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2 THE GI4SG0W DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1371. of course, go into th erabjt lolly, but a few THE 80UTHEKN STATES UI)EIE LITERATURE. and beautiful. For a bealiiifttXaufmoyaHle (jpapy'general rtault beyond tho fact that they NEWS FlUOM PAR13, into the United 03 lust years since the were snus exp SPAIN. PROOEBDIirclhpF THK OOETES.

R0M tffri! OWN? CORtfESFONDBN) ltIaJa' ne' LFt Since he definite constitute Ccihgijess there have beenl as wf3 to. bj expiotedj' sqmo very interdstibs 'debates, ariaine 'from tho anapiSl869Bi0A cussion of the reply to tho Kiiiig's speech and of the estimatea for 1871-72. Perhaps, howVverji the most important of all was the one mhich. the Commune of Paris was brought up for -4ppnj, sideration, the Republican minority manifesting saoh a want of harmony with regard to this sub iect that one would; almost hive thought the' French Federals in thoir downfall had dragged with them their brethren'of Spain: had hitherto abidthe form of proceeding' which was in forc'fl iu. the sittings of the fqrnjeB Cortes it being, necessary that the present Cortp3, as their regulations as- thy thought' mdsli fit; tho Committee' oharfeed task StfeBestedi ras; the! only reform, brpught fdijward to modify any of the articles' of the CoaBtitu- permit of iih osmg reaa, outuiu nuo auenonaaiiiou of fpurout This propoaed, firaendnuent was.

on jthe table for discusBiomin one of the first sessions; hut in the meantime tho milioritiea "Were unceasing in demanding reforma-in the fundamental code. One '6f''(ib'-dti'SnBoMIS'tBtpp to this, moved' that "nb; tirononition should be dis cussed' until tho form of! procedg't-hadl been agreed "Sefiir; hdeaypored to speak to hM mbtion," but-'tho opposition parties raised such uproar that'their'cnes ahd: yeljs' completely drowned his voice. The scene was something Some of the members in their fury oommenced to hammer away on tneir aesss ana Dencnes ior tne purpose oi saw ing to the noise, and one of Seuor Orense, was so energetic that he smashed his desk alt'o-cether. and-then seizins piece of the debris he flourished about the innocent bit of mahogahy as' if it had been some, war outmean-time words which it was'impossible to heiar in the midst of the universal Pandemonium. This continued' for half on hour! bat when 1 the Carlists 'saw-; that1 the Cortes': weia determined to proceed with the discussion of Sefior Beoerra'S motion; they left the hall in a body.

shortly afterwards) the error they had committed; they returned amidst the 'laughter of the majority. The minorities, in their eagerness io nullily; and attack everything, brought forward such a host of incidental that another deputy, to defeat this new, movement of the opposition, proposed and carried a motion in midst of another scene of uproar, that the Congress should declare itself from eight o'clock on tne.foUowing mornina in permanent session until ''all the motions brought forward should be -'discussed. xnis was accordingly done trie session- com- mensed at eight the next morning, and wait not: brought to a close until halt-past twelve at night The noxt subieot of intarest ia the financial question, and the speech made by the Minister oi finance, introauomg tne question, presents in a clear and conolusiye manner the actual balance of the Treaanry, and; furnishes us with the following, details ir-The deficit on 30th June next will amount to 1328 millionB of and consists" of ''80 millions which the Treajjury owes to the Bank of Spain 200 millions of arrears to the clergy; 304 millions for Treasury bonds; and 308 millions for floating debt. The Treasury wiu Da sutn June, to aiapois of 4UU so that this will leave a net deficit of .928 millions df reals, The 400 millions which the Treasury will have at its i dis posal on tho 30th-June consist of 200 lhillioha of xreasury ooncs, ana xw millions ot arrears of taxes. -Thus leaving aside, the 200 millions in bonds, because in reality they do not liquidate the deficit, the Treasury having theik up at once at par, we shall find that the balance on the 30th of June amounts 1128 million reals, which, added to the 600 millions, pending from the liquidation of 'the Deposit Bank, give us a total of 1728 million reals a balance; and a probable deficit in tho pi esen't' estimate's of 154 4-5 millions.

If we compare thibbalance with the state of the Treasury on' the outbreak of the Revolution, we shall see that the situation, although grave, is far from being desperate, as the Minister of Knauce, i the.htws which he proposes are passed, will find the meansvt'o meet the deficit in question, According to the. statement laid before the Cortes in 1869, there was in the Treasury at the outbreak of the: revolution in 1869 a balance of 2514 millions, in which were included 1243 millions of the Deposit Bank. and the remaining 1271 millions consisted of obligations, and there was besides a deficit of 700 millions in the estimates. It will thus be seen that we are in a batter financial situation than in 1869, and that in Bpite of all-tho difficulties we have had to contend with on- account of the unsettled state of the country during the last two years, whioh impeded the proper collection of the taxes, and afforded unlimited opportunities for contraband, trading. The reply to the Speech from the Throno ivas alsounder consideration.

The limits of this letter' do not permit of my examining to-day the draft of the reply presented to the Cortes by the Com mittee entrusted-with drawing it up but Lean only.say that, as a literary work, it is a perfect I ij.i j. gum, nun a political aouumem in evinces prpoiB of; the most ardent patriotism. The couhtry appears how to have become accustomed to! the hew order of things the' object which the revolution aimed at has been attained, 'tho enemies of public liberty have beOn-completely routed, and the country is now to advance in the ways of liberty. and tranquillity until it reaches the highest possible summit of national prosperity and welfare, Speats in Leith HaEBotrB. Durinc the last few dayB large number of sprats have been observed in Leith harbour and about the lock of the Albert Dock, a circumstance which is very unusual.

A Pleasant SirriEMENT. To judge from what has lately transpu-ed concerning the usiial life of a convict in the Andaman Islands, ith'e penal settlement there has for some time past been turned into a. paradise of rum-drinking and unlimited idleness. It appears that theEuro- Eean and Eurasian convicts, at any rate, have een allowed to do pretty muoh as they They go freely into each otherV rooms, wander. faith his was, whether hia 'irAadi wisouud or not: This man trasted m'CJoili-'ik Arifcbat is aui te fa different fromaymgaiihmaculate xerp, i wojra Biriowy ispoasuug, tnqugn his-oooks pave au buo icuaraoseriawun ui independent ihonbht.

SEej-fiad obviously thought thdm but for bimseif, iyetlthe substahtiol results had beon already before the world for centuries. it i'x .1 nlnel. ola. j.uu uuo ol tuquiry ho pavrquviy- uut uwoiij borated by Erskine Brazen Serpent," nis jessay on aavoa, anaow suiumou ujj ii these posthumous may be traced up through Wmiain tawj-and Cudworth, and More, and Dean Colet, and Tauler, and a Kempis to, St so that, right or wrong; it has always had its: place in historical Christianity. Denounced as mysticism, and oertainly demanding more ear-neBt refiection.

than the popular, orthodoxy, it HaS Jievet its' way "except among, the more thoughtful inquirers yet it has never wholly disappearedifrom'the ChurcVand at presenthouE it is perhaps, more widely reoeivecl than Aver ih wAS-before. The papers no seleoted for publication from JMS ao not aaa anyijiaig voiy muvioai. th theolorfnal svRtem whioh heaaaintaiHed and expounded in his former works; but there is one oi tnem wnion may oe iairiy rogmuou ing appUoatidtt of 'hisprmoipleS' tV tte moSt difi luu .11 A. Lnnafnlin-nhintlnii''' Probably the nnhntiorrfii rtf. tr.

Bow iHeresv would1 iwye risked the whole 'rae8'iliiili'tbey would- naye cauea a lair scuojarj-jf-iuwiiifow" v--y EpiBtle to. the.RomanSi! That has always been the fortress, -behind whose battlement of texts' they have fought with oiitirest ponfidence tne interest on aosoiute aecrees, imtmted' iustification. by -faith. arid yicarious puniBhmehti Nor can it be denied that' they make outa formidable case, in virtue i. ii.

liv-v- J1 -i. 01 wmcn ney up.v.B:UuiLuy uBaoiircu wait uid hnnlr is inaxnlicB-bla on bat a.strictly Cal- vinistic theory. Of course, this is not the place for discussing tnat due our reaaers will at least find an'-' honest-and intelligent attempt made 'here' byiMr to ejtplain-Mio nnimm11 xvitbont Cdlvimam or Armlnian-1 nr Po1SiinW;" for Thomttn Erskine was cuilty of hone of these. We do not know for our 'oommentary' on this: Epistle; but we are jquite; own date man wicru i auy. uuweuMY.ottwDiBv.w.j, sure tnat, preuuueB, iuowuo follows the allostle's aHniment with as sttictly logical exaotness as the Calvioistgran ting his premises, is able to do.

Our ministers will find this, treatise very wholesome, reading, whether they agree with it orfto.fp.riit will show them that the assumptions which lie at the root of the Galvinistio theory, be they right or are not necessary for understanding ifauis thought that they are not the only key which will nnlonk thin Enkfcle. and that: if they are to retain1 their hold on' the lay mind, it must be proved, and no longer assumed, that the Calvihistio ides of imputation and vicaKous penalty are the real key, while the other is! only a picklock. Tlin nthnr Ttsnnrs in the volume, thoueh full of interest, are not of so much importance, we as this essay, on-the Eomans. The first, on The Spiritual Order," to have been- suggested by Kenan's "i Life of Jesus." It is a thoughtful attempt to satablifih the necessity of Christian, theology a foundation for Christian ethics to show that the brilliant Frenchman's position! -is uhteuable when he exalts tho moral teachintr. 'of Christ and rejects His revelation of the Father.

We are confident that this is sound! one. Christian morals are rootless without' its i the ology, aiid 'would wither "like a baby-gardeh of ere the day done. -Thore iB also aa-. admirable essay on the Divitie Sonbhip, and anbthW on Inspiration-the HaSb' being of speoial showing how. the theosyfll verbal inspiration perils the whole Gospel on a notion which, if it cannot bs maintained in all its absoluteness as, clearly, it cannot leaves Christianity to tumble about our ears like a house of cords.

It were well if our divines carefully pondered this paper. But, indeed, the whole book is pregnant with valuable and suggestive thought, clearly put, often felicitously illustrated, and far-reaching in its application. We would only, in conclusion, ask Is this all we are to get? Will a "Life of Thomas Erskine' be impossible Is he, being dead, to Bpeak to us no more of these wise and fruitful worda Royal Deaths esom Smaix-Pox. By way of impressing the ravages of small -pox iuthe pre-Jennerian period on people's minds in a manner more picturesque than that of ordinary statistics, Dr John Gairdner selects the history of a', few Royal houses. Thus, of the descendants -of Charles I.

of Great he finds that, of his forty-two lineal descendants up' to the date 1:712, five were killed outright by his son Henry. Duke of Gloucester and his daughter Mary, wife of the Prince of Orange. and mother or William ill. oi the children ot James IT, Charles, Duke of Cambridge, in 1677 Mary, Queen of England, and wife of William HI. in 1694 and the Princess Maria Louisa, in April, 1712.

This does not include, of course, severe attacks not fatal, such as those from which both Queen Anne and William HI. suffered, Of the immediate descendants of his contemporary, Louis XIV. of France (who himself survived a severe attack of small-pox), five also died of it in the interval between 1711 and 1774- viz. his son Louis, the Dauphin of France, 1711 Louis, Duke son of the preceding, and also Dauphin, and the Dauphiness, his wife, in 1712; their son, the Due de Bretagne, and Louis the great-; rands on of Louis XIV. Amongst other Royal eaths from small-pox in the same period Were those of Joseph Emperor of Germany.in 1711; Peter Emperor of Russia, in 1730; Henry, Prince of Prussia, 1767 Maxinjilian Joseph, a Elector of Bavaria, December 30th, 1777.

-British Medical Journal. Effects of the Abuse of Tobacco. Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune, has offered to make a present of a pair of white blackbirds to any one finding him "a confirmed blackguard who is not a confirmed smoker." Dr Kidd, writing to the Echo, says: I for one am very much inclined to agree with Mr. Horace Greeley as to the oft'ensiveness of tobacco, and an jr physician who has thought on the subject must know that excess of tobacco is one of the chief sources of indigestion; that cancer of a bad kind of the lip is -almost-entirely owing to tobacco pipes that of late years the pancreas an organ singularly free from! disease, previously has had extensive disease' of its tissue traoed to UBe of tobacco. It is 'common observation in France and America that tobacco in excess has led to a dwindling or deterioration, of the race, helped out no doubt by other evils, such as the' conscription taking away the healthiest males of families, leaying an excess of the decrepit and females, and other evils, such as the accompanying poison of absinthe, so much consumed by smokers.

It is said the Germans had greater endurance in the late mournful and moat miserable war. This endurance is simply that great' smokers can do with one-fourth the food that healthy non- smokers can do with the healthy function of the salivary pancreatic and other glands is blunted for the time by tobacco. Great smokers are seldom fat men, but great smokers have uncertain, jumbled ideas and want of clearness of thought. Shipment of Coal at Scotch Pouts in 1870. A Parliamentary return just issued shows the total quantiticssof coal, cinders, and culm shipped coastwise at the several, ports of the United Kingdom in 1870 to be 11,105,666 tons against tons iby.

xne following shows the quantities shipped at the various' Sodtch ports: Leith, 10.71S tons in against 12,837 tons in 1870; Granton, 20,699, againBt against 73,010 Grangemouth, 1803. a2ainst 1795: 12.805. against 18, 502; Kirkcaldy, Dundee 1 109, against819; Greenook, 9868, against u-viioeuYr, ww, ugainspoao; 123.017. against Troon; 367,890, and Ayr.100,176, aKainst 99.863, The nnantitipi. exported in 1870' from the various ports in the United-Kingdom were 11,504,272 tons of 'the declared value of In 1869 the quantities exported were 10,688,425, and the declared value xne numoer ot.

tons of coal, exported from the Scotch ports in 'the respective years, giving 1869 first, were Leith, 85,069 and Granton, 43,815 and BorroWBtounness, 197,571 Alloa, 96,177 and 95,925: Grangemouth, 103,181 and Kirkcaldy, 203, 466and Dundee, 82,253 aid Montrose, 'and427; Kirkwall, 28 and 7 Greenock, 104,728 and Port-Glasgow, 17,983 Glasgow, 151,210 ahd ArdrosBan, 75,370 and Troon, 119,080 and.135,837; Ayr, 2508 and 2805. The declared value of ithe exports from these ports was 506,151 in 1869, and 558,941 in 1870. 198,377 tons of patent fuel were exported in'-1870y, while 28,093 were shipped coastwise. There were shipped coastwise into the port of London 2,993,710 tons of coal in 1870, against 2,873,688 in 1869; and by inland navigation and railways 3,775,297 tons were brought to London, against 3,353,393 in The quantities of coal received coastwise at the various ports were 10,193,978 in 1869, and in 1870. The Scotch ports! received 8.13,481 tons in 1869, end 821,329 tons in 1870.

i runts may be semoasitte to tne- present speculative and scriantifio'eenoration, I The inhabitants of thin new Qeiievo that when their educa tion shall bd'oihe -j finally they are Aaat.iriaA 4r at.nn fho tirtnnt! urAr14 shn. plant all the I inferior races now-' existing therein. The Vril-ya' -is. therefore, "The Coming aVcurious. passage which refers to three portraits hv.the College of aages portraits belonging to tne pre-mstono age, and, according to mythical tradition, taken bv the ardent of a Dhilosboher.

from whom all the principal seotions of the Vril-ya race pretend' to trace a common origin Th nnrtrftifcs are of the Philosopher himself, of hia grandfather, and treat-grandfather. They are all at full The philosopher, is attited in a long tunio which Reems to form a loose suit of scaly armour, Dorrowea, nemans, irom! some hIi orrantile. hut the feet and hands are exposed the digits in' both, ore wonderfully lohgi and ZT line lifefla nn Tioynanikla hinat and a low receding'forehead, not at all the ideal of a sage's. He has bright: brown prominent eyes, a very, wide mouth and hiRh cheek-pones, and a muddvcomnlexion. According to 'tradi tion, this philosopher had lived to a patriarchal age, oxtendihg.

over many centuneB, ana ne remembered distinctly in middle life hi3 (rand father as surviving, and in childhood, his tereat- grandfather the portrait of the firot hehad caused- to be taken, while yet 'alive-that of thelatter was taken from his effigies in mummy. The portrait of the grandfather had thi features and aspect' of the philoBopher, only much more exaggerated he was hot and the colour of bis body was singular the breast and stomach yellow, the shoulders and legs of a dull bronze hue: the great-grandfather was a specimen oi ine genus, a uianc JJrog, nur et simvli. AinWg the pithy sayings which; according to tradition, the philosopher bequeathed to-posterity in rhythmical form. and; sententious brevity, this -is nouaoiy recoraeu: jaumoie yourselves, my descendants the father of voiir race was a twat (tadpole) exalt, yonrselves, my descendants, for it was tne same JJivme xnongat which created your father that develops itself ia exalting you. This is excellent of its kind, and may be studied with some kind of profit by all sorts of people, even JJarwia nimseji, wno is not above taking a hint from a contemporary.

It is impossible here even to hint all the! good things in this book but we owe it to the Vril-ya 11, Lj.t i to state tnaxeney navea religion; anaiursner, i.uiii whatever may be said against it, at lenat it has tworemarkablepeouliarities: firstly, that they all believe in the creed they profess; secondly, that they all practise-the prcoepts which the creed "i -ml Jif .1.. mcuicaies. J.ney uuiie tua worsnip 01 me one Divine Creator and; Sustainer of the1 universe. There is. no mention of Christianity, and.we infer that the religion of the Vril-ya is no better than species of In the early ageB of the race, they used.

to long and tumultuous controversies regarding the nature of the Deity, but as wisdom increased among thaw these profitless disputes fell into disuse. They believe in a future state, "more felicitous and mora perfect than the present," though they have very vague notions Of the. doctrine of rewards and punishments, which possibly arises from the fact that they have no system of rewards and punishments among themselves. They appear to oqnour in a. belief by which they think to solve the great problem of the existenoe' of evil, They hold that life, wherever given, by the Supreme Being, is never destroyed, but passes into new and improved forms, though hot in this planet," and that the living: thing or being retains the sense of identity through' all ita ascending ohangeB in the soale of growth and joy.

This belief is not peculiar to the Vril-ya alone, but is held by some speculators on the surface of the globe. Socially, the Vril-ya "are the most luxurious of people, though all their luxuries are innocent. They may be said to dwell in an atmosphere oi music ana iragrance, xney are temperate, and abstain from all other animal food than milk; and with regard to intoxicating drinks, they are thorough Good Templars. They are, nevertheless, "delicate and dainty to an extreme in food and beverage; and in all their sports even the old exhibit a ohild-like gaiety. Happiness is the end at which they aim, not as the excitement of a moment, but as the prevailing condition of the whole existence; and regard for the happiness of each Other is evinced by the exquisite amenity of their manners.

There is a chapter on the language of the Vril-ya, which exhibits great ingenuity on the part of the writer. They deem it irreverent in writing to express the Supreme Being by any special name, and Be is symbolised bv the hieroglyph of a pyramid, His real name, as it appears in their language, is deemed too sacred to be confided to a stranger. When which is symbolical of the inverted pyramid, is an initial, it denotes excellence or power; as Veed, on immortal spirit: Veed-ya," immortality. Koom" denotes something, of hollowneas. Koom-Posh" is their of the many, or the ascendency of the most ignorant or hollow.

"Posh" is an idiom implying contempt. "But when Democracy, or Koom-posh, degenerates from popular ignorance into that popular passion orferooity which precedes its decease, as (to cite an illustration from the Supper world) during the French Reign of Terror, their name for that state of things is Glek-nas," which may be construed "the universal strife-rot." The late Paris Commune may therefore be said to have been in a state of Glek-nas. "Too-bodh" is their word for philosophy "Pah-bodh" (literally, atuff-and-nonsense knowledge) their term utile philosophy, and is applied to a species of metaphysical or speculative ratiocination formerly in vogue, which consisted in making inquiries that could not be Answered; as, for instance, Why does an "An (man) nave nve toes to his feet, instead of four or six Did the first Ah created by the All-Good have the same number of toes as his descendants In the form by which an. Anjwill be recognised by his friends in the future state of being, will he retain any toes at all, and if so, will tney be material toes -or spiritual toes 1" But we must We have given no clue to the adventures of the. American in the under-world amone the Vril-ya." That pleasure we deliberately leave to the reader and we make this promise, that whoever may read the work for themselves will not be disappointed if they expect to receive a new sensation.

The Spiritual Ordek, and Ornnit Papers, Selected from the Manuscripts of the late Thomas Erskine, of Linlathen. Edinburgh Edmonston Douglas. 1871. When Thomas Erskine, of Linlathen, dropped quietly into his grave, not long ago, Scotland lost the most deeply reflective and original theologian that she haa produced since the days of Robert Leighton. There was little said about him at the time he went away.

The death of any of our bustling ecclesiastics who have never added one thread or thrum to the web of religious thought would have created far more stir than the fall of this standard-bearer in the armies of Israel. Nor is this very hard to understand. His work had been substantially done many years ago. Its immediate fruits, also, were more apparent in England than in his own country. For the once famous Row Heresy had been stamped out, at least for a season, by the strange union of Evangelicals and Moderates who, like Pilate and Herod, if they could agree in nothing else, could for once combine to do the wicked deed whioh made John M'Leod Campbell a preacher at large The Row Heresy seemed to bo quenched in Scotland then but the firo had been kindled in England, and Maurice and of Brighton, "have again fanned the into, a name that buras once more brisMy oh ife old; Scottish Witness the testimonial lately presented to the veteran deposed minister of Row, signed by various; doctors of divmity and professors of and -presented by one of the most honoured moderators of the Established Church.

Churches, of course, never repent, because corporations have no conscience, ot; if they cannot afford the luxury of But the toleration of this act on the Dart of all thW Churches was-at -least a silent -promise i that they would "never do the like again." In the RowHeresy Thomas Erskine played a leading if indeed he was not its guiding inspiratioh. For his intellect, we was of a Buunei- anu uiure lar-reacmng type than that of Dr Campbell his illustrations were more effective to carry home his ideas; and, on the whole, there was, more boldneBS and thoroughness in his creed. Dr. 'Leo Campbell, we are sure, will pardon this comparison if his eye should light on this, and will be only too ready to admit the greatness of his friend and fellow-labourer. They were both alike pious, modest, and humble Christians: but the voune lawver had been led to question more deeply than his clerical Drouier, ana nad at one timeielt.as it the very foundations were giving way.

He had therefore to die far down ere he came to the Rock on which at last he built a faith so -solid RECONSTRUCTION. Pf9 faljsolutely, but'gfeatals' luct.enu Jhe future The' according to OJ1U the A. in which nti nna bnra or elsewhere implicitly believes suoh is the chasm betwixt puoiic conhdence and the simplest acts ot admini8tratibn--i8 140,926 white, and 50,499 bTaekJuid coloured persona. But I am informed by. a statlst'b'f some authority that 40,000 or be added to this result of a The number New Orleans in greit election tirnqsiswlthiiiWew hundreds of 40,000, and since the adult males can hardly be inane than 1 in 5 or, Gv ew, Orleans may be takin: as having, in; a quarter of a million of inhabitants; i ot 'it iS-n6t population! that chiefly strikes att'ehti6h 'here? Lands aiid territories, and' 'lakeff-resources of produce tion.

ahd means! as. rich and 'Varied as and uniyersally in request spread oh i ail points -of the compass: such-'-'actnal magnitude' and such boiindless fails: conceive th of the material wealth 'and deyelopmehti of whioh New Orleans is the! centre. Suoh a -position for worldfwide commorce' probably exists nowhere eke globe; and" if New- Orleans has! not realised the f.buUianti visions, of its early founders, inspired bv a survey of all itsiwon- resourcea, it has so" far their, sagacity and displayed its strength by holding on its course through all' vicisBitudes and disoouragementSj.rising 'again-arid again from deep adversity, and almost total desertibh'inW easy and pophlous prosperity, and continuing, as it, ipust alwayB be, one of; greatest marts1 ot 'ooiton, sugar, xooacco, niaes, nee. oraln, 'and flour, and all subtropical com modities. to eat.

wear, or manufacture, in the world. The late war fell with as severe a blight on New. Orleans as 'on other parts of the South. Though of the city by the Federal forces' saved as well, as Louisiana, froJh much of the mere powder-and-shot deyasta-tioa of war, that in tho case of a more obstinate defence, Simply impossible, might have fallen upohits and while busying 'himself in, domiciliary visits to; the houBes of jiiauiuin muovner.weaiuiy "reoeis anoui witn no strictly pure inteat, employed the negroes, clamorous for food, in making a branoh way to the SheU Road and ehttmg one more Oanal through the uiuy, wiiuBBnitaryresuiia wmcn, nowever largely in, the must be accepted cum grano mBs here, on the spot yet "the normal life of New Orleanswas as eom- all thetime as if its throat had een out from ear to ear all its most vigorous men had been drafted a thousand miles away, into the' Confederate Army, little or no cotton was brought to market, the cultivation of the sugar-cane wassail but totally abandoned, and all the mercantile capital; and bank and insurance-stock were dried up! and i eoasumed as in a and much the solid houae worthless for the time, rotted where it stood, and passed- like an numb fnrzn under harrows of a general destruction and decay. WheD, on the happy conclusion of the war, the people returned to New Orleans, it was like doves flying to windows already devastated by storm and ruin, and the' outlook from which was only ohaos one degree less chaotio than the ohaos from which' they had flown.

But the soil was saored at! least to Mammon, and as rapidly as me aoves percnea their accustomed windows. or.Deucahon classically threw stones over his shoulder, strong men and much other woriqiy sub3tanoe rose into bemg, and New Orleans became herself again, or at least what she is now. The rapid re-establiBhment of business in New Orleans is in no -branch more marked than in cotton, and to understand the full significance of this fact it must be borne in mind.that New Orleans is a full geographical degree south of the Cotton Belt, and that little or no cotton is grown within a hundred miles of the Crescent City. But in virtue: of its commanding situation on the Mississippi: and its great tributaries, flowing through theriohest lands, andpenetratingeast and west with winding and far-reaching arms to every oultivated field up to the northern limits of the cotton region, and yet so near the mouth of the great river as to give rapid and convenient outward export to the Gulf and the Atlantic, New Orloanshasbeenenabled, inthefaceof all competition, and of intersection lines of railroads iriviriEr power and reach to other markets, and rendering mis magnificent water-communication, as might be supposed, of less and less account, to become again the mart of about one-third of all the cotton grown in the United States. The extort of cotton from.

New Orleans in 1860-61 reached the enormous total of 1,915,852 bales, whieh was somewhat exceptional, but still showing, when a large orOp comes, where its overflowing is isure to be. As soon as.the war closed, the accustomed pre-eminence of New Orleans beean to appear. Her export of" cotton in 1865-6 was 768,545. 1 j. tt rtrt wv -j.

ana man -year, increased to 1,185.050 bales, of which-half a million went to Liverpool, a quarter of a million to Havre, JUo.OUOtoJNew and 70,000 to Bremen, with smaller quantities to nearly every manufacturing centre from St. -Petersburg to "Vera Crua. This year already, with only one-half the season gone, 850,000 bales. of cotton have been landed on the levee. The great flow of cotton N.ew-0rleans-ward has all the more probability of continuing, seeing that the tendency of increased cultivation of cotton is to shift from the East to the West, bringing the bulk of.theproduot more and.moreupont'he Mississippi and the Western rivers, by which its transport to New Orleans is so natural and so easy.

The finerandlongerstapledcottongrown in Mississippi and Louisiana has naturally mads New Orleans a special market for this description, and ithe classification here has hitherto not only been yery but always a grade or two above the bearing similar titles in Liverpool. The general deterioration of quality, since the war, remarked is also complained of here and orders from Continental spinners for New Orleans "middling" and upwards can with difficulty be filled this season. The related control of labour under negro eman cipation, cultivation Or even in cotton-growmg as a life-industry, are no doubt the chief causes of a downward tendency of quality, under whioh "ordinarv" be comes but the "low ordinary" of former times, and the highest grades are more and more scarce. The general belief is that the best-conditioned cotton, both' upland and bottom land, is grown by small white farmers who plant a few acres "as a mere, element in their system" oi husbandry, and cultivate and pick the crop with the labour chiefly of their own families. The change passing over the whole cotton-planting industry probably affords a fair opportunity for adopting a common standard of quality, and making the Liverpool classification, with probably some little extension at.

either, end -of it, the general rule, whereby all purposes would be met, and transactions be greatly simplified and assured. A new Cotton Exchange Board, being organised in New Orleans, will probably aid in introducing this and other desirable improvements in, the system of dealing. The merchants and cotton factors of New Orleans, on resuming business. after' the war, adopted the old system of making 'Advances to! cotton' planters at a distance. from their but, under tho serious difficulties of disorganised labour and want of capital, did not find such a policy to answer, and a new class of houses are springing 1.1.- up, luvauky tiuvr, wjiu, CBbauilBUMJg Uljorea thelittle towns aearthe plantations, are becoming middlemen" through whose" hands the cotton passes from the growers into the market of New Orleans, and whose conditions of advance are almost necessarily marked by a'degree of rigour and mercenariness that was unknown in former tunes, and that will probablyenndandimpoveriah the great mass of poorer cultivators, white and black, for a long period to come.

While New Orleans is thus holding its old place so well in cotton, itisvery strikioa that in Bugar, the chief staple of Louisiana, and with rich sugar plantations all round New Orleans oyer hundreds of square miles, the leeway, into -which all fell by the war, should be very slowly and feebly.recovered. The exports of sugar and moloases from New Orleans do not afford any criterion of general progress as in the case of cotton, beoause; the sugar- of Louisiana chiefly into i domestic consumption, not in New urieans ana xjouiaiana aione, out by "up-river trattic in all parts ot the West where New OrleahB has natural and indisputable corrimamial relations. "The consumption of sugar in other parts of the tJnited States is supplied by the raw sugars of Cuba and the WeBt Indies, brought into New York and other Northern and Eastern ports to be refined, and thence distributed to all parts of the Union; the Western field of Louisiana included. The exports of sugar and molasses from New Orleans are thus such, fragments" of tha native as, in the edoenfrioityrof commerce, find their wav I into the aeHrts4 etnd.axe ubj suggestive f- l. iititPM.

a GuiiKisariHsuitpri.j NSi XXI3DS-0 Ks Orleans, La'Jfeb. MIA The Coming Each. William Blackwood Sons, Edinburgh ana London. Swift has been often imitated, but never, we think, with more originality of conception than in this romanoe of "The Coming Race." Per- riaps we ought not to say "imitated but simply "followed," for, as a matter of fact, the author has avoided entirely the slavishness' of manipulative imitation. Any resemblance which may be supposed to exist between Gulliver and' The Conung Race lies rather in the idea than in 'the Bsecution.

two works are, therefore, allied, not in form but in thought' and ptopoae the new tale, though narrated with admirable irqumstantiaUty Tand seriousness, as uudoubed fact, is 'from, begin-aing to end, but one which, like Swift, touches all the great questions and problems of the day in politics, science, and religion. Ti hero of the story ia an American, who has naturally a most seK-siistaining belief in the perfection and glory of the greatest of all the Republics, ancient or modern. He is travelling somewhere, not improbably in England, though the name of the place ia studiously concealed. At the invitation of a prof essional engineer, he goes to Jnspeota.mine. In.

their descent the engineer ia killed, while the hero is left at the alone and without the means of returning, for their grappling gear loosens and goes to the bottom after them. The sight which meets the adventurer's gaze is certainly one of the most astounding which mortal eye ever beheld. It is neither more nor less than a vast subterranean country, lighted up by ah infinite number of lamps, and watered by lakes and rivulets. As the new Aladdin stands bewildered looking about-him, he sees ravines and defiles opening amidst the rocks, "with passes between, evidently constructed by art, and bordered by trees resembling, for the most part, gigantic ferno, with exquisite varieties of feathery foliage, and stems like those ofxnalm trees. Others, were more like the cane-plant, but uuuir, wearing large clusters ol Mowers.

Others, gain, had the form of enormous fungi, with auorii imcK stems, supporting a wide dome-use roof, from which either rose or drooped long sieimer tranclies Tins world without a sun is and warm as an Italian landscape at 'noon; out tne air less oppressive, tho heatsotter. There is.no sky, but only a cavernous roof." 'which grows higher and higher, till it becomes imperceptible in an atmosphere of haze which lorms itself, beneath. As the wanderer advances discovers, embedded amidst the vegetation, buildings that seemed the abodes of men. In fact; he soon perceives that appear to be human moving amidst the landscape. One of these beangs approaches withm a few yards of -the intruder, who, at the sight and presence of bu ouuwjtraueitu is seizea wicn an indescribable awe and tremor.

'The creature is tall not gigantic, "but tall as the tallest men below the height of It reminds him of "'symbolical images of Genius or Demon seen on Etruscan vases or limned on the walls of Eastern -sepulchres imBges that borrow the outlines of man, and are yet of another race." The chief covering of this figure is a pair of wings folded over its breast and reaching to its knees. It wears a kind of tiara which shines with jewels, and in its right hand it carries "a staff of bright metal like polished steel." But the face of this -mysterious being is what strikes the adventurer most. It is the face of man, he says, "but of a type of man distinct from our known extant races. The nearest approach to it in Outline and expression is the face of the sculptured sphinxso regular in its calm, intellectual, mysterious beauty." Further, its colour is peculiar "more like that of the red man than any other variety of our species, and yet different from it a richer and softer-hue, with large black eyes, deep and brilliant, aad brows --arched ns a RpmimrnlA beardless which some may regard as a proof that uu in juuiuuga ia innniieiy more perfectly developed than our own at least farther removed from the hairy, ear-pointed creature of the Darwinian theory. This turns out to be the case.

The people thus accidentally discovered in the bowels of the earth are a race immensely advanced in civilisation, so that even the American appears to them to be only an ignorant "Tish," or little barbarian. They are beautiful, wise, and powerful beyond anything found on the surface of the earth. Physically and mentally, the females of this race (called the Vril-ya) are larger than, and superior to, the males, which may possibly comfort certain in the upper world. It will also interest our lady friends to learn that in matters of love and courtship it is the female who woos and the male who ia wooed among the Vril-ya communities. The name "Vril-ya," we may mention, is derived from the possession by that Btraage people of a power called "Vril," which they discover after battling thousands of years with the natural forces; so that the superiority ot the Vril-ya is "supposed to.

nave originated in the intensity of their earlier struggles against obstacles in nature amidst the localities in which they first settled." Vril is vaguely defined as electrioity, but it "com- iprehends in its manifold branohes other Eorcea of nature, to which, in onr scientific nomenclature, different names are assigned, such as magnetism, galvanism, sc. xneae people consider that in Vril they have arrived at the unity in natural energic agencies, which has been conjeciureaoymany pnuosopners aboveground," and which Faraday intimates under the more cautious term of correlation. By the application of Vril scientifically through conductors the Vril-ya are enabled to do things that look like miracles rend a mountain, or reduce in a moment an army of ten thousand to dust and ashes. In faot, this power is so destructive that the discovery of it practically putB ah end to war. Ita employment would simply have implied the annihilation of the Vril-ya nations, as it annulled all superiority in numbers, discipline, or military skill.

On the other hand, differently applied, Vril can "replenish or invigorate life, heal, and preserve, and on it they $hiefty rely for the cure of disease, or rather for enabling the physical organisation to reestablish the equilibrium of its natural powers, and thereby to cure itself. It is also the source from which they extract light- for the illumination of their cities. The system of government in existence among the Subterraneans is apparently complicated, but really Bimple'. It is based upon "a principle recognised in theory, though little carried out in practice, above ground that the object of all systems of philosophical thought tends to the attainment of unity, or tho ascent through all intervening labyrinths to the simplicity of a -single first cause or principle." They have a proverb to this effect: "No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without nnity." There is neither poverty nor crime among the Vril-ya, not that property is held in common, or that all possess the same amount of anything or live the same, kind of life but there being no difference of rankorpositionbetweonthegradesof wnslthnr the choice of occupations, each pursues his own inclinations; some like a modest, some a -more splendid kind of life each makes himself happy, in his own way. The Vril-ya have made vsondarfnl advances in the mechanical sciences aiid the' wings to which -we referred are simply a mechanical invention.

They fly through the air- like birds, impelled by Vril, arid they have air-boats moved by the same powers by which they can send messages or merchandise or emigrate to other cplonies-r-this last being a common expedient among the Vril-ya for the purpose Keeping down the population to a certain ugure. were is no war, ana inere- fore -no -diplomacy- or-statecraft, what may, be called their foreign, department ia used ohiefly- for: the purpbse.of aseerteining all new and another, department is charged with the trial of all suoh inventions' and improvements in machinery. Conhected with this department1 is a College of Sages, principally favoured by such as are widowed and childless, and by young unmarried females. daughter of Aph-Lin, chief of the lighting dspartment, is one of the shining 'lights of this Collage, in which she is "It is by the female Professors," says the adventurer, "that, those studies which are deemed of least use ia practical life---as purely speculative 'phUos'ophjv the history of remote periods, andsnch sciences as entomology, are. most diligently cultivated." Zee who is a kind of Aristotle, has written two volumes oh the parasite insect that dwells among the hairs or a tiger paw ana is the best authority on the subject.

There is no class of laboarers or servants, but as machinery is employed to an inconceivable extent, the children are used to attend and control it, from the time they leave their mothers to the marriageable age, which is placed at sixteen for the Gy-ei (the females), twenty for the Ana (the males)." We may also mention that the Vril-ya have invented automata, which, being moved by Vril, perform many of the important offices assigned to servants among ourselves. A very interesting portion of the story refers to the probable originoftho Vril-ya. We oannot, vtae BnghrsIUieJNortnernrehneries. in isub-7 ortea aoy nnds. ana iuu 21,893 btf'rrelsOf moIasseVv 1805 hhds.

in0i barrelslof acta. rom a ilaporfcpublished here with the acceptance of the A am enabled to sive'the following results, which let us see down to the roots BUgar proauotion in xjuuiaiana oeiore ana since the war. The produce of sugar in 1861-2 under the "old process" of open kettles was 389,264 and under the "refining and clarifying" process 70,146 all, 528,321,500 lbs. In the sugar under "old process' was and oi "renned and clarified" 13,619 hhds or in all, only 99,452,946 lb's. So thatwhile the production of cotton in.

the i 1 'i t. j' nomnorn oiaiiea una live veara.auou&'reuuimu the level it had attained under slave labour before iiho war, the pr of Bugai isl still barely one-fifth what' it was in 1861-62, and had almost; some nuccuations, several years' before: coiiitTast" is so remarkable. and bo olearly not to bo accounted for by any free dimculfcy, as. to indicate in my opinion -some special obstacles afieotina, this branch of production in Louisiana, and. requiring De-careiuiiy investigated.

The tobacco market in New Orleans, though with more apparent also recovers but slowly, the; position it' held before-the The receipts of tobacco at this port in 1859-60 80955 hhds. In 1867-8 they, had, from almost total disappearance during the war, risen 'only to hhds in.l868r9 they increased to 28,026 hhds and they again fell in 1869-70 to 19093 hhda. The receipts andjexports of tobacco at Ne Orleans remain lower than, with the exception of the war years, they have been at any period for half a century. The merchants of New ork, by pushing their capital among the WoBtern growers when Now Orleans was cloaed by the blockade, obtained an ascendency which they continue to hold with tenacity; and Louisville, profiting by the same state of thing's, has become one of the greatest tobacco markets in the United States. But the merchants-of New Orleans are giving due attention to this' ancient branch of the trade of the city the official inspections are conducted with great efficiency and there 13 much confidence that by a good regular market and reduced charges New Orleans will win back, in course of time, a great portion of this almost lost traffic.

The tobacco of New -Orleans is drawn ohiefly from Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, and Tennessee, Very little is said of Louisianian tobacco and tho production of the State, I imagine, must be very limited. But the soil of Louisiana yields prime tobacco, and any keen smoker who has "had a course of the "hay and stubble" of the inland towns of the South relishes with almost Elysian fervour the New Orleans, so fine in flavour, and yet strong in all genuine tobacco properties. There can be no doubt that were tobacco steadily cuBivated in Louisiana, the trade of New Orleans in this commodity would take all the sooner a fresh start, and that the native product would come to be ia large demand for export, more especially to England and Scotland, where there are ho Government monopolies, and where people who smoke like to get, with as little circumlocution or humbug as possible, at the Nicotine in its beat and highest form. Rice is a rapidly increasing product in Louisiana since the close of the war, and is declared ia fifteen parishes, where it is now successfully oultivated as well as prepared in first-clasB mills, to have reached during the past year 100,748 barrels of 200 lbs. The receipts of flour at New Orleans are very large, amounting in 1869-70 to 1,641,477 barrels, of which 556,323 barrelB were exported; but the efforts made during the last two or three years, including the erection of a patent elevator after the style of Chicago, and forming quite a prominent architectural feature on the ievee, to divert some of the many millions of bushels of wheat of the North-West, destined for Livernnnl and other British ports, by the southern river route to the seaboard, have so far been attended with only very, partial success.

The exports of wheat during the past season were under half a million of bushels. It is obvious that whether in recoverincr trade lost or diverted by the war, or in conquering a share of new trade that may be more naturally and economically directed from this point than from anywhere else, New Orleans nniBt labour under great disadvantages from the destruction which passed over ita mercantile and banking capital in the disastrous years from 1860 to and this fact meets one at everv turn in a survey of the commercial situation here. Where New. York, travelling away out 'of ita beat, -'supplanted New Orleans by large and free capital, and by naval and military power during Mia war Mlmnopiol rt in.iwi tinues to hold the new relatione thus established VJ. UUJ1" by force of its superior monetary resources, and by a pressure oh canals apd' railways, carried to the last degree of stringency, nay even to pursuance of purely local interests, and in total disregard of the only patriotic idea, an equally developed and perfectly attuned and harmonised Union; and if New Orleans, by straining her utmost means, can with difficulty, and but partially recover lost ground, with how much greater difficulty, or wherewithal, shall, she be able to take her proper share of the new sources of wealth and commerce always being developed? The prosperity of New OrleanB, so far, consists in the handling of the raw products, commanding world-wide markets, of extended and wonderfully fertile regions of which she ia the natural and unavoidable emporium and.

nm than likely, it is only because the great demand for cotton ia outaiae too united states, wnere the commercial interests are rich and strong enough to operate, without any roundabout, in all the cmei centres or supply, that the Crescent City has been so rapidly reinstated in this branch of commerce. Wherever the northern cities successfully took up the trade of New Orleans during the war, they have continued more or less to prevail; and from the start thus made are tho better able, with all their conserved capital and" profits, to make fresh incursionB and conquests even now when New Orleans is again free and at work, but with greatly dilapidated resourcea. The magnitude of business here is seen only in the export of domestic products: in the import of foreign commodities, whether for domestic consumption orf orre-export, as well as in all branches of manufacture, or partial manufacture, for which New Orleans has peculiar advantages, it dwindles into marked disproportion. The value of domestic products exported from New Orleans to foreign countries last fiscalyear was 107,658,042 dollars b) the value of merchandise imported from ioreign countries was only dollars. The duties collected on foreign merchandise in the same year amounted to 5,441,825 dollars, considerably more than a third of the value of the goods, showing the severity with which the LL.

-1 A tariii 01 sue mieci states represses ail reciprocal exchange, but which, not being confined to New Orleans, does not enter directly into the special aspect of the ease before ub. The great, bulk of the uustoms duties 01 the United States are collected in the modest building in Wall Street of New, York. The imposing Maine granite Custom House of New Orleans must "have been designed when different ideas and interests prevailed, and when New Orleans was both presently and prospectively one of the chief sources of this branch of revenue. which, no doubt, under a wise polity, she might Bim Decome. rc is, jmbw uneanB cannot be supposed to supply, direct, the.

exten sive, countries from which she draws her im mense quantities of cotton, sugar and molasses, and hides and other raw products, with mnr than a tithing of the foreign merchandise thev consume, and of which she is the proper and moat eeonomicai.port entry. A very considerable proportion of her limited imports con sists of commodities which must be almost reckoned exceptional. Looking over a list, in the office of the British Consul, of vessels antererl. abont one in every four or five was a vessel from uarditi or some other port in Wales with English rails, rendered necessary by the great ore-sure of railway projects and a still larnAr proportion in ballast. Steamers and sailing ships.

after discharging their foreign cargoes in New York, come round for freights of cotton all the way here, and some still longer distances, in ballast an incumbrance which, in some phases of the cotton market, might present itself to American protectionists as only a little spoiling of the Egyptians in Lancashire, but which in the meantime can only bo an aggravation every way of the withering effects of present prices on the cotton-planters and the negroes. The foreign commodities re-exported from New Orleans, amounting in 1869-70 to only 446,418 dollars value, exhibit aB strongly1 aa anything else at once the maimed condition of trade aiid the great opportunities which, under better auspices, might here present themselves. The immediate proximity of this Southern port to Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil gives it peculiar facilities tor an intermediary tratho betwixt these countries and Europe while of their staples sugar, coffee, and other produce it ia the pre-eminently qualified entrepot for all the Bouthernandwesternregionsof theUnitedSfeates. Yet iii this lucrative field New Orleans haa sadly loBt ground. In the ten years before, the war she imported 3,293,881 bags of cogee a full oi Snsar and Rico tfj BouoliMeau.

t'ttrl IMlira9 wm ono-tenth. 'Sf the total import of coffee into tho qiii.oi: While of the autiar of Cuba albno Now) York imported last year 219,713 tbiia; New; Orleans appears to have taken of' Cuban both only boxes, barrelo, and hogsheads, and from other places than Cuba her imports of sugar and molasses were 'entirely insignificant. Beyond the native product of Louisiana, New Orleans, though in the middle of it all, supplies or refines very little sugar for any part of the country. The immense trade in foreign sugar and molasses in the United States about six orBeven times more than the homeproduct--has gone round to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and north-eaatern ports. The volume of New imeans traae witn tne interior, north and up-river to the west, ia no doubt, apart from foreign commodities, immense.

Yet even here the weak side of the Crescent City appears for in all the return traffic of dry goods, hardware, boots, and other artioles of consumption, the merohants of St Louis and Louisville, strong in purse and enterprise from the safety which covered them during the war, are making their hand largely felt, putting steamboats of their own even on the' Mississippi, and not only passing over Memphis and trading up the Arkansas and Red Rivers, but shooting over the head of New Orleans itself hundreds of miles into Texas: and selling to the furthest south-western limits of the Union not only American manufactures, but foreign goods imported at New York, and thence passed, with accumulated profits, through many uttuus over tne length and breadth ot a continent, which could be quite as conveniently laid down on the levees 01 the Mississippi as on the shores of the Hudson, and hence distributed to the consumers with inoomparably less cost and trouble. There does not appear to be any want of perception of all this, or of the necessary energy and determination to correct it, among the merchants and business people of New Orleans. It is the result mainly of the laming effeota of the war upon this as upon other Southern seaports, and of a perfectly South-destroying system of import duties and the tendency, however slow, must be for it to pass away. The natural laws of trade, whioh are superior to temporary misfortune and even to fiscal impolicy, will in course of time assert their power the products of human industry will find' out their best channels of inlet and outlet and while this happy consummation may be rendered more rapid by wise and impartial legislation in the United States, it can not fail to receive an impulse also from the general attention ana observation ot the mercantile world. SUNDAY TRADING IN LONDON.

Mr P. A. Taylor, M.P., writes to the Daily News under date 6th June I beg you to allow me to narrate two cases which came under my notice yesterday, in sufficiently striking illustration of the working of the Act of CharleB II. Those who are now putting it into operation do so in absolute opposition to the old heroic maxim they spare the strong while they strike down the weak. Yesterday morning a little girl came to me in great distress, stating that her mother, who keeps a small sweet shop in the neighbourhood, had been suddenly dragged off by the police non-payment of fines for Sunday trading), leaving six young children unguarded and that, her father being away from home at work, she did not know what to do.

She said they had paid many fines, but this time they actually had not the means and from the empty condition ot the shop as I subsequently ascertained this was probably correct. In the course of the day the father called, and said he could not appear at the Court to help his wife, as there was a warrant against him for a similar offence. I rather advised that he and his wife should go quietly to prison, in pursuance of the well-know observation of an advocate to his client, Only let them hang you, and they'll see what we will do but this advice not seeming palatable possibly the six children stood in the way the only further suggestion I could make was that they should plead that the prisoner was a married woman. I hear this morning that this plea has resulted in her temporary release, the magistrate taking time to consider the point. So much for one case.

The second case, which came off at the Mansion House yesterday, is described to me as follows: The Free Sunday Association resolved to test the law in its application to one of the most gorgeous functionaries probably of the known world, Mr William Harding, the State-coaohman of the Lord Mayor, thus described in a graphic report which has been sent to me of the proceedings "He wore a red coat trimmed with gold lace, buff breeches, and pink Btockings, three-cornered hat trimmed with gold and red lace," Against this magnificent individual a summons was demanded, for that on Sunday-the 28th of May he did, in defiance of the Act 29 pursue his ordinary calling by driving the Lord Mayor in his State-carriage from the Mansion House to St Cathedral, the distance being about one-third of a mile, the progress being performed with great ceremony, and involving the attendance of many equally gorgeous persons, all fulfilling their ordinary calling. My correspondent says he cannot admit that the occupation of Mr Harding could be termed a work of necessity, and somewhat disrespectfully adds, "it was only a work of display and pomp." He states also that many of the attendants on the ceremony, while their masters were in the cathedral, regaled themselves in the Tavern, the hour being (sad to relate) not one during which public-houses are licensed to be open. Perhaps it is needleBs to add that the Lord Mayor refused to grant the summons, upon the ground that the offence doeB not come within the statute." These cases speak for themselves. The amount of persecution carried on in this neighbourhood and the suffering caused is very considerable. I have been as yet quite unable to secure a day for the introduction of my bill for the repeal Of the obnoxious Act under which these prosecutiona take place.

So far as I can a large majority of the House of Commons is adverse to the Act, but a very email number of its strenuous supporters, in the present condition of busi ness, can render it very difficult to get the bill through even its first stage. I shall let slip no opportunity, but should I fail I think the Government will hardly permit the session to close without taking some steps in the matter themselves. That the present Bystem of persecution should be allowed to continue through the recess would be simply intolerable, and would, I believe, tend to provoke a system of severe reprisals. The Republic of Mexico has inhabitants. The Extraokdinauy Clerical Election Proceedings at Bilston.

On Thursday night a two dayB' poll closed with a signal victory for the Rev. CharleB Lee, the vicar of Holy Trinity, Haveratock Hill, London and an equally signal defeat for hiB opponent, the Rev. C. Bruce Ward, who haB been the curate in charge during the latter months of the life of the late Rev. H.

S. Fletcher. The nomination, extending over three hours on Tuesday, and the polling on Wednesday and Thursday, from ten in the forenoon till half-past eight at night, were throughout char acterised by all the features of a severely contested Parliamentary election. Colours dis tinguished the respective sideB. CabB, extensively placarded, and every other kind of vehicle were extemporised to bring up voters.

The excitement and turbulence were considerable towards the close of the day. The Rev. Mr wara, the losing candidate, was burned in effigy. This provoked an opposition from his friends, and stones and bricks were freely thrown. Bands then paraded the town, advocating the vo.ubj ui mik ivvu uwnixu uanaiaates, armed with sticks; whilst the troops "of colliery girls and lads, chiefly Irish, who are partisans of Mr Ward, moving in regimental' order, broke windows.

The International International Exhibition now presents some new features. Additionalparcels of Exhibition goods having recently arrived from France, the French industrial annexe, which has hitherto been almost empty is being rapidly filled, and hopes are entertained that it may be ready for opening on Monday. The third consignment of goods from New South Wales haB arrived. New South Wales, tho oldest of our Australian colonies, is also the best represented of all our colonial possessions, whether in Australia 1 or elsewhere. It is the only colony to which a separate court has been assigned by her Majesty's Commissioners, or rather which has provided a separate court for itself for the building where its products are exhibited has been erected at the colony's own expense.

It in a neat wooden structure, measuring 45 feet by 27 feet, and is situated in the open snace b. tiween the eastern galleries and Exhibition Road, A considerable portion of the goods forwo.tded from Sydney, and expected to arrive hero fcbout uuu MnuuiB ui Apm, went aown with the ill-fated Queen of the Thames off the Cape of Good Hope. A collection of objects rum Queens-laud, forwaraed by the same vessel, perished by the same osdamity. That collecJAon, consisting chiefly of mineralogieal specimens, was nearly all the representation. ff Queensland was depending upon, TUB NEW MIKJSTEKS.

M. Lambrecht, the suooesaor of tho outiwi Minister of the Interior, is a Liberal of tSflt proclivities, but by no means a fanatical adhere of the famUy of Louis Philippe. M. Lambu is promoted to the department ho now prea'rl over from that of Commeree and where he is succeeded by Viotor Lefranc, one 'f the few Republicans in the Chamber with weakness for Protection. The appointment nf M.

Lambrecht isaconcessionto the monar; majority of the Assembly, which, it ia whisper1 M. Thiers would be yery glad to dissolve auief at an, early opportunity. The Ministry of Interior is always the most important politick post a Prenoh Cabinet, and it may be tha Thiers places it in the hands of one who avn he has monarchical sympathies, to render a JrVS appeal to the country palatable to the ratal? M. Leon Say was very near being distanced 111 the race for the Prefecture of the Seine bv Augustin Cochin, a member of the Society of Vincent de Paul, formerly a Municipal Cbttr.it lor under Haussmann, a millionaire, and a litw ary man of some mark. Daily News.

DULNBSS OF THE CUV. Paris, writes a correspondent, is a city of tho dead. After all, it is not a crowd that makes a city or at least it is not a crowd that makes a capital. The glory of a caDital is that there you are in the very heart of a nation you are at the centre of its moral life. Here there is no life the heart oi the nation is dead we have no opinions wo only ask what are tho opinions likely to prevail at Versailles.

The journals appear every day and produce their little articles, but nobody can think of these articles as the fair outcome of Parisian thought. Paris is thoroughly dis. graced it is standing in a corner and never since it rose out of the mud from which it is supposed to derive its ancient name haa it been so completely extinguished as a part of France. Paris that ruled the fair land of France Paris that with one word could put all France in a frenzy of wrath, or in a dance of joy Paris which could boast that when sh spoke all France spoke poor Paris is in ths stocks, iB looking very demure, and has not a word to say, The oity is very strange to ma now. I do not seem to know it.

Even in tbs time of the Commune it seemed aa if soma part of Paris were speaking. The beat part of Paris had fled; but, atill, what remainod represented in all its wildness and error some, thing of Parisian life. But now all is dead. We go about as in a dream, and all tha life of Paris is for the moment in abeyanoe, Since Paris for the time exists only as a show-place, a vast caravanserai of strangers, lot ma put my too-trustful countrymen on their guard on one point. The Parisian shopkeeper haa to be dealt with charily.

He always charges a foreigner heavily but just now he is raising his prices wonderfully and fearfully. In the last nine months' he has scarcely sold anything. He has been keeping his shop open day after day at a dead loss and now he wants to make up for ail. His theory is that all the new customers must make up for the old losses. Hia goods, too, are a year old he haa nothing new but he expects yon to pay for hia old goods as if they were in the latest fashion.

One. little trait of Parisian trade amuses me. I told you some weeks ago that there was not to be found in Paris a tin of condensed milk all had disappeared. Here and there, as a great favour, yon might pick one up at a cost of threp shillings. Directly the army comes into Paris, and the shops are opened, the windows are again crammed with tin pots of milk for a shilling.

Where have they all come from Tho Parisian grocer thought that the Commune would last much longer than it did, and that he would have a good long time in which to make a harvest of his milk at three shillings the tin. Now he ia glad to get rid of his milk at any price. You see pots of milk for sale. in tobacco shops, ia ironmongers' here mixed up with millinery, and there confused with dentifrice and small-toothed combs. SELECTED FOR DEATH, A correspondent of the Daily News gives a graphic account of a scene he witnessed in Paris this week.

He writes thus The column of prisoners halted in the Avenue Uhrich, and was drawn up fonror five deep on the footway facing to tho road. General the Marquis de Galiifet and his staff, who had preceded us there, dismounted, and commenced an inspection from tha left of the line, and near where I was. Walking down slowly, and eyeing the ranks as if at an inspection, the General stopped here and there, tapping a man on the shoulder, or beckoning him out of the rear ranks. In most cases, without further parley, the individual thus selected was marched out into the centre of the road, where a small supplementary column was thus soon formed. Could there have bees any doubt in the mind of a looker-on of tha object of this selection, it must have been soon dispelled by the conduct and countenances of the selected.

They evidently knew too well that their last hour was come, and it was fear fully interesting to see their different demeanours. One, already wounded, his shirt soaked with blood, at down, in the road and howled with anguish, calling on God and his mother alternately in the most pitiable terma others wept iu silence two soldiers, presumed deserters, pale but collected, appealed to all the other prisoners as to whether they had ever seen them amongst their ranks; some smiled defiantly, and others staggered out with a filmy glaze on their eyes and a leaden-coloured countenance, as it deatft Had already seized them. It was an awful thing to see one man thus picking out a batch of his fellow-creatures to be put to a violent death in a few minutes without further trial, rio doubt most of them had richly deserved their fate, but it was equally evident that there was considerable room for error. A few paces from where I stood a mounted officer pointed out to General Galiifet a man and woman for some particular offence. The woman, rushing out of the ranks, threw herself on her knee3, and with outstretched arms implored mercy, and protested her innocence in passionate terms.

The General waited for a pause, and then, with moat impassible face and unmoved demeanour, said, "Madame, I have visited every theatre in Paris, your acting will have no effect on me" n'est pas la peine de jouer la The Times' correspondent presents a view of the proceedings of the Versaillists somewhat more agreeable The Government (he says) are taking advantage of everv legitimate excuse tn mitigate tho punishments as much as poasiblc. it is maeea saie xo assert tnat the people ot Paris who were not Communists have been much more bloodthirsty than the soldiers. So long as actual fighting was in progress the executions were necessarily summary but the trials are now conducted with calmness, and prisoners are only dealt with after their guilt has been unmistakably proved. Indeed, enough justice has, per-hapB, not been done to the French lignard lor his conduct throughout the taking of Paris. Proposed Monument to thk Archtu It is proposed to erect a monument to the memory of the lamented prelate, probably ia one of the chapels about the choir of Notre Dame, and large subscriptions have been ollerei for this purpose.

It is not certain, however, that the Assembly will not see fit to follow the precedent of 1848, when 2000 was voted for monument to Archbishop Affre Napoleon on America. The ex-Emperor ot the recently wrote the following note to a gentleman in JNew York: "The Jimperor Napoleon thanks Mr for the newspaper ho, sent him, and he is deeply sensible of the sympathy which he has expressed for him; and, on his side, he cherishes the most sincere wishes for America, which affords to the world tho grand spectacle of a country truly free and knowing how to, govern itself. Cliiaehiurat, 1871." Paris Newspapers, The following is curious list of newspapers which have been pub lished in Paris Bince the 1st of March I Patrieen Deuil "Le Tam-Tam;" "La Pcre DuchSne" "LeFilsdu Pere DuchOne "I Mere Dueh6ne;" Le Mont-Aventin "Le Chatimenfc;" "La Commune;" "LaVraioRc; publiquo-;" "La Sociale "La Montague; "L'AffBanchi Le Vengeur "L'Action: Le Trait-d'Union "LoGrelot;" "Le Bon net Rouge;" Paris Libre "La Nation Sou-veraiae;" "L'Echodu Soir;" "La Fronde 11-lustree L'Estafette L'Aini du Peuple LaPaix" (formerly 'Bien Public' ') L'Etoile "La Revolution:" "Jacques Bonhommc "L'TJrLinrt BVanraiiiA Bulletin tocs- Bmnal;" "Le Corsair etle Pirate" (incarnaticsB tin "Poftt. "Ttnl iT-i Justice: lje Spectatenr" (another form of "La 1 ranee). "L'Anonymo" (another form of "La Paix "La Discussion "L'lndependance Franeaisa; "Le Regime Constitutionnel "La Constitution "Le Republicain" (new form oi 'L "L'Evenoment Illustre "Le Bulletin du Jour;" "Le Salut Public;" "L'Kcho do Paris" de "La Politique "Le Journal (formerly and "La Ffldiralisto.

To these have to bV added "Le Cri du I'cup'o. "Le Tricolors," "LoReveildu Peuple," "Liul de Marat," "La F6d6ration," and a few others. HVHUlllJltVUU P1UVCU1V uui Ul ttblUU UUU where they like outside, takeonto their semcel untimely pioking.andthelargenumberof sporadic the Bepoys i who. are supposed to guard them, growers with no permanent interest in their farms consequent olovenly and entertain their friends to dinner, and are free to draw lor a wnoie gallon of rum at one time. Unluckily the dinners and the drinking sometimes lead to quarrelB; which now and then end in blood-Bhedding or dowm-ight murder.

IA11 this came out at the Calcutta Criminal Sessions on May 6, when a Port-Blair convict, James Devise, was convicted of murdering a comrade in a drunken quarrel, the sad but not unnatural close of an evening Bpent by Devine and ihis friends in getting through a gallon of rum. Devino, becoming mad'driinkj battered in head of the man who had lain nearest bun that night. "He was found guilty, but recommended to mercy oh the plea that the crime would 'not in all probability have been committed but for the disgraceful laxity of discipline and wan; of 'proper control over the convicts at as shown in the evidence." Whatever becomes of particular ruffian, we may hope that General D. Stewart, the new Governor of the Andaman will remove like temptations to like deeds of violence out of the convicts' way. Lord Napier, we are told, has long sighed for a little more discipline at.

Port-Blair, and 'General Stewart, as being his own selection, may be' trusted to. carry out the desired reforms. A lien's Indian Mail. The London Republicans and French Com munists. We supplement our report of the pro- ceeamgs oi ni meeting oi me juonaon nepupli-cans, heldon Wednesday, by thefollowing extraot from a more extended, report Mr Nieasa said the English working men did not understand what the Communists had been fighting for, and he defended the actions of the Communists, and justified their destruction' of public buildings il.

JA 1 A uic maasaure ux oao uwwgcs. jxlt tiarry and other members of the committee warmly, repudiated this justification of murder, and they declared that the taking of human life was unjustifiable on one side or the other. Mr Odger proposed a resolution pledging the committee to use its best efforts to give Victor Hugo, should he come to this country, a welcome worthy of his honour, patriotiam, and ability. Objections were made to the proposed welcome on the score that, though -M. wsb a good man, and a humane yet he did not belorig to the Commune, and it was proposed, formally, to get up a demonstration, infayour of the Commune.

The motion Mr Odger was rejooted oh a show of hands, the extreme party holding that M. Hugo was not pronounced enough. Theiac-' tion of the Belgian Government in -turningjM. Hugo lOut ofRelgium. was, however, warmly jde-nounced on all Bidesv A resolution1 was then proposed that M.

Thiers should be persojilly requested to be merciful to the prisoners now in the-hands, of the'Frehch but this was rejeoted in a very name of the prosent hoad of the French-Government evoked most bitter expressionB, the meeting holding him respohsibje for the' less, of lluo and destruction of propeHy iaPww. i.

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