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We are bound in justice to notice that one Ameri can Minister at least has made his country's apology for the outrage by the gunboat Montgomery on the British ship Blanche, in Spanish waters. We trust we shall soon have to announce that Mr. ADAMS, here, has followed his example, by making an apology and something more, tothe British Govern ment. The Spanish Government, it will be seen, made up their mind to demand the punishment oft he offending officer; a demand we hope they will not ; but the American Minister intervenes with a complete disavowal of the act. This is not enough for Spain. The officer who did not know better than to hoard a British ship aground in Spanish waters, and on which a Spanish officer had hoisted the Spanish flag as a signal of protection, and then to insult the Spanish officer personally, and burn the ship. The officer who could do this ought to be excluded from the naval service of any civilised State. Eng laod will also have a claim for dismissal for the insui,t to her flag on a merchant vessel, carrying nothing' contraband of war, and the destruction of the property. The owners of the vessel must of course be fully indemnified. We observe that at last instructions to American naval captains to act in conformity to the law of nations have been issued from their Admiralty. One of them is, " that under no circumstances are they to seize any vessel within the waters of a friendly nation." As the order bears date the 18th of August, we might save sup posed the commander of the Montgomery was ac quainted with it. That, however, is, in this case, no business of ours. It is for our Government to insist, for its own reasons, an apology and resti tution. There are indications that Mr. COBDEN'S appeal will be responded to, and that the collection of contributions to support Lancashire out of work will be both national and systematic. The fact is becoming but too obvious, that, according to all reasonable calculation, the distress will become deeper every month, almost every day, while the 'owl means wi ll as rapidly become less and unable to meet it. There is no likelihood, no . possibility, indeed, of a speedy supply of cotton, and what is now in hand can be sold only at a price which few manufacturers can venture to give. The running of 'sills will become exceptional, and for the com pletion of special orders. With the present rela tion of prices between the raw cotton and the manu factured article, it would be folly to go on produc ing.. Better spend in direct relief what must cer tainly be lost. We have thus the prospect of a vast population already out of work, and subsisting on a pittance "barely sufficient to keep body and soul together'—of their number being augmented every week from the ranks of the smaller num ber, a b out one-fourth, of the unemployed, and of the partially employed all these, by the exhausti on of their savings, being thrown more and more upon parish or charitable re lief for mere RNA* t the very l arge aumeuence ; while, at the same time built their min e end ea " r of. manufacturers who have with borrow e d carried on their business largely capital l be almost impoverished themselves by the cessation a that business. The prospect is therefo re one of c ertainly large and cer tainly growing dist ress. The only course is that which Mr.ri poiv th ted out in his speech to COBDEN Bee c eo ramittee, and which we are thankful to is a tt en tion its practical character dese r v es — namely, th e v to make the relief national. There are namely, but two ways of doing this—we must either resort t o the con solidated fund , or to a really national s u b . scription. The objections to the first have been taught us by the Irish famine. The national treasury ought to be the last resort, because it L 9 absolutely imp ossibThele to prevent dis nd abuses. distributors of the graceful wast. 9 a h ar dly feel so responsible for national money c an t h os e who disburse the care and watchful:qess/ as gifts of voluntary gene.rosz"ty, , a nd the recipients of the money are but too 41.1)! to feel no scruple what ever in getting all they can of the p u blic taxes. inevitable, why we must yield to n ecessit y . The operatives must not be auffers4 either to starve 44 Z!' ' - ' l e 4- re 4 4 , . 4, . - .".Qriillfillkip; -,'k , . 4 , , ,•,. ,-. . :', 110"‘i,e ' ' p . ,, • - ~.. ,k. m t , ~,, ...0 0....: , I;(-) i r n. N ai, o‘,,ltill t- - to become so reduced in their physique, that when trade revives, they will be unable to resume their occupations. The formation of a national com mittee, combining all the chief local authortiee throughout the Kingdom, the committee then to organise a regular system of communication with the Established and Dissenting Clergy in every parish, and where needful to get local col lecting committees formed, is the obvious mode for rating the voluntary generosity of the country. Both the extent to which application must be made, and the length of time during which it will be ne cessary, demand that such systematic operations be commenced without delay. Already three Bishops—those of Salisbury, Lon don, and Hereford—have addressed the clergy of their dioceses. Advertence is made by them, also, to the continuance of the contributions through the winter months, and this is the course which all the arrangements of congregations and individuals ought to take as much as possible. As Lord LINDSAY says in his admirable letter to the Mayor of Wigan, looking to the noble conduct of the operatives, and their distress being caused by cir cumstances so entirely beyond their control, " I think we shall consider not how little, bat how much, we caneachofuss u. upp s ly , towards the great and crying necessity before The point on which Lord LINDSAY lays the greatest stress is, we think, one which should be made prominent in all appeals. We believe it will be found easier to obtain the larger sum of money requisite for the generous object he aims at, than the smaller amounts sufficient to pre vent bare starvation. The knowledge that by giving double what would just sustain life, but not repel disease and uphold health and strength—we might maintain the poor sufferers in something like comfort, and save them from fever and debility—would make the double contribution a more pleasant sacrifice than the smaller one. This, we are persuaded, would be the general feel ing, from those who could afford but one shilling a week to those who, like Lord LINDSAY, can offer one hundred pounds a week. We cannot do better, however, than give his lordship's views of the duty of the Wigan people in his own words. Having adverted to the generous, and to a great extent the successful, efforts made by all persons at Wigan, he proceeds thus— " The principle proceeded upon has been, as I understand it, to maintain the people not merely on such a pittance as can keep body and soul together, but so that they may emerge from the trial in unimpaired health and bodily power. As yet, through the effect given to this principle, they have not materially lost ground in this respect ; but I have been much struck on returning here after some weeks' absence with the shadow of care and diminished hope im pressed upon their countenances, and, from all I have heard, as the result of much inquiry, the suffering, notwithstand ing every alleviation, is very great. Ido trust, Mr. Mayor, that the good principle thus far carried out will continue to keep this merely comparative well-being up to the mark. It is a well-known fact that in cold weather the body re quires more food to maintain it than during the warm, be sides clothing by day and bedding by night, the absence of all which and the consequent huddling together in small rooms—the consequence again of inability to pay rent— generates low and typhus fever, the latter of the most ma lignant character." Another practical suggestion of his lordship points to an obvious necessity. In addition to his promise of a weekly d mation of £lOO a week, he says for himself and his father—" And we will pay at once £5OO to the fund for the purpose of redeeming or providing clothing and bedding, pay ment of ant, or any such necessary demands, leaving this sum to the approved discretion of the committee." With the winter approaching, can anything be more important than to recover for the operatives the warm clothing and bedding with which they have parted during the summer months to obtain food, rather than go to the parish or accept charity. Indeed warm clothing renders less food necessary, it being well known that a great part of our food is consumed in the creation of animal warmth. To clothe the poor is, to a great extent, not mere comfort, but equivalent in its re sults to feeding them. Hitherto, through various causes, the health of the distressed districts has not suffered on the whole. The Registrar's reports have almost taken us by surprise, but he warns us to expect, speedily, a very different result, if the distress continues, as it certainly will, through the winter, and it would be almost criminal neglect, if warned thus, and warned by general principles too, some decided effort be not made to enable Lancashire to pass through the winter without falling a prey to the malignant fevers which are the too sure concomitants of wide spread want. Immediate attention to the sugges tions of Lord LINDSAY and Mr. COBDEN can alone avert this fearful result. The volunteer returns are in the highest degree satisfactory. They show in no single direction anything like a falling off. On the contrary, there is a slight but steady increase in numbers, and every where quite unmistakeably in efficiency. Looking to what the late member for Montrose used to call the " tottle of the whole," we find that whereas in April, 1860, the volunteers amounted altogether to 119,283 in Great Britain—they consisted in the April of 1861 of 1 61,400—and in the April of 1862 of 162,681. Very probably before the April of 1863 has arrived the aggregate of volunteers will nearly have approximated to a grand total of 170,000 altogether. The total force enrolled seven months ago in Great Britain alone amounted, as we have said, to 162,6 81 . This, of course, includin g the diffe rent arms o f the service—consisting of 662 Li g h t Horse, of 2 4,363 Artiller y , of 2,904 E ngineers, of 656 Mounted Rifles, and of 134,096 I n f antry Rifle Volunteers. Examining the distribution of this force of 162,611 Volunteer Riflemen, it is interesting to note the prop ortions in the several counties. Middlesex, as a ma tter of course (with one except i on afterwards to be mentioned), bears away the palm from all competitors —comprising w i thin it alone 16,505 Rifles. But then the populousness of the metropolitan county, the little county containing within it the chief part of this huge wen of Lon.. don and Westminster, must be taken into account when turning from the mention of those 16,505 Riflemen for Middlesex, to a poor, little item of no more than 404 Riflemen for Buckinghamshire. The West Riding of Yorkshire yields also a very large return, as indeed, considering its area, it ought to. Kent comes next to it on the list as befits it, remembering the propinquity of Kent to the European continent. Recollecting that upon that coast line, the salient point, or spur of which, is Kent, it has been—thereabouts, upon some part of those sea-beaten shores—that our island forefathers have had to withstand invasion after invasion, the Danish VIKING, the Roman CJEsAIt, the Northern WILLIAM—it is well to note that espec i a ll y a l ong th ese p ar t s o f Great Britain the patriotic ardour of the Rifle Corns movements has be en espec i a ll y man if es t e d. Hence, looking t o that one erticul part o f Our __P ar, and prominent it is c satisfactory Kent, including the Isle of Thanet, a factcry to see that there is ' numbered up goodly total of 5,672 V o l u nteers. Surrey, again, ret urni ng nearer point, has 4,425 Rifl emen, to th e cen t r al Lancashire, however , - the exceptional county - we have alluded to above jik parenthesis, though without naming it in that parenthesis. It is the one exceptional county—yielding a greater body of Volunteer Riflemen than that contributed by Middlesex ! Lancashire, now the scene of so much distress and destitution, has an ari2W of 17,146! Cheshire has as many as 3,612 —to 4• her ' honour be it said. Staffordshire has 3,4 rh e rest may thus be massed t og ether -- Bedfordshire, 449; Berkshire, 1,250 ; C am bridgeshire, 1,251; Cheshire, 3,612; Cinque 7. Ports, 1,332 ; Cornwall, 2,062; Cumberland, 1,252 ; Derbyshire, 1,366; Devonshire, 4,358; Dorset, 1,114 ; Durham, 3,186; Essex, 3,120 ; Glocester shire, 2,802; Hampshire, 2,730; Herefordshire, 546; Hertfordshire, 974 ; Huntingdonshire, 304; Isle of Man, 283 ; Isle of Wight, 527 ; Leicester shire, 636; Lincolnshire, 1,852 ; London, 3,051 ; Monmouthshire, 1,739 ; Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1,041 Norfolk, 2,047 ; Northamptonshire, 956 ; Northum berland, 1,628 ; Nottinghamshire, 1,482 ; Oxford ' shire, 1,070; Shropshire, 1,350; Somerset, 2,282; Suffolk, 1,802; Surrey, 4,425 ; Sussex, 2,087 ; Tower Hamlets, 2,693; Warwickshire, 1,725; Westmoreland, 402 ; Wiltshire, 1,494 ; Worcester shire, 1,680; East Riding, 1,692; North Riding, 1,545. Such are the numbers even now in this time of profound tranquillity, and when there is no longer a moment's further serious thought of a probable invasion. Let but an alarm be raised in earnest, and our National Guard, now 160,000 strong, would within a few weeks, we may rest assured, be fast multiplied into an auxiliary army of defence, numbering (almost at the reverberation of the first signal) 200,000 or a quarter of a million Riflemen ! THE LOSS OF LIFE IN THE LATE GALE.— Down to Tuesday evening no intelligence had been received of the fate of the new iron screw collier the Addison Potter, which sailed from the Tyne coal-laden before the gale of Sunday fortnight. There is little, indeed no hope of her safety, but every reason to believe that she has foundered with the loss of her crew of 17 hands. Information has also reached the Tyne that the collier brig, the Adelphi, belonging to North Shields, which also left that port just before the gale came on, coal-laden, for London, and of the safety of which there has been the greatest anxiety, has foundered, and that her crew, nine or ten in number, have perished with her. A black painted board, with " Baze lius" painted upon it, has also been cast up on the Dutch coast. This is the name of a collier brig belonging to Shields, which left the Tyne before the gale, and has not since been heard of. It is feared that she has foundered and all her crew been drowned. So far as can be estimated, about 50 seamen are known to have been lost with Tyne vessels during the late fearful gales. The Loyal Standard and other seamen's benefit societies, with the Shipwrecked Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society, will be called upon somewhat heavily to advance from their funds to their families, and they are also making liberal payments to those seamen who have lost their effects through ship wreck. Shipowners and underwriters are very anxious with regard to the fleet of vessels that are on their passage from the Baltic to North-east ports. The ports of Norway were crowded,according to the latest intelligence,with ves sels that had sought shelter. CITY OF LONDON COLLEGE.—The Rev. Alex. D'Orsey, of Cambridge, gave a lecture on church reading last Monday to a numerous audience of the clergy of Lon don and neighbourhood. The lecturer spoke of the wide spread dissatisfaction with the present style of reading t.nd preaching, and contended for special courses of instruction. He said—" I do not think that the quiet instruction of the public speaker in a small room is equal to the practical drill in a large hall, similar to the scene of his future labours. I admit that inaccuracies and provincialisms might be cor rected, just emphasis and modulation communicated, and general taste successfully cultivated; and were graceful reading in the family circle the object in view, the system proposed would no doubt prove effectual. But a great church, whether full or empty, is a very different field, ' and the pleasant reader in the drawing-room, untrained in the management of his voice, would certainly fail in the larger arena, just as the amateur singer is unequal to the concert-room, and the polished peer, easily heard at his own table, is " inaudible in the gallery" of the house. The ex perience of many years warrants me in asserting that can didates for the ministry should be trained in large rooms; and that, after the preliminary lessons in articulation, pitch, time, emphasis, modulation, &c., the text-books should be the Bible and Prayer-book. The more the rehearsal in all its features resembles the performance, the better will the performance be." A letter from Rome in the Paris Presse says : " Your readers have, doubtless, not forgotten the little Jewish Mortara, who was shut up, after his baptism, in the convene of St. Pierre-aux.-Liens. lam assured that he has just had conferred upon him the minor orders." - A meeting of the Public Schools' Commissioners was held yesterday at No. 2, Victoria-street, Westminster. The Commissioners present were the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Devon, Lord Lyttelton, Sir S. H. Northcote, M.P., the Hon. Edward Twisleton, the Rev, Professor Thompson, M.A., and Mr. H. H, Vaughan. Mr. Bernard, the secre tary, attended. . _ . THE ALABAMA.—An adjourned meeting of the Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday for the purpose of considering the destruction of shipping by the Confederate man-of-war Alabama, Captain Semmes. Considerable discussion arose with regard to the expression of any opinion upon the legality of the proceed.• ings of the Alabama, several members urging that, as no statement of the fact had been submitted to the Council, they were not in a position to assert that British property was destroyed by Captain Semmes, Mr. S. G. Rathbone, of the firm of Rathbone Brothers and Co., explained that British property was destroyed, but they had not made any written communication to the Chamber, as they had already written to the Foreign-office on the subject. Some mem bers of the Chamber expressed their opinion that the Ala bama had committed a breach of international law in de• stroying neutral property on board an enemy's ship, while others contended that, as the Confederates had no ports into which to take their prizes, it would be a manifest hardship upon them to prevent their destroying a large amount of the enemy's property because a small amount belonging to neu tral parties was on board of the prize. In the end a resolu tion was uanimously agreed to, directing a letter to be written to Earl ltussell, cqlling his attention to the de struction of the ships in question and the capture and re lease of others under ransom bond, by an armed cruiser sail ing under the Confederate flag, and desiring to know, for the information of the commercial cammunity, what is the opinion of her Majesty's Government as to the position of the owners of neutral property. _ . - - WHAT WORKING MEN MAY DO.—The estab lishment of co-operative cotton spinning and weaving asso ciations has been considerably accelerated by the high rate of profits obtained previous to the outbreak of hostilities in America; and, as might be expected, Rochdale was one of the earliest, if not the first in the field. The two mills of that town were erected at a cost of 170,000, and employ about 300 hands. There are others at Bacup and else where. There establishments are conducted for the most part on the same principles as the provision stores, except. ing that the workers take the place of the customers in the quarterly participation of profits, but of late there has been observable a tendency to act more on the joint stock system pur et simple, and to pay the workers the current rate of wages, and no more, leaving the whole of the profits to be divided amongst the shareholders alone. This has given rise to much controversy and discussion on the part of those concerned, which curiously illustrates how the love of gain proves as insatiable in the case of the humble co-operative as in that of the wealthy millionaire.—Jomi PLUMMER in Once a Week. "To PERSONS ABOUT TO MARRY."—Day-dream ing is all very well, now and then, on a holiday; but a woman who gushes with moonshine and romance is seldom a good judge of butcher's meat, or a skilful interpreter of accounts; and a man who aspires at an angel deserves to dine off stringy mutton and under-done potatoes, on cold t a i ideal protect plates,neve never ei f nam or t t ul h el e shiv r e e re st of his life. Young man, think twice pilferings, and frayed, butto yf n ao l ui before whos you commit yourself to the romantic young lady, ethefefruulimlnneeanshs.u_ratotawndeciegdahevt:di:oeuink.ews domestic The mode of business , A WORD ON Co 4 8 .8 0 :g P enerally conducted, is extremely allowed; and a simple but efficient ERATITE ASSOCIATIONS.— e f l or cash, no credit being purchasestregisteringhepuosemoafdaesbcyeretaacihnincupgseantromadneenru,utraTa simple. All transac ti o ns system epmr profits is aadroep divided r bng the allo amount wed on all o f *he remainder e t cr e ally distributed this s ount of pur pqauiadr_tue r p ly, ,five shares,p erancdentt amongst the members in proportion to pur chases individually made by them. In working men have acquired large sums, with w vr ay Y tri anY little risk or trouble ; hence it is not surprising to find that as sociations are rapidly increasing in number and these popula rity, or that the principles on whi ch they are basedshouldbe applied to purposes of a more speculative nature, such se. the formation of manufacturing companies.—Jomi P Lum . MEN in Once a Week. THE ACCIDENT TO THE ROYAL YACHT OSBORNE.—By some mistake no vessel was ordered to attend the Royal yacht on her voyage, and by the merest chance the Doris met her at Palermo, when the captain of the yacht suggested that she should accompany them in case of accident, and luckily she did, for the yacht broke down off Cape Bon, at the com mencement of a gale, one of her paddlewheels becoming perfectly useless. The Doris towed her for 47 hours, and on arrival at Malta had only 20 tons of coal left, or six hours' consumption. But for the Doris, the future Kings of England and Prussia might still be at sea. The yacht now proceeds to sea with one Paddle only, and returns to Malta to be repaired. NEW YORK, OCT. 22• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sut,—Soon after the affair at Hampton Roads, and during the progress of the laudations upon the Monitor, re-echoed by the British press, I ven tured to express an opinion to my countrymen (through a letter which appeared in The Sun of May 12th) to the effect that, judging by the facts and effects relating to the said Monitor, as sepa rated from the magniloquent verbiage and sugges tions which pervade all descriptions of " battles" and " sea fights," given in the columns of New York newspapers, she had performed nothing, or, in other words, sustained no trial that entitled her to be put forward by amateur naval dogmatisers in Parliament, and elsewhere, as a model, or for what they called her in this country, the " best war ship in all creation." Undoubtedly, whether I was right or wrong in differing from those who con sidered that a whole host of Monitors had better be set about at once in England, nothing that had been performed by that vessel since she was helped round from New York to James River, and had the good fortune to arrive in time to gain the re pute of driving off the Merrimac, when, as a matter of reality, the latter had exhausted her crew, coals, and ammunition, would appear to have added to her reputation ; and I allude to the matter princi pally because it is evident that in many cases the British public are still misled by the sometimes organised, bat more often the natural and national system of "over-colouring," practised by almost every American describer of American events, and accept as actualities what are, in truth, often a mix ture of exaggerations and sensations. And, after all, if many in Europe choose to believe that all, or half, that is reported in and for the New York press as to "gigantic battles" and "immense vic tories" is true, I for one would not seek to trouble you or myself with any disquisi tions on the subject ; but the bombast written about the Monitor appeared to me a different matter, inasmuch as with the usual and legitimate interest which attaches in our country to all maritime topics, there was evidently an intention or wish on the part of those who (to use a familar phrase) " ought to have known better"—to accept and mix up that bombast with facts, and, what was more important, endeavour to give them a practical application in what was called a reformation of our war-vessels ; and under these circumstances, although it may appear to some unnecessary, or what is called " harping" too much on the Monitor question, I' ask your leave once again to refer thereto. A letter has been published lately in the Ame rican journals from Mr. Donald M‘Kay—an ex perienced and approved ship builder —or, as a New York paper describes him—" Naval Archi tect." It appears Mr. M.Kay has been in Europe, visiting the dockyards and naval establishments, &c., and he furnishes elaborate statements of the dimensions, tonnage, nature of armour-plating and armament of war-ships, built, building, and designed to be built, in France and Great Britain. His account is interesting, and, it may be assumed, generally accurate, and he appears to have been furnished or obtained full particulars and details of the British vessels in particular, and one can gather from the form of his communication pub lished, that he has furnished more complete de tails to the Government at Washington than would be given in a newspaper letter —and as that will probably be republished in British journals, I merely refer to the portion of it regarding the " Monitor," to which he alludes incidentally or rather as a matter of comparison. His opinion may be summed up briefly of those sort of war-vessels, that they are only fit to take part in defendin, 4 ports and harbours--that they would be ridiculous to look at as " sea-going ships," and observes that although the " Monitor" was not run down or through by the Merrimac, which was moving at the rate of about three knots an hour, a heavier vessel proceeding at the rate of 14 miles would probably have smashed her to pieces. In short, Mr. M'Kay, after his European observations and experiences, evidently does not think much of the be-lauded of Hampton Roads, and trusts the Washington Government will not persist in build ing many of the kind. Of course it is not meant by me that this opinion settles the question of the Monitor, bat being that of a practical American, it is to be hoped, taken in conjunction with the actual, and not theoretical, "performances" of that " model," the opinion will suggest to the impetuous parliamentary naval amateurs afore,aid, and others, that they should not allow themselves to be bewildered, if not " scared," by the ephemeral "sensations" and braggadocia of New York newspaper descriptions into urging adoptions and reforms in our navy, in the head long manner which probably brought no small ex pense on the c ountry, and, what i s more i mpor t an t, distracted the attention from, or at least delayed, substantial improvements and pi ecautions. Another point that may be suggested i n di rect l y b y t h e re • port referred to is, whereas under the circumstances that it is pa lpable to any " Britisher" on this side of the Atlantic, efforts are making by ruling "poli ticians" in this country to endeavour to aggravate every old, and stir up every new, alleged grievance as against Great Britain whether it is either necessary, or wise, or Judicious to publish not only the results and effects, but the minute details of every experiment and ti ial connected with the vari ous guns, armour-plating, and so forth, which are being carried on by our Government. The "dif fusion of knowledge" is a most excellent thing— but whether the system pursued of imparting a knowledge to the world of "inventions" and pro gressing ,4 i m provements" in warlike and defensive implements for which our nation offers, or at least pays premiums, I leave to the consideration of more skilled casuists than— Your obedient servant, A BRITISH TRAVELLER. 711 E LANCASHIRE DISTRESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. beg to submit the following proposal to issue legal tender Exchequer notes of 55., and with these notes to pay wages to the unemployed in the cotton districts. My proposition, which will be that of every currency reformer, or opponent of Sir Robert Peel's sold Money Bill, is : That Mr. Gladstone be waited upon by the Manchester manufacturers, and be requested to suspend Peel's Gold Bill, as was done in the panic of 1847 and 1857 ; that Ex chequer Bills now of £lOO, bearing interest, and broken down into notes of ss. each, not "promises to pay in gold," but declared by the Exchequer legal tender for debts and taxes ; that these ss. notes be devoted to the payment of wages, at the present market price for unskilled labour, to the unem tpolowyeodtkinonthtehcoomttoosnsydicsotrmicnitso;nsthaantd i t n h f e er unemployed t b r e an s s e_t ferring peat moss to clay lands, to the transport of the light thin alluvial soil of the Mersey to the heavy soils of the interior, and vice versa; to laying down temporary railways to facilitate this and other works which it is not my province to dictate to the managers; that these notes be cancelled when presented to the Exchequer when paid in for taxes. Three hundred thousand people starving on threepence a day Surely the wealthy residents here, like our legis lators, don't see the danger of the position. Surely this is a time to look the prejudice in favour of gold in the face. This is not a question of production of wealth, but of its distribution. The warehouses here are groaning under the weight of provisions, and corn stored up unconsumed, without sale, without purchasers, and the people passing tho doers of these warehouses unfed. The same is true of houses, furniture, clothing, and fuel. We have not had a famine cf any of these things.—l remain, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES' HARVEY. 2, Chatham-place, Edge-hill, Liverpool. CRYSTAL PALACE.--The Winter Concerts will be resumed next Saturday. The conceit-room—one-third larger than Exeter-hall —has been entirely enclosed and made warm for the winter season. Herr Joachim, Santley, and Mademoiselle Zeiss will be the principal artistes, Mr. Maims, as usual, being the chef d'orchestre. During the past few days a Dirge amount of space has been taken by exhibitors transferring their goods from the it In ternational Exhibition. In some of the departmen t s i s d ifticult to obt a i n space, and there is no dou b t t h a t the corn• ing season will witness much of the active business of the Exhibition transferred to the courts of the Crystal Palace. The nave and centre transept are now well lighted with gas. The afternoon promenade after the Saturday concerts is likely now to become one of the most attractive and fashion able features of the week, LATEST NEWS. MADRID, Nov. 5. It has been decided in an extraordinary Council of Ministers that the Spanish Government shall demand the punishment of the Americans who have insulted the Spanish flag. The Queen has given an audience to the Ameri can Minister, who expressed his regret at what had taken place, and assured her Majesty that the American Government had not authorized the acts of Captain Montgomery. GREECE. La Presse publishes the'following::— " The Greek revolution has caused considerable anxiety at Constantinople. A Cabinet Council was held on the 29th of October, at which the Sirdar Omar Pasha was present. Measures were resolved upon for the defence of the frontier." THE 3UN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1862. 711 E "MONI7OR," ,:i " 1 ~~ FRANCE. BOURSE, November s.—The English funds arriv ing with a fall of per cent, has added to the downward movement which took place in this market towards the close of business yesterday, and Threes, for the Account, which opened at 70f. 85c., speedily receded, and are now at 70f. 65c. There has been little doing in Railway Shares, and some of the lines are rather lower. Mobilier has well maintained yesterday's quotation. The mar ket closed as follows 41 per Cents. 9B Do end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 65 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1175 Do, end month 1180 - RA IL' • Bank Shama 3255 • Credit F oncier 1250 Piedmontese Fives 72 60 i Italian Loan 72 90 • Roman • Austrian • Spanish Threes 52 • Home Debt - .WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO4O .. 1048 75 Northern New ditto • .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1173 75 .. 1181 25 Geneva 352 50 Southern B6O .. 860 -- Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lowbard North of Spain Saragossa 625 .. 622 50 DittO'to Barcelona 358 76 .. 357 60 7HE A.RMS7RONG AND WHI7 WO.R7 CO TROVERSY. Sir William Armstrong, in a letter to a contem porary, says : Sir,—l observe in your paper of yesterday an extract from the Army and Navy Gazette purporting to give the results of some firing with Whitworth and Armstrong field guns. I must once more be permitted to caution your readers against attributing importance to any but official accounts of such trials. I have neither time nor inclination to fol low my anonymous literary assailants -round the circle of the daily and weekly press, er to contradict or correct the various pieces of intelligence that appear with sign,ficant persistence about my guns. My position exposes me to attack, and one-sided statistics seem to be a favourite wea pon with the friends of some inventions. Usually lam compelled from press of business to leave them unacswered. 1 can only trust that my silence in such cases will be im puted to the right cause. First, as to the report copied into your columns from the Army and Navy Gazette. The narrative need not be read through twice to see in whose interest its original was framed. It is obvious that before taking for granted the literal accuracy of any account of a contest between Whit • worth and Armstrong guns the public ought to know from what quarter the account comes. I confess that the article in question appears to me very much like a bulletin issued after an American battle. It represents, not so much what is fairly to be said upon the subject as what can be said upon the subject by the friends of Mr. Whitworth. There are at Shorncliffe at present both Whitworth and Armstrong field guns, and it would seem that on a recent occasion some of them have been fired side by side in the presence of Mr. Whitworth, Colonel Boxer, and their friends. That is all I know of " the first open compari son between Whitworth and Armstrong guns." I was neither a witness of, nor privy to, the experiment, nor have I have received any official report of it, but I can see enough to be able to show the point of view from which the account of it has been written. The correspondent of the Army and Navy Gazette tells us that the guns were fired at "a floating target," and that, though "no very accurate comparison could be made as to the respective hits"— which is perhaps an ingenious way of dismissing a difficulty the Whitworth was the first to shoot away the flag aimed at." The value of this information entirely depends on the number of guns employed on either side, and, as it ap pears from the Armyand Navy Gazette that Mr.Whitworth had four guns to my two, he naturally had twice as good a Chance of bitting the flag' fi?st. ' If the _Whithvior - th guns did fire with more accuracy than mine on this occasion; lean: only say that the result is at variance with previous experi ments. But, at all events, it is obvious that such a trial as is described must be perfectly valueless for purposes of true comparison. For instance, it is impossible to determine the relative accuracy of guns by firing them over water, which does not admit of the deviation of the shot being in each case ascertained and recorded. Neither is it the practice to judge of the comparative merits of shells without proper targets to exhibit their relative destructive effects. As to the rapidity of firing, I can say little further than that my guns seem to fire much slower in the columns of some of the newspapers than they do anywhere else. It may pos sibly be the fact that on this occasion they took lsi minutes to fire 20 rounds. All I can say is that all official report of the previous rapid firing of Armstrong guns will show that this rate has been far exceeded. By this time, sir, your readers will, if they are wise, have learnt by experience to regard as one sided some at least of the unaccredited accounts of what is said to happen to my gun behind my back ; indeed, it is high time that a proper and systematic comparison should be made between Mr. W hitworth's gun and mine, and that the public should no longer be swayed about by inaccurate statements and by desultory and uncertain trials, which leave such ample room for partisans on either side to put their own construc tions on the results obtained. It is now nearly three years since I first invited such a comparison. A reference to the proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers will show that in February, 1860, I publicly proposed that a " friendly contest" should take place between Mr. Whitworth and my self, and Mr. Whitworth, who was present, consented. The War-office approved this proposition, and, under their in structions, the Ordnance Select Committee forwarded to me a programme for a comparative trial to which I at once assented. The programme was afterwards returned to me in a form altered, as I understood, to meet Mr. Whitworth's wishes, and I a second time agreed to it. Subsequently, on more than one occasion, I urged the War-office, by letter and otherwise, to have the trials commenced, but, after a long delay, I was at length officially informed, without any reason being assigned, that the contest would not take place. I, at all events, am clear of all obstructiveness in this matter, and it is for Mr. Whitworth to show whether he is equally irresponsible for this failure in our common project. Without further reference, however, to the past, I now repeat my desire for a formal comparative trial before any official tribunal between the two systems. I am ready to match my bieech-loader against his breech-loader, my muzzle-loader against his muzzle-loader, and my pro jectiles and fuses against his projectiles and fuses. Mr. Whitworth has of late added to his reputation by exhibit ing the powers of his gun when steel projectiles are used. I will also exhibit the powers of mine when projectiles of the same costly material are employed. I still hope that our contest may be of an • amicable nature, although my friendly dispositions have been of late rather severely tested. Mr. Whitworth in his recent letter to you gratuitously disclaims all obligation to me in refer ence to the mode of construction of the gun with which his late successes have been achieved, although that gun was made in the factory of which I am superin tendent, and on the system and by the process which I have introduced and established. More than this—he dis parages the system of construction of which he has success fully availed himself, and all this, without my having uttered a word upon the subject, or laid claim to any part in his success. Mr. Whitworth is quite welcome to use the fruit of my labour, but I think he should abstain from un., dervaluing the bridge that carries him over the stream, We are both working, I hope, for the public good, and in this spirit I told him three years ago, on the occasion to which I have already referred, and in view of the contest which I then proposed, that he " was at liberty to adapt to his guns if he pleased my shells and fuses." In contrast with thii offer I have within the last few days been served with a legal notice prohibiting me, under the powers of a patent ob tained by Mr. Whitworth, from using fiat-headed projec tiles. At present it is only for experimental purposes that flat-headed shot could be required, and no commercial in terests are yet at stake. I can, therefore, see no other ob • ject in this prohibition than that of putting a stop to expe riments for ascertaining whether the Armstrong guns, of which the country are already in possession, would become more or less effective if used with shot of this form. If Mr. Whitworth wishes to monopolise flat heads for his shot, and can maintain his patent, by all means let him do so. I shall content myself with trying my Roundheads against his Flatheads, and believe, before long, that it will be seen that the one shape is as good as the other when the same material is used for both. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, adze ap gooe alike, Sold in packets by 2,280 Agentoe THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF B ME. Last night a pubic meeting was held in the Educational Institute, Stookwell•green, for memo rialising the Government on the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome. The chair wt thken by T. Webber, Esq., C.C. Letters were read by the Secretary hum Mr. Doulton and Mr. Williams, members for the borough, explaining the reasons why they were prevented from attending the meeting, with. the objects of which they expressed their entire sympathy ; from P. A. Taylor, M.P., Dr. Hall, and other gentlemen who had been invited, but were from various causes unable to attend. The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the business, said he had not been associated with the committee in drawing up the resolutions which would be submit ted to them, and he would venture to say that he wished they had gone further and included Austria as well as France in these resolutions. Austria in Venice was as great an obstacle to the unity of Italy as France in Rome. With that observation he would leave the question, simply remarking that he hoped in the speeches that would be addressed to them nothing of a religious character would be introduced, but that the speakers would confine themselves to the purely secular and political aspect of the question, and that a fair hearing would be given to all who wished to address the meeting. (Cheers.) Dr. J. W. SMITH, LL.D., moved the first resolu tion :—" That this meeting is of opinion the occu pation of Rome by French troops is contrary to the wishes of the Roman people, is a flagrant violation of international rights, an encouragement to anarchy, and injurious to the interests of civilised Europe." In supporting the resolution Dr. Smith gave a brief but clear narrative of the circumstances under which the French troops under Gen. Oudinot forcibly took possession of Rome, and showed the gross violation of international law involved in their occupation ever since. Mr. S. RICHARDSON, who seconded the resolu tion, read a portion of a letter which had just been received from Garibaldi—(thA mention of whose name called forth loud and repeated cheers)—in which the illustrious General expressed his strong appreciation of the power of public opinion in this country, not only here but upon foreign Govern ments, and his belief that if that opinion continues to be persistently expressed in favour of Italy for the Italians, they will be greatly aided in the effort to create a united kingdom, with Rome for'its ca pital. Mr. Richardson said that he hoped that early in the spring the hero of Italy, the martyr of Aspromonte, would be in t his country to express personally his views to the masses who sympathised with him., (Cheers.) Mr. PHELPS having supported the resolution, it was carried unanimously. The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. W. M. Smith, the Rev. D. Thomas, of Stockwell, and other gentlemen, and the following resolutions were also unanimously carried :--" That this meet ing warmly sympathises with Garibaldi in what he has suffered in attempting to vindicate the right of Italy to Rome, and with the Italians in being excluded from their capital." " That the resolu tions adopted by this meeting be forwarded to the members for the borough of Lambetholigned by the chairnupi and secretaries, with a request that they will endeavour, in their places in Parliament, to urge effectually upon the Government the necessity for the early evacuation of Rome by the French troops." A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the proceedings. MR. CHARLES BUX7ON. !M.P., ON THE AMERICAN WAR. The annual dinner of the Maidstone Agricultural Association took place yesterday afternoon, at the Star Hotel in that town, Colonel Scott, /ate M.P. for Maidstone, in the chair. " The health of the borough members " having been drunk, Mr. Bux ton, in responding, referred at some length to the civil war in North America, and said that, for his own part, he could take no partial side with either the Federals or the Southerners. At present there seemed to be nothing for England but the most absolute neutrality, and he thought they might well be neutral, not only in policy, but in feeling. We have no reason to love the Southern slave-owners. On the other hand, he could dis-, cover no real grounds for wishing Victory t o the North,: Lie reOeited to find himself at variance on that point from Most of those of his - Countrymen with whom he would most gladly be at one— namly, those who are most identified with anti slavery feeling. They, generally speaking, have sided with the North, on the ground that the war is a war with slavery. He had anxiously striven to see how that stands, and he is unable to discover that it is a war with slavery. How could it be so, when a third part of the Northern Federals are themselves slaveowners ? What, then, was the ground of the quarrel ? Simply this, that the North and the South were virtually two nations—alien in every feeling, alien in every principle, alien in every tradition, alien in every habit of life. This abhorrence felt for the .North by the Southerners was in reality what deter mined them not to submit to a Northern Govern ment, and the moment Lincoln's election showed them that this was to be their fate they broke from what they deemed an unbearable bondage. The North had no more right than England herself to go to war H ith any Southern State for the abolition of slavery ; and he held that to have plunged a mighty continent into all the agonies of a civil war, to cause the deaths of little leas than a million of gallant men, to have filled the land with ruin under the plea of philanthropy and love to God, would have been a transcendent crime—a crime the more hor rible for its false plea of humanity. Upon the whole, he was unable to perceive that the Northerners would claim us as their partisans on anti-slavery grounds. Doubtless, if no other consideration in tervened, we should wish well to them rather than to the South, which makes slavery the very basis of her institutions. But is it possible to exclude those other considerations ? It ought not, perhaps, to weigh with us that the North has been wild with groundless rage against us, and even now threatens us with war. It should not, perhaps, weigh with us that she has set up a tariff that is at once a monument of her ill-will to England, and of her contempt for the plainest truths of political science. But how are we to srnpathise with those who, to gratify their vanity and their rage,, are filling that once happy and prosperous land with ruin ? When we are oalled upon to wish success to the North, we ought to see what they have dorie wb.re they have been successful. We cannot but look at the doings of General Butler, at New Orleans. In •not allowing alone, but applauding these doings, the North has given earnest of the mean and malig nant cruelty with which the conquest of the South would be crowned. The Federals have given proof that their despotism would be the despotism of the s word—a despotism under which perforce all liberty of thought, of deed, of institution must be quenched, God forbid that we should wish victory to follow the standards of those whose rule, in the anguish of the conquered, in the ferocity of the conquerors, would bid fair to recall the vilest tyrannies that afflict the world, The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid applause. The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. Robert Le Merchant, curate of Harberton, near Totnes, to the rectory of Little Risington, near Stow •on-the-Wold, rendered vacant by the death of the Roy. Richard Wil braham Ford, M.A. HIGH TIDE IN THE RIVER.— The full• moon spring -tide of yesterday morning rose to a very unusual height at high water, topp i n g the Custom - house quay and Billingsgate wharf, and inun datin g the low-l y in g wharfs and landing planes, the receding tide carrying off quantities of timber and other buoyant articles. The water in the neighbourhood of the Strand reached some dwisintagntcoe Milford-lane, and the carriage road at the Adelphi arches , and the tide was overflowed to some depth. In Southwark and Lam_ ‘Wvearyeutipioded to depths varying Its of houses bath the inundations were very desthtreubetaisve: d e luging rain the sewers became overcharge the ilp the contents considerably, workmen Afnf from ar um a r notthenhaeeer riverto o y thh fording e o rr u es hour in f i ene' feet ei; beams m s ogr in n damaging g en were employed in constructing dams and taking other precautions to p re . vent another overflow, as it is feared this morning's tide will rise even higher thap, that of yesterday, • 7HE GARIBALDI MEETING IN.-THE CI ly. We have received from Messrs. Taylor and Richardson, honorary secretaries of the late City meeting, a copy of the following correspondence : "To General Garibaldi, &c.—Dear General,—l have the honour to communicate to you that at a large and influen tial public meeting of the citizens of London, over which I was called to preside, held at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, on the 17th October instant, for the purpose of publicly expressing their views of your disinterested patriotism and devotion to the great cause of Italian free dom and unity, to sympathise with you in your present sufferings, and also to protest against the foreign occupa tion of Rome, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : That this mesting desires to express its deep and heartfelt sympathy for General Garibaldi in his pre sent sufferings ; its admiration of the strength, integrity, and noble patriotism of his character, and its earnest hope that he may be restored to perfect health, and live to see the aspiration of his life realised in a free, united, and con stitutional Italy. That this meeting declares its conviction that the French occupation of Rome is a violation of the rights of the Roman people, and a direct infraction of the principle of non-intervention, sanctioned by all the great powers, and that its continuance endangers the real inter ests of France herself, and the general peace of Europe. That copies of the foregoing resolutions, signed by the chair man on behalf of the meeting, be forwarded to General Garibaldi and to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and that Earl Russell be earnestly and respectfully re quested to use all means within his power to obtain the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome.—l have the honour to be, dear General, your obedient, humble servant, "WESTERN WOOD, Chairman. " London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, London, October, 1862. "To John Richardson, Esq., and John Robert Taylor, Esq., Honorary Secretaries, and Western Wood, Esq., M.P. " Honoured Sirs,—l owe you many heartfelt thanks for the enthusiasm you have spread abroad in the hearts of the English people in favour of the Italian cause. With you in England public opinion is a reality; this power I can only compare to the queen of the universe, but a power to which many, alas I prove unmindful. If the good will and the influence of your Government could weigh with the diplomatic doings of the Pope's soldier, we woilld all of us thank a kind Providence for the results which would flow from it, namely, a flagrant immorality abolished, and the peace of Italy, which is part and parcel' of the peace of Europe, established. Once more let me tender you my thanks, gentlemen, for what you have tried to do on behalf of my country. Ever yours, 66 G, G ARIBALDI. " Spezzia, Ist Nov., 1862." RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTE:aN. Yesterday a deputation of shareholders ia this company met the directors at the Euston station, Mr. R. Moon in the chair, supported by members of the Board, to consider tho present position of the company and the propositions of Mr Wrigley and Mr. Gartside for advano'ng the interests of the company, and of dividing the line, with a view to its better management and working, into 10 or 12 different sec tions. A long discussion took place, and the conclusion come to was understood to be in favour of the present policy of the Board of directors, and against the proposition for " districting" the line into the proposed system of sections. There were about 50 shareholders present, and the proceed ings were adjourned to receive another deputation of pro prietors for the consideration of the same question, and of other matters connected with the management. MIDLAND. A special meeting of this company was held at the rail way station, Derby, yesterday, Mr. S. Beale, M.P., in the chair ; for the purpose of submitting to the shareholders a resolution to authorise the directors to borrow on mortgage `under the power of three acts relating to the company. The CHArnmax remarked that those shareholders who were present at the last half-yearly meeting would remem ber that he told them a formal meeting would have to be called for their sanction to the borrowing of the money. The directors thought it would not be necessary to make it a mortgage bond, but a preference mortgage stock. He, therefore, begged to move the following resolu tion :—" That under and by virtue of the following Acts the Midland Railway (Burton branch) Act 1860, the Mid , land Railway (London station) Act 1860, and the Midland Railway (Rowsley and Buxton) Act 1860, any sums of money, not exceeding in the whole 4226,000, of the moneys which the company are authorised to raise by borrowing under the powers of the said Acts shall be raised by the creation and the issue of stock to a corresponding amount, to be entitled Midland Mortgage Preference Stock,' instead of borrowing the sum ; and thus there will be attached to the said stock a fixed and perpetual irredeemable yearly dividend, or interest of £4 per oent. ; and that the directors do carry into effect this resolution by the creation and issue of stock, according to the provisions of the abovementioned Acts." Mr. HuTem/gaol./ seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously, and the proceedings terminated. BERKS AND HANTS EXTENSION. This line, froth Hungerford to Devizes, which will materi ally reduce the distance between London and Bath, Bristol, and the West of England, was formally opened on Tuesday. The event was celebrated by rejoicings at all the places on the route from Hungerford to Devizes, and at the latter place a luncheon was provided, at which the Marquis of Ailesbury ana about 300 gentlemen of influence in the dis trict through which the new line passes were prese.t. The line will be opened for public traffic on Tuesday next. SCIN DE. According to advices dated the Bth ult., it appears that the traffic on this line averaged £1,600 per week, and showed every probability of a speedy increase, as all difficulties in the way of its development were fast disappearing. The semi-montbly c mmunioation carried on by the stean' flotilla in connection with the railway was continued regu larly between liotree and Mooltan with satisfactory results• PUNJAUB. It appears the traffic on the section of this line from La hore to Umritsur continues equal to the carrying power of the rolling stock. On the Lahore and Mooltan section 400 troops were conveyed on the 30th of September, with safety and despatch, over 38 miles of the line recently finished. MARKETS---TIIIS DAY. MARK-LANE. 1141 ERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 48s 7d ; barley, 35s id ; oats, 20s 10d ; rye, 31s 6d ; beans, 39s 2d ; and peas, 42s 3d. TAE SIX WEEKS' AV RAGES. -- Wheat, 49s lld ; barley, 35s 0d ; oats, 21s 8d ; rye, 31s 2d; beans, 39s 7d ; peas, 41s Bd. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEL—Wheat, 83,657; barley, 65,008 ; ea - 0,116,649 ; rye, 209 ; beans, 3,833 ; peas, 1,700 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. For the time of year, our market, to-day, was somewhat heavily supplied with beasts, and all breeds moved off heavily, at quite Monday's decline in the quotations. Amongst the stock were 100 Spanish beasts via Liverpool. The show of sheep was moderately extensive, and the mutton trade was in a most inactive state, at barely previous cur rency. The best Downs sold at 5s 6d per 81bs. Calves the supply of which was good—sold slowly, at the late de cline in value. Pigs were rather cheaper, and miloh cows commanded very little attention. Per Sib. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. cl. 0. 1 : 1 ‘ ; Crse. &inf. beasts 3 0 3 21P r i mecrs - wool d 0.4 8 5 Second quality do. 3 4 3 6 Pme. S' tldown tio.s 4 5 Prime large oxen 3 10 4 4 I.Largt..l (zee. calves 3 8 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Plinio small d 0... 4 6 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 1) Large h0g5...... 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 4 0 4 6 iSmall po r kers .. •• 4 8 4 10 Suckling calves, 108 to 19s ; an d q uarter -old store pigs, 20s to 30s. TOTAL EMU' LY. Beasts 1,500 Cows 136 Sheep and iambs.... 5,800 Calves Pigf; 440 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves .... 2OO pigs •••• , ......... ,-- MEAT MARKETS. me meat is in fai r request at full prices .j., , o t h erwi set the trade i s hea v i i . Beef, from 2s 4d to 3 e tu 4 oll , e mu on, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; VC" 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 3 d t 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase• SOUTHALL, November s. —The supplies of fat stock NEWGA.TB AND LEADB 2 I.--Pri were prices. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 8d moderately good, and the trade ruled heavy at drooping S.--w 0 h ; a ra d erg o . 6 9 1, 48 Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d Blbs to sink the offal. to 5s 4d ; veal, 4s Od to 43 8d ; pork, ROMFORD, NOv ß em ee b f, per ) u a tt d on un 3s tr 6 a d de to h 5 e s r ::: from 3s 4d to 4s 8d mutton, _ • 3 / 4 6a day, as follows : d P er 81bs ; suckling calves 10 ' 21s to 30s each; and ) sto 19s ; quarter-old store _ 1 1 5 " milch cows, £l4 Os to £lB Os each• 4s Od to 4s l 0 p_.. SMITHFIELD. HAY MARKETS. — Meadow hay, £1 16s to £4 5.9 Od; c'° er, v ' lO ., £3 IN to £5 10s Od ; an d s t raw , £1 12 s to £1 1 65 P ,oad. A dull trade. CUMB ERLAND.--Mearlow hay, £1 18s to £4 8 ; 10s to £5 10s Od ; and straw, 12s to a 16s per loaf • Trade heavy. WHITECHAPEL.—MeacIow hay, £ 1 16s to X. 5s O d ilovet, d o ., £ 3 lOs to £5 12s ; and straw, £1 12s to £ 1 165 per load. Supply good. ----- THE MAYORALTY OF BRISTOL. --A requisition signed by nearly 5,0n0 burgesses was presented yesterdaY to Mr. John Hare, Mayor of Bristol, acknowledging h is services for the past year, and requesting him to alloy himself to be nominated for re-election for the ensuing year. His worship, who was visibly affected by the pre sentation of the requisition, returned his thanks for the honour proposed to be conferred upon him for a second time, but respectfully declined to allow himself to be put in nomination,