The New York Herald Newspaper, July 18, 1870, Page 5

| 1s Y already bloody husior EUROPE. Queen Isabella’s Abdication of Crown. of Spain. the Her Ex-Majesty’s Mistake in Going to Paris. The Conspiracy to Explode the Gibraltar Magazine. An American on Trial and Sen- tenced in Germany. By the European mail at this port we have the fol- ¢ lowing special correspondence in highly interesting Dlustration of Old World affairs to the 2d of July. SPAIN. Queen Isabella’s Abdication—Her Majesty’s Mistake in Going to Paris—The Attempt to “Blow Up” the Gibraltar Magazine—Gossip to Madrid. Maprip, July 1, 1870. You will no doubt have heard already of the sol- emn abdication of Isabellade Bourbon in favor of her son Alphonse, This step, like the candidature of Montpensier has been taken too late. Montpen- sler shoula have put up for the crown immediately after the battle of Aleolea, though he took no active part in it. Queen Isabella should have abdicated in Savor of her son, at San Sebastian, before retiring to Prance to loge the little authority and prestige that whe possessed. The Queen has abdicated in favor of son, but I presume she feels that little good 1s to sc of it: | Her day of power. is past and 1 have no doubt she has often in her banishment called to mind Caideron’s drama of the “Cisma de Inglatterra,” apd repeated the touching line Aprended, flores, de mi Lo que va de ayer 4 ne ayer maravilla fu, hoy, sombra mia no soy! Take Catharine of Aragon, in the drama, no doubt the deserted Queen has also called even on the flow- ers, however short may be thelr duration, to take a Jesson from her and mark the change from yester- day to to-day. One day the sovereign power of the » land; pampered and flattered by her vassals, 1eceiv- ing homage almost bordering on the idolatrous; the day aficr a ying fugitive, hissed, hovted and exe- erated, The Queen's abdication has deen the subject of very little talk and less discussion here; the people appear to JooK upon it withthe same quict indifference as Whey did when the self-titled Carlos VI. abdicated in favor of the present Don Carlos—cating him Carlos vil. 70 BLOW UP GIBRALTAR, I have received a leiter from one of my correspondents in which he gives particu! attempt to blow up the garri: appears that anelderly man, the party engaged to fire the train, Ike one of the conspirators in the famous British gunpowder plot, informed one or two of his mos: intimate friends of the proposed plan so ns to keep out of the way of danger. Those had others whom they also warned and so the secret leaked out and the plot was discovered. ‘The news spread over the city ke wildire and the greatest consternation prevailed. Many families crossed the Spanish lines ana went to Compamento and San Roque, expecting every moment to hear an explosion and see the place fallin ruins, ‘The man that was to have fired the train was im- Mediately put under arrest and all suspicious per- sons watched. Military piquets doubled their forces and a thorough examination of all the powder magazines and powder chests was at once com- meimced. Many had been tampered with, and espe- cially a large magazine on the New Mole Parade. This is the principal magazine of the garrisoa, and on being carefully examined tubes were discovered from the outside that, after passing through the masonry, communicated with the powder. a large quantity of touchwood and tinder was also found in- side the building. Ali the convicts were kept in ther establishment, with extra guards set over thei. Durmg the Chater numerous military and police Ppatro's paraded the city, ‘Tie active measures and precautions adopted by ‘the government have tended considerably to tran- quillize the fearful auxicty naturatly felt by the 1. habitanta. My correspondent tells me that all is now quiet. Various nave been the speculations of the citizens as to the orig n of the conspiracy: some have atiributed it to the Spamards, others to the Fenians, and not afew to the convicts, The man under arrest refusea to make any declaration, and some persons have considered him as half crazy. Be ‘this a8 it may it is evident that he has confederates in the garrison and among the troops, otherwise the preparations iu the magazine could not have been made. Your correspondent, having lived tor a con- siderable period in Gibraitar some years ago, can Inform you that the greatest vigilance js kept over all the arms, powder chests on tne batteries, and powder magazines. They are all examined daily, Any one even approaching cannon to examine it is at once ordered by the sentry to stand off. In fact, if the fortress were besieged more minute precautions and greater care could not be taken. I have known the magazine that was prepared for explosion to contain upwards of 160 tons of gunpowder. It 1s from this magazine they supply Malta and the British Mediterranean squadron, Some suspicion has deen thrown on the Spaniards, no doubt on account of their desire to get possession of what once belonged to them, and wiuch the majority maintain still belougs to them, notwith- standing the fact that in the treaty of Utrecht (February, 1712), Curios V, of Spain tormaliy ceued it, with {ts castle, port, fortresses andall that be- It ‘longed to it, to the’ crown ot Great Britain. There- fore whatever might be thought of Admiral Sir George Rooke’s capiure of the Rock, in August, 1704, that act was legalized by the Spanish King and government in 1712. This suspicion attached to tha Spaniards may perhaps have been strengthene’ by the fact that lately some correspondence bas been exchanged between ine two governments respecung the cezsion or exchange of Gibraitar, which project has been approved and 1s supported by many politt- cians other men of note in Great Britain, For ‘ious reasons [ consider such suspicions as without any foundation. if peaceful negotiations are sur le fapis tor the cession such an open act of Violence would atone put a stop to them. Ifa coup de Jorce were contemplited Spain would have foand a pretext for sending large quantifies of troops in the neighborhood so a8 to second the explosion and is t ble consequences by a prompt and vigorous K, pitereas the number of troops in the south of srs comparatively sual. The convicts have s bwen Mauch suspected, and the usual gangs of “prisoners that worked in duterent parts of the Kock have been Qetained in close confinement. {cannot wee good ‘reasons for suspecting the convicts; for, in the fivst piace, they have neith means hor opportunities of maki preparations discovered, and, — seconal own establisiment is so close ty the’ grand powder magazine that in case of Its being fired they inust have all perished. On the face of the particu Jars received it would appear that If the plot had S origin in the arillery corps, at least it has its es there, for I defy a powder chest, much Jess & magazine, to be tampered with without their help, connivance or consent, Whether they be Fealans or traitors sold to the Spaniards, or friends of sume of the convicts, time only will show; but one thing {s certain, if the powder magazines have been tampered with and mined, so have the men of the artillery corps. ‘The sacrifice of life and amount of damage that would have been caused by the explosion cannot be con- ceived, much less written. ‘the result would indeed have been a horrible page in the annals of the of Gibraltar, a stronghold that, jrom the earliest records, has ever been an object of contest. FRANCE. The Unitorm Coinage Question—Commercial Necessities for Reform Standard—Or- aniam and the Royal Exiles—Parliamen- tary Progress—National Finance. Paris, July 2, 1870, Rnergetic efforts have been making for several years past by enlightened men in both hemispheres 10 accomplish a truly désivable reform in the coinage of money. In the commercial age in which we live itis an urgent necessity to settle on some uniform coin that shall have the same value in the various uations of the clvillzed world, Such a result would not only be a source of infiutte convenience to all the great leading nations, tending to increase by facilitating their transactions, but it would also be a means of enlarging the profits of trade by. saving the vast amount now paid for the differences in the exchanges. These commissions paid to bankers ana money dealers for no other Work than computing the well known dissimilarity In the value of ine various national cotus of Europe and America are #0 consideraple as to involve the certain and obsti- nate resistance of his influential class 10 any at- Stems nenceemomeennenent SIEM SLE NEW YOKK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 18 1870.—TRIPLE SHEKI. yet the probabilities imcrcase every year that this | Ue most salient passage to be made the most of by Great reform will be carried out notwivnstanding. It is only mecessary that the three great nations at the head of the commerce of the world—Enzland, France and the United States—shoula decide on the adoption of some particular coin of equal yalue in each to force the rest of the world to carry out the Same monetary policy. It may not be generally known that active and persevering endeavors are making to induce the three governments in question to come to a final resolution on this vital point, and Within the last few days the chance of an early solu- tion has greatly increased, A commission of distin- guished persons, appointed some time since by the French government to inveatigate this important subject, have just decided on two essential steps— first, to recommend that hereafter gold shall be the only legal standard in France, instead of gold and silver, as hitherto; and next, that a new gold coin of twenty-five franca should be issued, of equal value to the English sovereign. There is little doubt that laws ‘will soon be passed to carry these important sugges- tiona into effect. In that case a uniform cotuaze will be eatablished between England and France, vastly to the commercial benefit of both. It will then Temain only for the United States to strengthen this great reform in monetary legislation by slightly modifying the value of our half eagle, and we shall have henceforth a common standard of value im these three leading countries, The half eagle is a trife heavier than the English sovereign, and consequently of the pro- posed tiventy-five franc new Frenn cotn; but if France Js willing to issue a new coin in the face of the prejudice and opposition to 80 great an innova- Uon 1t is to be hoped that our government and peo- ple will exhibit equal sagacity and love of progress by adopting the required steps to perve‘t this great measure of @ uniform international coinage. Great credit is due to M. de Parien, President of the Coun- cH of State, for having accomplished so much towards a solution of this great question in France; for, atrange to say, there is no otler country in. Europe where it is so diMcuit to break through usige and overcome the obstinate resistance of route. No less praise is due to one of our own prominent citizens, 8, 8. Ruggles, of New York, whose zeal and assidulty have known no bounds in pressing on to a successful conclusion one of the greate-t re‘orms of this commeretal century. The present Chanceltor of the English Exchequer has displaye. no less energy aud astuteness in giving his skilful: co-operation to. all that has been done to consummate this grand scheme of a uniform coinage, ORLEANISM, In the dearth of other topics unusual prominence has been given to a petition sent over to the French Legislature last week by the princes of the exiled Grleans family, After the fall and flight of the late King Louis Philippe a law was pa sed by the Republican Assembly of 1850 banishing his la‘nily from the soil of France. Notwitustanding (his proscripuon the family have been allowed to draw the revenue of their large Property in this countey, saving a certiin portton of tt that was confseated in 1851, a3 ib was proved to belong w the nitional domain and had” been ilegaily appropriate | by th ex-King. There 18 not the slightest probability of the Orleans family being allowed tw return to France, for various reasons. ‘'Traly it was not (us governinent, but the republic. that exiled them, Next, there is no sympathy for this faiily ether in the Legislature to which they have appealed or iu the country Which the members vepresent. Again, It 1s remembered that — this very fam.ly of Orleans . passed laws of banishment on ther own cousins, the older branch of Bonbons, Mm 1882, and they always refuse: to xamit any member of the family of Bonaparte who hat been exiled after the downfall of Napoleon Lt is thought here very presumptuous of the Orieans family, after such antecedents as these, to come for- ward and demand as w right their return to Franee. ‘The claim in other respects is regarded as absura, as it is evident their only purpose in seeking to take up thelr abode in Franc: is to engage in consp:ra- cies to upset the present dynasty and substituie themselves in its place, This country has ha?! enough of conspiracies and disorder by republicans and socialists for years past, and now cha! the late almost unanimous expression of national feeling in favor of the actual government has guaranteed the future tranquillity ant er lee of the land, it is not likely that any heo:t will be taken of the frantic proposition of these Orleans pretenders, day3of universal eu: the vocation of a pre- tender 1s really gone, le only chance the Orleans peopie have of ever getting to the “top of the heap”? again in France is to be duly clected by a plebiscite, and of that there is mighty little prospect for a long time. it ever. The Bonapartes are more pootilar than the Bourbons in Frauce, aud hkely wo re: main so. Tn these AN EX-QUEEN. Isabella, the ex-queen of Spain, is living in Parl: as you Know, and after a long straggic she has le up her mind to abdicate tn favor of her eldest son, the Prinee of the Asturias. Very Lttle notice has been taken of this sham ceremony; forwho in Spain or out of it cares whether she abaicates or maintains her claim to a position she has utterly and forever lost? Jf her son were grown up her chances of re covering the Spanish throne would not be by any means desperate; but he 1s only twelve years of age. and that isa serious lmpediment to his restoration. PARGIAMENT, The Legislative Chambers are still sitting, but not doing inuch work, The Lower House 1s hame mering away ‘at some small messures of no great Moment, such as the new mode of electing the Mayors, The members are all anxiously waiting tor ‘the presentation of the annual budget, or appropria- tion bill, as we cill it, which wil no doubt bring on a lively discussion, ‘There is an carnest determina- tion on the part of the Legislavure te cnt down the extravagant expenditure of former years and so to lightea the burden of taxation. This seems to be (he generat tendency of all nations now-a-days, for Prassia, England and the United States are all engaged in the same salutary process. The ouly substantial fault of the Napoleonic régime has been a too iavish outlay of money, but the Emperor may proudly point to the wonderful and beneficiai improvements of al] kinds he has effected to justify the great increase of the national debt during his reign, Sill there may be too much of a good thing, and it ts admitted that the time has come for greate: ecouomy and less taxation. The Chambers have now the complete control of the national puree- sirings, and they mean hereafter to sean most care- fully every item of the budget. The Depuiles of the opposition will be sure of the hearty support of pub- lic Opinion if they take judicious exception to all doubtial and unjustifiable expenditure, but the gov- ernment, knowing this, intend to give them as lew Spores as possible to show. their tezth. All the different Ministers are’ puzziing thelr brains to cut. down ani lop off every Kind of expense ‘that might be considered unnecessary or extravagant, anil this is the reason why the budget has not yet been broughtin. Thiers is waiting for it with {mpatience, for no one excels hia in financial disqnisiitons aod nothing affords him such keen delight as to display alike his mas- tery of the subject and his ability to annoy ana worry the government. We shall haye some fine partiomentary titing when this debate coms on, aud above ail a splendid set-to between Thiers and Ollivier, who owes the former a heavy grudge for his repexted attempts to upset him. It was suspected here alittle while ago that the Emperor was dis- p sed to get rid of his new constitutional Minisier, Ollivier, and his rivats rubbed their hands in giee and set to work intriguing in every imavtuable way to precipitate his downfall, One in particular, Clement Daberno who, be. sides being a deputy, presided over a journal which said to be the property of the Emperor—t mean dtd not hesitate to attack him no doubt, every day to hear of r “the poisoned chalice was commended to his own i1ps,? for tt was suddenly in- timate? to him that he had better give up the direc- tion of tite said journal, which he’ was, of course, obliged to do, and other person has taken his place, who treats Ollivier with the greatest porsible respect, It is plain trom the latter meident that the Emperor is not by any means desirous to jose the services of the “Minister of January 2d," as he is generally called, and there is every prospect ue will aintaim his place for some time longer, to the cha- grin of hts jealous and bitter dewactors, He is a very able man and overflowing With dauntiess pluck, [He meets his opponents more than half way. and neitier asks nor gives quarter. There is no one yet who has assafled hit but had ‘o regret his temerity, A Pamphlet for the Orleans Priuces—May be a “straw? but Significant—Napoleon and Cavaignac—An Unfortanaie Financier. Paris, July 3, 1870, A pamphiet has made its appearance here which, if itbe not suppressed, may attract considerable atten- tion, It is entitled, Lois @Exu Contre ies Deus Branches de la Matson de Bourbon,” and |s written by M. Dégouve Derungues, one of the principal Orleanist avents in Paris, Ina recent leuwer I tid you that the government would decide against the request of the Princes of Orleans to retura to this country, on the ground that Louls Phillippe nad refused a similar request made by the elder branches of the Bourbons, It should be borne in mind tat the law against the elder branch passea the Cham- ber of Deputies 10th April, 1832, when Louis Philippe was King, the revolution having taken place ja 1330, ‘The law against Louts Phillippe and the Orleanists by the republicans bears date 26th May, 1848 Now without doubt 1 will be proposed in the Ohamber to abrogate both of the above Lois a’E.xil, but the law Will not pass. M. Dégouve Derungues, of course, in taking up arms (or the Orleans Princes selects the most vulnerable point for attacking the imperial government. The weak spot fy @ manifesto published by the present Emperor In the spring of 1849, when he @tarted for Orlea nist partisans ts the folowings—"T, who have known exile and eaptuvity, demand, with my who'e heart, the day when the country shall, without dan- ger, beable to do away with a)! proseription and efface the last trace of civil discord.” The oppo- nents of the Epperor will ask vow, now (hat order has been established, after eighteen years of impe- rialiam and parliamentary government established, the Emperor can refuse to consummate his heartfelt desires a8 expressed in 1849. Tospeak candidly, his Majesty feels uncomfortanle with respect to the question and how itwi!l bevel, Wacther the ‘pamphlet will be suppressed, whic! is probable, or what other course will be adopted it 13 impossible to say. THE MISB1ON TO WASHINGTON. My attention was attracted by a ‘slip’ of a leader from the Cosmopolitan, It was forwarded by post to the Constitutionnel, and, of course, other journals., It 18 headed’ “M. Prévost-Paradol—The Orleans Princes.” I should not allude to tt but that you may Probably read) the article in question. on the other side of the Atlantic, and may be prejudiced against the new'y appointed french Minister to the United States. Personally I know him not, but he 13 admit- ted to be a man of great talent, and will, if T'mis- take not, become @ favorite in Wasmngton. ‘The Cosmopolitan commences, “If the French govern- ment should appoint Victor Hugo Aimbassador to Engla nd, or Henri Rochefort Minister to Begium, it would only be acting jn harmony wtth the polie that sends M. Prévost-Paradol to Washington.” a Js straming the point, indeed, to compare Parad to Hugo or Rochefort. Ms Prévost-Paradol was a steady opponent to personal peverninent tt is true; Dat he has; not been bought off by. be:ng went i Washington, He ed to. the Emperor immediately @ parliamentary government Was estab- Yshed. The aliusion to hs birth 1s: purely bad tasie, ‘With regard to the Orleans princes in the passage, if, they WH “shut;up their ‘subsidized newspaper ‘organs! and distress the whole army oi penny-a- inners,’ go long employea in abuse of tc Emperor, Tet the petition be at Guce grant.d,” NAPOLEON'S GRIEF FOR CLARENDON. Although the death of Lord Clarendon nas cated forth On cnimous expressions of, ,egret on this side tie chanuel, it is an event of no poltical import ance. The Enperog mourrs his 1088 ax that of @ personal friend. Yesterday 1 was told by a Es nan that hig Majesty was -reatiy a> il that Us best tricids were, seriously alarmed, Lhave made spec al Inguiry, ‘rere 13 no ground for tie rumor, “the Chief of state has not enurely recovered from hig attack of gout, but ts otherwi-e is good nealth.? LOST 118 PAPERS. ,M: Moris publishes the foliowing letter to Mon- sicur Grandperret, Procureur General :— The Court Chamber of Appenla), in its decree of the Lith Mmstunts aitoats the bonesty of ‘MM. Chaix d'Kst-Auze, father and son; in order to ‘excuifpate them from wrong tho Weeree cites two documents, with which L wished to. bo made acquainted; T have, in consequence, demain ied that th ile of vapers) khould be pro Tory great t titeso Paper have been extracted 1” I bog ol-yous bS nr le Proviweur Imperial, to kindy have them re- placed. One of these documents consists of the exp book of Madame Chaix d’ uge e dead; the ott a letter from the satu er 0. the ord ©. that the conduct ot M. Char al trom blame, aud that he need not pay attendon t tho calunr nious imputations of which he ix the object, The Court, in order to ¢o to be loyal, 2b oO i for this ea replaced has decilediy the bump of pu repeated defeats he 1 redoubled vigor. - custtion He now makes is most sertous. In the judl- eal world th hie ju ent of the Court. of Cassa- ton with respect to the Mirs aifatr has made con- sideranie brought by M,. Mi against ce tes of the Cour impcris @ novelty 1a the frdicial annals of the presen’ eration, Bus chive since 1803, when the ¢ struction criminelie was coup hast Ja ‘sation been called on to © 3 respect to a stinilar cuarse. Since th amy engaged in a str with the court Dariig the past eligi he has had in ub one ob the report mace by M. Monga amination of the Annex, im conseqa he was condemned, and which, according to his view of the caso, 15 8 forgery fabrivatea by order of M. Chaix d’Esi Au, ‘The obstacle preventing the attalament of tis en, and whten they oppose to fim with as mach persisieuce as that which he uses to pul it aside, is the order of the Chamber of Accusation, given in 1869 under the presidency of M, le Gonsciller 62U declaring that the charge bronght against the expert Mouginot was unfonnde: This decided tie qresiion, Against this judg- ment M. Mires directcd his new attack, On the 23th August, 1861. the complamant was condemued vo five — years’ iniprisoninent in consequinve of — certain sales ~~ Mscribed = in M. Monginot's; cnnere and which constitute “swin- almg.”’ M, Berihelin was one of the judges, In 1889 the Chamber of Accusation, presided over by M. Bertholin, formally declared that in the annexe there 1s not one word concerning the $2 ¢3 In ques- tion. M. Mires believed that this decision gave ground for the forteiture provided foy by article 183 of the Ponal Vode, in tue event of ajud unfuiry, ether by favor or hostilit Plaint, however, wes rejected by the . question remains in realicy intact. ‘The law only ad. mits the denunciation azalns! @ mazistrale when appertaining to a ¢ acinilly pending before the Court of Cassation, and on this ground the present complaint has been disuitssed, THE CROPS AND HARVEST. Last Monday morniog a ‘“southeriy wind anda cloudy sky” did not prociaim a hunting morning, For once the old song was ut fault and out of sea- sou. Wel, ob been xo loag hunting for clouds tiat at Jast. we really sred Ourselves that we shon'd “find. At half- six A. M. by the best stop- watch in Paris the y distilled a fine and pene- gra trating rain, similar in chars which lasted eighteea minutes; but the pavemeuts Were dry again before the Jast drops had failen. During the past two months we have suiiered from @ sechevesse unparalleled In France within the mem- ory of man. ‘fue rain which fell on Monday was not sufmicient to moisten the ground in the environs of Paris. Reports from the north and some of the central districts of France are more favorable; rain has fallen th consi terable quantity, and the Heated atmosphere 1s cooled, We feel ihe effects and breathe freely. eter to a Scotch mist, Murders. Two murders are (June 23) orted from France. A military peasioner named Tardif, ages fifty, re- siding at Eapenei (Drome), murdered his father by striking lim on the bead with a hatchet, When taken before the Mayor of the commune Tardif rushed af that fonetionary and would have strangled him bad not the bystanders interposed. The mur- derer had served in the army for twenty-seven years, and had received three medals and the Cross of the Legion of Honor, At Passy ® woman named Carin was living with her tio children, one thirteen and the other nine, separated ftom her husband. the father introduced liinseif into the lodgings of his wife in the night, at- tacked her with a jarge butcher's kuife, and %xe frst blow mujt have Killed her, He continued his mur- derows Work, as More than thirty stabs were found i » poor woman's body, He Uen drew a mat- vards the door and laid himself down on it he re ult, The Creps and Harvest. A letter from Paris dated on the 26:h of Jone, in the evening, says:— According to oft despatehes recelved by the government the I t, taking ap average of the whole of the provioces, will b> much betier than was expected, Inthe Jura the wheat crop 18 falr, Duc the straw is very sort. Barley. and’ owls are P38 WAIL not be a third of In the department of the Loire aid to be very spicndia. At AIDL ad Bazas the harvest bas com. © pretty good, but there Snot too late tor ‘rain tot solne d strict, but there very lilt, and the grass the usual average, haies of its coming. In the provit wheat has fallen twenty centi nes, but in Par! of living is watnary. ‘Trint—Assanit and Battery on ent Granv’s Brother-in-Luw—Consul Cramer nod Mr. Lake in Leipsic. LEIPSIC, June 28, 1870, Considerable excitement was caused here by the trial of a young American, Mr. Alba Crotcheron Lake, from Mempiis, Tenn., for assault and battery committed on the 7th of last month, in the oMfice and upon the person of the United States Consul here, Mr. M. J. Cramer, brother-in-law of President Ulysses Grant, Mra, C. being a sister of your Chief Magis- trate. It appeared from the evidence that on the above day Lake, who is twenty-one years of age, entered the Consular office and handed over to Mr. Cramer a letter wherein the writer, a Mr. Butler, friend and countryman of Lake, addressed to the Consul a re- quest to deliver any letters for him in the office to the bearer. Having been told by Mr. Cramer that there were none, Lake, who had already reached the door to make his exit, returned and asked to have back the letter in question, but was answered that, tt being addresgei to the Consul, he would keep itin the oMice for further reference. Against ths Lake remonstrated, insisting upon his right to But- ler’s note, but this being refused he suddeniy snatched it out of the hands of the Consul anil lect the room. Parsued by Mr. Cramer, and caught m We corridor, he would not give up the letter on any account, and snished by, stuMng it into his mouth. Mr. Cramer now released hts hold of him, remarking that it was “by direct theft ne had possessed himself of the letier, and ihat he would not allow thieves an'\ roblers to crass his threshold.? tempts to abolish ths prodtabvle branch of business; | the Presidency against General Cayaignac, of which i The same day Lake made his appearance at ihe dwelling ef the Consul, leaving a note with one of the aomest ics, in which he demandes a retraction on the part of the Consul, who, however, refused to receive the letier, and ordered ii to ve given back unopened to the bearer, ‘Two days tater, at noon, Mr. Cramer, walking in the avenue, near the casiie, Was met by Lake, who, ac- companied by & younger brother, at once stiuck him With his fist @ heavy blow om the head which stunned him, and would have followed Oy the attack had he not been prevented and laid hold of by some of the on y. Ue was subsequently arresied and ought to the military post of the castie. In nis eXwnination bevore the police he admitted all the facts, saying that he nad been tnsulted by the Consul and ‘was bound to have his revenge.’ This statement before the court did no’ dider from the indictment exvept in Lake's assertion that the Consul bad ¢ailea him opprobrious names, The Consul having the quality of a consul missus and being, according to articie 136 of the criminal iaw, an odictal accredited to the Saxon government by a foreign raler, this assault case for the Copa Court and Joly and came on for trial June a4. No new facts were revealed at the trial, Lake saw fit to tell the jury that though he was aware of Consul Cramer being the representative of his country he would neither honor nor respect him. ‘The presiding judge then wished to be informed respecting the pulltical charge held by the Cousal. ‘The latter replied that no political business had been entrusted to lum during bis comparatively short term ot oMice. After a lengthy discussion as to the diplomatic character of consuls the State Atiorney agreed with the counse! for the detence, Dr. Drucker, to drop that pa t of the indtetment relating W the privileged status ol the complainant. In his charge to the jury the president charac- terized the assault a3 one of great brutality, the accused having been undoubt aware of the oficial capacicy of Consul Cramer, ‘The jury retired and shortly aiterwards returned with & verdive of Cal which the Court sentenced Lake to one Year imprisonment im jail, There is no from jury tials in vhis country. Yoom were crowded on this occasion; the ty of the audience was of the better classes, and the proceedings, which. occu- pied four hours, were watched with great interest, INCIDENTS AND COMMENTS, The foregoine is a réstem¢ of the reports contained in the Leipsic press, 1am enabled to add some de. talls obtained irom cveditable sources, and may also give the pro and contra view taken of the matter by the public here, alba Crotcheron Lake, son of a farmer, went first to school In Canada; he then came over to Ensland and France, staying some time in each country, and nas latterly resided here for about @ year, stndymg mathematics and German. He is Of a rather bilious temperament, quick to resent au Mnsuit, whether real or jancied. After being arrested by the police and at the first hearing In the Circuit Court Consul Cramer objected to lus release on the ground that several young Americans, in conjunc: tion with Lake, were pianoing an attack upon lim. Their ma‘ice and threats wore due to the unjust belicfthat he (Cranier) had been active in causing the removal ot the late Vice Covsni, and they had determine? to injure him as much as possible. Young Lake Was ius Kept in privon for four days, but then reicased alter furnishing security to the amount of 500 thalers atid pleiging bis word not to leave the city. ‘Tue above leiter, written by Lake, and returned to nim uaupened, was read duriig the trial. It contained the demand (iat Consul Cramer should retract the » Wiule at a previous examination ai denicd Daving used any epithets ttoxome at the tril, bul swore we einployed a very’ Indecorous d £0 Dine hede.ence having summoned me physictan of the Consul, tht witness declared thai ho thyarious consequen ¢5 had resujted trom the blow. During the discussion as to Whether or not the Consul was a diplomatic agent ac: luted to Lie Saxon govern. ment and authorized by # foreign ruler, the presiuing judge asked Mr, Cramer for b's credentials, to whieh he replied that he had left them inthe United States, y 1 for tie defence then produced a copy of the A'S dipiowa, ov.uined from the Foreign Onice at Dresden, It was an ordinary consular eevtificate issued by President Joknson, and admitted by Mr. Cramer ‘to be a correct copy of ihe original. The jndges having witdrawn to consider the question of diplomatic status—as in a case ol bo lily assis: mitted upovd a diplomatic represeatative shitnte awards up to ten years’ imprisoume cone cluded to leave tiis poiut tor tue devision of the jury. OPFICIAL IMMUNITIES. On the part of the defence it Was shown that authorities, su: Wheaton and Walker, did not cousider a consu! as enjoying the immunities of an envoy or ambassador, The State Atvorney then de- clared ils wi.lingness to drop the questton, ag there ‘was not sullicic nt evidence of dipioniatic privilege; he need not take auy furtiier share in the proceed- ings, as the accused could nob be held liable unless upon the complaint of Mr. Cramer as # private per- son, The jury, having also denied this point, found @ verdict o! guilty upon the eee charge. Consul Cramer being asked by the presiding judge if he wished to say anything previous to the sentence of the accused, rephed that he would leave Mt entirely with the Court, There can be no doubt that If, “at this juncture, Consul Cramer had Withdrawn his complaint, Lake would have been acquitied, On the other hand, we know from good Authority that Consnl Cramer has repeatedly offered to drop the whole matter and withdraw the ¢1 Lake woula duly apologize for the a obstinately refased, though he was vi-ed to do it for his own good by pi nent Ameri- cans here and Berlin, where the Hon, Mr. Ban- ener Theodore 8, Pay and others had heard of tis matter, ORATORY AND RELIGION. As for Consul Cramer, it may ve that among a clique of young Amorican students he has not gained for himself that popularity which he 1s cer- tainly enjoying in our best German circles. His social quallties, courtesy and gova temper, and his constant readiness for the delivery of a speech— which {s not the forte of the Leipsic bourgeois—are much appreciated here, as also are, by some, his religious lectur I do not doubt that had the assault oceurred at his offic>, and 1 the heat of passion, he would have consented to hush it up: bat the fact of premeditated indignity having been pub- licly offered him, thas insulting not only himself, but the whole nation and every American travelling on the Continent, he could uot do otherwise than let the law take Its course. Itis hoped that young Lake may yet discover the serious wrong he has committed, and by duly apolo- gizing obtain at least a partial reprieve of tue severe sentence, The Harvest “A Traveller,” writing to the London Times from Homburg, Jane 27, says:—*Tie co.n crop of the north of France, Belgium, the Khine countries, Llol- Jand und Wesiphailt presents a most healthy aspec altuough it seems certain that the yield will not be abundant, The hay crop has been a faunre, and te meadows are everywhere so dried up tat the farmers are selling their stocks for any price they can get for them. The roots are in an equally poor condition, and there will be a seareily of food for cattle and of the raw materlal for sugar. {heard 1n French and Belgian Flanders that the cultivators of flax were everywhere complaining, but the hops were excellent. The vines In these parts are said to promise well, As a sel-oT inst the failure of the cereal crops in the middie and south of france, Tam told that the harvest in Hungary and the south of Russia is mo-t abundant, and that preparations are being made on a vast sale for the transport of corn and compres:ed hay ‘rom ‘hese countries to France and England. I hear alsy that the United States will be able, as regardsa hay and corn, to supply any deficlency that may ex.st in Europe, You may think this wor'h publishing, as what | have sald Tt have either. myself observed. or credibie \iinesses have told me.” IRELAND. An Onsis in the Desert—A Lovely Village and Plenty of Work—Civilizing Surro Maw’s Barbarities—A Landiord’s His Views of the Local Syste: MOYNALTY, July 2, 1870. The Iittle village of Moynaity, Meath, is one of the most beautiful to be seen anywhere in I nd. Tt isa perfect Anburn. It consists of several neatly built cottages, all of Wiilch are thickly overgrown with a luxuriant crop of ivy. Untike most other Irish villages, It does not contain a single mud cabin, nor an inhabitant who 1s not constantly em- ployed by the landed proprietors of the neighbor= hood, 80 that the lavoring class in this distriet are very comfortable and well todo. Though compara- tively new, the village has a very antique appear- ance; a simple, though venerable, church, with an ivy-clad tower, and large beech, oak and elm trees enclose iton every side, It is beautifully situated on the sontn side of a sloping hill, in probably the richest and most fertile district of a very rich and fertile county, The country around is extremely beautiful. Large green flelds of the rankest corn and grass everywhere meet the eye. The foliage at this: season is most luxuriant, Groves and woods are scaitered here and there, and give the whole place the appearance of an extensive garden, CRIME. This district, so fertile and beautiful, has lately been the scene Of several most e:ucl and wantow outrages, The agent of one of the best landiords in the county Meath Was Bred at here on two occasions, and, judging from what I know of these two at- tempts upon his life, | must say that lis escape under the clrcumstances Was most miraculous. 1 visited, in Mr. Gargan'’s company, the scene of the former of these outrages. The gate of the avenue leading to Mr, Gargan’s house was always left open during the day, and closed only at night. It opened in the middie, On the evening of the ont- vage Mrs. Gargan, contrary to custom, found it closed, and ysed in such a way that it would re- quire gome time to open it, She sneceeded in open- Ing tt and passed out, leaving one of the sides closed afier her, A short time afterwards her husband came up, walking at a rapid pace, and passed through witout stopping for an Instant, No sooner entered his own avenue than the sings of the woolksbe murderers mnosi were divected at him trou & Gade on Lue Oppysiie Bide Of ike Way, aud — were fortunately prevented from taking effect by the bars of the gace, which hia wife lett closed ouly hall an hour before, Only three slugsentered his person, and he may be said to have escaped this murderous attack upon his Life almost without injury. THE VICTIM IN INTERVIEW. I was fortunate enough to find the genileman at home, and to ascer.ain opinion, at some length, as to the state of the country and the cause of is atiem| assassination, in the following dia: Connearos ian suppose you are @ DI Meatn Mr. GaRgaN—I am. 1 was born in Moynalty, and with the exception of a few years I have spent all iy life in this neighborhood, My duty brings me into personal intercourse with @ larze number of persons in tins district dally, and although 1 may not be remarkably friendly with them, aud them act properly in their relauons with me, T have ven any one the slightest provocation to attempt to murder me. Many persous have been evicted this palate ana. opery have been turaed out of emp! foy melt; mut T think all were treated as they deserved, though they may not think #0, It ty inipessible to please all parics, ‘The people, I find, are becoming more dissatisfed every ‘day. What) they would think a niost extraordinary boon fwontye or even ten, years ago, would searcely now be acvepted. They are 80 suspicious that they consider favors are con- ferred from some interested motive, and not as ntuneous offerings of affection. 1 always tind it the. best way to be stuff and cool towards those with whom I have any dealings, for the more friendly I am with them the leas roapeck they have forme, It 18 also a fact which I know from experience thai the more Tavors you confer on them the more they will expect. Uf course these remarks are Dot applicable to ull, but only tos very tew. ‘There are not betier people in the world than in this neighborhood, but there are a few tenant farmers us weil as workmen Who would take your life for the most trifing cause, CORRESPONDENT— What, sit, do you think was the cause of the attempt upon your Iie? Mr. GARGaN—Well, the people avout the neighbor- hood suspected that one of the Lynches was te ar petrator of the outrage, and witn chat family I had some Share words about sheep, Lynci’s house Was only 159 yards from the svene of tae outrage. Footprints ng from the spot where the shot was fired to the house corresponded in size with those of Daniel Lynch. When tie police calied at hts house the morning alter the outrage Daniei. was. in bed, and, being called, he was very tedious in dvessin, himself and endeavored to hide hia tg! eye, whic Was lujored, in answer to the police he said that a gore bad come on it during the might, but it was “all right” the day velore. The fingers of tis righthand were algo injured and his shoulder greatly bruised, A musket had’ been taken about a fort- Lefore from the house of a farmer in the neighboriood, and this musket, the owner said, Was Lie lashument that caused these wounds, ‘The tivo sisters of the prisoner said that thelr brother was absent from ‘the house at the time of the Outrage aud came 10. shortly aiterwards. ‘Those and a tew other circumstances made te pub- lic Suspect Lynoh: but, for my part, though I nay have some suspiciong on the subject, 1 have never expressed an opinion. ‘ORKESPONDENT—What became of him? Mr, GARGAN—He went to America. An informer named Magil! turned up and implicated several pe: sons as being concerned tn the piot, and on tue strength of this man’s testimony Lyne was admit. ted to ball and afterwards Went bo At Magit was found guilty of perjury and was ed Lo jive years’ penal servitude. CORKESPONDENT—Were you not fl time Mr. GARGAN—I was; but think whoever fired the second tin mie did NOL Inewu to injure me. Hts object, as fav ax E um able to judge, was to let the public gee that other persons, as well us Lynch, who was then in prison, had a spi urainst me, took, however, the necessary preeaution t detend myself, and since the first attempt Wis made Lhave rarely leit my honse without being attended by a body guard 01 potic ue:— ve of nie second ata TON. her abominad! Was perpeirated, Whiel really 1s of a ior character than tie attempted inurder of My. A poor farmer, uamed Dolan, haying beco: lar with a ceriala party In then tghborhood, w. ited by four strangers while tending to his horse at moonday > middie of an open fel, fie was beaten with silcks about the head, and wout to leave, pulled onb a pen- knife and cut of his ear. Two of ihe party i el faces blackened, but the rematuder, who Ww gers, took no px caution whatever to pearance from thelr unfortunate vietin LOOKS VERY BA’ ‘The condition oi this county, an¢ Westmeath, 13 such, mon where eise in the civilized 1s ul present @ partial cessauon of these outrages, but tie alt state of things 18 owing more to | bright nights than to the operation of ti act. outrage of the comty exists TO- ‘clon ENGLAND. Britis Trade—Profits and Prospects. {From the London Bulllonist, June Iv is many years since trade was cond present larzé scale so noisclessly. l'or whatever reason, manufacturers do more work and borrow less than they did, So general 1s this tuatin whe leading discount circies of London it is sometimes asked if it 1s true that a good trade is dolug, The tradic returns of the leading. railways, the Clearing House figures, the Board of Trade returns, all show that it 1s indisputably go. The reason ts,’ perhaps, that weak manufacturers lave been used up, and that business is more th: ver in the vis of men of capital and energy. ‘The Clearing Louse return of this week affords substantial evidence of the Jarger business now doing. It 1s an exciusively commercial clearing, and we will compare it with former returas of a like character, ‘Lhe votal £74,755,000, In the corresponding Week of inst year the total was £61,017,000, i 1868 it wis £58,018,000, and in 1867 it Was £54,787,000, THE SUEZ CANAL. Its Effects on the Indin Cotton Trade. Mesers, Bloy and Mackintosh, in their freignt circular, dated Bombay, May 31, for Bag) state that during the first four days of the pi under review (ten days) there was an active inquiry for Livecpoo!, and rates advanced 53. per ton, aud as the charter of @ steainer reported Jast matl was can- celled shippers Who had engaged room by her were compelled to come into the market, aud rates im consequence again mivanced, ‘Ihe Alice engaged 1,000 bales af £3 63. per ton, the Stowell 409 ha es at £3 28. 64., the Krishna 300 bates at £3 58. and the large steamer Alabama 1,432 tons at ‘rhe market had an upward tendency during the next ‘day, and small engagements were ported at £5 7s. 6d. to £3 10s., und no doubt these rates would have been mainiatied had tt not transpired that two large steamers had been let out to arrive, viz:—The Petersburg, 1,700 pales, at £2 163., and the Brazilian, 9,500 bales (since ar- rived), at £2 7s. 6d, to £2 15%. per ton, ‘The French steamer Airique then arrived, and as the quantity of cargo for tue Contineut was unusuaily limited sbip- ping orders were issued by this steamer for Ltyer- Dool at £3 per ton for prompt shipment. Ou the 27th inst. telegrams from Liverpool reported. the cotton market declining; the demand’ for steam freight thereupon became (uti and rates aecliued 58. per ton, aud the Alfee, having cairted move cargo than had been provided, was compelied to accept £2 lus. for immediate shipment up. he imurket closes without much demand, The Austrian Lloyd's steamer Sphinx bas booked cotton fur ‘trieste at £2 12s, 6. Lo £2 158. per ton. The following steamers laden with sailed for Liverpool 9,267 bales; Berga}, 32; Adalia, den, 4,951; Lady Cliye, 3 c 5,000, any Jrishina, 4,500, otton have last. report: AFRICA News from the Cape of Good Hope—Di and Trade. The Union Company's C#pe arrived at Liverpool J Her dates are Table Bay, May 20; hat tw: sacks of malls and a large general cargo, Inc 988 bales of Wool, two cases of specic aud oF of diamond General Sir P. the Briton, aft jonds il steamer Briton ne 2 with the Cape case &. Wodehouse returns to Hug ving been Governoraud It pe ior over elght years. The Cape yas little maniestation of regret at this, thoy Bay, arose from the unpopularity he acquired’ through ‘the untavorable circumstances he bad to contend with during his administration. ant General Hay 18 to be acting Governer pe Ul the arriva! of Sir H. Barkly, whieh 1s ted to take place until about the end of mond flelds on the bank of the Vaal are turning out & succes, anda large number of dig- ers are at Work, with exe The white sommunity focated there have formed laws and ap pointed a v ance committee and agreed to be gov erned by them. No brandy wagons are allowed to trade within two miics of the eucampment. One diamond, Wortli £1,500, has just been disinterred. Several others worth trom £200 to £300 and a lal number of less vaitie, also a few beautitul rabies, had been discovered. The Cape weatuer had been seasonable. There had been an abundance of rain, and the prospects of the farmers were very A steam transport run traction engines ove ny had been formed to olonial roads, The Weat Const—Oko Jumbo’s War Notice— Trade and Health Reports, The West 1 steamer Benin ar Liverpool J 6, With twenty-one passengors, ounces of gold Must aud £515 iu specie, Sickness prevailed at Fernando Po. Oko Jumbo had intimated that he was commeuciog hostilities on the Opobo river, and would not hold hiinsel? respon- sible for the lives of British traders, ‘Trade was brisk at Old Calabar, anda long Profitable of] season was anticipated. The trade reopened, subject to satisfactory conditious fo! traders. ‘Sickness prevailed at Bonn. Was nothing doing. Trade and health and there Was much sickness tities of cotton wi Governor 7 ing a new trading port. ‘ape Coast Castle was heal:hy. ‘The residents at Batharst were not fave mbia being turned over to F ‘ThE LEW Cogineal eon had | minated. al Grand 5 Canary prices raled higher than in Londos. The crop Was jate aid not 40 large as last year. INDIA. G> tog"! Barvey of the Empire. From ihe ast namber of the Friend of India, just tw hand trom Europe, “we learn that the Governor General, in Connell, has ordered the thanks of the @overnment of Ludia to be conveyed to Dr, TI Oldham, supeintendent of the Geological Survey o India, who has been 80 successful in tracing our the Vaiuable coa’ beds in the districts of Chauda and Be- Far, during tue last season, for the great assistance which he has rendered in the conduct of the explo- Tailon, and the valuabic reporis which he has @ud- mitted in regard to them.” As the sclentifle portion of the survey ts now completed Dr. Old.am will, as be ewer by himself more than a year since,’ be relloved from the very onerous and responsibie tasic Of Ianaging tie practical operations connected with these explorations, which will for the future be ete trusted to the lo-al government. Dr. Oita has not yet been able to report any- thing defiuiic fopine the alleged coal deposits ab Midnapere. He , however, potnted oat the pro- per position for a boring there, and will revura to the Spot when coal is struck. Extraordiuary Atmospheric Phenomenon. Acircumstance has occurred—as we learn from our flies irom Asta—in India which requtres the ex- Planation of tic learned, The Ceatrai India Times Stales thal a strange phenomenon has lately pre- sented itself tn the Chanda district at the village of Warrora. (1 the 23d of February Jast, when am endeavor wis belug made to empty a reservoir ¢on- nected with atank at that place by openmg the drainage pipes, It was found that the water would not flow, T'v a certain the cause of obsu'uction the reservoir was pumped dry, and it was discovered that @ solid mass of icc, some thee feet im lengih, had been formed, completely choke Ing the mouth of the pipe. ‘hen removed it appeared opaque, somewhat — similar machine-inade ice. Tue Inspector of Police, Lima, Was present and saw the block of ice cut out, and the Depniy Commiesioner, Major Lucie arrayed some two or three hours alterwards, Time to sce some of the unmelted fragments still re maining, The soil under which this phenomenon occurred is the common black loam of the Deccan (cotton soil), the piping of ordinary potters’ clay, ce+ mented at the jo.nts with @ composition of lime, lin- seed ol!, ana cotton, pounded up together, and th Protecting masonry of the indigenous sandston en moriar. ‘The water in the reservoir and pipe, ha rematned perfectly still for about six months pre- Nously, ihe pipe having been closed during that pes riod. Tt is scarcely necessary to say that the temperature at Warrova acy rut apy time even approached freeg- ing pouit. PERSIA. in Balkan Bay—Muscoe to the Caspian and Influence of the Czar on the Oxus. {Prom the Cateutta Englishman.) However wiiing we may be to accepy the aseue rances made to Mr, Forsyth by the government of St, Petersbarg tbat no intention or desire existed om the partol Kussia to extend her influence beyond the Oxus—at least for the present—it would be thi height of political tolly wo close our eyes vo the fact that she 15 making powerful and persistent efforts to strengthen her position within the limits she has, for the mozeat, set to Ler ambition, Some tune in No- Velnber lx.t in expedition, supported by four gans, and vat suimated’ at from 1,50 to 8,000 mea, Was uc shed [rom Petrofskl, a porton' the ora hundred miles t the north of 4, to BatKAn bay On the soulhcastern shore of at. ‘Khe lutte force landed without any oppo- sition from the Yurkoman tribes im neighbor. hood, Aud immediately set about the coustrue'ton of a fort, as if in an eneiny’s country, As a matter of 2 ‘or Kizisoo, a8 tue piace 13. varlously irs to be situated ina debatable land, government, while adiituug that iM sway over the Turkomans dweillag to the north of the Atireks 1s rather nominal than veai, neverthes Jess Jusists Ghat the entire tract of lund lying be. tween that river and the Balkan range ta subject) to 1i® sovereignty, and tat © Conse. quently the fussian fort is an encroachment, upon Persian territory. ‘This position 15 denied by’ the Russian government. In the first place, Jt if stoutly dented that the establishment at Ktztsuar ia anything more thau a commercial sottiemeut —somer thing, In short, alter the manner of the factories es tablished in ol len times by the Bast India Company on the coasts aud rivers of Hindostan. In order, however, to protect the peaceful traders against thé attacks of Turkoman marauders, it has been found necessary to throw up some banks of earth and «mount = & gun at each angle. Such a purely defensive measure camot surely give oience to @ friendly government; nor would anytmng more distress the Court of St. Petersburg than the idew that it did not fully and reverently respect the frontiers 0° an ally. ‘The sole object of this expedition 18 simply to develop the trade with Central Asia, and afford security (to carae vans travelling 10 and from the Caspian and the Oxus. ‘This new route, indeed, has become indise pensable since the revolt of the Kirghiz tribes has cut of the o!d line of communication across the steppes Trom Orenberg to Khokan, and from Minge, ishluk to Kuiva, The only. means of op u this new country was by securing a sa‘e basis 0: the sho Caspian, and by encourag traders across in firm reliance of! the protecuion they would receive from the Kussian Factory. evond this the Persian government,auleast, would have bad no right to complain even had th Russian expedciiion been despatche for the avowe barbarous hd ihe Attrek, ‘Those tribes neither pay Bor accnowicdge aliegiance to Persia, Whose boundary line in Unst direction ts the river just named, and therefore it Is not to the Court of Teheran that the Russian government is | bound to offer auy explanations except as a matter of courtesy toa friendly Power, that bas quite un- necessarily taken umbrage al a step which in no war ¢o ecrrned it. he Persian claim to the territory in question ta provavly unfounded. It is probicmatical if m her palmiest daya she eXercised any direct conirol over the Turkomans, and it is weli known that three ceaturies ago Shah Abbass the Great Was constrained to gaard Kiorassan agalast thetr predatory raids by veopling ihe mountain passes with Kurds, thas em- ploying one wolf to protect his flock from anothe At the present day there can be lite doubt that the Pp Khanate Oo; Khiva. The real froutier of Per- sia to the north ts the lofty range that exieuds from the Elbarz mountatns to the Hindu Kush, and were there any wisdom in her councillors she would seek rather to develop and concentrate her force within her natural limi than waste her strength in vainglorious expeditions into Seistan, or provoke her too powerful neighbor by Idle and ponent rotests. Even ber Caspian provinces of Talish, Ghilan and Masanderan have become & Source of Weakness Lurough the Incapacity aud avarice of Ue Governors who have been placed over Mem, and many of we tnhabitacts are leaving their homes to piace themselves under the tutelary shield of Russia. ‘The true purport of the Russian expedition is vovious enough. Under the pretext of openmy a new roufe from the Caspian to the Oxus, 4 line ol fortifed posis—caravanserais they Will probably be called—will be established across the desert, with ihe result of curbing thé Turkoman population and bringing it under subjec- ‘The scarcity of water aud the terrific heat t summer on tose arid plains will in all likelihood cause the eventual abandonment of this line, but on Ww slibstitute Bile other in its’ piace, e Russians already possess a naval station tn the Bay of Asterabad, I wutheast corner of the Caspian at the mouth o . By ascending the Attrek and skirtin + Hulsto the north of Koojnoord an hoochan, they would traverse « Well watered, fer- hie and tolerably populous country, and withoas any ioular fatigy danger find themselves at the ancient elty of Merve, or barely fonr marche from the Oxus., Now, it vat be asked, in what et respect does 1 concern us whether Russia aduero to the desert, or adopt the casier and more praciicable route to the banks of the classic river is henceforth to bound her tn finence ral Asiay It can hardy be denied that, ho’ sh may be her molives, she ia really con’ “a benefli upon mankind in general by introducing the wants and usages of civilized life ainong these wild, turbulent tribes, litle superior to the beasts th ish, except in the power of infilcte y. The task is not an easy one, and generations will probably come aud depart before Ce Asit will be’ fm any considera- ble degree Russianized, Before that comes ta musa, however, the Casplan Provinces of tha Persian Kingdom are certainly tn some danger of. veing anuered to he Russian empire, from which they were recovered by Nidir Shah in the mid. dle of the last century. The Caspian woadld thud become politically a3 Well a3 naturally a mare clau- sum, and Russian domination would extend in @ direct unbroken line from the Black Sea to th Hinda Kush, from Anapa to Merve, an’ Merve {i ay ten easy stages, or barely five days’ niarch, frous Herat. ing pain and mise THE TORNADO IN MONTREAL. {From the St. Albans Messenger, July 16.) At about seven o'clock on Wednesday evening & Most terrifie thunder storm swept over Montreal, carrying devastation in its course. It did not last more than five minutes, but during that rain fell in perfect sneets, the streets ¥ inundated, aud everyehlng which was uc were uprooted, f tion aud the raltway track blocked up by fallen tees, ‘The city and its cnayirons suffered serious damage, The spire of the Metho- dist chareh = and the — roofs of several vesidences near the Mountain were vlowWn &Waye In the western district the churches, private Teale dences and shade trees were badly mjured, The St Lawrence Glass Works were damaged to the extent of $5,000. About fifty heuses in that vicmity had roofs carried away “ut, Hall & Co.'s Malls, Murilin's planing rolling milis Were all more or less ins centre of the city the damage w: ned fy to signboards and awolngs. on was kilod and several persons shigatiy L The lo appeared to their windows blown in, damaged. raul, ena thy a ree Of the Mountaig ahove McGil ui sWeeping Over @ portion vf the city a i finally spent its force on the St. Lambe mide Of Che Piyebe