The Sun. — London, England, 1859-07-14 00:00:00

THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN FRANCE AND AUSTRIA. (From the Daily i.rews.) If a man is to receive the praises of this world and remission in the next in consideration of all the offences he has not committed ; if greatcriminals are to be pardoned on account of all the harm they have left undone, why, then, the author of the Peace of Villafranca deserves all the credit due to peace makers. Test the Emperor of the French by the designs imputed to him last Easter, by the secret conspiracy with Russia for the dismemberment of Europe, by the projected invasion of England, by the descent upon Egypt, the partition of Turkey, the capture of Malta, Gibraltar, and Corfu, and a few other trifling enterprises East and West, and we cheerfully admit that Louis Napoleon has deserved well of mankind for the clever feat of swerving from the stone walls between the Mincio and the Adige. He has with impartial perfidy disappointed his calumniators and deceived his friends. We are all so glad that the play is over, that we applaud the manager for cheating us of half the playbill, and don't stop to inquire whether we have paid our money for what was omitted or for what is " underlined." Peace, to use Lord Brougham's words, is a "blessed boon," and for England it is almost one of the necessaries of life. We are too dull to appreciate the glory of war, waged for its own sake by a man to whom an army is either an instrument of ambition or an arbiter of fate. We see noble principles prostituted, and substantial in terests disturbed—for what ? To prove that an Emperor can be a general without ever having been a soldier, and that the art of war is more easily learned than the arts of honesty and justi...e. England is not without reproach in Italy ; but we are thankful that in the dark business of Villa franca her hands at least are clean. We can have no other possible interest in Italy than an honest desire for the welfare of its people, for its inde pendence and freedom from foreign yoke ; for its healthy and spontaneous development ; for its speedy acquisition and secure maintenance of all those liberties of thought, and conscience, and action, which we cherish as the daily bread of great and growing . nations. We have no interest in making bargains with any despotism on earth for the preservation of priestly misrule in Rome as a flying buttress to the tyranny of the sword in Catholic Empires. We desire to see an Italy for the Italians, and all foreign influence and interven tion in that Peninsula finally removed. We desire to see the people of Italy choosing their own rulers and forms of government, and living under the liberal protection of equal laws. We cannot recognise arbitrary settlements, in which the breakers of trea ties set up their own decisions against public law and a people's rights, and traffic away the lives and liberties of populations with smiling ease and cor diality. This is the work of Monarchs who do not understand their age, and whose contempt for humanity is a religious principle. When the French Emperor proposes to the Austrian to inaugurate a better state of things in Italy under joint protec tion, and the patronage of the Pope, England may well be content to wonder how the Austrian- French ideas of political amelioration are to pre vail, and to hold her peace. When a " universal amnesty" emanates from Louis Napoleon, we are anxious to know whether the exiles of Lambessa and Cayenne are comprised in the act of mercy, or only the volunteers who, under Garibaldi, forced a passage for the French legions in Lombardy—the Tuscans, the Modenese, the Parmesans, and the citizens of the Romagna who preferred death in battle beside the soldiers of France in a " war of independence" to an infamous neutrality under the sway of Austrian satellites ? The Emperor of the French is a master of irony ; but we are imperfect admirers of this sort of rhetoric in action, and we are more and more persuaded that, if our neu trality was simple prudence during the war, it is a duty of honour to maintain it now. Louis Napoleon returns to Paris a conqueror and a peace-maker, leaving discontents to fructify in Italy, and jealousies to ripen in Germany. His army has tasted blood, snuffed the spoil, and learnt the secret of quick promotion. Fifty thousand dead men have had too much of glory, and as many more, no doubt, enough of it and to spare ; but the survivors in the hospitals would gladly have stood another chance or two of winning the cross of honour, or an epaulette. These men will not be rocked to sleep by a Te Deum, and will pant for another forty days' dash at some enemy or other. Thirty thousand French soldiers have lost the opportunity of firing a shot in earnest this sum mer, and have fought with nothing but dust, diarrhoea, and extortionate innkeepers. How will these defranded followers of Prince Napoleon Jerome be pacified ? Then there are the national forces in the Romagna, just organising for self-de fence and for national independence. What will become of General Ulloa, and his soldiers, when his Holiness (of Perugia) has as sumed the " Honorai'y" Presidency of the Confederation, of which Austria, by another name, will be so considerable a member ? How will General Garibaldi dnd his gallant re cruits from all parts of Italy accept the terms of a peace which makes Austrian domination securer, because more compact, in Italy, in making it the ally and accomplice of French Imperialism and Papal infallibility ? These are pressing difficulties not to be set aside or juggled away, and they pre sage too clearly a new era of turbulence and dis order, of sanguinary reprisals, of oppressive inter ventions, under the honorary Presidency of the Pope, assisted by a twin tutelage of " eldest sons." (From the Times.) The Peace followed upon the heels of the armis tice quicker than even we could have anticipated. The great conjuror of the age fought three battles and had an hour's conversation with vanquished Austria; and lo ! at the end of this short conference Lombardy is at once ceded to France, and Italy becomes a Confederation under the honorary Pre sidency of the Pope. The changes are so swift that the eye is dazzled. We cannot seize the form im mediately presented to the brain before the image is gone, and another takes its place. A few days ago we were talking of a Congress to prevent the war. A week ago the world was speculating about the chances of Austria successfully resisting France. The battles had their turn. Then that tremendous Quadrilateral occupied all thoughts. But yester day down went all speculations and conjectures and interest in cam 3s and cannon, and two new European kingdoms stood in full existence, created in a couple of hours, stamped on the public mind by the vibration of a telegraph wire. " The Em peror of Austria cedes the kingdom of Lombardy to the Emperor of Fr rice." Austria, then, has been thoroughly beaten out of her old characteristic obstinacy. Peschiera and Verona, Mantua and Legnano, the line of the Adige, and the lagunes of Venice—all are abandoned, all are given up. Francis Joseph candidly and without reticence con fesses 'himself, as Mr. 'Cobden would say, " crum pled up." He at once and with his 300,000 men goes right out of Italy ( and Italy relieved from his weight swells up into an independent Confedera tion. How can we show our face to the world with such news as this upon our broad sheet ? Wh a t has the Times now to say in defence of its ungener ous suspicions ? How shall we make our apology to the much calumniated Emperor of the French ? How shall we meet the triumph and the scorn of the friends of liberty whom we were weak enough to warn ? Humble recantation is all that is left to us. Let us, then, join the Radicals of England, the Carbon ari of Italy, the exiles of Poland, and the great political apostle of Hungary, in singing the glories of Napoleon 111. ! Let us—although the last of his converts, and scarcely meet to be called a convert—let us swallow in shame all our ungene rous misgivings, and rejoice that now, and in very deed, Italy is free from the Alps to the Adriatic ! But, soft !In this rush of telegrams,—in this jostling of quick messages that come from all parts of the world and mingle the voices of all European capitals, there are some sounds that jar upon the general joy. What can be the meaning of this new announcement,—what can be the natur e of this bitter drop, Which causes the foam of enthusiasm to subside. which curdles our warm, mantling sympa thies ? Italy must be free, for the Emperor h as said it, and who b ut the unbelieving, ungenerous, untrusting Times hesitates to believe the Emperor ? Yet, this enthronement of the Pope, and this resto ration of the Grand Dukes, and this detention of Venetia and the Minci o b y Austria, version of the first messa ge from is an altered the Emperor to the Empress. Yes, Italy is free. But it is free, not in a demo3ratical, or constitutional, or popular sense, but in a Napoleonic sense, Freedom is a word of many meanings, and it often takes its colour from the reflex of the interests of the man who uses it. Freedom in Sparta did not mean that the helots were not to be put to death if they grew too numerous or too troublesome. Freedom i n Italy does not mean that the inhabitants are to have any voice in their own government. Italy is free, but it is free under Imperial conditions. Lom bardy, conquered by France and abandoned by Aus tria, has been tossed over to the King of Sardinia. Nobody can say that Lombardy is not free. She might have had notions of the renovations of the old Duchy as a Federal State, and Milan may have objections to be made an appanage of Turin, but she had better from this time forward keep these follies to herself. She is free, and she must be satisfied. So also is Venice free. She is free under Austria. What more can she want ? Surely she has not the folly to dream of the days of Dan dolo Austria will perhaps give ber one of Aus tria's own Archdukes ; and an arra shall enliven the Piazza San Marco whose bands ; and well dres sed officers, who: shall' add to the picturesque costumes that give life to the scene in that magni ficent square. Is Venice discontented Then she does not know what freedom is, as Napoleon knows and as our ultra-liberal friends in England know. But let her not speak foolish discontents too loudly. It is only a slice of Lombardy which has been handed over to Sardinia—" Lombardy to the line of the Mincio." Betwixt the " line" of the Mincio and Venetia there are two large rivers which run down to the Po, and the land watered by those rivers is thick with first-class fortresses. It is the old Austrian iron gate by which she entered Italy at her will ; it is the lair of Austrian despotism, to which she retired when there was danger in the plains. Hence she could speed her tens of thou sands to crush any nascent exposition of discon tent. Ye free Sardinian Lombards, who enjoy your freedom under the shadow of the western walls of these great fortresses, and ye liberated Venetians who, as you cultivate your Continental possessions, can look up to cannon that frown upr those eastern bastions, be not too loud in your free talk. This country also is free. It lies between the Alps and the Adriatic, and it must be free. With Venice it shares the honour of being free under Austria. But it is free as a pure Austrian possession —an outpost of the Tyrol, advancing like a wedge right into the body of Northern Italy ; it is crammed with troops and arms as it has ever been, and from it armies could be thrown out by railways and might reach Milan or Venice in a few hours. Austria still has, and by this Treaty, is to continue to • have, this terrible Quadrangle. In those cities, therefore, it were better to talk softly of the newly-acquired free dom, and to congratulate each other in whispers upon the glorious consummation of their patron Emperor's promise of driving the Austrians from Italy and making her free from the Alps to the Adriatic. Tuscany and Modena are also free. They are free by their own acts, for they expelled their two Sovereigns, and then sent off to the Emperor Napoleon half their youth as volunteers. The free citizens of Tuscany and Modena fought against their expelled Sovereigns at Solferino, and helped Louis Napoleon to drive them away. This was a mistake on both sides. The true freedom for which the Tuscans and Modenese were fighting consists in taking back their old rulers, and, if their Grand Dukes had known their true interests, they would have been in the camp of the French, and not in that of the Aus trian Emperor. Hippias is going back to Athens again—the freedom of Athens requires his restora tion. Archbishop Whately insists that half the guar - rels of the world arise from an inattention to its logic—people will not mind their definitions. This is the cause of the difference that separated us some time ago from the English Radicals and Italian sympathisers. If they had only defined what they meant by Italian liberty, and defined it in the sense in which it now appears, we should never have doubted the intentions of Louis Napoleon to give it them. Without being ext re me in our sympa thies for Italy, we must confess that if we had sent Lord Stratford or Lord Clarendon to a Congress to do what England could for Italy, and if Lord Strat ford or Lord Clarendon had come back, waving his hat, and shouting, " Italy is free !" and if it turned out that he had left Austria at Peschiera, at Mantua, and at Venice, and had forced back the Grand Dukes upon Tuscany and Modena, and that this was what he called Italian freedom, we should have been very much tempted to cry out lustily for the impeachment of Lord Stratford or Lord Clarendon as a traitor. If we had had any notion that this was what M. Kossuth and the gentlemen of Birmingham and other idolators of the Emperor Napoleon desired, we think we could have got it for them without strewing Italy with corpses and crowding the hospitals with miserable mangled soldiers. There is nothing in all this which might not have been wrung from Austria by force of diplo macy. It ought not to hurt her pride, and it greatly increases her strength. She is relieved of the trpuble of governing one turbulent and expen sive province, and she retains the power of devas tating it whenever she may please. She is now placed in Italy like a swordfish beside a whale. Austria is all weapon,—ltaly is all prey. Austria has only surrendered what she might at any mo ment take back, but what she is probably now too wise to desire. Sardinia has got what she must hold on sufferance, and what, if attacked, she could not defend. When the satraps of Austria are re established at Florence and at Modena, and when she stands armed to the teeth, dominant and irre sistiblo in the Italian Confederation, Austria will be greater in Italy than she ever yet has been. If England had dared to propo-,e this to her before the fight began, she could not have refused it; and now it seems that 100,000 lives would have been saved, and Italy would have been just as much " free from the Alps to the Adriatic." Such are the consequences of people not being in accord as to the sense of the words they use. But we must in justice to ourselves explain that the error has not been ours alone. The man of all men who should have understood the Emperor Napoleon, the man who of all men understands the cause of Italy, the man who of all men Italy hailed as her Statesman as she hailed ,his master as her Cham pion —Count Cavour—was, like ourselves, deceived, —the Free Italy that he imagined was very unlike that which the two Emperors have devised, and in disgust he has retired from the high position he has so long filled, unable to meet the reproaches of those whose hopes he had excited and whose indig nation he has so much cause to dread. (From the Morning Post.) Now that the war that we all shrank from is over, and the peace that we all longed for is con cluded, it cannot be amiss to ask the British public what it thinks of the position of England at this moment with respect to the Italian question ? What is the spectacle which we present to our con tinental neighbours? Where are the dignity, and the strength of utterance, and' the purity of; pur pose, and constraining influence, which we have been wont to exhibit whenever great European in terests have been in the balance ? England is lite rally nowhere. We, the leaders in the van of pro gress ; we, without whom no great European ques tion ought to be entertained, no great continental war undertaken, no great peace concluded ; we, who are entitled to be not only heard but heeded ; we, who have bragged and boasted—not without reason—of our proud pre-eminence; where are we now? What have we to do with the readjustment of the map of Euro. ? We, who have advocated freedom all over the world, who have so boldly de nounced tyranny everywhere, and especially the tyranny of one nation over another, who have talked large things about the rights of Italy, the sacredness of her cause, and the cruelty of her op pressions—what have we done to help her ? We, who took such childish fright at the thought of another Napoleon in Italy; who talked, wherever a knot of Englishmen could be got together, of per idious designs and masked cunning, and of fearful dangers to Europe ; who drew imaginary pictures of universal war, reproduced in anticipation the confusions and conflicts of the early part of the cen tury, and spoke of the Continent as on the eve of blazing from one end to the other —we, gallant creatures who did and uttered all these foolish things, what have we done to prevent them ? We, who predicted all these terrors, what is to become of us now that all are falsified ? Who can console the Saturday _Review? who resuscitate the faith of its admirers in journalism ? How Europe must stare at us ! The servants of David, with their beards shorn and their garments cut somewhat shorter than a Highlandman's kilt, presented a better figure than we do, and had not half so much reason to be ashamed. The Government of Lord Derby must be held primarily responsible for our present humiliation. True, the Press is answerable for much ; the un thinking public, who likes to be led by a newspaper, while strongly asserting nevertheless an entire supe riority to any influence exercised by it, is answer able for much ; but those who represented England on the Continent, who were charged with [the re sponsibility of upholding her place among the Great Powers, whose duty it was to read the signs of the times, to discern and to embrace the oppor tunities before them—these are the men on whom rests the lasting odium of our present position. These are the men who denounced the war that they might have prevented, and who, we presume, are prepared now inconsistently to rejoice in a peace which they contributed mainly to destroy. A reference to the published correspondence in re lation to France and Italy will show that there was a period when, if England had shown any real sympathy with Italian grievances, any proper trust in the Emperor of the French. and any firmness in her representations to the Court of Vienna, the whole affair would have been prevented, and the Italian question have been solved without the loss of a single life or the firing of a single shot. Had our Government acted up to the spirit of the French alliance, instead of strengthening the obstinacy of Austria and encouraging her hope that she had something more to expect from us than empty compliment ary sympathy, there wo u ld c ertainly have been a Congress on the affairs of Italy which that would whichhave theset the last peninsula reser t has h free,been edo rapidly and brilliantly of s andh F ave settled dd brilliantly det erm i ned by the swords Sardinia. But an i n excusable indifference France tcoe anlta lian • wrongs, and a distrust of the good faith of Napoleon, who, judged by his public acts and his behaviour towards this country, has every claim to confidence and cordiality ; these were the leading considerations that held back from asserting her rightful influence. D es erted by . England, France took up Italy single- handed. Unassisted she went forth to war and to victory. Being sole master of the situation the Em peror Napoleon chose his opportunity, and offered an armistice—improved the armistice into a peace. -We had no voice in commencing war, so we have none in concluding peace. The Emperor began without us, and he has ended without us. If he had not the help of our counsels at the beginning,so neither is he hampered by our opinions at the end. For this the policy of the late Government deserves the severest censure of the nation. The blood of Eng lishmen must boil at the pitifulness with which the whole question has been treated and at the discredit of the position which by such conduct we have been made to occupy. Napoleon re-enters Paris covered with glory. He has never lost a b'ttle— never shrunk from a crisis. He has refused acces sion of territory, he has fulfilled his mission in Italy, and he now returns. to his palace. The pro clamation of Milan takes effect to the very letter. Austria in her moments of reflection will hate Eng land with even greater bitterness for having given her a worthless sympathy, and to that extent strengthened the hands of the enemy. Happily the Cabinet that inflicted this lasting damage on Eng land's reputation, and shut her out from a noble place in Italy, has paid the penalty of its wicked blunder; and the honour of England as to its foreign relations is now in safer keeping. RAILIVAT S AND PUBLIC COMPANIES. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. The Right Hon. Stuart Wortley, Chairman of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, met a number of the principal citizens of Glasgow on Tuesday in the Religious Institution Rooms, for the purpose of making a statement in regard to the present posi tion of that company. The chc.ir was occupied by Mr. James Hannan. The CHAIRMAN said they all knew the object of the meeting, and he had therefore simply to intro duce Mr. Stuart Wortley, who would explain the position of this grand national attempt, if he might so call it, to span the Atlantic. The attempt which was so far successful clearly proved that the plan could be carried out. Mr. STUART WORTLEY stated that his principal object in asking them to meet him was that he might have an opportunity of affording them the fullest information of all that had been done, was doing, and was likely to be done, by those who had the direction of this company, He said,—You are aware that the present direction, more especi ally since it has been to some extent reconstructed, is not responsible for any errors which may have been committed at the outset of this company. I think it would have been wonderful if in the first attempt of so great an enterprise as this some errors had not been committed; but our object has been, since I had the honour of being connected with the direction, to take such a course as would prevent the recurrence of those errors, and protect the company and their resources from any waste consequent upon ill-judged and ill-advised proceed ings. During the last 12 months the directors have gained much additional experience, and a large number of inventions for improving every element of the enterprise have been, and are still being sub mitted. It is within the range of possibility cer tainly, if not of probability, that the old cable may, by the application of science, be resuscitated : but, at the same time, I do not think there is much chance of available assistance being got from it. The very laying of that cable in itself was a great success, and if we eventually should succeed in lay ing a cable efficient for its purpose, and lasting in its conditions, we shall owe much to the great exploit by which it was ascertained that it was possible to lay a cable across the Atlan tic which should convey from one shore to another the thoughts of men as quickly as the light ning that flashes through the heavens. It has been recommended to us that we should adopt the route by Belleisle to Blanc Soublanque, instead of by Valentia to St. John's. We have made full inquiry into the merits of this route, and I may read to you the following letter from Capt. Becher, the hydro grapher to the Admiralty, on this subject : " . 11ydr_ograpyie-office, Admiralty, June 25. " My dear Sir,- - -Yo - u ask me my Opinion as to the danger of an electric cable through the Strait of Belleisle. I have never been in that strait, but after knowing what that experienced officer, Admiral Bayfield, has said on the sub ject of its navigation, I think there cannot be two opinions among naval men, that it cannot be considered safe there from one day to another, owing to the irregular and rocky character of its bottom, the general current down from the northward through the strait bringing numerous icebergs, the tides on each shore keeping the ice drifting either way. All this would tend to place a cable in perpetual danger from the ice in motion ; and then, should it be fixed (which it may be occasionally), the part where it lands would incur the additional risk of being torn away, frozen in it, from the shore whenever the ice moves—a pleasant prospect for shareholders I think that would be, and nothing more likely to happen ! So that, what with ice in motion or fined; the current, and the tides both ways, the depth varying sud denly from 70 to 20 fathoms, on ice and rocks, the poor cable would have an unquiet and hard bed. Have nothing to do with it, I might enlarge on these several difficulties, but depend on this, there is no exaggeration in what I have stated, and that, if you adopt the Strait of Belleisle, you will regret some day not having followed the advice of yours truly, "A. B. BECHER." "Cyrus Field, Esq. I could multiply authorities, but theyare unanimous. That distinguished officer, Capt. Back, who made one of those wonderful Arctic expeditions, told me personally that the notion of going by Greenland or Iceland to Labrador was perfect madness. There is a third route mentioned—namely, that by the Azores, which I think is not at all a likely route, because the whole of the mid-Atlantic is altogether unsurveyed, and where a survey was made no bottom whatever was found. Besides, we know that the Azores and the Canary Isles are volcanic, and, therefore, there would be great dan ger in attempting to lay a line in their direction. I have been collaterally fortified by a simultaneous application from the British Association and other men of science, urging on Government the necessity of surveying, for the purposes of submarine tele graphy, the whole of the Atlantic. Mr. Wortley said that the following number of despatches had been transmitted by the Atlanric Telegraph : From Valentia to Newfoundland, 97 messages, con taining 1,102 words, containing 6,476 letters. From Newfoundland to Valentia, 269 messages, contain ing 2,840 words, containing 13,743 letters. Total 366 messages, 3,942 words, 20,219 letters. The telegraph was in operation only about three weeks during that time. Probably the most of them were aware that it conveyed not only the message of congratulation from the Queen to the President, and from the President to her Majesty, but also the ne bvs of the conclusion of the Chinese treaty. It also conveyed to the anxious friends of the passen gers in the Europa the news that her passengers were saved. It conveyed two messages from the Government of this country for the purpose of coun termanding the embarkation of two regiments from Canada for India, and which probably saved the country a sum of .£50,000 or £60,000. They felt the great difficulty of raising further capital, and found it was perfectly impossible to get any addi tional capital without the assistance of Government. In the instance of the Red Sea Telegraph the Go vernment granted an unconditional guarantee of 4-1 per cent., wholly irrespective of the chances of suc cess, for the purpose of promoting the great national object of electrical communication with our Indian empire. They thought, therefore, that Goverment would give them a guarantee of the same nature; but, from some cause or other which he was unable to de scribe, a change came over the minds of those in the Government, and they said that they might be called upon to deal with the resources of the country for the encouragement of commercial speculation if they extended that sort of guarantee. He then ex plained the arrangements that had been come to with the Government, the terms of which have already appeared in The Sun. The shares which were originally fixed at £l,OOO, had now been re duced to £5, in order to make the enterprise as popular as possible. They had appointed new officers. Mr. C. F. Varley, who in connection with the first company showed great talent, was consulting electrician, and Mr. Latimer Clark was engineer to the company. It had been an important object of his to enlist the feelings of some of the most distin guished men in the country in their favour, and he was happy to say that he had succeeded in getting a limited number of gentlemen, who, though very unwilling to be named officers of the company, had agreed to allow their names to be published in the shape of a consulting committee. In the first place thty had at the head Professor Thomson, who from the first had given his best assistance to this enter prise. The names of the members of the consulting committee were—Robert Stephenson, M.P., F.R.S., &c., Isambard K. Brunel, F.R.S., &c. ; Edwin Clark, C.E. ; G. P. Bidd er , C . E, ; J o hn Hawkshaw, C.E., F.R.S. ; J ames A . L ongr id ge, C . E . ; P ro f essor Wheatstone, F.R.S. ; William Allen Miller, M.D., F.R.S., and Dr. Tindall, who was under Professor Farady, as officer of the Royal Institution. They would therefore h ave a comm i ttee o f men o f th e most scientific ability. The first thing we intend to do (said Mr. Wortley) if we can raise £30.000, is immediately to attempt the raising of the old cable. First of all, we shall endeavour to raise the ends of the old cable, and shall al so en d eavour to di scover whereits defects are, and w h e th er i t i s poss ib le to res uscitate it, or whether we can raise so much of it at either end as will remune ra t e us an d cover t h e e xpense of raising that portion o f it at l east, an d probably leave something over to the company. I have applied to the Admiralty to have three ships lying at Newfoundland, near St. Joh n ' s , an d we have every reason to believe that we shall ge t th e as sistance of these vessels in raising the cable. The next thing will be to lay the new cable. W e s h a ll not commit the error of endeavouring again to lay the cable ourselves. He then alluded to the inten tion of the directors to insure the value of the cable by the ordinary mode of underwriting, so that even in the case of failure the capital of the share holders would not be lost in the bottom of the sea, but would be made good to them. The exclusive privileges which the company possessed would enable thm, in the event of competition, to carry their messages at a cheaper rate than any other company. He concluded by urging the gentlemen present to assist them by subscribing to the under taking. _ _ The — CI [AIRMAN read a letter from the Lord Provost, stating that he would subscribe £2OO, and from Sir A. Orr that he would subscribe a like amount. He (the chairman) trusted that, after the statement which Mr. Wortley bad made, many would become interested in this subject. He thought they were called upon to do something for its pro motion in Glasgow, not so much by subscribing large sums as by getting a large number of sub scribers. A Tote of thanks to Mr. Wortley concluded the proceedings. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. A special meeting of this company was held at Birmingham on Monday for the purpose of con sidering a bill now before Parliament authorising the transfer to the company of the tramway of the Birmingham Canal Company, a lease of the South Staffordshire undertaking to the London and Nort h Railway Company, and authorising the South Staffordshire Railway Company to raise ad ditional capital. Mr. Chawner, the chairman, pre sided. The CHAIRMAN stated that the meeting was called in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Lords, but in consequence of the bill not being sufficiently advanced in the House of Commons, it would be necessary to postpone the consideration of the bill till Monday, the 18th inst., when he fully expected it would be ready for their approval or otherwise. - The special meeting was then adjourned to Mon day next. An extraordinary meeting of the company was then held to consider the propriety of authorising the directors to borrow on mortgage an additional sum of £40,000 under the company's act of 1855. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN a formal reso lution to that effect was carried, and the meeting separated. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. A special meeting of this company was held yes terday, at Manchester, to consider certain bills now before Parliament prior to their introduction in the House of Lords—Mr. W. Stuart took the chair. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the bill for the amalgamation of this company and the East Lan cashire Railway Company was unanimously ap proved, without discussion. Mr. LEWIS, the law clerk, stated that the bill for a line through Ossett to Dewsbury had been re jected, and the other bills which were to be sub mitted had not yet passed through committee in the House of Commons. The meeting was therefore adjourned till the 23d inst. MR. TR OTMAN AND TILE ADMIRALTY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR,—In the debate on the naval estimates, last night, a long discussion arose on the subject of anchor contracts, more especially in reference to the non-adoption of my invention for the navy, after the official Anchor Committee of 1851 had reported so strongly in its favour. Sir John Pak ington's statements in reply to the charges were so calculated- to mislead the House as to the true state of the case that I ventuee to ask for a small space in your columns to inform hon. members and the public of what has really taken place. We hear of committees appointed to inquire into the Dover and Galway mail contracts. I am sure there is no subject for inquiry which would result in such important benefits to the public service as an investigation into the conditions of all existing contracts, either for the supply of stores to the navy or materials to our dockyards. Unfortunately I represent a numerous class who are all suffering more or less grievously from the dilatoriness and obstructions which are thrown in the way of modern improvements by successive Boards of Admiralty. When to the evils of routine are added the delays consequent upon the peculiar construction of our naval administration, which in practice requires every subject to be begun de novo before each Board of Admiralty, no matter how often they may change or how universally recognised is the improvement sought to be introduced, it will be admitted that no harder lot can be reserved for any man than that of endeavouring by his skill and enterprise to improve any branch of the naval ser vice. My case is now briefly as follows:—In 1852, the then Board of Admiralty nominated Admirals Sir Montague Stopford, G.C.8., George R. Mundy, and C. Hope, the Master-Attendants of her Ma jesty's dockyards at Sheerness and Portsmouth; Mr. J. Aylen and Mr. J. Tonkin, also Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. Duncan Dunbar, chairman of the General Shipowners' Society; Mr. Anthony Ridley-, deputy chairman of the Mercantile Marine Board ; and the following membe rs o f Ll oy d' s Com mittee,—Messrs. William Drew, William Philips, and George Marshall, to act as a committee, or arbi trators " to determine the : relative m er it s o f diff erent descriptions of anchors." Acting upon the belief usually i mp li e d i n cases where Government invite competiti on a t the ex pense of the competitors, that th e b es t i nven ti on would be adopted, I, with seven other gentlemen, agreed to submit to every test, even to the destruc tion of our anchors, and the trials accordingly be gan.- The committee made their report in 1853, and their decision was unanimous that " Trotman's anchor was the best of all. This may be seen from the following extract from the official report : •‘ Art. 29. The committee here be g t o recap i tu l ate the order in which they consider the anchors to stand, together with their relative per tentage of inferiority or superiority to the Admiralty anchor, the value of which (18-17) being taken as the standard or unit. Trotman.. 1.28 or 28 per cent. superior to Admiralty anchor. Rodgers —1.26 or 26 „ Mitcheson.l•'2o or 20 ~ Lenox ... .113 or 13 ~ Porters ...1.09 or 9 Aylen 1.09 or 9 ~ Admiralty 1• the standard." The cost of those trials in preliminary and actual expenses entailed an outlay upon me exceeding £4OO, and I naturally looked forward to bein g indirectly- re imbursed by the ad iption of my anchor in the Royal Navy. From that day to the present, however, I have sought from successive naval administrations the adoption of my improved anchor, but all in vain. A consideration for her Majesty's safety has, of course, been paramount over all the delays of exe cutive or subordinate officials, and my anchor has therefore been ordered by the Lords Commissioners for the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. By this act the Admiralty have endorsed in the strongest possible manner their adherence to their committee's report of its superior efficiency, since, when afloat, the security of that noble vessel is necessarily de pendent upon the anchor in question being equal to every emergency. With singular inconsistency, however, they hesitate to permit its use in the fleet, though considerably less costly than the anchor which their own committee has condemned. Upon these filets I entered into a correspondence with the late Board of Admiralty, and pointed out the extraordinary success of my competition, and the injustice with which I was treated in my claims being ignored and the acknowledged merits of . my invention neglected. Copies of that corre spondence have been moved for by Mr. Bentinck, and when laid before the house will show in the strongest light the manifest unfairness with which I have been met. On the 17th of March I received a letter from the Admiralty, saying " they had no objection to make further trials of my anchors, and therefore, if I pleased, I might supply one to her Majesty's ship Doris and one to her Majesty's ship Leopard." Thus after having submitted to every test which the ingenuity of the Admiralty Committee could devise, and proved the valuable nature of my im proved anchors, I am now, after the lapse of seven years, coldly told " that my Lords will permit fur ther trials to be made on their merits." The proffered tests, too, will necessarily be made behind my back, and at the end of five years or so I may told by another Board of Admiralty that fur ther trials are desirable still, and so on till my life or patience is exhausted. It is for this evasion of my just claims that Sir J. Pakington takes credit to himself when he stated to the house last night " that one of his last acts before leaving office was to offer another trial to Mr. Trotman." If, however, their lordships were indeed serious, and desired only additional proof of superiority, there was the result of the Hon. Capt. Denman's experience of more than four years with my anchor on board the Royal yacht; also the Testimonies of commanding officers of the Cunard line, the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and the world-wide experience of the mercantile marine, throughout which Trotinan's anchor is almost universally used. Last year Sir J. 1 akm e ,ton stated to the house that he believed the fact was, that Trotman's anchors had not been brought into general use on account of the great number of anchors of the old construction which were still in her Majesty's dockyards." This year his refusal is couched in a new form, and he told the h ouse " h e k new nothing of the quality of these anchors from his own personal knowledge, but on consulting prac tical naval officers, the reply he received was that they did not in their experience find them to answer. He was told that Trotman's anchor, when once it could be got to hold, was a good one, but that officers could not rely on its holding." Now, Sir, I solemnly declare there is not, and never has been, a single anchor of my construction used in the navy, save the one on which the Royal yacht still depends for her safety. What ground, then, has Sir John for making so grave and so in jurious a misstatement ? That no doubt may exist in the mind of any one as to the motives which led me to decline their Lordship's offer of the 17th of March, I am will ing to submit a Trotman's anchor of 50 cwt., cost ing £9O, to be tested at my own risk and cost, against any anchor now in her Majesty's dockyard of one cwt. or more, the contract value of which exceeds £365. It shall sustain a higher proof, pos sess greater holding power, and perform in a more efficient manner every duty required in the larger anchor, such as bringing a ship to, holding on at long or short scope cable—in fact, that it may be subjected to the most severe test professional ingenuity can devise, in order to ascertain the relative quali ties and values of the Admiralty anchor and Trot man's, the latter being half the weight and one fourth the cost of the former. The price of 17 Admiralty anchors, increasing from one ton, by five cwt. each, to five tons, is no less than £3,434 17s. 6d. The market value of the same anchors made by the first makers of the day is £1,428, or two-thirds less than the price paid by the Admiralty, under the terms of an old contract, dated 1841. This excessive overcharge may, in a measure, be accounted for by the fact that anchor contracts have not been subjected to the test of public competition for a least a quarter of a cen tury, or since the introduction of Nasmyth's steam hammer, by which invention the cost of anchor manufacture and of large forgings is reduced one half, at least. _ I am, Sir, &c. 42, Cornhill, London, July 12. JOHN TROTMAN. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.-July 13. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YORK, JULY 12. Mr. Baron Watson and Mr. Justice Hill, the learned judges commissioned to go this circuit, ar rived in this city yesterday afternoon, and imme diately opened the commission and attended Divine service at the Cathedral. This morning, after breakfasting with the Lord Mayor and disposing of the city prisoners, their Lordships proceeded to the Castle at 12 o'clock. Mr. Justice Hill charging the grand jury in the Criminal Court and Mr. Baron Watson taking his seat in the Nisi Prius Court. The calendar is very heavy in point of numbers, "there being no less than 83 prisoners in gaol and 25 out on bail. Of these, however, 17 are charged with a riot. Of those remaining one is charged with murder, and one with attempt to murder, and the rest with the usual variety of criminal offences. The cause list is not yet published, but it is un derstood to be very light. Mr. Baron Watson, after disposing of an eject ment case, sat for the trial of prisoners. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Hill.) Henry Yokes, 34, was indicted for forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange, and for uttering the same knowing it to be forged. Mr. W. S. Cross prosecuted ; Mr. Digby Sey mour defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Haldenby, lath merchant, Hull, whose name was alleged to be forger], that the prisoner applied to him in Septem ber, 1857, to lend his acceptance to a three months' bill. Haldenby, accordingly, for the accommoda tion of the prisoner, accepted such a bill for £2O, payable to the prisoner's order, and delivered the bill to the prisoner. 'When this bill became due the prisoner came to Haldenby and said he had paid it and made it all right, and asked him if he would be bound again. This Haldenby declined. In March last Haldenby heard that there was a bill out in his name about to arrive at maturity. It was a bill drawn by the prisoner on Haldenby for £l4, and purporting to be accepted by Hal denby. The prisoner came to Haldenby, and they went together to the house of Messrs. Peck and Co , who had discounted the bill. Fewgill, the cashier, was there, and Haldenby told Fewgill that the name on the bill for £l4 then arriving at matu rity was not his signature. Fewgill said it was a very serious 3 ffair. The prisoner agreed to pay £4 at once, and in a day or two £lO, which would then become due to him from the railway company. Fewgill, the cashier, said that the prisoner came to ask for time. Haldenby was with him. Haldenby said that the name on the bill was not his signature. Fewgill turned to the prisoner with some surprise and asked how this was. He answered that he was sorry ; he didn't know that he had done wrong, as the original bill was signed by Haldenby, and he thought he had a right ro sign any renewal. Mr. Seymour then addressed the jury for the pri soner, and contended that the prisoner had signed the bill believing he was authorised by Haldenby. The learned Judge summed up, and The jury, after retiring some little time, found the prisoner guilty, but with a recommendation to mercy, on account of his previous good character and his youth. Sentence was deferred. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-July 13. (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) George Picton, alias Samuel Shepherd, was in• dieted for keeping a brothel, 41, Charlotte-street, Portland-place, and John Bennett, the like, 40, Charlotte -street, Portland-place. These were prose cutions instituted by the parish of Marylebone. The defendants pleaded guilty, and entered into recognisances to appear for judgment next session. fir. Metcalfe appeared for the parish, Mr. Rib ton for the defendants. Samuel Bromley, 21, was indicted for stealing a gold watch and chain, value £25, the property of Tebbatt Cannington, from the person of Lucretia Cannington, and a gold watch, chain, and seals, value £7O, the property of Mary Clifton, from her person,. Mr. Dickie prosecuted. Prisoner was defended by Ribton- A widow named Clifton, who resides at 135, George-road, Bermondsey, was walking in White ' chapel, near George-yard, at midday, when a man rushed at her and snatched from her a gold watch, chain, and seals, which she was wearing. He then • darted down a court, and she after him, calling out she would give £5 to any one who would stop him, but he quickly disappeared, like a rabbit in a warren. She would not swear that the prisoner was the man, but that point was cleared up by the evidence of a cabman, who knew the prisoner, and saw him commit the robbery, another man being with him, who tried to prevent the prosecutrix fol lowing. The other case was much similar. The prosecutrix was a lady residing at Nottingham,and on the 14th of June she was near this same George yard, when the prisoner rushed at her and tore away her watch from her neck; and darted off down a maze of courts and alleys, and got away with his plunder. Mrs. Cannington was certain as to the prisoner's identity, but in addition the potman at a publichouse near the spot deposed to seeing him commit the theft, in complicity with three other young men, and a woman, who likewise was a wit ness of the transaction, had been threatened with personal violence for giving her evidence before the magistrate by some of the gang which the pri soner belonged to. The prisoner was apprehended front a desciiption given of him to the police and he was committed on both charges. The jury found him guilty. Several former con victions were proved against him; his last sentence was 18 months. The Assistant -Judge after remarking upon the daring and atrocious manner in which these robbe ries were committed in open day, said it was the duty of the Court to make a severe example, for the protection of the public, and sentenced the the prisoner to be kept in penal servitude during the term of 10 years. George Flowers, 17, was brought up for j u d gment on Tuesay. He was convicted atthe former sittings of stealing some bacon and cheese, the property of his master, a cheesemonger and butterman, at Not ting-hill. The case against him was that he had taken goods from his master's shop, and entered them in the books as having been ordered by and subsequently delivered to custo.ners, who, when the bills were sent in, complained seriously to the shop keeper of being charged for things they had never received. The prisoner persisted that they were delivered, but subsequently offered to make up the amount, and then threatened to bring an action. three respectable ladies deposed that they had neither ordered nor had the articles in question. Prisoner had b.7:;-.n most respectably brought up. The Assistant-Judge, after expressing a hope that he would do all he could to regain his character, sentenced him to two months' imprisonment, one week to be solitary. [AtivEtcri,;EmENT.]—Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— Precaution—To cure disease is a laudable duty ; but how much more noble is his object who can fortify the body against the coming pestilence : In Holloway's medicines the purifying principle is sufficiently potent to expel from the 'blood and system the first subtle seeds of disordered action; and by their expulsion the calamity is averted, and health is made unassailable. Against diptheria, fever, influenza, cholera, &c., Holloway's preparations ha ve dis played their prophylactic powers and elicited the gratitude of thousands, whom they . have saved from torturing disease. Almost all infectious complaints enter the lungs with the air during inspiration, and corrupt the blood, whence they are altogether dislodged with equal facility and certainty by these incomparable remedies, POLICE INTELLIGENCE-July 13. CLERKENWELL.—DISGRACEFUL CRUELTY TO TWO CHILDREN.—CharIes Scott, a respectably attired man, described as a commission agent, re siding at 34, Euston-road, was placed at the bar before Mr. Corrie on a warrant, charged with ill using and deserting his two children, Wm. Scott, aged 9, and Ellen Scott, aged 7, whereby they had become chargeable to the parish of St. Pancras. Mr. John Wakeling, solicitor, appeared for the defendant. The case excited a great deal of interest, and the court was crowded with respectable persons anxious to hear the charge. The case was first brought under the attention of the parish authorities by Police constable Keble, 121 S, who was called by the neighbours, who were alarmed at finding some one on the top of the houses. On ascending to the roof the constable found the two children, and ascer tained by following them that they resided about 14 houses off. The children then stated that they had no mother, that their father was a wine-mer chant, that he left them in the house by themselves, and that they wanted to get out. The parish autho rities, finding they could not get admission, applied to this court for assistance, and Mr. Corrie advised the police to enter by some means and admit the officers. Consequently Sergeant Hill; 39 S, and con stable Keble, 121 S, got into the house, and having admitted Mr. Warren, found the children in a most deplorable state, and having brought them to the court their appearance excited tne greatest com miseration. The officers stated that the house a ten-roomed one, had not a single particle of furni ture in it, that the children slept upon a mat in a cupboard, that they had hardly any clothes on, and what they had on was in a filthy state, and they added that there was not a bit of food of any kind to be found. Mr. Corrie directed the children to be taken to the workhouse, when the following certificates were given by the medical officers : St. Pancras Workhouse, July 9. " I hereby certify that I have examined Charles William Scott and Helen Scott, and find them in a most filthy and impoverished condition, arising from want of attention and necessary food. " HORATIO G. SKINNER, Assistant-Surgeon." " The children are also suffering from itch. " W. S. COSTER, Surgeon." A warrant was granted, and the prisoner was ap prehended at a cigar shop in Cardington-street. The defendant had been cohabiting with a female at 9, Cirencester-place, Marylebone. Mr. Wakeling cross-examined the witnesses, and ascertained that the children did not complain of want of food, and that prisou'er's father had con sented to take the children, and indemnify the parish for their outlay. The defendant's father was called, and stated that had he known his son was in bad circumstances he would have relieved him further than he had done. He would take the children under his control until his son was able to see to them himself. Mr. Wakeling, in a feeling speech, said the pri soner had had a great many difficulties, and his wife had left him, deserted the children, and gone to Australia. The defendant had done all he could to support the children, and when the officers entered the children stated that they had seen their father that morning, and were not hungry. Mr. Corrie said that both for the sake of justice and the children, he should allow the defendant's father to take the children, the father indemnifying the parish. He should not discharge the prisoner now, but would take the father's recognisances in £2O, and the prisoner's in a like amount, to appear when called upon. The prisoner then left the court. WESTMINSTER.—THE EMPEROR OF FIRE V. THE ITALIAN SALAMANDER.— CHARGE OF AT TEMPTED POISONING.—Just before the rising of the Court, Christofero Buono Core, a fine, handsome man, known to frequenters of Cremorne Gardens as the Italian Salamander, or Fire King, was charged with attempting to poison Francisco Hillifroni, who described himself as the Emperor of Fire. The case was conducted by an interpreter, who, owing to also wanting to be witness and advocate, at length left the court boiling with rage, declaring there was no justice in England. The evidence elicited went to show that the complainant and prisoner had worked together, and that their part nership being dissolved on Tuesday last, it was arranged prosecutor should go to Gravesend to seek for an engagement, and aceompany prisoner to his house to get the passage money. He went with prisoner and received the money, and afterwards 2s. for the purchase of strawberries and rum. Pro secutor bought them, and they then dined together —after which prisoner mixed strawberries, sugar, and rum together. They partook of that, and prisoner then decided they should have some cher ries, and sent prosecutor out for them. Previous to this prisoner had put a single strawberry into each glass, and when prosecutor returned with the cherries his strawberry was, according to his ac count, of a different colour. Prosecutor had his suspicions all was not right, but tasted the mixture and then felt ill and refused to drink any more on prisoner pressing him to do so. Mr. Arnold having expressed himself at a loss as to the proof of poison having been administered, and Mr. Inspector Drake having said he could not understrnd the matter at all, Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of Cremorne, said that the bottle out of which the supposed poison was said to have been poured had been delivered to him by the police just as they had received it ; its contents had not been analysed, but a friend on his right had had the temerity to taste a portion of them, and felt none the worse for it. He (Mr. Simpson) thought there was a conspiracy on foot against Buono Core owing to jealousy, and had been informed prosecutor had expressed his intention of stabbing Core with a poignard. Mr. Arnoid said he would remand the case until Friday, when some disinterested interpreter must be obtained. He would take one surety in £5O for prisoner's appearance. Mr. Adams, secretary to Mr. Simpson, imme diately expressed his willingness to be bail. GREEN WIC H.—BRUTAL CASE OF CHILD BEATING.—WiIIiam Thomas Clark, carrying on business as a stationer, at . Sydenham, appeared to a summons charging him with cruelly beating George Berry, a lad eleven years of age. The complainant, an intelligent-looking c hild , said the defendant was his uncle, and had, for the past two years, taken charge of him and his sister, in consequence of the death of their father. On the evening of Thursday last, about half-past nine, in consequence of being lon g on an errand, the de fendant took him into the back yard and beat him over the body with part of a whip. The neighbours interfered, and the defendant afterwards discon tinued beating him. In reply to the magistrate, the complainant said he had neither jacket nor waistcoat on at the time of being beaten. Inspector Willson said the complainant was brought to him at the Sydenham Police-station by Mr. Seddon, watchmaker, of Sydenham, and ano ther person, who told him the child had been brutally beaten by the defendant. Witness then examined the complainant's back, and found at least thirty bruises, each as thick as his thumb, and of different colours, extending from the shoulder to below the loins. Mr. Nokes (the clerk)—How were the injuries inflicted? • Inspector Willson—They could only have been inflicted with the butt end of a whip. Mr. Secker.—Do you say the child's back and loins were covered with bruises ? Inspector Willson.—Yes, your worship. They were so thick that I could not pass my finger between any two of them. James Stewart, assistant to Mr. Ashby, poulterer said his master lived next door to the defendant. On the evening in question witness and his master heard the toy's cries, and on looking over the garden he saw the defendant beating the complainant with a whip, at the same time hold ing the lad's shirt up, and his trowsers being down. Mr. Ashby told defendant to desst, or he would be the death of his (Mr. Ashby's) wife, who was greatly excited by the child cryi ng. Th e de fendant continued his beating, and struck the com plainant about 60 blows with the w hi p. T he com plainant was brought into witness's master's shop on Saturday morning, and witness then saw his back was of a colour as dark as his coat (a black cloth). Mr. Carttar, who appeared for defendant, ques tioned the complainant with a view of showing he was of dilatory habits and guilty of peculation, and called the s i s t er to prove that defen d an t' s con duct was uniformly good towards her and her bro ther. Mr. Seeker said there could be no doubt the de fendant had giv en way t o u ngovernable anger, which required not only an expression of opinion from him, but th e i n fli c tion of a fine by way of punishment. It had been proved by one witness that the complainant's back was so covered with bruises that there was not room between the wales raised to pass his finger, and another witness had also spok en t o th e back of the child, two days after the injuries, being as black as his coat. This pas beyond all pretence of being a reasonable chastise ment, and in order that he should have a great er . command over his temper future, the defendant would pay a fine of £3 or six weeks' imprisonme n t. The fine was Pall • THE EFFECTS OF THE HOT WEATHER. Several serious occurrences took place yesterday from the heat of the weather. Two men, named George Gardiner and Henry Holden, were engaged in a field at Battersea, when they were struck down by the heat, and are now in a very dangerous condition. A gentleman riding on the roof of a Paddington omnibus, in passing down Oxford-street, was sud denly attacked with vertigo, and was with difficulty saved from falling off. After having been seen by a surgeon, he was conveyed to his residence in a cab. Two ladies, whilst occupying chairs in Hyde park, were suddenly taken so seriously ill that they had to be attended by a medical gentleman, who recommended their immediate removal to their homes. Several cases were conveyed to St. George's and Charing-cross Hospitals. At Lee a man named Joseph Smith, who was at work in a field in Burnt Ash-lane, fell down, and died suddenly on Tuesday afternoon. The heat has affected the business of the butchers and meat salesmen of the metropolis very seri ously, a very numerous body of the trade in dif ferent parts absolutely closing their shops, while the vendors of other perishable commodities have been great losers. The state of the weather has very much increased the noxious effluvia arising from the Thames, and somewhat injured the steam boat traffic, although large numbers have availed themselves of this means of transit to Greenwich and Battersea Parks. On Monday the thermome ter stood at 88 deg. in the shade, and had increased to 90 deg. on the succeeding day, and was by no means diminished but rather increased yesterday, the mercury at noon giving an average tempera ture in the metropolis of 90.5 deg. The Shrewsbury Journal says that on Thursday morning David Owen, a lad about 12 years old, whose parents live in St. Austin's-friars, died from sun-stroke after a few hours' illness. The father of the lad is employed as cowman by Mr. Haycock, of the Priory, and the deceased was in the hay-field with him for some hours on Wednesday. He, how ever, appeared to be pretty well when he came home, but about two o'clock on Thursday morning he became seriously ill, and died about 11. The Newcastle Chronicle of yesterday states-- " The weather has been extremely hot on the coast during the past two days. Had not a fresh breeze blown it would been almost unbearable. On Mon day, during the heat of the day, a boy belonging to North Shields, and a woman at Tynemouth, re ceived what appeared to be sun- s t ro k e. Th e b oy had to be taken home in a ca'), and was very ill. COUNTRY MARKETS. MELTON MOWBRAY—JULY 12. There was a moderate supply of wheat, and from 2s to 3s per qr reduction, white samples realising 48s to 50s; red, 46s per 36 stone. There was nothing doing in barley. Oats were a small show, and last week's quotations were main tained, namely, 32s to 35s per 24 stone. Beans scarce, and at extreme rates-50s to 55s per 38 stone. MARKET HARBOROUGH—JULY 12. At this corn-market wheat was in small supply, and prices ranged from 43s to 44s per 36 stone. There was not much passing in spring corn, oats being quoted at 28e to 32s per 24 stone; beans, 48s to 53s per qr.; barley, 30s to 34s per qr. NEWARK—JULY 13. fi` There was a small supply of wheat to-clay, with a mode rate show of other grain. Farmers were reluctant sellers at 2s less money. Prices—Wheat, 46s to 54s per 36 stone; grinding barley 30s per 30 stone ; the oat trade was slow, at quotations ranging from 30s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans were 48s to 54s per qr. HULL—JULY 12. The weather continues extremely hot and forcing, and the growing crops are making rapid progress towards ma turity. The wheat trade has been much depressed. At to day's market we had a small supply of English wheat. Farmers would not submit to the decline noted in Mark lane, and but little business was done at a decline of 2s to 3s per qr. Spring corn unaltered, but the demand was limited. Wheat.... Old white....per qr 46s Od to 48s Od Old red 7) New white .. „ NIMV red .... , Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 50s Od to 54s Od Dutch, Belgian, and French 4ss Od to 46s Od Baltic and Hamburg, red— 44s Od to 45s Od St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 38s Od to 39s Od Barley.... English malting 338 Od to 37s Od Grinding 3os Od to 31s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danisk 3ls Od to 32s Od Grinding 26s Od to 28s Od Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os lld to llfd Friesland and D u t c h osllld to la Od Swedish and Danish Oslld to Oslltd Beans ....English, old, per qr 44s Od to 45s Od New pigeon 4OB Od to 42s Od New tick. 398 Od to 40s Od Egyptian Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Winter Bss Od to 90s Od. Indian Corn Linseed, feeding sos Od to 55s Oct crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £8 10 oto £8 12 0 Foreign Bl5 oto 8 5 0 Rape cakes 5 7 6to 0 0 0 Bones 5 0 oto 5 7 6 DUBLIN--IDLY 12. There was a very dull trade at our corn market to-day. Wheat met a slow sale at a decline in the prices of from is to is 6d. The transactions in Indian corn were trifling. Barley is lower. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 26 oto 27 0 Do., new ..... 11 6to 13 0 Do., red 24 oto 25 6 Bere Do., new .... 23 oto 26 0 Rapeseed Barley Oats Do., black l4 oto 15 0 Indian corn .. 29 oto 31 0 BRISTOL SUGAR--juvir 13. There has been a steady demand for West India sugar this week, and a fair business has been done in refining and grocery descriptions, and the market closes firmly at is per cwt. advance on the prices of this day week. Of foreign, theer cargoes have been sold, consisting of 590 cases of white Bahia, and two cargoes of Havannah of 3,785 boxes. Rum is still neglected. COAL MARE (Prices of Coal per Ton at .ET—JuLY 13, the close ef the market.) Walls End. s. d. Grey's West Hartley l5 Holywell 16 6 Tanfield Moor 13 6 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Wylam l6 0 Walker Primrose 13 3 Haswell Gas. l3 6 Hastings Hartley l5 9 s. d. Hetton. . . l7 6 Braddyll's Hetton 16 0 Keiper Grange 16 6 South Hetton 17 3 Hartlepool. l7 0 Hetton Lyons Main 15 6 Eden Main .15 6 South Kelloe l6 6 Nixon's Duffryn 21 6 Powell'aDufErynStsam2l 0 A, 57—Sold, 29. Walls End. Gosforth 15 6 Ships at mark, [ADVERTISEMENT.].—We have read with much pleasure Du Barry's Report on the cure of Indigestion (Dyspepsia), Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints, Cough, Asthma, Consumption, and Debility, without medicine, by Du Barry's Food. The following are a few extracts which appear to merit the attention of many :—Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham-cross, Herts : a cure of ex treme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. Cure No. 48,314.—Mi5s Elizabeth Yeo man, Gateacre near Liverpool : a cure of ten . years' dyspep s i a i and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 54,812.—Mi5s Virginia Zeguers, cured of consumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of re covery. Cure No. 51,514.—8ar0n de Polentz, Prefect of Langenau, of many years horrible sufferings of the nerves, and of an obstin a t e li ver complaint, for which the German spas had been tried in vain for years. Cure No. 48,721.—General Baron de Zaluskowski, of ma ny years fearful disorders of the digestive functions. In tins, at ls. 6d. ; 11b., 3s. ; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b., 12s. ; 121 b., 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post office order. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London. Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; 85, Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin, Bewley and Draper ; at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co. ; at Liverpo o l, Ni xon an d Th ew ; at Manchester, Sharp and Scott ; at York, Raimes, Blanchard, and Ca. ; at South ampton, Randall and Son. BIRTHS. CuußcuiLL.:--On the 13th inst., Lady Alfred S. Churchill, Of a daughter. FRANCTS.—On the 11th inst., at 46, Torrington-square, the wife of Philip Francis, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. GORDON.—On the 12th inst., at Wincombe-park, Wilts, the wife of Chas. William Gordon, Esq., of a son. lIoRNER,—On the 13th inst., at Walthamstow, Mrs. W. Sims Horner, of a son. MARRIAGES. CARMICHAEL — WATSON.—On the 7th inst., at Cockfield, Suffolk, Lieut.-Colonel Carmichael, C. 8., 32d Light Esq., Ben Infantry, t gal ß C.o arre Georgina, wid ow o f W . C. Watson, S. HICKLEY—RUNDLE.—On the 12th inst., at the parish church, Alverstoke, Hants, Henry Dennis Hickley, Esq. R.N., Commander H.M.S. Gladiator, to Mary Jane, only daughter of the late George Rundle, Esq., Stoke Derriere', Devon. DEATHS. BARRET.—On the 9th inst., at the Master Boot and Shoe makers' Asylum, Mortlake, Surrey, William Barret, aced 93. BENTLEY.—On the 11th inst., at Bayswater, Eleanor, the wife of Matthew Bentley, Esq., of the Admiralty, Somer• set-house, aged 66. 3luucn.—On the 12th inst., at Bath, the Rev. Wm. H. Murch, D.D., formerly President of Stepney College, aged 76. MANFRED.—On the 10th inst., at 20, Melville-terrace, Kentish-town, Edward Manfred, aged 40. PIIILIPPS.—On the 12th inst., at Hathern Rectory, near Loughborough, the Rev. E. T. M. Philipps, rector of Hathern, aged 76. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Su+3 Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, :n the county of Middlesex, Thursday, July 14, 1869.