The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1869, Page 4

| after having taken his seat on the woolsack, read hor Majesty’s speech a second ume, On the reading being concluded the Barl of Carysfort replied as tollows:— Their lordships must rejoice Opening paragrapus of her Majes: relations with foreign gwen ea friendly character, and tl difficulties that had arise! key were likeiy to be BUROPE. the Bat ‘The Cunard sicamshtp City of London, Captain Leitch, from Liverpooi February 17, via Queenstown 18th, arrived at this port yesterday. She brings de- talls of our foreiga ieiegrams up to dates of sailing. At the mass on Sunday, the 14th ult., in the chapel of the Tulieries, Parts, an inedited O Salutaris of M. NRW YORK HERALD, WEDNE yuties of Transyly syivania with Huo, ngarian & Th bers, sent by the will form there c distinct astiounl pares ‘which has nothing in ‘the Hungarian parties. '@ protesting against the union of Tran- % fonalitfes wil! work with to upset tna of 1801, ab its deetalous ‘ase fata! to she Dae Mntcipaltties are’ 10 be organized om the priaciple of the insinuations that the Wr Foe conterence proteste nationalitics follow a poley wales ais ‘as the destruction of the Hu: State, non-Magyar races tothe Diet decided that it would only bring The conference forward and support candidates wno will sudscribe peacefuily settled, Auber was executed in presence of their Majesties | not avoid expressing his admiration of the sommon with any of and the Court. The Dishop of Roonelle presched. | iueut uhrouuout the wuole exis while be felt sur ent thiou:hout Some interesting ©xpe! are about to be per | inat in yiciding to the fmendiy ns formed in Switzerland on the different systems of | of the. great wers Greece W not on!y railway for crossing wountaing, ‘Lhose trials are in- | act most consistently with her own dignity, tended to guide public opinion in the adoption of | frihulg to" tie maiatenanes of tam menor the best method to be employed for the lines over Great, however, as must be their the Swiss Alps. pf that the the eastern horizon According to the Madrid Discusston, the floating | preater must be 7 Bang tonrm to be > ou debt of Spain amounts to about 34,000,000,000 reals, | hearing that the disputes with arising from or $2,125,000,000, ciaims and counter-clains were to be settied The English papers say that further particulars by weans of a convention pe Ate the late trusted wouid respecting the affair at Swatow represent the attack government—a couvention whien he avert a suicidal war and place the two nations on fouting which was so desirable for both. of the Chinese as unprovoked on our part. The | tuat friendi sa ie crew of the Cockchafer—not the Grasshopper—were Pyrenees ee ne exercising on shore when they were fred upon by | United States sororoees has the natives. fees was relieved from any yo of delay- INORES C jail settlement of Xtstins f. The ravages of the typnus at Brussels appear to fereanes ‘and, should the issue be favorable, it would be especially heavy among young women, many of | be butjust to atiribure much of its success to the whom, belonging to the best families, have already | ‘rank and loyal endeavors of the honured fallen victims; of the number may be mentioned, in pete ip ote co ola addition to Mile. d’Armberg, Mile. d’Oultremont and | tween our Mile. de Mérode, a reiation of the late Marquis de | chiet Moustier. A telegraphic despatch from Besancon states that yesterday morning st five, in a train proceeding | BOF, were the pete from Dijon to Belfort, M. Marietle, a clerk emploved | §'rerigtobs torn in making payments to the servants of the company een i was suddenly assailed by two men, who robbed him ve igh-s) people like the Irish. He of 28,000f. and then threw him out of the window on | was davpatlig ana eat ete te trena Teer aay the line, injuring him seriously. Laas per expression te Peg or An , watchw: a but was xed resolve ns pournat Qpicies publishes the following notif- | Tra! 1 Fe See aa Egy oped cation:— th awakened to the conviction that ireland was Of the five cables which connected France and | no r to be governed upon excee teal preee Belgium with Enzland, two had been ruptured by | ples, and the national voice, responding to its con- the tempest. The iaud communications which join | science, had aitirmed with an emphasis not to be the three others ou each side of the channel have | mistaken that our juiure pol with regard to Ire- also been broken, sv that all telegraphic correspond- | land must be based on the ol right and ence between France and Eng.and is completely sus- | and justice, and have for its object the concilia- pended. tion of her people. Be br as = = The Emperor, on iearning the death of Fuad | {0} years mi been done orate the condition of that count but Pacha, gave orders tor a despatch boat of the French | much remained to be dove; and now that tae mis- avy to be sent to Nice to receive the mortal remains —- poner pertpperet Dag bhai br dt rat ©: sul suc! of that statesman. The Sultan, immediately on be- ‘should be introduced as were most likely ing apprised of that circumstance, sent off a tele- | to satisfy the country. He was glad to learn that gram to the French sovereign to express his warm- | the first step in this direction witich it was the inten- ext thanks for such marc of apmpathy with Tur- | Hon,¢l Rel Mess goverament to Propase was key, and at the same tine countermanded the vessel | Churca, and that the early attention of Parliament of the Ottoman navy waich had been ordered for the —~ be Fhe 9 ra bo best gr by ee Netfom ve iterests, eas col Calne Eye ‘The Protestant Charcb in Ireland had only this seat, am here dency will Culture. island, and its approac! from Sant tral Committee, has been chosen. the privilege of it. On sole lclency would weigh af your prudence, your enlightent reasonableness did not come to weakness of my powers. I thing to you, occupy this seat you will not see in me the ancient litical warrior, the man of combat and of danger. to the above programme, and for this purpose & Cen- consisting of Roumans ‘and Serbs, SPAIN. Inaugural Speech of the Sener Rivero, Pres- ident of the Spanish Cortes. The Cortes opened on the 12th ult, Sefior Santa Craz having left the chair, 18 was occupied by Sefior Rivero, and as his speech 1s of some little importance, delivered in the Cortes of 1869, and be- sides, has the merit of brevity, it is here given. Cortes Con- Ssnones DipuTaDos—The sovereign stituentes of the Spanish nation are now provision- ally constituted. Diputapos—The Cortes have conceded to me so signal a distinotion that I ly dud this although i ca dl A only pro’ hon for ever he who once occu- ng for ever he relghy heaviiy upon me tn the verifivatiou of powers ment and your supplement the wo ons have the honor to of acts and the res. While the man of law. I am here the trate to whom the Cortes have viaionally con- fided the deposit of its authority, discussions of its feation of and the just and impartial to full ions. Jn this conception I ho} its mw functions, with the concurrence of all the Sefores Diputados, in the confidence that while the pro- visional constitution of the Cortes lasts my presi- be a simple parliamentary form. JAMAICA, The Exodus from Cuba=-Fears of Cholera— Improvement—Labor, Sapply and Sugar Krnaston, Feb. 17, 1869. The cholera which has broken out in Santiago de Cuba has greatly alarmed the inhabitants of this the remembrance of the last visitation of this irightful plague greatly intensifies the fear of ih. The passengera of the French mail steamer Tampico and Spanish steamer Guantanamo, tiago de Cuba (numbering in all With reference to the bill adopted on Saturday Shear 700,000 members, while the number of Roman | °2€ hundred persoas), pantie stricken, have last by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, a | Catholics was nearly 5,000,000; it had never taken | been placed under quarantine of observa distinction must be ubserved between the Guillaume- Docaeuren ene Conaay Tomer rie eee tion, under which they will remain for Luxembourg and the Grand Luxembourg Raflway | claims of several millions of ker Majesty’s subjects | ight days. The Governor has meanwhile directed Companies, The treaty of the 2ist January, 1863, | could no longer be refused; and, instead of ruling Irelaud with ‘a rod of iroa, we mu st appeal to the between the former and the French Eastern line | aiection and loyaity of her people. For turee hun- duly received tue approbation of the governments | dred years tha! which, with all its errors, was to and parties inreresicd, amd bas been de Jacto in | Propriun aud scorn aud to heartless cruelty? Dutt execution sice last year. In the provisional con- | Protuan' streng.tiened by every insult and puritied vention between tue Eastern and the Grand Lux- | by every struggie, and were its sacraments to be embourg that will be impeded by the measure in | taken from them they would say, as Shylook said iv = TI ee tte Mee aot ta the That doth sustain my house; aoe and if we steeied their hearts we should render them blunt to @ sense of duty and justice. lt was no wonder that the spirit of discontent was let loose and tha: they broke ont from time to ume in those wild freaks of vengeance which were a slur and a biot on the national character; but if Parliament rendered them justice by giving them their Church uniettered we sbould teach them to act jai. and we shou.d not only make ireland a bond of union lazaretto, structed to sul. Ninety noon from FRANCE. The French Press und the Belgian Railways. ‘The journals of Paris are unusually excited over the action of the Keigian Parliament in prohibiting the Belgian railways to be transferred to foreign companies. Ali other topics have been lost sight of for the time being ana she most violent language is | 800 Of strength, Instead of weakness to the cin- pire, but we shoulda be doi that which was due vo indulged in by the French jouraalists on this recent | our own conscience and to the beiter service of Him action of their next door neigabor. to whom ali worslip was due, The Opinion Nationale says:— So We cannot but feel surprised at the ways of the Belgian goverameni. ‘ais absolute opposition, voted Murgence (/. ., Une standing orders being sus- jed), to a scheme which was equally favorable to tan and Freach toterests, exhibits an iil will which has something offeustve about it. We can’t imagine who coulu have suggested to Belgium a policy 80 strange, 8» wanilestly 0} tothe prin- ciples of commercial {reedom, Which have so greatly benefited that country, and so detrimental to the friendiy relations which bad existed up to this time between our neighbors and ourselves. However ae our desire to keep up friendly relations with igium we conceive it to be difficult that France should not make her feel—at least by commercial reprisals—that kinuly proceedings should be re- Magest its prey Opinion et the London Press on the Opening of the New Parliament. The London Times ts two possible expla- nations of the exceeding mildness of the Varliamen- tary sesson as It was manilested on Tuesday, the loth ult. lt may be thought that the amiabie inter- change of opinion between the front and the oppo- sition benches in both houses was like the mytuical invitation of the French guards to thelr English foes at Fonienoy to “fire first.’’ I¢ may be thought, on the other Land, with perhaps more plausibility, that the ir of last ht 18 @ true forecast of the predestined e on for tne estat estates are abundant slavery. to the 1st of August there will scarcely leisure ior those whose business it ia to go duwn The Pays, a semi-o/icial paper, speaks thus:— into the great waters of political life. A few years ago Beigium increased in an extra- | _ The Siar thinks the of the proceedings manner tue jortitications of Antwerp. Her | Was almost it would not be un- cnjeck wes elenr enoagh. She waneee ogre up the bey alge discern in it a favorable omen for the 0 the English against t ¥ , alter having adopied the Prassian eallore for ‘The Standard is reminded by the tone of the her artiliery, she is guilty of @ provocation which | debate of Admiral Semmes’ striking would be exiravazaut uuless Prussia were her ac- | Of the strange calm which reigns compiice. We have ufien predicted that which now | Of @ cyclone, and of the sensations rather of oppres- comes to pass. ‘Ihe magnanimity of France has | 8i0n and dread than of rest and relief, wich it lasted very lonz—ivo long according to public | brings to men who have just passed the hur- @ compli ry for it. other cases,: through Serer wilt rocked that Wrens Waee reepease | ue cA at te a describ exit ee Ri Riga aia Sage pg enge ited ‘The new imperial organ, the Peuple, is iy ce jouse threatening in ig tone. Is ee ree ot vy eee Sol tat maaan ee Jority of the French people wi jum aa. | Renee Of ae om ; every. [oestrone hee the man who in the last Par- peared to France; that Em on wed ol encou as always Opp: lament was C deciared by the squires to be of our most cherished raging desire, but that te task will be even more difficult ht Honorable John Bright, tue dismissed. the actions and the Dov than it has been uitherio if Belgiam awakens the | the firebrand, the susceptibilities of the French nation, or gives rise to | mstitutions—the Rig! the suspicion that sue is a mere instrument of some | President of the Board of lrade. for their cultivation. machinery are ber lande from England an lanters are exhibiting great Pl cultivation of their pro] not been witnessed in their location at Fort Augusta, and has desired that the barracks fortification should be titted up as a ‘There have been several meetings of the Board of Health since the arrival of information from Santiago de Cuba, and their oficers have been in- require from the masters of vessels arriv- ing in Jamaica bills of health from the British Con- passengers were released yesterday after- quarantine, and tweuty-tive commenced their :erm of probation, having arrived in the Spanish steamer Barcelona from Santiago. Great satisfaction is manifested the announcement of the Financial Minister, Mr. Rushworth, in the Legislature that the colony is about to be relieved of an annual debt of some £16,000 by an arrangement to which the lords of her ity’s Treasul tion of Jamaica’s finances. The government have directed the erection of a Jetty by the market public landing piace for boats coming with passen- gers or for shipping supplies; £20,000 have been voted for this wol im the country by have assented for the resuscita- lace, which will be used as a and the Director of Roads, Colo- Engineers, has been entrusted with ion. News has reached us from Calcutta of three large ships having been chartered by Mr. Anderson there’ for the conveyance of Coolie immigrants to Jamaica tes of this island. Many thrown up sugar now being put into cultivation avain in uence of government assurances that an t supply of lavor will be brought from India fe quantities of estates from vessels arriving the United States, and the it earnestness now in the rties, Such earnestness has jamaica since the abolition of UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT. ‘The Floyd Acceptances egal and Not Binding upon the Government—The Agency of an Ofticer of the Government—The Inquiry Put upon the Purchaser of Government Paper The Victims of the Acceptances. Thomas W. Pierce vs. The United States, and tbo —These were appeals from the Court of Claims, where the petitions of tne claimants were The other two claimants represented in are E. D. Morgan & Co., of New York, er Five Cent Savings Bank, of Maine. ‘The facts involved have frequently been published in these columns. The claims are founded on accep- tances of Secretary Floyd, made in 1860, for the pur- pose of furnishing supples and transportation to the army of Utah, under command 8. Johnson. The'contractors were the firm of Rus- of Color hoanle power. The Post says that the eyes of the country sell jors & re — turned to the House of Cominons as they have not Mr. Miller iors bonnes pa ag n-ne BELGIUM. Been for years. The ‘position ts fail of didicalies | C8 holding that whieh must be taken aa - such as none but brave men can surmount: but they pene aaeme Se eeae t r Poa Orne Moree Lg Freee to what ls called commercial ‘are bound The New Law on Belgium Railroads. Lge gh She bon bee submit ‘ houses may be described as exchange | 12 any court to whose j S ah The Independance Belge of February 14 gives the | of benevolent expressions which in ail | the same vomeg [as tees al n of the following résum¢ of the proceedings of the Chamber ‘hly civilized countries a combat & outrance, relations sone Dane anpigh net ong ——— and the thesis of the honorabie Minister of Finance:— Daily News noves thas the buzz of conversa: | Fii“inguire into the auchority of the agent to re- r cer raed me mally p ment, and tie right to recover on Railroads {orm a uew power, the entire force of “murmur of imnumerable ” e the re eal depend’ upon the determination of which 1s not yes known, and the laws that must | approach of the hour of public bi ‘was first | #uch paper ine aleumenia Geisetaes 2 ern this wonderiul tustrument are far from being | stiled by the Speaker's reference to the reports a by individ when ‘we are sure liscovered. in ingand and in the United which he had rece.ved from the judges of the court | Such paper issued y Twigg : after having given iree scope to the formation of election ‘This ceremony gave point to the | Of the signature, We are sure that the pereiy ratiroad companies, guided by the idea that the laws | tenth nh of the royal Message, in which her | bound, becauge whe right to make such paper belongs of competition, in such inaiters, would give rise to Fecoi ads an in into the preseut ‘the same resa!ts as in otners, 1} soon became evident | modes of yn Serteentery and municipal that in railroad operations competition had no effect, | elections, with a view to ascertaining whether It which can be recognized, as no and that, scarcely o ganized, It disaj red and possi vide guarant the case of ividuais. It aud acts onl, gave place to much more fertile coalitions that com- tbe erepquility, purty and. freedom. The betes vhrough agents or officers. are many, an Plied with privats interests to the detriment of the tiy given by Mr. Leatham of & motion in | have various and diverse powers conilded to them. public, Consequently the advantages at first granted Ryor.of & Vote by aforded the precise appit- | AB inaividual imay, i of si with his to concessiouary railroad companies were soon re- | cation which @ arge aad active part in the liveral | OWN hand the notes and bilis w' ne issues or trenched in those countries. ‘The frequent shiftings | party aflixes to the necessarily vague and tentative | Sccepts, appoint an agent to do these things for ot — authorities, wo often change their ideas | statewent of ucr Alajesty’s government. him, And this appointment may be a general power and modify their decisions to draw or accept in all cases as fully as the princi- must therefore not ve wondered at. in Beigium, pal couid, or it may be a Jimited authority to draw AUSTRIA. Conference at Temeswar—A Union of all th fore, after having retaiued the right to author- ize macession Of Tuuroads conceded, of late copcessivns and awalzamations have been favored. The Minister did uot pretend to dissimulate the the or accept under given circumstances, iustramens which confers the power. 5 B but the agent, 5 i m di with that he acts only by virtue of @ delegated power, existing contradiction bevween the law voied yes- Non-Magyar Nationalities to be Attempted. | ™ust at his peril see that the paper on which he re- y nt terday and the roya: devree oi August 26, 1864, but Pesth (Feb. 11) Co! ce London Times.) pertares y) eee re ee uae ie he excuses it on two considerations; firstly, that in erin: reference to railroads we are werely as yet experi- lena pap fi Rr di ¢ mentalizing; seconuiy, thas the decree of 16/4 was | Was tne meeting in conference at lemeswar of the merely @ mowentary and revocable tolerance and | a oajog nationaliues. Besiies Croatians and Sia- not the alienation of an imprescriptibie and tnalien- Vonisis, Who lori @ group apart and have @ special able ght. convention with Hungary insuring to them complete imdependence, there are, dispersed in larger and around neg ‘The same paper in its edition of the 16th ult. men- tlons:—i he IntervenUon of the French press renders paper afterwi rotection which mercial usage throws the pi mm which com heer, ; for it is to be kept in mind that oulable paper cannot be used to the authority by which it was originally tasued. ‘These Drincipies are as well establisned in regard to the transactions equally applicable to those of the government. Whenever of individuals, They are - smaller groups and intermingled with the Hungarian tiable pt rg ayy eeajeae erate veld ty ae end Usrwan clemests, serpin the south, Roucoans eee ind “then po Prevod gg ig Rm of . ungary and in ‘Sransyivania, an rnenent; Chainore, the discussion io which It gave rise 80d, | Slovaks and Ruthewes in the north. - Ail these, of jo thee ean fog pag ner ne’ rst above all, the expiunadous prene y ~ A. ~ in | COUFSe, enjoy the same civil and political rights 48 | holder or another, must at his peril see that the the Cabinet, would winost induce by re . | the Hungarian and German populations, and, as you | oincer had authority to bind the government, The keeping our pioiuise to our yeaders we not com | may remember, in the last Diet a special law was to examine the authority of sider it our duty to vefeud our ideas mm every 8eN8e | Carried by which the free use of their language m then ex ie and to combat ali measures that we consider Op- | i4q) administration and in the courts of law has to the rules o! justice and equity. been insured to them, the Hungarian I re. The Paris prees, acco:ding to ite wont, has only ing merely the precedence in the Dw th aiter an elaborate inquiry, comes once more proved lvw ite it knows of what passes Seana everinuas cad ts the Osarin er atosen | Saas no such autiority exiated | mm the cane of, these in our country, aud pecially the omciat journals | Yitague which anything ike ® potical union of tne | Acceptances, either pape show suci inuuive ignorance on that score that It 18 | Country would Mave been an impossibility, e construction, or under the decisions even doubtful whetuer tucir assertions will be . * * * . cot or by any ay: hed usage heretofore prac- even in france. According to them the law submitting the concession of conceded rail | ¢o pei Toads to the authorization of government is merely | ti An indication of the increasing influence of Prussia ‘pn the future of Beigium. ‘hey therefore recotiect thag the brother of King Leopold, the Count of Visnners, Married a Princess of the house of Hohenzollern, auc they already see our national army transformed into the avant garde of the Prus man Iandwehr aud ready to turn against France ‘on the moment that the order is given in Berlin, All of the conference held at Temeswar was about a ution between ali these nationali- to decide on a Common line of action. The initiative came from one of the Rouman leaders, Mocsonyi, who invited all the self-constituted repre- of the nationalities to a conference. ‘This Ara erin ahs Geto or wat a mans o1 vania, Ww’ ; an none at all fro the northern Slovaks and Ruthenes, of two or three counties ween the Danube opinion, 1m act of 1520, ing that Secretary Floyd did siatutory authority in virtae and Navy ide for supplies and tion to croops in the field, and. raise mi coutracta for that purpose, in the absence Propriation by Congress. tised by the de; Mr. Justice Neilso! mn, dissenting, delivered an which Mr, Justice Ciiford concurs, hold. the requisite @ provision of the War which enacts that the Secretaries of absurd, a aud grotesque, even more ‘their iasue, po the the area tnapired 10 some ot ur country. | x1 the Theiss made tg ag pe t pubtto bat. | ,. The follow! 4 rospect Of te subjection of Belgium to Soeserenee Woe Bed ah deeken dat this decision: men by the presktession of the Luxemburg Kaliroad | TOM of the town, wmich, still decked oul, with ell | acon, $100,000; Menjamin E. Bates, ire de he com me de" Eat. This ony proves | te tuaigaia of the tast aie e hot ty Five Cent Savings ‘dank $: tothe fire's, tlung like wWeak-eyedness | C2'lous background to the some | Dover, N. H., $30,000; Coheco daa nay sous aos blind he mindy aod altivagh we | kt people present MARY, OF ee Rese dangerous | $20 Dover Bank, of Lover will use our utinust endeavor to cure the shortsighted. | PYM one for there is a bitter feud On JU8t | Tie gr GON etme, $10,005 hess of the Belgians, wo shall most decived’y HOF | now between and Roumans of that whole 6, $15,000; Duncan, Sherman & attempt to excuse the absurdities of that of toe | aiatrict on Church prea ie pean, having y blorgan 2 Oo- New Yore’ $20 of rab He ev eet the et error of our brother writers Pp I eed opric Cg fF Savings Tnstiintion, Se Louts, esi); outera tn Paris 1 proved 0}, tee rug Rauiroud vo ane | Wcommon. In order ( maintain the parity between | $40,000," Frantun, ‘Savings, Inaueation,, ‘St, Lowe, concession Luxem| Serbs a1 joumans each of them their own * os Faith rte rhe a arn na ora | AC, Poy van aah aM lr, | Pau oon, Mano Mea a of that law ie not-eo much to Preven’ the i. | But in spite of vs all went of well, the leaders | theta Mie Vout att ngs perl nt eee ot of foreign compasies €8 the concession or | /#¥ing taken the precaution to arrange all batore. Louis, 000; i Savings Tastitution, St, as it SP eS et in the interior of the hand and agree about the programme which was Louis, $10, am all go, 400, a ‘ , ‘The progra is with that which the ERA. Tmonote: coumy. Ber leaders ed creere ia conference held some OO te a ENGLAND. (ime before among themselves, [tts as follows:— structed bys House resolution to make @ thorough Buiesdst iy a on 4 the aoe murder, and If posal- Address In Response to the Queews Speceb. geston by the report ot tie coruned after's tnbored investy umant, 2° The conference adeots the declaration of the Roumaa | Nusfriide ‘Tne House of |ords reassembied on Tuesday, the | Sim 26th wit. ater a briol recess, The Lord Cuaucellor, ention, tue tuarders may oe in thas locality. Union, Feb 41. THE GAS MONOPOLIES. The Legislative Investigating Committes at Work—Examinailon ef Officers ef tho Gas Companice—The Cost of Gas and Company Dividends. The gas companies of this city, who have so long carried on their affairs in an independent: and ap- parently impudent manner, have been spurred by resolutions introduced in tue Assembly by Mr. Peter Mitchell, of this city, ln accordance with the provisions of the resolutions ® select committee of the Assembly was appointed, and is now in thi: city overhauling the gas people, to ascertain if there is no way of affordimg the gas consumers in this city a better quality of gas at a lower price than that now paid for it, Mr, Mitchell is chairman of the committee, and witn him are associated Messrs, Bergen, Hodges, La Bau, Bender, Weed and Baker, with Mr. W. H. Davis as olerx. The committee opened its sessiongon Monday, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, but no important testimony was taken until yesterday, when, after the reading of the minutes by the clerk, Mr. Wakeman, President of the Harlem Gaslight Company, was called ahd sworo. From his direct teatimony it appears that the company, of which he is president, has never mads returns to any State, city or county corporations; that it has no special charter, but 1s incorporated under the general law of 1848; that the company started with a capital of $260,000, divided into fifty dollar shares; that the property of the company increased until now it is worth about $1,000,000; thas the vaiue of the shares at the last quotation was 9675 each; that the illuminating power of the gas fur- nished by his company ts equal to that of nineteen candies when tested by a burner through which five cubic feet per hour is consumed; that a test of the power is made every two or three days. Continuing the testimony, the witness said—Under the law by which we are chartered, it does not say what we are to charge Tor 1,000 feet of gas; does not that we are to manufacture any standard quality Of gas; cold weather has the eifect of making the gas condense more, and itis consequently of a poorer quality; it 1s very dimoult to accounts for the various complaints in the supply of gas; various reasons may operate against it; meter is just like a clock; If there 1s wo mnuch in a bill atone month it corrects itself at the of the next month; do have com- plaints from parties who say that they close at a re- gular hour, and that some months, nevertheless, thetr supply is one-third more; if the meter {s bad we test it; then if they (the people) request a further examination of it we send it to the State Inspector; the meter tester is always under oath; I suppose you are aware that heis liable to m! es; that tester found out that some burners consumed twenty per cent more of gas in a year than others; this 0oo- curred when a burner was too much used, and when @ constant eupply of closed up the aperiures; the returns are made to the secretary, and he makes out the bills; everything is done under his su) ‘ision; he is @ pretty large stockholder, but not the bog Saeed I think we could not manufacture gas at leas than what we do at present and have a reasouable profit; we could not reduce it to less than $3 50; we reduce: it Ist January when we had an opportunity; our gas meters are made by the American Mewr Company party; the free lght meters cost eleven dollars; they were eight dollars and a half before the war; our company have no interest in the meters; we test them bdeiore we send them to the consumer, and the Inspector of the State also tests them; that gentieman’s name is Mr. Davidson; we invariably find those meters correct; we occas- tonally find the joints in one or so to become a httle stiff, and that is for the benetit of the consumer; coal 1s down lower now than it was before the war; we supply the city with gas; we have a contrac’ with em; fore the war we used to charge twenty-eight dollars for these street ray now we charge twenty-three dollars or less; after the gas is made in our factory we test it before going out to consumers; that 18, such @ test as is made by gas consu.ners everywhere; can’texactly state whether air iuto the gas before distribution; can describe the effect of such acause; the reault would be that the gas, being lighter than the air, would go out first and when the came in the light would immediately go out. Examined by Mr. Bergen—The strength of our as measured by our photometer is equal to the light et tei rod would mal pearance where the photeme' placed; none of the gas, the impurities excepted, ts absorbed by the different pro- ceases it has to undergo; { am not, however, too sci- entifical on this point; the photometrical examina- ee an imade as ate) twice Pacnarepe or; of January we used to charge four 0005 we had been charging that since 1863; there was no immediate rise atter the war; we use lime @ littie damped in the purifying process; never tried the oxide of iron; the increase of pressure on the gas may increase the debt on the consumer if the con- sumer were ignorant and left his gas blowing and wasting all the time. When there is pressure enough to give 8 person a proper light an additional pres- sure wonld not be altogether serviceable; we make out monthly the number of feet at thirty-five cents per hundred feet or $350 per thousand, and two days after the bill is corrected; the men who exam- ine the meters do not quiarelly collect the bills; the inspector collecte the index and makes his re| and from his re; the collector makes out his . mpany is gen- aly ee ass it costs the company from $1 80 eae aees 2 guared a deposit of ne company always requi ‘one month’s gas bill in advance so as be secure it fraud or absconding consumers. . Zollikoffer, President of the Metropolitan Gas- lignt Company, was the next witness. His testi- mony, a8 regards the of the company and the price of coal and gas, was mainly corroborative of the preceding witness. His company commenced on a capital of $2,500,000 and that semi-annual dividends have been declared, sometimes as high as ten and twelve per cent; the company has a surpius fund of some $40,000 or $50,000, which has accumu- lated after paying off the declared dividends; the stock of the company 1s in $100 shares, and can sell any charges consumers three dol- 000 feet; before the war the price was two doljars and a half; the increas is owing tothe advance in the price of materials and labor; the city is charged, 10 the district which is suppiled from the works of his cow , that is between Seventy-eighth and Forty-second streets, for the street lamps $50 for each tamp, and $300 per annum for each iamp- lighter; the company id not ci charge less than at present; the average pressure at which the gas is distributed throughout the district ig about two inches; the inspectors sometimes have guessed at the amount consamed without exam! the meter, but the consumption is pretty untform throughout the year. Samuel P, Parham, assistant hp crt mrmenggn , OX- at he been some twenty-six i in different parts of the United ; that ho is famullar with all the minutiz of gas m: ; does not Ld pony make the pnotometrical tests although he done so in some years past. The witness then described the use of. the photometer. He said, that bee eas the candle light the candies are w and then allowed to burn fifteen minutes and then weighed again, 80 a8 to the amount of spermacett bopars | 5, in the photometrical test the gas is allowed to go into the street mains, and then is brought back to where the photometer is located; the calculation is so Pi that two or three persons may arrive at the same conclusion: the test is made every day and @ careful record kept. No apparent difference 18 found in the nye of the gas made the same coal b Fg ae would —_ a 3. lime purifier, Sapna be hydi in combustion, if not properly purified, would discolor gilt ornaments or silver would affect the health of parties using it; with this sulphuret in the gas there would be @ greater volume; the average liluminating power of ‘the gas furnished jis company 18 sixteen or sev- five foot burner; from bitumin- ‘about thirteen candles pow- 1 coal about twenty-two candies; about twenty-five; the use of ua cuble feet; bituminous coal runs down to ‘uoos bubic feet, and sometimes less; the test in the works at which pode hag made from a five foot fourteen hole ry with a seven inch chimney, and is ings Dr. Doremus was the committee to make, ‘urz and Chanler, an analysis of the gas furnished by the diseren ies to the consumers in this city. president J H. Adams, it of the New York Gas- light Company. was next examined by the chair- man; he fied what the district supplied by his company was ae, Cag J ee pom | ni com charges jousan ; changed that ce gold Went up to 280, before the tn was $600,000, Haat ividends, if any, has that he did not think he had a to answer that question, and could not see ‘what right committee had to ask such @ ques- Von; he insisted that he would decline to answer it @uthorized to do so by the He said ha : a th oni vi ve = a iY be able to from the gaa. The Chairman asked the committes whether {t would direst the witness to answer. A vote bang taken it was deo that the question shonid A, bus the Wituess «Gti persisted m decin- ee to @UaWer Withous (he Authority of bue board of SDAY, MARCH 3, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. A = i HH : cE i Sk i ff 7 Eve He i iH Bs EE : i eis if : Hy 3 Ee: au f il 4 i 3g 2 E 5 if a i z: ta Fi 3 5 EEE z i e58 PEE 1 BR oe : cy £ i a € | z E E i i 83 i : : 5s 58 ge 2 ef i ee BE i 8 Pit EE the gas better fora lower price; the complaints are often true, and yet they cannot be avoided; con- gumers can regulate the p! hemselves en- amount consumed; the is about a chaldron from each toa; about tity cent of the coke is used in the fires for mi per the ae, and the remainder is soid for about $2 50 per ron. ‘rhe investigation was here discontinued, and will be resumed this morning at ten o’viock. CUBA CABLE. Complimentary Dinner Tendered te Sir Charles T. Bright and Declined. New Yous, Feb. 26, 1869, Sir CuaRLes T. BRIGHT:— Dear Sig—The undersigned, appreciating your services in successfully recovering the second cable of the International Ocean Telegraph Company, lost last summer, and the alacrity with which you hastened to undertake this novel and delicate enter- prise at an unusual season of the year, leaving im- rtant engagements in Europe to carry out your a with that company, would be pleased if you would designate a day on which it wilt be con- venient for you to meet them at dinner, and give them an opportunity of congratulating you on a success which must pe a4 gratifying to you per- sonally as it is to those in whose interest your etfurts "Ver iruly and respectfully, er; wee Swith, Alex. Hamilton, Jr., 0. K. King, Edward S. Sanford, Robert J. Livingston, T. Bailey Myers, James A. Scrymser, J. J. Asior, ienry Urin- nell, Alfred Pell, Jr., James Dennistoun Wood, H. H. Sul a A. Low, James T. Santord, Wiliam T. New Yor«, March 1, 1869. General W. F. Ssirn, President Internatio nal Ocean Telegrapn Company:— Dax Stn—You may be sure that I am very much gratified indeed by the cordial letter which you and other gentlemen connected with the International Ocean Telegraph Company have addressed to me conveying an expression of approval of my services in the late cable operations, and BROOKLYN CITY.” THE coURTs. UNITED STATES COMMISSIONERS’ COUT. ‘The Alleged Drawback Fraud—Adjournmest of the Examination. Before Commissioner Jones. ‘The examination of the parties alleged to have been implicated in the drawback frauds, which was to come on peeientay went over until Tuesday next, on motion of Aasistant District Attorney Pi . in cone sequence of the inability of the government to pro- duce important testimony in the case et an earlier date. Adjourned accordingly. Alleged Passing of Counterfelt Mouey. Neil Lamont, @ soldier, recently discharged from the army, was brought up yesterday eat | ona counterfeit mi l. eae down ior ‘seturd ay nex cia SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT. Order of the Court—Important to Counsel and Clients. Judge Gilbert tasued the following order yeatex day:— Ordered, that the day calendar of the Circuit Court of acaresti it be called Gach day’ st the opoaing of the. cou diesnat’ Siete! aa‘inguest. maybe‘ taken on suok cally ‘answer, ap inqu oy When the defendant has hovloed tie cause, and aint does not answer, the defendant may disiniss the co proof of due sersice of notice of trial. It ls curther ordered that cause ‘on are reserved in their numerical order by the Court, SUPREME COURI—SP&CIAL TERM, Decisions. By Judge Gilbert. The Board of Supervisors vs. Peter Swandell.— Motion to amend answer granted on payment of costs and disbursements. Emeline F. Tooker vs, Amelia F, Copers.—Motion denied on defendant's making, in respect of which she is in default, within five days thereafter, with interest. Samuel Pell vs. John H. Hubbell.—Motion to change the place of trial, Granted on payment of Davia J. Noyes vs. James W. Rockwell.—Motion to strike out answer as a show. Granted, with $10 costa, In the matter of Edward H, Hanningan, tunatice.— Order for a commission James Bullman vs. Thomas Kelley.—Motion for @ new trial, D . J. Fiak Worthington vs. Henry Cupper.—Injunc- tion granted, Aboy M. ‘vs, Jesse D. Comstook.—Divoree from bod and board. John J. Palmer v3, Paul Lenoux.—Motion to open default. Granted without costs. CITY covaT. Action for Personal Injuries—An Appeal Case. Before Judge Thompson. Bridget O’Brien vs. A. B. Capwell—This was an action brought to recover damages for an injury sustained by plainuiif by the giving way of the ruil- ing of the verandah while she was engaged in hang- ing up clothes inthe back yard. Plainviif! wasem- ployed to do washing ior a Mra. Wade, who was de- fendant’s tenant at the time the accident occurred. ‘The case has aiready been tried, and the found a verdict of $200 for the plain- It was then appealed and a new trul In charging \he ry, yesteraay the Court said that if the defencant jet these premises to Mrs, Wade and they were in an unsafe condition at the time, and he knew tt, or nad his attention called to it and failed to remedy it, and the injury to the piaintiff arose from the dangerous condition of the premises continuing from the time of the lease to Mrs. Wade to the day of the reentry | then the defendant is liable, Verdict tor the piain' COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. Orry CoURT.—Nos. 25, 29, 30, 32, 35, 42, 43, 45 to 57 inclusive. A RSMARKABLE CasE.—In* March two years ago alittle girl, daughter of Mr. Coleman, a jeweller, residing at No. 425 Oxford street, while playing with @rubber ballin which @ whistle was inserted, got tho tube in her throat. Physicians were sent for and an emetic given, bat the Mxt instead of oor of her mouth, felt back arrival the earliest moment, and as the New England has now arrived I have by Wednesday's ail og gee especially during our work together in recovering the cable, I am sincere! yours, CHARLES T. BRIGaT City of London Lest at Sea. It would seem, judging from the many sailing vessels that have come into port dismasted during the past few days and from the number of steam- ships with almost every movable object on boara knocked several degrees out of the latitude of “ship shape,” that the past week has been a very severe one on the Atlantic. The City of London, which ar- rived yesterday, experienced extreme weather all the way across the ocean on ber westward trip, and lost her first officer, who was washed overboard by @ heavy sea, which struck the vessel with such force as to shiver one of her boats into a thousand atoms, The Denmark, of the National Steam Navigation Company, which also arrived yesterday, and is now lying at her pier, 47 North river, had a terribie voy- She from Li i increased to @ very great extent, and it was in dhestion that Captain Ofiuing, “her conte in er Col mandor, lost his life. Acooraing to ~4 Mr. Vato, the chief officer. and now acting tie captain as gol down the stairway leading was stairwi in, from fe of the veosel ¢o the tela aeck, an ine mense sea struck the steamer, and the waves, rusi- whole length of the main deck, dashed the other, carrying away in its course the decks, the compass, and every- thing that: ‘came in ite way, powerfully built tron in any ‘The Denmark, is a very steamer, and was not ner by the terrible ordeal through ‘pass. ‘YACHTING, Annual Meeting of the Atinntic Yacht Club, ‘The annual meeting of the Atiantic Yacht Club, for the election of officers for the ensuing year took Place at the club room, 149 Montague sirect, Brook- lyn, on Monday evening. Tne following ticket was almost unanimoasly elected upon the first baliot:— Commodore—Wiiliam Voorhis, yacht Gracie. Vice Commodore—T. W. Sheriign, yacut Alarm. Rear Commodore—J. K. Maxwell, yacht Daphne, Secretary—Kobert A. Granniss, Treasurer—H. H. Hogins. eee umes oO Lyman, Sheppard Hi om dames G. Gregory, Leste wert ton, James T. Sparkman, H. 8. HH. Seeley, Ludiow Livingston, 1. T. Grim je A. Thayer. ‘The first spt rogaiia of the club for the season of 1860 will take place on y, dune 8 she feet ‘Will gall from thie port on its anaval cruise July rendez vonsing at Vhitestone, (ity p an Invituiion of Commodore ¥ his counsty sem at Nyack on the of sat. George HI. more, Hoary U. Wi Bon isod, On LAG tin n, and her pai that it wouid ulumacety cause her deata. oO at the unexpected the child’s protracted REPORT OF THE ASSISTANT Fine MARSHAL.— From the monthly report just submitted by the As- sistant Fire Marshal of Brooklyn it appears that there were twenty-seven fires in this clty during the monch of February. The buildings in which these fires occurred were used for kindling wood factories, two; liquor stores, one; private residences, four; pub- lic halls (Board of Education), one; stables, five; ten- ement houses, one; blacksmith shops, one; carpen- shop, one; steam! one; tin of the cause lo meron Ai WH 3; lictous a Sy acctdental, it instance in sfables by urchins ospinsion, 1; am iarism, e Incendiary fires were in every Eastern District BROOKLYN BOARD OF EDUCATION. ‘This Board held their regular monthly meeticg at their chambers, in Red Hook lane yesterday after- noon, Dr. J. Sullivan Moore in the chair, and Mr. Charles W. Willets, noufying the Board of nis resig- nation and returning thanks for the courtesies ex- Committee on promotions, resignations and ap- pointments was received and adopted. The reso- lution presented at the previous meeting to increase the salary of the principal of public school No. 7 was adopted unanimously. Mr. Waterbury offered a Preamble and resolution tendering the thanks of the Board to Mrs. Mary A. Dennison, who Is about to retire from the position of princtpai of school No. 1, which se has filed with ability aad crea for the ores forty years, Mr, Field urged that she be re- ined {nm some capacity suitable for her. ‘ihe sub- fate finaily reierred to a committee to report. ‘committee on the butiding of the pro new Public school, to be designated as No, 41, !n Kyerson ‘street, for the relief of Nos. 4 aad 12, reported in favor of the adoption of the plans submitted at the last meeting, and the issue of yore for the work. Objection was made by Mr. Khodes to tne re on the ground that this building would cost $100,000—more than ten & ‘y schools, which were much more needed in that circuit than were the grammar or schools. Mr. Kinsolia remarked that he felt that public sentiment was be- ing rey Ahem cone to the fact that tue first duty of the State is to afford the means for rudimentai fa- struction, and as the want for primary accommoaa- tions in our schools was very grest he hoped that the plan of Mr. Khodes would prevail. It had been held that No, 1, which has been transformed into @ primary, had been @ success, ‘Tihs Kinselia regarded as but an experiment, ir. W. L. Gill spoke in advocacy of the adoption of the report of the committee, as one which would meet the primary wants of that district. Mr. North. Tup and others spoke in favor of the report, out asserted that it would not cost as much as No. 9% Another member of the Board staved that the erec- tion of No. 31 would relieve Nos. 4 and ia and, together with its own accommodations, would afford 2,176 additional sittiogs ior primary cnilaren. The as to the adoption of the report, wer considerabie de- bate on @ motion to refer to & special cominitty waich latter did not prevail) was put and carri y & vote of 20 in affirmative to 7 io the negative. The comuittee to wiom was relerred Public schol Ko. who" regurusa the appoinvmen ntmeus of @ white femaie teacher as prin the as mary di ment of that school of employing competent the procurement in favor et teachers whenever who are now in attendance at No.2. Mr. Kinsella urged that a distinction of color be recognized in the attendance of children at wwe Achools respectively designased for their use, This Seana tea "sh Spt We 0 re was Gually adopted, aa auyer, from the Committee “on Schoot Sit reported in favor of the purchase of lots ground, 22X10 feet, at the coat of $4,800, The site 1D question contains 17,600 supertt feet on fiay- ward atreet, near Broadway, on the iimits of district NO. 18, in Ue SiXteonti Ward, The Board shortly alver adjourned for one wok.