The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

THE CUTLERS' FEAST. This annual celebration was held at Sheffield on Thursday evening, under the presidency of Robert Jackson, Esq., who has been re-elected Master Cutler. Among the g uests present were Lord Milton, the Hon. H. Fitzwilliam, the Right Hon. James Wilson, Sir LW. Ramsden, M.P., T. Bazley, Esq.; M.P., Mr. Hadfield, M.P., &c. Mr. Roebuck was not present. After the loyal toasts, the Master Cutler proposed " The Army and Navy," enforcing the necessity of making ourselves secure in our national defences. The healths of the noblemen residing, in the neighbourhood were drunk, after which — Mr. Alderman MATTHEWS said it had fallen to his lot to propose " The Health of a worthy and esteemed guest, the Right Hon. James Wilson." (Cheers.) The Right Hon. J. WILSON was received with loud cheering. He said,—l am sure every gentle man will well understand what must be my feel ings, almost a stranger in your town, after yon have received me in so kind and indulgent a man ner, to have to acknowledge it. I rise as well as I am able. I assure you the observations of the gen tleman who proposed it, and the manner in which you have received it, have made on me the deepest impression, I say, without exaggeration, that I ever experienced in my life—(loyd cheers)- 7 -the deepest impression, not only from the kindness of your re ception, but from the grave and momentous sub jects to which reference has been made. lam sure those gentlemen I now address will well under stand the hesitation which I must have felt in un dertaking those responsible duties to which I am appointed in our Indian empire at such a time and under such circumstances. I can assure you that nothing but the deepest sense of duty could have induced me to relinquish the position which by the kindness of my countrymen I have enjoyed at home, and undertake duties the most grave at a period so extraordinary, attended by so much uncertainty of success:. But when I saw the great efforts that had been made by our countrymen—effortssuch as were made by the officers and men of the 84th Regiment already adverted to—the difficulties under which Englishmen of every station were placed in India, when it devolved upon them to make the utmost efforts to save to this empire the brightest gem in the British crown—it would have been selfish in me, if those who were responsible for the government of India thought I could be of use in that part of the world, had I declined to place my humble services at their disposal. (Cheers.) Ido not wish to dwell on matters personal to my self. They are unworthy of this occasion. If a man enters public life he must makeup his mind to serve his country in any capacity, in the best way he can. It is not for us to choose, but for the public service to direct, and whatever capacity a man can best serve his country there he can best honour himself. (Cheers.) From the moment I made up . my mind to accept that responsible duty - I determined to make myself personally acquainted w ith the trading and commercial connexions of this country , with India. Gentlemen, finance is not mere arithmetic. Finance is a great policy. It lies at the bottom—at the root of government in every country. Without sound finance no good government is possible. Without sound policy no sound finance is possible. Therefore, the first con clusion I arrived at was that I would devOte every day I had in England to personally knowing and understanding the commercial relationships of England and India. (Cheers.) I have long held the opinion, which cannot be strange to this com -: pany or to Englishmen at large, that in the com mercial and fiscal policy of a nation are involved the Jiappiness, prosperity, and welfare, not only of the working classes, but of all classes. I have ever been unable to distinguish between the in terests of the one and of the other. I have been unable to see how in any capacity labour and capital could be separated—how in any way the workman and his employer, or those who are in debted to the employer for thAprofitable occupa tion of their capital, can have the slightest diver sity of interest. On the prosperity of each one, rely upon it, depends that of all. On this broad ground I have for many years advocated those principles of free trade which fortunately have at last come to be the acknowledged policy of this country, not only, I may say, by the universal assent of all parties, but even of those most strongly opposed to it a few years ago. Now, gentlemen, I know no principle that is good in England which is not good also all over the world. (Cheers.) There may, indeed, be very striking dis tinctions of race and nationality. There may be a variety of reasons why the same principle should be carried into operation in different ways, but a sound principle here is a sound one everywhere. I believe the principles by which the prosperity of the people of England has been advanced are the principles on which the welfare of any people in any part of the world may be promoted. It has been with that view that I have sought to under stand the commercial relations of the people of India with this country. And lam proud to say one of the first opportunities offered to me has been in a visit to this town. You have a member who adds this to his numerous good qualities, that he never forgets the interests of Sheffield. Hardly was it known ix the house that I had accepted an appoint ment to go out to India when your hon. member applied to me to pay a visit to the manufacturers of Sheffield. (Cheers.) I am deeply indebted to the Master Cutler for the invitation to be present on this occasion, because on no occasion could I have had a better opportunity to visit your town. ,I have already heard to-night, in the toasts pro posed, the happy relations that subsist between you and great numbers of the aristocracy in this neighbourhood, and in every one of those names I have been happy to recognise houses which have, for the honour and industry of England, done all in their power to promote the free trade policy. They have known what a grace it lends to the pri vileges of their order to encourage the substantial interests of labour and industry. And some of , them have been the foremost in promoting those measures which have given so great a development to our commerce and industry. Perhaps you will permit me to refer, in a few words, to the peculiar circumstances of our Indian empire at present. (Hear, hear.) One of your hon. members, whom I regret not to see present, has distinguished him self, both in writing and speeches, by describ ing, in - very vivid language, what constitutes ' an English colony. He has painted in bright colours the English colonist carrying with him the habits, the notions, the institutions, and the reli g,ion of his country. That is not the case with our Indian empire. We have had a committee sitting on the subject of the colonization of India during the last two sessions. They have just presented their report, and they call attention to the distine ' tion existing between India and our colonies. There seems to be no chance of settling in the East colonies in the ordinary sense of the term. We find 'a religion there altogether different from our own, laws unknown to us in England, and almost antagonistic to our own; a dense population, ad mitting of little further increase, and working at a low rate of wages inconsistent with the settlement there of European labourers and artisans. But we have an empire of not less than 200,000,000 people. On England rests the responsibility of the well , being of that empire, and it is for us to say if we will shrink from it. I will not now inquire as to the wisdom of this acquisition. We have it, and with it we have received a responsibility from which we cannot shrink. It may be, in the hands of Providence we are to be the instruments of spreading a higher civilisation there. It may be that we are to be the means of diffusing a better religion than the races of India have before pos sessed. But, whatever the result, we are the rulers of an empire of 200,000,000, and we cannot shrink from the duty of doing the best in our power for them. (Cheers.) That being the case, let us never forget that the duty we owe to them is irrespective o the interests of the British empire. I believe the twointerests, we ll un d e rstood, are identical, and that to develope Indian interests will best promote our own. Be that as it may, we have undertaken a great duty, and tha t duty we must perform. It has been well observe d by Sir Sohn Lawrence, that wherever Burin ; the late mutiny, the power of the British Government was withdrawn ' anar chy at once prevailed. Vill age fought aga i n st village. Old feuds, an gr y discussions passions, Which had sl e p t for many years, again broke out. That proves what would be the case if the ruling hand were withdrawn for one h w a h v i e ch th ha t s a mo ment, or if we sla ckened the discipline b ee n successfully e xerted. Seeing we duty to perform, it becomes us to take the most enlighten ed view of it. Great discussions have arisen in Ibis country as to the extent to which the Government should interfere with th e religio ns o f Indi t. I believe almost al l right-minded men are agreed that while it is our duty - to give unlimited opportunities for the spread of the Christian reli gion, yet it -would be,heither wise nor prudent far the Government as such to interfere with the reli gions of the people. (Cheers.) I believe that if you have a great duty to perform in a country like India, it would be best discharged by ex ample, by showing that -we have a religion higher and better than theirs--(,cheers)—by impressing them with proofs of the justice of our laws, by liberality in our conduct towards them, by that intercourse which may be ascribed to low motives, but perhaps is one of the Mt-3t ,effective, consisting in a free ex change of our mutual commodities in ; the operations of commerce. Well, then, gentlemen, what we have to look to is to develope the resources of India. No THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1859. what they were a few years ago, that it seems to me we are at the commencement of a mighty change doubt we shall encounter enormous difficulties in the first instance. There is the difficulty of caste. I I ask any man, knowing the habits of the people of this country, to consider how impossible it would be for society to advance here if every class were fixed in its own position, and incapable of rising above it or altering that position. I need only refer to the subject to recal to your minds many remark able examples of men rising by honourable exer tions in their social position, and affecting benefi cially a whole manufacturing district. In India men are tied up by caste, and whatever their exer tions or talents they cannot rise beyond it. You may conceive how enormous is this im pediment. We know these difficulties. It is our duty to meet them, and we must do our best. And it is the character of the English people, i llnowing the difficulties lying in their path, not to attempt to shirk them, but manfully to meet them. (Cheers.) Difficult as the task of contending with caste may be, it is not insurmountable. I hope railways, steam navigation, and free commercial in tercourse between man and man, and, above all, us tice administered in the European courts to the lowest and the highest, will in course of time make a great change. Already the railways.in India have done much. Already by a sort of compulsion vari ous castes will travel in the same carriage, though formerly they would never meet. The impossibility of keeping up the distinction is putting an end to the distinction, and in coarse of time we may hope that it will overcome that difficulty, which I take to be our greatest impediment at this moment. However that may be, we have abundance of work before us. We have to follow out a principle which has succeeded in the West, to give it a fair field and that encouragement which consists in the mainte nance of law and order, and rely for our success on the prosperity it will confer on the natives. Above all, we have to rely on the intercommunication be tween our Eastern empire and this country. We have had experience of free-trade policy in this country. We know very well that for many years great differences of opinion prevailed as to our finan cial and commercial policy. We know that amid great difficulties the late Sir Robert Peel undertook the subject, and at last put our finances in a flourish ing condition. But that was only done by means of improved fiscal and commercial legislation. I be lieve the same thing may be done in India. Quit ting that subject, allow me for one moment to con gratulate you on the altered state of affairs in Europe. We have passed through a time of consi derable anxiety, but we are truly told to-night that Europe is at peace. I hope nothing will proceed from this country to endanger that peace. I agree with every word that has fallen from the Master Cutler, and I believe that it is the opinion of the country that peace in Europe and the alliance with France are essential to the true interests of England. (Cheers.) I believe it is the wish of every person in this country whose opinion is worth having that the peace of Europe and the alliance with France should be maintained. (Cheers.) And I agree with the Master Cutltr that this will be best done if England persists in the dignified position she has always maintained, and bears in mind the old phrase that perfect preparation for war is the best security for peace. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, we have been threatened this week with another war, and I for one shall not at all regret if that war be declared. Count de Morny has threatened us with a war in which I am sure England will readily engage—a free rivalry in commerce. (Cheers.) In that strife, upon equal terms, England is ever ready to engage. And it is a state of war which we should never desire to exchange for peace. There is no thing the English trader more desires than a friendly rivalry with all the NS orld. And if I may tender a word of advice to Count de Morny and our French rivals, 1 should say that if they would enter on this war with England they should first disembarrass themselves of a great number of prohibitions. If they enter upon that war hampered as they are now, they will find themselves like jockeys very un equally weighted in a race. My hon. friend the member for Manchester mentioned to me to-day a circumstance that will illustrate this. One of the greatest discoveries of the age in cotton spinning was made in France, but not one French manufac turer availed himself of it. But the inventor came to Manchester, and the manufacturers there paid him £lOO,OOO for it. When the cotton manufacturers of France were applied to they said they were protected by the laws; that they had plenty ofbusiness and made as much profit as satisfied them, and it would not pay them to make experiments. I tell Count de Morn y and the French Government that if they will enter into this warfare with England, they must learn to buy the best improvements, though it may be at the highest price. (Cheers.) If the French choose to enter upon that war I am sure neither you nor any other manufacturers will object. Whether they accept free trade or not we will accept their condition of a war of rivalry in commerce and manufactures. (Cheers.) In the great mission I have undertaken it will be my duty to study your interests by promoting the development of the in dustry and resources of India, which I must acknow ledge at the present time are not satisfactory. In the general prosperity of the people, the extension of their commerce, I hope to find that improved state - of finance which is needed in India. Fortu nately, the Indian empire is now placed in such a position that we need fear neither foreign aggres sion nor internal insurrection. We have overcome those two difficulties and may well be content for the future without the further enlargement of that empire. Let us improve its resources, consolidate its interests, and, above all, let us unite by all the ties of friendly feeling the common subjects of our beloved Queen. (Cheers.) .By such measures and such policy , we may expect to see hereafter and at no distant day a flourishing Indian empire under the British Crown. (Loud cheers.) Mr. T. DUNN proposed " The health of the mem bers ef the West Riding of the county of York." (Cheers.) Sir J. RAMSDEN, :M.P., in returning thanks, apologised for the scantiness of the results of the Legislature during the past year, which he attri buted to political combinations. In referring to the late war in Italy, he said, I think, gentlemen, there is but one ground likely to arise which could justify the interference of our Government in settling the affairs of Italy, and that is the giving the guarantee of the great Powers of Europe that the will of the populations of Italy will be consulted, and that alone, in whatever settlement may be proposed. To promote that would, indeed, be a grateful task to any Ministry of England, and would be a ground to justify the Government of England in entering the congress, which, under present circumstances, they do most wisely to keep aloof from. (Cheers.) He next alluded to the alarms which had prevailed on the subject of our defences, and said, we have lately been told that the alarms spread abroad in this country are ridiculous ; and that, as my right hon. friend has so well said, foreign nations regard us with friendship, and desire no rivalry with us but in the arts of commerce and peace. I rejoice to hear it. I accept that assurance with full confidence. But still I say that should not make the slightest difference in our preparations. (Cheers.) We are putting our small army in order, and increasing our mighty fleet, not in order that we may attack foreign nations, but merely that no foreign Power may , be in a position to dictate to us. In her ex tensive possessions, in that vast commerce which covers every sea, England has given too many pledges to fortune to allow her to leave for an in stant any doubt as to what Power has command of the ocean. (Hear.) That, I say, is a point upon which there must be no doubt. (Cheers.) We do not grudge France or any other Power her supe riority in armies; let other countries keep up their great land forces—their hundreds bf thousands of men—that is an arm as to which we shall enter into no rivalry with them. But no Power, except Eng land, has to defend an empire extending over every quarter of the globe, and no Power except England rests for defence almost solely upon the condition of her naval armaments. Therefore, I say, there can be no comparison between the naval power of England and that of any other country. Consti tuting it as cheaply and efficiently as we can, we must have a navy which can so command the Chan nel that there shall never for an instant be the sligh test doubt as to what Power holds the keys of the sea. That, I repeat, is a matter which can give no jealousy to any foreign'Power. It must be clear to every Power in Europe that this country, at least, can have no sinister intentions against any of its neighbours. A 11,we desire is to be left alone to work out our own freedom and our own greatness by those arts which are , congenial to us. We desire no greatness in war-; what we desire is be left alone to follow the more congenial pursuits of commerce and of peace. (Cheers.) Once more, gentlemen, I beg, on behalf of my hon. colleague, Mr. Crossley, an 4 myself, to return our most grateful thanks for the honour you have done us. (Cheers.) W. FISHER, Esq., proposed " The healths of the members for the borough." (Cheers.) G. HADFIELD, Esq., M.P., said—On behalf of my hon. colleague and mysel, I beg to ri turn you my most heartfelt thanks for the honour you have con ferred upon us in proposing our healths. I assure you, b( , entlemen, the great subject upon which my right hon. friend has addressed you, has during the past year or two - weighed upon my mind to a de gree which I cannot describe. - I feel the importance of the message which he i s about to deliver in India. Perhaps never since we came into possession of that great country, has" a message been sent to that great empire of equal importance with that which is now committed to him. I have every reason to believe and there are signs of it in this borough, tha t rie e s re a long a demand for the pr o d uc t s of India will in this country beyond all present calculation. Al ready our exports and imports to and from India amount to an enormous sum, so ranch exceeding as regards that magnificent country. The-expect-a tion of such a change seems to be universal. The Council of India have appointed an able and intel- ligeirt gentleman, Dr. Forbes Watson, to report upon the products of India; and I regret that ine vitable and pressing engagements have prevented that gentleman from being present on this occasion to explain to you, in part, the advantages to be de rived from that country, and the probabilities with regard to the future of our vast Indian empire. As the evening is fast wearing away, I will not de tain • you longer than to again express my thanks for the honour you have conferred upon me. E. BRAMLEY, Esq., proposed " The health of Thomas Bazley, Esq., and the House of Commons." Mr. BAZLEY, M.P., said—For the honour which you have conferred upon, the members of the House of Commons, on their behalf and for myself, I very heartily thank you. While conscious of the privi leges we enjoy, I hope you will admit we are not forgetful of the duties which are expected to be per formed in those positions which we are called upon by oar large constituencies to occupy. The duty of the present House of Commons is at present pro spectively most important. If it be at all time a duty of the House of Commons to improve our insti tutions, and adapt them to the wants and necessities of the age, I hope that in seeking future benefits, by enlarging our liberties, we shall not lose the good we already possess. (Hear, hear.) I fear the House of Commons is disposed to be too lavish with the public money. As a friend of economy, I hope the day is not distant when the enormous expen diture of the country may with perfect safety to our national defences be diminished ; and while we modify, from time to time, the various institutions, I hope we shall enlarge the liberties of the people, and increase not only our own prosperity, but also that of our dependencies, and of every country on the face of the earth. (Hear, hear.) With every country upon the face of the earth we have had in creased transactions, and with that great depen dency, the British East Indies, we have had an enormous increase of traffic. have already taken the liberty of reminding my right hon. friend (Mr. Wilson) that to ensure the prosperity of any coun try, the material interests of that particular coun try must be maintained. Ido hope that the material interests of India will be developed, and that the people of Sheffield, as well as the manufacturing districts of Lancashire, will have an enormous ex port trade to India. • (Cheers.) India possesses ore of admirable quality, and just as she produces cotton for the supply of our cotton manufac turers, though not as yet of the quality we could desire, so I hope yon will be able to receive from her superior ore, and return it in manufac tured articles at a cheaper rate than the people of India could have them if they manufactured the iron themselves. The resurces of India ars beyond all calculation, and while we increase our commer cial relations with that great dependency, we shall spread our institutions ; in spreading our commerce we shall spread our civilisation ; and, above all, I believe, we shall spread that greatest boon which man can confer upon his fellow-men—our Chris tianity. In conclusion, Mr. Bazley proposed " The ' Health and Happiness of the Lady of the Master Cutler." (Cheers.) The MASTER CUTLER returned thanks. The Right Hon. J. WILSON—My lords and gen t lemen, I havi to ask you to express the obligations we feel to the Master Cutler on this occasion. I can only say, individually, that I feel particularly obliged to your chairman for the invitation he has given me to this town, because it has afforded me an opportunity of witnessing many most interesting processes of manufacture. I hope, as the result, that the industry of this town may be benefited, not only as regards its exports, but by the application of a great number of the products of India to the purposes of your trade. Gentlemen, I rise for the purpose of proposing " The Health of your worthy chairman, the Master Cutler." (Cheers.) I feel that it is no slight privilege for a stranger to be present upon this occasion, and to have conferred upon him the honour of proposing the health of a gentleman who has risen in a community like this to so high a position, and who, after enjoying that high posi tion for one year, has been solicited to accept it for a second. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, these distinctions in society have very much more import that at first sight they appear to have ; they are distinctions which, I am sure, animate the ambition of many young men, and lead them to a career by which they not only become ornaments, but of the greatest utility to the society in which they move. I have, therefore, the greatest pleasure, as I am sure you will have, in wishing long life to our worthy chair man, the Master Cutler. (Loud cheers ) The MASTER CUTLER—Gentlemen, my first duty is to express my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the distinguished honour you have just conferred upon me. To you, Mr. Wilson, for your kindness in introducing the toast in so very flattering a manner ; to you, gentlemen, for having received it in so friendly, I might almost say, enthusiastic, a manner. There is not a gentleman in this room who would have been more surprised than I should to have been told when I presided here 12 months ago, that I should again occupy the chair on this occasion. Nothing could be farther removed from my thoughts ; but the Cutlers' Company have thought fit to elect me to preside over them for another year, and I have accepted their invitation. It is not necessary that I should go into the history of the re-election, and I have only further to say, that having accepted the office, I shall endeavour to discharge its duties in the ensuing year, as I have done during tie past, faithfaliy, and to the best of my ability. (Cheers.) If I had had another opportunity earlier in the evening, I could have wished to make a few remarks with reference to the trade of the town, but it is now too late. I ust beg of you to excuse me, and again accept my thanks for the honour you have conferred upon me (Loud cheers.) It being now 11 o'clock, the proceedings were brought to a close by the principal guests leaving the room. The remaining toasts on the list were : —The Rev. Canon Sale, 1).D., and the Clergy ; the Lord-Lieutenant, the Deputy-Lieutenants, and the Magistrates of the West-riding; the Mayor and Corporation of Sheffield ; the Borough Magistrates ; the Lord Mayor of York, and the Mayors of the West-riding ; the Chaplain, the Rev. W. Wil kinson ; W. Butcher, Esq., the Town Regent, and the Town Trustees ; Thos. Creswick, the Capital, the Church Burgesses; Wm. Hutchinson,Esq., and the past Masters ; Jas. Wilson, Esq., Law Clerk. A NATIONAL FEELING.—Lord Palmerston sets his back against the Gothic. It was: but natural that his lordship should have a leaning towards the Italian, when we remember his oft-repeated declaration of "Civis Roma nus Sum."—Punch. {ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Marvellous cures of sciatica, stiff joints, paralysis of the limbs, and other crippling diseases of the bones, sinews, and muscles have been accomplished by Holloway's Ointment. It is the only unguent which produces any impression on these complaints. The Pills also work wonders. The Oint ment and Pills should both be used at the same time, for the action of the one is greatly assisted by that of the other. Why should any human being suffer from the above-men tioned maladies when Holloway's Ointment and Pills are to be found in every city and, town in the world ? These noble medicines are composed of rare balsams, and are as benign and safe as they are powerful and efficacious. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—ThorIey's Food for Cattle is now beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer, breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high ground as a benefactor tothese interests ; and notwithstand ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest. Experience has proved, first, that it effects a considerable saving in the consumption of provender ; secondly, that it produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng. lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an unwillingness to rely 1 pm its efficacy, fancying he possessed in the produee of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by the employment or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has • been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch a 8 in all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely submitted to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will be realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becornes apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair application of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the preaent unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very ge n e.. ral use, is preference to any other of the usual articles of food; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is a nourishing and proper food for the working horse, certainly it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food, build( s possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the health and increasing the physical power of all animals, is a lonic and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other food, materially assists their digestive powers—a matter of great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that the nourishment contained in their ordinary food is lost, conse quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digqstive organs ; it will also be found to be particularly ben4cial in restoring to good working condition horses which Lave been over-worked, or become weak fx ern disease, or ar naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects an undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities arc still more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest superiority over every other kind of compound or manu factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such has been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows, Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed their cattle on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the principal prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded. The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a great incitement to this gentleman to pursue his onward course; and he may confidently rely, in producing so highly-favoured a compaimd, on a continuation of such high and distinguished patronage.: LORD CANNING ON MISSIONARY PREACRING IN GAOLS. , We take the following important despatch of Lord Canning to the Punjab Gocrnment from the Bombay Standard of August 5 : TO R. H. DAVIS, ESQ., SECRETARY TO THE GOVERN- MENT or THE PUNJAB AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. " Sir, —I am directed by the Governor-General in Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 174, dated the 28th of February last, submit ting for an expression of the views of the Govern ment of India a correspondence relative to the ad mission of missionaries to gaols. " 2. It appears that in August, 1858, Mr. E. H. Stevenson, on behalf of the American missionaries at Sealkote, inquired of the deputy-commissioner there, Mr. Prinsep, whether there was any objec tion to their visiting the Government gaols for the purpose of talking with the prisoners and extending among them the knowledge of Christianity ?' Mr. Stevenson stated his belief that in the central gaol at Lahore the gospel had in some instances .been conveyed to. the prisoners by oral teaching and by the aid of Christian books rind tracts, and that the Bible had recently been placed within the reach of the prisoners at Goojranwallah. He asked, there fore, whether the missionaries might have access at fixed hours to the Sealkote Gaol,' and expressed their readiness, if permitted, to embrace so ' good an opportunity of proclaiming the gospel among men who from their circumstances might be disposed to listen and profit by it.' " 3. Mr. Stevenson also asked whether the mis sionaries could have permission either to raise a chabooral (or masonry platform) near the Cut cherry, for the purp9se of preaching to the hun dreds of idle men who are daily congregated there;' or' to preach within the Government en closure without a platform P " 4. On the Bth of November Mr. Prinsep for warded Mr. Stevenson's letter to the commissioner (Mr. Cust) for orders, stating that he saw no ob jection in either case to give the permission asked for ; but the commissioner on the 16th of November promptly refused permission, observing that the practice of admitting missionaries to preach to the convicts had been interdicted in the Lahore Central Gaol and in other parts of the Lahore division. " 5. On the 20th of January, however, Mr. Cust submitted the correspondence for the perusal of the Judicial Commissioner, observing that when em ployed as a'district officer in the North-West Pro vinces he (Mr. Cust) had been in the habit of ad mitting missionaries to his gaol, but that after late events he now thought the practice one which could no longer be permitted. " 6. On the 26th of January the judicial commis sioner (Mr. Thornton) submitted the papers to the Lieutenant-Governor, observing that though he condemned the compulsory attendance of a Moha medan or Hindoo convict at the preaching of a Christian clergyman, yet be questioned the justice of entirely excluding missionaries from the gaol, and so preventing the convict from receiving reli gious advantages which he might be willing to accept. Mr. Thornton recommended that mis sionaries should be allowed to visit the gaols and to preach to such, and such only of the convicts as might wish to hear them. "7. The subject was then referred by the late Lieutenant - Governor to the Financial Commis sioner (Mr. Macleod), who on the 21st of February reported that, so far as other gentlemen ffte allowed to enter the gaols and converse with the prisoners, missionaries might be allowed to do so, but that under the existing orders of Government no special opportunities could be afforded to missionaries, as this would commit the officers of Government in their official character to a recognition and facilita tion of missionary efforts. Mr. Macleod, however, expressed his opinion that in declining to afford a missionary the opportunity of communicating re ligious instruction to a convict, especially a life convict, the Government is responsible for with holding the gospel from him, and took the oppor tunity of proceeding to discuss the question whether neutrality in religious matters is a position which a Christian Government can maintain in India or not, and to declare his opinion, that while carefully abstaining from everything like force, constraint, or inducement by way of reward, with a view to proselytism, the Government should avow and evince a preference for the Christian religion. " In your letter under reply the late Lieutenant- Governor has expressed his opinion that the exclu sion of missionaries from gaols would not be an act of neutrality, but rather the creation of a disability ; that missionaries should be allowed to visit gaols like other persons; that prisoners should not be ' exempted' any more than free natives from the liability to hear the gospel preached; and that the fear which the natives entertain is not of missionary persuasion, but of forcible or fraudulent conversion. His Honour, therefore, proposes that missionaries should be allowed, as they have been occasionally allowed heretofore, free entry to the gaols at certain hours, and the free exercise of their proper func tions, subject to any precautionary rules it may be advisable to make. " 9. The Lieutenant-Governor would not allow the missionaries to erect a platform for preaching near the Cutcherry, thinking it sufficient that they are at liberty, there or elsewhere, to preach to the people. "The Governor-General in Council cannot con cur in the view taken of this question by Sir J. Lawrence and by the Judicial and Financial Com missioners of the Punjab. " 11. The chief arguments by which the admis sion of missionaries to preach in gaols is supported seem to be—first, that as all gentlemen are allowed to visit gaols, missionaries ought not to be shut out. On this his Excellency in Council observes, that there is no right On the part of any stranger to visit a gaol, and that although in practice all gen tlemen are let in, this is done, not in order that they may there exercise their calling, whatever that may be, but that they may see for themselves how the gaol is conducted. The gaol, too, benefits by each public inspection. To the entrance of a missionary upon this footing there is no objection ; anal, if it be allowed to him, no !injustice will be done to him as compared with others. " 12. It is next contended that, as all natives, when free, are liable to hear the gospel preached, it it is not fair to exclude them from this advantage because they are in gaol. On this lam desired to remark, that if a man is free he hears the preacher only when it pleases him, and that, if being in gaol he should desire to do so, it would be quite right to admit a preacher to him individually. In the case of a Christian prisoner this would be done, as a matter of course, under such rules as prison dis cipline may prescribe ; and should the case occur of a prisoner who is not a Christian desiring to hold intercourse with a Christian teacher, his wish should not be refused. But this is a very different thing from giving to missionaries access to gaols and allowing them to preach to whomsoever they choose. " 13. In the opinion of the Governor-General in Council it is idle to talk of prisoners as free agents, even in the matter of listening, and even though (as is conceded in your letter under reply) they are not to be collected together by guards to hear the preaching, or to have assent to the preacher's doc trine forced upon them, an earnest missionary, whose zeal would deserve nothing but praise and admiration if exercised upon men as free as him self, could not be trusted so to measure his action as to abstain from forcing himself upon those who might desire to escape from him, but who would be t u h n t a o b u le h to an d y oso ; and to watch his proceedings g officer of competent authority would be impossible. " 14. His Excellency in Council cannot easily imagine a step more likely to be understood by na tives as belying our profesSICMS of neutrality in matters of religion than the sanctioning of the practice which is here recommended. It would be impossible to deny that, in adopting that practice, we were turning the machinery of Justice and civil government to religious purposes. It is still firmly believed that we have made men soldiers and have ordered them to bite cartridges in order to convert them. It will not do to give a handle to the sup position that we sentence them to imprisonment in our gaols for the same purpose, under the pretence of a.lministering justice. "1 5 - I am, therefore, directed to state, for the information of the Lieutenant-Governor and for general guidance, that the admission of a missionary to a gaol for the purpose of preaching is not to be permitted unless when a prisoner makes a request for the presence of one. I am to add that the prac tice advocated in these papers ;s not in accordance with the principle of neutrality in matters of reli gion, which the Government will observe in all its measures, and which it will require its - servants to observe in all their official acts. " 16. The Governer-General in Council approves the late Lieutenant-Goversior's intention to pro hibit the missionaries from erecting a platform for preaching in the Cutcherry premises. " 17. Iu conclusion I am desired to annex a copy of a despatch on this subject, addressed by the Honourable Court of Directors to the Govern ment of Madras, No. 6, dated the 2d of April, 1845, and to remark that the question relatifs ,. to the policy of Government in matters connected with religion has been very unnecessarily raised in connection with the subject in hand, and that it is singularly unbecoming in officers in the position or some of the writers who have taken part in the correspondence to advocate and maintain views on this important and delicate subject so directly op posed to the strong and lately reiterated commands of her Majesty's Government. The Governor- General in Council desires that the practice of ori ginating remarks and raising and prolonging dis cussiona on subjects of general policy, a practice which has been of late indulged in by subordinate executive officers in some parts of India, and which has been too easily tolerated by the local adminis tration, may be entirely discouraged and repressed. —I have, &c., " C. BEADON, Secretary to Government of India. Fort William, - May 10." .POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 2. MANSION-HOUSE.—William Angus, 42, was charged with having been concerned with another man not in custody in burglariously breaking into and entering the warehouse of Messrs. Surr and Son, 12, King-street, Cheapside, silk manufacturers, and stealing therefrom 3781b5. of sewing silk, value £475. E. Funn ell, detective o cer, said—Between three ,and four o'clock I was at Shoreditch railway sta tion, in campany with Knight and Legg, two other officers, when I saw the prisoner and another man not in custody get into'a cab together at the corner of Swan-yard. The cab drove down Church street, where it stopped, and the two men got out o and went through some courts, where I could not follow them for fear of being seen. Knight and I went to the corner of Old Nicholl-street, where we saw a man come out of Thomas's-court with a bag, the prisoner following behind with the life-preserver, which I produce, in his coat. The man with the bag saw me, threw down his bag, and ran off. Knight pursued, but did not catch him. I took the prisoner and put him into my cab, together with the bag, and I told the cabman to enter No. 2, Thomas's-court, and bring away alithe silk he could find there, while I stopped with the prisoner. The cabman went to the house with Mr. Loveridge,and in two or three minutes returned with a quantity of silk vt rapped up in a sheet. I took charge of the silk while the cabman went to the house again, and returned with some more silk wrapped up in a shawl. By that time a mob of 200 or 300 people had collected, and I was compelled to put all the silk to ether, or they would have smashed me. Prisoner—There wasn't no force used. I begged the officer to give the sheet and shawl to my wife who was there, and who expects to be confined. That's how it was. Witness—The -wife of the prisoner, assisted by the mob, demanded the sheet and the shawl of me, and I gave them up, after taking the silk out. The cabman also gave me the jemmy which I produce, which he found in a closet there. While coming along in the cab the prisoner pulled a life-preserver out of his coat, and gave it to me, saying, " I didn't mean this for you, but for somebody_ else." On searching him at the station, I found a piece o paper in his pocket, on which was written in pencil, " 192 balls, 82 2oz. reels, 47 half ditto, 39 11b. bun dles, with the figures, 24, 50, 25,12, 3, 4 cast up 891, and then struck out and cast 88i ; and the figures 44 and 8-16 undetneath. When the charge was booked against him he gave his name "Wm. Angus, 2, Thomas-place, Nicholl-place, Shoreditch." On being charged he made no reply, but on the road to the station he said, alluding to the life-preserver, " I meant that for the man who gave the informa tion, and put me away ; and if I had met him I should certainly have murdered him, it I had been hung the next minute. Youmay have me remanded as many times as you like, but I'd sooner have my throat cut than split upon my mates." On examin ing the bag I found it to contain 45 1-oz. reels of black silk, 63 2-oz. reels ditto, 190 2-oz. balls of various colours, and 39 bundles of 11b. each. The Prisoner—l believe it's all pretty correct what he says, but I should like to know what he means when he says he would have been smashed if he had not given up the sheet and shawl. Witness—l was very much afraid of it. The Prisoner—Why we only asked you civilly to give them up to my wife. Witness—There were 200 or 300 people round me, and I should think there were 1,000 where Knight was, Mr. J. Surr, jun.—l am a partner in the firm of Joseph Surr and Sons, silk manufacturers, of 12, King-street, Cheapside. Our warehouse forms part of a house in the occupation of Mr. Walmsley, and the door of our warehouse leads into the passage of the house, in the upper part of which Mr. Walm sley's servants sleep. We have three distinet lock■ to each door, two of which are patent. I left the warehouse a little before six on the evening of Friday, the 19th of August, when our stock was safe in the warehouse. On going again a little before nine next morning, I tried to open the locks, but could not, and I found that a panel had been cut of the door, and had been replaced, imme diately upon which discovery I went to the police station and obtained the assistance of the police. I had the locks picked, and on going in I found every thing in the greatest confusion, and missed silk in reels, skeins, and balls, to the value of £475. I exa mined the silk which forms a portion of the property stolen. On further examining the warehouse, I found the iron safe broken open, as well as three cash-boxes which it contained. , As nearly as I can remember between £6 and £7 had been taken away. The prisoner was then remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BRUTAL As- SAULT ON THE GAOLER.—Thos. Biggin and George Featherstone, rough, powerful, and determined looking youiig Irish fellows, described as labourers, were charged before Mr. Bingham with the follow ing cowardly and brutal attack upon Walsh, the gaoler of the court, and another. Walsh said he had gone to call a woman witness in a case agai-W a man named Lee, who was before his worship for an assault, and on opening the gate, round which there were about 20 persons, for her to pass through, the prisoner Featherstone rushed suddenly forward and tried to force himself through. He (complainant) on his part endeavoured to close the gate to exclude him, upon which he seized him " like a lion," gripped him by the throat with one hand and pinched him tightly by the breast with the other. A constable, who happened to be near, seeing the danger he was in, ran to his assistance, and laid hold of the prisoner, who then commenced kicking and plunging in a most violent manner, assaulting them both. At this moment Biggin rushed.in at the gate, and, laying hold of Feather stone; did his utmost to rescue him, and would in all probability.have succeeded had not three other constables come in, and with the utmost difficulty overpowered him. In the meantime Biggin struck him and the constables several blows. The gadler concluded by saying that previous to the attack the two prisoners' language was of the most disgraceful and threatening -character. Gray, F 52, said he heard Featherstone say to his companion, just before the attack, " he'd be blessed if ho wouldn't go through." The witness then con• firmed the gaoler's statement, and added, that on his going to his. assistance, he received several severe kicks from Featherstqne, and a " punch" afterwards under his ear from " Mr. Biggins 's fist." Other constables corroborated the assaults, and the ferocity of the prisoners, whom they could only restrain by handcuffing. The defence of the fellows was, that they ought not to have been kept from seeing their friend and countryman Dennis Lee, who had just before dropped in for it for ten days, for that was a man they had great respect for sure, and Featherst one said they had been kept out by a "little red whiskered man" (tlie messenger of the court), and thought there was no harm in thrying it on a little. Mr. Bingham said he would advise them, if ever again they considered themselves aggrieved by a constable to put their case into the hands of the magistrate, when justice would be done, and if the constable was in the wrong he would be dealt with accordingly ;''bat certainly in the discharge of their, difficult duty they must and should be at all times protected. A twelvemonth ago, Walsh, the gaoler, was attacked in a similar way, and nearly killed by a ruffian, and was in consequence laid un for months. Prisoners and their friends should have all the privileges due to them. In this case a violent assault had been committed, and he should sentence the prisoners to 21 days' hard labour each. SOUTHWARK.—ROBBERY BY A SERVANT..— A NICE El-POLICEMAN. — James Casey, 40, for merly a sergeant of the It division of police, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with stealing a quantity of cigars and tobacco, the property of his master, Mr. Henry Archer, 1, Blackman-street, Borough. The prosecutor said that he took the prisoner into his service some time ago as carman and porter, and it was his duty to deliver goods to the cus tomers. Latterly he had missed goods from his stock, and, .in consequence of that, he gave infor 'illation to the police. Inspector Moore, M divi sion, went •to the prisoner's lodgings, and there found three 'boxes of cigars and a quantity of tobacco. He identiiied them as his property. '-Inspector Moore proved finding the cigars and tobacco, and when he questioned the prisoner about them, he said that they had been given to him at different times, and that he had stored them up, but he'said that he did not smoke. The 'prisoner here said that it was quite true. Although he did itlt smoke he (lid not refuse a cigar when offered to him. Mr. Combe asked him whether he would be tried by him or go to the sessions. If the former he must plead guilty. The prisoner preferred the former, and begged for mercy. Mr. Combe sentenced him to six months' hard labour. The prisoner, when a sergeant in the R was a great annoyance to other constables, and was dismissed. Afterwards he wrote a letter to Sir Richard Mayne, the Commissioner of Police, threatening to shoot him. He was taken before the magistrates and bound over for that offence. Mr. Combe told him he was now a convicted thief. THAMES.--EXPLANATION.—ALLEGED AS SAULT AT SEA.-Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor for the master and owner of the ship Mary Henzell, lying in the London Dock,.attended before Mr. Yardley to complain of an ex parte statement made by a curate of the Established Church to Mr. Selfe on Wednesday last, tst the effect that his son, an apprentice to the owner, had been ill-used on the outward voyage by the captain and mate, and that the most dreadful cruelty was inflicted upon him. Mr. Selfe, on hearing from the afflicted father that his son was drowned off the Cape of Good Hope on the homeward voyage, was in doubt whether he could put the criminal law in motion in the absence of the person alleged to have been assaulted, and suggested to the rev. gentleman an application to the Board of Trade, and also to send to that board a copy of a letter detailing the ill-usage which the lad had written to his father while in Madras. Mr. Smith stated to the magistrate that the boy in question, whose name was Collins, had been apprenticed to Mr. Avery, the owner of the Mary Hinzell, by the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, and that he had been treated with the greatest kindness on board, and had never been ill-treated; that the captain was quite willing that his conduct should undergo the strictest inves tigation, and that the owner was very anxious the matter should be inquired into, being satisfied from the captain's general conduct and character that he could not have been guilty of the offences attributed to him by the Rev. /Mr. Collins. Mr. Smith further said that the boy Collins had misbehaved very seri ously on several occasions in the use of vulgar and disgusting language towards the crew, for which he had been once slightly chastised; and that the cap tain considered it his duty to the boy and his pa rents to do so, but that as to any cruelty being exercised towards the lad he had the signatures of the best part of his crew to the contrary, and the captain emphatirlly denied the statements made by the Rev. Mr. Collins, which were published in the newspapers. Mr. Smith suggested that the pre sent case was one of a great number where parents entrusted the care of their children to other per sons because they could not tame them themselves, and then complained, with all the necessary thea trical appurtenances, to tho magistrate - of a public police court, of cruelty haiing been inflicted, when the fact was, there was only a slight chastisement for vulgar and abusive conduct, and the parents themselves should have prevented the disagreeable necessity by doing so themselves in times past. Mr. Yardley said he had no control over the press. He should like to see the report which was handed up to him by Mr. Smith. Mr. Yardley having read it, said it contained serious charges against the master and mate, but he could not assist the parties any further than by allowing them, as he now did, to deny the truth of the elle gations made. He hoped the party making such severe statements would take care that those charged should have the opportunity of refuting them, and he could see no reason why it could not be done in that court. Mr. Smith then retied. FROM THE GAZETTE OF YESTERDAT DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 30. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Robert George Wyndham Herbert, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Colony of Queensland ; and Miles Gerald Keen, Esq., to be a Member of the Council of the Bermudas, or Somers Islands. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Doctor Antonio Micallef, C.M.G., to be President of the Court of Appeal, and Doctor Salvatore Naudie to be one of her Ma jesty's Judges, for the Island of Malta. INDIA-OFFICE. The following papers have been received by the Secretary of State for India in Conn Oil, and were published in last night's " Gazette :-1. A report from Capt. Cleveland of an attack made on a body of rebels in the district of Gondia, with a list of killed and wounded. 2. A letter from Briga dier A. H. Horsford, C. 8., describing an expedition made by a force under his orders from Nanpara. 3. A letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, describing an action with a body of rebels near the Nanpara jungle, and another from the same officer detailing the pursuit of the rebels near Balapore, enclosing a report from Captain Grant. 4. A re port from Brigadier Smith of the operations before Gwalior on the 15th of June, 1858. 5. A report from Lieutenant Millet on the operations against the rebels in the Kurwania Sota. 6 A report from Lieutenant S. Warde, of Hodson's Horse, of an action with a body of rebels in the Lollpore village. 7. A letter from Brigadier Rowcroft, C. 8., for warding a report from Major Murray of an action with rebels near Banpore Tharmah, on the 26th of April, 1859, and another report from Major Murray of an action with rebels near Doomureeagunge on the 29th of April, 1859. 8. A report from Major .General Hope Grant of an action with a body of rebels at the Jerwah Pass on the 21st of May, 1859. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Board of Trade, Marine Department, September 1, 1859. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plantations have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, through her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at Vienna, the subjoined copy of a translation of a Notice to Mariners, warning them not to anchor their vessels in tho neighbourhood of the new electric cable between Sicily and the coast of Calabria. TRANSLATION. The following notice has been transmitted to us by the direction of the Central Electric Telegraph in Sicily, and we publish it for the guidance of navigators : " Navigators are informed that two electric cables unite Calabria to Sicily. The points of immersion on the Sici lian coast are the Tower of Ganzirri, at the entrance of the Phase, and the citadel of Messina. On the Tower of Gan zirri the words Royal Electric Telegraph' are written in black letters on a white ground, and during the night a green signal light is kept burning. " The present notice is given in order to prevent all ap proach or anchorage in the vicinity of the above-named points." COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. County of Worcester—Eardley Nicholas Wilmot, Esq. ; John Gregory Watkins, Esq. ; Charles Rogers Coxwell, Esq. ; and William Chandler, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu tenants. MEMORANDUM.—The following appointment is substi tuted for that which appeared in the " Gazette" of the 9th August last : Edward Gresley Stone Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant. Shropshire Regiment of Militia—Robert Phillips, Gent., to be Ensign, vice H. M. Coyne, resigned. 6th Regiment of Royal Lancashire Militia— Lieutenant William Singleton to be Captain, vice William Buchanan, resigned. Hussar Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain the Right Hon. Henry Thym . 2e, Earl of Harewood. to be Lieut.-Colonel Commandant, vice Colonel, the Earl de Grey, who retires; Major the Right Hon. Beilby Richard, Baron Wenlock, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., who retires. 3d Surrey Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps—Lieut. Rolla Rouse to be Captain. Ist Surrey Company of Volunteer Rifle Corps—Alexan der Lodwick Irvine, Esq., to be Ensign. Kent Volunteer. Rifles, Ist Company—Edward Scott, Esq., Major Znattached, to be Captain ; William Moore, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Lewis Davis Wigan, Gent., to be Ensign. BANKRUPTS._ Thomas Harris, timber merchant, Bristol, to surrender, Sept. 13 and Oct. 18, at el.sven, at the Bristol District Court. Charles Edwards, builder, Cardiff, Sept. 14 and Oct. 18, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. John Oxley, currier, Rotherham, Yorkshire, Sept. 24 and Oct. 22, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. John Shaweraft Hamilton, auctioneer, Kingston-upon- Hull, Sept. 21, and Oct. 28, at twelve, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull. Edward Hughes, draper, Holywell, Flintshire, Sept. 16, at twelve, and Oct. 6, at two, at the Liverpool District Court. . Henry Buggeln, coke merchant, Liverpool, Sept. 12, at eleven, and Oct. 6, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. , SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. - - - - - Robert Winchester Fraser, Doctor of Medicine, Porto bello. Hugh Wyllie, draper, Kilmarnock. John Smith, grocer, Slamanan, Stirlingshire. Neil Maccallum, drysalter, Glasgow. William Smith and Co., commission merchants, Glasgow. John Walker, builder, Glasgow. Kenneth Macleay, photographer, Edinburgh. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria. cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 31st day of August, 1859 : ISSUE DEPARTMENT, Notes issued 130,401,1501 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 15,928,150 Silver Bullion - £30,401,150) £30,401,15 0 BANKING D' Proprietors' Capi ta .£14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commi s missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- , EPARTMZNT. Government Secu rities (including Dead-WeightAn nuity) .£11,220, 018 Other Securities 18,991,882 Notes ......* . Gold and Silver Coin counts) 7,816,480 Other Deposits 12,740,833 Seven Day and other Bills 880,415 £39,658.749 M. Z 39,638, 749 :ARSII.A.LI„ Chief Cashier. Dated Sept. 1,1859, AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the 30th day of August, 1859, exclusive of the duties of Customs pGreat aid ot ply-able thereon, on the imp Britain : Per cwt. From the British possessions in America :. 26s 21c1 Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 2ls 4d Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 31s 6d Average price of t h e f o regoing 27s ild price LORD TREDEGAR V. PUBLIC-HOUSES.—It appears that according to the terms of the leases on his lordship's property, there is a condition that no public-houses shall be opened. This condition, however, has been violated, and his lordship has given notice to the parties keeping such houses to close them —Swansea _Herald. COUNTRY MARKETN. LIVERPOOL —SETT. 2. The arrivals from Ireland and coastwise during the last three days have been light. From foreign ports re have received only 1,164 qrs of wheat, 1,030 qrs of oats, 1,735 qrs of beans, 1,675 qrs of Indian corn, 1,215 sacks and 2,835 362qrs of wheat, 207 qrs of Indian corn, barrels of flour. The exports in the same time compris° barrels o f flour. There has been considerable inactivity in the trade since Tuesday. The weather has been dun and showery. Our marke country had a small attend ance of the town and tide, and with only a re! tail demand for wheat at a reduction of 2d to 3d per cental on Tuesday's rates. Flour in slow request at late price °. Oats and oatmeal neglected. Peas, beans, and barley were 487 sacks and 120 nominally u naltered. A rather better constunptivedonana for Indian corn, at about late rates. WAKEFIELD—SBrr. 2. The show of wheat is fair , but fine new does not ye t come to hand freely ; the tone - of the trade is rather im proved from Tuesday, and we have a fairdebnd for old. at a decline of is on the prides of Friday las t new has given way 2s per qr, while inferior qualities are very cult to quit. Several samples of new barley from„ the clods sell pretty freely at the quotations. Old beans are rather easier to buy, a few parcels of new very hard have sold at 43s to to 45s per qr. Oats, shelling, and other articles are unaltered in value. a nd Wheat, per qr. of 8 bushels 601 b Essex, Suffolk, , white, old, 48s to 528 ; new, 488 to 53s ; Kent,. 9 old, 42s to 455; new, 42s to 45s ; Lincolnshire and York shire white, new, 46s to 50s ; red, 41s to 445. • ditto, red, EXETER—SEPT. 2. Th e b u siness was extremely dull to -day, a t the foll owing prices : Wheat, white 5s 6d to 5s 9d I Barley.. .4sOdto 0: 04 ***** Ditto red 5s Od to 5s 3d I Oats ...... .3sOdto 0 Od Flour, fine, 32s to 335 ; seconds, 30s to 31s per sack. CATTLE—The market was very well supplied Nvitb. sstinociaki. .i s i up m p o y derate attendance of farmers. Pork carcases in Fat beef,p l score,9s6d to 10sM 1 Ewes, per lb .... Pork carcases, do 8s 6d to lOs blethers, do. ... 6 d to oa Lambs, per lb. .... 7d to Od Fat calves, d0.....5id to 6d Rough fat, 4-id per lb. sidto Oa BRISTOL SUGAR--SEPT. 2. The market remained quiet, and the sales erected eve been to a limited amount, and at prices which'are awn been slightly in favour of the purchaser. For r efined g • there is a better inquiry, but dealers show a disinclinatio to meet any advance upon the recent reduction in values. Rum is again quiet, and sales can only be forced at soma decline upon the late quotations. COAL MAR] (Prices of Coal per . Ton at iET7—SEPT. 2. the close gibe market.) Walls End. s. d Buddle's West Hartleyl4 6.1 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ' Lambert's West Hart -14 6 ley Tanfield Mdor 13 0 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 0 Eden Main 15 6 0. d. Kelloe_! ............ 6u South Hellos ....... 16 Heugh Hall ....... ..... 6 Thorpe.. ...... Trimdon HartlePo °l • 1 6 6 " •.. 16 0 Acorn Close ... ... • .1.6 0 Eden . .. . ... . ...... 3 Haswell ...... .. .16 3 Keiper Grange z ••• • • • . 1 4 6 Trimdon ThornoY• • • l6 6 Carway Steam . 9 Whitworth ........ . 3 Main • • • It Hetton Lyons . 21 •.• Nixon's Duffiln S t 21 0 Powell'sDuffrri°"""-- Walla End. Stewart's 17 3 Belmont l5 0 Braddyll's Hatton 16 3 Hatton.... Caradoc South Hartlepool. 16 0 Gosforth 15 3 Ships at marks A, 81—Sold, 76• AILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE NVB d• ',%-- ----;---- Railways. 18.59. 1858. ________.....--i -.. Miles____ On_ne-----., 127___:ecel ----,:855.t11 35 -- -- Ballymena and Portrush 35 -- 1, 218 Bedale and Leyburn lO 10 1,319 „,,,7 Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 565 1 4 3p Belfast and County Down 2O 17 2, 998 1 58 7 Birkd.,Lanc., & Ches. June 32 32 2-6 ,aa 1, 3 ,.. 7,17, Blyth and Tyne 2O 13 7,70, 4 090 Bristol and Exeter llB 117 0, 06 1 ~..... Caledonian l9B 11 - 2 20 Ches.&Holyhead(withMold) 21 3 279 Cockermouth& Workington 308 326 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 35 7 350 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 6 1 358 1 039 Deeside l7 17 1,244 420 Dublin & Belfast Junction 56 56 2, 016 . '35 6 2,53 4 Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 2,• 6 39 Dub. & Wicklow (In.Kin,,..crst.) 404 40 4 7 61 890 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath l 7l 174 1,4 14 " 799 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. 31 31 882 24, 548 East Anglian 6 71 671 25,7 34 --- E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 489 489 387 East Kent l9i - --6,2 T e E.Lancashire(in.Blackburn) 111 105 6 635 „ 09 0 Edinburgh ~ and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3 83 1,05 9 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness 26.17" 786 . 4 548 Glasgow & South-Western. 1834 1831 ~ 2 , 433 1, Great Northern 283 283 1,77 7 4 94 Great North of Scotland .:. 58 ' 53 ' 7,122 'OB9 qt.Southn•. & Westn.(lrind ) 229 203 04,7 94 3 3, 32 3 treat Western lull and Holderness 18- 18 15 1,00 3 247 aiverness & Aberdeen Juno. 57 27 0 540 I r ish South-Eastern 251 25 1 54 0 Killarney Junction 4l 41 Lancaster and Carlisle (in. 5,562 20 1 8, 0 8 7 Kendal and Windermere) 100 1 00 : 39, 5,0 36,„ 0 7 Lanc. & Yrks.(in.Brackburn) 2 89 289; 2 i3 .1, 9 Limerick and Foynes 2 20 : - 635 " - 9 Llanelly 7O 37 London & North-Western 8 1: 2 1 London and Blackwall 5 5 2 2 1,3 4 : 11i ' 3 7 5 1 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast '2o2 183 4 824 03 L'derry and Enniskillen ~ 60 6 0 2,4 59 2 ' 4 3 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 4l 40 11,023 11 4 1 0 Man.,Shetlield,& Lincolnsh l7 17 1, 104 , 014 Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9 9 1,127 ~,„-, 6 6 4 llaryport and Carlisle Midland Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 177 177 1,3 87 1 ' 21 Monkland a 5 2 2,467 2,4 7 5 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 0 3,659 3,2 65 Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 1,405 1100 Newport,Abercr o .,& Hereford 50 43 6264 6, i North British (in. Dalkeith) 149 149 527, North Devon 35 35 40,8 88 ,38 2 618 North-Eastern 7364 7 20 2,7 92 ' 9 69 North London 9 7' 681 6, '- North Staffordshire 233' North-Western 461 464 - „,., N. Yorkshire and Cleveland . 101 - 5,018 4,2T7 Oxford, Wore., & Wolver .94 . 9 4 275 , „ 4 0 Peebles lB 18 1,936 J., St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 3,439 3,3 Th Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 2,197 , 1, ,‘ 4 6 Shrewsbury & Birmingham 294 294 3,175 3, 43 Shrewsbury and Chester 92 Shrewsbury & Hereford .: • • 51 51 83/ , i 35 0 Shropshire Union 29. 291 3, 387 ..,„„ South. Devon ........ South-Eastern 301! 301; 7, 440 7,",, South Wales l7ll 171 t 2, 755 2,51 0 S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 7, 253 7,u1„; Stockton and Darlington 1 Taff Vale 54 54 I+4 • , 601 3 Ulster 52 36 534 Ulverstone and Lancaster 1,675 '4BO Vale of Neath 251 254 550 Warrington and Stockport l2 12 436 i 05 ° 3 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 , 2 93 .. 5 Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall 274 274 . 10 3,67 9 W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail. 39 39 Whitehaven Junction l2 166. ° 448° 1° 00 4 - 1 Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 3 25 3 0 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt. 7 7 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 57 Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1, 206 1,2 'AR 2 78 31,„ 02 Austrian..... B2B 673 '-' 2 65 2 0, 856 Belgian Eastern Junction 264 261 831 Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie lB5l 140 2,20 25i Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 7 988 7, 4, 5 ° 3 4 '751 • 0 . Grand Trunk of Canada 879 849 3, 0 2 5 j, 1,7 " . Great Indian Peninsula l3O 884 594 Great Luxembourg .. Great Western of Canada 345 283 ",_ Lombardo-Venetian - 285 285 „ 909 s,lit, Lyons and Geneva 142 107 ~,, 9 , 81 r 750 3Eadrid, Saragossa &Alicant 284 224 9, 287 285 Maria Antonia' 2l 21 2 44 784 Northern of France 574 574 44,9 8 092 1 209 , a Norwegian Trunk 44 4 4 a,- ~. Q 4, 84,40 ui." 7 Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn B4l 781 „, c , 06 49,81 Paris and Orleans 922 857 "it a „, A " 51,52 8 Paris and Strasburg 979 838 s',°- 8 646 62 Royal Danish 69 69 0 1,098 S a mbre and Meuse - 6 . 8 68 1,16 16 84 9 1 Southern of France 777 773 9,* 37u . • 1,0 , 9 -1,01 1 43 6 West Flanders ,W. and N.W. of France 716 59 1 75 F 1437 4 22 9 zn* 326 350 1, 09 0.20 2, 3,56 639 • 896, 57i 79 9 24,548 W. and N.W. of France— . BIRTHS. MACKINTOSIL—On the 31st ult., at Eileanach House, ofln verness, the wife of Eneas M acintosh, Esq., Esq.' Balnespick, of a son. RADSTOCIE.—On the Ist inst., at 11, Devonshire -place, Lady'Radstock, of a son and heir. TuomsoN.--On the 31st ult., at Oxford, the wife of t he Rev. W. Thomson, D.D., P rovost of Queen's College, of a son. G ran d Parade, St. LO ° WILSON.—On the Ist inst. , at 24, nard's-on-Sea, the wife of Robert James Wilson, EQ., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. CLA,UDET—PAIMIS.—On the Ist inst., at St. John's Church, Seuthwick-crescent, Henry Claudet, second eon of A. Claudet, Esq., F.R.S., of Gloucester-road, Rege ntl4 park. to Emily Jane, youngest daughter of E. T. Farb', Esq., of Albion-street, Hyde-park. N E LSON_ WAR' the Ist inst., at the CIIU son, h °f R the Holy Tr init y , Westbourne-terrace Esq., of the Lawn,Warwick, to Ellen Augusta, th c o, (laught e r of the late B.W Esq., Gloucester- e arren t rra Hye-park. ,IGeorge 11. e third ...- 6 --. ol o o n n e t l h G e . 30 B t a h r IL l e t r . : f a o t r A m m e r n l y d e o l f V 3 i 3 ll d a, B, C e h g e t l DEATHS. .te v ia eilg in a i N. 1., aged 70. BA L R i e l E u E t I t . wilt' COLJuI,ECK. — On the 16th J Bangalore, Emma, y at of Lieut.-Col • H. Colbeck, sen. magistrate of police. ENFIELD.—On the Ist inst., at Hampstead, Ellen, younger daughter of Henry Enfield, Esq , aged 14. GAZE.—At his residence, 26, Princes-strect, Spitalfield' Samuel B. Gaze, aged 71. HOLLAND.—On the 31st ult., at Langley Farm, Beel‘er ham, Kent, Lancelot Holland, Esq., aged 79. I'm-mg.—On the 27th ult., at Picton House, Gloucester, Thomas Hobbs, Esq., aged 61. . id es t 50 PERCEVAL.—On the 30th ult., at Cowes, Philip, e of Philip Perceval, Esq., aged 15. Gene rid TOTHILL.—On the 31st ult,, a t Topeham,. Devon , Tothill, of the Royal Matnes, ve age d 64. 1 Gabriel WALLER.—On the 29th ult., at Mal en, Jese od Waller, Esq., of 36, Porchester-square, Hyde P -perk / late of Calcutta, aged 43. LONDON : Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUN G, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sur Moe, No. 11 2 , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. is the coital O f Middlesex, Saturday, September 3, 1859. 144 4 it 0 p cm , titt ,t 131,h Se i t ' ''nt ad , Ctu a t ( 1 1 4 e r a q l' i, 1 1 141 Trip o r i Pi rgt li ve F or ic '! ,ft n t h . (5 . '° C o lS „ (1 T1 p a .mu 11 4 1 fr„ l. °, l l ';' 1 1 1,1 111' 'eau] ti ` cov. tho t a c o d i 14; 1 1 !40.