The Sun. — London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

REPEAL OF THE BOP DUTY. Yesterday afternoon a large and influential depu ta4tion from the bop grow ers had an interview with the Chancellor o f th e Exchequer in Downing-Ftreet. Among the members of Parliament present were Lord Holmesdale, Lordyevensey, Sir B. Brydges, Sir J. Shelley, Mr. Buxton, Mr. Dodson, Mr. Beach, Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Hennessy, Sir E. Filmer, Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Cubitt, Mr. L. King, Mr. Bristow, Mr. Whalley, Mr. Bass, Mr. Onslow, Mr. Papillon, and Mr. Watlington. There were also present the Chairman of the Hop -growers' Association, Mr. Beresford Hope; the Secretary, Mr. Kintra ; and a numerous body of hop planters from every hep. growing district in the kingdom. - Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, in introdircing the depu tation, said that on th , lt occaslon the ho • p growers did not ask for any finkerii i g of existing regul a ti ons but for the aksolute repeal of the tax. The Chan cellor of tte Exchequer had himself a year ago condenthed its principle in the House of Commons as tending to aggravate distress in a trade in which the reverses were both sudden and severe. The whole of the hop planters were now agreed upon the expediency of remitting the duty, so that argu ments founded on their want of unanimity had no longer any force. To show the effect which the duty had had upon the cultivation, coupled with that of the remission of the customs duty upon fo reign imported hops, it would suffice to mention that the breadth of land under hop cultivation was far less now than it had been in previous years. In conclusion, he presented a memorial, which set forth in detail the grievances of the hop planters, and expressed a confident hope that if the duty were removed the cultivation of this important product would not only be increased, but that the revenue would gain an amount equal to that which was re mittrAl in another form. Mr. DODSON, M.P,, in the absence of Lord H. Vane, presented a memorial on the same subject from the hop planters of Sussex. Mr. BODY, of Sussex, said that unless the relief asked for was granted, the farmers of Sussex would not be able to meet their engagements. Many farmers who but for these duties would have been in prosperous circumstances had come to him with tears in their eyes to know what could be done to meet the difficulties in which they were placed. He atttibuted the prevailing distress mainly to the fact that the Customs' duty was reduced upon foreign hops, while at the same time the Excise duty was kept up on the English produce, a state of things altogether contrary to the principles of free trade. He had himself lost £5OO a-year for a series of years by hop planting, and it was idle to say that if the culture was not profitable they would engage in some other business. An immense capital was em bs.rked in the cultivation, which would not be avail able for the cultivation of any other plant. He also complained that, notwithstanding an actual loss, he had been obliged to pay £2O of income tax on ac count of the difficulties thrown in the way by Com missioners, surveyors, and collectors, which were such that it was far better to pay the amount de manded than to waste time and money in appealing. The CHANCELLOR of the ExcuEctuzit said the Government would adopt severe measures against any officer who should impose vexatious obstacles in the way of persons who ought really to be ex empt from income tax. Mr. BODY then proceeded to state that by the alterations which were made in 1854 he sustained a loss of £2,000 a year. As he had a very large quantity of hops of 1859 and 1860 on hand which Were greatly depreciated in value in consequence of the remission of the Customs' duty upon foreign hops, he had not the slightest doubt that the loss upon them would be equal to at least £2,000 more. He had not the slightest doubt that had the duty been removed he should have been able to cultivate hops at a. profit during the last three or four years. Mr..KINCI KING presented a petition from the hop growers of Hereford in favour of a total repeal of the duty. He stated that a difference of opinion among hop growers on the subject no longer existed. At a very large meeting of those connected with Worcester and Herefordshire, held in Worces ter, a resolution was unanimously adopted to join in the attempt to obtain a repeal of the duties. Mr. SMITH, of Wick, near Worcester, stated that the hop planters of that district were quite unani- Mous upon the point. Mr. SCLATER:BOOTH, M.P., presented a memorial agreed to at a meeting of the hop planters of Surrey and Hampshire, held at Farnham, praying for the repeal of the duty. Mr. BRISCOE, M.P., having been present at the meeting, corroborated the statements in the me morial. Mr. SNELLING, a planter from the same district, contended that, as a matter of principle, if this tax were not repealed, other native produce, such as fruit and game, should be taxed. Lord HOLMSDALE confirmed the statements of previous speakers with reference to the distress pre vailing in the hop-growing districts, and stated that in Kent the walls wet., everywhere placarded with notices of farms to be let, and that many de serving men who had been unable to get a living at hop-growing had come to him and asked him to get them situations by means of which they could earn their bread. Mr. BUXTON, M.P., said that the effect of the re duction of the Customs' duty upon foreign hops was enormously to increase the consumption of foreign hops by the brewers ; if they could get English hops at the same price they would gladly encourage the native producer. Mr. BROOK BRIDOICS presented a memorial from the hop growers of East Kent. Mr. BASS, M.P., condemned the duty as one that was paid entirely by the producer, and that its re moval would benefit the consumer to some extent by increasing competition. After a few remarks by Sir J. Shelley, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the purpose for which they had met was not to enter into an argumentative discussion between the person who w as so unfortunate as to be the organ of the Government respecting the hop duty, and those other unfortunate persons who as hop-growers bore the burden of that duty. He was there to receive the statement of their views and to gain all the infor mation which he could on the subject. In some things Which they had said he entirely agreed, but there were others which were fair matter of argument ; and although he might differ in opinion respecting those statements that was not the place to argue the question. There ware, however, one or two mat ters in respect of which he wished to increase his information. First, with respect to the amount of duty which the revenue would gain from foreign hops, it was more considerable than was imagined, a nd, indeed, was relatively a very large sum, but it v ast worth dwelli ng u p on a t p resen t. In resp e ct to t h ne e distress which had be en so f e elingly alluded sent t xr .a B ody, if h e did no t d we ll upon it a t pre those wilwos4ot because he did not sympathise with would be ainall,rienced it, but, in point of fact, it it unless as aPivileimoekery on his p ar t t o dil a t e u pon he was able t a ois!er h e was prepare d to say t h at stood to be th e aaam l ra er la ttl ister relief. What he under wits that there had of the statements made to day er . ? had been some diminu tion in the acreag e set a li(te for hop cultivation in this country recently, a n d that the probability was that if the duty were rem oved the cultivation would understood increase. (Hear.) That he to e od to be the pre vailing opinion ; and, at the satu influence of the competition, if the d‘lt t ime; that the pealed ; would be to the advaute geor Y were re- He wanted to know, then , what Sort of case buyer. they would present to those members of Parlia ment who were not hop growers if they came befor e th em the plea that the effect of the repeal of the ( h a ; wou ld not be the general advantage of the eon '. sumer, but the more limited advantage of the pro- ducer ? Did they intend to ask Parliament to make a present of a certain sum of money to those who grew hops ? Mr. BASS—Our plea is that so disastrous is cul tivation under the present restrictions to the pro ducer that unless the duty removed the cultiva tion will be entirely lost to the country. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER only wished to know whether those who came forward to urge the total repeal of the hop duty would be prepared to ba se their arguments on the ground that such re-1 peal would benefit the consuther. (Mr. Bass—Cer tainly.) The other question he wished to put was this—Was he correct in assuming that the case they now put Ras that the position of the hop grower was very much worse than it was in former years—(cries of "Yes," and " Hear, hear")--and that was in consequence of measures for which he, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, was primarily re sponsible—namely, by the reduction of the duty on foreign hops ? (Hear, hear.) He understood the meeting to intimate that the great reduction of the Customs duty on foreign hops had been a main agent in bringing about the unfavourable change in ttb position of the native hopgrowers. (Hear.) He wished to know in what way that had been done. Was he to understand the opinion of the meeting to be that the effect of the reduction of the duty on foreign hops was that in years of plenty they merely came into the market on equivalent terms with English hops, but that in years of scarcity they came into competition with British hops and reduced the profits of the growers at the very time that they looked for such a return as would pay them for cultivation ? (Hear, and an exclamation of " Precisely so.") He understood it, then, to be the opinion of the meeting that by the partial re duction of the duty the buyers had largely benefit ted. All that he had to ay upon the subject was that they had not yet reached the end of the finan cial year, and that it was not for him to state what the prospects of the country were likely to be for the next financial year, or what was the relative pres sure of competing claims for the remission of taxa tion. In urging the repeal of a tax they might state the case in two ways. They might either ask for the absolute and total repeal of a tax on its own merits, or propose a substitute, and they had adopted the former mode on the present occasion. He was afraid that he must ask them to judge for themselves the state of the country, the demand upon it at the pre sent moment, and what likelihood there was of the probability of the surrender of any revenue. With regard to the question of substitution, he had not gathered that the meeting had proposed any other duty, and, indeed, it was not their duty to do so. Hewas not findingfault with them. He only pointed out the difficulties that beset the path of a Finance Minister when the expenditure of the country was exceedingly high, and pressed very closely upon the resources of the country. At the same time, he was quite sure that if at any time his colleagues and himself should find themselves in a position to re linquish this or any duty, they would gladly give it a full and fair consideration. It Ns as clearly out of his power upon the present occasion to offer any pledge upon that subject, because, as he had frankly stated, his measures would depend upon the gene ral condition of the national finances. Of course, taking a Parliamentary view of the question, nothing would be more gratifying to the Government than to be able to remit this or any other tax which might be thought generally objectionable. The deputation then thanked the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the courteous manner in which he had received them. A USTBIA. A letter from Vienna, dated March 1, says : The celebration of events and anniversaries which are supposed to reflect credit on the Government has become, in certain countries, as much a matter of "get up" as any theatrical representation. Europe has had several opportunities of late years of seeing how these things are done. In our day there is no keeping the public from a peep behind the scenes, however much that may weaken the illusion produced by the performance, and the regular progress of such things is now pretty well known. Of course, when a Government wishes to produce the effect of a great popular manifesta tion it reckons, in the first instance, on priests, functionaries, and soldiers, on the ready smiles and zealous cherrs of its own servants, and on the joyous clamour of regimental bands. The organisation of such shows has reached a consider able degree of perfection. There is the stage manager who clears the ground, and the prompter who instructs the actors, and there is the machinist and property man, who has charge and distribution of the moveable stock, who supplies triumphal arches and appropriate inscriptions and gay flags, nosegays and cockades for 'white-robed damsels to throw, and also the damsels themselves if required, to say nothing of bales of enthusiasm and bottles of loyalty, all safely packed and stowed away in his travelling vans. He is an undertaker of festivals, and more than one Royal progress or birthday, or annexation or concession, would have seemed but a tame and dull affair but for his tact and exertions. He is skilful in the rase en scene and all-powerful with the claque. It was one of his ancestors who built the smiling pasteboard villages that enlivened the view for the autocrat on her progress through Russia. But that was a primitive and costly device. We do things better in the latter half of the 19th century. Whether we are equally successful in deceiving those chiefly interested is another ques tion. It may be doubted whether we deceive any body at all. And yet if we reject the resources of mechanical art and dramatic effect we incur a failure at which all hold themselves entitled to smile. I fear that, in constitutional Austria, the property-man is not sufficiently considered, or else that his resources are too economically employed. Something or other was certainly wanting, three days ago, to give to the cele bration of the February constitution the ap pearance of a popular festival. As it was, the whole affair is generally recognized as a signal failure. It may have been a great day for M, von Schmerling, but it was a very ordinary one for the nation, which gazed vacantly, without interest or emotion, at the carrying through of the official programme. For the Minister of State everything went off in the most satisfactory manner. He was quite the hero of the anniversary. His Sovereign smiled upon him, his friends cheered and lauded him, his sup porters in the Reichsrath gathered around him and exalted his name. The Emperor conferred on him the Grand Cross of Leopold, which carries with it, I believe, the title of Baron or Count; the courtier like municipality of Vienna waited upon him with a congratulatory address; he was the prominent figure at the best dinner that could be got up in the biggest coffee-room in the capital ; the authorities and functionaries, civil and military, of several of the chief cities of the Empire telegraphed to him their good wishes and enthusiasm, and he had the satisfaction of knowing that at all those places he was being toasted at official banquets; while from the frontier fortress of Knfstein, even before the anniversary-day arrived, the wires brought him intelligence of the healths that were being drunk (with the able co-operation of the thirsty Bavarian employes there stationed) to the Emperor, to the Minister, to the Constitution, and to the Reichs rath. Of course, journals well affected to the pre sent order of things tell us of the unexpected and spontaneous and truly popular character of all these demonstrations, but their assertions impose upon nobody. It is perfectly understood that the celebration has been a purely official one, and Las not found the smallest echo in the hearts of the people, who have looked on at the comedy scarcely even with curiosity. There is a lack of faith in the virtues of the infant constitution, which as yet has found but such partial acceptance at the hands of Francis , Joseph's subjects. Absolutely ro j ected and ignored by more than a third of them, and opposed by an important section of the remaind er , it cauziot be said to have even become a reality. The spectacle presented has no serious character. In a rump Parliament—a majority, composed of per sons either in the employment of Government or who, it is well known, blindly follow its lead, votes whatever the Cabinet proposes. Although r eally representing littl e mo re th an h a lf th e na ti on, t is declared competent to decide the gravest ques tions. What would become of it were it to vote a meas ure displeasing to the Emperor and his advisers, DO prophet e needed t to t e ll us. Th ere i s an un reality about hs of whole thing which the public evidently f eels ; and i t is also s t rong ly felt that guarantee there is no esiiltead whatever for its duration, as matters now st an d . anniver saries, it is thought the Gov ernment to take steps to conciliateplaying at s it would do well ravvaitl h eontent kingdoms and provinces, comm enc i ng Hungary. The moment is not unfavourable. It i s . positive that the IRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1862. Hungarians are just noW a good deal depressed, and the opportunity is good for arriving at an arrange ment with them. This, however, would have to be done on a liberal footing. If Vienna, beholding them downcast, were to flatter itself with a belief that they would accept any terms offered, and were to act accordingly, it would soon find that it had been greatly mistaken, and that the Hungarians were as far as ever from giving in, tut as, in Hungary, there is no wish, except on the part of a very few, for a total severance from Austria, and as the duration of the present state o! things is mani festly highly injurious to the material interests and progress of the country, so if overtures were made in a generous and frank spirit, they certainly would be gladly entertained. It is probably this state of feeling, for the existence of which I think I may venture to answer, that has lately given rise to various rumours of a coming recon ciliation and agreement. A moderate amount of concession on both sides might enable these to be attained; but the great preliminary difficulty seems to be to find a paint of contact, and to set negotia tions on foot. It will always be matter of regret that a mixed commission was not appointed last summer, composed of a few persons named by this Government, and of others deputed by the Hunga• rian Diet, to discuss and try to reconcile the exist ing differences. Much good might have been done by such a council of notables, and even now it might not be too late to carry out the idea, That some progress is likely soon to be made towards the ad justment of the long-pending differences is the fa vourite belief of many, and in this sense consider able importance has been attached to Count Ap ponyi's recent decision definitively to retain the office of Judex Curiae, which he had long insisted on resigning. This decision, which he is under stood to have come to after numerous audiences of the Emperor, seems looked upon both in Pesth and here as of hopeful significance, although it cannot be said to be equivalent to any real progress. It is not the olive branch, but it is hoped that it may prove to have been its forerunner. A letter of the 26th of February from Venice, in a Vienna paper, says that the Carnival there is end ing with the same utter want of animation with which it began. The writer, who is completely anti- Italian, represents the Venetians as having been in timidated by the party of agitation—as longing to frequent balls and to wear masks, and to dance and amuse themselves, but as being so fainthearted that they fear the daggers with which anonymous cor respondents threaten them. This is in the style of Count Palffy's persuasion that 12,000,000 subjects of the Hungarian Crown are maintained in a state of chronic resistance to Vienna by fear of some half a-million of their fellow-countrymen. The Austrian Governor of Venice, Chevalier von Toggenburg, has given a magnificent ball, at which were present the pick of the foreign aristocracy and rather a re markable collection of Royal personages, the latter including, besides the Archdukes Albert and Joseph, the Duke and Duchess of Modena, the Count and Countess of Chambourd, and the Bavarian Princes Louis and Leopold, who were overtaken on their way to Athens and brought back on account of the insurrection in Greece. The Venetian aristo cracy, says the letter, were very feebly represented. The health of the Empress continues good, and it was expected she would go to one of the last Carni val balls. There is a great deal of sickness in Venice, owing to the great and sudden variations in the temperature, and a peculiar malady has for some time past prevailed there. Persons who have gone to bed in p er f ec t h ea lth a wake after midnight shivering with fever, which lasts with great vio rl e e n m c e e d a i e l l e t e h n e d n i n e t o d f t a e y n - , defying the emedical sudden skill and death of the patient. From Rome, under date of the 24th inst,, we are informed, by way of Trieste, that 500 Bourbonists, who had passed the winter in Terracina, have gone to the province of Frosinone to reinforce Chiavone's bands. In Rome the National Committee bad issaed a manifesto to the people exhorting them to keep aloof from Carnival amusements. THE EXHIBITION OF 1862, The contractors for the great building seem during the last week to have awtkened from what looked very much like a trance. Spurred on by commissioners, superintendents, clerks, exhibitors, public opinion, and a regard for their own reputa tion, they have made gigantic strides towards com pleting their overdue task. The division of labour and the pressure of work have now become more apparent than they ever were to the visitor, simply because they are concentrated on fewer points. Scaffold poles and timbers seem to drop like thawed icicles from the unfinished transepts. The flooring in the nave and the northern courts seems to slide out over the ground like an iron shutter ; and the painters, under the energetic direction of Mr. Croce, lay on their colours and ornamentation with more than scene-painting rapidity. The spacious picture gallery for British art, the length of Which can only be fairly measured by walking through it, has been decorated, and well decorated, in two long working days. The dome scaffold at the east end is being pulled down—the painting of that singular part of the building being completed, and the scaffolding of the western dome will begin to disappear at the end of the week. Mr: Ashton, the superintendent of the iron work within the building, has cot strneted a wooden slide, somewhat like the once celebrated slide of Alpnach, and down this the dis engaged timbers will glide from roof to floor with a rapidity not to be attained by ropes and pallet's, We are sorry to have to record another workman's death o making 10 fatal accidents since the commencement tday, of the building, The arrivals of goods are still not numerous, partly owing to the backward state in which many of.the home manufacturers find themselves. Dublin has delivered a small cargo, and the model of the screen of Hereford Cathedral has come in, but the British department cant only laßast possession of about half a dozen cases up to the present time. In the foreign department the Russian collection has partly been delivered, along with some 20 cases of Frankfort furniture, and nearly all the foreign commissioners. When the rush of goods in this department comes on, a number of temporary holes will be knocked out in the Cromwell-road wall, under the picture galleries, whre the cases will be put through with as much speed as possible. At present the courts under the British picture gallery are, crammed with pictures of almost fabulous value. Amongst the things expected is a fine collection of raw materials, fabrics, tissues; &c., from Siam, sent from Sir. Robert Schomburgk. A valuable cargo of woods from Dominica, comprising about one hundred and seventy valuable and ornamental samples, has also arrived at Southampton. The Indian collection also promises to be unusually vast and complete, if room can be found for it; but in 1851, and in Paris in 1855 this department suffered very much for want of space. The Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Walsall 'manufacturers have hardly yet got over their dis content at the tardy arrangements of the commis sionets, although they are determined to make a good show. The space set aside for the Birmingham court is an oblong piece running off one of the m a i n avenues, and as it extends from this avenue to the outer wall of the building, part of it will be beneath the gallery. The permission to hang chandeliers has been withdrawn, as the engineers of the building, without mistrusting its strength , will not allow any heavy articles to be suspended from walls or galleries. The Wolverhampton exhibitors have also received a court, of which the Walsall exhibitors of saddlers' ironmongery are to occupy a - small part. Special courts in the hardware section have been allotted only to Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and Walsall ; and for goods of more than 1 cwt, per superficial foot the commissioners require a special foundation. One department of the Exhibition—the chemical and pharmaceutical section—which was far from being prominent in 1851, promises this year to hold a very important position. It can hardly hope to be popular in the broad sense of the term, but those who have feasted their eyes on the brilliant colours of the textile department may like to see some of the unsightly agents by which such gorgeous effects are produced. Thanks to the energetic manage ment of Mr. C. W. Quin, F.C.s., there will be such a British collection of drugs and chemicals in the south-eastern portion of the eastern annexe as the world has never seen before. The exhibitors will number upwards of two hundred of the first manufacturers in this country, and hardly a name of any eminence will be missing. Several collections of great importance will be exhibited. A complete system of drugs, systematically ar ranged, is in course of preparation by a committee of the most eminent members of the Pharmaceuti cal Society, assisted by Professor Redwood. A very interesting collection of chemicals, illustrating the improvements made in calico printing and dye ing since 1851, is being formed, at the suggestion of Dr. Lyon Playfair, by Mr, Robert Rumney, of Manchester, whose combined knowledge as a che mist and a manufacturer renders him peculiarly fitted for the work. In no depatment of applied chemistry has such an advance been made within the last ten years as in dyeing and calico printing; and in the history of these useful arts perhaps no period has been so fruitful in good results. A col lection of products illustrating the discovery of the coal-tar dyes formed by the first workman in this fertile field, Mr. "VV. H. Perkin, will also be exhi bited, and the various dyes will be remarkably well represented. The display under the British textile division will be of a very practical and useful character. Glasgow will be the chief manufactured cotton ex hibitor, Manchester, as in 1851, having scarcely made any effort worth naming. In woollen and mixed fabrics, Mr. Wallis reports a more satisfactory series of exhibits. Leeds, Hud dersfield, Halitax, and Bradford will all show in a collective form. Glasgow will shine in lace, em broidery, and mixed fabrics ; and Paisley, Norwich, and Dublin will keep up their old reputations. This part of the display being very effective in co lour and texture, will be arranged near the eastern dome, and the whole of the textile division will be placed in the south galleries. The heavy woollens and tweeds of Scotland, the blankets of Witney, and the Rochdale flannels will occupy good positions in one of the cross galleries, the lace being placed in the other. Here Notting ham will take an important position with a very effective display. The silk manufactures will be placed against the north wall of the picture-gallery, thus getting a good north light. London, Manchester, and Mac clesfield will probably be combined here, and, with a few exceptions, all the best houses will be repre sented. The Coventry collection of ribbons in this exhibition, in consequence of the transition state of that particular trade, will necessarily be very limited. The linen manufacture will follow the silk in this part of the building, and the staple of parts of Scotland and the north of Ireland will be well re presented. It is here that the Belfast committee will exhibit a large trophy. The class for clothing is to be placed in the gallery at the back of the picture-gallery, so arranged as to commence with boots and shoes, passing through trousers and coats, and finishing with hats. The exhibitors' space for textile fabrics will suck up eighteen thousand square feet of floor, independently of all passages, and the vertical space occupied will probably amount to one hundred thousand square feet more. The proposed supp l emen t ary ex hibiti on —if we are to judge by the silence of its promoters—seems to be given up. If the scheme had been carried out, we have no doubt that many rejected and dis satisfied exhibitors would have filled the building with goods, but we question very much whether the expected flocks of visitors would have appeared either as purchasers or loungers. The two and twenty acres of the Great Exhibition, to say no thing of the galleries and stairways, will doubtless satisfy even the most hungry sightseer, and there is no chance of the present commissioners ever turning money away from the doors. In 1851 a timid policy prevailed, and officialism seemed to regard the people as dangerous wild beasts. The army and the police were gathered in and about the building as if to smother a rev o l u ti on ( we b e li ev e the navy was not drawn upon), and not one , half of the visitors were at first nervously admitted who swarmed into the Exhibition unchecked as official confidence increased. Commissioners, like other people, however; grow wiser as they grow older, and while Sir Richard Mayne has had a very liberal order for about 450 choice policemen, we should hope that he till instruct them not to make them selves offensively active. The exhibitors, without whom the great building would be hardly an attrac tive show s are even now suffering in mind, body, and goods from over-drilling ; and the visitors, who are to pile up a money-surplus for the Royal Com missioners, would like to escape the strong arm of authority as much as possible. This same tendency to over-drill the public will only raise a real diffi culty out of the narrow approaches question. A stream of people seldom gets into a dead lock and confusion without the aid of the police ; and while ' it takes a Duke of Wellington to move 60,000 men out of Ityde-park, six times the number will get themselves out in half the time if they are only quietly left to act for themselves. Old Swan-wharf, Chelsea, has been licensed to land goods for the Exhibition. Being very near the building, this place will prove very useful to exhibitors, as lighterage is much cheaper than car tagei The wharf is very extensive, and eontains a large number of sheds, to which more are being added by Sfessrs. Morgan Brothers, who have secured the whole area for the purpose of storing the empty cases of exhibitors. We believe that the latest decision of her Ma jesty's Commissioners is to set aside about 30,000 reserved seats on the opening day far the use of the earliest taken of the season tickets. TRAVELLERS IN 2.11 E INTERIOR OF AFRICA. Mr. Arthur C. Pelson and Mr. George H. Poison, two gentlemen who left Cape Town about seven months since to explore in the interior of Africa, returned by the Prince Edward on Sunday. Since they left they have been in company with Mr. T. Baines, the Zambezi traveller, Mr. Chapman, Mr. C. Bell, and indeed a number of other travellers. Mr. Baines they left at Amral's Kraal, the chief Namaqua of that part of the country. This is about half-way to Lake Ngami. Mr. Baines was quite well, and in great spirits, although he, as well as the others, had great difficulties to contend with, owing to serious losses in cattle from lung sickness. He left Amral's Kraal about four months ago. Mr. Chapman was ahead of Mr. Baines, but his cattle were dying so fast from lung sickness that he had resolved to wait at some watering-place between Amral's and Lake Ngami until the arrival of his bro ther with fresh supplies of stock and provisions. His provisions were nearly all used up when Mr. Poison last saw him. Mr. C. Bell is with Mr. Chapman, on on his way to join Mr. J. Chapman. Mr. Palgrave is in Ovampoland, and has had some sport, but has not been so successful in securing ivory as Mr. F. Green has been. Mr. Green is said to have shot, with his brother's help, four waggon loads of ivory. Mr. Green a short time since met with a very sad acci. dent, which was attended with disastrous results to some of his party. The party consisted of Mr. Frcnerick Green, two servants (Bonfield and Smith), and a woman. While crossing a large river in a boat the party were attacked by wounded sea cows. The boat was immediately capsized and stove in, and the entire party were thrown into the river, which literally swarmed with crocodiles. The ser vants swam for shore, which one reached safely ; the other (Bonfield) was eaten up by the alligators. The boat floated keel upwards, and Mr. Green, who succeeded in getting hold of the woman, endea voured to save her by getting on the bottom of the boat. He had hardly reached it when he was dragged under, the woman clinging round his neck. Mr. Green never expected to rise again, but while under water he felt the woman suddenly dragged away from him, no doubt by one of the many croco diles surrounding them, and never saw her more. Again floating, Mr. Green made for the shore, and was at length rescued by some Damaras. Smith, the servant who was saved, had a narrow escape; and poor Bonfield was within a few yards of the shore when he was seized and carried away. Mr. Green searched the river for a whole week without being able to find either of the bodies, so that there is little doubt that they were eaten by alligators. It was owing to no want of exertion upon the part of this brave man to save the woman and his ser vants that they were lost. He risked his own life on their account. He was in the water three hours, swimming about, hoping to got hold of them. All this time he had a tremendous belt of bullets round his waist. One would think this man bore a charmed life. Men get killed all round him, sometimes are a prey to wild beasts, and at others are drowned or swelled by alligators, while he swims in their midst and escapes.—Cape Argus. MARRIAGES OF AFFINITY BILL.—On Monday a public meeting /vas held in Freemasons'-hall, Edinburgh, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against this bill, which, for the first time for several years, it is proposed to extend to Scotland, The chair was occupied by Bailie Blackadder, acting chief magistrate, and the meeting was addressed by the Rev. Professor Stevenson, Rev. D. F. Sandford, Rev. Dr. Candlish, Professor Swinton, Sir John M'Neill, G.C.8., Rev. Dr. Begg, &c., the speakers repre senting different denominations, Presbyterian and Episcopa lians. The resolutions represented that the will of God is revealed in holy Scripture with sufficient authority and clearness to prohibit the marriage of a man with the sister of his deceased wife; that the contemplated change in the law is at variance with the standard, and would be subver sive of the discipline of the Presbyterian churches, and it is believed also of the other branches of the Christian church in Scotland; that to sanction it by an act of the Legisla ture would be a violation of the settlement upon which the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland proceeded in a matter affecting the religion of the country, and that the proposed change is viewed with the utmost alarm in its bearing on the social relations of life and the peace of fami lies, and is repugnant to the moral feelings and convictions of all classes of the community in Scotland. A general movement against the bill is being made among the local presbyteries in Scotland, Established and Dissenting, and already numerous petitions have been sent up. ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIET Y. At the Ethnologial Society last evening, Mr 4 I. Crawfurd, president, in the chait, an interesting account wan given by Mr. George W. Watt of the shell-mounds in the Malay peninsula. Mr. Earl, hating occasion to visit Wellesley province to exa mine the watercourse between the Leber Ikan Mati lagoons and the Mudah riter, came upon a dome shaped mound, composed of cockle-shells] 18 feet high, and nearly 200 paces in circumference, un doubtedly formed by human agency. The surround ing country presents a nearly uninterrupted level all round, except to the ncrth-west where, about a mile off, were a cluster of other mounds, which are largely dug by the Chinese settlers for lime-burning. The shells adhere together in lumps by the crystal lisation of carbonate of lime, showing thus their great antiquity. The Chinese had made an exca vation directly into the centre of one mound, the walls of which formed a kind of crater 26 feet high, Reckoning 50 cubic feet to the ton, about 2,000 tons had been thus removed from one mound alone. In the debris at the base Mr. Earl found a human pelvis, which, with other human remains and implements of red rock found by the Chinese diggers have been forwarded to England in the ship Ceylon from Penang, so that British physiologists will soon have the opportunity of studying these ancient remains. The contents of some of these refuse mounds are estimated at 20,000 tons. Such enormous accumulations lead to the inference that they were raised by a numerous people, among whom shellfish were the principal article of food. The present inhabitants of the country are Malays, Samsams, and the Semangs, a diminutive negro race, now consisting only of scattered tribes, but formerly much more numerous and widely distri buted. To these latter Mr. Earl attributes the formation of the mounds. THE LATE MR. G. R. LUKE. The name of George Rankine Luke, student and tutor of Christchurch, whose death, from the up setting of a boat on the Isis, is recorded in our im pression of to-day, is probably little known in Eng land. There are many more persons in Scotland who will hear of the event with a deep and mourn. ful interest. They will remember the youthful Dux" of the Edinburgh Academy laden with prizes, their own contemporary, or the friend and contemporary of their sons,—the distinguished student of Glasgow University, the Dean Ireland's scholar, prizeman, and classman at Oxford, whose course they have followed by report in later life; afterwards the able and devoted college tutor, who at the age of 25 has been taken from the scene of his labours. One who was acquainted with him and believes that he can write of him without the exaggeration of friendship, is desirous that his noble and simple character should not pass away altogether unknown to the public. He was certainly one of the most remarkable students who ever came up to Oxford. He won all the principal University distinctions, but his extreme modesty and retiring disposition might have prevented a casual observer from seeing that there was far more in him than is necessarily implied in any number of academical decorations. A scholar in the best sense of tha word, he united with scholarship great intellectual force, which could not have failed to raise him to. eminence. During the last two years he had been quietly growing in reputation, and was exercising a great and beneficent influence in the University by devoted and unremitting attention to his pupils. The secret of this influence, which was exerted over his contemporaries as well as his pupils, lay in the uncommon energy and intensity of his character, which blended with a singular affectionateness. No one could have to do with him without feeling his power. He was remarkably free from weakness. The orotchets and pedantries and gossip of University life had no existence for him. Whatever he was about he went straight to the point, and could always be trusted for acting consistently with him self. Though instinctively a lover of truth, he was never led from his practical duties by vague specu lation. The supposed theological difficulties of Ox ford passed through his mind, hut certainly left no hurtful impression on his strong and innocent na ture. A few days ago he had said to a friend that he was not afraid to die at any moment. Nor was such a feeling, combined with such a life, in any degree a presumptuous one. Though not originally a member of Christ Church, no man was ever more enthusiastically attached to his college. He was thoroughly impressed with the greatness of the institution to which he belonged, and he de sired to make the great name a reality. He was fond of talking of his favourite pupils, and of the promising " material" which ho found among them. Some of the Westminster students, especially, had a strong hold upon his affections ; he often commended them as doing hon our to the place of their education. It is nearly two years ago that Christ Church, after some inter mission, was represented in the Moderation Class list by five first-class men. Without detracting from the merit of others, it will be generally admitted that this unusual distinction was, in a great mea sure, due to Mr Luke's extraordinary industry. He understood perfectly the secret of success, as a col lege tutor. The secret is chiefly devotion to the work, and consideration for the characters of young men. No young man is really hostile to one who is labouring, evening as well as morning, wholly for his good—who troubles him only about the "weightier matters"—who knows how to sympa thise with his better mind—who can venture to associate with him, without formality or restraint. To men like Mr. Luke the difficulties of maintain ing authority in a college absolutely disappear. The feelings with which the young are capable of regarding such a man, and the true estimate they form of him are indeed surprising. He was of humble though respectable origin, himself a gen tleman by nature, superior to ail vulgar thoughts he was full of tender care and interest about the members of his family. It is not too much to say that he was absolutely regardless of money, and of his own advancement in life. No advantage to himself would have pleased him half as much as the success of his pupils and his college in the uni. versity. The only personal object was the desire to help others. No one would do more for a friend or think less about it. His work is left unfinished, and has lo be continued by others. Those who come after him will find that their only chance of raising the great aristocratic seminary with which he was connected to its rightful position in public estima tion, is the performance of services like his, with the same untiring energy, the same regardlessness of self. In the fulfilment of such a duty to the Uni versity and to the nation, the lives of many good or even great men will not be spent in vain. TEE MURDER 1 - 11 , TILE ISLE OF WIGHT. A miserable-looking old man, who appeared to be about the ago of 60 years, named James Joseph Wadden, who was employed as a labourer by Mr. Thatcher, of Wackland, was brought up before Mr, R. C. Shedden on Monday last at the police office, Newport, on a charge of hating wilfully murdered at Apse on the night of Saturday last, a fellow labourer of the name of William White, aged 29. The prisoner was remanded till Saturday, but the full particulars may be gleaned from the fol lowing evidence, which was given before the coro ner, Mr. P. Blake, at an inquest held the sane day at the Stag Inn, Lake. The jury having viewed the body, which lay in a neighbouring outhouse, the proceedings were coal menced in a small room which would scarcely con tain the jurors and the representatives of the press. Jane Smith, a good-looking young girl, said she was a single Woman, and lived with her mother and her little boy, on Apse-heath, in the parish of of Newchurch. Her son was five years of age. She knew the deceased William White, of Brading, from her childhood. He was a hay trusser, and she had been on intimate terms with him for 13 months. Ho visited her every Sunday, and sometimes in the week, if his work lay that way. They were making preparations to be married, and had bought a few things. Deceased came to her house on Saturday, dined there and left about half-past two.. He re turned in the evening, at a quarter-pas seven, and about a quarter of an hour after Wadden came into the court, and called to her little boy. She knew his Voice, but she didn't see him. She called, in answer, that the little boy was in doors. Wadden then asked her if she would let him go and have some supper, and sleep with him that night, as he had some cakes and eggs, and she made no reply. He said that was more than that lazy rascal would get for him. Wadden could see White was there, as the door was open, and there was a light there. Her mother had left the house about a quar ter of an- hour. (The witness here fainted away, and on het recovery said) Wadden continued his observation, and said deceased hadn't cut ten tons of hay in a month. White answered, "I'll do more work any day than you will, Joe. I have had enough of your nonsense, and if I have any more of it I'll will put thy fist alongside your head." Wadden said he had better try it on. Deceased then sprang towards the door, said I pressed the door to with my back, and seized deceased by the neck, , and struggled with all my energy to keep him from getting out, but I found my strength was going, and he pulled me from the door, and I said to Willy, " Oh, Willy, put the pin in," and he did, but deceased pulled the iron bar away, which serted as a fastening, and out he ran with it in his hand. I ran after him, and begged deceased to come in. They were then in the high road, quarrelling:, and I got between them to separate them. I said, " Oh, Bill, come in, and give me that bolt." He told me to get away, for he wouldn't hurt me. I tried to get away the bolt, and succeeded, He had not then struck Wadden whilst I was there. I ran in with the bolt, but before I got in I saw them seize each other about the shoulders. I threw the bolt in and ran out again, when I found them both down, one on the other, in the road. Wadden was under ' and deceased was lying on him carelessly, with his legs thrown out. I saw no struggling or crying out, or anything said. They were doing nothing then, but lying in a quiet position, as if they had no power over themselves. I was not in doors a minute before I was out again, and I saw them in the road as I have described, and then I saw Edward Moorman trying to pull deceased off Wadden, who appeared quite helpless. I said, " Let me help," as he seemed to make no impression as regarded moving him. I helped, and we got deceased off Wadden, who struggled twice, and we found that he was unable to stand. We laid him up against the bank, but he never spoke. I put my hand on his breast, and, finding the blood, I said, " Oh, he has murdered him." Deceased was then alive, and I found him breathe for about a quarter of an hour afterwards, and he died on the bank. Wadden got up of his own accord, and walked off as fast as he could. I think Moorman had said, "You have killed him ;" but I said nothing. I do not know if Wadden had been drinking. De ceased had had a little ale. Wadden lived at Win ford, about half a mile from our cottage (a wretched hovel, and a disgrace to the Isle of Wight). He has been in the navy, and is a pensioner. He said he was 53, but he appears much older, and I believe he is. White is 29 years of age ; taller than Wadden, but not so stout. I have known Wadden some years. He was a widower. I have not been on intimate terms with him. I have been to his house, some times twice a week. I lived there as a servant when his wife was ill six years ago, and about six months after her death. He hadn't been inside our gate for a long time till Saturday evening—not for three or four months. He has called at the gate to ask me to get his tea for him, and I have gone occasionally, when he came from Lake with errands on a Saturday, and he has heard me talk to deceased at the time ; and Wadden would always have something offensive to say him, asking where that "fellow" was, saying if he was a woman he would'nt walk with such a fellow. He was in thr court three or four months ago, when the deceased was there, swearing at and abusing deceased; and I requested White not to say anything to him, as I knew what a malicious man he was. Wadden some time ago said he should like to have me, and I said I would't have him if every hair of his head was gold. I do not know that he knew I was en gaged to be married to deceased. I have heard him say he would put the length of his knife into White, or any one else, who interrupted him. When White said he couldn't stand it any longer, Wadden said he always had his knife sharpened for the purpose. That was three months ago, in the court of our house. Just before Christmas, when my sister's child was baptised, Wadden came to my sister's, who lives near me, saying he had a cup of tea ready, if we would come in. 1 said, " For all of us, Joe ?" He said, " No," (looking at deceased) " not that thing ; I would sooner give him a drop of poison," and then White wished me to get away and go to chapel with him, and I did. Deceased had no angry feeling towards Wadden, as I have asked him if he had any objection to my going and getting his tea for him, and he said, None at all." Wadden was in the habit of carry ing a knife in his trousers pocket. Heard him say if any one interrupted him he was ready prepared with his knife open—that was when the police were looking out for a navvy, who they said had killed a man. He always eat with the knife, but I never saw it on the night that White was killed. That is the knife now produced (a most formidable looking weapon, with marks of blood still on it). I believe White was stabbed before he fell, or the other never could have got deceased down. By the Jury—The bar was as long as the width of our door, but he never struck Wadden with it. I ran out, thinking murder would be done, as Wad den has threatened he would burn us in our beds, or any one who interrupted him. I have often said to deceased, " Don't say anything to him, Bill, as he would stab you in a moment." Edwin Moorman, a labourer, working for Mr. Roach, examined—l was coming along the road on Saturday evening, about 8 o'clock, to go to Bran stone, when the first I heard was a dreadful noise of quarrelling. I knew White's voice before I saw who they were, and I heard him say, " Not cut out but five ton of hay in a week ; get out of the way, Jane, I'll kill that old --." Knew Wadden's voice, and heard him say, " Oh, will you, then come out in the road (they were then just within the wicket) and we'll have it here outright." I was not then in sight of them in consequence of the turn in the road. I then heard White say, "Let go, Jane," and then I heard the gate rattle, as if they pulled it open. Then I could hear them as if scuffling in the road, but no blows or words. It only occupied half a minute, and I ran up to them as fast as I could, and asked what they were up to. They were both down, with Wad den under, deceased close on him, striving to raise himself up. Wadden said, 6 ' Oh, Ned, is that you; here's murder done hero." I said, "No, no, don't talk like that," and I pulled deceased, saying, " Get off, William." He seemed to struggle a little, and Wadden's basket was lying by his Bid( with some of the errands fallen out, and whet White moved his arm he touched the basket, an( more errands fell out ; and Wadden said, " Halle, you are overthrowing my basket again," I then got White off Wadden, and he felt so limmer I thought he was tipsy ; then I thought he hed fainted, as he had no strength at all, and I leant him against the bank. Then Jane Smith screeched out and said he was stabbed, and I saw the blcod on his shirt, but he never spoke after I got there. Wadden was just got up, and I said, "Joseph, you have been and stabbed this man." He score out, " What did the -- come out to me with the poker for ?" He picked up his errands, and I ran to the next house, leaving him in the road, and when I came back he was gone. 'lhe young man was the most powerful. I have known Wadden five or six years, but never heard him use threats to de ceased. The knife now produced is not such as farm labourers use—it is much larger, measuring in length 101 inches. White was not qaite dead when I returned from the other house. Wadden " appeared to be sober. I am sure that the deceased went out lo attack Wadden, but I don't think he ever struck him with the iron bar. Mr. Leeson, surgeon, examined—l am practising at Sandown. I saw the body of deceased lying against a bank by the side of the road. He was quite dead. I examined a wound about 4 inches from the left breast. It was an incised wound, of one inch in length externally, and my finger would not reach the bottom of it. Its direction was down wards, inwards, and slightly backward , g,_ and think that the wound was caused b y the knife now produced. It was sufficient to cause death. He died from hemorrhage, the knife he,virg penetrated toa large vein at the bottom of t he heart, which occasioned 14 large flow of blood ; adt,littemigd air to the heart, and caused instant death. 1-, been stabbed whilst he was standing 0. the direction of the wound. I could. ying from , Te r l ht hav other injuries on the body. discover no After some further evidence, o. turned The Coroner summed up, and the jury x a verdict of wilful murder against Wadden, TILE SINGULAR DISCOVERIES IN Tip SWISS LiAKES. The peasants who dwell on the shores of the Lakes of Switzerland hel often stated that, at a short dis tance from the land, rows of st,-dres might be seen through the water, emerging from the mud of the bed. No interest was, however, attracted o ne his phenomenon till about eight years sioce. At the end of 1853, the waters of the Lake of Zurich sank con siderably, and the thrifty proprietors of laud on the bank proceeded at once to add to their e.stutes uctin the portion of the lake-bed left bare, by con.strg permanent dykes against the return of the water. Whilst these works were being carried on, a row, or rather a system, of stakes was discovered at some little depth below the surfabe. Excavations we begun at this spot, and the result was to disizter er great variety of objects which proved that a large number of human beings had once had their dwurio- ell" legs supported over the water by the stakcs. C sity having beer , once aroused, researches were p.ro secuted not only by Obemeilen, where th e first dis.' covert' was made, but all over Switzerland. It was gradually established that the mud near the shore of almost every single Swiss lake supplied similar evi dence. At some primeval period a population of very considerable density was shown to have lived in huts constructed on stages which rested on woo den sup ports driven into the bed, just as the 111a:ays in Borneo and the Siamese at Bangkok may be seen living in this day. A wonderful number of artivle o s ! pertaining to the daily life of these forgotte n l ' acc have been brought to light. In some places, fhe materials of the dwellings have been preserved in the mud—the floor of hardened earth and the twisted branches and bark which formed the walls. Arms have been discovered in great quantities, tools from saws in flint to needles in bone, °ma , - ments, children's toys, the remains of stored -up fruits of various kinds nay, even a cellar or receptacle full of corn, and a loaf of bread com posed of bruised grain, and preserved by carbonisa tion. By the side of these relics are found the bones of the animals whom they slew in the chase, many belonging to species extinct before the rise of his tory or barely mentioned in it. The urus, the bison, the elk, and the beaver, furnished them with food and with the materials for some of their most in geniously constructed utensils. So plentiful and perfect are the remains found in the takes that much more has been learned concerning the daily life ana manners of men whose existence was not suspected ten years ago, than is known of races which hav e left a famous name in history or tradition.— Saul' day Review. C'OUN2.RY MA.REEIS. ...............4,. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—MARCH 4. At :our corn exchange to-day there was a rather dull trade, with a small attendance of buyers. The demand was limited for wheat, but prices firm. Flour was dull, at late rates. Malting barley, 37s to 38s. Oato, beans, and peas quiet, and prices were unchanged. HULL—MARCH 4. A small supply of English wheat to-day, which sold at is over last week's prices. Foreign, with a moderate busi ff ness, is higher. Malting and grinding barley moved o rather easier. Oats very dull. Beans and peas in retail sale, at lower quotations. Wheat.... Old white....per qr s4s Od to 58s 01 Old red New white .. ~ New red .... " Dantzic, Konb , ezc. old white 56s Od to 62s' Od Dutch, Belgian, and French. 58s Od to 62s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red. . 58s Od to 6 18 O d St. Petersburg'and Riga, old. 50s Od to 52s Od Barley.... English malting 34s Od to 37s Oa Grinding 3ls Od to 33s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 34s Od to 30 0 4 Grinding Oats English, old Riga, F Ar ri c e h sl an an g d el an an d d Dutal 05,13 d to 081 3 id Swedish and Danish oBl 2 ld to osla per st osl2ld to d Beans ....English, old, per qr. 46s Od to 48s Od New pigeon 42 s Od to 44s Ca New tick. 4OB Od to 42s Od Egyptian .. 38s Od to 40s Od Peas ..Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Spring. —s Od to —s 04 Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crus hi ng s • 4 os Od to 52s Oct Od Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 17 6 to £ lO 0 0 8 15 Foreign oto 910 0 Rape cakes 517 6to 6 0 0 Bones COAL N (Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. Buddle's West rlartley 14 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley....l 4 0 Wylam ..15 3 Carway and DuffiTn Malting Do. Anthracite 21 6 Lambert's West Hart- — ley -- 14 6 Bate's West Hartley 14 0 North Pelton 13 0 Tanfield Moor 12 6 Howard's West Hart- ley ....14 6 Hastings Hartley 14 0 West Wylam ........13 0 Ships at market. ARKAT. the close of the market s. d. Tan&ld Moor Butes..l2 6 Walls End. Haswell . 17 6 Helloe South Kelloe l6 6 Brsddyll's Hetton l6 6 •• Hetton South Hetton 17 6 Hartlepool 17 0 Haugh Hall 16 u Shineliffe 15 0 ITrimdon Hartlepool • l6 0 l Easington ~ .. l4 6 Trimdon Thornley 13 9 Eden Main ....... l5 6 ;, 169 ; sold. 137. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Mar. 21. via Marseilles Mar. 76. Brazil and Cape- Verds, ly British packet. March 6.. Cape of Good Hope, Ascasion, and St. Helena April 1. China, Penang, and Singepore, via Southampton Mar. 4. via Marseilles Mar. 15 , Fa'kland Islands OO •, March 6. Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... • Mar. 4. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 4. via Marseilles Mar. 15. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. M ax . 13. v:a Marseiles Mar. 7. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via uthampton Mar. 4. via liarseilles Mar. 7 , Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. 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