The Express. — London, England, 1853-10-25 00:00:00

150 e Court. WINDSOR, Ocr. 24. The Queen held &Court and Privy Council at three cask afternoon at the Castle. The privy Council was attended by His Royal Highness Place Al's rt, the Earl Granville, Lord President i the Bart of Aberdeen , First Lord of the Treasury ; told John Wurl the E 471 4 ' l Clarendon , Secretary of State for r. t e g gis Alleire; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State re the C await*: Sir Jaw Graham, First Lori of the 'tit. ; the Ritht lion. W. H. Gladstone, Chancellor t h. fleebegaer; tee Duke of Norfolk, turd Steward; tee f i ,ka Wellington, Mister of the Horse ; the Marquis .f A beesen, License or the Stale to Prince Albert; sod Lad L ,„,„ f hei f er, Vice-Chamberlain (officiating for the to Ck incerain.) M the Conseil parliament was ordered to be further Driven: from Thatelay nest, the 27th inst., arena the : t o ; N o tember. Joh:. Parker, E.g.. h command of the Queen, was Asire 3111 .r.y'e twat hoonsrable Privy Council. rucirsostio• was fused fur the election of a Scotch seprisho.tive pe:r in the 1104113 of the late Lord Saltouu. Th. 11, .Wilaana Ritharst was the Clerk of the Council vraitinr. At the court, Mists Khan, the Persian Minister, had an a base • a her Majes;y. ills Excellency was introduced by tie } fo rt of Clarrden, the (411 , 111'11 principal Secretary d State r Fern's , .ttf .irs, and was attended by the Secre tary Icfer,•reterof t.., Legation. Lion` had ar audience of the Queen. that 'AI Lapis was prenntid to her ltiLijesty at an endi ng* by_ the Earl of Clarendon. W Hottrini had au audience of the Queen. liar Majesty 11110 VIVI* audiences to the Earl of Aber &ea, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl Granville, and .L.hr. Lad di Tattler and tient:Colonel the Hon. It. Boyle were the Lord and Orions in Waiting. Ike Queen and the Lathes' of Brabant took equestrian es /tie ia the t .use this morning. Prince Albert with the King of the Belgians, and the Dine of Brabant and the Count of Flanders, went out stutrusE Cob toreaoon, etsn led by Colonel Wyld, the Cant Gustave de lonnoy, and Colonel de Moerkeike. The Doke and Vileness of Wellington and the lion. Gabes G .re, left t:.e title to-day for London. l'ke Illght Hon. W. E Gladstone, after the Privy Conseil, remits-4 at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. The Earl sad Counters of Clarendon have been invited end are tip eall this afternooL. The l'inriss Miuistrr (atteudtd by Major Malcolm), the Drape' Newcastle, Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, the Itiriodi of Abereora, Lord Eeuest. Bruce, the Chancel lor at tar EachAtier, Sir James Graham, the Hon. W. Bathurst. t.c. E. Ly and Mr. J. Parker, travelled from Loodoh ~tined tit* Privy Conseil by a special train on the W stain Railway, and arrived at the Castle eg-et 3 w w mot:Tird in the Castle bathe noblemen and pansies uttei—sue her Majesty's Court. Miir the Council the D ike of Newcastle, the Persian Master, Earl Uremia., Sir James Graham, the Right La. J •Ao Fakir. tie Hon. W. Bathurst, and other sus sno 1., left the Castle at bell past 4 o'clock, and ro amed a special train on the Great Western Railway to rOdlour.:n. Lord .1 ,I.a Russell travelled from his residence, Pent bratur-todee, ltiehra...tilepark, to the Castle, to atetod the Privy Co.o.cil. The 11-op of Newra.tle arrived in town yesterday morn iad hate hia seat. tlember-park, Nolte. t h.nee.lor of 1.. e Examiner arrived in town yedar da from Hawardus tilde, near Chester. Despatches wer.• .ent off lest evening from the Colonial ebes I•.r C.* Governors of Ceylon and Hong Kong. The Mir inn of Lansdowne has arrived at Bowood, Wilt Owe, v. vie he Wind' to I( Milli during the winter. The Earl and Canntem Granville have arrived in Bruton-street, from visiting the Marquis of Lansdowne at BJWOOIi The Euri and Count's' of Strathmore, and a number of 'intim are at prevent 'toying at Manuals Caitlin The earl emelils kinier:l in shooting game, of which there is priat abundance on the estate. The Princess Nicholas Esterhary continues indiestried at St. Lean irirvon.Sva. The Countess of Jersey is *spitted to ker. L. odes in a day or two, on a visit to the printout.. A Cha,,ter of the Most Ancient and Mast Noble Order of the Itu.tti will b: held at Winder," Castle, as Friday, the tb iait., at which the there green ribands, vacant by the death. „a the Mariuis of Bautly, Lord Salton, and the En! of Warwick, it is expected, be bestowed by the soiertio open the Earl of liaddington, the Duke of Athol, snJ Lod F.r.coorv. Summonses have been issued to the 'eights brethren. and officers connected with the order, to attend at the approachiag coremosy of investiture. The Wordsworth memorial %% iudow, intended fur the new chu-rn st Cockerovurb, has been painted by Mears. Hardman and is ready for fixing. IM laat evening, indulged its readers with the rollowicy paragraph :—" It is rumoured that the Emperor cad Emcrees of France will visit Loudon neat month, and prtparatiu• are voted to be maing in official quarters for tMir ►ec. ption. wt ieh w:1, no doubt, be unusual') splendid, vet far ft, (if lily a folleffned." ritOt.oGtTluN Pr PARLIAMENT. - Yesterday, at the Privy Council held by her Mojesty at Windsor, parliament was ordered to be further prorogued from the 27th Mat. until the 29th of November. THE WAGES MOVEMENT. teeterday morning, there was an immense meet ing of the unemployed is the Orchard, Preston, at nine o'clock. At least 12,000 persons were present. The amount received yesterday, by the weevers' committee (the spinets having a separate fund), was 1,7601., upwards of &M. of which was contrelouted by Blackburn. The coin. nuttee proposed to allow the weavers 41. per head, 2s. less than was paid to the turn•outs previous to the general dm* of the mills. Mr. G. Comehz. (who was called to the chair), !mid it was sneeringly stated last week that the committee would Lot be abs to pay the weavers ls. per held that day. But though this wee the ant dividend wile to the whole of the operatives of Preston, they were enabled to pay es. per head for a beginning. He had no hesitation in myna there would be mere money come into Preston neat week. and more still the week after that ; and he would pleugc himself that before the striker had been gsibg on bye weeks from this day, they should be able to aver 61. tier head as usual. Blackburn alone hail sent 8131.3 e. 3.1., and declared they had not yet done their best. if the operatives only knew their own power, and how to ape it, they could make their enemies quail and flee be fore them. (Cheers.) It. Matignon - moved a resolution, which was seconded by Sr. Waeros, and carried unanimously, declaring that thaoperatives of Preston in public meeting assembled, emphati,a,ly declare their unalterable resolve never to re same tilde,' until a full and unconditional 10 per cent. be Weeded. Mr Le.o oau Gorton Hall. near Manchester) thought r. tip, e".,uid be lest in bringing this dispute so a set tlement Words were very gaily spoken, but it was very her I to get bread and cheese without work. People a.. ght talk as mach as they hind, but inhe. oordan they had now arrived at the eleventh hoar, and the sooner this strike could be brought to a col.clusto., *he better. He was afraid of disturbance, and if ter. stosld be blood shed and the country should be thnown Iwo a state of revolution, they would have it to re flect es •hille they lived. The time had arrived when the dispute cant be settled; and the responsibility would rest non tie employers it they did not do the operatives !otter—if they did net give them a fair day's wage for a hit day's work. Eutertaining these views, he proposed the telluric° resolution .—" That the delegates of the factory operative• recommend the Mayor to call a meeting of the 'uren sad the operatives to agne to an amicable =On .: of the dispute now pending.' Mr. km ines (of Stockport) secrinded the resolution. The (ii outran stated that Mr. Brabam bad applied to the comma tee for leave to bring his proposition before the melting. They hod given permisaion, simply because they' heaved that gentleman was a friend to the working eagles. They accepted the resolution because they wished to sh.ft retponeability from their own shoulders to the shoulders of those who might he willing to take it. There fore, it the manufacturers refused to avail themselves of this opportunity for effecting a settlement, it was not the halt of the operating, who wished for a termination of the env, providing they could have their ten per cent. The retiolesteon wee canted unanimously, and toe meet tag soon afterwards dispersed. !AVM:POOL ,MoNDAY.—This afternoon about three o'cltock, the *crew stranachip Lady E rlinton, Capt. Down war I, sail d from the Mersey for the Brazils with mails, &Iwo 40 passengers, a small amount of specie sad jewellery. and a tarot cargo of metchandise ow freight. Rl.Ceit'Lla OF 1,800/. BY LONDON 1)1TECTIVIII IN Ana utea.—Aboat her =oaths ago Joseph Price ate. sw,nded from the terries of his employer, Mr. Juno, a Ors merchant is Itaven•low, Spitalfields, taking with him a Isege ram is gold and notes. The thief contrived to elude see ey attempt that was toads to effect hie capture ; boat a ,tpocron being en•ertained that he had goo, to Ataserie - o.nfuntation was despatched to the chief of the New Veele police The case was placed in the bauds of a you°, elk./ amnia Field, who had beep employed some years Wore is the detective department at Seo , lsnil.yard,• and who, in company with another officer, at last stexteded to lfsucd.,„ .Le fewtsve L. a place called , is the vat, a An,mi l . B dint of ermsiderable address and some threats, he s is *moving from Pries no lam then 1,01141. is ;mkt and notes, and a bank book on the Meer ftsids buil for 1501. On bis way bath to New York his commde demanded possession of all the money, which Field refuled to Oh up without a proper receipt. A quarrel ensiled uhick resulted in Lis giving Field .nto custody lap* an affidavit made at the polies court, that he (Field) we. about leaving the country with the mooey. lemegver, mat with the gr.stest tourtexy trum Judge /Meerut, who at once admi,.-ed him to hall in his own re- mgpienims ; and be has since deposited the whole of the reamed mosey is the heads of Mr. Edwards, the British MRS. CHISHOLM ON EMIGRATIOA: Last evening a meeting of intending emigrants and their friends assembled at the rooms of the Unitarian Domestic Mission, in Spirevstreet, Spitalflelde, to hear a farewell address from Mrs. Chisholm previous to her de. parture for Australia on the conelowion of her missi.in to promote emigration Irons the United Kingdom. Mr. CIIAMLES Cucxtcsxa, as activemember of the Unitarian mission, presided, and explained the °Neck the saluting, and the important services performed by Mrs. Chisholm two years ago (long before the commencement of the gold fever), as the founder of the Family Colonisatioa aaa Emigration Society, and in promoting emigration to Australia, and protecting emigranu on their ' I, and the great benefit those services had conferred up...n the starving silk weavers of Spitaifields, many of whom had by means of Mrs. Chisholm's society been enabled to leave an employment in which distress and suffering were their only prospect, and to take their places amongst the most industrious, well conducted, and successful of the Austra lieu colimists. Mr. Iltruxur, another member of the mission, prepoted resolution offering to Mrs. Chisholm, on the part of the meeting, a heartfelt welcome as the well tried friend of the British emigrant, and expressive of their cordial symputhy with her benevolent lebours, based as they were on great practical wisdom and Christian humanity, and their earnest Rid wishes that prosperity might crown her future efforts under the unerring guidance of Supreme Wisdom. The Bev. W. Bibtun seconded the resolution in &speech highly eulogistic of Mrs. Chisholm, and in which Le en larged upon her claims to the grati• . ude of the working cleats of this country. The motion having been carried unanimously and by ac clamation, Mrs. CiII3IIOLX addressed the meeting, and after ex pressing her gratilicatinn at the approval which her exertions had met with, at the success which attended them. and that she had been permitted to carry on her work of ameliorating the condaion of the THE CORN 2RADE AT HOME AND ABROAD. - - (From the Mark-Igne Erpreu.) After a perisd of comp►rative calm, and • fraction of about 2s. per qr. in the value of wheat, the trade has again become animated ; the decline of the preceding fortnight has been completely recovered this week, and present ap pearances are indicative of renewed activity. The weather has throughout the week been exceedingly unfavourable, and so great a quantity of rain has fallen that the low lands are in many parts of the country flooded. Out-door work has been wholly out of the question, and there is reason to fear that the autumn sowing of wheat will be unavoidably delayed to a late period. There is cocsequsntly great danger of a similar state of things oc curring to that experienced I.e. autumn, and to which we attribute much of what subsequently transpired. That the continued wet has given rise to serious uneasiness in regard to the future, does not admit of doubt ; sad we are inclined to think that this has been the main cause of eke renewed activity in the trade. Other circumstances Lave, however, assisted to strengthen the belief that prices may rule higher hereafter ; the most im portant of which is the certainty that the supplies of foreign wheat—which have up to this time been on a liberal scale—wfil now fall off. Nearly the whole of the available stocks held at the ports in the Baltic earlier in the year have been shipped to this country and France ; and as the new wheat is not coming to hand in fit condition to stand a sea voyage, we dirtiest expect to receive any further aid of importance from that quarter until the spring of next year. At the urar continental ports there is scarcely anything left for shipment, and prices are relatively higher at lfamburgh, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Ste., than in our mar kets. From France we learn that, after a short period of inactivity, wheat had agnid begun to excite attention, and quotations are rapidly rising in that country to a point Tio leave a margin for profit on consignments from hence, i,.deed, within the last few days mall purchases of bard wheat have been made on French account. It would be folly to endeavuur to disguise that Great Britain and Franca will require iMillei.3o importations between this end next harvest, and that the Baltic ports will have a smaller surplus for export than in ordinary years. These facts do not admit of dispute, and we regard it therefore as certain that prices mart rule comparatively high, if all other difficulties were removed. Irrespective of the proba bility of war, the extreme scarcity of shipping opposes an closest insurmountable obst►cle to our ebtainieg the aid we are likely to steed in such need of. The rates asked fur freight from Odessa to the United Kingdom had, according to the latest advice., risen to 20s. to 21s. per qr., and at (de lete 235. to 245. per qr. was asked. Stocks at those ports are very large, and prices comparatively low ; but with the freights named, and high premiums of insurance to cover war risk, the cost here would be much more than the pre ss ut value of such qualities in our market.. It is conse quently not to be wondered art that very little wheat has for some time past been shipped from the Black Sea for England. Buyers from France and the Italian porta have, however, purchased there from time to time; and of the vessels cleared out with grain cargoes from Odessa, Cie., an unusually small proportion has been destined for freest Britain. It appears, therefore, that we shall have to depend principally on America for assistance. The harvest there has fortunately given an ample yield, and the United States and Canada together will no doubt be enabled to furnish a large quan tity of breadatuffe. For the moment, however, the avail able necks at the ports on the seaboard are not very exten sive; and from all we have been enabled to learn, the fall shipments are likely to be oa a much more moderate scale than people on this side of the Atlantic have hitherto reckoned upon. It appears, therefore, tolerably safe to cal culate on present prices being at least maintained, and many autkorities of no mean repute reckon confidently on a further material rise. The existing high value of wheat wiil certainly cause this grain to be inure extensively sown than it has been of late years, and the quantity required for ceding the land will at once absorb a very important pot tiou of so deficient a crop. The scarcity and high value of potatoes will also have a material influence, by increasing the consumption of bread; for, dear es that article now is, it is nevertheless relatively cheaper than potatoes, the pro hibition of the export from France and Belgium having caused a rapid and important rise here. Business. at Mark-lane commenced somewhat slowly on Monday, but since then there has been a decided improve working classes, free from all considerations of creed and country, proceeded to urge the formation of a Spit &Melds emigration club, which slat aid would operate more beneLialy to the poor inhabitants of the neighbour hoed in ;novellas the means for their leaving this comae; and emancipating themselves from their present difficulties, than anything that had yet been done. fine urged that one of the great difficulties in the way of persons already in a colony in sendieg fur their wives and families was now removed, inasmuch as all the colonial banks received money fur tranemisei,e to this country ter that purpose. There were however many instances in which money, winch had been sent to pay for the passage of the ri Wins of emigrants, had sever been applied for, or where the partite nail refus el to go; and the society with which she was connected was about to return a few Muse heeds of pounds, in consequence of tie parties for wheels benefit the money was intend( d refusdig to emigrate. Sow of the bunk, were about to open branches at the gold dig. pugs, for the purpose of receiving deposits fut the purposes of emigratim, and it was expected that the poet-office money order sputa would soon be in operatiou, by means of which persons, if they wished, would be enabled to send :mail sums, as low as five shillings. She was aaainus to render the machinery more simple, by which husbands could send fur their wives and their children. At present complaints were often made of letters sent by emigraam to their friends, or by those friends to the emigrants, mis carrying. In the latter case, however, the reopen too fre quently woe the manner in which the letters were directed. When a man left this country it was common for him to say to his friends here, " direct to see at the Yost-office, Melbourne," but w:ien he gut there he probably went of to Geelong, and from there to the diggings, and his letter o'4l directed to the post-office, Melbourne, were never inquired for, and of course never noshed him. • paitudiee employo had shown her a packet of let ters addressed in this way to peewees whose names commenced with the letter 8, which took him five hours to go through. How was it possible that the parties to whom these letters were addressed, scattered as [bey were al: over the colony, could be found ? The nasal practice was to keep letters a month at the poet-office, then to open them and advertise them, registering those whisk contained money ; and if they were not then applied for to destroy tram. The fault they would see, then, wee the mother in which the letters were directed. This difficulty it was proposed to obviate by mean, of a 'water of ail We emigrants se they went out, so that those who were connected with them might be sere that the letters would arrive at their desenation. Ike wags steel that it would be a very great advantage if the shipowner* would enter into an arrangement by whisk dm whole expenses of the conveyance of emigrant lam them country might be included in one sum, so that a man who sent for his wife or chilarin might know pre- Weely what the whole cost would be, and have the opportu• Oty of paying it down at once. She had spoken to several et the railway daemon in this country, sad they were anxious to co-operate in such a plan, provided they hod the eseurity of some respectable house. She had it:perigees**, ! elifficaity of providing lodging. for LCIII4IIII at the shipping peas whoa they arrived, previous to embarkation. At Denthempton, for instance, she cad known women linen as hail• pot eleven or twelve o'clock atnlght by the salleay without having a place to go to,and whet beds were provided for thAn, they were found to be too expensive. She was happy to say that this difficulty was about to be removed. A second class hotel was going to be established there, is which persons of the description she alluded to might be accommodated with a bed and three plain meals a day fur three shillings There was a temperance hotel also at l':ymouth, the proprietor of which was disposed to &frail toe same accrminodation for 3.. 6d. or 35., where there were a number of persons together. She hoped, toe, there would soon be something of the kind at Gravesend. If the shipowners would inilude ice their sherge a certain .amber of days' provision at these places and the railway fares, the emigrant* would know precisely what they would nave to pay. She had known instances amen send ing handsome sums home to bring out their relatives, which, when the delay occasioned by third clam trains, by which they were compelled to travel, was taken into au Moat and the additional expenses consequent thereon, Were found wholly inadequate ; and but for the eharity of *Galore, the parties would have been left behind. What was wanted was, that a person in Australis should know precisely what would be sufficient I. bdag out a person from this country, including all 's =and that passage tickets should be issued there at a rite of charge. If any shipowner or company would adept such a system she was confident she could dispose of two thousand tickets. It would be also desirable that sheds should be provided in the colony to shelter the emi grants on their arrival, say for 30 days, at an expense of Vs., which would pay 20 per cent. on he outlay; and this ! should also be included in the general charge. She dwelt at some length on the advantage of pro vid ing means of hiking out the parents of emigrants, the moral influence of Whose peeseace over their children in the colony would be incalculable. She would stand being pelted at for twelve years if she could succeed in bringing out to Australia • hundred grandmothers. (A laugh.) She urged the neMeaty of strictly examining the food on board emigrant ships and of avoiding idleness while on board. She suso Ilenadered it of importance that provision should be made Ise religious teaching during the voyage, for the vessel in which she was going to Australia there would be a clergy man of the Church of England, and of the Roman Catholic Church, and one of the Jewish persuasion who would take !shame of a number of Hebrew girls who would accompany hew an the voyage. In the same vessel a number of be- WNW girls were going out whiesi intended husbands had mos the means for their passage. These would be under air superintendence, and she would take care not to :gee eighl of them till they were married. (Hear, hear.) There mosso more impropriety in a female going out to Australia to be married than in ladies going to India for a similar purpose, which was a matter of every day oc- Willeaoe. When she went to India she haii ap gientions from five ladies to go out with the same view, and solely on speculation. (Loud laughter) Whet, young men emigrated, it was usually with a view of getting mar -1 tied earlier than they would if they remained at home; but tke plan she would recommend under inch circumstances was that they should leave a deposit of two or three pounds with some respectable shipowner, towards defraying the impasse of cony. hag out to them, at some future time, the object of their affections. She promised that any girls who were en-rusted to her care should he well looked after when they arrived, and concluded by thanking the audience for the attentiee with which they had heard her, and the warm welcome they had given to her. A vote 01 thanks was then pan , ' to Mrs. Chisholm for the information she had given them, and after some desul tory conversation the meeting se para:ed. meat in the demand for most articles. The arrivals of wheat coastwise Mao the port of London have bean small, only 1,933 qrs. having been reported up to this (Saturday) evening. The quantity exhibited on the Essex, Kent, and Suffolk stands has been perfectly insigai- Scan:, and tee imiallueu of the supply has prevented much business being dune in English wheat. The show of samples was so trifling on Wednesday as to render ft difficult to give accurate quotations ; but it wu gaitrally admitted that the turn was against the buyer, probably to the extent of IL per qr. The few lots which appeared on Friday were place 4 without difficulty at a further small improvement in price: and we consider that all good dry qualities of new wheat obtained Is. to 2s. per qr. more at We close than could have been realised for the seas in the beginning of the week. Two receipts of wheat from abroad have been tolerably good, viz., 33,660 qrs. In addition to a good attendance of local buyers we had several country purchasers at market, on Wednesday, and the transactions were more extensive than tassel on that day. The sales made were in most cases at an advance of fully Is. per qr. on previous rates, and the total quantity taken was rather important. On Friday a fresh impetus was given to the upward move ment by the appearance of buyers on French account. The rise quoted varied from 24. to 4s. per qr. on the sates err rest at the period of the greateat depression that has Sc. caned during this month ; this, however, is • somewhat vague manner of quoting the advance, and we prefer to reckon the rise from Monday, which in our opinion may be fairly estimated at fully 2s. per qr. The transactions in floating cargoes have, is consequeoce of the very high pretensions of 'ellen, been comparatively naimportant ; nearly the shale of those arrived off the coast have, however, been placed at full terms. For PoLsh Odessa wheat arrived 603., Berdianski 655. 6d., and Taganrog Ohirka 63e. to 61s. per qr., cost and freight, he. been paid. The offers from the Hattie have been at tao high rates to admit of business being done. The nominal top price of flour has undergone no change ai yet, but the millets have been unwilling to enter into forward sales, deeming • farther rise probable. Household flour was held Pa. to Ss. per sack higher on Friday than in the beginning of the week, and enhanced rates were like. wise asked for American. The arrivals from America have amounted to only 14,000 barrels, and fresh qualities have become exceedingly scarce. The price is still relatively ►ower than sect flour, though an advance of la. per barrel has been established during the week. Very little k nglish barley has coma to hand since Monday, and the deliveries of this grain have been small at most of the country markets. Fine malting qualities are evidently by no means plentiful, and seem likely to command high rates throughout the season. The few lots which have ap peared since our last have been readily plated at the en. Creme rates previously current; and for the commoner de scriptions fully as much money was paid on Friday as in the beginning of the week. Only a small portion of the arrival from abroad has been offered for sale, the greater part having gone direct to the distiller. The market is en ceedingly bare of good grinding barley, and for the host sorts high pricks continue to be given. The scarcity of good malting barley naturally influences the value of malt, aad the tendency of prices of the latter article has been upwards. The entire arrival of oats eoastwise has amounted b only 138 qrs., and the receipts from Ireland have consisted of 10,000 qrs. The foreign supply has also been small; and as it is now pretty evident that we are not to be largely supplied with oats from abroad—at least for a time—the dealers have acted with confidence. Rather important sales were m►de on Wednesday at a rise of 6d. per qr. on Monday's currency, and since then prices have further ad vanced to quite the same extent, Archangel oats being as dear on Friday as previous to the late arrival, and conse quent temporary decline. The inquiry for new beans has not been active, and Monday's reduced rates have bean paid somewhat reluc tantly. Egyptian baking are becoming reduced into a narrow compass, and are generally held with great firmness. The very high prices which have lately been paid for white boiling .peas have attracted rather more liberal supplies, the consequence of which has been a redaction lof several shillings per qr. LINLITHGOW SBOE&IAKERS' sTltlle E.—The result of this sti,ke, which has lasted hes monne, confirms the opinion, that demand alone earl permanently keep up the pnee of goods, and afford adequate wages to those engaged in their production. The principal mnten repudiate alike master and journeymen nouns, but feeling the pres sure from without they have been and are paying from Id. to ed. a pair, Or about 24.* week more for making hoots and shoes than the other mashes who recognise the jour neymen'. union, and singular, too, a number of the men prefer making b oys' and girls' shoes for Edinburgh liospi tale, to making for the non union inflaters men's and women's boos and shoes—the latter at a wage yielding at ' least 3e. n week more than the former. Oa the other band, the masters are transferring their work to other memo, and it is to be feared, if this state of things continues long. Lin lithgow's staple manufacture rth.y depart.—North Brgssli Mail. - - --- MURDER IN LIVERPOOL.—On Saturday night a brutal murder was committed in Charles•street, Witanal son-squore, Lirerpool (a place a/motit entirely frequented by the lowest prostitutes, thieves, dte.) Two sailors named Crispin and Crimp, were standing with two femali it, and " were slightly intoxicated, when they were suddenly attacked by a foreign sailor, named Emanuel Montsrosi, said to he a Spaniard, who stabbed both torn in tie left groin. nlm•iet in the same place, and without the slightest provocation. Crispin died from the effects of the wound shortly after wards, and Crimp lies in a very dangerous condition. The raglan made off after radiating the wounds, but was arrested tea Sunday night. Indian corn has been held with increase , ' firmness; the arrivals have been small, and the operations not very exten sive. The price but paid was 40s. per qr., cost and freight. (or Galata. FOREIGN CORN. The advice' from the Baltic ports state that stocks of old wheat had been reduced into a very narrow compass, and that supplies of new had COI= forward Out slowly, the pre valence of wet weather having caused gruwers to thresh no more than was sufficient to furnish the requisite qnsatity of stzsw. That which had come forward of the now mop had THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 25, 1853. proved of very inferior quality to the produce of last year, and the condition o indifferent that bat few parcels were deemed suitable to stand a sea voyage. At Danzig shipments of the old wheat to a moderate ex teat were in progress for England. The latest advicea from thence are of the 18th inst.; the English accounts were deemed encouraging, and the busineu done on that day was at an advance of Gd. to Is. per qr. on the rates current the week before. From Stettin we learn that only moderate supplies of new wheat had been brought forward by the growers, and that the few lots of old in warehouse had been held with much firmness. At Rostock a slight reaction seems to have succeeded to the excitemeht of the precediug week, and prices had receded Is. to 21. per gr. from the extreme rates previously paid. From Hamburgh we learn, under Tuesday's date, that wheat had been in lively request there, and that as much as 72e. per qr., cost and freight, had been paid fur old 61 lbs. Holstein; whilst new Upland, weighing only 69lbe. per bushel, bad been sold at equal to 695. per qr., free on board. In spring corn there had not beer. much doing, but prices had tended upwards. From Holland the accounts are not so animated as of late ; and at H./Uncle/a, on Holiday, the sale for both wheat and flour was decidedly slow, anal prices of the former arti cle were 3s. to 55., and of the Ist.t.r 2s. per qr. lower than on that day se'nnight. From France we learn that similar weather had been ee perieseed to that lately so prevalent here ; and the land having become saturated, but little progress bad been made with the sowing of wheat. The deficiency in the wheat crop appears upon thrashing to prove fully as great as eapected, and the knowledge of this had imparted a fresh impetus to the upward movement in price,. At Paris l a large bwiness was done on Wednesday in fiber, at an advance of 2 francs per sack. At Nantes, and other markets in that part of the kingdom, the tendency of prices has alio been upward of late, and it is more than proble that prices may rite in the French markets mufti ' eiently to allow a margin for profit on shipments from hence. The advice, from most of the Mediterranean ports are of a lin:3i character; sad notwithstanding good arrivals from the Black Sea, so lively a demand had Area experi enced from the interior that importers had had no diffi culty in obtaioing the full terms previously current. At Leghorn equal to G9s. per qr. free on board had been paid for good 631bs. Mariaropoli wheat. Wheat is evidently very scarce throughout the Italian States, and large quantities of foreign will be needed there. if 01; the Black Sea we learn that the scarcity of vessels and high rates of freight had interfered greatly with busi ness. A letter from Odessa, dated bth inst., states that about 200 sail of vessels had arrived there, but that none of these were disposable. The stock at this port was so large that it had beeonte difficult to find warehouse-roum ; and 5002 e quantity of wheat was actually piled up in the streets, in sacks. Quotations were then, for fine Polish Odessa, 335. to 395.; flue Ghirka, 38s. ; and average quality of the latter 365. to 375. per quarter free on board. Indian corn had found buyets at equal to 20s. per quarter free on board. By the Andes we have advice' of recent dates from America. The general tone of the English and French aecounu was considered favourable, and holders of flour aid wheat had, after the arrival of the Arable, raised their pretensions. The stocks in warehouse were not particularly heavy, and supplies from the interior had come forward lea freely than had been calculated on. At New York the total rise in the course of abort eight days had amounted to nearly three-fourths of a dollar per barrel. THE HAIRDRESSERS OF LONDON. Last night a public meeting of the hairdressers of London was held at the National Hall, Rath an, to con sider the best means for improving the condition of their trade. Mr. H. TAYLOR, of Marylebone.lane, having been called to the chair, stated that the object of the meeting was to establish en association by which the present unremuneru tire' charges might be raised and the shops closed at earlier hours than at present, to establish a central house of call, and to form a society which should extend its benefits to all of the trade. (Cheers.) He called upon the meeting to approve of the resolutions which would be pro pesed to them for carrying out these objects, and not allow it to be said that while ether trades of Loudon were making s stand for their rights the hairdressers were content to re main iu the:r degraded position. The present state of their funds showed a balance of 41. 3s. 4d. in band, after paying all preliminary expenses. Mr. G. OVEILTON moved the first resolution, to the effect that in the opinion of the meeting it was desirable that the hair-dressers of the metropolis should unite for the purpose of forming an association to improve their present degrading position, and to adopt such measures for their protection as may be deemed advisable, as well as immedi ately to secure and maintain prices adequate to their labour. (Cheers.) A great part of their trade was absorbed by valets and ladies' maid-, and in order to remedy this they must refrain from teaching such individuals their trade for the future. lie also said that undue preference was gives to foreigners over Englishmen, bat while he complained of this he had no objection to their having a fair share of the trade. By the meeting supporting the proposed association their condition would be materially improved. (Hear.) Mr. J. Ryas seconded the resolution, which was carried. Mr. WYSE moved a resolution, embodying the plan et of the proposed association, which was unanimously approved _ _ Mr. &ram moved that, on and after the 7th of Novem ber, not leas than the following prices should be adopted, namely, shaving Id., hair cutting 3d., curling 3d., and children's hair cutting 24.,—that all shops should be closed at not later than two o'clock on Sundays, and nine o'clock on other days, throughout the week, except Saturday. Notices of the same to be posted in all the shops and win dows of the trade, conforming to the rules of the associa tion. Mr. Bnsvcorr cordially seconded the resolution, which res also carried. The usual vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the THE LOST ONE FOUND. -..-- A short time ago there appeared in the Express under this head an account of the disappearance of Mr. Edward Henry Roll, of Lambeth, and of his subse quent re-appearance in a brothel at Newport, where he was robbed of a considerable sum of money. At the Mon- mouthshire sections, on Tuesday, Elisabeth Smith, alias Lissy Squint, Catherine Rees alias Kitty Noddy, John m Dies, alia s Jack Mouse, Maria Gregory, alias the Loog'sn, Isaac Phillips, and Mary Lewis, were indicted for the offence. Mr. Hull said that he received thirteen 101. notes at the Bank of England, on the 14th of September. numbered consecutively frorn 27,248 to 27,260; that he changed one of the notes in Bristol, No. 27,26 u, and arrived at Newport oa the 29th of September, with the twelve notes in his pocket-book, and other money; where, meeting with the prisosen Smith and Rees, he was taken to a public-house, drugged, as he (prosecutor) believed, and in an uncou 'mein state taken to the brothel of Gregory and Davies, in Fritts' Field.. On coming to himself, he found Us was on a bed. and rubbed of all his money but one 101. note, which had been left behind in the pocket-book. Mr• Catherine Bpeary said she changed the note pro daced (No. 27,259) for Phillips ; and Superintendent Hun table pored his saying he found it. Mrs Mary Grant said the prisoner Rees called on her with Wee Bank of England 101. notes, marked, and asked witness to give her change for them, saying she would take what she could get ; that they were not her share, and ii she did not get it, she would split. Mr. Euxtable proved apprehending all the prisoners, except Smith, in the house kept by Gregory and Davies, and that the prisoner Lewis, who was cohabiting with Phillips, milt " I won't suffer for the rest. It was Liz Squint and Kitty Noddy robbed the man. The Loug'uu and Ject cut out, and put me to turn the bloke out." " Bloke," meant the victim. The jury found a verdict of Guilty against the whole of the prisoners ; bet recommended Phillips to mercy. Maris Gregory, John Davies, Catherine Rees, and Mary Lewis (there being previous convictions put in against the two latter), were sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and Phillips to twelve months' bard labour; and Smith to bur years' penal servitude. The case lasted from five to ten o'clock. The Chairman directed the 101. note recovered to be given up to Mr. Hull ; and just before the verdict was returned, the Super istendent of the Afiergavenny police rushed into court with two of the 101. notes, which had been only a few hours i before passed in Abergavenuy by a man in black. A. MEETING ON TEE EASTERN QUESTION is about to be held in the Tower Hamlets. WRECK OF TIIE ANNIE JAPE.—The Barra cone spon tent of the Incernas Courier writes from Barra, the scene of the wreck of the vessel :—" fhe chore is strewn with dead bodies, many having their limbs broken or dis severed. Among the corpses is that of a French protestant minister of Montreal, M. Vernier ; and it is affecting to see titres young missionaries who were with him, natives of Switzerland, sheilcieg tears over his remains. A Captain Bose and his lady are also among the drowned ; and near them lies the body of a little girl, well dressed, her eyes Mill remaining open and expressing the agonies of terror." The North British Mail states that a memorial setting forth the leading facts connected with the late herrible shipwreck and the conduct of the emigration agent, owners, and cap , lain towards the unfortunate paseeugers has been sent ,-If to Lord Palmenton on behalf of the survivors, as well as the friends of those loot. Tete obje ct of the memorial is to l i gela u l l in n itl l i i :y l rn rd to sh. tic i i r a n l at il te sim r, e so " ths °l l2 ' the t fa cts in stitute we may be ezpiscated and the guilty parties punished. THE CHOLERA. (bow the Clewed Board of Health, Oct. V.) METROPOLIS. From returus made this day to the General Board of Health of cholera cases in the parish of St. George (East), Mit:dlesex, it appears that from the 17th to the 22nd there have been 9 cases of cholera, of which one has thus far resulted fatally within 24 hours of the aitack. The description of the locality and house is is every instance without exception, in which the case.• are reported to have occurred, extremely bad. In one case " the room of the family is stated to be dirty and full of poisonous air." In another the return is that "the rooms are I overcrowded and dirty, with filthy children in rags with dirty skins." Again, "dirty in the extreme, 8 1 persons sleeping in the same room; " another " very overcrowded." Six oases occurred in one house, 33, Upper Chapman-street, also described as " over crowded," another house is stated to have "very bad drainage." Bad smell pervading the whole of the house. No sewer or means to carry off the water. Sewer close by, but no communication. Returns made by the Superintendents of the F, K, L, M, and N divisions of police to the commis sioners, and transmitted by them to the General Board of Health, state that, between the 13th and 21st inst., there have occurred eight new cases of cholera in those districts, and two deathe, in addition to three cases previously reported, one of whom has died, and the other two have recovered. On Saturday, the 22nd, Dr. Milroy had an inter view with the board of guardians of St. Martin-in the-Fields, to confer with them upon the measures riquired to be taken for the protection of the public' health by the rules and regulations issued by the General Board of Health, under the recent order of her Majesty's Privy Council. It is stated that the authorities of this palish have taken the lead in the adoption of active means for the suppression of nuisances and for the general amelioration of the condition of the poorer classes. With reference to the threatened visitation of cholera they had at to early period appointed four medical officers, with the slew not only of esta blishing a systematic sanitary inspection of every locality and dwelling, but also of promptly discover ing and bringing at once under treattaent all cases of premonitory disease. By these judicious precautionary measures much disease will be prevented, and the heavy expenses always consequent thereon. Some of the houses in one or two of the confir ed unwholesome courts being considered by the medical ()likens to be so thoroughly bad as to be unfit for human habitation, the board of Guardians are pre pared to take vigorous steps against she owners of the property. The board have had several times under their con- -„—. sideration the scheme of erecting model dwellings for the poor, in pursuance of the power possessed by local governing bodies under Lord Shattesbury's Act of 18M, entitled " The Labouring Classes' Lodging-houses Act." The nature and provisions of this act do not ap pear to be at all known by local authorities in the metropolis. The act is entirely distinct from the Common Lodging-houses Act, as its name imports, its title being „ The Labouring Classes' Lodging houses Act," nor should any one be misled by the re tention of the term "lodging-houses." The object of the framers of this act was not merely to enable parochial authorities to construct a better order of common lodging-houses than those at present exist ing for single persons and for nightly accommoda tion, but to construct healthy dwellings for the per manent residence of poor families on the model of the Metropolitan Building, St. Pancras, and the houses for families in Streatham-street, Bloomsbury. By the Common Lodging-houses Act 1551 powers are conferred for the due regulation of common lodging houses; by the "Labouring Classes' Lodging-houses Act " 1531 powers are conferred for the erection of other and better habitations for the families of the poor. One of the immediate objects of this act was to wake provision for the reception of families on the enforcement of the law for the discontinuance of cellar dwellings. By the combined effect of these measures local authorities may secure the beneficial executions of the law for enforcing the discon:inu ance of ill-conditioned cellar dwellings asith out obliging their tenants to resort to hovels which are unfit for human habitation. Every fresh inspection of the state of the dwellings of the poorer classes in the metropolis is a fresh illustration of the necessity of the powers conferred by this act, and of the responsibility incurred by neglecting to use them. It is not generally known that cellar dwellings are common in London. It is imagined that they are peculiar to Liverpool, Man chester, and Leeds. Mr. Grainger, one of the medi cal inspectors of the General Board of Health, has recently called attention to the great number of these dwellings in London, and particularly in some parishes, as in Marylebone. Such dwellings are, not in London called " cellars," but underground kitchens. There seems occasion to apprehend that of all the habitations in London those inhabited underground cellars are the most dangerous. Many of those visited by me (says Mr. Grainger) were each occupied by a whole family ; in other instances a family occupies both the front and back kitchen ; in some canes more than one family occu ' pied a single cellar. In 1849, and again this week, I took some mea surements. The following is a specimen :—Depth below the surface of the street, 7 feet 3 inches ; _ength of hitches, 10 feet 3 inches ; width, 9 feet 8 inches ; height, 7 feet. The areas which I have measured vary in breadth from 4 feet 3 inches to 2 feet 7 inches ; the window is often altogether below the level of the street, and very small ; the kitchens, and especially the back ones, are dark, many so gloomy that writing is difficult. The privy and dust-bin are close to the door and window, and are in most cases highly offensive, and arc complained of by the inhabitants. In such a room I have found a family consisting of seven or eight persons, having consequently from 60 to 90 cubic tat each, whilst the lowest allowance in a sleeping apartment, compatible with healthy exist ence, is 300 cubic feet. At Liverpool and elsewhere the average allowance for each person in the regu lated common lodging houses is 250 cubic feet. The majority of those inspected yesterday were very filthy as to the interior walls, B:c., though in many places, owing to the exertions of the authori ties, lime-washing, especially of the areas and outer walls, had either been effected or was in progress. In repeated instances 1 found large accumulations in the ash-pits, and the poor people loudly complained of the neglect of the dustman. The worst specimen that came under my notice was a place called Gray's buildings, Duke-street, Manchester-square. It is densely crowded ; closed at the west end by high buildings, preventing venti lation and with - the surface strewed with refuse. There are here numerous miserable dark damp cellars there is no open area, nothing but an iron grating for the admission of light, one of these areas was measured it was 8 feet below the street, and only 27 ins. wide.' In the front cellar lived a man and wife, with one child, with two other grown-up people, the rent 2,5. 6d.; in the back cellar, a gloomy hole, were living a woman and her son, rent 2e. On inspec tion I found several ashpits almost full. The dust man, it was stated by several women, did not come more than once a fort,.ight, and then did not remove all the refuse, the worst, at the bottom, being left. The men expect beer, and will not do their duty without it. One woman, who had lived two years in the house, had never known the pit emptied to the bottom. The stench was described as horrible, espe cially when the filth was thus disturbed without complete removal : " the smell often made them sick." The privies, as usual, were most offensive. The medical evidence collected shows that in 1849 the inhabitants of this dangerous class of dwellings suffered most severely from cholera ; that scarlet fever in its most malignant form constantly recurs, and widely spreads in them, and that the worst cases of typhus occurring in London are seen there. As an example of the rate of disease found on inspec tion to be prevalent, Mr. Grainger cites the fol lowing : I visited No. 9, Bell-street, Lisson-grove, whore in a fancily occupying the two cellars, baying seven children, four of them had just had sear.et fever; whilst front the back room above, another boy had been removed with the same disease to the * According to tht Metroindium Buildings Act co collar is permitted to be occupied as a separate dwellia[c, unless there be en area not lea than three feet wide m every part. Pever Hospital. The his:ury of this family lis most instructiv e; th ey are very respectable people, with all the comforts of life es to food, clothing, &c. the rooms are quite clean, neat and well furnished ; but thus living 7 feet 4 inches below ' the surface of the street and in very low uud small : rooms, they have been most sickly. Tilt y have lived here tivo {'cars, not from choice, but because having a large family and the re being great demand fur ytiati.6_,Yea(l)hine case of death from Cho- house accommodation, they could nut obtain upper 1 rooms ; landlords, in these casts, objecting to teceive them as tenants. la the ficievdexclatrrilneegtuiftellvietehrie.afacnhti:dernedn I have had the measles and hooping cough ; six have N iinx i o i ;L ll tit ta fihi an ‘as.e°l k Prison is reported by Dr. Bily, a l ni : so a r h d wa il iii i‘ifL m .oni Lnu a ngtr i l l .iii - eocs p o f Hoo UNlON.—October 22: Death, diunicen, 1. _.. cured on the 22nd inst. NEWCASTLE.—October 22 : Cholera, 3. October 23: Cholera, 1. The total number of death frpur cholera and diurrhcea in Newcastle, dining the pm sent outbreak, has been 1,428. In the same period (viz., the first a days) during the prevalence of epidemic cholera in 1331.32, the number of deaths was 294. GATEMIIEAD.—October 21: Death, cholen, 1. October 22 : Diarrhoea, 1; Gateshead (Ifeworth), cholera, 3. This makes the 493rd death from cho lera, and 42 from diarrhoea (from the Ist September, to the 21st October, both inclusive). Total, 535. MORPETII (BEI/LINUTUN), Ocr. 22.—Two very severe cases of cholera at Barrington Colliery have occurred here this day, " both of them likely to prove fatal," according to the r..port of Mr. :McLaren, sur geon, Becilington. The Morpeth Local Board of Health have issued notice to the inhabitants of Bed lington that before NVednesday they require that 1 " all refuse, ashes, night soil, and stagnant water shall be carefully ren.oved from the premises where they exist ; and that all hollows now used for cess pools, middensteads, or receptacles for night suit, shall be completely tilled up with clay or earth to a level with the surtaec of the adjoining ground, and covered with some hard material. On that day a dust-box will be sent to every house, in which the occupiers must place all ashes, refuse, and night soil before 9 o'clock every morning, when the boxes will be called for, emptied into and taken away by a cart. These requirements will be rigidly enforced; but as their object is the preservation of human life, the Local Board hope the inhabitants of Bedling:on will cheerfully observe them." ON FIXITY OF TYPE IN SHEET. --...-- (p rom the )lind, .ferietinveist.) It is certainly in the power of a breeder to alter the character of any particular breed. This alteration can be produced by careful selection of both sire and dam— either of these alone, still more when combined—especially along with a change iu feeding. The character as regards early maturity, size, colour, with weight and quality of fleece, can be changed, but only within prescribed limits. Any breed can be permanently improved by breeding from selected animals. The improved Leicester and Southdown arc familiar examples. But there is uo evidence that ever a short-woolled breed has been permanently changed into a long-woolled. To effect a change so decided as this, re course must be had to crossinet, and it is to crossing, we be , Have, all the improved breeds owe their distinctive charac ters. It is a point still undecided by physiologists, whether or ant crossing tends to improve the constitution of the progeny. Many maintain that by crossing increased vigour and vitality are acquired by all animals; others as stoutly assert that the tendency is, that all crossbred animals deteriorate and become ultimately eatinct. Upon this point we do not enter ; our object is to call attention to a very interesting article in the Journal of Agriculture, translated from the Fiend) by Mr. Putty, on "Obtaining immediate fixity of type in forming a new breed of sheep." Many of our readers may be aware that nearly all the breeds of sheep in France have been improved by sheep originally imported—the chief of these are the Merino (short-wooled), from Spain, ;did the Leicester (long-wooled) from England. The latter is a more modern introduetim .. - than tbiNerino, but is probably destined to exercise a much inure decided tuduenck in altering the character of Ina native breeds, as the demand tor a bried calculated to pro duce mutton as well us wool is every year becoming greuttr. Consequmtly, the Merino, with naturally a light carcase, is not suited to produce mutton in the greatest quantity, and in the shortest possible perit4:-the chiet recommeula- lions of the Lei ce ster sheep. 1111 the French farmer ri cognises, however, the importance of prolucing a supply of succulent food during bow summer and winter, it is vain to expect that thy pure Leicester will become permanently established in France, es the prevailing breed. Whether the more hardy Southdown or the vigorous Cutswold would be better adapted to leek management, it is needless for us to spJeutate. It is perhaps necessary here to mention that the cul tivation of clover and pasture grasses, with turnip or manifold, is little practised in France—consequentiy, duriug the arid SUIT.Illt . f beet, and the extreme coal of their winters. sheep not housed hese to undergo ;peat privations. Te provide against this, and from the want of fences, sheep are usually housed, but are generally fed upon straw alone. This is so foreign to the habits of our English breeds that they do not continue to thrive, which may be looked upon as one of the necessary results of such a violent change in feeding. One of the results cf this spare diet Is a diminution of size, even in the improved crosses , which the writer deems an dvantage, ex the weight preferred in France is 141 b. per qr., smaller than any of our native breeds, the Welsh excepted. Our native black-faced sheep are, we believe, about to be tried upon mountain pastures in France, and very possibly they will acquire there a permanent footine on bleak and exposed hills. The writer of the article referred to has, apparently far years, been experimenting with crossing different native breeds. de has found that, wherever the native ewe was of a distinct and original breed, crossing with a pure English ram, new Kent, the blood of the French race preponderates; while selecting native ewes sprung from a mixture of two distinct races, the type of the k.nglish wail decided and prominent; and in continuing to breed from these cross-bred sheep, the preduce closely re sembled the sire. Such, he rates, is the origin of the La Chammoise breed of sheep. This breed appears to have retained the hardiness of the pure French breed, while the other cross, between the new Kent and the pure French sheep, possesses none of the hardiness of their darns and granddams. The experiments made by M. Mxibringle Nouel peerless peculiar features, earl are entitled to a high place in con nexion with the solution of the phystriergical questions bear ing upon crossing, particularly in relatiou to permanency of character. Two thousand ewes of mixed blood, weighing alive only about 56 pounds, served by new Kent rams, weighing above 2001 b., all produced live lambs with one exception, and the young animals preserved the beauty of form or the English breeds and maintained their condition without extra food. The next year experiments with the same ewes and tops were equally successful. 'the third veer the ewe lambs, the result of the first experiment, pro duced offspring more level in appearance than even the offspring of some native flocks. For some years the ex perimenter has had a double lot of lambs —one, the first cross with mixed blood, anther from rams and ewe:, the result of that cross. The fixity of type appears now to be fully established, and, as showing their superiority, animals from this flock usually take prises wherever they are exhi bited in France. We presume that these experiments have been un dertaken and conducted at the expense of the French government. In this country we have ano ther, and, upon the whole, a better system, of leaving such experiments to private enterprise. If it .were not so, most probably our domestic breeds of animals would never have ()trained the present high cha racter as breeds. There is ample room for (nether improve meut, however, in most, if not in all out breeds of sheep. There is not one breed which does not possess some pecu lierity which gives a value to that breed, while in connexion with these qualities are defects more or less serious, and which Operate against their more general extension. lt, for instance, the Leimter pOESCFSeII the hardiness of con stitution, with the quality of mutton, of the Southdown and Cheviot, it would be an invalua ble breed. lf, again, these two latter breeds bad the extreme hardiness and vigour of constitution of the black-laced, they would must probably not only supersede the blade-faced breed, hut in part--if not iu whole—supersede the Leicester. It becomes a problem, difficult of scansion we admit, whether or not such a character could be perma nently tiled in the Leicester, Southdown, or Cheviot. We edam we despair of the improved Lemma ever being brought, by a cross or °the Milk., to equal the Southdown or Cheviot in quality of mutton. But there can belittle doubt that the buuthdown, Cheviot, and black faced are all capable of much improvement, so as to bring them nearer the Leicester,. net only by selection and fee..ing, but also by crossing with other breeds, mast probably the Leicester. Fur instance, a cross between a black•factel ewe and Southdown rata produces sheep in appearance much allied to the black-faced ; possibly from this cross a new breed of sheep could be produced to riv al hardy breeds. Both breeds possess great vigour of constitution with a restless temperament, which makes them adapted for ranging over upland or mountainous pasture producing herbage in scanty amount and frequently containing little nutriment. The Southdown (of which there are erveral varieties) is at present the favourite Intel for crossing in nearly all the English counties, and generally the produce is superior even where the top or ewe is a Leicester or Cotswold. One feature, however, which we have obsetved in ail these crosses from the Southdown ram is a remarkable absence of uniformity of type, scarcely two sheep in the flock re sembling each other. The favourite cross in Scotland is a cities botwivt the Leicester tap and Cheviot ewe. This MSS gives a very narked unitormity of type ; the pro duce, when kept to two years old, is frequently larger than pure Leimater, the mutton being great.) , superior to the Leicester, and the woo: u. more value than either the pure Leicester or Cheviot. The crass be twren the Cheviot and black-faced has never become a favourite ; indeed, this cross appears to be anything but an improvement upon either breed—a cross between the Leicester and black-feed ewe