The Express. — London, England, 1862-12-03 00:00:00

g 4 TUE LANCASHIRE DIEITIIO2B. COUNTY Immo AT MANCITES'rER. MANCHESTER, Dec. 2. A county meeting of the inbabitanta of Lanca- I shire, convened by the Lord-Lieutenant, was held in the Teem-hall this day. Among those present were the Earl • of Derby, Lord Stanley, M.P., the Earl of Sefton (Lord- Lienteuaud, the Ead of Wilton, Lord likelmendale, Lord Egerton of Tattoo, Lord Grey de Wilton, M.P., Lord Edward Howard, M.P., the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., Mr- Wilbraham Egerton, M.P., Sir T. Heaketh, M.P., Mr. Beeler, /LP., Sir Robert Gerard, the Hon. G. Cavendish, Mr. W. J. Legh, ?LP., Colonel Gray, M.P., Sir H. de Trafford, Colonel Blackburn& Sir J. L. liardney, Canon ! Stowell, Colonel Mann, Sir J. K. Shuttleworth, Mr. H. B. Parnell, C. Turner, M.P., Sir K Armitage, Sir T. B. Birch , the Mayors of Manchester, Preston, Warrington, Ashton, Blackburn, and Stockport; Messrs. H. Ashworth, S. Ashton, N. Eckersley, T. Clegg, J. Heald, R. Ascroft, L. • Heyworth, Entwine, W. A. F. Saunders (High Sheriff), do. On the motion of the High Sheriff, the Earl of Sefton, ; lord-lieutenant of the county, was called to the chair. The LORD-LIEUTENANT briefly explained that he had con vened the meeting in consequence of a requisition he bad received from the executive committee of Manchester, and that its object was to obtain a declaration of the intentions of those who were connected by property, or other ties, with the county, in case the present alarming distress in the cotton districts should coutinne. They bad openly given out that they were desirous of receiving assistance from all parts of the country, and in answer to their appeal very large sums of money had been contributed ; but they had been fairly reminded in the public prints, and by their private friends, that more was expected from those whose landed property, or sources of wealth, were more particu larly connected with the distressed districts. The noble lord celled upon the Earl of Derby to move the first resolution. Lord 1/Eime rose to move the first resolution. The noble earl, in his speech, paid a high tribute to the " noble manner" in which the operatives had borne their sufferings, sad alluded also to the " sacrifices " which many manatee terse* were making for their workmen. He repelled the imputation that Lancashire had failed in its duty, and by amines of fi gures he showed the " insanity "of increasing the rates in certain depressed districts. His lordship quoted some statistics, which appeared in our columns a few days ago, and which may shortly be reamitulated here, to enable the public to form an estimate of the intense pressure on these districts. He said that of 365,000 persons engaged in different manufactures, 40,000 were in full work, 135,000 on short work, and 180,000 out of work altogether. This number, he added, was likely to be greatly increased in the ensuing six weeks. His lordship con. eluded by saying :—The last objection upon which I will make an obearvetion is, that Lancashire has not done its duty in this distress, sad that consequently other parts of the country have been unduly called upon to , contribute to that which I do not deny properly and primarily belonged to Lancashire. It is very hard to ascertain with any cer tainty what has been done by Lancashire, because, in the , first place, the amount of public subscriptions among them selves gives a very inadequate idea of what really has been done by public and private charity. (Hear, hear.) I do not mean to say that there are not individuals who have grossly neglected their duty in that respect ; but, on the other hand, there are persons who have displayed most princely and munificent liberality and generosity—(cheep),—and who have made sacri fices of which no person out of this county can form the slightest conception. At the same time I admit there are instances of niggardly feeling which really it is hardly possible to believe could exist. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps you will allow me to read two or three extracts from the confidential reports which have been made to us seeveepp week from different districts, by the gentleman whose eervioss have been placed at our disposal by the government. Hs says 1. Nearly 3,000 operatives out of work. Most of them are the hands of Messrs. ' • and Mr. -- at his own cost employs 555 girl in sewing 5 days a week, paying them ed. • day ; sends 76 youths, from 13 to 13, and 332 adults, above 15, five days a week to school, paying them from 4d. to Bd. a day, according to age. lie also pays the school pence of all the children. Mr. -- has hitherto paid his people two days' wages a week, but he is now preparing a scheme like Mr. —to a great extent. I should add that in addition to wages Mr. -- gives bread, mop, oaths, and clogs. 2. Mr. has at his own expense caused 50 or 60 din nees to be provided for sick pers ons every day . 3. Messm— er, giving to their hands 3 days wages, about 5001. a week. Mr. and Mr. are giving their 130 hands, and Mr. their 230 hands two days' wages a week. I may mention that Messrs. are providing for all their 1,700 hand,. (Cheers.) 4. A. peat deal of private charity exists, one firm having spent 1,400/. in money, exclusive of weekly doles of bread. 5. Messrs. are providing all their old hands with sufficient clothing end bedding to supply every want, so that their subscription is merely nominal. 6. The ladies of the village visit and relieve privately with money, food, and clothing, or all if needed urgently. In a few cases distraint has been threatened, but generally the poor are living rest free. 7. Payment of rent is almost un known. The agent for several landlords &sauces me that he could not from his receipt& pay the property tax ; but no distraint' are made. 8. The bulk of the rents are not col lected, sod distraint& are unknown. 9. The mill-owners are chiefly cottage-owners, and are asking for no rent, and sacrificing • large amount of in come they had a right to count upon. ° We require in the executive committee that every com mittee shall send an account of the amount of local sub scriptions. We received an application from one district for relief, and refused it, as it appeared there bed been no local subscriptions. On inquiry we find that there wee only one mill, which belonged to some young men, who since last February, when the mill closed, had paid more than one-third of the rates of the whole district, and were suffering at that mo ment a yearly loss of 3001. in the rent of cottages, for which they were not exacting a single halfpenny. That is one sample out of many I could allege, which shows bow persons at a distance may be deceived by the amount apparently placed to the credit of this or that individual. (Cheers.) But I will throw out of consideration the whole of those amounts—the whole of that unparalleled munificence on the part of manufacturers which never appears in any account whatever. I will throw out everything done in pri vate and unostentatious charity—the supplies of bed ding and clothing and food, which do not ap pear in the public subscriptions, and I will anpeal to the public subscriptions alone. Upon the authority of Mr. Commissioner Farnall I find that, excluding altogether the subscriptions in the Lord Mayor's list, and dealing only with those foods - administered through the central executive com mittee, there is, including Dome subscriptions known to be coming in this year, a total sum contributed which amounts to 540,000/. Of that sum we have receved from the co lonies, and it is a most gratifying fact, no r less than 40,0001. We have received from the rest of the United Kingdom 100,0001., and we have received from the county of Lan caster itself, in round numbers, 400,0004 out of the 540,0001. which has been contributed. I hops that these figures, which I give on the estimate and authority of the government poor-law commissioner, will be sufficient to do away with the imputation that Lancashire at this crisis is not doing its duty. But if Lancashire has been doing It. duty, and is doing it, there is no reason why Lancashire should relax now. We are not yet at the height of the distress. It is estimated that at the present moment there are 355,005 persons en gaged in the cotton manufacture. Of those :155,000, 40,0(10 Only are in full work, 135,000 are at short work, 180,000 are out of work altogether. and in the course of the next six weeks that number is likely to be greatly increased ; and in the meantime the weekly loss of wages is estimated to be not less than 137,000/. This is a state of things which calls for the moat active exertion of all dames of the com munity. (Cheers.) I am happy to say that it has been nobly responded to, from the crown down to the lowest of her Majesty's subjects. At the commencement of the die taries the Queen,with her usual:munificeuce ' sent us a dona tion of 2,0001. The first act of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on attaining his majority, was to write from Rome and request that his name should be put down for 1,000/. And now to go to the other end of the scale, only two days ago I received from Lord Shaftes bury a donation of 1,1001. from some thousands of working men who are readers of a periodical called the British Workman. He tells; ne that that sum has been contributed by many thousands of persons, and that he has even had contributions from the brigade of shoeblack boys. Upon the part of all dames" there has been the greatest amount f liberality displayed; but it would be unjust to the working man and to the poor of every dis trict if I did not my that in proportion to their means they have more than contributed their share to the general subscription. (Cheers.) In no case hardly that has come to my knowledge have I known of a poor man grudging the contribution he was able to give ; but I know of many cases in which be has gives more than common prudence justified him in giving. With these observations I have only earnestly to request you this day to do your part to wards the furtherance of this good work. I have no appre hanaioa that, if the distress should last for five or six months looser, the spontaneous efforts of in dividuals and public bodice, and the contributions raised in every part of the country, will fall short of that which is needed for enabling the popu lation to tide over this deep distress, and I earnestly hops that, if it becomes necessary ultimately to appeal to parlia ment as a last resource, the representatives of the coustiy will not grudge their aid. I do hope and believe, I however, that with the esaistance of the machinery of the bill passed last year, and which will come into operation after Christmas this great manufacturing district will be spored the further humiliation of coming before parliament as a claimant or suppliant for the bounty of the nation at large. (The noble earl resumed his seat amid great cheering.) Sir R. GERRARD seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. The Mayor of MaNctirarsa then moved the following : "That the expectation at first entertained of an early mitigation of the present distress has been disappointed by the constant increase of its intensity, so that the ruble-rip- Sons contributed with the hope of alleviating a transient calamity should now be increased to mast the aggravated evil." The Mayor of laviaroot seconded the resolution, which was supported by Mr. A. E0.131T011, M. P., mod would to. L THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY F V N ' ING, DFCI4MBE ' R 3, 1862. Lord Seamar, M.P.,. hiss moved—" That while this amount of destitution libuld be repealed as • national calamity, attributable in a grim; measure to mute which cauliEnot have been foreseen or avoided, angina therefons a claim on the sympathy aad co-operation of the comary at large, the primary duty of relieving it devolves on the county of Laocastar, whose wealth in former prorperous times has been so largely increased by the industry of those classes now suffering such distress." After • few preliminary remarks, the noble lord said—l look upon this calamity as at once national and local. It is local as regards its incidence I in this particular district ; it is national from its magnitude and from its cause. Till within the last few weeks the pub lic did not see the impending danger, and there may have been rime who mistook for indifference that natural and excusable ignorance. But what has happened within the but few weeks has disabused them, and as the people of England have done their duty nobly by this district, it remains for us to show, as I think we shall, that we will not shrink from ours. In the last runt no doubt it would be for the nation to relieve the distress, but no one will deny that it is upon that wealth which in other and happier times has been acquired by the cotton manufacture that the duty primarily falls. (Hear, hear.) That is aresponsibility which no man here desires to avoid—(chows)—but at the same time we must remember what a large portion of that wealth lies scattered over the land. There is hardly a county or a town in which untal acquired in the cotton manufacture—l men tion this became I sometimes bear comparisons made of what has been don what relieve the distress hy other parts of the country as compared with what ha s been done in this district—therefore we should bear in mind that much of the wealth which is contributed from other districts, and which is supposed to be unconnected with the manufacturing dixtricts, is he re, n from wealth which has been acquired and w te hich, therefore, might well be contributed to the relief of Lancashire poverty. There is one thing that I hope we shall not do except in the utmost need—except in the case of inevitable necessity—l hope we shall not have any occasion even to look forward to it, and that is to make an appeal to the Consolidated Fund. (Hear, hear.) It may be wrong—l may perhaps share too much in that feeling of pride which, we have been justly told, is apt to go before a fall ; but I am proud_ of the energy, of the power, of the wealth, of the unlimited future resources of this county of Lancaster ; and I say that, ex cept in that utmost necessity which justifies any expedient, form to go as suppliants for alms to the Treasury would be a humiliation which we should remember to the latest day of our lives. (Cheers.) Not only that, but it would be the worst possible precedent. and it would be a precedent ex ceedingly likely to be followed by others, who would be glad to imitate our example without having our excuse. (Hear.) We have abundant resources in the future, if sot in the present. As • general rule, no doubt it is very bad policy to throw one's libe r ality upon the future, but ours is a very exceptional and peculi ar case. It is not the cue of • needy man obtaining the temporary suspension of present embarrassments at the expense of in creasing those embarrassments for the future. It is the case of the wealthy community, possessing an enormous amount of property, but having the property for the time ao completely blocked up, that it ma neither get at the capital nor at the interest. (Hear, hear.) I say, therefore, that I for one hope that if the borrowing powers which have been rented to us by the legislature are fully and fairly used, those powers will be found sufficient to meet the emergency. (Cheers.) Whatever may be done by rates or by borrowing, there is still an immense field open for voluntary contributions. There are thousands, nay hundreds of thousands, to whom anything short of death itself is preferable to going upon the rake. That may be an exaggerated point of honour, but it is • point of honour, and we ought to be u chary of the Imeout of own countrymen as of their lives. (Cheers.) More than that, however the rates may be imposed, it is inevitable that they will fall unequally oa different interests and different descriptions of wealth. I think that those on whom they fall lightly, or not at all, ought to take that into considera tion. They ought to oosisider what is the amount of the burden borne by others, and they ought, as far as they can, voluntarily to impose upon themselves a burden equal in amount. (Cheers.) And there may be persons—l believe there are—who have de , bled giving because they thought the time would come when their gifts would be more wanted than they are at present. I do not blame a reasonable prudence in that respect, but I believe the time has come when the contri butions of those who are willing to give are as much needed as they can be at any future period. No one attempts —and perhaps they are right—to estimate, or even conjec ture, the duration of the present distress. Higher authori ties than I em on commercial subjects think that we bayonet yet passed, indeed that we have not yet reached, the worst. It is not owing to the American war alone, but it is owing in some degree also to the over-production of the hat few years. There is a vast accumulation of goods on hand. Every week that accumulation tends to diminish ; every week, therefore, the demand tends to increase; and I believe I am right in saying that it is not so much the actual absence of cotton as the impossibility of working the raw material with a profit, or without great loss at its present prices, that causes cessation of employment. These considerations are not without their importance. I receive letters and reports from many parts of India, and they all agree in this, that the people of that oountry,who, simple as we think them, are fully alive to their own interests where the making of money is concerned, are quite aware of the state of things that exists in this country, and are peepisred to profit by it to the utmost. I saw a letter from Madras only the other day, in which the writer expressed a belief that every pound of cotton grown in the country would find its way to England; and I have it on credible authority that in some districts, not only has land, otherwise unoccupied, been planted with cotton for the first time, but that green crops, growing a foot out of the ground, have actually been ploughed up to make room for the sowing of cotton. (Loud cheers.) I hope, therefore, that we may look, shortly, for • larger supply from that country than has generally been expected. (Cheers.) If there be any of you who have been tempted not to make nee of the stock you have by the apprehension, which 1 can well understand, of suffering from the sodden nem. tin of the blockade, and the pouring in of a cheap supply, so far as I can judge, I believe that that apprehension is un founded. l have seen something of Americans represent ing both sections of their country, and from all 1 can learn I have not the slightest hope or expectation that there will be an early cessation of that war. If that be so, sorely the supplies from other sources may be utilised with less risk than would otherwise exist. (Cheers.) Pardon me for having attempted to deal with • subject with which others here are more conversant. All I will say is that, let the mitigation of our difficulties be ea greet as possible, in any one the pressure upon us for the next three or four months must be inevitably severe. If we fail, great as our reluctance may be to accept state aid except in the last ne unity, we should be bound to see that we don't gratify our local pride, natural and right as I think that pride is, at the expense of those who would be the chief sufferers by our refusal. I have only one word more. We have often heard in former times of differences existing in these dis tricts between employer and employed. I believe that these differences were merely what in English we call every quarrel, namely, misunderstandings. I believe they arose from the two classes not understanding one another as they ought; but I am sure that the spectacle which has been exhibited, on the one hand of steadfast patient endurance, and on the other of liberal selfaacrificing assistance—l believe that spectacle will lead to a feeliog which has not hitherto existed between the different cheers of the com munity, and tend to bring about a higher social state than has yet been witnessed in this country, or perhaps in any country in the world. Lord E. HOWARD seconded the reaoultiou, which was agreed to. Mr. Mactomt, secretary of the Executive Committee, read the licit of subscriptions collected in the room, which amounted to over 50,0001., and included the following The Lord- Lieutenant £2,000 Lord Derby 5,000 Mr. J. P. Heywood 2,000 Lord Overtonel,ooo Mr. B. H. Jones l,OOO Lord Egerton 2,000 Lord Crawford l,OOO Lord Skehnersdels 4OO Sir J. K. Shuttleworth l,OOO Mr. Cardwell, 11. P 5OO Mr. Gladstone, M.P 201) The Marquis of Salisbury 2OO Countess of Sefton Earl of Btsdford 5OO Lord Kingsdowe 5OO Lord Grey de Wilkie l5O 500 Sir T. Birch Maus. ltathbone and Co 2,000 The American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool l.OOO Colonel W. Patten Lord Stanley, V..P 2OO The Marquis of Hartington l,OOO Messrs. Wrigley end Sons Mr. J. C. Ewan, M.P. Mr. Anderson 5OO Mr. J. Heald Sir T. Hesketh The Underwriters at Lloyd's 2,000 Colonel T. Clifton 4OO The town of St. Helen's 2,500 It was also stated that within the lest four weeks the amount contributed by Lancashire, including 3,0001. from Warrington, 50,000.'. from Mancheeter, and 13,4001. from Liverpool, amounted to 110,000/. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. SW *magma. COURT OF QUEEN'S BRIM/IL—Dm 2. Sitting' at Nisi Nees, aim berm, at Westatinske.—lßefore Lord Chief Jus oe Cockburn sea a Cowmen Jury.) egrieocin e. BITITIMWORT/L—Ml. DIGB[ EEIMOI3II, M.P., AND THE DENDHIIIII OP .1111 MIDDLE TEMPLE. This was an action for libel. The defend's& pleaded not gnilty. Mr. Lush, Q. 0., and Mr. Kum were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Serjeust Shea Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Puller for the defendant. , Mr. Lush said that he appeared for Mr. Digby Seymour, • Q.C., and M.P. for the borough of Southampton, who a complained of • very serious libel published by the de , Judea, who was the publisher of the Law Ma9azine and Law Review, which has been in existence for mast' years, and was to be found in every law library in the kingdom. m The learned gentleman, who stood near the jury whilst ed it dressing them, and who spoke with an inaudible voice, was el understood to say that this publication, which was taken e a in by the profusion generally, had published what 0 ,, he unhesitatingly termed • scurrilous libel oa the mt , plaintiff, and that that gentleman bad come be red fore • jury to claim compensation for the attack that aD had been roads upon him, and to vindicate his character. no . The defendant, by his plea, had abielded the writer of that ao f article, who evidently had some personal feeling against the ao f plaintiff, for his malignant feeling was manifested and could this be traced throughout the whole of the libel. When he h o f read the publication to them be felt satisfied they would and agree with him that it was penned by some person who had ring • most vindictive feeling towards Mr. Seymour, with • view — h — a "a to crush that gentleman with regard to his professional sue well ems and politicaletanding. Hattacked almost every period of „A y , Mr. Seyncour'slife. It referred to his origin and education, it t h e as well as every step he had made professionally and poli t._.l tically. Mr. Seymour's object, therefore, in bringing this sad to action, which was the first opportunity he bad had of Fund. bringing the whole subject before • jury and the public,waa , re too to have • full investigation into all the circumstances that t uat l y had been the subject of inquiry by the benchers of the Middle Pf t h e Temple. The writer of the article complained of t had shrunk f uture from pleading a justification, and had simply pleaded not at . guilty. By that mune he had raised no Mee with regard .71,.„t, to the truth or falsehood of the charges he had made against 'mild be M r. Seymour and he had placed that gen . tw e tleman in the position of being placed in the d the witnem-box without being able to give any evidence d ent et . with regard to the truth or falsehood of the charge arm ed b e that had been made against him. All, therefore, that be 7 =CUM. was enabled to do was to give such • history of the circum a, it not stamen alluded to in the libels would enable the jury to h i i t i s underetand it, and appreciate the spirit and animus which upon had actuated the writer. As the writer bad wailed 51r. Si m ram Seymour from the beginning of his career up to the present emporary time, tumult give them a history of that gentleman's life. ms of in- Mr. Seymour was the son of an Irish clergyman of the It is the protestant church ; and u the writer bad sneered at enormous Mr. Seymour's education and attainments, he had to state r t h e t i me that Mr. Seymour graduated with honours at Trinity Col get at t h e legs, Dublin, and whilst there he obtained several prizes for there f ore, literary productions. On coming to England he was called which have to the bar in 1846, and he chose the Northern Circuit. In r and f a i r l y 1852 he was elected member for Sunderland, and he was , meet t h e Dow a barrister iu considerable practice. He very soon done by became leading counsel at sessions. He was engaged in pro m, secutious for the crown and also for the Post-office, and, T hme are holding that poeition,and during the time he was member for om anything Sunderland. he was appointed, in 1854, Recorder of New , the rates. castle, and from that time to this he had held that judicial ur, but i t l e a office. Upon receiving the appointment of recorder t h e h onor , o f he was obliged to vacate his seat. He was not ]lore than returned on that occasion, but in 1859 he was n eeita bi e t h at elected for Southampton, and still represented that and different borough. In addition to that he was appointed in in whom they 1860 Queen's counsel in the county palatine of Lanus into considers• ter, which was generally considered by the bar of the amount of the northern circuit as a steppingstone to other dignities in the ht, u fee as profeesien ' and he held that rank till he received from the themselves late Lord Chancellor his patent of Queen's Counsel of Eog- And t h ere bad. A number of other gentlemen who were also mem bers of fthe same circuit obtained their patents of Queen's ho have de- me would come Counsel at the same time, and without disparagement of San they . are at these learned friends, he might say that Mr. Seymour's udence ID that appointment was justified as much as he others. when the rioutr i. Shortly after that appointment he received an tell ,. an aa much =Bon from the beechen of the Middle Temple, to No one attempts which inn he belonged, that certain charges had been or even conjec- made spinet him which they considered it to be their duty Higher anthm .i. to investigate. Mr. Seymour was therefore called upon ;or k that we havenot the first time to answer, not for professional misconduct, ache d , t h e wors t . except in one instance , but for other matters tha t had cc alone, b ut it is carted unconnected with his protegeen seven or eight years .production of the previously. He was at a lose to know what those charges mtiou of on rod . bad to do with the writer of the article in question ; nod . to dirn i n ith but he did know that they ware brought forward h ant{ after a lapse of years, when the means of exculpa , not so much the tion had diminished, and which, if tree, were more aibility of work i ng fitting for an inquiry in • criminal court than ant great e m , at before the benchers of the Middle Temple. How ever, so it was, and Mr. Seymour was called upon to mploymenk These ,portannat receive answer certain matters unconnected with his professional career except in the one instance he had referred to. Mr. f India, and theall others ea Seymour, like many in their foolish and giddy days, ,untry,who simp le interesia ' arhannthe became connected with joint - stock compenies, and the re aware of the state and charges made against him were in connexion with them. are ... re d to The investigation occupied • considerable time, and in the Item from /wins only course of that inquiry it turned out, in the matter re sed a belief that lating to his professional career, that some years ago, having 4.' n ''' ntry „ o w hod its got into difficulties and into debt, as the result of his speculations in these joint-stock co:apelike, he became dible authority that in &bet - wise unoccupied, indebted to • solicitor. He was pressed foe payment. time, but that green Being unable to pay, be offered , as the only means ad, have actually been by which he could discharge the debt, to give up whatever fees came from that source. The learned counsel the sowing of cotton. fore, that we m ay did not mean for one moment to deny that it was unprofes pply f r om that "Meal conduct on the part of Mr. Seymour to do so. The supply proper etiquette of the bar very properly forbade such • been tempte d in expecteeL heers.) not to practice. It was the only honest mode Mr. Seymour bad of ' the apprehension, which liquidating him debt ; sod, not for one moment justifying from the sodden mew In conduct, it was not a matter that ought to be made • seriouscharge against a professional ma's moral character. og in of a cheap su pp l y, Previous to them cbsrges being made Mr. Seymour that apprehension is tin- had been the victim of certain vague rumours, of Americans represent- resulting, no doubt, front his connexion with and from all 1 can learn I ,o If that there will them companies , but they took no specific form If that he so sorely the until the investigation before the benchers. The einem- stances connected with them were industriously circulated he utilised with less rink amongst his constituents ; and, indeed, at that time, in Cheers.) Pardon me for consequence of the rumours that were afloat, and for some subject with which others time afterwards, the public was disposed to believe every will say is that, let the geese ee passible, in any thing and any th ing that was card . The result of the investigation before the Mockers was that they acquitted I next three or four months Seymour of the charges that had been brought against If we fail, great as our ;. him that they rebuked and reproved him for abet he had e aid except in the last DE- don Anent the same time that the decision was made ere that we don't gratify our at _ known it reached his constituents at Southampton, and on hie I a I think that pride a rrival in that town for the purpose of addressing them, be ild be the chief sufferers by cord more. We h ave o ft en found that not 0011 had the information reached the I bands of many of hie opponents there, but that they knew recces existing in these dis alao the names of the bombers who bad voted, and how they employed. I be that had voted, and, mistaking the reproof of the bombers. his what in English we call every opponents circulated in Southampton a report that the Wings. I believe they arose .. banchers had toned him guilty of the charges that had been iderstanding one another as erougnt against him. He also found the town placarded t the spectacle which has been with insinuations respecting this inquiry, at the instance of I steadfast patient endurance, onif , sammoing emetence _ i loonymous end disappointed electors, and he was cha ll enged at the meeting to say it he had or had not been convicted of ,ad to • feeliog which hss not the charges that had been made against him. Of different chums of the com coons, in the state of mind he was then in it was ynut a higher social state than hardly to be supposed that he would be able to measure his country, or perhaps in any or weigh with that precision a man would in cooler and dad the resoultion, which was c almer momenta the words he used on that occasion. He had undergone the most trying ordeal that a professional TOAD could possibly undergo. He felt acutely the charges of the Executive Committee, that had been made against him at a time when promo. na collected in the room, which teen had been exceeded to him by the late Lord Campbell, mid included the following : and he felt hurt that the rebuke which had been cast upon £2,000 him should have reached Southampton. He was, there -5,000 fore, unable to refrain from alluding to it, and the address 2.000 which he then delivered to his constituents in vindica -1,000 tins of these unfounded charges had also been 1,000 I made the matter of attack in this libel. That 2,000 was an outline of the circumstances relating to Mr. 1,000 Seymour to which the libel pointed, which it was necessary 400 for the jury to know before they could fully understand and th l,OOO appredate the malignity of the attack complained of ; and 500 after he had read the libel to them, he would ask them if it HO was a fair and legitimate comment upon a man's public ishary 2OO career, or whether it was not a malignant and studied attack 200 upon a man for the purpose of crushing him. He was not 500 there to say one word against the liberty of the press, for 500 the action was brought for no such purpose. On the con ice l5O teary, it was for the benefit of all that there should 500 be free and open discussion; but it was necessary mud Co 2,000 for the mainteneuce of the liberty of the press that umber of Commerce at it should be carried on and kept within its proper limits. 1.000 He admitted that they might discuss in the newspapers the 1,000 public conduct of any public man, from the highest subject 200 in the realm to the lowest. Every member of parliament artingtou l,OOO might have his public conduct criticised, and what they tad Sore M.P 5OO criticised by the press, but it must take care not to go 1100 beyond that. If, however, they went beyond that, and 1,000 imputed corrupt motives to him, if they attacked him in 300 his private relations, and abused the liberty of the press, 2,000 such a person was liable to an action for libel. If this paper 400 or publication had contented itself with the mere criticism of " 60 0 Mr. Seymour's conduct in parliament. however severe it might have been, provided it was bond fide, it would not have been actionable, and the same applied with regard to his professional career. A man, therefore, had no right to take, as the writer of this article had done, rumours against an individual and embody them in print as a charge against him. The wilier of this article had done so, and had put these rumours into the form of an indictment, for it was an indictment from the beginning to the end, and attacking THE MANSION-HOUSE COMMITTEE. —The total Mr. Seymour socially, politically, and professionally. [The arnountreceived at the Mansion-house in aid of the distressed tweed counsel read the libel complained of, and which, as operatives in Lancashire during the last two days was it would fill some four or five columns of our journal, we about 7,5001. Although this sum shows • considerable de- cannot print.] The learned (*UMW in continuation said crease in the receipt, that being nearly the daily average he need hardly inform the jury that the character of a pro daring last week, the number of subscriptions have by DO fissional man was essential to his success. The article told ; means decreased, but they no* consist of much smaller the public that the plaintiff had goes through an ordeal sums. Amongst the donations were 5031. from the Residents painful enough of itself to anytime that of answering charges 1 , of Canton ; S. Maw and Boa, 1051. ; Royal Mail Packet arising out of professional misconduct that occurred years Company, 1001. ;V.N. H. 2001. ,• Florence, Stet instal- ago. He bad been subjected to a severe censure from the moot, 4001. ; Finley, Campbell, and Co., fifth instalment benebers, although they had found that the charges were monthly, of 2,0001.-2001. ; Henry Raton, second weekly not proved, except in the one particular he had mentioned. instament, 100/. ; Bermondsey , third instilment , 1001. • The writer of the article bad not told the world upon what parish of St. Michael's, 2441. Os. 6d. • Harrow-on-the evidence the benchers had come to their conclusion , so that 100/. ; Blsndford , 172 1 . 3s. 6d. ; Nottingham, 1281. 9e. 6d. ; they might judge for themselves ; but he had told Mr. House-to-house Collection, Chamarsh, 60/. • Offleas, Noo- Seymour in this article that be ought to be no longer a commissioned Mein and Gunners a 2nd brigade Royal proper to the English bar. The writer having thought r Aztillery, 501. proper to shield himself under the name of the publiehsr, She replied that she died on the day following that 041 which she made the observation that she was going very fiat, and she made the statement to which she referred only a few hours before her death. Mr. Justice Byles said be was of opinion that under I these circumstances the statement wee admissible as • 1 Mr Seymour lied no alternative but to rang his aetioe egainit that person, and when the action was brought the defendant, instead of offering an apology or • retractation, released the plaintiff to his mohair, and In the following numbs, was published another article on the subject, which the learned counsel also read. It would be, he rid, for the He to say whether it was a jest and fair comment. He called upon the jury to give to the plaintiff sub stantial damages for this most malignant attack upon him, not because the plaintiff wished to put any money into his pocket, but because the public in a are of that kind looked to the amount of damages given r an index of their mind upon the question submitted to them. He hoped the result of the trial would be that the jury by their verdict would say there re no reasonable pretense for the writer's stating that Mr. Seymour err a man unworthy to belong to the profession of the law. Mr. Keane handed in the publication retaining the libel, which he said was admitted by the defendant. He celled Mr. Seymour, who deposed—l am the plaintiff. lam • Q.C., and M.P. for Southampton. My father was a clergy man of the established church in Ire Lind. I was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated with honours. In 1846, when at the age of 2:3, I was called to the bar. I practised on the Northern Circuit. I attended the sessions " at Newcastle, Northumberland. and Durham ; and after wards Leeds and other places. I had • large business at these sessions, and I was entrusted with crown prosecutions. I was elected M.P. for Sunderland at the general election in 1852. I was appointed Recorder of Newcastle in 1854. I cannot connect that appointment with any vote I gave in Ld?nt. I know it was stated that the appointment o e me relation to a vote I gave on the Foreign Ruhr ment Bill. I had voted in favour of the measure previ ously to the recordership becoming vacant or of there being any probability of it. I had told my constituents before that I should support the measure. My vote was not at all influenced by the appointment. I was not reelected for Sunderland. I was elected for Southampton at the general election in 1889. Between the two election' I continued to be in extensive practice both in London and on circuit. My practice steadily and considerably increased I was 'p pointed Q.C. to the County Palatine of Lancaster by Mr. Martin, with the assent of Mr. Baron Wilde, who was travelling circuit with him. The appointment received bin express ruction. Both thew learned judges were mem bers of the Northern Circuit at the time I joined it, and continued so till their elevation to the bench. In the spring of 1860 I drew a bill and brought it into the House of Commons, relative to the Admiralty jurisdiction. That bill passed the House of Commons before I was appointed Q.C. and had gone up to the Lords. It received the ap proval of Lord Brougham and Lord Cranworth, but it did I not pre the Lords. I gave notice in 1861 of my intention to again introduce the bill. I afterwards received a letter from the late Lord Campbell, to the effect that he approved of the measure. I gave way, and the bill was introduced into the House of Lords. I then considered it a govern ment measure. It ultimately pared, and is now the law of the land. Lord Campbell's letter was dated the 14th February, and on the 19th I received • notification from his lordship that I had got rank as Q.C. I was appointed in 1861. A large number of gentlemen were appointed at the same time ; amongst them several of my contemporaries on I my own circuit, with whom I had attended sessions and fought the battle of business for many years. There was no political pressure used or bargain made as to my appoint ment as Q.C. As to pressure, I should have thought it hard if I bad been rased over, considering those who were to be appointed. The Lord Chief Justice—You say no pressure was used! Plaintiff—None, my lord, directly or indirectly. Mr. Keane—And was it ever conveyed to you that Lord Campbell expressed his regret at having appointed you Q.C. ? Plaintiff—Until I sew it in the article referred to I never had any reason to suppose so. 1 went to Southampton, and in my address to my constituent' I referred to some proceedings that had taken place before the benchers of the Middle Temple, part of which is published in this article. I found the town placarded when I got there, together with a copy of the benchers voting. It had been industriously circulated about the town. The statement in the article as to the manner in which I received the intimation of the saddled merciful view of the benches is an entire perversion of what occurred. I heard the judgment, as I call it, read over to me when I came into the room. When it was over I said, " I thank the benchere for their finding with regard to the principal charges." I then referred to the observations on Robertson's case, and I said that, although they acquitted me with romantic generosity because I consented to set him free from an engagement which he had entered into at our common risk, many years would not rollover before they would be prepared to admit that they had not done justice to my motives or my character. I may have spoken with feel ing ; but I certainly shed DO tears. If I acted in an abject sprit I was not corder of it. I wrote the protest in Ja nuary, 1862, and on my return from Southampton I added the postscript. My voting in parliament had nothing to do with my getting silk. The Lord Chief Justice—You were at that time then supporting the government generally! Plaintiff—Yes ; I supported the government both by my speeches and votes. I published • book for private circula tion with reference to these charges. There were several names mentioned in it, and these persons objected to its publication. On my pressing them strongly they withdrew their objection, and I then sent copies to my friends, to the members of the Howe of Commons of position and in fluence, to the members of the House of Lords, to various members of the bar, and to many of my friends who wished a copy for the clubs. Mr. Seriert Shoe proceeded to cross.examiee the plain tiff, but had not concluded it when the court rose. The further hearing of the case was adjourned to this day 'Wednesday). dying declaration made by the die:eased. The witnees then proceeded with her evidence. About three hours before my mother died she said to me, "That wicked man (meaning the prisoner) has been the eerie of my death." She afterwards said that he had caused her death by turning her out of the house. A week bdare the 23rd of October, and down to that time, my mother was quite well, end performed all her usual occupation about the hose°, and waisted the servant in washing and darn ing. She was a little addicted to drinking, but I lied not seen her intoxicated for some time before the day in question. She was quite Doter at the time my father acted towards her in the way I have described. Oa the day Infers her death she complained of pats in the thigh, where the prisoner bad struck bur with the Wags, and she showed me a mark. _ . . Crass-examined—l believe my father and mother were married, but a short time back I heard my father say they were not. They were always considered as man and wife. They did not live very happily, and I believe something had been said to the effect that my mother was to leave him and go to live at another farm a abort time before the 23rd of October, but the place wu not ready to receive her, and it was arranged that she should go temporarily to Mrs. Clifford's. lam not aware that the reason why my father and mother lived unhappily was her being ad dicted to drink. At one time my father wanted me to go to Port Lodge and be his housekeeper, but I would not leave my husband. The girl Whitbread bad been known by our family from a child and when I saw m hither at Chatham on the 23rd of OCtober, I understood from him that he was going to take her as housekeeper and that she was to accompany him home at night, and the other girl (Collier) was merely to go with her. I also heard him say something to the effect that my mother had either gone, or was to go, on the following morning. My father asked me to ride with them when he overtook me on the road, and I did so, although I thought it was very improper that he should take the girls home with him. After I put my mother to bed I went into the room where my father mid the two girls were at supper, and I had some tart, and also drank some ale with them. The girl Collier slept in the same room with me that night. It was after they had supped that Whitbread said she would not have come with my father if she had known that my mother was there. Ido not remember say ing when I was before the magistrate that my father struck my mother on the shoulders and not on the head. Mr. Justice Byles said he thought that in the interest of justice he ought to put the deposition she had made pre viously into her hand, in order that she might see what she really did say, and he accordingly did so. The witness having looked at the depositions said—f re member now that the prisoner struck my mother on the shoulders with the thong of the whip, and he did not strike bee on the head. I also said that be threatened to " chuck" her out of the home, and I made a mistake when I stated that he said that he would kick her out. My mother was a large stout woman. I swear that he did not lift her out of the chair in order to arid her to bed. The two girls drove out on the Sunday by themselves. I believe that some arrangement had been previously made that my mother should go to Mrs. Clifford's until the other place was ready for her. Re-examined—Dnring all the time my father and mother lived together they were reputed to be man and wife, and it was not until two or three months ago that I heard my father say they were not married. My mother never said anything to me to the same effect, but on the contrary, two or three hours before her death, I put the question to her, and she told me that she and my father were married. I never heard that nay mother had con sented to leave the house, end so far as I could judge she had no intention of doing so. I knew the character of Whitbread, and I thought she was a very improper person for my father to take into his house. Harriet Russell said—l was servant to the prisoner at the time in question. I remember his having to go to Chatham on Wednesday, the 22nd of October, sod before he went away he told me to prepare the beat parlour, as he should bring a friend home with him that night. He did not return on the Wednesday night, but he came home on the Thursday night, accompanied by the two girls and the last witness. Mr. Robinson, a surgeon at Brampton, near Chatham, proved that he saw the deceased on the day before her death, and she showed him a bruise on her left thigh, which was as large as the mown of a hat. She was evidently sink ing at this time, and she died on the following morning. Upon a post mortem examination he discovered that the liver was very much enlarged, and the heart and kidneys were also very considerably diseased. She might, however, he said, have lived • considerable time notwithstanding the diseased condition of these organs, and he expressed his opi nion, founded upon the evidence lie had heard, that her death had been accelerated by the +hock to her system that was occasioned by the violence inflicted on her by the pri soner on the night in question. He also said that the liver of the deceased being in the condition he had stated was very likely to be severely influenced by such a came as the one referred to. Mr. Joy, another medical gentleman, gave evidence of a similar character ; and this closed the case for the prosecu tion. Mr. Ragan having addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, Several witnesses were called, who gave the prisoner the character of being a kind and humane man. The jury in a quarter of an hour returned a verdict of Sentence wee deferred. OXFORD CIRCUIT. —STAFFORD, Disc. 2. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) James M•Donald, 20, striker, and James Howlett. 18, striker, w e re convicted of feloniously assaulting Joseph Robert's on the 2nd November at Wolverhampton, and stealing from his person three half-crowns The prisoners watched the prosecutor leave a coffee house at about one in the morning, and in a much fre quented thoroughfare, and in the sight of at least three passers-by who were only ten yards off, garotted and robbed him of 7s. 6d. Sentence, four years' penal servitude each. Henry Gwynn..., 30, boat-builder, war convicted of two burglaries, the one on the 28 th and th e other on the 31st of July, at Tipton, both on promisee within ten yards of his own house. Mr. Justice Mellor sentenced the prisoner to be trans ported for twelve years. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT.—Mimirrow; Due. 2. • (Before Mr. Justice Ryles.) EXTRAORDINARY CROWE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Major Murton, 52, • respectable-looking man, who has been for • great many years engaged in extensive business as • farmer, near Chatham, was charged upon the coroner's inquisition with the manslaughter of his wife, Lena Murton. Mr. Russell conducted the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Ribton. Mr. Russell, in stating the case to the jury, esid c t t - . aoner occupied a farm called Port Lodge, near barn, and be had been married to the dammed, wbo was about his own age, for thirty years at the time the occurrence took place that was the subject of inquiry. 145 said Le believed it would appear in the course of the ! case that the deceased was addicted to drink, and that at the time of ber death she was suffering from an affection ! of the liver and the kidneys. In other respects, however, she was healthy ; but supposing the jury should be of opinion that; these ailments had anything to do with her death, it was right he should inform them th at it was an undoubted principle of law that if the death of any one was accelerated, even in the smallest possible degree, by an act of violence committed by another, the offence would amount to murder or manslaughter, acco rding to the peculiar circumstances of the case. The following evidence was then adduced : Mrs. E. V. Walter said—l live with my husband at Chatham. The prisoner is my father, and the deceased was my mother. On Thursday, the 23rd of October, I saw my father at Chatham, and in consequence of someting that I heard I made up my mind to go to Witchling, where my father and mother lived and occupied a farm, called Port Lodge. Port Lodge is fifteen miles from Chatham. I set out on foot, and my father overtook me in a cart. He bad two women in the cart with him, named Elizabeth Whit-, bread and Sarah Collier. I got into the cart, and rode with them to Port Lodge, and we arrived there about 11 o'clock at night. There was only one servant is the house, and the only other person who was there at this time was my mother. When we got to the house my father and the two girls went into the parlour, which was the best room. My mother was in the kitchen. My father ordered some bread and cheese and ale to be taken into the parlour, and this was done, and he and the girls had supper Nether, while my mother was sitting in the kitchen. They were about half an hour at supper, and then my father went to bed with one of the girls, Eliza beth Whitbread. Before this he had said it was time to go to bed, acid Whitbread said she would not go to bed while my mother was in the house, and she also said that if she bad known she had been there, she would not have accompanied beame v m e yth ry faer home. excited,and said d h h en e w a o h ul e d saij n thism tte fat h h o e us r , and went into the kitchen where my mother was sitting. He had • hunting whip in his hand, and Le struck my mother with it on the head. He held the thong and the handle in his hand, and he struck her with both, but it was only • slight blow. When be struck ber he said to her, " Get out, or I will kick you out." My mother did not offer to rise from her chair, and the prisoner laid hold of her by her arm, and pulled her out of the chair, and threw her across the room, and she fell down. He then took up the tongs that were in the fire-place, and struck my mother across the thigh with them. He struck her once, tied it appeared to be • hard blow. When he did this I interfered, and called for assistance, but no onecanie, and I stood before my mother in order that my father might not strike ber again. The house at Port Lodge is rather lonely, and there are very few other houses near it. I went out to see if I could obtain any assistance, leaving my mother sitting oe the floor, and when I returned she was in the same position, and I got her up as well as I could and put her into the Bervant'a bed. I cannot say the exact time my father went to bed, but be did pp very goon afterwards. I have no doubt that the girl Whitbread slept with hire, as I Dew her la his bed in the morning. My mother did not get up until about noon on the 24th, and she complained of pains, and said that she was very poorly, and she went to bed and got up two or three hours during the day. She continued to complain until the Sunday follow ing, and she was taken on that day to the house of Mrs. Clifford, the sister of our servant. I returned to Chatham on the Sunday, and before I left the two girls, Whitkmad and Collier, went out for • ride in the pony cart. I did not see my mother again until the Thursday afterwards, and she was then very ill indeed, and appeared to me to be in a il.Ong Mate. On the Saturday before her death she told me that she was going very fast, and she made a statement to me afterwards. The witness WWI about to give the statement, but Mr. Ribton interposed and objected that it was not legally ad missible. Mr. Justice Bytes inquired of the witness when the de. mad died I THE POLICE COURT& GUILDHALL. Ferdinand Arthur Newnan, lately carrying on business in Peochurch-street, in the name of De Nltolllllll and Co., was brought up on remand before Alderman Begley, charged with conspiring with a man named Pearson, of Noble street, to defraud Mr. Walton a woollen mufacturer, of Bradford, in Yorkshire, of goOda to the value an of 1,000 1 . and upwards.. Mr. Hemp, instructed by Mr. Beard, conducted the de fence ; Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr. Albert Toner , ap peared for the prosecution. In the absence of witnesses in this case further proceed ings were postponed for the present, and a second charge was entered upon relative to a fraud alleged to have been committed upon a Mr. Chancey, through the medium of the prisoner and a man personating the well-known manufac turer of Eau de Cologne, Johan Marie Farina. The prisoner then, in a most excited manner, asserted that was innocent of the charges made against him. It was stated that there was a bill of indictment upon the files of the Central Criminal Courtto which the prisoner had never appeared to answer. The prisoner, who denied that there was any truth in it, was again remanded. Mr. James Phipps, of 36, Lower Belvave-street, was summoned before Alderman Hale for assaulting Mr. Thomas Nicklinson, a salesman in Neweste-market ; and there was also SWOP summons against Mr. Nieklinson for abusive and threatening language towards Mr. Phipps, Mr. Sleigh (instructed by Mr. Pearce, the solicitor to the Butchers' Association) attended for Mr. Nicklinson ; and Mr. George Lewis, jun., appeared oil behalf of Mr. Phipps. After hearing evideece, Alder.nan Hale said there were times when it became an unpleasant duty for a magistiate to give decisions on cer tain subjects—and this was one of them. When the former complaint was before him two or three weeks ago be cau tioned the market people that they would find the law too strong for them; that they had better let bygones be bygones, and transact their budness with Mr. Phipps with that harmony which would be conducive to the interests of all. He had cautioned them that the systematic annoyance of Mr. Phipps, and the combination to prevent him buying meat in the market, amounted to conspiracy in law, and he had hoped that that caution would have had its effect, and that he should have heard no more of the matter. Mr. Phipps might have acted, as 11r. Sleigh called it, as an amateur informer ; and it seemed that in his case be had good cause for doing so. His conduct throughout had been extremely creditable to him, and entertaining that opinion, he should fine Mr. Nicklinson 40s. and costs, and in doing so warned the butchers of the market that if they continued to molest Mr. Phipps their next appearance would be at the Central Criminal Court, on a charge of conspiracy. IiIARYLEBONS. George Limes, a tell, powerful-looking fellow, was charged on remand with brutally assaulting and robbing Mr. Wood ward, assistant to Messrs. Egleee and Thomas, jewellers, 136, Oxford-street, on the night of the 13th ult., in Mait land-park-villas, Haverrtock-hill. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prisoner. The prosecutor still adhered positively to his opinion that the prisoner was the man who attacked him, and the pri eoner's employer having spoken to his former good charac ter, several witnesses were ogled with a view of proving an alibi, and the prisoner was mein remanded. CRYSTAL PALACIL 0/rll BEILLLWO DST. TUZSDAT, DICOIHKE 2.—Adrairiows ea payment, 393 ; ditto by whop tickets, 849 ; total, 1,012. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese voting as Inferior brown leaves se to the usual Medi. llorcinnufe Tee is uncoloured, therefore shyers good alike, Bold In pickets hl;nte sipseda--04vertteentint.1 MARKETS. TALLOW.—TI:I3DAT EVENING.—The marivt to-deg, at the following prices 495. 3d. , IM. rhik r 45e. he 4lla 3d. ; January to March, 47r. ; 46.. 6d. Delivery to Est evening, 395 casks ; ditto. 745 mac COTTON.—Lmotrooc, Inc. 2.—We have liml siding to-day, wish rather dearer prices. The WI. Are 8000 bales, including 1,000 American. at 20d. to 21d. 6,200 Surat, at Md. to NEL ; 200 Egyptian, at 21.1.1. to 23d. ; of which 4.000 are for apes:dation and export The week's import ia 17,017 bales. COTTON GOODS.—MaocniffrlM, D. 2.—We Lee found more doing in yarns to-day at Friday's prices. 1,, or two instances we have heard of a slight advance been obtainedigiThe business doing has been chieiv by China, India (Calcutta), sod the Mediterrancau. ' floe Lame trade have also been doing some little in yarns. The MA:- ket closes with a tendency to improvement. I u cloth neorde. all sellers have bee. caking higher prices, and for oe,,,is al descriptions, owing to the lemsoiog of stocks by purchases and to the hardening tendency of the Liverpo,l cotton market; but the advance checks business. How, of many kinds of cloth could sell freely at the rates eon,: last week. There has been some business dons, hut it 1../ been comparatively small. There is no new feature to Dote in the cloth market at all WOOLLEN CLOTH.—Lunn, Dr.c. 2.—We have had is some respect. an improved market this morning in the Coloured Hall. A few fair parcels of Melton' and °the light spring fabrics changed hands, and on the whole' more animated feeling was manifested. The White 110 was again quiet ; a few mediums for the coming season were in request, but, with that exception, little we. done. Prix.' I continue firm in all departments. MANUFACTURES.—HI/DDIESFIELD, DEC. '2. —ass tl close of the year approaches, the markets acconliugly corns flatter, very little business having been trauswial either in the Cloth-hall or the warehouses. Some nuall parcels of spring goods are oocasionally delivered for Joi nery account. WOOLS.—BODDLIMPIELD. Dec. 2.—lleceruber is L,welly a dull mouth in the wool trade, manufacturers being a• willing to buy eo near Christmas ; but the prices ruling London sales are supposed to be such as will induce them to purchase immediately an the opening of the new year. CORN.—Rant., Dso. 2.—At to-day's market a underlie supply et !ash& wheat, which sells more freely at tut! lad week's currency. Foreign held firmly, but not tout doing. Barley for malting neglected. but grinding support, late rates. Beane end pees meet more in lorry at toil prices. Oats dull and rather cheaper. The foreign im ;feta lest week are as under :—W heat, 10,232 qra. ; barley, 244 ; oats. 1,591; bans, 529 ; peak 3,53.3 ; taree,l,3i4; Lowed, 8,109 ; rapeseed, 2,390 ; oil due, 161 tom; hones, 368. Lane, Dir. 2.—We have had a fair show of wheat today, but millers act on the reserve, and but little bueinses b trensacted ; the few sales made are at last week's rates. A considerable antral of barley enables our malt. stars to supply themselves on easier terms. Beans sell is retail at former prices. Oats and other articles unaltered. Lin:SPOOL, Dam 2.—Our market to-day by no inc,:, responds to that of London yesterday ; on the cot. Crary, both millers and dealers show great thyme, and Ind not buy wheat except at a trilling concession, say Id. per rental on Friday's prima. Flour, from scarcity, maintaas previous rates in retail. Indian corn is offered freely, sal must be quoted generally 3d. per qr. cheaper. Irish ow very umuileable. Oatmeal dull. Beans tid. per qr. lower. Peas and barley unchanged. The market closes without any umptoms of immediate improvement. LYNN, Dun. 2.—Weather since this day week has bra dull, with a thick heavy atmosphere ; to-day is bright sad fine. At our Corn Exchange to-day the attendatee of growers was good, but the show of w h eat was only mall; the demand was steady for all good samples, at last Tues. day's rates. Barley both malting and griodiog, prices without alteration. Beans and peas were a slow ale, at barely late rates. Prices per imperial qr. to the grower :—Wlest, white, new, illlbs, to tuba. per Ito. penal bushel, ols. to 535. ; ditto red, 6111 e to 62lbs, 455. to 48s. Barley, best Chevalier malting, rsilbs. w Mlle., 365. to 38s. ; ditto, runs Chevalier malting, 52114. to 531b5., 325. to 345. ; ditto, distilling, 50Iba so 51115., 301. to 324. Oats, 3Mba. to 421 be., 245. to 275. Beam, old, 6311 e. to 631b5., 425. to 48s. ; new, &Me to CAlbs., 42a. to 41. e. NEWCAMIA Dec. 2.—The weather since Saturday he been raw and *menial, with much rain. At our =islet ' this morning we had a moderate show of wheat from the growers, but from the coast several vessels have dropped is and the quantity offering being so much beyond our preset requirements, the main bulk will have to be landed, end our millers have all cargoes in direct, the demand void languid, so that in the baseman dons buyers had a slight advantage, the traosactions at the same time proving lie.iit‘L Flour was in slow request, and to sell fully Is. per rat cheaper. Malting barley in very slow request, end ratter cheaper. Grinding unchanged. In other articles little variation to note. TRAFFIC RETURNS. Kilos Pea , Mgr- Total.ldel. RAILWAYS open sewers chandlso 1b62 lest Week ending Nov. 29. a * E . Glasgow ds South Western 198 CVO 7,1e1 Week ending Nov. 3e Cork and Bannon °me Innemboterig London and Illackwall .. 1.374 226 1.600 U 74 North London 435 =d10 a ::& ,t N N :w w to w wn wn 42 366 646 911 ell VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. 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HOE—December 1, at Orsett-terrace, Hyde.raa, the wife ft L Hoe, Hag., of awn. 11ACILENZIE.—November 27, at Fairies Vila, era Di.leforl, Devonahlre, the wife of J. P. Mackenzie, of • MlLMAN.—November 29, at Onslow.agnere, W , the *if, Lieut. -Colonel B. Mimes', 6th Vasillers. of a dauchter. BLlGHT.—Notember 29, at Clifton-terrace , tirilOwv. Mr. L. Blight, of a sou. WlNTLlL—NovemberT ar i s tock-squate. th e wife LF. Wintle, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGFIL BURNSI7—ALLENDXII—December 1, at the Church el nu Holy Trinity, Raverstock.hill, by the Rev. C. Lee, M A . Et A. S. Burnett to Mary Agnes, daughter of Mir. S. ADes,kr A Hawley-road, LenUsh4own. °RISEN Eit—COLlNG.—November 24 at the Te rms Olney, Bucks, by the Rev. J. Coling, W. Gri., e e r . D.!. Ihre.hill, Birmingham, to Mania, daughter of the law Coling. Raq , of Stnstforden-Avon. OUTSIIE—KIRK. — IS °somber 2i, at Kesdy, Armso.l4 LM Rev. T. Guthrie. D D , the Rev. I). K. Guthrie. of LiLlet 4 i Edinburgh, to llandilk, daughter of W. Kirk, Fad. . 4 " 2. ram, Ready. MOBILItTSON—HOLDSWORTIL—November 21, at SeredutP M Rev.oucters, by the Rev. .I. tionyritl• M.A., the A. Robertson, of Forret, %tor:Whir., t. '' .. l Iberian Eleanor, daughter of the late 0. Itublsirorto. EO4. Wakaheld Yorkshire. YILICNON—HAWOB.II December 2, by special Ikenw..s: oaf af.lsedral, Contain by the Rev. James ho oett. 1,0 Hoaresborough, uncle of the bride, the Rec. Charhs V. rot D.D. of Wherstesd Park, Suffolk. and Dovereourt, foe . Penh Greco, widow of the late Edward Darnley Hss•Aa Eau., of her Majesty a Vith ItAginient, and eldest stsnill4sr John Fawcett, Esq., of Pettenl Rank, Cumberland. DEATHS. BIBDT2L. —November 29, at Hutton, Boinersetd. Mader. 140 aged ff. DANI FlL L—N o vember 29, at Dumpton Hall llsinarate. the r' l * 111. Daniell, aged 49. DEZDlR—November 90, at Eaton.terracc. W. Y.P. for Lent, aged an ORlEL—November 98. Rev. C. B. Green, MA . d M. 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