The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1868, Page 4

4 “EUROPE. The Prince of Wales’ Yacht Banquet and Farewell to Iroland. ‘Peace Professions of France and a Review of the Iron-Clads, ‘The English Budget and Hints to the House of Peers. Mr. Gladstone’s Reply to His Political Assailants. The Cunard mail steamship China, Captain Hock. Sey, from Queenstown April 26, arrived at this port yesterday evening, bringing our special correspond- ‘ence, in detail of our cable despatches, to the 25th ult. + The Synods of Aberdeen, Fife, Glasgow and Ayr ‘and the Pr esbytery of Edinburg, at their several meet- pa passed strong resolutions against the disestab- ishment of the Irish Church, The Free Synod of iGlasgow pursued a similar course, IRELAND. The Prince of Wales Takes Lenve of the People-~The Royal Yacht at Public Fatigue and Disappoiit- Routine, ment. Sea—Royal Dvsiry, April 25, 1868, ww At an early hour this morning the roaring and crashing of artillery awoke from their slumbers the Auhabitants of the quiet fishing villages which skirt the shores of Dublin bay. ceiving a salute as i was the royal yacht re- she passed out, bearing home- ‘ward the Prince and Princess of Wales after thelr wisit to Erin's Isle. The early hour was specially chosen for their departure, so that the royal party might observe the coast and bay in all its beauties; Dut the fatigue resulting @om a banquet given on Doard by his Royal Highness last night frustrated the design, and as the vess cleared away none but the morning watch were stirring on board. i It will be some time before the citizens, unaccus- tomed to the ga; Riate of wild exci for the past fortnight; the Princess is muc! 4s doubtful if either ties of royalty, will recover from the ent in which they have existed and aithongh the health of roved Ly the bracing air, it er the Prince has ever gone im period of such continued hard work. Since their arrival not an hour but had its engege- is. E vet ‘of musty m: 18 Guided by Lord Lieutenant, Anstitutio! Deing ol creeds, ‘ity who conc Among th nationat Tour thou tions and the arran: latter all, held Jiantly il nd the coast ‘were decorated with various colors There was giso an the expericr and hospitais, the greatest im} following was deyote nents of its Roman Ca r Miscracordie Morning and praises bes in id persons Ww. xem 60 much so a8 to draw by recoitection of his gi: Kingstown—the place o minated last ni, : ry institution, hail, college, museum or in or avout the ci en honored w y, Which couid bear inspec- avisit. Daily might the n seen listening to quaint histories nuscripts or grim fossil rem gone ages, brought forth especi; ins of by- ally for his edification istodians, Shows of sof everything m. of his Excollenc: its were paid to the ar classes and iversity one day, inspection of the oli confrere, The Hospitat was visited in the rwed on the Sisters of In the evening the visi- lospital, a strictly Protest- appreciation of its raazlones, balis and ipied each’ evening. uceessful was the et it. the The decor: ere unique and perfect, ed commendation The Prince strolled dand flirted with the head is sin arried loitily nces of admiration, embarkation—was bril- it: the decorations of the dazzingly b round the ¢ and designs, immense display of fireworks, guard si but no ilmmination of private houses or shops. a t Ainong pay m: Ww out set grace wit uoment. In f Visit was ace appoiniment € led to witness the dis- nger and disappointment induiged in because the Prince had left with- t liberty the’ press prisoners—an_ act of hh Was generally looked f up to the last by the lower class of peopie the as hay 11 must be recorded that feelin, this for its object; and sof regret and dis- tin higher circles also, aniongst evie and other dignitaries, by whom tides and honors were expected as marks of royal favor. The Embarkation—Dinner on Bourd the Royni Yacht. {From the Irish (Dubtin) Times, April 28.) At Kiog: point © d. rn, Where the royal the people were gathered in groups upon the pier nmong the rocks or upon the hilly ground, m which a view of the royal yacht could It is a known j portion diminishes the apy: party embarked, neiple that beauty of pro- it size of an object, and Tho truth of this was iliustrated by the Victoria and Al- dert. Alladinired thee. Of this vessel, but none had an t of the fine ships of the City of Dublin tude until on ny racefal proportions of herreal magni- with the mails, ‘Then it was yacht was considerably larger When one looked upon the with her ters of guns, her fal, masts, her graceful stem and fowering one tted that the noble wooden slips wht i giory for England had Decome comparative right of thi ly Imasts waters W Gay, the from the albert ar Sareweill c 38 fr to bid farewell. gularly auspick Bylpathies of the whose presence w Jength, and ii « Sorin Ireland and memor Was only whe shores the expression 1 avhich last cv ions the i vatry character Cheering was ine luring a bricf so) people. 1 A telegram was rec pd and presently discerned. the company. instant, train came w Vie cheers of e ‘aget, Lord Villiam Knollys, 1 party were 1e Princess re raing with the } 2 4 the beautifal ) 1 erat the fowe: ads in adouble line. Prince and sie pier on the thin in & few tinut Poyal train appeer: evergreens and driven by Mr. Its approuch ocket sent up from the bar the royal stat the yacht and all was re to the the people and a dcatening salute of ae guns from th css alighted and was conducted on hoard Victoria and Albert by his Excellency the Lord Dieutcnant, his Royal Highn f Wale: Pollowing, with the Marchioness of Abercorn |e: The royal party were accompanied by ) hioness of Carmarne ‘ adies in Waiting on the Princess; his Royal Higi- wees the Duke of Cambrichre, . Prince the tastings, the Duke of 3 received Lcinnigen, Comma: ly less, Outside the harbor n picr Were moored the giant ‘Their huge dark halis : up from thelr own shadows, put a ripple. last evenin 8 shadows memorable ’rincess of Wales embarked Victoria and anon and assembled when nich awa The royal F 38, much desired, came at he Queen's dominions jongst, and she le is. When she first s s jotued in hearty f welcome, but it (to depart from our wf the peopie found full \ shouts of farewell Tn these demonsti but with that dd in sight, the engineer of was heralded by a Commissioners’ yard, ad Was run up on board In a few minutes the of embarkat mist plac ships of war. sathe Prince the Hon. Mra. nO his Royal Highness sdward of Saxe Weimar, Lord Allred Paget, Major General sir Karl of Shrewsbury, Lord anchester, &c. The Roy- on board by Prince nder of the Vietorta and Albert. atnel on deck for some time con- wrehioness of Abercorn. She car- which had been presented ‘The several members of r ‘Were sent off from vessels in the harbor and also from the shore, There was also a display of fire- : works, ENGLAND. Mr. Gladstone’s Reply to His Enemies. To THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON TIMES:— Though reluctant to attempt any encroachment on Zour space with reference to personal matters, I feel hat I have no alternative at a time when personal charges, however irrelevant, are employed as the means of injuring or impeding agreat cause. Within the last fortnight or thereabouts the following state- ments, put ing to be of snot, have been assidu- ously ‘roulated respecting mein different parts of the country:— 1, That when in RomeI made ents with the Pope to destroy the Church establishment in Ire- land, with some other like “matters, being myself a Roman Catholic at heart. 2. That during and since the government of Sir Robert Peel I have resisted and (till now) prevented the preferment of Dr. Wynter, 8. That I have publicly condemned all support of the clergy in the three kingdoms from Church or public funds. 4, That when at Balmoral I refused to attena her Majesty at Crathie church. 5. That I have received the thanks ofthe Pope for my proceedings respecting the Irish Church. 6. That | am @ member of a High Church Ritualist congregation, Aware how in times of public excitement rumor grows and gathers through the combined action of eagerness, credulity and levity, I gvill not bestow a single harsh word upon any of these statements. Neither will I advert to the cause to which some of them may be due, for | am determined to avoid, as long as it may be possible, envenoming a great politi- cal controversy, and what I think a noble cause, With the elements of religious bigotry and hatred. But I wiil, in the first place, declare that these statements, one and all, are untrue, in letter and in spirit, from the beginning to the end; and since it is impossible for me to continue entangied, as I have recently been, in the searches and correspondences which such fictions entail, I venture to request all persons whatsoever who may be jnterested in the matter, if any like statements should hereafter come under their view, in the interest of truth to withhold their belief. ‘To more vague and general charges this is not the lace to refer, I have the honor to be, sir, your faithful servant, W. B. GLADSTONE. 11 CaRLToN House TERRACE, April 24, 1863, Railroad Management—Active Election Can- vasse~Mr. Gladstone and the Prince of Wales—The Pvers in Opposition to tue Peo- ple. The London Herald of April 17 reports in its city article:—In connection with the loan to the Indiana Southern Railroad Company we have been requested to mention that the trustees are Sir John Lubbock and.Mr, William Gladstone (of the firm of Messrs. Thomson, Bonar & Co.), and that the engineer to the trustees, upon whose certificate only money is paid, 1s Mr. James Bruntees, Vice President of the Institute of Civil Engineer: The railway shareholders of the United Kingdom have held a sort of inquest in search of dividends, and have passed a series of resolutions showing a determination to look well after their affairs for the future, It would appear, indeed, that almost every: thing has beeu going wrong. The income of the co: panies may be splendid, but the dividends are far irom brilliant, Nor do the shareholders possess the satisfaction of knowing the exact state of tpeir affairs. Ali they can understand is the dividend, and with that they are dissatistied. The old bridge across the Earn, at Crieff, which has withstood many a flood for neariy two hundred years, fell into the river with a tremendous crash, ‘The south arch of the old bridge was pulled dowa by the Highlande after the battle of Sheriifmuir, in Vid wo prevent the royalists from aarching north- wardg, Et tion matters were coming toa crisis in Bristol in view of Sir Morton Peto’s 1 ment from Parlia- ment, The candidates are J. W. Miles, Esq., @ local baaker and manufacturer, in the conservative inter- est, and Mr, Samuel Morley, the rejected of Notting: ham, in the radical interest. Mr. Miles addressed the electors, declaring himself a supporter of the Irish Chureit and Charch and State, and promising, if elected, to give a consistent support to the present Minist ir. Moriey’s programme is identical with Mr. Jot rigit’s most radical utterances, and in- cludes three years’ Parliaments, vole by ballot, the disestablishinent of the Irish Church, legalization of trades unions, supyprt of Mr. Coleridge's University bil and firm confidence in Gladstone as leader of the liberal p . ‘he names of Mra, W. E. Gladstone and the Re- corder of Chester (Mr. Horatio Lloyd) were accident ally omitted from the oMicial list of those who had ¢ honor of dining with the Prince and Princess of es a Chester, when on their journey to Ireland. Aba mecting at Godalming on the subject of Mr. tions Mr. Charles Buxton, M. P., el nearly every one in this room must oice Mat the old and wicked system of tsway over a Roman Catholic country is nearly ai an end. I feel convinced that England can do nothing more to her credit, nothiag more for the good of ireland, than by giving the death blow to that abominable old system of Protestant ascend- rully he ancy. Although the muster of the English volunteer force at the Portsmouth review was considerably larger thau’on any previous oecasion, and the extent of “round covered by the evolutions was greater, the ust of casualties is uuusually It included only afew sprained ancles, cases of haustion, &c. ‘The Easter teria of the English Divoreg Court was opened in London. On the cause list for the teri there are 182 Of these twenty-two are peti- tions for judicial separation, tive for restitution of four for nullity of marriage and the Nineteen are put down for trial by special, and twenty-tive by comimon juries, the re- naining 136 to be tried by the court itself without juries A large and influential mecting in favor of confer- ring the franchise upon Women was held in Man- Mr. Jacob Brigut, M. P.; Mr. T. B. Potter, hitworth, M. Chisholm Anstey sntlemen ‘ed with the liberal ‘The specialty of the meeting, appeara as speakers of Mrs. Mayor of Salford, and two other ¢ was issued by Messrs, Har- Harward, solicitors, of Stour- tly regret to inform you that Mr. ‘acing under the firm of Messrs, John le, from the adverse state of ‘ge lis engagements for this , to dischar tN ondon Times of the 17th of April, speaking of the cou f the House of Lords on the Church Hates bil —We cannot contemplate without the House of Lords has thought iit to take with respect to the Compulsory Church utes Abolition bill, which Was discussed last even- It is not that any distinctly hostile act has been as yet committed, for the bill was read a second inte, and it is still in the power of the House to allow it to pass unmutilated through its remaining stages and so to close with dignity a long and bitter con- ersy. But there was sufictent in the tone and munner of the conservative Lords and in the threats that were uttered against the future progress of the bill to make it evident that the measure is in much danger and that the spirit which has hitherto re- sisted @ settlement is Still powerful in the Upper Hiouse, * * We trust the government will not indulge the nostile disposition of their supporters, but will allow the Church Rate question to be settled by the present Parliament. They may rest assured that the new House of Commons will touch Church matters with a lesa gentie and cautious hand, ne tratfic receipts of railways in the United King- amounted for the week ling April 18, on 3,226 miles, to £737,393, and for the corresponding week of last year, 01 13 miles, to £720,510, show- ag de 1 ing an increase of 313 miles and of £16,853, The London Zimes of the 25th of April publishes the following hints to memb mons W ‘4 of the Hiouse of Cou had spoken at great length on the arto ong debate in the House of Commons ‘airs of Crete is no doubt a very interesting display, and when abridged and trans. vill atrord excellent entertainment to the in- ble readers of the Continent who have a taste for high polities and delight e3) ally in unravelling the Eastern question. Wein England also may be to see that a certain number of our members ap their Levantine associations, and are able to Ail With imposing Muency the doubtful news and confused statistics of foreign bazaars. But it uly does hk this legitimate tisfaction we reilect that the Baster holidays are over; } that of the six months of the session three have | nearly pessed away, and that never has the work of | ‘he session been so hopelessly in arrear, | The Budget Exhibit. , it the Touse of Commons, on the 16th of Apri!, the Chancellor of the Exchequer explained the budget of nising that though the elasticity of hue ud not equalied that of former years, considerfig tWo bad harvests and the comniercial crisis through which we had passed, @ retrospect of the finanesal condition of the country was not un. satisiacte Ife plunged at once into a comparison of venue with it# actual yleld, In April Jast Mr. Disracli reckoned on a revenue of £69,130,000, Witch in November he increased by supplementary income v,970,000, but the actual income wag Viceregal househo; cre presented to her Royal | £59,600,000, showlng'a defleit on the estimate of iness by the Marchionces of Abercorn, and she | £370,000, Pushing the com arioon further into de- 1 to each on retiris she remained on | tails Mr. liunt ‘stated that the customs had « the Princess was lo epeatediy cheeréd. | exceeded the estimate by £650,000,. stamps rly aiterwards the way was drawn off, | by £200,000, taxes by £0,000,’ and crown ae he Victoria aud Alvert moved to the centre of ag 4 iy Mo 000, while ixelad had fallen short arbor. of the mate by £538,000; fac £663,000; ty guests dined with the Prince and Princess | Post Ofiice, £20,000; ‘ahd. tamcelionsoné, et 000 « d the Victoria aud Alvert, including the fole | Comparing noxt the tevenne of the year with that hoy +The Lord Lieuter archioness of Aber- | Of 1808-67, he showed that though the nominal {n- « id their suite, the ¢ ‘izes, Lord James | erease was ary £165,000, yet _by taking into it ts the Marchionoss of Carmarthen, Hon, Mrs, | on one side the extraordinary receipts of 1866-67 : his Royal Highness Prince Teck, Prince (£280,000 China indemnity and £500,000 New Zealand ij 1 of Saxe Weimar Prince Leiningen, Lord is), and on the other the loss to this yoar’s tr 14, Lord Alfred Paget, Lora George ‘Paget, | revenue from the reduction of the marine insurance, 1 ke of 7 tae Lord Strathnairn, Major xp oy A Uncollected income tax, the vud Mr; Gregory, aldes-de-camp Kear Adiniral | real inereage from the expansion of the revenue this 4, Rear nn Buck! ‘ajor General | year was £808,000. He stated next, with great mi- shame, ©. B, the Lord Chancellor, Major | nutencss of detail, the branches of revenue ul Knol Mr, Fisher, private secretary to the | and = the -_ which differed in one Wi ; Dr. Mint aga or other | the estimate and from 1 of the Grenadier Guard performed during | year's yield, showing that in most of the prin te cipal items @ falling off in excise was met by @ iron-clads and Royal G: were illuminated, | corresponding ine in customs, and vice versa, bonfires flaryl on the Hill of Howth, presenting ; The whole deficit of 000 on the estimate would utiful view from Kingsiowm. Several rockets | have been more than up, he maintained, if the ‘all been collected, songs was a dead ites agweane in this item the the effect of last flterations. fmen n- ing actual om marine insu: to ey and that the number of bi it under duty had been 445,645 to 828,341) he passed on to the expenditure Comparing it’ then ‘in, ihe abe “ce by iat with the ‘estimate and the expenditire of tio. pre: jiture he showed that wiki it fell short of the timate by £52,000 it exceeded the expenditure of had been met out of the ixchequer, and, as @ consequence, ments over receipt the balan which at the of March, 1867, stoo: at £7,204,000, at the same date in 1868 were only £4,782,000, is, though @ larger reduction than was wise, not been uctive of ary practical in- convenience. Mr. Hunt 1 @ Abya- sinian expedition, he emtimated It thus . 2 Interest on debt. then to the finances Revenue depa: Post Oiice and To aes eeeess + £70,428, 000 Having: ges in the charges for the debt, the result of which was an increase of £50,000, and offered some reasons for the increase in the estimates—which he showed in certain cases to be more apparens than real—he stated his proposals for raising the revenue of the year. Assuming the tea duty to be continued, and taking the income tax at 4d., he thus calculated next year’s income :— Customs. Excise, Income ‘aXes.. Post OMece. Crown lands. Miscellancous. Totel revenue.. Total expenditure, $922,000 for the extraordinary expenditure on the Abyssinian war. Estimated surplus.........+5 He explained how he’ pro ed to provide Premising that Mr. Disraeli’s original estimate of £2,000,000 for placing the army on the coast of Africa would not be exceeded and would represent the cost of the expedition up to the beginning of the year, its expenses from that date he calculated at £690,000 per mouth, made up thus:—Sea transport, 0,000; provision for troops, £28,000; provisions for , £90,000; extra allowance to troops, %,000; miscellaneous, £35,000. And ntly expected that the expedition would be over by the end of May, its total cgst would be £5,000,000, of which £3,000,000 remained to be i if this had been a permanent expendl- Hunt said he should propose to raise some part of the sum by @ tax upon articles of consumption; but considering how soon it would be over, and the double disturbance in trade caused by putting on an indirect tax for a short time and on taking it off again, he preferred to resort to an addi- tional income tax of 2d., thus raising the rate from to 6d. in the pound. This would produce 100,000, of which, however, only £1,800,000 would come in this year, and therefore, in order to avoid Mr, Gladstone's objectionable device of raising the additional tax on the first haif year, he proposed to take power to issue £1,000,000 Exchequer bonds for r, to be repaid when the second half year of the tax caine in, This result would be that, taking into account the surplus on the ordinary reve- nue and expenditure, £922,000, there would be 43,722,000 to meet the expense af the Abys- sinian war; and calculating this at £3,000,000 for this year (and there was no reason to believe it would be exceeded) there would remain a surplus of £722,000 over and above the ordinary and extraordinary expenditure of the year. He also proposed to take power to renew £600,000 Exchequer jonds, Wijich fall due on March 18, 1869. Mr. GLADSTONE signified a general assent to the scheme, admitting that it was wise not to disturb trade by increasing indirect taxation, and that the burden was fairly divided between the present and the future, Remarking that Mr. Hunt had not been very liberal In his provision for the expedition, he insisted that the addition of 2d. to the income tax had been caused, not by the Abyssinian war, but by the permanent addition to the expenditure of the country which had occurred under this government. To enforce this contention he entered into an elaborate comparison of the estimates of the last turee years, concluding that they had increased by £2,840,000 since the government come into ofiice, Mr. T. BARING seen, deprecated placing the whole cost of the war on income, and maintained that an addition of five percent to the Customs duties would not have created so much disturbance of trade as had been anticipated. Mr. Hubsarp differed from Mr. Baring, ana pre- ferred direct taxation; but pointed out that but for Mr. Gladstone’s scheme for reducing the debt, there would have been a million applicable to the war. ‘The CHANCELLOR of the ExcHEQUER made a spirited Peg | to Mr. Gladstone’s criticisms, maintaining that not having opposed them at the proper time he was as responsible for last year’s estimates as the gov- ernment; and that the late govern by its mis- taken parsimony, bad left the army and navy ta such a state of inefictency as virtually to compel this in- creused expenditure. FRANCE. Peace “Ideas? and Official Assurnnces—Tho Legislatare in Session—French Notions of “Founding” a Newspaper=The Prince Im- perial and the Navy=Visit to Cherbourg and Brest—Royal Compliment toa Young Lady— The American Built Iron-Clad and American Guns. Panis, April 21, 1868. Peace is at length made oficial and people believe in it. This great result is the consequence of a speech made on the 17th inst. by the Minister of Ag- riculture, Mr. Baroche, after laying the first stone of a church at Rambouillet. A passage taken from his address runs as follows:—“The government has no reason to believe in war; the Emperor desires peace—a peace atgonce honorable and wor- thy of a great nation, France, confident in her strength and prepared by the development of her military system for every eventuality, seeks for no war, and we are convinced that no one thinks of thrusting war on her.” If this question could thus be dropped your correspondent will feel greatly relieved at not having to resume it again, there ex- isting so much more useful matter wherewith to en- tertain your readers than these ever recurring doubts and fears which paralyze the nation at stated inter- vals and reduce foreign correspondents to the neces- sity of feeling its pulse through columns of print. The legislative body has resumed its sittings, but none of the reports of the committees being ready, yesterday's business was conilned to balloting for the nine bureaus and to the presentation of the bill on cross-country roads, for the making of which gov- ernment is about to advance on the easiest terms 200,000,000 francs, It is well to observe here that such an enormous work is essentially a work of peace—a work which no wise government would have undertaken if war were probable—a work that will for some time affect the financial state of the empire and the provin Mr. Paulin Limagrac is abont to retire from the edi- torslip of the Constitutionnel, and will be succeeded Brandriliard, one of the editors of the Jour. 8 Dévats. This local bit of information may prove useful to those who will not fail to perevive a slight chan, in the theories of fhe paper. Mr. Pau- lin Limagrac is to become a prefect, and it is likely he will dud the functions of a magistrate less arduous than those of aneditor, When these divers functions wad duties are taken into consideration, itis truly inconceivable how many infatuated individuals are daily brought to light by their ambition to become editors, One of the many lessons the experience of others will not teach in France 18 that a paper can+ not be butit, any more than a house, on shifting sands. Every oue in Paris who has failed in the linen draper or restaurant line tries his hand at scissors aud paste, and calis that | editor, A Marshal of France was lately iniormed by his valet de pied that he gave in his demission aud wished to retire from the service of his Excellen “And 80, Jo- seph,” sald the Marshal, “you peaily wi to leay my household /* Our BXéellence. Wi, have so long wished to ‘fodna’ a paper.” This is the parody of a prevailing mania in our capital. ‘k are necessarily ab- to Cherbourg 1ath ‘The other events of the we sorbed by the imperial Prince's tri and Brest. He arrived at the former seaport 01 April at five o'clock, accompanied by Louis leoh Connean, the son of the emperor's physictat General Frossard, the Prince's governor; M. de Lignt- Ville, his aide-de-camp, and M. Bachon, his syas'tz. All the prefectorial authorities were assembled on ‘the quay in their rich uniforms, but the municipal oftictals had not been convoked, Military honors were paid to the young Prince on his way from the station to an open carriage in which he drove to the park, followed by @ vast coriége. The crowd was excessive, and the horses were all hung with floatin; banuers. The Prince seemed deYghted, and bow: to all with childish grace, On reaching the port he got on board the yacht Retne Hortense, saluted by a salvo from every battery in port and vessel on sea In the evening the town was illuminated, the sol- diers had thelr retreat accompanied by torches and music, and the young Prince, friend Con- neau, sported, as children will sport and ought to, ras: cabin boys, exhilarated by @ game at hide- The Prince occupied ti state rooms, His attendants onan cfoxt de chai a mi four valets de ind the cooking de} nt was superintended by Potet and Chao fidm Paria, On HeePareatsraNe taaht atth at re Te viewed the thirteen iron-clads harbor. Then he repaired to the arsenal, where ‘the mechanism of the Rodman system guns on board the giant Ro- hambean was sree to him by Krauts, @ daughter of Vice Admiral then pre. Gented Lin With a Doucet and agked for the favor of NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET ‘a kiss, which of course the was ry ‘he could not refuse, 0 meanwhile gave the pret two, on each Cl Then the Prince several factories a Star of the Legion to the headman off machinery soup kitchens under his blished atronage was the next novelty, and here he was ju e the yo in: not wait to be asked for a kiss he took an initiatory e juet offered to embrace the boy, saying:—*! Jet me pve you a kiss.’ throt very fraternally looked over the maritime hospital, where he dis- tributed three medals to wounded under officers, the Prince again returned to the yacht, where dinner was served for sixteen. Very heavy rain put a stop to other 49 ful celebrations, not only in the evening, but the following mo fe At twelve o'clock the Reine Hortense set sail for Brest, followed by the whole squadron of armor plated vessels, Nothing could be grander than the salute which responded to the signal of departure from the yacht. It was a thunder- ing, rolling voice from @ thousand cannon mouths, and this powerful welcome was fol- lowed for a quarter of an hour by Henmuing flashes from under gigantic columns of smoke whic! curled along the surface of the bright sea, All the townspeople had left their stores, houses and work- shops to behold the grand sight; but when the smoke had blown over and all was clear, while the roused echoes were still thrilling as if a too mighty commo- tion had been raised and would not be subdued, then to the surprise of all, they saw the harbor quite empty, the yacht and squadron had disappeared, the traces and ‘watery furrows had closed up, and thus ‘thought few) ends the path of the great here be- jow. The little feet reached Brest on the following morn- ing at forty minutes past nine, when the Priuce vi: ited the school of naval apprentices on board the In flexible and the school on the Barda, The boys formed several exercises before him. In the a! noon the Prince went through the town visiting the charitable institutions, distributing medals and deco- rations, and looking much as if he would infinitely ae ascuffie with the boys, who must have been hoarse with shouting ‘Vive le Prince Inaperial,” be- fore they got their dinner, A banquet was given to the apprentices of the port in number five hundred, The Prince had to drink to their health and carry a toast at each table, just Sipping a drop of Madeira every time, while the sturd ys went In for-roast leg of inutton and other substantial stimulants, ‘The young Prince dined with the papila ef the naval school on board the Barda. Prince Murat’s son is among them, A dinner of a very different kind was given on Good Friday by M. de Sainte Beuve, which has been commented on by the clericals in every poms key. ‘The great scandal was pa on Good Friday! At this dinner attended Prince Napoleon, Edmond About, Ernest Renan and eight other very free-think- ing guests—one of whom must be talkative; for things which might have done well over sparkling cham- pagne look very pad in print—a point which re- Markable men ‘are never guarded against. My opinion is that every Christian should attend to his own pork butchery, and leave that of his neighbors on their own plates for private autopsy. If religion is a question of eels or sausage meat it is greatly simplified, and this simplification will not be very profitable to the clergy in general. The least said on Tat and lean the better therefor. The Army Drawings—Opinions of War—Colo- nial Famine. King Leopold of Belgium is shortly expected in Paris. . The drawing for the conscription under the new Army bill commenced throughout the empire. The Paris Patrie asserts that everywhere the greatest enthusiasm was evinced by the recruits, The Paris Dévats says:—The Austrian government also is proceeding. with the reorganization of its army. In vain peace is preached up and desired. Europe is arming on all sides. The Right Rey. Archbishop of Algiers has pub- lished another letter giving a fearful picture of the state of the colony. Typhus, he says, has set in to complete the work of starvation. In the district of Tenes fifteen hundred natives have died within twenty-nine days, At Algiers itself upwards of two fare natives are fed by publio or private charity. The. reception of M. Jules Favre at the French —_—_ took place April 24in presence of @ vast crowd of literary, fashionable and Rae ye rson- ages. The new member was introduced by Ber- ryer and M. Thiers, who acted as his sponsors. ‘The Paris Moniteur publishes the report addressed tothe Emperor by the managers of the Offerings Fund (gifts made to the army and navy) which shows that the fund possesses in rente a total revenue of 56,955f, During the year 1867 the receipts from all sources—together with the cash in hand at the end of 1866—amounted to 412,797f., and the outiay to 249,604f,, leaving @ balanod in favor of the fund ot 163,138f. In the South of France the drought coutinued. At Marseilles hopes of a change of weather were for a moment entertained, as at Avignon and Nismes @ slight shower fell, and at Valence the sky at one time became obscured with heavy clouds. But the dry wind returned over all that part of the country and removed all chance of rain, Public prayers me Mk weather were ordered by the Bishop of Mar- Beilles, The Tribunal of Commerce of the Seine pronounced ninety-six bankruptcies between the 1st and 18th April. iS ‘A new Wesleyan chapel at Chanttlly was opened for divine worship on the 21st of April. The build. ing is on the Route prraectel Seeciee the rail- way station to the town. It erected in the later Norman style of architecture. The first_ service was in the afternoon, by the Rev. T. Baron Hart, in Eng- lish, The Rev. G. Jaulmes preached in French, interesting feature of the meeting was the delivery by the chairman of a bundle of New Testaments to Monsieur Ambroisie Letellier, the contractor, to be distributed among the workmen who had been em- ployed on the building. RUSSIA. Opinion of Napoleon’s Pence Professions, (From the Journal de St. Petersburg, Aprii 15.) ‘The telegraph brings us from Paris the analysis of an article in the Constitutionnel, in which the peace- ful intentions of France are once more aflirmed. However, that journal admits that.a disarmament ‘would constitute a better guarantee against war than do the military preparations at present prosecuted in the majority of the great States. But, according to M. Paulin Limayrac, France is not the first that is bound to disarm, as the initiative ought to be taken abroad, History records an episode of the battle of Fontenoy, when Lord Hay, advancing in front of the ranks and saluting the French officers, said, “Gentlemen of the French Guards, fire!” and then Count d’Auteroche, stepping forward in turn, replied, After you, Messieurs les Anglais; we never fire iret.” We are not aware on what grounds M. Paulin Limayrac relies to show that France cannot disarm until after others have done so, just as her soldiers fired in 1745. True, the courtesy of Count d'Auteroche cost the army of Louls XV. the whole of its advanced line, which was destroyed by a formidable volley. We do not know whether the memory of this is what renders M. Paulin Limayrac prudent. We shall be informed, perhaps, in reading his article when the Paris journal reaches us, and we shall at present confine ourselves to the simple observation that if tt may be dangerous not to attack first it does not seem that there is so much peril in disarming before others when one has no desire to attack and is not threat- ened, and when glory may be acquired by giving a great example to the world. ITALY. Prince Humbert’s Marringe. {Turin (April 23) correspondence of Galignani’s Mes- Senger, The contract of marriage between Prince Humbert and the Princess Margherita, of Genoa, was signed on Tuesday and witnessed by the French, Prussian and Saxon ministers. The next morning, at half- «past ten, the royal family, the high dignitaries of State, the ministers, the parliamentary deputations and the members of the Municipal Council assembled in the great ballroom of the palace for the ceromony of the civil marriage. The President of the Senate read the prescribed article of the code, received the declarations of the Prince and Princess and pro- claimed their marriage. Immediately after the cortége proceeded to the cathedral, which had been magnificently decorated for the occasion, aud were there joined by the diplo- matic body. High mass was then celebrated, the Archbishop of Turin Ceo On the return to e the Fg he A pom from t ty = and National Gua resented bouquets to the Princess Marghe- rita. ie King decorated the Archbishop of Turin the ent of the Senate with the collar of the nnunz ‘The city is crowded and oe animated, The popular demonstrations towards the King, the Prinee and the Princess have been most enthusl- astic. A heavy fall of hail took place in Mantua on the 8th of April. The streets were completely covered, and for some hours had all the appearance of winter. At Leghorn there was an expectation of a strike analagous to that which took place lately at Turin, although from different motives, The naval porters demanded a rise of hin ge and the Chamber of Com. merce refused to accede to the demand, and replied to the application by a protest in which it declares ‘that its members would resign rather than give way. There was therefore the danger of a double strike— that of the porters and shat of the Chamber of Com- merce. A Fextan Stickine TO His OatH.—The trial of William Roy, of Eastport, Me., for conspiring with, others ize and destroy the schooner Two Friends, atthe of the Fenian invasion in Passamaquoddy Bay, two years since, is now occupying the attention ¢ Uni States Circuit Court at Portland. On erate the District Attorney placed a witness named Michael John Mooney on the stand, and asked him the question whether he, with others, went pt Two Friends on the it of May 1, 1866, looney to answer the ang that as @ member of the Fenian he was bound not to reveal anything t! would oriminate rs, and he wished to clear. Oi 'y of ret to answer Hoe, queeriom, Suites was for the it it we criminate himself. Mooney an- aver not on the ground that it w ‘hum. self, but that tt would criminate cama, malted to lail far coutemot of court, HELL* GATE. eee Report of General Newton Touching the Re- moval of the Obstructions in the Channel. Congress having been asked to appropriate the sum of $378,000 (now included in the General Appro- priation bill) for the purpose of commencing the work of removing the obstructions at Hell Gate and improving the channel there, the following report, setting forth the precise extent and character of the work required to be performed to accomplish this object, will prove of interest at the present time. Having been assigned in July, 1866, to the duty of examining Hell Gate, and instructed to make such examination with the view of its improvement for jhe purposes of naviga- tion and sufficiently in detail to present @ plan and estimate for the necessary operations, General Newton, of the United States Engineer Corps, in January, 1867, submitted to the Secretary of War the result of his labors in a report as follows, Glanc- ing at the reports of his predecessors in this labor— Lieutenant Commanding C. H. Davis, assistant jn the Coast Survey, in February, 1848; Lieutenant Com- manding D. D. Porter (now Admiral Porter), United States Navy, in October of the same year, and Major Fraser, of the Engineers, in October, 1852—al of which urged the necessity of extensive operations— the report proceed: During the present season surveys and examinations of Hallet’s Point, Scaly rock, the Frying Pan and Pot rock have been made, and the results given in the sketches sent herewith, An examination was likewise made by divers of the surface of Pot rock and Frying Pan, principally with a view of ascertain- ing the feasibility of blasting by placing the charges upon the rock, and although nothing special has been elicited, the indications are that some of the blasting necessary to be done can be effected by simply placing the charge in contact with the rock. WorRKS #ROJECTED. This portion of the subject has been so frequently discussed by officers of distinguished ability, whose reports are published, that little further remains to be said. bt is agreed that certain rocks in the channel, viz.:—Pot rock, Fiying Pan, Way’s reef, Shell Drake and others nearer shore—viz., the rock of Negro Point, those near Woolsey’s bath house, Blackwell’s rock, together with portions of Hallet’s Point and of Scaly rock should ®e removed, Sea walls have been likewise recommended to be built on the Gridiron, Hog’s Back and on the Bread and Cheese, and a stone beacon to be placed on Kylander’s: reef, To the rocks to be re- moved may be added the Heeltap rocks, situated oif ‘tie end of Great Mill rock, which, by their position, compel vessels to make such a circuit as to endanger their safe passage past Rylander’s reef. 5 Concerning these rocks, Heeitaps, General Newton says thore is room for doubt as to whether they exist ornot. No soundings made inthe present survey have resulted in finding them; but as they are marked in former charts, until it 18 clearly established that thee are non est, they are included in the obstruc- ons. The report continues:—To the sea walls may probably be added one upon Rylander's reef and another along the seventeen feet curve of Great Mill, on the side of tho middie channel, to mark this pas- sage and sheer off vessels, The great reefs in the middle of the pass—Flood rock,Negro Head,the Gria- iron and Great and Little Mill rocks—have been little noticed in scheme of improvement, notwith- standing th orm the great obstacle to the pass of Hell Gate being converted into a highway for com- merce. In the existing state of the art of removing rocks under water, the imagination was appalled at the notion even 6f meddling with such masses. The middle channel Is narrow and is rendered dangerous by the projection of Negro Head into its lower outlet. The least ee ee that can be recommended in this report should include Negro Head and the in- crease of the width of this channel to about 340 feet. Estimates are submitted for there projects. The first includes the removal of all the rocks mentioned at the beginning of this division of the report with the construction of the sea walls, and likewise provides for the improvement of the middle channel and the removal of Negro Head. The second includes the cost likewise of the re- moval of that part of the middle reef known as Negro Head, Hen and Chicken, Flood rock and the Gridiron, thus throwing the middle channel into one. The third includes the smaller rocks and the sea walls, and makes no provision for improving the middle channel or otherwise interfering with the middle reef. With every improvement of Hell Gate the number of vessels passing through will increase, and the ne- cessity for further room will become more apparent. Hell Gate now washes with its waters the corporate limits of the city; before many years it will form a rae of the ‘busy harbor of New York, and hen will arise a demand for improvement to an extent which has not yet in idea been entertained. The uncertainty and slowness attending blasting under water has had the effect of diverting public attention from that consideration of Hell Gate to which the importance of the improve- ment is really entitled, and it 1s believed as soon as the work can be pushed in a ular inanner, subject to fixed laws of calculation, like blasting on land, that the extent of improvement needed for the iuter- ests of commerce will be the sole limit to public effort in this direction. What extent of work ts really de- manded, now and for the future, is a problem which more properly belongs for solution to those repre- senting the interests of commerce in this city, owing to their more perfect acquaintance with its wants an capacity, This report does not prescribe these lim- its, but the estimates, tables and other information here furnished will enable any one to caiculate the Cr poe of projects diferent from those formally set forth. THE MODE OF CONDUCTING OPERATIONS. A project is presented in the report simply as a basis for calculation, which consists in first prepar- ing the surface of the rocks for ulterior operations by blasting of the sharp points and Migr by charges placed in position by divers, until the rock is reduced toa more uniform surface. Then to blast the rock by introducing charges fnto drill holes made for the purpose and to remove the debris by divers, The current, which has a maximum velocity of 8.50 miles, limits the time of working under water to a ee over two hours per day, during and about the ime of slack water, and hence the time and expense, ‘unless some means of shieldingsthe divers and Opera- tors from the force of the current can be devised, would prove a serious objection. Even if the per- sons using the drills were protected from the current, the delay incident to this mode of operations would be considerable; but if the drilling were conducted from the surface of a platform above the water the same results would be reached as on dryland. To avoid the interference of the currents with the drilis thése may be made to work ta hollow iron cyimners reaching from the platform to the rock. This pro- ject as weil as a means Iikewise subinitted of remov- ing the rock, is, however, General Newton say: merely hypothetical, to show that the work couk be done, and might not and certainly Would not in some respects be that mode used in case the im- provements were ordered to be made as is suggested D anotuer part of the report. DATA FOR THE ESTIMATE. The rock in the samples obtained contains an ex- cess of mica, making it soft to the drill. The drill is supposed to bore seven feet a day, though it may average ten feet. The estimated cost of drilling in- cludes mooring and gre the platform, services of men attending, of blacksmiths sharpen! ng tools, steel expended, services of sugineet. and fireman, coal used in the smithing and for the poy ser- ort ‘3, vices of divers in arranging the 3) of thi platform and plact 1 ani i of labor unmoortng platform, &o. Estimated cost per linear foot, $4. The cost of cach charge tucludes the esiimated cost of drilling the rock, of the canister and charge, labor of divers in ee the charge, services of the operator and boat's crew in firing, expense of wire, &c. Small charges are first placed im the holes and split up the rock, larger charges are introdaced into the crevices and seams thus formed, and complete the work of breaking up the mass, estimate for 60 Ib, charge of gunpowder. 45 80 Estimate for 150 1b. charge of gunpowdet 41 75 Estimate for 5 Ib. ¢! of nitro-glycering 43 64 Estimate for 16 1b, charge of nitro-glycerine.... 86 36 Estimate for 311-13 tb. charge of nitro-glycerine 41 63 Estimate for 117-131b. charge of nitro-glycerine 20 29 Drilling tnto the rock is included tn the above. The sea wall in the Gridiron is intended to be of large cut blocks neaeey coursed. The top ts to be four feet above highest water. The general height is twenty-three feet, at certain | nga eae feet, and its thickness {3 ten feet. Some of tho rock taken from the channel should be deposited behind the wall to the level of loW water, to form a vack- ing. This can be done without extra expense. The fon of wail to be latd under water ts first en- sed by a coffer work OF Wood, not Water tit, in- tended solely to protect the divers ‘rom the force of the current. This expengss included in the estimate as well as that of formin a bed for the foundation, The supposed cos will be ¢80 por cubic yard. The expense of this constryiion should limit its em- plbyment to the most important cases. The rabble sea walls are composed of stone thrown in loosely to the level of low water, but above that to the top four feet above highest water @ dry wall of split unout blocks Is supposed to be laid by hand. The loose rub- ble foundation ts twelve feet wide at the top and the slope to the bottom is supposed to be one to one and h rt two, The superstructure is ten and eleven feet high. The esti mated cost Is $4.50 cubic yard for the rubble and $24 for the superstructure. A jarge estimete bs necessary for machinery, including scows, boats, anchors, chains, cordage and a liberal allowance for losses and wear and age | from the peculiar nature of the service required. Accidents from col- Usion and consequent repairs Incident to the re,t currents and the number of ing vessels will ee be frequent and should be kept in view. In his estimate every machine, scow or boat is intended for a lefined service. The cost from of blasting and femoving each of rock is $164, Majot Fraser in 1868 from the results of the process Of removal ‘used by him found the cogt then to be #101 per foot whic present tee we Beat lent rik ‘ut rt expat oving tl EMM Se nates "Se ME Geena onto fora feet, but order to reach ‘the latter {t may be nec’ far as former, the mean betwe Total for ane omitting the conts:— vement raject, Bix yeara’ operations. “ates a Yeare’ operations, Add lect the cost for the Gridiron, increased ron, increase by extra repairs and al inety, pe replacement of ina- $6,365,054 Total for improvement by second project. $8,216,908 Third project, four years’ mga ting all improvement ai channel with correspo! dimunition x coe ant ace ras Cy machinery and of co servi deduct from cost of Sa wit 2,760,866 Total for improvement by third project... er} The report likewise eum Mine fone Toad Estimated cost of first projects teeseceses $0,085,306 Amount saved by using Grill boring into rock - the rere ne one Pore perma ute, including cost of one form, which might then be ‘ispensedl With..... 49,775 —Or less than one per cent, Amount saved by using nitro-glycerine in- stead of gunpowder, when its explosive, force is estimated at ten times that of thé Vatter..ccscccseccecesooes voce soneses 10,968 —Or 1 8-10 per cent. Amount saved by using nitro-glycerine In- ‘stead of gunpowder when its explosive force isestimated at thirteen times that of the latter........ cireteeeeeeceneeoe — UBL,910 —Or less than 23¢ per cent. The report Sone. propecdss Te, small proportion which an improv: Spee of drilling rock or the use of @ more powerful explosive agent will save in the total cost may surprise many; but the cause ta evident—viz., the smal prpescn of the cost of th whole blast process to that of the other items the project, The tuble likewise shows that as a gut tion of cost this ieaproventané is independent ot particular form of improved machinery for dr or special explosive agent, leaving to the governm full liberty of choice in these respects. For the sake of the men employed upon such works no compound should be used which is likely to explode nl taneously or from causes beyond the cou! ordinary carefulness, Certain conclusions be concisely stated. Any reasonable hope of effect this improvement depends upon the rejection of miny and fanciful schemes which cannot be brought within the rules of ordinary caiculation. This een has attempted one method of solution, and ta hoped many better may be found. It was necessary in framing the estimate to make just and liberal lowances and to provide for contingencies and acct dents attending gperasions not only difficult in them. selves but also little assisted by data from any source. On the other hand, there is no doubt thata serious and well considered attempt to push the work will be the means of stimulating mechanical inventions suited to this end which, with the experience gained from day to day, will not only expedite progress but alsa materially diminish the cost, especially in the lar, item of reaeving the rock, The precise depth to attained will be dependent not only upon the erenea but upon the future eo of vessels, On thi point it must be considered that this is the only chané nel lenalit to New York where additional end can be gained and a Uberal standard in fiximg th would be best, since if error be committed in the op posite extreme she cost of remedy would be only if Dot quite equal that of the frat operation. y OBITUARY. Miss Romer, the English Prime Donna. eee the London Herald, April 17.) This celebrated Englishprima donna is no more. She died at her residence at Margate last Monday, in heg 54th year. Few singers have had a wider range Of ops ratic characters. She made her debut on the Covent Garden stage, the 16th of October, 1530, as Clara, in the “Duenna,” on the same igs that the Scotch tenor, Mr. John Wilson (who died tn America), made his first appearance as Don Carlos. At the same the atre Miss Romer was the original Zerlina, in Auber’ “Fra Diayolo,” when Braham enacted the hero, Mr, Wilson Lorenzo, Mr. G. Penson Lord Allcash, and Miss Cawse Lady Allcash. Miss Romer was also t) original Mountain Sylph, at the Lyceum, tn Jo! Barrett’s charming opera. Miss Romer, after the death of Malibran,. sustained with sfgnal suce cess the Maid of Artois of Balfe, and tl Sonnambula of Bellini. = She aiso sang the aps of Leonora, fh Donizetti's ‘Favorita,” eae] in Rossini’s “William Tell,” with Duprez, the fam French tenor. Her repertoire included the leading characters in Balfe’s “Bohemian Giri,” the ‘‘Bondse man,” Wallace’s ‘Maritana,’’ Meyerbeer’s Alice (‘Robert le Diable”), Agatha in Webor’s ‘Der Frey+ schutz,” &c., and she was gifted with one of the finest soprano voices ever heard. Her acting wag admirable. Miss Romer was directvess for son ears of an English opera company at the Snrre! heatre. She was married to the late Mr. Georg Almond, the army clothier, of St. James street, an retired from the stage a few years sinco, an universally Iked and respected. One of her sist is married to Mr. Mark Lemon, the editor of Puncl The Romera, in fact, are a musical family, for twa cousins of the late prima donna, the Misses Romer of Liverpool, were also on the lyric stage, and were married to the brothers Brough. — Mr. Tom Romer, cousin, was the tenor at Drury Lane theatre in Mr. Bunn's time. Mr. Charles Romer was also a tenor, and Mr. Robert Romer is &he comic actor at Adeipil theatre, Miss Maria Romer ls married 0 Ansell, the animal painter. —ToTsy, Miss Copley~Lord Lyndhurat’s Sister. {From the London Times, April 25.) Death has at length carried off the last surviving child of John Singleton Copley, the well known R. A, and Sea painter, the venerable Miss Copley, sis ter of John Singieton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, whom she hag survived by little more than four years, Misg Copley, who died yesterday at the house of L are are Eaton square, was tn her ninety-fii year. Of Mr. Copley’s three daughters two grew up to womanhood; of these two she was the younger; and it m: be of interest here to record the fact that her elder sister, Eliza beth, who married a Mr. Greene, died at Bow ton, Mass, on the ist of February, 1866, at the ripe age of ninety-five. As Lord Lyndhurst had com+ pleted his ninety-firat year when he died, the three children of the painter who survived infancy al tained, jointly, the long period of two hundi ant eighty years—in this res certainly like thet mother, who died i 1836, at upwards of ninety, hav« ing seen her gon seated on the woolsack. Mr, Co} ley, thongh of irish extraction and, as is well Kiows, an American by birth, was @ royalist; he abando his prospects in America on account of Lis loyalty to George If], Miss Copley, who was born at Boston, wag brought over to England by her father when only an infant; she resided with her father, and afler- wards with her distingufshed brother, in Geers street, Hanover square, till Lord Lyndhurst’s death; and she will be well remembered by many of th who were privileged to enjoy the society at Lord Lyndharst’s, where she was always lively and cheer+ fui and displayed a rich fund of anecdoje and ploae sant remlviscences, Her eed as 4 little chil playing with the future Lord Chancellor of Engi: and her other brothers and sisters, will be remem- bered by all those who saw the celebrated family roup eon by Copley, which used to hang in the iarge drawing room of Lord Lyndturst's house in George street, and formed one of the attractions at South Kensington during the Great Exhibition of 1862. ARRESTS OF FENIANS IN TORONTO. The Toronto Telegraph, raed Publishes the par. ticulars of the arrests of Fenians made in that city on the day previous, by order of the government, The parties are four in number, nameiy:—Patrick Boyle, publisher of the Jrish Canadian: Hynes, printer in the office of that paper; Owen Cow rove, tavern keeper; and John Nolan, moulder. joyle 13 president of the Hibernian Benevolent Socie. ty, Cosgrove is marshal and Noian ts secretary. It is said that important documents have been seized, including all the papers and books of the society, The prisoners are now in the jail, where they will remain for the present. After making the arrests here Mr. McMicken and his detectives went west for the porpose of making some further arrests, The Zelegraph says the Sores have issued instructions for the seizure of all the Fenian journaig that come into the provice from the States, and steps are to be taken to prevent their coming in hereafter, either through the post or by express. A despatch from Ottawa, May 6, to the Toronto Leader says :—It is believed that the parties arrested in Toronto under the habeas corpus act will, undet the authority contained therein, be removed from that city to Ottawa for safe keeping. ‘The milttat rat Which has now to be kept at the jail here wi licn be suficient for all. The authorities have their if they remain in the apprehended under this implicated by private eyes on other parties who, country, will profably act. Numbers are more or less information in the hands of the crown prosecutor, which, tf it was divulged, would probably cause ® good many to discover business cisewhere. The prisoners held under the habeas corpus act will likely be detained at least antil next session, authort- ty to that effect being contained in the act. “Another witness was examined to-day in the Whelan case, but the evidence elicited, like a good doal taken Intely, 18 not to be published at present. The Fenian papers and manuscripts seized at To- ronto will reach here to-morrow for examination. Three or four suspected parties west of Toron\o have beon probably arrested to-day by Mr. McMicken or under orders. Mysterious DRATA.—A Skowhegan correspondent of the Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that some time during the past winter an old gentleman the name of Fletcher died quite suddenly at the housa of Benjamin Hurd at that place, Mr. Fletcher was reported to have had 8 large am pi 4 ($20,000) in bonds, whieh the ret of Mr.‘Fietehs er Were unable to get an; death set his relatives have been, letiy watch, WE dosay ment which meh be Ainadg, fH asl \ About 43,50 the seer", periaisee ee eae cet Maen of the 8 feet as tf a