resident Engineer until further orders from us. Respectfully yours, L. BURROWS, Comptroller, 8. B. CUSHING, Attorney General, TEPHEN CLARK, Treasurer, J.T, HEADLEY, Secretary of State. SAMUEL 8. WHALLON, Canal Com'r. And vice versa to Mr. Charles, of the Champlain canal, to take Mr. Barker’s place. These are the facts of the case, They have no power to do it in the first place; and secondly, they are violating their duty by stepping. for- ward and taking bold of the State Engineer’s reins. They issued these orders ia the absence ob the State Engineers. and the engineers named were foolish cnough to follow them, and having seen that they have been led into a hornet’s nest, “ prebably by the counsel of the wise At torney General,’’ have entirely backed down and gonc as the State Engineer first ordered them, and as the law requires. How this will end is doubtful. One thing is certain, these five State officers have not only violater! their duty, but have impeached themselves, for dh the first of January they swore to support the constitution of the United Kuates and the State of New York. Hayw they done so? Tre Prize Figur 1x Boston—The anticipat d prize fight between John Mackay, of Liverpool, w @ Johnny Roberta, of Chicago, took place at Baker’s Islan, ar Salem, yesterday afteraoon. They fought 47 rounds in 52 mainutes, at the end of which Roberts was declared vanquished. We are informed that the men were in ex- mt condition, and went to work in fine shape; Wit it was evident at the fifteenth round that Roberts was get ting the worst of it; and although game to the last .a + ment, he could not oontend successfully against his heayier and more powerful opponent, He was so badly cut over the big that he was unable to continue the figh from having his optics nearly closed by bruises ani blood; and after it was declared that time was lost to him, he came up to the scratch, and insisted upon goiny ::t again. We understand that all the rules of the ring wo" * imperatively observed. There were a large body of | 9 lice in the vicinity, bit we do not understand that au. arrests of the principals took place.—Boston Ledger, June 24. Unrrep Srates Troors In Texas—The Gal 03- ton Cirilian has the folowing in relation to miliinry }) «+ and troops in Texas:—It 7) irs by a late noto of Adjutant General, that the following military posta in t) state of Texas are occupied at the it time, to wil —Fort Brown, Ringgold Barracks, McIntosh, Fo: Duncan, Fort Clark, Camp Lancaster, Fort Davis, Ca’ near Fort Mason, Fort -McKavitt, Fort Chadburn, I'v Belknap, Camp on Camanche Reservation, Fort Blix: ihe following troops are now serving within tho limits of Ne State, and for the most part in the fleld: 2d Rogiment of Cavalty, Rogiment of Mounted Riflemen, two compa es 1et_ Cavalry, four companies 4th Artillery, Ist Regi nent of Infantry, 6th Regiment of Infantry, two comp wie I Infantry, nite companies th Infantry, This fovc umbers about 4,200 officers and men, and com srise -ore than a fourth of the effective force of the whol army. Court oF prreara, JUNE 24—46, 53.—Restored ond struck off 187—Struck off. 66—Re or duly 1st. 75—R d for June 27 G0—Ely Cook; argued; C,H. Smith for appellant; J. Shoe tor respondent, 57—Sherwood against Stone; argit: | K. Porter for appellant; B. D, Noxon for respondent. Fashions n THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC BALL IN LONDON. {From the London Post, June 9.} ‘The fancy dress ball of Friday evening is the subject of general conversation in fashionable circles, as having combined a greater variety of fancy and elegant taste in costume than has hitherto marked entertainments of a like character in this country. The brief period between the close ct the ball and the publication of the Morning Post allowed little time for that elaborate description of which it was so well wort! ‘The general coup dail could only be imperfectly alluded to, abd the detail of the dresses worn by many distinguis! ladies was, of course, partial and incomplete. Perhaps the most brilliant moment of the evening was when the most distinguished and beautiful of the female aristocracy of the country entered the ball room in the two fancy quadrilles, led by Countess of Westmoreland ing up to her Majesty and ber illustrious party. yal box bas before been described as placed in the centre of the gallery, elevated above the eastern end united nations. Her Majesty, who remained stand! formed the centre of a bila TOU, having eae e youn; 1c Sutherland, and “Lady Consort, Prince Fred Regent ‘of Baden, of Breadalbane, and the Earl of Westntbrel tendance—the members of the royal suites themeelves in the boxes on either si and beauty of the ladies’ dresses, and the diamonds worn by her frogar A were, by the bright colors of the military uniforms, the splendor of sent, produced an effeet which wil tem on the part of the spectators. Her Majest , Surveyed the iticent and varied groups in the room with evident admiration, and evinced the gratifl- cation she felt by remaining standing to look upon it, and int out the many objects of attraction to the Princess yal and her illustrious relatives, until after the second set of fancy quadrilles had been danced. ‘The effect of the dancing of these quadrilles—the inter- mingling of to many exquisite costumes—the varying change produced by the constant motion of so many bril- nant colors—the sparkling ‘flash of diamonds—the noble grace of form—he beauty of the ladies, and the poetry of motion in their steps, formed a coup d’ail whi strack every beholder. So great was the excitement and inter- est on the occasion that many distinguished members of the arstocracy tought with some anxiety any place of *yantage whence they might see it with uninterrupted view, and several did not hesitate to mount into the or- chestra for this purpose. On the completion of the fancy seta, two quadritles Were dancedsby the general company, and then a new interest was given to the scene by the de- ecending of her Majesty and the royal party to the floor of the saloon, where, seated on adais, the Queen, with even greater condescension, seemed to take a pleasure in aseocisting herself more nearly with the general com- pany. Behind the royal chairs on the dais, seats were elevated, on which sat the highest members of the female aristocracy—many of them magnificently costumed in dresses of marvellous character, sentiment, and fancy. Immediately behind the Queen sat the French Ambassa- dress, the Duchess of Manchester, the Countess Constance Grosvenor, the Marchioness of Stalford, the Gowntess of Jersey, Emily Duchess of Beaufort, and the Countess Craven. On approaching this group the queen appeared chiefly struck with the classic costume of the Duchess of Manchester, as the turreted ‘ Cybele,’? whom she recog- nised, and, with a gracious smile, complimented on her fing Dersonification of the character, he Duchess ington, Whe Secupied a retiring position near the dala aitracted her Majesty's especial obreryation Sy the singular beauty of her dress, as re- }Yesenting the “ Moon:” in*Lady Jerscy’s quadrille of ‘Night and her attendant Stars.” Her grace wore a petticoat of white silver tissue, covered with clouds of blue and white gauze, deautifully shaded off and looped up with blue and white marabouts, the dress itself being studded with diamond crescents. Around the waist was a belt of most mit diamonds, formed from the order of the ‘St. Esprit” by the late Duke, and present- ed to him by Lonis XVIUL A riviére of large diamonds sparkled aroung the top of the corsage: On her head the Duchess wore a white gauze veil and marabouts, giving a cloud like appearance, and on the centre of her forehead. a diamond crescent shone brilliantly. Fastened half wa; down the dress as a blue belt, upon which wore descri- bed the phases of the moon which ran crossways, reach- ing to the bottom of the dress on tho other side. ‘Aurora’? was appropriately seen close by ‘‘The Moon,’? represented in the beautifal person of the Lady Constance Maidstone, who wore over a jupe of rich silver tissue five skirts of alternate blue and white tulle illusion, indicating clouds. These were looped with silver stars, and bound at the waist with a silver zone, studded also with stars, which again formed the ormament of @ corsage, and sleeves ala @recque. Her ladysbip's headdress ‘was a veil witha silver baad and diamond stars. A similar thought was worked out by Miss Juhnes, who presented a delicate representation of ‘‘Undine,’’ in three skirts of white tulle illusion, ornamented with wreaths and bou- quets of the flowers of the sea, coral and weeds, upon a petticoat of silver tissuc. The corsage and sleeves were fastened on the shoulder, with flowers to correspond. A wreath of pearls, with the hair flowing, and a silver wand Vorne in the hand, completed the costume, These were among the costumes. One other—that of the Viscountess Doneraile—was of a more practical nature, and excited cu josity as well as admiration. Her ladyship appeared in the exact cos- tume of the only fimale Freemason on record—the Hon. Mrs, Aldworth, an ancestor of Viscount Doncraile. The Hon. Caroline Wrottesley formed a charming con- trast to the stiff formality of this dress, by the spirit and animation she displayed in a Sevres costume, composed of a cerise silk petticoat, ornamented with bands of black velvet, a petile jacket of bluck velvet, studded with pearls, and laced with cerise ribbon, over a white chemi- sette, and a Vaudoise hat, with cerise plume, jauntily placed on the head. The costumes of the gentlemen in the quadrille of the “Elements”? were greatly admired by the royal. party. ‘Those of the “Earth” wore brown velvet slashed with satin and trimmed with gold—a cloak lined with apple- green satin and apple-green silk scarf over the shoulder, with black hatand brown feather. ‘Air’? was represen- ted by gentlemen dressed in white yelvet slashed with white satin and trimmed with silver—their cloaks lined with sky blue satin and blue silk scarfs across their shoul- ers, ‘Fire’ was represented by gentlemen in black \elyet slashed with red satin, and ‘trimmed with gold— their cloaks were lived with crimson fatin: d their scarfs were of red silk, with black hats and scarlet fea- thers. Those who personated ‘Water’? made a very cle- gant appearance in white velvet slashed with silver tis- sue, and trimmed with silver; light green scarfs being worn across the shoulders, anda light green feather floating in the hats. The whole of those dresses were of the shape and form prevailing in the time of the Hugue- nots, After her Majesty had descended from the royal box, the fancy quadrilles were re-danced, and then the bail became general. ‘The Queen remained an interested spectator of the gay scene until halfan hour after midnight, and then, first promenading round the room on the arm of Lord West- morland, whom she highly complimented, retired, ac- companied by her court in. brilliant cortége, the orches- tra, conducted by M. Laurent, giving the ‘uational an- them in tine style. THE BIRTHDAY DRAWINGROOM—COURT DRESSES. [From the Illustrated London News, May 81. The gorgeous appearance presented at the Queen’s drawingroom depends not only on the richness and beau- ty of the ladies’ dresses, but on that variety in their cos- tume which prevents the mS from becoming fatigued by the picture-like array which passes before it. We have already noticed the elaborate trimmings which are so generally adopted; but one of the court dresses which at- tracted particular attention on the 29th inst. presented a contrast to the Prevailing mode and was distinguished by its simple elegance. The skirt was of white taffeta, trimmed with rese color ribbon, black velvet, and lace embroidered in black. The train of rose color, trimmed with black velvet, was ornamented with the lace already mentioned, which is a novel manufacture, Another remarkable dress worn by a recognised leader of fashion, owed much of its effect to the brilliant and pe- culiar color, vert d’ Azof’, of which it was composed. The skirt was ol tulle, trimmed with broad white blonde and knots of ribbon and flowers; and the train, of moiré gothique, was ornamented in a similar manner with rib- bon and dew dropped roses. This dress reminded one of the figures Watteau loved to paint. White dresses generally preponderate at the birthday drawingroom, and the recent occasion formed no excep- tion to the rule. We must particularly mention the dresses worn by three sisters, which were composed of white tulle, with trains of white moiré antique; the only distinction between them consisting of the different flowers chosen for trimmings. One had blue corn flowers and silver wheat, the second water lilies, with green leaves, and the third mixed geraniums. A boy? stylish dress was of white tulle, having three bloude flounces, the train of white silk, and train and ao trimmed to correspond, with blue flowers and white ribbon. Another white dress was trimmed almost entirely with ribbon and rosebuds; and a white dress, of a new and triking character, was only relieved by green, having for its chief ornament a peculiar grass-like fringe. A dress worn by a young married lady was composed of three flounces of point iace, looped up with garlands of variegated heath; the train was of terry velvet, inwoven in a beautiful pattern with bouquets of variegated heath and point lace. The richness of this dress was only sur- asked by the exquisite taste which pervaded it, Among the colored dresses we must notice one of blue tulle, trimmed with blonde flounces and bouquets of pink cores and feathers. The train was of rich blue moiré gothique, Woven in a feather pattern, and ornamented with pink roges and white feathers. A rather moré quict costume was of gray glacé with deep flounces bordered by a feather fringe. train was of gray moiré antique, made to correspond. Pongran scems just now a very favorite color; a court dress trimmed with this shade was chosen by a lady of *he highest rank. The skirt, of white tulle, had innume ‘ble flounces ornamented with rows of pongeau vely t, tcather fringe, and bouquets of poppies and white pinks, ach houquet being fastened with an agrafe of diamonds, The train of white moiré antique was trimmed in the same manner. A dress of maize color silk, trimmed with purple hearts: ase and white blonde, had a Sei rich effect; and ano- her, not less admired, was of silver and green tissne, baving a skirt of tulle spotted with silver, and both traia snd suirt being ornamented with bouquets and variegated ‘ollage. We must not forget to mention that the corsage of these dresses is usually so arranged that it may either be finish 4 With a stomacher of jewels or with bouquets of flowers, which are now brought to an astonishing degree of per: ection. Flowers are universally adopted for coiffures in court Jress; and the wreaths now worn are much more be- oming than the cache peigne so long in favor. The flowers must always hartoonize with those on the dress; and the double violet wreath is so pretty that it tempt one to give the preference to this flower whene itis available. The court plume of feathers should t Eg ity, on ik, Th sh small and graceful; and for young ladies the should be added. More matronly ladies may pr small veil, with the circlet wreath, or she yeil with oaly feathors and a diadem of jewels, ‘The Late Revolution in Califernia—Vindica- ton of the Memory of Mr. King. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘To an unsophisticated reader, unacquainted with Cali- fornia affairs, there is something quite inexplicable i the contradictory character of your correspondence from San Francisco. A plain tale, however, and a short ene, will enable those who desire it to comprehend the true state of thocase. What I have to say I sball say over my own signature, that my friends and neighbors there may know who is responsible if] err in any statement I make, although in reply te anonymous scribblers who attack the memory of the dead who differ from them, as all the geod do from the continual workers of mischief. The Jetter in your columns of June 22, dated San Francisco, May 21, consisting of over two columns of the Henan, is a sort of literature with which we are quite familiar in San Francisco, To appreciate it truly, we must know certain facts. A band of men have ruled and ruined CalHornia and ‘San Francisco from their first settlement to the present time—combining, probably, more shrewdness, cunning, ferocity and rascality than any other set of men that ever lived. They embrace in their ranks some of the oldest bankers in the State, several editors, a good many pro- fessed politicians, @ large gang of profvesional ballot box the polls at all elections. These men have in their em- y several of the ubiest lawyers in the State; and by plo; their ald aud the corruption of the ballot box, they have ayers been able to secure their own ends in oar courw We This, in Brief, was the state of things Mr. King under- wok to reform through the agency the press, Who- ever before bim has undertakengto expose any of this. gang has been at once the object of their bru- tal violence; and it was well understood that any one who attempted to expose them did so at the peril of his life. The exposure of their true character would prevent the election of the necessary number of them to office to secure the public plunder and immunity from punish- ment. Having thus driven the respectable and honest portion of the press into silence, through fear, and pur- chased the venal, they run riot in the moral and pecuni- ary life of the people. was well understood in Culifornia that the question of Mr. King’s being allowed to publish the Bulletin, and ex- pose the rascals by name, and thus uproot the evil by the force of public opinion, was a test question. It was inthe largest sense a question of the liberty of the press. The good people of Cuilfornia had every confidence in the maxim that there is no danger in error while truth is free tw combat it. But if this last attempt to give currency to truth through the press failed, there then remained but one alternative—that every honest man should leave the State forthwith and forever, or that they should combine in their might and drive these pests of seciety from their midst. If the community had allowed the murder of King to go as other murders have—unavenged —there would have been no hope of any progress but from bad to worre. ‘The complaint against Mr. Ki published what wa: S me his rule was 1 Dody till the evide has never been that he nm months ago he told anything against any- of its truth, but had as bound to satisfy else of the same. Neither did he attack private persons; but only those who, from their position before the public, were legitimate subjects of public criti- giem. Your covveepondent admits the justice of Casey’s doom. He can no more fight for the fang; 80 those who write for itcan afford to ‘let him slide.’”? But more of them expect their turn will come, 6o they wish to prepare public opinion to disapprove the event. The letter in question is just such a production as has been the daily concoction “and publication of members of this gang in San Francisco for yeark; adroitly adapted to obscure the trfe state of the case and raise issues that have nothing to do with the matter. It is evidently the production of one of the Jawyers inthe pay of the gang, and whose whole occupation is* gone if they are broken up, as no- body else in the community will employ them. ‘This gang embraces all the gamblers im the State—and very few, if any, who are not gamblers. This explain an item in the last news from San Francisco, viz. : that the Vigilance Committee were determined to drive every gambler from the State. They are all connected with this gang and leagued against all the interests of every honest and honorable man in the State, and so well skilled in the use of perjury, ballot box stuffing, and every kind of fraud, that ‘society has no protection from them in the ordinary legal forms. It is all very nice for people five thousand miles off to cry out against illegal proceed- ings; but, let them be robbed publicly and privately for ten years, the most princely patrimony that ever bees fe toa city or State all stolen, and both, besides, involved in adebt of millions; let fiends in human shape rob and murder at will for all this time, and all efforts to punish them be Jaughed to scorn, and then let the Jat, final, noble effort be made to put an end to this state of things, by peaceful, legal means, (as it was made by the moye- ment in which Mr. King was the principal instrument and most prominert actor,) and be met as it was by his bru- tal murder, and say how many communities there are in America that would give up all they have in the world, and surrender one of the fairest States of this confede- racy to the exclusive use of a few thousands of gamblers and harlota forever, lest they should, in curing the evil, violate the law? After answering that question, 1 ask them to consider whether the fact that the whole of the best and most law abiding citizens are engaged in this work, is not of itself enough to lead men, so far away, to hesitate long before they condemn their action. Not a word need be gaid in vindication of Mr. King from such aspersions as those contained in the letter of your correspondent. They cannot harm him, for he is beyond their reach; and all who knew him know that he was as ‘ar above anything dishonorable as his maligners are below appreciating the beauty of honor or truth; and all who are acquainted with the facts know how totally des- itute of truth those accugations are, California will long remember him as one who bas done more than any other one man for her benefit; who perilled and finally lost his life in her service; and, if I mistake not, will celebrate the anniversary of his untimely death with as much emotion, if not with as much joy, as that of the natal day of our country’s liberty, long afer the memory of those whoee interest it now is to abuse him shall have rotted. Bancrort Hovss, June 23, 1856, F. KNOX, Miscellaneous Foreign Items. The Weser Gazette and the Nuremburg Cor mention a secret society existing in German since 1853, under the title of “The Secret League of St. Boniface’s Oak.” ‘Thé members are all either schoolmasters or teachers, whose object it is to excite suspicions in the minds of the higher authorities of the Department of Pub- lic Instruction against those who do not hold the same opinions as themse!ves, and on the other hand to get their friends into the moet influential places. The ceremony of baptising four new bells which have recently been brought to Paris for the cathedral took place on the Sth instant, on the Place du Parvis Notre Fame. Among the most distinguished persons were these who acted as godfuthers and mothers to the bells, and who were Mgr. Icon Francois Sibour, Bishop of Tripoli, and the Duchess of Perigord, Count Charles de Montalembert and the Marquise de Juigne. ‘A decree of the Emperor Napoleon, dated Lyons, the 24, orders that, in consequence of the inundations at Avignon and in other localities of the department of the Vancluse, the payment of comtmeésciat Sits fine due in thoee places from the 29th of May to the 8th Jute in. cluxively shall be prorogued for eight days, and that pro- tests and other proceedings thereon shall a'so be sus- pended for the same period. The Spanith Minister in Paris has decided that on the occasion of the baptism of the Prince Imperial he will anticipate the quarterly payments to all those who, hav- ing belonged tothe French legion which fought in the de- fence of the throne of Queen Isabella, receive a pension from the Spanish government, Nineteen lots of ground, forming part of the domain of Neuilly, have been gold by auction in Paris for 656,050 ranes. M. Bergougnoux, formerly the editor of the Emancipa- tion of Toulouse, was lately sentenced by the tribunal of Villeveuve-sur-Lot to two years imprisonment for having spoken il] of the Emperor of the French ina public car- riage. The public prosecutor appealed against the sen- tence as too light for the offence, and the Imporial Court at Agen has now condemued M. Bergougnoux to five years imprischment and five years deprivation of civil rights { The London News, of June 6, seys:—There are now six mail steam packet communications every month between England and the United States, In article 20 of the Untted States and English postal conyention, it states that “in case of war between the two nations the mail packets of the two countries shall continue their navigation without impediment or molestation until six weeks after a notif- cation shall have been made on the part of either of the two governments and delivered to the other that the ser- vice is to be discontinued, in which case they shall be permitted to return freely and under special protection to their respective ports.” The followimg is an extract from English Crimean Gone. ral Orders, dated May 18:—The Russian cemeteries with- in the English lines, and the enclosures of the churches to which the necessities of war have caused damage, will be ag much as possible repaired. Another body of emigrants, amounting to 300 or 400, from the Walloon and Brabant provinces are on the poiat of leaving Belgium for America. ‘The Free Masons of Holland have celebrated thei ono hundredth anniversary at the Hague, under the yp» |- dency of their Grand Master, bis 1 Highness P -e Frederic of the Netherlands. ‘Four hundred brother st down to a magnificent repast in the great hallof the louye, a building erected in 1816, by Prince Frederic, at an ex: pense of £10,000, and rented by the brethren, ‘®e have the following report of the progress of rail- vay's and other public works, {a New South Wales, in March laet. The extension of the Syducy and Param “a Railway to Liverpool, is proceeding rapidly, about . vo and a half consecutive miles of the line having been ou.a- pleted so far as to be in a position to receive the rails. ‘The Newcastle and Maitland Railway is ——- ra- pidiy. The cuttings, with the exception of one, are com- pleted, and the quantity of earthwork excavated is about 275,000 cube yards, which leaves about 32,100 yards to be done. ‘The next important works are the new batteries in course of construction at Dawes Point, Garden Island and Vinchgut Island, At the last named place, the works are ina very forward stats. ° Le Nord pudliches a circular addroased by Prinoe Gortschakotf, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, to all the chiefs of the Russian Legation abroad, making known the new amnesty to the Poles, These representatives are to apprise the refugees residing in the country to which they (‘he diplomatists) are accredited, of Imperiat decision. ‘The French Minister of Justice has addressed a report | to the Emperor on the alministration of justice in 1864, following ave its principal features:—The num: ases tried by courts of ¢ = 6,626; in 1859 it 40; in 1852, 5,340, ‘The 5,525 ), 215; mans assassinat slaughter (meurtre), 87; poisoning, 86; parricide, 11; in M. Montalembert, speak: lately in the Corps Lewi- Pi shear aeryovsek pry wr mm France well ane expression of this kind:—Thes@ scandalous’ fortunes, tr said, acquired without labor, are equally made with. ow stating that ier towuffer’ .- siderably from the wet, states that the worms are a dreadful situation; first, from want of proper nataral hc ® and next from their food being saturated-with mostur. The 7 states: thaaspadeyphronbers ihe ste tue woods om tbe freatiee of Groves ‘ Advices from Singapore of April 2ist, state that Resolucao (Portugese ship), Fernandes, from Macao w- Havana, 880 Chinese passengers, \5) . OD the 11th of February, which subsequent } Se inches per hour, and on the 16th the hold being fuil of water, she was pt on shore im the Bay of St. Jame al ; the crew, Ac., taking to 5 Min tae to mene and about $00” Chincwo, saved, the Pe=w drowned by the upsetting of the boats. The following are the weights of the bells cast, sor Notre Dame, Paris; No. 1, from 1,900 to 2,000 kilo- frames; No. 2, 1,286 kilos. No, lon; Nota, ‘The great bell of the ral centuries old, and weighs 22, Pouillet, member of the section of General’ Philoso~ pRy at the Academy of Sciences, of France, bas to Brat body douse imon ae sen pie. he do. nomi inographe, and which, by means graphy, marks the periods of the day during which tae sun sone forth or was hidden, and the duration of sucky periods. * The London 7imes of June 3, says;—The ad: from Belgium confirm the recent statements grees of free trade opinions in that co! i Cs that, ip a debate jyst terminated in the ber of Re- presentatives, twenty-five members out of sixty-eigh® were in favor of the free admission of iron of all sorta, and tha‘ a reduction of duty upon pig iron from 46s, 6d. down to 186. 7d. per ton has actually been voted by m Jarge majority in both houses. Iron was considered the article on which the greatest efforts of the protectioniste would be concentrated. ‘The Sunderland (England) Herald says:—Some time ago we called attention to the drunkenness prevailing im our police force. This week we have to record severad, policemen drunk in one day: a feat unparalleled in other town in England. The question was, a short ago, ‘How shall we reform our criminals?” but in Sun- deriand tt bas been reveree:!, and is now How shall we, reform our police?”? The Chester (Mhglan!) Courant says:—We are credibly informed that as large a sum as £30,000 has changed hands in bets, on the stock Exchange, upon the fate of Paimer. The Cork Reporter, of 2dth May, says and the Coss 21, have put inte Queenstown harbor em a cruise in the channel, to test their speed, with a view of presenting the one po sessing the greater speed to the Emperor of Russia; for both these vessels were seized by the British government while ou the stocks at Mr. Pitch. er’s, at Greenhithe, where they were being built for tha Czar, atthe commencement of the war. Important personal projects of the Emperor of the French, with regard to Algeria, are spoken’ of. It ia said that nothing less is in contemplation than “to make the African colony a sort of national domain, and to form large estates there.” ‘The Journal de Constantinople announces that the Rus> sian authorities have nominated a commission to make ® topographical survey of Sebastopol, in order to fix accu- rately the ground which belongs to private persons, and that appertaining to the State. The same journal add» that Sebastopol is to be rebuilt on an entirely new plan, and that the greatest portion of the expense will be de- frayed by the Fmperor Alexander. The London Shipping Gazette has the following:—The recent rapid decline in the Canadian trade by the St. Law= rence, is doubtless attributable to some extent, to the ex~ ertions mace by the directors of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada to draw the Western trade over their line to the ocean terminus on the Atlantic, at Portland, A restaurant of a new kind, has beén established i Lyons; it {s a vast vehicle, fitted up as a kitchen, and it goes ai regular hours to manufactories in which @ great number of workmen are employed, to supply the men with breakfasts and dinners, Amanufactory of falsified’ brandy has just been dis-- covered at Foitiers. The liquid operated on was spirit of wine, sent from England, and on being mixed with water, saturated with caimomile and other ingredients, and boiled for a certain time, it assumed the appearance of good brandy. The Chamber of Deputies at Turin, in its sitting of the ‘25th of May, voted the whole of the war budget for 1857, amounting to 33,291,708fr. The French ship Nautile left Havre yesterday, 27th of May, for Buenos Ayres, with 105 emigrants, exclusive: of children, ‘The Ftrasburg railway has brought to Paris for exbibi- tion, in the Champs-Flysés, about 3,000 fish from the Artificial Piscicultural Establishment, formed at Huningem by the French government. p ‘The triennial census taken in Prussia in the month of December, 1865, has given the followmg results:—The civil population amounts to 16,990,282 souls, the military to 211,781, making a total of 17,202,013. ‘The census of 1862 gave'a total population of 16,935,420; the increase has, therefore, been 266,593, or 1.67 per cent on the population of 1852, This increase is less considerable than it was from 1849 to 1852, when it was 537,572, or 8.80 per cent, The London Times of June 10 says:—The entente cordiale. of France and England is an entente cordiale of the nations, _ It has been cemented among French and English warriors, | by common dangers and mutual aid in fthe field of bat tle, Let it be cemented among civilians by prompt and). graceful efforts to alleviate the suffering inflicted on , France by the visitation of the elements. On the Slat ef May, in London, his Royal Highness. Prince Albert performed the ceremony of laying the ., foundation stone of an institution for the reception of na- tives of India, Arabia, Africa, China, the Straits of Ma- lacca, the Mosambique and the islands of the South Sea, On May 24, at the Clerkenwell Police Court, London, _ Benjamin Allan Howard, who described himself as a mers. chant of Wisconsin, Uuited States, and Oscar Kingston, who stated he was a merchant of Philadelphia and New York, were placed at the bar charged with having, on the- Right of March 18, stolen from a bedroom, at the Great Northern Hotel, £560, the property of Mr. Stanisland, a solicitor of Boston, Lincoinshire. The priaoners were. committed to Newgate for trial. The London Post of May 26 says:—We are now assured» for the fiftieth time, that Jamaica is about to recover from the period of depression which bas so long and fa- tally afilicted her. It will give us satisfaction to find the prediction confirmed, but until that event takes place we shall continue to entertain our own opinions as to the de- pressed condition of Jamaica. The census, lately published at Hong Kong, (China) , shows that the population has increased from 08 908 2 i 1848 to 72,607 in 1855, the great increase having been , chiefly during the last two years; in 1853 the population ; was 39,017. Of the inhabitants there are no leas than., 70,661 Chinese, A China junk, bound from Pinang to the Nicobars Bassein, went out of her course lately and came sok Little Andaman Islands, where the whole crew attempted: toeffect a landing for water. Out of the thirteen mem eight landed, while five remained in the boat. The sava- ges, hitherto bid, now sprang upon their helpless victims, tore them limb from limb, and then devoured them.” M. Lecomte, a milk seller in a large way in Paris, has: got himself into trouble with the prefect of police, under: curious circumstances. It appears that, under the in- fluence of the prevailing mania for great undertakings, this milkman had conceived the grand idea of forming ® company ¢ commandite to monopolise the whole milk trade of Parig. It is charged against him that, with the view to induce bis brother tradesmen to come into the ‘fusion,’ he told them that the prefect of police was de- voted to his interests, and those who stood out would be likely to Lave informations laid against them for selli adulterated merchandise, It was further charged against M. Lecomte that he had said that the prefect of police had Feceived a sum of 15,000f. on the occasion of the creas tion of a sociéte anonyme. Being found guilty, M. Lecomte js sentenced by the Correctional Tribunal to six montha® imprisonment and a fine of 3, 000f. The Giornale di Roma gives the following detail - tive to the railway from Rome to Bologna, wi a nastoes conceded to a Spanish company, of which the Duke de: Rianzares is thé principal capitalist. The term of the con- cession js ninety-five years; the Pontificate government guarantees @ minimum interest of six per cent, one pur cent of which is for the sinking fund. The line must be- completed in ten years, The guarantee deposit is one million of crowns; ‘the expense is estimated at from twen- ty ix to twenty-seven millions of crowns. Adding to this taree millions for the line from Civita Vecchia to- Rome, the total amount is thirty millions of 1 (about one hundred and sixty millions of francs.) Works are to be commenced within six months. A new instrument called a “ velocimeter,”” has been cx- Pperimented on in Belgium. It shows on s dial the'run of a ship most correetly. The Lyons journals are filled with different incidents connected with the casualties aud hair-breadth escapes of” several of the inhabitants of the inundated quarters. A boat containing six soldiers capsized in the Plaine dw Grand Camp, and three of the men were unfortunately” drowned, A man residing at La Part Dieu, whose house fell down and buried bis young wife, to whom he had ean, but recently married, threw himself in despair into e Risone. 4 A woman living on the Quay d’Albret, who saw her husband drowned while Fendering assistance to some suf- ferers, threw herself out of a window on the fourth story, and was killed on the spot. 4 A young woman who had been confined two days bq- fore was taken out of her hed, with her child, and con- veyed in a boat to a place of safety, A woman, holding a young child in her arms, was econ on the roof of a house orying for assistance, and a boat —The Tartar, 21,, was speedily directed towards the spot. The boat hat Bi rrived as the house began to give ; the mother her child into the arms of one of the boatunen, andi in a moment after sank herself with the ruins. Three children were found buried beneath the ruins of one house aiter the water had retired. An ‘Anglo-American’? writes to the London T¥mes, sa} ing:—Of what value to the commerce and etvilization oft the world wore those splendid countries, Texas and Call. fornia, until Americans at once, and as by the enchanter’s: wand, developed their hidden riches?’ Are not these countries now opened as freely to English enterprise an Canada, Australia, or New Zealand? A ‘States Man’? writes to the same journal:—But; though England did make a false move, that was no rea- gon for ungenerously Keeping her ina false position, Th ag you havo often asserted, an apology for the violation. of the American recruitment laws was ever roundly made, freo from al) peddling self justification and accusatory re” monstrance, and accompanied by a promise of freer ance herealter, then that apology ought to haye bee