The Express. — London, England, 1867-02-23 00:00:00

r i: IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS.-F , ..PAY, FEB. 22. Their Lordrhils, met Itt nee o'clock. Petitions were presented by the Earl of Runoffs's and Lord Li Fr,oci siptio , t the sale• of intelle.ding liquors on the Loa tra). AtIvorCHEMENT OF THE ITINtE. , .- OF WALES. The Karl of LEMLV—My lords, it will require but few won's from me to induce your lora,,i,ips to vete UllaUi• 11101114 tit. butulde and loyal address aliich it will be my duty to propose. All those who have had the honour of pet.smia. aitercourse with her Majesty :snow that there is so stronger or more prominent feature in her Majesty's adiaractet than the warm and deep atfcction she feels for every branch of her illustrious family. and the interesther Majesty takes iu every domestic merit such as that to which 1 ant now shout to call your loi•lships' notice. I am quite sure also that anything th..t -u ila ,p'y interests her Majesty's feelings cannot fail to be abs-ply interesting to all those subjects who have the happiness to live under the beneficent and constitutional rule of sovereign who so well discharges all the public at ' l private duties of her illustrious station. It i. on the present occasion with more than ordinary fen ling* of satisfaction that we shall congratulate her 31ajesty en the safe end happy delivery of the Princess of Wales, and the birth of a princess, because. as is well known. both auspicious events took place under circumstance') ialculated ut first to eveite considerable uneasiness. I need not say that the royal lady to whom these observations Met, from the first moment she set foot 011 our shores, has so conducted her self as to propitiate the good will of a .cry individual in these realms. (loud cries of "Ilea:. heir..•i I Sill sure that your lordships will join me in congratulating her Majesty on the fact that the Princess of Wales 1.... passed safely through her trial. and that another priest Loa been given to her Majesty's family. The noble earl concluded by moving an address, " Humbly to cor.aratulsre her Majesty the safe delivery of the Princess of Weirs, anal the birth of a prince's; and to assure her Ma je-ty of the deep interest felt by the House of Lords ill all that concerns the domestic happiness of her Majesty ..rei family." Karl RUSSELL— I am sure we are all ready to congas. *elute her Majesty on the birth of a prim, es. I need not say another word except to second thu motion. The ad• dress was then put from the woolsatl:. anal married nom eon. The Msrtjuis of CLANRICARDE dirty ..t tention to the subject of Wel tenure in Ireland...n.l Lid upon the table shill relating thereto identical with his tamsure of last year. which after a short debate 4 read a first time. The 'Pnfederation of North Amu-it-an Provinces Hill passed through committee. The Earl of DERRY said he b. 91 to ...sk the house to meet this day, for the purpose of nsding the Habeas Corpus Suspens . Act Continuance Rill s first time, with the view of missing it its remaining stores on Monday. Their lordships accordingly adjourned at half-past 7 until I o'clock this day. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FranAy. Fze. 22. The Burets took the choir at four o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. The Dublin Trunk Connecting Railway Bill, Enfield Cu Bill, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Bill, and Water ford and Paaeage Railway and Fairy Bill were read the second time. WATERFORD ELECTION. On the motion of Sir H. W. BARRON, a copy man ordered of the verdict of the coroner iuqueat on Mr. Xeily, killed in Dungarvan at the hit Waerford electiou. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Colonel TAYLOR, a new writ was ordered for the election of a member for the North Riding of Yorkshire in the room of Mr. A. Duneombe, now Lord Yeversh.on, called to the House of Pet: K. THE TELEGRAPH LINES. Mr. W. FORSTER salted the Secretary to the Treasury whether it wee the intention of her Msjesty's government to bring in a bill for placing the tclegr.ipli lines in the kingdom under the superintendence of the state. Sir S. NORTMCOTE replied that the subject was under nousidemtion. HOSPITAL RATING. Mr. LIDDIFLPH asked the Secretary to the Poor.law Board whether his attention had been called to the fact that hospital. and other charitable institutions, formerly held to be exempt from poor and other parochial rates, were by a receot decision made assessable for these rate. ; and whether he proposed to recommend any alteration in the law so affecting them. Mr. EARLE said that the whole subject was under the consideration of the government. DRAWBACKS ON SUGAR. Mr. CRUMEWINO asked the Secretary to the Treasury, if he would state at what date the new regulations aa to the amount of drawback on sugar, tube allowed by France, Holland, and Belgium respectively, as provided for by the recent convention, were to come into operation ; and, in the event of that being delayed beyond the first day of March, whether the change of the duties and drawbacks on auger in this country should be tuatponed, in order that the change might take place sunultaneoualy in all the countries which were parties to the convention. Mr. HUNT replied that as soon as the resolutions had been pasted, the government communicated with thethres powers who were parties to the arrangement, requesting them to furnish information as to at what date they would be prepared to carry out the amuigement. B e l g ium had a s yet alone replied, and they were prep..rt to commence on the lit March, if the other powers were. The course which the government proposed therefore to pursue, was to delay the passing of the act until tiny had received all the replies, and then they could alter the date, if ne- FENIANISM. Colonel KNOX said, that as the hon. member for Sir mingham had thought it his duty to mien present what be (the hon. and gallant member) said on the subject of the treatment of Fenian prisoners, he begged to ask the &ere tary for Ireland whether prisoners under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act were not treated as untried prisoners and Insolvent debtors? Lonl NAAS said that the hon. end gallant gentleman was quite right. These persons contined under the Lord Lieutenant's warrant were treated precisely as untried prisoners. BIRTH OF A PRINCESS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and said—tiir, I ass sure the house will be rejoiced to offer an address of congratulation to ber Majesty on the happy event that has occurred in the royal tinnily by the birth of a princess in the direct line of the royal house. The royal family lives so much in the eye as well as in the heart of the people, that sonic, domestic sentiment necessarily mixes with the public feeling that dictates and sanctions these addresses ; and I am sure the house will offer with every sincerity, and the utmost and most respectful cordiality, the congratulations we all feel on this occasions. I beg to move that an humble addrea be presentA to her Majesty congratulating her Majesty on the Princess of Wales having happily given birth to aprincess, and assuring her Majesty of our devoted loyalty and attachment to her Majesty's person and family. (Cheers.) Mr. GLADSTONE—Sir, I have much pleasure in rising to second that motion. I will only add to what has fallen from the right hon. gentleman, that the indisposition from which her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has been suffering has contributed to supply an additional in terest in the event to that which always comes home to the heart of the nation ; and to express our earnest hope that her royal highness will speedily be relieved from the con tinuance of that suffering, and continue to enjoy, with all other blessings which Providence can bestow, that of an anintemipted health, which it is the desire of the whole of the country she should ever enjoy. (Cheers.) The motion was then agreed to. Mr. BENTINCK, on the order for supply, raised a dia .:MSS/OR upon the estimates for the designs of the new courts of justice, by moving that it was expedient that all arrangements respecting the new structures should be effected under the sole responsibility of the government. The discussion possessed little interest except to the art critics. It elicited, however, from Sir R. Palmer and Lord J. Manners the admission that responsibility really rested with the government and not the commission, who, in fact, had been appointed at the instance of the inde pendent mem b ers the house. Sir H. itAIVLINSON inquired whether the Indian go venunent bad come to any deeieion on the recent appeal of the Maharajah of Mysore with regard to the succession of his adopted son. Lord CRANIiORNE said it wan emphatically the opinion of the government that the rights conferred upon the Maharajah by the treaty with the Simla would ter. urinate with hi. life. It was not the intention to annex the territory, however, at the Maharajah's death, though it would not be Lauded over to a native prince altogether unchecked and uncontrolled. The question was how far they would go in giving to hie adopted *ion a Aare in the government of the whole or a portion of the territory which his father poasmeed, and if, hereafter, when he came of age, he showed his fitne.s for the position, it was to be hoped that he would be admitted to a practical share on his father's death. tiir it. PALMER called attention to the unsatisfactory state of the different appellate juriwhetirns in this country. With a sieve to remedy the defects, which he described with great mina:. aim the bon and learned gentleman proposed to at.:iimb the exclusive of the courts of Queen's Emelt and Exchequer, and to make the Tliti aPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1867. three coo. men ' .es courts branches of one great court. I three ji,. op •to constitute a full c..urt. He would dispense with the atteralainx of judges at chambers, and transfer i 0l 111i110! I 11.i . ..e5 , :a chief clerks or masters, and where I e'e court was overburdened with causes and another in sufficiently supplied, a portion of the business of the former might be advantageously handed over to the I Ms% H .vir.a made other suggestions of a minor character, the hon. and learned gentleman proceeded to consider the next portion of the subject—namely, the appellate juris diction ; all here he laid down the two principles that not more that one appeal should be allowed in any case decided by the superior courts, and that there should be but one court of appeal for both equity and common law. To this court he would transfer the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords, and the legal functions now per formed by that branch of the legislature should cease and determine a. mon as a more effectual tribunal had been established in its stead. The ATI% titNEY-GENERAL reviewed the various Bug gestiuns of the bun. and learned member, and denied that they would effect any saving of judicial power that was worthy of consideration, or that the administration of justice would be promoted or improved thereby, After some discussion the subject dropped. THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE. Mr. D. GRIFFITH asked the Chancellor of the Ex chequer whether the government meant to invite the house to come to a conclusion in favour of the reduction of the qualification for the elective franchise without at the same time afforlinga clear indication of what that reduction was intended to be! The hoc, member in the course of his oh servationa was wore than once interrupted by the Speaker, on the ground that he was travelling beyond the subject of hi. question. He said the resolut ions were open to the same objection am those taken to the proceedings of the late government last year. It was then said that the go vernment asked them to take a leap in the dark, and these resolutions seemed to suggest the same remark. Hon. gentlemen who were then on the other side said the government ought to treat the house with frankness on the question of reform. It struck bins that these reso lution' were open to the same remark. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER —lt is not more than ten days since I came down to the house to suggest that in this matter the heat mode of proceeding would be by way of resolution. When I made that propo sition I was doubtful whether the house would accept it— indeed formally it has not been accepted, although from smile intimations I have received I have reason to believe that the house will not refuse to accept it. I will not refer to the terms, of the resolution* which my bon. friend boa referred to so amply—la l a ughl—l wil l merely say that these resolutions lay down certain principles on which the house will have to proceed. One object of all resolu tions is that gentlemen should have the opportunity of considering their principles and of applying them in the intoner they may think most expedient. By that course they often arrive at this most salutary result, that they Boil many which at the first blush they thought impracticable and abound, afterwards, when explained by thegovernment, to become more practicable, and a temper of mind is created likely to give to those resolutions a calm and im partial consideration. Ido nut think that the time pro posed for the consideration of those resolutions very extreme, and I trust that the house has not deemed it unreasonable. In two or three days the house will be called on to take those resolution into oonsideratiou, and of course it will be my duty, in accordance with the pray. tice of parliament, to show how the government think the principles laid down in the resolutions should be applied. During the last ten days a great many questions have been asked me by members of this house. I have taken a note of those questions—(a laugh)—and in due time they will be answered. (Hear, bear.) I have like wise taken a note of the question of my hon. friend, and in due time it will he also answered. (Laughter.) THE APPROACHES TO THE HOUSES OF PAR. LIAMENT. Mr. BROMLEY rose to cull the attention of the First Commissioner of Public Works to the condition of the streets in the vicinity of Palace-yard. Nobody (he said) would sssert'that those thoroughfares were in • satisfactory state. (Hear, hear.) He wished, therefore, to call the attention of the noble lord to sessional order No. 8, issued on the 10th February last, to the effect that the Commis sioners of Metropolitan Police should take care that the passages and thoroughfares leading loth. Houses of Par. lianient were kept free and open, so as that no obstruction should be offered to members going to and from the house. It could scarcely be denied that that order had not been enforced, or that the passages were in a disgraceful —at least, a discreditable state. Let them imagine what would be the position of some gentleman who had asked some distinguished foreigner to conic down and see that house. Possibly that distinguished foreigner might wish to see the interior of the house and the working of that administrative assembly, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer told them would bear com parison with any sasembly in the world, whilst the gen tlemen of the Reform League told them it was an assembly of bad characters, and filled with men who had hump backs, and one eye only each. The distinguished foreigner might get with facility as far on his journey aa Trraf gal r square, when his nerves would derive their first shuck from a sight of the national cruet-stand—(a laugb)—to be calmed immediately after by a glimpse at the lions, which he might wish, however, had a little larger ped es t a l s . lie would then get a distinct glimpse of the towers of West minster, and would, of course, expect something gland, but when he came to the crossing over which he was to be assisted by a con siderate policeman, like an Israelite crossing the Red Sea, with • wall of traffics rising on each side, he would see a state of things not to be equalled by any gold diggings or oil city in the world. He would see a huge bole which had lately been filled up. (Laughter.) It had been filled up suddenly like the hole in the Roman Forum. (Oh, oh.) Perhaps her Majesty's ministers had induced some heroic and patriotic member to jump in and settle the reform question. (Laughter.) Beyond this the distinguished foreigner would see a low hoarding, on which was stuck a placard, intimating that the whole territory belonged to the Metropolitan Districts Railway Company, a steam engine, which puffed perpetually into the faces of bystanders, and he would be puzzled by a mysterious interrlatory, chalked up everywhere, and asking him sternly, Who's Griffiths (Loud laughter.) A friend of his (Mr. Bromley's)who fortunately was a good horseman, riding up lately received a blast from the engine which caused his horse to swerve so much as completely to destroy the equanimity of one cab and cause it to cannon against another, thus creating a great disturbance and inter ruption of traffic. That gentleman, who was much attached to all our venerablegnstitutions, exclaimed, his eyes stream ing with emotion, "Only conceive if I had been a bishop." (Laughter.) If he carried his eyes a little further he would get • glimpse of an erection behind the low hoard ing, which some said was to be a fountain, others thought it was intended for • different purpose. With regard to the railway that was being excavated in the immediate vicinity of the house, he regretted that the bill for that line had been loosed. He believed it would ' shake the foundations of Westmiaster Abbey—(laughter)-- and that Westminster Hospital, within a few yards of which it passed, would be rendered untenable, as far ee l the comfort of the patients was concerned, when the rail way was in operation. It had left neither the dead nor the living at rest, for he was told that the bones of our ancestors had been carted from the burial ground near the Abbey to Woking Cemetery. He wondered it hail not struck the directors that Westminster-hall would make a good terminus, or refreshment room. (Laughter, and cries of" Question.") In fact, wh he heard of metropolitan improvement, he shud dered, and he ought say that he entertained the ' greatest dread of that inscrutable body the Board of Works. (Laughter.) He was told that the railway was waiting for the Thames embankment, and the Thames embankment was waiting for the railway ; and so between them they came to a dead lock. The Thames embank ment was doing nothing, had done nothing, and intended to do nothing, and the authors of a report recently issued congratulated themselves on their having done nothing. He looked over the bridge the other day and saw eight men and a boy at work. (Cries of " Question.") He believed that, generally spoik ing, the works in connection with that house and the neighbourhood had been carried on, according to the national practice, in the most dilatory manner. That house had been very nearly as long in building as the Temple of Jerusalem—(laughter)—and his belief was that it never would be completed. In cow:lotion, he begged to call the attention of the First Commissioner of Public Works to the notice he hail put upon the paper. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. Mr. OSBORNE, in rising to ask the Secretary to the Treasury for a further explanation of the sums re quired for particular items in the approaching Paris Exhibition, said he thought he had seine excuse for bringing this matter forward, and that if an excuse • were wanting, he should find it in the language used by the Secretary to the Treasury the other night, in saying that when this vote was first brought before him, his feelings were first those of surprise, then of indignation, and lastly of resignation. (Hear, hear, and " no, no.") When the Secretary to the Treasury, a man who was known to he not generally moved by the common emotions of the human heart—(laughter)—spoke in those tenni, the subject must indeed be one demanding the grave con sideration of the house. The question before them was in reality whether that house was to have a veto or control over the public expenditure. (Hear, hear.) This was a subject on which be had heard Chancellors of the Exchequer lecture in former years ; he had heard them complain that the house was neglectful of the public in terests ; and although a few members professed to say, " We must pus this sub silento, because it is a matter concerning a foreign government," he thought there was sufficient public spint in that house even at so late an hour to endeavour to exercise some control over the public expenditure. What was the history of this vote of 116,000/. ? It was a curious fact, that no detailed estimate for that sum had ever been laid before the house. The first notice of it occurred in the royal commission of the 2nd May, Is6il, when it was stated that estimates would be laid buten the house which would be managed through the department of science and art. The commis -14011 consisted originally of 84 members, of whom 20 were members of the other house, the same number of members of that house, and 18 had since been added, making the total number 102. It had been said that that commission was nut composed of men of business ; he was free to say that the members of the two houses who were on that commission were innocent of science, and he believed ince. psble of art. (Laughter.) The duties of the commission had been stated by the hon. member for Stoke-upon-Trent. He believed about d 0 of the members met once every two months, some unseen hand prepared resolutions—be believed it was that of our trusty and well beloved Henry Cole "—(laughter)--and as the commission discussed nothing they passed whatever was laid before them. He found that in June, 186.5, the house voted 5,000/. for preliminary expenses on account of the management of the British department of the Universal Exhibition at Paris for 1867. Not a word was then said. The next vote was one of 120001. in 1866, fora similar purpor, and that also passed without remark. But the other night the house was taken by surprise by seeing a sum of 30,000/. included among other things in the supplementary esti mates, not for preliminary expenses, but for real business connected with the exhibition. Some discussion occurred upon that, and upon that occasion the bon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Hunt) gave them for the first time the esti mates. Now, in 18.14, the estimate passed for a similar purpose was 50,6001., and strange to say only 41,0001. was I spent, and the remaining 9,00 U/. was returned to the ex -1 chequer—a strong contrast to the present arrangement. I (Hear, hear.) The estimate given by the hon. gentleman the other evening was 90,0001., of which 16,1001. was for internal fittings, '13,06.W. for supplementary buildings, 11,500 f. for ancient and modern art, and 14,755 f. for management. With re mud to management, he understood that • large house had been taken on the Champs Elyaies, in which 40 beds were made up. There was said to be a large staff of 47 secretaries to that commission. (Laughter.) The next item was one of 17,1507. for house and office expenses. Now, he should like to know what were the salaries given to the 47 secretaries, and especially how much was given to "our trusty and well-beloved Henry Cole." (Laugh ter.) Then there came another very singular item of 8,2501., which brought the hour to • very curious consideration. He wished to know whether it was true that it was designed by the commission that there should be an exhibition of blue books in Paris. (Laughter.) The home might laugh. but he was informed by the librarian of that house that that officer hail received an intimation that it was the wish of the commission that all the blue books and parliamentary publications of that house and the House of Lords should be sent to Paris to he exhibited. (Loud laughter.) He believed it was only through the exertions of their respected Speaker that that profligate waste of money bad been prevented, and that only • few specimens of the blue books had gone. (Hear.) If this extravagant, lavish, and foolish expenditure was to go on in this way, where was it to stop! (Cheers.) The 'next item was " Royal Commissioners, 2,750/.." and then came another extraonlin ary amount—" Exhibi tion of im plements of war, 11,4001." Why, that was contrary to the very title of the Exhibition, which was an " Exhibition of industry and agriculture as well as of the fine arts." He had no objection whatever to send over articles of that kind, or even to let them have • few blue books; but to send over our big guns was not only ridiculous, but a waste or the public money to which he hoped the house would never consent. (Cheers.) In the former Exhibi tion the jurors got nothing but a bronze medal each; but here was a charge of 12,0001. for them. Now, he found that there were 85 jurors, and be was to'd by one of them that they were each to have 501. That would give 4,250/. ; and he should like to know what was going to be done with the rest of the 12,000 f. ? (Cheers.) This was • very serious matter. The money at present asked for would only carry the commissioners to the opening of the Exhibition. Whoever was Secretary to the Treasury at its close would then come down to parliament and auk for 60,000/. or 70,000 f. more ; and then the Chancellor of the Exchequer would say, that unless hon. members wished to imperil the peaceful relations between the two countries they must agree to his vote. He trusted, however, that the house would support him (the hon. member) in his resistant* to lavish expenditure, and equally lavish waste. (Cheers.) Mr. BRUCE explained that the conditions laid down by the French government were, that if a certain extent of space were allotted the English commissioners must bear a certain proportion of the expense of the structure, of the roads leading to it, and even of packing and unpacking the articles. Mr. B. HOPE said the commissioners had nothing put before them but certain resolutions, which were in print. The real business was done by unseen persons in another room. He suggested that a select committee should be aPr red. HUNT promised a detailed account. Mr. OSBORNE gave notice that he should move that the implements of war be stopped. The Habeas Corpus Act Suspension (Ireland) Con. thiamin) Bill passed through committee, a clause which was proposed by Mr. BAGWELL, and which caused much discussion, that the prisoners should be treated as untried prisoners being inserted. The standing orders were then suspended, and the bill was read a third time and passed. The Sugar Duties Bill passed through committee. The house adjourned at half-past 1. THE TRAFFIC REGULATION BILL. ANTI-RITUAL MEETING IN DORSET. A great meeting of protestant laymen, resident in the county of Dorset, was held on Thursday iu the Shire-hall, Dorchester, fur the purpose of protesting a gai nst " recent ritualistic innovations in the church of England." Lord BRAITZBBURT presided, and amongst others present were Lord Portman, Mr. G. W. D. Digby, Shcrhorne Castle ; the Hon. W. W. R. Portman, M.P., Mr. Gerard Sturt, M.P., Mr. John Floyer, M.P. The hall was crowded to enema, the large landowners of the county being very strongly represented. There was also a very numerous sprinkling of the clergy of the diooem, promi nent amongst whom Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne ("S. G. G.") was recognised, and very cordially greeted. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, said it was not necessary he , hould enter at largo into the causes that had called them together in order to incite them to a deep and active interest in the object for which they were asse.ubled. The thing had been long before them, and the requisition they presented to him, together with their presence there in such numbers, sufficiently indicated the principles they entertained, and their solemn decision to carry those principles into effect. This was a matter far too serious for mere indignation, or for mere expressions of misgivings and doubt. That was a question which came home to their very bosoms, to their deepest interests, and it was for them to solemnly resolve that they would maintain the precious gift of the establishment of which he knew they were devoted followers, and transmit it, without blot, or stain, or diminution, to the latest pos terity.—Mr. G. W. D. Digby moved the adoption of the following protest :—" Resolved, that we, the protestant laymen of the county of Dorset, have watched with deep anxiety the increasing introduction into the churches of our land of ornaments sod ritualistic practices almost identical with those of the church of Rome. These ornaments and practices were re jected by our forefathers as inconsistent with and repugnant to the scriptural simplicity of protestant worship. We have beard with deep alarm the assertion of sarcedotal claims and doctrines essentially at variance with the principles and teaching of the Reformed Church of England. These opinions have been openly professed, and especially in our own diocese, by men who at their ordination pledged themselves to maintain the pure doctrines of Gospel truth. Impelled by these convictions we hereby publicly and solemnly protest against such ritualistic novelties, such priestly claims and such un scriptural doctrines, as tending to undermine the pro testant foundations of the established church, and endanger within these reabns the very existence of the Reformation it self." The resolution was seconded by Mr. J. H. Calcraft, the high-sheriff of the county, and supported by Lord Port man, Mr. John Manuel, Mr. J. Gundry, Mr. Eliot, county magistrates, and on being put to the meeting was carried by acclamation. The Hun. W. H. R. Portman, M.l'., moved a vote of thanks to the noble chairman, which was seconded by Mr. Floyer, M.P., supported by Mr. H. G. Sturt, M.P., and carried unanimously. tato Nuttllignice. EQUITY COURTS.—Fis. 22. (Before the Louis Juirtioes.) GAMOW= V. LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOM RAILWAY COMPANT.-DRAWBRIIIGt V. KAYE. This petition, which stood over from last Saturday in order that the court might be informed whether the parties were willing that the matters in question between them should be decided upon petition, was placed in their lord ships' paper this morning. Mr. Martineau , on the part of the plaintiffs, stated that they were willing that it should be disposed of upon petition, but the debenture-holden dissented, and insisted upon a bill being Med. Their lordships said that the only order which they could now make would be that the receivers keep separate accounts of one variety of the receipts from tra ffi c passing between stations on the Kent Coast Railway and stations on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and between stations on the Kent Coast Railway, without prejudice to any question, renewing also liberty to the Kent Coast Railway Company to take such proceedings as they may be advised to take to establish the validity of the arrange ment of Dt62. Mr. Ferrero appeared for the Kent Coast Railway Company, and Mr. Kekewich for the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company. (Before Vice-Chaneellor Sir .7. Stuart.) THE SCI N DE, PI: NJAU 8,._ AND DELHI BANE CORPORATION __ _ (wimp). This corporation, which was established in December, 1862, for the purpose of carrying on the business of banking in Scinde, the Punjanb, and Delhi, was voluntarily wound up in 1866. Its paid up capital was 418,2511., and now, after paying all the debts, there was in the hands of the liquidators a surplus of 215,0001., to which it was anticipated there would be 53,000/. more to be added. This petition had for its object the determination of the question how was the surplus to be distributed, having regard to the feet that the shareholders were divisible into two classes as regards the money paid by each on shares of the like nominal amount, viz., 201. Upon 37,500 elutes 101. per share had been paid, end upon • third issue of shares (8,961 in number), 5/. per share had been paid on 8,443 shares, and 21. per share only, leaving to be paid • further sum of 3/. on the remaining 518 shares. The shareholders who had paid 10/. per share contended that they were entitled to receive M. per share before those who had paid only W. received anything, and when they had been paid such 51. the re sidue of the surplus should be divided among all the shareholders in proportion to their shares. Mr. Bacon, Mr. Greene, Mr. C. T. Simpson, Mr. Crack nall, and Mr. Conybeare appeared in the matter. His Honour thought the shareholders who had paid 101. per share were entitled to be paid 51. per share before those who had paid only :it. received anything. The latter shareholders were debtors to the former in that amount. Coats of all parties out of the surplus. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EX PRESS. . _ SIR,—We E;re --- n;dijbliteat7o you for able article in your publication of t ia morning upon the Traffic Bill, but you have not noticed the impracticability of the London brewers carrying on their business if the bill passes into law. In one day we have sent out 3,000 barrels, which employed 190 horses and 100 men. If this work was Lobe done between the hours of one in the morning and nine o'clock, in the most part in the dark, we s hould require three times the number of horses and men, and the liability to accidents would be greatly increased. Practically, we should not have more than four hours to supply our customers, as they would not be prepared to receive their beer until five or six o'clock :7. i am, &c., A. LONDON BRBWBB. Brewery, Spitalßelds, Feb. 22. P.S.—The 300 men would be always employed in night work, and would be kept from their families. REFORM MICTINOR IN THE PROVINCES.—Last evening a large town's meeting was held in the Tem perance-hall, Leicester, to consider the government's proposed reform resolutions. The chair was occupied by Mr. T. T. Paget, and the assembly numbered about 2,000 persons. The borough members, Mr. P. A. Taylor and Mr. J. D. Harris, who bad been invited to at tend, sent letters of apology for not being present. A number of addresses were delivered, and resolutions were unanimously adopted, expressing an entire want of confidence in the present administration, and an opinion that the peace, order, and good government of this country require a speedy enactment of a reforn bill, which shall secure a full and fair representation of the working classes is parliament. The meeting also recorded its undiminished and entire confidence in Mr. Gladstone, and called upon the reformers of the United King dom, of all shades of opinion, to unite their efforts in supporting the right hon, gentleman ea the leader of the liberal party in the House of Commons. We learn also by telegraph that a successful meeting in favour of reform was held last evening at Devonport, on the occasion of the inauguration of a branch of the Reform League. The hall was crowded by respectable persons, chiefly artisans in the government establishments of the town. Resolutions were passed, amidst deafening cheers, declaring that the conduct of the present government in its treatment of reform is an insult to the well known wishes of the people, besides marked by a very despicable desire to obtain office by any means ; and that under these circumstances the meeting declared its conviction that the liberal majority of the House of Commons would be jus tified in proceeding at once to the expression of a vote of want of confidence in the ministers. Another resolution in favour of the Reform League's principles was unanimously passed. Mectin were held on Thursday of theWalsall branch of the Reform e, and at York, the Is ter being one of the largest assemb es which can be remembered in that city, at both of whit resolutions, in substance the same as those referred to above, were adopted. Sir W. Hutt addressed a meeting of his constituents on Thursday, at Gateshead. Having referred to and commented on the " Resolutions," he said—" What are we to do! (A voice— " Kick them out.") Are we to swallow heaps of reso lutions, and follow Mr. Disraeli wherever he would lead us, under the assurance that he is going to bring the subject of parliamentary reform to a satisfactory termination ? (Cries of " No, no.") I say with you No, no. (Hear, hear.) I say that if this plan, under ordinary circumstances, were proposed to us, our course would be simple and plain. We ought utterly to reject it. (Hear, hear.) But in the emergency in which we are placed, I think that we must take a different course. I think that it is the duty of the House of Com mons—and that it is especially the duty of the liberal party in the House of Commons—to endmvour, if they can, to shape out of those unpromising materials a real and an effectual reform bill. And if, gentlemen, after an earnest and sincere endeavour to arrive at this end, we should find that it is wholly impracticable, well, then, I say that the time has arrived when the liberal party must step forward. (Cheers.) They cannot have in the House of CoMmons a better advocate than Mr. Gladstone. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Let Mr. Gladstone introduce again, with certain amendments, the bill which was rejected in the last session of parliament. (A Voice.-" Let him go further.") And in the conjunc ture we have arrived at I have no doubt we shall carry the measure triumphantly through the legislature. (Hear, bear, and cheers.) Mr. Gladstone is not titularly—is not nominally—but he in really now the leader of the House of Commons. (Cheers.) Hs will be the leader and the Prime Minister of England—(a voice—" Yes, he will, soon")—if the nation's confidence—if his own singular training fur public life—(cheers)—his own unimpeachable honesty and integrity— (hear, hear, and cheers)—his earnestness of purpose and wonderful atioompliakments— his great sagacity anti incomparable eloquence —are any qualifications for that duty. (Loud and protracted cheering.) . . DC BARRY'S DELICIOUS REVALSNFA Azazza• FOOD cures dyspepsia, indigestion, coughh. indium, consam b ez, debility, constipation, diarriura, palpitation, nerrona liver, and stomach complaint& Cure No. 5ti,413.- 4 ' Some, July 11,1860.—The health of the Holy Father Is excellent, es Inc., abandoning all other remissible, he has confined es pecially entirely to Du Barry'. Food, and kis Holiness cannot praise this exce ll ent food too highly."—Clazette du Midi. Du harry and Co., No. 77, Rogent-xtreet, London, W. in tine, at la ljd.; 11b., Fa Id. 13Th.. tot 404.-I.l4TertnaillouLl THE RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS IN WOLVER HAMPTON. WOLVERHAMPTON, Fermi. At about midnight yesterday the magistrates tame to the determination, from information that they had received, that to effectually secure the peace of the town to-night it would be necessary to obtain the presence in the town of another troop of cavalry, and likewise to call up the yeomanry. They therefore at once telegraphed to the officer commanding the oth Hussars, at Coventry, and at the same time intimated what they had done to the commanding officer of the district at Manchester. Simul taneously a telegram was forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Home Department announcing that a re port from the magistrates would reach him at about noon, and asking for certain instructions by telegraph upon the receipt of the report. To-day, at about half-past one o'clock, a troop of the Stb Hassan, under the comment of Captain Kennard, arrived in this town by special train from Coventry, and during the afternoon two telegrams were received from the Home Secretary, giving instruc tions for the swearing in of special constable+, but commu nicating no instructions by virtue of which the autho rities would be empowered to stop the lectures. At ten o'clock in the forenoon the magistrates again assembled, and they continued their sitting up to one o'clock. Letters had been received by the Mayor (Sir John Morris) and by the chief constable, threatening the life of Sir John and the destruction of his works, and it had been conveyed to the Mayor's business manager (Mr. T. M. Fuller) that as many as 100 Irishmen had sworn to destroy his (Mr. Fuller's) private residence, and likewise to take his life. Evidence was forthcoming in support of the state ment that four men were lying in wait for him on his return home on Wednesday night, but that they were pre vented from carrying out their purpose by his having been passed by a neighbour at the point at which they were ill waiting for him. During all Thursday night Mr. Fuller's premises were guarded by a detachment of police. These threats against Sir John Morris and his manager are due to the views which the Irish entertain that the Mayor sympathises with the lecturer, and also that his manager has afforded the lecturer the hospitality of temporary, home. The facta, however, are that Sir John Morris did all he could to prevent Murphy from coming to the town ; and, since be has been here, has been pre pared, as one of the bench of magistrates, to take his share of the responsibility of stopping the lectures, whilst his manager fully shared hie views, and never spoke to the lecturer before or since Monday night, when he went to him in the hall, and begged him to desist from lea truing. It is a singular circumstance that the mob have not yet found out where Murphy is staying. Before sepa rating the magistrates resolved to Moue a proclamation, signed by the Mayor, stating that they " have been ad vised that they have no legal power to stop the lecture to night. Notwithstanding, they were of opinion that the placards issued by him respecting that lecture are most offensive to a large body of the inhabitants, and they call upon the inhabitants not to countenance by their presence in the streets or elsewhere any assembly by which the peace of the town is in danger." The offen siveness referred to by the Mayor's proclamation is the advertisenieut of to-night's lecture, which runs—" The confessional unmasked, showing the depravity of the priesthood, and the immorality of the confessional." To this it is added, " Ladies not admitted to the lecture on the confessional, except those who frequent it, nor gentle men under 21 years of age." Towards the lecturer and his cause a large amount of sympathy has been ex pressed by the protestant working men, all tee operatives at several manufactories having come forward and volunteered their services to protect the lecturer during the •wining ; and as this was being written arrangements were being made by the lecturer and his party to admit between five and six hundred of these men--all armed by some weapon of their own choosing— by the side door of the hall. Information has reached the authorities that Irish miners are to come into the town to-night from Bilston, Willenhall, Portobello, and else where, and an irolunaster has called at the police station to intimate that Irish emissaries have been to his works to-day to invoke the presence to-night of the Irishmen in his employ. The magistrates re-assembled at four o'clock. It was resolved that one troop of Hussars should be drawn up in Queen's-square, under the direction of a local magistrate, ready to march to any part of the town that may possibly be attacked. It was further arranged that the yeomanry 'should be sent out as patrols to those outlying thoroughfares specially threat ened ; and that the Agricultural-hall, the place of the lec ture, should be guarded by the other troop of Human, by 150 policemen, and by the volunteers of the town act ing as special constables. WOLVERHAMPTON, FRIDAY NIGHT. The town was patrolled throughout. The hall was well guarded, about ten thousand people being outside. Threats were mule of firing property, and a rush at the hall was defeated, a number of bludgeons being taken from the Irish. Three thousand persons were present at the lecture. The town was cleared at ten. Father Kelly was sent for by the stipendiary, but it was found that he had gone amongst the Irish. THE FENIAN " ATTACH " ON THE CHTATER WATERWORICEI.—A Chester correspondent, writing on Thureday, sari :—" In connexion with the bite Fenian raid upon the city of Chester the engineer of the water works published a tale which was calculated to attribute to that army of roughs the most diabolical intentions. Who they his statement that he was visited during the memo rable Monday by two individuals of the Fenian type, soli citing an inspection of his engine, and his inference that it was with the design of putting it out of order, with the ultimate object of successfully setting fire to the city, be true, becomes, under circumstances which have since transpired, rather doubtful. He has now just forwarded another alarming statement, which was published in the Chester papers of Saturday last, to the effect that his dwelling-house, which adjoins the engine-room, was at tacked on Friday night by three men, one of whom he could swear to a. being one of the two who visited him on the Monday. He fought with them as well as the in equality of the odds would allow him; but was eventually, after being kicked and cut at with a formidable-looking weapon, which he described as being like a butcher's knife as long as his arm, left for dead, at a distance of about thirty yards from where he was first attacked, and found on Saturday morning by a man going to his work. After the publication of the above a meeting of the directors of the waterworks was called, to take into consideration what course should be taken for the discovery of the supposed perpetrators of so foul and dastardly an outrage. But, as the engineer was able to appear before them, and—considering that he had been left for dead for some hours a few night. ago — looking so well, the investigation took another turn. His hat, upon examination, was cut nearly into ribhons, but none of these cute had reached even his scalp ; his face, however, was plastered in about half a dozen places, but be complained that his greatest injuries were of an internal character. Doubt of the truth of the whole affair, however, had taken hold of the gentlemen of the hoard, and it was found upon a more minute examination that the white plasters, which ran in all directions and imparted such a ghastly appearance to his face, merely covered a few scratches which might have been caused by the nails of a woman. They have since found that such is the fact, and the wan has been sus pended for such a barefaced imposition upon the credulity of an already somewhat terrified community."—Manotester Szeininer. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-FEB. 22. After Term Nisi Pius sittings at Guildhall.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN r. TELLY. Attar our report left yestenley, Mr. Serjeant Baßeaune, in addressing the jury for the defendant, described it as a very tiresome and disgusting case. The defendant had pleaded first not guilty, and the question arising upon that plea would be whether or not circumstances bad not occurred which justified the defend ant so as to render him not amenable to the charge of libel. The Lord Chief Justice—You mean a privileged commu nication. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine—Yes. If the circumstances of the case negatired any malice then it was incumbent on the prosecutor to show it. The prosecutor commenced by libelling Mr. Hamilton for the expert* statement made before the magistrate, which was afterwards published and circulated in the newspapers. This was as much a libel as if Mr. Hay had banded the statement in a letter to the newspapers. The question was, whether the report was or was not justifiable. The Lord Chief Justice—lf the application before the magistrate was made without reasonable or probable cause and maliciously, the remedy watt of a different character, and not by libelling in return. The publication of such a report was not by the person who made the application, but if he takes it upon himself to circulate it then it would be libel. Mr. Sorjeant Ballantine considered that if an exparte libellous statement was made before a magistrate or any tribunal, and afterwards reduced into writing, either by the medium of the public press or otherwise, the person making it waa liable to an action for libel as much as if he had written it himself. The Lord Chief Justice—l shall not adopt that view. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine then further alluded to the pub lication of the police-court proceedings, and his provoking • reply. Under the circumstances, that statement was not exaggerated, and on it he asked them to find for the defendant. Upon the second issue the defendant under took to move the truth of the statements contained in the alleged libel. One of the worst features in the ease, and which could only be attributed to the prosecutor's inns. nit', wan the wicked, loathsome, and abominable letters which he had put in, in which the prosecutor charged the father with incest, for on no other ground could they ac count for such conduct. The learned counsel, in a very powerful address, said he should be able to justify the libel, in which case they would return a verdict for the defendant. Several witnesses, including the Rev. G. B. Hamilton, having been called for the defence, The Lord Chief Justice said there was no ground whatever for stating that Mrs. Hay was of unsound mind. If the jury were of opinion that the husband and wife had been separated, whether rightly or wrongly, and that the defendant wrote this letter in reply to the terrible and dreadful accusations that had been made against the father, and that he acted boot fide according to his trans actions and without malice, and certainly none had been proved, I shall tell the jury that it was a privileged com munication. Mr. Stammers—That being so, my lord, I must submit to a verdict for the defendant. The Foreman—We are unanimous for a verdict of not guilty. (Applause.) A verdict of Not Gaily was accordingly returned. The prosecutor, as be left the court, was hissed by the audience. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Fsa. 22. Sittinp at Nisi Prius in London.—(Befure Losd Chef Justice Bovill and a Special Jury.) FENWICC AND ANOTHIR r. OMAN. This was en action to recover the amount of a cheque for 187/. 19s. Ild., which had been handed to the plaintiff but had not been presented until after the failure of Sir Chas. Price and Co., upon whom it was drawn. Sir Geo. Honymen, Q.C., and Mr. W. Williams, appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. J. J. Powell, Q.C., and Mr. C. J. Matthew, for the defendant. The facts were these:—The plaintiffs were ship and insurance brokers, carrying on business in Abchurch Chain hers, and the defendant was an underwriter at Lloyd's. There bad been frequent business transactions between the plaintiff, and the defendant, and the custom of the defendant was to pay by cheques to order and to cross those cheques with the name of Messrs. Barclay and Co., the plaintiffs` bankers. The cheque in question was sent by the defendant to the plaintiffs office about mid-day on Fn day, the 22nd June; and at that time neither of the plaintiffs was in London, nor would be there until Mon day. The plaintiffs' clerk sent the cheque by Friday night's poet to Mr. Fenwick, who was at a plam near Leicester, and Mr. Fenwick endorsed and returned it by the Monday morning's post. Sir Charles Price and Co. paid all cheques presented on the Saturday, but on the Monday morning they did not open their doors. As to notice of dishonour of the cheque, Mr. Phillips, a clerk of the plaintiffs', mid that he saw the defendant at Lloyd's and told him that he would be held responsible for another cheque, and the defendant repudiated all liability. Mr. Phillip; said that he believed this took place on Monday, the 25th June last. The defendant was positive that it was not so early as the Monday, and it was agreed by counsel that the interview should be considered as having taken place on the Tuesday. Another circumstance was that the cheque was not in fact presented at the bank until the 10th July, and the defendant's contention was that it was idle to say that there would be notice of dis honour before presentation. . . • Upon these acts the question was raised who was to lose upon the cheque. The defendant's case was that if the cheque had been presented within a reasonable time it would have been paid ; whilst the plaintiffs' contention was that there hail been no aches on their part, and that it was reasonable to send the cheque into the country for Mr. Fenwick's endorsement. Counsel on both sides agreed that the question was one of very considerable im portance to mercantile men. Lot d Chief Justice Bovill also agreed that the question was of great importance, and added that it seemed to him that it was a new question, for none of the decided cases touched it. As to ordinary cheques, the law was clear that the person taking them had the whole of the follow ing day for presentation. . . . A jiirytnaln said it was important that they as com mercial men, should know that this was established law. Lord Chief Justice Bovill—Bnt the question now raised was whether there was to be au extension of this term in the event of tbe cheque being made payable to order. Sir George Honyman urged upon the jury that it was reasonable that if the defendant chose to draw his cheques in a form that caused daisy in presentation, the time fur presentation should be enlarged. Mr. Powell, however, contended that there was no rea son why the time for presentation should be extended. It was the usual course of business for the plaintiffs to re ceive cheques payable to order, and, therefore, when they were from London they should have some one with au thority to endorse cheques. If them were an extension of time for presentation in consequence of the absence of the principals ,it would be impossible to lay down any fixed and certain rule. One principal might be fifty miles away, another in France, and another in Russia, and in each case the period of delay would he di ff erent. Lord Chief Justice !Mein asked Sir G. Honyman where he would draw tile line to suit all these various cases that would arise 1 Sir G. Hoop= begged to woe the words of Mr. Baron Bramwell when in a similar position, and say that he. not care where the line was drawn, for wherever dr.s., he was some distance on the right side of it. (Lisught.., Lord Chief Justice Bevil' said that his own impres,., was that the questions raised were questions of lab o, the full court, but he would, in accordance with the of the plaintiffs' counsel, leave the matter to the ji m The principal question for them was, whether the ela. : was presented within a reasonable time ; and the questv ( as he hail said before, was a very important and perh.. • very difficult one, especially ea there was no eviikae., usage, and probably, indeed, no usage. There s„ another question, whether the crossing of the che.;, extended the time for presentation. It was quite clear M if the plaintiffs had themselves crossed the cheque m would not have extended the time; but the question s, whether, the defendant having drawn the cheque in to form, with the assent of the plaintiffs, the effect was; extend the time for presentation. The jury, after considering the matter for some th, found that the cheque was presented within a reasons: time. Lord Chief Justice Benill said that as a matter of I. he should hold that the cheque, being payable to °rile did not enlarge the time for presentation. The jury said their opinion was that it ought to enter, it one day ; they looked upon the order as a restrict!, upon payment, and that time should be allowed to ean 7b the formalities rendered necessary by these restrictions. Lord Chief Justice Bovill said that in reference to tl cresting he agreed in opinion with the jury. He held th a person receiving •crossed cheque had th e . whole of ti following day to pay it to his banker, sad his 'make M the whole of the following day to present it for payn, a t A verdict was entered for the plaintiffs for the mom of the cheque and interest ; subject to the opinion of ti full court. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVOB.CE. FIB. 22. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) NOM= V. RUBB AND wrrrs. This part heard probate cause was resumed to-clay, t before the close of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Coleridge cloned the opposition to the will, and the Court deck: Probate. MARKETS. RIVAL Fire. 22 —The demand continues very she and prices hare farther declined 64. to Is. per cart.. scarcely any business doing Runt sells steadily at late rat, TALLOW.—Fltiele Ertento. —The market woo steady t Snot.Msrch and April to June,6.l Iso m October to December, as& W. to 43s 04. Town Is 1.14, titul, at 43. ad. net cash. At auctions of 170 casks Austrsla offered, ISO sold, line 421. 6d. good : 425. to 411, Ulterior South American or Odessa °Realm. Cocoa-nut oU quiet. tuts 685.: Ceylon. 505.: Sydney, Ma. to 475.: Inc, 9 451, good ,b. to 431. ed. inferior. Palm oil steady, 40s. ed. to 41s. line HlDES.—LialltinaLl., Poe. et.-51111st to 13411 n., Subs to *l. to 3d. ; 72Itrs. to Mika, 3d. to 34d.. t 4 to Whs., $34. to Rd. : Stabs. to 961 ha , 31d. to 4d. Horse kW, Os. to 10a ed. Calf skins, light, 2 to 4s. 71. BNRXoNIMET.--Sitsopoltlas : Polled, 10a to holl.hreds.! to 10s. downs, Os, to la Od. COTTON.—Lrvagennt., YES. 22. —Cotton has been In demand throughout the week, and the market has beeps ~,,, with former quotations barely supported ; hut yevtervik abundant supply o ff ering ham Induced more emenaire bu lk Sea Island, though in fair request, is rather easier In prkv American the transactions have been comparatively large. quotations are reduced about id. per lb. For Brazil the dews has been limited, and in most mimes a decline Is submitted to id. per lb. Smyrna is in improved demand, hut barely euppv last week's rates. In Egyptian the lower qualities are g heavy of sale, while the better descriptions command full psi, Holders of East India have shown some anxiety to restive. v. prices In mo,,t instances are rather lower; souse deseriptid however, are limn, in consequence of the reducing stocks ,e 5 ing. Speculators have taken during the week, 3.7tk1 bales . porters, 14,100 bales and the trade, 38,890 bales. We have k a fair demand to-day. and a quiet market at previous rat The sake are 8,000 bales, of which 2.000 are for capon e speculation. The following are the official quotations Orleans, 13M.; ditto middling, laid.: fair Mobile, 15,1.. middling, 14d. ; fair Uplands, 151. ; ditto middling, 131 d. COTTON GOODS. —Slewetorpria, Yew. 2?.—The mart for all kinds of yarn and cloth continues low in pm, though moderately steady, and th ere is no improvern. In demand. The business In yarns for shipment has I. very disappointing to-day, to sellers, and to have rsa sales spinners must have taken lower prices. The marl continued quiet to the close iu these descripti goods *Manufacturers have found the quiescent state the market favourable, and in home trade yarns busintst t nearly reached an average. For these spinning' mites are t changed attire Tuesday. There is certainly nn improvement. cloths very little business has been done in the interval Line Tuesday and this morning. although some offers have been nu lug in the market, and a limite,l number of buyers appeared d posed to operate. Their offers came to nothing. Is-canoe ma at prices which could not be accepted, even with the derma Math of things now existing. A Wool many of the offers ma recently for various description& of cloth have leen at prk which preclude the probability of satisfactory negotiatinus, lead to a suspicion that they are made merely to test the fir fleas of sellers. To-day again we have had hut littleapproatil holiness, and only low and very unacceptable often have lie making. Manufacturers themselves find the spinners ten whom they obtain their yarn tolerably ann. and nuke these r: cumstancea they ore compelled to hold with some steadiness the comparatively low rates for cloth now ruling. Sellers t port but few operations up to the close of business quotatit are nominally the same as on Tuesday. 00B.N.—CHNI.ralOin, Pita ft—The weather iuiii tI week past has been mild and We, but not •lrytng, and le., Colltinlieli to come to hand in very poor comlitkm. such Tula. almost (wadeable ; the better dewnigions c.a ld not be I.se on easier tern: white, Bta to 675.: red, 68e. to CU firm. Barley bat little offering, an•l rather lower. Average • Wheat, 00e. barley, 45e. oath, Us. W. Limonuf, FEB. !' —We have had a more Ilheral supo wheat today, and finest samples were dull sale at last a,. prices. Barley Is. lower. Wheat. red, 545. to She ; white u Barley, ass. Wats. Oatil, tOs. to ata. LIVERPOOL. Fan. U.—At our mar►et to-day there waist. attendant*, and only a limited amutaut of businem was don wheat, at about previous rates. Flour dull, and rather an Indian corn extremely quiet, at It decline since two Beans eit. per qr. lower. fiats and oatmeal met with a.l sale, sad prima were nominal. WAKEFIELD. FEE 4Y—Wheat trade dull, and prices cheaper. Barley also rather lower. COAM—L0111)011, FIL 23—Halinen Mahe, loia ed ; is bares West Hartley, ltin: Walla God Hetton, ; Walla I Helton Lyons, 16a. 3d. ; Walls Hod Hartlepool, 17a 3d.; Wu path Cannel, 19a.-150126 at market. 32 ; sold, 93 TRAFFIC RETURNS. 3111 es Pas- Mer- Total, T B t RAILWAYS. open. senors. chan•llse. 1866. 18 Week ending Dee. 30. East Indian 1129k 12,350 05,611 38.217 37.1 Week endlaa Feb. 10. 1867. P. London,Tllbury,4:Bouthead 750 !92 1,013 1,1 We./It eliding Feb. 17. Caledonia' 5631 11,456 21,350 10,306 Si,l On Saturday a beautiful new steam vessel, bui for the Woolwich Stesm.pscket Company for the lc senger traffic on the Thames, was launched from the rr mines of Messrs. Lewis and Stockwell, at IllackwalL vessel is built of iron, and is constructed to Clirry passengers. CHEAP PROVISIONS IN TEXAS.—The San Antoni Ledger says that line fat chickens are selling at tlin dollars a dozen, and turkeys at nine dollars a dozy venison hams, six dollars a dozen ; sweet potatoes seventy-five cents to one dollar firer buibel ; pork. and five dollars a hundred, and beef of splendid quality five cents a pound.—.Neir York piyor. [Advertisement. 1-110LLOWAV*8 Pmts. Lire C plaints and Disorders of the Bowels.— It is impossible exaggerate the extraordinary virtue of this ILlVliitine in the in ment of all affections of the liver or irregnlarlties of the In cases of depraved or superabundant bile, these Pills. freely, have never been known to fall, In bowel complaints th are equally efficacious, het they should then lie taken rather tri sparingly, for every medicine In the form of an aperient reuse caution when the bowels are disordered, though a gentler mere genial aperient than Meat Milani moderate 411.Aes has IP' yet been discovered. If taken according to the printed in,. Dons they nut only cure the complaint but inuinite the al+ sisteen. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AID DEATHS. BIRTHS. HAMERSLEY.—Fehruary 19, at NoMeld 11..fetory, the sif the Rev. A. Haineraley. of a daughter. El°WARll.—Yelvusry 00, at Cloufroster-place. l'ortufan.vio the wife of C. R. Howard, Esq.. of a ion. MILBANK. —Yebrusry 00, at Ashtleld, the Lady Susan Milieu of a son. SHEPHERD.—February 90, at Tavistork,quare, the site Rev. H. Shepherd, of a non. min.—February RI, at Surbiton, the wife of Mr. E. 5. " of a son. TOC,4o.—February 21, the wife of H. T. Young, Esq.. of fu beriaud-street, Clyde-park, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. RABRIEL—MORRISH.—February :I, at St. Leotwerc‘tre Ivor, by the Rev. .1. H. Tite.aul., J. T. I:.daid. " f Poplars. New Park-road, Clapham lurk. .. Ilea., Ent daughter of the late J. Rue:lob, Eat , of Ellrr•lir. Oath: Irlt i rEN—SQUlßL—lrebniary 21. a the Chureh of st. Mirh and AU Angela, Paddington. by the Rev . • . I. isa, the George B.rushileld, Mar th a, the late E M Bath, to Elleabeth daughter of the late W Ent. of Yarmouth. Isle of Wight. NCIAM ILL—W AL lb Eel .rusry .21, at fit Luke's, Os+ BTUs* Bar. P. Williams, 8.1. Henry. tiro of 11. King... Bay., of tiitintonton, in the counts . .pf %1 t.. Nary, daughter of the late A. Watford, kot, of DEATHS. CHTICH —February 90. Margaret France., wife of W hue Esti, ett6ll4 bath. saad 61 DE BO,RATT. 7 -February PO. at llolleakreet, Caven.16.h.16,1. London. Madan; lie itosantt, need oi NDWARDA —February le. at :A. Jaweis.suoinre. Hath, I'h del la Ettwardo, aced HEVWUOD.—ltebruary 20, at Cavendish place, faith. It. II wood. Eat . aged Mk JONES —Felamars 20, at Water.street, Susannah Eepou Jot daughter of the late Y. Jones, of Liverpool. Lod 7.• Printed and Publimbed by wlu.o Klee NAM, of No. Lornbard-etniot, In the City of London. Printer. Otbre. in Lotnitardetreet, in the Procind of Ultitentart Settaber, rbasULIT Y 7. 1217. A I [ll