The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1871, Page 5

THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Queen Victoria Opens the Adjourned Ses- sion of the English. Legislature. Royal Cortege from the Palac to the Robing Room. Reception by the People, the Peers . and the Commons. TAE SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. History of the Eight Parliaments of Her Majesty. WORK OF THE PRESENT SESSION. Speciz! Exhibit of the Condition of the Gritish Empire. The Army, the Navy, tho Revemue, the Banks, Taxation, Debts, Pauperism, Emigration and the Irish Crisis. Her Majesty Queen Victoria will open the ad- Journed session of the British Parilament—the eighth of her veign—in London to-day, February 9. Emerging from a home retirement which she has maintained aud almost ijavariably during some tew years past—and which has become irksome to many of the distinguished personages who serve ‘near’ her throne, and parueularly di agreeable to the good citizens of the national me- tropolis—the Queen will appear before her people in a royal cortege of state and proceed from Bucking- ham Palace to the haliof St. Stephen, where she will discharge one of the most important fanchions which appertains to her positton—the constitutional assemblage o/ a united Legisiature freely elected by ber subjects. persistently The Royal Cortese. The cavalcade will be preceded by a detachment of the mounied Guards (Horse Guards, blue), by heralds, pursnivants and trumpeters, and escorted by asquadron of light dragoons and a number cf gentlemen-at-arms, Then will come carriages conveying the great oMi- cers of State. Next the State carriage, coiveytog the Queen, at- tended by the Mistress of the Robes. Other vehicles, conveying “her Majesty’s tiring women,” will follow, The British People. The people of London—the populace, or hard- fisted tolers, Who support the throne otf Britain on their broad shoulders—will turn out In great numbers. The indications are that they will be moved, to a very considerable exient at least, by a feeling of curiosity merely, a dosire to see the Pageant as it passes, and that those outbursts of | public enthusiasm with which her Majesty bas been grected ou similar occasions during the early years ofher reign will be—trom some cause or other— wanting, it may be witheld purposely from a royai tady whe certaiuly maintains all her excelience of character, with every one of those agreeable do- Mestic attributes whivh tended to render the earlier years of her sovereignty so pecultarly remarkable and really briillant. The watcrialistic home exigencies of the British democracy, the pressing fireside questions of now to live and whence to feed the children, the world-wide economic problem of how can we be governed most cheaply, remain before the eyes of the English people for solution, and, as is very well Known, when “John Ball” has become engaged in lis daybook and ledger calculations, when he 1s fcoting up the “totals of the whole’’—as it was expressed by the late Mr. Joseph Hume—he does not wish to be disturbed, ay, even by the reflected gleam of the sheen of the sword of State as it fasles near the dusty windows of “The Ofice” in Threadneedle street or Minctng lane, Mr “Bull’’ tends, indeed, more and more, and every day, to the realization of that condition of feeling toward the crown which was.years since expressed by IMs greatest national poet im the words:— If God dgn’t bless our king of kings T doub€ if mea wiil Hager; Metiinke I bea: a lite bird which sings ‘The people by and by wiil be ihe stronger. in the Parliament House. British loyalism wili be the predominant feeling, however, and her Majesty the Queen wil’ alight at the new house of Parliament amid cheers and shouts of “tie Queen | God biess her!" Herve Queen Vicioria will be received by the mem- bers of the Cabinet, the Premler, Kight Honorabie G. E. Gladstone; Earl Granville, Lord Hatherly, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lowe, Earl de Grey and -Ripon; Lord Haliiax, Lora Kimberly; Right Honorables Messrs. Cardwell and Ciillders and the Marquis of Hartington, with many of her “right trusty cousins and counsellors’? from Ireland and Scotland who have not seats at the council board. In the Robing Room. The Queen will retire to the Robing Room tmmie- diately. Great preparations have been going on for some time past within the houses of Parliament, and the Queen's Kobing Room, which has been in course of constraction for the last five years, has just been completed, The statues and paintings were encased in canvas while the minor decorations were proceeding, and the architect lately received orders to complete the arrangements as speedily aa possibie. This intimation ir was which fffst led the subordinate authorities to believe that her Majesty wold open the Parliament in person, and vhe magnificent new Robing Room will thus be first used upon this occasion. On the Throne. Advancing from the Robing Room vhe Queen, pre- ceded by the sword of state and mace bearers, will ascend the throne in the House of Lhrds. The Usher of the Black Rod will summon the members of the House of Commons to attend at the bar of the Lords. Seating herself the Lord Chancellor of England will approach aud hand to her Majesty, in the pare of the Cabinet, The Royal “peechk. ‘The Queen, in this speech, will thank the members of both houses of Parliament for their datiful and loyal attendance. She wiil assure ny lords and gentlemen that the Crown maintains peaceful relations with all foreign countries, and receives assurances of the good will of their governments towards the throne, A deplorable war is stiil maintained by the netgh- boring Powers of the North German empire and France, Her Majesty's goveriiment did thetr utmost Wo prevent it at first, and, since the declaration of hostilities and our proclamation of neutrality, have used their influence to prevent its extension, Nothing would have given wore satisfaction to her Majesty's government than fo contribute In any manner to an honorable ‘and permanent peace. Offers of mediation or of good ofices were made, and @ conference for the attainment of peace, but at which one of the beiligerents was not repre- sented, has held seasion in London, with the appro- bation of the Crown. ‘The Queen still hopes that satisfactory results will rome from this conference, Questions of State which had their origin duriug the progress of the civil war ip America ar ‘si NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUAKY for settlement bebmeen the governments of England and the United States, The Crown will use every effort to secure an honorable and equita- ble adjustment of all zastters which affect the re- lations which exist between the two countries, My lords and gentlemen are informed that the Queen has contracted a marriage between her daughter, the Prinvess Loutse, and the Most Noble the Marquis of Lorne, and fervently trusts that the union will be productive of much happiness to the august parties, Gentlemen of the House of Commons are thanked for the liberality with which the suppites necessary for the support of the Crown have been voted, ‘The esumates of the present service have been prepared with a dug regard to economy and will be submitted for consideration. Among the items will be found charges for dowry of £30,000, and an annuity of £6,000, to the Princess Louike. Amnesty has been extended to persons convicted of reasonable practices in Ireland, on certain con- aitions of exile from the realw. ‘Tue operation of the [rish Land Reform bul before the courts is satisfactory in obtaining money com- peusations for outgolug tenants, Crime and outrage still prevail to a constderable exient in Ireland, aud measures of exceptional legislation may be again required for their repres+ aton, Bills for the further reducton of taxation, for the promotion of public education, for the improves ment of prison discipline, the better taking of the polls at Parltamentary elections, the extensiomor trade and the more eectual government of the colonies will be submitted to Parliament, My lords and gentlemen are again thanked and the Divine blessing invoked oa their prov ecdings. “he Queen Keilres. Queen Victona having retired to the Robing Room the session of Pariiament will be formally declared Open “for the despatch of business.” Her Majesty will return to the palace, the cortége observing the same order of procession as it did on its rouce to the House of Parliament. Qaeen Viciorin’s Parliaments. The present assemblage is, a8 we Rave said, an adjouried session of the elghin Parllament of Vic- toria, ‘Tue history of the meetings reads from whe first as. follows, viz2— ‘Tne lirst Parliament of Queen Victoria met on tho oto Ot November, 183: ‘fue Right Hon, James Abvercromby Was re-elected Speaker without opposi- tion, Un ble 6th Of May, 15.9, he resigued, aid on ¢ 27tn ol May the House proceeded to a new elec op, ‘dhe Right Hon. Charies Shaw beievre, mein- ber for Hants Sorth, Was proposed by fir, Hanwey, wad seconded by Dt, Lushington, Tye Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, member for the Universiiy of Cam- bridge, was proposed by Mr. Wynn, and seconded by Mr. Wilson Patten, The division was as follows:— Right Hon, Charles Shaw Leievie (lib.), ive Right Hon. Heary Goaiburn (con ), ay A yote of “so confidence” in the Minisury having been carried by a majority of one, in the month of May, IssJ, this Parliament was dissolved on the 2ud ot June, having lasted three years, seven months and seven days. ‘Ihe second Parliament of Queen Victoria met on the 19th ot August, lodl. The Right Hon. Cuarles Shaw Leevre was proposed as Speaker by Lord Wersley, seconded by Edward Buller, aud elec! Without opposition. “This Faritament was dissuived on iue 2ud of July, 1547, having lasted five yeurs, eleven months and tour days, The third Parliament of Queen Victoria met on the Lsth of November, i847. The Right Hon. Cuartes Shaw Letevre was Peratn cy for Speaker by Lord Seymour, seconded Mr. Joun ‘Abel binith, apd elected without ‘oppositior .» A change of ministry having tukeo place in February, 185%, this Parlia- met, W fultiiment of a pledge then‘ given by the new ministers, was dissolved on the Ist of Jwy, 1852, having lasted four years, seven montis and | tweive days. The fourth Parliament of Queen Victoria met on he 4th of November, 1352 The Right Hon. Charies Shaw Lefevre was proposed for Hpeaker by Mr. Rovert Palmer, seconded by Lord Robert Grosvenor ; aud elected without opposit.on, ‘his Parliament Was dissolved on the woth of March, 1857, having lasted four years, four months and sixteen days, ‘The fifth Parhament of Queen Victoria met on ihe 7th ov May, 1857. The Jight Hon. John Evelyn veai- gon, Member for Nottinghamshire North, was pro- posed fer Speaker by Lord Hany Vane, seconaed by Mr. Thormely, and elected without opposition, | his Parliament was dissolved on the 23d of april, 1859, bh ving lasted one year, eleven Monts and six- ‘The sixth Paritament of Queen Victoria met on the Sist of M ised ‘Lhe Kigut Hon. Joun Eveivn | Denison, Member for Nottinghamshire North, was | | unanimousiy re-elected Speaser. This Paruament Was dissolved on the 4th of July, 1865, having lasted Six Sears, One Monta and three days. ‘The peveuth Parliament of Queea Victoria met on the ist of Fevruary, 1363, The Kight Hou. Jolin Lveiyn Denison was proposed tor 5 eaker by Mr. Monselt, seconded by Bari Grosyeaor, and lor tue e unaninousiy Te-clected. Highih Parliament of Queen Victoria met on Mth of Deceinber, 15868, The Right Join the} Eveiya Denison was proposed jor Speaker by Sir George Grey, Bart., seconded by the Right Hon, Spencer Hi. mously re e Since the year 1826 no British Parllarment has «p- proached its extreme limit, Tbe shortest wes that elecied in 1830, Which only lasted five moatis and tweut 8; the longest was Wat elected in 163i, which existed Bixleca years, eigat mouths and sixteen days, Consti:ution of the Presevt Partlament. Many changes have occurre. in the personnel of the present Parliament since its iirst assemblage and during the recess. Tne mortality in the ranks o! the peerage during 1870 has beeu considerably less than in the course of 1869, When the deaths of thirty-two lords, spiritual and temporal, were recorded, Dur- lug the past year one bishop and eighteen temporal peers died, as (otlows:—The Karl of Onslow, nincty- three years of age; the Bishop of Chichester, eighty- four; the Marquis of Headfort, eighty-three; the Earl of Roden, eighty-one; the Marquis: of,Cholmondetey, seventy-cight; Karl Howe, seventy-four; Lord Tent- erden, seventy-four; Viscount. Middleton, seventy- two; the Rarl of Clarendon, seventy; Lord Auckland, seventy; the Marquis of Hertford, seventy; Lori Henniker, sixty-nine; the Kart of Haddington, stxty- three; Lord Hawke, sixty-seven; the Marguls of | Allsa, fifty-four; Lord Byron, fifty-two; Lord Wil- loughby d@’Eresby, foriy-elght; the Marquis of 1 tan, thirty-eight; the Earl of Aberdeen, twenty- eight. it will be seen that both the hereditary Grand Chamberiains of England, the Marquis of Chol- mondeley and Lord Wilioughby d’Eresby, were ree moved by death. The title of the latter peer is at present in abeyance, while the successors to the earldom of Onslow and the barony of Byron are minors, In the House of Commons the seats which wero vacant and have been filled by election (exclusive of those constftuencies in which elections have been rendered votd for corrupt practices) are Westmore- land, Meath, through tho death of Mr. Corbaily; Newry, through the death of Mr. Kirk, and Durhata, through the acceptance of office of Mr. Davison. The Mberal gains during 1870 have been at Bndg- north, Dublin, Noitingham and Norwich. The cou- servatives have won seats in Brecon, Colchester, Isle of Wight, Shrewsbury, Southwark and West: Surrey. in this calculation the late Mr. Briscoe is re-reckoned as @ iiberal, aithough he was elected and voted in opposition to the frish Church policy of Mr, Gladstone. ‘There were thirty-three elections during vhe past year, and of these twenty-two were contested. | Legislative Work. There are 2% private bills for constderation by committees of the houses of Pariiament during the | session, of witich twenty-six are connected with lveland, This 3 a great improvement on the legis- lative business of England, The measures which will be submitted to the ) British Parliament for debate will be of a very wide range of scope and of the very highest importance in their inteat and consequences, They treat of and affect every interest which goes to constitute the essential life anu safeguards of a nation—tinauce, revenue, the army, the Qayy, emigration, banks, and 80 forth, Passing them fn unticlpatory review, we come to consider the condition of The Natiosel Revovuo and Expenditure of Britain. ‘ ‘The latest return issued by the Queen’s Treasury shows that the actaal recelpts in the exchequer for the period from the Ist of April to 3ist December, 1870, were £40,440,189, a3 COMparedt With £50,605,48: and were comprised as follows:—Customs, £15, 264,000; exelse, £15,423,000; stamps, £6,595,000; taxes, £814,000; income tax, £1,676,000; Post Oftice, £3,480,000; telegraphs, £400,000; crown lands, £265,000; miscellaneous, £2,623,189, The payments in the same period amounted to 2,786,967, as follows:—Interest of debt, £18 ,430,298; other charges on consolidated fund, £1,686,744; snp- ply services voted by Pariiament, £29,143,909; tole- graph service, £270,900; a6 vances under varions acts taiied Qom the exchequer, £1,014,799; excheaucr Walpole, and for the iourth time unani- le: ed. | £1,000,000, } Una ‘and ove ship for the Uape of Good Hope bonds, bills, Pos paid off, £690,000; exchequer bonds Pald Off out of surplas income, £25,590; surplus in+ come applied to reduce debt, exclusive of £500,000 applied to repay bank advances for deficiency, £2,464, 526, The growth end partial diminution of the national debt are shown by the following figures: Year, Reign, 1€63—Accession of Wiliam TIT 1702—Accesston of Apne... 1714—Acceaston of George 1. 1727—Accession of George I. 1760—Accession of George 1 102,014,918 1820—Acceasion of George LV. eee 900, 1830—Acovasion of BE Iv. + 784,908,007 1837—Accession of Victoria, Ss « 187,629,114 Aading pyre pedi expended on civil service, the total expenditure was £4,149,341,634, being an ex- cess over the income of £343,768,128. An examina- tlon of the details shows that while war, war debt and preparations for\war absorbed about six- sevenths of the entire expendivure, nearly two- thirds of the revenuo to mect it has been derived from customs and excise duties, Comume! nD The progress in the foreign trade of Britain during he last twenty-nine years is thus shown:— Before and after Peel's tariff reforms-— Imports, Exports. £62,004,000 £110, 128,716 152,389,053 116,821,002 Increase ... +++ £90,385,023 £5,692,376 Before and after Froach commercial treaty— Imports. Exports, 1860, £210,500,873 £164,521,251 163 295,425,967 7,108,825 Tnerease ........+... £34,898, 004 The Army. £12,584, 974 The following are the principal features of the ; British army estimates to be submitted to Partiae ment for the yeai er total amount of the estimate for 1870-71 18 2,976,000, Which, compared with hit for 1869-70 (£14, 111, 900), leaves @ es decrease of £1,136,000. This 1s effecied chiedy by the reduction of the numbers of the regular, army (rom 125,520, men to 114221, oF 2 lems of decrease are as follows — 3; Mulia wud iuspection OF ra yeomanry cavuiry, 103 "21.6005 Control estabiis ments, £49 100; works "and build: My 7 ments for nulitary Janeous, ‘1 of mien is effected by a general »ystom of reduction, the principal items bemg—intantry of the line, ,711 Ineu; acpots 4,030, and ariiiiery, 1,001 men, sritish forces in India, of ali ran wil be 02,963, as against 03,707 last year, & decrease of 6s, FS & ‘The vores proposed to be taken are as follows: ECAPADULATION. £10,678, 200 8, 800 Ki 1870 and 1871—Effec Non-etfective. 1869 and is] — \on-eilective.. Net decrease . According to the estimates accepted by Parila- Ment England has now: ‘Troops of the line... Army reserve, class 1 army reserve, class 2 Militia... . Yeomanry Votunteeis Volunteer art Total. seen 623,239 With the exception of some 90,000 troops of the tine serving tn India or on other stations abroad the whole of this enormous force 15, at home and available, a) far as its organization permits, for the defence of the United Kingdom. The Navy. The British navy estimates for the year 1870-71 represent a net decrease of £746,111, the total ex- penuditure estimated for being £9,250,530, as com- Pared with £2,993,C41 for the last dnancial year, Tue mereases occur under the followiag heads—) viz. im the Sclentiflc branch to the extent of £5,974; in medical establishments, £2,973; marine divisions, £1,556, Leing total increases for the etlective service of £10,503, The largest item of Tease Of £300,897 Occurs on the vote for steam machinery and ships Oudlt by convract, The next reduction is to the ex- tent of £207,652 on the vole for dock and naval yards at home and abroad. There are alzo decreases of £208,411 on the vote for victuals and clothing for the marines, and of £49,622 on tne wages to seamen and marines. Against nese reductions is placed an. augmentation of the vote for nalf and retired pay, amounting to £65,569; of £55,938 on military pen- sions and allowances, and £54,508 on civil pensions and allowauces. Wealth of the Nation. An English fiuancial authority writing on this subject during the past moutu—Jauuary, 1871— says:— fhe plethora of capital just now ts exceedingly heavy, in consequence of the payment of numerous us of Vavious Kinds, aud tae totai for the it month ts upwards of £2),000,008, as thus Dividends ou MME StOCKS, £5,790,0305 Ans 2, au goverament loans, 21,5 ay deheatares, £1,750,0003 foreign zovernment loans, £8,320,000; Bagush joint siov-k banks, mining ana miscellaneous shares, say ‘Tae foliowing 18 an approximate esti- ings which take place on the Stock —britisi government stock, £800,000,000; »eCtive Bervice: British p sions ‘and colontes—namely, India, Canada and Australia—£189,000,00); French govern- ment, £549,000,000; other | European State: £60,000,000; South America, £63,900,000; North Ame- rica, £450,000,000; Oentral America and West Indies, £34,000,000, together making a total so far of government aebts dealt in here of £1,850,000,600. ‘There are, besides our railway stocks of £530,000, ,000, banks, telegra; hs, mines and various tiscellaneous Shares, the total of whieh it 18 imposstble to give an e figure of ab this moment, but it ts con- ecessarity all this wealth is not held im country, but by far the greater portien is, such investments are consiantly increasing. During the past year £61,000,009 of loans were placed on this market, besides £17,000,000 for joiut stock enter- prise, and fresh creations are ready to come tor- wed af the earliest possibie period. They com- prise:—Russian railways, | £1,000,000 ; Spain, | £6,099,000, “It may here be observed that the V ainount of surplus captal required to be invested aunually tn England is £200,000,000, of which one moiety is generally absorbed’ in ‘the neW loans and joint stock enterprise; the remalning half represents the rise 1M the value of land, house Y, Stocks and shares of every kind, and in on of comme Suiticiedt ts tus shown to Indicate not aly the cause- of the preseut abun- d@aace of money, but tie wealth of the country aad the sources of ifs absorption. AS a jurther Ulustration ot the extent of onr Stock Exchange transactions the baukers’ clearlag for the ur setting days in the past and two pre ears reached as [OllOWS:—1870, £654,014, 0005 000; 186%, $523,249,00 de And commerce of the country, the ors’ clearmgs on the “fourth” of the month tn ast years gives the following: 76,127,009; 1859, £169,729,0.0; 1865, , taking th whole 7 nge of the arings for lash year, eXclusive of tue Exchange settioments, we reach a sum of 08,000 banking business alone, The total tor 1860 Was £3,061,4 1,00. whe Population. Acensns of the Inhabitants of tho United King- dom will be taken next April. itis therefore proper Uiat we should refer to the exodus of the people by emigration:—Phe total emigration ia ships which left the Mersey during the year 187) under government supervision was:— the acl 35 passengers, and not under the aci, #397 passengers; (total, 163,032, The num- ber in 1869 Was 172,731, 80 that there has been @ dex crease on the year of 4,699. The vumber of ships that lett the Mi ander stin the month of December last was 27. Of ¢ the United States, with 505 cabin teerage pawsengers; one ship for Queens- Jand, with 2 cabin and 223 steerage passengers, wh 10 canin and 68 stecrage passengers. Gexides there Was an almost continued streaia of cmigrants from tue ports of Ireland amd Scot. land. Ireland—Tho Past and Present. For the consideration of the Parliament will come the question of Ireland—prominent, persistent aud dificult of treatment. mercantile point of view the year 1870 has been favorabie for Ireland. The Agricultural classes have been benellted by high prices for all descriptions of live stock, and there ts no want of money tn the country; credit is sound and bankruptcies and insoivencies are rare. Railway tramMe, too, has increased tn all directions, tnelua- Ing the lines in the North. ‘The records of Irish crime for thé past year will show a gratifying improvement. There are sul, however, some exceptional districts, where the law continues to be set at deflance. Tho amount of property returned to the relief of the poor in Ireland during the year ending 29th September tast was £13,183,304, beng £29,805 more than in the preceding year. The number of persons who received poor relief during the year ending 29th September last was 235,630, against 285,398 In the preceding twelve months. An annual congress of national schoo! teachers of Ireland has been held in Dublin. The principal de- sign of those assembled was to press the gevern- ment for an increase of tho salasiey of teachers, bus Incidentally matters of general educational tmpor- tance were discussed, Mr. Vere Foster, the chainman, said there was a likelihood that “education in Ire- land would now lag behind education in England, ‘The incomes of the Iriah teachers were scarcely one half those of the English.” With the above exhibit of the national condition of Great Britain and freland as It appears at the mo- ment of the opening of the session of Parliament, specially prepared for the information of the Amert+ can nation, the Herarp leaves the good Queen Vic- toria with ber Parilament and people to-day. AMUSEMENTS. STADT.—"'ANNE Eu nA delicious little comeay under the above unprepossessing ttle was tne at- traction at this house last nignt. It is by Hermann Hersch, and portrays in a free, off-handed style the wooing of & soldier prince, which is conducted somewhat On military principles, This prince ts in love with an apothecary’s daughte: d, much fo the horror and astonishment of nis aristocratic mother, Proposes marriage to the drug store heiress. While he is off to the wer every means, fair and foul, 18 employed by the Princess to break of such @ mésa lance, and she has just succeeded in per- suading the young girl, Anne Eliza, of the evormity of her crime tn daring to think of marriage with a live prince, when he unexpectetly pats in an appearance at the head of his troops (the war belug over) and marries his sweetheart there and then, Madame Seehach’s talents for comedy are by no means inferior to ler tragic powers, She can catch the spirit of a scene, master a situation and minzle pathos and bawor as ie iy Apahloy plees of this kind as she queens It in Schiller, Goetha or Sherkspeare. There was a world of havveé and comic talent In her reading of her swoetherrt’s! & ter, in the third act, and her comments thereupon, which she Hinstrated to some purpese with the tron | with wuich sae was giving the finishing touches to ber father’s shirt. Ler emotion at the end or the fou act, Where she consents to give up the Prince, is not of the melodramatic, ebtrusive kind, bat has @ quiet, earnest, heartielt feeling about it Mat caused many eyes present to motsten tuvyolantaruy., Mile. Veneta was a very dignified Pris , and Mr, Pacteh an accommodating Apo- theeary. har aie) his Mephistophelian tace in the plonde wig'of a French tutor, and Kraus tade | a bold, das.ing solder prince. The comedy was received with Uomistakabie marks of approbation by the audience, 43 1t deserved, and forms one of 2 Mest spar ug Mite yems m Mine. Seebach’s Xteusive 7”, perioire. * Tauschung auf Tauschung’’ Will be plesenied to-night, for the lourth ume, aid “Love and Litrigue” on Briday, Dramatic ana Musient Notes. “Saratoga” is underlined at the Globe, Boston, Montaland and the Grand Opera Heuse have parted. “saratoga” is In active preparation at the Park, Brooklyn, The Russian Concert Troupe has unexpectedly turned up in Memphis, Miss Annie Clarke is shortly to play Lady Audley at the Boston Museum. y's “lash of Lightning” is in rehearsal at the 1 Lyceum, Toronto. aratoga”? Wil exercise Chicagoans at an early date, John Jack's ‘Falstat” is excessively liked by the good people of the Crescent City, “Saratoga” will be conunued at the Fifth Avenue until the public consent to its withdrawal. Stil they come! Anew “Rip? bas turned up in New Engiand to the person of a Jonu Murray, Mrs. F. M. Bates commenced an engagement at the Oro Fino theatre, Portiand, Oregon, on the 23d ult, Janauschek will shortly appeor in Indianapolis. She lias become the cbiet fu, vrie Ou the provincial | stage. Little Leona Cavender is trying “M nnie’s Luck’ this weck at the venerable Opera House de Bar in St. Louis. Rose and Harry Watkins repeated “The One Bright Spow”’ at Charleston, Ss. C., ou Monday. They are favorites there, Mrs, Jarley, who tt would seem has fallen heir to the risibiities ef the Ariemus Ward’s wax figures, is exhibiting them with | consideral success, Miss Rose Evaus, am Australian actress, restores the legitimate to the Calliornia theatre, an Fran- Gisea, ange -more, alter @ month oi spectacle aud audet. A musician lately advertised to give instructions in music m first principles to thoreughbore.’? An interview between the teacher and proof reader has probably taken place ere this. ‘That roliieking sop of Erin, Barney Williams, with his accompiished wife, is charm ng the distant New Jersey tes and maktig some of is pretty tilde specches atthe fall of the curtain, ‘the English Opera Combination play next week in Battin ‘Tae young Amenecan prima vont, 18a Fanuie Goodwm, ts fast waking a permanent repu- tation as one of the chie! ctlous of the troupe, ‘tue real name of the laic Peter Richings was Peter Richings Paget. His father was an admiral ma the Briush navy, Lhe resemblince of Mr. Richings | to George Warhington was so remarkable that ne ut to Suily, the pater, when be painted tie ather ol hus Country. AVOTEE! HUNDRED THO! HAUL. ND DOLLAR A Young Brugeist of Philadelphin Victimizes Fifteen Philn Banks—Vorged Pape on tie Market-A Victim of Stock Gamb- liag. vin PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 8, 1871. The sensation attendant on the Kensington Bank robbery has not subsided ere financial circies of Philadeipiia receive another shock. The forger stood high soctally, and had no other cause to induce dim to commit the rash deed than stock gambling, and the rock that has wrecked 50 many others did not spare him, TRYON R¥AKIRT, @ young man, a member of the firm of John Reakirt & Son and Janney, Reakirt & Co., wholesale drag- gists, corner of Third and Callownill streets, p sented a uote of $7,000, purporting to be from the firm of Russell & Landis, wholesale druggists, for discount, at the Bank of North America, about a week since, He wanded the note to one of the clerks and said he would ¢eall for the money mm @ few minutes. In looking over the note the casher woticod that the date Was 1870, iustead of 1871, as it should be, Without for a moment thinking there was anything wrong he sent it to Mr, Reakirt’s place of business, bot Reakirt ‘was not in.” Suspicion was then aroused, and the note was sent to Russell & Landis, No member of the firm was in atthe time, and the bookkeeper proceeded to the residence of Mr. David ©. Landis aha imMormed him that a nove for $7,000 lad been sent from the Bank of North America in consequence of a discrepaney in the date, and asked Mr, Langis if he knew anything about it. Mr, Landis soon ascertained that the Bria had no such note out. An exaipination, however, revealed that the note was a perfect ac stnule of ihe bookkeeper’s style of making notes, and that the signature of Mr. George P, Kussell, senior member of the jirm was excellentiy forged. AS THE BANK HAD NOT PAID anything on the vote it was determined to lush the matter up. Out of sympathy for young Reak father and family it was setiled; but certatn fac leaked out which led to an examination by other banks of some of the notes presented by Reakirt, aud the astounding discovery was made that ABOUT FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAKS of forged notes on Russell & Landis had been ne- gotated by Reakirt and loans made thereon by the Girard Nattonal, $8,000; the Tradesmen'’s National, 34,00; the Commercial National, $4,900; the Peopie’s Bank, $4,900, and so the “old thing ket working” until added discoveries fixed the whole amount at over ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, It was not known until yesterday that the amount had reached the above fyur d even now itis rumored that some notes have been negotiated at New York by false representations on the part of young Reakirt. If so, the amount will be stilt greater. STOCK GAMBLING has been a passion with Reakirt for some months. | He has been ceaiing primvipally in “Reading.” The sensation attendant on a sudden collapse in these securities 4 few weeks ago is now belidved to have been produced by the manipulations of Reakirt's brokers, and at the same time an immense amount of that stock was purchased 4 these brokers. It has gone stil lower since that through the mduence of coal strikes, and Reakirt has lost heavily. WUS FATHER HAS ALREADY PAID about forty thousand dollars as a settlement ot some of the forged notes, ana offers to surrender his private estate, Which, it is belleved, will pring aboué seventy-live per cené of. the amount involved in the forgertes, Young Reakirt owned a lead works at Wilmington, Del., but they would not bring more than five or six thousand doliars. Some of the banks have expressed a willingness to settie for # return of the money, while two of the number victimized bave expressed a determination to prosecute Reakirt to che full extent of the law. He was seen on the street yesterday, but cannot be Zound to-da; ey Chief Kelso, of New York. 1s on the lookout tor him in that city, while all the detec- Uves are on the alert here. it is beiteved that he cannet possibly escape. Your correspondent INTERVIRWED RBAKIR(’S COUNSEL this morning. ‘that Sorat man expresses himself mpuch surprised that irt did not call on him as soon as he was discovered. He sald, “I do not regard Reakirté so much a knave as a fool. I have often noticed that he acted eccentrically;1 believe he is maane.” It may be questioned ¥ some. Whether it 8 not father early In the day to put in a plea of insanity. It is generally customary to wait until a pan is arraigned for trial. Sune» Toei a are rue to possess a very zealous forgery is is being ca Ao wallthe banks and 6 clubs, fhe latest buase of tne arest torgery. saen bipiee base Of the great forgery. | Wacds discov Y, 1871—TRIPLE SHEET, HGATH BEFORE -DISHONOR. | Suicide of a Convict in the Tombs Prison. Ho Hangs Himself in His Uell—A Legacy of Hate—Letters of the Deceased—-Inquest on the Body--Recital of the Circumstances At- tending His Incarceration—His Letter to the Herald Giving His Connec- tion with the Whole Affair. At an éarly hour yesterday torning the ome: at the Tombs Prison were thrown Into a state of great excitement and consternation in cousequence of & report that one of the prisoners tad committed suicide, Everybody questioned everybody else as towho the man could be, but nothing definite could be ascertained until Warden Stacom came to the rescue. Tt was thea that the unfortunate individual whs Samuel 8, ascertained | B state of nervous excita ment, and the wi ert that thers was & marked wcutecenea. Im na actions of late. ‘They considere considered ignoraimny of the whole affair had coradea his 4s ST ATATEMENT, ‘OOMns, NEW To TAY Eptror ov THe Hei. YORK, Doo. 96, 1050, Henan, be capitals, “A Mayor Vindicated y whom) 6 Distriot Attorney, who put himself ‘as a witness befare the Jury ‘ang solemnly told them that ho knew “Axel Hayforty Mayor of Helfast, and Geo, W. Buckner and Monroe Yoang atood as bigh fn the commun! whieh they live as any three men lathe United Stat Tho jury belleved Wine nd the perjured teaumony of Buck! nd Young, and nea convicted me. I provounce the teatimony of Huckrank Young faixe from beginving to end and without one dof tenth init, So heip me Almighty God, whom > pect soon to appear before. Thero {# not ‘one man in ten in the community where Rackinore and Young realie, but which are satistied that they perjured themaeiuee 10 oon: viet me. “Murder wil! out,” and these perjured villains will Jot meet shelr just desert. There z, are six persona livt Axel Haytord, George W. Buckmore, Manson You sov-inlaw of Buckmore, Georg Young, of Boston, and his rejorted wife, who that'l have been convicted on the mont fo WD erjury. The facts of the case has Axle Bayford, knowing by many simflar transactions with me form long series of years, that I knew parties in New York of whom ‘olen United States bonds and greenbacks could be ; wrote and Telegraphed me “Hd to come to Lalfash I went there and sto a. and the matier was fully diaciwked and ar- He waid that bie friends Mouser, Youn ranged between us, | George W. Buckman and Chamberlain would make up lation, mi ‘asthe tae Belfast Oiyy the spect tation, aud that one of the | purse of $10,000 to invest tn the: range ci that E was kK EY bonis for my Stevens, of Belfast, Me. The story in connection With this man's incarceration 18 as follows:—On the loth Of October, 1469, Stevens came on to New York from Velfast with one George W. Backmar, of that place, witha ¥ } bonus, by Axweil ilayford, the Mayor of Belfast, the lutte telling Buckmar thal Stevens would te of grea: use fo him in negotiating some bonds of the Mooschead Railroad Company, of which Heyford was the Presideat. It was, moreover, alleged that Mayor Haytord bad entrusted Buckmar with | & large amount of the bonus, to negotiate them in H Now York at the rate of eighty ceuts oa the dollar , for United States securities. The manner to the business was done, at least as stated on the trial ‘ol Steveus, subsequenl, ed Lo reflect somewhat upon the Mayor; but eventually the Assistant Dis- tict Attorney declared that no imputation could | be attached to bum, Buekmar and Stevens took up quarters at the Astor House, aud on the 2ist of October, 1369, the former © ihe Latter $6,000 IN DRAFTS AND CEO. desiring him to get the cash for t) tional Trust Company, 836 Broadway and handed in the full amount. Buckmer stated that be put this money, with $2,500 additional, into asatchel in his room, and pnt it on the table, near both This he iow of purchasing some United Staies | He was introduced to Buckmar prey lou ly | in his bed. Being sick he was then confined to his room in the hotel, and Stevens camo in, after he had handed in the money, and sat talking with him upon various subjects, partof which referred to their immediate business in New York, After Stevens had been in conversa- on some time he said:—“Buek mar, this exchange of bonds business has slipped ap,” and became greatly excited about THE PURCHASE OF SOMDP STOLEN BONDS he had intended making at Ofty cents on the doliar, Buckmar then leit his room to go to another part of the building, leaving Sievens in the room where the saichel containing the money was lying, and when he returned he stated he shook hands with Stevens, boited and locked bis door, but tmmediately aft that lis ‘satchel had been ape aud is money gone. Samvel Stevens left the cily and vas urrested of the isi of Feoruary, 170, al Quincy, on A REQUISITION FROM GOVERNOR HOFFMAN. He was taken to Chicago, and when his trunk was searched five bonds of the Mellast city siock, each i Loe denomination of $500, were found thereiu. At the triat a Maine lawyer denied that he nad stolen the money, but that it was handed to hin by mutual contract, and said that Mayor Hayjord, Buchmar and sunroe Young (Buckmar’s son-in-law) were conspirators, désuning agaiust » te Tauily connections were bigniy resp Whose hame had hitherto remained uutarnisied. ‘The decea-ed was formerly in business in Maine, St. Louts, Wisconsin and Cbicago, and at the time he cana to New York he had 0 in goid wth him. Lt was alleged that be ouee tried to leave Bel- fust natied up ina dry goods box, but this was ve- hementiy denied, ils trial on tne charge of stealing the $8599 oc é two days ta the Court of General Sesstous— | 2istand zd December, 1870. Alter the jury | returned a verdict 4 wes remanded Ww the Tombs to await s here he hus since remained BING A MASON | well known to many | constantiy visit d by F GOOD STANDING, sin (usc rs of be frag he was | pity. In | fast, the Waiten ouserved tna he was | recelying visits from } as of the higuest respect. | ability In tus city. Stevens was an intelli gent, good looking man of five feet nine } inches in height, a tuick set, weil deve- oped frame, dark complexion’ and having a heavy veard aud mustache. During the tine he we ontined in the Toumos ne Was-welaachoiy + and dejected, constantly retterating the stécoment ning his hinocence of the ch for wich he nvicted. He soi ned tuat ihe | 448 Loo close, and was a very | vous man the coo ubined with a | scarcity of pure air, was driving tim mad. Incon- | sequence of this appileation he Was allowed to have ine inner door of his cell opeu during the day and night both, a favor that 1s not granicd except under extraordinary circums ances. y terday he was to have been arraigned for sentence, Stevens, however, Who possessed a very sensitive nature, secretly rmined that he would nov suffer IGNOMINY OF INCARCERATION PRISON, accordingly resolved on the only remedy to that lasting disgrace, On Tuesday evening Mr. Stevens appeared better than usual, aud so expressed himseli to be- puty Keeper Bailey, who hada brief couverasion n. Notiing more Was seen of Steevens tul one o’clock yesterday morning, when Night Keeper Orr, iu going rounds among the prisoners to see that all was right, a om, peg ved mito his cell and was sta cloth hang.ng agatnst the iuner door, M out to his associate (Kennedy), saying, something it door was open sr THE IN TH STATES self-destruction relieve on and as from himself his good = Orr cried bere us eats the i he having hung himseli to the top of the cell door by leans of a Sip irom a sli orn for the purpose, Afte iS neck Stevens, as he could nob suspend himself, sank lo the fluor, and his weight so lightened the apology for a rope as to produce ngulation. When found Stevens appareutly had been dead or two hours or more. On searching cle ceil oceuy led by deceased were found, among other things, a iet- liter addressed ro Warden Stacom and another directed to Bailey, deputy Keeper. It will be scen by perusing the letter to the Warden that in ! HIS DYING STACEMENT he protests his entire inn oe of the charge of Which be had been couvicied, Towns, Feb, 7, 1871, <Mr, Warden STA00M, City Prison, New \ork DEAR Sit Before anther morning dawna T shail have gone on that journey from watch ng traveller returns tuat we have any authentic account My brain for the iast ten Guys has been under feariul excitement, and I came to the resolve to” put an end to. "an existence which has for haying been convicted | faine , Mayor of Be.fast, me city, and Munrue fas 1 hope soon to ap riot trath in | scuring the strip around | y und’on their heads rests the Please have me reut to my daughter, who ia at SAI West Forty-third street, ia as uitet a way ssible without coin, aad telegraph to W. rewly, of the affair, ‘sud publisiy Vig whogt Wotiec tn tha | d oblige Yours, truly, Sly SVENS. Also deliver all my things to my friends ax aboves Ontne border of a copy of the HeraLp deceased had writien a postscript, in Which he says:—“Sooner than sumer nn) not guilty LW) man. No. rsonment for a crime of which Lam die.” BAILEY. y ‘alisme in this place T want | send to my friends, 241 West Forty-third stre come for me. Please deliver all my things to thy Diankets, two pillows, two comforters, one al overcoat, Mr. Tilley will know. Lthank you kindly, kiwily uniform kindness to me, a. also thanks to Mr. 1, who hus always been kind to me. THE INQUEST. During yesterday aiternoon Coroner Keenan, with his deputy, cailed at the Tombs for tne purpose of | holding an Inquest over the reinains of Mr, Stevens, and there found a daughter of deceased, a mate friend trom Bangor, Me., besides a lady, an intt mate friend of the tumily, living in West Porty-third street. of Warden Stacom and Deputy Keeper Bailey was taken, but threw no new light on the matter, owing co the absence of night keepers. The iquisttion Was not coucluded, put will be finished to-day, Coroner Keenan, however, gave a certificate of death, and last evening tue daugnier of deceased took the remains, which were Jast right sent on to Bangor for iaterment. The Coroner also gave the sorrowing daughter possession of all the money, letters, clothing aud other effects left by her father. The fricnds of Stevens who were at the Tombs seemed posi{ive of his innocence and declared he was TRE VICTIM OF A DASE CONSPIRACY entered into by parties for the parpose of screening themselves from exposure and punishment. Mr. Stevens was fifty-seven years of age ana a native of Maine. He has left a widow, two sons and a daughter. On Monday last he sent the following com.unica- tion to @ triend in Forty-third eas Feb. 6, 1871. DRAW FRIEND—If anything happens sto me feeble sett Beer mod your a be yh Ve at | folk: id also to hand the to me. iS. 8 STEVENS. From the communication referred to in the above oneal it will be seen that as early as the 24th of De- ber last Stevens contemplated the step he has taxen to RO oem demrettoss Be was coustanty in Goa bless you. ‘Your tnezas * | af happiness. j tis side. bot on lis bed, whichhehad | g | They hinder rast | Teligion has produced as muclt sorrow as Jo; to New York to bring back th on the Mth day of Uoiober ch from Backman to meet biny s did meet hin there, He on a8 agent for the parties knoken to me about, and partiss should ac: bonds and rt Hayford had that he had #4,900¢in dratia and curenoy, aul Ba,6u0 im Cit Of Relfast Donte: that Mr. Haybud had put tn $2,100 cast, 83,00 canh; Ubambere 4 §#2,500 in bonds; Manroe You 384,500 caxb, and Winthro, 0,” making -reekont fhe bonds at $2 2ON--BIU.TOR. We came to New York together, pnd pub upeah the Astor’ Hloches Buckmar then Bard me, 8,000 in casbler’s checks and drafts, and 4 them ' to and paid me 83,500 In ‘and the Betfast city bonds for wileh I was to pay ‘nited States bonds and greenbacks at fifty cents on the dotian, gncording. te: acaasprenmaias bei parece which wad in the court on the tri inipited to the dary i never paid back the money fgoton the draft and Atole it afterwards, Hie alory of Reaping the mone bis satchel is Loo preposterous to y any “itetleact. ‘ween Sie ee” aineece NO eae warty it thus. My version ford telling Buckmar to get ottatiny toe bonds. Neither of ua were railroad would select to negotiate thelr (not fulél my eoncract with them for that | bad a long account to tle asan offset to this #10,00), whieh was nestly to me fi then for balance due me for Iike and similar epecuiations, frou Which they have made large auma, | Noither Monroe Youn George W. Buckman or Axle Hyford have get an hone: more than half they now $1U0 counterfeft greenbacks. in wil manner Ths many of their go curcless Of bis money as t this cae t# corrob: possess ont of #0 and They all have been ex erfelts for over ents year r a have repeate!y offered to Bare oubaur whole maton to menct to cheers uneand they ane, Mt they could nok grea to pick x third and ablue by elt reward, but they did not do 1 Would “rather “os-'in "sty. piave thap te thetrs with the awtul crime of perjury resttag on my soul, God wilt visit therm with bell-lire tormenta in this world if be does not fa the world to come. By xiving the above ao insertion in your widely clrentated paper you will oblige antajured, Iundcent and condemned man, 5. 3, BEEVENS. BELCHER ON HAPPINESS. Lecture at Piymouth ©iurch, Plymouth church was partially filled last night by people who were anxious to know what Mr. Beecher had to say about happiness, The famous preacher (who, by the way, 13 not ao interesting at lec- turing as at sermonizing) made nis appearance with his hair brushed to @ secular and onti-Beecherian state of smoothness, and seating himseif at the side of the platform waited meekly to be introduced, after the orthodox manner of lecturers, This necessary ceremony over, he pro- ceeded to say that what an organ is in a vast cathe- dral under tho handa of an iguorant player, that is the soul in this life, But the instrument was not made to be harsh. The soul was royally MADE TO BE HAPPY. The resources of man for happiness are great, an? the prodact is great, but 1 1s in no proportion to the causes that ought to prodace this result. Mr. Beecher does not belong to the grumblers who suy that men are shams and women are men over again, only a little softer, yet he thinks that the art of happiness has never been well learned. ‘There is no chart that will direct surely to happt- ness. A lawyer without clienis, AN UNSETTLED MINISTER, ess Wulting, like candy In a window, for , Will say that occupation ig the secret of happiness; but the statesman and mer- chant, who have much more than they can do, think that leisure {8 the secret The hygienist says, obey natural laws; but the healthy boy goes smashing like a can- bon ball through ecircumstar (aud woe to the natural (aws), while Mis weaker companion falls at Almost everybody stunibies over most of the natural laws before he finds out what they are, ‘The normal happiness mteaded for man ts wo tame for most people. Men go out to find haypiness, tor- getting taat it always depends upon themselves, I 18 THE MAN that carries the happtness to the circumstances. Happiness is the response of & faculty, and you will have uo More tappiness than you have the germinate in you. it is not the nang that makes Ube sound ; it only provokes itin the string, Dissi- pation is the risibg up of one’s uature by excess, and there is sach w thing as iutellectual dissipation and religions, as Well as the dissipation of the pas- sions, ‘There 1S & quailty of nerve that predisposes. to joy—another quality (hat predisposes to sorrow. Some inen secrete sugar, others secrete acid. BLESSED ARH THE SACCHARINE | Happiness ts received in proportion as we have sensibility, and hut excitad.lity. Men have only ex+ citement (rom ther orginal nature, but happiness from the higuer parts of thelr betag. It is the ner- vous system that distinguishes meo from brutes, et there is nothiog that men are so perilously 1u0- antol as of the nerves. ‘The peculiar folly of our age 13 the waste of nerve force. ‘The stimn lus of activity 13 too great for health, Good men are living too fast, kxecitement is in the very air and each man is Whirled aiong by the col. Jective will, The loss of power to seep Is growing. Meu play the hawk by day and tie owl vy wight, Such men have a CALL TO A LUNATIC ASYLUM and they will make their own ejection sure. are waite, red and biacg dissipations—dissipation of the brain, the biowd and of the lower pas He who sins by the first wil not iv pe wine cup, but he wii by the inkstand. yinen and women re are Who have lost oral ine The faces of Women aiter they m lite is one of the saddest signts faces of am audience are olten like Dance’s “uterno,” tustirated by Dog, Alter the nerves are sapped tuere is 20 happiness. In bee Jeaguered cjuies men 100K well to their supplies, 1 a sweet a purchas sion bat, brain and nerve lorees are squandered, Lie is set on too high a Kes. Men tong down. It is not necessary a Dian should crowd so Mneh ino the days, for hess is not ia proportion to the abundance of his woods. The most dismal instruments of torture are FASHIONASLE PARTIES. than heip social tutercourse. vn be called human beings wen they fasivonable party. Only rich nea, ‘od! can afford them. Men at these parties lave not nu lood evidenly for a long time by the way they lunge RIG There is no re T INTO THE FATABLES, al good at a private house where the yg of home ts sacritied. We shoud have par mail, 80 frequent, 80 Inexpensive, that that we can get real social mtercourse by them. Though there are a great many good sayings to prove that money docs not make bappiness, yet jody belteves them. Jt is Ovler peopie’s money that we despise, uotuurown, ‘The men that rail at Tich men wre those WHO HAVN’T GOT RICH YET. Men are learmug to use money better. More money is expended on the housebold. Men spend money OB pablic institutions, As an lostituuon vat the fruits of Lhe spirit—love, peace, lousy sud produce great joy. Asa lifé, a disposition, not gives so inach here and proaiises so much bereat trae and qateigued religion. “Twit VIGTINS OF WART. Assistance Still Pouri ‘The mention by the HERALD of the two cases oF sufering and starvation—that of Mrs. Gertrade Silanes, at 141 Bleecker street, and of the veteran of 1812, Augustus L. Rasbler, at 135 Suifolk sireet—ha had the effect of bringing aid to them in most ma- terial form. Jn addition to the donations nciaged noted Mr. A. G. Vanderpoel, Ne. 62 broad kuowleages the receipt of five doliars fro tauk" and two dollars “cash” for the nenefit of the veteran Rashter, The snm of two dollars was re- ceived yesterday at the HERALD office for tue vet- eran, ana one dollar for Mrs. Sianes, The ladies in charge of the Working Women’s Protective Union desire to cail attentlo.. to whe case of Mrs. Miller, of 303 Hast Kieventh street, as being particularly worthy of attention from those chart ably Gisposea, and they are willing (o receive any aid that n be te dered, at he ofiive of the union, No. Ss Bleecker street. “NEW. BRUHSY Ravages of Smallpox at St. Jo! cial Bank Transactioas. Sr. JonN, Feb. 8, 1871. Several cases of smalipox were reported yester- day. ‘Two deaths‘have occurred, Great nambers are applying for vaccination. The supply of vac- cine matter is entirely exhausted. A fresh supply is expected by the Ley this a = RE og iz Bank snows that_al aul the outsianding notes sho" bean rate leemed, and the aevets tog ole nage realli power to *